ANMA - Third Wave Coffee

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

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only at Alienware.com slash deals. That's Alienware.com slash deals. All right. This is Inma75. The last time we were at Violet Crown Cafe and we talked about Average Presidents Day, which is a thing we should definitely get into in this episode. What is third wave coffee? Can you say it now?

Yeah, I guess. Okay. There's some food on your microphone. You don't want to get... No, I think it's leaf. Some leaf on your microphone. I don't eat leaves. I don't know about you, Joe.

Leaves is food. So... Leaves is food for... Bugs. Bugs. Um, we came to a coffee shop and as we were ordering, Lamp Post Coffee. Lamp Post Coffee. We were told that this is a third wave coffee shop and everyone just kind of went, oh, I nodded. I thought, oh, okay, maybe I'm just an idiot and I don't know what

that means. But apparently none of us know what that means. I figured Eric knew what everything meant. No, no, no, no. And again again I'm pretty sure my friend rose for this place And I'm pretty sure he's told me what it is and I just go fast cool man. Does anyone want so I look Do I want to guess before I tell you what they're already guessed that members of real big fish work here like yeah, that's all I know the trumpet player from Mephiskopheles That's all I know. The trumpet player from Memphis scoffalice is the rooster. Third wave coffee is a movement in coffee marketing emphasizing high quality.

Beans are typically sourced from individual farms and are roasted more lightly to bring out the distinctive flavors. Though the term was coined in 1999, the approach originates in the 1970s with roasters such as coffee connection. So it's a good coffee shop. So it's a good coffee shop. Yes, yeah, yeah. It's coffee for people who like drinking coffee. Here's a complicated way of saying we make better

coffees in Starbucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I should have looked. I don't pay it. Normally, Eric's our money man. I don't like that. You know me. So I didn't pay attention to how much the coffee was I'm curious for so this coffee. I got a large coffee for like 350

Think yours was like 450 and yours was like four or five. I uh, I mean a little expensive a little bit Yeah, do you know what them? You know what the expensive things were was it the cookies? How much was the cookie? It was more You know what the expensive things were? Was it the cookies? How much was the cookie? It was more. I'm not even gonna finish mine. No, look, look.

They're just giant expensive cookies. Well, here's the thing. She's like, oh, you're only getting two, but there's three of you. Someone's gonna be really sad that they didn't get a cookie. And I'm like, there's no way these two men are going to finish these cookies.

Gus is almost done. It was wrong. Listen, once the recording starts, the food stops for minutes. That's right. I don't the once the recording starts the food stops So these cookies that we got this is not a cookie review podcast big Nice they heated them up I could have used another 10 seconds. Yeah, oh really unevenly heated dude speaking of microwaves I have had a major calamity in my family My microwave stopped working well. Oh

No, it's still medium kind of works like if you tried to microwave a bag of popcorn For five minutes it would microwave it would pop eight kernels what so it works a little bit Do you use the popcorn button yeah I mean like the back tells you not to I know but anything I discovered it reading spaghetti but I'm like I reheated this baby for like eight minutes and it never got warm and I'm like what the fuck put spaghetti in for eight minutes I put it up for a minute okay okay I put it up for another minute and a half popcorn didn't pop in five minutes eight minutes the popcorn the popcorn was

the test yeah I was like what is wasn't enough for spaghetti, yeah. I was like, what is wrong with this fucking spaghetti? It's non-heatable. So then Emily was like, let's test popcorn. And so we tested the popcorn. It's just- It's the control. But it heats a little bit, just not enough to heat anything. Isn't that weird?

Like, when you- Can you hear it? Can you hear it all or nothing? Can you hear it cycling on and off? It sounds like normal. Really? Yeah, I don't know. I'm not just going to chunk it and buy a new one, but I did buy compressed air I am gonna blow the back out so I don't have another Xbox

Rebooting it there also has to be a better way to say that by the way I Blew out my Xbox. Oh god stop talking. That wasn't that much dust in there. Oh really nothing like what Andrew described Yeah, I don't think anything. I don't think it was nearly enough to cause power over the crash Great Gus fucking... Dude, that cookie is toast. In your face. Oh my god. It's in your face.

So, it is. And it's in my tummy now. I watched a video on YouTube a couple weeks ago. This guy bragging about watching videos. I had some internet. And it was about the popcorn button on microwaves. Okay. It was just an entire video dedicated to

why the popcorn button exists and why every bag of popcorn says not to use it. Okay. I was like, this is gonna be stupid. I spent, I watched all day, it was like 10 minutes long. I was like, ooh, now I know all the popcorn. Fascinating. Fascinating.

Laying honest, dude. Give us the 30 second, like 45 seconds synopsis. The reason that popcorn bags telling not to use a popcorn button is lots of, lots of microwaves don't have, they just, when you hit the popcorn button, it's just a time, right? Just like a preset time. Nicer microwaves have a humidity sensor in them. So they can actually sense the humidity changes over time and they know when the popcorn's more or less done. If your microwave has a humidity sensor,

it's fine, use the popcorn button. If you have a cheap microwave that doesn't have a humidity sensor, don't use it, because you'll scorch your popcorn. So just to cover their bases, all popcorn manufacturers say don't use the popcorn button. Make sense. And an easy way to tell if your microwave

has a humidity sensor is if it has an option like sensor reheat on it It does then then has humidity sensor and it knows What what your food is doing and how the heat is affecting it? It does but it doesn't work anymore Oh, there you go because my microwave doesn't work. So he knows about this, but he doesn't know about third wave coffee I use a microwave every thought I don't use a mic. I have a I use a microwave every- well I don't use a microwave- I see a microwave every day I don't see third wave coffee every day. I'll drink third wave coffee but only because I'm a fourth wave coffee drinker. Yeah I am. I'm a fourth wave drinker. I'm more of a new wave fan. That's cool. Yeah. I don't like the hair styles as much. I don't- I don't like microwaves.

I don't know if I ever told you that. Yeah I'm not crazy about microwaves either you put spaghetti in a microwave I just need to reheat some noodles. I would never do that. Okay. I don't think I would reheat spaghetti. Why cold spaghetti Also, spaghetti is the worst one. You just don't like spaghetti. That's true, but like pasta in general. I'm not reheating Yeah, just throw it in for like 45 seconds read it real fast I mean, I just kept going like I mean, like, this is comically ridiculous. Bar, bar! You should've kept going. You would've been there an hour.

Well, the way it was, here was my line of thinking. So Emily and I, for Valentine's Day, we went to that little tiny grocer over on, where we went to coffee, at First Light Coffee, the tiny grocer right there. It's like super fancy. And we just bought a bunch of ingredients to make a romantic meal together

And we book we made this pasta and it was like a kind of pasta We'd never bought before and it was of course that place is like very fancy And so it was like expensive pasta from Italy and I was like maybe it has like non reheating Like properties to I don't know. I've never could I just didn't know and I was like this makes no sense But it also makes no sense that my microwave doesn't work when it worked yesterday. My pasta has DRM's like I have to pay a licensing fee if I want to eat it a second time. Did you reheating fee? Did you re-up your spaghetti? You can only heat it once it's against the license agreement to heat it up a second time. And once you start something, you can't stop.

It's funny, some places can be really... You know, we laugh about it, but some places that we've been to places like this can be really protective about their food. That's true. Like you remember, for a long time, Ramen Tatsuya would not fill to-go orders. Yeah. Because they said that it wouldn't be good

by the time you got at home. So it's like you had to eat the food there. Yeah. Like if you tried to get food to go, they'd be like, no, no, we're not doing that. Like you're gonna eat it here because it's just, it's not gonna be good by the time you get at home. There's a place downtown.

I can't remember the name of it. I think it's on Fifth Street that has really good soup dumplings, but they won't, you can't order them to go. Really? Like you can order anything else on the menu to go, but they won't ship the soup dumplings. They're like nice. I know work interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I mean so I mean I I Get it, but like pasta you just boil at home. I know I know that's that's fine. You're you're already you're already ruining it We're already ruining it ourselves. It's true

Yeah, whenever possible. I just try to avoid using my microwave. I just use it to reheat stuff. Like I cook. Right. That's what a microwave is. Yeah, but like, no, but like, like if I have a frozen lasagna, it'll say cook it for 11 minutes in the microwave or 50 minutes in the oven. I'll always cook it in the oven. But so I won't ever cook anything in the microwave other than I guess popcorn. I'll just reheat things on occasion. What's your go-to microwave popcorn, Brent? You don't have one.

I don't have one. OK. Yeah, I guess I'll buy whatever's in front of you. I was trying to think of what's in my, probably Orville Redenbacher. Yeah. Whatever's in front of me. I got into popcorn for a while back in the day.

Remember, we would talk about it. We'd do the method to cook. And I was using the popcorn from the the Amish people Yeah, yeah, I was buying a special that is too much work It's easier just to microwave it Tony from the merch team. Let me borrow his dune popcorn bucket holder I saw it in the in y'all's office this morning. It's gross. I don't like touching it You put your you put your pee pee in it. I put my hand in it I wouldn't touch it. Yeah, dude is gross it feels weird and I don't like it

Oh, you should make your popcorn and put it in there He gave me a bag of popcorn. Oh, yeah, I don't really care about probably not really I don't really care about popcorn, but you care about spaghetti. I did in the moment You care about popcorn in the moment, too. Otherwise you wouldn't buy it I was just using the popcorn to test the microwave. I wasn't like you had the pop. Oh, yeah I have popcorn in the I also have bacon bits in the fridge And I'm not craving them all the time Bacon bits are not a snack

Something you're like I'm gonna go Baking bits as a snack before shaking them in my mouth like it's fish. Oh my god You never had a handful of bacon this guy over here. He's putting bacon bits in the microwave and eating them with a spoon Yeah, but they're coming out cold bacon bits you eat cold Well if I can shift gears a little bit from spaghetti arguments. Should we talk about a long time ago in Austin? I was going to talk about the President's Day thing first.

Oh, let's do it. And then we can talk about this area. So we posited New President's Day should be the average mean or whatever of all the president's birthdays and then so people started doing it We had found out that somebody had done it previous to I think Biden being elected. Yeah, it was like July 4th It was July 4th. It's that's what I saw on which is very cool Now here's the problem if you got our r slash and my podcast which is a subreddit We don't run people have done this as well

I love it and it has been post after post, and almost none of them agree on the date. This is the best. It's the best. I don't, here's a post from a cock-bite millionaire, great name. The average president's day is July 7th, or June 21st. I love what controversy there is,

and people are showing their work. People are like reviewing it. I do. And then it's an annual priority says, uh, they, they calculated the weights of each birthday taking into account length of term, percent of term, number of term, uh, created a Google sheet with all this stuff. I do find it interesting that unweighted dates are trending toward July 4th. What trending toward July 4th? Yeah, they're moving towards it.

Like, in general. Due to Biden's length in office, they are trending. All of our forecasts predict that July 4th is the president's day. I wonder if any president has ever been, if their birthday has been July, the 4th of July. Oh, that's pretty good. That's because that would be like, Born on the 4th of July. That wouldn't affect our president today. Yeah, I like all the different methodologies that people had for this.

I'm not picking a favorite or anything. I just appreciate that people are putting work into it and showing it. I think somebody had said, there's too many arguments here. I think we should just move it to the day after the Super Bowl. Realistically? Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I am impressed with the Ann Maniacs out there that are going out of their way to do. To do math? Yeah, but honestly, if you listen to this podcast, that's probably your hobby anyway. You're probably a math guy. My people. Yeah. Our people. All right.

What'd you find out? I'm looking for the most famous July 4th birthdays. Mm-hmm Uncle Sam Sam Beagle. Yeah, no, huh? Why people I don't know Sort of a one-a-one visa choice. Yeah. Yeah post Malone. Uh-huh more of a pre Malone guy YouTube star Mick creamy That's fake. That's not real No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Anyone else? No, no, no, no. A lot of people I've never heard of. No. Like McCree.

Like, like McCree. Louis Calibre. Not a lot of people born on the 4th of July, huh? They still want to claim it. Ah! Calvin Coolidge. Really? Yeah, we had a president born on the 4th of July. Oh! Oh, the situation. Just like you get. That's fine. Mike Sorrentrentino Tom Cruise in that movie. Yeah Tom Cruise in that movie

Yeah Man it's amazing how many people are YouTube stars well, it's a very loose term. Yeah, I mean I don't I don't want to burst your bubble here, but I Don't I don't want to burst your bubble here, bud I don't I don't consider I don't Kid trunks the rapper if if we got into it If we got into a head-on collision on the way back to the office right now the news tonight would say YouTube stars Do YouTube stars and young attractive attractive I would like to say local businessmen oh yeah okay yeah that sounds way better three dipshits local coffee fans so that's our that's our look that's our president's day that

is our weighted president say I think July July 7th is what it seems like but it's trending towards July 4th which is is nice, so get out and vote. If you want President Santa a certain day, get out and vote. Does that mean Calvin Coolidge is the most presidential president of all time? Yeah, and if we do President's Day on July 4th, it's celebrating his birthday. It just means he's the most average president of all time. That's true. Yeah, not the most outstanding.

Isn't that what you want? Like the most, like the mean? After the past few years?'t that what you want like the most like the mean After the past three years. Yeah, I just want I want to present I don't have to I don't hear about and I don't think about every day Can we do that? Can we go back to politics being so fucking boring? I Don't know when that was but yeah, let's do it. Oh my god my first presidential election. I had to vote for John Kerry That's that really sort of through a wrench in my before yeah

It was that was me wanting to like guys. I'm gonna participate in the process. Yeah, this is gonna be great our democracy alright John Kerry My first was Clinton. Oh It's a long time ago. It could have been a recent one too. I remember you, I think the first time, there's an election going on right now.

Today's the first day of early voting here in Austin, here in Cowbs County. You gotta go do that. Gotta go vote later. Go vote. We voted, Jeff and I voted together in the 2000 presidential election. Did we? We went over to the ACC campus on Grove over there off a Riverside. I know it. There was a long line and you and I got in line For the 2000 presidential election. I don't remember that. I remember that. Oh, that's lovely

So that yeah, we we met in 99 and voted together for the first time I think that might have also been the same election where the Bond proposal for light rail in Austin Failed, I think you're right, and I think we voted on both of those issues That is the campus on Grove. That's awesome, and then Bush one and you guys were stoked or I Remember Bush one and then we went to Australia and everybody was like What the fuck is wrong with you? and everybody was like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah, who's you?

Me? No! And we're like, we didn't vote for him, and they're like, oh, what? Yeah. But you're from Texas. I remember we went in, like summer, it was like August 04. So like the election hadn't happened yet. It was like, it was coming up soon.

Yeah. And every person we met would keep asking like, so who do you think's gonna win the American presidential election? And you know like yeah bush. Yeah, like what are you sure you think so? I don't think so all the other stuff. No, I don't think so like yeah, it's a lock There's no way it's going any other way like no no, it's not like all right I don't know. I don't know what version of the news you're getting down here, but I guarantee you it's a it's a done deal

Yeah Yes, I gotta go vote early election. I vote all the time in every election here in Austin and I think that it's a rare thing for someone to go like because there's a lot of yeah really minor elections I think people just skip so as a result of that anytime there's an election I get a crazy number of people knocking on my door Oh really? with political campaigning. About candidates or about whatever bond initiative is on the ballot, just because I think that

they probably keep track of who's voting and who's not. It's like, I'll see them on my security camera, come up the street, skip all my neighbor's houses and make a beeline straight from my house Knock on my door like motherfucker. It's always like me and my immediate next-door neighbor They'll always come to our two houses and then well you guys go vote together, right? Yeah, we hold hands He's the new Jeff this motherfucker Ask me to vote anymore were I thought about suggesting it for this episode today But I thought that would end up being really boring Potentially illegal.

Yeah, I don't think it would be legal. But what if we did it? Could we do it next week? Could we get a cup of coffee, go to a place to early vote and then record? I don't know. I think the early voting I'll have to look. It might only be this week. It's only a week of early voting.

Hey, you know, for a lot of shockingly, they don't make it easy. Yeah, interesting. Anyway, we're up way off of 183, like almost to Cedar Park, like halfway to Cedar Park, I would say. Yeah. 183 and Anderson Mill. And I don't know, whenever I'm up in this area, there's a couple of things I always think about. I think about how the first Krispy Kreme that opened up in Austin

is just kind of down the road from here. And when that place fucking opened, there was always a line. Like the line would come out from the parking lot down onto the access road. And it was like that 24 fucking hours a day. Moving to Austin was kind of surreal because shit that I seriously took for granted growing up, Krispy Kreme and Waffle House, where there was a fucking Waffle House at every interstate exit in Alabama, and there's a Krispy Kreme. The Krispy Kreme's are like fucking Dunkin Donuts up in Boston.

They're everywhere in the South. And when both of those things opened in Texas, it was like the president came to the table. It was fucking crazy. The fanfare. Probably a year Krispy Kreme had a line. Yeah, it was, it was insane. I think there's another location down south, like Hosnoe's Sassney.

But this was the only one for a long time. And weirdly enough, I think maybe the only Duncan Donuts in town is also right up here, like pretty close to the Krispy Kreme. It's like Donut Alley, chain Donut Alley up here. But I always think of that Krispy Kreme because sometimes when we would get off work and then like late at night from the call center and people didn't want to go to sleep when we were young,

we would come up here and wait in line for a fucking dumbass donut. Till Stasny opened up, then it was way better. Way better. And then the other thing I think about coming all the way up here is not too far down from that Krispy Kreme. It's not there anymore, but there used to be a Kirby Lane over there.

And that was the first Kirby Lane I ate at. Really? Yeah. You remember when there used to be one up here? No. I think it became a Mexican restaurant and I think it's closed now. I think it's just like an empty building, but there used to be a Kirby up here. And that was the first Kirby I ever ate at.

Oh really? Yeah. I think it's like people from the call center probably wanted to eat at one and for some reason we came up here. And I didn't know there were others that were way closer and way more convenient until after that. I was like, I don't know why the fuck we came all the way

out here. I bet one of those assholes probably lived out here. I mean, everyone drive all the way, all the way fucking up here to go to Kirby Lane. God, when I bought my first house, I was looking at two homes. I was looking at the place that I lived at that was kind of close to the call center in South Austin.

And then a house up in Cedar Park. And the house up in Cedar Park was so much nicer. But I was like, it would literally be like an hour commute every day. And I just don't know, I just don't know what it would do to me. This is what really killed me. I just don't know what it would do to my friendships. I wouldn't be able to hang out with people.

And so I ultimately didn't buy what it would do to my friendships. I wouldn't be able to hang out with people. And so I ultimately didn't buy that house, bought the South house. I wonder every once in a while how differently my life would have been if I'd moved to Cedar Park in 1999 instead of South Austin. It definitely would have affected things. All those things I talk about, like going to Krispy Kreme or Kirby or something like going bowling, a lot of that stuff when you're young especially is very impromptu in the moment, especially back then, pre- real self wide spread cell phone out of like we were

We were already good friends and stuff like we're already a little bit in love you and I but Like would we have hung out as much and definitely probably that wouldn't have formed a strong of a bond Like yeah, maybe we would have started rich teeth. Maybe we wouldn't have yeah Yeah, I would have got sick of the drive and quit and got a job up there. Yeah, who knows, you know It you're talking about that, you know hour long commute Every now and then I see on Reddit people ask like What's something that?

Non-Americans think that Americans are good at or what's something that non-Americans are amazed at Americans do and Invariably the number one answer is usually long-distance driving yeah I mean talk about like we're talking about there like people are always amazed like someone will say like yeah have an hour commute each way not a big deal I mean it's not it's not too bad yeah it's like something I think we have such a ingrained car culture here that we kind of take for granted then some of the other things are always they'll I'm granted. That some of the other things are always, I'm always surprised by some of the other things

that people say when these topics come up. Another one is the ability to make small talk. I guess it's a very uniquely American thing. Which is weird because they think it's weird that we drive our own cars for an hour, but Europeans will sit on a train to go anywhere for an hour, which is where small torque originates Yeah, when you're sitting next to a stranger in a public space

Yeah, I mean you don't want to bother and don't want to bother so you bust out a book and go into your own I guess but I don't know. I just feels like that's how small torque small tag is cultivated small torque to small torque Then two of the other ones that I always find fascinating are they're normally up there They're not like top of the list is the ability to shuffle a deck of cards Hmm, I guess most other places they just like spread them all out and like mix them around on the table Instead of like a coupier does at the yeah, what insanely inefficient way to So they do in Vegas, so right where there's money on the line That's just learned how to shuffle.

And dude, shuffling's fun. Yeah, but I feel like everyone I know looks like that. I felt like a dumb dumb when I was young because I couldn't do it. Like I had to practice it. There are a few things you grew up knowing you need to learn. You gotta whistle, you gotta tie your shoes, you gotta be able to flip somebody off properly.

You gotta be able to do cool whistles. You gotta shuffle a deck of cards. got a shuffle of deck of cards and Oh, do you want to snap your fingers? some of the other things it was Know how to do one of those combination locks like the rotate kind like the not the they don't do that No, I guess that's like an American. Yes, I very very I see people who say like They have a European spouse and when they first encounter a lock like that,

they just look at it befuddled, not knowing what to do with it. I mean, I get it. You had to learn it at some point, but I don't know why other places wouldn't have... Well, they have like the cylinder kind, where you just like put the number in, as opposed to like right, left, right. Yeah, but how are you gonna feel like you're robbing a bank? When you're trying to get your gym clothes out of the locker. And then... That's another thing, they don't rob banks over there. Oh, that's tough. It's all electronic. When you're trying to get your gym clothes out of the locker and then

It's tough it's all electronic I saw I saw one of those threads recently and it was similar It's like what do they have in America that you don't have like in Europe that you're surprised about And I was not expecting the number one response to be food poisoning. They don't have food poisoning in your oh, yeah We have it here. They're. I got it the other day. I want to say something like, they get it like 5% as much as we get it here. Like an insanely different amount. We're going to have a picture here.

Turn around and say cheese. I used to watch you guys all the time. Listen to ANMA. It's called ANMA. ANMA. ANMA. and Anna yeah so it's called and the a nma a nma yeah easy to remember best name ever all right that's good we're making we're making friends in the drive-through that this is a lamp post do the animal podcast do the amna challenge yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry no the last thing was throw uh, throw a ball.

People can't throw balls? I think they, well, I've seen Gavin. Everyone's always amazed that like, any American can just like pick up a baseball or a football and throw it. Yeah. Like, because I guess maybe there's, they have a lot more emphasis on supports here. Well, everyone grows up throwing a baseball. Well, they, no, they kick. What are the things that you, I couldn't kick a ball like that.

What are the things that you, you, you can do that you feel like everybody should be able to do that you're surprised people can't do? Troubleshoot your computer? Yeah. Yeah, that's okay. That's really good. Yeah.

I was thinking physical. That's a great one. But that's great. Like I was talking about skateboarding. Like I always get surprised when people pick up, like stand on a skateboard and don't know how to skate. Like just not do all these or Fucking kickflips, but just skate for I tried a few times when I was a kid and I kept falling

It was like the thing where it's like I don't want to do this And I'm sorry derailed your earlier point to go back to your point about food poisoning I know when we go to Australia, like if you want to go to, go tie back into something we talked about earlier, if you go to a restaurant and you want to get takeout food, a restaurant has to be specifically licensed. Oh! For, yeah, takeout orders. Yeah, like some restaurants do not have that license so you cannot get to go or take away. Like they have to have a specific license showing that they can ensure that the food is safe for you to take home

So it's a lot more stuff like that. They're a lot more careful about the food So I think that's why food poisoning is misprevivalent on top of the stupid way we Handle our food from beginning to end. Yeah They definitely have us beat on that one. That's weird. It feels like America is such a regulated country nationalized healthcare in Interesting yeah, yeah, they want that that's lots of times. We're like, why is that it's nationalized healthcare? You get that's answer for lots of things. It's very interesting also Regulations are constantly be I mean it depends on it depends on the whims of the political party in power, right? That's true. Like somebody will come in and deregulate an entire industry.

And then we end up 18 to 36 months later with trains crashing and spilling poisonous chemicals everywhere. You end up with fucking Tyson food factories. Have maybe not Tyson, but you end up with like chicken plants sending salmonella everywhere. And then the next political party will come in and re-regulate it and she gets fixed And then people will complain about over regulation and then it just goes it's just flip-flops constantly my entire life It's all it does it just flip-flops and they the end the people that suffer are all the people that are using these products Yeah, what are you looking at that are over or under regulated? Did you do something on my coffee? No, no, no, no, so get the recorder the screen's not on. Oh, it's it's on

It's just it's dark. I thought you did something I got got started leaning over 20 minutes. Good morning Gus Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, we I thought you were like I thought you'd like did something to my car When we sat here Jeff picked up a bug a dead bug by like its leg and like had to like move it It was sitting here. Huh the bug. Yeah. Yeah. I was gone Anderson mill like this area we're very very far north for what we typically took it 20 minutes to get here from the office It is it's a ways away and 20 minutes in Austin's a That's a far drive for a state where everyone drives three and a half hours on a whim or you're crossing downtown Yes, it's a far drive for coffee. Yes coffee shops everywhere. Yeah

But this sort of like area do you guys ever come up here now um there's an hmart a little further up the road that i go to um aside from that i don't know are you talking about korean fiesta yes i am uh inside joke um aside from that i don't know if I'm up here very often. What about you? You were you were naming off some stuff on the way up here. I feel like I'm up here all the time. Why is that? Well, first off, we're like an exit away from the card shop I go to. Card traders of Austin was like a home away from home for me. I love those dudes further down.

Yeah, it's kind of where the big lots is like the next one down. So I go there all the time, but I also kind of like north north of where I used to live So I could go south or I could go north and south Into like toward downtown is so crowded now that it's just easier to do all my shopping up here so I go to my targets my academies my Michaels and you know all that shit the bookstore I go to is up here So I just do most of my shopping up 183 just because it's less crowded

If I go this trader Joe's all I was just here yesterday. It's just yeah This this area up here like I feel like this is where Especially this used to be the case years ago more so where you start to see More of a typical suburban layout to happen. Like even the fact that we're in this shopping center, next to that other shopping center, that like this could be anywhere. Yeah. It could be anywhere in America right now.

And you look at the businesses on the signs, you know, it's super generic. Like I'm looking at the sign over your shoulder here, Jeff. Yeah. And it's Best Tire Center, someplace that just, their sign says Donuts and Colaches. Yeah. Well, that'll narrow it down a little bit. Yeah, yeah gallery and nails impact martial arts that bingo You can't see it because of the tree maybe you can see a Jeff But that sushi place over there has like the most generic sign

In front of the restaurant. It's just like sushi bar and grill It's like white background with like black font on top of it It's like going to the grocery store and finding fish. It's sushi. We could be in Texas or Missouri right now And there'd be no way you could tell yeah The Colaches might be a tell That's kind of how I feel about this part of town like I don't come up here because that's charming You know I come up here just because it's convenient and it's less crowded and it's still very fucking crowded. Yeah up here I don't know it's fine

We were driving up here and as we kind of turned around, I was just looking it up. There's a place over here called Mooneys Burger House. That looks good. It's right over here. Like the Colt? What? The Colt Mooneys. The Mooneys?

Yeah. Is that a Colt? Yeah. You used to be. You used to be. They still are. They still look Colt. They're still around here.

Here? Everywhere. In America. I don't know about the Mooneys. Oh. They were big. Yeah. They're big.

Yeah. I think they're still around. Oh, you should live big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think They're still around. I think the original founder died And I think one of his sons worships a gold AK-47 now. I could be wrong about that. I think that's cool But this place looks Decent this looks like a yeah, this looks like a good little burger. I mean they have they have the exact same restaurants The South Austin or central Austin it really is yeah kind of same. Oh except for they have a moonies up here And we don't there's also a place Emily and I were driving around up northeast the other day

And we saw a like a custard like a frozen custard stand. Andy's I saw that yesterday too dude that looks awesome I know about Andy's yeah, I've never been a drive by it a lot of blame goes there really Yeah, it looks good. He's told me about it a couple of times. There's a there's a hamburger place over there. That's really good too Oh, yeah, I'll Sammy's maybe uh-huh. It's right never word when you pick up your dead dogs when you get them cremated Oh my god, it's right over there. It's not too far from there I know because that's all my all my dead dogs will be pick up there and I was gonna burger buddies buddies Yeah, oh buddy. I'm gonna buy there. buddy that's over that's good as shit too that's

where I do wrestling yeah it's like right behind like but it's right behind buddies well what a bummer the only time I've ever been to that part of town was to get two dead dogs and Dog now it's fine. He's super breathing and everything yeah, some of us know the name. Arboretum's all right. Yeah, I Like that. I think it's fine There's that there's actually a park there like a little nature trail and a little like man-made pond down there at the bottom That's actually kind of lovely like back behind Amy's Yeah, like in the back behind Amy's you go down and I think a lot of people low-key Don't know about but it's kind of like a little nature area. That's really nice. It used to be like

Kind of the fancy mall in Austin. Yes, it did Late 80s early 90s Wow Yeah, it was like that was like the high-end fancy place like because your options back then would have been Highland Mall Lakeline mall, which were kind of close to Barton Creek Mall. That was it. North Cross Mall. Yeah But yeah, but North Cross Mall was always dog shit. Yeah, it was not great. Highland Mall was never great. It was Okay, that a dillards Lake Lakeline Lake Lakeline and Barton Creek were good, but they're both far away They play with so far. Yeah, you're that was for Cedar Park people But yeah, the Arboretum was like that nice outdoor shopping area like walk around and

It's fancy. I don't know. It's uh, there's really not much there anymore. I mean, there is it's still filled There's nothing for me. I guess I should they had like a pottery barn when it was a big deal. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, that kind of narrows down the time, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a barns and nobles. The barns and nobles was huge there. The barns and nobles there is fucking awesome.

Yeah. It's like walking back in time. But we actually, if we haven't done it yet, we should get coffee there because they have a coffee shop. That's a noble. Yeah. The barns and nobles has a coffee shop. That's how I used to buy my copies of 2600 in cash.

And that barn's a noble right there. What? They would sell 2600 at that barns and noble. That's where I used to buy my copies of 2600 in cash and that Barnes & Noble right there. What? They would sell 2600 at that Barnes & Noble. I would go there and buy it. We could do that. We could do coffee there. It's like a two-story Barnes & Noble that has like a record store upstairs and it has like... Huh. It's gory. If you've never been there, it's beautiful. It's a really... like you go in there and you go like, holy shit. I have been there. You are right. Yes. I know exactly what you're talking about.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a big-ass cheesecake factory. There's a five-guy... Holy shit. I have been there. You are right. Yes. I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. There's a big ass cheesecake factory. There's a five guy. The cheesecake factory used to be a theater. There's the boba shop where all those people got shot. That's why you like that. It's right there.

That used to be the regal arbor. Yeah. And then the regal arbor moved across the street, and then it closed down. It was the arbor seven. That cheesecake factory is huge. We had that for face jam, and it was like weird. I saw Princess Arbor so big that cheesecake factories huge we had there for face jam and it was like I saw Princess one and okay at that

Why is that Barnes and Noble so nice I think it's always been nice it's like a flagship Well, I think it's a holdover from when that was the nice shopping area I think being gorgeous built it out and it's just maintained and it's got like every board game You could want to buy and like all kind of chachki's like it's a great place to go to buy gifts Like if you're like, oh fuck, I gotta go to a birthday party. I didn't get anything, you know, that makes me think it's funny You know nowadays, I think there was a period in time where Everyone's convinced, you know Amazon was gonna kill all bookstores and they wouldn't survive, and Amazon has morphed into so much more.

I remember back- Amazon does not give a fuck about books. Yeah. I remember there was a period of time back in the late 90s when we were still working at the call center, and Amazon went public, and there was always like the running joke, like if you wanna throw your money away,

invest in Amazon. Like, they're not gonna in Amazon like they're not gonna Make it they're not gonna last like the stock's always going down. It's like man what? What I would give to go back to 1999 eat those fucking words and put them in Amazon instead Now what a fucking what a fucking trajectory that companies and what a pivot from just being like the online bookstore I'm everything. It was, like, oh, okay, I kind of get it. And then they sell more. And now it's just like everything.

The internet runs on Amazon. It's the first place I think of when I want to buy something. Yeah. Yeah. Even if I buy it locally, I look at it up on Amazon first. And I mean, even then, that's like, that's only part of their business on top of like all the cloud infrastructure stuff they do.

Like if you look at Microsoft and the reason that it's become so huge under Sacha Nadella is like really for them the pivot to Azure and cloud infrastructure stuff to really compete with Amazon you know it's AWS or Microsoft number one and number two in that business and Microsoft is fucking huge now. Yeah one of the biggest companies in the world all because of that on top of all the other stuff that they do. It's just wild to me that that's like That industry blew up to that extent. Yeah, and that's why nobody could fix their own computer anymore Including me it's all the clouds computer. Yeah, I think about that when I'm updating the anarchy me anything website Yeah, man, it should be so much easier if it was on AWS. It's like, man, this is a real pain in the ass.

And you can go to that website, anarchemyanything.com, and you can sign the guest book. I do wanna point out, most people, not most, there are people who are like, wider than rice. I tried to sign the guest book, but the caption didn't work, and they, guest books, blocked my IP. Guess what, the capture's working.

You're a robot. I don't know if you know this. This is how capture's working. You're a robot. Yeah. I don't know if you know this. This is how you find out. You're a robot. Yeah. When you look at it and you go, well, I can't figure this out, you're a robot.

Right. It was designed to stop you. It's been a handful of people who are like, I got blocked by this thing because I couldn't do this cat, whatever. You're a robot. You're the thing that's hanging out. Go back and remember your childhood memories and then

think really hard. Are they your memories? and remember your childhood memories and then think really hard. Are they your memories? Unplug it night and then roll your eyes back into your head, see the ones in zeros, and then realize your memories are not your own. I will say the guest book, when I was migrating all of our old comments over to the new system, the guest book did block me a few times just because I was making like 50 or 60 comments and they would be like, alright, you're spammingming and there was no way for me to unblock myself So I'd have to connect to a VPN to change my IP. Oh wait, I'm telling people how to hack don't do that

And then I would let me keep going again But I saw I had to change my IP like three or four times to bring all of the old Eremus of the old comments over. Oh my god labor of love. Oh my god next to if you if you can't beat the capture yep next time you're home at Thanksgiving or Christmas visiting your parents just casually when you're in the kitchen with your mom throw out when was my last firmware update and see what she says and see if you can trip her up and be like a 010010101 yeah and if she goes I think never what honey you're a human birthday That bug just flew away see I told you it wasn't dead No, the one I picked up was definitely um, it's playing possum It's hot and it thought it would give it a try

Well, it wasn't getting far without the legs that came off when I picked up Oh, dude, I'm playing possum. Have you seen possums use their tails to pick up leaves? No, I never thought about a possum having a prehensile tail in the way that it would like grab things other than like a tree branch. I feel like cartoons. You see him like hanging from the tree or something. Right, when he has his overalls on but only half

and then he's hanging upside down from a tree picking on a banjo. No, this is a possum walking around, grab, I guess they pick up like leaves and they try like they move them around and they make little burrow things, whatever. And it looked fucked up. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Sounds things whatever and it looked fucked up. I didn't like it I didn't like it. Yeah, it was gross. I didn't like it. I like possums, but that's I mentioned if you had a third hand

I think about that a lot. I think about if I had a prehensile tail I would get so much more done in a day It would rock so that's what you would pick cuz I asked this question on the one of the other podcast recently If you could have one extra appendage one extra body part, what would you pick? Everybody was like wiener? Yeah, I mean like an extra wiener. But who wants to? That's what? Why?

That's stupid. Like so, like third hand is cool, like third arm, whatever. Make shirts and practical be a mess. Prehensile tail is the way to go because it can be up above your jeans and everything. And then if it is by sort of the rules of nature, it would be strong enough to hold me. So I could just be hanging around the house. Or I could be laying back in my special chair.

Because I need a special chair. With a hold cut out. Yep. And then I could hold my phone. With your tail. Uh-huh. And then I could... Like your tail goes out the back of the chair, it comes around to the side and it holds...

You know what the real pro move is? Your prehensile tail can move your mouse on your computer. That's cool. You know what's funny though? You don't have to move your hands from the keyboard. When you're laying back in, you're a lazy boy and you've got your tail holding your phone up to your face and you fucking fall asleep and your tail drops it and you drop your phone right in your fucking forehead and you break your nose.

And then you go aww tail. Oh, tail. I think that's probably the move. I think is having prehensile tail. But here's the thing. If I don't get to choose what it looks like, that's tough. I might get stuck with a possum tail. That's nothing wrong with a possum tail.

Looks gross compared to a monkey tail. It's the same thing. Just has, monkey tail just has fur on it. But I'm an aesthetics guy, Gus. And I need to put a tail suit on. Yeah, put a sock on it. Yeah, but a tail sock on it get a thigh high sock Make your tail look real nice and sexy Fishnets Leave a little bit to the imagination

Oh, do you think that your tail would be long enough that you can wear it like a scarf like it's your tail You're making it. I'm just saying I don't know. I think it would be pretty cool. That's pretty cool Mm-hmm. Oh, we should talk about the coffee you tell can pick your nose for you. It could yeah You can get that gross with it. Yeah. Oh, it'd be great for the ear Yeah, the tip is smaller than a finger. Well, think about all the times you screw you have a fucking itch on your back Yeah, and there's nobody around and you're like, fuck. Your tail could take care of that instantly. You know how I know I'm getting old? Uh-huh.

My hands get really dry in winter now. I don't know if you have this problem. I have to put lotion on my hands. No, I don't have that problem. I don't know if it's less humidity. I have all kinds of problems with how that was. Washing my hands so much, it's like, man, my hands get dry. I have to put lotion on them.

It's real pain. You gotta hate it. You gotta start moisturizing, bud. That's what I'm saying I'm doing. I mean, on your face and stuff too. It's not, it's time. No, no, it's just my hands get dry to put lotion on them real pain. You gotta hate it. You gotta start moisturizing bud I don't say I'm doing like on like your face and stuff too. It's not it's time. No, it's just my hands I've started my back. We did a I got free like face cream from an ad yeah, I did I don't remember which one it was but I've been right. I've been using it. It worked like a motherfucker I've been using it every day. They're not paying for this podcast. That's true. Yeah, say it on your other one Pay for this podcast was it was it? I don't know. I think it's alright. Okay. Yeah, say it on your other one. Pay for this podcast Okay, yeah, I really use it every day. It's great. I think I agreed to do those reads and they haven't given me any so sorry

Yeah, you should be moisturizing, I don't know what to tell you Speaking of you should be moisturizing there is I don't remember what it's called and I can't see it from here But there's like a man. There's a place over here. It's called like tool impact a manly salon or something. Gear, fix up gear up. Tune up, tune up. Oh yeah. A manly salon. I thought it looks like an auto parts store, but it's for getting pedicures if you're a dude.

Man, how? I think you got a lot going on. If that's, yeah, I don't know what to tell you. Uh, let's talk about lamppost. We're getting on towards time. Uh, there's also like, sorry, sorry. Let's talk about lamppost. We're getting on towards time. There's also like sorry Sorry, he's going for it. Total men's care like a doctor for men finally, you know I don't understand that whole marketing isn't everything for men always right I think every time we drive by one

I point at it and I tell my wife finally That's for me It's about time dudes got some So lamp post is the place we came to we're up north we're on the patio I Got the coffee you guys got the Americano. I'm pretty cold. What did you guys think of lamppost? You go first. I always go first seven and a half. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah got the cold brew. What did you guys think of lamppost? You go first. I always go first. Seven and a half. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, for your cold brew. Yeah, Americana I think I'll give it about seven. Yeah, right around there. I'd say this is like an eight and a half. I really like this cup of black coffee it

Has a lot of nice flavor. It does a really good job of It has a lot of nice flavor. It does a really good job of being a big tall cup of coffee. And at no point am I going, oh, too bitter. Oh, too sad. I got a little bitterness on mine. That's why I'm going with 7. Mine was a little bit too. Interesting.

But it's like, I won't travel to go here, but I come up here twice a week probably to go the car shop. So I'll stop by and pick up a coffee. This was around me, I'd go. For sure. What's great is they have a drive-through. So that's really convenient if you're a coffee. This was around me, I'd go. Yeah, for sure. What's great is they have a drive-thru. So that's really convenient if you're up there. It definitely helps.

If you're not gonna hang out because I mean, we're sitting at the patio and I'm staring at 183. It's not like the most, and we're in the parking lot of a shop. It's not the most beautiful place to go, but. It's cute inside. Yeah, and they're real nice. They're real friendly inside.

The drive-thru is a big plus too, because most of the time when I go to Starbucks, it's only because there's a drive-thru. It know, it's just convenience and they're building a Starbucks over there by that hot pop place That's gonna be a nightmare over at airport. Yeah, like buy a super leaf. Yeah that park where? You know where that Mexican restaurant used to be in the parking lot. Oh, yeah, that's a no wait. Is it there? Yeah, it's right right over there. Okay, yeah that parking lots already a nightmare I can't imagine how much worse it's gonna be now possible to park there you You got a park behind the you got a park behind it. I set that a couple weeks ago. You're like, no, it's not that bad

I always park easy. It's still hard to park there, but you got you can do it fantastic. I've been there You know that I'm being I know I've been to super leaf since then and it was a fucking nightmare They have changed my opinion a little yeah, Yeah, it's tough to park over there. I would say Lamp Post, if you're in this Anderson Mill area, I think they have other locations that they have. Oh yeah, I think I saw it on their website. Yeah, they have a few other locations. Again, my friend Robby roasts for this place for nearby coffee

and Lamp Post has their coffee here. I really recommend it. They got one in Round Rock, Hoto, Georgetown, San Marcos. Okay, there you go. I was gonna say, I figured there were other locations. There are, there are all north. Because I feel like it's one of those T-shirts. I see a lot of dudes with beards and tattoos

wearing around town. Yeah, it's just more up north than anything. So if you're a Round One, drop in. I should've got the, I wanna get the pour over, not today because this is already my second cup of coffee and I'm gonna have a third so I'll like fly but It's good. I think it's a fine cup of coffee, especially if you're up here at Mooneys and then you need something right afterward Get a cup of coffee or if you're at the card shop or if you're at the card shop

Hey, how about an anarchy question? Hang on where to go here. We are at the card shop pick up some penny sleeves for me by the way some penny What's a penny sleeve? What's your pennies in it? Yeah, just like the little sleeves put cards in little soft ones Plastic sleeves are called penny sleeves Why are they called penny sleeves because it cost a penny each? Oh I asked that question Hey, you can send us an anarchy question at ANMA podcast on Twitter and on Instagram.

r slash ANMA podcast is the other place where you can leave a comment or a question. This is from paradox. Syhosis, Don's weird name. I was re-listening to an old RT podcast episode where Gus talked about when he was young, he had some sort of psychic ability. He specifically mentioned a story where he's hanging out with

friends and correctly predicted 15 players in a pack of baseball cards before opening the pack. My question is are there any other psychic stories? I think, do we have Frank talk about that? Frank was there when that happened. We should have him back and talk about it. He was there. He saw me do that. How did you do that? We were out of town. And we were at an academic competition or something. Yeah.

And a friend of mine, we were staying at a hotel. And there was a convenience store in the parking lot. And a friend of mine wanted to use the pay phones. He wanted to call his family and check in or something. So we all walked in the parking lot over to the convenience store. And it's back when I used to collect baseball cards you know we've seen the cards that we do I bring to the break show sometimes so I

walked in the convenience store with Frank and bought a pack of baseball cards and took it out while we were waiting for my friend on the phone and I just had like a feeling and I was like hey Frank check this out and I said a name opened up the pack and it was like the first card then I said like the next name and then moved the card and it was the next one and went through the whole pack of cards and I said every single player in that pack of cards as I was opening it There were One time when I was really small. I was in third grade. I remember

My other my other friend Ruben we were we were like in the playground at school And it was getting close to time to go back in like the bell was gonna ring soon. I remember I was like at school and it was getting close to time to go back in like the bell was gonna ring soon and remember I was like David Zapata's gonna push Ruben down I was like I've seen it happen over there and like the gravel and I told Ruben hey when the bell rings you're gonna want to run back to the school I said don't run because you're gonna run over there and David and I pointed it was like David's gonna push you right there you're gonna fall down you scrape both your knees and the bell rang Ruben didn't listen me started running David

Zapata right up there and pushed him down and he scraped both knees just like I said it would like it was always it was always little weird things like that. What the fuck? What is this? Yeah, it was super weird. That's why I'm always skeptical of like people claiming to be psychic or whatever. But man, I've had some really freaky things happen when I was young like I don't know. I don't know. There's there is something out there, but I can't I don't I don't believe other people I

Don't know if I have any story quite like that, but I can't tell you I knew you were gonna ask that question That's cool, I just get deja vu sometimes and I do everything in my power to not make it happen Yeah, I just start going out Tells me the deja vu is good. It means you're where you're supposed to be. It's like an affirmation. So I embrace deja vu. I don't embrace deja vu.

I fight against it. It's a glitch in the matrix. It's a good thing. Deja vu is a good thing. I'm like Nicholas Cage in the movie Next. I fight against it. Or I'm like Madame Webb. Also, I saw Madame Webb.

That's why I keep telling my wife. Oh yeah, this is just like Madame Weav. I don't know what it is. I read that it's not going to be a franchise now because it did so bad. It's... I don't think that's any surprise. It is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but in a way that's not fun bad.

Yeah, that's disappointing. It's bad bad. It's simply just like... I remember we were probably a Fifth of the way into the movie and I leaned over to Jordan swears. I think and I went I think it's really hard to make a movie And they proved that the main the villain all of his dialogue is a d-art oh When he is on screen and you see his mouth move the dialogue is a d-art when his back is turned his dialogue is a d-art I don't know why it changed the story. It's no his mouth moves with it. Just wrong. They changed the story Really? That's why I could guess that they changed all this dialogue because the story changed

How maybe somebody got canceled? Maybe also they never turn into spider-woman like all like the stuff where it's like they're doing like they're in like the costumes The stuff doesn't happen. Yeah, there's like no webs in the whole there's no no one shoots any webs not even one time There's no webs. There's zero webs It's a good color madam. No way you should have a yes webless In the Simpsons where the kids go to watch naked lunch and they walk out go to watch naked lunch and they walk out and they look at the worst thing that's ever seen. Two things wrong with that title.

I think Dakota Johnson got tricked into being into this movie. And then also I don't think Dakota Johnson should probably be in movies anymore. I think maybe that experiment's over and it's time to move on. When she's a director in five years, we can all go. There you go. That's the thing. Yeah, that's the move. Yep. Yep. Um, actually, you know what? Let me ask this other one too.

This is from, sorry, this is from Ninja Yodeler. If you could freeze Austin culture in a particular point in time as the new standard, when would it be? I don't know that I would want to. I don't know that we've been around long enough to make that a time. I love that answer.

Yeah, I like that. I went to... Like probably somewhere in the 70s. I hear it was amazing in 78. It's always amazing before you got here. Yeah, you just missed it. My wife had a flat tire the other day, so I had to take her car to Discount Tire. Discount Tire right here.

Not this one, the one further down. I got a flat tire yesterday. Yeah. We can talk more about where it happened. Adam Webb, I guess. I went to the Discount Tire yesterday and and I was sitting down just like using my phone waiting for them to finish fixing my flat. And there was like an elderly woman sitting next to me and then like an older, a dude

older than me on the other side. They didn't know each other but they just like started talking probably because they weren't buried in their face in their phone like I was. And like in a small chit chat, you know, they asked each other how long they've been in Austin. The woman who was Probably in her late 70s via to guess was like oh, I've lived here all my life. I was like man That's crazy. I thought to myself and then she asked the guy like how long have you been here?

And he's like, oh, you know, I moved back here in 85 And I was like what and then they were like they were like yeah It's so rare for you know us to encounter each other stupid people been here that long I was like man these two people have me beat by a long shot So I have no ownership same over what the culture of Austin should be. That is not my call to make it all. I completely agree. Because you still run into people like that. It was really a reminder to me, like, I'm still new here. I think we've talked about it on the podcast, probably the early one, but Gus and I used to go get our haircut at that place,

and we would listen to the old guys talk about awesome in the 50s And we talked about how we wanted to be those old guys someday I realize we're not no gonna be those old guys neither was gonna make it in a long enough here, but It just wasn't in the cards, but I also don't know that This is the kind of place that is in the cards anymore. Yeah, you know, it's kind of a transient city now Yeah, has been for a long time, but for sure. I don't think that's gonna change Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's a transient city for all the tech companies that set up shop here leave then forget They come back and set up shop again and leave you know circle life. That's pretty cool. I get really 20 years

Yeah, it's no longer a plant roots kind of place. Yeah, it really isn't yeah, which is fine. Yeah, I think that's just how cities are. Yeah. Well, there you have it. ANMA in the books. If you want to send us a question, you can at ANMA podcast on Instagram and on Twitter. You can see pictures from this in every other episode. Find the guest book at anarchymeanything.com. AnarchyMeanything.com where you can see it's like, I don't know why you guys cultivated a link dump mentality among your fan base, but I hate it But if you can I mean you can go to that website and check it out It was somebody going like hey, I want to listen to a Face or try to get my friend into it

Is there a link dump for the first 11 episodes and it took everything in my power to not write just listen to the podcast Yeah, why does everything have to be more than it just shut up into your brain? Just listen to it. And then move on with your day. Where's the link dump? You look it up. They want to learn more. No, you Google it.

No, I don't agree with this. I'm similarly befuddled by people that are like, I will watch every Let's Play they do for face, but you cannot. I will put my foot down. I will never listen to their podcast. Never. And it's the same thing.

What a weird line to draw. Yeah, like you have to see Powell world To hear us talk like you really have to see it playing me So you can under you can paint it into our words all about the lore. Oh, we should play we bowling Oh speaking of speaking of the website. I forgot to mention this I Want to get you to your opinion both of you. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm real delay. Oh, this is fine someone Someone in the guest book the other day posted ascii art of a very realistic looking penis

Awesome, and I admired it, but I deleted yes, uh-huh, and I was like man Should I be okay with that or should I delete it? And I'm obviously more towards I should delete comments like that. What do you guys think about that? Yeah, delete it. Who cares? Okay. Okay. You overthought it. These people don't own it. It's a guest book. They're guests.

I forgot about ASCII art and I saw it and I was like, oh yeah. It sounds like you saw it. You appreciated it for what it was. I thought it was a striking image. And then you probably take a picture for later. And they're on your phone. Yeah. OK, great.

Cool. Cool. So make sure. So please don't do that anymore. It's just more work for me. And if you make work for me, I'll just turn the website off. You're in a bit. I'll just make it go away.

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, like, if you think like this is an opportunity to be funny and span it with ASCII winners, it is. But he will just turn the website off and move on. I pay for that website. That's money I don't need to do that. You can't play these jokes with Gus because he'll pick up his ball and he'll go home I will go and then he'll move. He won't tell you where he moved we

Talked about it in the last run of episodes, but I think it's scheduled and I think it's in March I think that's when we're doing the lawyer bracket. Oh, yeah, I think I think I have a date pencil then I'll let you guys know but you can follow at ANMA podcast Twitter and Instagram and R slash ANMA podcast we'll have all the information there. Thanks for checking it out. I think it'll be a lot of fun. Any parting words for the folks? Stay ANMA. Yeah, stay ANMA.