ANMA - The Best Coffee We’ve Ever Had?

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Good morning, Gus!  Gus and Geoff venture to the very classy Hotel St Cecilia for an exclusive cup this morning. Is this the best coffee in show history? A lot of discussion about Las Vegas, Rebuilding, Mike Pirtle, Music in the shower, Streaming, SNK, Air traffic control, Reboot franchises, and Furniture Medic. Edited by Richard Norman. Check out his band Good Lord on bandcamp: ⁠https://goodl0rd.bandcamp.com/ ⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, I mean yeah, I guess it's the Vegas the Vegas Vegas. Yeah, it means the Meadows Hmm I never knew that the I think something I should have never even crossed my mind to think to translate is it a Is it a shortened version of a longer name? do you know? Or is there a sloth? It's not, it was named the Meadows in the 1850s because it was a land of meadows and abundant natural springs. Is that real? Yeah, and so the Mormons built a fort there

as like a halfway point between LA and Salt Lake City, I guess, and they had like a little fort there that they operated for like five or six years eventually they abandoned it and Then it was kind of nothing until people started to come Weston droves for the Gold Rush and then in 1905 The guy Clark the guy who was the head of the Union Pacific Railroad Which is why Vegas is called Clark County. I don't know if it's first name. Or it's a part of Clark County. He recognized the potential of it being like a midway spot,

so between LA and other places. And so I think LA and Santa Fe at the time. And so he bought up all the land and all the water rights and then auctioned it all off in 1905 and incorporated the town in 1905. And so then the first casino was built in 1906. We have a community. Yeah, and it is still in operation.

Really? In Vegas on Fremont Street. It's called the Golden something. It's Golden Slipper maybe or something like that. And it's been going the entire time. It's the oldest casino, I guess, in America. And it's the only one that's been around nearly that long. What happened to the Meadows?

Because when I think of Vegas, I think of like a desert, like nothing. Like you said, it's like natural springs. Yeah, yeah, I guess development and ruined it. Yeah, I know. You don't see a lot of Meadows there. No, it's interesting. Vegas has gone through a lot of different phases of reinvention if it wasn't for the For divorce and the dam it probably wouldn't be anything really the dam brought a ton of people to visit because they and it was a place to stay when they went to look at it because

it was such a Historical feat and then also so many workers went to work on the dam for a couple years They just settled around there But then it became one of the only places in the country you could get a divorce quickly Ah, so you could get a divorce in six weeks in Vegas Whereas in most states you couldn't or it would be a long protracted thing And so a lot of Hollywood elites and stars and starlets would go to Vegas to get divorces They would stick around for the six weeks, because you had to be a resident. So you'd become like a temporary resident,

lived there for six weeks. And all it took was six weeks? Just fucking party for six weeks. Hanging out at the Rooms area. Yeah, and then get divorced, and it just endeared itself to those people, and just started to grow. Now it's like-

Really took off in the 30s. It feels, every time I go to Vegas, it feels like I'm at Disneyland, but everyone, it just skews older. And that's that's it. Because you can everything can happen if you have a hundred dollars. But if you have a hundred dollar bill, you can kind of do whatever it is you're looking for in Vegas. Yeah, I'd say. Yeah, it's pretty true. Yeah.

It it's interesting city because it's just we invented itself through these errors over and over again. And that was the thing that I took away from it when I was doing my research for Soil Riot is just like how impressive they've been able to just stay ahead of the curve and always figure out a way out of their mess. But aren't you kind of seeing like a decline now of like?

I think they're in their new era. I haven't been declared, but they are in their sports era. Yeah. Yeah, they are. They have every major professional league now except for NBA. And they'll have that in two years probably Yeah, and so I think that this is there the next 20 years will be the era of sports

I think we're yeah, this is gonna go hand-in-hand with the shifting of Worldwide gambling the worldwide gambling of moving to like Macau and Asia Like which way I think you've seen a lot of that like the sports and also this Vegas is a ghost town because phone sports gaming if you're 22 and you can it used to be let's go to Vegas has never seen anything like us You have fucking for dipshit friends or whatever And it costs you $700 that you don't have and you have to put in extra hours of the gym that you work at

Or whatever if you don't have to do that anymore and you can jerk off and bet Parley's on your phone and it doesn't cost you the $700 that you're gonna stay home. Unless you can see your favorite team play in the pool of stadium and then get hammered on the strip you know, which is what they're banking on I think. But again I think that's why it skews older. I think Vegas, I mean the last couple times I've been, has definitely been a much like an older crowd because I think of like sports gambling on your phone. Yeah. Did you ever, I'm sure you both have like seen Casino.

Oh yeah, of course. You know, talking about the transformation makes me think of the end of that movie where it's just like essentially everything the mob built up gets blown up and then the mega corporations come in. Yeah, Howard Hughes. Right. Howard Hughes came in.

Rebuild it. Like Bugsy Siegel and all these mob guys own the fuck out of Vegas in the 30s, 40s, 50s. Bugsy Seagull started the Flamingo on the on the strip, which is the oldest hotel on the strip. It's been there since 1946. It's the only hotel that's been there since before 1950. And it was when they built it, it was one of the nicest hotels in the world.

And now it is like like Emily and I, we walked through it and Emily goes, oh, this is where COVID started. Yeah. They just blew up the Tropicana, what, like last month? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The new stadium they're going to build over there? Yeah, the new A Stadium. But yeah, so, so Howard Hughes goes on a vacation there in like 1962 and doesn't want to leave and just overstays and just keeps staying in hotel rooms and then just says, fuck this, and just starts buying hotels.

And that's when corporate ownership happened and that's when they crushed the mob. Wow. Yeah. It was all because of Howard Hughes. His jars of urine. Get in the sprays of juice. He would throw them at mob bosses and there's no way to recover from that.

The humiliation was just- You get covered in piss, you know. What the fuck, That smells like piss. Oh no! Takes all the fight right out of you. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, here's our Vegas podcast. What were we talking about right before that?

I-35. Yeah, we were... Saying hello. Yeah, oh, we were saying ahoy, hoy and hello, and that was getting us... Simpsons adjacent. Yeah, and then it turned to Vegas. This haven't been in a while.

And if I go, like next time I go, I don't want to go to the strip. I want to go to old, I want to go to like free. Like old Vegas. We're going to go for my birthday for work. Yeah. We're going to stay on Fremont. We're going to stay in this hotel. The one that's been around since 1906, $24 a night.

Already looked into it. Rent it out, dude. Get the whole thing. The whole floor for 106 bucks. I already have a set of money. I haven't been a lot recently, but I went back in December of 2019, right before COVID really kicked off. And I went with some family.

We were like, let's spend Christmas in Vegas, right? Yeah. Let's take a look. And hotel rooms were super cheap. I think I got- Right for Christmas in Vegas, right? Yeah. Let's take a look and hotel rooms were super cheap. I think I got- For Christmas? Yeah, on Christmas day, I got the biggest, nicest room at the MGM Grand.

I want to say for like 80 bucks a night. On Christmas? Yeah, it was like the suite with like multiple bedrooms. Oh, really? Yeah. That's, I can't believe that. There was nobody there. It was really weird.

You would think you would be a lot more crowded, but it was a really interesting time to go to Vegas. I don't think I've ever been during Christmas. Right, no one thinks about it. I would never think of it. No. As a sad. It was an interesting experiment.

Don't judge me. Hey, it is kind of sad. Wow. Did you meet a stripper with a heart of gold when you guys bought a Charlie Bound tree other than your hotel room? Wow. It's like. Did you meet a stripper with a heart of gold? You should absolutely. By Charlie Boundry. Put it in your hotel room. I'm telling you, it was good.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Right, I appreciate it. It is, it's like the Santa Claus, or they're eating at Denny's or whatever. Oh yeah. I think it's pressed. It's already pressed, right?

Yep. So we've got a little bit of a different coffee today. That is a beautiful little coffee cup. So we're at Hotel St. Cecilia. Hotel St've got a little bit of a different coffee today. That is a beautiful little coffee cup. So we're at Hotel St. Cecilia. Hotel St. Cecilia, which is a boutique hotel in Austin that was... That's just stupid ass face.

It was started by Liz Lambert, a local hotel magnate who I don't think has any involvement with anymore because it's sold to Hilton. Do we talk, we talked about this briefly a couple of episodes ago. Yeah, we did, because we were across the street over there. Hotel San Jose and then Austin Motel. This is these are all her hotels or were all her hotels. And it's also a a place that has like private

a private membership. You can come and hang out at. Huh? Oh, wow. They got around. I recommend people stay here if they can afford it and they come. It's definitely a place to splurge on. Yeah. Yeah, we did, speaking of splurging, we did something a little different today

or I did something a little different coffee today. They had a French press, so Eric and I decided to split it. Me and Gus are sharing today. And since we're getting something a little different, I went ahead and put a sugar cube and a little bit of cream in my coffee. Ooh. Oh, did you make yourself a cup?

Yeah, I made myself a cup. Pouring that coffee, it smells amazing. And it looks the way it should. Lots of times you get a coffee and just like that weak kind of see-through anemic brown color. This has that rich, full, like dark, like you can't see through like it's supposed to be. Yeah.

Fantastic. That's beautiful. Awesome. I just had a plate of napkins if you'd like. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Any other food you want me to serve you right now? I think this one's good for us. Thank you. I'm Chris. I will check on you in just a little bit'd like. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Any other food you want me to get started on right now? I think this one's good for us.

I think we're good. Thank you. Cool, I'm Chris, I will check on you in just a little bit. Appreciate it. Thanks so much, Chris. Pass this out. Look at this nipple. You're getting one, Jeff?

Thank you, sir. Anyway, I recommend people come and stay here if they want to splurge on a fancy hotel. It is? You can't just come here and go to the coffee shop, but I was lucky enough to get a hookup for us to come for the day, on a splurge, on a fancy hotel. You can't just come here and go to the coffee shop. I was lucky enough to get a hookup for us to come for the day,

but I thought it'd be fun to try something a little bougier than usual. This is nice. You asked me if I'd ever been to like, you mentioned the place, I was like, what? No, I have no idea where that is. I had to look it up, I was like, oh yeah, this place. That's a very nice cup of coffee.

It looked like, I haven't tried it yet. That's a fine cup of coffee. It looked like, I haven't tried it yet. That's a fine cup of coffee. The cool thing about this place is it is an oasis. I'm never leaving. You would not know you were on South Congress. Well, we drove to get here or whatever, and you're like, it's one of these driveways. We're like, what the fuck?

There were fake out driveways before you got to the real one. It was pretty crazy, But we made it. Let's see. Listen, we made it is definitely something I would think while sitting here, looking at this pastry, eating this pastry, drinking this coffee.

I apologize to the audience, the portion of the audience that hates to listen to us eat. I don't. Sorry. What's this? It's the only way you're getting this podcast, unfortunately. Is that butter? Salted butter?

Yep. Dude. I think it is. this podcast, unfortunately. Is that butter? Salted butter? Yep. Dude. I think it is. Dude. Oh yeah, hold on. Come on. This is a, it has a swanky little spot, Jeff. Hey, Ramsey? You know something to do.

Yeah, hey man. Hey man. I picked up a few things in my 30 years here. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha. Um, very new. Very good salted butter. Yeah, that's excellent. Oh my God. That big old flake salt. Oh. Very good. It's all the butter. Yeah, that's excellent. Oh my God.

That big old flakes all. Oh. I was asking about if Vegas had a longer name because I think about like how Los Angeles is actually just like a shortened version of the actual full name of the city. What? Yeah, Los Angeles actually has a really long name.

I looked it up while we were talking. I never remember it. The full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora, La Reina de Los Angeles. What does that mean? Which means? Uh, the town of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels. Wow. That's beautiful name.

So that's why I was like, when you started digging into Las Vegas, they were saying, Oh, is that another one of those where it's like, there's a, like a longer version of them. No, it's just Las Vegas. It's funny how many city names and state names and plus stuff like that is Spanish or another language and you just never think about it. It's like Americanizes and I whatever.

Growing up with it. I never think about San Diego, Los Angeles, like it's just it's all it's all Spanish and yeah, he's never never occurs to me. But then in between you have Orange County and that is the whitest. Irvine. Yeah, dude. Oh boy. Did you know that's a company? Do you know about this? No. What? You know how Irvine has always voted the safest city or whatever

in like the most family friendly city in America. It's always, it's voted that every year. Right. Irvine, the city is owned by the Irvine company. or whatever in like the most family friendly city in America. It's always always, it's voted that every year. Irvine, the city is owned by the Irvine company. So all of their policing, everything that they do is through the Irvine company. So the city is very like, they're very strict about like what they build, how they build, what they do, what comes in and everything.

I've been pulled over in Irvine more in my life than I have anywhere else combined. Wow. There's a neighborhood also like that called Rosewood. That was fun. That was the county. Ha ha ha ha ha. Same but different, yeah.

It's, I know the second season of True Detective was not very popular and not very good. Uh huh. But, um, that's kind of like the underlying story of season two of True Detective. Oh really? It's like this small town in the Inland Empire in California. That's really like a town on paper. It's really just like a company. And it's an excuse for, to have a place where you can do shady things and semi-illegal things.

It's like not really a town, but companies are there. Was that the Vince Vaughn one? Yeah. Never saw that one. It was not very good. That sounds like something that would happen in the Inland Empire though. Yeah.

Nothing else is there. I think that season was just, I think they rushed it. I think there was something good there that they didn't have fully enough time to flesh out on the riding side of things. It's like, oh, there were some really good nuggets in here, but they just didn't come together. Do you guys have places like that?

Inland Empire isn't technically like the name. It's San Bernardino County, and it encompasses sort of like that whole area out to like the desert. And we just call it, I always just knew it as, Inland Empire, the IE. That's just what we called it. But again, that's just San Bernardino County.

Did you guys have other places like that, that had like, here's like the colloquial name for this thing, but it wasn't actually that. I'm sure that exists here. Even like growing up, did you have spots like that? When I was growing up in Mobile, they call it LA there for lower Alabama. Is that real? Yeah.

Whenever you go home, do you wear like a I heart L.A. shirt? No, because I don't heart either. Not a big fan of either one. Oh, I'm from L.A. Really? You don't look like it. Lower Alabama. That's funny. Oh, yeah, man, I'm from LA. This is a nightmare to eat, the cinnamon roll.

Oh yeah. Oh, I didn't realize that was a cinnamon roll, I'm in trouble. Oh, you blew it. I blew it. It's funny you ask that, cause I feel like that's always the thing lots of places have to try to like suss out locals versus people who are just visiting.

It's like, oh, you called it by the name, so you're clearly not actually from here. Yeah. That's freeways here. I don't, I can't call everything. I can't call it, oh yeah, I gotta take the 35 to the one. It's 35 to one. I think that with, at least in Texas,

it's like, it's maybe not secondary names, but just knowing pronunciation. Yeah. Oh, that's good Yeah, yeah, if you know how to pronounce a bear County or local, right if you pronounce it Bexar County, you're clearly a transplant. Mm-hmm I used to pronounce it Bexar County until I learned that's really fun. There's a lot of place Like I feel like those are a lot of popular Videos on YouTube like that. It's like pronouncing Texas names. Yeah. Yeah. We did it on the podcast once.

Yeah, we did it. And that was a fun game. It was good. That's how I learned about green. Yeah. I still to this day meet people who are like, Gruen? Uh-huh.

Like, oh yeah, you just moved here, huh? It's crazy. But then there's like Man Shack or what? Like, Minchaka. Yeah. And it's, and Guad, like, the whole Guad thing. Guadalupe? Fucking nuts.

That's, doesn't that make you insane? You get used to it after a while. I mean, I don't know, the whole, the whole thing's nuts. The thing that Pertle told us was like, cause he's a radio guy, Mike Pertle. He's like, when I first started talking, working in radio out here, they told us to pronounce it like the redneck way.

Pronounce it like Guadalupe. He's like, it's Guadalupe. No, pronounce it Guadalupe. And I will say Pertle knows how to pronounce everything. He always gets mad. Well, when we worked at RT, he would always get mad. Cause I'm very inconsistent with my pronunciation of Burn It. Oh yeah. It's Burn It, darn it. He He always gets mad. Well, when we worked at RT, he would always get mad because I'm very inconsistent with my pronunciation of burn it.

Oh yeah. It's burn it, darn it. He would always slap me. He would correct me every time we had an anime episode. Sorry Mike, I try to be better about it now because of you. He was always the best. He would always tell us, I was in the episode.

Here's all the problems. We'd be going into the break show. He'd go, I loved yesterday's episode. Here's everything you got wrong. Everything. Which is essentially everything. Which was great, because it was always welcome. From Pertle too, it was like, tell me.

Absolutely. Easily one of my favorite people that I worked with at Rooster Teeth. He's doing a lot too. He's still traveling, doing all the radio stuff and everything. He's constantly like, all. He's like, he's still traveling, doing all like the radio stuff and everything. He's like, he's constantly like, all right, at this basketball game,

oh, just flew down and did the Cowboys game down here. And now I'm up here doing baseball. And it's like, what? Jeez, dude. He knows his stuff. Yeah. That was always the thing. It's like, if you had him on a project

or you needed to get something done, he was like, you know it was settled. Yes. You know it's taken care of. Yep. Whatever was gonna pop up, whatever problems there were gonna be, he was on top of it. He had already thought about it

or he already had a solution. Yeah. He was the best of the best for sure. I talked to him not too long ago. Oh, good. Good to check in with him. Good. That's really cool.

He was sharing a playlist with me. I was talking about on a, I think on a Sawrite about how for some reason, music sounds better when it's raining outside. He sent me his like Rainy Day playlist that he used to play before productions, specifically when it would rain outside of Stage 5. So as corollary does it is that also why it sounds better when you sing

In the shower, I would assume so yeah, it's probably related probably something do you listen to music when you take a shower I? Listen to sometimes I listen to something constantly if I'm in the house alone if I'm if Emily is around the house is pretty quiet because Because she works at a salon. He's describing my life. Where they play music from the second she gets in to the second she leaves. So it's just like a wall of noise all day long. So she doesn't want to hear background noise.

But the second she's gone, podcast or music is on. I listened to Howard Stern this morning when I was showering, yeah. I turned the TV on. I watch TV when I'm in the shower. Well, I don't watch, I'm in the shower. But I listen to it, yeah. What do you watch on TV?

Normally, God, okay. Fucking YouTube apparently, remember? Don't hate me. Well, what I normally watch or have on when I'm in the shower is like, I'll put CNBC on. Oh, fuck. You know, I love the fuck this is going on. It's JRE.

You know, gotta listen to whoever Rogan was talking to. Yeah, well, it's just that he's like- I just like his interviews. Yeah, dude. That's how it starts, man. That's how it fuckin' starts. I love when people say that, like, as an excuse for why they listen.

It's like, just own up that you listen. I don't give a shit. Listen, when you say- I'm gonna judge you either way. Yeah, you said it. But in general, yeah, anyone who says that, it's like, you've already been judged, regardless of whatever justification,

like whatever justification you give yourself in the head. It's not gonna change how I feel about it. Yeah, no. Yeah, but here's my justification, this should help. It doesn't, maybe it helps you, great. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think very little of you either way, so it's not a big deal. So it's either CNBC or if it's on the weekend,

I put air disasters on. Interesting. I'm sick, I put air disasters on interesting I'm sick of watching the news. Y'all got any car crash video crashes 2025 has been great for you, huh? You guys got any work place accident videos I saw a video yesterday on tik- on TikTok that made me laugh so fucking hard. It was just a dude outside getting on a plane and he just goes, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass and then he just turned to the plane. That's what's going on.

That's awesome. Have you, either of you been watching Common Side Effects? It's an animated show. No, we mentioned about it. We haven't watched it yet. There's a, I don't know why, something one of you said made me think about this. There's a great joke in the first episode

where it's like these two people are sitting in a coffee shop talking. It's a very serious conversation about pharmaceuticals and this medicine that could change the world and everything. And the barista comes out, or barista's at their, at the station at the counter and says, got a flat white for Gregory. One of the two characters goes,

surely the name's Gregory, right? So it can't be named Gregory. And then they continue the conversation, like three seconds later, dude walks up, go, yeah, I'm Gregory. And one of them goes, so that was his name. It's like this is a deadpan delivery. This is a Mike Judd show, yeah.

Yeah, it's really funny. Yeah. It's really an excellent show. I think one of the co-creators was one of the co-creators of Scavenvengers rain, which was also an excellent animated show that got screwed over and it's not getting a second season. Well, so far, not a lot of animation. I mean, there is animation, but not a ton of it. Right now, just, I guess expensive to make. So why make it scavengers rain was also on max, I think and and and they have a track record of doing very

Good and if you want to buy this podcast Let me know and I think they they're saving grace their Hail Mary to try to get a second season was they licensed it to Netflix I think even Netflix was like yeah, we're not we're not gonna find dude that just happened with uh What is it? Den of Thieves or whatever Den of Thieves 2? Pantera is the movie it It's 10 of Thieves. Oh, I've seen the poster for that. I don't know what this is. It is a Gerard Butler movie with Ice Cube's son

from like 20, the first one's from like 27. O'Shea Jackson? Yeah. Is that his name? Yeah. And it's like a very like LA movie. I like it a lot for being like how LA it is, but it's like a pretty straightforward action movie.

They just made a sequel. They came out like in January of this year. I don't know why they made a sequel. No one was asking for it. They did it anyway. I got to see it once it's streaming, but it's like, all right, cool. The last one was like on Max.

And that's like kind of how it got popularity and all this stuff. It's like, great. So this new one's coming to Netflix. And it's like, what? It already came out in theaters. What is Max doing? Well, I think like we're seeing that transition

in budget and leadership where they made stuff kind of under the old way of thinking. And now the new way of thinking is, oh, we've already got this thing. We'll license it. We'll try to recoup our money on that end. But like, there's so, I guess, I guess my confusion with like a lot of this stuff

is I just sort of want repositories or places that will have the old stuff that I want to watch. When HBO Max started or whatever, it was like, here's all the Adult Swim stuff, here's all the GCM stuff, and it's like, great. This is all I want forever. And they're like, yeah, we're gonna stop doing those things.

It's like, but you own it. Well then, yeah, you either take it right down or you like it somewhere else, like they did to Netflix. Crazy. It's a complicated dance to figure all that stuff out. And for legal purposes, this is not disparagement against Warner Brothers Discovery. This is still not a good, earnest discussion

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But I'm on all the Traders subreddits, and supposedly like Denmark and all the other European markets are way better I wish I could buy a streaming service for a show that gives me all of the iterations of that show across the Across the world right? I would I would love to buy survivor The survivor streaming service that allows me access to every country's back catalog of Survivor. Yeah, that's interesting. I would go even more granular with it. You know, even further down this fucking rabbit hole of a la carte. That sounds like a licensing nightmare.

It does, but that's all I want. If I had Survivor and the Traders and all of the 76 versions of the shows, I'd never need anything else. I never thought about that, but I would do that for Amazing Grace, because I see people in the subreddit talk about Amazing Grace Australia, or Asia, or Canada. I've never seen any of those.

There's a dude on Deal or No Deal Island this season that nobody knows who he is, because he's, but he is the most successful survivor player of all time. Oh wow. He's an Australian survivor player, who's won more survivors than any of the than Sandra or Tony or any of the US people.

And he's incredibly famous. And I I'd never seen him before either. And I would love to watch his seasons of Australian Survivor. I just speaking of Survivor and Amazing Race, it made me think about something I learned the other day. I've never watched The White Lotus. I know and I acknowledge the hugely popular show,

but I read that one of the creators, Mike White, was on Survivor and The Amazing Race. Yeah. Like multiple times apparently. He's famous on Survivor. And I looked at a picture and I'm like, yeah, I remember that guy from Amazing Race. Survivor I've been watching years.

Didn't he write School of Rock? Yes. Yeah, he did. He was also in School of Rock like, oh, this dude went on a couple of reality shows and now he's like huge. He's like insanely successful. He's like one of the hottest dudes in Hollywood, yeah.

Season three is pretty decent. It is, I will say this as somebody who watches every second of White Lotus, it is this, he is brilliant because he created a format and he just replaces characters every season with different actors and actresses, but the format stays the same. It's just a different locale.

It's a reality show base. Like, like it's crazy. He took what works about the reality show, which is what you're watching for. And then he just swaps those things in and out. I can't imagine the format working in season four because it's getting pretty obvious in season three. Uh huh.

You know, the same hotel chain. Episode one, you find out that there's a murder, then you spend the rest of the time trying to figure out which dysfunctional family committed the murder. And it's just a take down of wealthy Americans and how vapid they are and selfish. And it's great. And it's one of those shows where you don't like anybody,

you know, or if you do, it's like a plucky local who's just doing their best dealing with all these don't like anybody, you know? Or if you do, it's like a plucky local who's just doing their best dealing with all these dipshit Americans and other ne'er-do-wells. And then it's just this process and a marriage is breaking down and there's probably some infidelity at some point

and then there's this one character who's weaved throughout it who's some sort of a criminal you're trying to figure out. But it is literally the same show over and over again. So I've never, again, I've never seen White Lotus, but the way you describe it, you talk about it, it'd be in Fort Brae Lake there, also makes me think of Knives Out and Glass Onion.

Oh yeah. It's the same thing. Same movie, yeah. It's like a very similar concept where it's like all these wealthy and or powerful people and how they really are a piece of shit and they're trying to backstab each other and it's just coming in from an outside perspective

and trying to dissect whatever it is that's going on. Yeah. Is Alexandra Daddario in one of those? She was in season two. Okay. She's like a huge, like Eric the actor fan. She's a huge Eric the actor fan. Isn't that crazy?

She's a Stern fan? Has she ever been on Stern? I don't know, but we found out about it like years ago that she was like, that she would make like Eric the actor jokes. And it was like, what? That is so funny, because she gets so much guff for being like one of the least interesting celebrities

on like the celebrity talk shows I listen to, podcasts I listen to. I think she's great. But that's really funny. I like her even more now that I know she likes Eric the actor. That she likes, yeah, the greatest of all time the true goat true goat. Well I'm a hank man. But yeah, he's up there. He's up ads just it's a Mount Rushmore

Just thinking werewolves are real and they live in New Mexico It's hard to beat it's hard to beat the werewolves are real Thanks, they're real. Yeah, I love it. That's so good. What so you're talking about having a streaming service for a show and all like it's international versions. Do you think survive? Like what do you think is like the most like you would get like the most episodes of it would probably be survivor survivor and traders traders is was in like 10 countries before it got to the US could be up there amazing race would be a big one as well I bet American Idol or British Idol or whatever

it's called that thing that's probably up there yeah there's probably I don't I don't think it's at the top but uh the office is probably uh every country feels like they just have their own. They have their own version. The office, yeah. There's a million Love Islands, but those are all licensed out. You can watch those pretty much. Oh really?

Interesting. Yeah. But they're like all those new Netflix shows, Hot or Not, those all have multiple countries, but you can get all this through Netflix. Yeah. To, I think. I just think it's a, it's a very interesting idea of like having a survivor streaming thing

where it's like, here's all of it. Here's all the different versions of Breaking Bad around the world. Yeah. Oh. That's funny you say that's the one I was thinking of too. Really? Yeah.

Is there a lot of Breaking Bads? There's like one in Brazil or Mexico. I think there's a Mexico one and one in South America. There's one in Mexico? I want to say so. I want, I think so's a Mexico one and one in South America somewhere. There's one in Mexico? I wanted to say so. I think so. Do they come across the border North style and it's not orange anymore?

I can't say I've watched any of them. Wow. All right. How weird. I never thought about that being a show that would be like that. We had a crazy windstorm come through here yesterday. Oh shit.

And there was so much West Texas dust that was kicked up. The whole sky was like orange and brown all day. And as I was driving around or doing stuff yesterday, I kept thinking, this is how when movies or TV shows are set in Mexico, this is like the filter they use to try to make it look like, oh, now you're in Mexico. When the sun started setting and it was like that hazy orange brown or whatever, it looked like some Blade Runner ass., oh it did. It was crazy.

It definitely did. It looked like in Blade Runner, what is it 2049? Yeah. The one where the new one is when he hits Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. See, because Vegas keeps rebuilding. Yep. It's gonna live forever.

It's true. Yeah. Harrison Ford's out there. I'm sorry, Deckard. Gus was complaining in the car earlier about the Austin subreddit and all the idiots on it not understanding what was going on yesterday. Yeah, like, oh why is the sky so weird today? Dude, what's going on? Do you see how many power outages there were?

Yeah, when was Gavin had a power outage yesterday? It was just people going like, yeah, why is the power out? What happened? And it's like, it's like a 50 mile an hour wind. It's it's so windy. And when it gets even a little windy, transformers blow all over this dumbass city that has trees growing. So many, so many tree looms dropped in my backyard yesterday. I spent like 30 minutes cleaning them up. It's insane. Yeah. Like. And then, yeah.

And then people complain when they come through to clear those trees. Like, oh, they cut my tree branches and. Well, yeah. What do you want? You want power? No. Well, no. It's crazy. I'd never been in a city like Austin that has this where it is just growth into electrical lines unabated. Yeah, back in 2015, there was a bad, like in May, 2015,

I want to say there was a bad storm that came through and tree limbs fell and knocked out power. And that was like in May 2015, I would say there was a bad storm that came through and tree limbs fell and knocked out power. And that was like in May or something and knocked out power to my home for like four days. Oh my God. You know, cause so many tree limbs had knocked out so many power lines in Austin. Maybe it was three days, but something like,

it was a couple of days. And it was like one of those things where like, yeah, it'll come back when it comes back. And then when they, when they restored power, like the next day the tree clearing company came through and just fucking cleared everything in our neighborhood. Everything was pristine after that. You have to.

It's like, is COVID the reason why they stopped? Like why it slowed down? I think they... People complained and the city changed their stance on it. They did. They allowed more overgrowth around power lines because the people in the city complained that the power lines were unsightly.

It was a... We did this to ourselves. Yeah, we really shot ourselves in the foot on that one. Yeah, we really did, as a city. And then I think now, they've changed back. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Cores has been reversed. That's nuts. I didn't know that it was a

city complaint thing. Yeah, it was a whole ordeal. So yeah, it was our fault. Yeah, I don't want to look at these power lines. Oh, my power's out. Let's cover them with tree loads. Yeah. Well, OK. But as long as they're really heavy. Yeah.

It never snows. It never gets cold in Austin, so. Thank you. When it's windy, they're all stationary, right? Right? How are y'all doing on the disease thing? I think we're good. I think we're good.

Yeah. Cool. That was awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. That little pastry word is fucking awesome. Yeah. That was a good call by you guys

Uh, it was well me and guess robot sharing. We're like we're friends French press. We got bread Yeah, we're literally breaking bread dude. It's biblical here. They have a club sandwich here little fucking knock your dick off I love club sandwich. I really yeah, but I like my dick too Well, this is real bring some super powerline This is real tricky. It's a Tree's power line situation. It's a tree. It's a tree. It's a tree's power line situation. It's a tree's power line situation. It's a tree's power line situation.

It's a tree's power line situation. On the one hand, club sandwich, on the other hand, dick. It's time for you to make a choice. Oh no. Oh no. Christ. This made me think of some TV thing

where a guy was getting put into an MRI, but somebody didn't know that he had like a, like a dick implant that was metal. And an MRI just like rips fucking metal out of you. I guess, I don't know. And have you guys ever had an MRI? Yeah. Really?

Do you have to like lay in the thing? How long does it take? I think it was like 35 minutes or something. That's a long time and you can't move at all. I was actually a little worried because I have this bracelet that Emily and I got together when we first started dating and it's one of those ones that it's like

well-planned on. It's the forever joining thing. It's like I got it from this place in Brooklyn and it won't come off and I was like, is it okay to have this on? And they were like, I don't know. And I was like, well, I can't take it off. And they're like, we'll just see.

And it was fine. Totally fine. They don't have like a test magnet. They can't be like, let's see. They were just like, it's probably okay. I go to the doctor and I ask them a was fine. Oh, they don't have like a test magnet They know like let's see they were just like it's probably okay I go to the doctor and I ask them a question and they say I don't know that's the scariest thing I could hear They probably don't know what middle it's made of. Yeah, they were just like it's probably fun. Wow, we'll find out real fast We'll see how much gold is in there

What's the worst that could happen I mean you could fight against that it's a small piece of metal for 35 It would rip off me so I mean, you could fight against that. It's a small piece of metal. For 35 minutes? It would rip off me so, I mean, it's so tiny. Immolese broke two years ago. Mine just will not break. Oh really? Yeah. So. You're powerful.

How was it being in the thing for like 35 minutes? Is it just like? Dude. Because you can't listen to anything. You just have to like go insane. It is awesome. What? Awesome.

It's like a sensory deprivation tank or something? Yeah, it's dark. It's loud as fuck. You don't move and you just lay down. It's like the best thing possible. Did you take a nap? Somebody pay, somebody telling you like, you just sit and be quiet for a little while, don't go anywhere, don't get up, don't do any chores, don't do any work, just lay there. Just lay there with your thoughts.

My thoughts are awesome. I love my thoughts. I never get a chance to hang out with my thoughts. My thoughts are awesome. I love my thoughts. I never get a chance to hang out with my thoughts. I pay to hang out with my thoughts more. Dude, my thoughts rock. They're pretty good. I'm a little curious. I'm a huge, my mom doesn't like it.

She doesn't like being trapped in it, but I'm a huge fan of MRIs. Do they have to put like, isn't there like a thing that you like put over your face sometimes? Depending on what you're feeling to you. If it's like a. I don't want you to get startled. Yeah, that way you get distracted.

What? This bird's flying around in the MRI machine. Put the hat on him. You ever see those photos or those videos of like commercial planes filled with falcons? Oh yeah, yeah. They've all got the little hood on. It's like, here's a Saudi prince.

He rented this whole airline for his falcons. And you go, what? And then it's one guy in the front smiling and 30 falcons. All in first class with the little hoods on. I'll have the champagne and he'll have, do you have any dead mice? Saudi prince money is crazy because it is so twisted in one way or the other or whatever. But then when it when it aligns with your interests and it's in something that you

want, it's crazy because you're like rooting for it in a way I've never experienced before until a guy went, hey, I'm going to buy SNK, remember SNK? He like, you know, by like King of Fighters franchise, by SNK. And then I'm going to make a, I like this game from 1999. Make a new one. And I paid for a new one being made. Gus, it has been 25 years and it comes out in a month. And I'm like, I got calendar on the wall,

I'm like marking days off. I love King of Fighters. I didn't know this was going on. So he has a new, the Mark of the Wolves came out in like 99. And it was like a Dreamcast game, arcade, whatever. And then since then we've been waiting for a sequel and it's coming out and he's like, hey, making a new one.

Some new cast, some original cast, Ronaldo, the soccer player, he's going to be in it. Oh my God. All my personal friends. It's that. Huh? And it's like, I've never in my life had Saudi money aligned with something that I also wanted desperately. And it's like, huh, you know, what am I rooting for? It's so funny. Saudi money used to be like the crazy mark of like, oh, that's insane.

That's Saudi oil prints money. Right. Now it's Saudi oil money pales in comparison to tech oligarch money. Yes. Yeah. Where it's just like, OK, now I'm just going to take over this entire government. Yeah. Like, oh, I own information. I'm going to get you to cancel to sell all of your government property, all of your government buildings so that my friends can buy it. And then you just lease it back to us and we fucking fleece the entire country. Privatize it.

Um, yeah, how are you? How are you feeling about the impending privatization of air traffic control? Not good. Not good, not good dude. There are already some towers, even before all of this stuff, there are already some air traffic control towers in the United States that are privatized and run by private business.

And there are quite a few in Europe as well that are run by private companies and they're not government agencies. And in general, not good. Really? Yeah. Not the best. Guess what? That's the kind of thing that should not be run for profit.

Completely agree. That's the kind of thing that's run for safety. That is a money loser because it keeps people alive. You know what else shouldn't be run for profit? A country. Yeah. Right. Should be a fucking pass through.

No, that's not what my dad said. How come these guys don't run this more like a business? Nope, that's not how it works. Anyway, they're doing it now and here we are. So you're welcome. Because 80% of businesses die in the first year. No shit. It was growing up,

it was always my dad being mad at like the government, like, ah, they're running it this way, you should run it more like a business. And every day him complaining like, oh, these fucking people I work with, why do they run the company this way? It's like, oh, I think I get what this is. It's the kind of thing I thought was a really good idea and was really smart

when I was 14. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you get a year older, 15. Like, oh, wait, no, that doesn't work. Oh, wait, that's not a good idea. It's like when you're it's like my version of that is being like a young, idealized 17 year old and Naro punk, you know? Yeah. And then about 25, you go, oh, anarchy. That's a dumb idea.

Why did I think that was so cool? Why did I think that made sense? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Still like the music though. But, uh, nothing wrong with that. To rewind a little bit, you were talking about King of Fighters. Yeah. It's funny, a week or two ago, I was sitting in my living room and I thought, I'm an adult, why don't I have a Neo Geo? Now we're talking.

And I was like... You're going to replace a metal slug? Well, I was like, why? What was the deal with Neo Geo? Because it came out when I was probably like 13, 14, somewhere around there. And I was like, I remember it was always like the really expensive thing, so I started like reading up on it, like what was the whole history, why was it made, why was it so expensive? And I was like, shit, I should just buy one.

I haven't bought one yet, but I've been looking on eBay. Like, I should just buy a fucking Neo Geo and buy like every Neo Geo. I'm an adult. I've got money. I could do this now. I could live my childhood dream. But the thing I was, I could never do. Yeah.

Won't they like $600 when they came out? It was really expensive. And like 90s money. Yeah. And the carts were like, I think they were the same carts for the at home as they were in like the in the arcade. And the reason that like King of Fighters and SNK in general took off in places like Mexico, because you just had to buy

the one machine and then you could get four games in it. And you could pick here's a soccer game. Here's a fighting game Here's a beat-em-up game, whatever and so people would just oh cool. I'm play this. Oh cool I'm gonna do that like it got really big There's a huge scene for King of Fighters in Mexico still just because of that because of how it sort of like Parsed out in the 90s. It's really crazy What are your favorite arcade games of all time Street Fighter 2 Street Fighter 2 is up there King of Fighters 2000 and 2002

Those are probably those are probably like the best ones to me I Really like Dynamite cop That was that was at the New York pizza slice place across the street from my house growing up And it was just a big like Dreamcast looking do you go run over and beat guys up or whatever? Those are really good cruising USA. Oh That is yeah, yeah, those are like up there. Those are really up there. I

Like gauntlet a lot too. Yeah, like a fork getting four people gauntlet a golden axe. Yeah the Gauntlet a lot too. Yeah. You're like getting four people. Yeah, Gauntlet and Golden Axe. Yeah, yeah. Golden Axe was great. The Simpsons arcade game, I think, is like one of the best beat-em-ups. It's so much fun. For me, that game's so bad, it comes back around to good. Exactly. I think it's awesome. I think it absolutely rocks.

I think it's so good. That Ninja Turtles beat-em-up. I don't love the X-Men arcade game, but it was fun as shit. Do you guys ever play Rygar or Rastan? Yeah, yeah. Those are probably my two favorite arcade games. I think I only played Rastan. I think there was an NES port maybe.

I only ever played it in arcade. I feel like I played it there. You were talking about arcade games in Mexico. I remember, I don't know if you all were ever aware of this, like you know Street Fighter II came out and then later there was like Street Fighter 2 Turbo, where you could both be the same character, and like some stuff was slightly different, there's more characters that you could play like Bison and all those people. Anyway, I think a lot of that, I have to look into this, I'm talking out of my ass, talking

out the top of my head here. I think a lot of that started from like modded arcade scene, because I remember going to Mexico when I was a kid, and there was like a modded arcade scene. Yes, because I remember going to Mexico when I was a kid and there was like a modded Street Fighter 2 cabinet where Guile Sonic Boom didn't just go straight. It went like up and down. All curve. You could do like air fireballs with Ryu and like shoot like a bunch of fireball. Chun-Li could like fly across with her kick and everything.

Chun-Li also had a little fireball, which was in turbo. Yeah, the the modded the modded Street Fighter stuff was like a whole scene. And then they went, oh shit, we have to let you play as the bosses. Oh shit, this is really successful. We have to come out with another version. Here's four more characters. Yeah.

They just kept making more and more. And then the fighting scene blew up in like, in like the late nineties and it all just collapsed and then came back later. I think that was the first time I ever saw like a modded game or like something that was like different. I was like, what Street Fighter II came out in, what like 91 or so?

I remember playing it at my sixth grade graduation. I remember my sixth grade graduation was at a restaurant that was in the mall. But like, I knew that the arcade was like right down the way and they had just gotten Street Fighter II. And so like, I went to the bathroom and I just like left and went and played Street Fighter II as much as I could.

They like came back partway through the graduation to like do that. There was a Street Fighter II at the Walmart in my town that I could ride my bike to. But when I was like 12, but the bigger kids were always playing it would never let me play. But there was Ivan Stewart's Off-Road.

I think we've talked about it before. Was there as well and nobody ever played that. So I would always watch people play Street Fighter while I played Off-Road, I think we've talked about it before, was there as well and nobody ever played that. So I would always watch people play Street Fighter while I played Off-Road. That's awesome. Because I was too small in the army to fight with the big kids. As a BMall Eclipse Visa Infinite cardholder, you don't just earn points. You earn five times the points.

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and I went to this arcade called Galloping Ghost. You know about this? No. It's this, it's 10 bucks to get in. It's not like a free play arcade. It is, I don't know that it's the biggest arcade, but it is the most games I've ever seen in one place. It is absolutely wall to wall in jam packed row to row, like aisles. Just games.

Every game that you could want to play or think to play is just there. It was it was awesome. It's in Chicago or outside of Chicago. And it was like, man, it rocked. I spent all day there. It was like I haven't done something like that in a long, long time. Was there any point when you were running through there, you're like, what about this game? And you went to look for it and you couldn't find it? No, because I remember thinking like, oh, I wonder if they have this, this King of Fighters that was like right at like this cusp of them becoming like this other thing or whatever.

And I went and I'm like, ah, maybe they don't have it. And then they just have a whole section that's just, it's just fighting games. And it was just all of them. That's crazy. I mean, it was just, it was shitty games that I've never even heard of. It's like a library of arcade games. It was awesome. And they were all in like good condition. Everything worked.

It was really fucking cool. That was always my dream as a kid. The arcade we had at the mall where I played Street Fighter 2. What was it called? Gold Mine. I think it was a small chain, but every year around the holidays around November,

they would put price tags on all the arcade games. Oh, wow. I mean, like, you could buy their arcade cabinet if you wanted to, and like, as like a 12, 13-year-old, I was like, man, that's my dream. I want to be an adult. I wish I had $4,000. I could buy that.

$4,000, that's so much money. How does anyone afford that? But then you turned into Jack Petillo and you're like trying to give away your arcade cabinets because they're filling up your garage and you can't get rid of them and you don't know what to do with them. Yeah, so I've never done it for that reason.

It's like, oh, that takes a lot of space. How much would I really use it? Yeah, exactly. Because when you're a kid, it's the thing you want forever. It's the best thing ever. And then you can actually get it when you're an adult. Nope. Which is why I was thinking about the Neo Ge ever. And then you can actually get it when you're an adult. Nope.

Which is why I say about the Neo Geo. Yep. Yeah. I'd read full circle. Those cartridges are fucking huge. Yeah. But I mean, I had a turbo graphics, so. Did you really?

Yeah. Did you play Splatterhouse? Yeah. That was so cool. I only ever played the demo like in elementary school, kids called me bonk. For bonks is bad. Yeah, kids called me Bonk. From Bonk's Adventure.

My head was so big. We didn't know anyone who had a TurboGrafx 16, but everyone knew Bonk's Adventure and I had a big head. That's so funny. So I was Bonk. My cousin was dating a guy who was in the army and he was getting shipped off or whatever. And he went, well, I can't take this with me.

And he just gave us this TurboGrafx. And we went like, what is this? Like, had never seen it before. Like the little cards? It was the cards. Yeah. Crazy. I had a friend who lived down the road from me, his parents got divorced and so they got

him a turbo graphics 16. Nice. He was pretty happy about it. Alien Crush pinball is like the coolest pinball. It's all HR Geiger looking gross alien monster things. It's pinball and it's awesome. It was great. Really fun.

But I also had a Sega Saturn. So I just- Oh, I'm sorry. You kind of just kept swinging and missing on consoles there, buddy. That's Sega Saturn. Suck. I don't think I've ever played.

The only game I think I know when there was Knights. Yeah, that's- I never had a Sega Saturn. I had a Sega CD though. Oh, wow. Was it like Sewer Shark? Sewer Shark. Yeah, Sewer had a Sega Saturn. I had a Sega CD though. Oh wow. Was it like Sewer Shark? Sewer Shark. Yeah, Sewer Shark, yeah.

And there was a Jurassic Park game I believe that I played. They gotta stop making Jurassic Park movies I think. Nah, keep making them. They'll come back around. They should make a good Jurassic Park game. They should make a good Jurassic Park movie and then have a good Jurassic Park game. Have you seen the plot of the new Jurassic Park movie? No. It should be the plot of the new Jurassic Park movie and then have a good Jurassic Park game. Have you seen the plot of the New Jurassic Park movie? No, it should be the plot of the New Jurassic Park game.

Isn't it like another island with the most dangerous dinosaurs on it? We have to go to the island where we put the most dangerous dinosaurs. There's we have to collect DNA samples from the sky one, the land one and the water. It sounds like a video game. Insane. And how many fucking islands are populated with dinosaurs in this universe? I don't, why?

Also, the premise is that, this is where Jurassic Park falls apart completely for me. The premise is these dinosaurs were all wiped out and they were all dead. So we kept all these dinosaurs alive and when the dangerous ones that we couldn't keep, we put them on their own island. Just kill the dinosaurs and bring more back to life.

If this isn't working, you already did it. You did it. You did it the hard way. They've been gone for millions of years. Now they've just been gone for a week or two. Bring them back. These dinosaurs have been gone for weeks. Yeah, I don't think they're gonna make a good Jurassic Park game., I don't think they're gonna make

a good Jurassic Park game. I also don't think they're gonna make a good Jurassic Park movie. What do you think was the last good Jurassic Park movie? The first one? Jurassic Park? Yeah. I like three. I can't remember three. It's been years since I've seen it. It was good. It was pretty solid.

I just, Jurassic Park. I think my wife likes the second one. Everybody likes that one because of the Jeff Goldham stuff. Yeah. It's okay. And it's, you watch it and he it, and he's a completely different character. He's like not doing the same performance at all. Yeah. It's very strange.

It's very, very strange. I like one. How could he be bothered to rewatch the first movie before filming the second one? It's like a hundred minutes, dude. Not watching that shit. By the numbers, I'm not a fan of Jurassic Park or Terminator or Predator or Aliens.

I thought I was a fan of Terminator until I saw the last seven Terminator movies. Jesus Christ. There've been two good Terminator movies and about six bad ones. Every new Terminator movie is a reboot. Yep, yep. They had like four fucking reboots.

There was a Terminator anime on Netflix that came out last year and I started trying to watch it and I think I got like three episodes in. I was like, nah, this sucks. And I stopped. I think my problem with Terminator and franchise stuff like that is that they go, all right, this is like the seventh one, but the last one doesn't count. And this one, this one's for the fans. This one counts double.

You should have to make it count. This is all in the, you made this. Yeah. I had to pay $13 or whatever to go see the shitty fucking movie. You better weave this in somehow. You better make it make sense. Yep, absolutely.

I'll say on the Predator front, Prey was really good. And I think he's making that direction, making another Predator movie that comes out this year, I think. What else can you call it? I don't remember. I haven't seen a Predator since Predator 2. Prey was really good.

I didn't see Predators or, I guess I saw Alien versus Predator if that counts. We saw that at Sundance. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. That's right. It wasn't playing at Sundance. We saw that Sundance. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. That's right. It wasn't playing at Sundance. We saw that Sundance.

You guys are ridiculous. Dude, that was a hard thing to do is run a movie there. Remember that? Yeah, we also saw King Kong at Sundance. Not at the festival. We went to the local theater and watched King Kong. You know what else we saw?

Do you remember this? We saw Alone in the Dark. And we walked out of the theater. Oh, wow. I was sick that day. I didn't go with you. I had the flu or something and I couldn't go. We went in, we watched 15 minutes and left and I couldn't go we went in we watched

15 minutes and left we couldn't we couldn't hang. Oh, what movies have you walked out of? Hurly-burly the fujas for my carry. Oh my god. I walked out of that movie. I could not fucking take it Wow It's been a long time. I think I think normally I'm like in a Sunk cost fallacy with movies like once I'm there, I may as well finish it. I get it. I don't know if I've really ever walked out. Miami Vice, the Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Miami Vice movie, I walked out of that. One of my worst moments as a parent,

I still regret this to this day, I took Millie to see Bolt. And it was- The dog? Yeah, it was fucking terrible. And she wasn't really paying attention and was trying to run around. She's like three or four. She's trying to run around the theater. And at some point she looks at me

and she's like, we're about 45 minutes into the movie. And she goes, I have to go to the bathroom. And we went to the bathroom. When we came out of the bathroom, I was like, all right, let's go home. And she was like, why? And I was like, the movie's over. And she's like, how's it over?

And I'm like, it just ended. And she was like, really? And we just left. And to this day, I feel shitty about it. That's funny. I really do. To this day, she thinks Bolt is a 40 minute movie. That's hilarious.

That's so good. But it was just a tough day. It was a tough day and she was being tough and the movie was bad. And one of those days, you just don't have it. You know? Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing.

I love it. Oh dude, that's awesome. You think, when's she gonna discover that? Should we be talking to a friend one day? We've discussed it since. Oh, okay, okay. awesome. You think she when she gonna discover that she be talking to a friend one day We've we've discussed. Okay. I've apologized to an adult Lily. I'm sorry for making you go home from bolt early. I knew it It's cuz bolt dies at the end We should talk about the coffee and everything here and and maybe get on towards wrapping up We do every episode in the future? God. Hotel Saint Cecilia.

Me and Gus split a French press and Jeff got the cold brew. We also got the pastry board that had a cinnamon roll, like a non iced cinnamon roll. Oh, wait. Oh, he has the official name. I think it just says it's a pastry board. Bonne Asucrée. OK. Croissant. OK.

Seasonal pastry. Homemade preserves. Okay. Croissant. Okay. Seasonal pastry, homemade preserves. So the croissant was the best croissant I've ever had in my entire life. That was awesome. And then when you had a little bit of the salted butter with it, it was, you taste it and you go, this is the worst thing for you.

This rocks. It's so good. It tasted so good. Yeah. It was incredible. I live here now. Yeah. You was incredible. I live here now. Yeah. Yeah.

You got enough money, you could. Yeah. I don't have that kind of money. What do you think, coffee rating, anything? What do you think? I think it's pretty clear that my cold brew was a 10 out of 10. Yeah.

This is a perfect cup of coffee. This French press may be the best single cup of coffee I've ever had in my life. It's a, this is a very good, I'm drinking the dregs of it. I keep pouring it to get whatever's left. I am so delighted that this worked out and that you guys are right to this. I was afraid that this would be kind of a dud

and you guys would be like, why did you drag it here? This is an 11 out of 10. Yeah, okay, good. This is the king of all coffee, as far as I'm concerned. When we were driving down this way too, I was like, ah, we were just here for like a walk and everything. I wonder how this is going to go. And we found a place to kind of sit and just go.

And this is, this is phenomenal. Also, I did legs today with Blaine. So I'm fucking exhausted sitting down. I was so, we were talking this morning cause he listened to all the episodes. He's like, oh, you're doing one today. And I'm like, yeah. He's like, where are you guys going? And I'm like, oh, this place. And He's like, oh, you're doing one today? And I'm like, yeah. He's like, where are you guys going?

And I'm like, oh, this place. And he's like, oh, that's cool. You're gonna walk around? And I went, I don't know that I can, but I'm gonna try. It was just, he just kept doing, it was like, all right, do like these squats. All right, now do like these leg curls. Now do these other leg curls.

Now do like, he just kept like adding like another one and another one and another one. Let's put a little more weight on that. And another one and another one. I was like, he just kept adding another one, and another one, and another one. Let's put a little more weight on that. And another one, and another one. And I was like, okay. We're walking up the stairs, and I was like, lifting my legs. That's why you made a noise when you were over there, and I wasn't sure why. I saw the stairs that we had to walk up, and I went, no.

I heard you guys, like, who's he complaining about? Okay, that makes sense. That was so funny. I can't move. We've been doing Mario Party 9 AM recordings for Mario Party March this whole time or whatever. I bring my laptop and a microphone and a headset to Blaine's garage.

I connect to his Wi-Fi and I record a nine minute Mario Party video and then I get back to lifting weights. It's been good. Mario Party March has been fun. It's so much fun. As a matter of fact, after we finished our game today, we stopped recording today, I started playing. I looked into how to unlock the other maps because there's like three or four more maps we can play that are supposedly way better.

You have to unlock them by getting in-game achievements. Yeah. So I've started trying to go for the in-game achievements. So if you do that, I can unlock the it. So that we can do this again someday. Yeah, wow, that's great. With different maps. Mixed March. Yeah.

Smarch. I had, before we go, I had a really positive experience with the local business. Oh, cool. That I wanted to highlight. Because I know I talked about Union Jack plumbing before about the guy who told me how to fix my problem over the phone and didn't charge me anything.

I had a chair, a wooden chair that was kind of fucked up. Okay. It was like a little broken and like the seat was like loose and I couldn't get the screws to go back in there and like some of them were mismatched I realized. It was like just a huge pain in my ass. So I looked up like furniture repair in Austin and there's, first of all, there's not very many places that do this kind of work anymore. Shockingly. I found a place up in Cedar Park.

What was it called? I think it was called like furniture medic? Furniture medic. So I put the chair in my car drove up to this place in Cedar Park it's off of Bell Street. Like walk in with it and it's like two dudes in a workshop. Oh yeah. And I'm like yeah I've got this chair like the screws are kind of messed up I can't fix it I don't know what to do and like one of them looks at it he's like oh yeah he's like this is a yeah, I've got this chair, like the screws are kind of messed up, I can't fix it, I don't know what to do. And like one of them looks at it, he's like, oh yeah, he's like, this is a great chair, like you don't see them like this, and like describes to me how it's all built,

how it's all put together. And he's like, yeah, I can fix it. He's like, he looks at his watch, he's like, I'll do it right now, hold on. What? And he like goes into the back, then comes out like 10 minutes later, he's like, yeah, I put all new screws in there,

I tightened it all up, it's all good. And I looked at it, it's like a brand new chair. Like, oh, sweet, how much do I owe you? He goes, ah, just take it, just go screws in there. I tightened it all up. It's all good. And I looked at it, it's like a brand new chair. Like, oh, sweet. How much do I owe you? He goes, ah, just take it. Just go, you're done. God damn, dude. What the fuck?

And I was like, really? I don't owe you anything? He's like, no, no, no. He's like, it was like 10 minutes. Like, not a big deal at all. So if you ever have wooden furniture you need fixed, go to Furniture Medica. Wow.

I literally just threw away a dining room, a wooden dining room chair, a table chair that splintered that I thought nobody fixes chairs anymore. Everything is disposable. I'll just replace it with a new chair. But God, I wish I would have known. Damn. And they not only do they fix them,

he said they also do like, they do custom manufacturing. Like they build cabinets or if you want like a custom chair made or whatever, like they'll do all of that. Like I guess where I went was kind of like the customer side store front, then right across, it's in an office park, then right across a little parking lot is their workshop where they build shit.

While we're talking about, that was furniture medic? Furniture medic. While we're talking about local establishments that we've had good experiences with, I just had a tremendously positive experience with Eric and our wives for Vanessa's birthday. We went to Game On.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which was actually started by some extra-restricted people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jeb and a few other people, yeah. I'd never been there. I didn't know anything about it. If you aren't familiar with it, because it's local to Austin, it is essentially like a,

I guess like a warehouse you go to and you pay a fee and then they put you through game shows like you play essentially Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, Family Feud, and Plinko and they have a host, live host, and it's in like a studio. There's no audience obviously, but there's a producer and they do like video packages for you and they have lights and sounds and it feels full and real and it's like it's actually intimidating and scary to go up and have to play Family Feud and you say stuff like froggy style because that's what Burndog says in your ear and you

completely forget every sexual position ever made. What's your name and sexual position? Froggy style. What's your name and sexual position? Froggy style. What the fuck? I was like, I da, I da, I da, I da, and Bernard goes, froggy style. A froggy style? And then he goes, what?

Anyway, it was awesome. You should have turned on her, you don't know? You're missing out. It was awesome. And I was blown away, and I don't know why there aren't two in every city in America. I was really worried.

I'm like, Jeff is either gonna love this or go, hmm, okay. And as soon as it started, like you put on like a fake name tag. He was Gavin. I was baby laser. And you go through, you pick your name. We did boys against girls. And it was just this big, loud thing.

And you give yourself, I don't like board games. I don't like escape rooms. I don't like activities. You give yourself over I don't like board games. I don't like escape rooms. I don't like activities. You give yourself over to like this thing and you fall into it so easy and you hit the buzzer and you spin the wheel and you make a guess. And like, it is the most fun. I've probably done it four or five times now.

It's a blast. I cannot say enough good things about it. They just opened one in Houston. And so they're expanding. And the guy who edits this, Richard, was in some of and I think directed some of their commercials that they're making now. And they do a cool thing where you pick your like,

like level of, I guess adult. Yeah. You can go PG, PG-13, RX. So the show is tailored to like what kind of content you want. Interesting. And so you can get a totally different show depending on how you you know, yeah, that's a great idea great for it's Honestly, the thing that I think is great for is people coming in Austin on like what's a crazy Austin thing? That is a crazy Austin thing. I think it's also really good for if you're sick of

if you're a manager and you're sick of taking people to Another happy hour is a team building thing, that's what that's for. Because that's a thing everyone will talk about for the next two weeks about, like, why'd you answer like that? How come you didn't know that one? It's a much better version of the corporate escape room team building thing. It's a blast because it's just it's games you already know. It's Family Feud it's just it's games you already know it's family feud and Wheel of Fortune like they have two rooms We've shit that I'm sick of yeah

They have to Jeff got 150 and then I think I would fit you drop them And it's like I landed in zero landed zero landed 150 so I started giving them shit I got 150 and then I wanna put it with zero zero 150 and I went what happened? What happened with my life? It's a it's a blast they two, they have like a much bigger room for like bigger crowds and it's all BYOB. So if you bring like a sixer or whatever and you get drunk and you scream, it's a blast.

Yeah, it's a cool place. Yeah. Jeff blew it on an answer so hard that he like laid on the ground. He like laid like under the table. It was awesome. It was a blast. Game on. Yeah. He laid like under the table. It was awesome. It was a blast. Game on, yeah.

Game on and furniture medic. Yeah, two totally different experiences. Don't confuse them. There are two recommendations for the week. Yep, there you go. Well, that's the episode. If you can make Hotel Saint Cecilia happen because you have a bunch of money

and you can splurge for a weekend, hell yeah, make this happen. This is. Drink the French press all day long. God damn, this is all I would do is come here and I would get a large French press and I would, here we go. If you do come stay in the main house.

Oh yeah? There's pool bungalows, you can stay in as well. And then there's stuff, there's hotel rooms behind above the check-in, but over here on the left is the mansion that's split up into rooms, five rooms. Just try to stay in there if you can. It's a much better experience. There you go.

You ordered the large shrimp press, the French press, and I thought it was a mistake. I thought, ah, we're gonna need the small. No, I wish we got two large. Yeah, right, yeah, absolutely. Coffee was great. I could drink another full one of that. Let's cut this and we'll get more.

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