ANMA - Comeback Burger Episode

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Good morning, Gus! Gus and Geoff want a burger episode so they dip into Dirty Martin's around campus for some classic Austin eats. They talk about Hating avocado, No connection, Construction changes, What’s left?, Arcades, Airport food & art, and Simpsons songs. Getting close to the final episode of this season. Will it be the final episode of the show? Edited by Richard Norman. Check out his band Good Lord on bandcamp: ⁠https://goodl0rd.bandcamp.com/ ⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. Is that the full name? Yep. K-U-M-B-A, yeah, comeback place. That's what it is. All the burgers are like the comeback burger and they got comeback sauce and all that shit. I was get a BLT here, though. You were saying BLT is a new hot dog for you. For a while, I've been like, if I see a BLT on the menu,

I just like, I fucking zero in on it. It's all I can see. Wow. I really like a BLT, man. The simplicity of a BLT is hard to be. You were saying that you mix it up at home. I had onion to it. I make a blot at home.

I've been making blots lately. Why'd you go with blot instead of bolt? I think blot's more fun to say. Do you add avocado? Bolt sounds more dynamic. No, I don't like avocado and neither does Gus. We'd appreciate it if you didn't mention it. Then it'd be a bloat.

Yeah. You guys don't like avocado? No, we don't like to talk about it. You're getting the breaking news here. No, we both, Al-A-Qaeda is a regrettable vegetable for me. Yeah. I want to like it. I'm going to eat, I'm going to eat around it if it's in my food,

and I might take a bite every now and then just remind myself and give it a try, but man, it's always disappointing. I'm never going to remember horrible. And everybody's like, what? You don't like guacamole? That's crazy. I agree. I want to like it.

Everybody loves it. It's not fun missing out of the thing that everybody on else's like. I get back. I always hang my head and kick at a rock. window. Pull up my own underwear. I figure myself a legy. So we, um, we're walking about a part of Austin that you and I have no connection to. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. Is that right? Yeah, but I got scared when we pulled into Dirty Martins here a little while ago because there was a sign on the entrance there to the parking lot that said their restaurant closed

today for parking lot repairs. Yeah. They were very open though. They were very open. There's a lot of people leaving there. We pulled into that parking lot that said that and then we just saw 30 people eating hamburgers in the front and went, okay, well, I guess maybe not. Yeah, it's totally fine. So it's a hamburger place right by campus. Yeah, what is that, Guadalu, 30th or 29th or something? And I think we've mentioned this place before just because it's potentially one of the businesses that may get demolished to make way for light rail, light rail or mass transit

of some kind. But it's been around since like, I mean, it says it on the sign. I think it's 1926. 19-206 yeah so it's like a 99 year old place it's it is definitely an austin institution and it's definitely one of those places that if you went to uti you feel a certain way about you know yeah i didn't go to uti but i still enjoy it's still great i feel like it's been a long time since i'd eaten there probably before this male today it might have been 15 20 years since i've eaten there i don't know it's been a long time emily and i always have a place that sticks with us, you know? And it was, it was 30 Martins for a while where we would go every Sunday in the afternoon. We were just out shopping or doing business. We'd always stop in. Yeah. I want to say we did that for about three months. And then we stopped on a Friday night at like maybe 8 p.m. And thought it'd be dead ass empty because it's just college students around here. We figured

they'd be out doing college stuff. College stuff is apparently hanging out in like rave gear at Dirty Martins in those. The most packed I've ever seen it. Everybody looked like like literally like a 24-hour party people just let out and everybody came over here and the guy when he gave us our food he goes, I'm sorry about all the NPCs tonight. And I was like, what the fuck? Wow. That's a weird way to refer to them. Wild. But yeah, I kind of see what you mean. And then we just didn't go back. Going to Dirty Martins on a Friday night, I think is nuts. Oh yeah, it was our, it was our mistake. Yeah. I think it was absolutely our mistake. I think coming to anything around campus on like a Friday night, Saturday night is like you're asking for it. That's why I typically,

that's why I haven't been here in so long is it's so close to campus. It's typically a pain in the ass to get to or get around. There was a period of time where I probably came here every other day for two or three years. But it does have a parking lot and it is usually dead in the daytime on the weekends. It does have a parking lot, which we were unable to park in today because it was not dead. Yeah. I had to find street parking down the block. I'm never going to find before we left the car. Yeah, we'll just walk back towards hamburger. It's not it wasn't dead there, but it was nice and quiet. service was quick everything was easy and we just sat in that middle back room that was nothing

but hardwood and old photos and autographs that was awesome yeah there were like two old dudes sitting at the bar watching march madness that rocked that was like it is way more often it's when you that room we were in that sticky room we were in with all the pictures of rome campbell if you go in there on like a saturday at two p.m it's just old dudes with newspapers figuring out fantasy football shit or basketball shit we mentioned this while we were eating

a little while ago but before today I'd never sat in that room yeah I had neither as many times as I've been there as often as I've gone

I've never sat in that room so we're walking about like oh we should sit here I was too scared to sit in that room because we're old now yeah we're old now

we graduated to be able to sit at the picnic tables anymore right congratulations so we walked out of the back of not the Guadalupe side but I guess the other side

I don't know what the facing street is Like maybe San Antonio or something. Maybe. And we just took a left and started walking south, I guess, towards the city. This will be an interesting one for us because Gus and I have, we've done now 14 or 15 episodes where we go to a part of Austin that we know very well in this. You and I didn't go to UT.

You're right. We both actively dislike UT. I don't go that far. I would. Don't say both. But it's a weird black hole. trying to be diplomatic on King. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tell a different story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not what you were saying on the drive here. It's like a weird black hole in my sense of the city of Austin. Yes. Like, it's an area that I typically wouldn't go through because there's really nothing here unless you're a student and the parking and traffic can be really bad. I think it might be spring break right now.

That's maybe a little dead. That is what it is, yes. I used to come here to go with Bernie when we were doing a talk at UT and now I come here to hang out with Jordan 11 when he does a talk at UT and that's pretty much oh yeah aside from going to noisis okay makes sense Rio Grande is a couple blocks that way and that's the path I that's the bike lane I used to take to cut the cross and go that way let's go sure nois means nuts are you talking about this being a black hole or whatever I don't I don't think I've ever been down this street if chris and Blaine were here they'd be going oh my god and oh my god and dude do you remember and oh you got to try

Maybe they talk about stuff that happened for everyone. Look at these buildings. This is all new. Yeah, this is all brand new. It is crazy. Despite the fact that it's a black box, I do travel through it to get from point A to point B. Oh, it's in the fairly often. And so I've seen the ridiculous growth.

It is maybe the most concentrated growth in Austin since I've lived here. It's a lot. And there's more. We walked by a bunch of construction. I just read yesterday that they're going to allow 600 foot towers south of the river now they're sent. Oh, really? Yeah. Is it like a...

Like over at the... That's where exactly what's your ask. Whenever they do construction, like next year or something. They're also building, I saw a... And I think this has already been approved. I don't think the 600 foot thing is totally done yet. But I guess they approved. They're building like another domain style development

right there at Bollm and 183. Oh, I saw that. On the left side of 103 and that, you know, like where... Our distributor used to be back in that area. They're not anymore. But like back in the old days of Roosteat, We used to spend a lot of time over there. Kind of near Texas surplus.

Exactly. Exactly where Texas surplus is. You know, I love Texas surplus. Texas surplus is the best. You want to sift through a bucket of knives for three bucks? Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

I need a neck pillow that's definitely been used a lot. If you're not familiar with what Texas surplus is, it's a place where all the shit that gets confiscated at the airports in the state of Texas, but also when they clean out a state office building and they have a bunch of desks and file cabinets they don't know what to do with. just throw it in surplus and you can go in and it's like a warehouse.

You can just go get shit from very cheap. If you want to buy a giant wood desk from the late 60s, early 70s. That weighs 8,000 pounds. Yeah, and a handful of knives. Yeah, if you need to decorate a set on the cheap, Texas surplus is great. That's what we did for 100% of heat. Also, if you got a knife confiscated at the Austin airport,

it's over there. You can wait for three months and then go get it back. They also sell surplus vehicles. I don't know if you ever noticed that. No, really? In the parking lot, there's always like a couple of what looked like decommissioned police cruises. Yes. If you walk up to them, they've got prices written on them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's also a camp camp sticker on one of the registers. I've not noticed that. Jordan, I was there with Jordan Swears and he went, oh, wow, all right. I was there just a couple of weeks ago. That's funny. That's great. So we're kind of walking, and I'm glad we're not on the drag because I feel like the drag's not a place for us.

We don't really belong on it, you know? I think that would be a weird discussion for us to have about how much that has changed. Yeah. I don't want to get into that. Yeah, it's a very different place. But yeah, we're like, there's like a food trailer place. So we're like a block off. There's a university wiener I've never heard of, but Eric, we got a hot dog spot right.

Yeah, I think we have to check that out. I actually looked this place up the other day. I was looking for a place to get hot dogs. You looked up University Weiner? Yeah, and I found this place. But again, it's in West Campus. I'm not going to go down there. Where am I going to park?

That happens to me a lot. When I was 18 and 19 and I would come to Austin by myself a lot, on that like it if you're 18 years old and you're sitting in an army base in you in the barracks at 6 p.m. on a Friday night and you have nothing to do you instantly drive to Austin just to be in a different place and pretend like you're not in the army and my favorite thing to do because I was under 21 if I was by myself would be to come to the drag here yeah and pretend I was a UT student right and not a soldier and try to fit in and so there was a coffee shop called insomniac that I would hang out or insomnia sorry insomnia that I would hang out all the time But there's also a record store called Sound Exchange that is where the... It's where the... Well, puppy. It's where the... Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnson mural was.

It was on the side of that building. It eventually became a Baja Fresh, I think. And then it got bulldozed. Yeah, Thai place and... But the wall is still there, right? So now the wall has been left. It's been cut out. And it's going to be, I think, in the...

I think it's going to be like in the lobby of a hotel they're building on the site. That's crazy. And you're just going to walk in and see. where the kind of like if you go to london sometimes you'll go like in a parking garage yeah be like here's a here's a roman wall yeah that's existed for 10 000 years you know what the fuck and somebody's just parked a you know a fiat next to it this used to mean something to someone anyway that was a long time ago yeah anyway so don't litter right here uh and that's what the drag was to me when it was something to me yeah and then i grew out of that pretty

quickly and i really stopped coming here except for the occasional restaurant like dirties It's weird because that whole area, by the way, we just walked through maybe the worst possible configuration to encounter on a sidewalk. There was a porta potty to our left and a dumpster to our right. But it's fine, because once you pass that, there were three more dumpsters on our right. Gus was just pointing the shit. I was like, the audience doesn't get this, but there was a very angry Gus walk that we got to experience. Why would they put that there? Anyway, who would use that?

The drag underwent such a rat. radical transformation so quickly. I feel like probably in the late 90s, early 2000s, it was the late 90s, that gap opened up there. Yes. And it was like, that's a weird business to be here. And then it was like, very quickly after that, it was like just a proliferation of, yeah, chains moved in and pushed out all the local businesses. And then now all of them are gone. It's like, it's like a weird. I think urban outfitters is probably the only one still there. Yeah, but it's like it's regressed back. back now to like a bunch of local businesses,

but it's all food now, I think. Yes, yeah. A lot of this stuff around here is just food. Well, a lot of the stuff that it used to be used for is no longer necessary. Like I would go there in the 90s because of sound exchange and Tower Records, right? Tower Records was a chain, but it was one of the tent pulls

of the drag. And who the fuck is going to a record store in 2025, you know? What are you gonna replace those with? I guess it was, yeah, it was those and there was that, I don't know why I six out of my head. There was that Eckers, right? They had the thing, the tiling on the ground in front of the... Oh!

Yeah, on the ground. Yeah, now it's a... I think that's a university cross-ranking. Clothing store now or something. Is it? What are you trying to get by these dumpsters? Yeah, I'm trying to get by more dumpsters. What of those college stores?

Yeah, I think you're right. Well, we were even driving down, like, Gwad and stuff to get here, and I... Right after that via 313, it's all just, like, foreign to me. Like, when you're heading... It's like you hit V-313 and I go, that's as far south as I get into that area. Right. I don't come here. No, not at all.

But all of this makes sense. Like, one of the things I keep bitching about, that cat, it wants to get out of that window. So bad. I keep bitching about the traffic. But I think that's one of the key reasons they want to try to build that light rail right here. Yeah. Like that would alleviate a lot of those traffic and parking concerns because you could move people much more efficiently and they don't have to find a place to stash their car.

Yeah. Yeah. So talking about how much this area has changed, if for the audio audience here, we're standing around looking at essentially a bunch of five and six-story condo buildings that are a little older. This is mostly what it used to look like. But when you branch out to the right and you go over to Rio Grande this way or back that way, there's just like these 15, 20, 30-story towers now that are brand new that have like slides that go from the second floor down to the lobby. all the dumb shit that got built in the mid-2000s. And this whole area used to look like this.

Yeah. This little pocket right here. Or even smaller, like houses that are portioned up into like four apartments. And I feel like we found like the only little pocket of it that's left. It's crazy. It looks like when you come down or when you come up Mopac from the south, when you get around where Barton Springs is.

Yeah. the drag looks like a second downtown on the horizon yeah yeah yeah for sure it's crazy how big it looks i mean a lot of these are there's some height to some of these buildings yes i mean obviously like a newer one here yeah but it's weird because when you start like if we keep heading this way it just gets bigger too yeah and there's nothing like there's like not stuff over here it's just housing it's just for it's just enormous amount of yes there's so much to attend the university. Housing and UT buildings that you don't realize are YouTube buildings. Yes. There's a lot of that too. Definitely. A lot of, uh, a lot of sorority. A lot of frets and stuff.

This is a nice looking building. This is the K.E. Tao people, whatever the fuck that is. And they have a fortress that looks like. You think there's a Scientology or something. That's something that we can talk about. The Scientology building finally opened back up on the drag. How long was that under construction? It was under construction. It was under construction, for more than a decade. Yeah. And it, but it wasn't. It's been done.

I think it was finished about three years before they moved back in. I read a little bit about this on Reddit, so take it with a grain of salt, how true this is. But apparently it was finished and they were in a temporary space over like off MoPack by Highland kind of. I've seen that place. Yeah. Apparently, they couldn't move back into the main facility because the, attendance had dwindled and they didn't have the minimum number of people to operate the big space

and they didn't want to have like a lackluster launch and so they held off as long as they could to boost their numbers to boost their numbers i guess until they eventually uh were able to uh reassume it i that i feel like that's what i read i could be wrong but i think it was it was something along those lines like they grind out some levels yeah they had to grind out a couple xp levels before they could take the space back over and it was just sitting there empty for a year Talking about that Scientology building, reminding me as something else, we both used to do on the drag all the time. That was like right next to it, we used to be La Fun and Einsteins. Yeah.

It was like two arcades there. And were they both 24 hours or was it just La Fun? I don't remember Einstein's being 25 hours, but it might have been. But I definitely was more of a LaFund. Yeah. What? These are arcades? Yeah, there was like two arcades right next to each other side by side.

What the fuck? Yeah. Why? I hold the 2000s. Yeah. Yeah. And then Arcade. UFO opened up in one of those closed, I think.

Well, I think Arcade UFO was like over. Yeah, it's down the road, but yeah, not in the same area. It's over closer to the- It's like off speedway, I think. Yeah. Well, that's where it was when it opened. Anyway, yeah, it was like, an arcade's already a weird business to have. Typically, you think Arcade is like, if it is, if it does exist, it's in a mall, it's like, no, there were two here and they were side by side on the drag next to where the Scientology building or offices.

Bizarre. Yeah, so when we used to work at the call center, sometimes we would get off, if you got off late at night, we'd either go to Insomnia, which was that coffee shop Jeff was talking about, and or then go to LaFund, which is also right next to it. Damn. Insomnia was on the other side of the arcades from psychology. What did you play mostly? They had, I don't remember what it was called.

They had that stupid game where it was like that giant, almost like a helmet you could put on, and it was like you were in a machine gun or something. You remember that? I don't. It was like when you walked in, it was on the right side. Okay. And then opposite it to the left with the DDR machine. I used to play a lot of DDR back in the day.

I played Gals Panic. They had that. That was a band, too. So I thought it was cool to play the game. That was the band in time. I played, I think they had a yur-cun-foo there. I was a big yur-cun-foo guy at the arcade. Yeah, I don't remember what else.

I was not sober there a lot. No. At the arcade? Yeah. Damn. Those are drunker days. Yeah. When Gus and I were in our early 20s.

Different days. Those places, I mean, I can't remember when, when, Einstein's and the fun clothes. Early 2000. It's been a long time, at least 20 years. Yeah. Why would you open an arcade next to an arcade? There was that much traffic back then.

That's fucking, these arcades packed. Yeah, I know. There's enough traffic for another arcade. Wild. They weren't, and they weren't huge, though. They were pretty small, modest size in terms of arcades. There are no pinballs.

No, definitely not. There's no, what's that place in Buttax? Pinball's kingdom. Pinball's kingdom. Oh, the one that used to be the burger shop? Yeah. Where the hell are we?

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It's also a leasing office. Some guy that's hanging out in his bare feet. You want to hang a left and come back the way we can do? Yeah, I think we should. I'm getting scared. All these young people. Scared. They're going to ask me if I'm goaded and I don't have an answer.

But yeah, this is definitely the part of Austin that I don't. feel as versed in no not at all that that makes sense this is all nothing yeah it was like this uh there's a fraternity that clearly had a big party recently but it's the after effects of it um no one's here because it's spring break these motherfuckers have a basketball core yeah maybe Jesus there I saw this we're walking by this parking meter and it's got like all that plastic wrap on it I saw the dumbest post in the Austin subred it a couple days ago like last week so I was like hey I'm downtown why are all the poles wrapped in this plastic like why you all love wrapping poles in

Austin South by dip shit if you don't wrap the poles and like they're just going to get covered in flyers and stickers and shit yeah why wouldn't you wrap it's easier to wrap it and just take it off at the end I also saw an interesting post the other day about how net migration into the city of Austin is cratering we were taught I think we were talking about that You lost 13,000? It was the most, the biggest drop-off since that maybe ever, but since the 80s, sure. Yeah. It was interesting looking at the graph because the other drop-off, it wasn't as bad as that, was back in 2001 during the dot-com crash.

And that was a pretty significant dip on that graph, but nothing compared to. You know, we knew people that, we knew people that left during that. Yeah. A lot of people we worked with the tele network, that was their exit. Yeah. People that, not that they were still at tele network, necessarily. But people that had left and couldn't find work or whatever, and that was, yeah, the signal to go. I mean, this is causing the housing market to kind of like relax, right, to get back to where it was?

Well, and also, all of the construction that's been going on in Austin for the last five years is completing in various stages. There's more housing available. There's so much housing. If you listen to our vice president, he's praising it. Are you fucking serious? Yeah, you didn't see that speech he did the other day. No. Praising City of Austin decisions that have led to lower housing costs.

Okay. That's hilarious. Don't kill the messenger, man. I just saw it. Why am I moving out of Texas again to get away from these fucking property costs? Yeah, it was a, it was a wild thing to see. There was also that, I'm just going to keep hitting you with the Austin News. Please do, man.

That's what this podcast is. There was also that store. I don't know if either you saw. about how the city council is having to backtrack on a decision they made. They were going to commission a bunch of art for the airport. Ah, and they would. They didn't hire a single Austin or Texas-based artists. Is that right?

It was such a $10.6 million budget and not a single dollar was going to a local artist. They didn't award it to a single fucking dollar in a city of like Austin. Like, let's be honest, Austin over index on artists. You could throw a rock and hit 10 artists in any. direction. Yep. So yeah, that was removed from the city council agenda. They're going to re-evaluate that. It was like, how did it even get to that point? How did it get to that point? Don't want any point along that was like, hey, who are we giving this money to? Why don't we inject some of this these funds into our local community? Spend city money in the city. How about that? Yeah. Now,

dickheads. So stupid. That's crazy. Yeah. That is that's fucking nuts. It's a lot of mine. And the problem is that it just encourages people to be upset about the spending. of money for part in the first place. Which is like, that's not what I'm mad about. That's fine. The argument gets conflated very quickly. Right. It's like the argument is that the money should be spent on local artists. Because even the airport here is unusual in the fact that the places that have food, it's local chains.

Yeah. It's not like you go to most airports and it's like, oh. And by the way, it's what the main attraction to our airport is. It's all anybody fucking talks about is all the food options in the airport. And another by the way, he knows. Another by the way is that. None of that food is very fucking good. It's not.

It doesn't taste anything like the real restaurants. No, not at all. Like, if you think you came to Austin and you had via 313 or salt, like you didn't. Yep. You had a name and it was like you had something that's like 75% as good as it. But you really should go to the actual restaurant. I want to head to get a cup of coffee. There is a coffee shop that Jordan and I go to sometimes around here.

What's it called? Black Dog, maybe, something like that. Lucky Lab. That's exactly what I was looking at. Lucky Lab, yeah. If we go down this all the way and then turn right on, you're never going to believe what road. Noises.

Oh, nuts. Then we'll be pretty close to it. All right. Yeah, so all the airport food places, they all have to get their food from the same vendor. That's the problem. It's like the restaurants can't use their actual vendor. They would use at their real locations.

They have to use Cisco or whatever the airport is, yeah. the airport equivalent of the distributor is. And those chains aren't necessarily, or those locations aren't necessarily run by the businesses. It's like a licensed franchise that's then like the catering company for the airport staffs and takes care of. Which is in no way an indictment on the process. I have no issue with it.

I still eat at those places. They're fine. It's just not the same. It's a distinction, right. It's not the same. It's a distinction. I'd rather, I honestly, I'd rather go there and eat most of a fucking fly right than go and eat burger can.

It's a great point. And I'm happy to continue to promote a local business in whatever form as much as possible. Absolutely. When given the choice, always choose a local business over something that isn't. Especially at the airport. Which is why local artists. No. It'd be like, you know when you land in the Austin Airport and there's some like really sad-looking dude or lady who's sitting on a chair with a guitar playing in the corner.

Can you imagine if those are. people were off from Wichita. They're just like, yeah, we don't want to use any local musicians, so we're just going to ship them all in from. We'll fly. This is an airport. Flying in. Yeah. It's easy. That airport's about to be crazy for several years. I mean, like, the construction is taking off. Nuts. Yeah. When will it finish? Do you know, look, when do you think? I think they said they want to be done in 10 years. I don't think that's a 10-year project. It looks like a bigger than 10-year project, dude. There's a lot happening to that airport. Dude, also, that's a small airport.

There's a lot happening to Austin in every direction. That airport is undergoing insane facelift. Just the time for everyone to be leaving. Just the time for everybody leaving. The convention center is reshaping downtown right now. Coda is developing a fucking theme part. Yeah, there's an amazing park at Coda. Do you know about this?

And hotels and shit. What? Like, it's got a 30,000 square foot. Which makes sense because like when they have an event out there, there's nothing else. It's like a net set. You go. there and that's it. Like, why not build more stuff to try to keep people there and capture more

money? Completely agree and I'm glad to see them doing it. It's just crazy how much is happening all at once. You keep waiting for it to slow down. Yeah. Well, it's also crazy how long it took them to do that out there, Cota. Yeah. Well, I think they're trying really hard to keep their F1 contract because I thought they want to have it done, or at least most of it done before F1. F1. Yes. Yeah. They're going to have a botanical garden in there so that people can get a break from the sun. Yeah, they're going to, there's going to be like roller coasters, like multiple roller coasters. They're trying to do all this stuff before F1 this year. Austin was a city that had an F1 and that put a lot of it on the map.

Hey, guys, we got F1 track. This is like a whole thing. And then all of a sudden it's like, here's Miami and Vegas. And everyone went, what? I'm not going to the Austin one. Yeah. Vegas? Yeah.

Huh? Yeah. Although they really shit. The Vegas one's bad. They have completely and totally fucked that up. Fucking awesome. Yeah, it's pretty cool. The Austin one had a Rocky Lodge too.

It did. It did for sure. But we didn't cut every tree in Austin down to do it. We didn't put fucking. blackout screens on every visible view of the city right it was so weird such a dumb decision yeah it's like yeah say don't even give me started it's like not hiring local artists Vegas isn't really my thing I love it but uh I really want to go back and go to like Fremont I just want to I want to hang out there we're gonna do that for my birthday this

I guess I'm ready content we're gonna go because it'll be 50 this year I was born in 75. So we can only go to restaurants and casinos and hotels that existed in 1975. So, I know it turned into work. I'm going to do content, but. This truck was really thinking about it. Yeah. I'm going to guess, looking at their phone.

He's busy. Tweets. Do you know the first casino to ever open in Las Vegas is still open? Yes, I think only because you told me that. Oh, well, there you are. I was like, I know I heard that. I got Vegas on the brain. Oh, yeah, right.

Yeah. Yeah, then we talked about escalators, I think, right after that. You and I went on one of the longest escalators in the world. Oh, yeah, that's right. There's the longest escalator in the southern hemisphere. The longest escalator, what? Yeah. Think about the long escalator.

It's like you think about when you take an escalator like at the airport and then you get off. Just imagine if you didn't get off. And it kept going. It kept going. Yeah. It was like that. Where did it take you? I think it was at a subway.

It was at a subway station. I think it was in Melbourne. It was in Melbourne. Into the top. We're taking it all the way. I forgot about that. It would be like the longest escalator in the Southern Hemisphere or just another flight of stairs, I guess, when it's like not working. Uh-huh.

That sucks. A lot of stairs. Yeah. That's really a bummer. It's the longest escalator or the reason you're not going to that building today. Yep. I love qualifiers, like, in the Southern Hemisphere. Yes, yeah, yeah.

Or, like, it's like, oh, okay. Like the big tower that's going up in Austin right now at Rainey Street is going to be the tallest tower in the Southwest, you can believe. Residential, in the Southwest. I think even when they built, like, the Frost Bank Tower. Facing Northeast. When they built the Frost Bank Tower, I think they tried to get away with a bunch of qualifiers like that.

Yeah. The tallest commercial construction, western Mississippi, since 1999. Like, there were all those ads. Asterisks put at the end, they like qualify. Just don't say any of that. Right. The Frost Bank Tower seemed like such a big building when they built it. And then I went not too long after that to Chicago for a thing.

Oh, yeah. And it just looked like somebody lopped the top of any building off in Chicago. Oh, yeah. Dropped it in Austin. And I felt so fucking dinky and small. You're taking it right here? Yeah, hang it right. Pizza Press.

What's that? It's probably pizza. Oh, Madame Mims. It's in newspapers. Um. Any of the shit. Yeah, it's funny how very quickly the Frost Bank Tower just became, you couldn't notice it in the skyline.

Yeah. And went from being the impossible to miss to hard to find. Yeah. Daydreamer coffee is pretty. That's a coffee shop. It is. And we're going to keep going past this. Oh, okay.

I don't want to go to whatever's in there. I feel like when we walked by earlier going in this direction, there were two girls sitting outside that pattern. I felt like they were judging me. I think that might be kind of like a you thing. Yeah. They were definitely judging me. Is this a hotel or a fancy place where people live?

It looks like a. solo house. It really does. I think it's a fancy place where people live. It's a lot of expensive foliage. Yeah, there's like someone sitting there working. Foleyage. Foilage, Lisa. Foilage. Nuclear.

How many songs do you think The Simpsons have ruined for you? Because every now and then a song will come on and I'll hear it. I'll be like, I cannot hear this song. I only hear Homer singing it or bar. Oh, I brought it up the other day. Fucking Chumbalamba. Yeah. Tub something. Oh, yeah, yeah. Home we're going, I take a whiskey drink, take a chocolate drink. It wouldn't have to pee and use the kitchen seat.

Yep. Yeah. There are so many songs like that. Simpson specifically have ruined and I can no longer hear the actual original version. I think Nacho Man is probably that. Yeah. Anytime I hear Whip It by Devo, I think of swim. Oh, yeah.

Sing it. Liquorish Whitt. Wiggarish whip. Dressed like a cowboy. Yeah. See my vest. Oh, God. It's great.

What a, man, what a run that show had of just like, all right, we're just not going to miss. We're just not going to miss for years. Yep. Just, I mean, reshape or actually shaped pop culture. Yes. Yeah, it didn't even reach it. It just shaped it. Yeah.

If we hang on left here on 25th and then go right down with the next street, I think that's right. There are so many leafblowers. I was in the seventh grade when the Simpsons debuted. Wow. And it set a bomb. off in my school. Unlike anything I have ever seen culturally before or since. Definitely.

So we go here and then cross again to the right. Go down and go right. That's what we're going on. Yeah, I mean, like when I was a kid, it was such a thing. It was like what, like 89 or whatever? Yeah. It was the star, like I remember that's what I discovered, unlicensed merchandise.

Suddenly, you wanted to go to the flea market so you could get a Don of the Cowman shirt or do the Bartman shirt. It was definitely not on the up and up. No. But that's all the best stuff. Eat pants. Eat pants.

I love that bootlegs. And I feel like, well, generally it's considered that, you know, the Simpsons heyday was back then at that time. I love all of the remixing of Simpsons content that surfaces on social media nowadays. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like there's whole Instagram page is just dedicated to like mashing up Simpson stuff

or redoing it. I feel like Moe has had a whole career outside of the Simpsons, just a meme for it. Yeah, definitely. There we go. Listen, do you make an image of March crumping, put it wherever. I'm clicking, I'm clicking like.

There's a car coming. There's a Marklemping. Oh man this area next to this place used to be on the weekends like there's like an open court area on the other side of this coffee shop on the weekend it used to be where like the hippie fair always was yeah oh really go and get like some shitty drug rug and a necklace and a cool deaf tones vinyl or whatever yeah that was totally yeah I remember you know the good stuff yeah and it's nothing like that anymore it is not I'm gonna go walk over there while you order coffee Eric uh yeah go far let's go right here okay do you want what does you know what to see don't want me I guess not yeah I used to be there I said to be down the courtyard I want to check it out it's no longer the spot no it used to be and I feel like for a long time after those people weren't here selling that stuff here they got kicked out to South Congress.

And they got kicked out there, too. Yeah, and then there was like that empty lot over there where they set up for a long time. So that's where the bookstore was for so long, yeah. And then all of that redeveloped, they got kicked out or they're just gone. They're on the other side of Congress where the church is sometimes over there. And then also uncommon objects moved down to Ben White. Right.

And in the backyard, they have a huge backyard. They have a set up every week in there too. Okay. So they've been. So you can, now you know where to avoid all. all those places you want like a large cold brew yeah you know anything no I'm good cool I'm not insane you guys want to go sit yeah chill a bananaarchy brand of favorite place here oh it's like the exact same trailer with the exact same

sign showing 20 years of age I'm gonna get one this the only other location I know they've moved around the only location I know for them was like up south first over by where outside tattoo used to be. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of close to South First and Mary. Um, I don't know.

I thought they were out of business. I didn't realize, because that was, that time I went there with Brandon, that was, we were still in Ralph Blenado at that point, so that was easily over 10 years ago. And what is, what is banana? Frozen bananas. Like chocolate dipped frozen bananas. It was. Now you're telling me they might not be in business anymore.

Brandon thought it was the greatest thing ever invented. He was like, this is the new snow cone. Mark my words. It's good. They're fine. Yeah. I don't think I've had one in 10 years. Yeah, I haven't had one since that time I went with Brandon.

I might get one now. They are fine. These are the new snow cone. Banana? Actually, it's funny. I had to freeze a banana the other day. And I took out of the freezer and ate it. And I was like, as I was eating, I was like, I forgot how good a frozen banana is.

Oh, that's my preferred method. I hate bananas. I do not like them. I eat one every day. I hate bananas. But if I can, I'll freeze it and I have a frozen banana. Very good. It's surprisingly not as firm as you would think.

Like, I thought it would be, like, biting into, like, an ice cube or something. No, no, no. It holds it safe. I think my problem with the banana is texture. Yeah. I don't like the taste. I don't mind the taste, I guess. Doesn't that tent over there look.

I know. I spelled so fucked up. It looked like where Karen Allen would live in an Indiana showless thing. The dude's going to show up with the, uh, collapsible coat hanger. Yeah. It's pretty good. It's pretty cool. Very out of place.

Yeah. But that's definitely how I feel over here. very out of place. Oh, there's a giant moth on you. That's fucking true. What? I didn't feel it yet is right there. I didn't feel like I was in place

when I was of the age to be here. I was trying so desperately to fit in. Yeah. I definitely don't know. They see you coming from a mile away. I, uh, before we came here, obviously it's a burger episode. So it's not the morning.

But before I came out to meet you guys, I was sitting at my house and I heard like, maybe a knock at my front door. Or maybe like Amazon dropped a package and like the package at my front door or something. It's like, that's weird. I'm not expecting anything.

So I pulled up the security camera footage, and it was not a package. It was not Amazon. It was a hawk head cornered a pigeon. No way. My front of the door. Caught it, slammed it into the ground, and started eating it right in front of my door.

Wow. I was like, oh, that's great. You should put that on TikTok. I was like, nature is fucking scary. Like that pigeon, which is flying around, ended up like in an awkward position, and the hawk just like swooped in. and made it.

One wrong move. One long pigeon move. I mean, that's birds. You can't trust them. And then the hawk's sitting there eating the pigeon on my front door. And then two crows show up. And I'm wondering, like, are they mad at the hawk? Or no, they're wanting to eat some of the pigeon, too. They're hoping for left doors.

Yeah, they're coming for the scraps. I didn't realize we had crows like that here. They were fucking huge. That's crazy. At first I thought they were grackles. I was like, no, that's the size of my dog. Do you know why you don't know about this, Chris? Too healthy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give it a couple years. You'll see nothing but those crows. The thing that freaks me out when I get close to them, and I feel like I've been close to them more in like the last couple weeks than recently, is like the buzzards or like the vultures that fly around. There's a couple of times, like I go over to like Barrett's, a park and kind of like walk over.

And there's one just like standing on like an easement, eating something that has just been there and it'll eat it and it'll fucking look at me. and then just goes back, and I'm like, this is fucked up. I don't, I can't find buzzards to be scary because of Bugs Bunny cartoons. Yeah, when I see a buzzard, that's when I think of it, they go, doodoo, do that's slow dumb bastards.

Stupid-ass bird. There's no threat. They look. Except they're big. Yeah, and they have like that turkey head. Yeah, and they have like that big turkey head. They need dead things. Yeah.

They definitely have like dinosaur features. Definitely. You shouldn't still exist. What to you is the most dinosaur bird? There's that shoe bill. You will never top a shoe bill. That's a pretty good one. It's a dinosaur-looking bird.

The way they move, to me, it's roadrunners. They are, they look like the little dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. The way like they skitter and then like look around. It doesn't, yeah. They put their head down and start running. It like, it doesn't look like a bird doing it. It looks like a lizard.

It looks like those fucking things. What are those things called cap-capes or something? The little dinosaurs in Jurassic? Jurassic Park? Something like that. It's not right, but it's something, yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, those little ones. What's the, what's the big blue-headed bird that like fucking got like crazy? It's like a big

emu-looking thing. Cass-Cass. Oh, the, yeah. Oh, I thought you were talking about the bald eagle in, uh, in Muppets? In Muppets, yeah. Uh, no, I don't think he's a dinosaur. I think he's a Patriot. He's a Sam Eagle? Yeah, Sam Eagle. Yeah, was it, Cassoway. Was it, Cas-Away? Cassiwary. Yeah. They will kill you. Yeah, they're fucking crazy. That's a, that's a, that's a

I learned that for Farkart 3. Exactly. Me too. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got to be careful. You have to look out. They got the big claws. They'll sneak up on you. There was a punk band in Austin for many years called Gals Panic,

named after the arcade machine. And they had a song called Kick It Like a Cassowary. Oh, that's awesome. I want to pop it to my head. That's so fucking cool. Man. We're on episode seven. Yes, we are.

We have one more. One more. Of the season. And then we have to be. have a vote on if we're continuing to do this or not. But we're at like the 40, 45 minute mark, like right around there. If we don't like the outcome, can we demand a recount? Is there like an electoral college situation here?

Does my vote count for like 13? Well, let's talk about it because I vote no. Oh, classic Eric. Yeah, yeah. I vote that what happens, happens. The audience was afraid of you saying that. Did you see that? Yeah.

It was a bunch of people online go like, I thought Eric was going to say no. Why would I say no? This is the easiest thing. Hey, what's up? You want to get a free hamburger or a free cup of coffee? Well, if you insist. I guess. Yeah, well, okay.

But we do have to vote. Like, next episode is the big vote. Yeah. Where are we going for the last episode? Do you guys want to do the, what is it, T&I? I'm cool with whatever. I thought it would be funny to do the Burleson T&I.

Because that's where Gus and I met. Yeah. But. Let's get a cup of coffee and go there. Because we can get the coffee. We can record driving over there. Yeah. And then we can go there.

and show you that yeah i think it's a good idea i think it's funny uh so we'll get coffee somewhere don't you don't you meet us there listeners yeah yeah 10 weeks in the past exactly exactly yeah don't worry i'll get these to richard they should come out more timely but uh i like how long it takes honestly i think it's funny yeah people and also after the last episode we never said anything about like how long we're going to be off for so it's just like listen i saw some people say like oh are they going to start a patreon i'd love to you know send them money no No, see, because now there's no pressure, there's no expectation. We can do it how we want.

It comes out when it comes out. And we're not trying to make money off the else. Right. Go give to the other patrons that are. Exactly. Give that money to Stinky Dragon or regulation. 100% eat. No, you get the money through regulation.

We had a, I had a lot of people reach out to me, be like, hey, I want to buy you guys a cup of coffee. Like, can you let me know how much it is? And I'll send you the money. And I just went, I'll let you know if that's something that happens. And it's like, this seems like, no that's such a cool offer and i really appreciate it and if this was something that we were still at rooster teeth with or if we were like a different company and like this was like a

thing like with an indefinite sort of whatever then what a cool idea yeah hey buy us a cup of coffee hey this is hey thanks mark from langston whatever but like mark for langston's having a good day is right there one guy was washing his dishes and he dropped it on the ground It's a real Kaiser Sozey moment There never was a mark in length I feel like that's a real throwback to the way the internet used to work Like that's how we did like drunk gamers back in the day Or the early days of which TV just like put a PayPal button back then

You know it's like, hey if you like it send us a buck or whatever And I really appreciate people asking if that's something they can do And if it is maybe some if it's something we continue maybe it is something that we do Because we can set up they didn't ask until we were well into like this season I like the no pressure I like the no pressure I like the no but that's the thing

is that I don't want and I don't think they would ever be upset oh you didn't do this or whatever it's like there's an obligation factor to it that

this is just us hey do you want to get a hamburger yeah oh we should go to this instead like yeah it just overcomplicates it and this is like

to be totally clear this is my this is third in my list of priority professionally it's got to be probably third and yours I imagine it's second

or third in yours something like that And so we have to eliminate any barrier to ease. Yeah. Because if it gets difficult to do, we won't want to do it. So we have to make it as easy. And the easiest way for us to do it is just to get together and let regulation buy us coffee. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's essentially what it is. And we're happy with that. Yeah. That woman left that business, walked out, went somewhere, and they came back carrying a Starbucks drink and a Starbucks pastry. She did. That or Uber driver.

There is a local place right here. She fucking hates that concept right there. Yep, yep, yep. I guarantee you. What I liked is it looked like she walked up to the door and then read the sign, but it was like the sign that she put there. And it was like, you can just go in, you just left.

You're good. Don't worry about it. You're fine. Let's talk about Dirty Martins a little bit. What did you guys get? I got the comeback burger, the large comeback burger fries, and Jeff ordered some corn fritters.

Yeah, I got a BLT fries and the corn fritters, which is my usual order. Sometimes I'll get the tater tots, but I'll be honest, the tater tots there are just okay. Yeah, I got the, it's, I'd never been, I got the Hobbino burger, and the lady was like, listen, if this is your first time I'm having it, just put them on the side. They're pickled in-house, they're pickled hobaneros sliced up, and you can put them on how you want, but like, that's what we advise people for the time they come. That's the right way to do it. They're not, they're not crazy hot, but I did my best to not get a ton of. of seeds and in like the little ramekin thing that they gave me there were a lot of pieces with a lot of fucking seeds and if I was eating a burger that size I got the small one is pretty small

it was loaded up with that amount overwhelming holy shit it would be a lot a lot that place rocks I want to go back and eat there for dinner yeah like it's so fucking good there's a reason it's been around for 99 years yeah and I think that it's a good that place is a good metaphor for a lot other things we talk about in this podcast as I was excited to go there is it's a beloved institution it's been there for years it might be going away so yeah like things change the city's always changing roost your teeth went away like there's just like a lot of constant evolution yeah and you know if you enjoy something go there while you can you know and enjoy it while it's there yeah go there as much as you can while you can and I think that's I think that's totally cool and like that was

great I went went there got a burger and like a tall beer and then we walked a bunch and I got like an ice coffee and I feel great. I'm gonna get a band on the way out. It's like, damn, whoa, Brandon. This is where people move here. Like, we're in that window of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I was just reminded of

when we were talking about enjoy it while you can? Players. Oh, yeah. There was a strip club? No, no. There was another hamburger restaurant. It was like at the corner of MLK and Guadalu. It was like right there.

And it was very similar to, well, it wasn't similar at all to Dirty Martin's, but it was just like a college burger restaurant that they Their big thing was mults. They had, like, great mulch you could get. And that was a place that they fought closure for many, many years, like Dirty Martin's doing, put it off for a long time. You know, they were protests, people signed signatures, the whole thing.

And then eventually it closed. There was an idea that maybe it would open up in another location somewhere, and it didn't, and the world is just without a player's, and it no longer exists. And that'll probably happen to Dirty Martins at some point. So enjoy the hell out of the light. They had awesome any rings of players. They did. Yeah.

I miss those ironings. I like their molds. Damn. It just had like that simple green neon sign It was like a little parking lot out front Now there's like a tower there There's like a giant building there It turned into yeah

It's like oh yeah You you needed the land for something There's something very big here Like everything else It's condos with a sprinter on the bottom floor It's uh you know it is what it is But man this was this was nice getting out on a day like this And doing this or whatever

When we had a couple of really cold episodes Yeah I brought it It was cold this morning I brought a jacket I left in the car Yeah The low today was 35 The high today is 81. It's currently 74.

That's a big spread. Almost a 50 point temperature swing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fucking crazy. That's what I'm used to back home. Like, I didn't know that temperatures kind of stayed in like short ranges until like I moved. It was just like, oh, you wake up and it's like 38 and then like the day it's like 92. And you go, yeah, it's just, you know, it's hot.

It's hot in the afternoon. Do you like 90 to 1.5? Because boy, have I got a place for you. Oh, maybe. like 105 at 5 p.m. Try at 105 at 1 a.m. It hits totally different. The lowest 88. When is that at? 4.5. 4.15 for 8 minutes. When is the sunrise? 10 minutes before that. Brutal. That's what we're going to get into. I think it's going to be a hot, hot summer. I think so. It's very high. Very little rain. Very little rain. My neighbor keeps complaining about it. He's just like

rain. Mixed desperately water in his trees. We got into it with Nick today during recording for Gavin got into it for probably 10 minutes about his he's trying to like water these trees that he has but he didn't have time and it was like this whole thing and Gavin's like she's set up like a sprinkler and Nick's like I don't I like watering them and they just fought and fought and fought and it was like Eric was just needling well yeah because all I wanted it was like he's it's the best time to do it and I'm like right but you didn't have time you were almost late for this recording if only there was an automated system he's like right but that's the best time for the tree and I went yeah but what's the best time for Nick right I want to know what

the best thing for Nick is what podcast is the tree on I don't remember the name of it's what I'm saying he's paying for the tree the green life just get one of those tree bladder things like the rings that you fill up a water around it that's done yeah but he likes it and then Gavin couldn't understand so Gavin attacked him what is the tree like water well it doesn't matter how it's getting yeah it was two trees and Gavin attacked him for a long time we didn't know it was two trees to the last bit it was a big revelation that's a very it was very exciting having Gavin just question a guy about his like tree watering habits when yeah i don't know that gavin can keep anything alive it's pretty exciting you got cats that are trying to kill him actively so i don't know

he's pretty nuts he can't use a ceiling fan because there's gonna be wasps of it uh well dirty martins recommend big style yeah thought it was great 10 out of 10 on the uh on the food uh this ice coffee from lucky lab i really like also yeah it's about it's about the same as the ice coffee i had last week. Oh, high price. Clack in bushes. Yeah, this is very good. It's totally fine.

It's cold and it's warm out, so I love it. But all right, I think that will do it for us this week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sneaky two for, I've done a coffee review anyway. That's the way we do it here. It's maximum content. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're welcome for maximum content.

But next week, live from the parking lot. Will we do another episode? Hopefully an episode where a place that we have anything to talk about whatsoever. Yep. We will see, but any wise words for the people listening to him? Eat a banana. What the heck?

Freeze it first. Oh, that's a good idea. All right, cool. Let's see you next time. Bye.