ANMA - Welcome Back, Gustavo (and Geoff)

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

Good morning, Gus! We’re back for 8 episodes, this one from Figure 8 on Chicon, recorded some time ago after Rooster Teeth went under. Please consider less that it’s dated and think of it more along the lines of it being a time capsule of the friendship of Gustavo Sorola & Geoff Ramsey after the company they started came to an end. They also talk about Phantom menace 25th, Unfortunates of being a regular, The closure, Moving, Who buys the coffee, Property brothers, Our other podcasts, How to end this show, and a 25 year legacy. Editing & Theme Song by Richard Norman. Follow his band Good Lord on IG https://www.instagram.com/go.odlord/ and listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xYhRbPkrJ45jZsOtTbRth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Or shake up your mood with an iced brown sugar oat shaken espresso. Whatever you choose, your espresso will be handcrafted with care at Starbucks. Good morning Jeff. Good morning guys. We almost killed it. That's some bullshit. That's amazing. That was fucked. That was fucked. If there was a way you were, if you asked me like how's this new one gonna start? Not that way? It would have been like that. It, that felt like it was locked and loaded from a spike place.

Yeah was that, have you been holding on that since May? I just thought it was still in in the moment. Oh man, not a lot going on. Not a lot happening lately. I'm surprised we're doing this. There's really, I don't know what the hell we're gonna talk about. It's the Doldrums of summer.

I don't even remember what our last episode of ANMA. We were at Metropolitan. Was that the last one? Yeah Yeah, oh wow how many times did you go back and see the 25th anniversary release of Phantom Menace? So I didn't see you any other time. You know I didn't make it oh Yeah, you only get one 25th anniversary ever and you missed it did not go I did not go Well the first thing we can talk about is I don't know what we're calling this. Are we gonna call it Good Morning Gus?

Yes, that's what we settled on. You guys didn't want the other name. Yeah, I don't know. We came up with a name that I thought was pretty funny. We can talk about it. You can say it. I wanted to call it RTX, but RT, Big RT, Little EX, you know? Little E, Big X.

Little E, Big X, yeah. Cause we're ex-RT employees. Initially when we wanted to call it, the Gus and Jeff don't work at Rooster Teeth Terrible SEO long I like our TX but then that kind of locks us into talking about Rooster Teeth Yeah, the rest of our lives and I don't think either of us want to commit to that I've had a good I've had a good 21 year run of that. Yeah, no kidding, right? So then we decided on good morning Gus

I had an idea this morning, but I but it also no longer is accurate. But it would have been good for the old one. Could it just called it Keep Austin? Oh, interesting. That awesome idea. I had that in bed this morning. Keep Austin. But now this podcast isn't necessarily focused about Austin either. That's such a good name. I know. I know I will we called it Anva? I will eventually always have a good name.

It just may come three years too late. It just takes a while. Yeah, keep Austin. The worst part about having the good name three years too late is that we start with the worst name possible at the front. Fuckface. Chief Minn Hunter.

Dude, I went from Rooster Teeth to Regulation. It's good, we've gotten there. Regulation. Phenomenal. Regulation, podcast, regulation, regulation brand of stuff. It's so easy to tell my parents and grandparents. Yeah. For the first time in my life. Oh my god.

For the first time in my life. Yeah. Yeah, it's called F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F, uh, F. F asterisk asterisk K-phase. Anyway, if you're not super familiar with Austin, there's a very marketable phrase here that's been beaten into the ground for about 30 years now. Yeah. They're called Keep Austin Weird. And then it turns into that.

You don't see it anymore. You don't see it as much anymore. It's gone. I can't remember the last time I saw like any new thing with that. Keep Austin Weird type stuff, yeah. It feels like when people say it, it's derisive. Well, and it's also, well, it's derisive

or it's like a parody, like keep Austin wired. Yes. Yeah. Keep Austin weed or like whatever, you know. Whatever other W word there is. Whatever the entendre is. Let us know in the comments. Yeah.

Keep Austin whale. There you go. That's the new one. I just learned that. Can you believe it? Keep Austin weeding. From the mind of Anba. From the mind of Anma. From the mind of Anma.

You got a drink too? Great. Oh, god. We're at Figure Eight Coffee Purveyors on Chicung. Yeah. Yeah. It's close to, I feel like a lot of places that I really like, but I've never been to this coffee place.

Are you serious? Oh really? Yeah. You've been here before, right? I come here all the time. Huh. It's like proximity-wise, it's so close to like the original Eastside Pies over on Rosewood. It's really close to Mickleweight, which is also just down the street.

It's like, it's a cool stretch of like local places. I've just never been to this coffee shop. It's close to a restaurant that I used to love that I will never go to again for the rest of my life. I have a grudge against one restaurant, not even Austin Java, cause I remember this grudge. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever talked about it on camera before.

I, it was a restaurant like just on the road called Hillside Pharmacy. Oh yeah. That I used to fucking love. Oh I know about that place, yeah. I used to fucking love that restaurant. They served me alcohol in a mocktail after I asked them not to.

And then when they served me the drink, I said, are you sure there's no alcohol in this? And they go, yeah, you're good. And then I smelled it and I went, I'm not sure about this. And I just, to the tiniest little taste, I went, I don't think this is right. I was with Louis, Louis was like, let me see. He tasted it and then he was like, yeah.

And then I took it back to him. I go, this is fucking alcohol, I'm an alcoholic. And they're like, oh yeah, sorry, no big deal. No big deal. They didn't treat it with any kind of, and it's happened to me a couple times, it happened to me at a sushi restaurant recently too, where they served me alcohol in a mocktail,

and I caught it, but they were heartbroken and horrified that they had done it, and gave me a huge discount. These people were like, oh yeah, sorry, anyway, we'll see you later. And I was like, no, you almost broke a sick, at the time, five and a half year sobriety. It was fucking wild.

Anyways, I'll never go back there. Unapologetically, that's amazing. Unapologetically is a thing that really bummed me. I really like the sort of treating it like, no big deal. Yeah, whatever. Did you die? Ooh, okay, ooh, big man.

That's fucking crazy. Yeah, I was really bummed. I never thought I cried Like I had to go set my car and cry. I don't blame you. I never once considered There's such a sort of delineation between mocktail and cocktail. Yeah, I've never considered a mocktail ever even accidentally I having I won't to this day now because I've had three or four bad experiences. Yeah, I won't, to this day now, because I've had three or four bad experiences, I won't order a mocktail if there's a cocktail version of it on a menu. So I'll only order a mocktail

if it is the only iteration of that drink. And even then, I usually just go for a Diet Coke. Everybody makes fun of me for drinking Diet Coke. It's because for people like me, it's the safest thing in the world. I can't not fuck it up. Usually it comes in a can even. Diet Coke's already pre-f me, it's the safest thing in the world. I can't not fuck it up Usually it comes in a can even diet coke is already pre fucked up from the factory Able to accept that's why I took it first in our non-alcoholic drinks draft guess

Not to make it about that, but that's it. That's what I think of the proximity is that fucking restaurant? That's unbelievable but speaking of this place, you found a secret hidden location. Yeah. You're spoiling it. I actually- How the fuck does this exist? I actually did a little bit of reading on this place

while I was waiting for you guys. So I've been coming here forever. I don't come here very often anymore, just because life takes you in different directions. Yeah. I go to different coffee shops in different parts of town now. But I actually just came here last week with Jordan from Roosted.

Oh really? We were catching up. Not Jordan, swear to Jordan, love it. Not you or Jordan, my Jordan. Not my Jordan. That's funny, you would probably find that funny. And I realized I hadn't been here in a couple years probably. And so I was like, I want to start coming back.

And then it was kind of serendipitous that you mentioned that you wanted to come here. So I was sitting waiting for you guys and I thought, well, it's going to be our best filming location. And so I started poking around. I went around the back of the building, which just was like an alley. I didn't know it was like a thin alley.

Yes. An open gate, I guess. If you go behind the building all the way around to the left, there's an entire other seating area that's super secluded. That's it's deserty over there. It's like zero scaped over here. And it's kind of like, well, honestly, it's a little mosquito-y over here.

On this side, it's the opposite. But we couldn't be more secluded and more alone. You can't even see the street from where we are. The wild thing is, it's not like it's a tiny space. There's six tables back here. There's a ton of tables, a bunch of chairs, a ton of like little cactus that are like deliberately placed.

Yeah, and then like some stand up, like this is where I would come back to. Smoke a cigarette and drink a beer. A hundred percent. They have like little stand up walls. If you've been to bars where it's just a wall that's placed somewhere with like a little ledge to like set your drink on while you smoke a cigarette.

They even got an ashtray. Yeah. And the AC is not loud. Listen. Yeah, listen If you can get that that means Gus didn't edit it out That's a that was about my unintentional way to get some room tone cuz I'm gonna forget later Four seconds of room thing. Yeah, he killed a bit. He started talking way too quick. Come on This is this is a cool little spot and everything, but I think I want to talk about not doing this podcast for a while and then deciding to do it again.

I think we should talk about that. Real quick, let me give you just real quick. Just because I saw it. Do you know when this place opened? Do you have any idea? 1998. No, no, no. This wouldn't have been 98. This would have... Man, I'm going to sound like a real dick here. I had to stumble to curse there. I'm used to not cursing on Stinky Dragon. I'm gonna guess this place opened in 2008.

2014. Okay. And the reason I remember it, I had to look it up just to get the dates right because it was another coffee shop before called East Village Cafe that I used to come to every day. It was my coffee shop. And the guy lost the lease, these guys opened up and it's actually a much better coffee shop before called East Village Cafe that I used to come to every day. It was my coffee shop and the guy lost the lease,

these guys opened up and it's actually a much better coffee shop now. But no offense to East Village Cafe in 2012 or whatever, but yeah, 2014, so that's all. That's just my little piece of trivia. They have a lot of wine and it really feels like a classic coffee shop in there because it feels like really kind of like cluttered.

Yeah, they got a bunch of bags of beans on the ground. Yeah, it's just everything is everywhere and you get a cup of coffee and then it's like, all right, I'll go outside or you can sit inside at the bar. They just opened the second location too over on the airport. I saw, yeah. Jeff got here a couple of minutes before Eric and I did. Eric got here probably like a minute before I did.

And we walked in, I walked in, Eric was finishing his order. I ordered right after him. And then we both did that thing where we ordered and we stepped off to the side to wait for our coffee. So we're clearly not in front of the register. There's nobody at the register. We're so clearly not in front of the register. So not in front of the register.

And then some dude comes over and gets in line behind us to order. He's like looking at his phone. So he's only like half paying attention. And he like does that thing where he sidles up to us and it's like oh he thinks we're waiting to order. So we take a step back away from the register and I don't know if you saw this yeah he walked with us. Yeah I turned to him I said hey we're not in line and he just went oh and he's like he couldn't there was nowhere to go it's so small oh. And it was like, we couldn't, there was nowhere to go. It's so small in there.

And it was like, I've never, what a terrible situation. That made me feel terrible. I hated it. I hated every second of it. Pay attention, we're clearly not in line. You can put your phone down for a second. Look, where's the line? Nope, there it is, there's no line.

He had just gotten done talking with one of the baristas too. Like, they know each other. And then he just stood behind us, two guys not in line. One guy. You had your cup already. One guy holding my cup of coffee. This is, this is one of those coffee shops where you walk in and you feel like every single person

in the coffee shop knows each other well and you're the outsider. Absolutely. And I don't mean like that's a vibe they push on you. You just get that impression. That's me everywhere. That's fine. I'm used to it.

But I think when you go to enough coffee shops, that is water off a duck's back. Yeah. So just like, yep, I don't come here. You guys all do all the time. I go to a lot of different coffee shops. You guys go to one coffee shop. That's it. I got it.

I think we talked about this in one of our earlier episodes, but I got to go to different coffee shops just because I ended up going to one too long and then anytime I would walk in, they would start making a drink because that's what I would normally order. And then sometimes I wanted a different drink. It's like, oh, but they already made my drink. So I guess I gotta drink this.

It's like, I can't commit to one coffee shop anymore after that. I tell you what's been fun for me is, I'm not gonna dox myself here, but you know, I moved, sold my house and moved. So I live in a totally different part of town With totally different coffee shops, and so I have completely flipped all of my coffee shop I don't go to any of the places I went to For the last five years at all and it's all brand new places and it's been so much fun

So there's way more where I live now too Yeah, what a... It must be really weird to like, pick yourself up and then move yourself to another part of a city. Because even I've lived in the same general area for 10 years now. So it is, and it's been an interesting exercise because we've talked a lot about on the previous iteration of this podcast

that I could potentially leave, we both could potentially leave Austin someday and I've been eyeing Michigan for quite some time. We really haven't talked on this podcast about everything that happened since the Rujeteeth closure. I've talked about it elsewhere, another podcast, but I sold my house in Austin to create flexibility so that if, because I didn't know what's gonna happen on the landscape with our careers.

Right, right. Luckily, you have found footing with Stinky Dragon and you guys are crushing it, and then we're doing similarly well with regulation. This guy's double-dipped, he's got 100% heat too. He's a triple-dipper, man. Yeah, I'm doing this one also, man. You're a trip-dip.

I'm a trip-dip. That's a Barney Barnes 2.0 over here. Yeah. Uh. And that, and for that reason, I'm out of here. Yeah. It's more of an Ezra Cooper sting to me. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. And so, uh. Uh. Anyway, in that process, I had to rent a place. Yeah, right.

And so I decided to rent in a different part of town that I hadn't lived in, or that I hadn't lived, well, I haven't, I really haven't't lived over here where I'm living now. And so I did that and it's almost like moving to Michigan. It's almost like moving to an entirely different city. All of my grocery store's different, my coffee shops are different, my restaurants are different. I can walk to different places and more places.

Now my convenience store is different. Like, and when all that stuff flips, your food, your orders, everything you do becomes different. And I feel like I'm living in a different city. I don't feel, it's kind of why I came up with the idea of Keep Austin today. Cause I really don't feel the impetus to move as much as I did.

It's amazing how much an inner city move can change your perspective and your outlook. In ter city? In ter city. In ter city move. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Can change your perspective. I still want to live in Michigan someday,

but I'm much less inclined. Do you think your old haunts, your old food places are like, where's Jeff? We haven't made whatever dish it is you order in weeks I still go to top notch I still make the drive out the top they have no they have no idea but no I haven't been to a bunch of those and also you realize a lot of the places that you thought you liked were just convenient yeah you know for sure like Emily and I've been over that part of town doing business because I still have like banking and shit over

there and you have a lot of your life over in the part of town doing business. Cause I still have like banking and shit over there. And you have a lot of your life over in the part of town where you live, safety deposit boxes and stuff. And so we're still over there quite a bit. And it's always like, do you want to go to the, nah, we'll wait. You realize you're like, I guess we had this conversation the other day. We're like, I guess we didn't like that Mexican restaurant

at all. We were just very close to our house. Yeah. Especially when you're spoiled for choice now too. Yeah. Like that's, that's pretty good. That's been nice. So we met up a week ago at this point. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Ian talked about doing the show again because it had been something that we talked about previously and when do we want to do it

and all this stuff. And then we finally landed on oh yeah let's meet up next week. Let's do it. Yeah. And then we finally found a, oh yeah, let's meet up next week. Let's do it, yeah. And then we finally found a day that we all decided we wanted to work. And it's a Friday morning. TGIF, baby. That's what I'm saying. Gonna watch Full House tonight. Family Matters.

Which is kind of you guys, because we know you love your early weekends. Yeah, you love your weekends, dude. What's going on? What? You said that to us Friday. Yeah, yeah. We know that you love putting everything you can on Monday, just getting it done.

You got your 60 weekend. Got to get it done. You got your 60 weekend. Oh, did you all talk about this on regularly? OK. We did an AMA. We did an AMA for Stinky Dragon a couple of days ago. And one of the questions was, we did it on a Wednesday.

One of the questions was, Gus, why are you working on your weekend? And I was like, what the hell is this question? This is so bizarre. This is, you said something that wasn't funny in the moment, but after we left our meeting, it started making me laugh. And so we turned it into a joke. OK, I thought this person was deranged. No, no, no, no, no, no.

I was like, what is this like stalker bullshit? We were having a conversation about how to do this, like Eric was saying. And you were saying, I like to do all my stinky dragon work. deranged from AMA. I was like, what is this like stalker bullshit? We were having a conversation about how to do this, like Eric was saying, and you were saying, I like to do all my stinky dragon work on Monday. I like to front load all that stuff to the beginning of the week. And then when we were talking about maybe filming

on Fridays, you said, I like to start my weekends early on Fridays, I like to work on Fridays. And you said, but I don't consider what I do with you guys to be work. And we were like, oh, that's sweet. And then we all touched each other's dicks for a couple of seconds. So we came, but it was still, it's sweet. And then we all touched each other's dicks for a couple seconds. So we came, but it was still, it was nice.

And then, and then I didn't think anything of it. But later in the car, I was like, doesn't his weekend start on Tuesday? Because he only has one job right now, which is Sneaky Dragon. He's not doing any fucking thing else. I think you misconstrued what I said. I probably said something very similar.

I don't only work one day for Sneaky Dragon. There is a lot of work. I front load all my meetings onto Monday. If you say so. It was just what you said. We did a regulation podcast and we said, oh yeah, we were hanging out with a friend. We won't name him, but he loves his six day weekend.

And then we made it very clear what we do. I mean, so clear. That's fucking funny. It was great. Oh, man. Suddenly my life makes a lot more sense. Okay. Yeah, but I need to talk to you guys

about an immediate problem I'm having with this show as we are roughly, what would you say, 15 minutes in? 15, 20 minutes? Is it not funny anymore? I'm paying for, well, I don't know that it's ever been, but I'm paying for my own, I don't know that it's ever been, but I'm paying for real coffee. You don't like that. Oh yeah, I paid for my coffee.

I just bought my coffee when I walked in today. I'm not a fan of the situation that we have here. How do we get Roosh and Chief to buy our coffee? There's still people working there. There's still a skeleton crew, and I bet they have coffee. John Mace, buy me this cup of coffee now. I don't like that. They're doing well. They're not paying nearly as much salary bet they have coffee. John Mace, buy me this cup of coffee now. I don't like that. They're doing well.

They're not paying nearly as much salary as they used to. Yep. I also, you know, just kill a weird guy. John Mace still got a job, he can afford it. I also don't like getting here separately. Yeah. I don't like Jeff being the first one here. That was weird.

You're gonna be out? Just not, I don't like that. Okay. These are things that we need to fix and we need to figure out. Okay. Hear me out. Okay.

There is an old, I don't know if I've ever talked about it on this show or if I've told you guys about it. There's an old YouTube series I like. I have an idea here. I think it's called like the hamburger game. You've talked about it on the show. Have I? That's how I know about it.

Okay. Yeah. Well, if you ever watched the hamburger game, they do talked about it on this show. That's how I know about it. Okay, well if you ever watched the hamburger game they do this thing it's like, quick recap, it's I believe it's three youtubers from Japan who come over and the whole goal is to eat the most popular combo at every fast food restaurant. They go to Jack in the Box and they order the most popular combo. But the way they decide who, there's three of them, there's three of us, the way they decide who has to get down and make the order is they put like a little, what would you say, like a cardboard wheel, a cardboard cover over their tire, so that they drive and when they get to the parking lot,

they come out and they look at the tire and whoever's segment is touching the ground the most has to go in and order the most popular combo. I say let's steal that idea, except instead of ordering the most popular combo, whoever is touching the ground needs to pay for the coffee. But let's put a little twist on it. Okay. Isn't that the twist? Is there more of a twist? I like it. More of a twist. Continue twisting. We're going to yes and this. Oh, no buts. No buts. Instead of just having one tire,

we should do all four. And then then vote and then whoever has the most out of all four because there's three only three of us yeah inevitably at the very minimum someone's gonna have two so we should like come out and they're like look at one be like oh it's Eric the next one oh it's kind of he has a question uh-huh don't tires spin at the same speed so wouldn't whatever the gusts like if it lands on gusts, we're going to know what 2, 3, and 4 are. No, because when you make turns, they don't. Oh!

Well, specifically, this works best for front tires. So, where do you have the turtle? I guess we should probably do the front two, because the back two won't be very... Well, no, even the back two will change too. Here's what I think we would do, is segment the tire instead of having to... Because they do it with... they put something like over the tire, but I think if we just get chalk or something Yeah, it's your tire. So however you want to do it. You think we're driving in my... you think we're gonna drive in my two-door Hyundai Accent that

Oh, yeah, I guess we'll have to drive in... My wife's friend spilled coffee all over the back seat of it. Let's get in my two-door car. Why are you guys looking at me? Yeah. We have to figure out. We know we're Jeff not driving. He's like terrible.

Yeah, I'm happy to drive, but you'll be, I'll hear you guys bitch constantly. You're just, well, that's the turn. Yeah, cool. We'll have to like. I've gotten worse since we've been. Oh my God. Since we quit the company,

or the company quit us. I was gonna say, oh, we quit the company. We're quit us. We quit the company. We're still doing the exact same thing. I have something to say about that. So on the tires, we would have to segment them with like chalk or something to get like equal thirds. And then I think we'd have to randomize where each name goes.

And then by the time we get there, everything is mixed up. Yeah. Right? Okay. I think that would be it. And then we drive in a left circle for a little while then drive in a right circle. I wonder if any of that picked up on my audio. Oh picked up on mine. There it goes. Hopefully. Hopefully you got it. Hang on. Did yours die? Maybe. Wait. Hang on. You guys don't know how to screw good. No, apparently not. There we go. Yeah, I don't know why it's doing like, okay, so we have some, we have these road mics and we're learning.

So first time using these mics. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay, so I like your idea, though. Yeah, we'll figure it out. And then yeah, they'll buy the coffee and then there'll be the jackass for that episode. Yeah. So you talked about rooster teeth quitting us, right?

I have never received more physical mail from Warner Brothers Discovery in my life than I have since we've been laid off. I get probably five pieces of mail from Warner Brothers Discovery a week. It's crazy. It is non-fucking-stop. It's like, dude, I think Eddie Rivers put it best. He's like, you dumped me. Yeah.

Yeah. Definitely. It is just so much. I'm just gonna hold mine now. It's not that they- Yeah. It's okay. It's not that they laid off another thousand people.

Did they? Yeah. Yeah. They're talking about splitting it in two. Warner Brothers and Discovery? But that's not, yes, but it did not, but they didn't talk about it as the pure delineation of like, that's how we're gonna do it.

Or maybe it'll be Warner and then Brothers Discovery. That could be. That could go that way. Could very well be. Discovery Brothers. Is that the property brothers, right? They're changing their name to the Discovery Brothers. It's the new Try Guys for ZX. Is that the Property Brothers, right? Yeah, they're changing their name to the Discovery Brothers.

It's the new Try Guys for ZX. Oh cool. Yeah. Do you... I was thinking about this the other day. I saw like some ad with the Property Brothers. They were shilling some rooms to go furniture or something. And... I did an event with them once. I don't... I don't remember their names. What are their names?

Property and Brothers? Uh, I don't fucking know. Whatever.'s, what are their names? Property and Brothers? I don't fucking know. Whatever, whatever their names are. Joel and Josh. Probably. Drake and Josh. Drake and Josh. That's a different thing.

We stay away from that. And at the end of the- You gotta stay away from that now, yeah. Yeah. At the end of the commercial, like they slapped their logo, like so and so and so. Joel and Josh, you know,

logo onto a piece of furniture. And I thought, how did they determine whose name comes first? Cause they're like- I think it's probably whoever's older. But aren't they twins? Somebody's older. That there's no way that the younger one let that slide.

Right, that's so- There's no way the younger twin let that slide. Because he heard that his whole life and he's pissed. I don't know. That's a commercial that's a fun commercial with Brooks and Robin Lopez in it. And it's like, oh, yeah. And they're fighting and over who gets to hold the basketball. And he's like, I'm older. It's like by one minute.

Yes. Best minute of my life. It's such a great brother moment. Yeah, that is. But I assume it's something like that. Yeah. So I think twins hate it. I bet. So we're using, like you mentioned these these road mics mics You know, we've got these these Wired mics that plug into it and Jeff and I are using you have to unscrew yours because it's not it just wasn't working I don't know and they've got this the first time using them

I guess apparently and they've got these little warning tags on them. Yeah, and I don't know if you looked at them I just read them right now while we were talking. I'm gonna read it to you, Jeff. This is on the wire, the wired part of the mic. Warning, strangulation hazard. This cable contains Kevlar and has the potential risk of causing lacerations or strangulation. Avoid looping the cable around the neck and keep out of reach of children.

This is like a murder weapon. This is like a piece of piano wire. It's good to know. Yeah. It's disguised as audio recording equipment. No officer, I'm going to go record some audio. You need to eat and hunt this. You can, that's fucking cool. The Kevlar mic cable.

If this was MacGyver, he could like, he would wrap it around his head, then he could shoot him in the head. It'd be like, Kevlar. Yeah. That's pretty, that's pretty cool. Yeah. He'd be like, in the absence of a helmet,

just use my speaker cable. People don't know, but it's got Kevlar in it. You'd be like, in the absence of a helmet, just use my speaker cable. People don't know, but it's got Kevlar in it. And then you get shot in the head and just like knocked to the ground. It's like a concussion. How's Stinky Dragon been going? It's good. We've been finishing up.

So man, we got so close. When Rishchi shut down, we were almost done with campaign two. So we're close to finishing campaign two now. We're releasing like another supplementary, what we call Tavern Tales, like a little mini series. Is that like the 1993 thing? Yeah, 91, but yeah.

That's pretty cool. It's like X-Men 91 kind of deal. That's out right now. We're working on getting campaign three up. It's been good. I'm sure y'all have had similar situations, you know, starting up Patreons and trying to figure everything out.

Yeah. We're having YouTube ads to figure everything out. Yeah. We're having YouTube AdSense problems today, actually. Yeah, it's funny transitioning from a big company like Rooster Teeth to being just a couple of people gives you a lot of flexibility. You don't have to have meetings syncing people up or worrying about other departments and what's going on because it's easy to keep that communication going.

But the problem is there's so few people and all the work needs to get done on Monday. It's just like, you don't have a ton of time to get things done with all these six day weekends. Yeah. You know, a Tuesday rolls around and you're like, I'm fucked till next Monday. I would say you got 24 hours to figure this out, but I'm really only working eight. But no, it's going real good. I think like the, the, the Patreon has reached a point

where like it's grown well. I don't, I don't think we're at a point where we can sustain long-term, you know, cause we have seven people. Yeah. That we need to support with it. That's crazy. Yeah. So we're not at that point where we can sustain all seven people yet, but if things keep growing, we have seven people. Yeah. That we need to support with it. That's crazy. Yeah, so we're not at that point where we can sustain all seven people yet,

but if things keep growing, we'll get there. Yeah. It's like, we just got to keep working for it. Isn't it crazy the difference in terms of people and money and resources between five and seven? Yeah, it's huge. Cause like five and seven is not a huge difference, but it is a huge difference in terms

of organizational structure and a company and sharing revenue. Yeah. And yeah, we decided to really approach it democratically. It's like nobody has any more of the company than anyone else. Everyone has an equal say. Yeah, we have that too. Yeah. Regulation, everybody's a 20% owner.

We have a majority rules company and it has already worked to interesting effects. It works out for us sometimes. I'm sure you encounter a too where one person has an idea and really wants to dig their heels in on it and everyone else is not interested in it. And then it's like, no, no, no. There's no Chris in our group. Yeah.

But I imagine it'll come up eventually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It, you know, these things happen. It is what it is, but I'm the president of regulation. Oh, right, yeah. Congratulations, Mr. President. Thank you very much. But it's been mostly our votes have been held out of spite.

We have a lot of spite votes. Yeah, a lot of anger votes. Yeah, a lot of that. Do you all have any like weekly, regularly scheduled meetings? We do, we have one. Yeah, we have one on votes. Yeah, a lot of that. Do you all have any like weekly, regularly scheduled meetings? We do, we have one. Yeah, we have one on like Mondays. Monday morning.

Where we kind of go over, but it's Monday morning, which is almost afternoon because we have a guy on the West coast. So for him, he was like, is there any way we can push it back? Like another, because it was like- It's like lunch for us.

Yeah, it was like a 10 AM meeting and he's like, can we move it please? He can't do 10 AM? Eight for him. Eight for him. Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Exactly, exactly. Because that's where we're like, what the,

oh right, because then we moved it and it's like, okay, this is fine. But it's one of those meetings where it's five people who all like each other who are on the same page. So it's not, it doesn't feel like a waste of time. No. It's useful and helpful and mostly a hangout. Yeah, it's been positive.

Yeah. It's been really good so far. We're wrangling our meetings. So we have a similar thing, like a 10 a.m. meeting is scheduled for an hour. And the first couple of weeks we had it, they ended up going two hours. Just because there was so much to do.

So like we're finally clawing it back. We're finally at a point where we can get it. I think this last week we did it in 45 minutes. I was like, I'm so proud of everyone. We did it. I think those early meetings were a lot longer and we had like a lot of that stuff, but they've turned into pretty succinct things

where we know what we need to look at for like the next two weeks. And it is like our most business time for stuff where it is like, okay, we have these things scheduled and we've promised these things. What is filling this slot? What do we need to do? What are we doing Thursday? Let's figure it out Monday. So we know what we're doing Thursday so that way Wednesday night somebody doesn't text you, hey, what

are we doing tomorrow? Also we have a, I mean we always use the time before we record on Thursdays as a meeting. Yeah. That was our old meeting time, really unofficially. And so we have that as well. And then I don't know, I'd say like you and I and Nick and I keep in contact constantly. Absolutely. Like I'm at my desk talking to you or Nick almost all day long. Sometimes we'll just all get on Discord together and just work. Everyone's pretty available

when we need them to be. And again, coordinating five is a lot easier than coordinating seven. And I can say there's even a big difference between four and five. Like that extra person, when you go from four to five, that schedule, that's so much to wrangle compared to like when I'm doing 100% eat.

It's me, Jordan, Michael and Nick. And I know what Nick is doing. Like I own two businesses with Nick. Like I know what Nick is doing. Like I own two businesses with Nick. Like I know what Nick is up to. But it's like Michael and Jordan and just coordinating their schedules and they're so easy going that it's like not an issue. But then this one,

the show is like, hey, I'm gonna be out of town. All right, well that's okay. All right, well we gotta fix this thing. Okay, this other person is gonna be out in like two weeks. And it's just a lot of that stuff. We have, okay. It's the difference between doing podcasts and doing podcasts with really successful people

that have shit going on. Yes, 100%. Eat. Absolutely. Okay, this is not a planned thing. I just like something that popped into my head right now. Okay. Oh boy. Have you all figured out what you're doing for health insurance?

Because we're all independently such small groups. Should we all like collaborate and get like a group health insurance that covers all three of us? I think we probably could. I think that would be really fantastic. Like I have severance through X date I need to figure that out probably sooner rather than later,

just to have like a plan. Yeah. And I wonder if these can different companies like that. I don't know. Cause we started, we started looking at it and we're like kind of too small. A lot of people don't want to deal with that. So are we, but if we combine roughly what?

Like 12 people, something like that. Yeah. I don't know if it's possible. I don't either. I'll say this, Emily had, you know, cause she is a slum, she had Obamacare until we got married. And then she switched over to my insurance, which now she immediately fucking is going to lose.

Yeah. But she loved it. Yeah. And in some ways I thought it was better than what I had. Interesting. So, okay. Well, I'll have to- Something to think about.

Yeah, like, you know, obviously, like you said, severance through for a while. Yeah. But it's something in the back of my mind that I wanted to like make sure. Smart. Not only for me and for you guys, but for like the bigger group. Yeah. Yeah. You're getting up there too.

You're going to need. Yeah. Trust me. I know. I'm the reason Rooster Teeth got health insurance in the first place. Oh, way to go, man. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Why? Did you just say, hey, we need this? I was sick all the time.

I had bad stomach problems. He had a whole, it was, he was- I couldn't eat. He was, he was- What do you mean? Like, I just couldn't eat. Like my stomach was fucked up for a long time. Why? What?

Yeah. For like, between like 2003 and 2005, maybe? I just, I just like, I couldn't eat a meal. Like I just snacked all the time, like small little things. Cause I had a fucked up stomach. He'd always have to go back to his room if we went to a restaurant or something That's what I thought but I guess it was for no, it was just oh Gus's Stomach hurts it was bad. It was fucked up, but I'm all good now. I had no idea

Yeah, and it's all thanks to health insurance. It's all thanks to health insurance It was probably a gluten allergy that you fought through before we knew what gluten was. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense Yeah, they didn't discover it back then. No, no, no, no, no. We only just learned about lactose intolerance. So like really, you know, gluten is a whole different beast. We gotta look into the health insurance thing because this show isn't even its own company. We're doing this under a regulation.

Yeah, this will be under the regulation. This is a non-regulation regulation podcast? Yeah. Because we also- Gotta live somewhere. We also landed on something for the show, which is we're going to do eight episode bursts of this show. Yeah, we're going to do sprint sprints. I like that. We're going to do eight episode sprints where we do eight episodes in a row. And then we'll take a break and kind of figure out when we're

going to do the next run of them, but Jeff had a very interesting idea. Yeah, I think this comes from the idea was born from trying to find a compromise and a difference in philosophy. Yes. I think. You, Gus, have been very upfront and clear that you don't want to do a weekly podcast, which I respect and understand you did the RT podcast longer than anybody should have had to. I'm old. And so I get the reticence to want to do a weekly podcast.

Unfortunately, that's the way I'm wired. I think Eric is as well. And so we've been doing the eight on two off where Eric and I will cover the time. And I just, that's fine for Anima. I don't feel like that's a way to build going forward. And I don't know what we're trying to build towards going forward either.

I mean, we're not trying to turn this into a company. We're not trying to turn this into a business. I don't think either of us wants them to try to figure out how to run a Patreon. Not every podcast has to be a Patreon. No, no, not every, yeah. This can just be a podcast. We'll dynamically insert some ads

and we don't have to deal with a bunch of stuff outside of this. It's great. Ideally, if this podcast pays for the coffee that we make each other buy, that's great. Which is what I'm hoping. That would be fantastic. So going into it with those clear eyes,

recognize the amount of effort we have to put into it and how much else we have going on in the world. I wanted to give us an out because I don't know that after eight episodes we'll be in a place to continue. Right. You know? And so I thought it was a device I read in a book

a couple of years ago that I thought was really kind of sweet and poignant. It was a beautiful and heartbreaking moment in the book. I hope it won't be heartbreaking for us. But it was about a relationship. It wasn't even about this relationship. It was just a side story in a book I read. But it was a couple that had been together for like 22 years

and every year on their birthday or on their anniversary, they get together and then the one guy says to the other, do you still want to be married to me? And he says, yes. And then the one guy says to the other dude, do you still want to be married to me? And he says, yes. And then the other guy says back and then they recommit every year. But they have the understanding from day one that someday if one of them says, no, I'm sorry, that it's okay. They're not going to fight. They're not going to have an acrimonious divorce or any of that. They're just going to respect the bounds of that rule that they both agreed upon.

And then it happens in the book on like the 22nd or 23rd anniversary and the guy who isn't supposed to say it, the guy who was thinking about saying it doesn't say it, and the guy who you thought was all in says it, and it ends, and it, like the relationship ends in that moment and it's really sad and it works the way it was intended. But I thought what a, what an interesting thing for us to do. What if at the end of the eight episodes we look at where we are in our lives, where we are with Regulation, where you are a stinky dragon, where we are physically if we're still living in Austin or we're looking to move or whatever we've got going on because the future is unwritten for all of us. And we decide without judgment, we ask Gus, do you want to continue? If he says yes, we continue. If you want to continue, we continue. If I want to continue, we continue. If one of us says no,

we shake hands and we walk away and we end that day a success. Never drinking coffee again. I really like the idea of that at the end of eight episodes because it's going to build a weird suspense when we start getting to episode five. Yeah. Where it's gonna be like, oh we're getting on, do I want to still do this? Is this the last? Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh.

The second to last time I'll ever perform with Gus? Yep, exactly. It's like a reality show. Yeah. I'd go into the tribe boat. That's another thing, there's some, there's some, there's a lot tied up into this, if you want there to be. Okay.

If you want to acknowledge it. You and I have been creative partners since 1999 yeah, yeah, we met in 98 but we've last century we started centuries of content two centuries of content together two hundred years of content We've done We started making we started ugly internet together in 1999. Yeah, I have been We started Ugly Internet together in 1999. Yeah. I have been working on a project.

At times the project was just Rooster Teeth, but I have been working on a project with you every day since, I don't know, March of 1999. Quarter century. If this podcast ends- Two centuries. That partnership ends or goes on hiatus. Right. I guess.

Oh. We don't have anything behind it. Yeah, that's weird. I hadn't thought of it that way. It'll be the first time in either of our professional adult careers that we haven't been actively working together in a creative capacity.

I guess, yeah, we took a small break here between the shit down at Rooster Teeth. I guess that's true. I guess that's true. There was always the anticipation. There was always the anticipation and the attention. And we're both still drawing a paycheck from Rooster Teeth. While we're on Severance, we're still getting paid

by the company we created. Yeah. Sure. Does that put a lot of, is that like a lot of weight when we get to episode eight? We're on episode one. You have seven episodes to decide. I'm not going to say we're like Cal Ripken.

Uh-huh. I'm going to say we're better. Because this is 25 years. What did he do? That's what I'm saying. That's smart. I mean, that's good. They even made him move positions.

I mean, who else has been making content together for 25 years on the internet? Nobody. That's who. That's right. Just something to think about if we end this podcast. It, that's who. That's right. Just something to think about if we end this podcast, it's ending a run. It is. It is genuine, unless we have something in the hopper

to immediately launch, which I'm gonna be honest with you, we don't. No, no. And I don't know that we ever will. You know, you and I aren't young guys scrapping trying to figure it out. You speak for yourself. Well, no, you've figured it out.

You've got Sneaky Dragon, you've got your path, I've got regulation, I've got my path, and hopefully they'll run in tandem, but they're not gonna run together. Yeah. You know? It's interesting. I like it. Man, someone called Guinness Book of World Records. I think we need to be in there. Yeah? That's all I'm saying.

It's fucking crazy. Yeah, it's a long time. I really like the ideas that we have for the show. I really like the ideas that we have for the show. I really like the ideas that we have for what we're going to do and we're really going to figure out these microphones too, which I'm very excited about. Yeah, really crack the code on it and go, wow, this is so easy. We don't need to plug in all these things. We can just hold these or put them on our shirts.

So yeah, and that'll be simple. Well, one other thing to add, I think one of you Eric or one of you said it, We hope to like put some dynamic ads in the podcast, make enough money to buy coffee. I hope we also have make enough money to hire an editor. Oh yes. Because in the meantime it's going to be me editing the audio and I'm not super jazzed about it. I can do it. I understand. How are you going to fit it into that those six free days a week? I think he's gonna have to work two days? I'm gonna have a five day weekend. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create a project and I'm gonna

have to edit this at triple speed. So there may be some flubs. I'm not gonna be listening to it in real time as I make my edits. I may cut someone off mid sentence because hey, when you're doing triple speed playback, that's a risky thing. I totally understand. That's the game. Completely get it. Also, if you edit this so minimally, I don't give a fuck. Leave it all in. It does not matter. We're having a couple of calls. What am I going to do? Get in trouble with Rooster Team?

Andrew's going to hear what you said. And you're going to be in so much trouble. It's... I'm excited to see what this can be and have other people on because we have four microphones. Yeah, format's still the same. I guess we haven't discussed that. We talked around it, but we'll go to a different coffee shop every week. Yeah. We talk about the coffee.

We'll still review the coffee. It's not about that necessarily as much as it is about us hanging out. Now, shockingly, I don't think it's ever been about that. Yeah. And I don't and I don't know if people online understand that. Did they clue into that? I don't think it's ever been about that. And I don't know if people online understand that. Did they clue into that? I don't know. Nine, by the way. This is excellent.

This is an excellent cup of coffee. I got an iced Americano today. I feel like a real chump because this is like, I've been making coffee at home for a long time. This year I finally made the transition to drinking iced coffee in the morning instead of hot coffee. Like, oh, this is world's better. Changed my life. Yeah. I'm an idiot. I owe Louis Medina for the rest of my life for forcing iced coffee down my throat. I'm not going that far. He would not, no I was not interested and he would not let

up and then he just over time he wore me down him chasing blue bottles or coffee shops around the country. And I am so fucking hooked. And it's so much better than hot coffee. Yeah. I understand it's a different flavor profile. Different flavor. I had a hot coffee this morning. Somebody go home. I had my drip this morning.

But I, so that kind of ties in something else I wanted to talk about, maybe a little more old school, and my format here. Hell yeah. This has been an amazing summer after last summer. Oh god yeah. It rained recently, it's been there've been actually clouds some days and... It's been like two days over a hundred I think. I think the toll is actually at 14 but weighed less than... I think there's been

14 100 degree days but they've been like 100 not like last year where it was 110, 115. Oh a break it's only 102 tomorrow. Right that's how they that's how they was being framed last year where it was 110, 115. Oh, a break. It's only 102 tomorrow. Right, that's how they, that's how they was being framed last year. Like today's only gonna be 102. It's great. And this reminds me a lot more of, and correct me if I'm wrong here, Jeff.

This is what I remember the summers being like back in the late nights here in Austin. And I was thinking about it this morning. It's like, this is my 26th summer in Austin. So like the most summers I've spent from anywhere I've lived in my life. And this is what I remember. Not like that horrible oven we were in last year.

And it makes me not hate this as much as I- Absolutely. As last year, yeah. This is like- This is bearable. This is the first summer since I moved here that I feel like comfortable going outside. We've had other summers where it's been like more like this.

But- Unfortunately, I think 2020, when nobody could go outside- Yeah, 2020 was a great summer. That's the reason that I, this is like the first summer where I'm like, I'm gonna drive across town. I'm just gonna go do this thing.

I'm just gonna like, I can get in'm going to drive across town. I'm just going to go do this thing. I'm just like, it's I can get in my car and it's hot for a minute. And then when I get out of my car, I'm not immediately hurt. No, no, it's hot. Don't get me. Yeah, it's hot, but it is not 110. You can still ride your bicycle in the daytime right now, which is how I know it's too hot if I can't and I can ride my bike at two in the afternoon. I thought The thing that's blowing me away is that my lawn is still alive.

Yeah. I was talking to my neighbor. We were just kind of talking shit in the driveway or whatever. And he's like, it's supposed to rain all next week. I'm like, no shit. Yeah. He's like, yeah.

So I guess we'll still have lawns. And I'm like, mother, I never thought about that. Don't, don't. But it's absolutely alive. It's gonna be August and I'm gonna have grass. I barely left town this summer and don't really want to. No, it's so bearable. Don't hold your breath waiting for that rain. You know how it goes.

I didn't think it was gonna rain yesterday at the time of the supporting. It rained. Woke up dark pouring and I went, this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. And then I had to wait all day for a plumber to come, and then my dog got stuff.

And it was a, you know, I've just, I've been having a time just being alive. Hey, did you know that owning a house fucking sucks? Did you know that? I wouldn't know anything about this stuff. When I moved here and you guys told me like, you're not going to remember this, but it's something that we talked about

really early in me moving here was I was renting a place and everything and you guys both kind of went like, yeah, I mean, like if you can not own that's just fine to like it's totally fine to just rent and there's nothing wrong with that. And it's actually less of a headache. And I went out and what I should have done, here's what I should have done. I should have got on the bridge at the river and then held a suitcase with $30,000

and then opened the suitcase and jumped off the bridge and then see if I can collect it on the way down because that's about what I'm doing. I'm owning a house. You had your electricity go out at the same time your dog needs his teeth cleaned and the plumbing stops up and then the internet fries and it's all you just go you just sit in the dark and you go don't touch any This is gonna be expensive. God. It's so expensive. Yeah Yeah, it's funny how home home problems are

Contagious to yeah, but if they affect like a home issue will affect other home issues And they just like you know chase them around the house That's exactly what happened with me. Yeah, this the internet was caused by an electricity issue the electricity issue Fried my internet then I had they had to come out to look at the AC because it was dripping and then they fixed my AC Because this cooling coil or whatever and then I got it replaced and then it started dripping correctly not into the wood in the middle Of my house. Great. So it started dripping correctly down into my downstairs sink. Guess what buddy? So

the good the plumber came out and he went, did something change recently? And I said, Yes, let me give you a list. I'm in hell. And then at the same time, drive the dog up to round rock to get some heart things scanned because he got He has to get his teeth cleaned and all this stuff But I had a round rock donut quietly in the car. So I was okay you win Europe. You're up. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a head with house money, baby Silence and eat my car donut and there are people listening to this going like oh, I wish they wouldn't complain about homeownership stuff

I don't know what tell you man. That's happening in my life. oh, I wish they wouldn't complain about homeownership stuff. I don't know what tell you, man. That's happening in my life. You've never been the guy to complain about homeownership stuff. Now it's just your turn. And now I'm telling you just continue to rent if you can. Yeah, until this all turns around and everyone can only own one house forever. And whatever changes in the span of the United States, just rent and it's fine. It's fine. We find

very happy renting a house right now. You guys moving across town renting changed my perspective on so much. Me changed my perspective on solar's too. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. Well, yeah, it's funny, I think the arc that we've even in this podcast that we've covered in talking about homeownership and interest rates. I remember we had early on, we had a conversation about how low rates were, how high they used to be. Your rate you got when you first bought your house.

Six percent, seven, six percent. Yeah. Thinking you had such a good deal on that. Yeah. And now we're like on the flip side again. Yeah. Where it's like, that's how it used to be. And I think people have-

Interest rates are what they were when I bought my first house in 1999. I think people have largely forgotten that between 2008 and 2022 or so, we lived in a very bizarre bubble of very low interest rates. I think people got spoiled on that. Like we're back to normal. We're back to reality.

People keep talking about like, oh, the feds gonna cut, it's gonna go, it's gonna lower, it's gonna drop. Cut it by 400%. Yeah, it's not gonna be a big deal. It's not going back to reality. People keep talking about like, oh, the fed's gonna cut, it's gonna go, it's gonna lower, it's gonna drop. 100%. Yeah, it's not gonna be a big deal. It's not going back to how it was. You're not gonna see sub 5% interest rates in a long fucking time.

Yeah, if you see that, it's gonna probably be like another recession or another market crash or something where they need to artificially pump the numbers. I would think so. I would think that's probably the only way. This is just reality. Yep.

And I, you know. And it's gonna take people a long time to understand that because I think what you're seeing right now and what the housing market is partially dying is because everybody's locked into a three and a half percent interest rate and nobody wants to give it up. Right. Yep. And they want a whole,

even if they need a bigger house or whatever, they're like, I'll just wait till the interest rates come down. It's not gonna happen. I've already got it. Yeah. I have one so I know it's possible. And so I'm just gonna wait to get this again. And you're not.

Yep. You're just gonna have to get used to the idea that you're not. And I think it goes back to something you just said, Eric, which like, I think when rates were low, people were getting greedy and buying multiple houses and doing all of that. It's like, hey, that's gone.

That's gonna go away. Good, I think that there should be a law that you can only own one home, but that's how I feel. I think that would solve it. Why did you take the one you have now? My house? Yeah, you're stuck with that one for the rest of your life. That's I can get rid of this one and buy a different one. You can only own one home. No, at a time. It's I love I love my house in and having a space that's mine and everything.

But also if I rented and I didn't have to deal with these issues and I could call someone and they just did it instead of having to call a plumber and electrician, internet, all this stuff, I'd be just fine with that too. I think it's hard no matter where you are because everything's so expensive and it's not like, prices don't go down.

They find new highs and then they go and this will be the new base and that's where it is now. We're going up from there. Uh-huh and you're welcome and so I think that's just where we're at. It's like all those Amazon Prime deals everybody's so pissed off about right now. It's oh yeah raise the price and then look it's all on sale oh I see I see. It's not like they invented that though. No no they're doing it to great effect right now everybody's finally Look, it's all on sale. Oh, I see, I see. It's not like they invented that though. No, no, no, no. They're doing it to great effect right now.

Everybody's finally clueless. Yeah, finally catching on, I guess. What, Prime Day wasn't a deal? It wasn't for consumers? Crazy. I think that'll probably do it for this episode. Rating for your coffee, guess what you think? This is like an eight, eight and a half, really good.

And you said nine. I think I'd probably give this coffee, probably like an eight, seven. I really like it. I And you said nine. I think I'd probably give this coffee, probably like an eight, seven. I really like it. I really like figure eight. I like their hot coffee. They let you know what their drip is. They don't just say like, how's drip?

They tell you what the bean is. They tell you where it's from and what flavor notes. They got like a little chalkboard. And I really appreciate that. But that's, you know, that's me, a guy who does this. You're really into it Does this safe this says figure eight? Yeah, can't you read you read English? Yeah, I can read that F I G U E eight no re

The ours right there where oh it melted yeah, it's hot you got a hot coffee That was a figure eight pristine Oh, it melted. Yeah, it's hot. You got a hot coffee. You got a hot coffee, dude. Ours is right. Ours is hot. Because it would say, that would say, that would say, figure eight pristine. I will say the other location is also lovely. It's brand new. You said it's on airport? It's on airport. Everybody like Grand.

Okay. You know that pool type. Like airport and 45th? Yeah. Yeah. You wanna do that for the next episode? Let's go to another one. Go to another one.

Well, that one, it might be interesting because it's all indoors. Oh, interesting. And it's like a, it's in a strip mall. Well, we might have to find a place around. Away. Which we've done that before, so. I was going to say, it's got a totally different vibe.

We went to Palomino once, right? Yes. Reminds me of that. Yeah, okay. Same kind of feel. Okay, we'll have to check it out. Why did your coffee have way less condensation than mine? Like my side of the table is so-

He drank so much of his before you got here. Gotcha. Yeah. I only had a half a coffee when I sat down. Gotcha, okay. Yeah, he was like ram jamming it. Yeah, okay. I'm gonna pool over here. Yeah.

Guys, this is the first episode. Hopefully it worked. You know, we can call this podcast, Keep Austin. He's trying to get out of the- I'm just saying, we haven't committed. We haven't done anything with- It's true, and this won't come out for months, probably. So we can do whatever we want.

I guess what I guess remains undecided then. Untitled, Untitled Property Brothers podcast. Now here's the thing. There's three of us and we are talking about a democratically working podcast operation the way we've done previously. So I think we would all get a vote. So-

You're asking me to pick between who is my favorite child. I came up with both names. So who wants to call it, Keep Austin? I'll raise my hand. Okay. I mean, I do want to call it Keep Austin, but- And then who wants to call it Good Morning Gus? I mean, I do want to call it Good Morning Gus.

Okay, there you go. Sucks! I want both. Hey, hey audience, I do want to call it good morning. Okay Hey, hey audience, I'm on your side. I voted keep Austin keep Austin podcasting the merchandise makes itself Why did he why did he just say hey audience? I'm on your side What are you talking about? I'm the voice. They love good morning Sorry guys, I tried that'll do it for this episode of the podcast. Of GMG. Yeah.

Right. I'm so excited. This is great. Well, hopefully the audio worked. If it didn't, then this is a lost episode and we'll release it later. How about this idea? Uh-huh.

Sorry to interrupt. Back when I did that show Relationship Goals. Keep Austin Gus. At Rooshteeth, Brian Beam had a band that they would play, like the intro band with like saxophone and stuff. It was actually kind of funny. And every episode I just give the band a different name. And so every episode they were a different band.

What if we just give this podcast a different name every episode? And we rename it in the RSS feed. So people have to actively search for it. Let's not do that. Let's name it Good Morning Gus. But if we want to call it the Keep Austin episode. No, no, no. We're gonna do this. We're gonna fucking rename it in the RSS feed. So people have to actively search for it. Let's not do that. Let's name it Good Morning Gus. But if we want to call it the Keep Austin episode. No, no, no. We're gonna do this. We're gonna fucking rename it.

All right, you got it. That's what you were saying. This is shit. This is, thanks for listening to Good Morning Gus with Jeff. Question mark. Good Morning Gus with Jeff in there. Thank you for listening.

GMGG. If there's anything that you want to hear with this podcast, should be in everything. Too bad, by the time you actually hear this We're probably recording episode 6. Yeah, I would think So check it out. And if you're like, how can I what's the best way to support this podcast? it is by listening to all the ads and not skipping forward on them or it's downloading the episodes from wherever you get your podcasts and then you can skip the ads because

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three or all three that also does support us here's just not in this show don't either way just download the episode no no no sign up yeah you can just listen to the podcast and let it be a podcast i will say there are going to be people who leave comments and this is what we can close out wherever uh oh on the the sub Reddit is the only place that we're gonna be able to see them or they can go to anarchy me anything.com and sign the guest book. I can update that.

There are people who will go, why don't they just make one Patreon for all these things under an umbrella? And to that I say, we did that in the company close. So that's not happening. You know what? First was a good deal. We did that and people said, why? I don't want to. I only want fun house.

I don't want to pay for it. That's stupid. Yeah. So if you think that we're making fun of you, we are. So thanks for listening. And we will see you on the next episode of Good Morning Guests with Jeff. Question mark. Any final thoughts for the folks at home? No.

I'd like, take your bets now. Do we all say yesterday that this is? Yeah! Alright, cool. Bye!