ANMA - Lost Episode Redo
Episode Date: August 4, 2025Good morning, Gus! Gus and Geoff show Eric around Hyde Park after a quick trip to Quack's Bakery. Wait, Quack's from the lost episode? That's right because this week they talk about Pitch for the fi...nal episode of the season, Geoff’s on edge, Telenetwork, Vacuum, Garage sales, Sprawl, Waymo, Traffic, Rotary, and SXSW. Edited by Richard Norman. Check out his band Good Lord on bandcamp: https://goodl0rd.bandcamp.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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God, look at that white house.
Beautiful.
Big.
Nice to live right over here.
Oh, did you?
Yeah, Gavin and I did for a year.
I guess we'll talk about that in the podcast.
Was it only a year?
It seemed like it was so much longer than a year.
It was 13 months.
We were putting the second floor on the old house and so we had to live somewhere.
It had always been a dream of mine to live in Travis Heights and Hyde Park.
And so we moved to Hyde Park.
In my mind it was like two years for some reason.
I can't believe it was only 13 months.
It's funny because I would have lived here forever, but I was also so fucking ready to leave here.
Really?
It's such a beautiful place, and the neighborhood is laid out in a really useful grid and it's huge. And at Halloween, it is like the most picturesque
movie Halloween neighborhood you've ever seen.
But it is just full of old white hippies and ponytails
and Birkenstocks who just wanna talk to you
about your yard and you're like,
I'm just renting this yard.
I don't give a fuck.
And they're like, they're not gonna let you.
It's like Ben and Jerry live in every house
in this neighborhood. Which makes me good neighbors, but boring, the worst. And they're like, they're not gonna let you. It's like Ben and Jerry live in every house in this neighborhood.
Oh, man, good ice cream though.
Which makes for good neighbors,
but boring, boring neighbors.
Yeah, I hear that.
And also all the restaurants around here I was not into,
except for,
Julio's is good. Julio's is okay.
They have been- And now Wero's is over here,
but that used to be Mother's.
I hate Mother's. No, that sucks.
Curras. Oh, Curras, sorry, Curras.
This Julio's changed ownership, And the new owners are doing pretty
good. That's cool. They've added a couple things that are good
to the menu. And this parking lot over here has changed hands.
It used to be free to park but now it's paid to park. Actually
parked in there. A couple days ago, I was getting food from
Julio's. And all of this packed, the Julio's was packed.
I was like, man, I'm gonna have to park in the pay lot.
So I parked in there
and just like scan the QR code kind of deal.
I was like, I'll just see how much it is.
If it's like a buck, I'll do it.
It was free.
What?
Yeah, it was like no charge.
They're like, oh, okay, I'll definitely park here.
I don't know if it was like a time of day thing
or what's going on,
but apparently I guess it's free sometimes.
How is this so crazy?
Ooh.
So anyway, check it out. If you need to, you might be free whenever you're looking to park.
I like your sunglasses.
Thanks.
Are they new?
No, I've had them. I mean, as of about 15 years ago maybe.
Okay, new-ish then.
I got them when I was still living over on the east side.
In your first house?
Yeah.
Wow. I've never held on to sunglasses for more than
six months. Really? Probably, yeah. Dang. These are my driving sunglasses. I'll take
it back. These are replacements because the original ones I had after about six months
back then got stolen by a valet. There you go. I knew it was something.
I knew it was something with those glasses.
Check out the pop-up.
I took him to, what is it?
We had a family dinner at Eddie V's,
and I always leave these sunglasses in my car.
The only time they come out is for Anva,
which didn't, or Gullvarn, Gustava,
which didn't exist back then.
And I went to Eddie V's, it was like sunset.
So I was wearing them, left them in the center console
of my car, they always belong,
then looked for them when we left, because it was nighttime. The next was wearing them left them in the center console of my card they always belong then they look for him when we left
because it was nighttime the next morning look for him again they were
gone so I was like and I had valid the car at edi v's I was like hey you guys
stole my sunglasses like we need to steal your sunglasses like yeah you did
they're like are you sure you didn't misplace them I was like listen someone
stole them and their prescription sunglasses so it was the dumbest theft
ever yeah no they're my exact same prescription eventually I fought with them them and update cut me a check for did they really value of the sunglasses? Wow
That's crazy
Squeaky wheel gets the lenses. Yep. You guys want a little snacky? Yeah
Chocolates goings calling me could be
Or quacks by the way. I think we said that.
We are at Quacks.
I'll get a blueberry muffin.
Where's that?
That does look good.
Considering I pull apart,
it sounds intriguing to me.
I agree.
Can I get a cold brew, a lard?
Well, 16 ounce.
I guess I'll have 20 ounce.
Come on. And a blueberry muffin, well, 16 ounce, I guess I had 20 ounce. Chalotical. Come on.
And blueberry muffin, if I can.
Whatever these guys want.
Whatever these guys want as well.
I'll do a 12 ounce Americano and a chocolate scone, please.
I'm gonna get a large drip coffee and a pumpkin cream cheese muffin. Great. It looks like a very difficult decision for me. It's just off by one for me.
Oh, gotcha.
Yeah.
And then it was like, do I want it? Nah, whatever.
Yeah. Sorry, button. It's not worth the effort. No, no, no, no.
This is the least busy I think I've ever seen in a year. Yeah, normally it's a much longer line.
Do we come at a weird hour? I don't think so. It's me. Everybody's broke. It's true.
All those Tesla investments are down 50 percent.
You Roy Orbison guy?
Did I hear Roy Orbison?
Are you a big Roy Orbison guy?
Oh, I do like Roy Orbison a lot.
Yeah.
Why do you ask?
This conversation?
I don't know.
Are you the Roy Orbison conversation? I don't know. Are you the growing up-ish guy?
I was just curious.
He's a...
Oh, that's weird energy today.
We need to get this guy a 12, 16, or 20 ounce coffee
depending on what he's drinking.
One of them, 32!
It's 32 ounce.
I always get a large,
but it's the size of a big gold if I can't...
This is a weird one because we were already here once.
Yeah.
But chocolate blueberry pumpkin.
That does work often.
We had due to technical difficulties,
it was lost forever.
Yeah, we lost forever.
So it's a redo.
Which...
It's fine, it wasn't one of our better ones anyway.
No.
That's probably good.
Andrew has been texting me that he thinks I'm on Edge lately.
What's going on with you dude?
Really?
I don't feel like I'm on Edge.
It's not enough where I ordered this stuff.
I don't know man, like there are orders
and they seem like it really set you off.
A real confrontation.
No, it's really crazy.
Why, what are you asking?
I'm just tracking direct communication.
Like on.
It's like he's currently on.
And we're talking. We're content.
I'm just asking for further information. I'm sorry I had a follow up question.
I used to be a journalist.
What the fuck you asking?
What's it to you?
Arrrr.
We'll take a seat.
We'll hang out, try these muffins and everything.
And then we'll, uh, we can have a little walk.
Yeah. Are there napkins in there? Are there napkins?
There's what? Are there napkins in there? Are there napkins? There's what?
Are there napkins in there?
There are not.
Let's grab some.
Look at this, this guy's thinking ahead.
Fastidious.
Yeah.
Is that right?
I don't think so.
It's fastidious, isn't it?
What's, what are you trying to say?
He's clean.
Okay.
Is fastidious the right word for that?
I think, I think of,
fastidious would be like attention to detail, think fastidious would mean attention to detail.
That's what I thought.
Same thing.
He's like, he's getting, he noticed,
he asked if there's napkins,
he was looking for the details,
there's napkins in the fucking bag.
Hey man, I just wanna say, you've been kind of on edge.
Yeah, something's going on.
It started ever since he was wrong
about the parking last time.
Oh my God.
Very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detail.
And, hold on, very concerned about matters of cleanliness.
Oh, is that on there? All right.
Matters of it's gone.
Anyway, that work.
I should interrupt it.
Why?
Hmm. Matters of cleanliness.
Thank you.
He's like, I'm on edge.
You go. Yeah, let's get you this large ice.
I'm fucking constantly writing,
getting all the questions in for 10 seconds.
Dude, this guy's got to come out of his naughties
and use the word fastidious.
It's funny because I didn't want to say this in there,
but you said that it wasn't one of our best episodes.
And I was going to reply,
this is not one of the best coffee shops either.
So it's kind of fitting.
Very true.
Let's grab this little table.
How many?
Oh, let's grab this little table.
Yeah, that's better.
I wanna be in the sun.
Guess how many different quacks have you been to
in your time in Austin?
There's a bunch of dogs in that stroller over there.
Yeah, it's not really in the way.
Oh, we're in Hyde Park.
Stroller dog.
One, two, I think only three.
I wanna say three. I want to say three.
Wait, how many?
Oh, unless you count Lady Quack and Bushes, then four.
Where's Lady Quack and Bushes?
It's over in Mueller now.
Oh, I haven't, I'm not sure.
Oh, I just saw that.
It's a cake shop.
Is it related to this?
I assume so, because it used to be like,
Quack and Bush was Quacks.
Quacks, Captain Quack and Bushes,
is what it was originally called.
Oh, these are like the same,
I didn't know they were like related in any way.
There was one on Guadalupe, on the drag.
Yeah. This one here. There was the one Guadalupe on the drag. Yeah.
There was the one where Cherrywood coffee houses
that used to be quacks.
Is this yours?
Yeah.
And then this is the other one I've been to.
Blueberry?
Yeah.
They give you a scone.
Are you sad?
No, not really.
I'll take a scone.
It's weird because a woman seemed to be really into her job
and to really love it.
So it's weird that she would get that wrong.
Yeah, she was loving life.
We want, all right.
Well, thanks for, thank you very much for being here.
Thanks for making me feel bad.
Yeah, appreciate it.
My personality was about as fucking dry as this was going.
Oh no.
This was dry as hell.
That's fast.
How many have you been to?
What?
How many of Clacks have you been to?
Just those three.
Okay.
I was wondering if there was another one.
I was wondering if there was another one
that I wasn't thinking of, yeah. And I don't know that they were ever operating at the same time.
I think they were in one location that's bounced around.
Well, this one's been here forever, but...
I think maybe the one on the Drag was maybe opened at the same time as the one in Cherrywood?
Maybe.
I feel like there was overlap there.
But I could be. I mean, fuck, it's been 20 years. I could be wrong.
Yeah, I feel like that place was Insomnia when I first came to Austin.
You remember that coffee shop? Yeah, I liked Insomnia. I Insomnia when I first came to Austin. You remember that coffee shop?
Yeah, I liked Insomnia, I went there a lot.
I did too, as far as 21.
I thought the line it was, I was 1920,
I couldn't drink, I couldn't go to bars,
so I would hang out at coffee shops
that were open 24 hours a day here.
It was like Insomnia and Flipnotics.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Where you could go to spots.
Fucking Flipnotics, dude.
I couldn't remember the name for a while.
I hear about that place a lot.
Gone, it's a smoothie place or something now or something now. Last time we did this episode, so this is the last episode from season one.
Had technical difficulties.
Had to ditch the episode, unfortunately.
So we went, oh, hey, let's try it again.
Let's do quacks. Season two.
So on the way here, I think last time we did this episode, there's a lot of walking.
And we talked about 35 expansion
a lot, just sort of, cause it was like in the area
we were doing it, whatever.
Well, on the way here, we drove by everything
that it was just torn down for that expansion.
That was true blue tattoos gone.
They used to live over in that area.
They closed the little gas station.
That's fucking crazy.
It's not like it's not just gone. The building's demolished. It's just a dirt area. They closed the little gas station. That's fucking crazy. It's not just gone.
The building's demolished.
It's just a dirt lot.
They like raised the ground.
Like it's done.
They salted it too.
Yeah, they salted it.
We're not building anything here but freeways.
Ha ha ha ha.
It looks like the convenience store next to it's also
being demolished, which kind of segues.
I'd like to, in one of our remaining episodes,
I think it'd be good if we hit up Dirty Martins
because it's like, that's one of those places
that's on the cusp of closing because of expansion.
And I think it's a good tie-in for us.
I like that idea.
I had an idea for the last episode.
I wanted to pitch you.
Ooh.
I thought it would be fun.
Re-take that? Last episode of the season? Last episode of the season, yeah. I had an idea be fun. Re-take that.
Last episode of the season.
Last episode of the season.
Yeah.
I had an idea for the last episode of the season
I wanted to pitch in.
Okay.
Last season we went and sat in the parking lot
at the old Metropolitan Theater
where we went and camped out for Star Wars
and enjoyed that day.
I thought in the similar vein,
it would be fun to end this season
in the parking lot for Tele Network.
Oh wow. Pick up some coffee and go sit there. The problem is there's nothing down there.
Happy taco. That's been gone for 25 years. It was a quarter century ago. It's true.
It's got to be something around there. We could do that. Give McDonald's coffee.
Jumping off of that idea.
We could also maybe do the original draft house
on Colorado.
I just bought that the other day.
What is it?
Something incredibly lame now.
Yeah, I'm sure.
But yeah, I'm done with that too.
I'm done with that too.
We do T&I.
The going to the tele network,
sitting in the parking lot and doing an episode is so fucking funny to me.
That is so funny. I think.
Bird fight. Dude, birds are going to attack me.
These are like the smallest birds that like sounded like they hit the tire of that car.
One of them dead. One of them. I saw it.
It sounded like something like a fist.
There's that one under there.
Dude, I think doing a tele network episode is very funny. That's crazy.
That, cause I've been there.
Once.
Once, we drove through and I just went,
this is fucking it.
Like this is it.
It's like a warehouse in South Austin
with nothing around it.
Nothing.
Just some woods to play paintball in.
I had to, I was thinking about TNI the other day
because I had to shred some documents.
I didn't have a shredder at home.
Are you running from the law or what?
Yeah.
Doge contacting or something?
I went over to a FedEx location
and I guess the way that it works there
is they charge you by the pound
and they put it in a bin
and Iron Mountain comes and gets the bin and shreds it.
Iron Mountain needs to be co-located.
Yeah, and Iron Mountain, you know,
the call center that we worked at was inside that big warehouse,
which you saw, and then the rest of the warehouse was
like an offsite storage facility
that did like contracting for like Iron Mountain.
So it's like you walked out of the...
The call center was like a little
cube built inside this bigger warehouse.
If you walked out of that cube,
you were just like in Raiders of Lost Ark style
warehouse with just like racks to the ceiling
as far back as you could see, just filled with shit.
And there were like two or three people who worked there
who didn't work at the call center.
They worked at the storage facility.
Who was that lady's name?
Kim. Kim.
That's right. I loved Kim.
She was cool. She was awesome. And it's Kim. Kim. That's right. I loved Kim.
She was cool.
She was awesome.
And it's like, so it's like,
they would sit around and work and do stuff
for the offsite storage and then just watch us
answer the phones, doing the tech support stuff.
And then Iron Mountain bought them, I want to say.
And they removed all of that stuff
to a different location.
So the warehouse emptied out.
This isn't the first year I started working there.
I was there for five and a half years. So we were then a little box
inside like a drop-sealing box inside of a giant warehouse and there was nothing
else in there and so I built a skate park. What? And it was amazing and there
were like three or four dudes in the company that skated and... Oh thank you so much!
Really appreciate it. Have a good day. There were three or four company that skated and... Oh, thank you so much. Oh, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Have a good day.
There were three or four people that had skated
and Anthony didn't give a shit.
And so just at nights and weekends,
I spent all my time there building and skating.
Are you serious?
Yeah, for a long time.
And that's where we filmed that Apple switch parody
was in there because it was a giant empty box.
Wow, really?
Yeah, we just painted like one of the little walls
on the back.
The fun ended, if I remember correctly, when somebody hung a rope swing from the ceiling.
And that pissed Anthony off.
And then I think all the shenanigans stopped after that.
Well, we were dumb 20 year olds.
And no one thought about the load on the ceiling.
And the fact that that ceiling probably could not hold more than anybody's weight.
Dumb 20 year olds with 24 hour access unsupervised to a warehouse.
Yeah. Bad decisions constantly.
Tons.
Yeah, there was also... So it was like a giant empty warehouse,
except for there was also like a separate second little fortified cube in there
that had the phone system and all of the servers.
Uh-huh. Yeah. And it was like... What was that called? What are you... The Tatarant? fortified cube in there that had the phone system and all of the servers.
Yeah.
And it was like,
what was that called?
The taterette?
Is that what we called it?
The taterette?
No, that room.
I remember what it had a room.
The vault.
The vault.
Yeah.
It was like, if you knew there was a bomb coming,
you'd run to the vault.
Because it was like, it was fortified.
Because there was actual like,
telephone company phone equipment in there.
If you knew there was a bomb coming.
So it was fortified as hell.
Wow.
Just for phone stuff?
Yeah.
There's like certain,
when you have phone system equipment,
there's a lot of very specifics when it comes to building
that you have to adhere to.
And like this far as fortification for the walls,
power, redundancy,
there even has to be like a certain degree
of slope to the floor.
So if liquid does collect,
it goes off to like a specific side.
There's a lot of very specific details
you don't think about that go into designing
any area that houses critical phone infrastructure.
Huh.
I didn't, I never, I,
you just figure it lives on a post like that
and you go, that's where, that's where phones is. Huh. Never, just just figure it lives on a post like that and you go, that's where phones is.
Huh?
No, it's a-
You just never considered it.
Yeah.
It's weird to think we worked for a phone company
for a while.
We did.
It's a weird part of the resume.
Uh-oh.
This isn't Clarksville anymore, buddy.
Get the fuck out of Hyde Park.
Get out of Hyde Park now.
We're gonna bird fight, bitch.
Where did you, so I mean, thinking back, like I started there at that place in February of 98.
Like, the last week of February 98.
I moved to Austin, like, first week of January 98.
Figured I'd be able to find a job anywhere. I couldn't.
Only place I would hire me was that call center.
I started there, I think, like, February 27th.
Like, right at the very end of February, 1998.
I remember my roommate at the time saw the ad
in the Daily Texan and that's how I found it.
But it's like, I remember trying to get hired anywhere
and it just was not happy.
I think for a day before I worked there,
the day I got the call from the call center
that I was hired there, earlier that day,
I had started another job, which was like this outbound telemarketing,
selling security systems.
I remember I showed up for-
Like home security systems?
Yeah. Okay.
I showed up for the orientation.
It was over by the double tree off of 35,
like just north of by 290.
The one that we did the first RTX set.
Yeah, right around the corner from there.
That was where I went for the day.
When we got that free mold room?
Yeah. Did the orientation.
We were finishing and I was like, man,
I really don't want to do this.
I have no money.
I need to do this or I will starve.
Then I got the call later that afternoon from
the call center that I got hired there,
and I never went back to the security.
Who called you to hire you? Was it Brian Murphy?
Yeah, it was Brian. Because when I got hired there in early 98,
it was free renovation.
Like when you started,
like it was expanded all the way up to the back.
When I started, it was just that little front room.
When I started, there were 60,
like maybe 55 employees.
We were just about to hit 60.
And you were telling me,
you're like, I've been here since I were 20.
And I was like, I don't think you've been here
like seven months longer than you.
I think when I started a shift.
That's how it felt working at Rooster Teeth.
When I started a shift was like three, maybe four people.
And by the time you stopped,
it was like what, like a hundred or something?
By the time I stopped?
Yeah.
Yeah, well over a hundred.
Yeah. When I started, there were like,
shift was like eight, 10 people. Yeah. When I started, there were like shift was like eight, 10 people.
Yeah. So I started in January of 99 and I had a similar thing where I moved here. I moved back here and when I got out of the army in December of 98, my first job,
we may have covered this in season one, but my first job was working at the Sierra Club.
Right. All right. Yeah.
I quit that the day I started.
Then I got hired as a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman.
And the day they issued me my vacuum,
I went there to get my vacuum and we had to stand in a room
and sing the company song and I couldn't do it.
I just, I was similar to what you're saying.
I just was like looking around at these people
and I had come to terms with the fact
that I was gonna be a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman.
I knew it was shy story.
I knew it was gummy and sketchy.
I knew these things were overpriced,
but I needed the money and it seemed like,
at least like a good product.
You know?
But when I had to get there and seeing that like vaguely
religious song with a bunch of other adults,
I just walked out and I was like, this is not for me.
And Ryan called me that day.
And that's the day I got hired.
It's funny how that happened.
Yeah.
That's crazy. I was destitute. I funny how that happened. Yeah. That's crazy.
I was destitute.
I remember going home to my apartment over on William Cannon
to my wife at the time and going like, I can't do it.
I'm sorry.
I'll figure something else out.
Just like, I remember like I felt a hole in my stomach.
You know, you're just like, you got no options
and you're broke and you're terrified.
We had moved here on a whim, you know?
I'd packed up my entire life and moved it here.
And then you get that call
and then the entire course of my life changed
because of that phone call.
It's wild.
Yeah, I mean, you just got to keep on trucking.
No matter what's in front of you.
Like things are, if you keep at it,
things will figure themselves out.
It's funny you mentioned Kirby vacuums.
My parents just bought Kirby vacuums.
Are you fucking serious?
Yeah, like a couple months ago.
This guy can tell you all about them, dude.
They told me that, I was like,
they're still around, they still sell vacuums?
And I forgot that a couple of years ago
when they were up here with me in Austin,
we'd gone to like garage sales one weekend
and they had found at an estate sale
an old Kirby vacuum and bought it
Uh-huh.
For like 20 bucks or something.
And they loved that thing.
And I guess like that one had finally gone,
it looked like it was from the seventies.
That one finally went out and they decided to buy a new Kirby
and they traded in that old one, got money for it.
Some credit.
They traded in?
Yeah, I guess Kirby like took it back.
I want to say when I was, this is 98.
And so it's an extremely imperfect memory,
but I want to say even in 98,
those things were over a thousand dollars. A vacuum? Yeah. It was like and so it's an extremely imperfect memory, but I want to say even in 98, those things were over a thousand dollars.
A vacuum?
Yeah, it was like a crazy,
I remember thinking like,
I'm never going to sell one of these, but that's okay.
And they're also heavy as hell, right?
Like they're made out of like some kind of solid steel.
Like I think nowadays they have like a drive motor
to help you push them because they are so heavy.
The big selling point for those things too
was what I was supposed to do is I was supposed to ask
to go and get into the house,
clean up all the carpet and stuff.
And then you go, I'd like to show you
what this thing can really do.
If you wouldn't mind, I go into their bedroom
and you take off their fitted sheet
to just have a little bit of the mattress,
the raw mattress, and then you vacuum the mattress
for a couple seconds.
And then you show them all the dead skin and dust.
And that's the point people buy it.
That's a, hey, honestly, great selling point.
Yeah. Pretty good.
I never got to do it firsthand.
No one would let me in their house.
Couldn't sing the song.
Yeah, but I remember that was like the moment.
They were like, this is the moment you get them.
Wow.
Show them what they're sleeping on.
Let me in your house.
Let me show you what this vacuum does.
Let me show you what this vacuum does.
Diddy bingo.
I heard there's a back in the Chronicle though.
Yeah, I think that's probably where that one's from.
I had to kind of imagine an original one
is still looking in that condition in 2025.
We have an original Gidget sticker.
Gidget's the dog from Taco Bell.
That's her name.
That was the dog's name.
I guess I forgot that. Wow.
Everyone knew about Gidget.
You said to remind you about something about yard sales.
Yeah, I told that story as a setup.
I thought you did a great job and then they got you.
No, I thought Gus was telling that story
as a first job, last job,
which is another prompt I gave him.
Cause I was thinking like, we now work for ourselves, right?
You're your own boss.
So my first job at Austin was working at the Sierra Club.
And hopefully my last job at Austin is working for myself as a podcast. This is. So my first job in Austin was working at the Sierra Club and hopefully my last job in Austin
is working for myself as a podcast owner.
This is gonna be my last job.
I'll see to it.
Your first, one way or the other,
your first job in Austin was selling security systems.
Which I did for a day.
Which you did for one day.
Crazy.
And your last job in Austin is running a D&D company.
Fingers crossed.
I'll see to it.
Don't you do it.
Listen, no matter what.
The other prompt that I gave you guys in the car
was because I was driving around yesterday
looking for office space for regulation.
Cause ours fell through.
That's been fun.
Very accessible.
I was struck, and we're looking for a house.
We wanna move into a house.
I think that's a better speed for us.
So I was driving through neighborhoods
and I was struck by the realization
that even though it was 1999,
I still remember almost every house
we went to a yard sale at.
Like I'll be driving through a neighborhood and I'll go.
Gus and Sarah and I were,
I was in Barton Hills yesterday
and I was like Gus and Sarah
and I went to a garage sale
in this fucking house and that's where Sarah saw
that guy's dog and she goes, I like big dogs.
I like big dogs.
I think about that all the time.
We made fun of her fucking forever for it.
It was so stupid.
I went to that, I drove by that house yesterday, dude.
Why?
How do I know from summer of 1999?
How do I remember that?
And I realized I remember so many houses from yard sales in the
90s. That's insane. Yeah, same. There's one I think. Why do you think that? The way she said it was so
dopey, like she went up. Well, whatever. I don't want to belabor it. It's been 20 years. It's been
30 years, probably. There's one over here off of Red River. Red River. Red River. Is it Red River?
What if it was called Red River?
Like maybe close to the St. David's Hospital. Is it over there? No, it's in that area. Close
to the St. David's Hospital. Maybe it's not off of Red River. It's just a little west of there.
But I pass every now and then that we went to a garage sale there and I always think about that.
I think it was a pink house that's white now.
I think back then it was like a pink two story house
on the corner and we went in and spent forever in there
looking at stuff.
I know the house you're talking about.
There's another house on Red River
that if I pointed it out, you'd be like,
oh yeah, it was a duplex, ugly as sin
that we went to a yard sale at.
Yeah.
We used to do this thing where we would drive around
for drunk gamers and do what was called drunk sailing,
which we would get up very hungover the night before because we'd be out drinking on 6th street
on Red River till...
20 year olds.
A Red Ripper, sorry.
Until like 6 in the morning and then we would get up and Gus was actually the engine that made it.
I would have never gotten out of bed, but he was always the one that was like,
get up, let's go.
It was content.
Yeah.
It was content. It was footage.
And so at 8 a.m. every Saturday, we would get a list from the newspaper
Yeah, the statesman we would look in the classifieds for yard sales
And then we would drive around and look for old video games and consoles Wow, and then before video
Yeah, so we take pictures and then we would write stories about it. Yeah, you sometimes true sometimes made up
It's like whatever mm-hmm and for some reason all those fucking yard sales from 1999 stories about it. Yeah, sometimes true, sometimes made up. Just like, whatever.
And for some reason, all those fucking yard sales
from 1999 burned into my brain.
Yeah, how crazy.
What did we say before we said it was, it's content?
You say that a lot as like an excuse for like what this is,
but like that wasn't the term in 2008
when we were like making stuff.
We wouldn't call it content.
What, I don't know.
I just don't remember what we called it.
We would say footage.
Footage, right?
That's what Jackass did.
I remember in Jackass 2, Ryan Dunn was not gonna do,
I think it was highlight, wasn't gonna do the highlight.
And Jackass said, it's footage.
I guess that's what we called it.
And ever since then, it became footage to us.
Yeah, I guess that's what we called it too.
I just don't remember.
I was thinking about it the other day.
Mega64 is doing this thing where
they're gonna stream for like eight hours or whatever. But we used to do a thing of like
filming what we call personal channel videos.
They're like non-Mega64 videos,
but it'd be us fucking around like in the studio,
just filming ourselves like the dumbest,
like 11 second skits that we could think of.
And they're gonna be doing that.
And then a lot of that was like,
oh, you know, it's content, whatever. And it's like, but that's not what we called it. Like what? I
just couldn't remember. I guess that's what it was. It was footage. Which is weird to say,
because I don't think we would have called drunk sailing footage because that was before.
Yeah, that was even pretty bad. Yeah. Yeah. So like, what do you like? It's a post.
Like, why don't you know what you'd call it? Yeah, I don't. I really don't remember. If you
remember, let us know. If you were there with him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You were like, dude, get up, it's Ian blog content.
We're blogging.
It's blog content.
It's gonna go into the blogosphere.
Yeah.
The blah blah networks, fucking, they invested in us.
We need to make that pizza money.
Hell yeah.
This whole area is kind of fucked up right now.
When I came here the other day,
like all of this was closed.
That's why I had to park in this pay lot.
But it was free.
But it was free.
I feel like I say this every time I leave my house
and I've been saying it for years,
but every fucking, there's not a place in Austin
you can go to and do a 360 spin
and not see some level
of construction or road work.
We've talked about it before,
but this is definitely San Diego in the 90s
where it was just like, how fast can we expand?
What can we build?
What can we do?
Because there's so many people here.
It's insane.
Just keep getting crews to work.
And it would boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And then you get to the other side of it
where now everything's falling apart.
And you go, oh, the decay phase.
Uh-oh, no one's working on any of this stuff.
Did, you know, like my cousin's husband has a,
just talking about like getting cruising,
my cousin's husband has a foundation repair company, right?
And he, a couple of years ago,
after the pandemic, things really exploded.
He had to start hiring crews in Waco
and bringing them in Austin because there weren't enough, there the pandemic, things really exploded. He had to start hiring crews in Waco and bringing them in to Austin
because there weren't enough people in Austin.
Now he has to hire people in Dallas.
To come down.
Wow.
Yeah, even that much further out to get people in
because it's just so much going on.
What is it we were talking about the other day?
Austin's like the 11th biggest city.
So it actually dropped, it was 10th.
We dropped to 11th.
I learned that and it made me want to move.
And it was like, this isn't,
this city isn't big enough to hold
the 11th biggest city by population standing.
There is not enough space.
Totally agree. Well, there's tons of space. There's just enough space. Totally agree.
Well, there's tons of space.
There's just not enough.
The sprawl hasn't caught up with it or whatever.
And it's, you can definitely see like a little bit
of like a rubber banding where it's kind of coming back.
There's like a lot of empty apartments right now.
A lot of new apartments, a lot of empty apartments.
It's great.
But man, I learned that and it just made me go like,
I got to, I don't even get out of here.
Just wait till you go to Houston this weekend
and really experience the urban sprawl.
That place is ridiculous.
You think it's sprawled all the way out
to beautiful Pasadena?
Yes, 100% it is.
You're gonna be, you're gonna be like hit Katie.
And then it's still gonna be like another 90 minutes
to get to Pasadena.
You'd be like, I'm just driving through Houston.
It's like 90 minutes.
You know what the worst part is?
We're gonna stop.
They're gonna go like, oh, do we get to stop at like the Buc-ee's on the way?
It's the bad Buc-ee's.
Yeah. It's the shit.
Don't even, just take me to a quick trip, get real.
Houston's so big, it has like three separate downtowns.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's got like multiple loops and beltways
that go around it depending on like what circumference
of the city you wanna go around.
It sounded like you were setting up for like a,
your mama joke there.
Houston's so big.
How big is it?
Well it has multiple downtowns.
It's inconvenient to drive it.
That's how big it is.
But isn't Dallas the same way?
Like Dallas Fort Worth is two different things.
Like with no downtowns, it's just shitty and spread.
Yeah.
That's something to talk about.
Although this person just got out of a Waymo.
I assume they just took a Waymo Uber.
And now they're videoing their experience getting out.
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I'll be on TikTok in an hour.
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That's true.
He'll let you know all about it.
I haven't taken one of these yet, but I really want to.
There's no one in that car.
Yeah.
I came across one in a neighborhood this morning
when I was actually leaving my neighborhood to drive to here.
And there was one coming at me and I realized there was nobody in it.
It was one of those areas where you have to like drive around cars
because the streets not wide enough.
And it fucking nailed it.
Like I was like for one brief second I thought, uh oh.
And then it was totally fucked.
If anything, I would say a Waymo is probably better than a human driver in that situation.
Because a human driver does not want to get over to let you get ahead.
Waymo did great.
Like people want to get in front.
People will not move over for another human being.
Austin does that. I don't understand.
The idea of merging in Austin is I got to get ahead of this next guy.
You stared, we were doing a zipper merge on the way here.
I just stared at the guy.
I let someone in and then like the next car tried to get over and get in.
You're like, dude, it's your turn to get behind.
I just stared at it.
Austin is the, this opened my eyes.
There's probably like three or four months ago.
My wife brought it up where she just went,
everyone in Austin, when they merge,
wants to get in front of the next car.
No one will dip behind to make it easier for everyone.
And that's why there's traffic all the time.
That Austin Sigma mindset.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're password.
We don't even do alpha shit, bro.
We're Sigmas out here.
Drive and grind.
Yeah, that's why.
I feel like it's especially bad for me
because that car I drive is so small.
People expect it to be like shitty and underpowered,
even though it's electric.
So it's like, everyone's trying to get in front of me.
It's like, no, I'm gonna accelerate faster than you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I'm not.
What is like, yeah, really just didn't experience that
until I moved out here.
The driving is so bad, but that's, like,
such a huge reason for it.
It's terrible.
Is, like, no one will zipper.
They'll want to just go in front.
And then, or wait till the last possible second,
then cross three lanes of traffic
to get to where they're going.
It's like if you're trying to zip your pants
and just three of the teeth jumped one of the two,
then you go, what the fuck happened here?
It doesn't work.
These pants are fucked up.
There was a, speaking of traffic
and construction and everything,
this I-35 fuckery in North Austin is unbelievable.
The whole thing is under construction
and all the lanes are super narrow.
And there was just like that horrible crash
over the past weekend.
Dude, that was so crazy.
Like 11 injured and five died.
I talked to Blaine about it.
We were both floored.
Like a small child.
Yeah.
If you see something fucked up coming from behind you,
there's nowhere to go.
There's no place to get over.
There's no shoulder.
There's no escape.
You're locked in there.
Then there was a homicide right after.
You see that?
And then yesterday afternoon, they shut the interstate down
for 90 minutes
so they could come in and do a police investigation
in the scene.
They found somebody was in a car, like not moving.
The car was like stopped
and there was somebody in the car.
They went like, there's, all right,
there's a person in here.
And they did not say like,
if they were like alive or dead or anything,
but they like shut it down for like an hour and a half.
Wow. Crazy. Yeah. Crazy. It's uh. So that happens in your 11th largest city, baby.
And you gotta add just one more lane to that to that interstate. Just one more lane. It's gonna fix it. It's gonna fix the whole thing.
You know what I'm planning on doing is just not going to North Austin for a couple years.
Well, that's a great thing. I don't know what I need up there. I don't go in that direction very often anyway.
Right. It's like oh I can't know what I need up there. I don't go in that direction very often anyway. Right.
It's like, oh, I can't go to Ikea.
Okay.
There's that actually would suck.
Oh man, I need to go to Round Rock.
What?
Where's it gonna get a big donut?
There's a fun place I like off of like, where is that?
Over like Desaun Parmer.
And I would normally take 35 to get there.
I guess I'll have to take like 290 to Cameron
and take Cameron up there now instead.
Takes a little back to Parmer. Yeah, that's like more out of the way. I got that's really out of the way. to take like 290 to Cameron and take Cameron up there now. Instead.
It takes a little back to Parmer.
Yeah, that's like more out of the way.
I got that's really out of the way.
That is, that's a long drive.
That's a long haul from that side to the other side.
Yeah.
There's no East West freeways.
Welcome to Austin.
We just didn't build them.
You want to go North or South?
Think about heading East.
You want to go North or South?
Don't worry, we've got 183. 130 is going to go north or south? Don't worry.
We've got 183.
130 is going to take care of it guys.
What direction does it run?
Ah, shit.
It was 130 the most ill-conceived thing ever.
I think it's actually used a lot.
Is it?
It's really good.
Didn't they go bankrupt?
Yeah, but fuck them.
Yeah.
I think now if you,
I think in the early days, yeah, it wasn't used. Nowadays it is like, common traffic out there. Yeah, it's them. Yeah. But I think now, I think in the early days, yeah, it wasn't used nowadays.
It is like common traffic out there.
Yeah, it's used a lot, not for what it was built for.
My understanding is that it was built
so trucks could stay off 35.
Yeah, because-
And they would take the toll route around
to circumvent all of Austin.
And instead, the trucks stay on 35,
and everybody else goes around there.
Because 35 is nothing but truck.
Yep. Yep.
Not for not for long when snafta is over.
That's why.
Yeah, I guess these problems are taking care of.
Yeah, we'll be OK.
Yeah, that's that's what I would call this a problem taking care of it.
Surely there will be no other unintended consequences from this.
We're going to eliminate traffic by increasing food insecurity.
Let's decrease trade.
You're hungry?
Well, shut up and get in your car.
I got news for you, the freeway's clear.
You can drive to the food bank.
Remember COVID when nobody was driving?
You can drive to the food bank is so fucked.
That's so funny.
Freeway's clear, you can drive to the food bank.
There was a big one down by our office off of Slaughter. It's still there, I think.
Yeah, that's like one of their like depots or like the distribution hub.
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My mom works for a food bank in San Diego.
It was a thing that my grandparents started doing at like a Rotary Club.
And then my mom, after she retired, was like, I'll do it too.
And she's there like every day.
She's got a big truck and like there's like big hauls of stuff.
Goes and picks stuff up from like Target.
It's like, here's all this food.
And then they go and like put it in like different packs to
like give to people and all this stuff.
It's it's awesome.
It's really cool.
But then the problem is people don't take all the stuff.
And so she'll come home and she's like, look, it's a bunch of food nobody wanted.
And I'm like, why would I want it? Yes. What do you mean? It's a bunch of food nobody wanted. And I'm like, why would I want any of this?
What do you mean?
It's expired M&Ms.
That's still good.
That's what I'm saying.
You mentioned the Rotary Club.
It made me think about something
that happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I was at Starbucks over in Mueller
and I'd ordered a drink via the app.
I was meeting someone there
and they called my drink as being ready.
So I walked up to get it.
And the guy behind the counter did that thing
where he's like, you look familiar,
I know you from somewhere.
And of course I never wanna be presumptuous,
like, oh yeah, you know me from the internet.
So I'm like, oh yeah, really?
Yeah, because that's,
have you ever had that backfire?
Yes, that's why I stopped doing it.
That's the most embarrassing thing ever.
Oh no.
No, that's not it, like, oh God, I just wanna die.
So I'm like, oh really?
He goes, yeah, where is, I can't place it.
He's like, do I know you from the rotary? And I was like, no. And when he said that, I was like, oh really? He goes, yeah, Horace, I can't place it. He's like, do I know you from the rotary?
And I was like, no.
And when he said that, I was like, oh, he's gonna say it.
And then rotary?
Like, no, no, I've got, and the rotary's like, huh.
He's like, well, that's something.
I was like, okay.
Then in my head, I'm like, this guy genuinely
has me confused with someone else.
It's not.
I don't even know what the rotary is.
Like, I don't know what the rotary club does.
Yeah.
I know about it.
My ex-wife was a member.
It's a collection of local business leaders
and like owners who get together to do civic duty,
do civic duty goods around the community.
They will have like guest speakers come in
and give presentations and go for like professional development and that kind of shit.
But they also sponsor kids to go overseas
for semesters away in high school and shit.
So a lot of the, you know, when a kid from Germany
comes for his junior year of high school,
a lot of that's through the Rotary Club.
Oh, my whole life I feel like my grandparents
have been part of the Rotary Club and it's like my whole life, I feel like my grandparents have been part of like the Rotary Club
and it's like, I don't know what this is.
Yeah.
They just go, oh, I know, this is Gale.
I know him from Rotary Club.
And I'm like, hold on.
It's just the thing that has the fish fry
you drive by on Saturdays.
Yes, yeah.
Sometimes at a park.
I feel like as a kid growing up
in small town, South Texas,
it was always the Rotary and the Knights of Columbus.
Yes, yeah.
What are these organizations? Elks Club, Knights of Columbus, rotary.
No, those are the two we had.
You guys didn't have Elks?
No, we didn't have Elks.
Oh wow.
Just rotary and Knights of Columbus.
I almost joined the Elks Lodge over in-
Yeah?
I tried to.
I didn't try to, I thought about trying to.
Yeah, yeah.
A couple years ago, it was over on the East side.
I was gonna ask if you ever thought about doing like,
if you're like, there's a couple of VA's around Austin. I I joined the
What is it called not VFW, but the other one
American Legion. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I joined the American Legion when I got out of the army
You gotta be careful Legion airs disease. I think I might join the VFW
It was like $20 a year and I paid for like two years
and then I fell off.
I never went and I fell off.
There's a few VFWs around.
I go to some like wrestling shows happen there a lot.
But man, they have the cheapest booze
of any place in the fucking city.
You get like the strongest tequila soda pour for 350.
And you just go, uh oh.
Kiwanis Club.
That's what I do, right?
Oh, Kiwanis Club, I remember that.
That's another one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember Kiwanis Club.
That was the thing when I was a kid.
Kiwanis Club felt like it was church associated.
These all feel like they're church associated.
That's nice to Columbus.
Yeah.
I think that's a Catholic organization.
Yeah, they all feel like they're church associated
without being church associated.
In some way, yeah.
Yeah.
It's a, it's crackle season.
Dude, it's spring.
Spring has sprung.
When we were recording this,
it has been consistently 80 degrees
for the last four or five days.
Why is it so windy lately?
I don't remember it ever being this windy.
It is insane how windy it is.
In Austin.
Yeah.
For a week, it's been like non-stop.
It sucked when there were the fires. Yeah. For a week, it's been like nonstop. It sucked when there were the fires.
Yeah.
Cause it was just fucking dusty.
But, but yesterday the wind was, the breeze was amazing.
Super nice.
It's nice.
I went for a bike ride.
It was fucking, it was like maybe the best weather
of the year.
It's nice right now.
But that way, like it'll kick up like what you're talking
about.
It kicks up so hard.
So suddenly when those fires were happening out, like,
whether like new Braunfels or whatever. Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg. And hard, so suddenly, when those fires were happening out, like by the New Braunfels or whatever.
Frederick's Berg.
Frederick's Berg.
And dude, you couldn't breathe.
Yeah.
It was crazy.
It was like orange outside in the afternoon.
Well, that's what it was like growing up in San Diego
with the wildfires that would happen.
Like it was every year we'd get wildfires
and then you just go, oh yeah, it's up in Vista.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, you can just kind of see like by the distance.
That's one of the reasons Emily's parents left Bend.
Yeah.
Just every year, the fires got worse and worse.
It gets worse and worse, yeah.
Yeah.
But now it's windy here and that's okay,
but at least it's warm.
Yeah, it's like, it's, South By just ended.
So, you know, it's like that time of year
when it's beautiful weather.
South By and ACL, you're in for the good weather.
Yeah.
Dude, that's something we should talk about.
What's that? Did you see the South by News?
Yeah, crazy.
They're they're stopping the music.
They're not stopping it scaling, scaling it back, reducing it and deprioritizing it.
The interactive and the film used to be like the stepchildren.
Yeah, to like the ad on the sideshow. The sideshow to the music festival,
which used to bring over 2000 bands a year,
or 2000 bands a South by into the city.
And it was this thing in the mid 2000s where,
and it's gonna sound like hyperbole, but it's not.
Like you could, this parking lot would have bands playing
right now.
And that parking lot across the street
would also have bands playing right now.
And there would be a band playing
in the Fresh Plus grocery store for some reason.
Like it would be everywhere.
And I guess they just become harder and harder
and harder for them to attract musicians
because there's just no need for it.
No band is gonna break out hands in style in 2025.
With the internet, it's unnecessary.
Completely a superfluous event, right?
And so I think they said that this last year,
they only were able to pull 1,029 bands in.
Wow.
So about 50% of what they expect to pull in,
most of them were international bands,
they're not getting a lot of US interest.
And so they decided to, going forward,
they're gonna reduce the festival by two days.
So like music will not have that final weekend.
Yeah, it ends on the Wednesday that music begins.
So you usually go, like you have like interactive film
and educational, and then the music begins on a Wednesday
and it ends on Saturday.
Now it's just gonna end on that Wednesday
and they'll bump the music stuff up to be inside
the other programming and it'll just be
apparently seriously
deprioritized because the film festival is where the real money is now.
And the real growth is.
They're also they also started selling badges now at the end of this platform.
Yeah, at half price.
Yeah, like at a really super discounted price.
And I think that's also a response to maybe concerns over the convention
center not being available for them next year.
Yeah. So I think they're trying to drive the interest
to get the revenue now
before that really gets into people's minds.
Definitely.
It's interesting to see the rise
and then maybe fall of something
as important to Austin as South by Southwest has been.
Put it on the map.
They built that fucking building.
I'm pointing as if you can see it.
But they built that fucking building downtown on like,
I don't know, San Jacinto or, no, it's at like 1211th
and San Antonio or something.
Yeah, I'm thinking about the old headquarters.
Yeah, and it's like a 15 story building,
I went to a wedding there, it's like really gorgeous.
And I think before the building was finished,
they already had financial troubles. Oh no. And I think before the building was finished, they already had financial troubles.
Oh, no.
And I can't imagine these are...
Well, it used to bring in about 200 million a year
to Austin, I think.
And I bet it's nothing near that.
I think we're starting to see it plateau.
It's not necessarily nose diving,
but we're starting to see it like...
Well, I think it plateaued already.
This is the top.
Well, I think that's a big reason for the change, right? it like, well, I think it plateaued already. I think it's on the, this is the, yeah. The top.
Well, I think, I think that's a big reason for the change.
Right.
Is like, why do the music then?
If that's what this is going to be, if,
especially if people are going to come in
and you get celebrities coming in for,
Tim Robinson or whatever has that new movie with Paul Rudd.
Yeah.
They were here.
Apparently Paul Rudd was the most important thing
to happen on this, Fred.
Everywhere I looked there were Paul Rudd's photos.
And it was like, oh, okay. Like, like I guess if that's if that's what we if that's what we're going with, then OK.
It just all became like VIP experiences.
Yeah. That the number one comment I saw, the top comment I saw on the subreddit,
the Austin subreddit read about it was Austin used to be the live music capital of the world.
Now it's the VIP room capital of the world. Now it's the VIP room capital of the world.
And that's the most fucking apropos.
I think that that's on the money.
The person who wrote that was a genius.
Yeah, I think they're absolutely on the money.
Cause that's how it feels.
I don't even bother trying to go to any of this stuff.
Cause it's like, I'm gonna wait in line to maybe get in it.
There was a wrestling show called Forth Rope
that was happening at Empire that was put on by
Westside Gun, I think, Raffer.
And had a bunch of names and it was like,
oh man, I know so many people here.
Maybe I'll try to go.
It came and went and all I heard was,
I bought tickets to the show and they kept changing
who could get in because initially it was ticket holders
and then it was people with South by badges and then it was ticket holders again and then it was
people with badges who had tickets and they kept doing this back and forth and it was at capacity
before more than half the people could get in. Yeah. It want to, ooh, I want to go to that. Like what?
Outrageous, crazy.
That's awful.
It's like, that's something you do when you're younger.
Yes, definitely.
You don't care about your time.
It's just about-
If I'm 22, I don't give a fuck.
Get me in anywhere, get me drunk,
is there free taco?
Hell yeah.
The first half of your Austin arc in your early 20s
is standing in lines and paying ridiculous money to go be a part of a festival somewhere and being on top of the world.
The second half of your Austin arc is looking at it and going, who do we know that can get us in for free?
And if there's nobody that can get us in the back door, we're not going because it's not worth standing in that line.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
You don't want to get jumped by birds.
Dude, there are so many grackles out here. We started feeding them. That was maybe a mistake. Got a grack attack.
Yeah, dude.
We should get on to wrapping this up,
but we should talk about the coffee.
It's quacks, again, a lost episode.
Quacks.
But this was a different experience
than what we had last time.
In the last episode, a lot of walking around.
This was a nice sit.
Yeah.
Cup of coffee.
We all got muffins or scones or whatever.
What did you guys think?
It is so fucking funny.
Cause the last time we walked around
and I told a bunch of stories about living in this neighborhood.
I can see the house I lived in.
Yep.
That's right over there.
Yeah. That's Millie's old bedroom right there.
You can see poking out of that.
Where Gavin and I lived for about a year.
And then said, we just sat here.
Yeah.
And didn't really talk about Hyde park at all.
I gotta say the coffee was better this time.
This was better this time.
This is maybe one of the best cups of coffee
I've ever had on this show.
Yeah, I mean- It's so fucking good.
I talked shit because that first time we came here,
it was awful.
Yeah. It sucked shit.
This one is actually, this is an excellent Americano.
This is a great, like eight and a half on my-
This might be a nine five.
This coffee is fantastic.
Wow.
I don't know what,
so this is probably like an eight on this Americano.
This is such a light roast
with like a little bit of like a sourness
that I really like.
There's a sweetness,
like almost like a fruit juice,
kind of like sweetness.
It's fucking awesome.
What happened?
I don't know.
This is-
Caught him on a good day.
Or we caught him on a bad day last time.
Yeah, correct.
But I feel like the last time was more indicative
of what my normal cracks experience.
Well, that's what you're saying.
There's no one here.
The last time we went, yes, it was like,
oh, this is pretty critical cracks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, this is unusual.
This is definitely unusual, but I'm fucking loving it.
I feel compelled to also say
fresh pluses still not cashed my check.
Maybe we can go.
Are you serious?
Go in there and ask them if they're okay
if they need the seven bucks.
Oh shit, it's the check guy
and he brought other old friends.
Oh my God, these guys, are they all gonna write checks?
Oh fuck, they're all here and they're all writing checks.
This Fresh Plus has the painting on the side,
the Will Ferrell painting.
Yeah, the Will Ferrell Harry Harry Shear painting, I believe.
Yeah, that is them.
Yes, for a movie that we found out did come out.
Yeah, Wendell, whatever.
I don't remember what it was called anymore.
The Wilson movie.
The Wilson, yeah, I was in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It came out like in 04 or 05.
It's old and they just kept that,
yeah, it's their claim to fame.
Yeah.
Will Ferrell painted on the side. From that movie everyone saw and loved. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all love it. We all, it's old and they just kept that. Yeah, that's their claim to fame. Yeah. Will Ferrell, pin it on tight.
From that movie everyone saw and loved.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all love it.
We all, it's classic.
It's probably number one Austin film,
you know what I mean?
Put Luke Wilson in a movie and I'm there.
Day one, opening day, butts in the seats.
Put Luke Wilson, it's the first time
that sentence has ever been said.
Put Luke Wilson in a movie and I'm there.
I like to celebrate the intangible monogamy.
Ha ha ha!
I really, if you can find quacks on a good day,
I can't recommend this enough.
This is so good.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
And watch the bird fights too.
Yeah.
And like we keep saying, it's not crowded.
I don't know what's going on.
No one's here.
It is dead ass empty.
Oh, I bet it, I bet I know why.
But it's cause it's a spring break.
Oh, that's why there hasn't been traffic.
I drove down Guadalupe the other day by the university
and it was not bad.
That must be it.
I totally forgot.
Cause I rode my bike to Barton Springs yesterday
and it was insane for a Tuesday.
And I was like, what the, oh, right, right, right.
It's gotta be.
Yep.
It's exactly what it is.
It's exactly what it is, spring break.
So what do you guys want wanna do for spring break?
Let's go down to South Padre.
Record 1000 fucking podcasts with you.
It's your job.
Good, you don't have a choice.
You decided you wanna be out of town
for three fucking weeks.
I'm out of town for 12 days.
A nursery week.
By wearing her scrubs.
Yeah.
And wearing like the shoe covers.
The shoe covers, yeah.
That's all I do. What's? Well, she don't wanna mess up her shoes. She's got like flu game Jordans. wearing her scrubs and wearing like the shoe covers. The shoe covers, yeah. I saw that too.
What's, well she don't wanna mess up her shoes.
She's got like flu game Jordans, dude.
Probably just fucking forgot to take them off.
I'm sure she'll throw them away.
No, no, no, well she's gonna change the shoe covers,
but you don't wanna scuffle up the Jordans.
I guess so.
So shades are hot, baby.
Anyway, it's your fault for leaving town, I guess, Jeff.
I don't know.
Yeah. You fool.
I'm sorry about that.
Apology barely accepted, but that's fine.
We don't want to get you agitated.
Yep. So this is episode six of Good Morning Gus.
So we should definitely in the remaining two
for the season, definitely either go to TNI
or the Alamo and Dirty Martins.
Definitely should go to Dirty Martins.
Two of those, three or something.
Some combination.
Yeah. Well, we'll figure out what we're gonna do.
I'm excited.
And don't forget episode eight,
we all will say if we're going to continue the show or not.
There it is, the wind.
I saw it coming.
I saw it.
If you remember how season one went on episode eight,
we all said if we were gonna continue the show or not,
we all said yes.
Episode eight, we're gonna do the same.
Will we all say yes?
Will they, Won't they?
Yep. That's the exciting part.
Also, there are a lot of people who thought
I was going to be the one to say no in the first season.
I thought that was funny.
Fucking crazy. Really funny.
Insane. Insane. Ultimate heel move.
That would have been.
You missed out.
You really missed out.
I got the jiff of doing the show.
Yeah, but hey, no.
What?
So find out. Episode eight.
It's coming soon.
But thanks for listening. Let us know what you think. I don't think we'll see eight, it's coming soon. But thanks for listening.
Let us know what you think.
I don't think we'll see it, but let us know.
Put it somewhere on the internet.
Exactly.
Send us a postcard.
And we'll talk to you next time.
We gotta get out of here before the crackles.
Okay, cool.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye. You