ANMA - Tiny Town w/ Emily

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

Good morning, Tiny Town! Geoff is still playing diarrhea clue and we're joined by his fiance Emily to talk about Tiny Town & a lot of other things. It's cute. Did you know that Tiny Town isn't what it's called? We all learned a lot. We're back next week with a canon episode with Gus and Geoff. Enjoy! Sponsored by ExpressVPN http://expressvpn.com/anma BetterHelp http://betterhelp.com/anma and Henson's Shaving https://hensonshaving.com and enter ANMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How you feeling there, bud? I'm okay. I'm gonna, um, I'm still playing. So, for the timeline, if you watched, if you listened to last week's Anima, I talked about this game, uh,, Clue, that was playing. I thought he was using Jim's award. We've been, no, we've been playing, we're recording this podcast one second after the last one.

So I'm still beset by the after effects. You were leaning over with your eyes closed, bumping the microphone against your forehead, which is something I only ever do when I am so nauseous. Yeah. Where you're just like, find anything to get my focus off of the way that I'm feeling. Yeah, it's been a challenge.

Well, we're professionals and we soldier through. Yeah, we're real pros doing this from the comfort of your home. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Figure for an anima supplemental. Don't have dogs anymore so it's not to give the dog a pill. We're pros. That's the alarm to let me know that in five minutes tickets at the comedy place go on sale. Oh really? If I want to check. I figured that we were here and we had someone available who we

have not had on before. And again, this is supplemental. So Gus can't say no. Emily is here. Hi. She was a meek little mouse when I asked for a mic check. It was very cool. Big strong voice that time though. Yeah. You really nailed it. So I figured for a supplemental it was like, oh yeah, I wonder what we're going to do for the Q&A is such an easy one. Yeah, that's just, we're going to talk and that's just going to go somewhere. You ask people and you get one million questions easy, but if you're going to want to have Emily on because something that we talked about, uh, previously, and actually did an episode

for here was a tiny town. We did an episode where here was Tiny Town. We did an episode where we drank McDonald's coffee, I think, and eight little hash browns. And I was going to make coffee to make for you this morning so that we'd have coffee here. Well, let's have coffee. I completely forgot because we had to go take our car to the thing. And you had diarrhea. And I had diarrhea. Well, that's good.

You should put coffee on the diarrhea. Okay. That's good. That's excellent.. Well, that's good. You should put coffee on the diarrhea. Okay, that's good. That's excellent. Yeah, we'll exacerbate this. Okay. We had a whole argument about which coffee to get to it, HB. Ooh, what kind of you get?

We don't have the good stuff right now. I like HB brand Cafe LA. Okay. Taste of San Antonio. Taste San Antonio, okay. She does not like a taste of San Antonio. I don't like too much cinnamon. That is the one, I like that one too.

That is the one that is the most cinnamon flavor. It is a cinnamon fight. If you drive 90 minutes south of Austin and you go lick San Antonio, it's it. That's what you'll taste. Yep, all I'm saying is that you listen to Charles Barkley and that's what you'll be.

Taste San Antonio, I'm just saying. What did you wanna get? So I guess what I'm asking is what take San Antonio, I'm just saying. What did you wanna get? So I guess what I'm asking is what did you end up getting? We got cafe alike. I'm gonna put my little bitchie foot down. He was throwing a little bit. I'm fine with, I don't need anything fancy. I'm fine with just like basic coffee.

I put so much cream and splendid. That doesn't matter. That I think that when there's other flavor, it gets in the way. So let's talk about that for a second before we get into tiny town. So let's talk about that for a second before you get into a tiny town. So is that how you take your coffee? Is that your preferred?

My preferred is a little bit of heavy cream and two splendours and a cube or two of ice. Is it okay? So it's so much more complicated than that. So is it hot coffee that you put some ice into to get it down to drinking temperature? Yeah, not too hot. If it's so first off, we have a subscription to this coffee company called Kings Coast. Oh yeah. They're the people who used to make the Achievement Hunter coffee and the Ruby coffee. And at some point when the partnership ended, I just got an email that was like,

Hey, your Achieve roast is getting a new name. It's called Conqueror. Yeah. But it's the same coffee and I thought, okay, I'll just keep the, I like it very much. It's called Conqueror, but it's the same coffee, and I thought, okay, I'll just keep the, I like it very much. It is very good. It is a very good coffee. So we have that come through like every three weeks,

but every once in a while when we're out, we have to go get different coffee. It doesn't matter what it is, there's a slightly different recipe that I have to make for Emily. But when we have the King's Coast coffee, you brew a cup of coffee. Yes.

Then you put in a healthy amount of heavy cream and only heavy cream half and half is not, will not work. Half and half is okay if it's not available, but it's heavy cream. Yeah, but if she gets a coffee with half and half, she makes a sour face. Oh, no. It's not too sour. It sets her off in a bad way for the day. So she gets, you get a healthy dollop of two pores.

Yeah. A heavy cream, okay. Then two Splenda packets, like, empty. Like you get every single grain of it. It gets splenda out of there. Then, mix that up. Then she has these freezable ice cubes. Okay.

They're like the little plastic, blue plastic, the reusable ice cubes. Oh, okay, okay. So you're not putting ice cubes. No, no, it's weird. Oh, what is it? So we do two of the, two of the freezable ice cubes then one actual ice cube. Oh, okay.

So that one melts. Then you give her the coffee. If it's any other coffee other than, then it's the same process, but I have to put in a half extra pour of the heavy cream and a third splendipot. Oh, yeah. One time my friend Andrew,

who was my mechanic Barbara Mises, he would always make a big pot of coffee. We go over to his house and we put some Ash brothers for like hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. And I was pouring a cup of coffee and I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna, we would call it making yourself a cup where you actually put like the cream in the sugar into because you're just black. And I, he, I didn't realize it was heavy cream. I thought it was half and half and I poured what I thought was half and half into it and it was heavy cream. And that is the difference.

The whole difference. Fucking insane that you have two pores of heavy cream in your coffee. Is it just, does it look like off-white? It looks kinda like heavy cream. And like that, the color must be like what you would paint the inside of a house. That is so fucking crazy that you put that much heavy cream into coffee.

That's wild. Emily, I want it to look and taste like melted coffee ice cream. Oh, you're hot. And then what's even better is she gets ready. And it's, you know, she works very hard. And so she has to like get ready in the morning. It takes her about an hour and a half in her closet.

I take my time, yeah. Takes her time. It's like, it's like, she's very, one thing I like about Emily, she's very into ritual. She likes to do stuff the same way every day, and she's very comfortable in that, and I like that about her. But what is interesting about her morning coffee

is after she leaves to go to work, as I work from home, I will go into a closet, and I will pick up her coffee cup. Because if I don't, it's there for four or five days. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah. And that's heavy cream just like now. Yeah, yeah, I will pick up her coffee cup

and she has drunk a third of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that whole process, she drinks no more than a third of the cup. It's for Sips. Yeah, yeah. Because then once I brush my It's for Sips. Yeah, yeah. Because then once I brush my teeth, I can't. Yeah, that would be insane. I can't really see.

Well, I brush my teeth with me in just this heavy cream in Splendor. It's good. Have you thought about doing something like an espresso? And then? Yeah, we just don't have an espresso machine. Like sometimes I'm fine with that. Or it's like a cortado.

Yeah. Yeah, I like those. A lot of cortado. I think the thing that or what it's like a cortado. Yeah, yeah, like I like those. A lot of cortado. Um, I think the thing that sets like half and half I'm fine with if I'm somewhere, the thing that sets me off the most is when I ask for Splendus, Steve, yeah, anything in there like we have a gov a nectar. Oh, yeah. No, I don't want sugar.

I don't want that. I want. You live in the wrong car. Yeah. So that's where certain coffee shops that he loves, I hate. She, she will not go to hot L because it's also not what it's called. It's not what it's called anymore, right? Now it's called Carpenter Hotel Coffee Shop.

I started packing on the London. Yeah, yeah. Like we go on bike rides, you know, I'd say we'd stop at Hot-L. I started carrying in the back pouch just a ton of splintes. Yeah, it's smart to do just the case. Yeah. You have to make, you have to act, we ask and make that of it. So that way you can have the thing that you want. I understand. Yeah. The way you want it. My wife doesn't drink coffee at all. She does not like it. She,

she, her favorite thing about coffee when we go to, we'll go to like Austin Diner or Kirby Lane or something. You got Austin Diner? I love Austin Diner. I like it too. Austin Diner is such a cool place when you go early enough and you are the youngest person there by four years. Yeah. It's in a strip mall now, which is a little weird, but do you know where Voodoo Donuts is on Burnett? Yeah. That used to be a restaurant called Lucy's.

Uh huh. Excuse me, it was a fried chicken restaurant. And before that, it was Austin Diner. They moved to that other place. It's a great little spot. It's, I don't like ordering the same thing. Every time I go to a restaurant, I always like getting something different.

Every time I've been to Austin Diner and ordered the Mexican skillet, and it's fucking incredible. It's so good. My mouth is watering, thinking about it. You're hungry. The nice, the nighty thing about it, worked out with Blaine and then like,

oh, it's a shower come here. Oh, there's a, I put Austin Diner in a special category of Diner where if you live in Austin and there's places like Magnolia and Curbie Lane that are beloved and they're pretty good, but if you go, there's gonna be a fucking line. And there's nothing worse than waiting out for breakfast in a line.

I won't wait for breakfast, but there are a few places like Austin Diner and the Red River Cafe and the other one that are never ever, ever crowded. And you can walk in anytime and eat. And it's like 85% as good as those other places. I love a greasy spoon because I love having a cup of coffee and I never see the bottom of the cup.

I just keep drinking it. My wife holds onto it. She has cold little hands, like her little bird bones or whatever, and she holds on to the cup of coffee for dear life until I have to drink it and then she's hanging onto it again. That's her favorite thing about coffee is just holding the mug.

She loves it. Does she drink tea? No. So in the morning, she's just water. Or like a, she drink a Coke or anything or an energy drink. It's water unless she gets her McDonald's breakfast order. And then it's 32 ounces of Coke. Oh, yeah.

Nine a.m. Nothing hits like a McDonald's found drink in the morning. I think we talked about it on this podcast. My wife's order, maybe is this her face jam? It was just, she gets the sausage biscuit. She gets two hash browns and she gets a 32 ounce coke. I love it. Jesus, that's my order.

It just goes, do you want anything? And I'm like, just get me a medium black coffee. No cream, no sugar, just get, because McDonald's coffee is fine. It's good. And I've already had, at that point, I've been up for two and a half hours. I'm worried.

And I've already had a cup of coffee. And so I'll just, I'll drink another one from McDonald's. Fucking great. That sausage biscuit's good with extra cheese. And then sometimes if you wanna put one of the extra hash browns on it, that's nice too. Oh, the hash browns fucking great. Fucking awesome.

I gotta figure out how to make McDonald's hash browns at home. Hash browns are really hard to make. They are. They really are hard. Here's the thing, they're not worth it. No. Because they're great.

But for the amount of work you put into them, they're not that good. It's like devil to eggs or potato salad Yeah, they're so fucking yummy, but nobody wants to spend six hours making so just go buy it Yeah, so just go buy it. Yeah, just get in the car and go buy it I don't do like doordash or whatever that she does. I don't but ever I it's just not my thing I'll just get in my car and go get the thing because when I think of of how much it costs to get somebody to bring it to me, it's never worth it.

It's frustrating. I hate it. It is for sure. Nine signs bagels were $50 yesterday for the bagels. Oh my God! What? Yeah, I was not stoked.

It was like a $6 delivery fee on top of the already delivery fee. We haven't been favoring or doing any of that stuff in a long time for that reason, but it was morning and we were tired. That is great. We had actually planned ahead too, that we had been like Emily,

because we're getting ready to go out of town for a trip, and Emily doesn't have, well, it's very similar to production what we do, just because I go on vacation doesn't mean f*** face does, right? Or you go on vacation doesn't mean face jam does. Emily can't just walk away from the salon and have those haircuts still get done.

So she has to work extra hours and extra days leading up to like we're taking two weeks off. Yeah. So this poor motherfucker has to do that two weeks worth of work before leading up. And so Sunday was her first day off in, I don't know, two weeks. Yeah, she's working like seven days.

And her days are like nine a.m. to eight p to 8pm standing up in like a wedge or heel or whatever shoes that are harder than the ones I wear. And so her, she was like, on Saturday she talked about it, she said, I want to eat bagels in bread on Sunday. I just have to order it, have somebody deliver it to us and just have my easy breezy, relaxing day. And so that's what we were doing. Nice.

Yeah. It's helped. I was in bad mood. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm excited. Nice. That's fun. It's so rare. But when it happens, woof. I'm almost always in a good mood. Yeah. But when I'm in a bad mood, I make up for all those days that I was in here. It's fussy. It's so physical. Cutting here. Yeah. It's so physical. Yeah. Did you see scar on her back? It's like three getting here. Yeah. It's so physical. Yeah.

Did you see scar on her back? It's like three quarters of her back. Yeah, it's physical, but it's also like, you know, you're thinking about what you're doing as well as the conversation and trying to remember what is their kid's name or what is there as the same, you know, things like that. Yeah, I think that they told you six months ago that you're, you know, having to do that. While also being the owner, listening to everybody else's conversation, things like that are, yeah, thing that they told you six months ago that you're having to do that. While also being the owner, listening to everybody else's conversation,

making sure that everything is running smoothly, you know. And Emily, she might not agree to this, but this is how I view it. She treats her hair cut like a comedic performance. Like it's almost like stand up. Like she has like her bits, she has her funny stories from Veket. Like when I come back from Mexico and I tell Go Go Now,

she tells Go Go Now a hundred times, whoever's in the chair. Yeah, to be well. I tell Go Go Now very well. I fucked up the horse story. Oh, that's right, that's right. I fucked up the horse story, but I got Go Go Now and I nailed that one.

But no, she has the same thing and she tells it over and over and over again. So it becomes like a routine and you become like, you see what people laugh at and don't and you modify it. And it's like doing stand up all day long, which I think is fucking cool. I think it's great. I have a great relationship with my barber,

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where limits don't exist and the only rules are the ones you decide to make. Defy boundaries and start gaming now at alienware.com. Next gen gaming is built with Intel Core i9 processors. How did Tiny Town start? Tiny Town started because we like going to estate sales, and I know that when there's something that I want or that I want to collect, I can get really into it.

Like, it started with Barbies, and so you know, I had a bunch of Barbies growing up. And then- Which is why we did that break show. That's right, Barbie, yeah. Yeah. And so then I transitioned into collecting the Spode Christmas dishes,

and because I grew up with that, and then that's something you would see a lot at estate sales, but when I got to my, like, fourth and fifth top-aware of the Spode Christmas dishes, I needed to kind of put that on the rest. And I try to only collect things that are holiday specific because then your whole house doesn't get filled up with that.

Like people that collect elephants, then you have like 500 elephants, shit or any house. And so then I went to and I said, what? I was just gonna say, when she says holiday, she really means holiday. It started as Christmas. Like she already was into the Spode shit when I met her. She really means holiday. It started as Christmas. Uh-huh Like I she already was into the Spodish it when I met her She already had like two Tupperwares and she thought she didn't stop before she stopped like 14

But I'm gonna let you finish But Beyonce also clicks Spod No She uh She has now, she was away from Spode for too long.

Oh no. And so now she's discovered Spode Thanksgiving. Oh, yeah. It's like, it's like, it's like, she found a way to still call, she can't justify a single, she can't justify a single Spode item that has a holly leaf on it or a Christmas tree anymore.

It's too long. I already have it. She has four of everything. But if there's a turkey on it, it's too much. I already have it. She has four of everything. But if there's a turkey on it, it's fair game now. So now we're building up the turkey stuff. Yeah. Got the glob. Well, we started this year.

I hosted my whole family for Thanksgiving and I realized I needed Thanksgiving stuff. And so I, the Spode pattern's a little higher. So why not? Yeah, why not? So why not? I have to have a good, it's table skate. But the Spode stuff is a little hard to get the things giving one.

Christmas ones way more accessible. But there's a, there's coming kind of like fritz and something, but they have other stuff that I collected more for things to give you. Anyways, but I went to an estate sale and I saw some tiny town and I just thought like that would be fun to collect. That's something that a lot of old people have that are selling. That is absolutely.

Yep. And that imprecious moment's angels, yeah. And by the way, what she saw was department 56, Christmas villages. Yeah. What she told me she found was Tiny Town, which I assumed is what it was called because it's a tiny little town.

Right. But that's apparently an arrest of development. It's an arrest of development, Choke. You want to play tiny town? Yeah. So, yes, there is a thing where I get very specific. Like, even with the Spode Christmas stuff, there are knock-offs of it, where it's like,

that's not Spode. That looks like it, but it's not. It's a difference. So, let me explain something. It's the same with Tiny Town, where they have, there's Department 56 Chinatown and you know, you can go more narrow and deep with it where it's snow village is the theme that I do.

That's a little bit more of the kind of like Americana, you know, just real 1950s style. But yeah, no, I collected a few pieces from that and then that just pulled that thread and got us going and Jeff got into it. And we drive down to Fredericksburg to the one store that sells it. Yeah, that's the whole state.

The one store that sells honeycomb. I mean, if you were to ask me what town it would be sold in, I would say Fredericksburg. Yeah. That's why I was so excited about the mall at Christmas because the dealers at the mall was carrying honeycomb. Yeah. And so we, I think because we both got involved in it

and it does take up a lot of space. We've now made it to where we have to find a good set at an estate sale or we can only buy one new piece each year. Okay, yeah, that's smart. And we divided the labor too. Emily is Christmas tiny town. Okay. I am the smaller, like, subset, like, step kid.

Spooky. Spooky town. I do Halloween. So like, when you guys saw the Halloween stuff, that was all me, and then the Christmas stuff is all Emily. Right, right. We collab on both, but Jeff is focused on that. And we're project leads on.

That's good. That's great. And this is the stuff that you keep in each had, we were project leads on that. That's good, that's great. And this is the stuff that you keep in your storage unit? Yes, yes. Okay, cool. And then so Gus is gonna hear this in fucking flip. Is that, in our 10 by 20 storage unit? Yeah, yeah, the thing that we need a U-Haul

to bring things in this year, which was great. It is literally, it's like some shelves, and then she's got some like crab boiling stuff. Crab fish boil stuff. Like I she's got some like crab boiling stuff. Crab-ish boil stuff. Like I used to host like Crab-ish boil parties. I'm not into that. We eat bugs. What are you doing?

Well, I eat all the stuff with, I don't like the Crab-ish, but I like the sausage and the corn, but everyone else likes Crab-ish. What the fuck? Yeah. There's that. There's like four.

I got this pizza oven. Fucking hate pizza. I love the toppings. Yeah. I love sausage, though. I like having parties. I'm fucking hate pizza. I love the toppings. Yeah. I love sausage, though. I like having parties, I like having people over, and you know, it's fun. And there is, there's four chairs,

and then there's four. There's three chairs, one chair broke. And there's three, there's three thousand Tupperware of Spode and Tony Thun. It's like, it takes up the whole goddamn thing. Wow. Yeah, I like Christmas, it's fun. She does. It takes up the whole goddamn thing. Wow. Yeah, I like Christmas.

It's fun. She does. It is. Like what you said about, if you collected elephants, everything would be elephants. You're right. You're keeping it very narrow. Or else it just overwhelms your house and then you feel guilty about getting rid of stuff where people always get you the elephant.

People will get you the elephant. That's the nice thing about Tony Town is it's expensive and hard to get, because I have an aunt who made the mistake of liking giraffes when she was young, and that's become her entire life. Her house is all giraffes. And I don't think she gives a shit about giraffes anymore. She probably doesn't hate him, but she certainly doesn't identify her personality with giraffes,

but giraffes are plentiful and cheap. If you're gonna be into something, make sure it's pretty narrow. Yeah. Like the gift stuff that I'm given all the time is luchili bracelet. Right. It's like, oh, here's the bottle opener

that's like the luchigai and it's like five or six of those. It's like those are great, they're fine, whatever. But like, it's narrow. I'm not getting insane things all the time. It's just people go, I saw this thing and I thought of you. And it's not a fun dog or whatever. You know what I mean? What is a gift that you wish you did get?

Like when people think like, oh, let me get Eric this, but you're like, I really like this other thing so much more. Like, that's an easy gift for people to get you. I don't know. I don't think I'm a good gift getter. Mm. And my wife sort of, I think, understands this.

The, it, she'll ask me like, what is it that you, my birthday is soon? And she's like, what do you, look, what is it that you want? And I'm like, I don't want anything, like the thing that I want is to like not have to do anything. I want like no responsibility for like a day, please. But if there's something that I ever want, I just get it, I just buy it. So I'm like really bad about that kind of thing.

And the stuff that I like is so specific, that she's like, I take a crack at it, but I'm not, yeah, right. So I can't, it's hard, I guess. I would just get you Padre shit. Yeah, but at some point, I'll be like, here's a eight by 10 of Tony Gwynn. Yeah, see, it's that kind of thing and you go like, oh, okay, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna tell you this, I'm like, room somewhere here. It's that, I just don't go like, oh, okay, cool. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna call this my room somewhere. Yeah, yeah. It's that. I just don't think I'm very good at receiving gifts. I'm so busy all the time that I just, for my birthday, I always want, like, when I like that boat or whatever. That was the best because I didn't have to plan it. I'm always the person who has to buy the tickets and court it the rides and do this thing. And it's like, oh, I produce for work and then I produce for my social life.

So she put all that together and that was like the best gift where it was just like show up, give fucking hammered on this boat. Yeah, I'll drive you home and it was like, it's the best. Hell yeah, that was fun. That was a really fun day.

I wanna do that again. I do wanna get that boat again. Well, it's only like 50 degrees outside right now. It's Christ, what is going on? I know. It's making me ready for Tiny Town. Yeah. There was, Paul Sheer had come through,

he was filming something and tried to get him for, in interview for Anma, wasn't enough time, shots some other stuff. Was he, he was shooting stuff with Artita? Yes. Okay, cool. And wanted to talk to him, because you guys had told me that he was into time,

he's also into department was 56. Yeah. Is that like a known thing? Like he, that's like his, I've seen his TikToks. Yeah. He gets into it. Yeah.

He has little stories for all the like the, the, let's stuff that I like to do. Do you have little stories for all your tips? Oh yeah. That's the half the fun of it. Okay. We're just like sitting in the room and just like figure out, like watch the tiny town.

Like I'm watching, it's a wonderful life or something. Oh. And then you make up stories for, and I make believe stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we're like, this is where, like, this is where they go work at the radio and then they come down and they're gonna stop

at the coffee shop and get a thing at the diner and those two little love birds are like sharing a milkshake and then they walk over here and go to their cute little house As my grandma would say it's where we play pretend. Yeah You're gonna go play pretend. Yeah It's about right. Yeah, we just pretend to be Ninja Turtles. So it was a little different. I pretend I pretend to run a radio station in I need to next to Barbie's Christmas on a radio station in 90thound next to Barbie's Christmas dress store. When was the last time you found something that you, like at like in a

state sale for Tiny Town? Has it been a little while? It's been, yeah, the Tiny Town market is pretty dry right now. I haven't, I haven't found a lot of stuff. I think some, some of the problem with a lot of the estate sales is that there's so many people that are resellers that even it's made it kind of not as enjoyable for us to go. Like you go and there's a line down the street and people are just rabid. Like there's grabbing stuff

and they're not even looking at it that, you know, I like to go to the estate sales and really kind of take my time because you're also, you're looking at people's things, like things that they loved. And like, you know, you look at something that you wouldn't necessarily buy, but you're like, this was so loved.

Like someone really cherished this. That, yeah, I haven't really come across a lot of time that they loved. And you look at something that you wouldn't necessarily buy, but you're like, this was so loved. Like someone really cherished this. That, yeah, I haven't really come across a lot of time to have stuff. The last time we went to an estate so that we drove up to like Georgetown, a round rock for us, because I saw they had spelled stuff. So now with my spelled thing, because you can get it new, there is a difference in the older stuff. Like you can feel it in the ceramic of it. So I'll go to get stuff that's actually vintage.

And we were there and the lady came up and she was like, oh, I bought that, the lady who, the stuff it was, her name was, and she was like, I bought that for, I don't know, I mean, it's like some old lady, but she's not a podcast. And I might be getting the name wrong too, but like, you know, it's just something where, like, there's a the name wrong too, but like, you know, just something where like,

there's a story behind it and there's like, you know, and then when we unwrap it, we're like, oh, this was her, this was her stuff that she really loved and she had a full collection of stuff I didn't have that I had to get. That was nice because I love those exchanges when it, you go to somebody who, maybe they didn't,

maybe they didn't kick the bucket. Maybe they're still alive. But they're moving in with their family, or they're downsizing, or they're moving into an assisted living facility or whatever. And it's always depressing, because the state cells are a big deal in our world to Emily.

And so we go to a lot and half of it is trying to figure out how they died. And eventually Emily will see us eye it and figure it out. Oh, COVID. But- Oh, donations to the Cancer Society. I will say it's like, it's kind of heartwarming

when Emily goes and buys a piece of Spode or something from a lady, and then they have a 15 minute conversation of how much it meant to that person, and then they, you can see it. They feel good about selling it to Emily because they know Emily is going to treat it pressure. That's so cool.

That's great. Yeah, that's really great. It's very wholesome. Those candlesticks, these brass ones, we got at an estate sale of a lady that she died in the beginning of the snowpocalypse, like on the day it started, which made me think, like, ooh, she's slipping fall. Oh, yeah. I don't know how long it took.

But I mean, I remember where that house was and that it was, you know, it was beautiful house and stuff. But, you know, you kind of have, and she was also a teacher and worked really closely with like, I don't know, stuff like that. It's also become a real frustrating prospect. Like Emily was saying, there's so many resellers and stuff. I actually had a moment where I decided I was done.

Oh wow. Yeah, we went to a yard sale last year in Northwest Hills. And there's actually, I'm not a yard sale, sorry, in a state sale, there's different companies in Austin that we'll put on a state sales. And we now avoid certain companies. Nothing to do with the company, like them very much.

But they attract, they're too popular and they attract a clientele that's like really frustrating. We went to one in Northwest Hills, we had to wait outside for 45 minutes. Oh my God. That's insane. Before they opened it, they finally opened it. I walked in, we went because they advertised baseball cards.

Yeah. I said, what room are the baseball cards in? The guy told me, I started walking into that room, an old dude, and I say old, I'm 47, he was like maybe 52. 55. Somebody looked worse. He loved me out of the way to run into the room

and grab them all with his arms, like he was grabbing a pile of stuffed animals and just ran away with them and just hid in another room and went through every one and was like, yeah. Like golem if I got closer. Oh my God. And it's like, it's that level of like aggressive

and it really turns off and it takes the fun out of it. Yeah, it just felt like ghouls going through a house. You know, like it's just, you know, like there's no like real thought behind the stuff or of it. It just felt like ghouls going through a house. You know, like, it's just, you know, like, there's no like real thought behind the stuff or respect even. Yeah. And yeah, and that will even see stuff where they'll be charging so much for something that you're like, that's not worth, like, that's not that much. Yeah.

I think there's a big uptick in want for vintage again, which is like, I felt like 15, 10, 15 years ago where everyone was like, oh, vintage. It's vintage. Yeah, it's like that kind of thing. There's such a kick for vintage now, but vintage now is like, I saw a TikTok where girls like showing up for outfit and she's like, these are vintage,

Roxy shorts. Oh my God. I'm going to wait. Ah. Like this vintage gap, like, no. This is too you. I understand that your dad got this in 2002, I went, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah you're in. And it's always a time capsule. And if you love interior design, and you love the past and history, it's always fun to walk into 1975 sometimes.

And you realize somebody decorated this house in 1972, and then it stayed the same until they died in 2003. And it's wild. But there's always characters. One time we were behind this couple, who the kid was like 24, his early 20s, and he was explaining to this other couple who were also young that he just gets

every bit of silver he can, and then he melts the silver down and sells it. And that's his thing. Oh my God. He just finds like old plates or spoons or whatever, or knick knacks and he just melts them down in his garage and then he sells melted silver. Jesus Christ.

Yeah, and that's like his deal. Yeah. And there's like, everybody's like that. Everybody's got some sort of weird, like the shoe person, or the, yeah, like the Spode lady, like Emily. Yeah, the Christmas lady. I'm always like, where's Christmas? And garage, okay, thanks.

Like, yeah, that's crazy. That's a view into a very different world. It is. Like, the only thing we would do We would go on Saturdays or Sundays to a Swap meet in San Diego called Kobe Swap meet and it was in the parking lot of The sports arena and then people would come and bring their stuff and it would be like a lot of like this was all grandma's Yeah, grandma's not here. Yeah, it's like, oh, okay. But then we go get breakfast and it was fine.

Instead of, well, walk through. There's something to me. I don't wanna walk into someone's bedroom and it's like, this is where they die. Oh yeah, you always have those thoughts. And you go, okay. There's the hospital bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, we walk around and look at clues and we're like, okay, there's a lot of medical stuff. And then, or we'll be like, there wasn't any men's clothing. So he must have died before she did, or, you know. Yeah. Or, yeah, then you see a lot lot of medical stuff. And then, or will be like, there wasn't any men's clothing. So he must have died before she did, or, you know, or yeah, then you see a lot of the medical stuff, you're like, she definitely died in the house, or it's that she moved into a downsizing.

You do realize this is the same thing that you did with Gus just with her now. Yeah, okay, just make sure. Just make sure. Yeah, just make sure. Yeah, I like what I like. And I don't really change. I was thinking about that the other day,

like my favorite thing to do is collect baseball cards and ride bicycles. That's what I did when I was 14. And when I was 21, I went to garage sales with Gus, and now that I'm 47, I go to state sales with him. Yeah, awesome. I'm a creature of habit. A tiny town is just more delicate barbies.

Yeah, absolutely understand. That's fantastic. What's the next, as we're wrapping up here? What's next for Tiny Town? Well, we'll get a new piece. Last year, we got a frosty water tower. What else did we get last year for like our... Oh, I got the little factory that makes the bubble lights. The bubble Christmas lights. So, I don't know. Oh my God, that's that orange cat. The orange cat.

Let them eat the orange cat. We had some, oh, I hope so. Take the, take the mouse. Oh, shit, that'd be awesome. I don't know what I'll do this year. You know, the place in Frances, where they have such great stuff that I always get talked into.

Maybe like the FIO shorts. I think I feel like I need to build out the downtown a little bit more. And I feel like at FIO shorts is like an iconic Christmas thing. And the guy who does all the displays there and who does some really good foam carving work. Like their towns are really impressive. He's our tea community member.

Oh really? Oh it's awesome. It's really nice guy member. Oh really? Oh, it's awesome. Really nice guy. He was really helpful with explaining how to, and once we incorporated the styrofoam carving and spray painting, all that, like that took everything up. And next level.

And that's all because of him. Yeah, he really showed us the ropes. What's next for Halloween town? Yeah. I might do some ghost buster stuff this year. There's any? You're gonna do the car, the building, or both. Is that the building?

Oh, that's nice. Most of the Halloween stuff is tied to IP, of course, really. Yeah. Like, I mean, I guess it is in Tiny Town too, like Snow Village isn't, but like, there's like Dickensville, which I guess is tied to Dickens, but you don't get that stuff. And they have like Harry Potter.

But for the Halloween stuff, it's all like the monsters or regular stuff. I mean, that makes sense. It's like, I don't know if you were going to do generic, where would the generic, where will people look like? Yeah, they have, they have some stuff like a, like these falls or something. Wait, we have like the mummy house.

That's just like a house wrapped up in mummy house. It's pretty cool. Got the mummy house. Yeah, it just looks like a toilet paper. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much it. I think the haunted mansion is beautiful, but it's so expensive. And that's the Disney haunted mansion, of course.

But that would be a really good, like, anger, yeah. Big centerpiece to kind of build the Santa's has to get his cuts. Yeah. That's way too much. That's great. This has been a good episode of Anima Supplemental. Yeah. Gus won't know anything about. No, I love it. You see, it would ever you want. I'll say this good episode of Anima Supplemental. Yeah. Gus won't know anything about it. No, I love it. You see, it's what ever you want.

I'll say this. I'll say good morning, Gus. There you go. There you go. Emily, anything you want to plug or anything you want to say before we take off here? Nope. I think that everybody should listen to face-to-face jam,

to Anima, to go to RTX. Take it's on sale now. Wow. I'm so good at this. RTX Austin.com July 7th or 9th. Oh my God. Even someone that doesn't consume that much RTX content, I'm excited about it

because I'm excited about the museum, I'm excited about all the installations that y'all are doing this year. I think that's gonna be really cool. We do that with Stolesi, he's bought this. Yeah, we do, we do. He's absolutely right to bother us for it. I was thinking about it before

and then he sent us a message and I went, is it the museum staff? Oh, we show you a bunch of this stuff. I know, we just need to give him the final list. Yeah, but here's the problem. Every time we do a fucking recording, there's a movie. What if we do this?

Yeah. What if we did this? And it's like, we just have to, now there's going to be expectation. It's going to be so fun though. It is. I'm very excited for it. And we have to stop. So you think you're going to be in it.

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