ANMA - Geoff's Tiny Town

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

Good Morning, Gus! Live from Tiny Town drinking some McCafe coffee, it's a new episode of ANMA. This week, Gus and Geoff get in the holiday spirit as they talk about Our accents, Sex Cauldron, Gus & Geoff living together, The unsung home office, The tiny HD TV vs Geoff’s EDTV, Animal Crossing, Reserved seating, Really going after Denver, and Loving McDonald’s. We DID NOT get the name right and we don't know what to do so buy a shirt at www.store.roosterteeth.com. This episode is sponsored by Better Help http://betterhelp.com/anma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I have no trouble keeping track of that. It's kind of people. It's canon and fan fiction. Okay. Fans? Oh, okay. You guys are the biggest animal fans I know, so's canon and fan fiction. Okay. Fan? Oh, okay. You guys are the biggest animal fans I know. So you have your fan fiction.

Yeah, never one fan you know. It is too. You have our talking dead of Iowa. Okay. So here's the thing. We, we're at an undisclosed location, Jeff's house, because we wanted to see Tiny Town. It, Tiny is a misnomer.

It is definitely tiny is not right. It's it's a tiny metropolis or there's a lot. If this was like a city, there would be a lot to do all the time everywhere. Well, yeah, we've built a, well, I say we, this was all Emily this year. She built a magical winter wonderland. You can go to the diner, you can go ice skating. If it gets a little too cold ice skating, you can move inside. I'm going to sit here and listen to WSNO 560 A.M.

WSNO, that's our radio station. Well, when you're done, meet me over at the Roller Rahm of RollerRink. It's right next to the ice rink. That one, Emily bought that one on Facebook Marketplace and it came all busted the bits. So I meticulously glued the roll the roll roll. The roll roll. Oh wow. If you never pointed that out, I don't think I ever would have seen it. Wait a go. Thanks. That's working to that. Got a Barbie. That's Barbie's house right there. The pink one Eric. Wow. I think that's probably the prettiest house.

Um, uh, this is this is this is great audio podcast content. You can go and podcast on Twitter and Instagram. You'll be able to see the pictures. Guess what I need you to know about Barbie's houses that where you would typically have a lion or a dragon statue, uh, sort of on the front in your entryway. It's two poodles. Yeah. So that's where she lives on the other side of town on the backside is where her dress

making shop is. Why not? Where she works? Why not? Why not shit, too. They're, they're lion dogs. That's true, but that's not very Barbie. Yeah, I think that should have been like, you're going to like what they're supposed to

be. Aren't work pugs bred to look like little lions. Do you know about that? Worthy Pugs weren't supposed to look like that. Yeah, no kidding. What? You, if you look at like Chinese dragons, they're more pride. I think you look at a pug, you go, oh, I can see that.

And then here we are with the dog, they go, what? How's the dragon would be a totally different show if they had pugs? That would be a way better show. I would be watching the whole thing. That's awesome. My show, my show, sorry, didn't,

a watch should be a video on Instagram the other day of a pug asking for help in a bathtub? Was it saying that we're in help? Help. Oh my God. That's all I've been doing all weekend. It's just why I'm going out. Help.

Does house in the dragon have a lot of dragons? Yes. I've never seen it. Yeah, it's actually, I think it's a pretty good show. They did a really good job of sort of getting the taste of the last season of Game of Thrones out of your mouth, which I think was the job of that show. But if you go and you watch the first episode of Game of Thrones

after watching House of the Dragon, you just go, oh, well, fuck that other show. Like it really was, it was stunning to watch the first episode of Game of Thrones and go, I, this is so much better. I don't know. Oh, how's it a dragon? I felt like learned a lot.

You know what's interesting about this to me? Is Gus? I've not watched House of Dragons, so I must admit my complete and utter ignorance. I'm only going off images that I've seen. Gus refuses to watch shows like White Lotus, which wrapped up last week. Wraped up last night.

It was phenomenal. It's just bad. It's just season family. Bad people, but it's like self-contained stories. So it up last night. It was phenomenal. It's just bad. It's just season family. Bad people, but it's like self-contained stories. So it's like bad people. You said it wrapped up so it's just here. Just the bad things happening to bad people is essentially what that show is.

But he won't watch shows like White Lotus or Succession, which is I'm glad you bought it. That's where I'm going with this because it shows about white people. Game of Thrones is just medieval succession. No, I get no Dragon is just super white people like Blanc like they're almost translucent And they're rich in their in charge on Gus eats it up. He's like I'm an episode of RTPot to counter your point on an episode RTPot

I saw in that show premiered. I made this exact same point about how I did not want to watch the show for that reason But you did so I've already publicly stated it. So in your face. Yeah. But then you did watch it. But then I started watching it. I was like, what can I explain? Yeah. So you're just going to talk over me the whole time. So take that.

So it was, especially early on, I felt like that show did not do a good job as far as like, inclusion. I understand it's a fantasy world, right? I can do whatever the fuck they want. But if it's a fantasy world, you can do whatever you want. Why restrict yourself so much? Totally makes sense to me. And that's the thing that always bugs me about sci-fi, especially,

or star wars. It's like, whatever. I'm not going to get in total of that right now. But I felt like House of the Dragon really did lip service. It felt like they were doing lip service initially to that. But then that kind of changes as Joe goes on. I don't want to say anymore, like for any spoiler reasons, but I think that you'd be pleasantly surprised. Okay. It actually is a very pivotal part of the story. Okay. It reminds me, this is going to be weird, I guess, but I think this is what maybe they were going for. It reminds me of the crown, where it does, you follow the same people, but it jumps in time

a little bit. And so like some of the actors change, but those storylines and like those throughlines are still there. And I, I find that to be interesting, but it's also really hard when you have an actor who's very good and then you go another con because seven years and you go, act shit. Yeah. But, uh, but it's good. It's, I like, I definitely think you, you watch that and then you watch Game of Thrones and you'll go, this is why this is the other, this is why this thing's based on that thing. Yeah, check it out. Yeah

So if you're noticing audio texture by the way, it's because I'm very close to the ice skating rink. Cool on let's yeah, thank you Jeff's idea how loud it is Jeff has these little ice skaters that go in circles But he changed their trajectories so they don't get bored Yeah, mix it up yesterday How often do they hit each other? Because two of them like intersect. I don't have very rarely see it. This guy gets stuck every once in a while and will get off the track

and you have to wait for the magnet to come back around. I saw it get stuck for a little while. Yeah, those two, I assume it happens, but it happens so rarely. It's like when you watch the DVD. The quarantine table bounce across the wall. Yeah. So we're drinking a real niche local brew this morning. So I didn't want to give any location details because we were coming to Jeff's house today

so I didn't want to be like, oh, well, we are on this side of town. So we got this coffee. Top secret. Yeah, top secret. So I got, uh, and now we know that Jeff could literally live anywhere, uh, because we got McDonald's coffee. Yeah. Mukhafe.

Do you remember the first time we saw Mukhafe? This is actually a good segue for a story. Do you remember the first time we saw a McCaffee? This is actually a good segue for a story. Do you remember the first time I saw? You and I were together. Really? What is this? Hash browns? I also got a hash browns.

Hey, Eric. Hell yeah. I love off-bomb. More audio texture. This is ASMR. No, I have no memory of this, so please tell me. I remember, we thought it was the dumbest thing in the world. It was when we took that trip to Australia back in 2004.

Okay. Remember we were walking down the street. I don't remember what street it was. It was one of those, if I looked at a map, I could probably point out where it was more or less, but we were walking through Melbourne and there was like outdoor seating at the McDonald's and like cafe style. And we're like, what is that? And the person we were with was like, oh, it's my cafe.

They have like coffee and stuff. We're like, that's fucking stupid. And they were like, you don't have this in the United States. I was like, no, my cafe, that's fucking dumb as hell. Where the hell would go to my like, wanna have like a cafe type experience of McDonald's? And then the next year it was everywhere. Why do you keep saying it, my cafe, like, Mick, cafe, Mick, McDonald's. McDonald's and then the next year it was everywhere. Why do you keep saying it McAfee, like,

Mick, Cafe, Mick, Donald's. McDonald's, McAfee. What's happening? Is this still? Do you know about Gus and his subtle weird pronunciations? I never heard. I don't think I've ever talked to Gus about McDonald's. He won't do it right if I ask him to.

But if you get him, I don't know he doesn't drink anymore, but really, but if you ever catch him on like a out and you're drinking, get them to say Chicago, but get them to bring them naturally. Don't get them to address it. Just ask them about like, what's that Midwest city where the Cubs play? You got to catch them. Updinson, Claire novel. So the thing is, we talked about before I grew up in a pretty small town, pre-internet.

So you, any, in a predominantly non-English speaking town as well. So I spent a lot of years speaking English with a very distinct, very regional accent. And I do my best to shake it off, but it does rear-width's head every now and then. Because I had to beat the Southern anatomy when I was a battle bagel, which wasn't hard. Did you have like an accent? Huge Southern accent. There's like two like home videos my mom has of me with like in high school, playing basketball

where I'm talking, and it's like, I'm like Kenneth in 30 rock, you know, like a mountain top. Oh, oh. Do you ever slip back into it? Like you ever like head on back. I used to have this problem. Take me home, where?

And it solved in a sad way. But I used to have this problem where anytime I would go back home and visit my grandfather, I would slip into it. Like anytime I talk to my grandpa, I immediately slipped into it unintentionally without meaning to, but then he died and so I don't anymore.

Oh no, oh my God. Oh wow. Two years ago. But like it died with him. Like it died and so I don't anymore. Oh no, oh my god. Yeah, two years ago. But like it died with him. Like it just like, I don't know, it was like a respecting or because he was kind of like a father to me for most of my childhood or whatever, but like just instantly when I was around him, I was just like a 10 year old Southern kid again.

You're in a good way. Do you think you would do it to like make him comfortable? Like you're like speaking history. I haven't changed. I don't know, I was just always kind of an all of him, you know? And I think you just like, all like he was kind of like a. I haven't changed. I don't know, I was just always kind of an awe of him, you know, and I think you just like, all like he was kind of like a hero to me growing up. And so all the pretenses and everything

just kind of falls away when you're around somebody. It's so funny. It's been so important to your whole life, like you know. Wow. I never thought about your accents. Yeah. And then I joined the army and I saw on day one, people with southern accents get bullied more

and made fun of more and shit on more. And so I was like, I'm just not going to talk. Yeah. This is interesting because I have a problem talking historically. Too much. A little bit. I have a bit of a sarcasm issue that I've had to deal with my whole life.

It's probably great in the army. And so I had to turn off my voice in the army for a little while. I was just I realized like if I open my mouth, I'm gonna get punched. It's it's the the persistence of accents to this day. I've talked about some it's it's really interesting to me because now we have so much media so readily available to us from everywhere. Like you had an accent for the same reason I did. Like there was a lack of access to right, right, a

communication with people who had different accents who didn't have an accent. Now it's like, you can watch YouTube or whatever the fuck TikTok, whatever all day long and hear how other people speak. Yeah. Yeah, I actually, I did the, like, a very bit role in that audio scripted podcast, Ruchete did beneath. Beneath, it's out now.

Check it out. Wherever you get podcasts, I don't remember where it is exactly. I did like five. I did like five I did like five lines. It was a very tiny role Mostly because I but I'm just dog shit at voices and more I mean and uh, yeah, well listen dude. How many more shows have you been have you been in Ruby? No, yeah, I have a Yeah, oh, I only have like three lines. Oh, they give you three more lines than I got. Yeah.

I fucking Bernie's still in Ruby. I think it's been dead for five years. They're just auto generating his voice. I, but I had to have like a lap lander accent. And I'm like, I'd never heard of that. What's a lap lander? Like Newfoundland and so like a new theater, whatever. So I had to like just, I wish went to YouTube. And I a lap lander? Like Newfoundland and so like a new theater, whatever.

So I had to like just, I just went to YouTube and I watched like 20 minutes of interviews with people from that area and then I was able to do it. But we, a long time ago, we kind of worked with the dude from that area. You probably didn't work with them as much as I did unlike the server side of things and like the web development side of things,

like way back in the day. What was his name? And we are going to get it at first name. John. Oh, was he from up there? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. You remember what I'm talking about?

I think so. Those other people. Yeah, he was from that area. So I had to talk with him on a semi-regular basis. That's the only reason I'm familiar with blonde. Blonded? What that would sound like. Yeah, kind of a little heavy set. Yeah, have you said Blonded? I remember. Yeah. Wow. Good memory.

You did spark one memory when you mentioned that that 2000 for Australia trip and into something that I didn't remember the McAfee thing at all, but what I do remember from probably that same day. I'm sorry. How do we say it? I have no idea. I was talking to my own head, definitely. The cafe. Is that in 2004, we went to Australia. I was blown away because they had figured out how to pay for parking with your phone already.

I remember that. And it was until like 2014 that we got that shit in Austin. And I remember thinking like they've had this in Australia for over a decade. They were doing it on flip phones. Like danger phones back in the day. They did it a different way though. It was like text this number to this number

and it would like show up on your phone bill. Yeah. Instead, you know, instead of now we have to use ad- Still, they were doing it. They weren't fishing around in their pocket, it was looking for change. As far back as 2004. Yeah, and we were amazed.

I remember the asses that you don't have the CNS, it's like, no, nobody texts in the United States what are you talking about? Man. As I evidenced on, or as I referenced in the end of the year of face supplemental, we did, we just figured out how to make tap to pay work this year.

I swear. I have it on my phone, it's great. That's fucking awesome. Yeah. I don't have to take a card out of my wallet. I just have my phone. It existed before time. No, no, I'm with you.

It just wasn't as prevalent. Like every time you go to a fucking HB, you're like, what the system? It's a B still doesn't have it. No, I went to an EGB the other day and they did. Yeah, some HBs do. That's the frustrating thing. That's the frustrating thing.

But it's like there's no consistency across the country. Well, that's how it used to be before this year. It's like you'd go and they'd have the terminal and be like, oh, you try to tap like that doesn't work. Or they'll be, yeah, they do have tap, but there's a fucking piece of like, painter's tape that says tap broken, tap the work.

I don't like the, I like tap. I think it's great. I don't like when I don't know where to tap. Right. Yes. So I just sort of hold my phone around it and I go, yeah, and they're like, don't move it. Like, well, where do I gotta,

where does it need to go? Yeah, it's like this sucks. Like just tell me where to, I mean like don't move it like well where do I got a what does it need to go yeah this it's like the sucks like just tell me where to I just want to buy this coolers light in the sour patch kids like let me out you remember Skittle Brown is that where you just put skittles in beer yeah it was that a simsense yeah well I've and I got drunk once like 10 years ago and did that it's terrible I yeah I had a I. I had a Simpson thing happen to me the other day that's work related, I think I can tell this story. I was doing a meeting with some of the executives

in like for an outside agency. They were having a little like, just a meeting to talk about some strategies and stuff. And I was, you know, I don't, I guess that you were unavailable that day. And you were still on vacation, so they had to be me. I was like, I'm sorry, I guess I would love to have Gus be in this meeting, but we're in the two week period

where he doesn't do and so he can't, he's not available. I'm not talking. If I'm not talking. I'm not talking. And anyway, so I was doing it on Zoom. And, you're short, don't talk to me, I'm amna. And fuck, I got the name wrong. He seems you're short don't talk to me. I'm am Fuck I got the name wrong. He seems like an idiot. We got to we got to solve that shit this episode

Please do please solve it Today we're getting the name right. Okay, so you were in a meeting sorry So anyway, we're there and I'm on zoom on my on my desktop here And then I have to leave zoom I have to leave to go get Millie and so I'm like I'll just hop up over on my desktop here, and then I have to leave Zoom. I have to leave to go get Millie, and so I'm like, I'll just hop up over on my phone for the last 20 minutes this meeting while I go get my kid. And I switched over, and right as I come in, I hear Adam, who's like the head of marketing, go,

oh my! And I'm like, oh, what's that? And then I just see your screen name, and I realize my phone is called Sex Cauldron. Yeah! It's a Simpson joke, right? It a Simpson great Simpson's joke right they were having S.E.X. in the CLO S.E.T Sex cauldron was closed on years ago and I was like I was just like what are you doing that moment? I was just like I just steamrolled right through it and just didn't I didn't ever just like yeah

That's what's the point of explaining it, you know I was in the meeting. I would have had your back. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. That's what I said. I said if Gus was here, he'd get it. Yeah, I'd be laughing. That's him.

That's sex-caldorant. But you do those dumb things. That's kind of the point of that other podcast that you're f***ing face. So you do these dumb things like that, name your phone that, and then you think like, this is gonna be embarrassing. And you think, well, that's why I have to keep it.

And so then you're driving around in a car with Emily's dad and you switch over to sex call. And then you get a call on sex call, and then he looks at it and you look at it and you gotta go like, well here's the deal. I feel like most people just keep the generic name to their phone, like whatever it comes with like iPhone, like it was speaking of iPhone, like iPhone 14

or iPhone 13 or whatever it is. Mine is internet telephone 14 professional maximum. It's great because it always gets cut off everywhere. Of course. I think mine's PS4 2. Just as I, just as you're wondering where that second PS4 is coming from, it's my phone.

Gotcha. Yeah. So we're back after a break, I guess. Yeah, well some of this took a break. Yeah, and we're not necessarily a break, I guess. Yeah, well some of us took a break. Yeah, and we're not necessarily in a part of town where we're going to be like, oh, this happened and that happened or whatever. But we can talk about stories about living together.

That's a great way to go, better than what I was going to say. What were you trying to point it out? No, no, no, I like what I was going to hear. Yeah. Well, I was going to say it was more of a Christmas thing is what I was leaning towards because next week I want to go to the mall To truly see if the mall is back, but tiny town just reminded me that it's right. It's Christmas time. Oh, you're telling us you go into the mall No, no, we're going to the mall

Dude, not only is the mall back some of this tiny town came from that mall. We are all going to the Most partly new Christmas next week's episode of Anima Can I prove this? Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. Definitely going to the mall. I don't know. Definitely back. I don't know what coffee we're going to get at the mall. I don't.

I assume. I have coffee there. Dude, did you get your shit from things remembered? Well, definitely stopped by there. I, I, I, I'm not going to go into this whole mall. It's back conversation that I feel like I've done five times, but I will say when I took Millie to the mall the other day and I was like, did kids do you ready to go to the mall?

And she's like, no, and I'm like, Millie, you should, the mall is back. She's like, my friends wouldn't be caught dead in the mall. We walked into the food court and I hear, Millie, and we looked and there's 15 of her friends. And I looked at her and she was like, I guess we do go to the mall. Man.

I hope they all didn't fall over dead. I mean, they got caught in the mall. They're going to logical dictate. It's no good. So, when we... I got here a little earlier than Gus. I was here like five minutes early. You were already here fucking...

He was here early, it's really. Pretty easy. So, I got here a little before Gus, dropping some stuff off and everything. Jeff met me outside. High five, very cool. And then Gus knocked on the door and then Jeff yelled at well I wasn't met outside and I wasn't given a high five you see this is why I don't want to fight Lotus or succession

This is what I'm talking about I assumed I think we both assumed that you would just walk in did we've lived together multiple times I yelled at him when he walked in like never again We've lived together multiple times. I yelled at him when he walked in. I'm like never again. I've only ever I've knocked on my just walk in for the rest of my life walk into where I am. Let me tell you I've only been in this house once before yeah, and I was terrified. Why? Because there was a malfunction I had to come here and deal with while you were out of town. Oh Fuck so I was so I have like Like I was very nervously approaching the house. Oh, thanks for doing that, man.

Yeah, I had no problem. So I was like, that's my only experience with this house. I was like, okay, I gotta make sure I don't fuck anything up. So I was very anxious about approaching the house. No, you did great. But next time, just walk in. You've never been here with him here? No.

Dude, listen, the, here's how I'll explain it. Gus, when Gus moved to Puerto Rico, we were worried it would affect our friendship, and then we realized we hung out just as much when I lived in Austin, and he lived in Puerto Rico, was ever. And that's our friendship has kind of gone that way since. I've only been in your place once,

and that was when you were touring it. I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm a weird anti-social reckless. Yeah. So yeah, that's a, that's what I got going on. This is why this works so well. Is because we respect each other's weird social issues. Like I would laugh at six call drill. Yeah. And so like our friendship is not marred at all by the fact that we don't visit each other outside of work. We've spent 15 hours to 17 hours a day together

every day for like fucking 15 years. Yeah. It was like us and I have had like four lifetimes worth of friendships together. I, yeah, we have spent a lot of time sitting next to each other. More time than you'll probably spend with your wife. I have a long time. For a long time. For a long time.

Yeah. It's been a lot of working together, even before Rupert Heath, the call center and all that other shit. Yeah. So yeah, we live together off of Riverside a couple of times. Try. How many times have you guys lived together? Two or three. I wanna say three. of Riverside a couple of times. Try not to. How many times have you guys lived together?

Two or three. I wanna say three. I wanna say, but one of them would have been real brief. Two, but yeah, maybe three. Yeah, two or three. Yeah. Sometimes for shorter stretches, sometimes for longer stretches.

I think one of the longer stretches was one, I moved back from Puerto Rico when Ruchis was kind of really taking off. I was going to be the first person dedicating all my attention to it because Bernie and Jeff were still working at the call center. I didn't want to have to pay rent because I didn't know if this thing was going to go away overnight. Jeff let me live in his spare bedroom. I also bought the cheapest vehicle I could, which is why I bought that old 64 pickup that broke

down all the time, which we've talked about before. It was very gracious, but that's kind of where... I think that was a lot of the time we spent together because I was living there. And then he would go to work, and then when he was done with work, he'd come home and work on Red vs. Blue, where he's stuck for hours, or I'd go over to Bernie's and we'd all work on it there. So it was either like going to Bernie's filming stuff or staying at Jeff's house and fulfilling store orders or printing up labels and whatever. We were on this cycle by the way, you know, I was watching, guess get annoyed real quick. Oh yeah. Just real fast. The second Rupert Heath started to take off and became like a job where we all put money or a time and effort into and it became real work.

Gus was like, I'm moving to Puerto Rico. That's not true. That's not how it happened. Is exactly how it happened. I was exactly how we remember those of us just so live. I was moving to Puerto Rico. My decision moved to Puerto Rico, predated all of that. And it was already a date on the calendar. And I moved to February.

The show didn't come out till April. So how does that make sense? This is great. You did a really good job. No, since the timeline falls apart instantly. The second it started to become work. It was two months before it came out. Just in the check the Puerto Rico. Call me on the phone the four times a day that the internet works. Some bullshit. I do that right.

Yeah. Those are old old scars. Yeah, no kidding. You're like picking at old scabs. When you have an alternate name for this podcast, old scabs. Old scabs. Well, once we get this name right, then we can change it to whatever we want. But we already put out shirts out. We got to do that. That's great. That's great for search engine optimization.

Yeah. Change them in your show. Change them up. So you guys lived together a few times. It was awesome. Do you? Okay. So what was it like?

We had a little... Well, I shouldn't say we... It was Jeff's house. Jeff had a little, well, I shouldn't say we, it was Jeff's house, Jeff had a little room that we retrofitted as an office. It was probably a little smaller than this room that we were in the half the size of this room, I'd say. And we jammed two desks in there in the corners

and set up our computers to like answer email and work and do whatever. And then we also had like Xboxes and you know, TVs so we could play video games at the same time or you know, whatever we needed to do. And it was like our first foray into like, trying to set up an official workspace. I loved that layout and that is set up.

And I think that we tried to recreate it for a little while when we worked in the beauty apartment because our desks were still kind of side by side, but the room was bigger. So it wasn't like we were butted up against each other. It was great because there were, it was a time when there were so few of us working or if something came up and I couldn't take care of it, you just like turn and be like, hey, what's this thing or give me a hand with this and just like bang stuff out.

Yeah, that little office, I think I've been thinking about home offices a lot because of, I think like their unsung contribution to productions, like I was trying to think the other day, I wonder how much of Red versus Blue was written in Bernie's home office in in which house. Like, you know, like which domicile contained the most amount of effort or work

towards a project. And that home office where Gus and I got our start, I guess early on the days of Roosh Teeth, I think the entire website was written there. The message boards, all that stuff was made in that home office between you and I over the period of about a year. And like, and then we moved on and, you know, who knows who the fuck's using that office for what now. But I was thinking about like like,

like the red versus blue dot com was born in that room. It's wild. Yeah, it's, it was really efficient. I actually know the thing about it. We set up that office before Rooster Teat. That's where we did like a drunk gamers and maybe with some ugly internet. We set it up for ugly internet and drunk gamers.

So it went through three productions before it found a successful one. Well, like this room, I every, as far as I know, at least going forward, every piece of face I ever record is in this room unless it's an office day. You know, and that'll be like the totality of the, I guess like of the story of this room is like, this is the face room.

The first time I ever played a video game in high definition was in that office. Really? I had an Xbox with the HD component cable adapters and it was Soul Calibur 2. Mm. It was a tiny little HD TV that I bought it like Best Buy. It was like the Michael Scott TV in the office.

It was, I remember that TV, it was like 17 inches or something. No, no, it was like 12 or 13. It was, I remember that TV, it was like 17 inches or something. No, no, it was like 12 or 13. It was tiny. It was like $1,500. It was so fucking expensive for that TV. It killed me to buy it, but I was like, hey, check it out.

Video games in high definition. It was so fucking cool. I think it was only like 720p, too. I can't believe it. Well, where did the game was? Did you feel like it was game changing? Where are you playing it? And going, whoa, this is incredible. Yeah, I wanted to play, you feel like it was game changing where you playing it and going whoa? This is incredible. Yeah, I wanted to play despite the fact it was tiny and you had that other weird fucked up TV that ED TV

Remember that I did I sold that to Dan Godwin this year. Yeah, eventually What was the deal? So Jeff had this back in the early days of flat screens Jeff had bought like this Flat screen plasma TV and it was like 30 inches maybe. 32 inches yeah. Yeah and it was it wasn't an HD TV it was an ED TV. And I don't even remember what that means to you. No I was hoping you would remember. I don't it's it was like a competitive competitive technology to HD TV maybe but I remember that the thing that was weird about that TV was It was designed I don't know how I found it or got it, but it was designed for like corporate shit

Enhanced definition television What is that? It is us it is it delivers a picture superior to that of standard definition, but not as detailed as how it is. There you go. The term refers to devices capable of displaying 480. So dude, this is crazy. It does 480p and 576p. Yeah, I remember that fucked us up all the time.

What the fuck? And it's for high motion. and it had like fucked up inputs Like it had an SDI inputs. Mm-hmm. Well like stuff like that's to like the corporate stuff Jeff was talking about like shit You would never use in it was designed to be a conference room somewhere. Yeah, it seems like it's a thing that's meant for like it has Composite S-Cart and S-Video. This is crazy. It's for progressive scanned like DVD players. Oh, this is insane. It was, why did you have this?

It was a Sony, I think it was a Sony ED TV episode. It was a Sony ED TV. I paid $3,000 for it. It was, I wanted a flash screen TV and, quote unquote, flash screen. The thing hung off the wall by above a foot and a half. Yeah, those were the early days of that technology. That shit was so fucking expensive and stupid.

Eight fifty two by four 80 resolution. Yeah, eight fifty two. What a fucking weird play the shit out of Gamecube though. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, we played so much animal crossing. I'm not doing it. It's like animal crossing all. Yeah, crystal chronicles.

Wow. We were huge animal crossing fans. We not good. Yeah, we did. It's like animal crossing. And final five, two crystal chronicles. Wow. We were huge animal crossing fans. We were huge crystal chronicles fans. Rigial burnout. We played a lot on the game. Can you remember that? SSX. SSX, yeah.

What's that game? That was PlayStation. We were playing PlayStation on SSX. But I remember we, I don't know why we got into animal crossing. We were like, we played the shit out of the first animal crossing that came out of the game. It was really good. I have no idea how we found it or why we decided to pick it up or how it came into our circle.

We were doing a website called Drunk Gamers where we played and reviewed video games drunk. And so it was just, it came out. We were just doing everything, you know? I remember we had that, there was that character on the train that was like the first character you meet like when you're going into the town and you had to to draw, like the character was a cat with a blank face, and you had to draw a face on the cat, and then it would be like a recurring character you would see every now and then, and we just wrote, fuck.

You have this character walking around every now and then, and you would just, you would literally have a fuck face. That's awesome. Funny. I forgot about that. Dude, that's so crazy. I just remember sitting on Friday night sealing camp's fishing.

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Except for the time I had food poisoning, I threw up in your bathroom. In the bathroom. Well, that's fine, you had food poisoning. What are you gonna do? That was just, maybe a two gross store. You shouldn't get into it. It spewed everywhere.

It was, yeah. And then the worst part is after you're done, you have to clean up. Yeah, it's awful. We spent a lot of time there playing video games. We'll spend a lot of time going out. I feel like I definitely don't do that anymore. No.

It was always like going out to shows or downtown to drink or hang out with someone or go somewhere. We went, well, we were in our 20s, right? We were in our late 20s in a city built for people in their 20s. So we were going out seven days a week, six or seven, but usually seven days a week and we had our haunts. We were bull macapes people. We were casino al Camino people.

We were, I can't figure out why I was always broke. And then we had this phase where we fell in love with this bar called was the oceans, oceans 11 11 was what it was called. Yeah. So rat pack. There's a rat pack theme bar. And well, at least they had a rat pack theme name. I don't know the bar was really like some photos of the

right. That was the thing is they had some photos. Yeah, it was not. That's awesome. Very thorough. And that bar is now, it became headhun Yeah, it was not. That's awesome. Very thorough. And that bar is now. It became headhunters and it became love, love laser.

What was it called? Something like that. Love and Lace and yeah, it was like some. Love joy. No, not always. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, love joy.

It was a different place. It was another bar. That was the, that was our friend Adam. Love that bar. Yeah. Leather and lace. Was that what it was called? I don't know. It bar. Yeah. Um, it became leather and lace. Was that what it was called? Something like that.

It was called like metal and lace, metal and lace. Yeah, I don't know. It's probably still some dumb shit like that. I look at it. That's it's eight then. Real grand. Or a river, eighth and I'd ever seventh and I'd ever. Um, and we went there all the time to the point where that became like our spot because it was,

I don't know, we felt a little fancier than going to Casino and I think we were trying to feel a little fancier at the time, but we went there so much that they would, if we, I saw, I witnessed it happen a few times. It's empty. It's empty. It's available. Who you rented? Oh, shit. We could fanmol. Bring. It's available. Who you rent it? Oh shit, we could. And my office.

Bring back Oceans 11. And you're saying, and my office to do me and my office. To do me and my office. Yeah, me. Eric, get on that, rent it. You are. You got it.

They would like plop down a reserve sign at a table for us so that it would be the noise. I remember one time we went in there. We were seven day a week people. It was like, it was a pretty popular place. We were like on a crowded Saturday night, we decided to go there and like the place was packed. Like all the tables were taken and it was like

sardines in there and they saw us walk in. The waitress pulled out a card, reserved on it, slapped it down on a table that was filled with people, looked at them and said, get out. Whoa. Yeah, and so they all had to stand up and leave and then we sat down and then they stood awkwardly next to us while we sat in the booth that they were just in.

That's awesome. And then, but that bar also, like we had some of the best times in that bar and that bar was also, I was telling somebody the other day, the story about the day I realized I was too old for toys. And like I was playing with some GI Joe's in my front yard and it just wasn't fun anymore and I remember thinking like, oh, this is never just wasn't fun anymore. And I remember thinking, oh, this is never gonna be fun again. Like I'm, I just changed, I'm different now.

They need to join the army. That moment, yeah, then I played with the real, yeah. And then I joined the army and found out I hate real guns. That we were at that bar when I remembered this, it was me, you and I think my first wife sitting around the table and one night and we went like, are you guys sport? Are you? Are you done with this?

Is this sucked? Is this sucked now? And we all looked and we realized, we're like, oh, this is not gonna be fun anymore. And that was it and we stopped. It was over. I don't think it was cold turkey, but I think we went maybe four more times. And then realized like whatever magic we had at that time,

it was gone. Yeah. That place. No, I don't want to, I don't. I'm hesitant to say anything because I don't remember very well. But from my best recollection, I believe that place got in trouble with the TABC. They got raided by the TABC. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So that is correct. Yeah. What happened, you know, they would open up after 2 a.m. and run for like another hour. Oh, you can't do that. I think they would kick everyone out unless they knew you.

I never, for as much as we hung out there, I don't think I don't think we ever got invited to that. I did it once. Did you? I was never on that, that I was never that cool, I guess. But yeah, I think that I don't think they got away with that very long story they got shut down. Yeah, it was a, that's a big deal.

The T.A.B.C. the Texas alcoholic beverage commission is very strict. Very strict. Very ready to enforce the rules. Yeah, no kidding. I distinctly remember having that moment though that night and just being like, what now? Do we go to a different bar or is it just bars aren't fun like this anymore? And we just stopped going downtown. Was it that bars in general?

Yeah, I was just ended up being bars in general. And then bars became like a happy hour thing to me. You just go right after work. But like that whole like going downtown at 9 p.m. and staying till close at 2 and then coming home just to be there and to hang out with the same fucking like seven assholes you run into that are just there doing the same thing.

It got old. I was gonna say pretty quick, but we did it for years. And it eventually got old. Yeah, there is a there is a reason. It's weird to me, but you know, now that I'm older, it makes sense. It's weird that how there's like different parts of downtown. Or there's different bars that cater to like different clientele. It's like you age through the ecosystem.

It's like you start out dirty six, then you move to like the east side, then you move to west six, or you go down to the warehouse district, like there's different depending on your age and your interests, you go to like different areas of bars and drink there. It's fucking weird. You know what I said,

where, do you know what the worst place to drink in Austin is right now, I think, in terms of like bars seen? Of course that. I think it's the domain. Oh, it's, yeah, that's probably up there. They have like, I know you probably don't spend a lot of time at the domain,

but they have like their version of six street up there. They're roughly a year's rock rose. And it's like, you go down there like midnight and it looks no different than six street. You're just like, I haven't been up there. But just people that are there instead of down there. Where's the bunch of apartments that shoot up there. It's a live workshop space. Like it's supposed to be

a little community that like you can just be in. And they have all the same bars like you can go to the dogwood or whatever up there and it's just as yeah, play sucks. Super super super do she at night. Don't invite me to punch bowl social. I don't want to go to fucking punch bowl social. I would be happy. Never never to step foot in that place. Yeah, I just to go to fucking punch bowl social. I would be happy. Never to step foot in that place. Yeah, I just don't just stop inviting me there.

It's not cool. Stop. Take me to a real bowling. I go to hot. Let's go to Highland Lines. Let's drink the cheapest beer you've ever seen. And it's a whole punch bowl. So it's a bowling alley.

So part of it is. And then some of it's mini golf. And some of it's a stupid little thing and another thing. And hey, are you drunk and you want to play big Jenga? No, I don't want to do any of this. I want to drink and I want to hang out and bowling is an activity that you could do But there's also nine other activities. Stop it. I went there. I've been there a bunch of times now and every time it's just like Ah, fuck this. The first time was like, oh, this is neat and I don't need to come here again and then I've been four more times. Cool.

I think there are Colorado chain. Yuck. If I'm Colorado's here. I remember we correctly. No, just being a chain. From a place like Colorado. Gotcha. They don't have to export.

Colorado doesn't need to export anything. I feel like Colorado stuff can stay in Colorado. I'm fine with that. Every time I go to Colorado, it's usually the Denver, right? And I go there and I'm always taking it back because I'm like, that. Every time I go to Colorado, as usually to Denver, right? And I go there and I'm always taking a back because I'm like, oh, I forget that this big-ass city is here. That's a big-ass city. And then I'm left with the same impression every time. And I don't mean this to be insulting to the people of Denver. But every time I go to your city,

I think this is, if I could walk through, uh,, sim city, this would be it. This was like drag and drop, cut and paste. This is like, I'm walking through sim city 2000 right now. Like if I could drill down that far into the game. It really is like a generic city. Here is where our office buildings are. They are next to the hotels. These are next to the street with shopping.

These are next to restaurants. Here is baseball park. Like, why is there airports so big? It's offensive to me. I don't, why is it so far? Why is it so far from Denver? It's the mountains. There's two freeways in Colorado.

I hate it. The plus is all the weird conspiracy theories about that airport and stuff too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, it's a fallout shelter. All the dunes, they stuff. And all the scary art kids die in and the Four Horse movie apocalypse and stuff.

I was there not this past summer, the one before, summer 2021. And I drove out to some city. What was it? God, there's a city nearby, one of those like Golden or whatever, one of those like small suburbs. And I went there,

because Mando told me that there was a cafe there run by a cult. So wait, wait, wait. Armando Torres told you that there's a city in Colorado that had a cafe that run by a cult. Yeah. So did you go there just for that? Well, I was there killing times like that's like touristy shit. Oh, okay. I was like, okay.

Oh, it was this summer Summer last year, 2021. And we got a Colorado. We talked, not podcast material. Okay. And yeah, sure enough, I walked by and I was like, oh, weird, this is the cult place. And I looked in and there's like, looks like a normal cafe and like,

there's a dude standing at the door at the front who looks at me and goes, hey, I like your shirt. I was like, I don't remember what shirt I was wearing. Thanks. And I just left. I was like, that was it. I was like, I was already, I was like,

that was too much human interaction. In my mind, I was like, maybe I'll go in, get a sandwich and see what's up with the cult. Some dude complimented my shirt, I'm out. Like, it was like, it was like, fight or flight for me and I flew. Did you think that you were, were you like, were you,

that you were about to be like in the cult? It just made me feel shit. These guys are being too nice already. It just made me think about that sign fell episode for George gets upset that the, the carpet cleaning cult won't invite him in. Yeah, it's like, they're being nice to me. Like it's the antithesis of George Costanza there. We don't spend a lot of time together, but I still get surprised when I hear something out of character, like Gus going to Colorado. I don't know.

You were shocked. I was like, well, that doesn't track. Yeah. As soon as we stop recording, you're gonna ask him, so where are you going to Colorado? Where are you in Denver? I'm very excited to find out. It's very boring.

That's why it's not podcast talk, because it's incredibly boring. That's a lot of fun. Totally understood. Okay, so here's the thing. We're at 40 minutes. All right. So we're just 40 minutes. Oh, right. So we're just starting.

I know, right? This is what happens. Sit down, time flies when you're eating cash brands. So we need to review the coffee. But I also want to talk about the name. So I want to make sure we have like a little bit of time here. Okay. Okay.

So your McGauffee or whatever you keep saying, what McDonald's coffee, how are you feeling about it? Here's the thing, I ordered an Americano, but the woman could not figure out how to read it up, even though Americano's on their menu. Yeah. And then she went, I think the machine's broken. The, I don't think you're, man, I don't think you're pulling a espresso

at the McDonald's. Yeah. I was gonna say this just in taste like an Americano. It's not, it is regular coffee, I'm sorry. But it was either that or nothing. So. It tastes like, tasting this, smelling and tasting this coffee

takes me back to being a little boy and smelling coffee and thinking it was disgusting. Interesting. It's, it smells and tastes like it's been on a warmer for a couple of hours. Yeah. And good or bad, take it as you will for me, bad. Not very good.

Jeff, I got you an ice coffee. You're gonna fucking hate me for saying this. That's like a 10. Yeah. So here's the thing about McDonald's coffee. And I really do firmly believe this. Of all the places where you can get a quick cup of coffee, that includes Starbucks,

that includes Duncan, any kind of like, hey, I'm going to go run it. That's not like a cafe, whatever, like a quick fast food cup of coffee. McDonald's is head and shoulders above any of those other places when you get just a regular black cup of ice coffee or regular coffee. You can do the macchiato and you can do, you can get like crazy, their regular coffee. While not good, I put it above Duncan, I put it above Starbucks, I'll put it above every other place that does coffee

and I don't know why. Normally I'd agree with you. I think this particular batch was old. I think this has been there for a while. Getting it at like 10 a.m. on a Monday, when there's like no one in the drive-through and you're like, they are done with their breakfast. Yeah, this was probably good a couple hours, so.

Yeah. I would never go out of my way to go get a cup of McDonald's coffee. But my wife constantly wants McDonald's breakfast or something, so she's like, do you want anything? Black coffee, just give me the black coffee and it will be fine all the way. If the people that my McDonald's weren't so

God damn incompetent at my specific, like I have so many issues with my McDonald's. What's happening? I don't know. There's some sort of like, man, there's Microfuffle and it's been a whole thing. I try to stay out of McDonald's drama, but if it were for that,

I would get this ice coffee every day. This is better than Starbucks ice coffee. I would imagine that this McDonald's that I went to is, oh no, you probably have another McDonald's. I do. I'm sure you, you probably went to one between us. I know exactly which one you're talking about. I almost went to that one and I went just a hair. It's just not as easy as going to this other one.

I think I think I know the one you're talking about. Yeah, it's a shit show there. It is a shit show there. Why? To a day or night. I don't know what the deal is. Yeah, it's always fucked. I went there the other day one time and I was like,

and they were like, you want to see? And I said, no, and they said, they told us we have to hand it to you. And I'm like, okay, the white ass. Who told them right? What the fuck? I think the problem goes there with a gun. Yeah, I tell him. I mean, they're having issues.

I get it and I'm patient and I understand. I know I worked fast food, it fucking sucks to work fast food. So I never take it personally understand. I know it. I've worked fast food. It fucking sucks to work fast food. So I never take it personally. But I just like just noticed that like that McDonald's is like 90% of the time you're gonna have a problem. That's crazy. Yeah.

Like for fast food. I don't really, I like I'm a slut for pumpkin spice lattes. But outside of that, are you pumpkin flavor fan? Oh, I take enough. Like fucking. Well, pumpkin spice isn't pumpkin. Do you like pumpkin beer? I'm fine. Yeah. I like it. I don't like it enough. Like fucking, well, pumpkin spice isn't pumpkin. Do you like pumpkin beer? I find, yeah, I like it.

I don't love it. It's good. It's definitely different because it doesn't taste like cinnamon and nutmeg. But the, if there's like a syrup, like a pumpkin spice syrup, just poured in my fucking mouth. Like, I love that shit. I don't know why. I just really like it.

That's what I get when it's, this is the only time of the year that I go to like Starbucks. I don't all take it that. And then the rest of the year, it's like, I don't, I I just really like it. That's what I get when it's the only time of the year that I go to Starbucks at all to get that. And then the rest of the year, it's like, I don't, I make my own coffee, whatever. But if we're going somewhere then my wife wants McDonald's, which she regularly does, it is fucking, their coffee is just like so drinkable. I killed that fucking cup. I crushed it.

Hello, please. Thing is, it's during the house. I went through many years of my life like wanting to only support local businesses and like instead of going to McDonald's, going to like Peteri or some other local like. Fuck Peteris. Peteris is great.

Peteris is great. Ruined my favorite places. It's great. Peter's is great. Peter's is great. Ruined my favorite places. Great. It's great. It's terrible. It's fine. It's great. Good help.

Healbirds is great as well. Go to top notch. There's a lot of great play. Go to mighty fine. Who haven't been on top notch in a minute? Can we do a coffee episode at top notch? I think we should. Oh yeah.

I think that's a great idea. We'll sit in the car. Let me. That's fun. Right? That's a lot. I wonder if top notch has car. Let me, that's fun. Right. That's a lot. I wonder if top notch has coffee. If I search top notch coffee, I don't think it's gonna get me well.

I bet it do. I bet they do. I bet they do. Oh, you know, it'd be really cool if we did it. I drive by there sometimes on the weekend, if I'm up north and they have, they have like classic car shows. Yeah, yeah, they have the car show in the,

yeah, that's like every weekend. Yeah, we should fucking sink that up sometimes. Let me see if they have coffee on the menu. They have a printer friendly menu. They have fish sandwiches. Um, guys, unfortunately, it doesn't look like they have coffee. Um, we'll figure something out. Yeah, we will take coffee to there. Um, that's, it's less about the coffee. Just wanted to hang out experience. Yeah. Yeah. No kidding. Uh, anyway, and I, I just being like, just being kind of a snob, yeah. Yeah, no kidding. Anyway, and I just being like, just being kind of a snob about that

and then I gave up at some point and I fucking loved McDonald's. I really do. I even thought of my whole time. I'm gonna Jeff from 20 years ago would say about that. It's cool. I remember that. Calm names.

Push you down. I love you. I don't ever, I'm not much of a fast food guy. I know the face jam and stuff. That's kind of like the only time I really have it. It's a whole show about it. I know.

My wife constantly wants McDonald's. It is a constant struggle. Hotcakes? No, she like, it's always, she wants like hash browns and she wants her little cheeseburger, but really she wants the largest coke that you can get. Yeah, McDonald's is a place for that. And she's like, yeah, this tastes different.

I don't drink soda, really. So I had a sip of it and I went, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, this is crazy and it's like, I don't know. Man, I know the answer is no to this question, but did you guys see that TikTok recently about the lady who went to the apparently there's a place that's in In New York City that is known. I may be Brooklyn for having the best Diet Coke on earth. What's like a process they go for it

It's like people go from all over the country to go try this Diet Coke from this fountain machine because it's better and supposedly It's amazing. I want to try it, but it's at the end, you still drink and die of hope. That's how I love Diet Coke. That's to say, if it's the best Diet Coke in the world, it's like being the world's tallest dog. Like, that's really mean for you. Like, you're just like, wow, people will go, yeah. And I think that's about it.

For those of us who have been drinking Diet Coke since birth, it's a big deal. Like, I grew up in a house, I grew up in a house. Well, I first off, I grew up in a time when soda was water. Like in the 70s, in the 80s, it's like in the turn of the century, all people drank was whiskey.

Yeah. Like if you ever look at whiskey consumption in like the 18 and 1900s, people were drinking like a fifth a day. And they would put that, like please just drink a little bit of they would, they would put out like, please just drink a little bit of water, just a little bit of water and a little less whiskey.

I grew up in the 80s when like Coca-Cola was like, they would mainline it into your veins. But my dad was diabetic and so we couldn't have sugar in the house and so I grew up drinking Diet Coke from a very early age. And so that's always just like imprinted on me. We were a Pepsi family. I love Pepsi. I take Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke from a very early age. And so it's always just like imprinted on me. Oh, we're a Pepsi family. I love Pepsi. I take Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke any day.

Really? Oh yeah. So he's unreliable. Yeah, really. No, I love all diet sodas, but I did switch a couple of years ago. You took the Pepsi challenge? I'll tell you what switched me. Was that stupid Kindle Generic commercial?

Where everybody was making a commercial? He were, yeah. When I made a fun of Kindle Generic for that stupid commercial, and that was so fucking awesome. No, I thought When I made a fun of Kittle Jenner for that stupid commercial, and that was so fucking awesome. No, I thought, like, I was watching it. I was like, that is so fucking stupid. And I thought, who's the last time I had a Pepsi?

And I went and I tried it, and I was like, oh, this is really good. I'm done with this. Let's do it a bit more. Okay, okay, okay. So here's the thing, Gus, in our non-canon fanfiction episodes, we had fan get all of these names together. This was not our doing, this was their doing. And we went through every guess that we have made.

Yes. Every time you're taking people to that 99% right? Or the eight. Yeah, you're like, you're like 99.9% of the way there. We guess it, I'm so sick of this. Okay. I know people are listening or sick of. I'm so sick of this. Okay. I know people are listening or sick of it. I'm sick of it.

Okay. I'm just sick of comments about it. Okay. I'm gonna throw some names out there because we went through and we crossed off ones that we thought I don't know how to change this to make it what the name would be. We were trying to get in your head.

We were trying to think of like, it's impossible. Like would eat with gussars dream logic come up with this. There's only one light on out there and that strand. So one of the corner. Oh, I know I need to change those bulbs. Like all of them, like there's an entire string of lights. Only one of them is working. A lot of them are working. Just need to be twisted. Okay. Here are the guesses that we've made

changes. So we think this might be it. Okay. Austin more Austin. No. Austin man Austin. I'm just gonna very, I'm just gonna speedrun these very matter of fact. Okay.

Another morning, man, what was the one that we were changing? Another morning in Austin to something, but that's not. No. Okay. These again, these make too much sense. Yep.

Anti meta Austin. No, okay. Hang on. I Still think it's animals. Is it animal? No anatomically accurate. No I see people like trying to train AI or like learning machine learning engines to try to figure it out Machines can't get in my head. Another morning in Austin, annoying modern Austin. No.

Austin means Austin. No. Austin, me, Amigo. No. Oh my God. Austin, more Austin. No. Angerly missing,

no, angerly miss Austin. No. Oh my God. These are all terrible. Okay. Here's the consensus of what people think it is. Okay. Austin, my God. These are all terrible. Okay. Here's the consensus of what people think it is. Okay. Austin, my Austin.

No, how many times, I feel like we've heard that one so many times. Oh, okay. Here's Austin Mation. No. Oh my God. Are any of these close? Have we been close on any of that? No, these are all the worst ones I've ever heard. They're close.

No. So that means that that's one's the 9.9% one. It's the ones that are on the ones we crossed off. So here's what we have to do now. This is fucking annoying. We now have to cross off all the ones that we just said because we know unequivocally, none of those were, none of those we just mentioned were the 99.

No. It narrows it down. It's a frustrating flip. It's frustrating because now, at first off, it tells us that we have no idea what Gus's dream brain is having. No, no idea. I have no idea what my dream brain's doing. I think Eric's mad. We were, we were, we were, we were convinced. We were high five.

No, we thought we had it. Y'all should take the day off, because that was bad. A nightmare of Americano. No. I'm just picturing fucking nightmare before Christmas, so the Americano's now. Austinites make Austin. No. Now, did you say, you said Austin is in the title?

I never said that. Damn. Let's try to trick you. Damn it. Austin's mine again. No. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, Yeah, none of them are good. What's with all the people you have? That's all these get Gus. That's the evidence you have. Here, get, look through and see, because we crossed out names. That's every guess.

That is every guess we've made. Oh, I see what you did. Yes, and we crossed out the ones where we went, okay, how could we change this? No, we can't change it. Clearly, this isn't. Yeah. I'm just kind of looking for. Hey, Gus is looking to see if there's anything on there that

Make some want to Tell us the name No, no, I'm just curious to see if there's anything close. Yeah Who compiled this list? It age Vincent. I don't remember age Vince some of that. I think that was I think that was it? It age Vincent. I don't remember age Vince. So I think that was it. Not every guest is on here. God. Wow.

Damn. Okay. Okay. So it's none of those. Okay. So there's none of these. Not necessarily. Oh my God.

This fucking prick. This fucking prick. All right. Well, we know God. Damn. Damn. I think somebody else can call it. Good God damn damn. I think somebody else Good morning, Gus. I think somebody else compile the list as well. I'll see about finding that list and

We're waiting this episode 25. Let me look at that again. That's not all the way through. Is it? No, it stops Oh, that is there stuff on the backs? Yeah. I didn't look at the backs. This motherfucker. This whole fence front is just in photo. Me! So I don't waste paper.

I had to put that twice. It says the guy with the electric car. Yeah, right over here. It's fucking burn the trees down. I just want to, I don't want to, I don't want to mislead you. I don't know if it's a bad guy. No, no, I appreciate it.

Get in fucking shit over here. That's a little bit of dirt. That's a little bit of dirt That's a little bit better. Guess it's a looking. Okay. Maybe they are all in here. What? Fuck!

Okay, can I ask? No, they're on the back pages. Yes. No shit. Yes. Okay. Now can I ask? It was crossed out.

I don't pay attention. I was just looking at names. I didn't pay attention if it was crossed out or what. Locker. All right, anyway, my voice is cracking. Let's be done with this. See, this is why I wanted to take the time to really figure this out. Jeff, is it?

Jeff is just dissecting back pages now. So we know it's on the back. That meant something different in the late night. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it.

That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it.

That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's this. Yeah, at least we know it's on the I think we can reasonably assume it's on the back page, right?

Yeah, we have to be and some of those back pages we've already crossed our we thought we're good so we can cross those off So we're gonna be left with stuff like in my acts Then we gotta be like someone already said that no It's not the Lord of the Rings fan cast god Furious I really thought we were all right. What a great start to the week. Any holidays, anyone? Any more Austin?

No. Well, next week we're going to go to the mall. It's back, baby. The mall is back. This is our fucking revenge right here. Yeah, we're going to take, yeah, we're taking guests in the fucking mall. He's going to hate it.

I hear him the last time was at that mall. He hates the mall. He hates public spaces. He hates people. Yeah. To be crowded because of the holidays. He hates holidays. He hates the way he is. He hates the week before Christmas. He doesn't like the mall. He hates public spaces. He hates people. To be crowded because of the holidays. He hates holidays. He hates the week before Christmas. He doesn't like hot noises.

What if it's crowded because the mall is back? No. He hates smells. We're gonna have to park far. The mall is like, it's just perfume out the ad. We're gonna have to park far. We won't have to park too far. We're parking dealers and going that way.

It's easy. They're gonna spray me in the face with some shit. They are. They're definitely gonna spray you with a body spray of some kind. Well, we didn't get the name, but we are back for another burst of episodes going into the lightning round. The first season.

The new year. And I think the most important thing that we can all agree after the completion of this episode is that, upon seeing it in person, Gus realizes he was super wrong and Tiny Town is very cool. Tiny Town is awesome. Yeah.

Yeah. We did it. If you guys want to follow us, can't add animal podcasts, you want to check out Tiny Town, it took some pictures and some video we'll post it there. I am at Animal Podcast on Twitter and on Instagram. That way, the beginning of this podcast episode will make sense. You'll see it.

And you can also, you can also send your guesses there. Although we've been reading them and so far no one's gotten it, I guess. So we'll just keep trying. So if someone guesses it online, I don't say anything. How does that work? That's what you tell me. I don't know. You tell me you're the producer. I see roller romma now. It's big. It's it's it's it is. I can't believe it was all broken You had to put it back together. It was great. Yeah, where'd it go? Um, we'll figure that out. I don't Okay, well Guys any parting words any final words for these folks? The show happy holidays

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