ANMA - Smut Warehouse

Episode Date: August 29, 2022

Good Morning, Gus! From a park near Cafe Crème on Oltorf, it's a new episode of ANMA. This week we investigate a tree with a pole in it, a scary park trail, an illegal casino raid, the Zellner Brothers, Geoff Brothers band idea, the sticker car, sleep driving a truck to Houston, and more! Do us a favor and tell a friend about ANMA. They can take a guess at the name but mostly check out the show. Remember that person you used to watch RvB with? Tweet them a link. This episode is sponsored by Red Web (Subscribe wherever you get podcasts) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. That tree has a giant metal pole sticking out of the top of it. Oh yeah. It can't be... It got eaten by the tree. It was probably on the ground at one point and then just got lifted up to it. It's wild. I think we'll be okay.

The tree just needs, the tree's been here for probably four hundred, five hundred years. We just need it to hold together for another hour. What do you think this is a redwood? Four hundred years? It's a huge oak. How long do you think that tree's beenwood 400 years? It's a huge oak. How long do you think that tree's been there? 120 years max.

No way. 120 years max. No. Yeah. There's no way. How long do you think that tree's been here or 450 years? Yeah, see?

There is no way. 400, come on. I'm just trying to create conversation. That's ridiculous. I'm just trying to create conversation. That is ridiculous. I'm taking a photo. You don't have any scale.

Like for how scale? You don't have the whole face. You don't have any scale. Like for how- For the scale. You don't have the whole- You don't have the whole tree in the photo. I'm making sure, just running away. This guy- This guy fucking left. This guy fucking left.

What do you mean that? Look at this. This is plenty of scale. According to the little tag on it, it's 5,674 years old. It sounds right. So I wanted to, you know, we sat down and listed a bunch of coffee shops all around town. And I wanted to find another coffee shop down here south of the river in the Old Torferia, because we've spent a lot of time here. Let me ask you guys just a quick aside, this is the second time it's been brought

up that you guys compiled a list of coffee shops together for the podcast. Nobody asked me or included me. He walked into my own feeling. He walked into my desk at work and was like, hey, let's come over to the list of coffee shops and we get the office. Came over to the list of coffee shops. I don't work at the office. There you go.

You miss school, you miss out. That's fair. You can send us a list of cops, not you, the listener, Jeff. Send us coffee. Yeah. I also, I also, that's, it's selfish for me to go, hey, what coffee shops should we do? Because, because truly, I just don't want to look them up like before, I just want to look them up like day of and go like, okay, let's see what looks good today. Yeah. But I wanted to find another one down here down south because we spent a lot of time here. There are not a lot of coffee shops off of Old Torf. Off of the Old Torf area, we found this cream coffee.

Is that a cafe cream? Cafe cream. Cafe cream. Can we review the coffee real quick? Yeah, sure, real fast. Yeah. I think Gus, you nailed it earlier when you said it tastes like Old Torf.

It tastes like Old Torf. I'ma give it a four. I think four is pretty generous. I was thinking I'm looking over three. This is an afternoon recording. So maybe we're getting some afternoon brews, but whoof. Yeah. But that place is packed.

That place is hopping and it must be a side effect of the fact that they're really to. There still aren't very many coffee shops down here. I think every table was taking that's why we're recording at the park, like around the corner, because there was no place to sit down there. And it was full of like, like young hit people and like, like college students and like business people doing business stuff.

Not the crowd I would expect to find on Old Tour, or that not the crowd that we were when we were on Old Tour. That being said, when we parked here at this park to come and record, we parked behind this car, and it looked like there was a dude in there jerking it. He did. He did. By himself in the car.

He just took off. He saw us pop out the microphones, and he'd start running around, pointing at a tree, and he'd laugh. He saw us pop out the microphones, he popped off and drove off. Yeah. It's a, yeah.

Yeah. You know, it's funny, I driven up and down parker hundreds, it's a, I, yeah. Yeah. You know, it's funny, I driven, yeah. I driven up and down parker hundreds, if not thousands of times, but I've never turned down this drive, never set foot into this park, which is just an empty lot with sidewalk and a couple of trees. Well, I end to be fair, what appears to be the entrance to murder woods.

We're right, bud. Like, if you wanted to be stabbed in the woods, that's your front door. What do you think that sign says? There's a sign that's behind some vines that's overgrown. I'll go down the list. I'll go look. I think it says gross.

I'm gonna go look. All right, guess it's gonna go look. Action, Gus. This is a weird part of town. And when you talk about like what old Austin used to be, I think it's, I mean like, it's weird down here, man. Yeah. It's weird that nothing got like built up

or revitalized that one coffee shop in like a condemned building is all we found. The wild thing about it is, Eric, is it's like you're right in that it still sucks. Yeah, and it's still a lot like, you know, Gus and I lived over here. This was where we worked and lived for the first five years we were friends probably.

So we're intimately versed with this part of town. Not this part of town. Not this part of town. But it is simultaneously like stuck in time, like I'm driving back into 1999 and we're about to go to work a tell network. And also it's, believe it or not, a lot nicer. Yeah, there, even though it's not nice.

It is nicer. By the way, the science at Allpets on Leesh. And if you look down into the- Please don't take your pets down there. If you look down into the groze on, there's actually signs in a trail down there. I think the intent for you to walk down there. Yeah.

Despite the fact that- But not walk that up. Yeah, you know, there, there's some road construction going on in Old Torf. There's that P-Terry's there and there's that new water burger where the Lubies used to be. Aside from that, everything else looks identical down there. Yeah, yeah.

It's like some of the signs have changed, some of the businesses have changed, but all the buildings are for the most part the same. Yeah. And even most of them, it's like, it's a different Vietnamese restaurant than it used to be. Right, you know. the first time I had

Fuh was right down there me too. Yeah, Mushi took us there, right? Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, and I remember they had a sign on the wall Advertising their smoothies. I don't know if you remember this and I loved that sign It was my favorite sign ever I signed a restaurant because it proclaimed that their smoothies were made from the fresh because it proclaimed that their smoothies were made from the fresh. I forgot about that baby fresh. He used to say that all the time. All the time. All the time. It's made from the fresh. It's so good.

That's too funny. Oh, man. But yeah, it is weird. It is, like Riverside has changed a lot. We talked about that when we were down there in Rosemilk. Yeah, yeah. Driving down Old Torf right now, it is largely the same. One food, which we mentioned before, is a dentist office now.

That's a change, but yeah. No, it's pretty much the same. Some of the apartment complexes look like they've received some updated paint and signs, but they're largely the same as well. Do you remember if you go down the hill and you go back up the hill? Over at Burleson over there.

Oh, and left on the hill. Going east on Old Torf. You go down Old Torf, you go down the hill, is where you take a left on the Pleasant Valley to go back to where like J. Ray and those guys lived. And then there didn't used to be a right, now you can take a right, there's a whole last street that goes to the right.

It's still Pleasant Valley. But if you go up the hill a little bit on the left, maybe about a half way up the hill before you crest it, there are like two little apartments, like, or like four plexes. I spent, why'd you care over there? Do you, well that's a story I'd like to hear. Uh, do you remember a couple years after RT started,

but before, maybe it took off, well I guess it took off pretty quickly, but somewhere in that area when we were still familiar with this part of town, do you remember when that guy had that huge party on their back deck and it was a homemade back deck that wasn't safe and it collapsed and like 40 people fell? Oh my God, I got fucked up.

I felt like there was a rash of that around that time in Austin where people had, you can have mine. You know my car door. People had like homemade decks that collapsed and like lots of people got injured and or died. Our servers for Rooster Teeth used to be right down the road down there on Old Torf. Like you kept going.

Where? Keep going down Old Torf toward Intersex Montopolis. At the Southwest corner of that intersection, there's like a non-descript office park. And there's actually a bunch of co-location facilities in that office park. Is it where TNI used to be? Yeah, like three doors down from there.

That's why TNI was there was because I'll co-location. Like it's like a hub for telecommunication. I guess I didn't realize we were co-locating there at the same time. Yeah, I probably knew that. Yeah, our servers initially when we started, we're kind of spread over, then we had them in Sacramento for a long time,

then over the course of a week and I had to migrate them to Austin. So I flew to Sacramento, loaded them up in a SUV, and then drove them all back to Austin, and installed them down here at Old Torf and Montopolis. You know, you talked about that intersection of Old Torf and Montopolis, were Old Torf tees

into the Old Torf, yeah, on top of us right there. Do you remember that there was a little house right there that got raided because it was an illegal casino? What? I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah. Hang on, what? They had like, I remember seeing pictures in the paper,

they had like, I mean, it was a fucking ramshack a little house, but they had like, like, backgammon and shit. And I wanna say they had roulette. Wow. Yeah, it's like a little casino operating. Kinda like that game night movie. Yeah. Yeah. Except with money. And probably, un-savory. Yeah, it's like a little casino operating. Kind of like that game night movie. Yeah.

Yeah, except with money. And probably he's unsavory shorts. Yeah, probably not a night. I would have had money and yeah. And surprisingly good. Yeah. Yeah, like game night. Yeah, game night was pretty good.

I thought that felt like that flew under the radar. That's a great movie. It was solid. Yeah, really funny. Straight from the premise. I feel like there's a lot of that though. Like a lot of, you know, wink, quasi legal gambling around here,

especially like when to get to the outskirts of town. It's like game room, smiley face, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charity sweepstakes, like that kind of stuff. And I don't know how that stuff stays in business. Yeah, or it doesn't get. I guess other priorities who cares, right? If you wanna go and do some illegal gambling fucking who cares

So you're saying you were saying you went up and down parker a million times Yeah, you never business park. I lived over here I'm sure you remember the the slanted apartment I lived in was right down here off of Royal crest just down over here And I used to take this all the time to come either I'd go this way or like a next block over to get down to the call center Which is just south of here and I never I never, I've never turned back. It's a lot of little houses and stuff. And it's oddly enough, every house has a sign that says private drive.

I wonder if they have like a problem with people parking in their driveways. Oh, it's probably a pretty popular park here. Well, with all the, well, with all the tree and bench. It's a good jerk off spot. Cornelite guy that we displaced. I mean, it's all eyes. Until we showed up and ruined his fun. Oh, it's that same sign, all pets on leash.

That's the same one that's over there. Oh, yeah. So anyway, maybe you can help me because when I was buying my first house over here, you know, because the first house I bought, yeah, Easter here. Easter here. And I remember house shopping. And then after I bought the house, I bought. Yeah, east to here. East to here. And I remember house shopping. And then after I bought the house, I drove around here a little bit too. And I remember somewhere in this vicinity, there was a big old white mansion that was like

on like, well, must have been like six acres of land had huge. Reminds me actually of a place, kind of an old infield. And it was like so out of place and so nice and so fancy. And I always thought like man, those guys are just holding on till the neighborhood comes back I guess, probably lived here forever. And I tried to drive by and check it out during the pandemic and see what ever happened in that place.

And I can't find it. And I've Google Matt, I've looked on Google Street View to try to find it. And Google Earth to try to find it. And I can't fucking find it. So I know I'm misremembering it, but do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I wanna say it's in one of two locations.

It was either right here off a parker, like just a little north of here, on the west side, or it was down off a Montaples, north of Riverside on the west side of the street. Yeah, if it was Montaples side, this might be where I, maybe. It's one of those two. I can vaguely picture the place you're talking about.

But yeah, I mean, they probably gave up. They probably sold it and made a bunch of money. I've looked for it like three or four times, and I have convinced myself that I made it up. No, no, I think I saw it. I don't know if the mics pick it up, but we're really close to I-35. We've got a little bit of that

Austin Traffic Audio Texture, hopefully picked up. If you hear audio texture of like a loud crack, then all three of us should get up and run as fast as possible and then the tree's falling on us. This tree is fucked. It is barely off, in parts over here, it's barely off the ground. Yeah.

So I, I, It does not fall, front fall. It'll be okay. No, no, part above us has a long way to fall. Dude, it's not gonna fall right now on us That's what I'm saying famous last words right. I mean, we have it. We have it This dream is what at least how old 450 400 500 years. Let's see if what Twitter said

While you check that I saw a headline last night that I thought might be a Good segue to talk about some some stuff here on this podcast. I saw that, I don't know if you saw this or not, I guess Jesse Eisenberg signed on to do a movie with the cylinder brothers. Holy shit dude. The cylinder brothers are doing a movie with Jesse Eisenberg and a bunch of other famous people. He's gonna play Sasquatch question mark. So, are they remaking that fucking movie that they made?

Where the, do you remember that no Bernie played like Bernie played a Sasquatch in a movie for them. I don't remember that back in but like a 98 maybe I do not remember that I'm gonna look it up. So yeah, Jesse Eisenberg I thought I think they're playing the they're making a movie called Sasquatch And I thought Jesse Eisenberg signed on to play Sasquatch, you know Nathan's elder worked with us for years at Ristratheath He's a voice of Andy the bomb did a lot of our special effects work and yeah he was you know

awesome work with Nathan for all those years. You know he was always working on these you know film projects with his brother David and you know really had a lot of accolades. They were way more successful than we ever were you know always had films playing at Sundance and it's just wild to see, you know, them come back up again, you know, making another movie about Sasquatch. So in 2001, they made a movie called Frontier and in that movie, I think Bernie played a Sasquatch and then there's, I love those dudes, but they're weird. Because then in 2010, they made a short called Sasquatch Birth Journal number two. And now they're making, I guess a movie,

with Jesse Eisenberg. And do you remember who else is in it? I'm trying to look at a, No, I don't remember this at all. Oh, you talk about the new movie? No, no, no, I just read the Jesse Eisenberg part. I think I read it like in variety or something. See if it's not IMDB.

It's so new, it's not on IMDB yet. I have my link here. It was not variety I read it on. It was on Entertainment Weekly there. Oh yeah, it talks about some of the stuff you talked about here. Sasquatch, press journal two. No, there's no mention of any other casting.

I thought I'm read it, so. Well, I have my source run in front of me, so we'll go with that. But yeah, I mean, I felt like there was a period of time where we, you know, obviously we worked with Nathan and we went to Sundance a couple of times just kind of like as oddities, you know, with Red versus Blue and Rooster Teeth.

But I felt like the zelners and the Duploss brothers were always there. You know, the Duplosses were also from this area and I was always like really envious of all of them because they were getting like the mainstream, like, well not mainstream, but like the real critical accolade at these film festivals. And in fact, I think that didn't the duplos brothers film one of their films with our HVX camera? Wasn't it bag head? Bag head. Yeah, they really? I remember that was like, so bittersweet because they borrowed all of our gear that we created, that we bought so that we could make a movie and then they borrowed all that gear. And then they made a movie called Baghead and then sold it for a million dollars at Sundance.

Oh. And they gave us all the equipment back. Here's a fucking camera dipshit. And then they went off to be the, I mean, they were already, they were already on the way up, but then they went off to be the fucking, you know, duplass brothers. Right. And yeah, we never made that move.

We didn't make that move. You had a long time. You had a great idea years ago, when you know, back before Roussejeev, we used to always like kick around these creative ideas and projects that we wanted to make, and we never got around to it. This was always one of my favorites,

and I think it didn't get off the ground because we have no musical talent. But you wanted to start a band. And you wanted to call it brother versus brother. And you wanted it to be two lead singers who both pretend like their brothers. And each song is just them talking shit about the other brother.

And then every, it was basically like a parody of a Wases. It was like, but every concert ends after like the second song because they just fight. And one of them walks off, or they just get into like a physical altercation. Yeah, I wanted it to be, I thought if we did it right, so funny, I forgot about this until just this moment. But if we did it right, I thought we would never

have to play the instruments. Like if you just, if you got it right and got the fight just right at the beginning, like in the open, like welcome, thanks for watching, coming out to brother versus brother. And I want to Dan Godwin to be in it because he was very musically talented. And you just, and it just disintegrates in front

of the audience immediately every time and you never actually play a song. That's genius. Let's do it. I think we're too old now to get up on stage and have a physical fight. Now it'd be older Uncle versus other older Uncle. Yeah.

Family Thanksgiving. What's funny? I mean, that's all we would do. I felt like working such uncreative jobs, such a mind numbing job. It's like that was always our outlet. That's why we started making those websites and we talked about before. It was just like trying to find that creative outlet and trying

to find a way to express yourself however possible while doing the most awful work ever. Remember, it'd be like, all right, well, this first song, it's song about my brother. It's called, I did catch you jacking off in the bathroom in 12th grade and your dick is smaller than mine. And any brother's like, I'm not playing it. I already told you I'm not playing that song. We're gonna play Mom likes me best. This is like, no, I don't wanna play Mom likes me best. Sorry. It was a great idea.

We're reconnecting with old old. It's so much. It's funny when you hear one of your own old ideas and you're like, oh man, that's really funny. Like it still makes you laugh. Like you still think it's a really good idea. I have learned that the human brain is remarkably consistent.

I've noticed that when I watch on occasion, like I don't make a habit of it, but if I need to watch an old piece of Rochite's content that I'm in, like an old Achievement Hunter video or something, and I get lost in the moment, I see the, like I will, not in memory, and I get lost in the moment, I see the, like I will not in memory, but I'll be like,

oh, I should have said that, oh no, I did say that. And you're like, oh, I only have like four jokes. But like I made that video eight years ago, and my still, my first thought is to make that same joke I made eight years ago. Why am I supposed to success? Why am I supposed to success? Or why grow as a talent in any way whatsoever?

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[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Hang on real quick, you guys talked about, and I didn't realize this. We're right by the apartments that you guys met at? Well, I wouldn't say we... Yeah, I was like, I'm gonna make it, that was popular, I'm gonna make it for myself. That was the party that you were like on time too. And- No, I was an hour early. Oh, that's what it was. You were an hour early, and so you just waited.

It's like across the street from that cafe, Creme. I don't remember. The names have changed. We were trying to remember, and I was like, I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna make it for myself. I was like, I'm gonna make it for myself. That was the party that you were like on time too.

No, I was an hour early. Oh, that's what it was. You were an hour early, and so you just waited. It's like across the street from that cafe cram. I don't remember the names have changed. We were trying to remember who lived there and specifically. And I think we remembered it. I think we got. Yeah.

So when we lived over here and we worked at TNI, I want to say TNI had, at that point, about 60 employees. Sure. And when I left, there were a couple hundred. Now there's over a thousand. But those 60 employees, they were almost everybody was 22 or 23 and go into UT or Texas State or Southwest Texas back then, I guess, or ACC.

And it really was like a community. Like everybody in that place was, like if you got a job there You got your friend to work there and your friend got somebody to work there before you do it like your friend I come off the place you did by your friend to come rob the plays and then you guys would play all the game all the dreamcast games You stole and so it really was like a kind of a community and I feel like every apartment complex within like three miles of Old Torf had at least one or two T and I employees living in it. And so like by virtue of that, we all ended up in all of those apartment complex

at parties. Well, this was obviously, I mean, this was, this was really was our life. This was the cheapest place to live in Austin. It might still be now, but it was definitely very student focused, a lot of like working families and students

all lived down here. And I think that's still the case. It really hasn't changed that much in that respect. And yeah, and I think that's the reason a lot of people worked over there. It was so close. It was such a quick commute. It just hopped down, go to work.

I remember one time, my car wouldn't start. Like I said, I lived around the corner over here at those apartments. And my car wouldn't start. And back when I started at the call center, a shift was like three or four people. Like it was really small. And I had to call in my boss and I was like,

hey, I can't make it, my car's not starting. And his reply was, can't you just walk? Yeah. And I was like, man, I guess I could. Like it would take me like 45 minutes or something. He was like, I'll just, I'll come pick you up. Like it really wasn't that far, wasn't that big a deal. Yeah, he came and picked me up and then I went down to work.

But yeah, that's back when I had, I don't know if you remember, I had that old beige Isuzu pup pickup that had no air conditioner, no radio. And it was just like this really ugly beige color, not too dissimilar from this table we're sitting at, little lighter than this. What came after that? After that I got the Cavalier.

That's the dream Cavalier. I may have not known you when you had that truck. I don't remember. That truck had this really, that truck had like 300,000 miles on it. I think it was a 1986 Isuzu pump. And it was a manual transmission and had this really bad habit

where if you were not very crisp in your shifting, like if you tried to kind of go in a straight line between second and third, the gearbox would just jam up. And yeah, you'd have to like get under the truck and like smash the gearbox. Oh, shit. Yeah, we're like a wrench to get it to loosen up and then you could shift again.

Anyway, I remember one time I was driving here on Old Torf how it was coming out towards 35 and the truck died. And I was like, oh no, and it was like five o'clock, like rush hour was just kicking off. And I looked in the mirror behind me and the road was actually empty behind me and it was, you know, stacked up in front of me, really full. I was like, I wonder if I can pop the clutch in reverse.

So, like, I let off the break, put the clutch in, the truck started rolling slowly backwards down a hill, I put it in a reverse and I popped it and it started. I was like, oh my God, you can totally pop a clutch in reverse and I pulled into the lubies that was right over here. And right as I pulled into the lubis it died again. And I had to like, let it coast into a parking spot and parked it and then like, I had to figure out

like how to fix my fucking truck that wouldn't work anymore. Oh my God. We, I feel like you're early twenties. It's just a series of car problems, one after the other until you, I don't know, become good enough at fixing cars or make enough money to buy a car that doesn't need to be fixed every 15 minutes.

I feel like a lot of our lives were involved around cars back then and fixing cars. Do you remember? That, for some reason, that job to my memory of one of the smartest people doing the dumbest things. Oh, I already know. I have ever seen in my life. Yeah.

We worked with a guy named George. George was easily one of the most intelligent people I've ever seen in my life. We worked with a guy named George. George was easily one of the most intelligent people I've ever met to this day. And I saw him a few years ago and he's still just like incredibly impressive as a human being, really, really smart dude from Houston. And he was in cars briefly. But the biggest thing George was into was saving money.

Like George read the millionaire next door, and it changed his life. And he decided he was gonna live that life. And to my knowledge, he did. Like I think he's very successful. I think he became the millionaire next door. I would be very surprised to find that he wasn't. He was very focused, like, for example,

if we went out to get lunch at a subway, he would order a foot long. He didn't want to eat the foot long. He would eat six inches, then he'd wrap up the other six inches and save that for dinner. Because the company paid for lunch, so he would get a free dinner other. So it was like lots of like, what you would call like life hacks and like ways to like try to maximize your dollar.

Life hacks. And I have, I have ever, like I would bet good money that George is probably more successful financially and better off than Gus and I. Oh, I have, like I would bet good money that George is probably more successful financially and better off than Gus and I. Oh, I've probably put together. Absolutely. Even with all of our Roosteries success and you know, despite my many divorces,

even without that I think George is probably still doing better than us. But one of the ways he wanted to save money was he decided he was going to change his own oil because how hard can that be? So he changed his oil in the TNI parking lot. I think it was like an accurate and tegra he had maybe. I don't remember.

Or is that Supra? I don't know. I don't know what kind of car it was. Anyway, it was like a kind of a racey little car. And he came in in pain and covered in oil and we're like, what's going on? What happened, George? George, he was like, how hard could it be before YouTube?

So he probably just like Google, or Yahoo'd some explanation on how to do it. And decided that he was gonna do like, change the oil with the parts that he had in front of him. And what he had just driven to work. Just driven to work. Just just driven to work. Important detail.

Yeah, sorry, I don't wanna forget that. Just driven to work. So driven to work. Just just driven to work. Important detail. Yeah, sorry, I don't want to forget that. Just driven to work. So what George did was George realized he needed some sort of a pan to catch the oil in, but he couldn't find one, so he just grabbed a plastic like grocery bag. Grocery bag. What?

And held that up to catch the oil. So the car was hot because he just driven to work. So what happened was when he popped the plug and put up the trash bag, the oil immediately burned through it and just coated him in hot, sticky, burning oil. And he got, I don't think he got like seriously burned on, but it ruined his day and it made our year. I think we, I mean, here, here we are 20 years later, still, still telling that story. Like once again, one of the smartest people I've ever met

did easily one of the dumbest things I've ever seen that I can't imagine. I can't, I don't know how we got there. Yeah. Well, I mean, it all makes sense. It does all make sense until the oil's hot. Until the end of a ship, maybe it would have been fine. Yeah, he was just too enthusiastic.

Yeah, he just wanted to get it knocked out, start the day. You know, you talk about having car trouble and dealing with cars. I don't know if you're still this way, but to this day, anytime I'm driving down the road and there's construction

and you know, they have the shoulders closed, I get nervous. Like, oh man, what if my car dies right here? Who am I gonna go? So we're to pull over. Like, because for a long time, 35 ride around here was like that, especially just south of here going

to over towards Ben White. And it was always in nightmare, it was always a fear of mine that my car was gonna break down and I was gonna be stuck on 35, on a highway with no way to get off of the road. It occupies, so I guess most people, this is the case in your early 20s, but it occupies so much of our lives,

just dealing with shitty cars, saving up money, having to buy a $10 use tire because I popped a fucking tire and it's all I can afford, knowing that that tire wasn't gonna last me more than another fucking month. Do you remember the abandoned car at the TNI parking lot? Yeah. The sticker car?

This car was that. I think it, can I say? I mean, say it first. We were going to cut it out if we have to. I'd say it first. I think it was John, but there was this car that nobody took ownership of. Just one day in the parking lot of the call center, there was a car

that didn't move. It was obviously broken down. And it was there all told before the car finally left. It was there for probably close the car finally left it was there for probably close to 10 years but it became the sticker car yeah and any time you had a sticker you would put it on the car yeah and it got to the point where it was more sticker than car it was just like this abandoned car that was covered in every band sticker every just like bumper sticker any sticker you

have a well, like anything. For the longest time, the windshield was respected. No one covered the windshield. In the off-hand chance of someone was gonna come and get that car. After a few years, it was like, oh, bets are off. Even the windshield was just covered in stickers.

And I think eventually years later, we found out whose car it was. And he was just like, yeah, I think didn't work. It was gonna take more money than, it was worth to fix it. So, I just left it yeah, I didn't work. It was gonna take more money than, you know, it was worth to fix it. So it's like, I just left it there, just abandoned it. Yes. Yes.

Should we, can we talk about the code we have? Or should we keep that secret? Keep that secret. Okay. But that guy, John, I never remember this. He had, good guy. We liked him a lot. Yeah, I liked John a lot.

He had, he's brilliant idea. He worked at the call center. He's like, I'm gonna make a lot of money. I've got this brilliant idea that no one saw it before. What's your idea, John? I'm gonna make a porn website. What? And his idea was that he had that that he was gonna act

and porn or anything, but just that he was gonna be like a porn middleman, that he was gonna make a website and license porn and then let people watch porn on this website and he would run ads on it and he was gonna make him a millionaire. He said, you'd already bought the domain for it and everything. He was ready to go. I was like, you were very proud of it.

I'll double check. I don't know if he owns it anymore. I was like, what's your website gonna be, John? Smutwarehouse.com. Oh, I forgot. So it was. That sounds like a rooster TV show. Like, that sounds like something you guys would put into a video.

Are you? He was so proud. He's like, I'm gonna be a millionaire. I'm gonna make so much money with smutware. I was. Man, that was a great time to work in a tech company because, you know, it was kind of the wild west. We talked about a lot with how, you know, how was kind of the wild west, we talked about a lot with how

Ruchviteeth was formed, obviously. But there were so many people with so many, like everybody knew just enough about technology who worked there to be dangerous with it. And there were so many people with so many half-baked, crackpot ideas that they were so sure we're going to take off. It was fun. It was fun to watch everybody spin up and then spin down very quickly their ideas. Yeah, I don't think you ever did anything with it. I think you bought it back then, you know, websites cost like $70 a year to register. So it's like a lot of fucking money. So I don't know that you ever did anything with that. I should actually let me just look real fast. Yeah, you're gonna go to spot warehouse.com on my iPad and see, uh, while he, while he's playing by play, this is good. While he's talking about that, I'll say that like, we talk about the, the car stuff.

Yeah. So I grew up, uh, like a, a dirt poor kid in Alabama. Right. And I grew up, uh, in a very, I would say traditional Southern family, where, uh, you, you make the most out of what you have. Like, you fix everything yourself. So like anytime I would have a car problem, I would call my grandpa and my grandpa go,

bring it on down, we'll fix it. And so it was great, because I got the bomb with my grandfather, but I spent almost every weekend and half my days after school, most of my teenage years fixing cars, just trying to get them operational so that I could go to school or whatever helped my grandpa change out of tire

and his truck or whatever, or the brakes or rotors or fucking, and I hated it. I learned, and I learned very quickly that I wasn't the life I wanted, working on stuff. And so to me, success was, I will know I've made it when I have a car that I don't have to fix.

That just works. And that was like, my benchmark for success in life was just getting a car that worked. I think that's a big one. We fucking nailed it. We got there eventually. Yeah. I, I, talking about, you know, early cars.

That is Susu pup that I had. My parents gave it to me when I was like 17. I remember they gave it to me and, you know, I didn't have much either. It's a kid. I was very grateful for it. I got into the cab for the first time and so I was in manual transmission.

I was like, my dad was there. I was like, but I don't know how to drive in manual transmission. He just looked at me and said, you'll learn and then turned around and walked off. Yeah. I was like, okay. Got it.

Thanks dad. We are a lot nicer to our kids than our parents were to us generationally. And I wonder if it was a mistake. Could you figure it out, right? I did, you figured it out. You were like, all right, I'm gonna spend lots of time in our neighborhood driving around the block.

Forget how to drive this fucking truck so that we can go to the Burger King and get a whopper. Yeah, like my grandpa, like he literally taught my mom and my aunt and my uncle had a swim by throwing them in the water Yeah, it's been like you'll you're not gonna drown Yeah, and I guess if you if you do then you know what we we have to cook lives I learned a drive stick in a parking lot and like a community college parking lot That day about the car off my friend and then drove it from San Diego to Anaheim like within an hour of learning how to drive stick

Which was fine on the freeway. Yeah, it was in the middle of it. Until you get about halfway there and you realize I'm gonna have to exit and I'm terrified. What the fuck am I about to do? But that was, I mean, you made it. You made it. Yeah, I drove that Asusu pup down to Houston one time.

It was Frank was living in Houston at the time and I was gonna go down and visit him. My other one of my other friends from high school, Rubin was up here visiting me in Austin. And so Rubin, Rubin, he's good. He's good. He came up, we were at the apartment over here, actually right off our side.

And then we were gonna drive, he came up like kind of one day, he spent the night, then the next morning we woke up early, we were gonna drive down to Houston. And Rubin did not know how to drive a stick. So I had to drive down to Houston. And we were tired. Like we'd stayed up late, drinkin' or shootin' the shit or whatever.

And I was really tired. We were taking 71 down to I-10 to get to Houston. And like on the other side of Bastrop on 71, I was like, Rubin, I can't keep my eyes open. I can't, I cannot stay awake. I'm falling asleep here. I was like, can you drive? And he's like, no, I don't know how to drive a stick. I can't drive the truck. And I can't, I cannot stay awake, I'm falling asleep here. I was like, can you drive? And he's like, no, I don't know how to drive stick. I can't drive the truck.

And I said, okay, here's what, I'll make you a deal. I'm in the driver's seat. I'm gonna close my eyes and take a quick nap. I'll leave my feet on the pedals. You reach over from the passenger seat and hold the steering wheel and you drive while I take a nap. He's like, yeah, yeah, I can do that, that's fine.

What? What? So I put my head down and I start dosing off and I fall asleep for just like, I don't know, a few seconds. What? Then I like open my eyes, I look up and I look over at Rubin and his hands on the wheel, but his head's back and he's snorey and he's asleep too.

I just, because I rubin, what are you doing? He woke up and I didn't know. Rubin, now our permit system. I'm not here. Rube and Noah are pervets system. We should have died. We should have died. Rube and how could you do that? How could you betray me? You're so sad, Rick.

Oh my god. Yeah, I did not trust him to drive from the passenger seat anymore after that. I don't trust you to drive in the driver seat. Oh. Yeah, yeah. That was a bad choice. Let me ask you a question.

What's up? We're talking about these TNI days, right? And we're in the vicinity, for sure. Which, by the way, we talk about it all the time. We could have episodes and episodes of just text support stories and just like shenanigans at TNI. But I'm going to say if you can help me remember something real fast.

It was out either on this street or Donna Homo topless. You don't know what I'm gonna ask you. How did, do you remember the sequence of events or the conversation, how did we start? Cause you and I started making stuff almost immediately. And then we would been going for a while. We were on our second website together,

and probably our 20th idea, because we, it doesn't have a lot of ideas that we tried to spin up the didn't go anywhere. So at this point, like, Ugly Internet had its entire life cycle, it died. We created drunk gamers. Drunk gamers was on its way. At what point did Bernie start working? It was with drunk gamers. It was with drunk gamers. I remember it was around Halo, but like, had we been going for a while? No, it was early in the truck game. It was very close gamers. It was with drunk gamers. I remember it was around Halo, but like, had we been going for a while? No, it was early in the truck gamers. I mean, it wasn't day one. It was very close to day one.

Like, we had spun Ugly Internet down and then we were starting up this next project with drunk gamers. And I think he had seen us make stuff already in the past. And I think he was trying to get in, he wanted to join in early with the drunk gamers stuff. So it was really, and that's what we divided consoles up.

That he used to do all the Xbox stuff, I would do all the PS2 stuff and you would do all the GameCube stuff. So it was really, and that's what we divided consoles up. That he was to do all the Xbox stuff, I would do all the PS2 stuff, and you would do all the GameCube stuff. So it was really early on in the drunk gamer's side. I do remember that that involved in. Because I remember the first couple of events we did Conkers, Onamusha, he wasn't involved in any of that. Correct. That was like building content up to start. That was all of our really very first stuff. I don't think he was there. I think we didn't have a website at that point. I think we were just starting to make the content. And then I think once,

so he probably didn't see that because we were doing that like at our houses. I mean, once he saw us working on it at the call centers when he wanted to become involved. You know what, always drove me crazy about him back then? He was always so critical of my website design. He was hated.

You know what I made the drunk gamers? Dude, the Donkey Kong theme, the banner image with the Fleaming Doctor Pepper, it was all great. He hated that, he always talks shit about it. So good. I was so proud of that. I remember that was like, man, dinosaur times, right?

Like Jeff designed that website, which I thought was great, I loved it. And then we used like a content management system called Moveable Type. So it's like, I had to take Jeff's design and then make it work in this content management system which allowed us to. So it's like, I had to take Jeff's design and then make it work in this content management system, which allowed us to like post and create like archives and categories and everything. It was a big learning experience, but it worked well. I thought we worked

on movable type for a long time. I think we used movable type even when we first launched roostics, when we first launched red versus blue.com, I set up a movable type website for that. And that's how it worked at first until we had the community site like a year in Yeah, there was a shit you said something. I want to talk about Drunkaymers like the internet little type The early days we had a I think our first the first time that he like started Working with us and I use working very loosely aside from the cost center of course, right?

All right, and by the way, we were friends at this point. Yeah, stuff. I don't want to sound like we were. No, no, no. We were hanging out and drinking and talking about movies and stuff. Yeah. We just want to create a partner.

I don't know if you remember. I had, we talked about it about how I had that website, showmethemonkey.com. I think the first time he started working on some of that stuff with us is when he would quote unquote hack it. He was like the first person to do that to like get in and modify like the flash files and you know, make things a little different on there. Yeah.

Cause back then when we would make these websites, we hosted them at the call center. I wanted the call center servers. X25.net. Oh, hey, I don't know if we should say that, but yeah. Why, it's just a domain. I don't know if it's theirs anymore. I don't know what it is.

I don't know. It was, by the way, that was a cool website. Our email addresses were, you know, whatever at x25.net. I fucking love that email address. That was a really cool email address. But yeah, it was on those servers that we would always, because hosting a website was really ridiculous, expensive, especially back then.

So we would do it. Everybody had access to everybody's websites. Right, so as a result, you know, the managers all had root access on the server. So you just become like, go super user, get super user privileges, and then fuck with everyone else's websites. Right, so as a result, you know, the managers all had rude access on the server, so you just become like, uh, go super user, get super user privileges, and then fuck with everyone else's website and everyone else's work.

It was a, it was a, it was a big learning experience, and now you don't have to do any of that shit. I think about, now you're just like, oh, Amazon, AWS, cool, it's done. Right. This is just a million to probably do all that stuff now. It's, uh, it's way, way better now than it was back then. What do you think, what was the first thing he made?

It would have been a halo tutorial? Yeah, was that the first thing? No. Something maybe with like Randall Glass-style like word hop physics stuff, maybe? I think it was the soldier of Fortune II beta. Oh, yeah, okay. I think that was the first thing he wrote for Drunk Gamers

was like a ride up about soldier of Fortune II beta. God, he was such a funny rider. Yeah. It was like a series that you're like, what was it? I think the angle, the hook was trying to show the bad game to his wife at the time. Okay. He had this great bit where he would try to explain stuff to his wife. Uh-huh.

And it was all real. I think for the most part. Like I remember him, he was all like, just trying to explain GG to her, right? Yeah, just like having a non-gamer sit down and look at the super series FPS and get their perspective on it. And just like, try to write about that. And I thought it was a really good way to look at it.

Like a very outsider look at something that we all take for granted. He was a really talented dude. I hope he does something with it again someday. He's. He's. Jeez. I think that was the first thing that he did with drunk gamers.

I'm pretty sure that was it. Yeah. How long did drunk gamers go for? Tears? Two years. I want to say two, two and a half years or so. Somewhere around two and a half years, and then Gus and I, I think we made a joke that nobody got and everybody got mad at us for.

Yeah. Everybody was pissed off. We lost friendships over it. So briefly, Jeff already talked about this how we would cycle through ideas. Just like this idea, this idea, shut this website down, make this. I think after two and a half years,

we were ready to cycle on. That idea had run its course. Yeah, we saw where it was going. It really wasn't going to get any bigger, wasn't going to do anything else. I was like, all right, let's just iterate. Let's just do something. We had expressed what we wanted to through.

We did the thing. And then it was all the K-3. And we had a website. We got to E3 for several years. So done. Next. Yeah. And so we decided to end it.

And the way we ended it was, this is a little piece of Austin history for him. There was a guy who used to go around, I have no idea where he is. I hope wherever he is, he is healthy and doing well. He was a really lovely guy. His name was Tim Pipe. And he was like a local Austin photographer

who would go up and down Sixth Street dressed up like a 1940s newspaper man, like a little bowl of hat and had a press pass, and like a suit on that was like a little bit too big for him, really skinny tall dude, and just really engaging and really good photographer. And he had this old Polaroid that was like, I don't know, the size of like a full frame camera.

It was like, it was like a full format camera. It was like huge and he would go through and he would do like these almost like de-gurotypes. That's him, holy shit, that's him. I found a picture of him from 2008 and it is exactly what Jeff described. Yeah, and we would go downtown so much that we'd see him all the time.

And he would just go in and say, he would go in and out of bars and stuff and be like, hey, you want me to take your photo? $5, give you a poll, right? And you'd be like, yeah, absolutely. And he would give you these black and white photos, pre-smart phone camera days. And I guarantee you've seen a ton of photos

in Rochete history of Gus and I that Tim took. And just a lovely dude, and we became friendly with him, and he actually shot my my second wedding. Yeah, that was a cool bit and so he would just like it was cool. It was really cool dude. So we saw him one night at Casino, al Camino and we had just made the decision to end drunk amers and we were like how do we tell the world and we just walked all three thousand people who were really all three thousand people you know we're including like Zach and Bernie and a lot of people

They're involved with it and so we got to him to take a photo of us just flipping off the camera like this Yeah, and then we just uploaded the photo and like it's over I don't know what we wrote like fuck you fuck you fuck you. We're done. It's fuck you fuck you and fuck you We're done and then we just thought that was funny a funny way to end a web's a project and everybody Without exception was mad at us. Really? Never thought it was aimed at them. Yeah, it's an interesting thing.

You learn a very early lesson we learned with online audiences, which if you express something to the ether, everybody attaches meaning to it. Everybody thought we were talking to them specifically. I'm like, why did you say fuck you to me? And I'm like, we didn't. Skylock, I didn't say fuck you to you,

or Zach or whoever. There was a fuck you in there. There was one person. There was one person we were saying fuck you to in there. And they fucked off. And they were a wimpy little bitch anyway. But yeah, and it did damage. And I remember Gus and I had to like do some apologize on stuff to rescue some upset friendships.

And that's crazy. And I was so surprised by that. It's a black and white photo. If you ever see like a black and white photo of a much younger version of both of us flipping the camera off. I mean, I'm just going to be in it somewhere, I'm sure. But yeah, and I was a big lesson to learn because I really was surprised that people attached a real meaning to that moment because we thought we were

just being kind of funny and pithy. Right. I will say we did very briefly with drunk gamers. We did very briefly experience like an early bit of internet virality with that site. And that was, you know, one of the things we worked on with Bernie was when we did the Apple Switch parody. Oh. Yeah. worked out with Bernie was when we did the Apple Switch parody. Oh, yeah. Which was like a video we made in 2009, 2000,

summer of 2000, parodying those Apple Switch commercials that had come out at that time. I remember those, yeah. And obviously pre-YouTube, pre-rele, any internet video we made and uploaded this video. And very quickly, it became incredibly popular and was all over the place.

And really, I think that was our biggest reach with that website, was that video, which went everyone, I still see it pop up every now and then, various places. But that's the piece of content that kind of indirectly led to rooster teeth, because after we made that, like we made that in August of either 2000 or 2001, I wanna say it was actually 2001. And then computer gaming world wanted to put that on their CD that they distributed with their magazines,

but they contacted us right after we had done the fuck you thing. So we didn't have a website to point to, so Bernie re-exported it instead of saying drunkamers.com. We re-exported it to say redversesblue.com at the end. And that was the version they put in with the magazine. And then that was like, oh, okay, well now we got to do, we got to make this redverses blue thing as our next project because it's going out in magazines. That was wild in a few ways. One, we had, I'd never done video production before and in that moment,

and this can be a sense silly, but in that moment I found that I was funny. Because we were making something in the moment that we'd never done before and we were throwing lines back and forth to each other, to say, and everything was making everybody laugh. And I remember thinking like, this is all really funny. And I'm like, oh my god, the thing that I said was like Gus and Bernie both laughed and we were friends, we'd make it each other forever. And I remember thinking like, this is all really funny. And I'm like, oh my God, the thing that I said was, like Gus and Bernie both laughed, and we were friends, we'd make any show that I forever. But there was something about doing it on camera.

And it was even different from what we'd been doing in ugly internet and drunk gamers, which didn't feel like a real thing to me. Something about filming it. And like, it's just, and like, the bouncing around of jokes and ideas, it felt like something I wanted to do a lot more of. And I felt like I could be good at it,

we could all be good at it. And then also probably the most important thing, maybe even more important than the CDW thing, which was a big deal, was we put that up on a Friday afternoon. I remember it took a little while to film because we knew we needed daylight balance lights. So okay, I was going to tell the story. Okay. So I was not working at the call center at this time. I was working at my office downtown,

and we were gonna shoot this thing after work, and Bernie had instant message to me and said, hey, you need to pick up a blue light bulb for the shoot we're gonna do. So I went down to Holland photo, which doesn't exist anymore. It was across from where the Draft House South Lamar is now. I went down to Holland photo,

and I was like, I need a blue light bulb, and the guy gave me a blue light bulb, and I showed up to the T and I warehouse, we filmed it in the warehouse at the call center, and I was like, why do we need a blue light for? And your brother was like, yeah, you know, we need a blue light, you know, for the shoot. It's like, yeah, but why?

Why this, why this blue light? Why did I have to go to a photo store and buy this blue light? He's like, I don't know, you just need a blue light. And Bernie was like, that sounds dumb. How you doing? Bernie had already made a college film at this point. Bernie mattered. He was like, I honestly don't know. I just need a blue light. And Bernie, it was like, that's how dumb it was. How you were. Bernie had already made a college film at this point. Bernie Madden.

But he was like, I honestly don't know. I just know we needed it. It's something to do with the light. What? Yeah. We were like, in our early to mid 20s. You know, we had no idea about it. How do you answer the question with,

I don't know, I just know we need it. That's insane. That's an insane answer to that question. We got it. Why, but did you need it? Yeah. Yeah. I think in. Why, but did you need it? Yeah. Yeah. I think we did.

We did. Yeah. For the white balance. Okay. I was gonna say, do you know why you need it? We understand now we need it. Yeah. Anyway, that was funny.

That's just one of the moments where I remember like Bernie not being, Bernie's fucking. That might be the only time he ever said, I don't know. Yeah. And the 25 years I've known him. I always get to say that is really out of character. Bernie is like incredibly smart and capable and quick-witted. And you don't ever, like he's never, he's never not on his toes. You know, he doesn't, he's never, he never puts himself in a situation where he's not

incredibly prepared, right? I'll say. So it is one of the few moments where I've ever seen Bernie say I don't know. But, uh, the crazy thing was, we ended up putting that up a little later on a Friday that we wanted to. We were trying to get it up early in the day and then it ended up going up like 8 p.m. or something because we had to wait for Gus to go get the photos.

I thought it was our work. I think he had to go to work and he had to go to think and it took forever to make. I know we put it up and the thing that was crazy about it was we just posted it on drunk gamers, I guess. I think we, uh, we didn't even see the torrent. We just uploaded it for people to download. Wow.

So, you know, pre-YouTube, pre-Facebook, pre-social media, pre-anyway to share stuff outside of email and message boards. And the next day Matt called Bernie and he goes, hey dude, have you seen this thing that Gus is in? And Bernie's like, what are you talking about? Matt was in LA at the top. Matt was living in LA, working in Hollywood. And he goes, I just saw this video of Gus thing that Gus is in? And Bernie's like, what are you talking about? What? Matt was in LA at the top. Matt was living in LA, working in Hollywood.

And he goes, I just saw this video of Gus doing like an Apple Switch party. It's fucking hilarious. Do you have any idea about this? And Bernie's like, Matt, we made that yesterday evening. And Matt's like, how the fuck am I seeing it today? And we realized in that moment the power of the internet. Because nobody showed Matt the way it got, I still to this day I have no idea how it got to Matt.

It was like his computer IT person at the studio he was working at. Yeah, but how did they get to that guy? Right, I don't know how it got to that guy. I made this way through word of mouth and email chain. And then somehow when we realized that Bernie's best friend in the world saw a video Bernie made less than 12 hours after we made it without anybody telling him.

So I remember now, we filmed that August to 2002 because we had to have met Matt for him to recognize me. Yeah, we'd already done E3 before. Right, so that puts it, we firmly in my mind. We definitely filmed that, so this is August of 2022. We filmed that probably around this time of the year, 20 years ago. Holy shit.

Yeah, we are probably right at about the 20th anniversary of when we made that Right now as we're as we're taping this podcast Another thing I quickly learned is that if you create what you think is a clever idea Within about five minutes 60,000 other people will then also do that. Yeah, I don't remember like the switch parodies We're like that coming fast and furious a week later. Yeah, there was the dude who wanted to fuck the Thunderbolt port. That was Ben Brown.

I remember him, Ben Brown, who I think still lives in Austin. Does he? Yeah. That's crazy. There's a, yeah. We're winding down, we're like, he believed that, we're like right around like 50 something. If you heard audio text you a little while ago,

I was throwing away the, the delicious coffee. Me and Jeff finished our coffees, Gus also. No, I took one sip and that was it. This is the part where the audience thinks we're just getting started. Did you see how it's all right? And then Eric makes a stop.

I commented in that thread, but let me just come in on camera too. This is the part where I'm getting tired. Yeah, I'm worn out. You commented sub-burn out. I get very thoughtful and very long, and you were like, here's the reasons, and I just wrote no.

They just said, make anime 90 minutes on like a make America great again hat. Insane meme to use. Fucking dude, hey, you're nuts. I just wrote no because that's all the discussion we need to have about it. You're fucking nuts. Okay, we're gonna guess the name, Jeff. Do you have a guess for the name? But before you guess, I saw, I think it was on the Rooster Teeth site, okay?

Somewhere. I want to say it was on Rooster Teeth. Someone said, what if, and I'm only telling this because it's not correct. What if, and, uh, itself, the letters, it's a visual meaning, and it's like the skyline of Austin, like, the peaks, and each of the letters, and he kind of like wrote it out like using slashes and whatnot No, that's not correct, but I thought that was a really cool idea Maybe we'll see if Tony can make something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna. I think What do you think and I texted you a name that I know that it is I'm right so we're about to get right right you yeah I Text I texted Jeff the name and then Gus got mad at me that I texted yeah

I think you're supposed to reveal that on Mike. I am revealing it on Mike. He's that's it. You revealed it to him already. Yeah, but I was never exactly. I don't give a shit. And I will say the reason that I texted it to him is because I knew I was gonna forget and I had to go back and text it.

Yeah. He was like, there's something to book for future Eric. Another midnight atrocity. Okay. No, no, no. The name, Anma, the name of this podcast is Austin Manyana. I need an eye to trocity. Okay. No. No. No. The name, Anma, the name of this podcast is Austin Manyana. Oh, no. Fuck.

That's so good though. That is good. That is so good. No, it's not. It has everything. It has the A and the N in the first word. It has spanned it. I didn't say it necessarily has spanned it.

Oh my God. He heavily inferred. No, no, no, no, no. He did. I can't believe that's not the fucking name. It's got the little N- It has been. Oh my God. He heavily inferred. Yeah, no kidding. He did. I can't believe that's not the fucking name. It's got the little end-day in it. It's cool. I like it.

God damn it. On me, yeah. I don't know what it is. Here's what I fully expect to happen. We're going to do this podcast until we run out of shit to talk about. Like another month. So, I think we've got another 20 episodes in us. Okay, cool.

Or more. Maybe a hundred. Who knows? I think maybe we could be the podcast that actually ends at this company, but who knows? We're gonna go through the entirety of the show. Yeah. And then never get it. And then the last episode Gus is gonna reveal that he made up the part where it actually had a name.

And it's never been any. No, that's why, if you remember, I intentionally went out of my way to register the domain name. It's true, he did. Oh, that is true if you remember I intend to went out of my way to register the domain name. That is that way that way people couldn't say I stole it from an upcoming idea or that I never had to begin with. So the domain name was registered. I forget when we talked about it. At some point I did register just to cement it that it is

there. That is something if you don't know Gus while you learn pretty quickly Gus covers his ass. Yep. 100% of the time. I learned that in my job after the call center. Yeah, you did. God, that place. It worked. Cover your ass all the time. I will say this is episode 15. Episode 16 will be our next episode, and then we'll have a two-week break because we're a seasonal podcast. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm realizing like we were looking to like pre-record and try to get ahead on episodes and everything, and it doesn't matter because we're gonna have two weeks off You're gonna have two weeks off. It doesn't matter. So we're good

So we don't have we can do one on Friday if you want to and skip Monday, but we'll figure it out Yeah, you know how you look you guys can follow us at Ann McQuadcast on Instagram on Twitter I said you can see the tree you can see that you can see that the tree that Jeff's post. Oh, I forgot the Yeah, you want to see how old. Yeah, let's see how. I said 450 years and then I also tweeted about 450 years. All right, it's here are some of the best guesses I got. Okay, he's just looking for five days. The best guess is the one that I agree with.

No, I'm going to that, that's a bin Davis, 375. Okay. Eric Badur, 450 years. Katie Ward, Jack's wife says, I want to say about 50 years old. No, 50. No, older than Gus and Jeff combined by Mark Mitchell. This is Blood Crosnix says, 19. These are the best guesses?

These are just, I'm just going down to like 20, yeah. That's what we were right. Speaking of social media. About tree-fitty, okay. I saw Needle Barito tweeted at a see other day. I saw that too. Which you talk about. Did you talk to him?

I just replied to the tweet. It was weird. I didn't love that dude, though. It was weird. One of the original mods. I was pretty cool. The first place I ever played the Xbox Live beta was at his house.

Yeah, wild. Also, cool thing about him, we had a drunk gamers meetup. The first time we ever did a fan meetup, not a fan, community meetup. And he and a dude from Dallas showed up. The first time we ever did a fan meet up, not a fan, community meetup. And he and a dude from Dallas showed up. They were the only two people to show. And we were friends with those guys. Still to this day, I would consider Nido a friend. Love both those dudes. And so that was Nido Brito, the very first

community member we ever met in person, I guess. Very cool. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's awesome. I think so. Are we gonna go the whole episode before like you and not doing like the intro thing? Oh, I totally forgot. God, thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, before we leave, good morning Gus.

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