ANMA - Nothing Works Right Anymore

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

Good morning, Gus! We ventured over to East 4th to check out Cosmic Coffee, a new spot that we found to be unbelievable. Enjoy some audio texture in this one. Gus and Geoff talk about how this place is huge, Out stubborning each other, It’s all different here, Scooters, Audio texture overload, Scariest movies, Smash Mouth, and home away from home. New shirt available now. Let everyone know that early is the new late: https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/anma-early-is-the-new-late-t-shirt & https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/anma-to-the-brim-t-shirt  Sponsored by Better Help http://betterhelp.com/anma Fum http://tryfum.com/ANMA and Beam http://shopbeam.com/ANMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, this is episode 63. What? This is episode 63. Nice. Last time we were at first light coffee and book shop, where we talked about early is the new late, bad local burgers, childhood coffee memories in Brem, but that was all last time. So I realized after we recorded,

I looked up a adult one of those old Brem commercials. And I realized maybe I didn't catch it when I was a kid. The reason you could fill it to the rim with Brem is because it's decaffeinated. You could have afternoon coffee. You don't only have to have half a cup of coffee in the afternoon when you want coffee. You fill it to the rim with Brem. Me neither, because when you're a kid, like, you don't pay attention. You don't only have to have a cup of coffee in the afternoon when you want coffee. You still to the room,

I mean either, because when you're a kid, like, you don't pay attention. It doesn't stay, right? That doesn't mean anything to you. But that was a just, all of this to caffeinated coffee. Decaffeinated. And that's why you could fill it to the room with, brim.

Hittiest, hideous, 70s logo that's come around and is endearing now. Yes. It's like, I remember everything from our childhood was ugly Yeah, and now it's cool. I remember being young thinking that was awful. That was absolutely Call of music in louder terrible and then it came around and now it's like now you look at it It's like oh, that's kind of retro and cool. So we're at the coffee shop It was really loud where I wanted to record I walked around the whole place found a quiet spot and as soon as we hit record

It got louder and by the way when you say whole place you mean whole fucking place It's huge what the fuck I think I disappeared good morning guys. Yeah, what's up? I think you all lost me right yeah, I walked around one area Then I tried to get your attention y'all were looking totally the wrong area. We were up in the tower The coffee shop tower, looking down at a thousand pumpkins. I don't know what that was telling there. What the fuck are they gonna do tomorrow

on November 1st with all these pumpkins? It's time to make the pumpkin pie. I will say that we just ran off our first person ever. So, oh, that's great. Yeah. That was pretty cool. I saw it happen. I felt bad, but at the same time,

first big as this place is, there are a lot of fucking people here on a Tuesday. Yeah, there's also a lot of places to sit, so. Yeah, not a lot of places to park. Not a lot of, we're either gonna own one person off here or three over there, so I opted for the one. I'm mad at the world right now. Why?

Nothing works the way it's supposed to. The goddamn password reset with the fucking water by this thing doesn't work, so I can't change my direct deposit. The goddamn parking app doesn't work, my Brothers thing doesn't work. So I can't change my direct deposit. The Goddamn parking app doesn't work. My fucking phone doesn't work. For reference, parking app works. Yeah, if you can get it.

Jesus. I have it. I have it. No problem here. Like, Eric was offered to pay for it. Because Jeff was like, no, no, man. Let him figure it out. No, Gus went, no, no, don't bail him out.

Also, come on, leave him here. We walked away. bail me out. I just had to download the app. But Gus went no no don't bail him out also come on leave him here Bale me out. I just had to download the app, but there's no fucking service in this Yeah, but then we get in here and air immediately goes let's go upstairs So we can't find Like the coffee's right here. It's downstairs You know what I was funny. You know what I would do if you guys went upstairs and I couldn't find you leave No, I wouldn't leave. I would just sit right there and play on my phone until you came and found me I'm not gonna come I'm not gonna I'm not gonna play that game hang out with one hundred thousand I can outweigh you guys Gus and I don't know you don't want to get into a like a situation where Gus and I are trying to

Outstubberniche. No, no, no that does not end well. It'll shut stuff down. Yeah So we're on east fourth Getting here was... Well Jeff Drove, so it was an adventure. There was no... He has GPS in his car. I saw it. I didn't put anything in there. He just started driving. I like the way you did it. I thought it was cool. The way I did it is the way I drive. Always. 4th Street disappeared for a while. We don't know where it went. We were just... That's not my fault. That's 4th Street disappeared. We were just on other roads and I went, where are we now?

And you went, four street, you know, recognize four street? No, no. No. You guys were saying this can't be four street because it's not just empty dirt lots. Yeah, I definitely don't recognize four street. This was a, dude, where in East Austin, if you don't, if you haven't driven down four street

in East Austin in the last five years, blow would you be surprised to find out that there are, there's shit here now. There's a lot. This is the biggest coffee shop I've ever seen. Yeah, I think I think I might be on the same boat as some. It's it's deceptively big from the street too, because it is, it's tall. It has like an upstairs with like a water tower thing. Yeah, it's a good word, cosmic coffee on East 4th. It's brand new. I think it opened within like the last month.

So I just found it and I was like, oh cool, I want to pick this place up. I didn't think that it was this fucking big. I don't, who, everyone just lives here? We walked in. We walked in and Eric and I almost walked into the wrong door. We're like, oh no, that's Cosmic Tacos. We're looking for Cosmic Coffee.

It's the other door. It's like a compound. Yeah. A lot like so many tables and benches. the weekends. It must be fucking insane. So it's a coffee shop. After 5 p.m. It's 21 and up only and it's a bar. Oh. So at 5 p.m. they kick all the underage people out. Yeah. I can fuck the. That's like a little pond or stream back there. It's fucking crazy. They have like frozen drinks. I was like, was this something good? Waterfall back there.

There's a lot. It's like a simple need to go in on here. There's a lot here. Is it a cliff jumper? There may have been a dog peeing behind. This is what it sounded like a second ago. There's just been a lot going on in this, Neckula Woods. And I think if you're new to Austin,

this is the thing that you look at, and you go, I gotta move here, man. Yeah. It's the place when I go to a bigger city, like you go to a San Francisco or, I don't know, Philadelphia or anywhere. And you stumble into a coffee shop and you go, I wish we had stuff like this in Austin. And you get that like, oh, right. I'm reminded that we're not a big city. We get, we get tricked into the idea that we're a big city because Austin is the 10th largest city in America I believe so 10. Yeah, yeah, and but if you live here

It's not it's a tiny place. Well, it's cuz you're competing with a lot of metro area It's like it's bigger technically than San Francisco Francisco has like the whole Bay Area. There's a density right disparity But you're right you you walk in this place and you go. I guess we're there now like we are that big Yeah, cuz this is fucking huge This is the kind of place where if this, if I moved to a town and this was the coffee shop,

I would go here every day. And I'd be like, oh, that's my coffee shop now. It's a cool last mega shop. Plenty of places around here too live too apparently. Well, maybe they're not open yet. There's a bunch of stuff getting built all over here. I remember when this was like, there was like, we're by where,

kind of like where the recycling plant, or another recycling plant, like that junkyard was right. Like the scratchy art. Yeah, we used to ice to sit sit at progress coffee in the morning and watch them move piles of trash. That was the best. There's not progress coffees going on. That's a right, brother's broom, brew and progress coffees over on 35. Oh, right. And that might go away. We talked about that with the 35 expansion. We're also close to the historic scoot in. Now, it's just like a block down, which if you're not familiar with it,

it's just a little bar in Austin where they have shows and stuff. But I think their claim to fame is that it's the only bar either in Austin, but I want to say Texas that never closed down during prohibition. It stayed open the whole time. Was there like a loophole? Or did they just say fuck you and stay open? I think it was a little bit of both. Okay.

Yeah, I think it was, it was just allowed for some reason. I don't remember, I remember the story. I don't remember, I remember hearing the story. I don't remember the story. He's gonna do a show. He's gonna do a show. He's gonna do a show. He's gonna do a show.

I'm pretty sure that they stayed open throughout prohibition. And it had something to do with it being right next to railroad tracks or I don't know. Like, they found the loophole, though, it gotcha. Can I ask if you guys lived around here and like when you were younger, like when you first moved,

not even first moved Austin, but just say it was like, if we had a lived on here when we first moved Austin, we wouldn't be hanging out right here. What I'm saying is if you, if this place was here, and like this sort of like build out and everything, and you like lived around here, is this a place you would have gone to?

No, I would have, yeah, really. I don't think I would have been here. I think I was always looking for something dirty here. Like, I don't know, this place is beautiful. It's really nice, it's really well kept, obviously they just opened. I don't know, especially when I was younger, that was not the kind of thing I liked.

I was definitely attracted to dirtier stuff too, but I, it was mostly because it was what I could afford and what was around me. I wouldn't have turned away a gorgeous coffee shop. I just, it just wouldn't have crossed my mind that something like this could be an Austin. How much was the coffee? All in all, we got two cold brews

because I didn't see regular drip on their menu and you got an Americo and I think with Tax and tip it was like 16 or 17 dollars. Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't have been here Which is about which is about Three or four dollars more in total than we typically spend it like other coffee shops That's a good that's a good angle. We should start paying attention good good Good, goodness. Yeah of what it is. I mean like you go to a place like when we went to like all gimmicks again

We're gonna praise all gimmicks, but all gimmicks was like that's pretty like dirt sheet Yeah, yeah for what we were getting for some of the best cup of coffee. Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, also definitely as the vibe you're talking about yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, that seemed like a place that you would have gone to it just had listen gross horror movies playing on it inside of a place that also served I think like Korean fried chicken I worked in a warehouse with a loading dock. I want to get my coffee from a warehouse of the loading dock. I want to live in a warehouse of the loading dock. Just a skate park in the warehouse of the loading dock. We have a rope swing in the warehouse

of the loading dock. That's my life revolves around warehouses and loading dock. It's just, this is a, this is a place I would bring people who aren't from here. Yeah, for sure. Right? Yeah, 100%. Jeff was, we were upstairs waiting for you to look around and find a spot. And Jeff was taking pictures.

He's like, I gotta show him only this place. Like, I have, like, what the fuck is this? This is wild. It's just, it's, it's, it's, it must sound so silly to be wherever you are listening to this in the world and hearing us like, a gog about a coffee shop, but it's just so big and expensive.

Like this place looks like it cost many millions of dollars to make. And it just in a part of town that for the longest time was overgrown like shell rocks, lots essentially, you know? The railroad is right there. When I was looking at the back window, like I saw the crossing guards go down, like block it, but there. The railroad is right there. When I was looking at the back window, like I saw the crossing guards go down, like block it, there's a bike path over there,

like we're right off the railroad tracks, like the scoot in. Yeah. How hard did you look in the back? Did you see the guy in the recliner sitting next to the railroad tracks? No, I did not see that. Was he on this side or the other side? Oh, he's on the other side.

I didn't look past, I just looked up to the road. He's right next to the road road tracks in a recliner that it looks like he brought. He's watching the trains. I hear the clanging right now. He's enjoying the music and the trains. I'm enjoying the pug in a leather jacket over there. Yeah, there's a pug in a denim vest.

He's looking tough. This. It's Halloween, we're recording, I guess He's looking tough. This is Halloween. We're recording, I guess. It is, it is. You mentioned it with your pumpkin. Pugged life earlier. Yeah. Yeah.

This is, so you just talked about what like this area was and you come here now and it is nothing but apartments, penthouse, like this kind of like office building. Is that apartments? Or is that like an office? I think it's an office. I think it's an office space. And it's an office. That's all that. And it's all that, no parking on,

I mean, there's parking on the streets, but it's all paid. And then it's- It's a construction going on. So construction. It makes a difficult get around. And I was gonna say like, when was the last time you guys had been around here

and how often were you down around this area before? I was rarely here because there wasn't really much of anything here for the longest time. I mean, I was like adjacent areas, like maybe just on the other side of 35 here, or maybe just a little north here, but on this specific spot, not really, I don't know about Jeff, there's the train, I can fucking throw it on the internet.

We talked about this in a supplemental UNI area a very long time ago, but I was here, there's like a second home to me because like two blocks down is where my ex-wife's art gallery was, her art space was. And so I was there, like if I was in an RT, I was at that place for a couple of years. And so this was, that's why I think it maybe

is so shocking to me because I have walked up and down the street, like with Millie when she was a little kid, I've spent a ton of time at bars around here, which I don't remember mostly because I was at bars, and I drank those memories away, but I know I spent a lot of time here, and I can't tell you what was here. I can't tell you what was on this specific spot.

It must have been nothing. I bet it was just like an empty dirt lot. I remember there were a lot of girls who were so close to the railroad tracks, I can't imagine there was anything here. I used to have an idea of a project I wanted to do, you'll see why it's useless now. I had an idea years ago for a project I wanted to do

because I was kind of overwhelmed with how fast Austin was changing. And I started to notice that like the second a building gets torn down and is replaced, you immediately forget what was there every time. And so I wanted to go and photograph every fucking block of Austin so that I could go back and reference it and go, oh look, that's what was there.

And so that, like to maintain, or preserve some sense of history. And then Google Maps happened and they have Google Street View and it caches and they're like, oh, I don't know. I do that. I do that all the time. Look at what used to be somewhere. I will say, it would have been useful for a time

like before obviously they started doing that. And then also some of the early years, the photos are just like super low res and blurry. Yeah, it's true, they're not great until maybe like, oh six, oh seven, that's when it really starts to. There's a house in my neighborhood that's kind of junky and has kind of fallen into disrepair. And Emily and I were like, the other day we were like,

how long do you think it's been junky? Cause we're trying to remember, I've lived there for like four years. Like was it junky when we moved here? And so we just went back, we watched the house from, I think it went back to like, far as 2008. And we just watched the house dilapidate at every year over Google Street Views, while,

wow. Super useful at Google Street View. That's crazy. Yeah, the same thing I like the, I lived at a place once that was relatively new, it was actually really new construction. And it was a similar thing, I was like, I can't remember what was here before they built this place I live now. So I had to look on Google Street, be like, oh right, it was this, I remember now. So it is really useful to look back and see what used to be around.

This is the yellow bike project, used to be housed right around here. I remember that. I don't know if we've talked about that in this. Yeah, we mentioned it. Yeah, there are also all the people that drive the little bicycle chariots, that pick up people around downtown

and deliver them places. They're, I think, still headquartered in some warehouses right across street from this. Like right over there. Where all those are, they like wheel out, you know the petty cabs, they wheel out every night as the sun goes down. And then I can... I don't know if we've mentioned this on this show or not,

but the first petty cab I think I ever took was in San Diego. It was me. You're not, yeah. Yeah, for San Diego Comic Con. It was me you in C unit, I think was in it as well, wasn't it? Yeah, I think so. And it was an introduction to the world of petty caps because you get in, and I didn't realize

that the time caps kind of younger and dumb, they don't tell you what the price is until you're going. And then it's like, oh, this is a lot more than I wanted to pay for this. Yeah, and it was like some super cute Eastern European girl. And she was like, she told us, she gave us like a story and we were just like, here's our money, here's our money. That sounds the right kind of scam.

That was, I mean, I don't think I've ever taken one because we always knew it was like, don't trust these things. Yes, I know. Gus and I learned. Yes, like, oh yeah, I would have been much happier walking the 20 minutes with another 40 bucks in my wallet. I think it was more expensive than that.

I think we split it. It was like, I was 80 bucks, yeah. Jesus. I think we split it. I think it was 80 bucks. Yeah. Jesus. And to be honest, holy shit, we just went from like, we just went for blocks. Yeah, we could have walked it. It was not that far.

We just paid 20 bucks a block. I think we were just worn out. It was like after having been in the booth all day. It's like, let's just take the petty cab. Let's just not walk for a little bit, get off our feet. Yeah, we walked every other day after that. I've never taken a petty cab here in Austin. I want to say that I never have,

but I don't know that. I don't think I have, but I wouldn't be surprised that maybe I did one. I don't think I have either. Do you, like, I wonder how much that business is affected by like all the doccless scooters you see nowadays? Oh, it has to be so much.

Right, like I think at this point, the only time you would think about getting an arpeggio cab is if you're too drunk to balance yourself on a scooter. Or, and not drunk at the moment. Which is usually when you want to get on a scooter. And not drunk enough to be past that point where you're so brave that you don't care. Yeah. Because I see people fall off those things all the time.

They're really convenient, but man, I see people really severely hurt themselves. So quick, to the ER man. Yeah. I carry a helmet in the trunk of my car. In case I ever wanted to get on one of those for some reason, go a few blocks. I, uh, I hope you don't, but I'm an, uh, I'm an old person now I realize, because when I'm, when Emily and I are driving around town and I see some kids, there's like ripping it up on those things, I just go slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, you're so very dangerous, slow down,

place it down, cherish your life, it's not worth it. I'm not, I'm not so dumb that I'm ripping around so you're gonna be, I think the only time I really use them is around RTX, like to get tune from the convention center, like if I park somewhere that's not close to the convention center, like to get quickly to the convention center and then back to my car,

I'll use them. You know, we have, you know, some, we'll have like security details with us at Shadow A steering, RTX, and remember last year, he saw me, he met me at the convention center, he saw me get off of that scooter and he's like, oh my god, here, take a bunch of hand sanitizer, those things are filthy, I can't believe you're touching it. You had like hand sanitizer with him, he was like dousing my hands at it. I was like, okay, I mean, again, that's cool. You're not my germ protector, but apparently he is.

He's protecting you from all enemies. Visible or invisible. For jumping in front of that, I really appreciate it. I don't know if you remember this. Maybe I may have sent interesting segue. Years ago. It's getting louder again. It is getting really loud.

So much audio texture in this file. And we're far. This is our fourth quiz. This is our fourth quiz. Why is when we sat down? Years ago. It's getting louder again. It's getting really much audio texture in this fire. And we're far. This is where we saw fire when we sat down. Years ago. Oh, you know what? There's a band warming up. It's good in. Oh, that was at fucking because the music is going really, I guess, I guess Halloween, the problem like a show. Yeah. Um, years ago, this is, this is something I would never do again. One of the first San Diego Comic-Con's we went to, it might have been, oh, four or oh five. I got like this threatening email from someone who said

they were gonna hurt me at San Diego Comic-Con. And I don't know if you remember this Jeff, I replied to them. And I was like, booth 1437 and I sent them my schedule of when I'd be in the booth and I said I'll see you there They never they never showed I would never do that again But I remember like just having that that hubris and that invincibility with youth you could get away with doing that 20 years ago He really could like the world has changed like I remember when I was thinking about a time when I was in high school

Like the world has changed. Like I remember when I was thinking about all the time, like when I was in high school, people got into fights and then somebody would win. And then it'd be over. Now it's like people don't people out. You like fucking social media has shown how horrendous people are, can be and then also encouraged other idiots

to one up other idiots, you know? I would not want to get in the fight with a stranger. No, I'd definitely not. No, that's not what I'd be like. No, that's not what I'd be like. People get fucking shot for road rage all the time in Austin. You see that? The kids?

I got fucking killed up on 35 in parmer recently. Yeah. Crazy. It's fucking ridiculous. So we heard how more guns can fix the problem. Listen, we don't have more, we don't have more enough guns. We've only got like a 1.2 guns for every citizen. We don't want to have six or seven.

We have double plus. Yeah, when we have double plus guns, it'll be double plus good. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's terrible. Gus, thank you for being a responsible gun owner. Thank you, you're welcome. I appreciate it. I appreciate the people like you.

Yeah, but even I think it's, we've gone too far. Someone who's been around Firearms' whole life. This isn't an anarchy question, but I'm looking through right now. Can I ask you something? Yeah. This is from Peter Brooks. He says, I would love an update from Gus

on his star citizenships. And if he has played or his thoughts on the game in general. I have not played in a while. I've kind of waiting for Squadron 42 to officially release. Like, what is that? It's like the kind of like a single player campaign story. They said that they are, that they've locked it

and it's, I think it's like an internal alpha or beta at the moment. So like, it's gonna ship, I think, if I'm being reasonable in the next two or three years, at that point, I'll finally sit down and really back through it. How long have you been supporting that project? Okay, so that's a weird way to phrase it. I wouldn't say I'm still supporting that project.

I gave that project money in the past. When did you start supporting that project? At one time. At one time. If I had to try to guess at this point, I would say maybe 2015, 2016, 2014, 2015 somewhere around there. Were you in early or? No, that was late. That was late.

That was late, right? I feel like you got in a little late. Because my thought was by that point, they were getting ready to ship. I feel like they're almost done at this point. I feel like they've been going since like 2010 or 11. I think they have. And now it's 2023 and they're, you think they're an internal alpha? No, they have now said they've like they've they've locked

Well, sure they announce a lot of stuff that like 13 years. I this time I believe it I think in two to three years I'm playing this game this time. I believe it Listen, it's like Lucy with the football and I'm Charlie Brown. You're gonna be playing GTA 6 before you play that game And I don't know that it's officially been announced good grief officially been announced. Good grief. Yeah. Yeah. I would not take that bet about GTA 6.

I might be playing GTA 6 before, who's spooky? Before Star Citizen. They're playing the exorcist. So yeah, so I have not looked at it in a while. I'm just waiting for it to come out. I'm waiting for it to be like a finished product and then I'll dive in. I don't wanna keep having the football yanked out

from under me. I've not given that project money in several years at this point. Hey, speaking of being spooky and Halloween, what Halloweeny holiday type things have you done this year? Nothing. You haven't done any Austin Halloween stuff? I have not done a single thing.

Yeah, I feel like this Halloween snuck up on me. It's because it was 90 degrees until two days ago. Yes, right? Yeah. What about you? Have you done anything in Halloween? I haven't watched a single scary movie. Do you have any scary movie recommendations for Halloween? I was realizing, my friends,

Bernie Vanessa have been watching a movie a day through the holidays and I had a realization that I am completely and totally out of the loop on that kind of stuff. Every movie they've seen, I hadn't heard of. You know, like classic stuff. Classic stuff, I think the exercise is the scariest movie I've ever made.

Okay. Yeah, I think that's a great movie. I read that there's a sequel to It Follows called They Followed This Coming Out. Yeah, it just got announced. I think they're very excited about that. I think if I was going to suggest me again, a classic, I just rewatched it a couple

months ago, the thing. Yeah, really, really good movie. Really scary movie holds up pretty well. If you like the thing, I recommend watching the original, the black and white. It's also very good. You know what, I'm going to recommend watch the sequel remake one that came out like 2012. How was that? I don't know, I didn't saw it. You know what, I'm gonna recommend watch the sequel remake one that came out like 2012.

How was that? I don't know, I didn't see it. I think if I remember right. Probably not very good. It's the other station from the beginning of the thing. It's what happened there. But what I heard is that the movie is like beat for beat the exact same thing.

Cool. I think it's got like CGI monsters which don't age well. Yes. Did John Carpenter make it? No. Oh, okay. It's got a, what's her name in it? The woman who was in 10 Cloverfield Lane. She was also a three-starman.

Mary Elizabeth Windsor. Yes, she's in it, right? I don't know. I think she had this hair in her. Yeah. Huh. I feel like she was everywhere for a while. Is she kind of like, bashed off and like,

disappeared a little bit? Everybody had, they have their like, stars have their moments, right? Yeah. She was in also a Scott Pilgrim I think right yes Yeah, I think that's what people are up. It's her and Joel Edgerton. Oh, yeah, and Eric Christian Olson. It's a lot. Oh echo from mr. Echo from lost We I think we talked about it in face recently, but John Carpenter, I just read an article and read it, John Carpenter, he basically said that all he cares about is playing video

games, watching basketball and eating popsicles. Yeah. And I was like, is he you? I said, I had no idea that John Carpenter was my fucking spirit animal, but apparently, I am all about that John Carpenter lifestyle. Somewhere in California, in California, in like Calabasas, wherever he lives, he's just fucking eating a banana popsicle right now with a Celtics on and one screen playing Starfield,

and I can't imagine being anywhere better than that. That sounds awesome. I know, I can't figure out how to be friends with John Carpenter. Yeah. If anyone has John Carpenter hookups, let us know. Like, listen, I liked your movies. I don't give a shit about them. I don't wanna talk about them.

I don't wanna talk about what you're doing next. I wanna talk about the Celtics. How's Porzenges looking? Let's just play trucks Let's get in the mud. Let's play some fucking trucks. Let's use them banana popsicles Let's play wet trucks. That's what we've been playing lately wet trucks Jeff is upset because trucks is good, but then trucks update trucks don't work trucks don't work So we play see a thieves we call that that's a water trucks water trucks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a classic Bernie Burns game It is a classic Bernie Burns game. Yeah, it is a classic Bernie Burns game.

The only person that I know that would be like, you point see it, the answer's like, that game came, no, what are you talking about? What year is this? The fuck are you talking about? Oh, man, I've been, man, I'm like, I'm really loving Super Mario Wonder. It is.

It's so cool, isn't it? Such unbelievable game. I didn't hurt it until last week. It's good. Yeah, it's it's incredible. I read this like factoid online that the original Super Mario Brothers for the NES was developed by five people in Nintendo and Four of those five people worked on wonder. Oh And like it gives me that feeling of being a kid playing a video game for the first time again

Where you're like the the sky's the limit. You don't know what's gonna happen, anything's possible. Really? Yeah, it's like, what does this thing do? Wow, like I had no idea, like new abilities, new suits or whatever. There's stuff, there's one thing in every, I can't believe it's every level,

but there's a thing like in every level that changes the level fundamentally. And so you're playing it and you have to play it twice, like you've played every level twice at least. And then there's all like these like coins that you're supposed to gather, like special things and like wonder seeds and all this stuff. So it's just like this replayability factory

when I was into San Diego and saw some friends of everybody's like, oh, check this out, Mario. And it was me and two buddies. And we played it for hours, passing the controller around and going like, oh no, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it figured out, let me do it, let me do it. And it was like, fuck this rule.

Yeah, you're like, what you're talking about, that changes the level, it's like this weird effect. And it doesn't just, it's not like your Mario and then the level changes and your Mario doing something else. Like your Mario, oh now you're a block, and the animate block, and you have to traverse the level, or you're a Goomba, and you can't jump. You can't turn you into a Gumbu.

And you have to try to figure out how to get around this level. That's cool. It's really cool. And then the second time you play it, you just don't activate that and you play the rest of the level and you go, oh, this is what all the rest of it was. That's so cool. It's really, really.

Or there's some levels where you go through and you get to the end and it's like, nah, you didn't finish it right. Yeah, it's like, oh. It's like, oh, like the game is like, never mind, back to the start. No, it really, like, you beat it and then it goes, well, that's like, oh, that's like, like the game is like, never mind back to the start. No, it really like, you beat it, and then it goes, well, that's not the secret exit,

and you go, oh, it's not the what? There's one level that we played where you are, it's timed with like a song that you're supposed to jump across, and if you fall down, you don't die. It just puts you at the finish line, and it's just Mario, and he's like, okay, and you like hit the flag, and when you cross the flag,'s like, oh, okay, and you like hit the flag. And when you cross the flag,

it like the toad comes out and kind of shrugs and there's like a question mark in the song kind of place. But like, but like going, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. And you're like, oh, okay, and you can progress, but it's not the way you're supposed to beat the level and you're like, this is awesome. It's so fucking cool. You know, it reminds me a lot of Super Mario Brothers 3

and Super Mario World, and both of those games had that mechanic where there's like an overworld map and you walk around like you're like, I wanna go from this level to this level and there's like a doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, like a little dotted track. This has that, but then it's like, you don't have to follow the dotted track.

You can just wander around in the overworld map. And it's like, oh, there's a world hidden in the sand here that you can't see unless you wander around through this empty area for a while and then it pops up out of nowhere. Do you, when's it coming out of an Xbox? Should we do any day now, I think? Yeah, I think it'll be GTA VI,

Star Citizen and the Mario Wonder on the Xbox. I think the way Xbox is going, they can't wait to buy Nintendo to put it on the Xbox. Yeah, I think Nintendo obviously does not want that. I don't think that's gonna happen, but I bet Microsoft, do you think Activision said the same thing? Activision doesn't make her own hardware. That's true.

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I think that more competition is better for the consumer. I think as long as Microsoft doesn't lock all that stuff down to just their platform is long. He can still play it other places That's still fine, you know, they acquired Mojang and Minecraft, you know, it's still available everywhere, so Hopefully that continues. Do you remember when they did that deal? I want to say it was with Sony where you would get maps on college duty, but you'd get them like a year early on the PlayStation I fucking hate that stuff. I hope they don't do that.

I hope they don't in reverse do that and give all of us Xbox people tons of extra content and then gatekeep it from the PlayStation. And then you're like cutting your user base and your player base and it's just separating it. It's moves to infuriate your customer base, right? It's like, these people just wanna buy your game and play it.

Don't make them play it on the platform that you have the best deal with. Just let them play it where they wanna play it, where they've historically been able to play it. You know, that's why it's, the thing I, we always strive to do, like with a Chief 100 of face and our projects in Ristie, is if we're gonna create something in a different way

and put it behind a paywall or whatever, make it additive. Never try not to ever take something away and then put it behind a paywall. Because you don't wanna create hurdles for the audience. You don't wanna make it harder for them to enjoy something they were already enjoying. I get that it probably makes short-term business sense, you know?

And all those people are there for the short-term anyway, right? Like what's the average span for a CEO, CCO, CMO? How long did Bobby Coddick, helmet, long time? That was a long time, 30 years? 30 years, something like that. But you're right. Most of those people are in an outing, like three or four years. And they're just, they just, they want to inflate

some numbers to look good so they can get the next sea level job and keep moving. And you don't even have to be good at it. You just have to, you just have to push that number a little bit. Yeah, you have to do moving. And you don't even have to be good at it. You just have to... You said to pump it up a little bit. Yeah, you said to pump it up up up up. And then you leave or you get fired and then you just go do some other thing.

You just go do some other startup and they go, hey, we got the guy who used to run this. Yeah, getting fired doesn't seem to affect you. Yeah. It seems like it's fine. You just have to have done the job one time before, apparently. Really easy stuff. It's great.

Yeah. I want to touch back on something from our previous episode, where we went to the, was it whole grocer something? Oh, first plus. Fresh plus. Put a pull up. Is this Wolf Arrow? 62%. Yes.

So they're saying that that is Wolf Arrow. Oh, gosh, you found the movie. It is, I found the movie. Did you watch it? No, what was it called? Windle Baker story, the window maker story. Yeah, and I watched the trailer. It looks not good. Uh, but you can see Will Ferrell in the grocery store Really like hitting Luke Wilson and then like Yelling at Luke Wilson while he's standing outside. He's like, oh, yeah, that's definitely first plus that's where that mural is That's awesome because the urban legend story I always heard was that the movie lost funding and they never made it, but I guess they absolutely made it. It came out in 2005. Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets

a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption. Yeah, I think the grocery store is like a small sub plot part of the bigger story. That, but I think Will Ferrell's not even like top build in that movie. He's not. So, God, there's a lot of people in the Luke Wilson, even Mendes, Owen Wilson, Harry Dean Stanton.

Really? Chris Christofferson. Eddie Griffin, Will Ferrell. Wow, what the fuck? There are a lot of people in this movie I had never heard of Wow, it was filmed in Austin in Austin. Yeah, I think while we were living here. Yeah Glenn Powell is in it and I if you don't know who that is he's the most actor looking actor guy who's in Top 2 or whatever he's it. He was in a he's the new ice man. Yeah, he was in the ice man.

He was in the screen queens. Yes, yes. Or, I think, yeah. He's in everybody wants some. He's just the guy that when people go like, what does an actor look like? I go, what's like that? I mean, a guy who's like overconfident

and vaguely douchey, but in a funny way. This guy looks like he has blonde hair, but he doesn't have blonde hair. Yeah. And it used to be Channing Tatum, and now it's this guy. It used to be Channing Tatum before that. It was the guy from the company who's been airing that cart. Yeah, yeah. This to be Channing Tatum and now it's this guy. It used to be Channing before that it was it was the guy from the company of men airing at cart. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. This is the new guy. Yeah. He just has he just has a face. He looks like an act. He looks like he lives in Los Angeles. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. He doesn't look like he's from there, but it looks like he lives there. And I think that's all you need sometimes. Yeah. Anyway, I'm glad you're worried about the grocery store. I told you for on already. Oh, we put a poll up. I wanted to know if people thought it will, like, we'll fare only said yes. Yeah. So that's it's not now, you know, the rest of the story. I'm taking that. I just invented that.

Do you want to do it the right way? And now you know, the rest of the story. Thank you. Thank you, work. I mean, I made that up right now on the spot. I don't know if you know that. See, as we get older, no less people know the references. So it sounds like we made it up on the spots

of different show. When I was in high school, and I worked at the tool repair shop, the electronic, pneumatic and hydraulic tour repair shop, I worked for that guy, Dean, who was like, there were a cool smothuckers I ever met. I'm pretty sure he's probably dead now. But he was like one of the hardest working dudes. But every day when Paul Harvey would come on, I've heard of him. Who's that? Every day when Paul Harvey

would come on, we had to stop working so he could listen. And he would be like, he don't want any noise, he didn't want any kerfuffle, he didn't want me like banging on anything, and he wanted me to pay attention, and he's like, we gotta take a few moments just to pay attention. And we would listen to Paul Harvey together. And I grew to love those moments.

What a weird, like, what a weird thing to think about, like try explaining that to a young person nowadays, like you would take time out of the day to listen to a radio program. Radio program. Was it even, I know I heard Paul Harvey as a kid, but I can't remember if it was scheduled. It was like in the 55th minute on news radio programs,

they would play it right at the end of the hour, a couple times a day. Yeah, I know I would hear it, but even as a kid I never paid attention to the schedule. It was just, if you don't know who he is, he was just like an old school journalist kind of guy who had a great voice, just a great voice. He was a hundred years old my entire life.

And he would just do these human interests, kind of quirky, historic, kind of like Andy Rooney. I would tell him, it's almost like, if Saul Wright was five minutes and like, yeah, very very like mainstream. That's a really good point. Yeah, yeah, there you go. If you with five minutes and like Yeah, yeah, very like mainstream That's a really good point, yeah Yeah, there you go

If you like did five minutes for radio Uh, just like Like kind of like a deep dive Yeah, as much as deep as you get in five minutes into Whatever the topic was Like you thought you knew the history of pumpkins But you were wrong Yeah, yeah

Um, then that sounds like something he would absolutely Yeah, I've done a story about, yeah, that's just wild. The fucking radio man, I can't think the last time we even listened to the radio. I didn't listen to it the other day, I was driving my friend's car and I couldn't get my phone to connect so I put on local radio. I was like, oh man, this sounds,

it sounds exactly like it did in the 90s, but slicker. Like everything just is like a little bit cleaner, but it boy, it's the fucking same. We should listen to some radio on the way back but slicker. Like everything just is like a little bit cleaner, but it boy, it's the fucking same. We should listen to some radio on the way back to the studio. I'd like after this, if I radio. You already listen to some radio Jeff? I think I could do that. Yeah, I probably have radio in my car, right?

I should have radio. I probably have radio in my car. I don't know if you've ever heard of this or kept up with this, but I guess like AM radios are being phased out in electric vehicles. And I guess like the broadcasting trade groups and like lobbying organizations are very upset about this. They don't have AM radio access in the vehicle anymore. Why would it be phased out?

I guess the electrical systems and electrical vehicle operate at such a frequency where it interferes with the AM radio reception. So it's like it's so bad that they just don't include AM radio's on electric vehicles Huh, and now you know the the trade industries the trade groups are framing it as like well This is you know vital for an event even to emergency people can get information on AM radio I don't know anybody younger than us who even knows what a fucking AM radio getting information on AM radio You need turning through 7,000 channels here on AM radio you mean turning through 7,000 channels here It's where I listened to sports talk and that was it

Yeah, I feel like it's all here anyway since it's all either sports radio or country like old country music We're just like crazy right wing political. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know about crazy guys I'm just saying they have a lot of questions Yeah, I don't know anyone who like listens to AM radio saying they have my ideas and they're asking a lot of questions. Yeah, I don't know anyone who listens to AM radio other than like my dad. Crazy to think that in our lifetimes, like when we were young, radio was, I would love to know how much rate money radio makes now versus what it made when it was the tighten of entertainment

that it was in our childhoods. You know, I talk about an industry that's just waned over time due to technology. I don't know what your experience with this was, but I grew up kind of in a remote area. You know what I'm experiencing with you growing up in a remote area? I'm gonna get there.

The nearest station, or the nearest AM raider stations were really far of San Antonio, which is like a two and a half hour drive away. So it's like if you wanted to listen to AM radio in San Antonio, which is like a two and a half hour drive away. So it's like, if you wanted to listen to AM radio in San Antonio, you could not hear it during the day. But at night, AM radio comes to do more clear. So it's like, I could listen to the AM radio

in San Antonio at night, because I guess like it bounces off of a different layer of the atmosphere and like it stands its range. So it's like more powerful. And it's like such a weird thing where it's like, man, I wish I could listen to AM radio right now, but I got away till the sun goes down

to be able to listen to the fucking sports radio in San Antonio. I was thinking about radio the other day because Emily made a Dr. Demento reference, and I remembered when I was in high school, middle school on high school, I had a boom box next to my bed, and on Sunday nights, Dr. Demento would come on

from midnight to 2 a.m. And I would set my alarm for 11.59, I would get up and I would hit record on a tape. And I would go back to set my alarm, go back to sleep. And then at 1 a.m., I would wake up again and I would flip the tape and set it to record and go back to sleep. And then in the morning, I would have a Dr. Demento tape

to listen to in the car, or if it was before the car, while I was like, brushing my teeth and getting ready and stuff. You remember the last time you were that, like you had to go through those, like those kind of hoops for what I'm in viewing. What a pain in the ass. What a pain in the ass. And I did not bother me at all.

I was excited to do it because I would get to listen to like, you know, boot to the head or whatever dumb Dr. Demento song was, you know. It's funny to me what, for a while, what a big industry, what a niche industry existed around appointment viewing. And trying to help facilitate people recording the entertainment they wanted to watch.

Like, trying to set the time on your VCR. Like, I feel like half the people who own VCRs didn't have the right time because I couldn't forgot to set the time. So like, then there was like that whole VCR plus thing where it's like, you just have to put in, look in your TV guide, which you get in the mail once a week, put in the five digit code into your VCR

and it knows what channel and what time to record on automatically. Like, there was that code like, oh, this VCR has VCR plus. It's like $20 or $30 more. Now you can record 60 minutes without having to be home or set the time on your VCR and program it to be able to record What a pain in the ass, but that's like like the minor leaps in in tech like that are very funny to look back at But at the time you're like

Great down-a-hug it's better than this. It's playing it's playing Mario 64 for the first time and going I don't know if graphic This man this might be it. This is basically real life. Yeah, I remember 1997. Like I remember when we got that when the Dreamcast came out and we played Madden on the Dreamcast, and Gus and I were just like, it's like we're watching a football game.

Yeah, this is just real football. We would just leave it on. It's like how do you, how do you improve upon this? I haven't seen that in forever, probably since it came out. I'd love to look at it again now, especially compared to how far it's coming, what it looks like now. It's so funny too, because when it came out. I'd love to look at it again now especially compared to How far it's coming what it looks like now? It's so funny too because when it came out like Gus. I was so excited about the Dreamcast And there was a deal where

If you Hollywood video got them early, and you could rent them before they came out So we rented a Dreamcast a week before it came out and we just played and we rented every game And I remember we were both so in love with the controller. I mean, this is the perfect controller. Have you picked one up in the last couple of years? I saw one at a garage show. I picked one of Hunkishit. How did we ever think that was Ergo Dynamic? It was a great controller.

The problem, a couple of problems, the biggest problem is the fact that the cord comes out of the bottom instead of the top, which I guess was to make space for the VMUs, which was a cool idea, but again, was useless. All I remember being able to do was grow chowls for Sonic Adventure. Yeah, I was gonna say, that was it. It was for my chow garden.

Yeah, you would hatch chowls and grow them. That's good. There's like a little Tamagotchi ripoff. Why don't they make a new power stone? They're not brave enough. They're cowards. I don't think they have the guts. No, they don't make stuff. They haven't made it. I've thought power stone make a new power stone. They're not brave enough. They're cowards. I don't think they have the guts. No, they don't make stuff.

They haven't made it. I thought power stone is a great fucking game. I think it would be really cool. It's like a fun ass party game now. Who the fuck owns the rights to a shitty Sega game? Probably Sega Stone. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's what they haven't made it.

The fucking worst. Hey, we should talk about Cosmic Coffee. It's pretty good. So I got the cold brew. Jeff got the cold brew. You got the Americano, I don't think, yes. It is a bar also. And then there's pretty good. So, I got the cold brew, Jeff got the cold brew. You got the Americano, I don't think yes. It is a bar also, and then there's also tacos, and then we didn't get those. The tacos are in a different building.

They are. And then it's a complex is what it is. Yes, it is. It's a, you come into the compound of Cosmic Coffee, and you find a spot, and then you listen to the most middleing music you ever heard. It has some Tom Petty going on. It has some Tom Petty going on. It was Michael Jackson earlier.

Yeah, there was some mid 90s hits going on too. But like, I don't know what do you think, not just of the place, but like the coffee itself and everything. The coffee's pretty solid. It's not like, you know, desnude or anything. But it's really good. I think it's better than first light last week. I find it to give this coffee a rating.

This is like, I'm gonna go with a Jeff Stahl rating here. There's like a 8.23. Okay. Okay. Well, first off, I'm gonna say points for the construction because this place is built like a, it's built like a fortifiable compound. Like if the shit hit the fan,

I think you could protect yourself here. Yeah. So I appreciate that level of it. I'm not as into the coffee discusses. I'm gonna give mine a 7.9. Okay, I think this coffee is like a six or a seven. I think it's fine. It's weird.

It's cold brew. We got cold brew. It's fine. It's definitely not an eight. It's a lot of ice. My marijuana was delicious. It was pretty, it was pretty chocolatey for cold brew. And it was just fine.

It was just fine. I would come, again, I would come over here to bring someone who's never been lost and go, hey, isn't this a like a loud door spot? I wanna try some of those frozen drinks. There's, there's like an 85% chance that I bring Emily here a Sunday morning this weekend to check it out. Oh, I have a buddy coming to the town

to like the next couple of weeks and he's like, you know, take me around Austin, whatever and it's like, we'll come here. We'll get a talk on a drink and then we'll go over to yellow jacket and get another drink and then you know Just hop around this is that's it. This is one of those places where I would go with Emily and somehow she would know everybody here Yeah, already and I get to go meet everybody. Yeah, it's just it's a cool spot. Yeah, weird area to be in But I think that's just because it is Not what I anticipated it to be. Yeah, dirt lots and whole needs and stuff and it's not that anymore.

Well, I do like it. I'm glad we came here now because I'm the way there's only going to get worse and colder. It's already cold today, so I'm appreciative that we came here while we're still able to sit outside and like really enjoy the grounds. Apparently it's going to be in the 80s next week. Yes, it is. Man, I don't know. What the fuck do I know? Yeah. Emily and I have a bet going right now. Will it hit 90 again before the end of the year? Yeah, that's a good, that's a pretty good one.

I said no, I say it's gonna hit 88. Emily thinks it's gonna get to 92. I think 88's probably a good guess because I don't think it's gonna quite get to 90 but I think it'll skirt. I think it's gonna get close. We were in, as people around here, like you call it, we're in false fall.

Yeah, definitely false fall. Do you do a lot of bets and contests with your partner? Like Emily and I do that stuff constantly. No, not really. The thing we do, the big thing we do is we go to the grocery store and I'm pretty good about guessing, just by looking at groceries,

how much it's going to cost. So we have a thing where I guess, supermarket sweep, yes, like supermarket sweep, but I guess what it's gonna cost. And then she picks over or under, and then whoever loses has to buy the groceries. I used to do that and then been very bad at it

in the last year where groceries have gotten too long to keep it expensive. Stupid! Where you're just like, you go, 110, and it's like, 181. And you're like, uh, I hope she always guesses over. Dude, I bought a bag of fucking, like, Reese's candy

and like Snickers and shit the other day. And not even like a mega bag, just a bag, just a, just while I was thinking about it, just have something for Halloween before I remember to go get a bunch of stuff. It was like $24. For just a bag of Halloween candy. We bought two bags of grapes that grossed toward the other stuff. It was like $24. For just a bag of Halloween candy. We bought two bags of grapes that Gersh is toward the other day.

And it was like $12. Oh my God. What's that? Did you get those cotton candy grapes? Oh, just like the whatever green table grapes. Dude, can you give me a few cotton candy grapes? Table grapes. That's what they call them, right?

Yeah. Is that the turtle? I've never heard table grapes. Yeah, just like boring ass box table grapes. Regular green grapes. Yeah, boring ass table grapes. Yeah. Yeah, just like boring ass box and regular green grapes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What's the called? Table grapes. Yeah. That's where they go. Maybe it's an old man thing. It might be something that never rational. No one said such a 70s. Oh.

Table grapes, huh? Oh, let's get into some in-er-key questions. I have a couple that I wanted to touch on. This first one is from, oh, you can send us anarchy questions at in Mapodcast on Instagram and on Twitter our slash in Mapodcast to subreddit. We do not run RIP god rest smash mouth. I saw the Comfort once and no joke. I like to buy the really they opened for you to when I saw you to in Houston The line open free the lineup was Mazze Star was the first opener.

Then it was Smash Mouth. Was this? And then it was you to talk about three bands that don't go well. It was a weird lineup. Mazze Star could do could that's fine. But Mazze Star is music to commit suicide to. Yes, but what year was that?

That would have been 96. 97. I think it was 97. So that was like right after like all the pop stuff. Yeah, it was a pop tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's did Frank Elodie. I think Frank did go with me. What a weird era for you too.

I think it was like, if I remember right, like walking on the sun had come out for smashers. Yes, but all star was not a big hit. No, no, all star was a few years away. Right, so it was like, you know, kind of like a one hit wonder. I was like, oh, who these guys? Yeah, but Massey star was like over by that point. Yeah, it was it was a little That was 94 who played first

Massey star was first Anyway, we should go to Vegas and see the you two thing So look at thousand dollars. I do want to see it, but yeah, it's expensive. So we can see the David Fincher movie instead, not you two. Either way, their David Fincher movie in the same direction. Directed like some like like planet earth style movie with animals and shit. It looks really cool. It's like a multimedia experience.

Yeah, looks really crazy. Uh, so this is from... Is it from Thriller? Yeah, it's a Thriller. It's probably pretty thrilling. It's a, it's a really who'd done it. And they hit, here's the Vatican. Uh, so It's a really done it. Here's the Vatican. So this is a question from Lex.

She says, have you guys ever tried white coffee? It's very popular in my home state of Washington's very fruity grassy nutty flavor and more caffeine content because it's less roasted. If you've tried it, did you like it? Or do you think it's an abomination? I've been in Washington state many times. I've never heard of white coffee.

I've never heard of it. I don't see coffee color. I want to, let's just send this. I don't want to do this anymore. Like not just this episode, this whole podcast. I've never heard of it. I'm gonna look into it because I really want to try it. Yeah, let's get to my point.

I'm the maze that you've never heard of white coffee. Yeah, I mean, I asked it because I figured it would be a thing where you're like, oh yeah. I was in Kabul and it was a thing, like you know what I mean? I just figured it would be a thing where you're like, oh yeah, I was in Kabul. And it was a thing, you know what I mean? I just figured it would be like a thing that you would try it one time. When I was in Kabul, see I was never in Kabul, but when I was in the Middle East,

they just drink like shy. That was a lot of coffee there. It was just like, it was very like grassy shy. Yeah, and like the size of an espresso. Yeah. Okay, here's another question. The first one was on our Instagram. This one's on Twitter.

This is from Caleb. It's on X. Caleb Kay says, what is or was your home away from home, somewhere outside of Austin or Texas, that you got to know really well and had favorite places to go to like restaurants or bars? I feel like it was all, for me,

it was all the convention cities that we would always hit up. Definitely like Portland, what that was for Ad. So Seattle, San Diego, it was less place on the West Coast, I guess. Even the San Francisco, I guess. I definitely had like haunts that we would hit. We, yeah, we spent so much time everywhere.

And the thing that I liked, Gus and I figured out really early, we wanted to feel at home ever where we went. So the first time we would go to a place, we would try to clock like a little food place, like a cheap little good, like local food eatery, you know, like a burrito stand or something. And then we would try to find like a really good dive bar.

And then we would just insert ourselves into that dive bar. And like my favorite probably of all time of all the places you and I've been and you and I have, we could probably write down a list of 40 places across the world. My favorite of all the dive bars we ever went to and we've talked about it a lot is Cinebar in San Jose. I'm not a fan of San Jose at large,

but that fucking place was great. I loved that. I don't know if you know this, that's, many years ago, I think back when the iPhone 4 was coming out, there was one that was like lost and left behind at a bar and like some was a dad bar. I remember. Yeah, it was there. But as far as like home away from home, for me, it's Portland. Yeah, I spent so much time so much of my life in Portland.

I think Cinebar was great, but I think my favorite bar in the world that I've been to is what was backstories in in Sydney. It's like a place where you have to go down the alley, you open an unmarked door and you go downstairs. And then it's like, the biggest like whiskey library you've ever seen in your life. I had a $100 or $150 shot there with that one, Addenance. Yeah.

It was, they took you into a room that's like a cave. Yeah. That they have to open up a fucking, it's like walking into a bank phone. Yeah. And then, there's like some super rare whiskeys. It's like stuff that I've never seen anywhere else, but I mean that's just like one draw They also have like regular drinks and regular whiskeys and whatnot. It's not all snooty high-end stuff

But they do have really rare stuff there. Yeah Last question is a real local one is from Austin Angerman who is super local. Yeah, Austin. His name is Austin. He won Chris's chicken spaghetti. Oh, yeah. So there's a real local question. I think it was funny. He's great.

Yeah. Rank the following. Best to worst. Sprouts. Whole Foods. Central Market. Trader Joe's Weetsville Co-op. Can we put those in front of us?

Can I see that? I'm not gonna remember all of them. Sprouts, Whole Foods, Central Market, Trader Joe's, Weetsville Co-op, best to work. It's Central Market, huh? Whole Weetsville, Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe's. I would, I'm pretty much identical, but I would flip Trader Joe's in Sprouts.

Okay, I like the difference at the bottom. I like Trader Joe's. I'm not crazy about sprouts. There's also, I noticed he didn't throw HEB or Randles or Fresh Plus or Natural Grocers or Arlins. Oh, I think Arlins are close. That became a Fresh Plus. It became a Fresh Plus, yeah.

Yeah, why didn't he throw Arlins in there? Yeah, I agree with your list, Gus. I just like, try to do this a little more than you do. Yeah, thank you Austin. That was a great question. Yeah, it was a good question. And if you want to send us a question, you can. And such a market is fucking great, by the way. It really is.

I don't make enough money to shop there, but yeah, I feel that at AmmoPodCase. We got expense grace. Table grapes. At AmmoPodCase, Instagram and on Twitter, our slash AmmoPodCase is the subreddit. We don't run, but you can go check us out there there you can follow us at all those places to go see images pictures from this episode and every other episode

We have a picture of last week of Gus shaking his fist Ferrell there's you know, there's a lot of great stuff. I probably have Photos of that whiskey bar and that little whiskey room, like in a cityway. I can send it to me. I love that. That'd be great. Any final thoughts, parting words for the folks at home? Let's get some more coffee.

Yeah, let's get some white coffee. Let's get some white coffee. And thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll tune in next week. And if you wouldn't mind doing me a favor, tell a friend about this stupid podcast and how much fun it is to listen to and how it's not potty, it's not video game stuff. It's just like regular dudes talking about regular stuff. Yeah, sometimes we talk about video games

Sometimes but it's not like what it's about. I feel like they're people I've talked to a lot of people in the wild lately who have I've discovered like Preconceived notions about what our podcasts are yeah, and they're just wildly inaccurate and so Didn't maybe refer a friend yeah wildly inaccurate and so I didn't mean refer a friend. Yeah. I'm gonna Google white coffee but I don't think it's gonna come up very well. That wouldn't do it.