ANMA - The Final Episode?

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Good morning, Gus! Geoff, Gus, and Eric take it to Rainey st to get a coffee at Hotel Van Zandt for a jumbo episode but let's keep this description brief: will there be a Season 2? Listen and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are on Rainy Street, which apparently is entirely under construction. Which way do we want to go here? So we're at Hotel Vansant. Is that really a way to go back that way? I think it dead ends. So we want to go this way. So we're at Hotel Vansant. We got a cup of coffee and then now we're making the walk to Rainey,

which we walked two blocks down after paying for parking. What we pay $46. God damn. $48. So we're walking half a block from Bamzat over to Rainey, which is, I don't know if any of the people can hear us now. Yeah. There's like a big entertainment area, a lot of nightlife, a lot of bars. Jesus, it's loud. There's a lot of construction too. So Rainy Street we've talked about before, used to be just a bunch of houses. We knew someone who lived down

here 25 years ago or something. And I think we picked this for the final episode because I think it's a, it is the perfect example of the growth of Austin which isn't exactly what this podcast is about anymore but I don't think you can find a better example in a two-block radius of I don't change it was all houses they got turned into bars shitty houses yeah right like rundown dumpy houses not a nice area they got turned into rainy streets the name of the street Hank Hill lives on in king of the hill by the way yes um they got turned into a bunch of bars, and now apparently it's being all torn down again

and rebuilt as hotels, or they're adding on hotels and buildings on top of bars. Asador Tacos? Huh. So I don't, if you live in Austin and you're over 26, you probably don't go to Rainy Street. No, the last time I came here was like during an RTX with like, before I lived here. Yeah, I haven No, the last time I came here was like during an RTX with like

before I lived here. Yeah, I haven't. I run my bike through here the other day and I didn't recognize anything. So I told you guys, hey, we should probably check it out. I don't recognize. Well, at least on the west side of the street, I don't recognize anything past Clive Bar, which, by the way, there's this place called Clive Bar right there.

It was in one of those little old houses. I can't wrap my head around the fact that they built a building on top of Clive Bar. Imagine 1880s to 1920s, like little gingerbread craftsman home. And then somebody took metal holes and then built a giant metal modern bar above the house. Like free standing. I just it's insane. I would say like, I don't have no connection to Rainy Street. I don't care about this place or whatever,

but parking and walking down here and seeing how everything is built is so gutting in a way where you just go, huh, I think this just sucks. You know what this is? Wow. This is international drive for alcoholics, right Like for drinkers, this is iDrive. Yeah. This is exactly what this is.

iDrive in Orlando for the listeners. Idle hands. That's where they have the upside down house on iDrive, right? Yeah, it is. There's a cat. That Ripley thing. That's where we would always go to Vito's Chop House to get our steaks.

Way back in the day. Eisenhower's now. Okay, so this bar has been around since the beginning. I think this is the second bar to open up. I'm in perfect memory here. Was Luster Pearl the first? The first bar to open up, as far as I know, the first establishments to open up here

were Luster Pearl, which is- Which we went to a different location in a previous episode. We went to the original Luster Pearl. They physically picked the house up and moved in. Yeah, but this is the original location? Yes. But it's across the street from them. Right. But it's a rebuilt fake one?

Yes. It's a... yeah. Literally across the street from it. But anyway, the second bar to open up was Eisenhower's. And they're still going strong, I guess. Good for them. And then also there was a place here, kind of where that Augustine place is now, I guess, or maybe even on the other side, that was called Garage Mahal. Oh yeah. And it was an Indian restaurant, and it was in a trailer in somebody's backyard, and they just had, literally just had like folding tables set up, and you would go order, you would park in their yard, and then go order from the trailer and eat back there.

Then it eventually got a brick and mortar. Yeah, say they eat back there. Then it eventually got a brick and mortar. Yeah, I'd say they're down there. I don't know if it's still here now or not, but we used to come there all the time and you'd be the only people on rainy street. There'd be some people drinking at Luster Pearl and people eating at Garage Mall Hall. And this was all just dark. And people still live in here actually.

It was just houses. It was just houses. There was a house like right here, maybe next to Eisenhower's, right over here, that had like keep out, no trespassing signs. And like, we had like the parking in front of it blocked off because someone still lived right there I think it was I think it was right here where this like whatever this facade is over here now this is like this is bangers what's this

bangers so bangers is a like a hot dog place like a sausage place the last time I came to rainy was here at bangers and it was probably like 15 years ago for an RG thing. Last time I came to Bangers. Oh look, free phone. The last time I came to Bangers, it was probably the same. And oh, somebody's phone. And I think you probably just.

Let me see if there's a license. And if not, we'll leave it. There's a credit card, so I'm leaving it. Yep. So this building wasn't here. Yeah, I don't know what this is. Bangers expanded. This is built.

This sucks. So I'm gonna describe what happened to the listeners. I found a phone in a case with a credit card just on the ground. Yep. It looked like a nice phone. And it remains tucked away where he found it. Yep.

No license, so it'll just live there. Yep. If we're in a business, I'd give it to the business, but we're on the street. Bangers is a whole fucking compound now. Yeah. I will say, this place, I can't speak for it now, this place used to be pretty good,

and they have boiled peanuts here. Oh, really? Yeah, it's the only place you can buy boiled peanuts in town. We'll hold it against them. Yeah, I mean gross, but whatever. They're fucking great. Tony house made sausages. I'm shocked by, maybe I shouldn't be shocked, but I still am, by the number of people we are seeing walk by stealing their Halloween costumes. I guess we didn't make it home last night.

Also, so this is the Beetlejuice Bar thing that I saw people talk about? Oh, is this it? I guess we didn't make it home last night. Yeah. Also, so this is the Beetlejuice bar thing that I saw people talk about. Oh, is this it? I guess so. Lucille. I think Emily and I may have come to this bar on like our first or second date to have a trivia night. Did you destroy her?

And she stayed with you? No, we were on team. We were together. And we did really well. You should have been on opposite teams. That's why I liked her early on. I was like, oh, this is pretty smart. I'm gonna show you how much I know.

There's nothing, half of the street is construction and hotel. Oh, and you know what else there is not on Rainy Street is coffee. Dude, dude. That's just why we had to get coffee from Hotel Van Sant at the little cafe that's in there. It doesn't.

You got all of this shit here and not a single coffee. There's plenty of people walking around. What is this? What is the Tex-Mex Bar and Grill? This place is new. This is Tex-Mex and Chill. Oh, Tex-Mex and Chill. They have the fake weed vending machine.

You having a look? That's so wild. In 2012. Huh. So yeah, like pre-rolled joints. Have an issue, please text, and we will fix the issue ASAP. Sure. There's a bunch of trailer park, trailer restaurants I'll never eat at. Yeah. I mean this is like, I hate,

I genuinely like really despise what's happened with food trucks. Where now it's just, well, what if you waited longer and it's more expensive and there's nowhere to eat it? Stay put. You can't even use an app at a food truck. Dude, talk to Jeff. Dude, don't even start with apps.

I went to a Whataburger the other day. I was in and out in 90 seconds. I went to Taco Bell. We used the app two days ago, went to the Taco Bell, went to pick it up. They said, would you like to use the app to order? And I said, we placed an online order through the app. And they said, what's your code?

And we gave them the code. And then they said, oh goodness. And then we waited fucking 18 minutes. Only people there. What did you order? A hamburger? Oh, goodness. I just ordered all the essentials. We got some toilet paper, all the headache medicine. Now we just ordered fucking tacos and stuff. And it still took them like 18 minutes.

And we felt weird because they said, oh, goodness. Yeah. Yeah. That girl has coffee. Where did she get coffee coffee from I don't know maybe the hotel there's a royal blue grocery down here maybe they have it's that so I I guess if I look at okay you see this house in front of us uh-huh here at the end of rainy that's what rainy street was like yeah there you go that's it that's like where we used to party yeah this is like For this guy

I want to step back. This is the most audio texture episode we've ever had who knew That Truck is pulling a lift on a huge bed and it's going around around about this is Insane he's gonna hit the middle. I You don't think he's going straight over to the Mexican Arts Museum? I want to cross here to get a little closer look at this house and I want to cross over to the Mexican Arts Center if that's okay. So yeah, this like little rundown house here, this is what every house on Rainy Street was like before all the bars moved in. It was a dark street with no lights in the first bars looked like that Right, they don't look much better. You think about like what the luster pearl over there? Yeah, the original luster pearl looks like

It looks like this keeping it weird It's just weird because it's become this this part of Austin that all tourists know they do but that didn't exist and was only Created really it was kind of created overnight and kind of for tourists Yeah, like awesome. I hung out here for like two years Yeah, I think it was to divert tourists from 6th Street. Yes, 6th Street made You're out of a more unsavory turn. Yeah fucking this place right here. And we're in right is Fantastic though. You guys ever, you've never eaten there? You really should.

Fucking great. Oh, here's the Royal Blue grocery you're talking about. They have a, they're real big into like their breads and their sourdoughs and they have like a room that they can let you in. You can see all their different mothers start, whatever they're called. Yeah.

That sounds awesome. Yeah, it is neat. Free banana peel. Dude, they're giving it all away. Royal Blue Groceries here? This place is cool. Yeah, there was a Royal Blue Congress.

I think they had closed it because of theft. Yeah, we used to get stuff from every now and then when our office was downtown. It's a small, overpriced store. Yeah, it's just like a local bodega. Oh, there's a Salvation Pizza down here. Yeah, it's just like a local bodega. There's a salvation pizza down here Yeah, that is a there's one the only one I knew of that I've been to before is over kind of like by campus like off of Guadalupe and

33rd or so 34th 34th It's New Haven style pizza. Oh really? Yeah, what's a new haven style pizza? I don't remember I don't know either before I don't remember anything different than normal pizza. I always hear about it being like the fucking thing. It was fine It's in that old house, right? Yeah over by like food heads. Yeah, exactly I mean, I recommend try it. It's not it's not in my regular rotation, but that's not a dig against them It's just there's so many good pizza places in town. I've eaten there. I ate there once so many years ago I can't remember anything about it.

I got pizza there a few times, but I had no idea there was one here. standard proof whiskey co. craft infused whiskey. Yeah, quiet over here, at least. It's so like a block. And it's just so different. I know it's not time for it. Yeah.

But I feel compelled to talk about this coffee. Oh, okay. Yeah, go for it. Oh, Gus has had none of it. This might be the worst cup of coffee I've had in the entire run of Ammah. Wow. Really? Yeah.

It is cold garbage. The first sip I took of it, it took my breath away. Oh my god. Wow, Jeff. Am I just way off base here? It's pretty, it's like a seven ice coffee. This is like a two and a half. It's like bog standard.

It's like, no. Your coffee's okay? It's, I mean, it's fine. It's like, I don't think I'd give it more than like a six, six and a half. I wouldn't have, if Gus hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have noticed. I would have just said seven.

It's just like, it's there. On the bright side, we stood around for a long time before we could order too. That is true. Well, we're ordering coffee from a fucking hotel. What are we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Coffee?

Yeah. But there's also no one else, there's nowhere else to get coffee. Yeah, that's just wild. Where? What happened? Where are we? We're at the end of Rainy Street,

which is the hike and bike trail. This is where the Rainy Street murderer hangs out. Yeah, this is where the go back to Golden State killer is. Is that what you call him? That's what they call him on Reddit. I haven't seen that, that's funny. So there's, I think we've talked about it before. There's like this.

What, the Brodyat killer? Yeah, this conspiracy theory that there's a serial killer that operates in Austin because people are found dead over here when most likely in reality, it's just people get drunk and fall in the river. Drunk people walking down this way into the water and then being drunk in the water. Right.

That's awesome. I think a couple of suicide stone in there too. Yes, maybe. That's all it is. We should walk down there. Yeah. And then get in the water and never come back. Actually, this is cute.

You guys probably don't know this. They just built this park right here, this little micro park. Yeah, this looks really cool. And there's a little kids section over here that has like, it's like a little camp out. It's really fucking adorable. You can go, you can get to the water here.

I don't know if you remember this, Jeff. I had a car that I hated years ago in the late 90s. And I used to joke that when I was done with that car, I was gonna take it down here and then just wheel it into the river and be done with it. Which I never did. You wouldn't have been the first. Yeah, but. You could have done it and then they find it and

then know you were the Brody act killer. Matter of fact, filed off the Vin. Remove the license plate. There was a restaurant I've eaten out over here. I think it changed recently. Bacalar. I've never heard of it. Like the Bacalar. Like Bacchus? It's a town in Mexico, like a resort city. I thought you were talking like the Bacalar. Oh, see, but yeah, they renamed it. What is it now? Tomato, tomalo. Tomalo. Tomato, tomalo. Tomalo, tomalo. Take it.

So this is all brand new? Yeah, this has all been made. They just finished like a month ago. It's a nice little park. Squares like it. It's a second phase that's gonna go on the other side of a fence over there. Cool. I spent a lot of time over here. That's why I ride my bike.

So I don't hear every day. Like this is a spot where it's like, oh damn, this is cool. This is nice. This is great. This is so, this is why I love Austin. Cause I hear every, you gotta come here every day. This is, so you talked about like being a tourist, being over there on a rainy day,

like I'm never coming back. Coming here, it's like, oh no, this is cool. This is like something I would go to another city and be like, wow, this city's awesome. Yeah, this is gorgeous. Okay, let's go this way. We can go see where all the, where they're building the new bridge and stuff.

But I wanted to get in the water. Yeah, we can go get in the water. Yeah, it's not a lot. Just the under I-35 that way. We can kayak, drink it up. I guarantee you there's a lot. Just the under under I-35 that way. We can kayak. Yo, drink it up. I guarantee you there's a couple of dudes bathing over there right now. I want the bats to come out. I don't want to swim in the water. I want the bats in my face. That's right. Rainy Street was like the sleepiest, darkest, quietest, little forgotten about

part of town. Yeah, for sure. It is now the densest part of town. It is. It's all these high rises. Super high rises. And it's weird because there's not really, you know, you always hear about like, the loss of third places or whatever. And yeah, there's just nothing.

All the third places there don't start till 6 p.m. There's just nothing kind of up and down that street. I'm kind of, I don't know, surprised I guess. There's really just nothing in between. And then even you're like, oh, it's like a bunch of bars. It's not, it's like five bars. Well, I think a lot of them are also, I think it will be bars again once this construction is done. It was a lot of bars. It's not. It's like five bars. Well, I think a lot of them are also I think it will be bars again. Yeah. It was a lot of bars.

Right now it's going to be. It was and it will be. But it's not right now. And there are people who are traveling here right now going, dude, I got to check out Rainy Street and they come and they go, what the fuck is this? I wonder what it looks like at night, though. Like fucking Vegas, probably. Yeah, it's probably like wall to wall, especially like Friday, Saturday, whatever.

It's probably like wall to wall people. Hmm. Nice pile of manure. It's just mulch. That's where I live. There are- I could see getting into this, it's nice. There are, this is crazy. You should ride, you got an e-bike, you're over here riding. I'm see you getting into this. This is nice. There are... Yeah, this is crazy.

You should ride. You got an e-bike. Go over here and ride it. I'm gonna start doing that. Dude, why don't we ride bikes together? That's a good question. How do you get here? Like, huh.

From where you live? Yeah. Give the exact address. Like, I guess I could come down one of those streets over there. I can tell you off, Mike. OK, we'll figure it out. There's a lot of safe ways to get here. OK. Yeah, that's my big thing is like trying to avoid getting on I-35.

No, no, no, no, I would never I would never. A lot of people talking. Yes, it's a it's a popular thing. Can you go down here? Can you open this gate and go down? I can't do that on a bike. I want to go see. I don't know if you can or not, I guess. There's no lock on it.

Jeff's almost locked in. Yeah. Let's go look. Let's go explore. I've got this thing where I can't stand a closed door. Oh, really? I want to go through it. Huh? I want to go through it. Huh.

I don't think there's like a little gate and concrete steps. Yeah. That lead right here to like the water. See this is my long game. Now it's time to pull up. Jeff, he's talking about killing us. There's a snake skin. That's good, right?

Not for me. Well, that means the snake is bigger now. It's too cold for snakes to be out right now. Well, snake skin. Yeah, it's just skin. It's too cold for them to be out right now. Jeff hates it. So this is what happens.

People come out here, probably drunk. They take a piss. Yeah. stand on the edge of the water, start peeing, fall in, hit their head. Or they come down here and they get drunk and they take a piss and 80 dudes are living in tents right over there and they piss off the wrong guy. Yeah. And the guy whacks them.

But I will say, I don't see any tents. I don't see any tents right now because it's been cleared out recently because of the F1 and. Or there's a serial killer. ACL. So think about it. What if one guy did it? What if? Yeah, I've got nothing going on, so I'm going to start

about really putting this together. There's a lot of little spots like this on Town Lake that are weird. You know this thing, the crazy thing about Town Lake lake if you go back and look at the old photos remember They didn't have trees before it was just flat and then there was a whole plan Yeah, they built the trees around yeah This used to be so it was probably the best thing the city of Austin ever did it was just flat land to water I guess F1 was just what like two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

Wow, this this run of eight episodes is gonna really span a lot of stuff. Yeah, it's like the better part of a year. Emily was asking me about that. She was like, is anything you talked about like culturally relevant now? And I was like, well, we're not really talking about like pop culture shit.

No, we're not. There's nothing that's culturally relevant. More than anything, I think it'll just be an interesting time capsule of like a one month wedge of all of our progress at our new companies and life in a post-RT world. As we figure it out. I think it's definitely that. How's that been going for you, Gus?

The stinky driving and everything. Good, keeping real busy. Got a lot of stuff going on. I think I mentioned it once a few episodes ago, but it's weird to be able to curse on this one. I'm so trained to not do that on camera or on mic anymore. It's weird to, I feel weird every time I do it here.

Even right back there saying, you piss into the water like, ooh. That's a no-no. I think we let piss fly though. So I was thinking the other day, so we do a lot of stuff, you know, obviously, you know, we launched a store, you guys launched a store, doing our merch.

And I don't know why I was thinking about this the other day, but I was thinking like, what if we had Anima merch? What would, or Good Morning Gus merch, what would that be like? And we should make a shirt that just says, it's just like a plain single color tee and just like printed on it, like that flocking letters and the Cooper font.

Kind of like the get your own podcast shirt. Just says, this is my podcast shirt. Gangbusters, I'm telling you. That should be our only piece of merch. This is my podcast shirt. Okay. Yes is a merchandise phenom. All right.

I did. Yeah, it's a, but it's going, it's going good. What's up? I mean, we're right here. Oh, thank you so much. Love you. It's been, uh, uh, just so much, so much work, but it's all really interesting. You got to get Rooster Teeth.

This is not good. He's fucking. So much work, but it's all really interesting. Like at Rooster Teeth. Look at this dog go. He's fucking. At Rooster Teeth it was crazy because you had so many different things going on that you were working on. It was always like, work on this and work on that. And it's the same thing with Stinky Dragon, but it's all Stinky Dragon related, right?

I'm sure you probably feel the same way with Regulation or 100% Eat, where it's like, you are still doing a lot of things, but it's a lot more focused on the smaller projects. So you see progress a lot more quickly. Yeah. On the downside, there's not a support team to delegate stuff to.

Nope. So it's like, oh man, we have this really crappy thing I need to do. There's not a bunch of hands I can put on it. It's just gonna be me. The thing that's been weird for me, and I feel like I should point out real fast, that we're passing by the Mexicar Museum,

which is a very cool place and is currently doubling in size, I think. The renovation is gonna make it twice as big. Nice. Is, you've done all this stuff for so long, and you've done, you've worn so many hats over the last 22 years. And then a lot of the hats you've worn,

you forget about, right? And almost as if they never happened. And then you find yourself in a position to start a new company and you have to do all this over again. And it's kind of shocking and scary all at once. But then as you have to like put a foot here and take a step in this direction and do it,

you go like, oh, I forgot I used to, I still have that hat. I can put it back on. And you're like, oh, this isn't hard. We've already, like everything that we're doing on regulation is scary until I realize I already did this 10 fucking times and it's not hard. And you realize you're so much more prepared for this transition than you ever could have imagined.

Yeah. The wild thing to me, the wrinkle to it. Okay. For me, that I I realized is I'll give an example a Couple weeks ago. Maybe two weeks ago. I was having problems with our our domain stinky dragon pod comm yeah If people went to it in Chrome, it sometimes would not like what people go to see dragon pod commit redirects to our patreon But if you went to it in Chrome, sometimes it either wouldn't redirect or it would give them an error saying the security certificate was invalid.

I was like, huh. So before it would be like, hey, Adam Baird, this weird thing's happening, can you take care of it? But like way back in the day, pre 2011, that was me. It was like, okay, great, I need to figure this out. So I started digging into it and I figured out like, okay, I'm just gonna change our DNS provider, right? I'm not gonna use this one

because obviously something's messed up with it. I'm gonna switch over to this other one. In the old days, that would involve me opening Terminal, editing a bind configuration and updating all of that. Nowadays it's like, oh, I can do this all in a web browser and it's all got this really nice interface, which makes it way easier, but I don't know it. Yes, yeah.

Everything's gotten so much more accessible, so much easier to do, but it's still new to me. So like at a fundamental low level, I know what needs to get done and how to do it, but in an execution level, it's unknown to me, even though it's friendlier now. Yep. We had the same thing happen with 100% EAT,

where we had a DNS issue and everything. And then we just, we went to our Discord and went, hey, why is it doing this? And then there are people going like, oh, I do web stuff. Do this, this, and this. And then Jordan's like, I'm on it. It took care of it. And it's like, that's really lucky

that we have a community that like knows this stuff and like they're happy to help because dude, that is, I know how to put stuff together. I can do so much of this stuff or whatever, but man, I'm out of my depth and there's just no help. And then what do I, I just Google search, why come the internet doesn't work? Yeah. And it's funny you say the community is great about it

because that's how I know it's a problem. I don't normally use Chrome. Like in our discord, someone's like, hey, they're getting this weird message. I use Safari. Huh? Yeah, me too. I thought you warned me off of Safari years ago. I did. Yeah, I that did. I never left. But over you warned me off of Safari years ago. Yeah, that did happen. But I never left.

But over the last probably four or five years, I've switched back over to Safari. And you're happy? Super happy. I love Safari. Safari's improved quite a bit. It still has some issues. I'm trying to divest myself as much as possible from a Google ecosystem. And just switching away from Chrome was one of those things I did like four or five years ago. Honestly, you might want to move Honestly, the reason I think I was advocating

for Chrome back then was it was so much faster than Safari. Safari was really slow and powerful. Well, nothing worked with Safari for a while too. They lost support for a lot of stuff. It's really gotten a lot better and it's super fast if not faster than Chrome and it works for 95%, somewhere around there of stuff. Yeah. And every now and then I still have, if I need a browser that's not Safari for something, I have Firefox, which is just as good.

Yep. Anyway, this is the tech podcast, the tech portion of Good Morning Gus. I hope you're enjoying this. Send us all your Bitcoins. But that's all the stuff that you're having to deal with when you have to do this stuff on your own. You know, like you just don't think about it. Well, luckily, you know, we have like a community for keeping in contact with ex Roots Street people. Yeah. And

so like when I was having that issue, I did reach out to Adam Baird. Yeah. And I was like, hey, you know, I'm having this thing. I'm thinking about doing this. Do you think that's a good move? He was like, yeah, that's, that's, you know, that's the best way to do it. Like, okay, great. It's not like totally lost. Like, we all still have contact with each other. So is this water line that they're building right here, this changing, this is the reason they're changing the trail and everything. This hotel or whatever. I think it's going to be the tallest building in Austin when it's done. Is that right? I think you are correct. It's got a long way to go. I mean, look at what it's next to. Yeah.

Cause this is all like, you can't, describing it to the audience, but this like, there's a town lake has a hike and bike trail that runs 10.5 miles around it. This is what we're on. Yeah. That we picked up on off of Rainy Street. And this area right here is just insanely

under construction and it's like labyrinthian to try to walk through. Is this right here, this little waterways, this is like the termination of the Waller Creek project, right? Yes. This in itself was a huge project that spanned many years and cost many hundreds of millions of dollars. It was drainage improvement from here all the way up Waller Creek through the city. Oh, Waller Creek runs past Hyde Park.

Huh? Yeah. So like all along that runs past Hyde Park. Huh, yeah. So like all along that to stop flooding and to help drainage in general. Right. It all terminates right there. That was a huge project. You don't think about it. It's not something you see.

It's not like an exciting, ooh, look at the new building. Yeah. But that was like such a huge quality of life improvement. Huh. And then we're right next to the Austin Rowing Club. Yeah. Oh, you know what?

There's a coffee shop too, I think. The Perch. Oh yeah. Huh. I forgot about it. It's so like you would never come here. I came to a wedding here. Because it would be, yeah, Nathan Zellner

got married over here. Yeah. You would never come here though, because you would never know how to park or like this is such a weirdly spaced place. Hey, you said that name. The Zander brothers are awesome. Awesome. Which way we're going? Which way do you guys want to go? This is the trail. This will take us back to Cedar Shadows. Start going this way. Go back. Yeah. We have time still. Yeah. So based on that time,

let's go this way. So happy for them. so excited for them. They got like a huge project. Can't think of two people that deserve it or more than them. Yeah, I mean, they've been killing it. But I don't know David as well, but I fucking, like I love Nathan's owner. Yeah. Just one of the best dudes.

And they're like, I think, what's that new movie called? Ass? The one that just got announced? Yeah. I don't remember what the name of it. At the time of this recording, they just announced like cast and everything

for their new movie. And it's just like- I think they're gonna start shooting it early 2025. It's like, here's like 10 stars. And it's produced by what's her face, the lady in it. Tilda Swinton? No, but like her. Cate Blanchett?

Yeah, Cate Blanchett. I always got those two confused. Me too. Same, same, same. When you said no, like her, I knew exactly who you were talking about. Yeah. Is that Kate Blanchett and Steven Yeun are the ones I remember. I don't feel like I get the headline, but it was tons of... Probably Batista. I think Batista's in it. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, but probably Batista. He does stuff where you go,

oh dude, I think I might be excited for this project. Oh, Batista's in it. Keeps happening. It's wild that we met that dude. Dude, he is. That's my friend, Batista. He told me I have a cool mustache. No big deal. He is gigantic. Yeah, he's really slim down.

Yes. Yeah. So when we saw him, it was right before his last wrestling match ever at WrestleMania. And he had to put on muscle like size. So he was already big because it was right off Stuvr. And you know, the joke is he's a big guy, but he was already big. But then he had to put on all like the show muscle. So it was like he had to walk sideways into doors. He was so, so big, but he's also like not six, four. He is like I think work. Do you think you were taller than you were probably? Might have been you were like considerably taller than Batista. Uh He was not a huge guy. He was just a gigantic sideways man. He's big Why yes, but now he said that like the biggest he was was like like he's like

He said that like the biggest he was was like like he's like two 283 something like he was huge and now he's like I'm comfortable and I don't have to be this huge guy I can just be kind of big it's great for him. Yeah, and he's having a hell of a career He's a fucking good. Yeah, he is a funny dude. He's a dude that's got legitimate comedic timing. Yeah, it's You see a lot of people try to make that jump. Mm-hmm Oh, yeah, and it's very it's a very hard jump to make and I think he's done it well. I think some of his choices for roles have really played into that as well. This is where I don't know if it's still here but this is where the Chive headquarters are. Oh my god. When they moved to Austin and I only know that because I I've Megan I got into a thing

one time where I lost a bet or a dare or something and I had to be in a photo shoot with her. But to be in the photo shoot, I had to get Max tanned. I had to go get spray tanned. I forgot about that. And it was like to celebrate her getting like a million Facebook followers. And so I had to show up and dress like a criminal

and try to steal a cake from her at the chive offices, which were the grossest place and just like the most excess. They had a slide, they had like a whiskey everything. They had like these sideways TVs all over the walls. It just had women dancing in bikinis, like pretty wacky. And they were not happy. They were so happy to see Meg and so unhappy to see Jeff.

They're still doing great these days, right? I don't know. We can go buy some challenge coins, check them out. You can get a Bill Murray one. I'll be genuinely honest. I have no idea how they're doing great these days, right? I don't know. We can go buy some challenge coins, check them out. You can get a Bill Murray one. I'll be genuinely honest. I have no idea how they're doing. Or if they're even still a company. No idea.

Was that over here? We're at the Four Seasons. We're at the back of the Four Seasons. But it's like, it's either on this side of it or that side. Are we walking through? Yeah, let's walk through. Why not? I've been in here a couple of times.

Remember that old company I used to work for downtown? Yeah. The wife of the CEO lived here for a little while. Oh yeah? They were having like rent work done on their house. Just had to do all their home networking stuff. Right, so I would come here to help fix stuff. Oh yeah?

And she would answer the door in like a negligee. And be like, oh hello. Nothing like that. Hello Gustavo. Nothing like that. Ah, they seem to have two martini. Yeah. I need you to fix my internet, ma'am. It's 1130 at night.

There it is. Oh, yeah, here we go. That's a picture. No entrance without appointment. Yeah, anyway, it was I was saying it was right around here somewhere. I'm taking a picture of that. Do it.

I think they paid like seven million dollars. Yes. Yeah, I listened to it was right around here somewhere. I'm taking a picture of that. Do it. I think they paid like $7 million for the building or something. Yes, yeah, yeah. I listened to a podcast called Guys, and they did an episode about Chive Guys, who are still on the Chive, and still on the like website, and still keeping it going. And it is just, oh, it's awesome.

Chive Guys rock. There's two sides to the Four Seasons, I want to be clear about this. There's the hotel side, and there's the residence side. Yes. What? Yeah, Four Seasons Residence. There's residences here too. So when I say I would come here, I would come to the residences. I just assumed she lived at the hotel and you just had to run some... Um, Quirin, you can tell the difference. It's been so long. I think this was the... I think this might be the residence. I actually looked at a place in the Four Seasons Residences condo to buy years and years and years ago.

And it was surprisingly old and outdated. Yeah. It was old. It was also overpriced. In the early 2000s as well. Oh, this has just been here for a long time. Yeah. Oh.

God, it's been so long. I don't remember. I think it was here. Are we on like, San Jack? Nah, Cesar Chavez. Yeah, you're all turned around, you have no... Is that Cesar San? I think it's right there.

Yeah, San Jack and Cesar Chavez, with the Cesar Chavez. No dude, you're on Cesar Chavez. Yeah, you're on Cesar Chavez. If you walk... If you walk that way, you'll be on San Jack. You guys suck. Right now you're on Cesar Chavez. You guys suck. There was a're on San Jack. You guys suck.

This is asking Andrew a question? No, I mean, yes. Dude, we did Sloppy Joe's Bingo last night, Gus, and Halloween. That might be some of the most fun I've had in my life. It was the least sloppy, I think, of all the Sloppy Joe's. It was like not going crazy. There was a guy that dressed up like Dan from Slow Mo Guys.

It was that place is still around. I thought the two hurricanes would have key West is fine. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. It got skipped over. Oh, yeah. It had no it was all north of Key West. Oh, you must be watching a lot of CNN. I assumed it's in that area that it probably got your privileges showing. Loaf and Vine. That's going to be a hotel restaurant.

Yeah. Marriott, yeah. Yeah. So here we are at Cesar Chavez and Santa's Hotel. We had, during RTX, we had like exhibitors who would stay here at the Four Seasons because they had like corporate rates. Yeah. So like.

I think Funhaus stayed there once. Really? And I went to their hotel room. Yeah. Um. It was. Give you an idea of what those guys were like staying at the four seasons. It was Microsoft. Microsoft has like a corporate rate at the four seasons, so they would normally stay here. One time when I was doing a commercial, like I've talked about it before, doing that NBA commercial out at Prologue in Venice.

The one that I left and you stayed for like a month. Yeah. Yeah. They put me up at the Ritz Carlton because Wyden Kennedy had the corporate rate at the Ritz Carlton. Damn. Dude, I went there to prologue with Gus

and filmed the commercial for nine days. And then I had to go back and do something else with Millie or some other Red vs. Blue, I don't know, some roosty thing. And so Gus stayed for like another two and a half or three weeks. The commercial that I made with Gus starred like Tony Parker and Tim Duncan or something. And the commercial that came out was like Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming.

It was like the same commercial, but they just made him completely reshoot it with different characters multiple times. I think I reshot that commercial five times. Why? Client notes. Yeah, we don't want to feature the spurs. We changed our mind. We didn't get permission for this person.

Monty and Janobly said no, so. What the fuck? That's crazy. Yeah, that's why he was there so long, he was gonna redo it some of those. That's why that work sucked. Wow. Should we turn here or turn here?

Yeah, do we have to cross right here? Can we turn right? We can do we have to cross right here? Can we turn right? We can go right. We can go right back to the trail. Just pick up where we were. By the way, that coffee got better as the ice melted. Okay.

It was just way too intense at first. Oh, interesting. I think they were planning for the ice and the water to get it to the correct level. Yeah, by the time I was done, that was like a six and a half. That was way better. That's about where my coffee is. Yeah, it the time I was done, that was like a six and a half. Okay, that was way better. That's about where my coffee is. Yeah, that it was just like, so what do you guys think about? What is this? Is this just parking? This used to be a

garage like a repair garage if I remember right for I don't remember what it was for. And it looks like it's parking. This like an assisted living facility kind of place? Is it here? I thought it was on the other side. I think these apartments right here. Can we go this way? I don't think so. Let's find out.

I think we have to go back on the street. Let's see. We got plenty of time, right? Let's see. Oh, I'm not rushing us. Yeah, you're the one trying to get us back on track. I'm just walking. That's the whole point of this podcast.

Welcome to Good Morning Gus. Good morning, Eric. Welcome to the show. This is my podcast. It's potentially the last episode ever. Oh, yeah, we still got to deal with that. Yeah. We don't even have to talk.

We can just make the decision at the end. We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. I like that. You know, it's up to you. But we are walking into a dead end, a big time dead end. That's OK, though, because we're exploring. I've never been here before. Lived in Austin for, because we're exploring. I've never been here before. Lived in Austin for like 26 years or something.

I've never been here. Oh yeah, we can't go this way. 30 years. Yeah, this is totally a dead end. Oh no, we'll just go right through. Can you? All right. Yeah.

To what? I don't know. We'll find out. I think that car's been there a little while. It's a B-Loc LaCrosse. Do you guys see GM's probably gonna go away? Really? Is that right? Yeah.

That holding company that owns all the car brands is in real fucking trouble. And they currently only make one car for GM right now. Really? I think it's the Pacific, or Chrysler. Sorry, Chrysler, I meant to say Chrysler. I said GM. Oh, Chrysler, okay. That makes a lot more sense.

The Pacifica, I think, is the only current Chrysler. I'm gonna say Chrysler. That makes a lot more sense. The Pacifica, I think is the only current Chrysler. Yeah. You okay, Eric? Yeah, I'm just having a look at where we can go from here and I don't... This stuff, I think that Waller Creek improvement is right down over here. Right.

So we're just going... Look, there's a detour right over there to the right. Yeah, we're just going back to where we were. We're going right. Great, you's a detour right over there to the right. Yeah, we're just going back to where we were. Great. You guys ever been to the Four Seasons? No, we'll go here and take a left. We'll go back to the car. Go walk back the way we came.

I don't know what he's in on. We can ask that guy in the hard hat if he'll let us cut through on that bridge where he's walking. You can ride on that bridge until like a week ago. They rerouted it. That was the way he got through. Yeah, that's the... I've been riding my bike on that bridge a bunch. Huh? They just moved the fence then. Yeah. From getting over there. Yeah, they they knew we were coming. They're making a fence over there or a bridge over there to.

How often can be like Portland's going to be city of bridges? Great. They're all going to be just right here. Right here. They're going to be in a two block radius like rain. So you're just going to abbrevi right here. Keep pouring weird. They're all gonna be in a two block radius like rainy street. You're just gonna abbreviate to keep weird. Yup. Yeah, yeah, man. They totally just...

dug up that sidewalk there. That's why they closed it. Weird. Hey, you ever been to the Four Seasons? Jesus Christ. We kinda went in a roundabout circle here. It's fine. It's fine. It's better than walking down Cedar Shroud though.

It's ugly as street. I don't think I've ever paid attention to this assisted living building you're talking about. I don't know if it's assisted living or like low income or whatever, but I think it's a, yeah. It's like a programmed place. Interesting.

It's probably been here since the 80s. Right between the Four Seasons and the tallest. You think 70s? Looks like it, but it's gonna be, it is right between the Four Seasons and what is soon to be the tallest building in Texas. There's a name on it right here. What's he doing?

He's looking at the name. We want to go back down here towards the rowing club? Well, we're gonna wait for him. Oh yeah. Hey, you're gonna lose range on our mics. We gotta stay close to him. Oh my God. I just want to see the name of the place. Lakeside Apartments. What. Lakeside Apartments. What?

Lakeside Apartments. Make sure we're still recording. We're good. It happened when you went in at the last place that we went to when you went in to go get cheese balls or whatever. It was like, oh, lost connection. Oh, really? You bought brazi bites.

How are those? I haven't eaten them yet. Oh, I'm bothering me. All right. I don't eaten them yet. Oh. I didn't bother me. All right, they're in my freezer. I just haven't had a chance. I'm excited to do that. How's the pizza? Dude, I fucking, I microwaved,

or I microwaved, I cooked a pizza in the oven last night. No you didn't. I was so excited. Like from scratch or like a frozen pizza? No, Costco, Costco pizza. Like pepperoni pizza and- Costco branded frozen pizza? What are we talking about here? Yeah, Costco branded frozen pizza.

And I tried to take it out and... Ooh. Look at that. That's a boo boo. Nothing harder to clean than melted hot cheese and bread on a glass fucking inside oven window that's 425 degrees. I probably scrubbed for 20 minutes to get all that shit off.

Yeah, that sounds terrible. Yeah, cleaning the inside of an oven, it's like one of those things that you should do as an adult, but you put off until you have a mistake like that. I want to point out how insane that is, what those people are doing. They were just leveling off giant stone with a backhoe, but just beating it down and back and forth. Yeah, and then like a guy would come in with a level,

measure it, and then step away in the backhoe and keep beating the rock. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. They're gonna keep, and then there's two dudes sitting down watching the whole process. They're gonna do that all day. What do you think these guys are making? They got support posts in the ground there. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe some sort of an observation deck? Maybe. Has there been another city in America that's undergone this much growth and change in the last 30 years? I would say Vegas.

Yeah, that's a good call. That's a good call. The whole strip got rebuilt. You're 100% right. 100% right. Yeah, and they're still doing it. Regardless, it's fucking crazy. And it's crazy that it hasn't slowed right. Yeah, they're still, they're still doing it. Regardless, it's fucking crazy. And it's crazy that it hasn't slowed down.

Yeah, I mean- I keep expecting it to slow down. You definitely keep thinking, well, like we're not gonna see all these, like high rises keep going. Yeah, maybe we'll get like six to 10 in or something. And then it's just all of them and more and more. And they're all empty.

Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, they're, they built all these offices for like Facebook and stuff and then moved into them for a year. And then they went out, we're laying everyone off. Don't worry about this. Fucking indeed, man. They're like, we don't want this building. Yep. I think we've talked about this year long time ago on this podcast. Remember the CSC building, which are not too far from actually. Yeah.

There's like two big buildings they built at the height of the dot com. There were gonna be three. Yeah, there were gonna be three, the dot com bubble crashed. So they settled on two and the company that had them or that wanted them went out of business. So the two buildings were quote unquote finished and they were left with dirt floors. Oh my God.

Like they just built the exterior of the building. The buildings are still there. Someone took it to the bottom and finished them. And they were supposed to be three buildings and they built the corner buildings first. So the center lot was left empty. So that's where the city of Austin built town hall. So the city of Austin town hall,

that's where that CSE building was. The buildings to the west, the building to the west and building to the east, those were those buildings. Huh. That's why it's like, whoa, wait, those two buildings look the same and the city hall's in the middle.

I don't know if CSE ever moved into the CSC. No, they never did ever. Yeah. What was CSC? I think it was Computer Science Corporation or something like that. Yeah. You know, Avery.com. Yeah, no kidding. Business for 2008 business. What were the buildings that they after like the boomer, whatever,

that they just like demolished and like pushed into the water? And what was that like the Intel building or was it a Dell building? There's the Intel building over there on West 6th. They they imploded that one crazy. That thing was just a shell Uh-huh, like it like a husk. Yeah, right like ribs and shit support columns Yeah, support columns and then they just stopped and it sat there like that for I don't know seven years Yeah, god that couple years. Yeah. God, that's crazy. That's what happens.

Yeah, and I wonder what it means for, I mean, through Rainy and everything, I wonder what it means for everything that's being built and what people go there and who lives there and what money keeps coming in, I have no idea. Yeah. It's funny because, you know, we've seen, in the time Jeff and I have been here,

we've seen a couple of boom and bust cycles. Like obviously in the late 90s, early 2000s, there was the dot com boom and bust. Then 2008, there was a great recession. And then now I feel like, of course, COVID and post-COVID, we've seen that. Economy's been pretty strong for a couple of years now. So that's kind of gone, but we've been through it

a few times, but even before we came here, I want to say in the mid to late 80s, when the savings and loan bust happened, that really hit Austin hard. Austin got hit hard. Well, it was one of the hardest hit places in the country. I think in the savings loan scandal. Yeah, that really said it back.

It took them a long time to recover. I think that's why there were no tall buildings here in the late 90s still when we moved here. Yeah, Austin was a real short city when I came here. Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely not that way anymore. And there's definitely more sprawl, right? Like, yeah, people aren't just living downtown.

There's so much like outside of everything. The only people living downtown are people that came to Austin with money and they're from Austin lives here. And I feel like back then Cedar Park and Round Rock were so far away and now like they've all just kind of grown into each other. Yeah. Same thing like they've all just kind of grown into each other. Yeah. Yeah.

Same thing, like you hear about people moving out to Liberty Hill and Leander. Oh, yeah. You never think about that back then. Yeah. Or back in the day, it was like Elgin and Bastrip. And now it's Taylor and Huddo. You know, it just keeps going further out. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I have a friend that moved out here. Like not to Austin, he's like, I live out past like Bastrop and then work in like, was it Smithville or something? Yeah. And I'm like, dude that's crazy. What do you do in Smithville? Yeah. I practice landing. There you go. It's a great airport. Does he work for the airport? I don't think so. But he's like, it was just a four, because we're all from, he's the guy that I went to high school with. He's like, I couldn't afford San Diego. He's like, I was just a four, because we're all from, he's the guy that I went to high school with. He's like, I couldn't afford San Diego.

He's like, I had two kids and I don't, I couldn't afford to live there anymore. And I'm like, oh, you can afford Bastrop for sure. That's the future of Austin, by the way. What, Bastrop? No, LA, New York, San Diego, a city that a lot of people absolutely love, but just can't afford to live there. Austin will never be an affordable city. I think we've seen quite a lot of people absolutely love, but just can't afford to live there.

Austin will never be an affordable city. I think we've seen quite a bit of correction. We might get a bust. Well, with the explosion of all this construction that we keep talking about, rent has really stabilized. I think year over year it's down 7%. 7%, you're right. I think during COVID we saw it spike up like crazy.

And I think now, like the market was untenable at that point between 2020 and 2022. And I think we're definitely seeing that correction now, which we've talked about, I think in our first episodes of ANMA, we talked about the ridiculous interest rates and how everything was going crazy and how it was temporary, it would not last.

Now we're on the other side of that, where things have pulled down. I don't think it's gonna get any cheaper than it is now. It's more realistic, at least it's stopping. It stopped and it's backed off a bit, but Austin will never be the velvet ditch. No, no, no, no. And it was for such a long time.

Well, no one who lives here anymore remembers that. Yeah, it's true. That's all gone. That's true. And it's true. It is like old guys, old people hanging on to phrases that nobody knows anymore. Yeah, if we watched anybody on- To describe a place that hasn't been that way in 30 years. Yeah, if we asked anybody we passed today about that phrase,

not maybe one person would have remembered it. Yeah, I only learned it from you guys. Yeah. And like maybe like Brian Gar. I think Oh Henry coined it. I love Brian Gar. It's it's just a lot different. I mean, and that's fine. That's fine. Things change.

It's not I'm not. No, I'm not lamenting like the change. I think it's I think it's just fine. It's just what it is. I'm not upset by it. I'm not lamenting like the change. I think it's just fine. It's just what it is. This is cool. The stuff we've seen. Not rainy, but the other stuff we've seen today is cool. Honestly, if Austin hadn't grown,

I probably would have outgrown Austin at some point in my life. I would think so. You know? Yeah. It's been nice that the city and I have been able to kind of grow in tandem. Yep. That's a low bench.

Very low bench. Are we cutting around here and taking this street? Yeah, this is rainy. Okay, cool. Wow. I mean, really full circle stuff. We'll hit the right side of the street. Yeah.

And then listen to all the construction, getting back to the car. Get ready for more intense audio texture. So we already kind of talked about the... Whoa, that squirrel was going crazy. That was cool. The squirrel started some pink cocaine last night. It's still going. Dan, you guys know about that too is going crazy. That's cool. The squirrel started some pink cocaine last night. It's still going.

Squirrels in my yard have discovered Albert and that they can fuck with them. And they just like drive them crazy now. That's great. They throw shit at them from the tree. They sit on the fuck. They run back and forth and chirp at them on the fence. And he just fucking can't handle it. So we talked about the coffee a little bit. I've raised my score. 6.5. I'll be clear about that. at him on the fence and he just fucking can't handle it. So we talked about the coffee a little bit.

I mean, I've raised my score. So yeah, I'll be clear about that. The coffee was like the hotel. It's fine. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely if you get a nice coffee there, let it melt a bit. Don't go straight into it. It's just definitely that's not why we came down here.

We didn't come down here for the coffee. We came down here because we wanted to see what rainy was like 9 a.m. Like, let's let's look around. Let's have a walk like that kind of thing. To a place that I don't think any of us have hung out in. Dude. For a long time. Maybe 20 years. No I mean for me it's probably 10. It's a giant turn. Oh my god it's massive. Yeah that's a big old dump. I don't know so that's sort of it for the last, or for like the last episode of this run, the eight episodes that we're doing.

Yeah. For Good Morning Gus. That's one way to put it. So here, so here we face it, we find ourselves at a, at a crossroads. Yeah. So what we established at the beginning. No, it's Cesar Travis. He's fucking,

Sam Jack is like, Ah! The thing we established at the beginning was on the last episode, are you looking at the Trump Watson one? Yeah. It didn't make any sense. There's a sticker that says like Trump Watson.

Like Kirk Watson? Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. Don't make any sense. So we established on the first episode that on the eighth episode, we were going to have a vote. Yeah.

Of are we going to continue the show? Everybody has one equal vote. Yes. And if we all say yes, then we go. It has to be unanimous. Yes. We all say yes, then we continue. We'll do another eight.

If one person says no, then that's it. And there's no animosity, no hard feelings. We just shake hands or hug or however it is. We touch each other and we part as friends. It'll be interesting because it'll be the end of the. And it's got to happen at some point, because one of us will die eventually. But Gus, I mean, it would mean at least the temporary end of the creative partnership between Gus and I that has existed for 30 years.

No, 25 years. I have a lot of power right now. 26 years. Oh, you do? Yeah. I could easily say no. And then that's the end of you. I think we should save Eric.

Oh, watch out. Lots of poop. We should save Eric for last then. You guys are crazy. You're the one talking about your power. I'm trying to give you more. So I feel like the eight episodes have been a lot of fun. I feel like we sort of changed the format up.

It's been a lot more walk and talk. The walkie's a lot better right now than it was earlier. Yeah, I've really enjoyed the walk and talk format of this show now. There's a lot of shit on this. It's definitely gonna find its way into regulation. It's great. Putting these like little lav mics on

and then just cruise. Yeah. Dude, you should do a walk and talk version of D&D. That's not gonna happen. You have like a little thing around your neck, there's like a little tray you can roll right there. You're having an adventure and you're on the long walk or whatever.

I do need to cross here. That can be funny in my way, but yeah. So are we voting or what? Yeah, who wants to vote first? Jeff? I vote yes, I can do eight more episodes. Okay. I don't know how many more past that,

but I definitely can do eight more. That's all we're committing to, another eight. Just another eight. Jeff, you voted first, who do you want to vote next? I'd like to hear Eric vote next. I'm giving him all the power. I have much power in the situation, but I enjoy doing this.

And I only had to pay for coffee like once, maybe twice. So- We didn't even cover that. Eric lost today. I lost today, which is fine. Cause I think I lost like on like the second episode and then- I lost like the last three weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jeff just keeps losing. I'm going to say yes, I want to keep doing. I want to do eight more episodes of the show because I think that there are enough places around here that we can go to. It's 2009 to 2021. So here's the gravestones of the places that didn't survive. Craft Pride,

Wow, Abelina, Garage Ball. Damn. No, that place,, Garage Wall. Damn. There's a place, a question, Blackheart, that place is gone now, that was... Anyway. That's two yeses, and now it comes down to Gus. So, Jeff drove today, I feel compelled to say that,

and Eric had to pay. I think this run, I may have only had to pay once, maybe twice, but one of them was the Big Potato episode, which I'm still salty about. And I feel like in order to break even and get my money back I need to say yes and commit to another eight. Okay. Just so someone else can keep buying me coffee. It's a fiscal decision from Gus. Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. And at some point before we finish the next eight I need to finish editing these. Yeah. We need to get this out. Yeah, but we're not in a rush for that. And also we can give it to someone who'll do it.

I've done the first three. I did a great job. I really thought he was gonna say no. Me too. I would have said no if I thought he was gonna say yes. If I hadn't bought those baked potatoes, I would have said no. See, it's a financial decision from Gus.

So I respect that. It's really about the dollars. Yep, well. I gotta make money. I was really throwing it to him so that Well, I got I got him. I got to make money. I was really throwing it to him so that he could be the Gus of it all. But what you got? Hey, hoochie, hoochie, hoochie, daddy, Hunter. There we go.

Well, that seems like it's three yeses. So it seems like we'll have to do. Yes. OK, cool. So I think that means that we have to do another eight. Yeah. Of this show. Maybe it won't be the longest break in between. Who knows? I think we were all busy setting up our other companies. The ones that are going to sustain us and make money. So I live streamed Factorio for Stinky Dragon yesterday and I got a couple people asking about it. Uh-huh. About

Anima, who is's gonna come out. I was like, listen, we've had to work on the podcasts that are gonna make us money, so that we can survive. Anma's not gonna be a money maker. And I would say that it's a passion project, but I don't know if I'm necessarily passionate about it. I just enjoy it.

Yeah. All right, we should probably cut before we get to the sleep blower. Why? I think people will like this audio texture. It's a great way to go out. We'll go out on it. We're back on the north side of rainy again,

whereby what, the Augustine, here's idle hands. We're right next to Clive. We're right next to Clive and it has the thing on top. There's a huge truck coming. So come on down to parlor room. Oh my God. I think it's great. Little brother. Isn't that supposed to be a thing? Yeah, yes it is. That's supposed to be cool right? Yes it is. Coffee, what time do they open? 5 p.m. on Friday. Yeah. Cool, that's really helpful

because I love having coffee at 5 p.m. Yum yum, 5 p.m. coffee. Well we made it. What do you think of the Clive, Jeff? It blows my fucking mind. You know, the interesting thing about the Clive bar, I haven't been in there in many, many years, but a billion years ago, there was a craft cocktail bar on the East side called the Peacock.

It's now something else. It's been a bunch of bars since it was, but that would be where you'd go in and they would have like, they would make like legitimate worm, what is that stuff called? Absinthe with the thing, with the sugar spoon and all that. We do that every once in a while. I hung out with Elijah with there once.

That place had these fucking leather, these like leather lounge chairs with like peacocks embroidered on them that were so fucking like sexy and like nice and cool. And when that place closed down Clive Bar got those chairs. And when that place closed down, Clive Bar got those chairs. And so I used to go to Clive Bar just because I liked the chairs. So I don't know if they're still there. They're probably not 15 years later. But if you go in there and you see a peacock on a chair,

know that it came from the East side 20 years ago. I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. Well, we're passing Luster Furl and that'll do it for Rainy Street. We're getting back to our $48 parked car. Why did you star spot it, dude? I should have blew it. Well, that'll do it for Rainy Street. Yeah, we're getting back to our $48 parked car. Why did you star spot it, dude? I should have blew it. Well, that'll do it for this season.

I guess we'll be back at some point. This is where the original Lustre Pro was. Yeah, it was right here. It's across the street? It was this building right here. Why did they? Yeah. Because they took the building

and moved it to the east side. Whatever, dude. Eric, it's business. I don't like Rainy Street. I don't like it. Nobody likes Rainy Street. I don't like it. Nobody likes Rainy Street. I don't like it. People go like, yeah, I want to go down there. My cousin came and visited. She's like, I want to go to Rainy. And I went, no, you don't. If you've got a bachelor party or a bachelorette party and you're visiting from out of town, that's where you go.

Absolutely. Well, that'll do it for this season of Good Morning Gus. Sounds like there'll be another season. It sounds like it. We got green lit. Yeah, green lit us, guys not making money on this. If you like this season and listen to the ads, because that's the only way we'll make money on this. But I think that's all. You guys have any final thoughts, pardoning words for the folks listening at home who are gonna wait for another eight episodes for I don't know how long?

I need to put ad breaks in these episodes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably. Yeah, well, we'll give- Put one right here. We'll give Nick like 50 bucks and maybe he can do it. All right, bye. All right, bye.

Bye. Bye.