Rooster Teeth Podcast - Gus & Rick & Morty & Gus - #654

Episode Date: June 22, 2021

Join Gus Sorola, Barbara Dunkelman, Gavin Free, and Jon Risinger as they discuss the legacy of the Starbucks logo, going to Japan to see the big robots, show off the new Rick & Morty merch, drivers in Austin, and more on this week's RT Podcast. This episode was recorded June 21, 2021 and is sponsored by DoorDash (Download the DoorDash app and use code ROOSTER2021 to get 25% off your first order!), ExpressVPN (Go to http://expressvpn.com/ROOSTER to get an extra 3 months free on a 1-year package!), and Manly Bands (Go to http://manlybands.com/rooster to get 21% off plus a free silicone ring!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Gavin. I'm John. I'm Barbara. And Gus. Look, see? No, you won't forget. Look at that. Should I say, and I'm Gus? No, and Gus.

That's what I say. It's billing Gus, Gavin, John, Barbara, and Gus. And Gus. Okay. You want him over it? All right. We're not changing the shirt. The shirt is made.

The shirt's, I think it's available now. Question mark. Maybe. Maybe. Hands. Yeah. Oh, sure. We've got a hole. Yeah, oh, shirt. We got a hole. We got some more. A bunch of cool new, but you also have all the new Rick and Morty swag.

I got one of the shirts in the hoodie right here. John's got one of the shirts over there. The chief. Shriff day. Shriff day. Shriff day five. Angus, not Rick and Morty. Angus.

Angus. This is, this is, uh, Gus's first line. This is my first line. So go buy it. Is your, get rid of that first line. So go buy it easier Angus look at this pants Was this the shirt with your face on it not well Fuck the Jeff collection and Gus and get the end Gus collection. Oh, it does look soft. They are. You can't have them unless you buy them.

I chow it at roostee.com. I don't get any money from this. I don't. I don't. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them.

I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them.

I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told them. I told Gus to do this line of his, he could do whatever he wanted, he was free to base it off of any kind of aesthetic he wanted, and he wanted to go with lounge wear, because he wanted the most chill. If it's going to be true to what I would wear, I just want to be comfortable at home. That's why he wouldn't wear out. It's true. The entire Angus collection is bespoke comfortable at home. That's why you wouldn't wear out. Yeah. It's true. Yeah.

The entire Angus collection is bespoke for staying home. I'ma let you in on the secret. Looks like I'm wearing slacks. These are sweatpants. Whoa. Whoa. Dude, I have no idea. It's like what people wear.

That's the sweatpants with jeans. Like, didn't I just need you? Yeah, she just posted on Instagram about that yesterday. Yeah, I just need a good friend of ours. She posted on Instagram how she was wearing jeans. And I was like, I don't think I've ever in the like 10 years of knowing her, I've seen her wear jeans.

And then she went, and it just pulled the waistband. Oh, she does, people who just doesn't wear. She just does some wear jeans. She's like a sweatpants person. The button was like printed on. Yeah, the rivet for the button was like printed on to the sweat tank. Yeah, why don't you forget a whole suit. Like you're convincing Jack Ty.

I think there should be a challenge for that merch Gus, the Ann Gus stuff, of people having a wear and trying to explain it to other people what it means. That's like the new Face Jam Challenge. The Ann Gus Challenge. Hopefully Their name is Gus Well, we're not just Gustavo's we'll let Augustus join in on the fun to Augustus or any other Gusus. Let me there may be We should send one to the Most his name Gus Johnson, junkalo esposito. Oh, yeah, see if it were oh from a breaking bed. Yeah, yeah Gus Oh, yeah, see if it will wear it. Oh, from a breaking bed?

Yeah, yeah. Gus Fritz. Oh, Gus Fritz. Yeah, I was like, his name's not Gus. We should get it to Gus Johnson. That's a good idea, Gus. Yeah. And Gus.

And Gus, and Gus Johnson. Yes. I learned a lot. Tell me what you learned, Gus. About mermaids. OK, didn't know that's where this is going. Oh. So I brought out this Starbucks cup to illustrate a point with me.

Oh, it's a mermaid. It's a mermaid on the Starbucks logo. Have you ever given thought to what these are here on the side? It's her legs going beep. Mermaid tev legs? I don't think I know that was a mermaid. Oh, no, it's a mermaid. It's a mermaid.

Assumed. It's her tails. It is her tails. But I never understood why. I guess in Renaissance and classical times, when Mermaids were first conceived of, horny sailors drew them with two tails, because obviously the vagina goes in the middle

where the two tails meet. During the Victorian era, which was more conservative, they reconceivedived no pun intended, Mermaids to have only one tale so that there's no vagina, no lady. They didn't touch on women with one leg. Like, what's the difference? I guess there's no point for a mermaid,

a mermaid doesn't exist, there's no point for a mermaid to have a pussy for some horny center to fuck. I got it, I got it, I got it, I got graphic, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it.

How far into the podcast did we get before we said that? We got it. We got it. We got to call this podcast or mermaid's pussy. Is that a mermaid's pussy? I don't know. No, it's fun because that cuz fish don't have pussies. What do you mean? Don't they have something else like, like, like something like, like, like, like, like,

technically they have a vagina. I mean, the chicken. The chicken is like the shit pisser though, isn't it? I don't know what the butt for. Yeah. Yeah. the whole for the birds. Yeah, that's what they have but they don't do and you So in cat who is this it's my Says where I was gonna go with this said to look up the original Starbucks logo

Yeah, cuz I've got like a topless mermaid spreading its Starbucks logo, which is, because I've got a topless mermaid spreading its fin. Oh, it really is that. They just zoomed in to make it less. Right, now it's like zoomed in and you just see, next year, just be the face. Yeah, like you can see the history over time of what the logo used to look like.

Like used to see more of the fins. Where does the mermaid come into play with Starbucks? I don't know. Like what is the connection there? I always thought it was just a woman, but mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea.

I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was a good idea. I think it was all papias. Papilas, papias? Mm-hmm. No, no. The Pepsi logo is actually really interesting. Have you ever compared the Pepsi logo to the diet, Pepsi logo?

No. Where the diet, Pepsi logo is slimmer. Ha! Like the little lion on it. Yeah, the lion that goes through it. Interesting. Let's see if I can... Even though a diet drink's not very good for you.

Why? Aspartame. Terrible for you. What is Aspartame, terrible for you. Why? It's bad for your belly fat. It gives you a mishia. Pepsi versus diet Pepsi. Drinking day coke right now.

A little small slug. Yeah, the white. I feel it with logos. People get really up their own ass with logos. They're like, they're totally stored and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these logos. And nobody really looks that close to them. I never noticed the two legs on the mermaid. You know what, Barbara, you didn't

know it was a mermaid. I never thought about it. I mean, I guess like it looks like it has like a long-flowing hair and the little like kind of sea cram. I guess this has been their locals 2011. Like it was maybe a little more parent before that. Yeah, but for the last 10 years, this has been that version. That version. Yeah, the older version was maybe a little more You know, I think about it. I say Starbucks. I think I only started drinking Starbucks in 2011 when I moved to the states because before that I only drank importance. You were waiting for that logo change. Then you know, I was like I refused to drink out of this mermaid pussy until I cut it off. Wait a minute. Yeah, you said that.

Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And the Amazon logo's clever with the A to Z. No, it's not. In the smile. I like the FedEx logo that has the arrow. I like, we get negative Nancy over here, but I do like when people can pull off cleverness on a visual level with the logo.

I don't think, I agree with you on the level of like, when people go ham on spending so much money on these huge campaigns, and sometimes can totally blow up in their face and result in a total recall of packaging and everything. But it is fun when people can sort out some cleverness in a logo. I always wonder about the FedEx one with the arrow. Isn't that just a byproduct of putting those layers together? The way it's spaced was purposeful. Yeah, I think it looks like it's turning.

Yeah, I think it looks like it's turning. And the font choice. Like, you could have different font. You know, I think they just typed it out and went, no shit. There's normally, there's a space. You know, there's a lot of stuff to work on. I can't picture it now. I can't picture it.

I mean, sometimes there is a level of like, trial and error, as a, as a form of graphic designer. There is a level of, in my experience, of just like trying to throw shit against the wall and just seeing what you like. And you might discover little, like, little, uh, that's quite, quite.

Quartz along the way. The FedEx logo. Yeah, that feels very intentional to have the X line up in that way. I also didn't realize it was purple and orange. Jeremy must love FedEx. Big FedEx fan, that Jeremy. Big FedEx fan. We've always said that about him.

Won't ship this stuff in the middle. What is the coolest logo? Look, I mean, normally the X is tall. Like, it doesn't line up. I just typed FedEx into a word processing document. They've made it. They've fused with that X, like the line of the lower case right there.

Makes narrow. Yeah, to line up with the, where the E is, even the E, it looks like off-center. Like that middle, time is higher. It's not centered. How do you feel about serifs? Sons, serifs? Sons, serifs? Sons are sands.

Do you like them? Or the font styles? What do you like them? Sands. Fucking hate serifs. Serifs are fucking awful. That is a very heated opinion on serifs. Little feet on the fonts.

Serifs fonts have little feet on the bottom. You make some fans. And sand serifs. And sand serifs. Yeah, when it doesn't have a font. Today I learned. never fucking knew that. I thought it was just a title of the font. Nope, there you go.

It's about wingedings. Wingedings. What happened to you? Barcelope to much sun thingy. Wingedings. It's because that font is so crazy. You got to say it crazy, right? You know what I'm saying.

What was the, was wingedings what we had before emotes? Like emojis. Wingedings. Wingedings. Wingedings. Is that what it was? So you could type a picture before we had just emotes and option. You know, it could very well.

Because I mean, I recall, you know, getting like, I'm sure that's what it was. Like in the early days of computers where you couldn't create graphics, it's like you kind of backdoored them in by using fonts. Before like Clip Art was added. Right.

Can you use an emoji in your logo? Like who owns the emoji? Can you copyright an emoji? Like nobody owns the letter F. So does anyone own the crying emoji? you could own a version of the letter F if you trademark that as a logo It's it's a display differently on I'm sure Apple owns its versions of them is the a the sign for the cancer sign. It looks like it looks like the first ones are horus

It looks like it looks like the first ones are the horse Guys wearing cancer season welcome nuts shit today. I've been watching Halt and catch fire which is an AMC shot. I don't know y'all even have heard of it I felt like I've heard of it. It was kind of popular people who watched it really loved it And I just never got into it and I it's on Netflix. I was like all right final start watching it It's really good. Yeah. Like season one is all about the early days, like a company trying to build a portable computer in like 1983. And it's like, it kind of,

it's not a true story, but it parallels like stories that happened at the time. Okay. And it's funny, because in the show they're like, we need to build this portable computer that can only weigh 15 pounds. I was like, in reality at that time,

portable computers weighed about 30 pounds. It's crazy to think like how far it's coming now, you got like, I was gonna say how much is the MacBook? This is like two pounds, three pounds? That thing they did where it's just USB-C's on laptops and it has been for the last five years or so. It's not convenient yet.

No. It's still annoying. When does it get good? Why is it like that? When does the inconvenience occur? I panicked. I can't fucking plug in like a memory stick or something. I panicked earlier because I realized my USB-C dock wasn't in my bag.

I was like, oh shit, I hope I don't need this today. I only got USB-C devices with me. So annoying. But that's been the mo of Apple products in that they get rid of stuff before it's convenient. Yeah, I'm saying, but usually like, yeah, it's inconvenient when you lose a headphone jack and stuff, but it's like, immediately there was tons

of solutions for, well, they're already well, like Bluetooth and other shit, but I feel like I'm constantly without an adaptor I need when I'm traveling I remember always happens when the iMac first came out They only had usb on that and they were like oh, this is the worst thing ever You're gonna be able to plug any of your peripherals in it because you had the different kind of a port Yeah, right or like a parallel port or a serial port Yeah, I mean and you're a USB at the time. It was a joke

It's like you could get a USB mouse and a keyboard, and that was it. I mean, it'd be fine, but I'm still buying stuff that has micro USB with it. It's like, no, no one's taking it seriously. Everything's still annoying. I fucking hate it. It's the goddamn worst. I'm really sorry for your suffering.

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on this podcast. And it's like, yeah. I know that. I know what that means. I've heard that before. It's fun when Barb, when we're having a tech issue or someone's having a tech issue for pre-forestation for a gaming shoot, and Barb Chimes in with tips

and help and everything like that, which is different. Which is different than when we first started. It was me yelling at you all, like. Yeah, well, I gotta give you a lot of credit, John. You taught us everything about everything. Like, how do you, everything with OBS and audio and video and recording everything and all this different tech setups

and stuff like that. You held all of our hands through that process audio and video and like recording everything and all this like different tech setups and stuff like that like you Held all of our hands through that process and we're very patient with some of us I don't have oh my god. That's out for a day for us. Yeah, he's the patient one. Yeah I before we had to work from home. I hated OBS I think I had some early bad experiences with it You were one of the ones who kept using like excellent. I would I would find X I would find anything else just because I had had so many bad experiences with it. You were one of the ones who kept using like, excellent. I would find anything else just because I had had so many bad experiences with OBS,

but I guess like enough times passed, like the platform's betrayed, like it's fine. It gets, in fact, I probably prefer to just about everything else out. It's very straightforward. Right. But we still have fucking problems with someone not taking down time.

Is on their capture. Okay. And record. Can we explain what time. Yeah, you gotta explain that. Since we're all recording in different areas, you need to sync all the footage. So what we'll do in OBS typically is like,

you have your footage on the screen and then you put an overlay of a website. You can go to this website, time.is. And it shows you the actual, the exact time it is right now. It's sync time. It's sync time. So we all load this little overlay on our footage so that you know you can sync all the footage together

because since we're all recording remotely. And then normally, we go through this checklist and we're like, all right, everyone have time.is up. You let it run for a few seconds so the editor can sync it all. All right, everyone time.is down. Take it down off the screen. That way you're not capturing your whole hour of footage with time.isup.

Why are you just typed fa in the chat like the rest of us? Well, I'll tell you, I can, I was going to follow up with it. We, it's, it's a, it's a redundancy thing that we've kept doing that we totally could stop doing. Um, and I think I'm going to stop us doing it because it's been like, if it does what, it's happened to like this like the third time, or at least the second time, I'll be nice.

It's at least the second time this individual, why don't you say? Blame. We finished recording. This great video was it on Thursday, I think. Well, this is what really orcs Gus, it was, it was my idea my idea was a gas produced video Gus was daddy for the I thought I had a great concept for it

We filmed the whole thing and then like five minutes after we filmed we all get a slack from blame It's like oh shit guys time that is was up on all my footage The worst over the top of it was it's on the screen most of us have it like down in the corner So that if it is left up you could crop in and like find a way His is dead center to the third of the screen You're all fucking like like imagine going to a website and just getting a huge banner ad like throwing up at you That's what that is. So guys at some point there will be a GTA video that we put out I think we're still gonna try to put it out and just not cut to blame

It's a funny thing back. That was John's that was John's that's mine. That's mine That's showing an example that's showing That's mine. That's mine. That's showing an example. That's showing how it could be placed so that it's not obstructed. Blaine wrote two thirds of the screen smack dab in the middle. Yes.

Oh man. See, I always have two monitors. So I always keep my footage like that I'm recording up so I could see like making sure that OBS isn't crashing or that I didn't stop recording or like just to make sure it looks good. I don't know why, because Blaine has I think two monitors.

I think so. So you could do that. I've just been in the moment, you're just playing games. I can't, I can't, and I actually agree. There's, there's playing times where I don't even look at my second monitor on playing games. I'm so, I'm so like hyper aware of some of things not fucking up,

because I don't wanna be that person. That fucked up the whole video for everyone. Exactly. I mean, there's been so many times using like game capture and stuff where I'll be 40 minutes into a video things not fucking up because I don't want to be that person that fucks up the whole video for everyone. Exactly. I mean, there's been so many times using like game capture and stuff where I'll be 40 minutes into a video and be like, I don't know, I never hit record. Yeah. Wined it back and do that.

But like, hopefully you can and that. Yeah, I'll say something that I actually appreciate and that is that Achiebrenhunter who's sold job other than a few other live-actionhings you but majority of your job is make gaming content the amount of times You guys have tech issues and failed face game captures or just failed captures altogether I think so at least it's like it's like the people that do it a ton have problems So whenever we are problems like well they get away with it. It will be fine. Yeah, we're no good Ship breaks at home, but you guys I I had to ask, I was like, it was some time ago, after watching,

I don't know a bunch of TTTs or something like that. I was like, a few in a row had face cam fails, face cam fails, face cam fails. And I finally asked them, like, why? Why do you guys keep having that issue? And I was just simply told it's El Gato, is that the El Gato's just keep having tendency to fail. And everyone's using different shit.

I lost face cams several times because my game footage has been captured to like a capture drive. But for my webcam, I was just using the camera app in Windows, just like open the web cam for the record. And that records by default to the C drive, and it would just fill up while I was not be like, ah shit, it would end after like five minutes, I'll be like, well that's gone. It's no five minutes. I'll be like, well, that's gone. It's never covering that.

I can't wait till we're back in the office full time and don't have to constantly be worried about how full my C drive is because I literally have to like uninstall games and then like move on my foot as to an external drive. I installed extra hard drives. Like I've got my C drive, I've got one

where my games are installed and I've got a different one for all of my footage capture. Just so it's like, I don't want to bottleneck everything, anything. And then my capture drive is just like, I think it's like 10 terabytes. It's just a ridiculous. So I'm still a big fan of huge Z drives. I've always like, oh, it says to stay, it'll be fast. And then it's like a terabyte or less.

And then I'm always full. Yeah. I hate it. I want like a 10 terabyte Z drive. I'm going to back to spin and, spin and melt. It's funny how quickly hard drive technology advance. I remember when we were making out of mind for Red versus Blue, that's when we made the transition

from standard definition to high definition capture. And we couldn't capture that in high definition because none of our hard drives were fast enough. They were like 50, 400. Right, they're all 50, 400. You got to all you could get was 3,400 RPM hard drive. So it's like I would have to go to CompUSA and buy special hard drives that spun faster.

They were 10,000 RPM drives. I think I remember you posted a journal. Did you have like black ones? Yeah, they were like a little window. Yeah, they were called Raptors. Yeah, they were called Raptors. How about they'd be like 20 bucks? They were 72 gigs and there was like this 72 gig,

10,000 RPM drive costs more than like any other hard drive we had in the office. Even like, I don't know, even like at the time what like a 500 gig drive would be cheap with this fucking 72 gig drive. Was flash storage not around? No, God no. Interesting.

What do you guys think is the single best purchase? You had this year to like improve your setup while the entire time we were at home. Yeah For me, it's easily the go-wicks a lot. Yeah, absolutely. I didn't even buy mine Right. I got a friend and got me one. I'm like a congratulations for my promotion like other games here Got a lot a little She's good one. This one's a good one. Dad, they're not cheap. She got me the mini one.

I got him the mini one. That's what I got. Yeah. He is not that good of him. Yeah, okay. Still, still a hefty present. The big one's big. It's too big.

It's quite big. I just figured you didn't need a afraidow downsize to the mini one, I think. Like I think you had the big one. And I think he said like it was taking up too much like down. I got used to the mini one, not because I didn't want to spend the money on you, but because I figured, I was like, John doesn't seem like the kind of guy

who needs all the sound effects and all the voice changes. It was absolutely perfect because it both gave me all the functionality I needed to send my audio to the things I need for like streaming or for VODs and that kind of thing. And then also the GoXLR has a fantastic compression system, which is always a problem with like these like the microphones that we use at home.

And so it completely solved the compression problem. And so now I scream into my mic and don't blow things out. And it's great. I think my best purchase was my, I was using old monitors. I was just like grab and share on my cupboards and plug it back in that haven't used for a while. And then it was just annoying

and the cats kept like climbing it over and we knocked it down and bust it up. So I ended up just getting a super wide, super ultra wide monitor. It's like a 32 by nine. Is it one of those little curved guys? Yeah, it's curved, but it's the equivalent of two 1440p monitors side by side in one frame.

So I can have two PC PCs split down the middle, but without a bezel in between. And then when I'm just playing games casually, I play it in ultra wide resolution. It's very immersive. I think I'll use a game support. Like viewing it like that or there's only some ones. I mean most of the new ones do.

You can do that. But sometimes some games punch in. Yeah. like you lose But it's like we remember when you were playing cyberpunk. We were comparing history to by nine to like a 16 by nine Trying to see how it you kind of want that though because if it doesn't push in a tool It has to heavily distort the edges and like GTA 5 does that way you like you look at something that's like this Then and then when you look when it gets to the side of the monitor goes like You look at something that's like this thin and then when you look when it gets to the side of the monitor,

it goes like, it really stretches out. Something that I think you, I don't know if you've seen this, Gav, but you know how friends is on HBO Max, like all of friends. And I guess initially when it was shot and put on TV, it was not as widescreen as it is now. Yeah, it was full by three.

But there are episodes where you could see the side of the set into another room. Just because like it wasn't on the original airing of the episode, but it's filmed. And so they have that in a widespread film. They're in a wider format. Yeah. Oh, they've said they cropped to four by three. Yeah. Because a lot of the time they'll shoot four by three and then crop to I think they cropped it.

Yeah. Interestingly, that's like you could, they're in like a Monica and Rachel's apartment and you could see where the wall ends and like into the other set. That's so funny how well future proof that show was shot. I know. It was super expensive to do multi-camera on film back then. Did you watch the reunion, by the way?

No, it was good. It's not as bad as I thought it would be. I thought it was gonna be really cringey because you know, when you have a bunch of people who haven't seen each other in a while and you're trying to recreate the magic of a show that was on 17 years ago, was it? God, don't age me like that.

What? I ended in 2004. And in 2004. God, why am I, why, why, why, why? You already set me down a time machine by mentioning the word comp USA. But there's some good moments in it though. There are some things that happen in it.

I don't want to spoil for you. That is like, oh my God, what are they doing? Like they had a fashion show at one point of like all the classic friends, like costumes. And they had Justin Bieber wearing, I think it was the holiday armadillo costume, and it was just like, what is life? There's a crazy movie and TV show, like prop auction, that's about to start happening.

I tweeted about it yesterday, but it has so many fucking cool things from movies that I like. Like, one example, one thing I looked up, I sent this to Blaine, is they have Harrison Ford's Fedora from Temple of Doom. Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's cool. Oh, no. It's a lot of money. That was going to say that's a lot.

I imagine it would be millions. I imagine it would be millions. Yeah, the estimate, it's going to go for $150,000, but I think it's gonna go for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars But I think it's gonna go way beyond I think at least half a million can we start a go fund me for bling? Feel like he's forced by that right or they should just give it to him. No, he doesn't care no friends. No friends. He doesn't care Does that does that man? Like he has any nostalgic connection to his past. He hates it. Yeah He has any nostalgic connection to his past. He probably hates it.

Yeah. Let's say I'm trying to see what other, but they had some hand drawn, like VFX shots from ET that Stephen, like how Stephen Spieler wanted it to look, just like on like a notepad, like put the ship here, like little notes and stuff. And that was like $1,500, which is still a lot of fucking money. I'm like, do you think you're gonna get some?

I was like, you could get something that Steven Spielberg hell like to make ET. It's pretty cool. Don't care about ET. Yeah, which is pretty fucking cool. Yeah. I don't care. Is it because they replaced all the guns with what he told me?

I lost Spielberg. I'm a big Spielberg fan. I just don't care about ET. That's true. Yeah. It was like during that era when I remember when Star Wars got re-released and then they added like Extra scenes and stuff. You're watching Lucas did a little bit with ET. He's like CG'd ET in

Over the puppet and then see you get all the guns to be walking Just got people like holding walking yeah come out awkward as hell Really weird. I would imagine yeah, it's one of the things about the VFX people must have been like, oh, you're serious. Oh, okay. Oh, shit. Okay, let me get a budget together.

That's the point, just let stuff be, you know, like this exists as it is, understand that time's changed, but. Also, it's an alien. You think they would have guns? Yeah. I'm not necessarily for the little kids. Right. But there's an alien that's guns. Yeah. Not necessarily for the little kids. Right. But there's an alien that's loose.

I'm glad that trend didn't just like perpetuate into their entire library of things like yeah. We're just going into everything. Yeah, I mean, if anything, Temple of Doom should get a heavy CG remake, like a makeover, if we're going to be touching old movies. A lot of temple of doom is problematic for many reasons. We could really revisit that. If you're gonna revisit movies, maybe put that bump that one up a little bit. That's funny that they, when given the opportunity, there it is.

I was at the holding. Yeah, you can see that the guy on the left, on the top and he's holding a gun and it's gone. Oh, oh, oh, weird. Yeah, change the bike. When pressed with the opportunity to modify their movies in a way to make them better, this went for ET and guns.

Yeah. I just feel, I guess people made those changes because they think, oh, that's how we would have done it if the technology existed when I was making it. It's like so much of the charm is trying to figure out probably the tech that doesn't exist yet. Oh, we had an episode for the Real Canada couple of weeks ago that was all about attack the block.

Because the sequel got Greenlit and Joe Cornish and John Boyega gonna be working on it. And one of the fantastic parts of that movie is the creature in that it is practical, although they had a rotoscope to give it that perfect black look to it, but like the teeth glow, like in the animatronic that that actor is wearing.

And there was like, it was like an Andy Circus level, like guy that was the main one that was on set, doing stuff, and so that's part of, give me puppets and practical monsters all day. We were talking before the podcast started about what would be the coolest set in movie history to set for on.

And when I was looking at that website you posted, there was a bunch of stuff from Alien. And I thought, how sick would it be to stand on the big space jockey set? It's like the big dead thing in the big gun. The gun. And it looks like it's a full-size set. Yeah, because it's shot in the movie. I mean, well there's even like

there's set photos of like what's his face? Yeah, it's like a big old man. Not a guy girl, director. Oh really? Scott. Scott. Him on set with it. I think something on Star Wars would be pretty cool. Yeah, you said that, but it's someone who's like with so low budget. I guess there's also like a bunch of really iconic places that I said I hope not just because Star Wars would be pretty cool. Yeah, you said that, but it's so much like with so low budget. There's also like a bunch of really iconic places that I said, I hope not just because it's like one of my favorite movies of all time, but it's because it was one of those movies,

not saying it's like, it was one of those movies that's in that trend of building out entire like villages of places, like the pirate village is this giant warehouse set, the lost boys set, is like a ton, like you see those wide shots from the movie of them, like, so that kind of stuff, kind of similar to how like Lord of the Rings, like they build up like Hobbitons and the Shire, like that. Oh, Lord of the Rings would be going, you can, you can go to that one stuff.

I have been there. There you go. That's too much stuff. I feel like my memory has been so shit lately. Like I only remember the last year and a half of my life. It's like the worst. Everything's been replaced by quarantine. Yeah, we were filming earlier today and I saw Dutch Blaine's dog. I was like, oh, Dutch, I've never met you before.

And y'all were like, yeah, you have used to bring him to the office. I was like, oh, Dutch, I've never met you before. And y'all were like, yeah, you have used to bring him to the office. I was like, oh, yeah, he did, didn't he? I got up like every day. Like almost every day. I just forget, like, we've been working from home now for so I was like, oh, yeah, we used to come into the office. Every day, I forgot about that.

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showing them all these cartoons and music videos from like 90s Christian pops up, because like, is that error? They were really trying to, they're like, none of these kids like the traditional Christian stuff, like hymns and that kind of thing. We really need to get the kids interested.

And so they really tried to make music videos. There's a game happening next to me. I was trying to display. There's nothing to do with me. This beautiful a game happening next to me. I was trying to display. There was nothing to do with me. This beautiful Rick and Mory sweater. And Gus is trying to display. And then Gus fought back. Yeah.

Yeah. It can't be one up. So they're making shitty music. No, she's like, there's like a whole era. They were. But it was like a whole era of like these cartoons that led up to things like veggie tails. But I'd like showing them like music videos of like Carmen,

who no one in the set will know him talking about. And like- San Diego? No, everyone says that. C-A-R-M-A-N, he was just like Madonna, kind of like naming. Carman. Watch out for a carman.

Beep, beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Anyways, it was so much of my child was defined by Western American Nevermind. I'm gonna shut up. This carman have a theme song. I want to hear it now.

When you drive a down the road, Carmen, when you're going to change lanes, Carmen. Was he Carmen the champion? I'm just gonna go back John Carmen Sean Who is it? Do the whole podcast like that what's the same Carmen what San Diego just Carmen C.A.R.R. M.A.N. one word addicted to Jesus there it is My as well, basically you're addicted to Jesus So we're addicted to Jesus.

All right, I'm sure we need to put it back. It's pretty bad. It's way too much of that. Yo, homies, do you believe in the Lord? I was like, is that kind of music? Yup. It was exactly that. He made a bunch of music and then at one point he made an entire album where it was like kind of a,

I guess best way you see it was like almost like a rock opera where there's a lot of dialogue and stuff. But it was like this whole a, I guess best way you see it was almost like a rock opera where there's a lot of dialogue and stuff, but it was like this whole thing were him and his cat. Like a big ol' cartoon cat that was dressed like an urban dweller. Was it the same cat from opposites attract with polymdual up to? It was very much in that vein, that kind of thing.

And the whole thing was this cat was running around with another cat that was like bad influence on them They were trying to steal Carmen's like a stereo in his car and then Carmen caught the cat And then he's like taught him how to not like be bad and like to love them. Well caught it common drive. I don't know I don't know if I got that far into it Did you see there was something on Reddit yesterday or the day before about how Mariah Carey recorded a grunge album in 1995? I did not see that. But I'm if she released it under the name chick And apparently

The studio would not let her put it out so she had to find another woman to do the main vocal so she's only backup vocals on the wall on the city like her record her studio would not let it right so i think i have that she has the original recordings and she wants to remaster it and put it out and i guess like i guess this just this news just came out like in march of last year and

i was like i wonder if you can buy the city so I looked on eBay and it's like buying that CD is like 250 to 300 dollars. Cause I guess it didn't really sell. So nobody really has, there's not many copies. You can stream it anywhere. I found a couple of music videos on YouTube. But it's like you have, you can only buy a physical, no, I'm not gonna spend 250 dollars on a shitty CD.

Right, Kerry's grand album. So we need to go find me for Blaine's Hat and for Augusta's CDs. I don't even know if I have a CD, I guess my Xbox can play CDs? Can Xboxes play CDs? I don't even know how I would like, if you gave me a music CD,

I'm like, to the CDs, like they're on this CD. Alexa, I think my consoles might be the only CD drives I have in the house. Alexa, can Xboxes play CDs? Are you hoping that someone in the chat. Someone home let us know. I can't see chat. There's no chat. So if chat today, they're at home. Chatting.

There are the chats busy. They're all in the Rishi store, buying the Rick and Morty. I can see the chat moving. I just can't read it. Oh, is that chat? Oh, it's like in the teleprompy. I can see the chat movie. I just can't read it. Oh, is that chat? Oh, it's on the telepropter. Oh, really? No way we can read that. It tiny. There it is.

Oh, hello. I got chat. Hi, chat. Gus is in the chat. Tell us everything you guys said in the last 42 minutes. Yeah, please summarize everything. Okay, next box. Oh, yeah, someone in chat is bringing up the donut man.

The donut man was a really weird kids show where they tried to make a metaphor for needing Jesus by using it as a donut. Like you have a donut, it's got a hole, just like your heart. Your donut and Jesus. Can, PS4, can. Wait, why is that a hole in your heart?

Because you're like, you're not whole without these. Is that true? I don't wanna donut to have a, I don't wanna have a fight with a hole. I know, it was kind of a flawed metaphor. Put something that you care about having a hole in the middle. Something to be bad.

An Xbox. You don't want a hole in your Xbox. You don't want a hole in your heart. You need four at least to get the blood in that. The fact that the chat's going crazy now. I don't know who put you in the prompt repeater. I'm sorry, your fear is very upset about it. Like I said, you guys are so tiny. I have the chat in front of me. I don't know who put you in the prompt repeater. I'm sorry. Your fear is very upset about it. I guess I didn't think it was so tiny. I have the chat in front of me. I didn't think anything about it. I guess nobody else looked at that camera. This way for a moment and I saw a chat over then I went

It's gonna ask to put it over there, but then I was like then I'll be distracted, but I like reading chat Yeah, because I need people's approval at all times 24, 7. Hey, I have a prayer of you. I need everyone else's approval. I don't think you do all the time. I don't know if you do, Gavin. I think there's plenty of times where you don't have a lot of Barbara's activities. Mike, let's get into this.

He has a CD player. He'll bring it if we buy that CD. I'm surprised. CD player. Thanks, Mike. Have we gone here? You have two surprised. Thanks Mike. Have we gotten your you have to yes to what's the other one for?

He's like just a tool deck. It's a dual deck. Yeah. Did you did you did you ever have a card that had the CD player in the trunk and had multiple multiple and had a five just change. Why was in the trunk in the boot boot because it was too big I think yeah like you can yeah CDs like this thin but the changer the mechanism for all of

that trust me dude it was so fucking stupid glove box maybe I hated it it's like I got five CDs like any music it's on there I'll listen to it I had a had a CD player stolen from a car that I owned once. That sucked. Stole on my CD too. That was a whole thing. That's why you had security on your... I had the fucking, I had the removable face plate on my CD player.

I took the face plate off. They still stole it and on my CD. One time my parents left our garage door open overnight. And we were like, word, someone was gonna take something. We came out and realized it had been left open. We had bikes and sports equipment and all that stuff. I think the cars run locked. The only thing taken were the pennies

in the little like, a change dish in the cars. And I was like, that's the most Canadian thing I've ever served. It's very Canadian. They took the pennies and left a nickel. Yeah, I just need some change. Oh wait, I have a question. You're back. Go for it. Wow, look at that nice Rick and Morty shirt.

Wow. He's not even listening anymore. Whenever you watch TV and movies, and someone asks someone, I don't. OK, so just got some Gavin. Yeah, whenever you watch TV and movies, and someone asks someone out on a date I

Found there was quite this trend where they would constantly like yeah, let's go on a date and they'd go great We'll go out to dinner. I'll pick you up at eight. Did that just feel weird to anybody else. That was that late It's late like Whenever you when I was like what's a reasonable time to pick someone up to go to dinner? I'd say like seven is What I would say you can eat eight But picking someone up at eight is the start of the night. Yeah, I mean if you're young and down eight and nine Who is dinner in nine there's a wrap. There's an old joke. What are they doing in Europe till nine?

Fucking Consonant to Europe now that'll go to dinner. Oh night. There's a really long nine wait, I mean there's a joke in an episode of 30 rock where Liz lemons dating a younger guy and He's he's tell sir like okay great. I'll pick you up at 10 she was at night Like a seat of being I'm being nice by saying eight I know times where I've watched things and people were like yeah We'll go pick you up at nine. We'll go and like, what?

Yeah. No. I'm already having like a, my birthday's coming up and I want to like invite everyone out to do something. Like, go get a drink or something now that Austin is slowly opening back up. That's slowly. Quickly.

But I'm like, okay, what time do I invite people? Do I like, do like a six o'clock thing? So people could come like, eat dinner there or do I do people? Do I like, do like a six o'clock thing so people could come like, eat dinner there or do I do like an eight, 30 or nine type thing? Or are we all too old for that? Like, what do I do? Let me tell you what I would love. That is not at all what you should do.

But if like, if something was geared around just John's weird ex-interesties, you do something that starts at like three in the afternoon. Oh, that's my ideal thing. Start a three in the afternoon. It's your birthday, fuck it, do what you want. Start a three in the afternoon. Oh, that's my ideal thing. Start a three in the afternoon. It's your birthday, fuck it, do what you want. Start a three in the afternoon. That's not Friday.

That means that if it goes for a few hours, you know, bleeds into like maybe some food at the end, that kind of thing, then people can peace out and still have part of their night. So then like, I don't know, relax sober up, watch some episodes of something and go to sleep. That's me. No, I love day stuff.

But I am not the norm and I understand that. Just like the rest of whatever Europe is doing in that clock tonight. I still can't believe we used to do this podcast at 7.30. Was it 7.30? That's when we used to start this podcast. That was so fucking late. Like our whole evening was gone. It was terrible. Not at least. We finished up, we still have time to like get dinner,

we wanted to. Sun still out during the summer. The days are getting shorter now. After today. After today. After today. Is that true? Say the 20th or the first region. This is the first. It's the first. I went and picked up dinner at a restaurant last night and which restaurant? Uh, some Mexican restaurant over here. And, um, Tex Max restaurant. And I pulled up to the parking lot, put my mask on, got down to walk into the establishment

to get my to-go order, walked up to the door and I thought, oh, that's weird. They've taken down all the mask requirement signs and everything. I was like, oh well, you know, I guess things are getting back to normal. It's strange to see, walk in, and I was the only person in the entire restaurant wearing a mask.

Like, which is fine. That's, they're prerogative. But like, none of the staff, none of the people sitting down. I'm surprised at how not 50-50 it is. Right, it was strange already for the way. I think Austin also has a really high vaccination rate to be fair. But it was unsettling because it was like,

I walked in and I thought, like, did the last year and a half not happen? I know. It was just like before. I was like, dude, I was completely off. I was expecting people to be wearing masks for the rest of the year to some degree. Like even servers at least, you know, like something.

But yeah, there's some restaurants where it's like, nothing can happen. I don't mind wearing my mask, I'm fine with it. So it's like whatever, just I felt unusually out of place because I was the only person. I felt like, oh, am I the weirdo? Yeah, you wanna have it? I was, I had the same situation where I was the only person. I felt like, oh, am I the weirdo? Yeah, you wanna have it?

I had the same situation where I was the weirdo where I went to go get my car washed. And I've been places where the clientele have been massless. I've got, I went into like whole foods and people were like, this is the mix of a massive massless. It was when I went and got my car wash

that the staff was all no mask. It was the first time I've been somewhere where nobody working had a mask. And. It was the first time I'd been somewhere where nobody working had a mask. And so I was the one wearing the mask while they were all maskless. A couple of weeks ago, I talked about, it was only like three weeks ago, maybe I talked about

going to Whole Foods and feeling out of place because I didn't have a mask on when I walked in there. And now it's like, it's split. It's like, you know, it may maybe 60-40, no mask to mask. Yeah. It's really, like, but that's where I thought we would be. I thought it would be like a gradual thing where we'd see it slowly phase out, but there's some places where it's just like none.

Yeah. It's crazy as well, thinking, because living here, you kind of get the vibe that everything's improving. Yeah. But then other places around the world, it's just the worst. It's ever been ever. I look at the world map every day, and I'm glad you bring this up.

I feel like I need to be conscious of that when I talk about it on this podcast to frame it. I was like, that's just our experience here in the United States. Like I still look at the numbers worldwide. It is the Texas. Texas or an Austin, yeah. The other thing is that Austin, Travis County, is that vaccination rates that are comparable

to other states that have opened up like California, New York, but Texas as a state is still way behind. What are we at 60% in Texas? Oh, Texas I think is 49. Yeah, I think Texas were until really. Yeah. I guess that's not surprising whatsoever.

I think Travis County is closing in at 70%. I believe they saw a major decrease in people getting it once they got to the younger levels because they actually saw people just like passing on it. That was a contributing factor to like the number slowing down. And I think it's like, it's this thing where the numbers are going down because lots of people are getting vaccinated. So then it doesn't become as pressing an issue

for some people. They think like, oh, other people are going to get vaccinated. So I'll be fine, which is a selfish thing to do. We're all pitching in, we're all in this together. Everyone's to do their part. I think I went on about this last week already. I think I just cannot get over how fucking selfish some people are.

It's not sweet when we made the reference to people are like, oh, you know, it's my choice and blah blah blah. But it's different in this sense because it's like, we're all roped together. We're all tied together. And you can be like, I want to jump off his cliff. And it's like, please don't. It's like, well, I could do what I want.

Yeah, but you're tied to us. So like if you do that, you're putting us in the chair. And yeah, maybe all of us could hold one person trying to do that. But then if another person tries, and like not everyone's holding the rope, gets more difficult. Yep.

It's gonna knowledge you. Austin went ahead and made the call to All public schools will be in person next year with mass optional. That doesn't surprise me It's crazy considering there are the kids aren't vaccinated aren't they they're getting close though to probably the end of the year That's under 12 right under 12. I think right now 12 and up 12 and up can get vaccinated We were talking about how how Han Shakes are gonna like disappear and under 12, right? Under 12, I think. But right now 12 and up, 12 and up can't get x-ne. Yeah. We were talking about how handshakes are gonna like disappear. Don't know.

And they haven't. I haven't actually been a hand still. I've shaken the hand. And I guess like after I was vaccinated, I did feel like more comfortable going out and stuff. But like getting recognized and stuff in public again, people still go for a handshake. Yeah. And I'm, I guess I'm fine with it. I'm just like, no, yeah, you know, I've seen me vaccinated. I am a bit of a handset and it's fine. It's like, I thought that would be done.

Like, but the way everyone was talking, it's like, we're never going to shake hands again. We're never going to blow out candles or a birthday cake again. I think it's all going to just all come back to you. It's all going to come back. Yeah. I think the I I still stand by. I think some people are still going to mask up when they're sick though and maybe when they're traveling. I like it if they would. I know I'll do it if I'm sick and I happen to have to go out somewhere. I'll wear a mask. All those probably gonna be strange to see years from now. I don't know. Well, I felt weird. walking to that restaurant being the only one with a mask Yeah, I may keep doing it, but let's we'll see but like I said, I'm happy

There are lots of people who are getting vaccinated and I'm happy that we're at least here seemingly like turning a corner I hope that we continue. I hope that more people continue to get vaccinated and I hope that we just continue to see Numbers go down and I hope that other countries can get the vaccines as well and get their programs going and the whole world can join. I found out something too that bummed me out is in Canada there's another vaccine, I think in other countries too, there's another vaccine called the AstraZeneca vaccine that apparently is not approved in the States.

I think they started using it here. That apparently is not approved in the states. I think they started using it here. That's the one that they had to pause because of blood clots. Yeah. But my... I think... People in my family got AstraZeneca and they were told that they can't come to the states

even though they're vaccinated with that one because it hasn't been approved yet here. Really? Yeah, and so it's like, well fuck. Wait, so you need a vaccine to come here? Then you just need a... Maybe it was a different country, but there was something with like,

it's not recognized here as a... It was the Johnson & Johnson, the boycott. Johnson & Johnson had blood costs, but Ash was in good, did as well. I've been, if you are following Rahul Kohli on Instagram, you can experience him going through 14-day quarantine in Canada. I guess he went back up there to work, and so he's been sitting in a hotel for 14 days, or he's on his way into that. And I was amazed that he went ahead and ordered the materials needed to continue his hobby of making those Gundam models. Like he literally bought all the equipment and stuff needs to do it in his hotel room. And he posted about how I've never been into Gundam, or anything like that, but he posted about how

Netflix has Gundam mobile one, two, and three now on Netflix to watch. And so I asked him, like, would this be a good jumping on point if you've never gotten into that? He's like, yeah, it's dated, but you'll like it. And so I started watching the first Gundam. No dub, it's all, I mean, it's all subtle stuff. No dub.

No dub's not even an option, but I started watching it. It's sub-titled. It's funny to watch super old, like 1980s anime because you forget about all of those like trends and quirks from like old anime that we, that then became like a regular thing. Like all of the melodramatic reactions to everything and the way that they like shot action.

Still, the first Gundam movie holds up like visually as quite impressive and enough fun thing to check out. Like, sure. You went to Japan, right? I've never been. Oh, I thought you were in that group that went but that's that like giant Gundam statue thing

I'm gonna go so bad moves and shit doesn't move I think it Moves his face or lights up. Yeah, but just to go to Japan and do the arty puggies in Japan right? Yeah, Eric can't tell us no it's a Tyler's producing the same Eric who wouldn't buy two of those earwax Removers for us just one for you. Tyler says that it walks kind of. Tyler said we would be watching it. It's leg, but it isn't really going anywhere. Yeah, Tyler approved it.

Awesome. Yeah, he said yes. There it is. Thanks, Tyler, or your pal. Did you do the wax thing? Yeah, baby. I'll see you approved. This episode of the RACHIE podcast is brought to you

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They're going through with it. Yeah, they are Stop it. This is only the IOC who can stop it So they're having a Olympics whether they like it or not. I'm worried that's going to I think be really there I think their national vaccine rate is at 6%. Wait, what? No. And they currently have more people hospitalized than they did last year when they delayed the games.

What a perfect time. Wait, fucking Olympics. Why is Japan so low? Because they took them longer to approve the vaccines. Oh. Because their numbers were lower so they didn't move as quickly on the approval process like Japan South Korea So their rollout has been incredibly slow So that's very we might have

Hoping for the best but we might have a another really bad thing happening in a month another wave out there You ever see anybody here ever watch Akira? Yeah, it was like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that that's all set up against oh Jesus really yeah, that's like all the construction in Akira. It's like 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Oh, that's the Gundam. Look at that boy. Oh, I guess it's a different one I was the one I saw a building attached to the back of it. Yeah, I've seen people take pictures next to one that was like a, maybe like a couple stories tall, but that thing's like, that is the mobile suit Gundam guy.

And that's, and he's big. That's a big, big, big boy. Tyler says there's three full-size Gundams. Cool, and when is he buying our plane tickets? For the fuck's sake. I don't think you can visit yet anyway. I honestly like hearing about that, I wouldn't want to go anytime soon.

Yeah, I would wait till there. Which sucks, because last year I really wanted to go to Super Nintendo World. It's like, we still, there's bigger problems. I don't know like the Disney parks open now, I guess. Yeah, like all of them. I believe so. They're open and they're like in the middle of slash already gone through with a ton of reopening procedures of like like restrictions have been removed and

they're like fireworks are starting up again. You like not need a mask. Masks are optional in most spaces. Wow. As long as you're vaccinated. That was so quickly. And a lot of like the barriers and you're starting to see like things that are on the ground taking off and like that. Yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy to think about. Oh, you had a totally different subject.

Pivot. I did something the other day. You went outside. I was talking with some of my neighbors. He's that sensitive. And we had that really bad hail storm back in March. I don't know if you remember. Big hail. Big hail.

And they were all spiky and stuff. And it was weird. I've never seen a hail like that. I've lived in Texas my whole life. It looked like little COVID viruses. Like the ball with the spikes around them. But, um, Cloudy with a chance to meet balls.

One of my neighbors came up to me, he's like, hey, after that storm in March, did you ever have an insurance adjuster come out, look at your roof? And I was like, no, I can, look, I can see it from here. It looks fine. He's like, I just had someone come out, well, he's like, are there a neighbor on the other side over there?

He had an insurance adjuster come out and looked at his roof, and insurance says he has $10,000 for the damage on his roof. And I was like, oh shit. And the guy was talking to me, he was like, yeah, and they came out, looked at my roof and insurance says he has $10,000 for the damage on his roof. And I was like, oh shit. And the guy was talking to you, he was like, yeah, and they came out and looked at my roof. And the insurance just says, I have $15,000 for the damage on my roof. And I was like, oh, I better call my insurance. I don't, it looks fine. I can see it, but like I would hate for there to be a problem.

And then me have to pay for it later. So I call my insurance and they send a guy out with ladders. He crawls up on my roof and looks at it and everything. He crawls down and he's like, all right, I'm gonna fill out some paperwork. I'll get it to you tomorrow. So I'm gonna email for him the next day and it's like, yeah, your roof has $23,000 worth

of damage on it. And I was like, I have to go live costs. It looks fine. I can go live costs. I was like, is that just a new roof? Like, how about you're gonna buy a car and put it on top of my fucking house?

Do you have shingles? No, it's a middle roof. Okay. Okay. He had shingles he is a good. Yeah. Yeah. I look like I get that podcast when we're all

in those hazmat suits and I'm like, oh, that's sort of been nice this year. So the moral story is, the moral of the story is, if you have a hailstorm, if you story is, if you have a hailstorm, if you own a house and you have a hailstorm pass through, file a claim with you insurance, just for the hell of it. Have someone take a look at it. Oh, that sounds like so much effort.

What do you do? No, I didn't do anything. I just filled out, I, in the app on my insurance, I just filled out, I was like, hey, can someone just check for hail damage? I didn't, the guy came to my door and was like, he had a ladder, he's like, I'm just gonna crawl up on your roof, he's crawling around on the roof,

he's like, all right, I'll email you. But what are you gonna do now? Are you gonna? Well, now I have to find a fucking roof company to come fix it. That's the effort. Yeah. But you don't want it to be damaged

and then have to like deal with it later. Right, you can get leaks and watch it. That's crazy. It's so much money. Not when you need someone to live there. And it looked fine. Oh, no. All right, he might want to do that. I remember the day after the store,

I looked at my room, I was like, it's fine. There's nothing wrong up there. That's too much money. It's so much. Do you have like a deductible that you have to pay? $500. $500 for a free $20. That's a bug. That's not bad. Yeah. See if they can do some cool stuff to the roof. Now you get the solar tiles. Can I get lasers? Self-defense turrets hail. I like it. That's what that feels insane.

That dented cars and stuff like that. It was really bad. Those solar panels that are the roof tiles, is that real? Yeah. Like, can you just get that or is this still? Yeah. You should do that.

I'm not about that. It's a great opportunity because I bet your roof was fine before and there'd be no point to be a waste of money to replace the whole roof. Now you got a car's worth of damage. This is the Gavin free roof expert who has not seen your roof. This is so much fun.

I'm gonna look into this. That's your next profession. After you're done with Ruchio T. You can slumber guys, Rufur. But never looking at the roofs. I really want to learn a trade that's useful. I really want to learn how to be an electrician. Really?

Out of all the trades. I think electrician's cool. I think it's so useful. I'm constantly like doing shit in my walls and I'm like, I don't kill me if I touch that probably. I'm doing like low voltage stuff, like networking stuff. But I want to be able to do like real electricity. Okay.

Be sick. That would be cool. That would also be very handy. It'd be so useful. Wouldn't it? It worked out well for Michael, right? In the apocalypse. What's that for?

It worked out well for Michael, right? He's ready to go. Well, what's he thinking about it? Maybe think about it. Michael went from. I was saying he made the jump in the other direction. How much Michael has advanced in his career from electrician, like if you could add electrician to you

and then make that jump further, that's how it works, right? I would not want a carpentry. Carpentry route, that's what I wanted. I'd be afraid you'd like lose a finger or something. I feel like the thing is with Carp-a-tra, I feel like you do need a little artistic talent to make good stuff. Would you feel like I'm partially there?

You're saying Barb D'Atham? Have you ever seen, I wouldn't- I don't know. That's why electrician is just like, it's just like, it's chemical. I've never seen those table saws- I'm measuring. With that, if they detect that they're about a cut of finger,

they should ever take themselves and stop so that- Yeah, I'm not even gonna test that out. Could you just get smarter if you're down there, isn't that? Is there? I haven't seen that one. I gotta watch it. I think you should have the hot dog in there. Yeah, I've seen that one.

I've seen that one. Did it cut it? It's, yeah, because it cuts a little. A tiny little sliver. And then it's like, eh, eh. And then it just shuts it, like, it stops such a way that breaks the saw. But it's like, you would want that as opposed to like cutting your flesh.

Yeah. I guess let's change from carpentry to pottery. It was a little spinning wheels. How does that even mean? How does that even mean to take a pottery class? I think it would be fun. Like with a little spinning wheels. I don't think you need to make a pot.

Well, you can make more than a pot. I've only heard was you did my apple. Give my nip a pot. I like pot. I had to take a pottery class in college for my arts degree. Yeah, it was quite soothing. It's relaxing. It's fun to do it. I feel like once you've made all the mugs in the world, you can make both vases and more

fases. Yeah, you can make plates. Plates? Oh, there's an Angus mug. I have it at home. I drank coffee out of it this morning. There is a Rick and Morty mug as well. Yeah, yeah.

Rick and Morty mug and Jacket and Twitter and Lungsley. We should do a collab of both. Remember those shirts where it was like, and it'd be like Rick and Morty and Gus. And that's actually smart. People were like, I don't understand, is Gus a new character? You can party?

Stop it with that board. That's where it's mine. You're actually outnumbered. There's two out of the four people on set are wearing Rick and Morty merch. I don't want to do this podcast. I've a quick put on a Gus thing so you can even just wrap it around.

Nice scarf. There it goes. It looks really good with the plastic hanging off of it. Is that a medium? Is it a can I have it? Oh, you can put it on? Yeah, why not? I'll be on team Gus.

Well, we've 50. I've been learning the thing that's great about the time we live in is that you can Google something if you have an idea and see if it's real. Like I was, I was sort of why I put wires down my walls for like cat six cables because I don't have networking in rooms that I want But I do have coax like the TV shit. Yeah stick it all and I was like I wonder if this is a thing can you Put ethernet down a coax cable and let's take it over the can that you can just convert

Coax to ethernet with little adapter on each end with the same Oh, now I don't have to do a bunch of annoying crawling around and they are in a loft. You could figure out, you could be an electrician. But is the same like strength of signal? Yeah, the thing I got was support up to like 2.5 gigabits per second and it's,

I'm only using a gigabit switch, so it shouldn't slow me down at all. I think this fucking works. Gavin texted me about that the other day. Like, you know, you could shouldn't slow me down at all. I think this fucking way... Gavin texted me about that the other day. It's like, you know, you can do this. It's like, you can fucking blew my mind. I was like, well, that makes total sense. Why did I never think to do this?

Because I've shown Gavin before, I have like a fucked up ethernet drop in my office. Like where I normally stream from. And I have to run my cable from a different room in there. And this would be really help it out. So it wouldn't be so bad to get some plastic on there. Do you think you're gonna do it? I need to. I feel like I wish I'd known about it a year ago. and this would be really help it out. So it wouldn't be so bad to get some plastic on the... Do you think you're gonna do it? Uh, I need to.

I feel like I wish I'd known about it a year ago? Yeah, because now you know... Yeah, now it's... No, it's not. We come in here for the podcast, that is big of a deal. Yeah, chat nice with Sopha's mocha. And we see ya. Look at that.

Right down the middle. Rick and Morty and Gus. Or if you look at Gavin's camera angle, it's and us, oh, he moves like that. Right down the middle. Rick and Morty and Gus. Or if you look at Gavin's camera angle, it's and us. Oh, he didn't move like that. Shit. You get it. You'll be in camera enough one day. And Gus.

I saw the new Supreme. Oh, I like that. The other day, I was looking for something to watch. We're in this weird drought, right? Where it's like, no, there's been like a lack of movies, new movies coming out to watch. I watched Army of the Dead on Netflix last week because there was more.

Do you see the robots zombies in it? Robot zombies? Yeah. We're checking out the newer, the old one. The recent one, the ZX-Nider one? Is it a robot zombie in it? There was? I don't remember.

What was it? It was, they showed it a couple of times, but it was one in the, when they're going up like the stairway shaft. Yep. I remember. What was it? It was a they showed up a couple of times but it was one in the when they're going up like the the stairway shaft. Yeah. He shoots one and his zombie rolls back and it's got blue glowing stuff inside of it. And it's like it like sparks and they don't explain it for the rest of the movie. I I must have blanked that I was not a huge fan of that movie. But a movie that I was a huge fan of that I watched this past weekend was The Lighthouse,

which was a movie from 2019. Have you seen it? Very similar to our movie The Dead. That's what's Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. Never saw it. It's on Prime Video. Okay.

So if you want to, you don't have to pay for it. It looked weird. It's out there. Yeah. I'll buy The Lighthouse Summit. But it's like just under two hours long, but it's like super enthralling and the acting performances are just like so fucking good. Willem Dafoe just like gives a master class.

Like there's this one scene where he like recites that he like curses Robert Pattinson's character and he's screaming at him and like really like really angry channeling this and it's like one take that's like two minutes of him Issuing this curfew on Robert Pattinson and he doesn't blink the entire time and it's just like blink dude I can't believe I'm noticing you're not blink blink please You know, it's a good old blink and It's just really, really. Do you have to be in the right mindset

to watch that film? I assume it's not sit down and, oh, that's so cool. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's definitely not one of those. Psychological drama. Yeah, it's like really, really character driven. I mean, there's pretty much only two actors in the whole, like you see, they call it the last,

because they're like the two operators of this lighthouse in the 1890s. The only other characters I think you see are the other lighthouse operators that they're relieving at the beginning of the movie. There's two people leaving the lighthouse. It's wonderful and Robert Pattinson arrived at the lighthouse. And that's all black and white. It's all black and white shot like in a 1.19. Yes, it's like a square.

Yeah. So strange. Yeah, it's out there. They apparently shot it with like super old lenses. Did you like it for? It was really good. It's the same director who directed the witch, which was like that.

You mean Zavitch? Yes. Vivitch. The Vitch. With that goat, Philip. Oh, Philip the goat. Yeah, Black Philip. Yeah.

I never seen the witch, so I don't know. The witch is a movie that has, I might be one of the most satisfying last, like two minutes of a movie ever, because it's a weird psychological build with a bunch of just like, is it happening? Is it not happening?

Is this real? Is this not real? That kind of thing. And then has this very, very satisfying ending. I don't wanna give away, because it's a very, it's a, as you do like, very satisfying ending. I don't wanna give a way, because it's a very, yeah, as you do, like, oh, okay. But it's the ending is shot and executed so well. It was, I like movies like that,

that are a build that, uncut gems is another one where it's like, uncut gems was too stressful the whole time. Uncut gems is meant to be stressful the entire time and then has, it just builds to this big ol' abrupt crazy ending and then just ends. I feel like I'm gonna get a lot of sugar this. I didn't love that movie.

I was very happy. I can understand people not loving the movie. It stressed me out. Yeah. Like too much to the point where I just couldn't enjoy it. And I remember Wes going on and on about like it's the best movie ever, and it was his favorite movie. And I'm just like, I guess the movie also Wes really liked.

Once upon a time in Hollywood. My house. And my house. But yeah, I feel the same. I couldn't relax after I saw Uncooked Jams. I was like wired or like, like, like, people screaming on top of each other for two hours straight.

To the point where I was like, I honestly, I need captions on this, because I don't know. Once, what's going down in this? Yeah, I didn't love it. A movie that my girlfriend doesn't like to rewatch, or she thought it was a good movie, she can't rewatch because it stresses her out too much. Parasite.

She stresses her. That movie is intense. That movie's intense. Yeah, that takes a definite turn. I will, I will, to put it lightly. I will never forget the first time watching that movie when there's like they open up behind the case and then I remember like there's like the music starts building and

like that's happening I remember in mind is like what is happening like what is this movie like what is this turn that we're seeing happened right here this wasn't in the trailer yeah like I don't know like I thought I knew what was happening and it's taking a turn now. I keep meaning to rewatch that. I see it all the time when I'm scrolling through Hulu. And I'm like, I should rewatch Parasite. I owned that movie on Blu-ray.

I owned it on 4K. That's because I should. I should have told you it was on 4K. And I owned the criterion version. I'm in that movie on three different physical formats. It's crazy. Every time I see it, I think of you. Now I'm gonna show movie in three different physical formats. That's crazy. Every time I see it, I think of you. Now I'm gonna show you where you're watching this.

That's what we proud. Such a good movie. So fucking good. There are a few movies that I've, I think I've got on every generation that it's been available. Like what? Starship Troopers is one of them.

It's like, can I have VHS? I was like, I want this on DVD now. Yeah. I'll get it on blurry. Oh, I have 25th anniversary 4k blurry. I'll get that. Yeah, it's one of them. I fucking, that's such a DVD now. I'll get it, Blurry. Oh, like 25th anniversary 4K Blurry? I'll get that. Yeah, it's one of that. I fucking, that's such a good movie.

That's a good movie. And I love Michael, I had Shed and Troopers. Yeah, okay. I love Starship Troopers. I don't know if I've seen it. Why movie on that website? What was it? Starship Troopers is like a,

I don't know if I've seen it. It's like a military propaganda sci-fi film. Yeah, definitely right of it. They're fighting bugs in outer space. It's like a Starcraft, Zerg's very young, no Patrick Harris, isn't it? Played with science. I might have to borrow a copy.

Yeah, which one do you want? Well, I'm not you one. Too many CDs. New. I could play on my Xbox. It's good in a very like, campy, like the game kind of comics. I love game comics. Hell, that shit. The sequel. I think it was

Starship troopers to the one they filmed and it was like inside and dark the entire time. It's like said no budget to build a set. Please tell me it's called Starship to two two two two pairs. Wow. Two five six seven. Starship toers. There we go. Let's use that one. Can we use that one? Can we use that one in the final cut of the podcast? It's very much like a shoot. Starship Shooters 2, Hero of the Federation. I'd never saw the sequels.

It's not good. Sometimes sequels just, ugh. They're just trying to recreate the magic of the first movie and it just doesn't happen. Very often. Yeah. I was driving the other day and I think people in this country are addicted to being angry. I think no. We have a serious problem with people just losing their shit and like think like I don't know

there's like a sense of entitlement it's hard to put it in towards like, all that matters is what they're going through and fuck everyone else. I was driving the other day. Oh, and then the other thing, I feel like I've noticed that I think as a side, as a tangent here, I think I've noticed like people driving in such a way to like set traps so that other people can like cut them off or do something

like to give them an excuse to honk and be mad. It's like you shouldn't be driving this way unless like driving your intentionally set yeah you're like intentionally setting up a scenario right so that someone's gonna do something so you can honk and be mad at them. Anyway I was driving the other day and I had exited off the highway and I was on the access road and I had to take a right turn at the upcoming light. So I moved over to the far right lane because I knew that this was gonna be

a right turn at the light. Move over to the far right lane. I'm going straight for aways and then this suburban pulls out right in front of me like without looking or anything. Like I have to slam my brakes and I honked because you know, the guy just nearly hit me. And he sticks his arm out the window

and very angrily flips me off. And I'm like, I was just driving in my lane. Like, why am I getting flipped off? And we get up to the light and the light's red. And he's in front of me in the right turned lane. And he stops and I see his reverse lights flash on for a second. Oh God. Oh, he just put his car in park.

He's gonna come talk to me. But then his reverse lights flash again for us just a quick second. Like, okay, he thought better of it. He's going to come talk to me. But then his reverse lights flash again for us just a quick second. Like, okay, he thought he thought better of it. He's back and dry. Like, I was looking, I was looking like, how am I going to get out of here? If this guy, like, comes out of here with a gun. I mean, that's the fucking world we live in, right? And so he's first at the red light in the right turn lane, and he just guns it and runs it straight through the red light. And I'm like, okay, and I just, I make my right turn. I'm like, this is just some angry asshole. There is something in the water in Austin lately because there have been so many

fucking assholes on the road. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what happened. I'll tell you what happened. I'll tell you what happened. Okay. John. Why did you flip off Gus, John? So I was having a rough day. No, I'll tell you what happened. So that guy cuts you off and you honk. Flips the finger at you, mad at you. Get some front of you and is still upset about how much you inconvenience him by making

a loud noise. So then he puts it into park and he's like blustering up to come in and confront you. But then he finally looks back and gets a good look at you, Gus. And he goes, I can't deal with that. That much man on that level. So that's when he puts it back into drive and he's actually really worried that he realized you just saw him do The the drive in park kind of little cycle Freaked out a you're now gonna approach him runs the red light runs away You're scary Gus end of story. Yeah, or he forgot his gun at home as a Franklin not in chance Yeah, this point especially in Texas, it's not worth it.

Yeah, that was my first time when I saw the reverse life flash. I was like, he's got a gun, he's going to come out shooting. I was like, I was looking around like, is there space for me to move my car and get out of here? I don't know, like that. There's some people in this, I'm sure it's in a lot of cities who do this. I'm just speaking from personal experience. That do this thing that I will never understand. So I'm going to put out a scenario driving to you guys. Gavin, you could just listen.

So you're driving down a highway. It's at night. There's not a lot of cars on the road. You're in the middle lane. Just go in the speed limit, whatever. You can see a car approaching really fast behind you in the same lane. They get fucking on your bumper before they change lanes. And it's like, they're still going the same speed to the point where you're like, that guy, yeah, that mad he didn't lose. Almost, like, you're driving in the middle lane. Like, there's a passing lane.

There's a passing lane. And this happens to me all the time. It happens to Trevor all the time. And it's like, if I'm driving, and I'm going faster than the person in front of me, and there's a passing lane, all like, get over. Get over.

A while, because I could see my speed, and I could see their speed, and I'm like, I'm gonna pass them eventually, so let me get over now, so I could pass them, and then get back in front of them later on. I don't understand the mentality of getting as close as humanly fucking possible to the back them later on. I don't understand the mentality of getting as close as humanly

fucking possible to the back of my car. I understand the why drive in the middle lane anyway. Like the middle lane where you should be driving. It's the it's what you should be driving because people will get on on the right lane. Yeah And the left lane for passing the right lane is for merging or exiting and the middle lane is for traveling. It's a cruisin Yeah, you want to use the middle if you need to overtake someone in the right lane? No. Can I stop imagining I'm driving? You can stop.

You can park. Parallel and I've read you. I think that's part of what I was talking about. People driving in such ways to set traps or to set up situations. I think in their mind, the only thing I could potentially think of is they didn't want to get over sooner in case you move to the left lane to block them.

I just like, I don't know. I can't figure out what a insane person's thinking. It happens all the time here and it's like, is that just a style of driving? But it's, yes. I don't know. It makes me so fucking anxious. Because I'll see them like coming up,, going 90 miles an hour behind me. And I'm like, what if they don't move over in time?

Why don't they just slam into the back of me? Maybe they'll knock on the road. Maybe they'll drunk or not paying attention or doing something else and they might hit you. I mean, I know we've said this so many times, but Austin is the worst when it comes to people at a red light looking at their phone or something And like the light turns green then I have to honk and then I get flipped off. It's like you weren't going the light was green. Hey attention, you're on the road. Yeah, it's the problem with Austin, I think is that there's a lot of transplants here.

So you have a lot of different driving styles in one city. And people trying to learn the road still, they don't know where they're going necessarily. You have like LA drivers, you have New York drivers, you have Texan drivers, it's just like a mishmash. At least if you're in New York, you have everyone who drives like a New Yorker, if you're in LA of everyone who drives like an LA. It's funny, I feel like in the Austin subreddit or like in Austin in general, people talk about like old Austin dying or like Austin's change, people talk about old Austin dying or Austin's change, it's not the same anymore.

And it's funny to me when I see you, well yeah, it's never been the same since 2010 or it wasn't even that long ago, come on, let's be real. But in my mind, the original Austin that I fell in love with, it died before I even moved here. Austin, the Austin, I idealized in my mind stopped existing in the early 90s like it's been 25 or 30 years since it's been you know what I picture like the idyllic like days and confused or slacker Austin like you missed the good old

days it's been it's gone there's no point in reminiscing over it but it's when you were like oh yeah it's a totally different city than 2015. Like, okay, I mean, yeah, I guess, but. I love that it is no point reminiscing because it's gone. Is it everything you reminiscing about? It's all gone, it's all gone. Like, it's nostalgia, it's something Bernie used to talk about. It's like nostalgia is very subjective.

It's like down to an individual. What's nostalgic for me? Is it not gonna be the same as what's a nostalgic for you? Because I'm so much fucking older. He would always say that about Retro Gaming. Retro Gaming is the same thing. It's like everyone has a different time frame that's like, oh, this was the sweet spot.

It's like, you'll have other people who share it with you who are your age, but like the world at large isn't gonna share that exact same reference. Wasn't there, I forget where this quote was from, but it's like, how do you know you're in the, you don't know you're in the good old days until they're gone. Yeah.

And then it's like, oh, that's fucking dark. It's like, oh, those were the good old days. But I didn't realize it at the time. But now looking back, I realize it. There was something I read recently that was talking about people who constantly are like looking to the future and thinking about the future and looking forward and like trying to reach a goal. You end up missing your life by doing that because you're always like looking to the future and trying to think about the future. Not saying you shouldn't be prepared and trying to plan accordingly and make smart decisions but like

there's something to be said for just enjoying the moment. The moment. Yeah. I tell you about my existential crisis I had in the movie theater watching the new updated version of Robin Hood with Terry Eagerton. You did not tell me about your existential crisis when you were in the movie theater. First in the Robin Hood?

I didn't do well. It was very bad. All right. But I went and saw it by myself as I do with a lot of movies. And I remember being in the movie theater and for some reason it must have been like a mixture of like how bad the movie was to like how I was able to get easily distracted while watching the bad movie and that my brain just decided what if we just

severely contemplated the finite time your life is and how your mortality is something that could be tested any moment right now that was a fun thing to deal with in a movie theater. And then it mixed that with the knowledge that I had at the time that I had a certain amount of money in my savings account as some people are want to do to build up a savings account. And my brain was like, you're gonna die tomorrow. And that savings account is gonna do what for you.

And I was like, stop it, I need that savings account. But you drove home on your new car. So you went and bought a new roof. I found a nice middle ground in between not doing anything and buying a car. And I bought a new phone that I had been holding off on buying for quite a while. And I went and bought myself like a Google Pixel,

I think at the time is what I was getting. And I think it was just pretty funny that my decision to get that purchase came from just sitting and moving the internet. And it's just really contemplating the inevitability of death. That's what media is for, though, right? Makes you think about shit.

I don't think that was the aim of that. I don't think that was what I was gonna make you think you're gonna die, Nixel. It took from the rich to give to the poor. Yeah. We're all gonna die. The time I took from the rich to give to the poor. Yeah. We're all gonna die. I'm gonna give money to Google.

But it's genuinely like, I, like that was, that was such a concern of mine. And still is when, because when I got divorced at 30, I zeroed out all my bank accounts to fund the divorce. And so I started over with everything at 30. And I've done a pretty good job of building back up a cushion

so I'm not like, you know, destitute, if something bad happens. But I'm still constantly just like, what's the level of saving slash living that is healthy because I can't just go out and just spend all of my money. I do have children that need stuff. Right, you need to be responsible. You know, and that kind of thing.

But also like what level of hoarding is just limiting my life? And I don't know what the answer is, but it's something that I've heard with everyone. Do you want to spend your money when you can enjoy the experience as you could spend it on? Like traveling, for example? Sure.

Because a lot of people try to save all their money for retirement, which is smart. Because if you're not working, you're just spending, you're not having income. But there's not as much you can enjoy when you're at the age of retirement. Whereas when you're not working, you're just spending, you're not having income. But it's like, there's not as much you can enjoy when you're at the age of retirement, whereas like when you're younger and you could... But that's still just like a genuine,

this is getting dark and real, but that's a genuine fear of mine at this point, because I am in the generation of people that I was raised around people who told me the promise was that I will have, I will be taken care of in my old age, but now I'm being told it's like, don't count on that.

That might not be as guaranteed as possible, so you might wanna get yourself situated in your room. High-flow. Like, who did you think was taking care of you in your old age? Like social security and the government. I mean, that was, I grew up in America, in California, in the 90s, and in that era, and early 2000s of people telling era and like, you know, early 2000s of like people telling me like,

you know, you'll retire. Everyone retires at 60, 65, whatever. Everyone retires and you'll retire and then you'll get to do all the new stuff. But now it's not like it's like, you might not be retiring. I'm just FYI. I'm more and more.

Right, so there's that fear. Nothing matters. Yeah. It's honestly like it's sound star But it kind of comforts me in a way where it's like nothing matters And this is why I've rationalized how much money I have spent on Pokemon go Chase your dreams you get that Pikachu But I was just like when you people worry about certain things or I obviously This is I'm speaking in very broad terms and like there is a lot of shit to worry about and there's a lot of hardships that people go through but like

if you spill coffee on your shirt like whatever who cares, nothing bad. If you go through like something really bad or something traumatic and then it you know what when you're like watching a real-time graph. Yeah. And then, you know, it's like this high and then something big happens and it shrinks everything behind to be able to,

it's like, oh, my old problems weren't really, or was it like, it was like, and then they're on the scale of that height forever. So it's like, something I would've worried about before, you're like, ah, I can, that doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. This shit is bad as the other stuff.

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