Brice - Two Birds From Alameda

Brice is the creator of Alameda’s very own comic strip, “Two Birds From Alameda.”

Host Scott Piehler talks with Brice about his influences, the origins of Seagull, Goose, and the rest of the cast of characters, and the process that led from a sketchpad to the 2022 launch of a beloved weekly ritual for Alameda, both on Instagram, and with The Alameda Post.

 Show note: This episode originally aired on KCSM-HD2 on Sunday, July 5, 2026
 
Full show archive for all past episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAlamedaConnection

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:05

Good morning, and welcome to the Alameda Connection on KCSM HD2. I'm your host, Scott Peeler. California has always been fertile ground for comic strips. Charles Schultz of Peanuts was born in Minnesota, but eventually made his home here in the Golden State. Burke Brethett of Bloom County was born in Encino. Here in the Bay Area, there's Oakland's own Maury Turner, creator of Wee Pals, the first truly diverse comic strip. And one of my favorite rarities, Doopie by Gil Morales, which ran in Stanford University in the late 70s and early 80s. Since 2022, Alameda has had its very own comic strip, Two Birds from Alameda. I'm privileged to work at the Alameda Post alongside Brees, who every week with seagull, goose, and an ever-expanding cast of characters, introduces us to the foibles and quirks of life here in the Bay Area's Island City. That's Brees from Two Birds from Alameda, my guest this morning on the Alameda Connection. Well, good morning, Brees, and welcome to the Alameda Connection. This is not the first time you two, you and I have sat across on a microphone from each other, but it is the first time we've done it in person. I love this.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

And this is a great show. I've been listening since day one. Thank you. I've always said when I grow up, I'm gonna be on that show. And I'm here even though I haven't grown up yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Growing older is inevitable. Growing up is optional, so I think you're fine. Uh a little background. Speaking of growing up, where were you born? Where'd you grow up?

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Technically, I was born in San Francisco. We lived in San Leandro for less than two years. My second birthday was in Alameda, and I've been here ever since.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

So, what was your educational and career path?

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Kind of all over the place. I went to French school in elementary school in Berkeley, kind of a Bay Area thing. Right, right. Came to St. Joe's for high school, went to College of Alameda.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Okay, very good.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Where I met my wife and a bunch of friends that I still have today. But really nothing to do with comics. I mean, I've always loved drawing.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Were you always an artistic kid? Always sketching?

SPEAKER_00 2:04

I think so. I remember my my grandma telling me that I was good at drawing, and so I just decided to believe her.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

That's fair. I'm not sure if it's true. What was the first cartoon that connected with you where you went, hey, that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

It's not a very cool answer, but I loved Garfield when I was little and peanuts. I would read the whole page back when they were in the newspaper. Right. That was like a feast. Especially on Sunday. They have like a whole section of comics. Yep. And I would read them all, of course. I love Farside, Calvin and Hobbes.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Well, you picked some pretty good ones, what is your day job?

SPEAKER_00 2:42

I take care of my kids.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Speaking as a stay-at-home dad for many years, that is an honorable and noble occupation, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

I'd never ask people what they do because I don't want to answer.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

My wife worked with someone who could not get around that question. She would ask my wife, Well, what does your husband do? Well, he stays home with the kids. No, what does he do? Right. Right. There's some people that just they just can't handle it. Where did Seagull and Goose come from? Were they just sketches from somewhere?

SPEAKER_00 3:10

They were. It's a lot older than I realized. It was at least 10 years ago. Really? And I do still have it. It's in a sketchbook, and it's they don't look the same, but it's a rough seagull and a goose.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Having written some theatrical pieces, characters do tend to write themselves after a while. And so the seagull and goose just kind of they presented themselves to you.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

I'm just kind of a conduit for them.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Two birds from Alameda officially began in August of 22. You started on Instagram, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:38

I still don't know how to use Instagram. I don't know how to do that. If anyone really does. I haven't figured it out yet, but I'm doing my best. And we got like 600 people now, I think. That's how it started.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

The strip was also on Patreon. I was I believe I was your first supporter.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Thank you for that.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

You're welcome. How was that? And why did you eventually leave Patreon?

SPEAKER_00 3:58

You know, in the beginning, it was really cool to get a dollar from you. Right. And as we became friends, and as I became friends with everyone who was giving me a dollar, it felt kind of yucky.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

It was something I definitely wanted to try. My dream was what if I could get 10,000 people to give me a dollar? And probably most people are like, it's only a dollar. What difference is that gonna make?

SPEAKER_02 4:22

I said at the top of the show that Brees and I both are part of the Alameda Post. November 8th of 2022, I posted a message on their Slack channel, General Slack channel said, So when do we invite two birds from Alameda to be part of the platform? Because you would I've been reading you since August, so now we're in November. Much to my pleasant surprise, the publisher Adam Gillett's response was, I have been thinking the same thing. Your first strip, which was your strip number 14, shows up nine days later. How did that feel? Had you reached out or what was the process there?

SPEAKER_00 4:53

I figured there's something called the Alameda Sun at that time. It was still a newspaper, which I had actually written an article for many, many years ago. Okay. And I thought the Alameda Sun had this, I don't want to put anybody down, but like the comic didn't make any sense for Alameda necessarily. It was more like a national kind of thing. From research, I could tell, well, they're supposed to be paying $45 for this comic. I want to do a comic and I love Alameda. That would be a cool thing to do. So I emailed them. I wasn't even gonna charge money, you know. I said, I want to do this. Do you want this? And I never heard back from them. And so that was super demoralizing. I would even take a rejection. Like you know, like like that's part of the process. You're supposed to be rejected, but I didn't hear anything.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Yeah, I'd rather be rejected than ghosted, seriously.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

It's kind of brutal. But anyway, I just decided to keep going.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

You talk to the sun, they don't get back to you. So what keeps you moving?

SPEAKER_00 5:52

The cool thing about this strip and the way I started it is that it doesn't cost me anything. Like I draw it on my iPad, I don't have any paper, there's no ink. It costs nothing, but a lot of time. I think about it all the time. How much time goes into a strip? All week. Really? Like there's a brief period after I turn it in on Wednesday where I'm like, oh, it feels so good. And I think that's part of the reason I do it. Like once it's done, that feeling feels so good. And then it's like, what am I gonna do next week? And it really does sometimes come down to that whole week. I'm thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Once you've got the idea, how much is the actual I gotta draw it now?

SPEAKER_00 6:30

The actual drawing, it only takes about an hour at the most. But a lot of time went into that. I spent so much time, and they're still changing if you look carefully, trying to make them look the way I want them to look. And and make them easy to draw, you know, because sometimes I do like really push it Wednesday morning. I'm like, okay, let's do this.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

You're in good company because I mean, just to hold up a picture of Homer Simpson from 1989. I mean, there's evolution in a character.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

Sure. Like the turkeys, especially. The turkey has never looked the same one time. Like the last one with the turkey. The cool thing about Instagram is it tells you, like, this is your most popular one ever. And I thought, well, should I stop? But also, like, maybe the turkey looks like this now.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

We're both weekly creators. I have the I have this show and I have the Alameda Postcast. And two birds from Alameda and the Alameda Postcast are only a a couple numbers apart in in episodes. Is it challenging for you to do a weekly strip? Do you have ideas in reserve? Are there weeks where you're panicking? Are there months where you're going, ah, I got the next six weeks locked?

SPEAKER_00 7:38

It's all of that. Like I've got ideas in reserve. I have cards. I took a class at the Alameda Comedy Club for a stand-up, and he said, use index cards for your ideas. The stand-up didn't really work for me. Well, that idea has stuck with me, and I use these cards for my old ideas. And they're usually ideas that are not ready.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Again, you're in great company with the ideas. If you've ever seen the exhibit, I forget who hosts it now, but Joan Rivers card catalog file is insanity. Yeah. Tens of thousands.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

The way that made a lot of sense to me, we went to an estate sale years ago. It was a guy who lived by the water. He had they weren't index cards, they were little slips of paper. I think I can remember his name was Don Rizzy. Lived in Alameda, taught at Lum, but he was also a gag writer. Okay. He had all these comic ideas written on these little slips of paper. Wow. I bought a ton of them. And he didn't know what to charge me, but I was like, I need these. This is this man's life's work.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

In Thanksgiving of 2022, I interviewed you for a special edition of the Alameda Postcast. And you talked about, and want to share with the audience, maybe unfamiliar with the strip, what seagull and goose represent as far as Alameda results.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

I think that's why it makes sense. And that's the logo's kind of a yin-yang kind of thing. Is there are two sides of the island. Seagull kind of represents the people that have been here or their whole life, and goose would represent more recent people, which I think there's a really good balance of that. They don't always get along. Right.

SPEAKER_02 9:17

I think the kids would say they're frenemies. Yeah. Yeah. So you've got seagull and goose, and they're representing basically two sides of the island.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

I'm able to tap into both of those sides because I didn't go to elementary school here. I always kind of felt like I wanted to be more local than I was. And so even though I've lived here my whole life, I can be seagull sometimes, and sometimes I can be goose.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

My father has an expression which is um you become a local when the last person who remembers you moving in dies. Right. There you go. So the cast keeps expanding. Who else is in the script?

SPEAKER_00 9:53

If I was ranking them, the next one would be old Coot, who's my personal favorite. I do feel like that a lot of times. He has been controversial. People have complained about Old Coot. Really? But I think that you're telling on yourself. If you're offended by Old Coot, you probably every accusation is a composition. So there's old Coot, there's the crows kind of all appear together. They're kind of like a hive, I guess. Up until this year, I've done a different gosling every year.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

The little punk rocker gosling cracks me up. Yeah. Where where did that idea come from? That's that was superb.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

I did a comic, a very short one, and this was even before Seagull and Goose. I had an idea for a comic strip called Duck Duck Goose. Okay. There are gonna be two ducks that actually look a lot like the two ducks that I draw now, and one goose. And the goose looked like that, had like a spiky mohawk, and the ducks were the straight and the and the goose was like a rebel. I made the Mohawk rainbow and I try not to gender the birds unless I have to. Like old Koot is a guy. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it. If they want Seagull to be a girl, that's cool and whatever. Or any gender you can think of.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

You added a a rather maniacal turkey a couple weeks ago after after news of a turkey attacked you.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

When the police surrendered to the turkeys, I was like, I have to do something about you know the police are just like, just stay away from them, you know. And I love the police. I that was so cool that you had the chief on. Yeah, it was a great episode. Thank you. But yeah, when they were just like, just try to stay away from them. I'm like, okay, we're surrendering to the Our Turkey overlords are here. I like to be the top of the food chain.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

I'm gonna make a suggestion if you haven't, because I think there's about a month and a half's worth of material in it. Next year, when East Bay Parks and Recreation puts out their least turn sanctuary tour, go.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Absolutely go. I did it just this last week, and there's so much going on out there, and it looks like nothing. It looks like a sandpit with garbage, but the garbage is actually shelters for the chicks and the birds, and there's this whole dynamic going on. And in the ultimate, almost macabre session, they hang statues that look like dead ravens around the corner of the sanctuary because ravens will not go near a dead raven. So, anyway, the least turn to the audience and to Briest, uh, it'll come up next year. Keep an eye for me parks and recreation. Who would you say are your cartooning influences? We talked about who your favorites were, but who do you take inspiration from?

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Definitely Charles Schultz. I went out to the museums. Charles Schultz has a museum out here.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Oh, it's a beautiful place, too.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

I went out there shortly before I decided I was gonna do a daily strip, and I did for a while.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Just amazing the life he built, and like and I don't think people realize that, and this comes from like the English professor side of things, that Schultz may actually be the longest single narrator piece of literature in English history. Right, right. 50 years, one guy.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Yeah, yeah. Every day. I mean, I don't think he would be a fan of two birds from Alameda. Like he seems like because I I started reading his biography and his I like him, but I don't know that he would like me. I don't want to say anybody's an influence because I am like very simple in my drawing. Like I don't do a lot of background, I really know that I'm not trained. There's blind spots for me for sure.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

But yet you have wound up in an art exhibit this year at Rhythm.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

But that was also like so amazing to meet people when they brought me up at the opening reception, they brought me up last. And everybody cheered. And I was like, wow, this is this is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Well, I mean, Mel Brooks just celebrated his hundredth birthday. The gift of laughter is one that people will appreciate, and especially in these times. And you manage to do something that a lot of people who delve in humor don't do well or don't do at all, which is you manage to poke fun at people without seeming mean. That's a balancing act. How do you manage it?

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Super important. One of my influences is not a cartoonist, but like Mr. Rogers. That's somebody I think is important. And I've done lots of poop jokes and stuff like that. It is easy to be mean and it can be funny, but I've got all week to try to be nice. A lot of the ideas start out really dark, right? And then I smooth it out.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Related question to influences what cartoonist just makes you laugh the most? The more you go, every time you read it, you're cracking up.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

I really like Calvin and Hobbes. Early Peanuts is hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

And I thought Schultz was interesting when we talk about funny, in that there was a period in what I want to say it was the mid-80s. It it was cute, it wasn't funny, and then like Gary Larson and whatnot came out, and you could see him react and suddenly peanuts got really surreal for a while.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

You've done zines, little black and white magazine things. Um, I think I have six. Have you done any more than six?

SPEAKER_00 15:09

I thought I invented the zine. When you want to put stuff out, it's an obvious thing. I thought I had figured it out all myself. It's a huge thing that lots of people do, and it's some of the coolest stuff you can find. If you can go to a zine fest, just go and I've done them. Like we probably need an Alameda zine fest. And I would be into helping somebody do that.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

Uh faction brewing if you're listening.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

It's an idea I've had for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Have you just done the six or is it more than six?

SPEAKER_00 15:41

For two birds, I've done six of them. I think I'm gonna do another one very soon. Oh, good. Those first ones are all just chronological. So I'll probably do something else with the next one. Like maybe now that I've got these like superhero characters, it would be fun to do like a story.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Oh, I love it. There's been merch. In fact, uh, we don't have cameras here, but I am wearing my two birds from Alameda shirt. Is there going to be any more? Can people get stuff? This is great.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

I have to sell those first. If people want a shirt, how can they get one? Well, that's the hard part. Maybe we'll talk about that at the end. There is an event coming up. I'm working on the website from Alameda.com is gonna have lots of stuff very soon.

SPEAKER_02 16:25

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024, has to be the most through-the-looking-glass moment for the strip. For those outside of Alameda, that was the day that a real live goose tragically collided with a power line, knocked out power to 3,200 people on the island. Alameda Municipal Power literally reached out to you for comment. What did you think were that happened?

SPEAKER_00 16:52

That's surreal. And like, I wish I was quicker. You know what I mean? Like, I I can't, I do take all week to write this stuff. So I I remember I came up with something. I came up with a statement.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

Yeah, remember I just reread it before I came in here about it was goose was unharmed and pleased to all fellow avians exhibit caution. Nice flying Alameda. That was that was just one of the funniest things. What is it about Alameda that makes it fertile cartooning ground?

SPEAKER_00 17:21

The duality, the two sides of the island also. It's always shifting. I think for a long time Park Street was seen as the nice side, and Webster was kind of maybe sketchier. That's shifted a lot, maybe. It's constantly moving. There's always new people coming here. Like I've been able to stay here my whole life. My wife is from Mexico. People come here, so I haven't had to leave. Really, just walking around. I see funny things.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Do you ever have ideas that you have to discard where you just go, I can't do this?

SPEAKER_00 17:55

There's way more of those than there are comics. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

It's just like what's the ratio? We're talking like 50 to 1, 10 to 1?

SPEAKER_00 18:02

It would be one point something to one. Because a lot of the ideas I am able to polish them up to where I want to put them out there. A lot of those ideas start bad, and a lot of the bad ideas can't be put, can't be polished. You know, there's lots of horrible things that happen. And I have a dark sense of humor, I guess. Like I can find something funny in almost anything.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Do you ever look around and just think to yourself, the jokes are writing themselves?

SPEAKER_00 18:30

They are. Sometimes there was one, and I don't know if anybody would remember this one, but I was in the Trader Joe's parking lot, and there's this new thing, the thing where people back into the parking spot. Right. I don't know if it's generational or what. I literally saw two-way traffic in the Trader Joe's parking lot. If you can imagine it, and I had a hard time drawing it, but there was one person going one way and one person going the other way. They both passed the spot and then tried to back into it. And I made a comic about that.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

I mean, that literally just happened. It reminds me of a line that George Carlin had years ago, which was, I'm here to remind you to laugh at the things you forgot to laugh at the first time you saw them.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

George Carlin is like one of my favorite people of all time.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

You ever think of animating these characters? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

I mean, just last night, we just last night, just last night, I was thinking I should make some kind of animated. I've got an idea for like a Christmas, but it would be the day after. My favorite day of the year is the day after Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

The two birds rally to Boxing Day special. It should be the day after Christmas special.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

And I pretty much written it. I don't know how to animate. I guess I could use AI. That would be horrible. I know people and I know.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

You know real people. Yeah. There are ways this can be done. Let me let me talk to some people. Let me talk to some people because I think people would absolutely, especially in this in this day and age of web distribution one. I think that's something and there are so many great webtoons out there. So the tools are there. Let me let me get the work. I would love to.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

I would love to.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Is there a bird that you haven't put in the strip that you're thinking I need to work this species in?

SPEAKER_00 20:13

I think the first one that comes to mind is the great blue heron. Okay. Because they're just cool. Right. We had the bald egos for a while, which I did. It takes me a long time to really settle on how they look and who they are. Oftentimes I end up putting it out before it's really ready. Right. As with the turkey, I would say great blue heron is the top. I I don't know who that character is yet. Okay. You know what I mean? Like it's birds, but it's also really like they represent us. I haven't been to the wildlife preserve. Right. You know, and I often wonder, like, and when I was doing the goslings, I would do a goose egg, and I'm like, I've never seen a goose egg. You know, in real life, there's thousands of geese every year, but I've never seen like where they nest. Like, where are they? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

Not endorsed by the National Geographic Foundation.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Exactly. No, I think I think probably like ornithologists probably don't like me very much either.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

I have a good friend who's part of the uh the Golden Gate bird. I'll have to ask her what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

You're not even supposed to call them seagulls, I think.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

They're called something else. Personally, I think that night herons would make great mobsters. And they just look like mobsters. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

What is a compliment you've received about the strip that kind of keeps you warm at night?

SPEAKER_00 21:36

Just that people even read it is surprising to me. I know people look at the post and I think it looks really cool on the post, and I think the post looks cooler with it there, kind of at the end of the news. It's just really cool. But when I put it out there online, I don't know how many people read it. Just that you see it and you like it. I mean so much.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

Well, I mean, and a compliment that I wind up paying you every every few weeks is every the strip works its way into a into a podcast. I will mention something, you'll do something, and I'll mention it. And for a visual medium to wind up in an audio presentation. That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

And I always say thank you because I mean I think it means a lot because I was listening. The crazy thing is, like you said August, and that's the very beginning. Right. We're coming up on four years, which is the end of my contract with myself. When I started it, I was like, I'm gonna do it for a year for fun. And all those things happened. I said, okay, we'll do four years. And now, like, yeah, what's the next thing? Animation sounds cool. And I don't think I would ever stop doing the strip because it is free and and there's not really any risk. It's just it is the most selfish thing I do every week is draw my strip. I do it for me mostly. That's fair. Is that what I'm so glad that people enjoy it?

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Is that what keeps you going? Is it I mean, again, I keep using the phrase, I think you're in good company because if you go back and read interviews with the guys from Termite Terrace, the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes creators, people like Frizz Freeland, people like Chuck Jones, people like Bob Clampett, they would tell you at the time, we made these cartoons to make ourselves laugh.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Yeah, and you can tell. I want the strip to be very gentle, but there's also just one person making it. It's so cool to meet people. I mean, with the drawing, like it could be a 10-year-old doing it. Like I always wonder about that, but it is just me.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

What is your favorite thing to do in Alameda?

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Walk. I like to walk. I love to walk. That's not what I do most of the time. Most of the time I'm driving to soccer practice or school. When I'm really have a free moment, I walk around. I'll walk to the grocery store. And that's oftentimes that's where I get an idea. Sure. Walking around town.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Do you have a favorite area to walk? Do you have a a favorite walk?

SPEAKER_00 23:56

I mean, I usually usually it ends up being to South Shore, which is crazy because I've been walking to South Shore for as long as I can remember. Right. Like literally as a kid, we would walk to South Shore. My cousin and I would walk to South Shore and hang out.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

One of the either greatest discoveries or biggest mistakes I made recently, because I live about Center Island, is that I can actually walk to the Alameda Point Brewery.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Yeah. You're you're in a great spot. I'm on the edge of Alameda and I can still walk everywhere. I've walked all the way across. I haven't walked all the way around. You know, Touchon. Right. He's walked every street. Which is an idea I had, but he he beat me to it for sure.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

Okay. Question that you know everybody on the show gets.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Yeah, and I'm prepared. Oh, he comes from because I am a big, I'm a huge fan. I can do the theme song.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Thank you, Bill. Um Bill. So you've got a company coming in from town of town. You got to take them out to three meals. It can be breakfast, lunch, dinner, it can be three dinners, it can be bites and notches. Where are you going?

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Okay. Before I go, I checked in with some of my friends. Okay. Siegel's answer was not great. Oh, we're getting answers from the characters. Fabulous. Because Siegel scrounges every meal from the parking lot of the McDonald's by the beach. So that's not useful. And Goose's answer is even more disappointing. These are all just big grass fields to eat. There's breakfast at Lower Washington, and then it says, and then it says, of course, for some reason. I guess that's like when people say Oh, yeah, naturally. Okay. People say Traboco, they say of course. So Lower Washington is the of course. Lunch at Lincoln Middle School. That's a lesser known. It's kind of out there. And then dinner at Rittler Park. Shout out to Pat Russi.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

All right. Finally, uh Old Coot. I guess old Coot did a little better, but his answer starts with taking a time machine back about 25 years. Once you get back to 2001, Old Coot says he would go to Albert's for breakfast, China House for the amazing lunch special, okay, and the Acapulco for dinner. These all happen to be places you can still look at, but I wouldn't anyway.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

Well, thank you for for polling the cast.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

I do have my own too. Okay. Okay. So I'm just like taking it. No, that's fantastic. I love it. So for me, I would take my I would take a visiting friend to West Cafe for breakfast. Okay. And then we would be too full. So we would wait until happy hour at Taco Bell at 2 p.m. And then that night maybe we'd go have dinner at India Palace. Oh, and I wanted to throw Taco Bell in there because I know people have said Taco Bell for the answer, but also like they know me by name there. So shout out to Taco Bell.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

That's fair enough. Uh, websites, socials, ways people can get the strip and keep up with what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

The website's really easy. Uh it's from Alameda.com. The socials mainly I would go to Instagram. It's Two Birds from Alameda. I'm also gonna be at Alameda BookCon, which happens to be if you're listening on Sunday or sometime in the first week. Alameda BookCon is gonna be at the main library. And what's the date on that one? Saturday, July 11th. Okay. 10 30 to 4. It's free, all ages, 40 plus authors, illustrators, vendors, somehow I'll be there too.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Fair enough. Well, Brees, cartoonist and creator of Two Birds from Alameda, thank you so much for spending time with us here on the Alameda Connection. Thank you, Scott. It's a dream come true. Take care. Thanks again to Brees, the creator of Two Birds from Alameda, for spending time with us here on the Alameda Connection. If you want to keep up with what's going on with Seagull, Goose, and the rest of the gang, you can always find the strip at Brees' website, which is fromalameda.com. You can also follow him on Instagram. Just search Two Birds from Alameda. Spell the word two. You can also get the strip in the Alameda Post each and every week. That's Alamedapost.com. He's in the op-ed section. And you can have two birds from Alameda delivered directly to your inbox. Just head to AlamedaPost.com/slash email dash digest and sign up for the Alameda Post Weekly Digest, and you'll get Brees' strip in there each and every week. As Brees mentioned, if you're listening to the show on its original broadcast or during the first week from the KCSM Encore Player, you can meet Brees at the Alameda BookCon Saturday, July 11th from 10 30 till 4 at the Alameda Free Library. You can also meet a previous guest of the show because Karen Jensen, the author of The Strength of Water, will be there as well. Again, that's at the Alameda Free Library Saturday the 11th from 10.30 until 4. It is a free event. Coming up next week on the show, usually when we're talking beer, we're out on Alameda Point, but this time we're headed downtown. My guest will be Vincent Pois, the general manager and managing member of Alameda Brewing, the folks who took home a silver medal at the World Beer Cup for their unique Burma Ale. Thanks as always to the California Historical Radio Society for providing the location for my sit-down with Brees. Don't forget Radio Day by the Bay coming up Saturday, July 18th. You can see me on stage in a Thin Man radio play playing the Goofy Groom. As we do every week, thanks to Bill Hart for our theme music. The song is Beachside Isle. The album is called Watch the Sky. I'm Scott Peeler. I'll catch you next week, 8 a.m., the Alameda Connection on KCSM HD 2