ANMA - Something Coming Out of the Woods

Episode Date: November 7, 2022

Good morning, Gus! From Turnstile coffee on Burnett, it's a slightly colder episode of ANMA. Today Gus and Geoff tackle outdoor bars, The lady and the dale, The Patience of Job, The Domain and North Austin, Pickup basketball at IBM campus,Dave's deposit, Chopped and Screwed, and Burnie vs Geoff’s Burritos. Do us a favor and tell a friend about ANMA. They can take a guess at the name but mostly check out the show. Remember that person you used to watch RvB with? Tweet them a link. This episode is sponsored by Fum http://www.breathefum.com/anma + cod ANMA, and Black Adam in theaters now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, yeah, it's okay. That would be the next one. Oh, right. It was like could not get away. Oh, yeah, we were supposed to go to Austin job today. I forgot. Yeah, yeah, it's okay. Yeah, we the next one. Oh, right. It was like going to be like a redemption. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll have the redemption episode on the next one. This one we're at turn style. Yeah, we're getting hardcore coffee. New American hardcore coffee.

This is a hot coffee love connection. Last time we talked about the, I love you so much, sign. What are your fucking places? Talked about Lance versus Nito Barito. All right. Talked about Lance versus Nito Barito. Okay. He's been talking about getting around in Austin in 1999, visiting Baltimore, your top conventions, and street festivals.

So it was kind of a smattering at this. All over. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So today, like you said, we're at Turnstile Coffee on Burnett, which is by the Q2 Stadium where Austin FC plays most original name for soccer club ever.

And it's real close to the domain. Well, I guess I should talk about, we should talk about Trans-Tarral Fast First. What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place?

What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place?

What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up with this place? What's up you talking about? This building or the other building? It's a place with two buildings, one of which says, go here for coffee, you go there, and it says, go to the window for coffee, the window's closed, then there's a sign that says, go to the other building for coffee. And then the other building is a bar. But there were dudes walking around in the building that we couldn't get coffee at.

Yes, we could see people in there. And there's the northernmost building. I'm looking at a sign that Yes, we could see people in there. And the North are in most buildings. I'm looking at a sign that says open. Yeah, it's not open. No, it's definitely not. The signs that say go to the window and the window is closed. I'm very, I'm very perplexed by this business. Anyway, so I guess their signs

are drive through in Bergerstand. Drive through is closed. Maybe you didn't see any burgers. We had to go inside a bar for coffee. Really weird. How is your, how would you get iced americano? Yeah, it's pretty good. If they serve it also like in what is this like a pint glass?

Yeah, yeah. I think we went to the bar, they didn't know what to put it in. How is your iced coffee? Watery, very watery. It's really thin. Really thin. I keep picking it up and thinking it's going to be the biggest jack and coke I've ever had in my life.

If you told me I was drinking a, like a completely watered down left out for two days, diet coke, I don't believe you. Like I'm not getting a lot of coffee at it. No, it really, it looks like. It's brown and cold. It looks like soda. It keeps tricking my brain into thinking it's soda

because it's out of a pump glass. Yeah. Oh, it does it. You're just looking at it. You got like, I don't think, I don't think if you walked by, you would look at these and go, those guys are drinking some coffee.

Yeah. So the glass is doing a lot of that there. You'd walk by and say, well, they're sitting outside of what says it's a bar at nine in the morning, drinking huge, tracking coasts. They must have had, they must, they probably just, they're sitting outside of what says it's a bar at nine in the morning, drinking huge, jacking clothes. They must have had, they must, they probably just, they're having a rough time. Because they're drinking doubles at nine a.m.

Yeah, well, 10. That's 10. And also, I'd also like to point out that we here in Austin spend roughly nine months out of the year complaining about the heat. Yeah. I'm going to guess it's like 70 right now Slightly windy and I I feel like I'm in the Antarctic You are your body language and your whole demeanor when we came and sit as that outside you are miserable

It is how did it ever get so cold? The great thing about this time of year in Austin also is like in the morning I'll be like, yeah, what am I gonna wear? And I'll look at the weather, it's like, oh, it's gonna get up to 80 today. But it's not. It's gonna, they're gonna revise the forecast later. And be like, oh yeah, the highs gonna be 70,

and it's gonna be cloudy and windy all day. Yeah. So yeah, that's, it's great. I really like a lot of war shorts. It was, it was in the Senate. It was in the Senate. I thought about bringing a jacket this morning. And then I asked Alexa, and she was like,

no, idiot, it is like 72 right now, and I was like, sorry, Alexa, Christ. And my watch says it's 73, that seems impossible. There's no way. It's 65 me. Yeah, 42 degrees. 42 degrees. Says the guy in the long asleep shirt.

I put it on because I looked outside, and I went, this is not going to be good. This should probably be a conversation that we don't have in the middle of the show, and we can get to the show But what are we gonna do when it's like actually cold? Well, but that's only it's only actually cold for like two or three weeks out of the year You listen to him right now. He's got it's because he didn't dress appropriately

If you had a jacket and pants on you be fine. I had to have pants on Yeah, you're the one wearing shorts. I'm here wearing shorts. You're dressed like Halloween. I really. Yeah. I want to get your best one. Rift shirt. I appreciate the shout out. No, I recognize that I am a big ass baby. But that's what living in Austin for 28 years is done to me. You're hardened for the heat. There's 110 degrees right now. I wouldn't be saying a word. No, I would. Let me ask you guys something. And this thing kind of gets kicking into the show. Moving here, I'm used to outdoor bars in San Diego. There's a lot of indoor outdoor stuff for whatever,

because it's 72 degrees in a nice way every day. That's just the way that it is. I moved here and it's mostly outdoor bars. Why the fuck are they doing that to you? Like, why are they, it is so hot in the summer, it's unbearable and then in the winter, it's so cold, it's unbearable. You get nine good weeks a year where you're going, hell yeah.

You don't have to air condition the whole thing. It's cost saving. I mean, a lot of people move to Texas for the heat. For the same reason, people live in Arizona and New Mexico, right? That's a good point. I think a lot of people are into that. It's all a part of the like fucking Yeehaw Texas aesthetic, you know, sitting out in some lawn chairs and a bunch of crushed

gravel, drinking a fucking... Oh, look! And we're at a barcoffee shop. We're not in a lawn chair, we're at a picnic table, but I mean, that's pretty accurate. I mean, was that how it was always? Yes. Yeah. Really? That's just Austin, huh? Yeah, it's always been this way.

Really? Yeah. Just set outside. Enjoy it. Enjoy the one tree that's turning colors from our engine red. I'm shocked. You never see that here.

That's our season tree right there. Everybody in Austin comes to like this. That's our season tree. It's Everybody in Austin comes to like this. That's our season tree. It's been Steven have often himself planted that. I mean, I'll say the difference is that when Gus and I were younger, we were in our early 20s, we were still going to sixth street

and usually not till like 10 o'clock at night. So you just were never outside in the daytime. Plus I remember also when I was younger, not bitching as much about it, like just dealing with it and just putting up with it, like driving around knowing, like, oh, it's a hundred, like driving around in a little truck with no air conditioner,

with the windows down, and being like, oh, it's a hundred degrees outside, time to go drink. Yeah. Uh, you know, that just, you're far more accepting of shit when you're younger than yours and out of it. It's because you're dumb.

Yeah. Um, as you age, like your patience goes up in a lot of areas and then way down in others, you know, it really is. It's just like a lot of shit just flips on its head. There was, you said patience and it made me think about something I haven't thought about in a long time. When we worked at the call center, you know, we dealt with a lot of old people and there was like a common phrase they all said with a lot of old people. And there was like a common phrase they all said in relation to patience.

They'd be like, oh, you know, they would be so grateful you're helping them figure out how to dial their internet connection up. And they'd be like, oh, you've got the patience of job. They all said it. If I went through an eight hour shift, I probably got told I had the patience of Job 20 times.

Well, we also did tech support largely for East Texas and Louisiana. Well, was there any Louisiana? Oklahoma, Oklahoma, East Texas, a lot of Mississippi. And so it's a pretty, you know, rust belt, Bible belt, a lot of deeply religious Southern people. So I imagine it, you know. That's where it came from. It comes from there.

So where we are today, you know, we're like I said on... Halfway to Dallas. Burnett, kind of close to Q2 Stadium, but we're also close to the domain, which did not exist in the late 90s. And we're right by the Pickle Research Center for UT, they do like super computer stuff there. Up here the domain, this used to all, correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff,

I believe this all used to be the IBM campus up here. We used to play basketball up here. IBM's still up here, but they've retreated. It's a much smaller footprint. All of this used to be IBM, and I think that's why they called it the domain, because they started it like during the, like really building it out during the dot-com craze and they wanted to capitalize.

That's what I always assumed. That makes sense. They wanted to capitalize like on internet terminology and it was called the domain as a result of that and I feel like it's gotten away from that because you know what talks like that anymore but I felt like that was a big thing for them like being oh yeah it was IBM now it's you know we're using hip internet terminology I don't know that that's true but let's just go ahead and submit that as fact it's an effect oh man I had an idea for what the fucking name

of the podcast comes from. Oh really? I'll be able to save it to the end. Oh, that's not exciting. I wonder if it's one I've had before or not, so you'll have to tell me. Okay, okay, okay. How often you go to the domain?

Not very often at all. There's an Apple store there. If I need something for my phone or my laptop, I guess I go there. Oh, that traffic scene at the beginning of office space was filmed right up here on Breaker, on that little stretch right there. And you can see, there's nothing there.

Yeah, in that opening scene, there's just traffic in a couple of small buildings. Yeah, that was right around the corner from where we are over here. Speaking of office space, do you remember the old Rose dude who would stand out on the other side and sell roses? Yeah, in the late 90s, early 2000s? I love that guy, I wonder what happened roses. Yeah, in the late 90s, early 2000s. I love that guy.

I wonder what happened to him. He was in the intro for Austin Stories that MTV show. I remember I saw him there a few times. Do you know the full story behind that actually? I feel like I used to. So I only learned the whole story recently, like within the last year or two. Oh, I remember what it was.

I do a lot, that's a spoiler. I watched a documentary about this on HBO. And it kind of like really explained the whole thing to me. But we got some audio texture driving through with us. There's plenty of audio texture in this fucking episode. So I guess there was a group of people out, I want to say out near Bastrop, who would kind of like organize this row selling

all around Austin. And they would recruit homeless people. And like, be like, hey, if you come with us, you can, if you sell roses for us on the side of the road, you get a cut of the money and kind of like, a way for them to make money and a way for these people to also make money. And would give these homeless people a place to stay.

And this was a documentary on HBO. So the documentary was not about this explicitly. This was like a footnote in the documentary. So these people who would set this up and were recruiting all these homeless people to sell roses around Austin, it was a person who had, and this is what the documentary was about, who had tried to make a three wheeled car

and in the 70s and 80s and try to make it like a big deal and they were gonna make this three wheel car and it was gonna revolutionize the auto industry and it just never came to fruition. And there were like accusations of it being a scam. And I don't wanna say too much about it because it's actually a really interesting documentary.

I don't remember the name of it for the life of me right now. But I'm sure if you look up three wheeled car, each wheeled documentary, you'll find it. And they'll go into the whole story and the story ends with eventually the people who ran this car company kind of went into hiding out in your bath stop and they were the ones who set up this group of homeless people who were going around selling roses all around Austin.

It's a really wild story. Were there intentions nefarious in some way? Were they taking advantage of all the people? No, was it altruistic? It's ambiguous. Okay. You know, they definitely benefited from it, but you know, some of the people, I don't want to say too much kind of spoiled the documentary, but it's ambiguous. Maybe there was some altruism, maybe there was some taking advantage of people.

But yeah, really, really interesting. Huh. So yeah, we saw those people, and specifically that guy who used to be there at Riverside in 35. All the time, I think it was like on the mainstay. Yeah, and yeah, I guess he would get dropped off there. All those roses came from, came from Bestrop. When, when you guys were living south of the river and there was nothing up here, I mean, except for the IBM campus.

Do you have all the way up here to play basketball? Yeah, yeah, because There was a pickup game that somebody we worked with that tell a network Had left and worked at IBM and invited us up I want to say or like a friend of like a friend of a friend Yeah, and so I feel like on like, I don't know, a couple nights a week we would come up here for a brief period of time.

Yeah. It was here, and I don't know if you ever joined, we played occasionally over at the basketball courts by Hancock. Basketball courts. Over by Bartholomew Park? Like where the golf courses? There's like a basketball court in there.

No, oh, at Shide Park. No, I never played over there with you. I played there with Nick occasionally. We played there, and then briefly we played at the apartment complex where Dave lived. Remember we would have pick up games there? Which one, the one down off kind of close to William Cannon or?

No, it was off Riverside. Oh, oh, oh, that was Jay right there too. Yeah, it was like off, yeah, I know what you were talking about. We would play there a bunch, but yeah, I guess I never went to the Shide Park one. That complex is actually really close to where we got coffee off of Old Torf.

It was all the walkie distance from that place. Oh, really? Yeah. It was like down the little east and north around the corner from there. The thing I remember most about that is Dave was moving out and he got like a keg for like a good by party and he threw it in the fridge

and it just busted through everything. Yeah, you remember? Yeah. And he was like, I'm gonna fucking, I'm moving. Which will get more deposit back. Which set off a terrible teen reaction with me. I don't know if you remember this. No. He said that.

He's like, fuck it, I'm not getting my deposit back. And we had all been drinking and I was kind of drunk. So I started destroying his apartment. I don't know if you remember that. What did you do? I don't want to get into specifics. I feel really bad about it. Sometimes to this day, I think about it.

Like, man, I was such a fucking dumb jerk. Oh, he definitely did not get his deposit back. But this is how you get it out. Because now if you talk about it, then maybe you won't think about it in like the middle of the day and it makes you go, ah, like those intrusive thoughts go away. But it's also, if you tell us what you did to Dave's apartment.

It's, I'm right there with you buddy. You were, you were maybe 22. You, no, not even, maybe 21. 21, probably, yeah. And now you're what, 45. 14, 40, yeah, 40. It's like over half your life ago. It sucks, it sucks to have a long memory.

You, you mentioned that and I think we've actually talked about this trip before, so we don't need to get in this specifics, but reminding me of the time that we went to visit our friend, John and Houston. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then we were weirded out by his friends at the party and then you locked yourself in the bedroom if you just come out, and we couldn't get you out

of the bedroom because you don't want to talk to his friends, but then I got you out of the bedroom and we sequestered ourselves on his deck. Yeah. And then we did a terrible thing. I don't know if you remember that. I don't remember what your brother did. He was a blanche empty beer bottles.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Bad. Yeah. And then we decided to leave. So we were in Houston. And it's like three in the morning. Three in the morning or something.

We're like, fuck it. We're going back to Austin. We had a driver. We had someone else with us who was driving it was my first wife. Yeah, neither of us were in any shape to drive she was driving us back to Austin and Yeah, and it was like the woodlands or something. I think it was a woodlands It was absolutely the woodlands and we I don't remember one of us was feeling sick or had to pee might have been both of us Okay, Jeff Jeff's right. I had to throw up. So we had to pull over in the middle of nowhere at like three in the morning, it's pitch black, and Jeff's out there sick, and I think I was with you.

And then we start hearing things in the woods. So coming at us. Like getting closer, and we're like, there's something out there. Oh shit, we gotta go, like, it was like something out of a horror movie. It was like a mad dash back to the car, so we could hear stuff in the trees all around us. Yes. We became hyper aware that there were things alive in the woods all around us.

Can I tell you, this is not a story from our era, but it's me in Texas before we met. This is a background in the army. I have the best something coming out of the woods story. I haven't thought about it in probably 20 years and Gus just jogged my memory. When I was stationed at Fort Hood, this is probably 1994, my roommate was this guy, Victor, who I liked a lot, and he decided to reclass into the medical field.

And what that basically means is like, he was, I don't remember what his job was, but when his enlistment was up, he picked a different job in the army, and they let you do that. And then he had to go through training again, which is basically like going through basic training again. But not that part, just the job part. Anyway, so he reclasted in the medical field.

All the Army medical schools are in San Antonio at Fort Sam Houston. And so he went from being my roommate to moving down to Fort Sam Houston. So all of our friends, we hopped into my buddy, Dale's Chevy Blazer that was like bright green. It was like a bass boat, you know, with the sparkles. It was fucking hideous. But that was, it was 90s. It was very cool in the 90s.

Sounds awesome. It was one of the things where like the back of the Blazer was like 92 speakers, you know. Your hair would stand up when you're a picture. And we're driving on that guy. And so we went to like send him off. We drove him down in San Antonio for the weekend and we thought we'll have one blowout weekend together before we'll never see this guy again because the army will send us in different directions. We'll go back to Austin. He's the San Antonio guy now. And there's this thing. I may have

talked about it on a previous episode, but there's a thing where if you're in the military I think all military bases have hotels that you can stand for like 10 bucks a night And so we rented there was one room left and there were I want to say five of us crammed into this thing and so we We went to the hotel. They were like we just got one room left But you can have it, 10 bucks, whatever. So we all pile in, we're sleeping on the floor, and then we start to fall asleep. It's like maybe one in the morning.

Now maybe like 11 o'clock at night, we've been out drinking or whatever, we're tired. And we start to hear baby crying. And we can't figure out where this baby crying has come from. It's fucking loud. So we turn on the lights, and we realize there's a door this baby crying has come from. It's fucking loud. So we turn on the lights and we realize there's a door to when we're joining room. It's opened.

Like it was just like push shut. Like a hotel to do is correct. And we open it up and we go into that room and there's a baby in a crib. No adults or parents or anything. And we're like, what the fuck? So we go downstairs and we're like, there's a baby in there and they're like,

oh, that's weird. And it turned out like some soldier and his wife were there and they had to leave the room for a minute. I don't know how it happened, but that baby ended up in that room alone. And we freaked out. And we left. I understandably.

We were just like, this weird, the parents showed up and then, but we were just like, grossed out and like weird. And so we were like, fuck it, we'll just go get like a, say a motel six or something. And it was one of the things where you know like we're all broke as shit, we're soldiers, we probably had to pool our money for the $36 for a motel six. And so we drive around to a hotel, to a motel and I was younger than everybody in the army. I was like, now I'm older than everybody, but when I was in the army I was always the young guy that they made do shit, you know, because I was like five was younger than everybody in the army. I was like, now I'm older than everybody, but when I was in the army, I was always the young guy

that they made do shit, you know, because I was like five years younger than everyone. And so they made me go into all the motels. And I was, you know, probably a Mohawk and a super punk rock, you know, punk rock soldier. Covered in spikes and dumb shit, right? And I was pretty good about hiding my Mohawk with my hair. Wait, I slipped my hair back. I gotta away with it for a long time but at everywhere I

went and I don't know if it was legitimate or if it was we were going to cheap motels and they didn't want to deal with who I looked like at the time but like every place we went to they were like yeah we're sold up tonight we're booked up tonight we're booked up we're all booked up convention in town or something right and so we gave up after trying, just going up and down the interstate, like, I probably I'd 35, just trying to find places to stay. And eventually, it's like three in the morning

and we are exhausted. And we're not gonna go back and sleep next to the baby who may be alone or not. And so we're like, we just gotta stay in this car. Where can we go to stay in the car? And we're like, can we go to like a Walmart parking lot? And we're like, yeah, there's people around. And there's industrial areas all over San Antonio.

So my friend Del goes, I used to do this all the time back in Vegas, I guess he was from Vegas, and I don't know, I guess he was from Vegas, he's from Vegas, I knew that, I don't know what to say. I used to do this sometimes when we drink, we would be out late at night in Vegas. We'll just go behind like a warehouse,

be quiet as shit next to the woods, and we'll just fucking, we'll just go to sleep there we're just sleeping the car so we're like cool man so we drive around forever until we find like an industrial complex that looks cool and a like empty and safe and we drive around behind and just behind the building on like a dirt path and then we go to sleep and at this point everybody is is so exhausted we all pass out pretty immediately I'm five of you in this blazer There's three dudes in the back Dale's in the front. I think it was like me. I was in the passenger seat because I was always having to run out and do shit. Yeah, Dale

Mike Maybe Victor and my friend Pete and And so We're all like settled in and we fucking get cozy and we start to fall asleep. And as we're falling asleep, I keep like, something's bugging. When you're asleep and like something's bothering you, but you don't know yet, you can't figure it out. It was light.

Like light was kind of fucking with me. Yeah. And then I started to feel like a little bit of a rumble. And I look up, I wake up, I jog too, and I like, wake up, and I'm like, guys, what is going on? And right as I start to wake up and I jog day-alow wake, and I'm like, do you feel this? right as I start to wake up and I jogdale awake And I'm like do you feel this a fucking train goes by oh my god

We were four feet off the train tracks like literally like facing the train tracks And like the whole fucking blazer shaking and we're like oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god And we're like let's go and like left to right in front of you right? Yeah, yeah It is going left to right in front of us and And we're like you know it scares the shit out of us. We all laugh about it. Dale backs up like five feet, so we're a little further away from the trains, and we're like,

what are the odds that another train's gonna come by? Oh, no. And so we just go back to sleep. Start to fall asleep again, close my eyes. I get hit with the light pollution again, like something bright. This is so much worse. And I open my eyes again, and I'm not feeling the shake, right?

And I open my eyes again to see what, like where the train is coming from or whatever. And I look and there's a truck coming from the woods on this dirt path that we're in that like, like so basically like there's a warehouse behind us, we like drove around a parking lot, then drove off onto a little dirt road, a little bit off the parking lot

Which is in front of us is a trail railroad tracks and then the dirt path goes further into the woods Yeah, recognize all this at two in the morning and we're parking, right? But I'm able to kind of see all this illuminated now because there is a truck coming at us from the woods and The truck crosses the railroad tracks. It pulls right up in front of our car, or in front of our blazer, so that it's like maybe two feet in front of it, like it's almost touching, it's grill, it's almost touching our grill. And I say truck, it must have been an SUV.

Four doors opened up, all at once. And I go, don't get the fuck out of here. They all opens up, he sees it, he just backs up, and we got the fuck out of there, and then we slept at a Walmart. But to this day, I have no idea who was in that truck at three, three, or 4 in the morning, coming from the woods, who all decided at the same time,

we're gonna get out of this car and see what's in this car. And I always wonder, like, if we had been heavier sleepers, would we be dead? Best, you know? Best case scenario is it was like, the railroad company coming to investigate what the fuck's going on,'s by the track like the engineer reported Something I'm being optimistic here. Yeah, okay, and most likely not the case. Yeah, you know how the railroad company is always sending an SUV with four guys over to investigate

But like Dale put it in reverse and started backing up and nobody ever came out of the truck Just the doors stayed open and we just got the fuck out of there. Wow. And no idea, no idea who those people were, what was going on, any of that, just scared me off of sleeping in parking lots for probably a decade after that. I had no idea where that story was going. I was half convinced you were going to say that he backed up over onto another set of railroad tracks. We were caught in between. No, no, just that we were like four feet away from getting hit by a train without realizing it.

And then like maybe two feet away from getting robbed and murdered, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. A classmate of mine actually was in a truck that got hit by a train in San Antonio. Oh, wow. He lived.

But yeah, he was probably been like 20 years ago now or so. Yeah, but it's like one of the stories you always hear. Driving his truck, it's tall, didn't want to, like all of a sudden died. He didn't realize it stopped on a train track. He was like trying to start it and crank it over and a train came and hit him from the passenger side of the truck and like dragged him for a mile or something.

Was he very injured? Not that bad. Relative considering. Yeah. All things said he had no lasting effects. You know, he might have gone to the hospital for like a day and then that was it. I wonder what, not to minimize the trauma

that he and anybody who gets hit by a train goes through, but I wonder what kind of damage that does to a train. Like is the train able to continue to operate after that? That's very fine. Does it have to go through like a re-certification process? So where they... I used to ride the train a lot in San Diego. Like a...

Like an hop-in? Amtrak. Oh, okay. You got your bindle. Right, you're like... So I tacked, I would wrap my handkerchief and put it on the back of my stick, throw away my can of open beams and hop the rails.

It would ride it up, you know, you go to ocean side, it's like an hour away, so you take the amtrak you can drink and you know, there's stuff, whatever. So many people would commit suicide by train and the only thing that would happen, I would talk to the conductor, you make friends with the people that are on the train and everything and I'm like, what usually happens? You hit a car, we have to stop for two hours. They put us on a bus and we have to keep going or whatever.

What usually happens to the train? And the guy's like, honestly, when it's people, they clean it up and then it's operating like the next day. When it's cars, they kind of have to put it through a process to like check to make sure that like nothing went under the wheel, you know, that kind of stuff. But he's like more often than not.

You know, he's like, it's, he, I think he explained it. He's like, imagine a horse kind of like hitting a, like a cat. That's about what it's like. The horse is going to be largely okay. The cat's not. You're going to keep using that horse. That's sort of how it operates. Train big.

Yeah. That's exactly what it is. I'm like, man, like, because you never think about the logistics of like, there's gotta be people who go out and invest, you can't move it for a certain amount of time because they have to investigate, you know, it hit a fucking car.

But then afterward, they take it to like, the depot and go, yeah, it looks okay. Looks like a train and then it's back on the rails. I was in Kuwait one time doing a story on some infantry men who now was in the back of a Bradley fighting vehicle and we went over a berm going pretty fast in this thing. I don't remember how fast it went,

but probably 10 miles an hour feels pretty fast in a Bradley fighting vehicle when you're jostling around in the back of it. And we came, went over a berm and there was no time for the dude to turn. It was a goat and he slammed into a goat going maybe 30 or 40. I don't know. But man, we got out and looked. It was just blood and fur. Like it disintegrated that goat. I thought so bad about that. I also found a boot with a foot in it that day. Oh my god. Yeah, go foot now now like a

Like a leftover from the from the Yeah, from the 91 war. Oh, I don't know if it's a US or Iraqi or Kuwaiti, but it was fucking gross You ever think about how fast 30 miles an hour is when you're in a car versus how fast 30 miles an hour is when you're outside of a car. Oh, absolutely. It's ridiculous. If you, if you unprotected outside of a car, if you started moving like 15 miles an hour, you'd be like, holy shit, this is too fast. Like those scooters that people are always getting hurt on.

Like you get those to top speed, like this is too fast. Even on a bike sometimes, I'm like, I don't feel like I should be going this, like a bicycle. I got, I shouldn't be going this fast. I got my ebike up to 37. What? Last week. That's about how fast you throw. I should be going this like a bicycle. I got you and be going this fast. I got my e-bike up to 37. Last week. That's about how fast you throw. Almost as fast as I throw.

And going down a hill over by Aflamar. And I felt like I was gonna break the sound barrier. And I also thought like one pebble and that's it, I'm over. If I get my e-bike to 25, I'm like, oh shit, you gotta slow down. I start looking at the Run by like I don't want I don't want to be fast fast. Yeah, that's pretty fast. Oh no, no thanks man

Yeah, 37 scared the shit out of me. That's crazy. Yeah, how's stopping going 37? Oh, it was fun Yeah, yeah, you just kind of scoot until you're done scooting Yeah, you just saying you kind of level out when you when the when the hills over and then you just kind of yeah Just then just mash on the brakes as hard as you can I was going down Gushy you'll know where this is if you if you're going down Barton Springs. There's a right There's two entrances to Barton Springs, but most people don't know this for some reason

There's the North entrance and the let's consider the South entrance even though that's east and west honestly Yeah, I was exactly about to go. Like when you go to buy the tickets, it's always like, are you going to the North of the South and you're like, how the fuck does that make, I mean, I guess the North entrance is four feet further north in the South entrance, but it really is East and West thing.

But if you go in the West side, which is where the baseball fields and stuff are, it's kind of like the back entrance you can go in, up there in that neighborhood where like, not actually used to be, there's a hill that goes straight down on the hill. Oh, I know that hill. Feet right into that parking lot, that's where I footnotch used to be there's a hill that goes straight down on the hill. Oh I know that hill.

Feeds right into that parking lot. That's where I did it. Oh man. That is a steep hill. I wouldn't want to be going that fast because you probably have to stop at the bottom of that. Yeah, you've got to think it's like it's like I hope there's nobody stopped waiting to turn because I'm not going to I'm going to go right through them.

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I remember the name of that documentary. The lady and the Dale. The car. The car was the Dale. Oh, okay. Oh, this is the car from the 7. No, not an electric car. It was a 3-wheel car, it was a three wheel car.

Okay, gotcha. Great, really super, four-part documentary. I see those three wheel cars driving all over Austin all the time that look like, they look like when the Batmobile separated and then Michael Keaton and he's just like the Batcop trike. I feel like people think they look really cool in those. They don't.

I don't know. I think the people who are buying them are a little bit older and a little bit more retired and they're thinking they're looking real cool. There's a lot of Batman fans. Yeah, but that fans. Yeah, I feel like you see those quite a bit. Do they rent those or something or do people actually own those? I think you can buy them for like 36 grand or something. There's people in my neighborhood who have. Yeah. Oh, wow. I see them all. I see people in my

neighborhood who have those and people in my neighborhood who have them. Oh wow. I see people in my neighborhood who have those, and people in my neighborhood who have those spokes that stick out like a foot and a half from like the sides like their cars, from like the wheel spokes. Do you ever see those? Yeah, it's like it's road warrior. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like. Swangers.

What? Swangers. Yeah. Is that what they're called? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know they had a name. I guess I never thought about it.

I used to live in Houston. That's where they're from. That's Houston to stay. I mean you call it Scrooost in if he was really from From the third coast baby He's the living the bar. Speaking of which we should get into this sometime But early in the like in the late 90s early 2000s Gus was a he was a hip-hop artist He had he used to sell chopped and screwed albums all the time all the time Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait on South first and I had a guy almost wouldn't let me leave without buying in his chopped and screwed seat and I'm like I'm not doing it man I'm not interested. One time I was leaving the HUB over there at the Hancock Center and I was coming out of that entrance like on 43rd Street over what by where the free birds is. Yeah. And there was like a dude who's like waving me down like flagging me down.

Like oh shit this guy needs help. So like I stopped my car roll down the window. He's like hey, uh, wanna buy CD? I'll make it. I'm just trying to get out of it. I got ice cream here. I got a cold. Nada. That, that, that free, that free, the CD will go great with my ice cream.

That free birds, that free birds is where we gave our first in-person interview I don't know if you remember that was it was always out so me you and Bernie were sitting outside of it to the right Or to the left if you're looking at yeah, yeah, and I remember the only thing I remember about it I was with the states more the chronicle the only thing I remember about it is I went inside It was such a novelty that we were doing this I went inside to go the bathroom and I came out and I saw Bernie with a fork stabbing my burrito over and over again. He would do that.

It was still wrapped up in this, you know, the foil. And he was just like stabbing tin foil into my burrito and I was just like this. That's what he did. That's Bernie. I mean, that's how we lit. That was our life.

And I just remember thinking like, that's gonna be a long career. That was not the first time he did that and That was not the first time he did that, and that was not the last time he did that. Mattest I ever got at him. I was hoping we'd go here. Mattest I ever got, well maybe not the Matt, one of the Mattest times I've ever been at Burnie

in my entire life. Sunday night, literally 7 p.m. I'm getting free bird, that from that free bird's from my family for dinner. We're like, you know, Millie was probably three or four. We were just having a like I was going to pick up free birds to come home. We were just gonna do whatever on a Sunday night. After 7 p.m. I get the burritos.

I'm like headed home. Bernie calls me and he's like, hey, I need you to come in right now. And I'm like, come in where? And he's like, come into RT. This is when we were still in the apartment. We were in the apartment in Buda. And he was like, he was like, hey, I need you to come in right now. And I'm like, come in where? And he's like, come in to RT. This is when we were still in the apartment in Buda. And he was like, Matt and I are here, Gus is on the way. I need you to get in, we got to film something right now. And I'm like, dude, it is almost 8 o'clock on a Sunday night. Can we just do it tomorrow?

And he's like, no, I desperately need you here. I don't even remember what it was, but I remember. Because it wasn't important. So I'm like, fuck, I like hand off their burritos. I take my burrito and I drive down the Buddha 25 minutes down the Buddha and I get there and Bernie and Matt are hammered. I don't remember you were there yet or not Bernie before me. Bernie was drunk as shit and that was drunk and they were having fun They're just dicking around and there was no real reason for me to be there

We ended up filming something. There was no real reason for me to be there. But I remember I got in front of the Xboxes and I sat down on the ground, which is where I would have like... All the controllers. ...16 controllers laid out and then color coordinated. And that's kind of where I worked on the ground. And I would just like, because it was like easier to pick them up and set them down and like, because it was like fucking...

The so many. It was musical chairs with controllers. It was a intense process making machine-of-the-decknet. And I had my burrito, and I fucking opened the foil off the top of it. And I like set it down for a second, and I went to like, move something with a controller. And Bernie looked at me, and he was just sitting in the chair above me. I thought it has Bernie does, because he's better than you, right?

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I just fucking filmed and left yeah That's that's sucked that really sucked. I was so angry I had been looking forward to that burrito for like 45 minutes at that point It was already cold at that point. I knew it was gonna be a shitty burrito, but I was just hungry best case scenario from the Hancock Center to that apartment in Buda You're looking at up 30 minute dry 30 minute and I had to go home first. Yeah drop off other burritos on the way. Yeah, that's so far Yeah, on the bright side it was a Sunday evening some of your traffic was light. It was also 15 years ago

Maybe he was so entertained with him and that He's probably if I had to guess, he's probably still laughing about it, right? If you texted him about it, he would. Oh, he would tell you, he'd regale you with the tale of the time he put his toe in your burrito. That's a burrito, I'll never get back. That's sad.

I live 150 years, I'll never get that burrito back. Yeah, I remember that. Oh man, it was interesting working in such small quarters. Like it was a one bedroom apartment and there were one, two, three, four, six of us in there. It was you, Nathan, Jason, Bernie, Matt, back then. Dude, you got a reason, not that anybody needs a reason to like Jason Saldon, you know. He was the phenomenal dude. It was a great guest.

Only guest we've had so far in Anima, right? Yeah. It's a great guest. Although, you know, I don't die, dude. You're not going to lift your 150 with a, Jesus, for him like that. You know who, you know who I was thinking about we should have on Anima? Sometimes soon?

Becca. Oh, that would be good. Becca would be a great, I was talking to her the other day and was thinking man Becca would be a great guest for this she knows Austin so well Yeah, she's been around for so much this stuff. I mean you guys can reach out But I can I can hear up and see if she wants to do it. I think it'd be great. Okay You know I met Becca when we were little kids Really? Yeah, she grew up like in the next small town over and she's from Carizzo's Yeah, our moms went to high school together

and our mom, she used some krisas, or whatever, right? Our moms went to high school together. Yeah, and like this really small town out on the border. And so like, I met back when I was like 10. That's wild. And then like, obviously never kept up with it. We lived in a different town, then like moving to Austin, like decades later, like, oh yeah, I know you. Like we met when we were, like when we were 10.

Wow, what a small world. Yeah, it's really, really crazy. Yeah, we should absolutely have her on. I was going somewhere, but I lost it in the my side of the sandwich you don't fight Becca. Yeah, that sounds right. You were saying the great thing about Jason. Oh, is that one of the things that I will forever love about Jason

is that he only worked in that office because it was supposed to be me, Bernie Gus, and Matt and Nathan. Jason just showed up and said, where's my desk? And we were like, I don't know, did you wanna? And he was just like, yeah, man. And he left and he came back, and he bought a desk,

and he stuck it where the washer and the dryer were supposed to go, because we didn't have one. And he was just like, I'm here now, and I'm a full-time employee, and this is where I worked. And we're like, okay, yeah. And that's how he ended up working full-time with us. Do you remember one of the worst arguments that all of us ever had, it's related to that office,

the target trip? Oh, that was Matt's fault, right? Yes, 100%, 100%. I's fault, right? Yes, 100%. 100%. I don't remember the particulars. I just remember that Matt did something. No one could agree on what stupid desk to buy. I think we all had to have the same desk for some reason.

Yeah. And we wanted everyone wanted a different desk. And for some reason, we no one would agree to get different desk. We all had to get the same one. We eventually, like everyone's pissed off at each other because we end up with deaths that nobody likes. Go to pay for it and then remember, he got his credit card locked.

Because he got into a fight with, got into a fight with the cashier and they got into a fight with the express. Yeah, the credit card issuer. I mean, we couldn't buy anything as a result. And we had to go back to the next day to buy the disc Yeah, I remember that like I yeah, we were fucking we were all in a bad mood and we went to Target That was our compromise because earlier that day. I remember this we went to the office max or staples or whatever down on

Brody like down with that shopping area. Yeah, yeah, and we got weirded out because there was a Family that homeschooled their kids on a field trip. And there were like. Oh, I forgot about that. It was like maybe two families and like 10 homeschooled kids on a field trip to like office max running around just being learning about it. Learning about it. And then we just got kind of weirded out. kind of weird to say, let's go somewhere else.

And we went to Target, I remember that. Wow, there was another story I remember that also happened in that view to apartment where the company was still very young and still growing. And we had some cash. I don't remember why we had the cash. We had it gone to an invention probably. Yeah, and sold some merchandise and had cash

we needed to deposit. And we, at the time, we had a P.O. box in San Marcos. I think the P.O. box was in San Marcos. I don't think it was ever in San Marcos. It was next to TNI. No, it was like, we had like at a UPS store or something. Like a, or a mailbox, et cetera. I think for a very brief time, it was in San Mar like at a UPS store or something like a or a mailbox, etc. I think for a very brief time it was in some boxes.

Maybe after we left, well I do remember that we had all quit RT at that point, or not RT, this is RT, we had all quit TNI at that point, we had all quit TNI at that point and it was annoying that we still had our PO box over by TNI and somebody would have to drive over to down Burleson to go there. But so maybe we did move it. Before that I think we had it in Sam, whatever. It didn't happen. We had it, so it was like, we had all this cash

we needed to deposit. We're like, we need to go down and check the PO box to see if there's any mail in order. So it's like, okay, let's go down. Well, I'll go together with whatever it was like four of us. We're gonna go deposit this cash at the bank, Bank of America, and then we're gonna, well, I don't know why, is it Bank of America?

We're gonna go to the bank deposit the cash checked the p obox will grab a lot of our down there uh... there's a long line at the bank so uh... burning slightly uh... let's just uh... deposit the cash in the ATM okay fine deposit the cash in the ATM i don't remember how much cash it was fifteen thousand dollars something story i think it is i do remember how much cash was it let me see you let me see

if it's the same story okay and then uh... the cash in the ATM. Go check the PO box, eat lunch, go back to the office, and then the confirmation for the deposit comes through, and the confirmation for the deposit is like... It was $2,000 was the confirmation. Yeah, and it was $2,000 less than we were expecting it to be. And we're like, someone stole the money, because the money had been in the, in the office for a couple of days before we had a chance to go deposit it. And we all had to like sit down in that living room. We had like a, clearly, we had like a, like a roundtable meeting where it was like, all right, somebody in this room stole $2,000. Right. It's like, we're not going to, no judgment. If we're all going to leave for the day whenever we leave if

If we come back in tomorrow morning and the two thousand dollars is just sitting on the table There will be no further questions no repercussions no repercussions. We're not gonna care We just want to get that money back We know how much money we were supposed to have and the bank told us it was two thousand dollars less than it should have been Find out who took it We're you're done Like we're done profession and it was like the end of the good and the bad of the ugly Yeah, like lots of like side eyes and like everyone looking at you like everybody you everybody blaming everybody's like I know

It wasn't me. Yeah, I didn't take it like why the fuck did I take it? Yeah, yeah, I had access to whatever So then well, everyone goes home. It's like I don't know about for you for me was like a sleepless night. Yeah It was tense. Yeah, I was like oh man. Is the money gonna be there? What's gonna happen? I'm like are we gonna have to fucking fire Jason now? Well show up the next morning open the door money. Don't know money there Yeah, so then that was was Pistons intense now it's like oh someone took it. They didn't return it They're like doubling down on this like this was their out that window has closed and

doubling down on this. Like this was their out, that window has closed. And the like, that first, that morning was like, no one said a word to each other. Everyone just like sat down and like did the work they needed to do and everyone was just like, really pissed off at each other. And around noon or 1 p.m. we get a call from the bank and they're like, hey, we miscounted your deposits.

We just wanna let you know, we realized we miscounted your deposit, we shortageed $2,000, we've corrected it. Oh my in a positive we shortage to two thousand dollars. We've corrected it Oh my god, so we had like 24 oh, I'm not quite right for almost 24 hours of just like intense finger pointing just because and it was a bank error because we deposited at the ATM And they had miscounted the money almost the end of everything. Yeah, wow. It got real hairy real fast That was yeah, that was nuts fast. Yeah, that was, yeah, that was nuts. Um, Bernie texted me out of nowhere in the middle of this and said, Hey, thinking of you, just having a picture of Budweiser or whatever. And I just said, speaking of the devil, just heard about how you stuck a toe and just breathe out. All he said was, it was a different time. Out of, out of nowhere. I didn't know which end to him. He just went thinking to you. I'm sure he regrets it now. It was a different time. Oh my God.

Good grief. I thought that was really great. Now you look at the $2,000 incident, and do you think about how it would have gone the other way if they never corrected their error? Man, I don't remember. We were falling apart. Yeah, really quickly. It was bad. It was so dumb too, because it was like,

I mean, $2,000 is a lot of money, but like, why, I don't know why anybody would have taken it? Yeah. In front of everybody else. And we had had cash from events before. It's not like we had just started having it. Like, everyone had always had, it's not like we had money laying around everywhere, but everyone knew where it was capped, everyone knew where it was.

And if somebody wanted to steal, the thing that pissed me off was that if somebody really wanted to steal money, like Gus and I would go to a convention in fucking Odecon in Baltimore, make like 20 grand for the company We could have just flush the numbers on the fucking Right in the pocket and like and Bernie be like when did you get a new Mazda meata? And I'm like, oh, you know, not that you know, obviously we never did that because we're right caring about The company and had integrity

We also never put our I think also never put ourselves in a position where that was even possible. Like no one was ever, not like because we didn't trust each other, but no one was ever alone with it. It was always like a couple of people working and a couple of people doing the counting together, a couple of people like moving it around.

Just for safety. You know. Also, wow. I just trusted you guys with my life at the point, you know? Like I didn't cross my mind than anybody. Like I didn't, it didn't. It didn't cross my mind that anybody, like, it didn't cross my mind that people would do that. You do that, yeah. Not that you guys.

I wouldn't, I don't know why you would. We're all working together on something. Yeah, that's so crazy. Like I never thought about, we should have done that at mega 64. We should have just been like, embezzling money or figuring something out, but we just, it never occurred.

We all, I think it's everyone pulling in the same direction. Yeah. You go to the convention and everyone's like, you trust each other with the money. No one's like, no one's pinching anything. No one's like forging anything. It all just works. Yeah. Man, that's problem. Honestly, in terms of business, that's probably really fucking rare.

Yeah. Well, that's probably so rare. Nobody ever pulled in the same direction harder than the six of us those first like seven years, you know. It was, it was so much fun. I still learned a mega-sale. Oh yeah, it was like mega-64, but with a work ethic. It was like, hey, that is a great way

to describe Rooster Teeth because it was, you guys quitting jobs where you had like management training and skills and then, quitting jobs at Blockbuster, it's a little different. We are right around that 50 minute mark. So I know, right? I wanna start wrapping how those gums treat you. Oh, they're okay.

Yeah, little itchy. So I wanna get to your guess. You said that you had a guess for the name. I was reading on Reddit the other day in AMA and I got thinking asking me anything And I'm asking no, that's not it's not a take on a Reddit AMA asking me anything. That's funny asking me I will say it's not asking me anything and it's not asking me anything. Okay. All right All right, I guess here's I have a couple of guesses from from fans

Jordan B says and I'm Gustavo. No, okay, I thought that was a, I'd be at least at a G or V if that was the case. Oh, I guess dream logic, who knows? Austin Memories again from Craig M. No. Ironically, it stands for Craig M. Hahaha.

Let's see, what's another good guest? Austin Memorial, that's from Bing Miss. No, I think that would that, no, I'd be the case if we were like bitching about Austin and we said it was dead, yeah. A nostalgic machinima podcast from foul tarnished. We did talk about machinima today, but no. Yeah.

This will be the last guest, this is from Timothy T. Annma, anomaly. Oh no. Okay. Timmy T, I was thinking about Timmy T the other day. Oh, yeah. Remember, uh, he had that, uh, that cover of that one more try song in like the 91 Timmy T. Remember this? No. It's awful. It's terrible. It's terrible. Well, thanks, Timmy T. Uh, man, speaking of, uh, of old songs songs though, guess what I heard on the radio as I was coming in today. A fucking Todd Rungren song. Oh yeah. Great to see it. Was it boom boom out go the lights? No, it's a different one. I'm not a I'm not in the Todd Rungren world, but I was just like,

Not a shit. Not a run girl. Run girl over. I'm not a run grunner. Run. not a run griller, run griller, run griller, run griller. I'm not a run griller, run griller. Run griller. Anyway, I just thought that was weird. So let's talk about turn style briefly and then wrap this thing up. We talked about the coffee a little bit. That's an insanely high number

for the coffee that we just drank. Five, five. That's an insanely high number for the coffee we just drank. I'd agree with a six. I think mine was stronger than yours. I think like, because they put, you put the espresso in, it was definitely watered down.

Yeah. But I think mine was probably more coffee than yours as well. I just saw somebody pull up to the drive-through. So drive-through closed, so they sat there for a minute, and then they went around to the other side, and sat there for a minute,

and then came back around here and looked at us, and then went up and came back around, and then drove away. Oh, I saw them drive away over there. Okay. Here's one thing in support of Turnstile, I'll say. You may get a watered down ice coffee that's not up the par, but if you sit outside, you will be entertained watching people try to figure out that they're customer.

100%. This is not an easy place to be a customer of. It's like an escape room. Where are you going? I'm just trying to escape thirst. You're not letting me. You drink coffee because you're thirsty? Yeah.

Oh, my God. So thirsty. You have a curry of brew. I'm a cup of coffee. I will say I think this is probably a hop and spot before an Austin FC game. Oh, I bet. Oh, I bet this place is going off before and off. You grab a couple of beers from that bar and you come out here and then you hammered

walk up to Q2 and then keep drinking all they have in there. They have dosakis, they have hainakin and they have mickalobe and then like a couple of like local beers. But that is what Q2 has. Fucking what I write a bike to get here. Mickalobe. Get real pathetic. Pathetic. Great stadium though. Don't know what Q2 does, don't wanna find out. I have no idea. No idea. Have season tickets for two years.

Don't know what Q2 does. Thanks, Q2. Yep. Thank you for, I'm just gonna guess, your internet line laying. Yeah, I appreciate your cabling. Yep. Way to go, guys.

Yep. You did it. Anything else about this area? Cause I don't know how often we're gonna be coming up to the domain north-aus north-north Austin kind of area Can't imagine that you guys came up a lot here. I'd ask of all Yeah, I did a field trip here one year when I was in in math camp. We went to the pickle research center How was it? It was interesting They had like a crazy supercomputer in there that we got to see all that stuff work.

They have some crazy big equipment outside for moving connexes and stuff that's really impressive. Yeah, I run my bike over here sometimes. Supposedly also in the daytime, you can cut through the pickle research center as a bike trail. I've never done it. It's been a little intimidated by it.

But supposedly it's totally fine. If it's open, you can walk or ride through. There's trails to go through. Isn't there rumors that aren't there like rumors that they have a nuclear reactor in the basement? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Supposedly somewhere in Austin, I don't know if it's at the pickle. I thought the common,

I thought the original wisdom is that, well this is part UT property. Oh yeah. Conventional wisdom is that it's here at the Pickle Research Center. Yeah, well, there you go. Well, if you want to follow us, you can add anvapodcast on Instagram,

and on Twitter. I don't know what that stands for. Yeah, we all know what it stands for in one day we'll all let you know since we all know again. Stop. You can send your guesses to add anama podcast on Instagram and on Twitter. Don't send them to me. I don't know why you keep doing it. Stop. I'm being really clear. Stop. Stop sending them to me. I have I respond to you and I go, I don't know. And then they go, that's my guess. And I go, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I don't, I'm taking the guesses from the Twitter where you tweet at Annma, not at

me. So send them to Eric. That's what I'm getting. Um, well, thanks for listening, any parting words for the folks you drank half your coffee and that's it. I had a giant coffee before I came here this morning. So I'm super caffeinated. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm ready to fly home. Any conventional wisdom or words of wisdom for people at home?

Stay in my, I don't know. I said that once before already. Stay in my, I think we can all agree to that. I don't think that's cool. I think that's gonna be the catchphrase. It's cool, dude. What the fuck? What the fuck?

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