Rooster Teeth Podcast - How Far Would You Go for a Frozen Coke? - #638

Episode Date: March 2, 2021

Join Gus Sorola, Gavin Free, Brian Gaar, and Blaine Gibson as they talk about the MONUMENTAL difference between frozen coke and a coke that is frozen, where the Doomsday clock sits, and recant the tales of the great Austin snowstorm of '21. This episode was recorded on March 1, 2021 and is sponsored by Honey (http://joinhoney.com/ROOSTER), HBO Max (http://hbom.ax/rtpm), and MeUndies (http://meundies.com/ROOSTERTEETH). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brian and then Blaine you were right. Blaine was wrong. We were doing audio check before the show, blame at Brian. If he sounded okay, not realizing he wasn't talking to Brian, Blaine just been on a roll. Sorry, I think everything's about me. You know how it goes. Holy. I didn't realize Blaine would be having a bowel movement while I was trying to introduce myself. I feel so bad. It's freaking much again. It's much again is. Before we get into that, I do want to remind people that that we're still celebrating a black history month and we've been raising money for the NWA CP Legal Defense Fund and Austin area Urban League. So organizations dedicated to fighting racial injustice. We have their goal with them to $15,000 for the Austin area Urban League. To support their campaign that's benefiting victims of the recent winter storms here in Austin.

So there's more reasons now to join if you're able. You can donate at receipt.com slash donate or if you want, you've got some great merch, we've got a shirt, a hoodie and a hat from the Black Excellence collection and all profits from the Sky's the Limit T-shirt, Black Excellence, Pull Over Hoodie, or Black Excellence Snapback cap. I'll go to the Austin Urban League. I'm wearing the hoodie right now. It's awesome. Go check it out. Donate if you can. Buy some merch if you can. Really appreciate it. Really go a long way. That anyway, just wanted to say that before we go any further, but you're right Gavin. It's March. It's another March. We're coming up on one year of at-home podcasts. March 23rd was our last

In-studio podcast last year. Back in by next March. By next March. Sure. No, don't stop. Don't even guess because I remember everyone was like December or sorry, January 21, January 2021. Like everyone said this like fucking nonsense. It's a good day. I don't know where that came from though, because I feel like the first thing we heard was the next 18 months for a wash. I feel like that was the very first thing said.

I didn't want to, but it's taking seriously. The last time I saw you Gavin, was after that March 23rd podcast last year, we were in the parking lot, leaving stage five, and I was like, kind of crazy, it's gonna be a while, huh? In my head, I was like, we'll be back in July. I didn't know we'd be in a couple of months.

It will be the day. Everyone thought a couple of months, and then yeah, I was talking to we'll be back in July. I didn't know that we'd be in a couple of months. We'll be back. Everyone thought a couple of months. And then yeah, I was talking to a group this morning and we had a meeting for our social team and we were like reflecting back on March 13th as when our company went out. And it was Friday the 13th. It's like, I don't believe in any of the luck bullshit

but it is very funny that it timed on Friday the 13th was the last time I saw my friends. Yeah, depressing. Well, I think it'll be some point this year. Maybe by, you want to make predictions? No. By September. I'm not predicting shit.

I don't want to jinx the planet. It can happen, who knows? I'm not saying anything. You have a good like track record with predictions though, right? I feel like you have the best luck in like, I don't know, I would trust your, your prediction next week. Go right on there, man. I'm just making it wrong.

Yeah, I think what we're, we definitely see the light at the end of the time. I feel like we have three vaccines, right? So that's good. So one just came out. That's a one shot vaccines. Right. So that's going to come. So one just came out. That's a one shot vaccine. Right. But it's not as good.

Like it's like the 65% one. And they're like, no, don't compare. And it's like, no, yeah, I'm not going to compare. But I want one of the 95% ones. I don't want this bulls to get 65% one. Yeah, true. It all rides up to at least 100%. I think that's how it works. I think in the end, even if the efficacy is lower

in preventing the disease, the end result is, you won't get sick, you don't have to go to, if you do get it, you don't have to go to the hospital, there's not a threat that you're gonna die. It's still gonna protect you from that stuff, which is like the most important. Because then it's like, then it's just like anything else, then you just get sick, then you just the asshole

who misses a week of work. We're not all stuck in our, in our houses, you know, zooming in to do work for the next year. I'm just talking to TPG when we were like first when I went away a little meeting about some sponsored thing that obviously didn't happen because if because nothing happened, he was setting up all his stuff. He's like, yeah, the next two weeks are gonna suck from it. I was like, two weeks gonna be so much longer than that. That is optimism.

Two weeks was optimism. Yeah. I'm really glad. I will like rebook my flights to Japan because we were supposed to go, so it's supposed to be March of last year and then we would under and then we're like, all right, we'll rebook.

Surely we'll be out of this by March 2021. March 2021 rolls around and they're like, no fucking Americans can come through here, which I mean, everybody's blocking their borders March 2021, March 2021 rolls around and they're like, no fucking Americans can come through here. Which I mean, everybody's blocking their borders so I get it. But the hope was that we would be over there in no fucking way. I'm hoping to visit a super Nintendo world in Japan at some point this year. That's my goal.

I want the world to open up enough to where I can go to a Super Nintendo theme park and like 12 year old me will be so jealous. I'm going. That's the one good thing about our flight getting delayed is that when we were going to go originally into no world with not have been open, but now it will be. So I don't know if we've ever go. I doubt Americans going to give me my money back. American Airlines. Why not? Cause it's been so long. They just bitched and moaned the entire time that they're helping me, helping me get my refund from the last one. And I ultimately just got like a glorified gift card with fees taken out.

Hmm. So not the best fees. Yeah, everything has fees. Have you guys been out in public and seen somebody like not wearing a mask and got like mad at him? Like I was at HB and this dude, he was like older than me. He didn't have a mask and he was like in his 50s. And I wanted to say something to him like because I was so like, I'm just like getting

so mad at him, but he was like 6.5 And I was like I can't fight that guy if it comes down to it He's so much his mouth is so much higher up. He's probably yeah He's projecting he's projecting all of the germs down to come out from his mouth and down onto all of right the germs down to come out from his mouth and down onto all of right. Right. Right. Right. That's pretty everyone. But it's down on me.

Yeah. And an employee asked him to put on his mask and he had a little bandana and he pulled it up a little bit. And then he goes there, make you feel better. Yeah. Like you. There's no. There's no point in trying to confront people like that. Like I'll pass it aggressively.

Thank you. Thank you for validating my cowardice. I'll just like I'll just like glare at them until they make eye contact with me that I'll look away real fast. Yeah. Yeah. That's about the extent of it. I was gonna say something to his wife who he was with.

Yeah, and he was coming and of course she was right in front of me and I was like stuck, like I couldn't get anywhere. It was the worst. I'm almost getting my mom a panic attack because I did visit home during the holidays You know, I was like being really safe. I haven't fucking gone anywhere So I felt safe enough that I was able to go home and visit my parents And we were out in public picking up a meal from this place called Scotty Peas hamburgers and this couple went in

No masks and It's through a fucking fit when the lady that was taking their order was like hey I can't take your order unless you guys put on a mask. And they just started throwing a fit. And then I was just like, probably about 15 feet away. I was just insulting them. And I was like, what fucking idiots? And my mom was like, playing stop, stop.

And they were like looking over and I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? It was really uncomfortable for everybody. But this stuff, you're coming in from out of town cause you promised for your mom. She has to live there. She's gonna run into that

Yeah, I guess I don't know Fuck those people though just just just do the thing. It's I think that's it Yeah, I'm I'm probably gonna continue wearing masks even after for live for for the conceivable future I think like I'm fucked up. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna have them with me I already bought them and you get my money's worth out of them Yeah, we're talking about people not doing it a year in. They're never gonna do it. This is not bad. Yeah, they know.

There's no way they don't know at this point. How is your birth take us? It was good. I luckily power and water was restored, which was my birthday wish this year. Thank you. You'll thank me. In the year 2021, my birthday dream was to have electricity

and water at my house and it came true. I think it's really gonna be my year. It's really coming. You're mad. You're mad Max Berkeley. Yeah, and no enough gasoline to get to the store. Yeah, what a fucking nightmare. Yeah, it was okay. I was texting you. I was like, dude, we need to have a winter storm story extravaganza because we just, we got fucked up and I feel like I was, I was talking to some guys, I was playing some video games with and we were all just kind of like still shell shocked and I know this sounds very dramatic from people in the North, but again, they have to understand Austin, Texas was not ready for this at all and

we're not used to these conditions. So yeah, we got fucked up really bad. But for it to go dramatically from hell, it was like 30s in my house to a beautiful 80 degree day, days later, and I was like outside. I felt like dog. Within 48 hours, it went from seven degrees to 80 degrees. It was, yeah. Yeah, it was what happened. I felt like it was my fucking mind. When I walked out yesterday, the front of my house had two

inches of ice everywhere on it. And now it's just all gone. Yeah, it was weird to go from having no power, huddling by the fire to kind of what a pot on the AC to be up. Yeah. I play three days at one point. I had gotten so desperate for food, because it had gone on for so long that there's convenience store not too far from where I live. So I was like, I can walk there.

So like, I walked there to look for food and the only food I could find were canned vegetables. I was like, all right, this is fine. Where's comes to worse? I can eat these canned vegetables. So I bought them and took them home. And then as I got them home, I was taking them out of my grocery bag and I looked at them

and the best buy date on both of them was in 2016. Oh, oh, oh, oh, you know those cans have been sitting there for at least eight years then because they get the they already probably had years, the date is probably years after their canned.

And then it's five years in the past. It was a convenience store. Who goes and buys French cut green beans at the fucking Like you think so you could have put anything there on that can and it would have sat there for eight years I touched that's insane. It had a lot of dust on it Which is why I looked like I got it home. I was like, oh, I didn't wipe this can down. It's really dusty I was like 2016

That was probably on the shelf the year I moved to a very that cans more of an Austin I think Gavin is the cans already complaining about Liberty lunch getting torn down. Like how much better Austin used to be. I tell you what, I bet you could have eaten it and it would have been fine. Wow, that's a real thing. I bet you could have eaten it and it would have been fine Wow, that's a real thing

I just thought that was a school three twenty-two Jesus All my focus all right there we go I got a fucking fix all this Okay, is that your one for one? Yeah, yeah, it looked like when it's you died, like you're just in an empty room on a set. Like you see that the only effort in this room is what you can see in the frame. Like you zoom out, it's like a set. Yeah, I was really fortunate. Go ahead. You go ahead. I was going to say, I was very fortunate because my neighbor, I like hanging out with this guy all the time. Like,

we'll hang out from like across the alley talking at each other. I'll be working out and he'll be building shit. And he's from Flint, Michigan. So he knows how this shit goes. And he was just like feeding me all of these winter weather tips. And I like survived because of that guy.

But he was saying that like windows let out a lot of heat. So he's like, you got to insulate your windows, so cover them up with whatever you got, you know, like blankets, cardboard, whatever. And I basically boarded up all of my windows and my house looked like it was in the middle of a fucking zombie apocalypse. So not only was it cold, but there was no light.

And it's just really sad and depressing. Yeah, I close like every door to all the rooms that I didn't want to be in. Like I wanted to keep the heat from the fire in the room I was in. But if I had to get something from one of those rooms, after like three days below freezing without power, you go into those rooms, it would actually be like

walking outside. It would be like going into the winter. Crazy. I feel like I owe a special debt of gratitude to Alan Abding. My in-laws were stuck in another part of town and I needed help getting him over to my place and he's the only person I know who had a vehicle with chain, tire chains and a four wheel drive vehicle and he was able to go pick them up and bring them over to my place on one of the days when it was like super icy and impossible to drive anywhere.

So a big, big thank you to Alan, really, really helped me out when I was going on. You saved my pipes. I was, I needed to get a water key, but there's no fucking way I could get one because my thing was going to, was had a lock on it. And fortunately, Gus had one, so I drove out. And he left it on his porch and was able to pick it up to save my pipes. Yeah, I had tea, tea thing. No, this is the one,

this is the smaller one, not the big one. Yeah, I was talking about the one that to like turn the water off. Blaine's talking about the one to open the case. Yeah, no, I just like got a crescent range and put a screwdriver through it and made my own little tea thing. Oh, that I saw that YouTube video where the guy shows you how to do it. Yeah. Like here's how you shut it off at the street. Yeah. It's awesome.

What? One of my neighbors. One of my neighbors had their pipes burst and he told me that the plumber told him he would come out at the end of March. So they have to have the water off at the street then this whole time. Yeah, they have it off. I told mine did to my nose outside anytime he wants. Mine came and knocked on my door and said, yeah, my, our pipes busted in the garage.

Do you know how to turn it off? And I was like, no, I don't. I'm sorry. Like I have no idea if there's a video game about turning off pipes, I could do that. But I don't have any real world skills on how to do this. It's like a little bit of a joke. We just have to rotate the pipes and the water.

Yes, the hacking game. Like pipe dream. Yeah, I can Google the city number to shut off your water and they won't be out again until like April They so there was like ice and snow all over my yard and I went out there to go like turn off my thing Because I got the key and stuff like that. So I was like looking for it I found it. Okay, here we go Lift it off turn it off go back to my house and the pipes just like the faucets are still dripping I was like, oh shit and I was like going in there messing with it are still dripping, and I was like, Oh, shit. And I was like, going in there messing with it, going back and forth, and I was like,

looking at the map of my property, and I was like, that's the place. That's the place. And I was like, walking around, and I went out there and I went like two feet to the left of that, stomped on it. And I was like, Oh, that's mine. I just turned off my neighbors. It's surprising how easy it is to do that, right? Like you could just cut off some. Yeah, some with water. Oh, hold them for ransom. Yeah, you let the kid.

They don't know how to turn it back on. If there anything like me, they would be upshed Craig. Just like you'd look like a man of water. You don't have the skills. Yeah. In the in the middle of all that, I heard my, I had some water in my kitchen sink because I was doing some dishes, the, the old way with a sink and stuff. And I just heard my sink go like, and I was like, that was that.

And what it was just pissing out into the cabinet underneath, all of a sudden. I was like, what on earth? Like, this is like an internal pipe. And I just got like a little wrench and just quickly grabbed on and I tightened the thing and it stopped. And I was like, I think that was a leak completely coincidentally that just started with there's nothing to do with the weather. It just the under the my kitchen sink just started leaking and there was no ice or anything. I think it was a sheer coincidence. Maybe because it was colder, like the pipes expanded

or contracted a bit and it caused a little moves. Yeah, maybe they got a little bit smaller than the padded gap. It was a total, just like a crash course in home ownership. I'm sure you guys went through a couple of years. Yes. I was freaking out. I was getting ready to turn off all the work to the house and I literally turned a little bolt

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That's a, that's just all for now. You want no, uh, presidential times back? Yeah, let's have our, let's go back to regular precedent to time PT. That's in March, right? The clock switches. We go from unprecedented time,

precedent time. Damn farmers. Yeah. Yeah, what was that? What was that? A clock like the one that was like X minutes to midnight. Wait, the doom stay clock. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, why would we be they clock? They clock, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, why would we be on that? I mean, that's a real thing. That's for like nuclear war though, right? Yeah. So they ended the world in any way. Nuclear war, I think. Yeah. Actually, are you googling it, guys?

I'm looking it up. Yeah. I'm gonna take a bet and say it's 13 to midnight. Wow. I was gonna say like four or something. I feel like we hit it last week or like two weeks ago Like we hear in Austin at least like there. I don't know how y'all felt, but there are a couple days where I felt like oh This maybe just things are gonna get better now like it's just broken the city like nobody's coming for us because if you're in Texas It's like well the government's not really there to help you out. It's just there to where cowboy hats and press conferences face it. And they

fuck you to the federal government. Yeah, right. Go to see the last time. Make jokes about saying, uh, fucking can't. Who or what do you say? The last time the doomsday clock was moved was in 2020. It is currently 100 seconds to midnight. Oh, oh god. I was done in seconds. It used to be minutes. It's it's gotten so close Now the Six months less than two minutes away. A couple of minutes. That's a second. We're gonna be a millisecond Son of a year It every other previous iteration of it was in minutes and it's now as a 2020 at a hundred seconds Very cool. They got his justice clock.

It's obviously way off. It's been at 100 seconds for a year. But is it still like a whole clock? Like why don't just have a sliver of the clock at this point? Like a pie. Like if we're done with the sentence. That's really pessimistic. You want to be able to think that you could really put it far back.

You want like half an allot of it. And watchman, they had like the full clock, but it was only the last quarter that was actually like, had minute numbers and ticks on it. So I'm basically, Also, who's in charge of this clock? Like is this the same person who emails me about my Google ad results?

That they're not looking great. Like, I need to know the backer behind this. It's like, like, vague scientists, just vague images. Yeah, yeah, but I'm not a scientist. It's just like, yeah, exactly. I think it's a cool visualization though. It sounds less boring than like, I mean, how else would you scale it?

It's just to clarify, it's a general doomsday clock is what I'm reading here. Okay, so not just nuclear war. I think initially started because of that, but now it's more widespread. So we're talking about climate change and shit. Well, cool. They need it. It's it's like, it's, I'm reading their most recent press release, which came out in January. And it sounds like something the villain releases in a superhero movie. I'm going to read the very beginning part of this team. Two leaders and citizens of the world. This is your COVID wake up call. It is one

of the rest of the sinister six humanity continues to suffer as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world. Real life is stuff, you know, that's fucking horrifying. Yeah, but okay, so I can assume that it is scientists not poets, then writers. I'm not going to deliver the back to me in 30 hours. In a hundred seconds, I will advance the doomsday clock five seconds. Is it like a manually adjusted? Is it just some guy who walks up to it every so often and just changes the hand?

Is it typed in with a computer? I'm going to want going back to watchman. It's a bunch of dudes in lab coats. They go up. They take them the minute hand and then they slowly move it and then they all turn to post the camera. Yeah, they turn to the camera. I like that.

So it used to be one person who maintained the clock apparently. He died. Yeah, then he died. Then when he died in 1973, the bulletin science security board took over responsibility and has since met twice a year to discuss world events and reset the clock as necessary. I just love the idea of that being the last thing that happens on earth.

Like there's this shit falling from the sky, like all the tectonic plates are like tipping upside down and some guy just ticks it to midnight and calls it a day. And that just falls through the ground. Just do you remember we talked about this in the podcast a few years ago, but there was that CNN video that leaked where it's like they had that video in their video archive system that was like play this in the event of nuclear war.

Are you kidding me? Please send me this. You can find it on YouTube. Oh my god. That's fucking great. It's like, they prep, I don't, look up like CNN nuclear war video. I'm sure you can find it. But you know, it's just like the thing where they pre-rido bituaries and just fill in

the details when someone passes. It's like they figured it was an inevitability. They had to be ready to cover it. So they had a video ready in the event of a nuclear war. Maybe it's like the old school like when this TV station just to go off the air. And they would play the national anthem and put it in a little the national anthem and then it would go to a test pattern just for the world. Yeah. Orifying.

I won't say how much I spent, but I spent a pretty penny on survival equipment. Once all this shit was done, I remember saying on my couch. Yep. Because there will be a next time. Oh, fuck yeah. You're smart. Yeah, that will. Yeah.

That was a little preview. I've got an Amazon wish list, Brian, and I can send it to you. I'm talking to like, I think I was talking to Gus and Becca Frazier, like sister on Airbnb. There's some stuff from Bernie on there. I was just like taking up like solar power. Let's get away from gas, need some water storage. Right, maybe a generator, something like that. I'm still pricing out generators right now. Yeah nice. Oh, yeah I mean, I'm not fucking around. Yeah, I said blade-0 link. I even before this I had been thinking about buying a generator for my house That sits in line with your power system and it feeds into your natural gas hookup

So if electricity goes out it just automatically kicks in and continues powering. Like a houseier house. Right. Oh, speaking of which, that reminds me, that story I said, Gavin a story yesterday that I read in the statesman, that apparently the water treatment plant in Austin had a backup generator, but it lost power because no one at the plant knew how to turn the generator on yes yes and that's that's why we had a boil water notice is because the main water plant went offline uh... for three hours because no one knew how to turn the generator on uh... it's fucking idiocracy it's a new heart but that movie becomes more and more relevant every year

apparently they had they had just appropriated funds to update the generator backup system. This past like last month in January, they had appropriated funds to make it so that it would become automatic and it would turn on on its own. But they just haven't installed the new equipment yet. Jesus Christ. I want to backup generator. So like right at the end, like right as the world is coming to an end,

I can be the last streamer just gaming to whoever to the aliens. I can just game all the way, all the way to the end. Like Matt, all the fortnight servers are down who just sat in the lobby just screaming till the end. Like the piano. I see, yeah, I see the asteroid approaching from my window. Yeah, as I'm just waiting for a match. It's terrifying how close the whole of Texas came to or just a complete, ball-icking meltdown. They said it was like we're like a few minutes away from losing the whole grid or something. Oh my god. Yeah. And that would have, like I was trying to read about it, I didn't really understand why it would take so long to take the power

But they were saying it would probably take months to turn everything back on. I think the gist of it was that Sit equipment would break would be come overloaded and break and it's not like they can just go down to the local hardware store and buy Replacement parts to fix it. It's like specific things like whole Pieces of infrastructure need to be remanufactured. So it's like you have to contact the plant to make new pieces of hardware and equipment and then get that sent out and installed, which would like just take months. It would be awesome. It would be everyone would die. It would have been a catastrophe. Like everyone would have just gone total survival mode.

I, no one would be able to even communicate with anyone if all the cell towers are off. It might have been freaking awful and we weren't like minutes away. My favorite part of the whole thing was that I was like freezing my ass off, like holding onto my dog in our closet because that's where we were sleeping, because it's the central most room in the house.

It's actually pretty fucking cozy. I'm probably gonna make that into a gaming space. Anyways, I was texting my mom and dad with what little battery I had, and they were telling me it's because of the fucking room. The wheels, they're like, they're like, they're like, oh my God.

And they had a power the whole time. They, their life changed it, not at all. And I'm fucking freezing. I could just imagine it from the perspective of like, my family in England, just see on the news that Texas went off, like even from space, like it's just dark. And then, just never hearing from me again. That could have been.

It would be like possibly looking at the satellite views of North Korea versus South Korea. We're not doing all the life in North Korea. It's just dark. I would assume it like confirmed their worst fears about you living in Texas too because it's so stereotypically Texas. We're not a part of the rest of the grid. We have our own grid and we completely fucked it up. It'sically Texas. Like we don't, we're not a part of the rest of the grid. We have our own grid, and we completely fucked it up. Like it's so Texas. How did he die? Just from other people's greed and stubbornness. Yeah. Because people didn't want to pay their property taxes. That's why he died. I saw an article speaking of North Korea where there were Russian diplomats who had to use a hand trolley like cart on the railways to leave the country because their country is so stricken by COVID that they couldn't even get

an operating train to leave. So they're like literally pushing their luggage on a like an old fashion minor cart. We have to like do the hand crank. It was really put into perspective to me. I'm not sure like what the situation became in Flint, Michigan. It is that is still going the water thing or did they eventually were they able to fix the water? I want to say I feel like I feel like I just stopped hearing about it, but it really puts into perspective of surely everyone would just have to leave. It's in it, but it really puts into perspective of, surely everyone would just have to leave.

It's in sunny. But I'm like, you have to flee for a better state. Yeah, a better state. Like it, it almost was to the point where it was like, oh, Texas didn't work. It failed. Everyone has to maybe come back another time. So it looks like the Flint situation may finally be getting resolved right about now. After God 10 years. Almost a decade. You said number one, baby. According to Wikipedia, it says that it ended in February of 2019. But if you read this article, they're still doing work on it, which makes me think it's still not done. They're close.

My mom was texting me from Mississippi, asking if I was okay. And just that, like, if we're not doing better than Mississippi, like no offense, but like we haven't done well as a state, like we're a lot richer than Mississippi. We should be able to afford power. But yeah, she was like, are you okay? I'm like, yeah, I'm okay. I felt bad because a lot of my friends from LA, you're just like our only country were texting, they're like, oh, how you holding up? Can I do anything for you? It's like, there's literally nothing you could do. Yeah. There's like, can I Uber Eats you some food? And I was like,

there is no Uber Eats. Like, it's like not a thing right now. Uber Eats is dead. I remember, I wanted to see so I launched it just to see if there was anything out there. And like you would launch Uber Eats and you'd be like, Uber Eats is currently offline in your area due to inclement weather. Check back later, like, yeah, sure, thanks.

Well, I mean, we wouldn't want the people driving in that condition anyway. Right. Oh God, no, no, I feel shit. the people driving in that condition anyway. Right. Oh, God, no, no, no shit. There was a guy who was live streaming himself. I don't know if you guys saw it. There's like a delivery driver in Austin who like set up a webcam or maybe it's his phone in his car.

And he just live streams himself making deliveries all around town. And one of those I think like Monday night, like after the snow storm hit, he was still out making deliveries. And at one point, maybe around 11 or 12 at night, he was driving over by, where was he was over like by Pleasant Valley and Riverside, Montopolis in that area somewhere. And he was pulling into a gas station and he like hit a little bit of ice and then his car slid and hit the

curb and he popped one of his tires and then he was like oh yes I'm just gonna sleep in my car right here now anyway and in the stream bye. He's a live over there I would not have one of fucking sleep in my car. I did that I love there too yeah I remember that area very well. We did the same thing. You did the Gus. We like trek to the convenience store. Like my daughter and I that that Monday when the snow was all on the ground and we walked like in the middle of the road because there was no tire or no cars.

So we just walked to a convenience store and it was open and everyone was just buying beer. Just beer and this one couple just had a stack as high as they were of frozen pizzas. Like as many, and I just thought like, y'all are gonna get so fucking sick of those. Yeah, it's just too much. Also, how are you to cook?

Like I hope you have a gas oven and I'm an electrical. True, yeah. Yeah, they were clearly like, yeah, yeah. I lucked out because I'm so shit at cooking that I have nothing but canned foods So like I was pretty good. I mean as long as guests stuck around guest did stick around I made macaroni and cheese probably like two or three times My favorite though was I was making cider. I would just like heat up some Some apple juice and then I pour some fireball whiskey in there. Just sip around and sip it on the cup.

Get all cozy. So what did you do for entertainment? I didn't masturbate because it's too cold. Honestly, when it was cool, there's a coworker of ours that lives nearby. So I was able to run over there and drop off battery chargers and drop them off with their doorstep and they were able to charge for me.

I thought you were gonna say you went over there and masturbated. Yeah. It was too cool. Blink comes over five times a day to use the bathroom. Yeah. And it takes a long time.

Honestly, it was just like going around my house. Like at one point I thought I was legitimately going insane because here I was like trying, trying to find the perfect drip, just like the, like the perfect like, the name of water. Yep. And it was like, I could hear it throughout my house, just dripping water, dripping water.

So honestly, like most of my day was spent insulating and checking on my pipes and running around and just making sure. Conducting drips. I got to the habit of washing my hands in like a different bathroom than the one I peed in because in that bathroom I had the perfect drip and it takes one time to get a perfect one. So I just walked to another one. For the first time in my life, I shoveled snow.

And it sucks. And on the last day, before everything defrosted, I remember what was the last day when everything was frozen, what was that? Thursday Friday? Yeah. I knew everything was going to defrost the next day. So just as a cathartic practice, I went out and I broke

all the ice and shoveled it out of my driveway. Like I would just like shatter it and then like lift it up like with the with the shovel just like break it and then like I just made a huge pile of ice just like cathartic like fuck you. I know you're going to melt, but I'm going to destroy you at by my own hand. I will destroy this ice and make you're going to go out on my terms. Right. Exactly. Exactly. It was like Friday, I think, when it was all kind of dripping or, you know, drying up and something, because the sun was out, like intense sun. So Dutch and I went, there's like a park nearby in my place and has a pond.

And we went and it was like, it was like the best of both worlds, because it sounded like it was raining because ice was melting from the ceilings and the trees, so you got that nice, like, ambient noise, but it was just like a beautiful fucking day. The pond still had, like, a thick ass layer of ice, and it was, like, covering almost the entire pond, and I was, like, seconds away from just walking on it, but I was like, this is, I don't want to go out like this. Like, I made it this far. I don't want to go out like this. Geez. So I started throwing rocks. Start throwing rocks. Oh, yeah.

We made it. We made it. Sure did it. We all deserve a prize. I just, it's so annoying that it's not going to be the wake up call that it needs to be in terms of getting on renewable energy permanently, 100% because people are still just going to block it. Yeah, it's very sad. I wish it was a reelection year for Texas senators because.

Yeah, well, there's a conspiracy on like the QAnon subreddits in the community that the snow is fake here. I saw that. That it never really happened. Yeah. Like, I want to punch someone in the face. Like if I could like just meet whoever's uh, but yeah, no, that it just didn't happen. It's cool. So like my family members weren't like, yeah, without power. Fuck you. It was weird. The way that it affected the trees and stuff because,

like it's snowed on everything and that sort of sagged everything a little bit. And then there was some thoring and then it froze again, but it meant that just like every twig was completely encased in ice, every tree, which I guess added like 10 times the weight to everything. So everything just collapsed. It wasn't like any trees were blown down,

but everything just fell down from the weight. Like all the palm trees, look like they've been turned inside out and all the cacuses of the elephant sound. It's bizarre. I've never seen anything like that. I had to cut down one of my trees with an axe because I don't have a serious tool. I'm just using all the sure guys props on there. Like, honestly, I've used an axe so much in video games effortlessly just like yeah

Yeah, yeah, I've watched other people use axes. They seem to be fine after like six or seven swings Like sweating and my hands are like this sucks out of I need to I need get fit? So I can cut down my own trees. Awful. I feel that way in Stardew Valley, like I'll work myself to exhaustion and just collapse in my farm at 3 p.m. And I'm like, I would be laid up for a week if I worked like this.

You just face down a sleep, put three in the afternoon. Yeah. So if I was to drag me into my bed. Yeah. This episode of the Received Podcast is brought to you by HBO Max. This will be honest. Past year's been kind of boring.

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And I thought, you can't really play anything in 8K game wise unless you have a 30, 90 or whatever, which I don't. I mean, I think there's still very difficult to get hold of if I just, I got lost gen stuff. But it can run games that clearly aren't very taxing, but also aren't designed at all to run an 8K. So I just love Stagy Valley. And I like zoomed out as far as possible. And I guess the map is like 8,000 pixels wide and then let's use zoom out a little bit. So you could fit the entire width of the map on the screen.

And you don't have to pan around and it's bizarre. There's like, you can even see parts of the map that you can't usually see. And it looks photorealistic on it. It absolutely did not. So like, were you, did you play at all, like how long did you play for? I didn't really play much because my main game save

is on the switch. Okay. And you can't really easily transfer from PC to switch. So I was curious, like, how would you play that? Would you just walk up to the screen and just like follow your guy around? It was hard to see Gavin in the screenshots that he sent me. I was like, where is he on this? Like, you're looking at the whole map trying to find one person. So I can show this screenshot. I was, uh, if you walk below your farm, you get, uh, like, Marnie's animal farm and all that stuff and there's also the lake

and all that and the castle. That's like the entire, I don't know if you can see me. I'm like, there, I'm like right there like a little ant and the hard like shifts to the, like it has to pill a box it because there's no pixels beyond that. It's crazy. It's a Pokemon or something. I might make a video about it because it's so ridiculous. Yeah, that's a, I love Stardew. I've never, I've never seen it that way. I started doing Valheim and it was like the first like, I guess I'm among us in Phasmophobia, where like trends that I like got into. But this is one of them that I wasn't really understanding and I got onto it the other day

and like I fucking get it. Like me, Joel and James spent like four hours building a beach house. Like we were like going about and I was the roofer and then like James was constructing the fireplace and stuff like that. Like that game fucking rules man. Oh really? I have no idea what that game was. I've seen people talking about that game. I've not Oh really? I have no idea what that game was. I've seen people talking about that game. I've not looked at a single screen shot or anything until right now. I had no idea what that game was about until he started describing it. I just knew people were playing it.

It's Viking Minecraft with maybe start to I don't fucking know. Is that one of the places you can go and go to war? Is that one of the realms? I mean, it all takes place under the tree. Like that big, big, big tree. So I'm assuming. Big dress, or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. There's like, yeah, it's all the Nordic stuff is, yeah, there. But it's, it's fun. The soundtrack's so fucking bummer, though.

Like you listen to Minecraft and you're like, oh, yeah, I'm relaxed. And then like you listen, you play that and it's like, oh, man, all my family's going to die someday. Is it like Norwegian death metal or something that shit that they play? Christopher Lee or what? Yeah. Uh, no, it's just like it's just a bummer. It's just, it's like, uh, like peasants, like you're just like rough in it.

Like you're going to die. You're in the verge of death. And it's like, no, we're at a good, like you're gonna die. You're in the version death. And it's like, no, we're at a good time. We're building a, we're building our beach house, man. Good game. Great game. Okay, okay. Maybe at some point. I, so, you know, everything, like we're talking about, froze over. Even, I think Austin's still kind of recovering. Like, some people still don't have water

and some places are fucked up. I had the dumbest thing I did the other day that I'm gonna share with you guys. What was it? It was like on Friday or Saturday. I decided, my wife and I decided we wanted to get a frozen coke from McDonald's, you know, McDonald's making frozen coaks. Really good. Not something we get very often. It's like,

let's go to McDonald's, let's buy this frozen coke. So we drive to the McDonald's as close as to us. I pull up to the drive through and they've got like a handwritten sign on the drive through that says, no credit cards only cash. We have a limited limited menu. I was like, that's strange. So I get to the drive to do and they're like, and the first thing they say before they even say, like welcome to McDonald's or may take your order, they're like, we don't have sodas. We don't have sodas.

Everything's still broken. And I was like, so no frozen coaks. And they were like, we don't have sodas. I was like, all right, cool. So I took off and I left. I was like, I right, cool. So I took off and I left. I was like, I'm gonna go try different McDonald's. So I went to another McDonald's, like the next one closest to my house,

and I pull up and it's got a really long line. Like, all right, fuck, I'm already here. My soul's tried. Get up to the long line, get up to the speaker, and they don't have any signs. Wait, no, I don't remember. I don't think they had, they didn't have any signs on their thing.

I was like, okay, cool, I'm gonna get it here. So the guy comes on to take my order, and I'm like, I want a frozen coke. He's like, oh, we don't have frozen coke. I was like, fuck. Okay, fine, that's fine. I was like, all right, I'm gonna go to a different McDonald's. I was like, I'm gonna go to another McDonald's.

I'm already on the road, I'm gonna find this fucking frozen coke. I go to another McDonald's. And like when you pull up, I'm gonna have to put the other two McDonald's called us. I mean, they've got the big golden arches and like under the golden arches, they've got that white sign where they can put up

the letters and like advertise whatever they want. And I pull up to this third McDonald's and on that sign under the golden arches, it says, try frozen coke. I'm like, oh, great, they're gonna have my frozen coke here. I'm going up to the dry food. And they've got that sign that says, we're not taking credit cards cash only.

I was like, all right, I've got cash. I can do this. Yeah. I pull up and I'm like, they're like, welcome to all suck and help me. I was like, I want a frozen coke. I know we don't have any drinks. Like, motherfucker. I'm like, all right, all right.

So at this point, I'm like, I'm going to get my fucking frozen coke. So I was like, I remember earlier in the day, I had seen a new story. The story continues. Yeah, it's still going trust you. It's out over. I earlier in the day, you could freeze it. That water plant in Austin went down, but the water plant in Round Rock never went down. So I was like, this might be related to the water issue.

I'm going to try to round rock to see if I can buy a frozen coke. No. Round Rocks like aurb north of Austin. So I got 35 and I drive up to Round Rock. The closest McDonald's to Austin and Round Rock pull in. And they've got the fucking sign. It's like, what is the signs of the signs system? Like we only have canned drinks and we're not taking cash.

Well, we're not taking credit cards or anything cash. So wait to the line, get up to the drive through the window. I'm like, do you have frozen Coke? And the guy's like, yeah, you want one? I was like, yes, I want a frozen Coke. He's like, he's like, all right, we're not taking credit cards.

You have to pay with cash. I was like, that's fine, that's fine. And I forget what the total was, like, 228 or something like that. So it's like, I had to pay with cash. I had cash, I'm gonna use cash in a year, right? Cause I've only been doing credit cards cause of the whole COVID thing.

I don't want to give them money and then like them give me back dirty money. So I'm like frantically looking through my car, trying to find 28 cents. Like so that I don't have to get any money back from this guy. And I'm like going through the center console and everything, like trying to find pennies. And like I found 28 cents and I was like, here, here you go. Like don't touch me.

Don't give me anything. Just give me my phone. Throw it at him because you don't want to touch him. But I had to go to four McDonald's and ended up driving to Round Rock to get a fucking throw guess. Was it worth it? Yes. It tasted that much sweeter. It took, it took, I think, over an hour to find it, because we had to go to all the different McDonald's. What did you do in the pandemic, Granddad? Well, one day I'd try to pretend, try to find frozen toast. We will rebuild, we will survive.

I did, I did like a couple, like a day or two after the big snow. I went to Waterburger, like near the house. And I shouldn't have gone, because like they clearly didn't wanna be open, but there was a line of us who wanted fucking Waterburger. And like the lady was so mad when she got, like I've never had money snatched out of my hand

by an employee, but she just like snatched my credit card and was like so much. And I, but I couldn't falter at all. It's like, yeah, I wouldn't want to fucking be working here either. And then she like almost threw my order at me. And I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Anyway, thank you. I told her stay warm. Oh, God.

But I like, I'm the reason you're here. Like, it's my fault. I told her, say warm. Oh god. I'm the reason you're here. It's my fault. I felt like after everything defrosted, every waterburger in town had a line that went out into the street. Oh, yeah. Yeah, get it.

It's not that good. I feel like. You shut your damn mouth, Gavin. It's fine. It's fine. I can't give it a few days. It's okay. It's waterburger. I own a waterburger mask. They have a sick,. It's okay. It's water burger.

I own a, I own a water burger mask. They have a sick, this isn't sponsored. They own it. They have a sick store, merch store. And I've gotten like shirts and masks and socks. Like, I love that place. They rule. There's a delicious.

Although I got the best but it's ours. We're weirdly loyal to it. That's on, that's on the list is plate in Texas. Yeah, yeah, it's not the best but it's ours. We're weirdly loyal to it. That's on that's on the lightest plate in Texas. Yeah, yeah, it's not the best, but it's ours. It's our other than fucking in and out. They used to have this thing called a one's thick and hearty burger and my dad and I used to go there's like a tradition because it's like one of the seasonal burgers that they have for like, you know, about like eight months or something would disappear. Right. And then they had I think the, the, you know, deal with a one steak sauce or whatever went out. They haven't had it since. And then I think the deal with a one steak sauce or whatever went out, they

haven't had it since. And they have this like fucking fake burger. It's the thick and spicy burger or spicy sweet burger. It's still really good, but it's not that's not an a one. It's not the same. Yeah. I tweeted them every now and then I'm like bring up. Anyone and bring it up to anyone, or any free, you fucks. So, I see people talking about it. Is it coming back frozen coke? Was that anything more than a frozen coke? Is it like a special blend of coke and ice to make it a fruit?

Well, how, what is it? It's like a coke slushy, but, um, but why, why couldn't you just make that yourself? I just couldn't just throw in a can. If you froze a coke, it's not going to be the same. Yeah. Yeah. If you froze a coke, it is a coke that is frozen. It is not a frozen coke registered trademark of the Coca-Cola Corporation. What did they call it that? It's a cousin. Eric Badoor just wrote what the fuck? What do you mean Eric? What do you mean? I don't I don't understand If you a frozen coke it's a coke that's frozen what happened?

It's a frozen coke. It is not a coke that's frozen a coke that's frozen is a can that you leave in the freezer and you forget about and it explodes I left I left mega 64 after The cook that's frozen is a can that you leave in the freezer and you forget about and it explodes. I left, I left mega 64 after Rocco started saying, I don't like it, but I like watching it. And this is the same conversation and I can't do it anymore. I can't. This is too much. This is insane.

It's so like the semantics of it is crazy. This is insane. If you're putting the coat, I think the matter is intent here. It's either an accident or it's a, yeah, it's a, it's a recipe. So I'm good point. Why didn't you go to, why didn't you go to like 7 11? They have slurpees that they're like, it's not a slurpee. You shut up. It's the same. No, I know. It is the same thing. It is not. It is absolutely not frozen.'s frozen. But it's as slurpy. A slurpy is like heavier ice and rougher.

A frozen coke is much smoother. The ice is? Is it a yes. It's like when you go to different snow cone places and they have different ice shaving machines and some are like lighter and some are heavier and chunkier. It's the same con.

They hit puree versus yes. Right. I can't imagine frozen coke needing a recipe. This is making them like freeze the coke. I'm like, man, I'm like mad about this. Why is this upsetting? Who you mad at? I'm like, these order of frozen coke, take a nice long cool sip. You'll be all good. You'll be all right. I'm not a Gus. I'm not a guy. I'm mad at Gus or I see it's not a Slurpee when we go About to the office. I'm gonna get you Gus frozen coke and I'm gonna get you a coke this frozen and I'm gonna see Coke Slurpee. Yeah, absolutely. We're definitely gonna do it. So wait, what's the what's that one? That's the rough one?

Slurpee 7-11 and then I see they've like I thought I see you with 7-11. No Slurpee 7-11. I see the polaruffles. I slept in 7 11 and then I see they've like, I thought an icy was 7 11. No, Slurpee is 7 11. I see the polar bear was the most. A mercy conversation that has ever happened, I think. Well, there was like back in Allen, there was two places and one had Slurpees and one had I see's and I would ride my bicycle to both. And I think it equaled each other out because it's so much fucking sugar, but they were so far from my house.

That was like the highlight of my day, like every summer, just like. What about slush puppy? Oh, I guess I did that too. Yeah, I did that to to get a blizzard from Dairy Queen. I would like walk a crazy amount of mild to get a butter finger blizzard and it was fucking worth it. Because I was like 10 years old

and I was like doing something on my own for the first time. Yeah, imagine you on the long walk there, like you can almost taste it. You're like, Yes, all the whole time. Yes, I think it was a similar experience to Gus going to four McDonald's. Oh, yeah. And Coke. Yeah.

How do you feel that Eric is so annoyed at you right now? That's fine. I don't know. What do I care? That's that's that sounds like Eric's problem, not my problem. No, I just think that I think that you're fine with your frozen coke thing and I I support you going to seven different McDonald's to different counties to go get it or whatever. That's fine.

But when you start going like, no, it's a frozen coke, not a coke that's frozen. Yeah. I can no longer back. It's absolutely true. 100% Pudantic, it's insane. It's like the semantics of the whole situation is like, it's crazy.

A Coke that's frozen is a mistake. A frozen Coke is a delicious treat. It's like an ice cream. It's like an ice cream versus an ice cream that got freezer burned. That's an ice cream. Or an ice cream, it's like an ice cream versus an ice cream that got freezer burned. Or ice cream. Or an ice cream-based cream. So a frozen Coke, I think it would taste better.

Wait, no, Coke that is frozen, I think would taste better than a frozen Coke. My logic is the frozen Coke from McDonald's is ice that they then put like frozen, they put Coke on top of it. It goes to the bottom, the flavor goes to the bottom. But it somehow has beef tallow in it or something like extra delicious. But all of their normal coaks have ice in anyway. Listen, you guys try one, you'll understand.

That's it. That's all I'm saying. Really good. Once your back, Slurpee's ice season fucking frozen coaks. Oh, it tastes to us. We're That's it. That's all I'm saying. I don't know. Once, once your back, Slurpee's eye season, fucking frozen coaxed. Oh, it tastes to us. We're going to do it. It was worth it. Absolutely. I was.

And they're supporting. Sorry, real fast. Last thing I'm going to say about it. I'm sorry. As we were doing this, like I said, I was, I was with Esther. We were driving around to all these different places. Like after the third McDonald's, you know, we, we pulled out into the parking lot. And as we had the discussion, we're like, she's going to round it to force. No, she turned to me and said, what else are we going to do? If we just go home, like, we can't go anywhere, this is it. We may as well drive to round

rock and get the frozen coke. I was like, you know what? You're right. That's awesome. That's a keeper. Nothing else to do. Right. It's like, yeah, we do. I guess she did keeper, but you're right. Yeah. Would you go home and watch TV? It's watch TV like no this is our entertainment now trying to find a frozen Right guys are soulmates like if any per any couple I know like Gus and Esther like fucking Mint to be dude. Yeah, do you remember our RTX when we had that There's people giving out the frozen bottles like the ice balls that had coconut What would that amazing? that's a cold coke it's an ice I remember that you don't remember they were they gave you a bottle but the bottle was a moment from ice and then you it would make it colder than melt

oh yeah yeah that was cool I think think Dan put it on his pants. Yeah, I think I was there. Yeah, that was weird. No, no, he made you, he made you guys this PA do it, I think. Could have been, could have been Charles do it. What year was it? 2017, I'm still going to find it. This episode of the received podcast brought to you by me undies.

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It's not water wet bread. Water bread bread, I get your phobia for that. But with this, it's like, it's like clam chowder wet bread, you know? Unless you, unless you're like, nah, you just can't eat it fast enough. It gets to the point where the structural integrity is just slumping apart. Ugh. Now, you got like the hard exterior browned wall.

It's like good to go. I was in a meeting this morning, and I'm curious to feel out what the room has to say. We were talking about like national cereal days coming out. And we're like, gosh, we're making social posts. And then someone was like, hey, do you guys ever make your serial with warm milk? And we got a new fellow from social.

And I think he's from the Caribbean. And he says that he does, like they do like warm milk down there. And he was like, that's like their thing. And I've never known warm milk. But he like microwaves his milk. Yeah, I was on a train in India, and they were handing out like corn flakes and milk. And my milk was hot.

And it was, I was surprised that it was hot. It was fine though. I got it. It's good. Yeah. Okay. It's all right. I've never had cereal who wore milk.

I would never think to do that, but I'm why not? I never had, I never had cereal with any liquids in it, because I was allergic to milk. So I've just always had to dry my whole life. Do you know just to like, oh, the nut milks and all that stuff or just cow milk? I think it was just cow milk, but back in the 80s, that's all that was available. So yeah, I just always ate it dry and still to this day. Yeah. I remember like every milk, speaking of like back in the 80s,

I remember being a young kid. I grew up, you know, in a really small town in South Texas. And the first time I ever saw tofu was at a grocery store. It was at the H.E.B. in the small town I lived in. And it was in like the refrigerated case, like by where all the vegetables were. And I remember, you know, we're in Texas obviously. It had, it was called Texas Tofu.

And it had like a cartoon drawing of a cowboy on it. And the cowboy had a speech bubble over his head that said like what in tar nation is Tofu? I was like, that's about, that's about right. For like 80 small town Texas. I was like, good for them for trying. But I mean, you're decades ahead of where you should be. He's shooting at it for some reason.

Yeah. There was like a gas station on our, like, it was like between Austin and Galveston. I think Eric was there. And I took a picture of it because it was sporting the fact that they didn't have the gas, it wasn't lined with like whatever that is ethanol. Ethanol. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, we don't do ethanol in our gas.

I was like, all right, cool. But they're like real proud of it. They had a big fucking sign. That was like, that was their marketing thing. Fuck nature, right? Yeah, I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't use any ethanol in my vehicle either. So we mentioned this a couple weeks ago. I'm going to bring it up again. Brian, you did a great ride. I put it in a sub stack. What is that that website where people like? Yeah, it's on substag. You did a great ride up about a local movie theater that used to exist off a river side that you worked in back in the late 90s. And in that podcast, after you had written that, I talked about, like my experience is having

gone there when I first moved to Austin back in the late 90s. And it's weird to hear someone else talk about that theater. Because I think everyone's forgotten about it. I think it's like a Chinese movie now or something down there. It was, yeah, it was the Riverside 8 movie theater. It was at the intersection of I think Riverside and Willow Creek There was like a dance club, CadyCorp like Club Carnival and You know just a bunch of it was a whole shopping center though

It had like a blockbuster video. Yeah, and all that but yeah I wrote about it on my substack which is Brian guard substack.com If you want it if you want to read yeah shout out I wrote about it on my substack, which is Brian Garrett, substack.com. If you wanna, yeah, shout out. But yeah, I worked there from like 97 to 98. So the first movie that was playing when I started was Men in Black, because it was like July 4th, 97, like the first one.

And it was like all these crazy 90 movies. So like Titanic was there, just all these, and it was, it wasn't a great experience, but it was, it was just like, I just can't stop thinking about it. I don't know. And like, I eventually made projectionists. And so this was back when movies were still on film. So you would have to like, the movies would come from the studios and these big reels and we would have to build them up Because they would come in multiple reels and like put them all together and then Thursday nights because the the movies day

Be it Friday so Thursday we would all put them together and watch them You know at like after the theater closed But it was also a shitty minimum wage job like they worked just like crazy But it was it was just this weird combination of like, kind of a cool job because I worked in a movie theater, but also it was like a crappy, crappy job. So yeah, it was, but I love that theater. And it was not a fake theater.

It was not a fake theater. No, it had ramps. So it was one of those, I don't know if you remember, but like if a tall person sat in front of you, like the movie was kind of ruined for you, because it didn't have stadium seating, there was no frills or anything like that. And the managers hated us and treated us like shit.

And if you didn't upsell a Coke to a large, you would get fired on the spot. Like it was the craziest job I've ever had. So yeah, I just wrote a whole essay about it. Yeah, it was good. I feel like projectionists would be interesting though. Yeah, it was fun Except you couldn't be like full-time projections You still had to go and sweep out theaters like when they don't want you getting up any No, it was it was more like yeah, you're a projectist

But that's just an extra job you have in addition to being an usher So yeah, like Jackie Brown was there. And like, I remember fucking up the sound to Jackie Brown, like, and I just pushed a button on the soundtrack. And I just noticed like all of a sudden people turned back to the project. And people were like shaking their fists and yelling. And then I saw what I had done and I turned it back on. And at another time, there was like a smudge on the projection glass. And you could see it on the screen. It was this big black smudge.

And I just grabbed a rag and you could see this giant hand come and wipe it off. And I, and people just started applauding. I could just see them down there clapping after I did it. That was a highlight of the whole job. Yeah. That was a rembunctious movie theater. That was always watching.

Yeah, oh, yeah. I saw so many movies there. And it was always like, you would have the experience was watching the movie. And have the experience was experiencing it with the people who are there in the theater. Lots of yelling at the screen. You know, lots of drug paraphernalia

found in the aftermath. And I didn't know you could do this, but people would leave in the middle of a movie saying they just didn't like it. And they would just go, yeah, I just, it was really slow. It sucked. And we would just give them free passes.

The rule is you never gave them their money back, but you would give them a free pass to the next. So I'd come back. But I know you do this leave. I'm not gonna stop. Yeah, exactly. Because we didn't make any money off the movie, off the ticket sales. It free pass to the next. So I come back. But I know you've been listening. Leave session stand. Yeah, exactly. Because we didn't make any money off the movie, off the ticket sales.

It was all of the popcorn. But yeah, I didn't know you could just leave because a movie sucked and like demand something. Have you walked out of movies? Not till you had refund, but just in general. I don't know if I ever have. I've only fallen asleep. I did one time.

Fuck, what was it? It was a bad, so best or so long movie. Over the top. No such thing. No, it was fucking. It was him and Antonio Banderas. Spikes. No, no, it was like 90s.

A shark, boy, love a man. A sassy? Yes, it was the first one I ever, I was like, yeah, I just don't want to finish this. I have that movie. I've never seen it. I went on a little stilone spree. I just watched over the top. It's I always set that because I think Brian just tweeted about over the top right before I started to watch. Yeah, I like Silvester alone, but it was just even, even for me, it was like, yeah, I can't, I can to watch that. Yeah, I like Sylvester Stallone, but it was just even for me, it was like,

yeah, I can't do it. I don't know how they do it, but pretty much like every other scene and over the top, especially with the arm wrestling stuff, all the lens flares are like big stars. I don't know what they did to do that, but it's definitely a choice. Like just tons of stars will have this.

Yeah. I mean, I must have been the camera they were recording on, right? Or was it the lens it the lens? Yeah. Uh, Christ. Shane says, I walked out of, I walked out of, um, oh, cross full. I walked out of meat, the Spartans. Oh, fuck, why would you go there to begin with, bro?

That was like on the ass end of the scary movie like parody movie trope thing. Yeah. Well, yeah I mean, there's this stuff to do about them when you when you had more free time as a teenager. Yeah But it takes we're pretty low back then you can do whatever. Yeah, just thought I Was I see someone in chat Soundman says he walked out of kill bill or here they walked out of Kill Bill and that reminds me When the first Kill Bill came out I was living in Puerto Rico and I went to the movie theater to watch it. I bought a ticket to go. There's a few there's a few movies I saw while I lived down there and that kill Bill was one of them

But I made a mistake when I went to go see Kill Bill in Puerto Rico. And I bought a ticket that was to a screening that was dubbed in Spanish. And I wasn't expecting it. So I get in and I sit down and then we start to like, this is gonna be more difficult than I was expecting. I'm gonna have to really be thinking while I'm watching the concert trade. Just like fuck.

On the right side I learned the word for a for sword or steel that they kept saying in that movie over and over I told you I was so steel. Yeah, I was like, oh, okay I learned something from watching kill bill the first time if I hadn't been with friends I would have walked out of the dumb and dumb or sequel not dumb and dumb or But the the one with like Jim Carrey and dumb and dumb at two Yeah, that should fucking suck. So Jim Carrey and dumb and dumb at two. Yeah, that should fucking suck.

So the Alamo Drafthouse that's over, it's like it's on the north side. Oh God. It's the old village. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm Anderson, yeah. That's the one.

The village Drafthouse is fucking cursed. I've only seen dog shit movies there. It's cursed. South of Mar and Mueller were good to go. I've only seen dog shit movies there. It's cursed. South of Lamar and Mueller were good to go. I love the village. I go to see it. No, if we go to village, it's fucking, it's a terrible shit movie.

Aw. I've seen 50 shades of gray there. I saw, that was a joke. I saw dumb and dumber, saw some like shit indie movie. There's a bunch of other ones. I'm just kind of blanking on them. But I hate that place. I feel like There's a bunch of other ones. I'm just kind of blanking on them, but I hate that place. I feel like the on a plane equivalent of walking out

is just letting yourself fall asleep. Like there's been times on planes where I'm like, I'm feeling tired. It's like, I want to make the most of this. I want to sleep away as much as this flight as possible. But sometimes if you're right at the end of a movie or you're like, you're still into it. You start, you kind of stay awake.

I watched Bumblebee and I was probably 10 minutes from, is that like Transformers movie? Yeah, yeah. I was probably like 10 minutes from the end and I was feeling tired and I thought, yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna fall asleep. I've seen everything, but the last 10 minutes of that movie.

Am I crazy? I love that movie. The first time I ever went to Australia, it was like back before, it was on demand entertainment on the seatback. So it's like they would play movies just on a loop. So it's like, you had maybe two or three movies you could choose from, but that was it.

And then after they would play through, there'd be like another movie that would play through on a loop. It sucked. So I remember the first time I went down there, like I was not happy with any of the movie selections. So I started watching a Jack Black Ben Stiller movie called Envy that came out like in 2003 or 2002 maybe.

And the movie was so bad, I turned it off and I didn't fall asleep. I sat there in the dark in my seat. Like over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I was like, it is preferable to sit here in the dark than to keep watching that movie. And I sat in the dark for like an hour and a half till the next like till the new movie started up. And I was like, it was so bad.

Yeah, it was like Poo. Poo. Be gone forever. You've a yeah, fuck that movie, dude. I did that. I did that too. The absolute worst movie I've ever been to. It was a double feature of in time, I think.

It was like a Justin Timberlake movie that was like, it was actually a really good sci-fi movie that kind of just flew into the radar. And it was a drive-in movie theater. And we went and they had a double feature for that. And Jack and Jill, that Adam Sandler movie, his own brother and sister. I was with my girlfriend at the time, we just fucked her in that movie because it was so bad. We didn't care. It sucked. Not a big budget, that Jack and Jill movie. Did it? They always do. Yeah, the Sandler movies always do. Happy Madison.

He just gets to fly his friends out to like, you know, Hawaii, whatever that happened to be with spot we went to go see spy games with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford only we had all been like drinking the whole day and then it like midnight a friend of mine was like why don't we go it was a group of us why don't we go watch a movie that group of us. Why don't we go watch a movie? That was the only thing that was playing. I slept through the entire thing. Nice. And then someone just woke me up at the end and they were all laughing. And I was like, why are you laughing? They were like, you snored through the entire.

Yeah. Yeah. Our old like PA that works in live action. He's like AC and stuff like that as well. Colton fell asleep during Bladerunner 2049. and I almost punched him awake. I was so frustrated. It's so fucking good. He is strong. I don't know what move.

Jack and Jill had a $79 million budget just throwing that out. Yeah, that's a lot of money. That is Jesus Christ. I've never seen it, but this is it. It's socks. There's that socks mask. There's Al Pacino and he sings that adunkin donuts and he's Dunkichino. Oh, we've all seen that video. Fuck, dude.

Like, I'm getting hot and sweaty thinking about it. Yeah, I'm gonna be made so many people mad, just the movie existing, seem to irritate a lot of people. It's like that and like, like, don't mess with so hand and like, uh, doose big glow. It's just like this. These just shit. Rub Schneider, Adam Sandler, like, happy.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Cause I, I think Adam Sandler's really funny. Like, happy Gilmore. I, I, I, I, I guess I saw it at the right age, but I remember just loving that movie. Oh, dude, no, I'm not saying anything about Adam Sandler, like 90s Adam Sandler, like Billy Madison, happy Gilmore, I was raised on that water boils, raised on that shit. It's just like he just started phonein' it in and, uh, oh, God.

I was, uh, because I hadn't seen any of the Rocky movies until a couple of months ago, just went on a big Rocky spree. And I was trying to figure out where I knew Apollo Creed from. I was like, what is he in? I was like, oh, he's, he's chubs and happy gobal. He's the wooden hand. Yeah. So funny.

It's in Predator. Yeah. It's the best movie ever. I was jacked up. Yeah. Yeah, it's ripped. Yeah. I mean, to this day, he still jacked like in Mandal up. Yeah. Yeah, it's ripped. Yeah. I mean, to this day, he's still jacked like in Mandalorian. He's like, it's just a big fucking dude.

He did look good. Yeah. Carl Weathers did look good in that. Yeah. He's in, uh, he's in a rest of development. He's one of my favorite recurring characters. Also for what it's worth because like personally, when I hear about a celebrity being a dickhead in real life, I'm like, and I like them as much.

Carl Weathers is apparently just a gym of a person. I had a friend who worked at some restaurant, something or another, and Carl Weathers came in just fucking chatted her up, just like sweet as can be. Just sounded like just a hell of a guy. I would love to meet him and then do the some of a bitch, Dylan Handshake. Dreams. Dreams.

Dreams. Yeah. Oh, I a couple of podcasts ago. I had mentioned that I was watching that HBO series, The Lady and The Dale, which is a really interesting series. I think everyone should go watch it. But that at the time I talked about it last, I hadn't seen the last episode because it wasn't out yet.

The last episodes come out since then. That story like ends in Austin. Like seen the last episode because it wasn't out yet. The last episodes come out since then. That story ends in Austin. Like the last episode is all about Austin. It's really strange the turn that it takes. And Brian, you lived here in the late 90s, right? You remember how there were always those guys that intersections who were selling roses? Like a rose for $1?

Yeah. And downtown, and downtown too. Yeah, if you went out, they would, yeah, rose for $1. Yeah. And downtown, and downtown too. Yeah. If you went out, they would, yeah, come up to you. Apparently, like, that's how the lady in the Dale documentary ends. Like, she was the person who orchestrated all of that. And I guess she had a place like out in your bath drop. And she would just take in like homeless people who had nothing else.

And she would like give them a home. And as if they wanted to work, they could go out and sell roses. Holy shit, that's how that happened. Yeah, it's like, wow. She would go out, I guess, she would recruit, I mean, recruits a weird word, but she'd find homeless people and she would be understanding Tony or whoever and be like,

you want to come to Austin, you want a job? You want to somewhere to live? And that's like that. Yeah, so we have the little buckets with the roses. No, I told her, I wish I had bought one now. I literally never did. Yeah. They were everywhere in the late 90s or the 2000s, and Austin.

Yeah, absolutely. When I was in college, that was still going on. I feel like there was like ladies that were like selling buckets of roses or that roses and stuff like that. That was like 2000 late teens, or that roses and stuff like that. Hmm. That was like 2000, like teens, 2000s? I don't know, none been there. I think this particular run ended like a one.

Like I think it did come back like you're saying, but it was like, oh, like when it was originally happened, it was like 96 to 2001 or something like that. Huh. I was like seeing Austin in like film and video games and just seeing how they interpret it. Like it was in last of us and it was just like, you're not really, you're just kind of there,

but it wasn't like a parody. There was this Michael Fassman or movie called Frank that ended up, I was like super hide for it and ended up not being very good. But they kind of played it up as like, ah, root and two. Austin, Texas. And I was just like, ah, root and two, Austin, Texas. And I was just like, I'm the first hearing of Austin

in road trip. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The comparison between Austin and Boston with Tom Green. It's funny. That was the only reason I knew of it. Never saw that, mate.

Yeah, they attended the University of Austin, right? Or something like that? It wasn't bad. Yeah, it was. It was okay. Or at least I remember at the time it was OK. That's a movie you might have screened at the on Riverside. It was right around that point. So many of those are burned into my brain.

Like, face off is one of those good, good, well hunting. Like, I've seen those movies so many times. I saw face off in the news. Los brothers 2000, not as good. Yeah. I saw face off at a theater in Del Rio, Texas, which is a small town out in the US, Mexico border. Yeah.

And I like I didn't live in Del Rio. I drove out there with my friends because Del Rio had a better theater than the city I lived in. And it was like a really empty screen. It's we went like in the middle of the day. And there was a guy seated like two rows in front of me that theater was entirely empty. It was like me, my two friends and like this guy

who was seated like two rows in front of me. And near the end of face off, I forget the exact circumstance, but there's a scene where it's like, there's a speed boat that like goes airborne and flies over another boat and there's like a big explosion behind it. And the guy who was like two seats in front of me,

just like he literally stood up, put his arms in the air and went, yeah, like he was so excited. Like he was so excited to move me. He's so happy. Face off. Wait, so was that a totally independent movie or was it like any like cinematic or AMC

or was it just like its own fucking thing? No it was affiliated with some like act three theaters or something I mean it was like it was a business probably yeah they're oh they're totally out of business but yeah it was it was affiliated with I mean we got like first run movies but it was like it wasn't when everything in quite you quite centralized yet. Didn't it eventually change? I want to say like right before it closed, maybe in the mid 2000s, it became a cinema maybe?

Maybe, yeah. I think it did change at one point, but it was like right at the end before the closed time. I feel like there's like a like a boy scout badge for working for a company that went under, you know, like, you can say it and it kind of brings back like, like, I used to work for Kaby toys and they went bankrupt. Oh, yeah. And I was like, that place like had so many memories attached to it when I was a kid, but then it completely changed. I was in high school. And I fucking hated the place. But blockbuster was cool, though. Like, like, everyone's

like joking about the last blockbuster. I think it's a lot Alaska or whatever. I want to fucking go there so bad. Didn't they close or are they still around? Oh, COVID might have closed. I think they're down. Oh, maybe. I quit the movie theater to go work in a blockbuster, like right next door, basically.

And it was like, yeah. And they treated it as marginally better there at the block because it was corporate a little bit more. You wanted to stay close to the movies. Yeah. it's like marginally better there at the block because it was like corporate, you know, a little bit more. You wanted to stay close to the movies. Yeah. I wanted to stay in the end. It was funny because so like you say that, but not to shoot on UT, but to shoot on UT.

The radio television film department, whenever they would release their reports of like what they're, you know, students that went on and what they were doing after their degrees. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They would say, yeah, we got 50, 70% of our students when our alumni went on to work in the film industry. But what they don't know is like, they also count like blockbuster, like managing a blockbuster.

Oh, you got to be kidding. Yeah, so it's like a cheat. There's a distribution of the film industry. There's only one left in Bendoregan. Holy shit. One of the guys I worked with in Blackbuster at that, and it was the same shopping complex. It was the same like strip mall thing.

He went on to be a director, Brian Bertino. He made a horror movie called The Strangers. But we like work together at Blockbuster Video back in 1998. Yeah. It's like a random. It's like right by the McDonald's on Riverside, right? Like the McDonald's. It was right across it was right across Riverside. Yeah.

I have a random thing. It's super relevant though. They had these things where you go to the blockbuster and you could film a VHS like diary. Yes, yep, yep, yep. And then I have me and my sisters in this box. I bought a bunch of VHSs back from my parents house because I'm gonna digitize them all. But yeah, whatever that. On that.

So you used to go to the blockbuster and they would have a VHS camera and then they'd be sit on this like dot that was like on the floor and then the guy would ask you a series of questions. There's almost like a cast catch thing and you're just like, I'm blane. I want to be an astronaut, you know, that shit. So it was like, but if you ever got lost or something, there would be a recording of you.

I think or if you ever got lost or something, there would be a recording of you. I think, or if you got kidnapped or something, kidnapped and kids was very big in the 80s and 90s. Okay, you say that, but I'm looking at the back of it. And it's like home address, home phone, mother's name. Yeah, no, that's what fathers name, fathers work. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things.

They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. They just do a few things. years, months, last counter number. Jesus Christ, yeah. Blood type. Oh my God, your kit print video provides an invaluable means of current identification

for your show in the event of an emergency situation. That's one of my parents, we're doing this as a fucking like nice little goof. No, no, I worked at the blockbuster. Oh shit. I know what that shit was for, if was for if you got kidnapped or something, they could give that to the media and the... Oh my god.

Here's some being awkward at a block bus. It's for missing and exploited children. It's at the bottom. Oh, that's so stop. This ruins this whole experience for me. I thought my parents were making a fucking time capsule. That's amazing. It's like the thing you look back like as a kid,

you think it's like, you can be in fun. But it's like really the adults are like, if Blaine ever gets kidnapped and murdered, we want to have something we can turn over to the media. It's like, it's all the Oklahoma City bombing, man. That's what started it. Yeah. When Prime was explaining, I was like,

oh, I guess that would be a cool alternate use for that cute thing. But it's written on the lyrics. Oh, that's... I guess that would be a cool like alternate use for like that cute thing, but it's like written on the I guess it was some lame like public service thing they were doing to like, oh, we're gonna be good Corporations and here if your kids murdered, here's what you can, you know, put out on the local news Shit, I got to digitize that because I want to know with a good play that yeah Shit, I got to digitize that because I want to know what the good way that yeah, yeah That's amazing all right Well, it's about that's a good note to wrap up on I want to end on a high note. Thanks for sharing that with us Before to watching your your video when you digitize it and share it with us

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