ANMA - The Cheapest House in Austin

Episode Date: May 30, 2022

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Instead we're now when you're an air conditioning unit for an apartment complex that is not going to shut off because it's unseasonably hot for some weird reason. Based on the noise though, I'll tell you the reason, global warming. Oh what? I mean, something that really exists. On the right side, based on the noise alone, those people are in for a frosty day. It's true. We're out at Batch, which is like a coffee shop in bakery in East Austin.

Oh, shit, hold on. Good morning, guys. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Good morning, Jeff. Good morning, Eric. I used to live not too far from here. I think this place opened after I moved.

It did. I lived, you know, back over in that direction a bit. I'm not going to. I'm not going to get into detail here. But it's funny to me because you don't live there anymore. I don't live there anymore. I feel weird about whoever does live. Outing yourself for places. Yeah, you used to live in East-O-T.

We both used to live within three blocks of each other. Three blocks of each other and within a reasonable distance of this place. Yeah, and the reason I lived there is that when I was ready to buy a house, I did a search in Austin for, well, you actually told me about this place, but I also did a search in Austin for, well you actually told me about this place, but I also did a search in Austin for the cheapest house,

like in Austin proper. And that was that house. Like it was the cheapest house in Austin. What were you, what do you consider Austin proper? Like what we used to define Austin as, which is like 35 to MoPAC. 35 to MoPAC, or MoPAC to 183 on the east and the north down to Ben White.

But yeah, this was Central Austin and it was the cheapest house in Austin. It was a tiny house. It was really, really small. And it was, I want to say, I paid $180,000 for it. Yeah, I think that's right. That same house resold last year for $600,000. I did not sell that house for $600,000. Yeah. Whoever bought it after me then sold it for $600,000. I did not sell that house for $600,000. Whoever bought it after me then sold it for $600,000,

which is just a testament to what a rapid change, not only Austin, but as a microcosm, East Austin has experienced where we are right now, specifically sitting at this coffee shop. It used to be in the early 90s. You didn't, like people would always be like, don't go east to 35. Yeah.

It was super scary, super sketch, for whatever reason. I never thought it was that bad. I thought people over blew that stuff. But that's why the cheapest house I could find was over here on the east side. And that was 13 years ago or so, 14 years ago? I bought a house in that neighborhood, a little bit before you did.

I moved there in 2005. And my house was 280 at the time. And I think it's... And that house was much bigger than the one I bought. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think the Zilla wanted is like nine or something now. It's ridiculous. It's not my house anymore.

I bought my first house in Austin in 1999. And it was $92,500. East Riverside. Are you serious? Yeah, I sold it. Funny story about why I had to sell it. It got to a whole thing, but I eventually sold it for $145,000 in like 2010,

and now I checked that out the other day. The zestimates like 580. Dude, the interesting thing, when you bought that house, I remember we were talking we're friends at that point. Yeah, we were friends. You were telling me about buying a house. I'd never bought a house. I'm a couple years younger than you.

And I was wanting to learn about it. And I was amazed at the time at your interest rate on that house. Because it was so good. It was so good. It was such a good, I couldn't believe you could get an interest rate that low. Let me blow you away, Eric.

So I bought my first house, I was pretty young, I was 23 years old. And I bought it because I had been in the army for five years. And so I had, I could get a VA home loan. It was one of the benefits of joining the military back then, you got Army College Fund, which I didn't use, because we started Rooster Heath, so I didn't need it. And kind of dumb.

And kind of, yeah, and I was kind of dumb. And a lot of literacy requires. So, and then you also got this thing called the veterans, well, a home loan, which allowed poor soldiers to buy homes at a really good interest rate. How good of an interest rate. You ready for this?

Yeah. Seven percent. What? That's what interest rates were. No, it's so good. The average, the national average, when I bought my house, was eight to eight and a half percent. And so when I bought my first house, the interest rate, I got was seven percent.

I think that's what a lot of people forget nowadays. Wow. Because that money became free for so long. Yeah. Like interest rates dropped to year zero after the 2008 financial crisis. Yeah, yeah. And then just stayed there and everyone assumed that after the 2008 financial crisis. And then just stayed there and everyone assumed that was the norm. Yeah, seven back then I was saying.

I was in awe of it. That's crazy. My real estate agent had never seen somebody my age get alone that good. At the time now my current, I mean I just right now is like 3%. Yeah, of course. Yeah, mine's low two. So when you're saying seven it's like, oh really? But in like 1999 dollars and everything like that was good. That's pre dot com crash. Yeah. It's pre 9-11. Yeah

A lot happened in a couple of years. Yeah, we were still locking the gates and airports back. Hey Hey, talk to me about this for a second because I'm I'm only recently lived in Austin in probably four years, right? Since like that kind of came in here. I'm confused about the way that there's like a delineation between areas of Austin. When people say East Austin, they mean East of 35, but that doesn't make any sense to me because this is East Austin, but how is East Austin central like the... If you want to get it all, like most things in this country, Eric, it goes back to racism. There we go.

Uh, 35, I-35 didn't use to always exist, as Interstate 35. It used to be called, I believe, Front Street. And Front Street was the street that divided Austin into the white part of town and the minority part of town. So East of Front Street, which is now East of 35, became the minority, was the, designated minority part of town.

And only white people could live on the west side. So that's why when they built 35, they demolished that street and they built 35 in its place. That's why it remains to this day East and West Austin because it was a racist delineation. Oh. Is that the red lining stuff? That's all based on that, right?

Yeah, okay, okay, okay. I know about that. I didn't know that it used to be, I guess I just never considered it being a different road. Right, like it was always this. It was before the interstates were built. Yeah, you know, that was the big deal. And that's why there's kind of a movement

in like this I-35 expansion and talking about trying to improve Austin, right? To try to bulldoze 35, maybe bury it, and then bridge the two parts of the city together. Yes, they should. Absolutely. It doesn't make any sense. So being from San Diego, downtown is downtown.

And then a lot of like the areas around it are like little islands where they used to be. Like little islands where you would like drive 10 minutes and then you're in like mission hills. And then you keep going and you're in Hillcrest, like different pockets and everything. Now everything's all bridged together. Austin feels like, well, there's downtown

and then everything else. And it's very weird because everyone goes, well, yeah, we're going to the east side and it's like, I'm a violet crown, I'm downtown. I'm downtown. Like, it's still see the big buildings. Yeah. Yeah, what the hell?

There's a lot of weird, I don't wanna say subdivisions, but a lot of weird names for areas or like designations for different neighborhoods that you have to get used to. Like if you really want to break it down, like you could go by like neighborhood name and there's just like so many of those, even I don't fucking know all of those.

Yeah. But talking about like the change and the transformation of this part of town and even you know, to lesser extent, like the division of the town by I-35, it makes me think about all the areas around Austin that I've seen significant change over the years. Like I think a lot about South Congress,

which is a really popular area that a lot of people go to. And what a different place that used to be, when I moved here, even before I moved here. Like, it used to be that South Congress was a super sketchy part of town. Like, porn theaters and pimps and prostitutes. Yeah, it was porn theaters, you know, sex workers standing on the corner,

people selling drugs, and now there's like an armistor, there's like trendy hotels. Like, there's a sell-hull house. Yeah, that place has blown up. And I remember it, like, it was funny to watch that transformation because when I moved here in 98,

they were in the process of pushing all that out. Like all of South Congress was under construction for years when I moved here. It was like, they're basically bulldozing, why not bulldozing it, but they're basically tearing it all up and rebuilding it. And then when it finally reopened,

it was like a lot of like kitschy vintage shops and like no big change. It's just like a lot of like kits kitschy vintage shops and like, like no big change, just like a lot of like, kitsch and vintage retro stuff. And to try to promote people to come down there, they would do this thing called First Thursday. Oh, I remember First Thursday. They were first Thursday.

Yeah. They were first Thursday, they were first Thursday all the time. Jane for free. Yeah, you would go down to South Congress and all the businesses would have free beer. Wow, yeah. First beer.

There would be a cake. There would be a cake at every like parts in labor, like feather. There's just like every little store. Rock store to store. Uncommon objects. Yeah. And then just like hanging out,

they're like maybe like eat a little bit of food. And there was also this other thing that we would do down there, I don't know if you remember this, where back again in the late 90s, there would be press greetings in movies. Oh yeah. And they would advertise them in the Chronicle. Like you would read through the classifies in the late 90s, there would be press greetings in movies. Oh yeah. And they would advertise them in the Chronicle. Like you would read through the classifies in the Chronicle and it'd be like,

Hey, free tickets to see American Beauty or whatever. Man in the Moon. Yeah, that's one of the ones we did. Just come down to whatever store at four o'clock and pick up a free pass. And you would go there and they'd be like, yeah, like at the right should it be like a stack of free passes to see this movie a week before it came out. And you'd pick up the pass and then be like, go to the Metropolitan Saturday at 2 p.m.

and you can watch this movie for free. He's not kidding. And we would, and it became such a thing. You know, it gots an hour poor tech support company employees. So we were looking for anything we could do free. And so we would scour the Chronicle and then we would go and get tickets. It didn't matter if we wanted to see the movie or not.

No, free movie. It was a free movie. It was a way to spend two hours. We didn't pay money to see a movie for years. And we would stand in line for sometimes an hour and a half to get those passes. And sometimes it wouldn't get them. Sometimes they would give them out. What? Sometimes you'd walk right in and you'd get tickets.

And then sometimes you'd stand in line for the Blair Witch project. Yeah. For an hour and a half and not get a ticket. Although we did get tickets for that. We did get a ticket. Blair Witch was crazy for an hour and a half, and not get a ticket. Although we did get to that. We did get to get to that. Blair Witch was crazy. That was a crazy screening too. Like the line, it was at the doby,

and the line went down the street. Yeah. Like there were two lines going in two different directions, down the street in each direction, and it was madness. That was the craziest movie of that type that we went to, press screening that we went to ever go see. I think, and I think we saw,

it's weird to even call them press screenings, right? That's what they were. I guess they were, but anybody else. It was like they were gonna show the movie anyway for press. The reporter were guaranteed to go in. Yeah, so then they would put people in there. I guess so that we saw. We saw.

We would clap or laugh so that it would have a more positive experience for whoever was there from the press to review it. We saw, I'm trying to think of movies, we saw Punisher. Resident Evil. Resident Evil, the Thomas James, Punisher. Wait, wait, wait, wait, you're, were you guys still doing this?

This was the late 90s, early 2000s. Yeah, this is crazy. We saw Tomb Raider, we saw Doom. We saw Doom, we saw South Park. Yeah, we did see South Park. We saw South Park for free. What? There was, I think, we see,

I think we even saw, what's it called, Bruce Almighty. Yeah, that way. Yeah, I think you're right, I think we did. That was, yeah. We saw what's it called, Bruce Almighty. Yeah. That way. Yeah, I think you're right. I think we did. We saw Man on the Moon and Jim Carey was in the theater. He just showed up and sat in the theater a couple of rows behind us.

Austin was, that was the beginning of Austin being in the national spotlight for being like a little place to go. So whenever we would go to these advanced groups, maybe there will be someone in the audience and that was at the time. Like, Jim Carerey was there. I remember like we were convinced when we went and saw South Park that Natalie Portman was gonna be there.

She was in town filming where the heart is. Yeah, that's right. There was a film in there in town. It was at time in Austin, you know, this is obviously before cell phones, well not before cell phones, but before smartphones and social media, where you would get up early on a Thursday, this is our 20s, we would get up early on a Thursday and drive to the Chronicle to get a Chronicle.

They would put them out, you get them there first, so you'd go get a Chronicle from the front of the Chronicle, which is just, it's a R-35, yeah, it's right over there, by the CubeSmart, I think, or whatever it is. It's not CubeSmart, it's like whatever one of those things are. And yeah, then you'd go, you'd go to like star seeds or magnolia or wherever you liked to go and you just pour through it and just circle shit. Oh, fucking mighty, mighty Boston's are playing this weekend. Oh, cool, Gus loves, Gus loves,

I do not like him. I do not like him. Yeah, I do not like mighty, mighty Boston's be very, very careful. Gus loves D-Plan, so we'll go see them at emo's on Saturday. And then Sunday morning, if we stand in line, maybe we can go see Resident Evil at the movies for free. And yeah.

It's like all your entertainment was literally in those rags. It feels like early 2000s Austin is the 80s everywhere. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. We would laugh at news of the weird and misconnections and. Yeah, it's like internet content delivered via a print format once a week

It's like all that stuff eventually, you know Took off and became very niche websites that which is became popular Which is why to take it back to the current day a little bit the Austin Chronicle if you're not from Austin I don't know why you're listening to this podcast, but The Austin Chronicle it's like it's like the San Francisco Examiner, it's like every city's major rag, right? Like, what is the one in New York that we got that we stole the quote from for RVBC's in the one? Oh, it was.

Village Voice. Oh, that's my Village Voice. It's a funny story about the Village Voice. So when Red vs. Blue Season 1 came out, the DVD, they reviewed it for some reason. I don't think we sent it to them. Yeah, I have no idea how they found it. We didn't send stuff out, but they reviewed it. And then we went, we did a,

and maybe because we did a, showing at the Lincoln Center, I think we talked about that. And the guy, the guy who wrote the article said like, it's if a bunch of, I'm paraphrasing obviously, I don't remember it. And this is some audio texturing. This audio texturing.

Probably a little, I'm gonna get, this is probably harsher than it was in print, but it was essentially like, it's like if a bunch of untalented people tried to make clerks meet Star Wars. And so we took clerks meet Star Wars. Was it South Park meet Star Wars? South Park meet Star Wars.

South Park meet Star Wars, and we just put that on the cover. You're geniuses. I think if I wanna expand on the quote a little bit, it was something like, why is it, whenever there's a new piece of technology involved, the first thing people try to do is create some type of form of South Park meets Star Wars.

Yeah. Hey. And that's why, Darren Waters, Billis Wars, it's on the cover of the season one DVD. South Park meets Star Wars. So, somebody showed, some Artifian showed that to that dude years later and he was not happy It's a great quote. Thanks. It's a great quote. We really appreciate it. Really sold a lot of DVDs

So it's speaking of when I gave my two bits on that on that quote there made me think about something You know, this is is episode four of this podcast. This is the first episode we're doing since the podcast has been released, like it's coming out now. And there's a very unintended side effect

of making this podcast. That I've been experiencing lately, which is the people involved in these stories have started texting me with their version and their notes and their corrections to which I say, get your own podcast. Yeah, dude, we got a, Gus and I, he's not kidding, Gus and I got a list

of I bulleted list of corrections from Bernie. I'm gonna have to wrap this up. To which I can just say, yeah, make your own podcast. Oh, man. But there have been other people who texted in their version of stuff, which has been really interesting. But yeah, this is our reality. And that's what I say.

I've been reading some of the comments that people leave on the podcast. And the thing I try to impress upon them is that this is our point of view of what happened. And with those events, we're not trying to be deceitful, or, you know, but this is how our interpretation of what happened, or what happened through our lens, and through our eyes. Yeah, and how it meant to us. Right. Which kind of colors the way you feel about it, or look at it, totally. The older I get, the more I realize, the things are very redly black and white to begin with you know and uh... yeah it's funny you say that when I was young I felt when I was

younger I felt oh no young you can say that when I was young I felt like everything was definitely very black and white I think I lived in a world of extremes it was either yes or no right or wrong no oh my god and it was like he's really softened up in his own way. Very, very quick to fly off the handle. Like if someone said, killing Eve came out on AMC instead of even see America, that would have sent me off. Back then, that one more lot more calm. The tour guy.

That was just the car ride over. It was just going, what was that? Oh, but it's funny how much you do, Chich. I feel like I'm definitely much more mellowed out than I was back then. A lot less angry. You're a lot less angry for sure. Yeah, it is weird to think of you as mellowed out,

but in the context of the 90s and early 2000s, absolutely. Oh man, I remember, like we used to just, I don't know how we're still alive, honestly. Like thinking back about some of the shit that we used to do when we were young. You're like, you're like, obnoxious. Yeah, how obnoxious we were or like even the way we would behave when we would go out to like,

six street, like we would spend a lot of time on six street. Like being drunk assholes, like totally obnoxious dickheads downtown. I don't know how I did not get the shit beat out of me every weekend. I think, I mentioned in maybe the last podcast, the first time I hung out with Gus really, we ended up going to Casino, El Camino. I think from that day on, we probably went to Casino

four or five days a week for years after that. Yeah, like we instantly fell in love with each other and that place and then we were just hanging out there constantly. And Gus is right. We were fucking, I mean, we were, we were like 25, 26, 27 in terrible, just terrible people. I remember, I remember we said to this thing called punch club. We saw fight club, but we weren't Brad Pitt or Ed Norton. So we had punch club, which was the rule was you could punch each other at, not in the face or the dick, but anywhere else, once, without warning, a day.

There was just like sucker punching each other. Just sucker punching each other. And the other person couldn't get mad. Is that how it worked? Yeah, yeah. I don't think we ever really got mad at each other. No, because we always did it right. And it wasn't just you and me,

but there were like other people, other friends of ours and other people that we knew that would also participate in this. But like I remember one time I punched you at Casino. It was like a Friday night. It was downstairs in front of the jukebox, like right across from the bar. Yeah, and I just, he wasn't looking

and I stuck a bunch of them good in the stomach. He doubled over. And within two seconds, the entirety of the bar was around us because I thought we were fighting. Yeah, there's like a circle opened up and it was just like super crowded. A people up top, because you know, there's like upstairs looking down on us,

yelling and screaming and we're like, we're just friends, we're okay. What's funny is you sucker punched me like right in the stomach, I doubled over, the circle cleared. And as I was hitting the ground, I was already laughing. Like I was cracking up at it.

So then I stood up and I was laughing. And that group of people was so confused about what just happened. Cause I got punched in the stomach and was instantly laughing on the floor. Imagine going to Casino Al Camino now and just seeing two guys in their 20s and they do that. Like you would think, oh, they're getting in a fight.

Yeah. Automatically you would think they're getting in a fight. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'm not saying those people were stupid or anything. I mean, I would say we're the stupid ones. Yeah, it totally makes sense that they would think we were fighting. Yeah, that is how a fight starts Oh, man, you guys you're talking about Softening a little bit and you brought a treat. Oh, I was bored yesterday. So I made pies I made blueberry hand pies. I'd never made...

That's fuck as a hand pie. It's like a small pie. You think of... I was not like the little, like the peanuts ones you would get at the grocery store. Peasnuts? Like, you know, it'd be like a... I think it like this is bears. No, well, maybe, but it was more like, it was like, it'd be Linus or Snoopy and it would

be... I don't remember those. Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember those. You know, I'm talking about... i'm talking about yeah yeah that's i think that's kind of what this is okay another word for this would be colachi's the thing they sell inside but we brought our own colachi's are not hand pies well colachi's are typically savory okay they sell sweet colachi's here do they yeah i think technically the savory ones aren't are the colachi's are usually i read about this and i think austin interpretation of collaches has been wrong the entire time but who cares so uh... i was bored yesterday

and uh... i never made a handpile uh... and i know blueberries are coming into season now so i thought what i try to make blueberry handpies uh... they're never good ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I ate two of them yesterday. I don't know, I felt like doing something nice for my wife, and she likes blueberries, and I was like, oh, you know, I'll make you some blueberry hand pies, and I worked on them for like an hour and a half, and then they were done, and they were cool, and I took a bite of one, and I was like, yeah, they're not that great.

What do you think they were wrong? I think that there was a couple of things. I think my work area wasn't big enough. I think I overworked the dough. And I didn't have the sugar crystals to put on the top of the variant. So the batter's a little dense and dry. And there's not enough filling.

The filling itself is really good because how can you go wrong with blueberries? But the batter is a little too buttery and a little too overworked. So with all that big said, you can have a blueberry hand pipe. Thank you. I didn't make you anything. I would like some visual for this. So you're in your kitchen. Are you wearing an apron? No. No, okay. And you're cooking away. You're working the dough.

You're prepping the blueberries. Are you listening to music or a pot? Like what? It's set the scene for me? How does Gus come up? Sometime, usually yeah, I do listen to music. Normally I'll put on like 80s or classic rock. Okay. Like streaming. But actually I didn't for some reason. There was something about just like the serenity of, like almost like a Zen state or just quiet. Okay, there was nothing. And I was really into that yesterday.

Okay, so it was very solid, solicitous, solitudeous, solitudeed. There was not much softer today. They've been sitting overnight, obviously. So, it's not buttery. I think it's really good. I love it. It could be better.

So, it's not bad for a first attempt, but I actually really enjoy baking quite a bit. I actually do it a lot more. I've kind of fallen out of practice when I think it shows with these. But I do want to try this again. I'd really like actually making blueberry muffins. And I had some blueberries left over from this.

So I think either later tonight or maybe tomorrow, I'll use those left over blueberries and make some blueberry muffins. Mondays are kind of busy for me. Mondays are my podcast day. I have podcasts to do today. So you have RT podcast, or are there podcasts?

The podcast about current events, not the podcast about the past. When do you record your airplane disaster podcast? That's normally on Wednesdays. We're between seasons right now. So we're not doing that. Man, let me tell you, I am, no, that's our T podcast story.

That was about a spill over the current times. I almost told a swan, I got bit by a swan over the weekend. Do I feel like that's a f***ing fish, do I? So, to make eight hand pies, it was eight ounces of butter. So basically, every hand pie basically has an ounce of butter or two tablespoons. Oh my God.

It was loud, so much butter. And like I said, I think it was overworked. I think the crust had been a bit more flaky. I think the butter melted a little too much, which is why the dough kind of collapsed and didn't have flakes and layers to it. I'll do better next time. Jeff, more flaky. I think the butter melted a little too much, which is why the dough kinda collapsed and didn't have flakes and layers to it. I'll do better next time. Jeff, what are you gonna bake for the next episode?

Oh, geez. I was thinking I'm really into blueberry muffins. I was thinking about it. I'm gonna add some blueberry muffins. I started to get better than a blueberry muffin in the muffin world. And blueberries are just coming in this season right now. I've been thinking about...

I just bought some. I've been thinking about going to a depict blueberries, actually, there's a place between here and Houston, where you can do that. Is it really? Yeah, I did it in Oregon once and it's very fun. Okay, that's like current day stuff.

It's hard to keep it all separate. I don't know if we've ever talked about this, but I'm sure we have. We haven't talked about it in this podcast, so that house you were talking about, that you purchased, yeah, well, I'm already going have. We haven't talked about it in this podcast. So that house you were talking about that you purchased. Yeah. Well, I'm already gonna distract myself, this tangent.

That's how you met Bernie. Yes. Yeah. Because he was, like we had talked about before, I was a manager at the call center and he was like the manager's manager. He was like the vice president or something. Yeah.

He was like a management there. And your home application came across as desperate, I guess like income verification or something, yeah. He was like a management there. And your home application came across his desk for like income verification or something. And he thought it was unusual that an hourly call center employee was trying to buy out. Somebody that gave $8 an hour was trying to buy out. And I mean, what a testament to, again, like the kind of the underlying theme of this podcast,

how much Austin has changed? Yeah. You were a call center employee making $8 an hour and you were buying a house. Yeah, that probably gave me that probably gave me stabbed if I told that to the wrong person now. Anyway, when we first started Rooster Teeth, I lived with you in that house for a while, for like a year, year and a half. Just because when we were starting the company, or when we first started, I had, I don't know, I'd gone on, I'd quit my job

and I didn't have one and I had moved it back in with my parents. And so I was living for free and it's kind of started with Mr. Keith and I was helping remotely with that stuff. And then as the work increased, I needed to come back to Austin to, I'd moved away very briefly to live with my parents. You got sick of rolling power outages.

That's right. I had moved to Puerto Rico for a while. You can play Star Wars. Yeah, galaxies. Yeah. I had moved to Puerto Rico for like a year. I spent all my time on the beach, learned how to surf. It was like a whole thing.

It's good. And you can surf. I can surf. Well, I could 20 years ago. And then I moved back to Austin. And since we were just starting the company, I might devote all my attention to it. So Jeff very kindly let me live with him

for like the first year I came back. So that way I could just focus and have rooster teeth as my job full time. Like didn't have to worry about making rent. It was just like, you know, handling customer service shit, you know, helping get things in order, working on the website, just like all the minutia that needs to go on in order to launch a company,

that you needed to launch a company back then. And it was, I spent, I have a lot of fun memories in that house. I do too, I do too. It was actually, we lived there together twice because you lived there before you went to Puerto Rico, it was a little bit. One of the things that jumps to mind,

I'll tell a story in a second, but there was about a four month window when you and I lived together in that post Puerto Rico period where I was between marriages, it doesn't mean to do with relationship, like dating stuff, just I just wasn't in a relationship with somebody for a very brief window, and I just remember that four months of like living the bachelor life with Gus, it was the only time I'd ever experienced that in my life, and it was so fun and so freeing to just, I wouldn't do anything with it other than play video games and drink, but it was the only time I'd ever experienced that in my life and it was so fun and so freeing To just I wouldn't do anything without other than play video games and drink, but it was just like it was the first time

Cuz I got me I got in a relationship at 819 and was married by 21 and then I was married to us 28 or 29 Being an adult child. Yeah, and so it was like there was just like a four-month period where like I woke up at noon And I had never been able to do that before And cuz I'd been in the army and then I tell a tell a network I had to be working at 7 a.m And that that was really fun interesting thing though to bring it full circle Gus is a Mostly vegan I would say a mostly vegan occasionally not yeah I had a vegetarian colachi this morning because they didn't have any vegan colachi

But you've been doing this for a while and I I think you're one, one day a week, you eat meat or something, is how it works. Normally I'll eat meat on the weekends. Okay. I don't eat meat during the week. And, but for a while, you were strictly vegan for a long time. The butter in the colloquial.

In my hand hot, too. When Gus moved to Puerto Rico, I was actually vegan at the time. I had gone vegan, and I had been vegan for about three months, and Gus sat me down, and he said, listen, I'm going to Puerto Rico in three weeks. I'm not gonna see you again for like a year. I don't know how, when I'll be back, I want to experience all of my favorite restaurants in Austin

and I don't want you to make this difficult on me. And I wanna do it with my best friend. So can you just not be an asshole for three weeks? And so I was like, you know what, for the next three weeks, I'm gonna stop being vegan, I never went back. I never went back. Yeah, I would do the same for you. I appreciate it, I'm not complaining.

I think it's funny now that you're the vegan guy. I just, also it's weird that it's hard to be vegan. It was so much more difficult to be vegan back then. That's the thing I was gonna hit on. It was brutal. Like the world has changed so much in the last 20, 25 years. be able to figure out how to be vegan back then. That's the thing I was gonna hit on. It was brutal. Like, the world has changed so much in the last 20, 25 years.

Like, I don't know how you did it back then. Nowadays, you go to any place and even if they're not like a specialty shop, they'll have a small submenu for people who are vegan or vegetarian. I remember I went to, on like, a weekend vacation to New Orleans around that time with my wife at time, and I almost starved to death. In that city in like 1998, trying to be vegan. It was impossible.

And it's funny to me, like I've been, you know, trying to, I hate seeing vegan, I like seeing plant-based. Sure. I feel like vegan has a lot of connotations, weight, a lot of negative energy. Positive and negative, depending on who's, yeah. Shit was like gonna say, plant-based fire. I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you, I totally lost my train to thought

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Eric, we were talking about this very first house I had that I bought for $92,000. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you a story you probably have never heard. Okay. About how I lost that house and then how I got it back. What? So when I had that house for seven years, met a new lady, Thonlove, got married, we're gonna have a kid.

I made the mistake of googling that house or like looking at house up on the sexual offender registry list. And within like four blocks, there were like eight sexual, I don't know, offenders, predators. And I went, well, I'm not raising a kid here, so I got to buy a new house. So I went and bought a new house on the east side and moved over there, but I kept that house

because I had always, I had a lot, some of the people in my family had owned multiple properties. Like I had an aunt that she just rented out houses and that's how she made a living. And I was always kind of attracted to that idea. And I thought, like, that's how I'll accumulate wealth. I'll just buy a new house every few years,

and then I'll rent it out. Good idea, especially in Austin. Look at that. Great idea, especially in Austin. Had I been 5% more capable, probably could have had a great career at it. I sucked very quickly. I couldn't get anybody to rent the first house.

I ended up hiring a property manager. Big mistake hired the wrong property manager. I won't want to get it at that, but he fucking sucked. Anyway, he eventually rented a house to a lady. It's cool. And then I would just sometimes get rent, and I'd have to, like, I wouldn't get rent for two months, and I'd have to call the property manager. He'd be like, I'm working on it. It was just a nightmare. So, but in that home, it was like a garden home community that had a pool that they shared. So there were HOA fees. The HOA fees were $200 a year.

Every December I would get a bill for $200 and I would mail it off to them. So when I moved, for whatever reason, the property management company didn't, they didn't get my forwarding address. I didn't maybe I didn't give it to him. I think I did. Or for whatever reason I got lost in the mail,

but I never got that bill, that $200 bill. And I just didn't think about it, because who thinks about a $200 bill, they get once a year, right? And I think I sold the house like an April or something. So I moved in like April or May, so it was. Did it just for clarification, you didn't sell the house. You moved to the new house, sorry.

And so I was going through this process where I was running it out to this guy. And then I would say that went for like maybe a year, year and some change, and then I didn't receive any rent for like three weeks in a row. And so I went to talk to the property manager and I'm like, what is going on? He goes, I meant to call you. I went over and I talked to the lady to say, hey, you need to pay your rent and she said,

oh, I paid it to the new owner. And I go, what's that mean? She goes, yeah, somebody else, this guy came by, he told me he owns the house now. And so I paid it to him. And so I figured you sold the house. And I was like, when did this happen? He's like, oh, I talked to her like a month ago. And I'm like, hey, you didn't tell me this for,

I had to find you to find this out. And be what the fuck are you talking about? He goes, yeah, I thought it was strange. So I had to go see the lady and I had to get the number of the guy who she told me owned the house. And I had to call this guy and he was waiting for my call. But I will say this, really nice guy. He was waiting for my call and he goes,

yeah, I've been waiting for you to call. Here's what happened. You didn't pay your homeowner's association dues for two years in a row. In courted Texas law, all they have to do is they post the notice at like deep, at like a... Like the town, Travis County your praises Access office or whatever you text that stuff he goes they put it on a wall on a board there and

And then if it sits there for six months and nobody Comes in to dispute it then your house goes up to auction and so I bought your house and now I own your house And I go are you fucking serious? What do I do? And he goes, well, because I'm a good guy, there's this project called, or this process called reclamation, you have six months to get your house back. I'm required to sell it back to you. You just have to pay my legal fees and your legal fees.

So then I had to go through a process where I had to hire a lawyer and I had to buy my house from this guy. It cost me eight grand. I had to sell my car, cause I didn't have an eight grand on me at the time. So I had to sell a car to get eight grand to buy my house back because I didn't pay $400 in HOA dues.

And then nobody told me all they did was post a notice at a building I've never seen before. Right. Like obviously they're not going to go through the effort. Right. Yeah. And that is state law. And it's a big. It's a lot of soldiers. I will say Jeff has a history or had a history with this HOA. It's not like just out of nowhere this happened. Didn't you threaten to murder the HOA president? Yeah, I was.

So yes, yes. So these houses I had were built like in the 80s. And so there was a notice that came through the HOA center that everybody in the house said, hey, look everybody, your paint looks like shit. Your houses are falling, the sightings falling off your houses, everybody should consider replacing their side. Everybody should consider replacing the audio texture. Everybody should consider replacing their siding and painting their houses.

And I said, you know what? I'll do that. Fuck it. I got a little bit of money. RT was just cranking up. You know, I had a little bit of spend money for the first time ever. I wanted to invest in my home. So I got like hardy wood.

I remember I was like 10 grand to do my whole house or 12 grand to do my whole house. And I was very excited about it. And then I was like, well, I want to paint it, it's Austin. I wanted to paint it like a vibrant color. You know, like all the houses you see in Travis Heights and Hyde Park. And so you had to submit your paint colors.

And I submitted a bunch of paint colors and they rejected them. And I submitted a bunch more and they rejected them. And the third one, I did it, they just get more and more boring. I submitted this next batch of like four at a time and they just picked one and said, you can paint your house this color. So I said, are you sure?

And they're like, absolutely we approve. So then I went and I hired a painter and I got my house painted that color. A month after I got my house painted that color, I got a notice in the mail from the HOA that said, your house color is unacceptable. We're getting complaints. You need to repaint it.

And so I walked over to the president of the HOA who lived five houses down, knocked on his door. I was so sick. He opened up his door and he goes, can I help you? And I go, yeah, I got to, what's going on with this? And he goes, oh, yeah, we've been getting complaints. And I go, what named me one complaint?

And he goes, well, we got a call. A lady drove by, some person drove by the street with this and he goes, oh yeah, we've been getting complaints. And I go, what name he won complaint? And he goes, uh, well, uh, we got a call. A lady drove by, uh, some person drove by the street and said that the house was so offensive. The color was so offensive. She looked up the HOA and called the complaint. Wow. You just made that up. Mm-hmm.

And he goes, no. And I go, you absolutely, you're telling me that my house's green color that you approved is so offensive, a stranger, just driving through Austin on a fucking Saturday season goes, I'm gonna look up who the H.O.A. is, if there even is one at this neighborhood, took complain. I was like, as an unbiased third party,

I do wanna back up Jeff's claim. It was a boring, bland color. There was nothing offensive about it. No, it was just a fucking bog standard, like fucking pale green, and I go, and I go, so that's a lie, you're fucking lying to me. And he's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, he gets all stammery.

And I go, and plus, like, here's the notice where you told me this was okay, he goes, yeah, it's a, we think it's a different shade, so you're gonna need to repaint it. And I go, no, I'm not gonna repaint it. And he goes, well, you have to. And I said, here, how about this? Step out of your house.

Come stand in the front yard with me right now. And I'm gonna beat you to death and I'm gonna beat you to death I'm gonna beat you to death right now. I'm gonna kill you And he he goes excuse me. I go come outside so I can kick the shit out of it And I am not a violent person. I'm not not at all. I hate I have bore violence It takes I take somebody I don't know making you spend 15 grand a pain To then tell you to gaslight you about it I don't know, making you spend 15 grand a paintbrush color to then tell you, to gaslight you about it,

a month later to make me angry. And he goes, are you serious? And I go, step in your yard right now, I'm gonna take this out on you. And he like ran inside, shut his door, locked it and then I never saw him again. And then the paint color thing never came up again. Six months later I moved and then they got the revenge

with the H.O.A. thing later. That's insane. I do want to comment on responsible Jeff. What we'll call him responsible Jeff. Just to bring this back to me, when I moved back in with Jeff in the early days of Ruchertis, like we said, I was living with him because I didn't want to have to pay rent, and I was trying to live as cheaply as possible. So I bought a very cheap vehicle.

I went to like a small car dealership off Lamar, and I bought a 1964 Chevy pickup. And I thought, well, this is a cheap car, and it's like simple, so I'll just buy like the book on how to fix it, and if it breaks, I can work on it, and I can fix it. And I think me buying that old car, like kindled a desire in Jeff

to also have an old vehicle. Yes. So Jeff wanted like an old Bronco, and after looking for 12 hours, he couldn't find one, so he bought an old truck like me. No, that's accurate. That is absolutely accurate. I was, I was dead set on a grand wagon year

or a Bronco still am, looked for half a day and bought the next closest thing I could find which was a C10 It was a 1967. I thought yours was a 65. I was a 67 C10 pick up My step aside my was 64. I had tons of problems with my truck I was it was costly breaking down. I was constantly fixing it costly taking it to a mechanic Who knew more than me to like do the stuff I couldn't do and like just learning how to fix it Jeff just truck was for the most part more reliable Mm-. It eventually did reach a point though where the engine needed to be replaced. Like I don't remember what happened to cause it, but hit the engine in his

truck died. So he took it to the shop and paid for a brand new engine. They put, like a refurbished right? Like they they're taking it. It's not like they pulled it out of a box brand new. Right. Right. They take this engine. They tune it up, fix it and they put it in his truck. Jeff got this new engine in his up, fix it, and they put it in his truck. Jeff got this new engine in his truck, truck the truck home, parked it in his driveway, and then didn't drive it for two years. What?

It's sat there. Yeah, that's probably the right. The every bit of fluid in that vehicle, just like because of gravity, flow to the bottom, the tires all rotted, and the engine never worked again. Like he had a new engine put in that truck, drove it home, and that was the extent of the work that new engine did, because after that,

all the oil had gone bad and seat out of it, and it never turned on again. It did, I definitely, here's a deal. What I didn't consider was having a 1960s pale blue heat trap with no air conditioning. And so after my first summer driving around in Austin with it, I was like, I can't, this is I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die on the road from heatstroke. And so I, yeah, I parked it until I had to sell it a couple years later. I got a good deal on it. I loved that truck that I had that 1964. Shabby, I learned so much, I changed the fuel pump out in the street in front of your house,

remember that? Yeah. But like you said, it had no air conditioning. So everywhere, I think that year, if I remember right in 1964, was the first year you could buy air conditioning as an option on that truck. And it wasn't like it was built into the vehicle. It was like a portable air conditioner that you installed under the dash and just kind of sat there brutal. So everywhere I went, I had to drive with the windows down. Homeless dudes were always trying to get in the back. I don't know if

you remember that. Yeah. Like you stop at a stop sign or stop at a red light and there would be some dude always trying to get in the back. You'd always have to be screaming at them like get the fuck out of my truck. Wait, what do you mean trying to get in the bag? Like, they throw their bag in, the bed of the truck, and then, like, just start climbing in. What? I have no idea what, just something about, at that time, something about driving a 1960 Chevy pickup in Austin, meant any dude at the corner could get in your bed,

and you'd have to yell at them and scream at them to get out, to get the fuck out of your truck. I think that's old, old, remnants of older Austin, like, the Austin, the Gus and I didn't experience. Yeah. No. It was, like, Austin, the Gus and I didn't experience. Yeah. It was, like, it would be funny if it happened once or twice, but it was any time I stopped that truck and there was a dude standing at the corner, he would try to get it.

You know what else was, I feel was super, super commonplace right when I moved here, right when we started hanging out that died very quickly within like a year or two years. Cause I remember, and I'm not saying we ever did this, but I would say that everybody I know did this. And if you would stop at a stop, like you'd see it constantly, people used to drink beers and drive in Austin, clearly instantly, just driving around

with like a fucking, with a Bud Light bottle. And I feel like that was like super commonplace. And then I remember people bitching that cops were starting to crack down on it. And I'm like that was like super commonplace. And then I remember people bitching that cops were starting to crack down on it. I'm like, yeah. I felt like that honestly was the influence of the smaller towns to the southeast. Like that was the influence of Highway 71.

Yeah. I felt like you saw that a lot driving on Highway 71 southeast to here, like out towards Columbus. If you pass through like Lagrange, Smithville, like all those small towns. That was a lot more common out there. So you would see that move over here into Austin. Now you just see dudes ripping huge hits off of vapes all the time and driving.

But that, that, sorry, I gotta keep talking about this truck. We're, we're, I'm reminiscing about it now. That's all air for it. That truck got eight miles to the gallon. It was brutal. It had eight miles to the gallon. It was brutal. It had eight miles to the gallon, no air conditioner, but it was loud and fast. I had the lap belt. I had the seat belt.

My mind did have a lap belt. It was made in that time where seat belts were an option. And if you had the vehicle delivered and it still didn't have seat belts, you did not have to retroactively put them in. Yeah. Mine was delivered from the factory with lap belts. So I had to use lap belts, but it didn't matter. If you got into a wrecking that thing, you were dead.

Oh yeah. Regardless. I remember looking at that steering wheel so often and be like, yeah, if I'm in a wreck, this thing's just like going straight through my chest. Like this is not safe at all. So you're talking about eight miles to the gallon and a truck that size.

How big was that tank and how much was gas? The tank, if I remember right, was about 15 gallons. At that time, gas was probably like a buck 10. Maybe a buck 20. It was not expensive. What is the cheapest you remember gas being in your life? I remember when I moved to, the cheapest I remember in my life

would have been like a little kid in Eagle Pass. I remember seeing it for like 45 cents. Yeah, I remember seeing it for about 60 cents When I moved to Austin in 98 I lived off of Riverside and there was a gas station It was a diamond shamrock of a old torque. I would go to all the time. It was across from where Wanfu was Yeah, I don't know if you know it a little area and The gas there was always 98 cents a gallon and I remember it was either in 99 or 2000, when it finally went to like 101,

I was like, oh, that's it, that's bullshit. That's a bit more than a dollar a gallon now. Now I think what the national average is like 440, it just hit $4 a gallon here in Austin. How, it's so funny, you just mentioned one food. That's a place I haven't thought about in many, many years. It was this Chinese restaurant off of Old Torf. I remember with the cross street there.

Is it Montaupilus or Wickersham? It might be Wickersham, I mean, for Montaupilus. Yeah, it was a Chinese restaurant. And I remember when I moved here in 1998, I was driving around the neighborhood because I was trying to get a feel for everything that was in the area. And I drove by Wann-Fu and they had a big banner out front.

And the banner said we got our liquor license back and I was like that place is that's my kind of place. They were always open. You go there one in the morning and you could eat a one food for some reason. Yeah, there was like a 24 hour Chinese place. Number once we were hanging out at my apartment at the Metropolis, I don't know if you remember this. And Texas has weird laws where like you can't buy liquor after nine or you can't buy liquor on Sunday. There's all these weird loopholes and I think we were hanging out like at three in the morning playing video games

and we wanted beer, but we couldn't buy beer anywhere. So we told my roommate, we're like, hey, go to WANFU and see if they'll sell you a six pack. Because I remember it, I remember it, we got our liquor license back signed, and I thought, these dudes play ball. Yeah. And my roommate didn't really have any, like, if you wouldn't get embarrassed by shit. So I was like, just go down there,

see if they'll sell you a six pack. Was this Frank? Yeah. Yeah. He came back with a six pack. Awesome. He showed up like a three in the morning, he went to Warnful like a three in the morning,

bought a six pack of beer, and brought it back to our apartment. That place, Kizina, we were poor tech support kids. So it was like $6, kind of like mountains of food restaurant. And the thing I remember most about that place is it was always, it felt damp. It was humid in that restaurant. And the floor was wet. Yeah.

It was carpet. It was a carpet and the carpet was always soggy. So it was cheap. That place was prolific actually. That was WANFU over there. They had WANFU 2 for a long time on Barnes Springs Road. Over there where you get a surfboard shop. Yeah, it's next to that Chouwises.

Right next to it, it was like this 50-style diner building. And WANFU 2 was in there. And they also had a food truck for a while off of Duval, and if you know that, like over in Hyde Park, it was WANFU 3, and then they closed the food truck and moved over there off of Airport and Guadalupe. It's a Chinese restaurant now, China Family. That was WANFU 3 for a while.

Really, I know that. And then WANFU 1 and 2 closed, and WANFU 3 was the only one that was open for a long time, Then they raised her random, whatever it became a Korean restaurant. And I believe the woman who ran one food at the time ended up going to like off of Mo Pek and Palmer, like out behind the fries.

And she moved one food over there. I don't know if it's still there anymore. That's so far. I never go out there. Fries. Wow, I'm in that far out there all the time. Geez. Yeah, I was impressed because that building on Barton Springs, where they put one through

two, was like one of those cursed locations where it's everything for six months, and then it's like, you look at it and you're like, well, I enjoy the three months of being in business because you'll be gone soon. And then one through two managed to stick around for a while. They're worthwhile, yeah. I think that building's gone now. Yeah, that building's totally gone. I think that's where there's like little food trucks now.

That's where that accident was a couple months ago. Oh, was somebody hit Harlem, though? Yeah, yeah, that's totally gone. I think that's where there's like a little food trucks now. That's where that accident was a couple months ago. Oh, was somebody hit Harlem, though? Yeah, that's where one food to building used to be. Yeah. It's funny that now it's like there's just no building. There's just food trucks. Having food trucks there isn't more profitable than having a building and a business.

That's crazy. We're right around 50 minutes, so I want to start wrapping up. Okay, but I don't even know what we talked about today. Yeah, well, we talked about a lot of things about the I-35 expansion about first Thursday. We talked about the Austin Chronicle. We talked about Punch Club. We have blueberry pies.

We did have some blueberry hand pies. This is a crazy episode. This was all over the place. I learned that Gus can surf. So we have some guesses from people on the Twitter because we still don't know the all over the place. I learned I learned that Gus can surf. So we have some guesses from people on the Twitter because we still don't know the name of the podcast. The Twitter. The Twitter on the Anna Twitter at Anna podcast with this is a. O. I. underscore O underscore S. O says a new morning Austin. Is that that. How's that guess? Is that no? Okay.

Not Kapuru says, is it a new mysterious Austin? Hmm. I don't think there's much mystery about the new Austin though. Good guess. I agree. So it's not that. No, no, no. Oh, okay.

Jeff, do you have a guess? I'll throw one more guess out there. Okay. How about Austin? No, man. Austin. Oh, that's a really good one. One of these days, I should just say yes. Yeah.

To like a good one. You know, I was thinking about this the other day. Twin Peaks. Yeah. You know, the lifelong love affair with David Lynch. I thought you were talking about the restaurant. No, we can talk about the restaurant. That's a good one, too.

Eric, you and I never talked about this yesterday. I worship the ground David Lynch walks on except for inland empire was unwatchable. The worst movie I've ever seen. However, you saw a straight story for free. I did. I did not go with you to see the show. Wow. So good.

I love straight story. Anyway, I was thinking about Twin Peaks just the other day and how David Lynch never wanted to solve the murder of Laura Palmer. Like it was never intended. ABC forced him to solve to wrap that up. And that kind of ruined Twin Peaks. I mean, it was cool, but then it made season two, right, rudderless for a while. Maybe we just don't ever answer this question.

I want to keep making guesses. And if we never find out, we never find out. I'm okay with never knowing the answer. If I can, I want to reinforce something I said before about the name. Doesn't make sense. Right. It's like something my mind came up with in a dream.

It's dream logic. All of these are very A and M A. It's not like that. There is no word in N, what that starts with the letter N. Okay. We learned that last time that the first word is like N, like it starts with an A N and we, and we're still making these guesses of,

Ann, I also don't think. A new man's Austin. Like, new. Austin's not mine anymore from Adam Erscher. That's a good one. That's a, that's a very good one. That might be the best one. Yeah, I think that's, we have a lot of good guesses

on the other Twitter. So definitely put yours out there. I, man, a man's Austin. Austin needs more airports from Jimmy Booth. I think that that's a very good guess. The airport that we have is too small. I drove by executive airport the other day. Oh, did you? Were you hoping to see a former president or what? No, no, no. This is more RT podcast talk, but I'm preparing to take my pilot exam.

Oh, there you go. I think that's great. Well, I think we did exam. I don't think I'm gonna be taking it at executive. Well, there you go. I think that's great. Well, I think we did it. I think we got another episode in the books. This was a good one. There might be another one we do before we wrap this project up. Yeah.

I still, I was thinking on the way over here. We still have a really, like, we could probably do episodes on Ugly, Internet, and Drunk Gamers. Oh, we still haven't talked about the- Just covering the death threats. The death threats. Yeah, our introduction to internet, well, you know what I'm talking about.

We've been talking about the handshake. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and how this all started. Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess you'll have to tune in for another episode of Austin's Not Mine anymore. Get, yes, but send us your guest for what shitty text mix restaurant did this all started?

Yeah. You can follow us at Animal Podcast on Instagram and Twitter. You can put your guesses there. The Instagram, not so useful because we don't take it. I took some pictures on this one and the last one, but I had to find some old pictures of you guys. There's some old pictures of you guys. We've been around for a thousand years.

Yeah, so good job. Any parting words on this episode? I just want to point out that picture of us recording audio that you posted, that was not taken with the crotch camera. That was a different camera. It was around that time, but it was not that camera. I would also like to point out, seeing all these old photos, that in comparison to the people we started the company with,

we look pretty good. Yeah, we like, we fade, well. You look great. That picture of us recording audio, that was in your house that got taken from you. Yeah, that was. That was the company with. We look pretty good. Yeah, we're like, we've aged well. You look great. That picture of us recording audio, that was in your house that got taken from you. Yeah, that was, that was the house. That was the building from that house. That was stolen from you in the middle of the night.

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