ANMA - The Trudy’s Grand Slam

Episode Date: September 5, 2022

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So, this will wrap up the season and then we'll figure out if we're doing your stichle stuff or not. I guess it's a cure. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Man, good morning, Gus. Hi, I know we have morning, Gus. Good morning, Eric. Good morning, Jason. It's Jason. Jason, hi, Jason. You were here with us. Sorry, I'm distracted.

There's ants eating a cheeryote down here and it looks really cool. Or maybe it's a fruit loop. I don't know. It's a cheery. We had to drive around a lot to try to find a park this morning, like way more than we should for a city that supposedly prides itself on having tons of parks. They need to have been or tables in more parks.

We do, we pride ourselves in our public spaces and then I hear this from everybody and I get it. You go anywhere else in America, and you, oh shit, the parks are way better. I everywhere else. We really are making do here. We're just like carve out some space, and be like, hey, look, it's a park.

It's gross, it's not a park. Speaking of which, I took some photos yesterday, and I, this is for the other podcast, but I wanted to show them to you guys too, because I think they fit here as well. D was Austin always this fucking gross. That's talent. Yeah.

I know it just rained, but it's, I've been here for 25 years. It's just rained a bunch. I don't think it used to get this bad. Like the ducks and the turtles are scared to get in the water. Steered. Did you want to get in? I watched them. I watched them. I was like, oh, this ducks are fine I mean I think I think it's always been bad to an extent you and I used to talk about maybe like carrying a trash bag in our car Did just pick up trash whenever we saw it. Yeah, that's true

I and I still I go I still carry them actually and I have a grabber now and I go up in Northwest part of the grabber, too Did you really I like picking up trash up trash. We haven't used it yet, it's been. I sometimes get up on a Saturday morning and go to Northwest Park or wherever, a park and pick up trash. Are there any picnic tables there? You know, I've never evaluated it for picnic tables. I evaluated for baseball throwing,

but not picnic tables. When I lived in Puerto Rico, I didn't have anything to do. I'd wake up early in the morning and I'd go down to a beach near where I lived. And there was like a homeless dude who lived down there and he would collect bottles to turn him in for recycling and make money, and I'd go down to a beach near where I lived, and there was like a homeless dude who lived down there, and he would collect bottles to turn him in for recycling

and make money. So I just go around the beach, I'd like hung out with this homeless dude in the morning, so I just help him pick up bottles and like put him in giant bags so he could take him off and go sell him for recycling. I came to the wake, you were like, cut me in, I'm gonna burn my money.

Where's my money? Is it, is he technically homeless if he lives at the beach? Isn't that just his, his home? Well, I don't think he owns the beach. Or is it like, he's slipping on the beach. He had no permanent shelter. Oh, okay. How about that?

What do you think he's up to today? I don't know. Hopefully, bigger and better things. Maybe he's got a fleet of people working for him big enough bottles. He's like, hey, wait a minute. We're cycling in par. Yeah.

Yeah, but yeah, I think it's always been kind of dirty. But like Jason said, it did just rain. I know it just rained. It looked like that last week too. Like I just feel like it's always, I run my bike over there most days and I just feel like it's gotten progressively grosser over time.

I don't know, maybe it's just my age. Yeah, you're just old. In recent sea bias, but it just feels like it's always grody. As you get older, your spine starts curving so you're looking more and more down. That's probably how it is. You can't just notice it more. I just don't know how all those people

are swimming out in that and sups every fucking weekend to dock and get, if I can ratchish from poison and salgey. Yeah, it's pretty gross. So gross. So we got coffee this morning from civil goat, which is down like on Guadalupe in 34th. I've never been there before. You said it's a chain?

I think there's one over in Cornavaka or somewhere in that area that has a goat or goats outside as well, like actual goats. You can go have coffee and... I don't like the idea of a civil goat. Okay. Goat should be like unpredictable, right? In me and wild and anarchist.

They should be like, headbutting you when you're not looking. So you think goats are anarchists? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. They don't eat anything. Yeah, it's true. You should take them on the walk with you when they see those water burger cups on the ground.

Did you see? They should put goats in town. Yeah. Aquagods. There was a ranking of all the water burgers in the state of Texas from best to worst. Yep. And every water burger in the Austin of Texas, like from best to worst. Yep. And like every water burger in the Austin area

was like near the bottom of the list. Yeah, that's all that. I saw a similar thing for dairy queen. Supposedly the best dairy queen in Texas is on burn it. Oh, that one about the opposite though. Yeah, this is the worst water burgers in Texas. I know, I'm just saying that's interesting that we both saw stories about the best and worst of them.

The eighth best water burger in Texas is an eagle pass. Oh, yeah Have you been to that one? No, I didn't it wasn't there when I live there What's the best water burger sex is a corpus? No corpus was not that I think the best one the top 10 were all on the border number one was in Laredo It was all like Laredo Harlingen eagle pass MacAllen El Paso was like the top 10 Hey, those fuckers down there aren't bringing their money back. Food's not good. They're not like us, we oh, um, you know,

drunk at three in the morning and need to eat it. They're drunk at three in the afternoon. That's true. I almost got arrested at the at the court, at the Waterburger headquarters in Corpus. That, not even the restaurant, but like the headquarters? Well, like the main waterburger, the waterburger, one of Corpus, the A-frame down there.

We were on a surf trip when I was in the army. So it'd been like 96, maybe 95. And we had been surfing all day when we went to Water Burger for dinner, and we were in the parking lot, and my friend was having trouble with his binoculars. And I was like trying to focus him, and there was like a hilton or something across the street,

like a hotel. And I was just looking up, just trying to focus it on the hotel, and just somebody tapped me on the shoulder, and I turned around and was a cop, and he was like, what are you doing? And I was like, I'm fucking with these binoculars, and he's like, look, you're looking in hotel rooms, and I was like, I don't think that's what I was doing. I was just trying to get it focused,

and he was like, would you like to go to jail? And I was like, no sir, and he's like, I think he should put those away. Is that a crime? Okay. I don't know. That doesn't sound like a crime to me. That does sound like a crime to me. No, you're out in a public space. Doing some extra scene. Yeah, you're you're not like

Cracking open the windows tell that to the local Corpus Christi APD APD CCPD yeah, I Don't think that's a crime. That's not a crime. Let's try it. Well, I like but I get like the whole peeping Tom thing It's invasion of privacy, but the curtains are open. You can close the curtains. I don't know. Like if you were just standing there looking at the window, would you get in trouble?

Right. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he may have just been. I think he was gay. I scared the shit out of me. I was like 19. I'm not going to argue with a cop.

Yep. Do you guys want to introduce Jason beyond, hey, this is Jason? Or Jason would do you want James first guest we've ever had and the first guest we wanted to have on this show because Because because what okay? I'll do it because Jason is One of our oldest friends and actually Jason you are the oldest friend.. And actually, Jason, you are the oldest friend I have in Boston. I met you.

I thought Jason was younger than you. I met Christ. It is really, Jeff and I started at the call center on the same day. Yeah, we started at Telner Rock on the same day. And you were the first person I ever talked to. We had a training session in the conference room. And was that like January 99?

Yeah. Yeah. And I remember you January 99? Yeah, yeah. And I remember you just struck up a conversation with you and I liked you. I liked you too. Thanks a lot. What did you all talk about? What was the initial, what was the end?

How did it go? Man, what did we talk about? I remember. What were we talking about? I remember. I think we probably talked about music and stuff and I, in our lives, because I remember you were like, I'm just going to UT, I'm looking for some extra money.

And I was like, oh, I'm, I have a wife. And you were like, what? And I was like, what, yeah, what the, why would you? I was like, yeah, I have to UT, I'm looking for some extra money. And I was like, oh, I have a wife. And you were like, what? I was like, what, yeah, what? Why would you get out of it? I was like, yeah, why? I have a family, I got a support. And you're like, blah, blah. I was 20.

Yeah. You know? It's funny looking back, like how young we all were at that time. The different, the very different perspective, not looking at the trash as much down on the ground. Yeah, it's true. Never looking at it. We were the trash down on the ground back then. Look at how we were looking up. We were looking up. You were living, you were a UT student.

You were living on campus. I got that job because I want to hear last name, Lindsay. I knew Lindsay from like UT News Group. This Lindsay? No, Lindsay. Listen, the reason I want say Lindsay's last name is because I can't remember it honestly I don't know this girl Lindsay who I knew from she the one who dated Jacob who's Jacob Lindsay working Tina Maybe that sounds right is the best episode of this podcast She's she was Laura's roommate. Yeah, who had that party all over the country.

Yes, that is who. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Let's bleep that last name. We bleep that last name, yeah. The five times when he just said it. It was twice.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you knew her? Yeah. How'd you know her? I didn't know you knew her. Because in Jester, the dorm that we lived in, there was a news group that like a bunch of us who played Fuzball in the basement of gesture,

like Medi Chether in this fucking UT news group and became friends in the dorm and she told us that she worked there and I was like, shit, I need some money for Chinese food or something. I don't know what, 20-year-old spend money on. Were you, did you have a look at that? She was like, yeah, they'll hire anybody.

That sounds like my kind of job. So you were at UT with your freshman? In 1999, I was a lot of that? She was like, yeah, they'll hire anybody. That sounds like my kind of job. So you were at UT, were you a freshman? In 1999, I was a, at that point, I was probably, like that was my second half of my sophomore year. Do you have a scholarship or something? How did you go to school? No, I didn't have a scholarship. I don't know how to do that.

I got a job. Loans. It's a lot cheaper than though than it is now. Yeah, for sure. Loans and credit cards. Back then, they would like, I remember in particular getting a phone call in my dorm room, like on a Saturday morning, it waking me up and being like, hello,

and they were like, hey, this is Discover Card. Do you want a credit card? And I was like, yeah. And then I just gave all my info to this person who called me. I didn't call them, right? I even think about it till like, fucking years later. And then they sent me the card and then, you know,

I used it, it worked and everything, but I don't think they, I mean one that was dumb in my part, but I don't think they can do that anymore, just. Card up. You want some credit? When I was in basic training in 93, getting a credit card was like a part of processing in the basic training, they're like,

and then if you want a credit card, you can get a $2,000 limit over here, and you just like, you go to that line, and you feel like, then you're instantly $2,000 in debt. Yeah 18 years old and you're like oh yeah this is how now be in the military forever now I got it yeah. Yep. Yeah it's funny I did it was a similar thing but not not not that anyone called me for my freshman year the only year I went to college. There's was like people around

and like standing around campus like here. Oh yeah. You know you just filled this out you get a credit card with $4,000 in a limit like okay then instantly $4,000 a day. Yeah. I ruined my credit for years. Yep. Everybody did it. And it was a fucking nightmare. Yeah, it's some sweet Z cabarechie jeans in British nights. I'm on line on fucking one thing I was thinking about when we were driving around just a minute ago looking for a picnic table. Have you all ever talked about when we tried to do the Trudy's Grand Slam? I don't think we ever have time. Because it's kind of a little bit of a misnomer because there were only three

trudies at the time. There's not really four, which is a unique drink. But there were six drinks. Yeah, so at Trudy's, they make a drink called the Mexican Martini, which is basically just a giant margarita on the rocks. They serve it in a shaker. You get a little martini glass. Hey, it's good.

It's good. The only serve you two of them. They do have a shaker. Yes, they serve it in the shaker, you get a little martini glass. Hey, it's good. It's good. The only serve you two of them. They do have a shaker. Yes, they leave you the whole shaker. It's probably like five drinks per drink. They'll serve you two of them, and then they cut you off. Not only can you not order another Mexican martini, you can't order any booze at all after that.

And so we had an idea, there were three treaties at the time, where let's do the treaties, Grand Slam, we're gonna get two at each trudeesies and see if we can get through six of them Jeff's first wife was gonna drive us and not drink and we went to this first trudies It's over here by campus, which I think it's currently closed for renovations and We drank our two Mexican martinis are getting drunk the waiter comes by and is like We haven't had a chance to leave yet. The waiter is like, hey, my shift's about to change. Can I close you guys out before the next waiter gets in?

We were like, sure. And so we pay. And then the bus boy just happens to come by, clears off the table. And then we still haven't left. And the new waiter walks by. I was like, you guys need drinks. And so we just, we never left the first fucking treat.

We never made it, we never made it to a second trudey. So we just drank there, but we still should have done that. Yeah, I tried it another time. Did you? Yeah, I never made it. And I started up at, the other time I tried it, I started up at the trudey, again, not driving. We had like a separate driver for this.

I started up at the trudey's north, drank both of them, came down to the trudey's Texas star, which was one by campus, drank two there. We drove down to the Trudy's Texas star, which is one by campus, drank two there. We drove down to the Trudy's down south, and I ordered a fifth one, but I could not. I could not, I could not stomach it. Didn't make it to the fifth one. No, it was like, partway through the fifth one.

Like everyone else at the table was like, all right, we'll help you finish that. It's, it is. Yeah, that's too many. I don't think you can do it. Yeah, no, it's, it's rough. It's really, and now with days, I can't imagine doing that. I can't imagine drinking one. Oh man, yeah, that's a, it's rough. It's real, and now with days I can't imagine doing that. I can't imagine drinking one.

Yeah. Oh man, yeah, that was a, I've really done things. I feel like I tried it too early in my drinking. I bet if I had done it in like 38, I could have, I could have fucking nailed it. Wait, go man. Probably, probably why I don't drink anymore.

It feels achievable, even now when I think about I'm not gonna be back on it. I feel like I could do it. It's because I taste so fucking refreshing Yeah, you know, I was just like six drinks, but you feel so bad by that I Did do it if you stayed remember what I felt like trying to drink that fifth one. It was bad really bad Yeah, like not not being able to stand up straight bad Hey, I got a question for you guys you all talked about a

Wedding Oh, hey, I got a question for you guys. You all talked about a wedding where the tab had to get refilled a couple of times. Is that my fucking wedding? No, no, no. That happened because that happened at my wedding too. But I knew, I mean, it's not like it was a surprise. I would have known it. I had, not, I mean, you guys are my wedding, but then we had another, I have another contingent of friends who were like musicians. So everybody at my wedding is a heavy drinker

and they had to come to us and be like, y'all ran out of booze and we were like, we're not even fucking, we haven't even got married yet. What happened? And it's because those guys there, though, they were like, we told them we were like, well drinks, give them the bottom shelf stuff, you know? They deserve good.

And people walk up, I mean, can I get them or agree? They'd be like, you want Patron? Yeah, you know? They deserve good. And people walk up and they're like, can I get them or I agree to be like, you want Patrone? Oh fuck, yeah, of course you're gonna run through the tab quick. No, no, it was someone else's wedding. You do know that person. And in fact, that wedding where we were talking about the Ristri the Count just posted a photo of Jeff and I dancing. Was that it?

That was that wedding. That was from that night, yeah. That was that was that same place that night. Yeah, that was that was that same place. That was probably in 02. That yeah, that was the night. We talk about our friend Mushi sometimes. It was a one. He got cut off that night because his face turned bright red.

Yeah, yeah. But he can't serve you anymore. It's not, I mean, honestly, that's a little racist on their part. It's not that he was drunk. It's just that he's Asian. And you know, some Asian people get flush when they drink it doesn't matter They have like one drink or if they're like super fucked up some people will just get super flushed And he'd only had like two drinks and he got flushed and read and they cut him off

Yeah, he was pissed I could just be what you drank too like when I drink that damn I'm not a boy dude. That's a great. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that fucking trip So we went to Sunday was the first Sunday we were staying in we couldn't find a play it was last minute So we couldn't stay in Park City. We'd stay in Orham. Yep So we had this house that we all like stayed in and We had like it wasn't only us. It was like some other friends that we invited and they'd invited friends So it was like kind of like this party house and

There was this one guy we knew who would come down to stay with us. And he had, and this other girl we knew, and they were kind of interested in each other. So they were like, we don't love you, we love you with each other. But the girl had brought another friend with her. And so we had to entertain her.

Well, the two of them were like, being lovey-dovey. And so we were like, we're being nice hosts to this girl, we're like, well, you know, we were at a liquor store like, what do you like to drink? And she's like oh, I only drink hypnotic We're like what the fuck is hypnotic? She's like it's great. You'll love it. It's the only thing you want to drink. What type of liquor was it?

I don't it's like it's blue Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like this frosted bottle and spell like h-y-p-n-o-t-i-q Yeah, it's the only way you could spell it And so we like fine whatever so we went back and we were playing we were playing like Texas hold in It's spelled like h-y-p-n-o-t-i-q. Yeah, it's the only way you could spell it and So we like fine whatever so we went back and we were playing we were playing like Texas holding Yeah, we're talking about something I did not like it's a blend of natural exotic fruit juices premium vodka and a touch of cognizant It's vodka. Oh cognac. Okay. That's what I was thinking. Okay, yeah, and I think you had never had it Oh none of us had ever had it. No, you really wanted to try it. I don't know if I really wanted to try it

I was just I was just young and I would drink anything. And so I was gonna try it. But yeah, I turned fucking red as shit from that. I thought, I got puffy. I legitimately thought we were gonna have to take you to the hospital. There were discussions, I remember it. It's like, is like, is throat gonna seal up?

Is it gonna be something bad? Has that ever happened to you since? Mm-hmm. Never had him not again. But I might, we should try that. Is this gonna be something bad? Has that ever happened to you since? Never had hypnotic again. But I might try now. We should try it and see. We should have done that for this podcast, but there's no camera here.

All I remember is that girl was hammered and just kept talking about how she was a good mom. Oh, we forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're like, everybody's like, nobody's saying you're not. I just remember seeing it. It's your, by the way, deal. We're trying to play cards.

I remember that girl trying to answer her phone. She had a sidekick. Or she was using somebody else's sidekick. And like, instead of having the side of the phone, it would be the obvious side that you would talk into, she had it like. Oh, yeah, she had like bad assing. She was trying to use it.

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then as a group, you'd have to like wrangle everyone and drive an hour back to the hotel or to the house in Oram. Was that the year I got the flu? Or was that the next year? I don't think you were sick. I've been in the next year. I got the flu at the very end of that trip.

No, I think it was the next year. Y'all went again. I don't think I went on that trip. It was like think it was the next year. Y'all went again. I don't think I went on that trip. It was like when you got drawn to compete on the snowman or whatever. Yeah, we stayed in Park City that time. We were staying at that condo. I think that was our third trip to Sundance.

Do we have three trips to Sundance? We had three or four. We had a few. Yeah. We stayed in. Or was that the trip where you went and saw that movie was it alone in the dark or that shitty movie with that night of the day?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. It was a, it was a tererid. Tererid, that was a Christian Slater, and it was a video game movie. And we saw it, yeah, we saw it at like a mall and we had to leave like 20 minutes in. We couldn't take it. Tererid was not a believable scientist.

I remember that. She was like an archaeologist or something and we were like, we can't do this. And that was fucking weird because we were like, what just went some movies and go home, but all they had in the whole fucking state was clean flicks. I remember that. And so every movie, like, they had video stores that were just, it's Utah. So they were just like family friendly, safe. They would edit, they would edit all the fun stuff out of every movie. And so you could like go rent buggy nights, but it was eight minutes long. It was a totally different movie. Dude, now that you mentioned that, I'm surprised that we could even buy that hypnotic stuff there,

because like all their beers are like 2.3%, they sell different versions of beer there and stuff. I remember right, I think it was all state-run liquor stores, too. Oh, yeah. Like you couldn't just buy it at a grocery store. Or at any private liquor store. It was like, was it like a package store? I think it's what they called it. You had to go to like the specific state-run booze place.

And also that was, if you remember that trip, anytime, I think the law has changed since then. But if you were going to a bar in Utah at the time, oh, you had to be like a member or something. You had to be a member of that bar. So any bar you the time, you had to be like a member or something. You had to be a member of that bar. So any bar you went into, you had to fill up a membership card and apply to be a member at that bar

and they would process it. And it would be like, what, it would cost you like five bucks to apply to be a member. But as you were, there's like a life-time members and that. Yeah, they give you like a coupon for five dollars off a drink.

It was like, they totally rigged the system. Yeah. Do you also remember that at the same time we went to the movies at the mall, they were giving away, they had some sort of a contest to give away a free wedding, and there was a line out the door, like hundreds and hundreds of young couples. They had to be like interviewed, and then,

I don't know if they found that maybe it was sort of like a reality TV or show or something, but they were gonna give them a free wedding. And we thought it was sort of like a reality TV or something, but they were gonna give them a free wedding and We made we thought it was insane because there was maybe 200 couples in line and they were all blonde It was like village of the damned. It was just like it was like Hitler's wet dream And it was like so fucking weird. I the reason I asked about the movie about alone in the dark is because I know for a fact Then that is the year I got sick because I couldn't go to the movie because I was sick

So I wasn't there at the mall so I couldn't see the The line. Yeah, I was weird then. Yeah, no, I did not see that. I do remember I know the next I think it was the next year I went to Sundance like the first year we went and you know I watched like a bunch of movies or whatever and stuff that was in the festival the second year I went I did not see a single movie that was in the festival the only movie I saw the entire time I went to Sundance was I went to a movie theater to watch the Peter Jackson King Kong movie. And that's the only movie I saw that entire trip to Sundance. That had one of the best celebrity sightings we ever had to that first year. We saw the, I think, a Scott Farcus, that is name in Christmas story.

The God of the Rings. Koonskin Hap. What was it, Farcus? Farcus was the neighbor. It was the bully. It was the Koonskin hat. What was it, Farcus? Farcus was the neighbor. That was the neighbor. It was the bully. It was the bully, dude.

And he was just like walking around with a Koonskin cap taking photos of the people. And he was like, it's me, that guy. And everybody was eating up. You looked him in the eyes. And he was like, oh, that's definitely the dude from a Christmas story. We also, I don't know if you remember this,

that same year, that first year, we were driving down the highway and we pulled over for some reason. I think to like take a photo of like a mountain or something and Pierce Brosnan was just standing there. Like in the middle of nowhere, like we just pulled over and we're like, let's take a photo of this. Holy shit, it's Pierce Brosnan right there. I feel like I vaguely remember.

Yeah, it was like, oh my god. I think a couple of us took a photo with Pierce Brosnan. Just because we randomly pulled over on the side of a highway between Orman Park City. Did we take those master chief suits to the first one? Yeah. To Orman. Matt and I were, I think. That sucks, dude.

I had to be the blue guy, which I was fucking insulting, and Matt got to be the red guy. And yeah, I remember walking around, and it was brutal because the, you know, it was brutal because the you know It was like 10 degrees outside so the mask fogged up instantly So you couldn't see at all and you can't walk at all on these things either brutal And so I was having to be held around with my hand like my my ex-wife was like walking around and then Bernie yelled at us

Because we can master Chief can't hold hands in public And I'm like I fucking get it. But how am I gonna how am I gonna walk and also also it was icy and treacherous. Yeah, it was super. It was park city in February. Yeah. Does he know that master chief isn't real and can just do anything? Well, we were very, very protective of the brand at the time because you, you had given a lot of, it was very difficult to even get these suits to begin with. Yeah. And everything had to be approved and they had been very kind to even let us... I mean, there's a tremendously valuable IP, they were letting us fuck around with. And so we were trying to be really respectful of it, but, you know, also, I didn't want to die.

Also, there was a human who was our friend in that suit. Yeah. I was fucking mad that night about that. That's the year that that Crispin Glover movie was playing at Sundance. Oh. This is it? This is it? Or is this it? Was that what it was? Yeah, it wasn the year that that Crispin Glover movie was playing at Sundance. What? Oh, this is it. This is it. Or is this it? Was that what it was? Yeah, it was like a rap movie. It was it was a trilogy. No, no, it was not the rap movie. It was a trilogy he made it was this is what is it? Yes, it is or this is it or something like that. Yeah. We saw I think we saw that at that big theater. Was it the Egyptian theater? Yeah. Is that what it's called?

Like right there on the main dragon park city? Fucking weird ass movie. Have you ever heard of this movie, Eric? Oh, I'm looking at it now and it's just a fucking, it's insane looking. What the fuck? Yeah, it's from the mind of Chris Minglever. Uh, I think he made three, I don't know if he made alter,

but I think he had said he had envisioned it as being a trilogy. I want to say he made the second one, but I don't know if he ever made the third one. Yeah, it's a great place to watch weird ass movies you wouldn't see otherwise. I guess nowadays it's like easier with like digital distributioning to see whatever you want at any time,

unless it was on HBO Max. I, you know, another thing about those trips is... I don't think I was involved in this, but at slam... I wanna say at slam dance, there was a video game festival, and at least Bernie was involved in like... He was one of the judges. One of the... being one of the judges, and one of the game...

The game that won, I think. No, no, it didn't win. It didn't win, it didn't win, it didn't win. Second place was a game called Narbanacular Drop. Narbanacular Drop. Narbanacular Drop, sorry. It's been a long time ago. It's also not a real word.

So I'm not gonna make one for Narbanacular Drop. Narbanacular Drop, which got bought right after that by Valve and it became portal. Yeah, it was like, it was like, it was a great game. Yeah, we had to play it. Like they had like an open floor where you go play all the games. I remember a game festival you could play Bernie dragged us all over to play in our backular drop talk about how amazing it was and how good it was It's like yeah, it's a really fun game and then Val bought and they just re-skinned it as well

He was right they updated it a bit. It's you know pretty different Yeah, and they were like we're not calling this thing Narbacular drop people are gonna call it an arbonacular job Narmicular drop on this thing, NARB BACULAR DROP? People are gonna call it NARBEN-NARBEN-NARBEN-NICULAR DROP. I'm just fucking stupid. I wonder what won that year. I wonder what beat portal. NARBACULAR DROP.

I'm sure we can look it up. Yeah. I feel like you don't hear about slam dances much anymore as you did back then. No. Back then it was like the hip alternative to Sundance. Sundance was all stuffy and artsy and slam dance was like a lot more of that like renegades.

It wasn't it, it wasn't a civil goat. And then, and then there were like, there were more. There were a couple years there were like, there was like no dance and they were, they would just like, there were, there was one or two years there were like five or six all at once going on there. And then they all died pretty quickly.

I went to Sundance again to give a presentation with YouTube back in 2017. Really? Yeah. So it had been like, over a decade since I'd been to Sundance. And I happened to be there. At Sundance in 2017, the day Trump was inaugurated. Oh, right.

And it was just crazy. Yeah, so everyone woke up early that, more not everyone. Well, a bunch of people woke up early that, well not everyone, like a bunch of people woke up early that morning and did like this protest march down like the main street there in Sundance. That's pretty tricky. Or in a park city, I was like, the people here, they're like,

no, you're fun care, like you're not demonstrating to anybody who's not on your side here. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate the effort, but it's not here. Yeah, I stood next, when I was checking into the hotel for that presentation, I forget what the hotel was that I stayed at.

I checked in next to Lucky Stanfield. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what movie he was promoting, but I was like, I turned to my left. He was actually on my left. I was like, oh, I didn't say anything. I was like, holy shit, it's Lucky Stanfield.

Standing right next to me, checking into the marry out or whatever the fuck we are. He seems like a really cool dude. Yeah, a really, really big fan of his work. I did not want to bother him. So I just silently freaked out in my head. Yeah, like I like you enough to not acknowledge you. Yeah.

But yeah, it's crazy, like the sober deciding you can't have and the people who are just walking around there. It's wild to think of all the kinds of trips we used to take back in those early days. Dude, I got a trip to tell you all about that I'm sure you all remember that you haven't talked about because it's my shitty experience. And actually it turned into y'all shitty experience because do you all remember going to New

York? I don't know what it was for and Bernie thought he was going to be real fucking funny. It was the season one screening at the Lincoln Center. He, Bernie thought it was going to be real funny to book me back home through an airport called Islip which is halfway out Long Island. It's like 60-something miles out Long Island. Real tick move. And so he books me for like the earliest flight in the morning.

It's an hour and a half cab ride to get to this airport. And so I remember getting up super early taking the sketchiest cab ride out to this airport, out in the middle of fucking nowhere, getting on my flight to get home, and I land, and I've got some text messages and stuff, and it's Bernie telling me that everybody else's flights got canceled out of Newark, because of a blizzard, and they ended up being stuck there

for like two or three days, right? Yeah, we were stuck in New York. You were the only one who got out because you flew out of the first thing in the morning. Two days longer than y'all, because I flew like American, or I flew differently than everybody else somehow, and ended up getting stranded for an extra two days.

Yeah, I think the rest of us, we weren't all out in New York. I think some of us were in New York, some of us were JFK, some of us were in La Guaradi, but it's like every other airport got shut down. We were all, I remember all of us being in that hotel lobby because we all had to check out our reservations where we were all in the lobby with our bags. I didn't figure out what to do. Yeah, and it was like pre-smart phone like we know them today.

So like all of us on our shitty ass cell phones calling airlines trying to figure out a way to get back to Austin to rebook ourselves. That fucking sucked. What did you do? We all had to wait. Everyone rebooked differently. I think it was like, since we all booked differently going there, there was no like one masterbooking to rebook,

so everyone had to call on their own. So we were all sitting there next to each other. We were all competing with each other, trying to see if we could get back. And Jeff came out on the bottom of the box. I was watching this. Yeah, but I made a fucking great vacation out of it. Like I visited friends at a good time. I remember thinking Yeah, but I made a fucking great vacation out of it.

I visited friends, I had a good time. I remember thinking, what a lucky fuck up that was for me. And by the way, you mentioned that Bernie did that to fuck with you. That's not how I'm in that. That is real. He thought it was going to be funny. He thought it was going to be funny.

What it was like to work in those early days. What it was like to work and be friends with Bernie in those early days. He was like, you will not believe what I'm about to do to Jason. And of course Gus and I are like, fuck yeah. You know, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were all bullies. His payback for all the grenade throwers.

We were all so rude to each other. It was awful. Um, damn. There was another time. I don't remember which project it was for. There was another time that Jason, you and which project it was for, but it was another time that Jason, you and I flew out to Portland to do a commercial.

And we flew out on a one-way ticket because we weren't sure how long it was gonna take. And I think we finished in a day or two, it was really fast. And we were like, oh shit, there's one more flight back to Austin tonight, if we haul ass to the airport, we can buy a ticket. So we haul ass back to the Portland airport, we go up to the counter to buy the ticket, we still haven't bought the ticket at this point. And we're talking to the agent at the counter, she's like, yeah, there's only first-class

tickets left. We're like, okay, yeah, we'll buy first-class tickets back to Austin. So we show up to the airport, but we're like, we need to get to Austin, first-class tickets, we'll buy those. She prints out our boarding passes, and then before she hands them to us She takes out a pen and on the boarding pass you she writes SS SS on on both of them hands up to us And we're like what the fuck does this mean? That's weird and we get security and they see that and they're like Oh, you need a step over here and they went through everything we on it was like

Stripsur, she didn't got no recollection of that. I kind of remember the strip search. It was like a late night flight, right? I remember that, but I don't remember the, yeah, and they were like, the pad down. Yeah, they, it was more than a pad down. They like went through all of our shit. They like, you know, we had multiple people come and like, wand us and like, pad us down and just like,

what year was this? That would have been like. 2006 or seven probably. Maybe, maybe five or six. Maybe, yeah. Maybe some right around there. It was back in the time when it raised a lot of red flags if you bought a one-way ticket on the day of the flight. Like an hour before a flash.

And probably didn't check bags. And if he looked like Gus. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'll never forget. I, to this day, the reason I'll never forget it is I remember with the Portland airport carpet looks like. Oh, yeah, just because I was just staring at it for so long at that security checkpoint waiting for them to let us through. Millie took her first steps in that airport, actually.

Really? Yeah, yeah. Her very first steps. Do you remember, uh, do you remember how those first like six or seven years Bernie's name was similar to that of somebody on the TSA watch list? And so he had to go through enhanced security every time he went to the airport for any reason.

And it got to a point where if you traveled with him or you were on the same record locator as him, they would put you on the list too. So everybody would book a separate from Bernie. Yeah, we all had to book separately. And if've gone on the list by being on the same record locator is him it was only temporary it was only for like a couple of months and then you'd get off it maybe fine but we'd all learned it was like oh shit we cannot book with it but it was not temporary for him

for a very long time it was it was years you guys you remember going to Amsterdam I remember of course I remember going to Amsterdam we we were in we were in London for like 10 days. I think it was like maybe six, but we only had like a one day long commitment or something like that. It was like a one and a half hour long time experience.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just y'all and Joel. Yeah, Joel's with us. And so we go up there and you know, we, first of all, it was my first time in London. Was that your first time in London? I tried to find us a hotel to stay at and back then it was like $2 to the pound.

So everything was super fucking expensive and I found a Marriott. And I was like, fine, we'll just stay at this fucking Marriott. That's $600 a night for some reason. And we get there and I realize why it's like, it's right at the base of the London Eye, right across from Parliament in Big Ben. Oh Jesus.

It's like if you ever see an establishing shot in a movie for London, we stayed at across from Parliament in Big Ben. Oh, jeez. It's like, if you ever see an establishing shot in a movie for London, like we stayed at that, like right center in that shot. Like, oh, that's why this Mary-Optist $600 a night. Right. It looks like an old castle. So we show up and we check in and everything and they're like, all right, great. Your panel got rescheduled.

It's in four days. Like, oh shit, now we're in London for four days with nothing to do. I don't remember this. We were walking, so we walked out of the hotel. We walked by the base of the London eye. Yeah, and you got recognized. Yeah, I was like gonna take a photo of you

like at the base of the London eye. And like some random. It is like, with the DVD wasn't even out yet. I don't think it was. It was a, was a season one DVD. This back when Gus used to have those handburned DVDs that he would write RV Beyond he would give out to people in the Definitely like the first time that's looking true. I was there dude

I have the prize the dude handed me a DVD. I did not hand him a DVD You're like I got a DVD on my car that's not true at all. Anyway, so Gus and I are trying to kill time We're like what are we gonna do and We go look at water leastations just to check it out. And we're kinda looking at the board of departures and we're like, damn, we could leave in about an hour and go to Amsterdam and just check it out.

You kinda manifested this. What do you mean? We were walking by outside of Waterloo and you said, wouldn't it be crazy if we walked in there and there was a train leaving right now to Amsterdam? That's why we walked in to look at the board. Well shit. No, we did have a little bit of time that we were like, oh, it's in like an hour, so we went

back to the hotel, got like a backpack with a pair of underwear in it. We're like, let's go to Amsterdam for a day. We'll come back tomorrow. So we get on the train, we get to Amsterdam. We don't have a hotel or anything. No. We end up finding one, which had one of the best hotel breakfast I've ever had.

It was so good. But it was the crown plaza. So we get to Amsterdam, we're just walking around, we're like, well, now what? So we're like, walking around, we're like, I guess we're supposed to find weed. Can we talk about this? Yeah, sure fun.

So we're next to us. We're supposed to find weeds, since we're in Amsterdam, right? So we're kind of walking around, and we smoke a joint or something like that at a bar. And then do you remember, Gus, you were like, we were somewhere and you were like, oh look, there's like this weed cake.

And I was like, it was a hash brownie. And I was like, don't do it. I was like, Gus, how often do you eat weed? Cause it's different, you know what we eat. I was like, how often you were like never, I was like, don't get it. He was like, I'm gonna get it. I wanted the brownies.

Good, that's good. I'm sure they sell regular brownies. You're extra brownies. I want to say you were 100% right. Luckily he was at a commission for that, but he definitely I was like, she man, this is gonna ruin the right. It fucked me. And we, so we were there. I remember we were like, you know, what's the worst second app and we'll go down there. We'll walk around, we'll find a hotel. Again, it's like pre-i, free smartphone, like we know them today.

I think we went to five different hotels before we finally found one that we'll let us check it. I think we said, worst case scenario, we'll just sleep in the train station. It's like, not that big a deal. We found that crown plaza, we just like, we went out and it was wild because like you walk out and you're like, you know, after, you know, this is my first time in Amsterdam after having

grown up in America, you're like, you know, you're kind of whispering like, oh, should we do, should we do some drugs? Should we buy some weed? And then there's like, is my mom going to find out? There's dudes on the corner, everyone were like, coca, coca, coca, extra, extra, extra, extra. And they're just like, they're like, Dan, you know, I was just going to smoke weed out. Like what have you got in there? Did you, now did Jolga with you guys to Amsterdam was just a bit of a deal? No, man, you didn't know what,

we're having fun at all, man. Was there, was there something to that story about you guys going too far on a train and ended up in a sketching game? No, so yeah, kind of, on the way back. So because of the fair we bought. Yeah, we got lucky. On the way there, our train, you know,

it got us there in, you know, in the morning or in the afternoon or something on the way back our train, you know, it got us there in the morning or in the afternoon or something on the way back, we had to spend like six hours in the Brussels train station. And so we're like, yeah, we'll just sit there, it'll be fine, but of course we get there, it's like midnight and we're tired. And so we find some hotel across the way,

and then we're, you know, we start drinking or whatever, we need some food. And so I don't know if you remember this the same way, Gus, but we get this, you know, we get a cab. We're like, take us to a part of town that's still open where we can eat. And so the guy's like, all right, so we're talking to him, shooting shit.

Really guy. Yeah, he was super friendly. And he gets us to this part of town that's like, I mean, it's not like six streets, it doesn't seem like bars, but it's real lively. There's a bunch of restaurants and people out and stuff. And he's like, okay, he's like, you all want to go eat here in this restaurant.

And like, as we're getting out of the car, he's like, okay, he's like, you all wanna go eat here in this restaurant? And like, as we're getting out of the car, he's like, oh, and if anybody asks your Canadian, we're like, what the fuck, where did he just drop us off, dude? Yeah, he was like, he was like legitimate looking out for us. Like we had had like such a good rapport. He was like, hey, hey, just so you know, if anybody asks you from Canada. And I was like, yeah, feel good about this.

Okay, great, but it didn't matter. Cause we went out, we started eating and then we immediately started drinking again. And the six hours lapsed instantly. I remember getting on that train, or actually I remember walking to that train. We had left the hotel and our train was, we were in Amsterdam still,

getting, you know, walking over to the train station. We had like a little bit of weed left. And I had it and I was like, shit, what do we do with this Jason? You know, we can't take it with us. I was like, should I throw it away? And you're like, nah, you grabbed it from me. And you're like, here.

And you just like left it on the ground. Like, someone is going to smoke that. So I don't find that. They probably did. Somebody did probably find that and smoke it. But I remember we got on the train. And the train was packed going from Amsterdam to Brussels. So we couldn't sit next to each other.

You know, not a big deal, whatever. And I had to like sit next to this, like middle-aged man and his like 12-year-old son. And I was just like so fucked up like. I sat down, I didn't meet, like I sat down, and like as I was passing out, like to see like the 12-year-old, like elbowing his dad and pointing at me and laughing. Yeah.

Well, I don't remember where you sat. I have no idea. I don't either, man, I was probably underneath the seat. I'm Well, I don't remember where you sat. I have no idea. I don't either, man. I was probably underneath the seat or something. I don't think you guys went on the trip to Edinburgh with me in Berlin. No, no.

But we were at a bar, and I noticed that, like, at most bars in Europe, if they spoke English, they sounded American. And so we struck up a conversation with one of the bartenders, and I was like, are you American? How did you get it? And he goes, no, I'm from Canada. And then we talked to another bartender, another bartender, everybody's from Canada.

And so eventually we came back around to this guy and I was talking to him, and I go, why? It's so weird. Like, is there's this sort of a rule where, like, Canada sends people out to be bartenders elsewhere? And he goes, no, no, no, no, he kind of looked around. And he goes, I'll tell you the truth. He's like, we're all American. Everybody who says they're Canadian is America, but everybody fucking hates America.

So we all just say we're from Canada and nobody bothers us. Yeah. Whoa. Cool. I remember another side note about our Amsterdam trip. Before I ate the brownie, we were sitting in a bar and like one of those coffee shops,

what they call it a coffee shop. Yeah. It's like a bar. We didn't have any fucking coffee, that's for sure. And we're sitting at the bar and there's this real cute bar tender, who's working like. And we're sitting at the bar and there's this real cute bartender who's working like serving us drinks and whatnot. And I don't know what we're drinking beer or something.

I remember like Jason asks her like, what's your favorite beer? I want to drink whatever your favorite beer is. And some dumb shit with bartenders like this fucking guy. And she's like, I'll get it for you, but it's real expensive. And she's like, yeah, yeah, no big deal, whatever. And she's like, no, no, like once I get it for you, you have to pay for it, but it's real expensive. And she's like, yeah, yeah, no big deal, whatever. And she's like, no, no, like, once I get it for you,

you have to pay for it, you have to buy it. It's really expensive. It's 10 euros for this beer. And she's like, yeah, yeah, it's fine, whatever. So she goes into the cooler and pulls it out, and it's a fucking corona. She was fucking with me. And so I was like, oh, you're gonna fuck with me?

I drank like seven fucking corona, it's after that. I kept ordering them. I was like, give me another corona. Until she finally liked us. I drank enough corona, I was like, give me another Corona. Until she finally liked us. I drank enough Corona, she was like, okay, these guys are fine. Well, you put her kid to college in one night. So, yeah, she came around and you got really drunk off that Corona.

God, dude, I got another Corona story. And I'm pretty sure I've told you this one Gus. I know I've told other people. Gus and I also were traveling one time to Santa Monica for work. And we went to this little old bowling alley that was there that had a bar that was like, there was just a little window. It was like a two by two window and you could kind of see the bust of the bartender and there were like some beers and stuff back there. And I was like,

Gus, I'll get us some beers and he went over to the lane and I was like, well, you all have. He had like three beers and one of them was Corona. I was like, I guess I'll get us some beers and he went over to the lane and I was like, well, you all have. He had like three beers and one of them was Corona. I was like, I guess give me two Corona's and he goes, you want limes? I said sure. And so, you know, I haven't seen much of this guy. I've seen like the top of him. He puts one of the beers up or he puts the beers up and he grabs a lime and I see his hand come up and he's got this like little shriveled black fucking nub of a pointer finger

And he pushes the lime all the way down into the corona with that finger and I was like oh I just needed lime in one of them and that was the beer Sorry sorry guys we're all still here. It's all that. I forgot about that. Sorry, guys. We're all still here. That's all good. It's all good. Oh, man. Yeah, that was like that bowling alley.

It's like right off a pico. It's gotta be gone now, right? Right? I remember that. It was like around the corner from where we were working. God, that fucking bowling alley. Wasn't there a trip when you had, maybe it was you and you and you're just and maybe as you and Gavin you had to go to New Jersey for a convention and your booth was in the parking lot. There's a DC. Oh yeah. That's

when we had that that handler who was really weird. I kind of remember that but yeah I remember our booth being in the at the bottom of a parking garage like beyond where they had the niceties of the convention set up. And so we were just by some concrete pole. Like, you know, like part of the convention floor was in the parking garage. I want to say that convention was called Katzukon, if I remember right, and it was like in February in DC and it was cold, it was so cold.

Because you were in a parking garage. Because you were in a parking garage because we're in a parking garage feel free we can cut this if we need to But we had that handler was like the the convention had assigned us like this person to help us get stuff like a runner and She just kept talking about Getting fucked on top of a building while like other people watched. Like she wouldn't drop it. And we're like, please don't cut this. And like every time she would bring it up, it would get like really eerily quiet.

And we'd be like, it'd be like, okay, anyway, like you want to talk about anything else. We're like, there's no roof access here. Drop it. So fucking bizarre. We went to so many weird events like that. I think that's the only year we went to that one. Do you ever miss going to conventions like that?

I don't know. I mean, I kind of like walking around, seeing what's going on, but I don't really miss traveling for that specific purpose. It was always kind of stressful. There was that one year where it was only you and me, Jason at San Diego Comic Con. Yes, I do remember that. And it was like we had to coordinate when we're

going to the bathroom when we're gonna eat because we both could not leave at the same time. Yeah. Did you guys not have a Caleb or a Gavin? No, it was just the two of us. I don't know whose idea that was. That must have been like the last year we did Comic Con. No, this was like oh eight maybe oh seven. Why? I don't know. This was like, oh, eight, maybe, oh seven? Why? I don't know. I think everybody, doing something else. And it was like, well shit, Jason,

I gotta fucking go to the same table. Yeah, we can handle that. Do everything by ourselves. What a nightmare. It was awful. It was really bad. Like not having any downtime at all. Do you kind of look on it's a lot of fucking work.

It's a lot of work. At least the way we used to do it. Yeah, because I got to show up early. You got to unpack everything, got to set everything up. you got to show up early, you got to unpack everything, you got to set everything up, and even once it's done, you got to tear everything down, you got to ship it all out. It's so much more than just like standing there

and talking to people. I think a lot of physical manual labor. Comic-con is probably why I love Caleb, Gavin, and Barbara as much as I do, because they were such helps. Not that you were doing that, not that you were obviously. Well, I mean because they were such helps. I thought you were doing that, not that, you're obviously. Well, I mean, they were probably helping me

at a different convention, so I was probably appreciating the hell out of them. I was thinking about this just a second ago, trying to determine when the last time that three of us performed in some way together. I don't know if this is considered a performance, but the last time we were on Mike together, and I think it must have been, we've never really talked about this too much,

but I think it must have been that Drunken or VB recording we did. We tried to redo episode two. Is that what we were doing? I don't remember exactly where that was the goal. That was the goal, but the goal, the way it worked is we agreed to do it as an extra life stretch goal, I want to say. And so we all got together to do it as an extra life stretch goal, I wanna say. And so we all got together to do a drunk in RVB recording and we recorded Eric for over two hours. The last thing I remember two moments of the night. I remember Matt had the broadcast space.

It's a stage five. I remember Matt Hullam taking a full bottle of Jack Daniels, like a full handle and throwing it behind him like that, and just hearing it explode. That was you! Ha ha ha ha! I did it after he did. I did do it later because he did it first.

I don't remember doing it, but I think you're right. I think I did do it. Rose, he just... He was like, oh, I did do it too. But I did it because Matt did it first, because I was like, oh, Matt does it, it's fine, he's the boss. Uh, and I think we it too, but I did it because Matt did it first because I was like oh Matt does it. It's far and he's the boss And I think we all agreed like everything that we thought like nothing could come out of that

I remember being an insanely fun night. We never got to the fucking read of the script We never got to the read the script. I think I think We got to it. I had left to you left I just disappeared. I remember saying I was gonna go to the bathroom and I just didn't come back I remember saying I remember saying goodbye to you in the in the parking lot I think we both went to the bathroom at the same time and you're like I'm leaving and I was gonna go to the bathroom and I just didn't come back. I remember saying goodbye to you in the park a lot. I think we both went to the bathroom at the same time and you're like, I'm leaving. And I was like, are you?

And we had drivers for everybody. I remember that. But I think eventually, and then Bernie was like, we can never release this, but we're like, we have to because we promised it. So I think we released something like seven minutes. It was like a very, very much cut down. Over two hours of just, oh my God.

Frustration. Frustration, yeah. Not the first time that I disappear when we're trying to record something because I get so frustrated that it's not happening. I, yeah, dude, that might be where I've seen you hit your limit the most in my life is when, you get like Bernie and Matt and Jason Joel Gus,

Jeff I guess together and then drink then drinking starts happening and work tries to happen through the drinking. And if Bernie is into the drinking, like if Bernie is in it with everybody and it's like, yeah, let's have fun, Gus is gone in like an hour. Yeah, it's because it's not productive. Nothing's gonna come of it. It's pointless.

Stories come of it. Stories. Well, it was even worse back when we had to drive all the way to fucking beauty. Can we talk about the time you hit a deer? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think you don't do it on purpose. I don't know.

I'm not. Like Bernie's house was really in a rural area of buta. So we'd have to drive out there and you know, we were working all these weird hours. And I remember one time we'd finished whatever we were doing and we'd left and we all had separate cars. And I got a call from Jeff, and Jeff was like, hey, I'm out here in Beauty Still in the middle of nowhere,

and I hit a deer, I don't know what to do. I think it's still alive. Oh my God. So, and I think you called me because my dad was a game warden. Like, I didn't have experience like deer hunting and shit like that. And I think what I totally because my dad was a game warden. I didn't have experience like deer hunting and shit like that. I think what I told you was just leave it. Yeah, and I called my ex-wife too,

because I was actually going to see her. And I was like, I'm gonna be late. And also, I'm not sure what to do. I feel terrible. I was leaving and I hid a deer just ran across street and I had that old Chevy C10 pickup truck. It was a tank. And I hit the deer and I just kept driving

because I didn't, you know, I was kind of in shock, but I could hear the deer bleeding in the background. So I pulled over and I was scared to turn around. I called you, I called her, I think she said, go to a neighbor's house and see if somebody's got a gun to put it out of its misery and I was like, fuck. And I think you said, just leave it. And I thought, I gotta kill this thing.

I gotta put it out of its misery. So I turned around and I thought, maybe I can run it over, it just right and kill it. By the way, don't knock on rural Texans doors in the middle of the night and ask for a gun. I did not do that. I did not do that. I did not do that.

That was not good advice and I didn't take that advice. So I thought, I got a big ass pickup truck. I can probably run over a deer's head and it'll kill the deer, humanely or quickly at least, and then it won't be in any more pain And so I turn my truck around and I like the deer's in the middle of the street just like sitting there So I back up and I'm like lining it up to try to hit it and as I'm doing that the deer gets up and just runs away And I went oh fuck problem solved so I hit the gas and I start driving again and another deer runs out and I hit the other

Deer and then that deer just like bounce off my car got up up and ran away. And I was just fucking crying at that point. And I just drove home. Y'all talked about Y'all's old trucks before. And Jeff, do you remember that you bought that truck from my friend Sean in San Antonio? I do. I don't have you ever told this story that we went, I took Jeff down there to get that truck.

And we met my friend Sean at an HEB. And we left. And then, or had we already left? Somehow, Jeff was like, where's the title? And we met my friend Sean at an HEB and we left. And then, or had we already left? Somehow, Jim was like, where's the title? I don't have the title. Like, I know I got it from him and we went back to HEB and it was just on the fucking floor of HEB by the checkout.

It just dropped and we like searched HEB and found it. Thank God. I also remember that, you tell me, I like the passive voice. It had just dropped. Yeah, it just, it came just me. It came out. It just fell out. I don't know what a blame Sean, but he obviously he dropped it.

I remember too you told me the next day that after you're talking to your friend Sean, I think I paid $4,000 for that truck. Yeah, or a $3,500 was for that. And your friend Sean was like, man, I would have taken like $3,500 for it. And you told him he would have given you six. And he said you should mention I went, oh man. It's fucking great. Dang. You told him he would have given you six. And she used any revenge on me. Oh man. Oh.

That's fucking great. Dang. We should start wrapping up. OK. We are at, we're getting on to time. This was really good though. First guest ever. Yeah, we did it.

Yeah, thank you for being our first guest. Yes, Jason. Yes, Jason. And do you have a guest for the name? That's what I was going to ask. Oh. Anma is an acronym. We know is a dream logic.

The N is not its own word. There might be Spanish. Oh, man. See, I wish I would have had some more time to think about this. I didn't say there might be Spanish. I said it might not only be English. Oh, so it might be. What was the Japanese?

He's giving you a new, what in the fucking language is new? No. It's a Korean. Listen, I already said enough. I said too much. Well, I have no idea then. Is it always need my Arbys? Oh, you know how I feel about Arbys, but no, that's not it.

People are guessing angrily missing Austin. I don't think that's gonna be the name. Hang on, I have to read the worst guess we've ever gotten. Kokomo Indiana. Dude, I can't, if you, this is the last episode of the season, so I can do this, I mean, I could have done it at any time. If you want to tweet at us and let us know that Kokomo is a real place, shut the fuck up.

Shut up. Not save it. Tweet it, nod it us. You can just tweet it out loud. Fuck off. Hey, there's a Kokomo in Indiana. Do you think that that's what the fuck the Beach Boys wrote about when they wrote Kokomo? Are you out of your fucking mind? Get real. Like, take a step back and go, hang on. Doesn't make sense. I should keep it to myself. So that's just to you. And if you go, yeah, all those other people, and then you tweet that at us,

this is about you and you don't realize it. And that's the worst. That's the absolute dirt worst. Oh my God. Okay, the worst guess that I've seen, I can't assign a name to it. They said it's hidden in playing site. Keep Austin weird.

Okay. None of that doesn't work. Well, they tried. That's doesn't, doesn't make sense. Have we ever talked about, didn't the company that we used to work with for our merch, didn't they come up with the Keep Austin Weird? Outhouse designs.

Yeah, yeah. There are very first merch company. Yeah, that was, that's like, they're, they like coined the Keep Austin Weird phrase. Well, that's really cool. I like to those guys. We're off for the next two weeks, this is the last, I mean, we might do a supplemental,

it's just a matter of time. Sounds like Gus is off for the next two weeks. Gus is off for the next two weeks. And he would be scr. I mean, we might do a supplement all. It's just a matter of time. It's as like Gus is off for the next two weeks. Gus is off for the next two weeks. And I'll be scrambling to figure out what to fill it with. There we'll figure something out. Well, maybe work or something short. But if you want to follow us, keep up the date on the show at Animal Podcast on Instagram and on Twitter. Guys, any parting words, anything like that? Hey, I've got a parting note. Yeah. Okay. So there was an episode where Gus went on his petaries tirade, right?

Right, okay, so when y'all were talking about the Hilbert's name, and you talk about it being a combination of hills and birds, right? And then you were talking about where Bert's barbecue was, and you said, yeah, it's across from the Taco Cabana, I don't know what that is now. You know what it is? It's a fucking petarius Gus. No! No! No! You know, it's across from the talk of Cabana. I don't know what that is now. You know what it is? It's a fucking petarious guy.

So that's a good point. Jason, you are from San Antonio, but you have lived in Austin longer than, or about as long as us, maybe longer. And you know Austin better than anybody I know. And all of my homes I bought because of you, I think almost all of them. I think I found most of them.

You found most of them. You found my new home like an hour after I had already of you, I think. Almost all of them. I think I've found most of them. You found most of them. You found my new home, like an hour after I had already found it, but I bought my second house because of you. Yeah, I found the Ruestri T downtown office on Craigslist. Oh, yeah, we're in Craigslist. You are the most plugged in person to Austin, I know, and we didn't spend enough time talking about Austin with you because we got caught up on the RT memory train.

We should have you back someday if you ever want to come back again so we can talk more specifically about Austin's. Okay, let's do it. Yeah, cool. Austin, my Austin. Is that the name? No, I'm just signing off. Jesus Christ.

Ah, definitely. Why is Ranswell or Gus is off for two weeks? Uh, no, you know, I should probably have a meeting soon to figure out what we're going to record while he, uh, sticks his thumb up his ass. Ah, I'm a big hit show host. Describe the show to a newcomer in a more familiar way. Do you like apples?

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