ANMA - Let Congress Go

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

Good morning, Gus! Gus and Geoff are back with another season and they kick it off with a walk & talk down Congress where they check out Little Brother coffee and talk about the changing landscape of a street that's ubiquitous with Austin. Also welcome to the "Gus Paid with a Check" saga. 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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I went to the grocery store and paid with a check. Alright, well, first of that's why we're doing this. Like let's let's get into how season two of Good Morning Gus began. No contact from Gus. Let's start that. Let's start with that. I haven't heard from Gus since November of last year probably. Uh huh. Not a like Merry Christmas or whatever. Which is fine because I didn't get sent it to you either. We should say it's February now because this will probably come out in October.

Yeah, yeah. We'll get it out sooner. Oh, my God. This place has all the best animals. It's like February 5th or something. That's Alan Boots is what he's talking about. That's cool. I can see you guys in it. It's a good photo. Raccoon playing the guitar.

It looked like. Hell, yeah. Or a ukulele. Yep. So out of the blue, Gus text Eric and I last night. I just paid for my groceries with a check. And Eric goes, Good morning, Gus. Tomorrow morning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then we just planned it. You guys want to start recording now?

It was it was just such a out of left field. Of course, this is what we're going to be talking about thing. Well, why did you do this? There's something I used to say back in like the Rooster Teeth days when I was on a ton of podcasts. Uh huh. Because lots of times I'll put myself in an unusual situation to have something to talk about.

Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. I was at a grocery store. I wasn't like, I went to HEB yesterday and while I was checking out at HB This is not why I paid with a check. Well, I was checking out at HB It took forever for my credit card to process But I said I stood there for a long time and I asked the cashier like is it broken? Do I need to like tap it again? She's like no, it's just slow and then later eventually it worked

And then later in eventually it worked. And then later in the day I read in the Austin subreddit that all of HEV's payment terminals, in the city at least, were down. You had to pay cash at HEV. I was like, oh, that's weird, that sucks. And then later in the night, I needed to run to like a neighborhood little grocery store,

not like a big store, but small neighborhoods. Not a convenience store either, just like in between, right? So when I go to a lot go in grab a couple things that I forgot checking out tap my card again takes forever and it says like cannot process transaction oh and then like one of the other dudes who was working there not my cashier is like oh is it saying cannot process like I need to go reboot the the internet he's like so he leaves he goes like into the back office with that guy's like give it a minute it'll work. Wait a minute or two still not working. He's like let me reboot

it again. He goes into the back reboots it again wait a few more minutes. Still not working. Oh god. You have cash. I was like are you serious? Oh my god. He's like well you come in here a bunch. I recognize you. He's like he gives me like a little receipt. He's like just next time you come in here a bunch. I recognize you. He's like, he gives me like a little receipt. He's like, next time you're in, you can pay this. And I'm like, I've got my checkbook in the car. He's like, what?

I was like, yeah, I've got checks in the car. Hold on, I'll bring it back. So I went into my car, wrote a check for like six bucks or whatever it was I owed them. Went back in and handed it to him. There is a joy in handing Gen Z kids a check because everyone who worked there was like a high school kid.

I will never experience the joy in your talking. Yeah. The joy in your talking dude. I think they all looked at me like I was trying to run some kind of scam. Yeah. I think I would have looked at you that way. Yeah dude, yeah.

I was like, here you go. And there was the manager who had rebooted the internet like looked at it. He's like, hold on a sec. It's like, I guess I could just zero this. Yeah, yeah. He's like, oh yeah, you're good. It's fine.

He doesn't even know how to sell it. They don't know how to receive a check. He doesn't know how to sell it against a check. I guess I can zero the, I guess I'll just do it like you didn't buy anything. What do you think? So I'm curious to see if this check clears my bank or if they just threw it away. No shit.

Do you think that is the only check they will receive this year? Dude. That is the only check those people will ever see in their lives. Dude, they're talking the way we're talking about on this podcast is the way they went home and told all their friends, dude, this fucking guy came in and wrote a check today. It's like and their friends like, are you serious? I saw that in the museum.

I saw a check in a museum. It had the guy's name and address and a bank. Dude, like now I know where he lives. Fucking idiot. Hotel San Jose on the left. Pretty cool place. Oh, yeah, we went to a little brother here in South Congress. I wanted to do something that felt like hip Austin, Austin, awesome. I don't know if I'd call it hip. South Austin is like the fucking spot. Yeah, all the tourists. Yeah, yeah, to the tourists. Well, San don't know about that. So all the tourists come.

Yeah, yeah, to the tourists. Well, San Jose's still the same, but all of this is so different. Yeah. Yeah. This South Side Tattoo used to be over there on Mary Street, and that's where I got my tattoos. Used to be Incredible Link, actually. And then they changed the name to South Side Tattoo

with the move, I believe. But same people, yeah. You and I both, that was our tattoo spot for years. I lost that place in my first divorce. So my first wife was friends with my tattoo artist, and so I had to make a clean break. That's good. Congratulations. Yeah.

It's been here for a long time now in South Congress. It's probably been here since oh, four? Yeah, probably since before that, oh three, oh two, somewhere around there. Do you think most of their business is people walking in, like tourists, like walking in going, I'm gonna get a tattoo in Austin. There's a fair amount of that,

but I mean, there's a pretty decent, there's a couple of decent artists in there that are pretty booked out. Yeah. So they, I think they have like, they probably have a couple of tattoo, like younger artists that have a walk-ins. Yeah.

But the serious artists would be appointment only, I'm sure. Interesting. There's a guy named Chris that used to tattoo that, a walk-ins. But the serious artists, the appointment only I'm sure. Interesting. There's a guy named Chris that used to tattoo that it was really good. And then next to it, Austin Landmark, I think everyone knows Continental Club. I think I've only been in there two or three times

in the entire time I've lived in Austin. Have you ever been to Continental Club? Yeah, yeah, I've been a few times. I saw Mojo Nixon play there once in like 96. Yeah, it's about, I think everything you just said is like the most Austin thing you could have said. It's pretty, it's pretty special. So this place behind us, Hotel San Jose,

is kind of a cool story because of the lady that created it. Her name is... San Jose? Yeah, her name is Melissa San Jose. No, her name is Melissa San Jose. No, her brother is the guy who started the... Hold on, I'm going to cover that for a second, so I can't remember those names. I can make it on my own.

Gus isn't helping. What's the barbecue restaurant on Franklin? The barbecue? Okay. So her name is So it's a little brother. This is all cut. I'm trying to know why baby this is it. What are you talking about? This is what this is what the show is. Little brother. Yeah, I can make it on my own.

Okay, so anyway, so the lady the lady who started Hotel San Jose, her name is Liz Lambert. And she's from Austin, became a lawyer. I guess wasn't happy. I'm telling somebody else's story, but as I understand it, wasn't happy working in law in New York. Decided to come back to Austin, bought the Austin Motel when it was an absolute shithole. I stated it when it was like $25 a night shithole. It was a sketchy, scary place. Flipped it around, turned it into a boutique hotel,

started this thing called Bunk House. Bought Hotel San Jose. She owns, well owned, the Havana Hotel in San Antonio, the El Cosmico in Marfa that all the celebrities stay at. And then also a place over here called Hotel St. Cecilia, which is an old mansion just off the road back here. It's a super private. And eventually she sold Bunkhouse to,

I don't know, somebody else. And then I think it's owned by Hilton now, and I don't think she has anything to do with it. But yeah, she created this whole kind of hub in the 90s, and it was really, I don't know, it was cool. And her brother is the guy who started Lambert's, the barbecue restaurant. The weed Lambert, I don't know, it was cool. And her brother is the guy who started Lambert's. The barbecue restaurant. Cool.

Louis Lambert, I think. Yeah, yeah. And so- Why did you stay at Austin Hotel when it was $25 a night? Motel. Motel. We were, it was a cheap place to stay in Austin, back when I was in the army.

Oh, you, oh, okay, okay, okay. To put it in perspective, before the late 90s, like all of this here, the South Congress, was a little like super sketch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you could like pull up in your car and buy drugs from someone standing on the side of the street. And like, this was all I remember in the late 90s when they started all this road construction between, I don't know, between like the river and Ben white.

Yeah. And it was like, Oh, that's probably the midnight is actually. And it was like, Oh, all of this is going to change. Yeah. And then that started the evolution into what it is now. Yeah, nicer South Congress. And then that led to the gentrified South Congress

that you see now. I would spend any time down here. When I stayed at the Austin Motel, it would have been 94 and 95, probably twice. And it was the kind of place where you, like five of us were going surfing in Corpus Christi for the weekend or whatever, you stop in Austin, you rent the room and then you go,

it's the kind of motel that you go into and you don't leave again until you leave the next morning. Yeah, like the door shuts and you just stay in. But what if you've already eaten and everything? There's nothing to do. You're not hanging out. Now the Hermes store is like right across the street from it. It's like it is such a radical change from what it used to be back then. Could it be a bigger change?

Also, Joe's coffee shop right here is locally famously. I love you so much. Is on that side there, yeah. That's Liz Lambert, she's the one that wrote that. She also, the same lady that owns the hotels. I didn't know that. She wrote that for her girlfriend at the time. I think they broke up years and years and years ago,

but the message remains. That's fun. Why is the John Deere store above Marine Layer on South Carolina? I'm wondering that too. I'm wondering that too. That doesn't track with everything. It's gotta be like a headquarters or something.

Right, but it's like Howler Brothers Marine layer. Like everything's here. The Gorham Brothers hat shop, like everything's here. And then the second floor is John Deere. You know what that used to be? What? Alta Vista. Really?

Yeah, it used to be right there. Whoa, where was Lycos? Are you thinking of the Excite building? Or was it Excite? I thought it was Alta Vista here. It was Excite and it was further down. No, it was here, wasn't it? I thought it was over across from the porn store.

No, no, there was an Altavista here too. The porn theater? I think they were both here. There was the Excite building down there. Yeah, I think this used to be Altavista here. Okay. Wow. Back in the late 90s.

Right there, that Aviator Nation store. I fucking hate that store. Oh, really? I hate that fucking store. What is it? They make the most generic, like I put a guy surfing on a t-shirt and it looks like eighties, ocean Pacific.

Look at the logo. Oh, it's just ocean Pacific. With like seventies. It's always like horizontal stripes of patterned colors, but they'll charge you, you can go in and buy like a, what looks like a comfy hoodie for like $400. It sounds like you just described what Marine Layer is,

except they didn't slap a surfer guy on yeah And we layers the non surfer version Maybe a donation. I think a via nations better a little bit a little bit rather than long It was a very similar now that I mean, it's exactly the same. It's horizontal Sunsetty stripes, which when I look at it, I have a real fondness for I love the look The look is great goes and it pisses me off exactly because it's $400 for a spolt and for what looks like a spalding hoodie Yeah, and I'll tell you guys this without I don't want to call anybody out on our podcast

Yeah, but we all worked with somebody who was a big aviator nation type person. Yeah, really? I bet you can Work, I can take some yeah, I can take some Gavin free. There you go. Classic sales guy. Classic sales. Do we keep walking down the road? Yeah, yeah, let's keep let's keep hustling. So we went to a little brother. You guys got kolaches. Yeah. Some coffee or whatever. But again, I wanted to get somewhere that was like.

What is a place that maybe you guys spent time in before? And now where we're at is so it's just fucked. I've spent a lot of time on this street in all iterations of it. Yeah. Back in the 90s. This was the this was what you did every weekend. You get up you'd come down to South Congress. You'd go to antique stores. There was a place called Uncommon Objects.

Yeah. You could spend three hours in it was like a labyrinth of like just walls of junk that they've kind of carved around. They just moved recently, right? No, it's still around. And it moved maybe six or seven years ago from here. It's over by it's over on Ben White over where it is. It's like Camino South. Yeah, Camino South is.

Yeah, they've got like a little hub of old Austin over there. And on the weekend, they have a big yard and on the weekend they have like markets and shit in the back. It's actually pretty cool. If you're looking to look for insanely overpriced antiques and crap, go to Uncommon Objects in Austin. It is very expensive.

But then I had a membership to the Solo House which is up here for a while, So I'd come here for that. Yeah. Cancel that because it was dog shit. But also my favorite restaurant in Austin is on the street. So I come pretty regularly. Is it that?

Abba. Abba. That Mediterranean place? Yeah. Been there a couple of times with you. That's a cool spot. This place is really good too. What is it called now?

It's Jolene's. Joanne's. Joanne, sorry, Joanne. I was thinking of the I was thinking of the Dolly Parton song, the Dolly Parton song for some reason. Used to be El Soli La Luna and then before that, Oh, yeah. El Soli La Luna, which moved to Sixth Street for a while. But I don't think they've been there forever.

Sixth Street, totally different. Have you guys seen what's happening? Not in person. I drove by it the other day. Really crazy. Really gross. Yeah, they used to close the street on the weekends so pedestrians could wander and puke all over the place.

But now they're not closing the street and it's still open, or they're keeping it open so cars can drive down. I don't understand how that's better. For security. But I don't understand how that's better. It's an interesting idea from the way that I understand it is the closed street gives people more space to fight.

Yes. But the open streets. But this they closed it in a response to the issue to the thing in New Orleans. Yes. Yeah. Which was somebody driving exactly what it was. So now they've given a lane to drive. Yes. That's what on the metal barriers are fucking dog shit. None of it makes any sense to me. And I saw some videos on TikTok.

Apparently you just cannot walk up and down six streets anymore at night. No, yeah, it's just, well, because it's just lines coming out of like Jackalope or whatever. There's a cult up here. Yeah. Be careful, don't get indoctrinated. What the fuck is this?

It's a bunch of people in like shirts and blue caps. This Ginny's ice cream's pretty good out of here. Yeah, it is really good. There used to be, man, all these places are different. This is like so wild. This used to be a place that sold paper mache fucking, like Mexican masks and dragons and stuff. But they were like $1,200

and they were so fancy and well-crafted. And I used to have to do all kinds of paper mache projects with my second wife. And I would always come here and just were so fancy and well crafted and I used to have to do all kinds of paper mache projects with my with my second wife and I would always come here and just be so angry at how good their paper mache was Awesome, and also be like who would pay for this and I guess no one it's a Store now, so I guess this used to be like Blackbird over here. Yeah. Yeah Blackbird Yeah, that's been gone forever Don't keep going. You want to cruise around? What do you guys want to do?

And then let's cross this line. Okay. Yeah, let's cross. Yeah. No, no, you guys are all good. So it's all boutiques. It's all boutiques. You guys want to cross?

Oh, yeah. Clothing stores and stuff. Yeah. It. Let's wait here. Let's not rush because we can still talk. Yeah, it was all boutique clothing stores. And back then, I remember the move was to park back here,

up this street and like around the corner, because everyone would try to park on Congress right here. You could just park like one street over and walk around. You just park around the corner, you start at one end and then, yeah. That's what I do on E6, like park, like everyone wants to get like in the middle of it. I just park by like Violet Crown Social Club,

and then you have like the whole length to walk. Yeah. And it's like, that just seems easier than having it. I'm going to drive down this. Why? Yeah, it is weird to see. I mean, I guess it makes sense. And it was always going to be this way.

But it is a little weird. I definitely have gotten used to it, to see Cezanne and Hermes and Reformation. Well, what's weird to me is that when you look at the east side, like where there's Billy Reed, like we said Blackbird used to be and all of this stuff, this building's still the same. This has always been here. You turn around and look at the west side, none of that was here.

Nothing. There was like that Docks South Congress garage over here. There was that dry cleaner over there and then a little further south. Oh, that box was all right. Yeah, but like none of these other buildings were on this. I'll tell you this, on the, what is this, the east side, there wasn't a single building that was two stories. Right.

Oh, is that right? Across the entire street, until those apartments down the road got built in the early 2000s. All of this, it all looked like, it all looked like the fucking, the shopping 2000s. All of this, it all looked like it all looked like the fucking the shopping center where like where amy's is over there. Yeah, it was just old, cute little rundown buildings. Right, right. I think all of those people are from that cleaning service. Yeah, that cleaning service. And they're doing like a like a first day showing you around here or whatever, which I guess is cool.

I appreciate that they all had uniforms on and they were nice uniforms with like embroidered shit on it and they seem to be taking it seriously. Yeah. Oh, that was cool. There's no one driving that car. Waymo. Oh yeah.

Let's just go. I got invited into the Waymo thing and then I couldn't use the invite, it didn't work. So I'll never know. Sad. You talked to Brandon Farmahini about it. You gotta drive your own car now like an idiot yeah I just have you drive me around oh you come here you come here to the Hermes store like every week right oh yeah I'm here all the time yeah they know you I

actually I designed the horse with the fucked up eyes and the dog with the fucked up eyes I those are my guys. You're like Norm from Cheers in here. Yeah. Yeah, but they call me Norm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Shop now at nofrills.ca. I think if I walked into an Hermes store, they would immediately tell me to go. And yeah, you took the wrong turn, buddy. Isn't there, there's like an episode of The Simpsons where Homer's mad at Moe and starts trying to go to new bars. Yeah. Walks into like a fancy bar and like,

the door greeter comes up to him and is like, please leave, sir. Yeah. If I lived around this area or whatever, this would be really cool to walk down and then go to Joe's to get some coffee or a little brother. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like that that would be neat. But like so much of Austin now is like if you don't live in the pocket, you have to drive to the pocket. And then it's just crazy that we have pockets now. Austin didn't use to have pockets. He just used to have places you drove to. I mean, that's really interesting. I grew up in a city of pockets. Yeah. San Diego was just like little islands with stuff like you had to drive in between or whatever Now it's a little more spread out and it's not so pocketed But Austin is all just like it's this neighborhood. Yes big time. Big time.

This is the garbage pocket. Yeah, well who in the garbage pocket? So this used to be the fucking place to park too back in the early days. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. This Amy's here if I'm remembering right Used to be it was the first Schlotzky's. Yes, you used to be, it was the first Schlotzky's. Yes, you are correct. It was the very first Schlotzky's. Yeah.

Yeah. It was just like an Austin company that nobody remembers. People think that this has been here forever and it hasn't been. Ames came in in the 2000s, I think, early 2000s, right? Yeah, which is, I guess, comparatively a long time, but yeah, it's not like iconic. I remember it when it was the new Ames, I guess, comparatively a long time, but yeah, it's not like... I remember when it was the new Amys, I guess is what I'm saying.

Lucky Robot? Lucky Robot used to be Zen Japanese fast food. What I'm going to say about Lucky Robot is I respect that at the door they put rated number two sushi. Dude, I think that... They did not have the gall of the best sushi in town or anything. Dude, not only did they do that, they said in big letters, rated number two sushi, rated number one best ramen lower, smaller font.

I respect that. I respect the honesty and how forthright they are. It's like, listen, we're at the best, but we're up there. They're essentially saying it's better to be number two at sushi than number one at ramen. We're the number one best ramen, but don't fucking worry about that. I'm here for the sushi, we're number two.

Then of course, a lot of tattoos Gus and I got here at Southside Tattoo. Yeah, not at this location. I got... You never came to this location? I don't think I ever came to this location. I went to the other one. Back in the day. I don't think I've been there in 15 years.

Are we gonna get Good Morning Gus tattoos? No. Huh? I was, I was. You do like a, what if we did this? What if you guys got G's and I got an M? And then all together we're GMG. I could do that.

We go to like football games to take our shirts off. Yeah. I think we have to put it on. We put it on the back of our hands and we all put our fists in. Yeah. We'll have to find a place. It's a great idea. I'm totally down with that. My wife would kill me if I had a hand tattoo.

My wife went, you can get whatever tattoo you want. Please don't put anything on your hands. Really? Why is that a line? I don't know. Yeah, see this one talking about Eric. That's like a $350 hoodie. Yeah.

And it's a nice looking hoodie. It's great, they look great. And it trades on my childhood nostalgia, which bugs me. Ocean Pacific. Yeah. I want everything to be... I want everything that I wear to have a small logo on the front and a big logo on the back. Hell yeah.

OPPO, Gotcha, Catch It, Body Glove. You're talking about nostalgia for old brands and whatnot. My wife sent me an Instagram reel this morning and it was like, tells me like Gen X ASMR. And it's like three people sit on the couch and behind them a dude's like fucking with a VCR and they have to like guess what the sound is or like the 3D viewfinder.

And I was like, oh, that's kind of funny. It was a reel made by AARP. Oh, you serious? Yeah, and I was like, oh, I hate this. Brutal. By the way, what the fuck is, like I remember Bernie had a King Ranch truck and King Ranch is a ranch. Yeah. King Ranch truck like the King Ranch version of like an F 250.

Oh, really? 150. But now it's a store where they sell clothes and shit. So are they just turning it into like a? Yeah, it looks like it's like a Duluth trading company. They probably just pivoted the brand. It's like now it's a this. I think if I remember, King Ranch was like the biggest rent in Texas. It was like in South Texas near Corpus.

Yeah. Now they sell wine glasses and plates, ceramic plates with a stack. They dress me up with like a gaucho pack and they go get this picture. We'll shoot it on film. Yeah, I think with the truck, it was like the leather was like the King Ranch leather from like the makes sense. Kind of like how there's like an Eddie Bauer edition of something. Yes, I think it's just like an evolution of that where it's like, now it's just a brand. Now it's just a brand.

Crazy. But I mean, that's most stuff, right? Most stuff is just a brand. Went into that store over the weekend because my wife. What's that? This one here? That little shoe store over there. Because my wife wife. What's that? This one here? That little shoe store over there. Cause my wife wanted to look at her shoes. They make like little elf shoes.

Like if you wanted to be like, like I just kept going like walking behind her going, rabble dabble. Doing the ice cream with Jeannie. So she didn't buy any of the elf shoes? She didn't buy them. That sounds right. They were, not because she didn't like them

because they were very expensive. Oh, I thought maybe it was cause you kept saying rabble dabble. Yeah, it cost a lot of, yeah, rabble dab Oh, I thought maybe it's because you kept saying a lot of the yellow dabble Didn't didn't slow her down at all. It costs a lot of money to be an elf We might want to stop for sex. I figure we're on TV slice, but they're leaf blowing up front of there right now stop So this was of course the first home slice is only two now, but We came here a lot. It's funny to me. I cannot remember when they open It's like they just were there

and then we just started going at some point. But I know, I can remember they weren't always there. I remember the time before they were there. But inside there, they've expanded a bit. This is the original one. Then across the street is that, I think they call it like Home Slice 2, which is like a pickup only thing.

Which is the place to go, by the way. Right. But inside here, if you eat in the restaurant itself, there's like a big mural of an elephant. Like a big top carnival circus style mural. And the inspiration for the Rooster Teeth depressing mural was from that mural. We came here, and we all thought it was really cool.

So we looked up who painted the mural in here, and we contacted that person. And the same person who did the Rooster Teeth mural is person the same person who did the wristy murals also same person Yeah, that's cool. Blue genie art is who did it. Oh, really? Yeah, I think we actually asked them who made your mural Oh, wow, it was Rory Skagen. Yeah Incredibly talented dude incredibly talented is this the home slice that has like the big back patio. Yeah. Yeah, there is one out here Yeah, this is the first home slice. I ate at the other Is it real? Well, I was the first home slice. Yeah.

The other rub on this place, the only story I have to share, and I think we've probably talked about it in GMG before or on, I guess, is the lady who started home slice named My Dog Era. Oh, that's right. I went to a dinner with her and she's the one who gave me the name. There's a there's always this people like to talk, right? Like, why is they love it, man? Why talk, right? Like why is it? They love it, man.

Why does home sliced pizza taste the way it does? Why does it taste so good? And there's always been like this conspiracy theory that they ship in the water. They ship in the water. Yeah. From the East Coast somewhere. And who knows if that's true or not. But I will say this, like seven years ago,

the city of Austin had a problem with the water system and everyone had to boil their water and you couldn't use the water. And it was like, lasted for a week. Homestacks was open every day and serving pizza every day. There you go. It's true. Something to think about.

Yeah, I think they stopped their leaf blowing. Keep moving forward. So there is something to the cross. Can I talk shit on a local establishment that's totally fine real fast? Please. We're crossing the street, we're walking across on the other side of the street, Hop Dottie.

Yeah. Hop Dottie is a a burger stand a restaurant in Austin That's the original one. It's very popular hot bodies fine. I eat there with Jack. It's one of his favorite places That's very Jack. Yeah, totally fine I don't hate hot body at all But for the first like five years they were open there was minimum an hour and a half line in front of that place For no fucking reason it made no sense. I don't get it, man. I don't understand the Hopdottie hype.

It's died down now and they have multiple locations. Clearly they're still doing well because they have like at least three locations. Yeah. And I still eat there occasionally, but I never understood. Can I continue your shit talk? Yeah, please. Next to Hopdottie's is Hueros. Yeah.

Which is, I feel the exact same way about as you just talked about with hot God yep, it's a place that has been there for a long time people love it, and it's just like Mediocre well didn't Tarantino film death proof. Yeah, I've seen from death It's that was after that was after it was like the place and awesome Well, that's probably why you did that right? Yeah, where is this one those places? You know like how your you were telling us your cousin came into town and what's up? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's probably why you did that, right? Yeah. Where is this one of those places? You know, like how you were telling us your cousin came into town and what's up? Y'all recording?

Yeah. I'm literally listening to you right now. Oh, no shit. Awesome. Thanks. It's like you're getting a stereo effect. What's your name? What's your name?

It's Doug. Nice to meet you, Doug. Likewise. Yeah. By shaking his hand, you agree we can use your voice. By shaking y'all doing and, what's the tour, bud? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, thanks. Oh, you're welcome Man He legally agreed to it. Yeah

All right. Yo, what's up Doug first fan on the show? first guest Doug GMG yeah, where else is just like a It's spot. Have you ever eaten in there? Yeah I got that yeah, cuz I got the nachos cuz that's what he ate in death proof. That's not where he ate the nachos It's a chili parlor. It's a spot in the same way one in a million is a spot. That's a great way to put it. It's like grandfathered in.

Everybody knows about it. Cisco's, everybody wants to go there. Wouldn't they visit town? But yeah. Super mediocre. This whole street. So my cousin is moving to Austin, like right now, like actively. She found a spot and she's moving here in like February. We're recording in February. And all of this stuff is partly of like

why she wanted to move here. She's like, this is so cool and interesting and different. And I'm like, it didn't used to be, I guess it doesn't matter what it used to be. It's like, she's not moving here for what it was in the 90s. She had to give a shit, she was bored. She wasn't alive. She was alive. It's like moving to LA because you heard it was cool

in the 60s. It's like- Did you guys know about this Laurel Canyon stuff? I love Chinatown. I love Chinatown, I'm moving to LA. Exactly. They got water now. Who gives a shit?

So I like begrudgingly, I have like that realization of like, oh man, I miss South Congress when it was all this stuff. But it's like, who gives a shit? Yeah, who gives a shit? Even when it was like a cool spot, I would have been like, ah, this place sucks. If it was so fucking special, we would have done more to save it.

100%. Or to maintain it or to keep it. Absolutely. Over here, what is this place called now? Del Mar? Yes, it used to be South Congress Cafe. And before that, this is where Shaggy's was, right? Yeah, that was Shaggy's.

What's Shaggy's? I think we've talked about it on and off. Shaggy's Too Dope, is that what it's called? I don't remember. No, that's the name of the... Shaggy's Too Dope is one of the Insane Clown Bossy? It was the Insane Clown Bossy. It was Shaggy's Bombasticope, is that what it's called? I don't remember. No, that's the name of the... Shaggy's Too Dope is one of the Insane Clown Bossy? It was the Insane Clown Bossy. It was Shaggy's Boombastic.

What was it called? Was it Violent J? It was called Violent J. Yeah, it was Magnets, how do they work? Whoop, whoop, whoop. They had the jerk fries. Yeah, Shaggy's Boombastic was a Jamaican-themed bar and restaurant where Gus and I would eat

because they had these Jamaican jerk fries. Oh, that's cool. That they still sell now at Cavalier over on Weberville because it's the same family. We just haven't been over there to eat them because when we tried they weren't open for lunch yet, but they are open for lunch now, so we can go whenever the fuck we want.

So we have not eaten at Shaggy's in probably 22 years or so? It would have closed in the first year of our friendship. Yeah, 99 or 2000. It's been about 25 years since we've had the jerk fries at Shaggy's. Wow. We'll have to do that on an episode of GMG. I think it's a great idea. I think we should definitely do that.

I think it's great. Man, this is just like, everything's a sit down brunch spot in this part of the drag, of like this stretch. I don't get brunch. I've said it before, it's over 80. I mean, yeah, I won't wait for breakfast. Yeah, I don't wait for food.

There's a wait. Yeah, it'll be 20 minutes. It's like I'll just get a wait for food. Especially for breakfast. I haven't eaten since yesterday. Like, I don't have time for this. Is the Kendra Scott store, I think it used to be the Tom's Shoe Store.

Okay. Was it here or was it where the elf shoe? I think it was here though, but it might've been back there. If it was, oh, you know what? That was that was the Tom shoe store. This was a store that sold sport oh What is that shit threads and shit yarn it's like a yarn store maybe Kinder Scott locally she's local to Austin. You don't know that it's like a famous famous designer Jewelry designer who like went to UT and got that. It's like a famous, famous designer, jewelry designer,

who like went to UT and got her started in Austin as like a billionaire now. My only connection to Kinder Scott is my wife used to do her hair sometimes. Oh really? Oh, that's cool. She was gonna like her mansion and do it. It's all this stuff across the street.

Cause we're across from, we're at the firehouse, but what's all this? Over here we have paperwork, which used to be Lucy in disguise, I believe. Yeah, that was where it was. Then next to that, that's where uncommon objects was, or was that Tesoro's? Over here we have paperwork which used to be Lucy in disguise I believe. Yeah, that was where it was. Then next to that, that's where Uncommon Objects was or was that Tesoro's? I think this was...

Where, Chapula Cafe? That used to be Tesoro's. Okay, that was Tesoro's. So Uncommon Objects was further down or further up north I guess. I think so, yeah. Because it would have been the next block. Uncommon Objects might have been where that two story building is now. I think you're right, yeah, right down there at the end. Bigcommon objects might have been in a, where that two story building is now or. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, right down there at the end.

Big Top Candy Shop's been around for a long time. That place is real good. Monkey Sea, Monkey Doo, like a. Been around for quite a while too. Yeah, it's like one of those, like you go to buy like a little Japanese robot or. You remember in the broadcast area of Rooster Teeth, there was like that painting of the dramatic hamster

like turning around? Yeah. I bought that at Monkey Sea, Monkey Doo. Oh, cool. Oh, did you really? Nice. I bought it there like. I wonder who took that. I'm sure somebody did.

This used to be the Excite building right here. Yes, and I think- Alta Vista was back there. I think I'm remembering right, that Alta Vista was over there. I think they both existed. I could be misremembering, but that's what I remember. This green place, 1722,

has been more fucking establishments since I've lived in Austin. It looks like it. It's what it's called now. I couldn't even name two of them. Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Oh, was it? It was a Wahoo's Fish Tacos.

There's been so many. Wow, man. There's three different boutique grocery stores. Real story history. There's one next to it, yeah. Okay, this right here, this used to be a Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Yeah, the tiny grocery that's next to it was it for a while that woodland place was a really cool?

Wood themed restaurant for a while. I might have just been called like a very Blade Runner looking Japanese neon sign Yeah, they did up on top of it right now. Yeah It's impossible to keep up with everything over here Hudson meat market still going that has been there forever Forever you want to get your deer processed. Yeah, oh good. Get sausage and jerky. And I think we talked about this in a recent episode, but this torches is what used to be friends.

Oh, is that right? Yeah, which was like the... The offshoot of Dan's. Right, the offshoot of Dan's cameras. It was Dan's and his friends. So if you ever see like the... I think they have it at Sine Bar, right? The friend, the actual like statue.

Yeah, they do, they do. It used to be right here facing Congress like right in front of friends. Huh? Yeah, where's the original torches? The original torches I believe was a trailer off of six street behind Little Woodrow's I think you're right. Oh, really? Okay. And then they very quickly had a brick and mortar on dirty six. Yeah, like did they were that was the first like torches.

I mean, the other one they were both on six right but they had the trailer on one end and brick and mortar on dirty six. Yeah, I feel like that was the first like torches. Is it so? I mean, they were both on six, right? But they had the trailer on one end and brick and mortar on the other. When I say Little Woodrow's the one on six. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was like right over there because that's also

where Hat Creek burgers had their first trailer like right because Hat Creek. Wow. Are you serious? Yeah. Same spot. Yeah. And then torches was like right over there

behind Little Woodrow's like right across. You could see them from each other. Wow. It was a real incubator. Yeah, and then torches was like right over there behind little wood rows like right across you could see them from each other Wow, it was a real incubator. Yeah, no kidding. I uh, I Ate next to somebody famous at that Franz one time. Oh really? Oh, it was dad. What's his name? Uh from inner space Dennis quaid Dennis quaid Dennis qu Quaid and his whole family. Cool. I was thinking about Innerspace yesterday. That's so weird. Awesome.

Well guys, check out this mural on this electric box. Scary South Park. You guys like fucked up South Park? What if South Park smoked cigarettes? This grade school one time, back in the, this was pretty rooster teeth. I used to skate with this kid named John Farrell who was friends with Gus. Let's cross him and go up. We can also just go in the neighborhood too.

Oh, for sure. Actually, that's a good idea. Let's go back up street and walk down the neighborhood. But anyway, back when Gus and I used to work at the TechSport Center, I used to skate with this kid, John Farrell, and we would skate at this, skate around here a lot at this grade school.

And I was riding with him one day, and I got all the way home and realized I didn't have my house keys, and I didn't know where I left them, and he had to drive me all the way back there, and I had to go into the grade school and go to the lost and found and they had my keys. No way. Yeah.

They found them like in the parking lot. Oh my God. John Farrell was the voice of Private Jimmy in season one of Red vs. Blue. That's true. That's true. This doesn't seem physically possible. Yep. That's John Farrell.

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we saw so many buildings that have been demolished by 35-per-discansion. Starseeds is gone and all those places there were right up against 35. Basically everything is gone. Jesus, Bonitas is gone. No! That was your home away from home back in the day.

Gus, what are you gonna do? Aye, aye, aye. For the non-awesome eyes, Chikas Bonitas was the bottom of the strip club barrel. That's how I would describe it. The great thing about that place is it used to be called Crazy Lady, which I thought was an awesome name.

It was. Crazy Lady was where old punk people came to hang out and drink. And it was less of a strip club and more of just like a place for burnouts who like heavy metal to do drugs. And it was kind of an awesome vibe, honestly. And then Gus had to come in and ruin it. Yeah. Gus had to bonita it up.

Oh, yeah. But some of that stuff moved like there used to be that Mexican restaurant there called Los Altos, which moved over there by the link. You love that place. Yeah, but some of that stuff moved like there used to be that Mexican restaurant there called Los Altos which moved over there by the link. You love that place. Yeah, that place is great. I know right there. I used to live back in that area and it was super friendly. Place was dirty as hell so it's probably good when they moved. How do you guys feel about all this stuff they've torn down or whatever for that expansion? I think the expansion itself is stupid and going to be ultimately pointless. But whatever, things change. Got to do something. I don't think that, you know, I think everybody was sad to see Starseeds go,

but probably nobody had eaten there in 15 years. And, you know, I don't know. There was like a kayak store that had been closed for five years. They had just opened a Progress Coffee up. I feel bad for them. But a lot of the businesses on the side of that road were boarded already yeah or in pretty dire straits in terms there was that one building at the southwest corner of like 38th and I 35 okay which had been like

graffiti didn't board it up oh yeah it used to be a mechanic shop. You have the blue building. Yeah. I don't think that place has been open in 30 years. It was open actually, believe it or not. I had to take my daughter's car there one time to try to get it fixed and they wouldn't work on it. Yeah, because it was something my ex-wife worked out. Like, oh my God. This would have been four years ago. Wow, really? I always picture that place as being closed and never having been open.

No, I agree with you. I was one of those things where I was like, surely the address isn't right. Yeah. And then you go there and you're like, this is open? Wow, okay. Yeah, no, it was. It's next, there's been like right next to it,

there's like a Mexican restaurant. What's it called? I don't remember what it's called, but it looks like a fucking front, like a fucking scam. I know what you're talking about. It's a scary building. I ate there once and they seemed shocked when I walked in. That place is fucking front. I'm doing it now.

I went in there one time. You want what food? Dude, I went in there one time to eat food, right? And I had a hat on just like a trucker hat on. And this is going to be like 2006, maybe seven. I went in there for the first time. I just wanted to grab some food. And the guy at the counter was like, have you been here before?

Oh, yeah. No, it's my first time. He goes, you were here yesterday. And I go, I assure you, I wasn't. He goes, I remember your hat. And I go, OK, well, a lot of people have hats. And he goes, no, no, I remember. And he was like mad at me, like something had happened with the dude yesterday. And I was like, it wasn't me, but I don't like this.

And so I just left. That's it was like a way to get't like this. And so I just left. That was like a way to get you to leave. Yeah, I kind of. Yeah. I just like it was like instantly unwelcoming. And I was like, OK, I just like tornadoes. Cafe Hornitos. Oh, yes, yes. I think I walked across the street to Astor's Ethiopian and ate there that day.

Oh, that's cool. Which is a great restaurant. Yeah. If you like Ethiopian food. That place has been there a long time. Really sweet people, too. Yeah. These houses are awesome. God, that mailbox looks like Austin in the 90s. Yeah. All the the line, the Topo Chico bottles lining the front yard.

And that's a that's a code violation. That's grandfathered in. Don't worry about it. It's a load bearing Topo Chico. This is a place if you want to move to Austin and you want to pay two point seven million dollars for a thirteen hundred square foot, two bedroom, one bathroom. Absolutely. Little craftsman. Yeah. This is where you do it. Well, don't worry. You have to get the roof redone also.

Oh, yeah. There's a house up here on the right by Eva and Elizabeth. That's on the market. OK, two bedroom, one bath, thirteen hundred square feet for one point to five. Oh, there you go. Places are dropped honestly, like half half of what you thought. Let's go look at Okay. It's a two bedroom, one bath, 1300 square feet for 1.25 million. Oh, there you go. Climbers are dropped. Honestly, like half of what you thought. Let's go look at it. Let's go look at it.

Let's lock it in. It's a steal. We can make it the Good Morning Gus office, dude. We can get it. It's even the exact same square footages. What's the most expensive house for sale right now in this neighborhood? Oh, let me take a look.

There's actually not a lot on the neighborhood, in the neighborhood that's active at the moment. Yeah. Well, this is not the time for these people to sell these houses. That's it. That's the not a lot on the neighborhood in the neighborhood that's active at the moment. Yeah. Well, this is not the time for these people to sell these houses. That's it. That's the only one out here actually. Wow, really?

That's what I was made all. The market, man, we talk about the real estate market on and off in the show. Yeah. It is terrible. Woo. So stuff's the city. So what happened?

It's like price reducing. Interest rates went up and then people's monthly mortgage is double. Dude, I was. That coupled with the overvaluation during 2020, 2021 with the pandemic, like prices are cooled and interest rates have shot up. When does this come out? Not for at least eight weeks or so, right?

No, this will probably come out. This is February when we're recording it. I'll tell you where we're seeing it. Where we're seeing it right now, Gus, is that Eric and I, because we're the grownups of regulation, we're in the process of finding an office company actually since this isn't gonna come out forever we found one yeah and we're already in the process of getting it mm-hmm but rent is plummeting in the city of Austin right now it is crazy how cheap we were able to get the place

that we're fingers crossed like we're it's a very Austin-y type deal it's like a dude who's a musician dude you know he knows the owner and the owner just wants to be like hands off with the whole thing so it's like it's a whole thing do this thing it's our move in is contingent on his move out yeah move out contingent on if he gets this music it's all the same it's what I'm the most comfortable with yeah it feels the most Austin-y 100% I really do like that. But but unbelievable how cheap it is to rent in Austin. It's like every story I see on the news is like rent prices continue going down.

And it's like that part is a combination of. Well, I mean, it's not a combination. It's just a direct response to the massive construction boom that went on to build. Apartments and office spaces, and it's not over. Yeah, no, I have no problem with this. I think it's great. I'm glad that I'm glad everything's dropping. When my cousin was looking at places or whatever,

they'd be like, great. So yeah, this is available. We can move in. Can you move in now? What can you do? And when can you do it? And can it be right now? You had me right now.

Multiple good options. Like, what is what the fuck is that? What was the last time you had multiple good options of anything in Austin? Yeah. Yeah. And it's you know, it's been like that in the past. Like, I remember when I moved into that apartment up there by the arboretum, kind of across from where my define at Arbor Walk is. Yeah. I found that place through an apartment locator and they had a deal going off

where you got three months free rent. If you signed a year lease. This used to happen in Austin. That's why I moved there. It's like, oh, three months free. That is what Austin, god damn, that is crazy how things have changed in our lifetime. You want to just live here for a little while and just sign a lease? I don't know, it could be like a hundred bucks or something. Rent in Austin used to be like, I don't know what you got.

What are you looking to afford to part like, I don't know what you got. Yeah. You want to look at you? I can I can pay you in songs. Yeah, I can tune your guitar. We take poems. I think I mentioned it before, but when I lived off of Enfield by Enfield and Mopac, it was like a one bedroom, one bath with a loft. And I was paid 800 bucks a month. Um, this is an interesting spot. I think this is the house. This blue house is the one that's listed on the market. from one bath with a loft and I was paying 800 bucks a month.

This is an interesting spot. I think this is the house. This blue house is the one that's listed on the market. Oh, I looked at this blue house when it was for sale a hundred years ago. I don't see. Let me tell you. But I think this is it. Let me tell you about this blue house because I thought about buying it. And the reason I didn't buy it because I couldn't quite afford it because it was three hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Oh, well, it's only like nine hundred,000 more than that. Oh, cool. So when I looked at this house in like 2006, 2007, it was, because I had what an awesome opportunity to live right here. What you were across to, now you're across the street from the Frankie Hotel, I guess. Yeah. That used to be.

Vulcan Video was right here. Vulcan Video. Oh, really? Like where that says 110. Yeah. That side, like right over there. And Earthwise, is that what that place was called? Oh was it EcoWise? EcoWise. Yeah. Yeah, EcoWise, which was like a home store that like had like, I don't know,

eco-friendly stuff. They actually have a cleaning service still on Guadalupe. But yeah, and then Vulcan Video, which was incredibly popular. The thing I always remember about this Vulcan Video right here was, it was so weird to me. It was like, Vulcan Video, and I think there was also like a place to fill up with biodiesel So yeah

Hs or see like an old hippie in a beat-up truck who was putting like vegetable oil Hs and Vulcan video got ruined for me in the best way possible because my favorite band in the world for a very long time It's been called J Church San Francisco Francisco. Lead singer Lance Hahn moved to Austin because his wife or girlfriend was going to grad school at UT. He got a job at that Vulcan Video and I couldn't go anymore because I went like three times in a row and was like, hey, hey, hey, Lance, real big fan. And I just like, I embarrassed myself so bad

that I stopped going to Vulcan Video. He died. Oh dude. He died a couple of years later. And I never have a heart problem. And I had so many opportunities to talk to one of my musical heroes, one of the people I was most interested in.

He ran an independent label called Honey Bear Records. I was so impressed with it. It was such a big deal for him to move here. I had been writing letters to him. Back in the old punk days, we would write letters back and forth to different people. And then he got here. And then I just like, every time I I saw him I put my dick in my

own mouth and I couldn't I think that was like one of his last thoughts he's like I wish I didn't work at that Vulcan video that one kid was so weird yeah probably he's like God I wish I could have afforded health care to buy me the medicine my heart condition and also thank God I don't have to look at that kid again I invited him to play one of my weddings oh wow I said no I said it didn't respond yes I'm like yeah yeah that's my weddings. Oh wow. I said no. I said he didn't respond. Yeah, it sounds like. Yeah. I think that's a Gavin no.

We should, yeah. Yeah, I know that. We should talk about Little Brother because we're getting on the time. Oh we are. What did you guys think? So it's a little storefront window coffee shop. It looks like a little inside,

but you can just walk up, order a cup of coffee from a girl who just doesn't care if you live or die. And then they have clodgies. I'm gonna I'm gonna draw a conclusion about little brother. Okay. And here's my conclusion. There is a store called stag across the street from this right now stag provisions from provisions from that's us. It's a men's clothing store. It's

where you go buy nice. The pants I'm wearing right now I got from stag. Oh, cool. I was just there the weekend actually. And I need to return some pants that I bought that were too big. Oh, you could have brought them, man. That store has been around forever. It's been around as long as Home Sliced. They, across the street, we already walked by it,

they opened up a store called Sisters, which is the girl version of Stag, where they just sell girl clothes. I'm gonna guess that Little Brother is their coffee shop. Oh, they would stag sisters little brother. Oh, that's fun. I think you're probably right. I think I am right. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with Gus, though. I do think it's based on a homestar runner bit. Another fucking Waymo on a throw my coffee cup away Mo just

because I can't do it. There's no recourse. I think correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff. This stag used to be further down. Nope. Didn't it? Where the dry cleaner was? Wasn't it? What was there? Remember the dry cleaner?

Like there was something there and I thought that was stag and I thought they were here. Wasn't it parts and labor? Was it parts and labor? It might have been. I don't think stags ever been anywhere. I thought it was, anyway. There's a VW bus that's in self-driving cars

and somebody is driving it. That doesn't make any sense to me. Little brother, it was fine. Yeah, it's fine. It was not the best cup of coffee, but not the worst. It was like, I had an iced Americano. It was like a seven, 7.5, somewhere in there. Totally fine.

It's a seven coffee. I think it was fine. My iced coffee was a 7.75 and my kolache was an eight. Oh yeah, how was the kolache? It's fine. The kolache was way too hot. Yeah. Oh, I will say this. So it's a good cup of coffee if you're gonna be doing what we're doing, like getting here, walking was the clutch? It was fine. The clutch was way too hot. Yeah. Oh, I will say this.

So it's a good cup of coffee if you're going to be doing who we're doing. Like getting here, walking up and down. Yeah, yeah. If I'm given the choice between Joe's and little brother, I'm gonna go little brother. Oh really? Oh, there's a place across the street

we should try too called two hands or something. Two what? There's another coffee shop on the left. It's a little, it's very similar to, maybe it's idle hands. It's very similar to little brother and like a little window that's supposed to be good. We should try that. Okay. Yeah, no. Yeah, I liked it. I thought it was a that was fine. Like,

honestly, price wise too. It's cheaper than what we've paid. It's like you're right. I had a cup of coffee for 350 a large cup of coffee. We're walking up on it right now. Like with much of Austin. The best thing the best part about it is the logo. They got a really good sign. Yeah, that is a good sign. Here we go. Cool. Oh, I think that season two underway. Yeah. So how do you guys feel about season?

Are we still doing the thing where at the end we have to figure out if we're doing more? Oh, we got. Yeah, we should. I guess we should do that. Yeah. I should also mention we got rid of the chalk. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're streamlining. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. The show paid for itself. So now we have we have minimal show funds to be able to buy a cup of coffee.

So we don't have to worry about that. Mission accomplished. Yeah. Suckers are buying us coffee. Yep. Absolutely. But I feel good about doing another season. I don't think it should be eight months before it's like a whole thing that comes out and all that stuff. I think it should be a little bit quicker than that. So if you're hearing this, just know we recorded in.

February, February 5th, 2025. This will probably come out around April. I would think our friend Richard edited the first batch of episodes. I'll probably have him do that again. And he did a great job getting everything turned around and everything. And then Nick also helped get gets all these like posted

and all that stuff. So it is a team effort. Great. So thanks for the coffee. But this has been little brother on South Congress. Any final thoughts, parting words for the folks at home? I can make it on my own. Okay.

Yeah, my parting thought is if you're, if you come down to South Congress and you're familiar with Austin and you go, oh, this isn't what I remembered. This is fucking lame now. It sucks. There's an Hermes here. You can spend the rest of your life doing that or you can just try to find the thing about it

that's cool now that you do like. Definitely. And try to find a way to enjoy what it is currently I feel like that's our overarchy. Yeah. Yeah, also the coffee. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, whatever There's I'll say this about it. There's more coffee shops than there ever were on the street. Yeah true. Yeah, true Wait wait, wait, wait, actually for there's one in the right Behind that hotel too. We let's hard drugs though. All right, I'm out. Yeah often motel sells less needle drugs now. Yeah for sure All right, change your bag. Bye