Rooster Teeth Podcast - The Last Podcast in Stage 5 - #663

Episode Date: August 24, 2021

Join Gus Sorola, Brian Gaar, Blaine Gibson, & Geoff Ramsey as they discuss moving to a new studio location, Gus taking flying lessons, playing songs on route 66, and more on this week's RT Podcast. This episode was recorded August 23, 2021 and is sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://ExpressVPN.com/rooster) and HBO Max (http://hbom.ax/rtpa). RTTV is sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/rttv). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Learn all about VPN. Hello everyone, welcome to the receive podcast. I'm Gus. I'm Blaine. I'm Brian. I'm Gus. No, I'm Gus, you're Jeff. Okay.

This is a, okay, I gotta be real careful how I phrase this. Okay. This is our last podcast ever in this location right here. Ever. We're keeping the set forever. We're just moving like What do you say like 50 feet that way? You might notice it might look a little different when we come back But it's gonna be the same. We're gonna be in a temporary spot for a couple weeks It's just not the same now that they're in the new location guys

So we're still doing the podcast at the same time every week. Yes It's just gonna physically be in a different temporary space for a couple weeks while all of this gets moved right over there. Literally like 200 feet. Something like that. Some 30. Yeah. Yeah. It's not far at all. And then we're going to come back once it's all moved. I assume that's why I'm here because I usually only get the invite to these when three or four or six people say no. And so I figured like everybody must be busy with a move or something and I'm all this one.

I was that guy, I think. I'm below you on the list playing. I'm way below you on this. No, I thought it would be cool if people were still moving shit while we were doing the podcast. Everyone was trying to calm me down. Don't worry, the movers won't be moving anything

while they're doing the podcast. I was like, can we have the moving shit while we're doing the podcast? Grabbing shit and getting it out of here? They're like, no, no. So to be clear. Are we next week? We will be in the new location. We'll be at a temporary. Go. Okay. Okay. So until that gets set up. Cool. And how long will we be at a temporary spot? Optimistically two weeks. Okay. Okay. I heard a grown in the control room when I said that.

So that answers your question. But if we hadn't mentioned any of this, the ideally the audience would have had no clue. Well, we would be in a temporary spot. And it's going to look different. You move live, you move a set. Sure. You can't make it look exactly the same.

And there's people who notice, like I've seen in chat and we're like, oh, the table's slightly off. Like, they're right. Yeah, they're right. Like, how do they see that? How do they know? Someone's going to notice it, so trying to get out of head. You would have never gotten but heard over like, they're right. Like, how do they see that? How do they know? Like, someone's gonna notice it, so try to get out ahead.

Has anyone ever gotten but hurt over like, they switched the couch? Yeah? Yes. Do you remember when the rug was backwards? That was the whole thing. That rug that you're on. This one? Yeah.

Yeah. The blank spot that's over there was out in the front for a while. And it was driving people crazy. If you look, you kind of see under Jeff, there's like a little, at least starts getting like this one. Yeah. That blank spot that's over there was out in the front for a while. And it was driving people crazy. If you look, you can kind of see under Jeff, there's like a little, at least starts getting like a little blank in sparse. Yeah, that was out over here.

And people hated it. Yeah, it's like how you set up a chess board. Like the white square has to be on the right side. And you know, if it's not, it's, you can't play. Right, it's all fucked up. It's all wrong. You can't talk, you can't make jokes. Moving is weird. Like, yeah, they were telling us all last week, Patrick and

Brock S was like, get your shit out. Like get their coming Monday. You're fired, Brian. How many times would have to tell you? I was looking at his work here. I think I've got like the no was gone away two years ago. We don't know why you're still here. Like, I've got personal shit on the set that I need to get rid of, that I'm afraid we'll get like damaged. Yeah.

So it's like I want, so there's some stuff I'm gonna need to like take home for a couple of weeks and then bring back once, like I don't trust anyone else to move. Right. So you like precious treasures. Yes. What are those?

Well I've got like behind me the Bill Gates autographed Xbox. Okay, that's fair. Where did that come from? I bought that at Child's Plank or Soft. That was the first child's play you would see? The second one, I second one. I bought that and I bought that Xbox Live sign over there, which I'm also gonna take.

I remember that. It came with like that Xbox letterman jacket, that looks like a... That was for your office decor at the... Albinator, right? I've also got a final fantasy 15 book signed by the game director, Tabata. It's back there.

I've got a World of Warcraft burning crusade that's signed by all the developers. I remember we got that. Probably worth a lot less in the last month. Oh, I just got that. There's a drunk gamer's mug right there. Ah. So, little stuff like that. You can't see the drunk gamer's mug there.

I saw. It's stressful. Somebody said in the chat, moving a stress. I'm stressed and I'm doing nothing. But it's smooth. Somebody else, but it's still stressful to me. Like, every move I've ever had sucked. Duked and so even second hand, it's stressful.

I know. Like, we're in a weird spot because it's been like work from home for so long. Do you have, physically have a desk somewhere here right now? I think yes. In the new place, I don't know. Okay. Yeah, I've been working from home like straight.

I mean, I've only come in for stuff like this. Yeah, I, I used to have, I think my desk went away about a year ago. And every now and then I'll find a box that came from my desk like, oh, sweet, I was looking for something. And I was like, I'll look through it like, oh yeah, here's this one thing.

I was like, here's this hard drive dock. I've been looking for. And then like the box disappears. They're all like over there somewhere. Now I have no idea where any of that stuff's gonna be. Yeah, I won't say when it was so that people can't figure out who it is. But I had to move once and my,

the person was dating at the time, we got into a fight over something that she found in my stuff and she was like, you can move on your own and she left and I was moving my entire, all my shit. Was it condoms and y'all had gone the IUD route? So she knew something was up? No, no, was it pictures of us?

No comment, no, no, it was something from my past. Nothing like weird or sexual is just a thing. And then it upset her. And she left. And then I ended up like loading up a U-Haul truck all on my own. Just fucking cussing under my breath the whole time. It was like fucking hate.

It was a Bob Dull for President bumper sticker wasn't it? I don't think I was alive for that. It's a Dull 96. Don't hold 96. That's well before my time. A really early Alex Jones video. Really? From the 90s? Yeah.

We see ever like, how long has he been in Austin? He was on public access when I was at UT. We see ever like Alex Jones, like wacky guy, or was he always, you know, fucking. Who's wacky guy? We used to, Jeff and I used to watch public access together back in the late 90s 16 15 yeah 15 15 yeah, I don't remember what it was But yeah, I mean like back then it was like it was like a joke like no one like back then no one took him seriously Like oh that weird old guy you know only in Austin a keyboard and weird and then it very quickly became oh shit

This is a real problem. He was looked at like Leslie. Yeah, like sort of you know, he was one of our colorful characters like there was like It was almost a must see TV block on Friday nights Where it was a show called the old bitty show which was this dude dressed up like an old lady and was weird and there was Alex Jones, there was a show with no name and then there was some other I can't remember what the other one was there was a show with no name. And then there was some other, I can't remember what the other one was. There was a raw time. Maybe that was it. Yeah. And we would just watch, we would just go over to Gus' house and drink beer and

just watch public access every Friday night. Yeah. It's weird to look back and think about it. It's like, yeah, what are you doing? Oh, we're going to buy a bunch of beer and sit around and watch public access. Gary tried to call in and not call in. Okay. We would call in.

We would prank him because we had one of my, I won't get into our methods, but it involved clone Nokia cell phones. And they couldn't trace them. So I got through one time and said I was from the FBI and we had snipers pointed out. And hung up. He was mad, you know, and it got around to the other public access shows that this had happened, so it was a blast. Was this, I guess they had VHS, did you record that? Or is it hit record? My friend has it somewhere because we,

like, you know when you're done with your finals, but like, I think we were waiting on our ride home, so we had like five days of nothing. So we just pranked public access shows for like five. It was the most fun I've ever had. What? I think you were on a pub. Okay. Sorry. I don't want to sound like a close. What? What was awesome about the suit W? Is that on ATX on Sonsertish? Yeah. Was that on? Okay. Okay. It was on it was on the CW and then it aired after Sartana Live.

Oh, nice. Okay. I see.. Yep. How did the show like that happen? Um, they sort of wanted to do a comedy show. They wanted to do some sort of late night daily show, but like local was the idea, but they didn't really know anything beyond that. So they just started looking at standups and I got an email and I was like, fuck yeah, I'll try.

That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, we lasted nine email and I was like, fuck yeah, I'll try. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, we lasted nine months before they were like, this was a terrible mistake, but like, we could kind of do whatever because no one really knew what. Yeah, I watched it before I knew you. I remember watching it on TV and like, wondering like, it's a great idea, but seems handcuffed by dealing with like a local station and local format. So like every time I was watching, I was like, I can tell that they really want to go in a different direction with this and they want to do other things, but I feel like

they're being like held down or stifled creatively. And our time slot, well, the after-sign at live at one o'clock was great, because that was at least you're getting us and out. Our normal weekday spot was 15 minutes. It was like at 5 545 or something, and like no one saw it. It was like, why would you, yeah, but it was fun. We were reminiscing with Barbara because that was how we met you.

We were doing that connected doc and then you came and interviewed us. And we had done like, we went to like a new station and like I talked to a couple of people about it because like people, oh, that's a cool concept. And we didn't know who the fuck you were.

You came in and you started grilling us. And I was like, who the fuck is this guy? And yeah, that's what we meant, you mean? I remember trying to show off, because I was, the idea was just that I would make fun if y'all, obviously. And then I remember trying to big time you, because I thought I had like 20,000 followers on Twitter.

And I was like showing you, like showing off. And then I got back and looked y'all up on Twitter. And it's like y'all had like a bazillion. I was like showing you, like showing off, and then I got back and looked all up on Twitter and it's like y'all had like a bazillion, I felt like the biggest mess. I felt like that was a running gag on that A-Tix on Sensor. Everyone kept like, like, oh yeah, you're Twitter famous, right? Like, it was like the ongoing thing.

Yep, yep. I remember that. Oh, this is a, I see in chat, someone said that they like the old man podcast that deal with very specific Austin topics. I was gonna say when you know that when I'm like the spicy young one, you know, there's a fucking problem. Dude, I just last week to hand a pitched the old guys podcast again that just like me and you talk about Austin and bring in other people like Brian, people that have been around for a long time, bring in guests from all the fucking socialites

that are moving to Austin all of a sudden. Yeah, I saw on the Austin subreddit the other day. It's a great idea. But one of the things, like for an example, something that we could talk about, I saw in the Austin subreddit a few days ago, someone was like, did you know there used to be trawles that ran downtown called the Dillow,

and they were free and you could ride it earlier? It's like, well, yeah. I used to take the lunch every day. Yeah, it's like, I remember it was like, they would go up and down six feet right by where our office was. It's like, you'd start walking in one direction and it was like, it was too far. You'd be like, looking over your shoulder coffee for one of Dillow and then I'd catch up. Yeah, cool. It would hop on this. It's going to take me a few blocks down and drop me off. That's how you'd eat lunch on South Congress. All right, right now. Yeah, it's like super, super quick. They got rid of that in 2009.

There's not. I saw the other day, a dillo parked on the side. I think maybe it was on South Congress in like a parking lot. And it was like a little pop-up store. Somebody's using, well that was a really cool way to. It was a cool kind of thing. It wasn't a food truck. I think it was like a shoe store maybe or like a sunglasses store.

But yeah, it was just a straight up dillo. They had repurposed stuff up. I don't know when just a straight up dillo. They had repurposed. I thought they were gonna say that. Dillo. It's one D off from the ends of the day. It's a giant dillo on the side of the road. Although you say that, I saw in the Austin sub-retta the other day.

Someone was like, there's this exotic plant that I found anybody recognize it. And you click on the picture and it's just, it's a fucking strap on dillder. Like huge just out on six streets or something. I saw that. I just found so many sex toys laying around the city of Austin. There was one on 51st, like not too long ago,

like we were just driving by giant black dildo just out on the street. So. It's interesting, interesting that you chose to mention the color. I just see Dildo's, I don't know what. Yeah. I just saw it.

Oh, I don't know what. I'm just showing I have a good memory. Hahaha. It's gonna be one of those. It's gonna be one of those tests like it was really green, I don't know what. I'm just showing I have a good memory. I'm just showing I have a good memory. I'm just showing I have a good memory. I'm just showing I have a good memory. I'm just showing I have a good memory. It's gonna be one of those. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests.

It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests.

It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. It's gonna be one of those tests. the last time I'll show that I've got a show no one watched But a week into the show the top I log on to that separate

It's an ATX on census is the worst show I have for seeing and it's just upvoted to the fucking moon Negativity like hot takes are always popular. Yeah, have you gone to the research? He's so written Yeah, I tried to web word search my name once no results and that was the last. I go there and then if I'm really thinking about getting therapy, that's the one thing that'll like put me over the edge of me like yeah, I should get it because yeah, the Austin subreddit at least is active. It's a, it can be very hostile. Yes. But it's an incredibly active subreddit.

Like, there's many compared to like other cities or. Yes. I don't know what it is about Austin that makes the subreddit so, like I don't know, so popular. A lot of it. Yeah, I don't know, there's always something going on. I have computers very popular.

Oh, silicon hills. I feel like it's, it's, I mean, it's Austin. So it's like this perfect mix of like really liberal left-winging folks, and then you're in the middle of fucking Texas, so you get like those kinds of folks as well. So a lot of libertarians on Austin's I've read it. Yeah. But there's always something great. There was that guy a couple months ago, I've not like a month and a half, two months ago,

he was looking for solicited women. I think I said solicited women. I think I said that to you. It was like a solicited women. It was a dude from another country, you could tell. English was his first language and he was asking for, it was the most roundabout way for asking for prostitutes. I take your.

Was it that dude Romeo something? Romeo was no. Gus got there very quickly, by the way. I typed solicited women, Austin there very quickly, that's the way. I typed solicited women, Austin subreddit, and it came right up. We just had to click his name and pass posts. That's in my history, it's so easy to catch you.

Hi, I am 32 European white, beautiful male. What places I should try in Austin and what times where females are expecting to find solicited males? Solicited means women expect to see men in those places and no unsolicited stuff is going to happen. Do not offer dummy apps. I am not a fan of that.

I want to see women in real, no fake women, please, no headache, please, thank you. Hmm. What have you got his wish came true? Yeah. I am not a boss. People try to figure out what he was asking. And like he, he had seen,

it's he just replied in ways that were infuriating. Like someone asked solicited or unsolicited and he replied places where women are looking for men. Do you think it's a legitimate post? I don't know. Oh, this person has a bunch of other, or person it's quotes, air quotes, has a bunch of other posts. This is name the here. I'm imagining Chris is making these same posts and like broken it. Greek out in like

grease wherever he is. Mike Mike, my cockiness or whatever that place called my canus. I wouldn't be surprised if he was at my canus making those posts on the Austin subreddit in English. making those posts on the Austin subreddit in English. Oh, and then there's an old great one. I said this with the Eric forever. I don't remember when this was years, a couple years ago. There was a post on the Austin subreddit. The topic was, I want to hire a woman to show me her breasts. Is this legal? And then the context is, I want to find a woman with large natural breasts and pay her to

show them to me. I've never seen big ones in person. I'm literally just looking to cross this off my bucket list and call it good. Is this legal in the city of Austin? I hate the concept of strip clubs so that's not an option. Just go hang in there. There's a whole industry. There's a whole business where he can go to do this.

Yeah. And he's like, that's not not that. He hates the concept, but he also loves it. And like, he's also for the con. I'm not a dirt bag. But there's like places, I'm just about to list off places. He could go and see boobs in public, but then I like, I shouldn't send them to those places.

He shouldn't be there. The people that are there with their boobs, I don't want him there. Yeah. There's parks, there's burlesque, there's like, I can go any number of places. It's tons of options. But yeah, it's a, that's how Freddie Wong posted about this on Twitter the other day. It's like, when you're using the internet, it's easy to imagine the other,

the people on the other side of the screen are similar to you. Like they have the same background or more or less the same as you. But reality, it's like everyone's so disparate. You have no idea like so much can get lost in context when you're making assumptions based on the way you think versus the way that they're trying to communicate. And it's like, it's just so wild. I wish there was a way to like get more information that way you knew who you were talking to.

Yeah, until like people start posting pictures or something and then you're like, oh wait, yeah, everybody's really different. It's not just, you know, like, oh, this person's a kid. Or, yes. Oh, yeah, I don't know. It's just wild to me. And I think for, it took me a long time to realize that not everyone is like that.

I think probably not until we got old. Like, oh yeah, now everyone's a lot younger than us on the internet. You think you're talking to a reflection of you on the other side. Like a person, you're age of similar, yeah, it's not the case. Not at all.

I had to stop, like I had to go back to lurking on sports forums on Reddit because you get into arguments about the Celtics and then you then you find out like, oh, this dude is 14. He doesn't know who Larry Bird is or you know, he never did. Dennis Johnson was dead before he was at a diaper. So how would he, yeah, why am I arguing with this guy? This is so stupid. Yeah, right That happened to me on Twitter. Somebody came for me and I was just ready to just like let him have it and somebody responded like that

That guy's a 16 year old kid like he's legendary for doing and part of me's like well, fuck him anyway I'm gonna go after but I was like cooler heads prevailed, but yeah, I Speaking of Twitter, I sent Brian a screenshot from Twitter the other day. I'm sorry, I can find it here. I thought this was right up Brian's sense of humor. Someone pulled a D's nuts joke on the Taliban on Twitter. They asked them what will happen to DN under Taliban rule?

And then they replied, what do you mean by DN? And they just replied, these nuts, LOL. Which is more progress than we made against the Taliban in 20 years. Some get these nuts in a month, 20 years. You know what? You got us y'all can have an extra month to back away. That is the prompt for a South Park episode. We're in the Taliban invade South Park to find Cartman Yeah, then a bunch of people follow it up asking about the the ligma situation Which is like that the natural

Those jokes like I made a D's nuts joke and somebody goes, those were around when you were in kids. Yes, there was a D's nuts joke on Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992. Like, I don't, that's my first memory of them, but yeah, those jokes have survived forever. Oh my God. This episode of Ristid podcast brought to you by HBO Max. HBO Max isn't your mother streaming platform. It bundles all of HBO together with even more of your favorite movies,

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No, I refuse. I stopped watching like cable TV because I can't stand fucking commercials. So I stopped and it was. Well, don't fucking them. What's up? I don't wanna sidetrack this, but I have a question. Do you have a problem with commercials?

Like television commercials? Yes. No, do you? Well, I don't, but it's funny, like my kids only watch on demand stuff and they don't know what the fuck they want for their birthdays or Christmas. It's like, do you want transformers?

Like, I know. They have million things. Commercials are definitely how we trick kids into wanting shit. Yes. I have, I think it's an age thing. I have zero problem with commercials I never have I just pull my phone out like if I can't fast forward It's like I just pull my phone out use my phone or like I'm you didn't talk to me later that I didn't like them before streaming Was a thing like I've just oh, okay, I have like a weird relationship He's headed in television and people in my family. That's just like kind of an addition

I'm just like I don't fucking like TV. I just think it's a generational thing in, like the people that grew up accepting and understanding that commercials were just a part of, like it's how we pay for the shit that we watch. But it's the trade-off. It was always the trade-off growing up. And then now we live in a wonderful society

where you can buy an ad blocker and you never have to see commercials again. And then companies like Roostery go out of business for that. Thanks Also, I mean there's also other solutions right like what is it? What is it Hulu and I? Think HBO also have like or HBO Max have different tiers of Like subscription or yeah, no like no commercials for sure like I pay for the I pay for the special version of paramount plus So I can watch survivor without commercials But I subscribe to Paramount Plus just for air crash investigations or just for survivor

That's the only reason I have the Paramount Plus dude and by the way, do you like that? That is a clunky app, man I'm not crazy, but they like for the longest time you could not pin a show Yeah, so it's like if you wanted to watch a show, if it wasn't on the front page, you had to search for it every time. Like, you couldn't put, like, plus that way, it's on your screen, cause like, I'll let you watch this at one show.

It's like, I don't even fuck about the real world reunion or whatever else they got. Anything else I'm gonna do. Unless fuck is back. And man, I am all in. All in. How would they not fit? Like, I love how they still haven't figured out

how to make a good streaming app yet? Nobody just I mean everybody else. Yeah, just but copy like Netflix. I would assume like they've been in the game for I don't but nobody I'll try to find just give me a what were you just watching just put that up first That's what I whatever the series. Yeah, and then like below that things that you've added to your cue or your yeah Yeah, and then like below that, things that you've added to your cue or your whatever. Yeah, that should be the first thing. And then show me whatever, you know, suicide squad, whatever is coming.

But yeah, I don't, the only, my only thing with commercials, I got used to them in the span of like a normal 30 minute show or an hour long show. The only time I didn't like them was during like a football game. So where they felt like crazy, what, intrusive. Yeah, like every now and then, I feel weird anytime I do this,

but sometimes I won't watch a football game live, I'll record it. Then just watch it back, skipping all the commercials or all the downtime between places. Man, this is super, I just finished a football game in like an hour, or not even. It's like, I finished a football game in half an hour. If you watch the snaps, a football game,

take you like 18 minutes. Yeah, it's like, wow, this is great. I went to an Austin FC game this weekend and I didn't realize like when your live sports fly, like you're having fun, when you're watching it at home, it feels like an entire evening of your life just gone. It's a good time. It's also interesting how some sports are better in person and some I think are better on TV. Like football think are better on TV.

Like footballs definitely better on TV. Then go into a NFL game. It is the worst. But soccer is great. Soccer is fucking great. Baseball is great in person. I can not watch baseball on TV, but going in person? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's way more exciting, but yeah, it's just background noise on a TV. I've always had a kind of a rule against watching sports on television. Like even Super Bowl, like I've always just gone to the gym because there's something so wrong to me about watching these like awesome athletes doing their crazy shit and then you're just like sitting on the couch watching it happen, you know. Like if I'm in there at the stadium, like yeah this is cool, you know I'm like cheering for it or if I'm playing it then that's fine but like just watching it just bum some out

What about video games? Yeah, by that logic nobody should be watching this everybody right now stop watching Go go to a comedy club It's like you're hanging out with us, but you know, I don't know Maybe you can listen you can watch sports while you go for a run. I like watching them. I like watching them and not doing it. I like criticizing the athletes. I like doing all that.

I like criticizing the Olympians all that. And I can't like walk up three flights of stairs and not get winners. I love criticizing. Go to a sports event with Eric Bedouard some time. And you will, I don't know if you're like prone to cringing, but it's, you all eyes on the stadium will be on you.

Just by, he is like just fucking burning every single athlete that is on the field and you're just like, everybody hates me. Like everybody like this fucking guy, they hate this guy and it's, it's truly cool. I'm that guy too. We were watching the NBA Finals. It was one where the Houston Rockets were in the finals

and I wouldn't stop making fun of the Rockets. And finally, other guys, like one guy just got, he's like, I'm sorry guys, I gotta go watch this in another room. Damn. Left. We, years ago when UT was playing Alabama, was it the national championship?

Bernie rented out a screen at the Drafthouse for all of us to watch it. And guess who the asshole is that showed up rooting for Alabama? I told him before the game, don't invite me if you don't want me to come and root for my fucking team. I'm sorry I'm from Alabama. Maybe I shouldn't go and he's like, no, no, no, no, to be fine. They'll be other Alabama fans there. There weren't. It was a hundred and ninety-nine Texas fans and me and Colt McCoy goes down in the first thirty seconds because we blew on them too hard or something And then that was the whole night was Misurable and just was me going like this and see

Everyone was so fucking mad. And Jeff was the only one that you overjoyed person. You can't see her in that. Don't act like you were slinking down. Whoa, whoa, I'm not gonna, you're the way you just told a story, you said you were like this. I was like that until something happened.

You were wooing and clapping and standing up and cheering. I got support from my team, baby. It's a national championship. Don't act like you were just slinking. I was doing that too, but then something would happen. I got support by team, baby. It's a national championship. I was doing that too, but then something would happen. I'd be like another tester. But then I'd be like, all right, you guys hate me. That was the weirdest injury. Colt McCoy just decided to peace out.

Yeah, like he got hit in the side and like, that was like my career, sorry. Yeah, that felt like the Black Sox scandal or something. You got to, dude,. Who got to you? Because we were doing great for those 37. He was no shoeless judge accent. Have you been to a UT game like in a while or? I've been to a few years since I've been to one.

That is the most toxic fan base I've ever come across. Because like if they start losing like half time, either they're fucking gone or they're booing their own team. Yeah, it is a weird experience. Very fair weather. Because we live in Austin. There's too much other stuff to do. Well, we're not gonna or they're booing their own team. It is a weird experience. Very fair weather, because we live in Austin. There's too much other stuff to do. Well, we're not gonna, we're not gonna,

we're not gonna sit on the new UT game. It's, now they need kind. I got a season passes in my junior year of college, cause I was like, yeah, I ought to, and I was just like, don't go to the fucking playoffs. I want you to want to be done with this shit. I went to, you know, I went to school down in Houston at Rice, and Rice, at the time I went,

the undergrad, you can go for it. It's a very long. Like Rice, at the time I went, the undergrad, the graduating of like 2000, but the stadium, they built, for some reason, they built like a 60,000 person stadium. For Rice? Yeah, they had a Super Bowl there. And it's like, the undergrad population is like 2000. And the football team sucks.

So it's like, it was like playing, it was like watching a game during COVID times because it was like an empty stadium with like 40 people in it watching rice lose to Tulsa or some shit, you know, the Golden Hurricanes. Who sold it to? Was it Lyle Lannley, the mountain guy? Okay.

From the Sumps. You know, like sold them that stadium. When JFK gave his, we go to the moon speech, that was at Rice Stadium. Oh yeah. Was it really? Yeah. Well yeah, because he needed to talk to the people

who are actually going to make it happen. Yeah. God, I felt like more than one comic who went to Rice and like got a degree and they gave it up to do stand up. It's like maybe you might want to think about right, that rice degree again. So I guess I can fall back on my rice education. Yeah.

I guess I'll be an engineer or something. Hey, how did flying go? It was good. I took an introductory flight the other day on Friday. It was fun. I was supposed to go early in the morning, but I got a call from the instructor. He's like, hey, we need a delay. Can you push a little later in the day? There's clouds out. We can't fly because of clouds. He's like,

Yeah, you know, you can't fly through the clouds since, you know, you're not actually a rated pilot or anything. So we have to wait till the clouds go away. It's like, Oh, well, I guess that makes sense. What was the impetus to do this? Was it just curiosity? Was it a bit for work? I want to get a pilot license. Okay. And didn't wasn't't this something Bernie said he was gonna do for years? He said he was. Then he said, like insurance wouldn't cover him, but I think he just got bored with it. I always wondered that too, because I was like,

if Gus goes through and gets a pilot license, then I'll know Bernie was full of shit. But if you don't, then I guess he wasn't. Yeah, yeah, that's been no problem. So far, maybe I should ask my insurance people to make sure it's okay. But it was fine. Like, the whole process took about two hours. But really flying, you're only flying for like 30 or 40 minutes.

It's like a whole bunch of like checks and making sure everything's okay and paperwork and shit like that. Do you have like homework before? Or do they just like show up, and they get you up there and they're walking through. Yeah, I showed up. The guy like took my, you have to have a passport

for like TSA purchase purposes or whatever He like fills out some paperwork. He's like all right. Let's go get the plane and he's like walk out He's like all right You'd like we do a walk around like just look make sure everything's okay. All right get in here push that thing turn these lights on That's how you fly go is it like a hurt slot. Do you get to pick your plane? No, it's assigned ahead of tie I think they have it like booked out Okay, so it's like it's it's I already knew what you're also gonna take it's like a hurts a lot? Do you get to pick your plane? No, it's a sign to head a tire. I think they have it like booked out. Okay. It's like, it's, it's, I already knew what you're going to take.

It's like a little single engine. So, it's not. But it's cool. It's like, they gave me the option. They're like, you can either take off from a private airport out like off of 130 or take off from Austin, Berkstrom. I was like, look at it, you Austin, Berkstrom.

And did you take off? I taxied to the runway. Was that so scary? Yes, because I was terrible at it. I could barely stay on the taxiway. The guy was constantly having to correct the plane. He's like, you said real light touch with it. Is it like driver said that he's sitting there with like real brakes?

Well, he's also got controls. Okay. Yeah, so he's like, he's like, don't worry about it. He's like, let's do whatever. He's like, if I see you're doing anything bad, I'll just step in and make small corrections. Do you think the control,

the batteries were in your Xbox controller? I don't need more. I like the kid brother. Yeah, we took off from Austin, Bergstrom, flew out, did a couple of circles around downtown, flew out over Lake Austin, or like... How close to downtown, were you? I mean, right over it.

You went over the whole thing. It was 24, 25, 200 feet over downtown. So you have to be, right over it. You went over the whole thing. It was 24, 2500 feet over downtown. So you have to be a thousand feet above the tallest building, okay, which is 1300, 60 square feet. So it's 23, 60, so then you just round up to 25. That's why you do that. So you're about 2500 feet. Yes, is that exactly why you did a passport?

Is that why you stayed about, you stayed about 2500? Yeah, yeah, about 2500. At one point, we encountered another plane that was in a similar position we were. So we climbed to 3000 just to like create some separation Did you see any UAP's? No, I did not okay The coffee breaks asking what model it was a Sino 172 R This is your first time flying yeah, and they were they were like 80% of the flight was me like manipulating the controls He was like 80% of the flight was me manipulating the controls. He was like, I'll take care of the throttle.

That was just like one less thing for you to worry about. Just fly around. We were like flying. You see that water tower way off in the distance? Just fly straight towards that. You're able to go up. He's like, oh, that other plane was near us. He's like, just climb up to 3000 feet.

Here, let me give you a little more power on the throttle. So he let you actually climb and dip and all sorts of. Yeah. How intuitive is that? I played a lot of flight simulator. So, I mean, that parts intuitive, but it will say it was bad that I played a lot of flight simulator. Okay.

Because I played a few rounds of flight simulator. I'm kind of a pilot already. But I realized this that there's no resistance or feedback when you play like flight simulator. So the only way you can gauge what you're doing is by looking at the instruments. But when you're actually in the plane, there's like, you have to move it.

It takes physical power. And so that's why you're fucking uptaxing because you're just like, I was like, I was giving too much input. It's like, it really have to be gentle with it. Right. So I felt like that was, it was bad for that. Like I kept wanting to look at the instruments when I should have been looking out and looking around more.

I was so fucking stoked for Gus to go and I asked for his flight number. Or no, you gave me your flight number and then it ended up your flight number changed. I was telling Eric about this. I was like, yeah, like I went on the nap. I found flights that were taking off from Austin, Berkshire, and I found his time,

I found he was from Austin Berkshire, and I was following this flight, and I was like at the vet for my dog, and I was just watching this plane, I was like, there he goes, oh, Gus is doing his circle, Gus is doing, oh, that's great. As soon as he landed, I didn't want to take some mid flight. As soon as he landed, like, hey man, it took screenshots,

you did a great job, he's like, thanks, that was my flight. Yeah, I didn't know where the hotel you were at, you sent that, I was like, it was like an hour and a half that I was like, oh yeah, yeah,'t know where the hotel you were now. You sent that and I was like, Bro, it was like an hour and a half that I was like, Ah yeah, yeah, he's always climbing out to you now. Oh, a barrel roll on his first day. I was telling you, Eric, it would have been a great setup. Like, I mean, this has been bad,

but if that flight had crashed, I would have been convinced. Oh, God's dead. You need to be calling people. I don't want to be the one to tell you this. But God's the fuck you dead. You just wanted to be the first one to know. Yeah. You wanted to be one of those bad news people.

One of the herdingers. This is his Tesla, so. But it's like, to do it's only like 150 bucks, which I know is like, it's not super cheap, but it's not like, but that's the biggest. That's dude, that's less than I paid a jet ski. Really?

Yeah, I paid 200 bucks an hour to jet ski or so. Oh, 100 bucks an hour. So 200 bucks or two hours. It'll like rent while. Yeah. So if you're ever thinking about it, just do like, they call it introductory flight. Just go fucking do it.

So what's next for you? So I enrolled, start taking private pilot lessons, but there's a little bit of a waiting list. I have to wait to get assigned an instructor. So they said it could be a couple of weeks before I get an instructor assigned and actually begin an earnest. You need to start talking to Bernie's insurance now. So they said it could be a couple of weeks before getting a instructor assigned and actually begin an earnest. You need to start talking to Bernie's insurance now.

Got my own insurance. Those planes scare these, those little single engines, I'm just like, I just assume the way that I do it every time. When I first took off, like the first two or three minutes, it was like absolute terror. Yeah. Because it's like, oh shit, there's wind. Like you can feel like you're like moving around. Because like in a big plane, like when you're flying like Southwest or whatever, it's like, oh shit, there's wind. Like you can feel like you're like moving around

because like in a big plane, like when you're flying like Southwest or whatever, it's like, yeah, whatever. It's pretty smooth. This is like, oh no, there's a breeze out and it's pushing us. So this is the start of a journey for you. It sounds like, maybe, yeah, I'd like to, I'm excited to fly a little more.

That's really cool. It was, it was, it was really so much fun. That's awesome. Now in black box, you're gonna be able to say like, I have a pilot. Well, I can't write it was it was really so much fun. That's awesome. Now in black box, you're going to be able to say like, I have a pilot. Well, I can't write. Not a commercial. If you speak from a position of experience and authority. Having spent 30 minutes of piloting assessment with someone else managing the throttle. No, next year or something, when you might have a driver's permit, I don't know what they call them. And yeah, yeah,

yeah, I don't know how long it'll take up. So we'll see once I get the instructor, we'll see how long it'll take to get to. You can be like people who study to broad, you know, weighing in on Brexit. I was in London for a semester. Here's the thing you need to know about shipping channels. That flew over the Suez Canal. I looked out. I saw it. How long does it take to get your pilot flight? Like if you want to go for it. They said it's up to how fast you can study and take the test.

How fast you can pass like different exams and whatnot. I've heard of people doing it like within a couple months. Oh wow. It takes like a year. And that's a certain level of license, right? Yeah, it's like, this private part, like you can charge people to like give them rides, right? You gotta go to some sort of a school

to learn a different tier. Seven, three, seven, seven. Then you gotta like rent an airplane or if you buy one, aren't they like the price of like a luxury car? They're fucking expensive. Like a nice car? What do you think a luxury car costs?

I'm fucking broke, so. Well, we're not, we're not spending your money. We're just 70 grand. 80, I don't fucking know. So I looked online. I drive a 95 Jeep that's like, I am surprised it's still going. The plane that I flew was a single engine Cessna.

It was built in 1998. I looked online to find, I was curious, like you. For insurance purposes. I was like, what's a comparable, if I was to buy something comparable to that, how much would I pay? It was about $130 to $140,000. Yeah, that's a lot.

That's like five jet skis. Yeah, that's a lot. And that's not something you want to scamp on. Right, that's also a 98. If you want like a brand new one off the factory like never been flown it's like $430,000. For a single engine like that's like a luxury house. Sessna. But yeah, it's a they're fucking expensive. So rent. Okay, got it. Well then because then once you if you buy then you got to store it. I mean you can't just fucking park it in your garage.

You got to like probably rent a hanger. You got to you got to buy it. And I'm assuming you can't just fucking park it in your garage. You got a, you got to probably rent a hanger. You got to, you got to pay someone for maintenance. It's like you don't want to skip on your oil change or buy your own gas. Right. That's just not cheap stock pair shoots on the regular. Yeah. Yeah, it's a, it's fucking expensive.

That's cool. What's for you, man? How'd it be? That's fine. I'm telling everyone, if you're at all curious, everyone should try it. If you got 150 bucks. This episode of the RESTeed podcast

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It was worth it just for like I had one experience that made the entire thing worth it. We were coming back into land, like I say, we flew out of Austin, Bergstrom, which is the airport here in Austin. And you can hear the towers, the instructors talking to them the whole time. And there was a Southwest flight that was waiting to take off and they had to wait for us to land. It's like, oh, that's cool.

Yeah, they were like, stop short of the runway and I could see them like coming into land. Like, that's right, mother fuckers, you all have to wait because I'm using the runway right now. That's like hundreds of some people that you just can convenience their lives. So when we have Mr. Flight, because you think about that,

that happens to you all the time. You don't realize it. When you're going to take off the plane stops and starts before you finally take off a bunch of times. I'm saying it's just you and your fucking ses, not your filing, dude. Yeah. They're telling a loaded Delta flight.

You got to wait. There's a plane that has the student driver. It's gonna fucking land. Yeah, we know. We know the ditch. Take a while. But yeah, just for that, it was like, that's pretty fucking cool.

I think it's really cool to me that someone of your advanced age can find something. Oh. Can find like a new passion and a new interesting thing. You know, to get into in your 40s, like how much time do you have left? That's true.

And but you're still like, you're still, you're still consuming life. I'm still young. I still got a lot to go. I love it. I can't imagine, I was sitting here trying to think of when you and I were first becoming friends, right? And those early, early, pre-rish days,

when we were just hanging out, the fucking, making six bucks an hour at Tele Network. I did not see me at 46 being Lake Trash and you at 44 being a pilot. What's funny is, that plane I flew was brand new when we were hanging out. We made so good. Oh my God, that's true, yeah.

That was the year we met. That's funny. I liked somebody in the chat, they said, I've seen a session elisted for 30K, but like, yeah, maybe not on Craigslist is where you live. You want to buy a fucking airplane? I probably needed work.

Okay. But yeah, I learned a lot even in that like a little bit of time with Instructor. It's just a lot of stuff I never thought about. It's really interesting. Well, and it'll give you a new perspective for Black Box down. Yeah.

And all seriousness it will, you know. Yeah, absolutely. I think it's gonna be nerve-wracking a bit, Well, it'll give you a new perspective for Black Box down. Yeah. And all seriousness it will, you know. Yeah, absolutely. I think it's going to be nerve-wracking a bit, but it'll be fun. I'll have content to talk about. That's great. Yeah. Contents good.

I bet you'll buy a plane someday. No, God no, that's so expensive. That's so expensive. I've got a house. Maybe I'll sell my house, I can buy a plane. Never know. Live in the plane. It'll be like, oh, it got some...

Did you see that boat? It was called a house boat or something spare room? It's like the yeah, it's like this legendary yacht that some guy bought but couldn't afford to tow and he just got stuck on the side of the Fucking road and it was just there for like a while right that yeah, I thought that was you Because you big lake guy now there was another boat stuck off a 35 over the weekend I saw like right here by the office like 35 and St. John or some or the the turnaround up over there. Yeah, there's like just another boat in the middle of the access road Did boats cost plain money? My dad is not cheap. We used to own old like I think like pontoon boat

I don't know but my dad said that the the best day of a boat owner's life Is the day you buy a boat and the day you sell a boat. Yeah, it's just, they're a fucking pain in the ass. Listen, just sit. My cousin and his husband, they have one and they use it to their credit all the time. But yeah, it's like buying a second house. Those things.

So, and then, like, their boat has, it holds 250 gallons of gas. And so it costs a thousand dollars to fill it up every time they need to put gas in it because four bucks a gallon. Damn. Thousand dollars just to write it. I'm a fucking idiot. Is boat fuel the same as get car fuel? Yep, just on lead, just boom, you can go to the...

Oh, you can just plug it into the... I have no idea. I think it's probably a mixture with diesel, I would think, but I don't even go to the... Oh, you could just plug it into the... I have no idea. I have no idea. I think it's probably a mixture with diesel, I would think. But I don't know. All right. Yeah, Jetsky's are not cheap either. Like, I can't afford a Jetsky. That's been determined.

We were on a shoot. You're on this Jetsky thing, man. I was Jetsky yesterday, dude. I was in the water yesterday. They're awesome. That's right. I go every weekend. Wait, so what's the current

Lady Bird Lake I'm assuming? You're gonna Lake Travis. Uh, Lake Austin. Okay. Lady Bird, you can't have any motorized vehicles on. I'm never seen. It's all paddleboard. Yeah. Lake Austin is up to is like from there up is like from Redbud up to Mansfield damn and then Lake Austin Lake Travis is the other side of Mansfield damn. Got it. What's what's the current, like, cleanliness situation? Lake Austin's awesome. Yeah, awesome. It's not dirty at all. Lady Bird Lake looks like a trash pile. Yes.

Yeah, I was very excited to start getting into paddle boarding earlier in the year and then all the rains came and now it's just, it looks, it's just Chick-fil-A rappers all over downtown. If you've not been to town lake, Lake Lake, it's gross, dude. If you want to get in the water, yeah. I would never get in that water to begin with, but.

Lake Austin's great. Although, I will say, this is gonna make it sound not great. But not this last time, but a couple of weeks ago, we went with Gavin and we were jumping waves off of boats, or jumping wakes off of boats. And we were in this part, pretty far down kind of near like Steiner Ranch. And I hit a fucking, Emily and I hit a wave,

and we went in the air, we came down, and I looked over the left, and there was a hoof sticking out of the water. And there was an entire dead deer just floating in the middle of like Austin. We came about four feet from hitting it. Wow. Which was kind of crazy.

That would have exploded on bedpack. Yeah. Because I did float it to the top because of the gases in its body I'm assuming. Yeah, it's like in Alabama where I grew up. You would wait for dead dogs on the side of the road to get really full and then you chuck rocks at them to see if they'd pop.

Bro. It's kind of like that I assume. What the fuck? That's fucked. Would they pop? I've never done it, but I mean, I grew up with kids that did that kind of stuff, yeah. Damn.

Get her next box. Jesus. And this, I mean, this was what you did in the 80s and 90s. I grew up with kids that did that kind of stuff, yeah. Damn, get her next box. Jesus. I mean, this was what you did in the 80s and 90s. You're in the 80s, man. Yeah, you had to make your own fun. Super Mario 3's not out yet. Wanna go blow some dogs up? Yeah, it's like, what?

Dogs dead. What are we, what are we gonna do with it? Don't throw shit at it. That's why I do it and appreciate you guys looping me in with the old men group. I might have appeared, but I'm not, that's fucking it. I'm throwing rocks at dead dogs old.

That's not old as much as it is just trashy southern redneck. Yeah, gotcha. The best. I was posting. I did a thing like that. I was just bored and I thought I just had the, I was probably eight years old. And I just sat in a neighbor's driveway

because they had like a crushed stone driveway and I just threw rocks at cars. You piece of shit. And I just sat in a neighbor's drive because they had like a crushed stone drive where I just threw rocks at cars. You piece of shit. And then, yeah, it's just like, just a fucking shitty little kid. And he, and finally one of them stopped, you know, and squealed them and I ran across the street right into my house.

And then, not, not, not, not. And to this day, I'm like, why didn't I just run into a neighbor's yard? I could have just hopped for this. And yeah, I got in trouble. For some reason when I'm imagining young Brian Gar, I just run into a neighbor's yard? I could have just hopped fences and yeah, I got in trouble. For some reason when I'm imagining young Brian Gar, I still see the little beard in just like a little face. You're like, your face and your head is all still the same,

just done a little kids body. Your eight year old has already gone through puberty two years ago. So, I was throwing rocks at my car, man. Yeah. Did you do the ad to pay for it? Well, we were the repercussions. I don't think it was like, I think it was mine. I don't remember having to get like,

but I embarrassed my pay, you know, but it was like, I got in major trouble. You brought shame to your fans. Yeah, exactly. Not the last time. I shamed a couple of my neighbors. I was telling Gus about this. I was really stoked about it

because I'm a new homeowner and I'm like, yeah, I take pride in my house except for my yard looks like shit, according to Gus. But, you were supposed to hear that. Yeah, I had a song. Side and I'm like, yeah, I take pride in my house, except for my yard looks like shit, according to your guess. But I'm supposed to hear that. Yeah, I'm gonna be inside of your house, maybe. It was my house. Yeah, thank you.

So, mountain magerage, working out, and I see this couple walking by, dudes carrying two kitchen chairs and his girlfriend partner or whatever, is carrying one kitchen chair. So, they must be going to a house party, you know, and the next receipts. And they walk back by and they're like,

purposely avoiding contact with me. And they don't have the kitchen chairs. And I was like, maybe I know one of them and they're just gonna talk. I don't know what the fuck's going on. Couple minutes passed by, they drive by. And I was like, what the fuck? So I like look outside and they had just left

their kitchen chairs out on the corner of our street. And I was like, they had put the chairs in their car, dumped them there, and we're taking off. I don't know. So that's where I was like, I was just talking to my security cameras. What the fuck's going on? Because I'm very curious, and I'm bored. So then the day goes by, I'm out in my garage working on something, and then they drive by again, and I look at them, and then I look at the chairs, and then I look at them, and then they just go again and I look at them and then I look at the chairs and then I look at them and then they just go like they'll look away from me and then

I kind of noted where they lived. That sounds like really threatening and awful but anyways. I was like I'll give them 24 hours. The chairs aren't picked up or if they don't you know fucking fix their mistake then I'm gonna do something about it. So then 24 hours pass chairs are still there and I was like man fuck this fuck this, like, that's a bad precedent. You know, like, someone was just like leaving their sofa, sorry, whatever. So like, I'd finished my workout at night, went over, grabbed the chairs, and I just like, brought them over to their house,

and I left them a notice that it could be a dick and call the H-O-A, but I'm not gonna just don't leave your garbage around the line of your head. Look at you, it's mine. Oh! So I felt very proud of it. And then Blaine found out it was both pickup, and they were just putting their leave your garbage room. I never had. Look at you. It's my neighborhood. So I felt very proud. And then Blaine found out it was both pickup. And they were just putting this. No, they picked up by the city of London.

No, we have both pickup days. There's designated areas. You put those. These are just two renters. You don't take pride in their neighborhood. You will learn to hate neighbors after you have a house because of just like, yes, stuff they do. This lady sits on, she's like retired, I guess.

And she just sits on our tree line, we share a fence. In the back, she sits on the tree line and just clips. And she every time I see her, she'll lecture me that I need to like clear the fence line because they're like, little trees growing up. But I'm like, well, that's half your side too. And she every time she'll say, and she'll throw the cuttings over into my side. Like, what the fuck? Do that.

Like, come on. And she's like kind of a little out of it, but like she knows what she's doing. That's what I'm talking about. And she came over and knocked on my door during the freeze, because they're pipes at birth. And she wanted to spray with the hose. She wanted to know if I could shut off the,

the, the, the, you know, the water at the street and I said, no, I don't know how. And I did know how, but she shouldn't have fucked her hand on the fence line. Like too bad, too bad. Maybe you shouldn't have, maybe you should have been nice. She'd have been a little nicer about this clipping. She might still have plumbing.

Yeah, don't throw the cuttings into my yard. It made me look like a pumpkin front of my kids. Anyways, I'm just the guy who's gonna let that happen. Having seen her since February and her house smells real bad. I don't know what's going on. I'm sure it's all fine. She's kidding. I tried to help her and I had no fucking idea to do it.

It was like freezing and like, it was like filled with, I was like, yeah, I don't know, you're gonna have to call the city. She was like, we tried. I'm like, well, this interaction is over. So. Good luck. Yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a wild time. I'm sure like, because especially when you have to shut off your water, sometimes you need that special key or like that special tool to do. I thought one of those after that. Right. It's like, you never

have that when you need it. It's like, there's an emergency like, fuck, I need one of those. Oh, I got to go to the, I gotta go to the hardware store or in that case, I can't do that. Oh no, it was fucking, you couldn't get there because the ice and then it was also sold out. Right, no one had those in stock. I got my boyfriend. Yeah, yeah.

I keep one by my bed, and it's my equivalent sleeping with a gun under the pillow or something. Well, I have the water main key. You could fuck someone up with that. Did you guys all lose water? I did not. I turned mine off intentionally after filling up all my things because I think that they recommended it.

I also didn't want my pipes first. Yeah. I lost electricity for 72 hours, but I maintain gas. Okay. So do you guys lose electricity as well? We live near a St. David South. So like for some, that's the only reason we think it would stay on. Yeah, that's awesome. I don't live near a St. David South, so like for some we that's the only reason we They can't stay on. I don't live near anything and I kept electricity. I have no idea why I

Think I we did as well and I think it might be MoPak because I live near kind of near MoPak Okay, or the hospital. There's a hospital over there. Maybe if you live near a hospital, that's probably yeah No, it might be a fire station. It might be too far from the hospital. I don't know. Yeah, I have no idea. Like, so lucky. I lost power, I think, for 30 minutes one day. And I was like, like the first day I was like,

oh, that's it, we don't have it. And it came back and I was like, oh, okay. That was weird. It would have been a cool experience if I wasn't freaking out about something in my house fucking busting. But like, I like camping. I can last in the cold and I got my dog

and we just like, we just filled our time with chores and it was fine and it was snow. But I was just constantly fucking afraid that I was just gonna like have a pipe burst. Yeah, it sucks for you. It's also your relatively new homeowner. Yeah, so there's a lot of fun. It's mysterious.

There's a lot of unknowns that you're dealing with. And you're about to find out how well they built your house. Yep, yep. And then find out what well they built your house. Yep, yep. I'm not finding out what corners they cut. Yep, yeah. I'm finding out for real fast. You'll get to have someone come out and they'll be like, who did this to your roof?

And you're like, I just fucking need you. I don't know. I don't know. I totally have. They're treating you like a son. Some people look a lot like you, who I also paid money to. A lot, yeah.

Yeah, a lot. But good news, that fear never goes away. Yeah. And the problem's never goes away. Yeah. And the problems never subside. I still need to find someone to fix my roof after the storm's back in March. Like, like, I call places and they're like, yeah, we're not taking on any work. Call us back in three months or they're like, their phones just picked up and hung up. I like as soon as you call them.

Yeah. They don't mean everyone's just still overworked. It's been months. We had to get a guy. We had a raccoon stuck up in the attic. He got it because of those storms. It blew off some, you know those spinny things on top of your, it blew off that blew off.

And I found it in my yard and I was like, I just forgot about it. I was like, oh, you don't need this garbage anymore. So there's just an open thing. And so yeah, like this raccoon got in. And you hear it. And it's like, God damn. So yeah, they trapped him and brought any brought it out. He's like, it was just a juvenile. Fucking wild animal. Get it out of here. Throw it in that old lady's yard. What? Be in a teen. Yes. But he was like kind of acting like it was just

in here. Make it sound scary. They might have rabies. Yeah. I used to rent a house out off of Lake Austin Boulevard, and it was by a restaurant and by a grocery store. So we had lots of like roaches and pests. A good restaurant that you never went to. Yes. It's a terrible restaurant.

Good restaurant. And so as a result, we had to hire like a pest control person to like spray and like kind of keep things under control. And it was a result, we had to hire like a pest control person to like spray and like kind of keep things under control. Yeah. And it was a peer and beam house and one night I was going to really go to sleep and I could hear something scratching under the floor. Like fuck.

Yeah, like it's like, so I could like get outside and I look around and like one of those greats has been chewed through and it's like a real small hole like it's probably a rat under the house. Like it's probably stuck down there chewing. So I call the pest control person, and like a schedule, they're supposed to come out the next day. Next day pass, this no one came out, so I have to call back again.

And the pest control person is like, oh, the rat's still there? I was like, yeah, he's like, I really don't like rats. I really don't want to go deal with it. But you're the exterminator, you're the pest control person. You, you, this was part of the... Go back to college, man. You're nothing if you don't like rats. It's like, I don the pest control person. You, you, this was part of the, go back to college then, if you don't like me. It's like, I don't like roaches.

Right, you're, or it's like going to the bank and the teller's like, I don't like to handle money. Yeah, yeah. It's like, this is one of the things that people call you for. It's like, yeah, I guess I'll come out. Is that an option? Can you just not come out?

Did you ever tell on, I sure you did did. I'm podcast the story of your car on that location. Yes. Uh, we're got egged. Yeah. And you just left it there for after you moved, you left it there for how long? Like six months. The car? Yeah. Like, they were just silent. We'd go check on it every once in a while. And there'd just be signs like, the further love of God moved this car, please. You're because they would egg it. So you came to challenge this car, please. They would ag it. So you came to challenge the Y. Yeah, right.

I'm gonna move my car. It's parked on a public street, legally parked on a public street. Like no one owns the curb. You can park if it's a legal spot. You can park and leave your car wherever the fuck you want. For as long as you want. Right. Did you drive it?

Was it just a beater that you just didn't want it like? What was this? Why were you just parking? If I remember right, the air conditioner didn't work in that car anymore and it was summer and I didn't want to drive it because it was hot as fuck. I had that same thing. Yeah. So I left it there and eventually when it cooled down,

I went back and got it. It was like, it was in the transition period where like I had just gotten, I just gotten to Prius I think, like the new car. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I was like, I'm going to drive this. It's like, and I'm going to sell that car, but it's too hot to sell. And no one's going to want to buy, like I had to sell it, but no one's going to want to buy car with a broken air conditioner in the summer.

I'll go get it in fall. Covered it eggs. Yeah, when it's cooler. And then I'm selling. And then, but did you eventually sell it? I did, yeah. I saw that car once. I sold it.

Then one time when our office was still down south off of a Ralph Abel NATO, I went to the Chick-fil-A that was down there. And that car was in the drive-through of the Chick-fil-A. Oh, did I have the same license plate? Yeah, I was like, oh, shit, that's the car that had the ex on it. And it pretended to not see. Yeah, yeah.

It had a bunch of chairs in the back. Yes, it's weird when you see a car that you've sold. It's like, oh, yeah, that used to be mine, but if I get in it now, I'd be arrested. Yeah, it's like I used to always, we used to always see my first wife's echo all the time. I still remember the license plate. I do not remember it.

And don't say it on the podcast. Yeah, I would. I do. Because we would see it all the time. I can say it with each other. Vanity plate that has a recognizable, no, it's just a license plate. Yeah, I do. Because we would see it all the time. So we could say each other. Vanity plate that has a recognizable. No, it's just a license plate. No, no, no.

You learn to sense danger to avoid it. Oh, okay. Got you a different reason for knowing it. You gotta, it's gotta be careful. Yeah, I saw my dad's truck after he'd sold it on the news one time. I think it was like a murder and it was like, oh, this dad's truck.

And then it like, I brought him in. He's like, I asked him a truck. He'd sold it. I remember one time like when I was a murderer. That's not a murder. Yeah's like, I had some a truck. It sold it. I remember one time when I was a... That's not a murder. Yeah, a lot of success. Sixth stock, sixth stock. When I was a kid, my family had this white olds mobile.

It was a Delta 88. I had one of those with the first car. So I never drove. I was a little kid. My family was like the family car. And eventually my family treated it in. They got a mini van or something. And I remember a couple of years later,

I saw our old family car being towed somewhere or something. And I grew up in a really small town. So I asked my dad, oh, look, that's our old car, right? He was, oh yeah, sold it to so-and-so. They were driving down the road, then they threw it in a reverse while they were driving and the transmission fell out of it. So now they're taking it to the junkyard to go get rid of it.

And like, being a kid, I was like, I was kind of sad. I was like, oh, that used to be our car. And now it's gonna go get destroyed because someone was driving it and put it into reverse while driving. Like, it's not the car's fault. And now it's gonna be like crushed down for no reason. Like it was really sad to me when I was a little kid.

That is sad. Yeah. I had an adult date, that was my first car. I was at UT and I drove it and the transmission went out right off, I was driving on Willow Creek right off Riverside Drive coming home from more in the transmission just, and so I parked it, but it was like near the bus stop and the city was like, you've got to move this. And eventually got it fixed and yeah, I sold it to and never saw it.

But on the way driving it to the guys house who I sold it to, I was like, please, just please make it to this guys house. You know, and then it's his problem. And it's his fucking problem. Yeah. These cars are such a crap shoot. Ah, the worst. Mine's been fine.

It's good. That's good. I think like these cars that were talking about like, there was a period of time was like things hadn't been figured out yet. It was an 80s American car. Like it was a period in time where things hadn't been figured out yet. It was an 80s American car. Yeah. Yeah. Like it was a crap shoot.

Like it was like a 1984 I think and it was like I was really bad at negotiating to the guy. I was like I never sold anything and the guy was like what's the lowest you'll go and I gave him a number and then when he got there I decided that that was too low and he was like would you told me 200? And I said, I was just talking. That was like, what? That's the first time I got stabbed.

He was so pissed. I'd be so pissed if that happened to me. He was so mad, but he went to an ATM to get the other two. I wouldn't do any bucks. I held that for. Out of spite. My roommate was like, what do you mean you were just, like my roommate was siding with the guy I sold it to. And now you're roommates is best friend.

You haven't talked him in 20 years. His name was Winston and his license plate. We followed him back and his license plate said no limits with a Z at the end when we thought when we drove back to his place. Yeah. Nice. Sorry, Winston. Sorry. I tried to low bar Squeeze an extra 20 bucks out of it. That's a lot of money You probably had that much in gas in it. Oh, like a max. Yeah, I mean when you're in college

Yeah, 20 bucks was huge I remember when I first moved to Austin. God This is it really gonna be the old man section of podcasts when. When first moving to Austin, I used to fill up, at used to be a diamond shamrock off of Old Torf and Montopolis, I think. And I got mad because eventually, I was no longer paying 98 cents a gallon. Like I remember when it went over a dollar.

And I was like, God damn, fucking rip off. It was like it went from 98 cents to a buck three. And like gas never went back below a dollar again. That was it. Yeah, that was it. It was like the end of an era. Yeah, do when I was in high school. It's gonna make me settle.

When I was in high school, gas was like 68 cents. Whoa. You could still get it in the 60s. And then it was in the 70s most of my childhood. But I still remember paying like 67, 60 cents for gas. Okay, is this crazy? My parents will do this thing every now and then, where they'll be like gas prices are too high.

We're only gonna put $10 in, and then we're gonna wait it out. And then, you do that as well, or do I feel every time? Do I do that now? No, but people used to do that back in the day. Okay, my family would do that shit. I guess that that is like a, you know,

you're tightening the belt and stuff like that. And I should probably appreciate that my parents were saving money and putting me, you know, through stuff. But yeah, it's just always like struck me as weird. It's just like you're gonna pay for that time because you're gonna drive off, you're gonna burn through that $10 and then you have to go back. And it's just like just fucking do it while you're there.

Yeah, but did you enjoy the roof over your head and all the electricity that they paid for? What about that food you were eating? Yeah, listen, I did that. I'm saying that because I literally did that this week. It was like over, it was like 320. And I was like a half a tank will do. I'm not gonna, really?

Yeah, I'm not made of money. Like I'm gonna wait until it's somewhere like under $3 and then we'll fill it up. Okay, yeah, then we'll talk. Yeah, mine it's a key. $3 and then we'll fill it up. Okay, yeah, then we'll talk. Yeah. I, mine it's, it's a, Can we work for inside gaming? Like, it's not like I got to save my money.

Mine is mostly convenience. If the pump is too slow, I get bored and I'll stop it. And I'm like, I'm gonna be here for the rest of my life pumping this fucking gas. Six bucks is great. And then for like 30 bucks. What seconds? Yeah, and then I'll be like,

this is a problem for tomorrow, Jeff. Yeah, then you're just creating four work. It's even more than you do. It's in lost time. I feel like I'm going crazy. They're every Jeff hates tomorrow Jeff That yeah, no totally tomorrow you mean tomorrow Jeff hates every every previous Jeff He's got it. He's got hit. I hate tomorrow Jeff, too, because I know what he's doing to me. Is it this one down here? I don't know man. No, you hate yesterday Jeff. Oh, I'm not I'm not a fan of any of them, but yeah Today Jeff's alright No, you hate yesterday Jeff. I'm not a fan of any of them, but yeah. Today Jeff's all right. I can't talk about thing that I'm doing this week.

Yeah, on 26th. HB of Max, there are gonna be one is to have a little suicide squad watch party. And it's gonna be me Elise. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh yeah, I told them that I would talk about it if they would give me a shark man costume. What is this on?

The shark guy, you know, he's like, I saw Eric with it. I was like, is he holding that up to me? Like, what the? No. I'm the king shark guy from the, you know, the suicide. Wait, what now I know?

The 26. It's the 26 and it's at 4.30 p.m. central and we're gonna be doing like a pizza watch party the suicide. I've already seen the movie, but I may watch it. Yeah. I've been with you guys. Can I text you jokes? Absolutely, because then I'll steal them

and I just won't give you credit. Where did Blame go? I'm like, I'm the King Shark guy. And now, now, away? I don't remember his name. I saw, I already watched it. I'm actually really stoked to watch it again. I didn't really, that was a funny dude.

Yeah, it was funny. That, it was really, really good. I thought the King Shark was a great character in that film. Yeah, he's very depressing. There's moments where you're just like, poor guy. He just wants to eat.

Yeah, yeah, he just wants friends. He just wants to see him for some more. But yeah, so it's gonna be me, Elise, Lindsey, and I feel like, I wanna say Matt Brun. I think I have it at this point here. Do you wanna say it that way? It is Matt. Brun.

Matt, Brun. And we're gonna have a Bingo cards that if you wanna fall along and like, I think I have it at this time here. Do you want to say it that way? It is Matt. It's Matt. Matt, Matt, Matt. And we're going to have a Bingo cards that if you want to like fall along and like, you know, engage with us, we're going to be playing Bingo with Suicide Squad. It's going to be a lot of fun. I think if you haven't seen the movie, you should absolutely watch it. So it's a great movie. And it'll be fun to watch it with you guys.

Yeah. So, yeah, I was really surprised at how much I liked it and I definitely want to watch it again Now that I've seen it once already to to now that I know what's gonna happen There's a code that I have to read because I don't remember but is HBO M. AX slash watch TSS it's all over case. I think they're probably gonna listen. Yeah, yeah, I could not remember that But yeah, come join us. It'll be a lot of fun. And I'm just talking at least. I mean, it's not he's seen her in James and a while. So yeah, it's been really, um, right for, right

for comedy. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, it's good. It's nervous about it. I need to like actually catch it. I still haven't watched all coming. I might be a little nervous for you. At least is very funny. Yeah, very talented. James is very fun. Lindsay's very funny. You're going to be amongst some very funny people. I feel like you're implying that I'm not funny. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that. I'll be texting you jokes. You'll get them 45 seconds late because of the stream delay. I'm going to be good to go. Also, Gus has got like three good jokes a year. Yeah. I've already seen the movie so I have some prep. Oh, that's good. I can be ready. Good. So wait. So yeah, well thanks to HBO Max. Thanks to the short costume. I appreciate costume appreciate it goes sign up come join us

It is yeah, it's a lot of fun Sounds like a fun event like at least it's gonna be there being very funny and Lindsey would be there being very funny and blame will be there and it sounds like good There's gonna be pizza and bingo That's all I'm there for I'm funny people Ambling I'm funny people. I'm funny people. And believe. I'm not pizza. I could go over some pizza. This is fucking, this is warm. This is real warm. Like you got real warm, real fast.

You don't, you don't have to wear it. You're not actually King Shark. I'd like to believe that I am. I never knew sharks had cut off sleeves. So yeah. Show it off the gun. Can the shark flex? Oh yeah, let's see the shark flex.

Yeah. I actually, oh, do look like the King Shark guy. Yeah. I don't know about that, but you okay? You just painted me blue. If you were to eat a pizza right now, like any pizza in the world, well, any pizza with an awesome, what would you pick?

Like, you said, oh, I kinda want pizza now. I know you're living the vegan lifestyle, so. Oh, if I mean a vegan pizza, Vio313 has the best. Vegan pizza? Option, I think. But if you were just like having a normal box standard pizza, you think of what like home slice pepperoni and mushroom

or yeah, either pepperoni or pepperoni and mushroom. Okay, although I could be convinced you pepperoni jalapeno. I don't like to eat pizza without jalapenos. Yeah, it's really. Yeah, it's home slice all the way from home slice. Home slice, V313. There's side pies.

Eastside pies can go eat my butt. Whoa, I do not like it. Touch the neck. It tastes like they make it on saltine crackers. I saw Vio313. There's the side pies. I don't know if you can go eat my butt. Whoa. I do not like it. Touch the nose. It tastes like they make it on salting crackers. It is so thin. It is. I like that.

I understand what Laine's talking about. I like it. Yeah, I like it. But the problem with these side pies is if you don't eat it within the first 20 minutes, it's not any good. It goes bad fast. After the freeze back in February, I went, like when everything thought out and like you could, like businesses were starting to reopen,

I placed an order, like an online order for pizza from East Side Pies, the one here by the studio. And I went and went to go pick it up. And there was a line that went down out towards airport and then down airport. To get, like, even if you had already placed your order online, that was the line you had to stand in. It's like a breadline. This are all people who have been stuck in their houses for a week and they're all like, we can finally get out.

I want to eat a fucking pizza. Dude, I've made the transition from home slice to via through and through, you know? I think I just, I'm into that Detroit style pizza. It's good. It's good. It is really good. But million, I just went, we had like a daddy daughter vacation and we went to Chicago for a couple of days and we ate pretty much nothing but deep dish pizza there, which I've never been a huge fan of.

What is your opinion? I am so fucking in love with Chicago deep dish pizza after that trip and I wish we had it in Austin. I always hear if you get it in Chicago, you know, if you get the real deal, you'll love it. Okay. I'm going to have another hot take. What did you feel of Luminati's? Did you eat there?

That's like the one that you go to. I didn't eat there, no. Luminati's. They control the world and I make pizza. Now there's a place called like Luminati's. And I think that it's a plan of Luminati. Yeah, and I was told when I went to Star Wars Celebration, that's like the Chicago pizza place to go to.

Fuckin hated it. We just went to, we just like popped into whatever was around. It was a lot of poloos of that weekend, so it was kind of crazy. You should've been doing that, huh? We're still doing that, huh? Yeah, they had, it was all of Chicago. Dude, I've never seen so many people clothed only in glitter in my life.

It would be like nine in the morning on a Friday, and then it was like, oh no, it's a rave, a walkin' down the street. It's just an embarrassment of flesh. It was kind of awesome, but it was just insane. Probably not when you're hanging out with your daughter though. I feel like that would be. Yeah, I think it was pretty awkward for both of us.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, I've been to Chicago a million times and had deep dish, but just something about it was great this time. No, I want it. We used to have Mondja here. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. We still do? Yeah, we wanted that one too.

Where is the manga? It's about burning. Yeah, burning. About burning? Oh, look at that. Yeah, that's, so wait, is the only difference between Chicago and Detroit is it's the circle in the square? No.

Very different. Is it thicker bread on a Chicago? On a Detroit, the sauce goes on top. Yeah, the same thing. And Detroit's pizza, it's like spongy bread with the sauce and everything kind of all on the very top layer. Chicago's like a pie almost. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like a pie that's, and they call it a pie. Oh, so it's like, is it a thinner crust but with more stuffing? Yeah, more shit. It's a ton of shit and it takes longer to cook. The North of the domain, like between the domain and that St. David's hospital that's up there. Oh really?

Yeah, it's up right there. That's not too bad. Yeah, the one I always think of was the one that was down here on Guadalupe. And then there was the other one. The good one was on Lake Austin, yeah. They got divorced, I think. It was a divorced family thing.

Oh really? Yeah. The Godzilla that used to be on the manga on the drag is now on top of Weatsville. Yes, that's right. The manga used to be right across from Weatsville, where VIA 313 is now. I never thought about that to right now.

That's something we would probably cover in the Old Men Talk about Austin podcast. If you ever see the Godzilla on Weatsville and you think why is there a Godzilla on a fancy grocery store, it's because it used to be at a pizza restaurant. It also made no sense. I pitched an Old Man podcast too. I thought this, so so we should do it. Yeah. Yeah. We have plenty.

We have plenty of that around here. There was a pizza place in Waco where I lived, and it was like the place was so good. Like it was the best pizza in town. The drawback was it had in the back room, sort of in the bar area. And I don't know if it's still up there, but it had a giant Confederate flag. Oh, so that was the trade off. Like the pizza was great, but it's racist pizza. So it was like, I don't know if it's still, that you know, it was Waco, so it might take him another 20 years to take the flag down,

but like, it was God, but the pizza's so good. But now that they're looking for a football, now that they're looking for a football conference, they're gonna take it down. That's right. Like, I'm not gonna have to try to behave and like fit in. How long were you in Wakeover? Um, I was, almost eight years.

So right out of college, I was a reporter there for the, yeah, the trip. I would love to talk to you about Wakeover sometime. That's an interesting city. I loved it. Yeah, I, I, I mean, I stayed too long because I was kind of lazy and wasn't really good at my job or motive. So I was like, there for a long, but I've let like,

you that's, do you look at it? That's why I guess I'm actually a little roosty. I spent my whole 20s there, and people were like, oh, that like, it must be so bad to have your 20s robbed, like, but I love, yeah, really? You go outside of like campus, like on the, I guess the west side of 35, it's like, I went to a coffee shop over there,

like pastoon on the wing campus, it's like, oh, wake is kind of nice, it's not that bad. Yeah, it wasn't, the streets are like nice, it's a cobblestone. I toured Baylor, I thought about going to college there. Really? Yeah, decided. I don't think you would have liked it.

I decided to get it. I have to go to the tour, I was like, no, that's not for you. It wasn't for you. Yeah, and you worked for them, not my seat, honestly. Did you, it would have been a few nerd, you would have hung out with, but that wasn't the overall culture. No, yeah. And you weren't for them. Honestly. No. Did you ever been a few nerds you would have hung out with, but that wasn't the overall culture.

No, yeah. This isn't a super local thing. This is more of a Texas thing. So I guess it's a local thing. You've heard Fuego Taco. They have it in most college towns. They've had it in Waco. They have it in college station as well.

And she's like, it's fucking banger tacos, dude. Oh, tortilla grill. Yeah. They have like, they got really like, got really like thick fat fucking tortillas, which I feel like I'm still on the hunt for here in Austin. That sounds terrible. They have a Dr. Pepper taco. It's kinda more like a homodocin pepper.

It sounds really bad. You're not selling me at all. They have a really good white caseo. Whenever I used to pass through Waco on my way to Dallas, I would get a packet tortillas and just a bunch of tortillas. Thick tortillas. Thick tortillas I would get a packet of tortillas and just a bunch of tortillas. Take tortillas. Take tortillas.

What's wrong with thick tortillas? Wait, Garic, what was the place I had done fucking now? They had Dr. Pepper tortillas? They're just regular. It's like they like braised the meat and talk to your pepper. And I know it sounds like gimmicky and shitty. It's pretty fucking tasty. My grandma used to do it all the time with your miktakos.

Yeah, it's like it's like barbecue sauce. Not damn it. Not all grandmas like you, it's like barbecue sauce. Not damn it. Not all grandmothers like you. And it tastes like barbecue sauce, but it's just like a twin. Grandma can fuck up a recipe too. Every now and then. God damn it.

Did you ever go to the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco? No, not. Oh, it's cool. Like you can learn how they made Dr. Pepper. That was like the last independent bottle or for a long time, right? Yeah, something. The main thing I remember is the first floor is Dr. Pepper,

and you can learn all about Dr. Pepper. And it's like, it's sort of old animatronics, like just that not, they haven't been kept up so they're creepy, but the second floor is the free enterprise institute. It's a real tonal shift, and there's just these photos, these portraits of all these like old white guys, and you just learn how great free enterprise is.

So it's the Dr. Pepper Museum and free enterprise. You were building to a bit or something. Yeah. Yeah. You just learn how great capitalism is with your Dr. Pepper. It's hilarious. I went, when I was in Oklahoma one time,

I went on Route 66 and they had this place called Pops. And it was just a whole, it was like a gas station, but it was just this giant fucking store and it was just nothing but soda. And it was like every soda magical. That sounds awesome. It was fucking rad. I got like three 12 packs.

We're three six packs. It's called Pops, it was in Oklahoma, off Route 66. And they have like a bunch of, it was like, a building in a place that was built in the 60s. And at the time, I'm sure the architecture was like super cool and then it that was built in the 60s. And at the time, I'm sure the architecture was super cool and then it probably aged out. But when you go there now,

it looks like it was built yesterday. It's like, yeah, it's like that mid-century modern cool looking shit. It's really rare. It's really cool, Oklahoma. Yes, not a mass to be seen, but it was still really cool. Pop, soda ranch. Yeah, that sounds cool.

They also had ranch soda, probably. I know they had pickle soda. I bought one You know I did on Route 66 once you guys have ever done that musical highway thing No, I've never done I did it last year when I was in Arizona You are in the radio station or something no, so what happens is there's there's only like I don't know seven or eight of them in the world and I think half of them are in Asia So there's two or three in North America. But there's this little section of the interstate or the highway, Route 6, 6, rather,

where on the right, they've graded the road just to the side of the median. And if you hit it at 45 miles an hour, it plays a song. Oh. And then it goes, and then it plays, America the beautiful, I think, is what it played. Yeah, it's like those rumble strips that you hit Like a rumble strip. Yeah, if you hit it at the right speed then it's and it just you just hear the song It's a real thing. It's a real thing

I had never heard of it my girlfriend told me about it So he went and did it and then we did like eight times because it was so much fun. Yeah Yeah, and it's totally there and there's there's a bunch of them Japan I think and then I think one of the Pacific Northwest I wonder if they can make the rumble strips in a certain way that it could be like a voice, you know? Yeah, I assume they can. I mean it's the song. Like you hear it and you're like holy shit. This is the absolute song. Yeah. Yeah. That's my own. What's that?

Of the sound actually. That's my only root 66 story. I think if you if you want later Gus, I think I have it recorded on my phone. Sure. I'm playing the first unit of course. That's somewhere later Gus, I think I have a recorded on my phone I don't need the video I can hear Brian your microphone thing is gonna smell like shit that's not this bike is just like sour shit As whole might find myself smelling my mic all the time because it smells so bad. Yeah, cuz I've been I've been like spitting on it for a year and a half Like oh my my terrible fuck my face mic is pretty rough. Yeah, because I've been spitting on it for a year and a half. Like, oh man, this is terrible. Yeah, it's terrible. My fat's my dog.

It's pretty rough. Yeah. Oh yeah. When I'm doing something and I'm like busy and I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard and mouse and I'm like, move it with my nose and be like, oh fuck, go on. It's just shit.

If you do, they have those in Austin too. I've heard those rumble strips, but it just plays a shitty Stevie Ray. So, that you've heard on KLBJ like so many of them. He, he, he, he, there with you. Fucking fucks. Oh my god. I hope that's not there with you. It's fine, but very fun. Yeah, but right. It was, I think it mattered in 1980, you know, to that scene.

I just remember really clearly. My dad was a big fan. When Houston was flooding, I listened, like I pulled up. Texas flood came on my shuffle and I was like, wow, this is a spree. You know, I felt really deep in that moment. If you to be making fun of Stevie Ray Vaughn like that, he was under water.

When the flood happened, this will stat you. Yeah, he's fine now. I mean, statues don't need a breath. True, add it. No, but it's not. That's like making fun of a it's not water that killed them if there was like

a helicopter overhead or something. That would be in bad taste. Yeah. It's fine, like would be in bad taste. Yeah. It's fine. Like, I don't hate it. It's like you sell law rocks. It's like you said it's fine, but it's like, let's be honest, you'll mainly like him

because he was in Austin. Like, it wasn't, he wasn't good enough. You know, it's like, it's awesome. It's great. He was good. He was, he was, he was, he was great, he was good. They're two different things.

I agree. You taught yourself down. Nobody in the chat knows his TV rave on it. Yeah, y' yourself down. No one in that set knows the Stevie Ray Vaughn. Yeah, y'all do. There's gonna be one fucking dude in there who's like, so I can agree with the old man here. Oh, what? Mr. Steel crayon says Stevie is awesome. All right. So you know, one, at least one person.

All right. I'm sure my dad's role in over his grave right now, but I just never got it. I actually text my dad. I already tell me here is Steve Ray Vaughn's song because we used to listen to it on our drives to high school because he was my coach. And he's like, oh, you see Ray Vaughan's on.

Did you see the thing the other day on that apparently back in 2015 or 2016, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wigg did a lifetime movie? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'd never heard of it. I'd never see any of a woman in distress lifetime movie. It's called like a deadly adoption. A deadly adoption.

And supposedly it's serious. Like they take it seriously, and it's not worth watching because of that. Yeah, I watched a trailer, oh, this looks terrible. I wanted to watch it, but it's like, oh, it's only like on 2B and Pluto TV. I don't have either of those,

and I'm not going to sign it. And it's probably a funny bit for six minutes, and then you're like, oh, this should have just been an SNL skit. Right, right. But I can't imagine like being one of the other leads or being like the director is like, all right We're pumping out four lifetime movies today Well, the cauchy says welfare was on this one because I'm much, oh, no, he's he's here. Oh, okay That's weird. You know, I feel like that would have been a weird set to be on to because they were probably high on their own shit

Knowing that I'm too good for this. And it probably was just not a great time for the other cast and crew. And you're this sort of just working, work-a-day actor who's gotta beat opposite them. Yeah. And they're their fucking goof in between things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This fucking life, oh, lifetime director's talking here.

Anyway, so then I told Lauren, you called that MMO? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, Goddamn it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm rolling pennies for gas here. Anyway, so then I told Lauren, you called him a MO? Yeah, it's like, God damn it. Yeah. I'm rolling pennies for gas here. Come on. Right. There must be terrible, because I'd never,

I'd never heard of it. So I would like to do that with you will. If they like played it real melodramatic and stuff like that, I could see that being entertaining. But if they're like playing it pretty straight then why watch that? Like, why watch any lifetime? I mean, well listen.

I don't know. I do watch me some lifetime movies. I enjoy the hallmark channel as well from time to time. That's good hotel TV right there. Stuck in a hotel room on a Saturday night you get nothing to do. Throw on lifetime, watch about somebody, somebody's nanny trying to murder her

to steal the husband. Great to hours. When I was in Nashville for that conference, my hotel TV was forensic files on headline news. Just like, watch people murdering their spouses for four hours. Did that forever walk in and just kinda like, hey, this is like your eighth episode of this.

So you did. She goes forensic files more than I do. Oh, okay. So I'm here to walk in on this. She was like, oh, I've seen this one. It's so and so different. Oh, okay, cool. This one was arsenic. She's like, you know how he could have gotten away with that one? Because I do. We had that conversation too. We were, I was kind of like that except for, I don't even know if they have many more,

but info-mursals just sort of late night. We would just watch the, and shop at home when they would do like the baseball cards, like Don West and all that shit, the best. I love the knife shows, the latest that I've seen those are great. The swords and shit. What's confusing to me is sometimes you watch those info commercials

and then they treat it like it's content like you're watching a program. And then they cut to commercial and the commercial is a commercial for the info, like the same thing they're selling. Yeah, it's like so meta. It's like I'm watching a commercial in the commercial for the info, like the same thing they're selling. Yeah, it's like so meta. It's like, I'm watching a commercial in the commercial for the same thing.

Yeah. I remember trying to prank Call into one of those when I was a kid, you know, I sleep over. And the lady that was on like the hotline or whatever, just chewed my fucking ass. The screener? Yeah, I had never known an adult to like berated child and the c? Yeah, I had never known an adult to like,

berated child in the cusset until I called into that. She was like, listen to you little shiit. She was one too many. Yeah, today she had time. How old are you? And I was like, 40, you know, like, no. She was pissed. Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm sure she bought you a 40. I actually, in my pit session with Hannah last week, I pitched a show where it's kind of like no idea, Ikea in presentation, but you just review shit we buy off in from ourselves at three in the morning and then see how well it actually works. And like flex seal the slap to all that shit, just what I'm in front of.

Food re-hydrator. Food re-hydrator. Yeah. To steal a run running run. Every now and then then I'm like up at like 2 a.m I need to go to bed. I'll go back and watch his old infomercial bloopers. It's just the fucking best shit Like guys like taking a dive off the set from the ladder and it that it was locked in that was my fault They're like bleeding out of their skull and you're the guy who's like hitting the sword and it breaks and like stabs Pure steel that's great the guy who's like hitting the sword and it breaks and like stabs. Oh, oh, it's pure steel.

That's great. We had, we watched wine. This was in college and it was one of those bracelets, but it had like healing potential or what unit like bounce wins. No, it wasn't the bat. It was like copper. It was like copper. I don't know.

It was something, but my roommate got the idea to call them because he was, he just wanted to know, how does it work? Like, what is the, and he was on the phone with them for like an hour until he sort of, and he hung up and he goes, it has something to do with crystals. Just, of course it does. Yeah, fucking crystals.

Meanwhile, the guy he was talking to was that Tellin' Out Record, was that a call center? Yeah. It was somebody who paid $8 an hour, you were managing. I was telling these guys before the podcast we were sitting out here, I don't know how the topic came up, but I was telling them the talk about the time we hired a guy to work there.

Then he came back in the middle of the night during the midnight shift to rob the place. Whoa, whoa. But he opened the door, he put his own employee code in. So we knew who it was. Jesus Christ. Yeah. And then like the night shift guy was like,

what the fuck are you doing? Get out of here. Like, I'm trying to work. Like, well, and the night shift was like one or two guys back then. I remember the dude who it was. I do too. That's the last Anderson bottle rock. That was the dude. By the way, the dude who a lot I do to that's a less Anderson bottle rock that love the dude the way the dude who ran them off was the guy we had to stop

selling guns in the parking lot yes you remember that yes he was like you can't keep selling guns in the parking lot it work because the this midnight ship was slow yeah so he would just arrange like to meet if you wanted to buy guns from him if there was no if there wasn't any calls he was on he would go out to the parking lot, sell guns. That guy was like an NPC in Borderlands. Yes, I remember that guy. Calls anders now are, they probably don't like, they're doing work from home, right?

We started working from home back then. Yeah, yeah. The big problem we had back then was doing like, prioritizing VIOIP traffic over your home internet so that the call sounded good. So like even if you were downloading shit on your computer, it wouldn't, it was still enough reserved bandwidth for your phone call. So like that was the big, but that was in the late 90s or the 2000s. That's easily been solved. And we had that solved then. I mean, when Gus and I

quit, the company had about two, well, when I, when you started there about 30, I think, when I started there about 60, when we quit, they were about 250. And I think not too long after that, they were like 1300. And I think the vast majority of those people worked from home. They're probably still around there now. Did you get like, you know, stock when they first started? No, no. It was like a mom and pop company.

Got it. No, I had to burn bridges to leave there too. Unfortunately, a little bit. They made you need more than what you go? Well, I had, so Gus and I were like kind of partners there for a long time, and then he left before I did. Okay. I had, there was another partner that I had who was a friend of ours. He took it very personally that Gus and I left.

Ajax. And I think they ended that friendship, and he then took over my position and told me that I would never be eligible to work there again if I left, which that part sucked. But the other part of it was, Bernie was a vice president, and there was another dude who was a vice president. They were both cool guys.

But Bernie kind of, the other guy, they offered me vice presidency of the company, but they said I'd have to stop making red versus blue. I said I had to choose between the company or Ristrate because it was dividing the focus. And so I did. I'm trying to imagine the alternate dimension or Jeff to not do that. And it was like at the call center, like what you, what you'd be doing right now. I probably doing okay.

Pretty successful business. Yeah, it's a very successful. I sometimes wonder if I made the right choice. They have. Like we were in like on the ground floor of a business that got really huge. Yeah. Really, really huge. Yeah. Yeah, but you got a, you were on the ground floor for a different business. Yeah, no, no. First business one is more ours than that. I wonder what it would have been. I do have these moments like when I was

getting ready for this podcast, I was like, oh yeah, Gus and Jeff are like, yeah, I get to be on a podcast with two of my kind of childhood friends and also Brian's gonna be there. And this is cool, so I'm glad you guys came over here. Yeah, it's nice and right. It was a, guy, that was, it was rough. Like, you're talking about the early days we're getting like $6 an hour, like $8 an hour.

Like, I mean, there was, there was times where like, I didn't have money for food. It was just like, I'm gonna order a pizza tonight. And this will be my dinner tomorrow and the day after. Like, I'm gonna eat a little bit of the pizza and just like, keep it in my fridge. We were all, we were all so broke that we would have to stop people from taking the free food at work home. Like the free sodas and the free sodas and like snacks and shit.

Like, dude, you can't do that. Yeah, like we ended up having to put a, a soda vending machine in, but we sold the company sold the sodas at cost. Yeah. It was like they weren't making money on it, but it's like it just you had to have something otherwise people were just taking like a couple of our Sundays and just clean the place out. Yeah. I did that when I worked in a movie theater in college, like I know my because he was like

minimum wage and I would just eat popcorn. You know, I just sort of, you know, there were things we could have from the concession stand and like that was many a meal. It's I'm sure there was a period in time where like, the smell of popcorn probably just turned your stomach for a while. Oh yeah, that and Rico's cheese. Oh yeah. Rico, although I still kind of like it in a way, in a weird way.

It was funny to me about Rico's cheese is, they sell it at HB and that giant metal dough fucking thing. It's like, who needs like a gallon of Rico's cheese? That was liquid gold in a movie theater? All right, well, I feel like it's time. We got to go ahead and wrap this up We're gonna see you guys next week like I said We'll be in a temporary location for a little while how we get the new place. That's just right over there settled But we back the same time

Different slightly different look I'm I'll then and I will I probably will be here because there'll be somebody look. I love them. And I probably won't be here because they'll be somebody better. I don't know who. All right, we'll forget about. We'll do an old man podcast or something. All right, thanks for listening. Bye.

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