ANMA - The British Are Plumbing

Episode Date: January 22, 2024

Good morning, Gus. It's a cold one in Austin so we check out Uptown Sports Club, a swanky sit down restaurant that does coffee and small bites, then head back to the warmth of the studio to record. Gus and Geoff talk about Smarts tournament, HTML, Traveling without bags, Drafthouse stories, Iron Giant Iron Claw, Plumbing DIY, Tech support barrier of entry, and hating a coffee place. Go to www.anarchymeanything.com and sign our guestbook. Also it's kind of a link dump? Sort of. Buy a shirt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You did, you competed. You did your two rounds. Oh yeah. Good. How's that? I was first. Oh, you went first. I went first.

Do you? There was an icy stare across the table. We're not allowed to know. We're not allowed to know. Okay. Good morning, Gus, you went first. I went first. Do you? There was an icy stair across the table. We're not allowed to know. We're not allowed to know. Okay. Good morning, Gus, first of all. So we're not allowed to know. Andrew had this idea.

He wants to do this trivia competition in a face. Yup. And so it started. And here's how it was posed to me when we started doing it. Oh, we're gonna do this trivia competition to tournament to find out who's the dumbest. And also who's the smartest.

And it's like, I think it's clearly not who's the smartest. So the goal is don't be last. So it's like a three round thing where it's gonna be me, Gavin, Gracie, Eric and Nick competing, Andrew is I guess the... He's exempt from this? Very interesting. Don't you think?

Yeah. And so he had each of us, the first round, he had each of us individually with him play two rounds if he wants to be a millionaire and then bank the money that you made from the two rounds. So we're not allowed to know how everybody else did. And we're gonna find out when we record, I think Friday. So whoever has the least money, the stupidest?

Whoever has the least amount of money is eliminated from the competition and then we go to the next round where we're not allowed to know what the competition is or what we're playing. All we know is that one of us is gonna be eliminated this week and whoever it is, it's the dumbest. I don't wanna know where you think you finished

except do you think that you are at the bottom? No. Me neither. I don't think so. The person at the bottom doesn't think they're at the bottom. I'm just I don't think so. The person at the bottom doesn't think they're at the bottom. I mean, I'm just gonna say that right now. It's true. I predicted in my recording,

Andrew asked who do you think's at the bottom and I said, I think it's Nick and it's not because of his smarts. It's because he picked, he got two in his head, he picked the wrong category, he got a weird question and he did good on one round and the third question,

he's fucking out on the second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say this. That would be the most Nick thing in the world. I will say this, I didn't play to win, I played it safe. Really? I played to advance. Interesting.

That's how you fucking lose. That's the prevent defense of who wants to be a millionaire. You can't trust the prevent defense. Maybe. No, that's entirely possible, Gus. You're right. It is entirely possible that I have shot myself in the foot. We'll find out.

Hey, so we went to the Uptown Sports Club. Last episode, we went to Radio East where it was cold. It was warm that day. It was it was cold. And then it was hot. It was really warm. And then like we came back to the office and then I stepped outside to get some from my car. It's like oh shit. It's fucking freezing. And that's where it began. The cold front happened on the drive

back from that coffee. Yes. Yeah. It was wild because if we were like people I saw in the comments people were bitching like I really it's really annoying to hear them complain about how hot they are in January when we're all freezing. We were freezing by the end of the day. That's why I saw lots of comments in our guest book about it So you go to anarchy me anything comm is that right and you can sign our guest book Gus has been website via HTML under construction dude graphics clearly tell you that so it's constantly. Every day I'm tinkering with something on there. I love it.

Yeah, a lot's changed with HTML. I think I probably haven't written HTML in 10, 15 years, something like that. Why would you have even written a 15 years ago? Maybe like small fixes for like little things on the website. Update is live. Nothing crazy. Season two of Red vs. Blue would probably be when I stopped.

And I had a look back. Oh, I guess that was longer than 15 years ago. I was like 2004, but fuck I was like 20 years, 20 years ago, maybe then sorry fellas. I was like font sizes deprecated CSS. What it was? That was like man. It's been it's been a journey. A blink tag still work. No, the blink tag hasn't worked. I think the blink tag didn't even work back then. I tried. I tried to put a MIDI embed to autoplay, but it doesn't work anymore. In fact, like with the MIDI embed, if you visited the website in chrome, it would force it would automatically force the download into

you. No way. It's like I was like, oh, people don't think I'm giving him a virus. Chrome is like, I don't know what to do with this. You're trying to program in latin. It's, this is a dead language. I think somebody in the guest book, someone had suggested that, I forget what it was, like some Green Day song would have been a good song. But if you view the source on the website, you'll see it was Smash Mouth All Star.

That I was trying to put on there, which also released in 99. Geez. So I think we're fully embracing old internet, what we're doing, because we don't have a YouTube channel for this podcast, which is, it's a thing where it's like, ah, you know, this is, it would be a good way to find this.

I think we're pretty happy with the podcast we're doing and what it is, and people are copying it, so it's fine. And- And YouTube didn't exist when all these stories happened. Yeah, so what we're doing is we're creating a website where you can really relive a 1998 experience. So if you wanna listen to the newest episode, it's on there.

It's on there at the very bottom. So hop over to anarchymeanything.com, sign our guest book, check out these gifts. Oh, there's some surprises. You might watch a cool movie trailer we talked about. I have some movie trailers. You never know. It is so funny to look at on a cell phone.

It's insane. When I first started, it's funny you say that because I first I was like, what's this gonna look like on a phone? And I thought, I'm deliberately not going to look because I don't want to spoil it. I did resize one of the under construction just because I thought it's way too big.

I made it smaller. Let me ask you a question. This is a bit of an aside from what we were just talking about but it just popped into my head when we were talking about looking at that on cell phones. Let's say you do a life reset. Like for whatever reason you move to- Middle of nowhere.

You move to middle of nowhere. I don't wanna fuck you here, Virginia, right? Cool state. It's for lovers. It is for lovers. You don't wanna fuck you here, Virginia. Okay, cool state. It's for lovers. It is for lovers. You don't take anything with you. I mean, take S-SER in your dog and stuff, and your money and your wherewithal,

but you don't get to take any technology with you. And you have to build, rebuild your life in Virginia. Probably you go out and buy a TV, I assume. What's the first purchase? Do you buy a phone, a laptop, a desktop in that order? Do you get to desktop? Like I'm trying to wonder how important this like those different formats are in 2024.

Definitely phone, number one. Right, phone is number one. It's become easily the most important thing. Number two is laptop. And then yeah, I don't need a desktop. Would you need a desktop? No, I have one now, but that's just because I got it when we were, you know,

at the beginning of the pandemic, like all the work from home stuff. Like I needed one for that. So I bought a desktop for that, but before that I didn't have one. Yeah, I have desktops of a Mac and a PC for work or a similar situation I bought them at the beginning of the pandemic.

And I don't really, I guess I record gameplay with the PC one and so all right and face with the Mac, but if it weren't for that, I would have zero need for a desktop in my life. Yeah, these days it's like I do. I don't think I would buy one. I'll join meetings from home if I'm not in the office, but I can do that for my laptop

and I'll record ad reads or audio every now and then, but I mean, I could do that for my laptop too. Like there's really no need at this point for those desktops. Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? How much our lives have changed? Yeah. A lot of our friendship, our early friendship,

was sitting on the floor in the little office we shared in my old house, putting together computers and building PCs. I remember when I lived over at the Metropolis. So this would have been like 99 or 2000 maybe. Yeah. I had like a computer I'd built myself with parts from A&R computer, which used to be over there on West 6th.

They're long gone. Anyway, I had this computer and I decided that I wanted, like it had Windows on it. And then one day I decided like I need to learn Linux. So like I erased Windows off my computer and I installed Linux on it. It was like Red Hat 5 or 5.2 or something way back then. I don't remember.

But anyway, so it was all working. Everything was great, but I couldn't get sound. Like my, my sound card didn't work by default and I didn't know enough yet to figure out how to make it work. So it's like, I would, I would toil with it every day, trying to get it to work. It's never happened. Then one day I think you and I were hanging out drinking, got real drunk, woke up the next morning went to

log into my computer and the sound was working. I was like what the fuck happened? Like somehow in my drunken stupor I figured out how to get my sound card to work and I could never figure out what I did yet to make it work. It was just like one day I was like oh shit I did something last night and it works now. So like I was really hesitant to ever format or reinstall that computer because I was like, man, I'm okay, we'll get my stuff to work again. It was a creative lab sound blaster of some kind.

You're just defragging it every day, you know. Hold on, hold on. Don't go. For God's sake. I still want to play StarCraft and hear it. Yeah, it's just wild. I was thinking, you know, I've been, I just recently recorded an episode of So All all right where I was talking about VHS

VHS and the lifespan of VHS which has just got me thinking about technologies in general that have existed in my lifetime Computers are not the one that I would have anticipated coming and going But I remember like what was that format changed? What was the Computer company that Steve Jobs What was the computer company that Steve Jobs spun off? Next. So the next computer, I remember being in the mall and seeing a display and telling my mom I wanted, that was the first computer I ever wanted,

was the next computer. Those things were fucking expensive, dude. Yeah, all right, my mom laughed at our ass off, she was like, whatever. But I remember that was the first moment I think like, I want one of these, you know? And everybody wanted a computer after watching WarGames, but not like any kind of real tangible way.

You just, you were like, oh, I want to destroy the world too with a fucking keyboard. And now here we are, I'm at a point in my life where if I were to move, I probably wouldn't buy a computer. I mean, the phone is a computer, I get it. The format changed, like it's just all of that is on, all of that and more is on the phone now.

It's just so crazy. Yeah. You know, I just, it'd be interesting to see what homes look like 20 years from now. You know, like what does a home office look like? Yeah, it's funny. Like you talk, you talk about that. Like we, in the late 90s, early 2000s, it was always like, we would always talk about like, in the future, you're going to have like wired ethernet.

Like you're going to have like an ethernet drop in every room. It will plug all your computers in and everything. And you have a central hub in your home closet somewhere that connects it all. Like, man, fuck all that. It's all, you know, super fast wifi. And I'm like, I've got that at home, I guess, but my home wire network is so janky.

It's like, it's a pain in the ass to deal with. It's just easier to do wireless. Yeah. No, I'm totally, I'm all about ease of use. I got a, I don't know if you use any of these, like the office where my computer is for, it's really complicated. The previous owner fucked something up and only one ethernet drop works in that room,

but I needed two computers, right? One, when we were streaming from home, like one, you know, for the gameplay, another one for the streaming and the capture and all of that. So, and I didn't want to have a hub and have them both share like one gigabit drop. I wanted them both to have an independent gigabit drop. So I bought, I don't know if you ever use these.

I bought a Mocha adapter, which allows you to run two gigabit network cables over coaxial cable. So there was like a cable TV drop in there. I was like, oh, so I can just plug a Mocha adapter into that and I can have two different gigabit lines connecting through that mocha adapter that then goes up to two lines in my router. Sure. It's fucking game changer. I'd never heard of one before that. No, I never heard of it. So if you ever heard a room that has cable

a cable outlet, but no wire, Ethan, I look into a mocha adapter. It's like it's super easy. I just plugged in. I haven't thought about it since I set it up three years ago or whatever. Interesting. I'll look into that. Yeah. I just plugged in, I haven't thought about it since I set it up three years ago or whatever. Interesting, I'll look into that, yeah. I have, cause I have typical wifi issues where I have a house that's 100 years old and like fucking thick walls and so. Well also for like uploading.

I have extenders and stuff, but I have a hardwired computer that's just for uploading and downloading. Yeah, Moch adapter might help you out. Yeah, I remember really thinking that I wanted that home network. And I feel like those speeds haven't changed. I guess there's 10 gigabit now, but everything's pretty much still gigabit. I'm at a point now, which is crazy to me,

or would have been crazy to me even five years ago, but I don't travel with a laptop anymore. I can't break that habit. I still have to take mine. Yeah, I took my laptop with me to Detroit and Alabama this Christmas, just in case I needed to record anything, although I knew I wouldn't. And I never took my computer out of my backpack

the entire time. And before that, I probably hadn't traveled with it in a year. I normally don't either, but I still take, because when I travel, I take the backpack anyway. I before that, I probably hadn't traveled with it in a year. I normally don't either, but I still take, because I take, when I travel, I take the backpack anyway. I'll have beers like toiletries or whatever. Like I still use it to carry other things.

Like, uh. I bring my backpack at request of others because they say I look like a terrorist. If I don't have a bag with me in the fucking terminal. Just get a roll of board. Why? Like if I, like Emily has started checking bags. I hate checking bags, right?

But if Emily's gonna check a bag, there's no fucking point in me having to carry it. Yeah, because inevitably that bag's gonna get sent to the wrong airport. You're gonna need like a days worth of clothes or something. I haven't had that issue. But, This is good, mark it now.

But since I don't bring a list, and I've had every, you and I both have had every flying, a potential flying issue possible in the last 20 years. I'm not worried about that. It'll be nothing, nothing I haven't dealt with before. But it is just weird, because I don't bring my laptop anymore.

I really don't need my backpack. It was just a vessel to carry my laptop and some gum or whatever, you know? And so now that I just have my little like, a way bag, I guess the one that everybody has, right with the little, I have my little like a way bag, I guess the one that everybody has right with the little, I have a little away bag. If Emily's gonna check, I'll just throw mine in and check

as well because I still gotta go through this stupid line and I still have to fucking wait at the other end for the bags anyway. But it's a wild feeling to walk through an airport with no bags. I went to, we had a job up in Dallas once and it was like a day long thing. And so I flew up to Dallas for the day.

Like I flew up from Austin to Dallas, first thing in the morning, you know, shot up there, filmed our thing, then flew back from Dallas to Austin that evening. And that day I went with nothing. Like no check bag, no carry on, nothing. Like I showed up with the shit in my pockets, got on the plane, and then got off and, you know,

walked to the rental car, went over to do the work, and then went back. That was the most freeing travel ever, like literally having nothing with you. Yeah, yeah. Bernie and I did that one time where we flew to New York, it was just an overnight trip, and we flew to New York with no bags,

and then figured we would just spend the night at the airport, and it's just, everything went wrong. I don't remember exactly what the story is now. Yeah, it sounds like a terrible plan. But it was like, we tried to walk into the airport, and you couldn't do it, and it's just everything went wrong. I don't remember exactly what the story is. It sounds like a terrible plan, but it was like we tried to walk into the airport and you couldn't do it. It was before Uber and we had to hop a fence and then it was like, and then we were in the airport and there was like,

we realized the air like LaGuardia sucks at three in the morning and there was nowhere to sit or anything. It was like, it was a fucking nightmare and I regretted it immediately, but I think that's one of the only times I've ever flown, flown without any kind of baggage whatsoever. That's great. Do you think there's gotta be, right? There's gotta be people who do that all the time

and they just like FedEx their bag to the hotel or whoever they're staying. I think so. There's gotta be business people. There's gotta be like a service you can get where it's like this company will take your stuff, hold it for you, send it where you need it and then when you know send it back,

they'll wash your clothes or whatever and then just like, it's like a third party closet. Yeah, third party closets. If that doesn't exist, that's your retirement plan. That's part of retirement career. I guarantee there's people with money, more money than cents, right? This has to make sense to a very niche group of people

who I bet you can charge a lot to. There's, dude, there are some people that fly so fucking much. When I was at the worst at Rooster Teeth, which is like 2017, 2018, I was flying 40 to 45 weeks out of the year. Oh my God. Right?

And some of those were two trips a week. It was like, we were constantly going up to New York and LA to pitch stuff. And we were always having to go to a fucking up front. And then we were always doing business in San Francisco. And there was always a reason I was traveling every single week. And that was back when the way it worked

with executive platinum. And platinum was first come, first serve. And as much as you fly, you kind of get priority. And so I would get to the airport after, you know, I'd have like, it'd be my 30th flight of the year in like 25 weeks. And I would get to the airport and the flight to Dallas, I would be like 15th on the upgrade list.

And you think like, how much do these fucking guys fly? There are people who fly a lot. How much do these people fly if I'm 15th on the upgrade list? And I've already flown 150,000 miles and it's fucking May. It's like, yeah, that's, I do not envy that life. Yeah, I don't either. I'm glad we don't do that. But those people, and because we had a taste of it,

because I know you flew as much as I did, if not more, you definitely develop particularities and routines and you definitely learn to appreciate some of the perks that you get and they become very important to you. And I just, I can't imagine flying more than we did. And it's like, that's shit. Like that's your life.

You spend more of your time in a plane than you are in your hometown at that point. That's like on the road salesperson, like every day, a picture like the fifties. You know, it's like Billy's adding. Grimlins. Yeah. He's like just getting on planes, humping. What was it? A smokeless ashtrays? That's what he tried to trade gizmo for. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Man, I even just saw that movie a couple of weeks ago. We talked about it. Hey, what's right. Yeah, man, I even just saw that movie a couple of weeks ago.

We talked about it. Hey, what's up, Chris? I appreciate Chris's enthusiasm opening that door like he walked in with a fucking smile. I mean, he literally got the code wrong one time, but then he nailed it. Well, come on. You literally walked in at 11 by the way, 11 16 a.m. Yeah, what good job being early?

He walked in like with his little backpack on with his baseball cap like, I'm ready to go to work today. Just a big fucking smile. I wish everybody liked their job as much as he does. You don't have to worry about being quiet or anything. It's fine. Yeah, we're fine. It's just we get called background texture for this audio texture. Yeah. He me. Okay. He went. He did a surfing motion. I went to the draft house over the weekend. Oh, that's right. Oh,

as did I. Yeah, we both have stories. So they were doing, you know, like we mentioned last week, they're doing anniversary screenings. And over the weekend, when was it? Was it Saturday? Sunday? One of those days, Sunday, I think. I went and I saw the 25th anniversary screening for election.

Big Matthew boutic fan. And I was a little worried because normally I don't like going to the movie theater. If it's gonna be very crowded and I looked at the, you know, the tickets for this one and it was fairly crowded, which draft houses, the one in Mueller. Okay. And, you know, I, I brought before the screening, right before the showing started, you know, I pull up my phone and checked and yeah, sure enough, the seat next, I went with my wife, you know, she was sitting on one side and then the seat next to me was, was taken. I was like, crap, I'm next, I went with my wife. She was sitting on one side. And then the seat next to me was taken.

I was like, crap, I'm going to have to sit next to someone. Whatever. But anyway, the movie starts, the lights go down, the trailer starts, then the trailers go, and the movie starts. And the seat next to me is still empty. And I think, oh, OK, this person's not going to show up. And it was like when things were really cold.

I was like, maybe whoever it was just decided not to leave their house because it was really cold or whatever. So I take my water and I put it you know in the little cup holder between me and that seat. Because I'm like all right no one's gonna be there I just keep my water here it's fine. Watching the movie. The screening started at 11 so it was a brunch screening at the brunch menu. And the election is only about an hour and 40, hour 45 minutes long.

At 12 30, someone comes into the theater and sits down in the seat next to me. And I think, oh, that's weird. So I pick up my water and I put it on the table in front of me and then like immediately the waiter comes over and starts talking to her, it's a woman. It's like, hey, do you have your ticket? Yeah, she pulls out her phone and shows it to him.

It was, oh yeah, yeah, that's his screening. Come with me. And then he leads her off to the side and they have a very quick discussion and then she walks out. You can't be seated after the movie starts. You can't be seated late, first of all. Second of all, that movie's almost over. I don't know how well you remember election.

It was the scene where Tracy Tracy Flicks trying to see, like get advanced notice of who's won the election. She's like peeking, like jumping up and down in the window. The movie was over 15 minutes after that. Yeah. This person showed up over an hour and a half late to the theater. She had the right ticket.

She was in the right place and still tried to stay on the same move. I already had my bill. I'd already signed the, like you already put your tip down. Yeah. I'd already signed the like you already. You already put your tip down. I'd already given the thumbs up like 20 minutes earlier. Like I can't believe how late she was and then also secondly how quickly the waiter came out. Check your ticket. They were like, all right, we got to go. Like they have a very. They're very strict about no

late seating. Yeah, and I'd seen some late seating before. Sometimes they'll be like, all right, you know, it just started, it's fine, whatever. There's some leeway there. Yeah, but an hour and a half. 90 minutes into a 100 minute movie. Like I looked at my watch when the credits started rolling. The credits were rolling like 15, between 15 and 20 minutes after that woman showed up. Like was she just gonna show up and watch?

She's like, yeah, I don't want to see the lead. And it's not like, you know, it's not like it's a new release or anything. I don't know, it's just weird. Like she should know that that has I get that. I guess not that that has anything to do with it, but like the movie started at 11. I just don't know how she got to a point where she's like, oh, the movie started at 11. I should go down there and tried not only like I should try to get a refund or a rain check, like I'm going to go try to sit in my seat and watch the last 15 minutes of election.

Have you ever done this? I did this two years ago, maybe. Got tickets to a movie on a Saturday at Alamo. It was the one down at South Elmour, right? It was me and Emily and Millie, I think. Got tickets, went to the movie theater, sat in the theater, ordered food, popcorn and sodas showed up,

then people showed up and said we were in their seat. And then we pulled out our ticket that I had already shown to the employee. And the employee looks at it again and goes, oh my God, you are in the right seats, but your movie's tomorrow. And I showed up a full 24 hours early and I didn't know what to do.

And so they took us outside with our popcorn and sodas, and they're like, you can stay here and finish it. And then they made me check out. And then I just sat there and ate a little bit of popcorn and we left. It was so awkward and I was so embarrassed. I went showed up 24 hours late. You really?

I think it was for eighth grade. Like I showed up to the theater, my wife and I showed up to the theater. It was at the village. And I was like, huh, weird, our show is at 250, but none of the theaters say they have a 250 showing. Let me double check my the time on my ticket. Yeah, it's 250.

Or should we go? What's going on there? Like, oh, our screening was yesterday. So, but like I just went up to the front and I was like, hey, I showed up late. My movie was actually like, that's fine. They just gave me new tickets for that day. Oh, that's nice. I'm glad I, we'm glad I just left in shame

and ate the cost of those tickets. I, or we went back the next day, I think, but I, yeah, that was super embarrassing. It's, it helps to know that I'm not the only person that has done that. So it was very embarrassing for me too. I felt like the biggest idiot in the world. I went to the Alamo last week as well

and I had a funny thing happen. Which one? I completely forgot to tell you guys. It was an Alamo village last Thursday. Millie and I had a funny thing happen. I completely forgot to tell you guys It was an Alamo village last Thursday million. I went daddy daughter date sure last Wednesday She wanted to see iron claw which I thought was a strange movie for a daddy daughter date, but I'm all about it I wanted to see it anyway. She's a real big Jeremy Alan white. Is that his name? Yeah kid from the bear and shameless So she wanted to go see it so So we went and saw it and phenomenal movie. Zach Efron deserves at least an Academy Award nomination. But we go in

there and we sit down, Alamo Village, which is by the way the only movie theater I like to go to anymore. If Village isn't showing it, I don't want to see a movie bad enough that I can't just, like if I go, if I want to see a movie and it's not a village, I go, I don't really understand. You won't go to Mueller. It's all the way across town I'm not at the office much like I would have it was something I really wanted to see but Village has most of what I want to see do you like the new seats in the village? Yeah. Yeah, I hate them You don't like them. I like them. I like them a lot. I like the little tables. I'm gonna basically swap They have like they have like the button you push back and you can.

It's just, they're too big. They're really big. I like how big they are. It's very big. Oh, big boy. That's not terrible. My small wife can't reach. I mean, it's rough.

I can see how she'd need help. Yeah, it's rough for her. Gotcha. So we sit down at this like 7 p.m. screening for iron claw and the trailer start. And the first trailer is like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Million Eye High Five, we're very excited. That is our trailer.

That is our, like out of all Star Wars, everything that we've watched together, Planet of the Apes is our franchise. Just the new ones or the old ones as well? Okay. Just the new ones, from like 2000s on. Right, right. Not like Charlton Heston, 60s.

Not like Charlton Heston. Not like Charlton Heston. And for no other reason, I love those movies. I love them dearly, I grew up with them, but I can't imagine I could get Millie into them. They're super old, right? And the new ones are so fucking good. And so Millie and I- But let's see what happens anyway, sorry.

Millie and I were so excited and we were like hi-fiving because we're gonna go see Kingdom of the Planet Apes together because we just fell into that on a whim and we became, like it just, it was just a bonding thing for us, so it's like our thing and and then they show like a DreamWorks trailer and then a couple Disney trailers and then there's like a weird combo trailer for a bunch of Disney movies that came out during the pandemic but didn't get the atrium released and they're releasing them back

to back to back and there's like soul and yeah yeah and there was another kids trailer and there's this two dudes sitting to the left of me and one of the dudes leans over to me and goes Hey, man Are you in here for iron claw? And I go yeah, why he goes I am too but these trees is a lot of weird trailers Yeah, it is a little odd isn't it and he's like yeah And I don't know whatever and so there's like another trailer or two and then the movie starts and They play the iron giant What What? And for a second I thought oh this is a bit Alamo's being funny. They were not. They played like eight minutes

of the iron giant before it went like and stopped and then like it was quiet for a while and then they people ran out and then they flipped it. It's probably all a CMS run for the projector. You know how you saw election? Yeah. Iron Giant is one of the other movies that they're showing as that limited engagement. 25th anniversary thing. Whoever double clicked on the thing saw Iron.

So you're right, it is that, but it's because it's the limited engagement thing. That's why it was there. That's insane. That's crazy. I thought, like Millie and I were like, oh, this is a joke, right? But it became very clear that it wasn't a joke.

Everybody was confused. Employees were confused. Did you have to watch new trailers again? No, it just immediately cut into an iron claw. Oh, you didn't get anything. It changed the fucking, the screen ratio change, so they had to move the curtains. That was it.

Did you get the pre-show for the iron claw? No. I don't think so, no. Yeah, like what was playing before the trailers? Like, you know, you go into the draft house and there's like a pre-show for everything. Was it all robot stuff? It was Howdy Doody.

It was fucking Howdy Doody. Thank you. I was thinking, why the fuck are they showing Howdy Doody? I went to Millie and I go, that's what kids used to like in the 50s. This would have, this was your Pokemon in the 50s. And she was like gross. And I'm like, I know, right? And then like, but we got there, we got there like two minutes before the 50s. This was your Pokemon in the 50s, and she was like gross, and I'm like, I know, right? And then like, we got there like two minutes

before the trailer started. I heard Claud takes place in the 80s. Like, the pre-show that they have for the iron claw, fucking rocks. It's so good, and you missed all of it. The pre-show they have for the Iron Giant is lackluster. It's interesting because the pre-show for election was all like music videos and commercials from 1999,

which I thought was really cool. That's interesting. And there was like, I guess the commercial that the Dancing Baby originated from, which I'd never seen before. It was like a Japanese commercial for a Toyota car called a Toyota Kami, and there were like five dancing babies in it. And it's a it's like it's more than a commercial. It's like a four or five minute long

thing like you expect to be playing the dealership or something. Michelle Gondry directed it. No, but they did show some of his music videos. It's funny you say that. Yeah, they had so they did show some of his music videos like all right. Yeah, I'm into this because he had some good music videos. It's funny you say that. Yeah, they had so they did show some of his music videos like, all right, yeah, I'm into this. He had some good music videos. So it's weird that they were playing Howdy duty for Iron Giant. I thought maybe for the other stuff they would also do think content from that year. Yeah, they might have before that, but like I said, we sat and write as the pre show was in, so we watched like two minutes

of Howdy duty and I was like, what the fuck and then I'll always show up to try to get in as early as possible to a draft house screening because normally open the theater like 30 minutes before the show time, just because I like to, you know, one, I like to watch all the pre show stuff by Chris by Chris. He's already going home. It's 11. It's 11. Yeah, it's eleven twenty seven. He's done for the day. Thanks for thanks for clocking in buddy. And I also like to order my food ahead of time. That way I couldn't ideally get it, eat.

That way I'm not distracted. There's nothing worse than trying to eat and not get dirty when it's dark. They had the brunch screening at election. And I ordered some breakfast tacos that came with salsa. I was like, fuck. Then the lights went out before I was done eating. I was like, I'm going to spill the salsa all over myself.

So it was like this dancing game. Luckily I'd seen the movie before. It wasn't a big deal, but it was a pain in the lights went out before I was done eating. I was like, I'm going to spill this salsa all over myself. So it was like this dancing game. Luckily I'd seen the movie before, wasn't a big deal, but it was pain in the ass. You and I are so similar, and I typically do the exact same thing as you do. And that's how I prefer to do it as well. I just, now I'm on a dog's timetable. That's something I had to like feed the dog.

So we were out the door a little late and missed most of the pre-show unfortunately. There you go, Alamo Draft House stories. Yeah, so the Draft House week. I saw Beekeeper in it. Where'd you see that? It was playing at Lakeline and it was playing at Slaughter. Alamo Lakeline?

So we had to go all the way to Slaughter to go see it. I've never been to that Alamo. It is so nice to watch a movie with three of your friends and then three other people scattered in the biggest theater that they have. So what you're saying is BK, but it didn't pack him in. I don't think don't think it made a ton of money. I went down there just the other week. I saw Godzilla minus one there. Oh cool. Oh again. It was playing like at slaughter and like you recommend that right? Yeah, I think the truck boys are going to

see it. It's really good. I think a lot of people are saying it's like the best Godzilla ever. I still think Shin Godzilla is better than Godzilla minus one, but that's not a knock on minus one because I think Shin Godzilla is like the perfect modern interpretation of a Godzilla movie. Shin Godzilla is definitely a lot more throwback, especially because it's like post World War Two. It's a great movie, but I am of the opinion that Shin Shin Godzilla is definitely a lot more throwback, especially because it's like post-World War II. It's a great movie, but I am of the opinion

that Shin Godzilla is better. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend that. Is that in the theaters right now? No, no, that came out like five years ago. Yeah, okay. That's more like how a modern government bureaucracy responds to a crisis. Like if Godzilla attacked today, you know, what would happen?

Well, half of the country would deny that he exists, that it was happening at all. I had the other day. Yeah, it depends. What's he wearing? A tan suit? He's got a red hat. Does he have a tan suit on or a red hat? That's a big hat.

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I have, I guess for a little bit of background, like I've got a tub that has a tub filler. Well, it's got like a standalone tub filler that goes into the ground, like it's not in the wall. And it's got that tub filler and attached to it is like a shower wand. Okay. And I had this issue recently where

if you turned on the tub filler, the shower wand would start dripping a little bit of water. Okay. I was like, fuck. So, you know, I read up on it and it's like, okay, I know really nothing about plumbing, right? So I'm like, okay, the diverter needs to be replaced in this thing. There's like a little mechanism inside of it. So it's like you activate it and the water goes instead of the tub filler to the shower wand. It's like, yeah. And it's not quite working right.

So that's why some waters leaking out to the shower wand. So I call a plumber over. I call Mr. Rooter. I normally call them for a lot of my plumbing stuff. They look at it and they're like, oh yeah, well, hold on. We need to call Kohler and see how much your replacement part is. And they go and get on the phone and they come back to me and they're like, yeah, it's going to be $900 to replace your deverter.

I was like, what? They're like, yeah, it's $300 for the part and the $600 for the labor. And I was like, no, no, uh, that's fine. Thank you. And they leave and I'm like, I'm going to figure out how to fix this. So I, I, I email Kohler and I'm like, Hey, I have the model number. Like this is the tub filler I have. This is the problem I'm having.

I don't know anything about plumbing. I think the diverter needs to be replaced and they just reply. Okay. We've, we're sending you a new diverter now. Are you serious? Yeah. And I'm like, okay'm like okay well I was like in my mind right I'm like at the bare minimum I've saved three hundred dollars even if I have to call mr. Ruder back out it's six hundred now say the three hundred so I get the part and I'm like where does this go so like I start trying to disassemble

my the entire mechanism doesn't know no they like this but there are other for their art tours for other versions or other models, but not this specific one ain't that the fucking story of all of our lives, but the amount of YouTube videos I've watched of a similar product that's almost right. Oh my god, so I can't figure it out. I'm like disassembling it, taking it apart and like man, I don't want to call Mr. Ruder again, so I do a search in the Austin subreddit for like a plumber. And I find a thread from like four or five years ago. It's like, hey, you know, who's a good plumber?

It's not going to rip me off. And there are a couple of times throughout the thread, someone, multiple people mentioned this place called Union Jack Plumbing. And I know I've seen their van around town because I always laugh when I see it because it's got a little thing on it that says the British are plumbing, the British are plumbing.

That's awesome. That sounds like a grand theft auto thing. Yeah. That's crazy. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I've seen this guy's van around town. So I called the guy up. Is he British? Yeah, good. And yeah.

And like a Gavin just got mad. He doesn't know why and somewhere in Austin angry. I described the problem to him. He's like, yeah, you're the voter needs to replace and He's like, yeah, your diverter needs to be replaced. And he's like, you got to call Kohler. I was like, I already called Kohler. I've got the replacement diverter. He's like, oh, great.

He's like, I can come over tomorrow and take a look at it. Awesome. And he's like, hey, I'm driving right now. Can you just text me like a picture of the tub filler and a picture of the diverter that way I know what I'm getting into? Like, yeah, no problem. So I text him and then like five minutes later,

he calls me back. He's like, hey, I getting into. Like, yeah, no problem. So I text him and then like five minutes later he calls me back. He's like, hey, I pulled over. You can actually do this yourself. And I was like, yeah, I was like, I don't know how to take the thing apart. He's like, yeah, here's what you do. You need this specific tool, put it right here at this thing

that you don't think you can unscrew, but you actually can do that. So pop that out, pop the new one in, you're done. He's like, it'll take you like five, 10 minutes. He's like, if you can't figure it out and you still need my help, I'll come by tomorrow. Not a big deal. He's like, but give it like five ten minutes. He's like if you see if you can't figure it out and still need my help, I'll come by tomorrow. Not a big deal. It's like, but give it a try. See if you can do it. So then I did it.

I followed his instructions done easy. So the first official endorsement of and of a local company Union Jack. You are in them. That's all you are in the Austin area and you have plumbing issues. use Union Jack one plumber want to talk to me nine hundred dollars is fixed. The other one texted over and called me and told me how to do it. This is the diverter on like the spout where like the water would come out for like a bath and you unscrew that pull it off and then use pliers to pull the piece out exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This one's a little more complicated, but yeah, that was essentially, I was like, I just this dude rather than coming here and charging me 600 bucks

or whatever the fuck you could charge. Yeah. Well, just like, hey, I'll just tell you how to do that's fucking awesome. I've never had that experience. I will. I'll be using them. Yeah. That's fucking cool. That's why I wanted to make it a point to see their name and to tell you about on on this podcast. I have also used Mr. Rooter in the past and I also use another plumbing company when I had like my when all my pipes disintegrated and I had to do that. I used a different company and they were fine and they gave me a really good deal, but I, you know,

there's no cool story behind it. So I'm just going to stick with, stick with Union Jack plumbing from here on out. Highly recommend it. If you're in Austin, the British will plumb you. Man, it's interesting because, you know, we've been through this cold snap. It's been freezing for several days in a row. And no one down here is used to it. And like the Austin subreddit has just been filled

with people talking about frozen pipes and broken pipes and what to do. And it was like every other post I feel like is that. And I don't know what the deal is down here, but a lot of people, I guess, who have tankless water heaters, keep them outside, like outside of their house. And that's what a lot of these people have their problem

because it's freezing outside. The thing freezes up and it doesn't work anymore. I think if you have it inside your house, you have to have certain ventilation because lots of times it's gas. The one I have is inside, luckily luckily because I have the proper ventilation. I can do that. But I saw a post the other day. I read all of them cause I'm always curious to know what's going on.

I saw one where someone was like, Hey, I'm in my house and my cold water is running fine. But when I turn my hot water on, it like barely trickles out. And you know, lots of comments like, yeah, sounds like the supply line for your hot water heaters frozen over. Your coal line's obviously fine. You need to figure out where that is. You know, it's either going into your water heater in the water heater somewhere, you know, something there has frozen over, but one of the replies stood out to me.

One of the replies was maybe you should check your pilot light and I couldn't help but wonder like, how does this person think water works? The pot maybe the pilot light in your water heater went out so you're so no water is coming out from your water heater anymore. Maybe like your pilot light needs to be on so that the hot water flows. I was like man this person is out there living their life. This person thought I'm going to contribute to the conversation. I'm going to tell them to check their pilot light and maybe that's what is causing their water not to come out. It's fine if you don't know,

you don't have to leave a comment. But then shut up. Right. But then shut up. You don't have to say anything. Shut up. That comment made me so mad. I went back and looked at it over and over

because it just kept making me mad. Like I would be like cleaning my house, clean something, right? And be be like man that motherfuckers out there right now doing something. It just it just I don't know why it really yeah it really annoyed me that someone tried to to pitch into that conversation with absolutely less than zero and all that was a real. That was a real there in space on it, which is an old private open joke before this.

Steve, uh, man, it's just, it was, it was infuriating. We worked with a guy at the tech support center who was so fucking dumb, such a fucking hillbilly, oaky, dumb dude. It was very nice. He didn't last long. Uh, eventually we had to, it wasn't working out because it was a tech support center and he was confused by anything electric but we were talking about satellites one day just having a conversation about satellites and he just stopped us and he goes With his finger he pointed up and he goes there in space and

So that's yeah, I had to contribute Gus Gus and I will be saying that to each other for the rest of our lives I think it very regularly. As do I. It comes up at least twice a week in my brain. And that was in 2000. 2000 maybe. No, no, no. 2000, 99, 2000, yeah.

That dude's out there. That might've been him telling them to check the pilot life. That dude's out there. That dude's in Austin right now. Living his dumbest, best life. We tried to so that back then that call center was growing so quickly. We had to really lower

the barrier to entry. This is the one that we drove by. Yeah, well, it was at a different location. Oh yeah. Yeah, we did go there after we left Radio East. We drove over to the old call center and saw what it was. And then you guys told me some stories about some fucked up stuff, but like not not crazy fucked up. just like this thing fell on this guy. We told some stories that we won't tell on this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So illegal arms deals and shit.

We had to try to make it as easy as possible for anyone to come in and be able to provide tech support. So, you know, in the early days when we first started, it was just like, you would kind of know how to do it. And then we had to like have write ups. Like if someone's getting this error, these are the troubleshooting steps to go through. It's called the knowledge base.

The knowledge base. If someone figures something out, they could, it was almost like an early wiki. Like the agents could update stuff in there. Then we had to get to the point where it's like, okay, we need to make it even easier. So then Jeff and I made this system where we took screenshots of everything on the computer

and then could walk through it. So like an agent could be like telling someone, click on my computer and then they would click on the image, the agent would click on the image on their screen of my computer and it would open it up. Be like, this is what they're gonna see. You know, have them right click on this. And then like that way they would walk through themselves.

The agent could- It's absolutely doing it. Yeah, it's doing the same thing and like a simulation to be able to tell him what to do. And even then it's like that dude could not cut it with being able to see. You know what? We're pretty good at that job. Yeah, that was I think the forgot we did that. That was a good system. That was a lot of work. It was a lot of work. It really helped open the doors to be a little allow a lot more people who

might not be super strong at the tech stuff to be able to do it because back then it was all one it was dial up so there was no way you could like see their screen or anything. Even then they might not be connected to the internet because they're calling you on their one phone line. It was it was like a whole or deal so then trying to get them to do this to follow along was really great and I think it really helped cut down callbacks. It really helped try to really helped solve issues. Even for the tech support agents who were very tech savvy

and very well versed in it, just being able to describe what you're seeing to the person on the other, it could be really like, all right, well, what's on the, like click on the monitor and they're like, well, what's on the monitor? And you're like, it looks like a blue and black thing. And they're like, okay, cool.

Now I see it, you know, they really, it really helped. That's cool. That's great. Because people weren't always the best at telling you what it was that they saw. Yeah, of course. Of course. It's people who need tech support.

Well, I mean, to be fair to them, dial up in like Windows 3.1 or Windows 8. It was complicated. Yeah. If I could try to teach some 68 year old woman who just wants to read an email from her grandson how to get through Trump at Winsock. Yeah. There were times where like some of the callbacks we would get would be really brutal where

it's like, okay, nothing's working for this person. There's obviously something wrong at a system level. We need to re-extract several DLLs from their install files, from either their Windows install CD or their Windows install discettes. We're gonna re-extract rasapi.dll and re-install it on their system. It's like this, I couldn't do that nowadays for myself,

much less walking some grandparent through it. Those were rare, but they happened about once a week, and it would be like, do you have, this is going to take us about two hours. Do you have two hours right now? And they'd be like, no, I have to get my son from school. And you'd be like, okay, well, call me back tomorrow when you have two hours and we'll go through it. Or we'll schedule a time. Or schedule a time. And it was fucking, oof, those rough ones the worst the worst ones were when they had windows installed dis gets Like do you have all your disc at do you have windows 95 disc at 17? Oh, that's the one we're gonna need the worst one

You're like, okay, we're gonna need to edit your registry. Yeah This is very important. This is you have to get everything exactly right or we're going to ruin your computer and I will never be able to fix it. Jesus Christ. Man, that's a, I hadn't thought about that in a long time. We're getting on in time, but I want to talk about Uptown Sports Club. Oh yeah, we went there.

So. A lot of history in that place. Uptown Sports Club is on East 6th, right across from Violet Crown, which is a bar that I go to quite a bit. And this place has opened in the last year? There's a, so Uptown Sports Club was an old bar on East 6 where you're describing it that closed down

before I ever moved to Austin. Yeah. And so I would, I don't know when they closed down, but- It was a long time ago. At least, it's been closed at least since 94 probably. And it was always, it had like an old painting of two dudes boxing on the front of it. And it looked like an uptown sports club.

Like it looked like what it was described. Very old and dilapidated. If you look through the windows, the floor was dirt. Like it had been gutted on the inside and it had sat empty. And it was covered in graffiti. Covered in graffiti and like flyers and, you know, wheat pay shit.

And it had been dilapidating and slowly falling apart for years, forever. And I knew tons of people, even my ex-wife tried to buy it. You know, like it was always for sale, called the number, and the family that owned it was very particular. They knew what a piece of gold they had there, and they were really waiting for the right offer. And supposedly-

We looked into it for a few weeks too. Yeah, we did. Really? Wow. Yeah, but go ahead. So the guys who own it are a dude named Moody, who's the guy who started Fun Fun Fun Fest and all that shit, and Aaron Franklin,

from Franklin Barbecue. It's a joint venture between the two. Yeah, they've got a Franklin bumper sticker behind the counter nowadays. And I think Franklin does that. They have some sort of a barbecue brisket sandwich or something, a roast pork sandwich that is him. Well, I think he did the whole menu, but anyway,

I don't know this, I kinda wish Emily was here. Emily knows those dudes, like she's friendly with that whole scene and she knows all those people and so she could tell the story better. But I think Moody had to work on that family for like a decade to convince them to sell it to him. And I think took a lot of their concerns to heart and wanted to make sure that they were happy

with whatever was created and really genuinely cared because it's a piece of Austin history and that's kind of much beloved and everybody's wanted to see developed. And so I think they were very particular about it. And so it was a long process of like maybe over a decade to get that place renovated, purchased, renovated and turned into what it is now,

which is a kind of New Orleans themed garden restaurant slash coffee shop kind of, but it's definitely more of a sit down place. And it is- Seems to only be a sit down place. Yeah. Fucking amazing. Like what they did to that place is, it's beautiful.

It's so nice in there. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. Before we moved into the Ralph Ablenado studio, that was one of the locations we had looked at. Wow, really? It's potentially getting and moving Richard Heathen too. That's crazy. But like Jeff's describing,

it was going to be a difficult process to get this one to get this ill to happen and two to get them to ride off on anything we wanted to do. We would need to do for the space. So it was just like, I think it was one of the places we looked at once. We really loved it. There was like, oh no would need to do for the space. So it was just like, I think it was one of the places we looked at once, we really loved it.

There was like, oh no, this is gonna be good. And then it was just like, I don't know, I don't know, it's not worth the hassle. Did that, yeah. So we went in, there's no counter to order. I was expecting a partly sit down place, but also a cafe order at the counter and then have a seat if you wanna sit here.

It is not, it is a full restaurant with a big bar with a ton of seats. So we just pulled up seats at the counter and then have a seat if you want to sit here. It is not, it is a full restaurant with a big bar with a ton of seats. So we just pulled up seats at the bar and then we were gonna get coffee and like, ah, maybe we'll get it to go. And it was like, let's just, let's just hang out. So we had a cup of coffee there and then we ended up getting some breakfast too.

There's a little breakfast sandwiches. They only have their breakfast menu eight to 11. It looks like. But they have like a full menu and Jeff's right, it's very like New Orleans theme. They have like a lot of oysters. Po-bois and that kind of stuff. They have a burger, so maybe we should have a burger.

We should have a burger after that. So we got coffee and then I got the biscuit with jam and you guys got the breakfast sandwiches. That was, that biscuit was so fucking good. That was fucked. That was so good. That was so good. That breakfast sandwich was served in the biscuit.

And it was like, that might be one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life. It was no joke. What's the best biscuit you've ever had in your life? That might be that. Dude, it's that. Do you remember Ranch 616? They're gone now. They had this. They're gone? Yeah, I think life. That might be that. Dude, it's you remember Ranch 616. They're gone now.

They had gone. Yeah, I think so. That's like another building now. I got bulldozed and turned into a condo or something. I think down on West 6th. Yeah. Yeah, they're built. The entire building's pretty sure. Wow. You look it up, but they had the best biscuits, man. But these biscuits are up.

I don't think I ever had the biscuit. Really, really good. And the bacon was fucking crispy the way you want it. We were right there. There was a CRT TV way across from us at the other end of the bar that was showing Bob Ross. And then the griddle was just an open air griddle right there, like at the other end of the bar.

And we were just on the corner of the bar hanging out, having some coffee. Those mugs are so cool. I love those mugs, The Uptown Sports Club. FY Ranch 616 is still there. I think maybe you're thinking of Lonesome Dove. No, I was thinking of Ranch 616, but they are still there. Yeah. And they're open.

Yeah. Really? They're open right now. What's the address? It is 616. 616, Nueses. Wow. I really thought that place was gone. Dude, let's go to Ranch 616 at the Biscuit sometime. They're so fucking good. Have really thought that place was gone. Dude, let's got a ranch 16 at the biscuit. Sometimes they're so good. Everyone been there? No, they have. I love their sign out front. It's been

a few years since I've eaten there, but they've got like a giant. It looks like a giant rattlesnake. Yeah, like curved out in front, but don't let that stop you from eating there. The food's still really good. Coral snake. Yeah, the food is really good. I don't know why I haven't been there in a while. Maybe since like since a pandemic, like I haven't been there in a while. Maybe since like, since the pandemic, like I just haven't been there. Cause I haven't been there because I thought it was gone. I read an article about how it was gonna be bulldozed

years ago and then there are 30 new buildings in that area and I thought it just got bulldozed. Do they have coffee? I wonder if they've been there for dinner. It's a dinner restaurant. Is it? Yeah. I wouldn't think it would be a Anma type place.

Well, let's just go then. Yeah, we'll just go for lunch. Yeah, they don't open until 11. Oh, Well, let's just go then. Yeah, we'll just go for lunch. They don't open till 11. Oh, easy. Let's just go anyway. So we went, I got the coffee, just regular black coffee. Gus got the hot americano, you got the iced coffee, Jeff. What did you guys think of the coffee? Coffee was fine.

It wasn't like the best cup of coffee I've ever had, but it wasn't bad. It was just like totally a good americano, solid. It's really good. My coffee was like a solid nine. It's up there in the upper echelon of iced coffee. So it goes, eight is fine. And then like upper echelon is nine.

Yeah, I would say upper echelon is nine. Jesus. I'm not gonna let this go. I will, this is great. This is like the beginning of face jam. This is fantastic. Is nine out of 10 is an A? It was an A coffee. I will, this is great. This is like the beginning of face jam. This is fantastic. Is I not a 10 as an A? It was an A coffee.

I would give the coffee a nine out of 10. It was a fantastic cup of coffee. It had so much flavor and was just so, oh, it was, it was like the perfect temperature where it was not killing me on the first sip by burning my mouth. And then just, oh man, it's saying, I loved it. For me, it was very comparable to Radio East.

I'm gonna give it the same rating. It was like an eight. It was, like I said, it's a good cup of coffee. I think I would just throw it off. It's unfair to them that the breakfast sandwich was so good because I was like, I don't give a fuck about my coffee now. I just want to eat this sandwich for the rest of my life. I would say that coffee is up there with like,

what was that tiger place we went to? LT Gray? Yeah. LT Gray, All Gimmicks, Desnito. It was like in the same vein. It was in the same level as those. This was a very, very good cup of coffee. I really did enjoy it and I want to go back just for that.

If you're in town, should go there for breakfast. I don't know, obviously I don't know anything. I've never eaten anything else, other stuff, but. They only have the breakfast sounds We're talking about biscuit and jam and like It was one of the things one of the banana. It was banana nut bread But yeah, banana bread. So if though if that sounds like what you want for breakfast cool if it doesn't They got a full-ass menu for lunch. Yeah, you better come back around 11

Yeah, it was really good highly recommended and just it. And just gorgeous. Like very bright, so cool. Very green tons of foliage in there. And just very meticulous. It foiled Lisa, foliage. What season is that? Oh, that's like six. I don't remember. Yeah. It's a long time. Yeah. Fuck. I got to look it up. Well, he's on like 34. So, you know, it's tough to go back. It is hard to look back that far. But it's just like, it's one like 34, so you know, it's tough to go back that far. It is hard to look back that far, but it's just like, it's one of those places where you could walk in and you could be like, I am in New Orleans in 1945. It's definitely. Or I'm in Austin in 2024.

Yeah, it definitely has that like kind of throwback vibe. Time will steal. I really like the name, I really like the look, I really like the coffee, that biscuit was phenomenal. It's a place I definitely go back to. They have like a cherry slushie that's really good too. I had that the first time I went. Season eight, episode four.

Close. Of course. Well, that's uptown sports club, which we really recommend, I think. Yeah. We should go back for the burger though. Kudos to those dudes, Moody and Franklin, for figuring out how to get that building and then how to make something so awesome out of it. Like they really did it justice. If it's clear and yellow, you got juice there, fella.

Changi and Brown, you're in cider town. It's the same episode. I was watching him. I was watching him work that out. I was like, wait, which one? Does Homer's like brain leave his body at that part or something? And then like he just says he like collapse. Yeah. It's so good. Hey, let's get to an anarchy question. You can ask us a question if you send it to at ANBA podcast on Twitter and on Instagram. r slash ANBA podcast is also the place on Reddit that we do not run, but you can leave a question weekly. It's where we source this stuff.

This is actually from a friend of mine who did a voice in Stinky Dragon. His name is Mikey Spandex. He's a pro wrestler out of Florida. He used to work for WWE. He went back and he's wrestling on the independence again, but he listens to ANMA. He said that this show got him and his wife started going

around, he lives like around Orlando, and they go to a different coffee shop like every few days or whatever. That's cool, I like that. And try it out and then rate it like Anna to see like these places or whatever. That's really cool. So he was like very inspired by the show.

I hope that more people are encouraged to go out and explore the coffee shops in their town. I think it's so cool. Because there's so much there, so much fun. Like there's so many places we've been to in Austin that I never would have gone to or thought to check out if it wasn't for the show. Which again, is a thinly veiled excuse to get together,

hang out and just have a free cup of coffee. To do just that. His question is, have you ever gone to a coffee shop that you just hate but you keep going back because you either A, see the potential or keep getting free coffees. I had like 10 free coffee coupons to this place that I hate so much.

After like eight tries, I finally found one that I like. Oh man. I love that question, that's so good. I mean, I was pretty over the coffee nut about two weeks into above it. Uh-huh. When we were in Buda. Yeah. There were really no other options there. Man, yeah. I definitely went to the hideout more than I would have just because it was downstairs and the people were really nice.

Yeah, there was there. There's definitely been like a coffee shop. I've lived to I've lived close to that's like it's just proximity. It's just convenient. I don't particularly like it, but it's there. There's coffee shops that I live that live that live close to me, that I live close to that I won't go to, but I don't want to say what they are. Because then I suggested going there many times to you and you're always like, no, yeah, that's a grandma coffee shop. I think it's what you say.

We actually did go to one of the ones I don't like in an episode of Anna. Ooh. I would go to a place, I'll just name it, it doesn't matter. There's a place in San Diego that I wasn't a huge fan of. It's good, I like it now. It's called Dark Horse and I used to live right by one when I lived

in a spot called Golden Hill and I would go all the time because one of my friends was a roaster there and it was walking distance to my house and I'd go but every time I went it would be like, oh, try this and it would be a dark roast coffee and I'd just go, awesome. I know you love dark roast. and it's just go, awesome. I know you love dark roast. Hey, these like cigarette ash and dark chocolate. And so you just end up keep going. And then I would, there's like, there was like nothing else around it.

So if I looked in or whatever, and I saw him I should be like, no. Hey, what's up man? Hey, hey, hey. But it was the closest coffee shop to my house, so. It happens. Sometimes it's just proximity. Heartbreaker.

Yeah, heartbreaker. I've got a coffee maker now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Who, you have the coffee maker that has the timer and everything? Timer, yeah. Still working out for you? Yeah, absolutely.

Great stuff. It's the best. Just, you don't need anything fancy. Just get one with the timer, yeah. Fantastic. Just fucking, the guys wake up, can smell the coffee brewing. Set it up the night before, wake up in the morning. Yeah, I'm not going to get out of bed. I smell that coffee. I'm going to go drink that coffee. One more question. This is on r slash animal podcast. Lost my og account asks,

what are some of Gus and Jeff's most prominent influences, comedic or otherwise? I figured just a little bit of a list or some things that pop to mind. I think, I don't know why this came up. Oh yeah, we might have a lot of overlap in that. I think when I was young, the first time I was aware of like stand up and of like comedy, I think I saw Rodney Dangerfield on the Tonight Show. And I think that that really influenced me, like that whole self deprecating like,

I'm gonna make myself the joke I know I'm a piece of shit and I'm gonna lean into that. I think that was hugely influential for me I had so funny you say that yeah, uh so My references are clearly Howard Stern Most influential person in my life. David Lynch is a huge influence, but not in any comedic way whatsoever So I'll cut any non comedic influences, but clearly Howard Stern, followed by three individuals,

Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, and Don Rickles. Those are the three comedians that most influenced me growing up. And then later in life, Norm MacDonald. But early on, it was those three. And that's like a solid tonight show crew. That is a solid, and that's where I grew up watching, right? And for the same thing, Rodney Dagesfield

was so self-effacing and so good at making fun of himself. Don Rickles was so good at making fun of other people in a way that made you not feel bad for being made fun of. But he was so sharp about it. I know. And then Joan Rivers was just so, was always the quickest person in the room. She was always just the fastest to a joke and just the brightest person in the room. She was always just the fastest to a joke

and just the brightest person in a room. And I just, I really admired those three things about those three people. Those are all like outstanding, amazing examples of that. And I feel lucky that they were influences to me because I feel like it would be very hard for them to be in influences to people today. Like enough time has passed and they're so far into the review mirror that you know

There's contemporary versions of them probably that you would be into you'd say like maybe Daniel Tosh is similar to a I don't know Joan Rivers, but But yeah, I really I'm really happy that I got to experience those people at a formative age. I think Kind of like re-itering what we both kind of alluded to there is like I think the Tonight Show was such a An outlet and a way to access a lot of that, you know pre-internet It was social media. Yeah, it was how you found out about celebrities Right if you're living like in a small town, you know, there's if you're a kid It's like you stay up late and you watch a tonight show and see you know what the jokes are

I see who's funny and that was really like One of the only ways you could experience it if you were in those kinds of situations. Yeah, you would read People Magazine, or you would see celebrities or athletes on, or political figures on The Tonight Show, or Letterman, and that's how you would find out about who they were and what they were like. And it was, I remember, like, and I think this is gone, I think this era is gone, but I know Gus, it's the same for you. How much of your life did you spend

standing perfectly still in a hallway, just outside of view of your parents and the TV, just listening to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon or David Letterman talk to, I don't know, Terry Gahr or whoever it was. Right, yeah. Harvey P. Carr. Yeah, absolutely, man. So I, Terry Gar or whoever it was. Right. Yeah. Harvey P. Carr. Yeah. Absolutely. Man.

Yeah. So I'm going to say also the Tonight Show. That was I think, yeah. Yeah. Huge, huge. I mean, that was definitely my access to a lot of those people. Yeah. So, yeah. That's great.

How about you, Eric? My influences? Comedically, though. To say stern stern definitely. Just the gaggle of sort of people. His ability to corral and manage a circus. That is an influence for like podcasting for me. Like I never really listened to a ton of stern. I was never like the biggest stern fan.

But when I would listen, I was always in admiration of how he could run that show and like corral it and like have a focus and keep it. Keep the train on the tracks. Yeah, it's nobody else can do it like him. There was a group in the 2010s that had a show on IFC, and now they split off and they're doing other things called The Birthday Boys that Bob Odin Kirk

did stuff with and produced and they are all writers on like all like these different TV shows. They have a podcast called The Sloppy Boys. There's a podcast another guy's on called Doe Boys and there's just all like the birthday boys are huge influence on me. And that's even a little bit later in life, but it just steered so much of what I enjoy comedically. Honestly, a lot of my comedy influences from early 2000s comedy central reruns of like Dr. Kat and all of the premium blend, here's a gag. We're just gonna show you stand up, half hours

that have three comedians in them. Everyone's doing a killer eight minutes, eight minutes, eight minutes. Eight minutes of Patricia Neal and then, yeah. I think that that was a huge influence on my generation like as a whole. I think this predate, this obviously predates that, but Jeff, did you ever watch stand up spotlight on VH1?

Probably. It was like a, it was, it was, it was very similar to premium blade. It was like Rosie O'Donnell hosted comedy show where you would have just like a bunch of different comics come out for 30 minutes and you'd like sets. And it was like another, another way to watch comedy when you're too young to go to a club.

It doesn't sound familiar, but I'm sure I probably caught it, yeah. Kids in the hall is the first one that I've always pointed to and say like, oh, that was the first thing that I thought was, it made me feel smart for getting the joke because it was definitely way older than I was when I watched it in 1998

or whatever like reruns on Comedy Central. There's this sketch that to this day kills me if I think about it. I also loved Kids in the Hall growing up. And by the way, if you ever wanna read a really depressing and sad story, read about them. Read about Scott and all of them and everything that he went through,

being a gay man in comedy in the 80s, and how they got ripped off, how they never saw a fucking dime off those reruns from Comedy Central. They never made a cent off of it. It's fucking criminal. Same thing happened to the Three Stooges, by the way. Way earlier, but if you ever wanna read

just a heartbreaking tale of success, read about the Three Stooges or Kids in the Hall. But there is a sketch that, I'll think about it on my deathbed probably, it's one of those ones that sticks with me kind of like they're in space, where it's a day fully, and I remember it, I think maybe Scott, I don't remember who was the other person, but sitting at a cafe talking about like,

oh, what'd you watch last night? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You need a mortician? Yeah. Stabbing him in the chest going, you need a mortician, you need a mortician. It's him and Kevin, I think, and that's a fucking great. He's like, Dave's like,

Kevin's trying to explain a movie he saw last night and he's like, oh, you saw Star Wars. I think it's Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane, he's like, no, no, there was like a sled, rose blood, the rose bud. And he's like, Citizen Kane. And it's clearly, and he keeps saying no, no, no, and eventually Dave just loses

and starts stabbing him to death. And he's like I need a I need a I need a mortician. I need a mortician. The thing I remember from that is that Dave saying that the cute age poorly and then looking at him now and going like oh yeah that's that's so funny. Do you watch all the all the new seasons? Yeah. The only thing I didn't like about it is that it wasn't in front of an audience. I thought all of the sketches were really good. I don't think they really had a bad sketch there,

but the energy wasn't there because it was a single camera filmed in somewhere like a, like if you film that in front of an audience and you do it on a stage, it has a way better energy. I also saw them live in like 2010, 2011. How was it? Fucking awesome. I bet.

They were so cutting edge and like, they were fucking going for it. They gave a shit and you could see and it was so much fun. I loved it. I love kids in the hall. So that's definitely like a number one for me. Brain candy is one of my favorite movies.

It's a- I never saw it. Are you serious? Yeah, never saw it. Oh, Stummies? Oh dude. If you hear them talk about it now, they just go like, why did we make them?

It's so weird. It's fucking weird. It's so fucking out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bruce McCullough's Danza character is so fucking great. Awesome. So great. He's still doing like a lot of comedy stuff in Canada. I follow him on TikTok.

It's great. Good, good dude. All incredibly hilarious people. They're awesome. They're all great. But that'll do it for Anna at Anna podcast, Twitter and Instagram. Our slash Anna podcast is where you can leave his question as well on the subreddit we don't run, but you can go to anarchymeanything.com. You can listen to this week's episode.

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