ANMA - The Beccasode

Episode Date: April 17, 2023

Good Morning, Becca!? This week, Gus and Geoff sit down with Becca Frasier at Epoch Far West to talk about Living in Austin vs being from Austin, Early jobs, Working at the call center, Rats, Places we miss the most, Pleasant BBQ food poisoning, Celebs in Vegas & The Ultimatum, A prank on Becca, Richard Garriott’s house, and Girl Gamerz. Come out to RTX for an ANMA live episode. We'll be there July 7-9. Tickets on sale at www.RTXAustin.com Sponsored by Better Help http://betterhelp.com/anma and Factor http://factormeals.com/anma50 and use code anma50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yes, fucking lame. Hot L was way better. Way better name. Talked about the Botanical Garden, how we couldn't get into coffee there talked about Barton Springs changing we talked about RTX and we talked about the kite festival but this time we're not talking about any that we're at or elsewhere so here you go. Good morning Gus. Hello. Good morning Becca also here. Hi. We're at Epic. Epoch? How do you say it, Becca? I say Epic. You guys say Epic, I think it's Epoch.

I say Epoch. We almost saw Crash. Tessles can't crash. There's a, we're going to catch on fire. We're at the Epic or Epoch on Far West in the middle of Teslero apparently uh... there everywhere and uh... yeah we're sure to do another episode this is this is the first time we've revisited a cop shot this isn't the same cop location we went to before

but it's the same same change same change local change yeah there's uh... at least four of these puppies around how they think it's the one on north loop the original i think so i think so well we need to get a question. What was there before? Oh, I said hi to Becca. Yeah, we said the woman who this sucks is there really all you're gonna do? We've known Becca for a long time Becca worked at the call center with us way back in the day We're not allowing you. Yeah, she was also the voice or is also the voice of

sister in Red versus blue. Oh, that's right. We're related. Uh, I was forget that. Becca also grew up on a small town near the border right by where I grew up. Uh, and our mothers went to high school together. So I actually met Becca when we were a little, we can I met each other when we were little kids. But yeah, I don't remember. Neither of us were. Yeah, we were like our mom say we did. We were like eight or something. I don't know. Are your mom's friendly still?, but I don't remember. Neither of us were members. Yeah, we were like. Our mom say we did. We were like eight or something. I don't know. Are your mom's friendly still?

I don't know. I don't know. I mean, my mom doesn't live there anymore. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think your mom was like a little older. Like she was maybe younger. I thought she was younger. What year was your mom born?

Are we going to go get a say that? My mom was born. What is her name? What is her name? OK, cool. What was your mom born? What year was names. What? Okay, cool. Thanks. What was your mom born? 59.

Back up. 55. Your mom's older. Yeah. OK. OK. Dang. Your mom was young when she had you.

Yeah, I was. I was. I was they were in college. They had just started college when I was born. Wow. So I was a little, a little guy. What are you looking at? You're just wondering how I'm just little a little guy. What are you looking at? You just wondered how I did.

I just started college. Okay. Yeah. Well, what was it different time too back then? Yeah, my mom was like 26 when she had me. Okay. And I think my mom was a child bride, but she was old by those days. I think my mom was 19 when she had me.

If she's the same age as my mom, then yeah, it's wild. So, yeah, just different times back then. Yeah, like nowadays, 26 is, that's why. Oh my, a child bride? Yeah. Yeah, back then, it's like, man, put you out to pasture. Yeah, 26 is ancient.

So yeah, we just know Becca forever. And that's why I guess there's almost like no introduction necessary. It's not necessary. People listening. People listening probably know Becca too. They know of Becca. That's how.

Becca, welcome to the podcast. What thank you. Do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself for the audience that doesn't know you? Are you happy, Eric? Is that it? Just cut that to the, just cut that to the end of the, Nick just put that at the top.

We had maybe, I'm glad Becca was here to experience this. We had maybe the I'm glad Becca was here to experience this. We had maybe the most confusing coffee order of any episode of Anima ever. We got our same things, Eric got a drip coffee, Jeff got a colbert, I got a maricano, and Becca ordered a chaiate latte. Yep, iced. iced. And the colbert came out first for Jeff, followed by the jib coffee for Eric. And then there was, and then the chilate for Becca. And then we waited for a really long time. Eventually my Americano came out with another chilate, another ice chilate, both for Eric.

And it's, yeah, we said we wanted ours for here. The second one came out and it to go cup. And the burst was like, they're both for Eric. Like, hmm, we got it already. So Becca took both. Yeah, she's an outdoor fisting chilote. It's the American way. I would say the American way.

Is the American way. Oh, it's the American way. Yeah. I guess I'm doing the like, what, Indian way? Yeah. Yeah, all right. Is the mother and her else is like a redundant thing. I, like, the, like, the first time I said it,

I said chai tea latte, but it bothered me, because it's redundant. It's just a chai latte. Does that bother anyone else or am I just a weirdo? It did not trigger me, but I did notice how they had it on the menu, spelled out as tea. And I think it's just to make that distinction, maybe, that you're not receiving coffee.

Coffee in a product. Becca, when did you leave your shirt teeth? What year was it? Oh, actually it was January 2020. Oh really? Yeah, an interesting time departure, I can't use words anymore. Yeah, so it was like right before the pandemic.

Okay. Yeah. We probably haven't seen each other since then. Ah yeah, I don't think we have. I feel like I've seen you all since then, but I don't think I've seen you since then point it I don't see anybody. We talk about houses sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much the extent of all my interactions with people these days How long have you been living in Austin now? 23 years 23 okay, so quite a long time quite a lot. I feel like nowadays whenever you meet people, like let's say you're at the bank and talking to a bank,

like whenever you make a small talk with someone in a professional environment, the default question around here is always, how long have you lived in Austin? Yeah. And you say like 23 years and like, oh, you've seen a lot of change, or you've seen it all, like it's like the default generic.

It's the house of the weather. Right. And it's like, oh 23 years, like I think they're trying to gauge like where you rank compared to them on the ladder of uh... of austin seniority which may sound silly if you don't live in austin uh... but the reality is nobody in austin is from austin except for jack and and he and boy he won't let you uh... forget it uh... but so it really is there's like a ranking system

of like when you came into Austin as like, I don't know how much ownership you're allowed to feel over the city. It's really fucking stupid, but it's very present. Yeah, so Michael's lived in Austin for one year longer than me. Michael, you're his. My husband, but he gets more cred

because he went to high school here. He graduated in high school in Austin. Yeah, yeah. So like, I was born here, but I didn't grow up here, and my parents were college students, like we covered earlier. It's more cred because he went to high school here. He graduated in high school in Austin. Yeah. So I was born here, but I didn't grow up here. And my parents were college students, like we covered earlier. So in normal people ask, hell in your Linn Austin, I'll normally say I was born here, didn't grow up here, but lived here for 25 years.

But sometimes when I say I was born here, I'll immediately cut off by someone who was also from here in the bed. Where'd you go to high school? That's the next default question if you say you're from Austin. It's then, oh, now we're gonna get granular, so I can see why Michael gets a lot more cred because that's the immediate follow-up question every time.

Totally. But I don't know, like having recently kind of moved to a new neighborhood where I'm meeting more people, I feel like there's this need to immediately be like, but I've lived in Austin for 23 years. Like, yeah, yeah. Like, we've been in the neighborhood three years,

but I'm not from California. You're not like Eric here. I feel like every time I go anywhere and talk to anybody in the service industry, the first question is, so where you visited from? And it's like, from North Austin, where I live, you know? You just look like a tourist. That's all I ever used.

Just every. Yeah. I think it's smell smell the Alabama on you. I work alone to get rid of that. Is that what the natural Alabama musk is? Or collogney, is they call it an Alabama? Collogney. Oh, man.

We call smell pretty. So 23 years, and then I guess you we must have met you at the call center right after you moved here. Yeah, I was 20 when I started working there. So yeah, I was like my junior year of college. How long have you been an asset that point when you started working at that call center? It was my third year in Austin. Oh, so yeah, so I moved here like right after I turned 18. Was that your first job? No, no, no, no.

Where else did you work? I had two jobs in Austin prior to that. My first one here was like a dental assistance assistant. And I would like clean like... Assistant to the dental assistant? Bloody gauze and throw away teeth and like disinfect instruments. Clean gauze?

Yeah, like throw away. Okay, okay. I would have moved the bloody gauze from the stall after cleaning. It was a very disgusting job, but it was easy. It had like easy consistent hours, and I did that for a semester. And then I was the dude's like admin assistant

in the home office, and that was a super weird job too. Were you thinking about becoming a dentist or something? Oh no, no. It was a weird deal. Like the dentist had a ranch in my hometown and my uncle built fences for him. And Old Billy K, he was like, send her over and give me a job.

So. That's the way everything works down there. They can get you job, like they call it. Yeah. In a small town, it's all about who you know. And who you do it? Like I worked, before I moved here, I worked at a law office down there on the board.

A very briefly, it was the same kind of deal. Like, oh, your family knows so and so, like here you can, well, we'll give you a job for six months or something. Yeah. And then why did you get a job at Telenetwork? I could call someone who's after Jason. Jason and Nick, yeah.

Okay. So when I started Jason no longer worked there, he had just left, but Nick was very much there. So Nick's been one of my best friends for a long time. I forget Nick worked there. Yeah, I forget that for a long time. Yeah forget Nick worked there. Yeah, I forget that. He was there for a long time. Yeah, yeah. He used to go take naps in my car. I was about to say, and when I say work, they are quotes in my head. So you would say you're closer to Nick than

Jason? You know, like I would say currently I'm equally close to both of that. Okay. But Nick was there first. Yeah, he was your entry point. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I met him very early on, like maybe two months into moving to Austin. Interesting. It's weird to me how, like we're talking about like the small town network

of oh, you know, so and so, like we'll give you a job. I feel like even this conversation we're having is the same thing. Yeah? It's like, oh, you got a job because of Jason and Nick. I don't know how Jason found it. We probably found it in the Daily Texan or something. Yeah, I think he did.

What a job. We had no idea. No. And then I met Jason at training for our first day of the call center. Are you all started together? Yeah, we started together. That's how, technically, Jason is my oldest friend

in Austin. I've known him longer than a little bit. A little bit longer than Gus. A couple months longer than Gus. I always forget that you all started at the same time. You had how, technically, Jason is my oldest friend in Austin. I've known him longer than a little longer than Gus. A couple months on it. I always forget that y'all start at the same time. Yeah, Jason on this, right? Yeah, he was our first guest, I think. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we, uh, yeah, we did. Um, so we're gonna get, we know, I'm distracting, because there's a lot of audio text, we're going on the background. There's a lawn m. Oh, that's okay. Audio textures are part of this podcast. We embrace it. We embrace it. This area, I like this part of town.

We're really close to Beatermann's Daily, which I love getting food from getting sandwiches from all the time. But I think we have talked about this part of town before, where it's like there's a very big Jewish community in this part of town. Yeah. That's why like Beatermann's over here, even the HB, which is like the only kosher HB.

Right. Which we call secret HB. Right. You can't see it from the street. This is also an amazing HB. Pretty good. You can always get in and out. It's never crowded.

It's because you can't see it. Nobody knows it's there. This is the one Jack used to work at, right? I believe so, yeah. Yeah. Don't hold that against the HEB. It's great because compared to all the other ones, especially like the one by Ristreet,

the one by where we work. Oh, it's a madness. Yeah. All the time. This one's so refreshing to come to. Have you guys been to the new HEB? The Lake Austin, I went. I went like a week after it opened.

Oh man, I went over the weekend. It was a little disappointing. Really? I was expecting two story splinter, and I see. I see. The two story climb is a little misleading. Well there are like three stories,

but the first two are useless. You just gotta go through them to get to the grocery store. The first one is nothing. The second one, the first one's a pharmacy. Yeah. The second one's barbecue restaurant. And the third one's the actual grocery store I used to live right across the street I thought of you when I was there I was

like what used to be oh my god it was the Randall right there there's also great because that place was always empty that's it literally the HB is where we you parked that old car that we made all the, that we talked about. Yeah, we made all the stories about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a lot of time over there. Yeah, our, we rented that house that was right by there and our landlord was Mottys

because the house I rented used to be Mottys House. Like V-Mottys? Yeah, Mottys is a Mexican restaurant and local chain. Yeah, she started, I guess that location there on Lake Austin Boulevard and of course, you know, now like a company owns it, but they still own her house. And the house I lived in was

Maudi's house. It's right behind that old that Maudi's location on Lake Austin Boulevard. Did she die in that house? Is she dead? I think she is. But I don't I don't know if she died in that. Did you feel haunted when you live there? I felt haunted by roaches.

That's what's like, overrun by roaches. It was a non-stop battle the entire time I lived there. Because if you think about it, it's like there were restaurants right there and a grocery store right across the street. It's like there were roaches and a couple of rats. We were in the thick of it. Man, speaking of rats, I officially have rats. Rats? the thick of it man speaking of rats i officially have rats rats yeah

what i saw in my bird feeder holy shit so i saw a rat at my house shortly after moving and i've never seen a rat in austin period same yeah and uh... it was like screwing across my back porch and i it was a barbacupit thing like they were taking up residence in there and so uh... that they're having a barbecue. Yeah.

Well, I was gonna, once I turned it on. I called the Rat Murder Squad, so they're on it, hopefully. Hopefully I won't have rats of Ray along. That reminds me of the time, when, so we used to work downtown, we've talked about that a lot, and when we would work downtown,

we would all go out to lunch together. I don't remember if you were here for this particular lunch or not. We put it in a Becca. Yeah, I was putting it back in. So, let the audience know I was putting it back in. We used to go to Jackalope all the time. Yeah.

And you would go up to the window to pick up your food. And Jackalope was like a cool grungy, punky, very gross piece. It's still open, isn't it? I think so, yeah. I think it is. I think it is. I think it is. Well, it was.

And it still is. But it was as well. And I remember one time we were, we were picking up our burgers or whatever, and we saw a rat running across all the, like the Cisco boxes at the top, and then it made a jump from like one box, like four feet to another, and we were all so impressed with the jump, we weren't grossed out until we sat down to eat our food. If I remember right, actually, we weren't picking up the food, we were standing at impressed with the jump. We weren't grossed out until we sat down to eat our food. If I remember right, actually, we weren't picking up the food. We were heading out the window to order. Order, okay.

We saw the rat and we're like, yeah, we're still gonna order food. Like we didn't, we didn't leave. I mean, you know what you're getting into. Like you knew there were rats, but you just confirmed it. Right, I think that's how we rationalize it. It's like every place down there has it. Whether you see it or not. It's like, once you see it, it's like, yeah, of of course it's not any cleaner just because you didn't see it do that and it to be fair. It was a really impressive

It was I think I had a hot dog that day if I remember right dude. That was what they were best at What was it called I'm only thinking of like their giant cocktail which is the hell Dorado, right? Yeah It was the bacon wrapped hot dog. Yeah, I don't remember what it was called, but that's definitely what I had that day I ate a lot of this I Can't imagine going down. I don't know our anyways places even open for lunch anymore Like I haven't been downtown in a long time casino probably is

Yeah, I think casino opens at like 11. I think I think I think back then casino was only open for lunch like one day out of the week I thought it was only like Friday. They opened like 11. I recently looked at that. I think back then Casino was only open for lunch, like one day out of the week. I thought it was only like Friday, they opened for lunch. I could be wrong. I never went to Casino for lunch and all my time working downtown, but Jack Alopolot and then like just kind of like the like fast casual circuit of places down there.

I was getting into discussion with Mike Pertal the other day who's like one of our audio guys at Ristratheat. He's been an author a long time. He's an avid animal listener, hello Mike. He is, and he loves to, I love it because he cracks the shit out of us. Yeah, and we were talking, and I actually had a disagreement about an author memory,

so I'm trying to, I'm happy you both are here, so we maybe we can try to clarify this. Griff was talking about how Dacker Effectories on 12th Street and like what a great deal it is to get drinks there. And I said, oh, I didn't realize they were still around.

Dackery Factory used to be on 6th. And Mike Pertle said Dackery Factory was never on 6th. And maybe you're thinking of jazz or fat Tuesdays. And I was like, no, I could have sworn Dackery Factory was on six because I thought that's where you and I went that one time, Jeff, where we made the waitresses fight. So Becca, do you remember was Dackery Factory ever on six?

That does not ring a bell to me. I do feel like there were some sort of like New Orleans cocktail-y place, but I don't feel like it was called fat. I would have bent my life, the Dackery Factory was on six-tree, and it's not until you mentioned Fat Tuesday. But I could have sworn, because the Dackery Factory was on 6th Street until you mentioned fat Tuesday But I could have swore because I have a very vivid memory because fat Tuesday was over

It was what fat Tuesday I thought like if you were looking north at 6th Street I thought fat Tuesday was further to the right like further east and I thought Dackery Factory was further west And normally if anyone told me this I would disregard what they said to be like they're obviously wrong But because it's Mike Perdle, I'm like, okay, I need to ask about this because Mike is normally dead on about this stuff. And like really, really knows Austin.

Are you Googling it? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, 100%. I'm looking it up, but you just find the 12th thing and find something. Yeah, it's really hard when you're trying to find something close or moved. Yeah.

I don't see anything that says that it was on sixth, man. I'm looking, I'll keep looking, but Jeff is also looking and I think probably more fervently. Usually like Austin Chronicle archives, you have your best bet for finding stuff like that. Yeah, for sure. Is that after, is that happen a lot? Or you guys are like, remember this place? Oh God.

You have to look at it from 2008. It's so tough. It's so hard to find records and stuff like that, especially because it seems so contemporary and it just goes away. There's no real record of it. Right. It gives me anxiety.

I want to just become a preservationist of doing like fleeting restaurants and establishments that nobody really gives a shit about. Well, what are your favorites? I mean, that's the whole gist of this podcast. Yeah, man. All my favorite places of closed. Let's hear them.

What do you miss the most? Fucking veggie heaven. Oh, veggie heaven. It used to be on campus over there by where Coco's is. Then they moved off to West 5th and then the pandemic killed. Like, they closed that location. Then they were closed for a while, and then they came back and that West 5th and then the pandemic killed. Like they closed that location, then they were closed for a while and they came back and that West 5th location. Yeah, it was because the matriarch had the original location and she was out.

And then her daughter reopened the new location. And it took like three or four years for them to open it and get their building in order. And then I want to say they're open maybe two years. Two years, it was much. Yeah, they closed because of the pandemic and they just never reopened. And that place was so good. I love that that place. And so unique.

There are so many dishes that I will never find again. And I'm kind of like, my life goal is to recreate them, figure it out. And yeah, it was a vegan place that was, it was an Asian theme. It was just an enormous menu. I feel like they had over a hundred items. I was always trying to work my way through that menu.

And I didn't get halfway through it. And it's like, everything was always so good there. Yeah. And I also miss Bonzai, which is the first place I ever ate sushi in my life. It used to be on the drag. Oh, I was thinking, was it Bonzai also by the EZs who are readies now on the market?

Yes, it was a very similar story. It was on the drag it closed. And then a very similar story, it was on the dragon closed, and then a few years later it came back on Lamar by EZs, which is not Rudy's. And so it got bought out in that Rudy's transition and closed down. Just like EZs, no. I only went there once and I didn't like it, no.

I only went there once and I enjoyed it. I thought it was a chain, I thought it was also EZs and San Antonio if I remember right. I feel like there is. Yeah, yeah. I, salads are pretty good. I thought it was also easies and sand and tonal of iron and barice. Yeah. Yeah. Salads are pretty good. Yeah.

I had a milkshake that was okay. Yeah. I mean, if it was food, it was food. Yeah. It was food. Yeah. Not one of the restaurants you miss or lament. No.

It's passing. I miss Ruby's barbecue. Oh, I didn't like that place. You know, like Ruby is? No. It was just like, it was the ambiance. Yeah, North campus right by 30. Let me guess you ate there a lot

when you were probably at UT. Yeah, yeah. Isn't that like Steel City pops now or something? No, it's Sipfah, which is the shit. Is it? Yeah. I've been meaning to try it. It's like kind of the same building.

There's like a trace, you get a whiff of old Ruby's vibe and it's good. A place is awesome. I've been meaning to try Sipfah, but going anywhere in your campus is always such a nightmare with parking and whatnot. The last time I went to Ruby's and why I said I wouldn't go back is because I ordered some food and a diet coke

and the guy berated me for getting a diet coke because of the aspartane. That was gonna kill me. And he didn't want to sell it to me. And I'm like, could you fucking job? Yeah. Give me, I, I, I, I, I was all worried about me. I had my, my, my, my God damn coke.

I had my graduation party there. Did you really, my college, my college, my college? Yeah, you probably weren't by it honestly. But yeah, it was a, it was a, it was a, like, the guy dated all through college and a few years after college. He and his brother worked there for a long time. And so they were really close to the owners.

And like, I'm pretty sure that Tom McElfee, McElfee, McElfee, yeah, yeah, yeah, worked there too with them. Oh, it was like, McElfee, McElfee, McElfee, McElfee, it's way better than Ruby's. Right, yeah, shit, yeah. Was your boyfriend ever addicted to people about Diet Coke? No. No. Oh, man.

Yeah, those are classic spots. I can't think of the last time I thought of Roots. I think only eight at Roobies two or three times. It wasn't like a regular thing again, just because parking by campus is a lot fun. I'm not really big on barbecue anyway. So like, you know, meteorocardous chill with me and that. But they had a really good spicy chopped brisket or chopped

beef sandwich that I would always get. And I just remember one time I was eating it and some of them made me laugh and I kind of snorted and I snorted spicy chopped beef into my sinus cavity. It was just living in there and I had to go out into the parking lot and blow a snot rocket and it came out.

It was much better, but that was, yeah. That really lives in my brain. It's funny, I have a similar memory. I, the years, yeah, when I lived at the Metropolis down in South Austin, we were probably all still working at TNI at the time. We had all, some of us had gone out to the Salt Lake out in Driftwood, and you could do like, all you can eat barbecue and the sides and everything. And great time went home, then later that night woke up like at three or four in the morning with food poisoning,

and had to run to the bathroom and vomited and it was like so violent, but I had eaten so much of the the Sonic barbecue sauce and it was almost a pleasant experience. Like it smelled okay and I had like a whole bean shoot out of my left nostril. I was like, that was the most pleasant vomiting experience I've ever had. And it was like, that was the most pleasant,

vomiting experience I've ever had. So like, it was not that bad. Do you remember the time? It was right around then, that we went and we got drunk for lunch at that Rudy's. We didn't mean to, but we got like drunk. And we couldn't go back to work, and we had to chill out at your place for a while and take a nap, and then we woke up,

and we were so embarrassed that we got drunk at lunch. We got drunk again to like bury the feeling. This is a T&I. In the same day. Yeah, we got driver thinking like we just got drunk twice in the same day. It's easier the second time. But I remember yeah, like feeling it's like that feeling where you're starting to feel hungover and then you start drinking more like, oh, yeah, now I feel way better.

And it's not much a tip to needle back in that direction. Um, yeah, man, I thought about that memory in a long time. Did you all eat at the one food on Old Torf? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. With the wet carpet. Yeah, that's the one place in my life I ever received food poisoning.

Oh, is it really? Yeah. That place was so clean, I don't know how that happened. Yeah, it was open. When it was open. When it was open. And I kind of tasted it a little off when I ate it and it didn't really register until the next day.

Did you ever eat any of the other one food locations? Yeah, all of them. Like the one, was it one food three? Those on Barton Springs. That's two. One food three was a treat. Oh, in food locations? Yeah, all of them. Like the one, was it one food three? Those are Barton Springs. That's two. One food three was a true. Oh, airport, that's what I was sketching. Yeah.

That was sketch. That particular one. But no, I see it one food two a lot, a lot a lot. That one was so weird, because it looked like a 50s diner. What was that place, but the one food two? It was the cursed building, yeah. Because that place, yeah, you say it looked like a 50s diner, like a ice cream hop or like a

Shoppersome shit when I moved to Austin. It was a surfboard store. Oh Necessary. I just want you to know that this is probably the most lamented place on this podcast Well, you've talked about one food too in I don't know about half the episodes, but it has to be close And look, organically, I bought it up. Yeah, one food, like if you were living in Austin in the late 90s or early 2000s, and so one food was like the plate. I mean, it's where I wanted to eat

when I came here when I was in high school. Especially if you were broke. Yeah, yeah. You only got food poisoning sometimes. I don't think I ever got sick there. I know, all right, let's, where, do you got food poisoning at one food? Where do you got food poisoning at release?

No, that was, I don't know if I said rude, as I meant the Salt Lake. Was that what you said? Salt Lake, yeah. I got food poisoning at Star Seeds once. I think that's the only, not surprising at all. Once again, makes total sense. I think that's the only place I've ever gotten at, Noston.

I probably, who else have I, I'm sure I've had it other places. If anyone's gonna get food poisoning, it's me. You've read, you're, it happens a lot. I'm susceptible to it. They say. Yeah. Say it again.

Sinterse. You're sensitive, right? Yeah. Ask. I'm trying to connect with you in your language. No, no, no, it's all right. All right. All right.

I'm making that for you. Yeah, yeah, no, I got you. I appreciate it. Where else have I gotten food poisoning? It's always hard to say because you never know. Sometimes you, like you say, you can tell the beef is off or whatever. And you have a really good idea. Other times, like, I have no idea. Everything seems fine.

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you mentioned your graduation party, which made me think about your wedding. And you got married in Vegas. I did. And I flew out there and I went to your wedding and it was a surreal experience because while I don't remember what was going on, I think the ceremony had just happened and like the rooms were getting set up for reception and there was like a weird in between time

where my wife and I were waiting like in the hall for the reception to open and and the cast of the hangover just walked by, randomly in Caesar, and was like, what? And I was like, man, that woman looks just like Heather Graham. That's Heather Graham. And then everyone else just happened to walk by. I guess they were doing press the hangover too

or something. It was either two or three, I can't remember. But the conference room next door, they were doing pressers. And so I think it was a Bradley Cooper and Zach Gallifinakis popped in to the wedding or the reception, so that's cool. You never know who you're gonna run into in Vegas. I was there a couple weeks ago,

and I ran into Tom Sandevol and Tom Schwartz right before all the drama happened on Vanderpump Rules. Crazy, right? That would explain why I have no idea of what those people are like. I have no idea. I don't know how you can not know about the Vanderpump Rules drama. It is all over the everywhere. I have no idea. I don't know how you can not know about the Vanderpump rules, drama.

It is all over the everywhere. I have not seen it at all. Ah, Tom Sand have all cheated on Ariana with Raquel. Oh my god. And it all happened. It's insane. Don't. They had to refill in the end of the season for it.

Were you talking about watching Love Is Blind earlier? I was. That's it. Is that where the line starts and stops with you or what? Kind of. I like the Netflix romance series or reality shows. Too out to handle. I enjoy that one.

Too out to handle is pretty good. And then there was that one, the ultimatum. The ultimatum is the best. Yeah, I want them to make another one. So they're going to, I believe it's in a different city this time. I want to say it's like Atlanta maybe. Where's the city important? It was in Austin. Oh, city important? It was in Austin.

Oh, okay. It was in Austin. And I think the ultimatum was the best version of all reality TV shows in terms of watching people destroy their lives. Oh, completely. Yeah. Like I was legitimately watching it going like this, like somebody, like people, these people aren't well. Yeah, they're doing some real damage psychologically to themselves a lot of reality TV

No, it's on another level dude. It was on another level. It was couples They all agreed to move into a hotel together, right? It was like at the van's an or somewhere downtown and on rainy street and they all they just show up It's like eight couples right ten couples Yeah, and they just fucking couple swap yeah, and they just sit around the table and they go, like, all right, for the next three weeks, you're gonna live with somebody else to see if your relationship can withstand it.

What? And so the whole setup is, they're kind of, always relationships at a point where it's like, should we get off the pot? I was gonna ask, why would anyone agree to do this? That I marry your breakup crossroads. So, so they're not married yet. No, okay.

And then so they literally just like pick like, I'm like, oh, you look, I'm like, you're sure. Do you and then so they literally just like pick like I'm like Oh, you look I like a shirt. I do want to go live with me for three weeks and we'll just be a couple Wow, and then at the end of the three weeks they have to go back to their original partners and then decide if they still want to get married or break up Wow, yeah, I gotta say The conclusion of the happiest quote unquote couple was very surprising to me did not see that coming It was it was it's a wild show. I'm not big into those, those types of reality shows.

I don't, I don't think I watch any of those. The only like real guilty pleasure I have is 90 day fiance, but I feel like that's waning. I think I'm, I'm probably just about done with that. Do you think that's overexposure? Cause you, do you watch all the spin-offs? I've stopped watching all of them. That's too many.

And there's a lot that I think are bad. Is that the girl that was selling her farts? Yeah, it's down there. The show changed drastically. I felt like when it started, it was a lot more, almost like cinema veritate. It seemed a lot more real. And now it seems like a lot of manufactured stuff

and a lot of just terrible people who want to gain exposure to sell their farts afterwards. Like that kind of stuff is like, I don't buy it as much. Yeah, I kind of, you know, buy farts as much. I'm kind of there with like, I used to be really into love Island. That was like, oh my God. Oh, I love that.

And I'm kind of burned out on it because I watch all of Australia and all of UK and all of America. Oh my God, I'm thinking of a different show, T I watch all of Australia and all of UK and all my I think a different so temptation island temptation island is Temptation Island's fantastic. It's second only to the ultimatum except the latest season was a real stinker I think they're having trouble casting So here's a little Becca story We went to this I remember a prank I played on you one time

We went to a convention in Florida prank I played on you one time We went to a convention in Florida in our land though. Do you remember this? Me you first convention it was me you Bernie and Nathan Zelner that was It was a wild combo these guys weird combo. What event was it? Was it was it make a Connor was it jcon now is mega Okay, because it was the last time I went before you and I went a couple years ago Okay, and so we're the first day we do a full day booth Bernie fucks off and disappears as Bernie does and then it's just me and Nathan And it wasn't actually my prank it was Nathan's but I jumped on it. I'm impressed that this is it we're about to We're wrapping up the end of the day, grabbing the money box, you know,

kind of like someone this stuff over and Nathan goes, he kind of, I think it was a flashlight. I want to say, he had a flashlight, he gave it to Becky and he goes, hey, you're going to need this tonight. And she goes, what? And I go, oh, yeah, well, you know, it gets dark in here. And Nathan's like, yeah, and you're like, why, what are we leaving? And we're like, well, Bernie didn't tell you? And I was like, of course, Bernie left,

and he didn't tell you, and now we gotta break the news to you. Yeah, somebody's gotta stay with the booth all night long. And Nathan's like, yeah, it's like people come and steal stuff. It's like, nobody's gonna mess with you if you're here, but somebody's gotta physically be in the booth, and he was like, so, I always just like, pile some shirts up in the corner, and began, he was like, no offense,

but you're the new man on the totem pole, so you've gotta go. know you're the new man on the totem pole so you've got to go. And you're like, you're like, you're like, yeah, it's like they leave the bathrooms unlocked and it's actually fun. I was like, it's honestly kind of fun because like there's a person in every booth so invariably people start drinking and you just kind of party and hang out and then we'll be back like nine a.m. We'll bring you tacos and you're just like, we just walk away. I'm just feeling like my eyes were like dinner place.

I can't say any. I look so, like, so upset and concerned and scared. I don't know. If I remember, I, I, I don't, I wasn't there. But if I remember the story, I didn't want to you say something back like, yeah, people get together. They'll have like a party, but you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Like, you don't have to do anything you don't want to like you don't have to go

You know I do something else. I really remember about this trip is It was when Gus was doing the hotel booking for for cons and you had us at like a straight-up like super eight Like it was a flea motel So bad and you know maybe sleeping in the booth would have been better. Yeah, it's a, I had a lot of, at that time, there were a lot of budgetary restrictions as to how much I could. I'm sure I threw up rinshing things because I couldn't share a room. Yeah.

So yeah, I was back in Gus and I were sleeping head to toe and bed still probably. Yeah. Yeah. But I remember the bedside table was a mini fridge. Nice. That's convenient. I think about it. I remember that trip Nathan and I went to Go watch the NBA all-star game And we went to we just Googled like TGI Fridays

We went to like a TGI Friday scene It was and it was like a non-regulation TGI Fridays. Was it like a TGI Thursday? It was called Fridays and it had like the branding but the branding was all off and it was really low rent and weird and we were both just kind of creeped out by where the only people there. And it was, it said it was DJI Fridays, but it didn't look affiliated with the company anyway. Thank goodness.

Yeah. Yeah. Weird. What do you, how many conventions did you do? Uh, I wanna say like four or five. Oh, I was glad you did more than that. Yeah, I was, I have three memorable. I feel like I have lots of memories of hanging out with you at Comic Con.

Yeah, I was going to say I always think you're going to send you a Comic Con. Once. What just once? Just once. Just a very memorable trip. Yeah, that was a good one. It was very fun. What year was that?

That would have been like, oh, seven? Oh, seven? Okay. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. What is your favorite memory from those days? Oh, really? I think I jumped from mine. Yeah, they so yeah. What is your favorite memory from those days? Really jump on mine man really least favorite memory from the party when the convention closed in Orlando Man, I don't know like everything was just so fun in pure back then. That's a great way to put it

I mean, I really enjoyed going to like RV BTO That's a great way to put it. I mean, I really enjoyed going to like RVBTO. That was a really fun time. Neither of y'all went. It was just, I think, burning me on that trip. And so, like, I don't know, burning just kind of, he always kind of was like, father figure-ish to me. So he like, upgraded me to first class,

and then, you know, we went out to dinner and had- Meanwhile, he had me booked you guys in the Super 8. Motel and fucking Arla. He was more of an absentee father. You know, we went out to dinner and had... Meanwhile, he had me booked you guys in the Super 8 motel and fucking Arla He was more of an absentee father Yeah We had to, uh, uh, secretly hire Eric With the secretly hire Eric without Bernie knowing It's money-aided him so much

Uh... Was that... Did you ever gone out of country before that when you went to Canada? Not counting Mexico because we grew up so close to it. Yeah, you mean like just international travel? No, I'd been to France. Okay. Yeah.

And like the Bahamas, if that counts. Oh yeah, no, that's really just, what Canada is like American France. Yeah, and I've been to Canada before too. So what? I guess so, because it's big for us, yeah. It's like, it went to Montreal a few years ago. That was a good trip.

Dude, Montreal's awesome. Yeah. It's a really pretty, it looks very European, very good world. Yeah, it felt like it's kind of like going to Hawaii and feeling like you're in Japan a little bit. Yeah, it felt like, didn't have to travel that far to get the general essence.

Interesting. I've never been in Montreal, I've always wanted to visit just time I got in around to it. I've never been in my child. I've always wanted to visit just time I got around to it. I think the only place in, I've been to Edmonton and Toronto and Niagara Falls because I drove to the Vancouver, right?

I've never been to Vancouver. I was on a super awesome city. Oh, you never wanted to visit Luke McCay or anywhere. I was supposed to go to Vancouver once for a Rooster Teeth event. Yeah. I went to that.

But like the night before, I got a phone call from Matt telling me not to go and I had to go to like LA to film a commercial instead. Oh, that makes sense. It was like one of those last minute commercial deals I ended up having to go. I think Matt went to Vancouver. I think Matt just wanted to go to Vancouver.

He took my Vancouver trip. I was like, why did I never think about this? You know what I'm saying. That's really funny. Do you remember what the commercial was? No, I don't. It would have been NFL or NBA. It was probably an NBA commercial.

You know what, I have two memories that stand out. There were really, really very, just like, it was living a weird, just like star-so-dive, which was one going to Seattle for the Halo 3 launch Uh-huh. And then other was I think you were there I don't know if you were you being Jeff was there. I don't think Gus went when we went to Richard Garriott's house for that Oh, I was not there shit. I forgot we did that and Jack went I think and Bernie right and Bernie and Jason Yeah, what was this?

It was like there was some like video game archive museum thing opening. Yeah, and he had funded it and he had a party and they had a party and like an auction. Was it on his castle? Yeah, it was at his castle. Like if you don't know who Richard Garry it is. He's a Lose video game creator who is crazy the ultimate series. Yeah, he created the ultimate series is super influential. He's famous We had a lot of people outcast like eight years ago now nine years ago. I went to space People who made video games what they are now right and he had a game called tabula rassa I think that was once and around that time too and we went to go to yeah to see that video game You see him and I remember Bernie Bernie bought some stuff from the auction who was very excited about it. Because he was like, original huge Gary at fan.

Yeah, yeah. In fact, that stuff that he bought, we showed to Richard Gary when he came on Artie Pagas, which was like 10 years ago now. Oh, really? Yeah. And like reminisced about it. Remember this?

And he had a really cool castle out like West of in West Austin that was like, he had the globe theater built to scale in his yard and a bunch of like I don't know it's like look like a fucking rim fair out there completely yeah yeah I he wore a cape that's party I do call that yeah like he was I think people forget that but it was like he was such a huge figure in Austin for so long. Like he would have big Halloween parties too out at this castle. Yeah, they're like legendary.

Yeah, and just doesn't do that many more. You know, I don't know if the castle's even still out there at this. I can't look at that. Not that long ago and it is. I think he still lives there. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, just one of those people who was like a really larger than life,

local figure. Yeah. Who I think just kind of like step back from the limelight so people don't think about it. He stole the riches hell of just chilling. I mean, he paid to go to space. You're right, yeah. She's got go to space money.

He went with the Russians, right? I believe so. Yeah. Who that was him? Yeah. Oh, I remember that. Yeah, it was a big damn deal. He was like $65 million or something to go to space

or something ridiculous like that. So I was reviewing my bucket list last night. It was a big damn deal. It was like $65 million or something to go to space or something ridiculous like that. So I was reviewing my bucket list last night. It's a note on my phone. It just came off randomly. It's had a word that I searched for. And it was like very basic. It's like maybe like five things, right? And it's like, be on the Rister Teef podcast.

Checked off. Go to a bar or bot, Mitzvah. Never done it. It'll happen soon enough. So invite me if you're up there. Where's the right part of town? We covered that early. And, you know, some other bullshit.

And then it was go to space. It's my final one. It's kind of, yeah, my moon shot. Literally. Yeah. If you're listening to this and you want to donate to Becca's go to space fund, she needs about 65 million. Yeah, I think maybe it'll become more of a commodity here.

Yeah. When I'm like 80. Yeah, in a couple of decades, it'll be way cheaper. It'll be a couple hundred grand. Did you guys see that Virgin Orbit filed bankruptcy? Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah.

I guess just being a billionaire entrepreneur isn't enough. Going to space is expensive. It's way up there. That's how a billionaire becomes a millionaire. I hope Mike picked that up. That was poetry. What do you think Richard Garriott's doing in this property right now? Master reading.

There was no pause there. There you go. Something I remember. masturbating. There was no pop there. There you go. You know, something I remember, I was trying to think back to early days, I think I interviewed you for drunk gamers because you, this is how long it was because you were a girl gamer. Oh my God. And that was a rarity. Yeah, I don't think that was you. I think it was um, dark five, four or five. Oh, maybe. Yeah, he had a different website. I can't remember what it was um, dark 5455. Oh, maybe.

Yeah, he had a different website. I can't remember what it was called, but. You were huge in a Dark Age of Camelot. Oh, yeah. And that was Dark Age Camelot. That game. Yeah. You got me to start playing Dark Age of Camelot

because you talked about it so much. That's like the only MMO I ever played, I think. Yeah. Do you still play it? No. Can you imagine? No. Can you play any games at all?

like You know girl casual game shit on my switch me too. Yeah Michael's been playing games with Clem like they played um your daughter. Yeah, my daughter. She's eight They played like dust base space and they like to prepare for the last of us they played through that together and then we watched it. My kids are a little morbid. Yeah, it's like that. What did your kids prefer the gamer the show? I think the show. Okay. Yeah. I think the show was like a 1.5 version of the story. Yeah. It's like they went the riders went through and we're like all right. There was some stuff that wasn't perfect in the story. Yeah, it's like they went the the writers went through like all right

There was some stuff that wasn't Perfect in the game like let's go and smooth a lot of that out flesh other things out And I think they really really did a great job. I never played the game Because I don't know you know I'm the PlayStation guy and now I don't feel like I should because the show I like the show Yeah, I mean Yeah, I mean, the yeah, I'll agree. I like having played the game and then watching the show. It's cool to see how many things are like played out almost exactly how they were in the game.

Well, you can kind of like when you're watching the show, you can kind of see video game levels completely. Yeah, like any studio. Here's the stealth level. Yeah But there were also some standoffs and some things in the series that weren't in the game like There's that one time when they're being chased by all those people and they've got them like cornered in that house And then like the monster show up mm-hmm from the side you're like oh that looks just like a video game level Like that was not in the game at all even though that that seems like it. Do you know that lady who was in charge of the fireplace? The fuck.

No, not the firefly lady. The lady who was in charge of the town they go to. The Kansas City people. Oh, no, that's the lady from. Yeah, that's the lady from Yellow Jackets. Yeah, extremely underrated actress. She's very good. Yeah.

You watch the Yellow Jackets? Yeah, fuck yeah. Okay, we were talking about it in the car. I just got into it. I'm really enjoying it. Oh, it's such with such a good show right half watch the latest episode yet I'm it's like succession and love is blind. Oh my god succession so good Don't talk to it about Gus. He doesn't like talking to people. Yeah He refuses to watch it. I live in that world already

See a succession is fucking awesome We're down into like the last few minutes. Well, I mean, we have time to talk about the coffee and get into a couple of prompts. That's how this podcast works. So back at the end of this podcast, we usually talk about the coffee, what we liked, if this is a place we recommend, et cetera, et cetera.

Then we have some prompts from the audience just to kind of tell a couple other stories and things like that. So is there anything about Epoch far west, anything that you liked, didn't like, Jeff, what did you think of your coffee? I don't remember what I rated the other epoch, but I'll give this ice coffee a tin Wow, so fucking good I sucked it down so hard

That's you did everything's either a six or a ten I've only given out like three tens at all At a 40 episodes That's a high batting average. So many tens. This is just a good Americana. This is solid. Like you, it's not out of this world amazing. It's not bad. It's just like, this is what I picture.

This is a stereotypical Americana. I mean, I was so I would give it like a seven or an eight. How do you feel about the mug? The mug's all right. I feel like the handle for your fingers is a little small. I can't fit two fingers in it. I don't like the shape of it. Well, this is inconsistent mug.

Does yours have branding on it? Because mine does. Yeah, it does. It's different branding. OK. I can't believe there was established 2006. I always feel like they've been around one more than that. No, because they weren't a college place for me.

I graduated in 2005. OK. What about you, Hazy? It's excellent. Yeah, I want to say almost a homemade Chai. There's a paltry residue of Chai. It's good. You see how she didn't say Chai tea?

That's a pro. So yeah, I'll give this I think a nine. Check out Epoch. And honestly my feedback is mainly about the ice. Like, it's got good ice. I was eyeing it. Yeah.

Drip coffee is great. I mean, it's a great cup of coffee. Hot in a big mug. It's like a nine. It's decent handle on yours. Yeah, absolutely. I got a good mug. It's what happens when you get the big drip baby.

Couple of prompts. I had some people right in. The name of the podcast we found out is, I guess named it, it's Anarchy Me Anything. It's from a dream. They guessed it. I am a fuck it. You revealed it for real.

Yeah, someone guessed it. Someone guessed it. Wow, I know, someone believed it. No, I know, right. There was analytics and data that went into it. So, the used AI. Yeah, now instead of guessing the name, we just have people sending prompts about

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Don't get those confused. This is a question from Kyle. I like this. We've sort of touched on it before, but I'm curious to see, we say also, Becca, how important do you think Austin was to the success of RT? Do you feel like if you all met under similar circumstances, but in a different city, the magic would have still been there? Mm-hmm. Bold question coming from Kyle, who's grown up so big in the last 15 years or so, really

exploded down there. Kyle. South of Buda. Buda, middle name. Kyle Buda, middle name. Okay. Kyle Buda Austin. Righting today. You know, it's funny. I think, so that I think there's two answers and two phases to that question, in my opinion. One, I think Austin drew us here, and I think we were all looking for a cool place to live, and that's what brought us here in the first place.

But the second and the back half portion is, I think once we started making stuff, and we connected with each other, we thought, we could move anywhere. We don't have to stay here. We used to talk about it a lot. Yeah, just because we wanted to maybe find somewhere cheaper, going back to the financial crisis, we talked about going to Detroit. But we ended up staying here. Yeah, I would say I think it's hard now to look back on it if you didn't live through it and really understand it, but there was a magnetism to Austin in the early 90s where I just like, it really heavily attracted certain people. And I don't think without that, I don't know how we would've ever found each other.

We were all very like-minded, all looking for a similar thing. And then, you know, and it continues to be so. Obviously, on a different scale now that all the money has found its way to Austin. But the thing about a city, this city was that it nurtured entrepreneurial spirit in a way that no other place I've ever been has. And so it felt, everything felt infinitely possible in Austin. I felt like because the city and the people were on board and supported it. It was easy. I always said, you know, living in Austin is easy.

It used to be. It used to be. That's expensive. Yeah. Like it really breaks my heart to think that there are people moving to Austin who don't have friends who like live in like a dilapidated house next to Star Seas with like a pentagram carved into the floor. Like those days are gone. Yeah, yeah. And I like those days.

You take them at the vampire store and try to do the stars. No. There's like a legit house. I like like a gimp closet. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. So, even though Becca and I, sorry Jeff,

even though Becca and I did not grow up in the same small town, we grew up in small towns close to each other. And I feel like when you're in Texas and you live in a small town, there's a gravity to those small towns. It's like it, or like the town in it where it's like, it's hard to escape. And then if you are trying to make your escape

from a small town like that, at least back then, it was like, I gotta try to get to Austin. Like I may not have the velocity to escape and go elsewhere further, but at least like this is where I can try to escape to and get out of this rut that people fall into. I also think that I've always considered, and y'all may feel differently, but I've always considered Austin to be

kind of like a character in Rooster Teeth. Like another member of the company. I mean, it's been interesting, like, because, you know, we all met and we all came to Austin for similar reasons and we were all working in a nerdy company. So, I mean, there was this commonality there that, you know, potentially could have happened anywhere, but I think that the Austin component added it, like, the grit and humor. I think so too. And it also, it frames the reason for being here, right? Like, it's something that makes me sad

about the newer Rucheteeth employees. Like, you moved to Austin for Austin. You moved to Austin for Austin. I moved to Austin for Austin. We found each other and then we made something in Austin. But we were already here because we wanted to be here. Everybody that works at Rucheteeth now comes to Rucheteeth to work at Roost teeth.

And not necessarily. Because that sabotage is fucking about all of it. It's so weird. And then they end up in like kind of like in you know, you end up talking to your work friends and you end up in these like friend circles and you don't they don't really explore or see Austin as a whole the things that we fell in love with the things that are about it, because you get caught up in this little loop. And I always, it always bums me out,

because Austin has got so much to offer people. And I never figured out how to translate that to people when they would move across the country, like Michael Jones, to move from New Jersey to Austin, to work at Ristie, it doesn't give a fuck about Austin. And I could never figure out how to impart that thing that you'll love about the world. And how it's version of Austin is different.

I'm sure even between us. Yeah, absolutely. What part of Austin do you feel most at home in? Oh, man, that's a good question. Yeah. I probably eastside. Yeah. I might go with that. I live there for a while as well.

Yeah, I live there for a long time. Yeah. See, minds like the campus area, like the park. I feel like that's definitely a big difference in people who live here. Also, people who went to UT and people who didn't. You spent a lot of time around campus, that's why you went to Ruby's. I didn't go to UT's, that's why I didn't go to Ruby's or places around campus, just because it was difficult to get to. Yeah. And it's honestly kind of nice because I feel like that area is mostly unchanged.

Like, do you think so? Well, at least I thought. I mean, drive the wheel. Drive the wheel, drive the wheel. It's so historically preserved. Yeah, yeah, that's true. But, you know, not a lot of shifting there. Yeah. They turned on a post office.

Yeah. They did. They did turn on a post office. So weird. So weird. I like looked at the building that is becoming this thing and I was like, oh my god. That was the post office.

And still was over there, mail stuff. That post office only existed to sort and process mail for UT. I don't know if you know that. That, that, that, they had like the self-serve chaos. They did, but there's, if you think about it, there's that bigger post office off of like Lamar and 34th. There's something, there's a little salad.

There's a little salad. That's the one for everyone else. That little one that was in Hyde Park, they just processed the mail that went to UT. Kind of far away. Yeah. We should tell post office stories one day because we got a bunch of them.

But it's right down your wall. If we have them already. Yeah, absolutely. I was walking by the downtown post office the other night. I went to... I went down... was downtown for a comedy show. Was the downtown... on Congress?

Yeah. Okay. And... Which is gone, but the building is still there. And I was remembering... The one in Guadalupe. Yeah. Guadalupe 6.

Guadalupe 6. Yeah. Okay, that one. I think that's why I was confused. That was closed, okay. But the building is still there, and I was remembering the one in Guadalupe. Yeah, there was like a huge lot. Yeah, okay, I think that's why I was confused. That was closed, okay. But the building is still there. And I was thinking about the days that we would, and it's a longer story, but when we would like fucking shove DVDs in the mouse lots and then run away.

Yeah, yeah. Or buy every stamp in the city. Yeah. Well, we'll save those stories for another episode. But you know, I also think, you know, Austin as a player in the early days of Rooster Teeth didn't feel as much of a character. That's the other thing I want to add.

Where I feel like Austin was never really like the city of Austin as an entity. It was never really like supportive of Rooster Teeth. Well, that's true. Yeah, I've never felt like, like I think that maybe that's one of the things I like about living in Austin is people in Austin don't give a fuck about Rooster Teeth. think that maybe that's one of the things I like about living in Austin is people in Austin Don't give a fuck about rooster taste. Yes, and that's kind of nice like you could it's a lot easier to be invisible and Around here than anywhere else. I feel like the odd the city is not into us. Yeah Actively against us. It's just like another artistic endeavor. Yeah

Well, when you think about it like back then when you have like Richard Gary at throwing parties in a castle like who the fuck are we to compete with that right right We're just a bunch of assholes trying to run a bar out for a night Got I went to a luster pearl the other day the one that they moved over to the east side Yeah, and I hadn't been there since it moved that there's a coffee shop in there which we should go to it's not very good and It's only a nine out of ten. No, it was like a four It's not very good. And it's only a nine out of 10. No, it was like a four. Great for oil, it's.

Well, I mean, it made it a bad day. And they also were out of ice coffee, so I had to drink a regular bottle of coffee, which I was not into. But I was thinking about, we tried to throw a party there once and we tried to rent it. Oh, yeah, for a better time. It wasn't like 80 grand.

It was a one for one Friday night. It was a lot. Yeah, so we said, Hey, guess what? We didn't have the party there. Yeah, we didn't have the party. And then we had the party for three grand. It was a lot. Yeah. Yeah, so we said, Hey, guess what? We didn't have the party there. Yeah, we didn't have the party. I mean, we had the party for three grand of Bulma Caves. Yeah.

Because actually what I think we did. Oh my God. Which a bar who's not there anymore. Was that the South by Southwest party? Might have been. That was a good, good party. Yeah. Yeah.

We used to have a lot of parties of Bulma Caves because they were cheap. Yeah. Well, we did, yeah, hang on. The, you remember, you remember this? The one of the bartenders there did not like the fact that I had a cat named Shamus. Oh, because his kid was named Shamus. Yeah.

They were like two Irish dudes. Do you remember why he was going to just catch you? Do you remember why he didn't like it? Well, because she told them. You know, to talk about his kid named Shamus, but then you go, oh my cat's name Shamus. And the guy's like, oh, it's a fuck. Listen, listen, I did not name that cat.

The cat already was named by the time I got it. Oh, great. Well, Becca, thank you for joining us. I'm absolutely happy. I know. This was a lot of fun. Absolutely. Maybe you'll join us again someday.

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