ANMA - Lost Episode Redo

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Good morning, Gus!  Gus and Geoff show Eric around Hyde Park after a quick trip to Quack's Bakery. Wait, Quack's from the lost episode? That's right because this week they talk about Pitch for the fi...nal episode of the season, Geoff’s on edge, Telenetwork, Vacuum, Garage sales, Sprawl, Waymo, Traffic, Rotary, and SXSW. 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 God, look at that white house. Beautiful. Big. Nice to live right over here. Oh, did you? Yeah, Gavin and I did for a year. I guess we'll talk about that in the podcast. Was it only a year?
Starting point is 00:00:14 It seemed like it was so much longer than a year. It was 13 months. We were putting the second floor on the old house and so we had to live somewhere. It had always been a dream of mine to live in Travis Heights and Hyde Park. And so we moved to Hyde Park. In my mind it was like two years for some reason. I can't believe it was only 13 months. It's funny because I would have lived here forever, but I was also so fucking ready to leave here.
Starting point is 00:00:36 Really? It's such a beautiful place, and the neighborhood is laid out in a really useful grid and it's huge. And at Halloween, it is like the most picturesque movie Halloween neighborhood you've ever seen. But it is just full of old white hippies and ponytails and Birkenstocks who just wanna talk to you about your yard and you're like, I'm just renting this yard. I don't give a fuck.
Starting point is 00:01:00 And they're like, they're not gonna let you. It's like Ben and Jerry live in every house in this neighborhood. Which makes me good neighbors, but boring, the worst. And they're like, they're not gonna let you. It's like Ben and Jerry live in every house in this neighborhood. Oh, man, good ice cream though. Which makes for good neighbors, but boring, boring neighbors. Yeah, I hear that. And also all the restaurants around here I was not into,
Starting point is 00:01:13 except for, Julio's is good. Julio's is okay. They have been- And now Wero's is over here, but that used to be Mother's. I hate Mother's. No, that sucks. Curras. Oh, Curras, sorry, Curras. This Julio's changed ownership, And the new owners are doing pretty good. That's cool. They've added a couple things that are good
Starting point is 00:01:31 to the menu. And this parking lot over here has changed hands. It used to be free to park but now it's paid to park. Actually parked in there. A couple days ago, I was getting food from Julio's. And all of this packed, the Julio's was packed. I was like, man, I'm gonna have to park in the pay lot. So I parked in there and just like scan the QR code kind of deal. I was like, I'll just see how much it is.
Starting point is 00:01:52 If it's like a buck, I'll do it. It was free. What? Yeah, it was like no charge. They're like, oh, okay, I'll definitely park here. I don't know if it was like a time of day thing or what's going on, but apparently I guess it's free sometimes.
Starting point is 00:02:02 How is this so crazy? Ooh. So anyway, check it out. If you need to, you might be free whenever you're looking to park. I like your sunglasses. Thanks. Are they new? No, I've had them. I mean, as of about 15 years ago maybe. Okay, new-ish then.
Starting point is 00:02:18 I got them when I was still living over on the east side. In your first house? Yeah. Wow. I've never held on to sunglasses for more than six months. Really? Probably, yeah. Dang. These are my driving sunglasses. I'll take it back. These are replacements because the original ones I had after about six months back then got stolen by a valet. There you go. I knew it was something. I knew it was something with those glasses.
Starting point is 00:02:48 Check out the pop-up. I took him to, what is it? We had a family dinner at Eddie V's, and I always leave these sunglasses in my car. The only time they come out is for Anva, which didn't, or Gullvarn, Gustava, which didn't exist back then. And I went to Eddie V's, it was like sunset.
Starting point is 00:03:01 So I was wearing them, left them in the center console of my car, they always belong, then looked for them when we left, because it was nighttime. The next was wearing them left them in the center console of my card they always belong then they look for him when we left because it was nighttime the next morning look for him again they were gone so I was like and I had valid the car at edi v's I was like hey you guys stole my sunglasses like we need to steal your sunglasses like yeah you did they're like are you sure you didn't misplace them I was like listen someone stole them and their prescription sunglasses so it was the dumbest theft
Starting point is 00:03:21 ever yeah no they're my exact same prescription eventually I fought with them them and update cut me a check for did they really value of the sunglasses? Wow That's crazy Squeaky wheel gets the lenses. Yep. You guys want a little snacky? Yeah Chocolates goings calling me could be Or quacks by the way. I think we said that. We are at Quacks. I'll get a blueberry muffin. Where's that?
Starting point is 00:03:50 That does look good. Considering I pull apart, it sounds intriguing to me. I agree. Can I get a cold brew, a lard? Well, 16 ounce. I guess I'll have 20 ounce. Come on. And a blueberry muffin, well, 16 ounce, I guess I had 20 ounce. Chalotical. Come on.
Starting point is 00:04:06 And blueberry muffin, if I can. Whatever these guys want. Whatever these guys want as well. I'll do a 12 ounce Americano and a chocolate scone, please. I'm gonna get a large drip coffee and a pumpkin cream cheese muffin. Great. It looks like a very difficult decision for me. It's just off by one for me. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. And then it was like, do I want it? Nah, whatever.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Yeah. Sorry, button. It's not worth the effort. No, no, no, no. This is the least busy I think I've ever seen in a year. Yeah, normally it's a much longer line. Do we come at a weird hour? I don't think so. It's me. Everybody's broke. It's true. All those Tesla investments are down 50 percent. You Roy Orbison guy? Did I hear Roy Orbison? Are you a big Roy Orbison guy? Oh, I do like Roy Orbison a lot.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Yeah. Why do you ask? This conversation? I don't know. Are you the Roy Orbison conversation? I don't know. Are you the growing up-ish guy? I was just curious. He's a... Oh, that's weird energy today.
Starting point is 00:05:52 We need to get this guy a 12, 16, or 20 ounce coffee depending on what he's drinking. One of them, 32! It's 32 ounce. I always get a large, but it's the size of a big gold if I can't... This is a weird one because we were already here once. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:06 But chocolate blueberry pumpkin. That does work often. We had due to technical difficulties, it was lost forever. Yeah, we lost forever. So it's a redo. Which... It's fine, it wasn't one of our better ones anyway.
Starting point is 00:06:19 No. That's probably good. Andrew has been texting me that he thinks I'm on Edge lately. What's going on with you dude? Really? I don't feel like I'm on Edge. It's not enough where I ordered this stuff. I don't know man, like there are orders
Starting point is 00:06:32 and they seem like it really set you off. A real confrontation. No, it's really crazy. Why, what are you asking? I'm just tracking direct communication. Like on. It's like he's currently on. And we're talking. We're content.
Starting point is 00:06:46 I'm just asking for further information. I'm sorry I had a follow up question. I used to be a journalist. What the fuck you asking? What's it to you? Arrrr. We'll take a seat. We'll hang out, try these muffins and everything. And then we'll, uh, we can have a little walk.
Starting point is 00:07:02 Yeah. Are there napkins in there? Are there napkins? There's what? Are there napkins in there? Are there napkins? There's what? Are there napkins in there? There are not. Let's grab some. Look at this, this guy's thinking ahead. Fastidious. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Is that right? I don't think so. It's fastidious, isn't it? What's, what are you trying to say? He's clean. Okay. Is fastidious the right word for that? I think, I think of,
Starting point is 00:07:23 fastidious would be like attention to detail, think fastidious would mean attention to detail. That's what I thought. Same thing. He's like, he's getting, he noticed, he asked if there's napkins, he was looking for the details, there's napkins in the fucking bag. Hey man, I just wanna say, you've been kind of on edge.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Yeah, something's going on. It started ever since he was wrong about the parking last time. Oh my God. Very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detail. And, hold on, very concerned about matters of cleanliness. Oh, is that on there? All right. Matters of it's gone.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Anyway, that work. I should interrupt it. Why? Hmm. Matters of cleanliness. Thank you. He's like, I'm on edge. You go. Yeah, let's get you this large ice. I'm fucking constantly writing,
Starting point is 00:08:08 getting all the questions in for 10 seconds. Dude, this guy's got to come out of his naughties and use the word fastidious. It's funny because I didn't want to say this in there, but you said that it wasn't one of our best episodes. And I was going to reply, this is not one of the best coffee shops either. So it's kind of fitting.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Very true. Let's grab this little table. How many? Oh, let's grab this little table. Yeah, that's better. I wanna be in the sun. Guess how many different quacks have you been to in your time in Austin?
Starting point is 00:08:36 There's a bunch of dogs in that stroller over there. Yeah, it's not really in the way. Oh, we're in Hyde Park. Stroller dog. One, two, I think only three. I wanna say three. I want to say three. Wait, how many? Oh, unless you count Lady Quack and Bushes, then four.
Starting point is 00:08:48 Where's Lady Quack and Bushes? It's over in Mueller now. Oh, I haven't, I'm not sure. Oh, I just saw that. It's a cake shop. Is it related to this? I assume so, because it used to be like, Quack and Bush was Quacks.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Quacks, Captain Quack and Bushes, is what it was originally called. Oh, these are like the same, I didn't know they were like related in any way. There was one on Guadalupe, on the drag. Yeah. This one here. There was the one Guadalupe on the drag. Yeah. There was the one where Cherrywood coffee houses that used to be quacks.
Starting point is 00:09:09 Is this yours? Yeah. And then this is the other one I've been to. Blueberry? Yeah. They give you a scone. Are you sad? No, not really.
Starting point is 00:09:16 I'll take a scone. It's weird because a woman seemed to be really into her job and to really love it. So it's weird that she would get that wrong. Yeah, she was loving life. We want, all right. Well, thanks for, thank you very much for being here. Thanks for making me feel bad.
Starting point is 00:09:30 Yeah, appreciate it. My personality was about as fucking dry as this was going. Oh no. This was dry as hell. That's fast. How many have you been to? What? How many of Clacks have you been to?
Starting point is 00:09:39 Just those three. Okay. I was wondering if there was another one. I was wondering if there was another one that I wasn't thinking of, yeah. And I don't know that they were ever operating at the same time. I think they were in one location that's bounced around. Well, this one's been here forever, but... I think maybe the one on the Drag was maybe opened at the same time as the one in Cherrywood?
Starting point is 00:09:56 Maybe. I feel like there was overlap there. But I could be. I mean, fuck, it's been 20 years. I could be wrong. Yeah, I feel like that place was Insomnia when I first came to Austin. You remember that coffee shop? Yeah, I liked Insomnia. I Insomnia when I first came to Austin. You remember that coffee shop? Yeah, I liked Insomnia, I went there a lot. I did too, as far as 21. I thought the line it was, I was 1920,
Starting point is 00:10:10 I couldn't drink, I couldn't go to bars, so I would hang out at coffee shops that were open 24 hours a day here. It was like Insomnia and Flipnotics. Yeah, hell yeah. Where you could go to spots. Fucking Flipnotics, dude. I couldn't remember the name for a while.
Starting point is 00:10:22 I hear about that place a lot. Gone, it's a smoothie place or something now or something now. Last time we did this episode, so this is the last episode from season one. Had technical difficulties. Had to ditch the episode, unfortunately. So we went, oh, hey, let's try it again. Let's do quacks. Season two. So on the way here, I think last time we did this episode, there's a lot of walking. And we talked about 35 expansion
Starting point is 00:10:47 a lot, just sort of, cause it was like in the area we were doing it, whatever. Well, on the way here, we drove by everything that it was just torn down for that expansion. That was true blue tattoos gone. They used to live over in that area. They closed the little gas station. That's fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:04 It's not like it's not just gone. The building's demolished. It's just a dirt area. They closed the little gas station. That's fucking crazy. It's not just gone. The building's demolished. It's just a dirt lot. They like raised the ground. Like it's done. They salted it too. Yeah, they salted it. We're not building anything here but freeways.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Ha ha ha ha. It looks like the convenience store next to it's also being demolished, which kind of segues. I'd like to, in one of our remaining episodes, I think it'd be good if we hit up Dirty Martins because it's like, that's one of those places that's on the cusp of closing because of expansion. And I think it's a good tie-in for us.
Starting point is 00:11:36 I like that idea. I had an idea for the last episode. I wanted to pitch you. Ooh. I thought it would be fun. Re-take that? Last episode of the season? Last episode of the season, yeah. I had an idea be fun. Re-take that. Last episode of the season. Last episode of the season.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Yeah. I had an idea for the last episode of the season I wanted to pitch in. Okay. Last season we went and sat in the parking lot at the old Metropolitan Theater where we went and camped out for Star Wars and enjoyed that day.
Starting point is 00:11:59 I thought in the similar vein, it would be fun to end this season in the parking lot for Tele Network. Oh wow. Pick up some coffee and go sit there. The problem is there's nothing down there. Happy taco. That's been gone for 25 years. It was a quarter century ago. It's true. It's got to be something around there. We could do that. Give McDonald's coffee. Jumping off of that idea. We could also maybe do the original draft house
Starting point is 00:12:28 on Colorado. I just bought that the other day. What is it? Something incredibly lame now. Yeah, I'm sure. But yeah, I'm done with that too. I'm done with that too. We do T&I.
Starting point is 00:12:41 The going to the tele network, sitting in the parking lot and doing an episode is so fucking funny to me. That is so funny. I think. Bird fight. Dude, birds are going to attack me. These are like the smallest birds that like sounded like they hit the tire of that car. One of them dead. One of them. I saw it. It sounded like something like a fist. There's that one under there.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Dude, I think doing a tele network episode is very funny. That's crazy. That, cause I've been there. Once. Once, we drove through and I just went, this is fucking it. Like this is it. It's like a warehouse in South Austin with nothing around it.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Nothing. Just some woods to play paintball in. I had to, I was thinking about TNI the other day because I had to shred some documents. I didn't have a shredder at home. Are you running from the law or what? Yeah. Doge contacting or something?
Starting point is 00:13:32 I went over to a FedEx location and I guess the way that it works there is they charge you by the pound and they put it in a bin and Iron Mountain comes and gets the bin and shreds it. Iron Mountain needs to be co-located. Yeah, and Iron Mountain, you know, the call center that we worked at was inside that big warehouse,
Starting point is 00:13:48 which you saw, and then the rest of the warehouse was like an offsite storage facility that did like contracting for like Iron Mountain. So it's like you walked out of the... The call center was like a little cube built inside this bigger warehouse. If you walked out of that cube, you were just like in Raiders of Lost Ark style
Starting point is 00:14:08 warehouse with just like racks to the ceiling as far back as you could see, just filled with shit. And there were like two or three people who worked there who didn't work at the call center. They worked at the storage facility. Who was that lady's name? Kim. Kim. That's right. I loved Kim.
Starting point is 00:14:24 She was cool. She was awesome. And it's Kim. Kim. That's right. I loved Kim. She was cool. She was awesome. And it's like, so it's like, they would sit around and work and do stuff for the offsite storage and then just watch us answer the phones, doing the tech support stuff. And then Iron Mountain bought them, I want to say.
Starting point is 00:14:37 And they removed all of that stuff to a different location. So the warehouse emptied out. This isn't the first year I started working there. I was there for five and a half years. So we were then a little box inside like a drop-sealing box inside of a giant warehouse and there was nothing else in there and so I built a skate park. What? And it was amazing and there were like three or four dudes in the company that skated and... Oh thank you so much!
Starting point is 00:15:03 Really appreciate it. Have a good day. There were three or four company that skated and... Oh, thank you so much. Oh, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Have a good day. There were three or four people that had skated and Anthony didn't give a shit. And so just at nights and weekends, I spent all my time there building and skating. Are you serious? Yeah, for a long time. And that's where we filmed that Apple switch parody
Starting point is 00:15:17 was in there because it was a giant empty box. Wow, really? Yeah, we just painted like one of the little walls on the back. The fun ended, if I remember correctly, when somebody hung a rope swing from the ceiling. And that pissed Anthony off. And then I think all the shenanigans stopped after that. Well, we were dumb 20 year olds.
Starting point is 00:15:36 And no one thought about the load on the ceiling. And the fact that that ceiling probably could not hold more than anybody's weight. Dumb 20 year olds with 24 hour access unsupervised to a warehouse. Yeah. Bad decisions constantly. Tons. Yeah, there was also... So it was like a giant empty warehouse, except for there was also like a separate second little fortified cube in there that had the phone system and all of the servers.
Starting point is 00:16:04 Uh-huh. Yeah. And it was like... What was that called? What are you... The Tatarant? fortified cube in there that had the phone system and all of the servers. Yeah. And it was like, what was that called? The taterette? Is that what we called it? The taterette? No, that room.
Starting point is 00:16:12 I remember what it had a room. The vault. The vault. Yeah. It was like, if you knew there was a bomb coming, you'd run to the vault. Because it was like, it was fortified. Because there was actual like,
Starting point is 00:16:20 telephone company phone equipment in there. If you knew there was a bomb coming. So it was fortified as hell. Wow. Just for phone stuff? Yeah. There's like certain, when you have phone system equipment,
Starting point is 00:16:33 there's a lot of very specifics when it comes to building that you have to adhere to. And like this far as fortification for the walls, power, redundancy, there even has to be like a certain degree of slope to the floor. So if liquid does collect, it goes off to like a specific side.
Starting point is 00:16:49 There's a lot of very specific details you don't think about that go into designing any area that houses critical phone infrastructure. Huh. I didn't, I never, I, you just figure it lives on a post like that and you go, that's where, that's where phones is. Huh. Never, just just figure it lives on a post like that and you go, that's where phones is. Huh?
Starting point is 00:17:07 No, it's a- You just never considered it. Yeah. It's weird to think we worked for a phone company for a while. We did. It's a weird part of the resume. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 00:17:16 This isn't Clarksville anymore, buddy. Get the fuck out of Hyde Park. Get out of Hyde Park now. We're gonna bird fight, bitch. Where did you, so I mean, thinking back, like I started there at that place in February of 98. Like, the last week of February 98. I moved to Austin, like, first week of January 98. Figured I'd be able to find a job anywhere. I couldn't.
Starting point is 00:17:39 Only place I would hire me was that call center. I started there, I think, like, February 27th. Like, right at the very end of February, 1998. I remember my roommate at the time saw the ad in the Daily Texan and that's how I found it. But it's like, I remember trying to get hired anywhere and it just was not happy. I think for a day before I worked there,
Starting point is 00:17:58 the day I got the call from the call center that I was hired there, earlier that day, I had started another job, which was like this outbound telemarketing, selling security systems. I remember I showed up for- Like home security systems? Yeah. Okay. I showed up for the orientation.
Starting point is 00:18:14 It was over by the double tree off of 35, like just north of by 290. The one that we did the first RTX set. Yeah, right around the corner from there. That was where I went for the day. When we got that free mold room? Yeah. Did the orientation. We were finishing and I was like, man,
Starting point is 00:18:31 I really don't want to do this. I have no money. I need to do this or I will starve. Then I got the call later that afternoon from the call center that I got hired there, and I never went back to the security. Who called you to hire you? Was it Brian Murphy? Yeah, it was Brian. Because when I got hired there in early 98,
Starting point is 00:18:47 it was free renovation. Like when you started, like it was expanded all the way up to the back. When I started, it was just that little front room. When I started, there were 60, like maybe 55 employees. We were just about to hit 60. And you were telling me,
Starting point is 00:19:01 you're like, I've been here since I were 20. And I was like, I don't think you've been here like seven months longer than you. I think when I started a shift. That's how it felt working at Rooster Teeth. When I started a shift was like three, maybe four people. And by the time you stopped, it was like what, like a hundred or something?
Starting point is 00:19:19 By the time I stopped? Yeah. Yeah, well over a hundred. Yeah. When I started, there were like, shift was like eight, 10 people. Yeah. When I started, there were like shift was like eight, 10 people. Yeah. So I started in January of 99 and I had a similar thing where I moved here. I moved back here and when I got out of the army in December of 98, my first job, we may have covered this in season one, but my first job was working at the Sierra Club. Right. All right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:40 I quit that the day I started. Then I got hired as a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman. And the day they issued me my vacuum, I went there to get my vacuum and we had to stand in a room and sing the company song and I couldn't do it. I just, I was similar to what you're saying. I just was like looking around at these people and I had come to terms with the fact
Starting point is 00:20:00 that I was gonna be a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman. I knew it was shy story. I knew it was gummy and sketchy. I knew these things were overpriced, but I needed the money and it seemed like, at least like a good product. You know? But when I had to get there and seeing that like vaguely
Starting point is 00:20:16 religious song with a bunch of other adults, I just walked out and I was like, this is not for me. And Ryan called me that day. And that's the day I got hired. It's funny how that happened. Yeah. That's crazy. I was destitute. I funny how that happened. Yeah. That's crazy. I was destitute.
Starting point is 00:20:26 I remember going home to my apartment over on William Cannon to my wife at the time and going like, I can't do it. I'm sorry. I'll figure something else out. Just like, I remember like I felt a hole in my stomach. You know, you're just like, you got no options and you're broke and you're terrified. We had moved here on a whim, you know?
Starting point is 00:20:43 I'd packed up my entire life and moved it here. And then you get that call and then the entire course of my life changed because of that phone call. It's wild. Yeah, I mean, you just got to keep on trucking. No matter what's in front of you. Like things are, if you keep at it,
Starting point is 00:21:00 things will figure themselves out. It's funny you mentioned Kirby vacuums. My parents just bought Kirby vacuums. Are you fucking serious? Yeah, like a couple months ago. This guy can tell you all about them, dude. They told me that, I was like, they're still around, they still sell vacuums?
Starting point is 00:21:14 And I forgot that a couple of years ago when they were up here with me in Austin, we'd gone to like garage sales one weekend and they had found at an estate sale an old Kirby vacuum and bought it Uh-huh. For like 20 bucks or something. And they loved that thing.
Starting point is 00:21:27 And I guess like that one had finally gone, it looked like it was from the seventies. That one finally went out and they decided to buy a new Kirby and they traded in that old one, got money for it. Some credit. They traded in? Yeah, I guess Kirby like took it back. I want to say when I was, this is 98.
Starting point is 00:21:40 And so it's an extremely imperfect memory, but I want to say even in 98, those things were over a thousand dollars. A vacuum? Yeah. It was like and so it's an extremely imperfect memory, but I want to say even in 98, those things were over a thousand dollars. A vacuum? Yeah, it was like a crazy, I remember thinking like, I'm never going to sell one of these, but that's okay. And they're also heavy as hell, right?
Starting point is 00:21:55 Like they're made out of like some kind of solid steel. Like I think nowadays they have like a drive motor to help you push them because they are so heavy. The big selling point for those things too was what I was supposed to do is I was supposed to ask to go and get into the house, clean up all the carpet and stuff. And then you go, I'd like to show you
Starting point is 00:22:13 what this thing can really do. If you wouldn't mind, I go into their bedroom and you take off their fitted sheet to just have a little bit of the mattress, the raw mattress, and then you vacuum the mattress for a couple seconds. And then you show them all the dead skin and dust. And that's the point people buy it.
Starting point is 00:22:31 That's a, hey, honestly, great selling point. Yeah. Pretty good. I never got to do it firsthand. No one would let me in their house. Couldn't sing the song. Yeah, but I remember that was like the moment. They were like, this is the moment you get them. Wow.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Show them what they're sleeping on. Let me in your house. Let me show you what this vacuum does. Let me show you what this vacuum does. Diddy bingo. I heard there's a back in the Chronicle though. Yeah, I think that's probably where that one's from. I had to kind of imagine an original one
Starting point is 00:22:54 is still looking in that condition in 2025. We have an original Gidget sticker. Gidget's the dog from Taco Bell. That's her name. That was the dog's name. I guess I forgot that. Wow. Everyone knew about Gidget. You said to remind you about something about yard sales.
Starting point is 00:23:09 Yeah, I told that story as a setup. I thought you did a great job and then they got you. No, I thought Gus was telling that story as a first job, last job, which is another prompt I gave him. Cause I was thinking like, we now work for ourselves, right? You're your own boss. So my first job at Austin was working at the Sierra Club.
Starting point is 00:23:24 And hopefully my last job at Austin is working for myself as a podcast. This is. So my first job in Austin was working at the Sierra Club and hopefully my last job in Austin is working for myself as a podcast owner. This is gonna be my last job. I'll see to it. Your first, one way or the other, your first job in Austin was selling security systems. Which I did for a day. Which you did for one day.
Starting point is 00:23:38 Crazy. And your last job in Austin is running a D&D company. Fingers crossed. I'll see to it. Don't you do it. Listen, no matter what. The other prompt that I gave you guys in the car was because I was driving around yesterday
Starting point is 00:23:51 looking for office space for regulation. Cause ours fell through. That's been fun. Very accessible. I was struck, and we're looking for a house. We wanna move into a house. I think that's a better speed for us. So I was driving through neighborhoods
Starting point is 00:24:04 and I was struck by the realization that even though it was 1999, I still remember almost every house we went to a yard sale at. Like I'll be driving through a neighborhood and I'll go. Gus and Sarah and I were, I was in Barton Hills yesterday and I was like Gus and Sarah
Starting point is 00:24:23 and I went to a garage sale in this fucking house and that's where Sarah saw that guy's dog and she goes, I like big dogs. I like big dogs. I think about that all the time. We made fun of her fucking forever for it. It was so stupid. I went to that, I drove by that house yesterday, dude.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Why? How do I know from summer of 1999? How do I remember that? And I realized I remember so many houses from yard sales in the 90s. That's insane. Yeah, same. There's one I think. Why do you think that? The way she said it was so dopey, like she went up. Well, whatever. I don't want to belabor it. It's been 20 years. It's been 30 years, probably. There's one over here off of Red River. Red River. Red River. Is it Red River? What if it was called Red River?
Starting point is 00:25:10 Like maybe close to the St. David's Hospital. Is it over there? No, it's in that area. Close to the St. David's Hospital. Maybe it's not off of Red River. It's just a little west of there. But I pass every now and then that we went to a garage sale there and I always think about that. I think it was a pink house that's white now. I think back then it was like a pink two story house on the corner and we went in and spent forever in there looking at stuff. I know the house you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:25:33 There's another house on Red River that if I pointed it out, you'd be like, oh yeah, it was a duplex, ugly as sin that we went to a yard sale at. Yeah. We used to do this thing where we would drive around for drunk gamers and do what was called drunk sailing, which we would get up very hungover the night before because we'd be out drinking on 6th street
Starting point is 00:25:48 on Red River till... 20 year olds. A Red Ripper, sorry. Until like 6 in the morning and then we would get up and Gus was actually the engine that made it. I would have never gotten out of bed, but he was always the one that was like, get up, let's go. It was content. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:01 It was content. It was footage. And so at 8 a.m. every Saturday, we would get a list from the newspaper Yeah, the statesman we would look in the classifieds for yard sales And then we would drive around and look for old video games and consoles Wow, and then before video Yeah, so we take pictures and then we would write stories about it. Yeah, you sometimes true sometimes made up It's like whatever mm-hmm and for some reason all those fucking yard sales from 1999 stories about it. Yeah, sometimes true, sometimes made up. Just like, whatever. And for some reason, all those fucking yard sales from 1999 burned into my brain.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Yeah, how crazy. What did we say before we said it was, it's content? You say that a lot as like an excuse for like what this is, but like that wasn't the term in 2008 when we were like making stuff. We wouldn't call it content. What, I don't know. I just don't remember what we called it.
Starting point is 00:26:45 We would say footage. Footage, right? That's what Jackass did. I remember in Jackass 2, Ryan Dunn was not gonna do, I think it was highlight, wasn't gonna do the highlight. And Jackass said, it's footage. I guess that's what we called it. And ever since then, it became footage to us.
Starting point is 00:26:59 Yeah, I guess that's what we called it too. I just don't remember. I was thinking about it the other day. Mega64 is doing this thing where they're gonna stream for like eight hours or whatever. But we used to do a thing of like filming what we call personal channel videos. They're like non-Mega64 videos, but it'd be us fucking around like in the studio,
Starting point is 00:27:17 just filming ourselves like the dumbest, like 11 second skits that we could think of. And they're gonna be doing that. And then a lot of that was like, oh, you know, it's content, whatever. And it's like, but that's not what we called it. Like what? I just couldn't remember. I guess that's what it was. It was footage. Which is weird to say, because I don't think we would have called drunk sailing footage because that was before. Yeah, that was even pretty bad. Yeah. Yeah. So like, what do you like? It's a post.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Like, why don't you know what you'd call it? Yeah, I don't. I really don't remember. If you remember, let us know. If you were there with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You were like, dude, get up, it's Ian blog content. We're blogging. It's blog content. It's gonna go into the blogosphere. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:58 The blah blah networks, fucking, they invested in us. We need to make that pizza money. Hell yeah. This whole area is kind of fucked up right now. When I came here the other day, like all of this was closed. That's why I had to park in this pay lot. But it was free.
Starting point is 00:28:13 But it was free. I feel like I say this every time I leave my house and I've been saying it for years, but every fucking, there's not a place in Austin you can go to and do a 360 spin and not see some level of construction or road work. We've talked about it before,
Starting point is 00:28:28 but this is definitely San Diego in the 90s where it was just like, how fast can we expand? What can we build? What can we do? Because there's so many people here. It's insane. Just keep getting crews to work. And it would boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Starting point is 00:28:42 And then you get to the other side of it where now everything's falling apart. And you go, oh, the decay phase. Uh-oh, no one's working on any of this stuff. Did, you know, like my cousin's husband has a, just talking about like getting cruising, my cousin's husband has a foundation repair company, right? And he, a couple of years ago,
Starting point is 00:29:00 after the pandemic, things really exploded. He had to start hiring crews in Waco and bringing them in Austin because there weren't enough, there the pandemic, things really exploded. He had to start hiring crews in Waco and bringing them in to Austin because there weren't enough people in Austin. Now he has to hire people in Dallas. To come down. Wow. Yeah, even that much further out to get people in
Starting point is 00:29:15 because it's just so much going on. What is it we were talking about the other day? Austin's like the 11th biggest city. So it actually dropped, it was 10th. We dropped to 11th. I learned that and it made me want to move. And it was like, this isn't, this city isn't big enough to hold
Starting point is 00:29:36 the 11th biggest city by population standing. There is not enough space. Totally agree. Well, there's tons of space. There's just enough space. Totally agree. Well, there's tons of space. There's just not enough. The sprawl hasn't caught up with it or whatever. And it's, you can definitely see like a little bit of like a rubber banding where it's kind of coming back.
Starting point is 00:29:53 There's like a lot of empty apartments right now. A lot of new apartments, a lot of empty apartments. It's great. But man, I learned that and it just made me go like, I got to, I don't even get out of here. Just wait till you go to Houston this weekend and really experience the urban sprawl. That place is ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:30:08 You think it's sprawled all the way out to beautiful Pasadena? Yes, 100% it is. You're gonna be, you're gonna be like hit Katie. And then it's still gonna be like another 90 minutes to get to Pasadena. You'd be like, I'm just driving through Houston. It's like 90 minutes.
Starting point is 00:30:21 You know what the worst part is? We're gonna stop. They're gonna go like, oh, do we get to stop at like the Buc-ee's on the way? It's the bad Buc-ee's. Yeah. It's the shit. Don't even, just take me to a quick trip, get real. Houston's so big, it has like three separate downtowns. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Yeah, it's got like multiple loops and beltways that go around it depending on like what circumference of the city you wanna go around. It sounded like you were setting up for like a, your mama joke there. Houston's so big. How big is it? Well it has multiple downtowns.
Starting point is 00:30:50 It's inconvenient to drive it. That's how big it is. But isn't Dallas the same way? Like Dallas Fort Worth is two different things. Like with no downtowns, it's just shitty and spread. Yeah. That's something to talk about. Although this person just got out of a Waymo.
Starting point is 00:31:02 I assume they just took a Waymo Uber. And now they're videoing their experience getting out. If you want to learn more about- I'll be on TikTok in an hour. If you want to learn more about the Waymo and the Waymo experience, check out Brandon Farmahini on any social. That's true.
Starting point is 00:31:14 He'll let you know all about it. I haven't taken one of these yet, but I really want to. There's no one in that car. Yeah. I came across one in a neighborhood this morning when I was actually leaving my neighborhood to drive to here. And there was one coming at me and I realized there was nobody in it. It was one of those areas where you have to like drive around cars
Starting point is 00:31:32 because the streets not wide enough. And it fucking nailed it. Like I was like for one brief second I thought, uh oh. And then it was totally fucked. If anything, I would say a Waymo is probably better than a human driver in that situation. Because a human driver does not want to get over to let you get ahead. Waymo did great. Like people want to get in front.
Starting point is 00:31:49 People will not move over for another human being. Austin does that. I don't understand. The idea of merging in Austin is I got to get ahead of this next guy. You stared, we were doing a zipper merge on the way here. I just stared at the guy. I let someone in and then like the next car tried to get over and get in. You're like, dude, it's your turn to get behind. I just stared at it.
Starting point is 00:32:05 Austin is the, this opened my eyes. There's probably like three or four months ago. My wife brought it up where she just went, everyone in Austin, when they merge, wants to get in front of the next car. No one will dip behind to make it easier for everyone. And that's why there's traffic all the time. That Austin Sigma mindset.
Starting point is 00:32:24 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're password. We don't even do alpha shit, bro. We're Sigmas out here. Drive and grind. Yeah, that's why. I feel like it's especially bad for me because that car I drive is so small.
Starting point is 00:32:33 People expect it to be like shitty and underpowered, even though it's electric. So it's like, everyone's trying to get in front of me. It's like, no, I'm gonna accelerate faster than you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'm not. What is like, yeah, really just didn't experience that until I moved out here.
Starting point is 00:32:45 The driving is so bad, but that's, like, such a huge reason for it. It's terrible. Is, like, no one will zipper. They'll want to just go in front. And then, or wait till the last possible second, then cross three lanes of traffic to get to where they're going.
Starting point is 00:32:56 It's like if you're trying to zip your pants and just three of the teeth jumped one of the two, then you go, what the fuck happened here? It doesn't work. These pants are fucked up. There was a, speaking of traffic and construction and everything, this I-35 fuckery in North Austin is unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:33:17 The whole thing is under construction and all the lanes are super narrow. And there was just like that horrible crash over the past weekend. Dude, that was so crazy. Like 11 injured and five died. I talked to Blaine about it. We were both floored.
Starting point is 00:33:31 Like a small child. Yeah. If you see something fucked up coming from behind you, there's nowhere to go. There's no place to get over. There's no shoulder. There's no escape. You're locked in there.
Starting point is 00:33:39 Then there was a homicide right after. You see that? And then yesterday afternoon, they shut the interstate down for 90 minutes so they could come in and do a police investigation in the scene. They found somebody was in a car, like not moving. The car was like stopped
Starting point is 00:33:55 and there was somebody in the car. They went like, there's, all right, there's a person in here. And they did not say like, if they were like alive or dead or anything, but they like shut it down for like an hour and a half. Wow. Crazy. Yeah. Crazy. It's uh. So that happens in your 11th largest city, baby. And you gotta add just one more lane to that to that interstate. Just one more lane. It's gonna fix it. It's gonna fix the whole thing.
Starting point is 00:34:16 You know what I'm planning on doing is just not going to North Austin for a couple years. Well, that's a great thing. I don't know what I need up there. I don't go in that direction very often anyway. Right. It's like oh I can't know what I need up there. I don't go in that direction very often anyway. Right. It's like, oh, I can't go to Ikea. Okay. There's that actually would suck. Oh man, I need to go to Round Rock. What?
Starting point is 00:34:32 Where's it gonna get a big donut? There's a fun place I like off of like, where is that? Over like Desaun Parmer. And I would normally take 35 to get there. I guess I'll have to take like 290 to Cameron and take Cameron up there now instead. Takes a little back to Parmer. Yeah, that's like more out of the way. I got that's really out of the way. to take like 290 to Cameron and take Cameron up there now. Instead. It takes a little back to Parmer.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Yeah, that's like more out of the way. I got that's really out of the way. That is, that's a long drive. That's a long haul from that side to the other side. Yeah. There's no East West freeways. Welcome to Austin. We just didn't build them.
Starting point is 00:34:58 You want to go North or South? Think about heading East. You want to go North or South? Don't worry, we've got 183. 130 is going to go north or south? Don't worry. We've got 183. 130 is going to take care of it guys. What direction does it run? Ah, shit.
Starting point is 00:35:11 It was 130 the most ill-conceived thing ever. I think it's actually used a lot. Is it? It's really good. Didn't they go bankrupt? Yeah, but fuck them. Yeah. I think now if you,
Starting point is 00:35:23 I think in the early days, yeah, it wasn't used. Nowadays it is like, common traffic out there. Yeah, it's them. Yeah. But I think now, I think in the early days, yeah, it wasn't used nowadays. It is like common traffic out there. Yeah, it's used a lot, not for what it was built for. My understanding is that it was built so trucks could stay off 35. Yeah, because- And they would take the toll route around to circumvent all of Austin.
Starting point is 00:35:39 And instead, the trucks stay on 35, and everybody else goes around there. Because 35 is nothing but truck. Yep. Yep. Not for not for long when snafta is over. That's why. Yeah, I guess these problems are taking care of. Yeah, we'll be OK.
Starting point is 00:35:54 Yeah, that's that's what I would call this a problem taking care of it. Surely there will be no other unintended consequences from this. We're going to eliminate traffic by increasing food insecurity. Let's decrease trade. You're hungry? Well, shut up and get in your car. I got news for you, the freeway's clear. You can drive to the food bank.
Starting point is 00:36:15 Remember COVID when nobody was driving? You can drive to the food bank is so fucked. That's so funny. Freeway's clear, you can drive to the food bank. There was a big one down by our office off of Slaughter. It's still there, I think. Yeah, that's like one of their like depots or like the distribution hub. Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Roger Stadium with Go Transit. Thanks to Go Transit's special
Starting point is 00:36:45 online e-ticket fairs, a $10 one-day weekend pass offers unlimited travel on any weekend day or holiday, anywhere along the Go network. And the weekday group passes offer the same weekday travel flexibility across the network, starting at $30 for two people and up to $60 for a group of five. Buy your online Go Pass ahead of the show at Gotransit.com slash tickets. My mom works for a food bank in San Diego. It was a thing that my grandparents started doing at like a Rotary Club. And then my mom, after she retired, was like, I'll do it too. And she's there like every day.
Starting point is 00:37:19 She's got a big truck and like there's like big hauls of stuff. Goes and picks stuff up from like Target. It's like, here's all this food. And then they go and like put it in like different packs to like give to people and all this stuff. It's it's awesome. It's really cool. But then the problem is people don't take all the stuff.
Starting point is 00:37:38 And so she'll come home and she's like, look, it's a bunch of food nobody wanted. And I'm like, why would I want it? Yes. What do you mean? It's a bunch of food nobody wanted. And I'm like, why would I want any of this? What do you mean? It's expired M&Ms. That's still good. That's what I'm saying. You mentioned the Rotary Club. It made me think about something
Starting point is 00:37:52 that happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I was at Starbucks over in Mueller and I'd ordered a drink via the app. I was meeting someone there and they called my drink as being ready. So I walked up to get it. And the guy behind the counter did that thing where he's like, you look familiar,
Starting point is 00:38:07 I know you from somewhere. And of course I never wanna be presumptuous, like, oh yeah, you know me from the internet. So I'm like, oh yeah, really? Yeah, because that's, have you ever had that backfire? Yes, that's why I stopped doing it. That's the most embarrassing thing ever.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Oh no. No, that's not it, like, oh God, I just wanna die. So I'm like, oh really? He goes, yeah, where is, I can't place it. He's like, do I know you from the rotary? And I was like, no. And when he said that, I was like, oh really? He goes, yeah, Horace, I can't place it. He's like, do I know you from the rotary? And I was like, no. And when he said that, I was like, oh, he's gonna say it. And then rotary?
Starting point is 00:38:30 Like, no, no, I've got, and the rotary's like, huh. He's like, well, that's something. I was like, okay. Then in my head, I'm like, this guy genuinely has me confused with someone else. It's not. I don't even know what the rotary is. Like, I don't know what the rotary club does.
Starting point is 00:38:45 Yeah. I know about it. My ex-wife was a member. It's a collection of local business leaders and like owners who get together to do civic duty, do civic duty goods around the community. They will have like guest speakers come in and give presentations and go for like professional development and that kind of shit.
Starting point is 00:39:08 But they also sponsor kids to go overseas for semesters away in high school and shit. So a lot of the, you know, when a kid from Germany comes for his junior year of high school, a lot of that's through the Rotary Club. Oh, my whole life I feel like my grandparents have been part of the Rotary Club and it's like my whole life, I feel like my grandparents have been part of like the Rotary Club and it's like, I don't know what this is.
Starting point is 00:39:27 Yeah. They just go, oh, I know, this is Gale. I know him from Rotary Club. And I'm like, hold on. It's just the thing that has the fish fry you drive by on Saturdays. Yes, yeah. Sometimes at a park.
Starting point is 00:39:37 I feel like as a kid growing up in small town, South Texas, it was always the Rotary and the Knights of Columbus. Yes, yeah. What are these organizations? Elks Club, Knights of Columbus, rotary. No, those are the two we had. You guys didn't have Elks? No, we didn't have Elks.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Oh wow. Just rotary and Knights of Columbus. I almost joined the Elks Lodge over in- Yeah? I tried to. I didn't try to, I thought about trying to. Yeah, yeah. A couple years ago, it was over on the East side.
Starting point is 00:40:00 I was gonna ask if you ever thought about doing like, if you're like, there's a couple of VA's around Austin. I I joined the What is it called not VFW, but the other one American Legion. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I joined the American Legion when I got out of the army You gotta be careful Legion airs disease. I think I might join the VFW It was like $20 a year and I paid for like two years and then I fell off. I never went and I fell off.
Starting point is 00:40:27 There's a few VFWs around. I go to some like wrestling shows happen there a lot. But man, they have the cheapest booze of any place in the fucking city. You get like the strongest tequila soda pour for 350. And you just go, uh oh. Kiwanis Club. That's what I do, right?
Starting point is 00:40:49 Oh, Kiwanis Club, I remember that. That's another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember Kiwanis Club. That was the thing when I was a kid. Kiwanis Club felt like it was church associated. These all feel like they're church associated. That's nice to Columbus.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Yeah. I think that's a Catholic organization. Yeah, they all feel like they're church associated without being church associated. In some way, yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's crackle season. Dude, it's spring.
Starting point is 00:41:10 Spring has sprung. When we were recording this, it has been consistently 80 degrees for the last four or five days. Why is it so windy lately? I don't remember it ever being this windy. It is insane how windy it is. In Austin.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Yeah. For a week, it's been like non-stop. It sucked when there were the fires. Yeah. For a week, it's been like nonstop. It sucked when there were the fires. Yeah. Cause it was just fucking dusty. But, but yesterday the wind was, the breeze was amazing. Super nice. It's nice.
Starting point is 00:41:33 I went for a bike ride. It was fucking, it was like maybe the best weather of the year. It's nice right now. But that way, like it'll kick up like what you're talking about. It kicks up so hard. So suddenly when those fires were happening out, like,
Starting point is 00:41:44 whether like new Braunfels or whatever. Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg. And hard, so suddenly, when those fires were happening out, like by the New Braunfels or whatever. Frederick's Berg. Frederick's Berg. And dude, you couldn't breathe. Yeah. It was crazy. It was like orange outside in the afternoon. Well, that's what it was like growing up in San Diego
Starting point is 00:41:55 with the wildfires that would happen. Like it was every year we'd get wildfires and then you just go, oh yeah, it's up in Vista. Oh, okay. Yeah, you can just kind of see like by the distance. That's one of the reasons Emily's parents left Bend. Yeah. Just every year, the fires got worse and worse.
Starting point is 00:42:09 It gets worse and worse, yeah. Yeah. But now it's windy here and that's okay, but at least it's warm. Yeah, it's like, it's, South By just ended. So, you know, it's like that time of year when it's beautiful weather. South By and ACL, you're in for the good weather.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Yeah. Dude, that's something we should talk about. What's that? Did you see the South by News? Yeah, crazy. They're they're stopping the music. They're not stopping it scaling, scaling it back, reducing it and deprioritizing it. The interactive and the film used to be like the stepchildren. Yeah, to like the ad on the sideshow. The sideshow to the music festival,
Starting point is 00:42:45 which used to bring over 2000 bands a year, or 2000 bands a South by into the city. And it was this thing in the mid 2000s where, and it's gonna sound like hyperbole, but it's not. Like you could, this parking lot would have bands playing right now. And that parking lot across the street would also have bands playing right now.
Starting point is 00:43:04 And there would be a band playing in the Fresh Plus grocery store for some reason. Like it would be everywhere. And I guess they just become harder and harder and harder for them to attract musicians because there's just no need for it. No band is gonna break out hands in style in 2025. With the internet, it's unnecessary.
Starting point is 00:43:22 Completely a superfluous event, right? And so I think they said that this last year, they only were able to pull 1,029 bands in. Wow. So about 50% of what they expect to pull in, most of them were international bands, they're not getting a lot of US interest. And so they decided to, going forward,
Starting point is 00:43:41 they're gonna reduce the festival by two days. So like music will not have that final weekend. Yeah, it ends on the Wednesday that music begins. So you usually go, like you have like interactive film and educational, and then the music begins on a Wednesday and it ends on Saturday. Now it's just gonna end on that Wednesday and they'll bump the music stuff up to be inside
Starting point is 00:44:01 the other programming and it'll just be apparently seriously deprioritized because the film festival is where the real money is now. And the real growth is. They're also they also started selling badges now at the end of this platform. Yeah, at half price. Yeah, like at a really super discounted price. And I think that's also a response to maybe concerns over the convention
Starting point is 00:44:22 center not being available for them next year. Yeah. So I think they're trying to drive the interest to get the revenue now before that really gets into people's minds. Definitely. It's interesting to see the rise and then maybe fall of something as important to Austin as South by Southwest has been.
Starting point is 00:44:38 Put it on the map. They built that fucking building. I'm pointing as if you can see it. But they built that fucking building downtown on like, I don't know, San Jacinto or, no, it's at like 1211th and San Antonio or something. Yeah, I'm thinking about the old headquarters. Yeah, and it's like a 15 story building,
Starting point is 00:44:59 I went to a wedding there, it's like really gorgeous. And I think before the building was finished, they already had financial troubles. Oh no. And I think before the building was finished, they already had financial troubles. Oh, no. And I can't imagine these are... Well, it used to bring in about 200 million a year to Austin, I think. And I bet it's nothing near that.
Starting point is 00:45:16 I think we're starting to see it plateau. It's not necessarily nose diving, but we're starting to see it like... Well, I think it plateaued already. This is the top. Well, I think that's a big reason for the change, right? it like, well, I think it plateaued already. I think it's on the, this is the, yeah. The top. Well, I think, I think that's a big reason for the change. Right.
Starting point is 00:45:28 Is like, why do the music then? If that's what this is going to be, if, especially if people are going to come in and you get celebrities coming in for, Tim Robinson or whatever has that new movie with Paul Rudd. Yeah. They were here. Apparently Paul Rudd was the most important thing
Starting point is 00:45:42 to happen on this, Fred. Everywhere I looked there were Paul Rudd's photos. And it was like, oh, okay. Like, like I guess if that's if that's what we if that's what we're going with, then OK. It just all became like VIP experiences. Yeah. That the number one comment I saw, the top comment I saw on the subreddit, the Austin subreddit read about it was Austin used to be the live music capital of the world. Now it's the VIP room capital of the world. Now it's the VIP room capital of the world. And that's the most fucking apropos.
Starting point is 00:46:08 I think that that's on the money. The person who wrote that was a genius. Yeah, I think they're absolutely on the money. Cause that's how it feels. I don't even bother trying to go to any of this stuff. Cause it's like, I'm gonna wait in line to maybe get in it. There was a wrestling show called Forth Rope that was happening at Empire that was put on by
Starting point is 00:46:26 Westside Gun, I think, Raffer. And had a bunch of names and it was like, oh man, I know so many people here. Maybe I'll try to go. It came and went and all I heard was, I bought tickets to the show and they kept changing who could get in because initially it was ticket holders and then it was people with South by badges and then it was ticket holders again and then it was
Starting point is 00:46:49 people with badges who had tickets and they kept doing this back and forth and it was at capacity before more than half the people could get in. Yeah. It want to, ooh, I want to go to that. Like what? Outrageous, crazy. That's awful. It's like, that's something you do when you're younger. Yes, definitely. You don't care about your time. It's just about-
Starting point is 00:47:15 If I'm 22, I don't give a fuck. Get me in anywhere, get me drunk, is there free taco? Hell yeah. The first half of your Austin arc in your early 20s is standing in lines and paying ridiculous money to go be a part of a festival somewhere and being on top of the world. The second half of your Austin arc is looking at it and going, who do we know that can get us in for free? And if there's nobody that can get us in the back door, we're not going because it's not worth standing in that line.
Starting point is 00:47:38 Absolutely. Absolutely. You don't want to get jumped by birds. Dude, there are so many grackles out here. We started feeding them. That was maybe a mistake. Got a grack attack. Yeah, dude. We should get on to wrapping this up, but we should talk about the coffee. It's quacks, again, a lost episode. Quacks.
Starting point is 00:47:54 But this was a different experience than what we had last time. In the last episode, a lot of walking around. This was a nice sit. Yeah. Cup of coffee. We all got muffins or scones or whatever. What did you guys think?
Starting point is 00:48:04 It is so fucking funny. Cause the last time we walked around and I told a bunch of stories about living in this neighborhood. I can see the house I lived in. Yep. That's right over there. Yeah. That's Millie's old bedroom right there. You can see poking out of that.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Where Gavin and I lived for about a year. And then said, we just sat here. Yeah. And didn't really talk about Hyde park at all. I gotta say the coffee was better this time. This was better this time. This is maybe one of the best cups of coffee I've ever had on this show.
Starting point is 00:48:27 Yeah, I mean- It's so fucking good. I talked shit because that first time we came here, it was awful. Yeah. It sucked shit. This one is actually, this is an excellent Americano. This is a great, like eight and a half on my- This might be a nine five. This coffee is fantastic.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Wow. I don't know what, so this is probably like an eight on this Americano. This is such a light roast with like a little bit of like a sourness that I really like. There's a sweetness, like almost like a fruit juice,
Starting point is 00:48:55 kind of like sweetness. It's fucking awesome. What happened? I don't know. This is- Caught him on a good day. Or we caught him on a bad day last time. Yeah, correct.
Starting point is 00:49:03 But I feel like the last time was more indicative of what my normal cracks experience. Well, that's what you're saying. There's no one here. The last time we went, yes, it was like, oh, this is pretty critical cracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this is unusual.
Starting point is 00:49:14 This is definitely unusual, but I'm fucking loving it. I feel compelled to also say fresh pluses still not cashed my check. Maybe we can go. Are you serious? Go in there and ask them if they're okay if they need the seven bucks. Oh shit, it's the check guy
Starting point is 00:49:27 and he brought other old friends. Oh my God, these guys, are they all gonna write checks? Oh fuck, they're all here and they're all writing checks. This Fresh Plus has the painting on the side, the Will Ferrell painting. Yeah, the Will Ferrell Harry Harry Shear painting, I believe. Yeah, that is them. Yes, for a movie that we found out did come out.
Starting point is 00:49:52 Yeah, Wendell, whatever. I don't remember what it was called anymore. The Wilson movie. The Wilson, yeah, I was in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It came out like in 04 or 05. It's old and they just kept that, yeah, it's their claim to fame.
Starting point is 00:50:03 Yeah. Will Ferrell painted on the side. From that movie everyone saw and loved. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all love it. We all, it's old and they just kept that. Yeah, that's their claim to fame. Yeah. Will Ferrell, pin it on tight. From that movie everyone saw and loved. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all love it. We all, it's classic. It's probably number one Austin film, you know what I mean? Put Luke Wilson in a movie and I'm there.
Starting point is 00:50:12 Day one, opening day, butts in the seats. Put Luke Wilson, it's the first time that sentence has ever been said. Put Luke Wilson in a movie and I'm there. I like to celebrate the intangible monogamy. Ha ha ha! I really, if you can find quacks on a good day, I can't recommend this enough.
Starting point is 00:50:31 This is so good. Yeah. Fantastic. And watch the bird fights too. Yeah. And like we keep saying, it's not crowded. I don't know what's going on. No one's here.
Starting point is 00:50:39 It is dead ass empty. Oh, I bet it, I bet I know why. But it's cause it's a spring break. Oh, that's why there hasn't been traffic. I drove down Guadalupe the other day by the university and it was not bad. That must be it. I totally forgot.
Starting point is 00:50:52 Cause I rode my bike to Barton Springs yesterday and it was insane for a Tuesday. And I was like, what the, oh, right, right, right. It's gotta be. Yep. It's exactly what it is. It's exactly what it is, spring break. So what do you guys want wanna do for spring break?
Starting point is 00:51:05 Let's go down to South Padre. Record 1000 fucking podcasts with you. It's your job. Good, you don't have a choice. You decided you wanna be out of town for three fucking weeks. I'm out of town for 12 days. A nursery week.
Starting point is 00:51:19 By wearing her scrubs. Yeah. And wearing like the shoe covers. The shoe covers, yeah. That's all I do. What's? Well, she don't wanna mess up her shoes. She's got like flu game Jordans. wearing her scrubs and wearing like the shoe covers. The shoe covers, yeah. I saw that too. What's, well she don't wanna mess up her shoes. She's got like flu game Jordans, dude. Probably just fucking forgot to take them off.
Starting point is 00:51:32 I'm sure she'll throw them away. No, no, no, well she's gonna change the shoe covers, but you don't wanna scuffle up the Jordans. I guess so. So shades are hot, baby. Anyway, it's your fault for leaving town, I guess, Jeff. I don't know. Yeah. You fool.
Starting point is 00:51:42 I'm sorry about that. Apology barely accepted, but that's fine. We don't want to get you agitated. Yep. So this is episode six of Good Morning Gus. So we should definitely in the remaining two for the season, definitely either go to TNI or the Alamo and Dirty Martins. Definitely should go to Dirty Martins.
Starting point is 00:52:02 Two of those, three or something. Some combination. Yeah. Well, we'll figure out what we're gonna do. I'm excited. And don't forget episode eight, we all will say if we're going to continue the show or not. There it is, the wind. I saw it coming.
Starting point is 00:52:14 I saw it. If you remember how season one went on episode eight, we all said if we were gonna continue the show or not, we all said yes. Episode eight, we're gonna do the same. Will we all say yes? Will they, Won't they? Yep. That's the exciting part.
Starting point is 00:52:27 Also, there are a lot of people who thought I was going to be the one to say no in the first season. I thought that was funny. Fucking crazy. Really funny. Insane. Insane. Ultimate heel move. That would have been. You missed out. You really missed out.
Starting point is 00:52:36 I got the jiff of doing the show. Yeah, but hey, no. What? So find out. Episode eight. It's coming soon. But thanks for listening. Let us know what you think. I don't think we'll see eight, it's coming soon. But thanks for listening. Let us know what you think. I don't think we'll see it, but let us know.
Starting point is 00:52:49 Put it somewhere on the internet. Exactly. Send us a postcard. And we'll talk to you next time. We gotta get out of here before the crackles. Okay, cool. Bye. Bye.
Starting point is 00:52:56 Bye. You

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