ANMA - Potato Pals

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Good morning, Gus! Or maybe afternoon? It’s definitely lunchtime as Gustavo and Geoff stop in for a baked potato at local chain Rudy’s BBQ. More walk and talk, plus we don’t eat on mic so you don’t have to worry. Hopefully you’re enjoying this show coming back but will we make it past 8 episodes? We talk about Fractured foot, Palm trees, BBQ, Potato likes & dislikes Sea breeze & Comic Con, Illegal game rooms, and Cicadas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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["The New Game"] Good morning, Jeff. Good morning, Gus. Whoa, he beat you to it? I love it. It's his podcast. It's what you think. I like it. It's his? I love it. It's his podcast. It's my new thing. I like it.

It's his name, not mine. It's my podcast, you heard him. Right. We're walking around again. It's another walkie talkie. We should trademark that. I walkie talkie. I think they might all be walkie talkies

at the way this is going. I was telling my wife after something about the recording, and we've done, how many episodes of AMMA did we do? 73. 73. Yeah. And so this is our third. Pretty good.

This is close enough, right? Yeah. So 70 ish and then we've done, this is our third of these and I had more fun doing that walkie talkie than any of the other ones for some reason. So yeah, same. There's something great about walking around. I don't know, it brings a different energy. So today we went to Rudy's on Lamar,

it was just like across from the Central Market. I never knew there was a parking garage down here. Me neither. No, me either. Never needed it. This is on Marathon Street, right? That's a weird street. So we're just gonna walk around the area here

and see what happens. You guys familiar with this? Yeah, I used to ride my bicycle around here a lot. I like the neighborhoods. A few years ago, I did something really stupid and I fractured my foot and I had to buy a boot for my foot right over here. I guess that's where that arch theory is now.

Wait, that's their regional offices, by the way. When did you? How did you break your foot or fracture your foot? I was at I'd gotten a haircut and I was leaving the barbershop and they were like three or four steps down to go down from there to the parking lot. And I was texting, I was like using my phone or something. I wasn't paying attention and I thought I'd done all the steps, but there was one more I hadn't accounted for.

So I kind of tripped and fell and just like landed awkwardly on my foot and it fractured my right foot. Let's go this way. And you know I did that thing where I fell down, got super embarrassed, so like I popped back up and tried to play it off like nothing happened. Get one over there. But then my foot was in incredible pain so I fell down a second time. No!

But at least your hair looked good. Yeah, at least it did. So I had to wear a boot for like eight weeks or something. Man, I have no memory of that. No, what year was that? That was like 2015 2016. Oh wow Probably 2015 if I had to guess we were definitely at stage five, huh? Jeff you're broken bones Not really I mean I had my job rebuilt right right right So it was like, sawed into pieces.

That's lots of bones broken. Yeah, that's a bunch, but it's done on purpose. But yeah, it was an on purpose break. Yeah. I don't, I mean, I think I broke a toe a long time ago. Right. And I'm pretty sure it's still broken because it's been hurting now for about six years.

And I can't walk barefoot sometimes. Oh wow, really? Yeah, it's that whole thing. You gotta put a boot on it. Yeah, maybe I should. Maybe eight weeks of a boot might've saved me six years of misery. But no, other than that, maybe, maybe tell me now.

How about you? No, nothing broken. I think it would be gross to break something. I wouldn't wanna do it. No. This is exactly why I've got my boot. That's the hard theory. That's the orange theory? Well, it was like a medical equipment store before.

It's weird because there's like a bunch of medical supply stores right here. I guess this is the hospital so close. Yes. But I'm with you, Jeff. That time I fractured my foot, that's the closest I've come to like breaking a bone. Really?

Yeah, and I guess technically it counts, but it wasn't like I had to put a cast on. It wasn't. You didn't wear a wasn't It was just a pain in the ass Yeah, like I've never had a plaster cast in my life I had to have a cast on my hand after I had surgery on it But that was because I ripped up a bunch of tendons. Yeah, the bones were fine Yeah, the odd thing was the doctor put an e-collar on him too Yeah, he just wouldn't stop chewing at it

He said if I could go two days without chewing on it, I'd be able to take it off, but I couldn't. So I had to wear it for a month. What are you gonna do? What's with palm trees in Austin? Why is that something that people are trying... This, right over here. Oh, yeah, I don't get it.

I don't know. I guess... It's hot as shit, I guess. They are down on the Texas coast, right? They have a corpus and shit Yeah, yes here. It's just so dry like we go through periods of such severe drought Yeah, I can't imagine there's a live they would do well Well, then it freezes and they all die and melt and then it's like I guess we'll just replant these like that's the plan

L.a. Stopped doing it right? They said they're just not gonna let them buy it. I believe so yeah. I think they said that uh it was like the cost and the maintenance and everything for like a non-native species was just like why are we... For a tree that doesn't want to be there? Yeah exactly. They're filled with roaches right? This little uh, is that true? I think they're just like roach motels. This little compound right here at the corner is so cool. It's like three different houses. Yeah, it was for sale a couple years ago for way too much money. But it'd be neat if you... This is like regulation household. You want to have like your little regulation compound. You got your main house right here, and you got your little garage, and you got your sideways house going that way. Well, it's the studio, you know? Yeah. And that's, you know, it makes sense. I don't know if I've ever been on this particular little street that we're on. I definitely if you take a left here

It cuts out to 38th and a half Street. Okay, right there where the whole that stuff is I've been doing it right. Yeah, I've come down this way. There's two little inlet streets that come right here This is cool. Is that a volleyball net in the front yard? Looks like it. That's awesome. Man. I love the volleyball in the car I saw the dumbest thing earlier. I was heading over to where we were going to meet up and I was driving down a street to get over to the highway and a big tree had fallen over into the street. Like one of these that you see here. I don't know what had happened. Big branch fell over. It was blocking both directions. No one could get around it and it was very visible. The street was very straight. I street was very straight.

I could see it coming. So as I'm approaching, I think, well, I'm not going to get around that. So doing the logical thing, I turned off onto a side street and worked my way around. Uh-huh. But I felt like I was the only person who did that. Every other person on the street just continued going, pulled up to the tree and then just stopped.

Like, what do they think is going to happen? Right. Then like you see people like starting to put it in reverse or starting to try to bust then just stopped. Like, what do they think's gonna happen? Right. Then like, you see people like starting to put it in reverse or starting to try to bust a Huey. It's like, you saw it was there. Yeah. Did you think you were gonna honk at it and it was gonna move?

Get out of the way. I'm coming through. It was just so bizarre to watch. Like, I don't know, like, just like, almost like you're driving on instinct or like a lemming or something. It was like, I'm driving, this is the street I'm on, that's where I need to go. Well, just like, almost like you're driving on instinct or like a lemming or something, where it's like, I'm driving, this is the street I'm on, that's where I need to go, well, there's no other option.

That happened the other day when President Joe Biden was in town and you couldn't drive anywhere. But boy, people thought they were just gonna jump on the freeway. Yeah, to be fair, a couple of people did. This is one of the uglier houses in Austin, I think. You think so?

Super 90s, I mean, it's huge and fancy, but you get a good look at it. It's fucking weird. It's just, it's like that wood, or I'm sorry, the stone on the outside. Oh, the top is really weird. Yeah, and it's actually weirder further in. Like if you go to the other side, you can't,

so the entrance is bizarre. Is that like a alcove, like a balcony at the top? Looks like it could be. Yeah, like a weird balcony. Let me take a picture. It's one of those artistic 90s, early 2000s houses. Like one of the OGs of that era, I think. Weird.

Yeah. Very weird. I love how shady it is through here, but whoa, I stick on my seat, Jeff. That's why I have the Gavin ones. That's what happened to Gavin once. Worst future Jeff, wait a minute. But like, if I lived in this much shade all the time, I think I'd go crazy. Why is that?

It's just, there's no sun hitting you, like, there's no sun hitting you directly on so many of these houses. Like so many of them are just permanently shaded. That's great for your AC, for your electricity bill. I bet it's great. It's bad for my mental health. It would make me nuts. I bet it was bad for almost every one of these houses two and three years ago during the freezes. Oh yeah. Yeah. Nothing would melt. It would all just hang out. Well, also all these tree loads just fell on

their... I assume just fell right on their roofs. Yeah. Heavy. Because're right every house is covered by a giant limb. Yeah. And these trees are weak as shit. Yeah it's really really shady through like this whole neighborhood. They get deprived of water in the summer which weakens them and then at winter they don't have the, that's what happened the last couple years, they don't have the strength to handle the weight of all the ice. Oh is that right? Because they've been essentially sapped of their energy throughout the year. That tree I saw this morning, it didn't even take a freeze. It was just a normal day.

And half of it fell off. Yeah. We'll come up to Ramsey Park here in a second. Oh, let's go there. That's your park. That's nice. We figured out our situation for paying and it worked. Yeah, it did.

How are you feeling about it, Gus? Yeah, it's like great. We should even get a tool with it a bit. Let me figure it worked. Yeah, it did. How are you feeling about it Gus? Yeah, it's like great. We need a tool with it a bit. You may figure it out. So we got chalk. Gus has chalk resistant tires. Yeah, Gus didn't love drawing on his car with chalk. You have to wipe that off.

That's what I was, yeah. Yeah, it's not hard to do. I thought it was. It was hard to get the chalk out there. Yeah. You had to get it started on the ground. So now I just got to carry chalk in my car? I guess.

I mean, we can leave it. With the microphones or something. Yeah. We'll do that. I mean, I guess that's like the best we could do. Nobody can expect you to carry chalk around. It's dangerous to keep chalk in your car as hot as it gets here.

Yeah. I mean, the chalk would melt. Does chalk melt? Yeah. It does. Lava. What? Is lava chalk? It's melting rocks Is a chalk melted rocks? What the fuck? This is like talking to Gavin is chalk rocks. Yeah Chalks rocks. Okay. I'm not a part of this conversation

I'm looking at houses absolutely rock. Yeah, this looks like the most la home in Austin this guy around the left Yeah, that's right here. The Spanish rocks. Yeah, this looks like the most LA home in Austin. This guy on the left? Yeah, this right here. The Spanish style tile. Yeah, clay tile. When I think of owning a home, that's what I think, like in my head, that's what it looks like because that's just what houses look like to me. Yeah. Like growing up, that's just it.

Oh, here's white and stucco adobe and everything. But Gus ended up paying for our delicious meal it was good we we went and got the Rudy's baked potato that's why we're at Rudy's I guess I didn't mention that earlier mm-hmm love the big potato I feel like you know I mentioned we went to the one here on Lamar this Rudy's been open for a couple of years I think back in the day Jeff and I used to always have to go to the one out by Barton Creek Mall off of 360. To this day, when I think of Rudy's,

the image of Rudy's is that location. Is that right? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, 100%. I could not begin to imagine how many times I've eaten at that location. Does it start to burn it? Yeah, it starts here.

Huh. Oh, but then this one opened a couple of years ago, much more central located. But I feel like, I mentioned this to you guys over while we were eating our potatoes. I feel like when that one first, when the one here on Lamar first opened, it didn't taste the same as other locations.

I don't know if they were going through like growing pains or just like launching or what was going on. It wasn't as good. I feel like I remember there was a thing about that. Like they weren't cooking their food there. They're bringing it in at first or something. They didn't have the cookers set up. It tastes the same now though.

Yeah, now it's totally fine. Now it's like every other location. That's the thing with Rudy's is like, it is super consistent. It doesn't matter what look, at least in Austin, all locations I've been to. Austin, New Braunfels, all along 35. It doesn't matter which one you go to.

Eric, I'm gonna ask you a question about Rudy's and barbecue. Cause it has been a major part of my life for the last 30 years. And whether I want it to be or not. Right. And and it's so synonymous with here and in Texas and Austin. Oh, for sure. Yeah.

But you're from California. Yeah. Was barbecue a big deal growing up or in California? And was it like when you thought barbecue, did you think of what Texas barbecue is? Or was it different? Was it barbecue? What came to mind? Yeah, what comes to mind? Because when Alabama it was like always this like, sloppy, saucy ribs and shit that I wasn't crazy about. Huh? I wasn't a huge barbecue fan until I came here.

I wasn't a huge barbecue fan until I came here either. But it was not a thing like in San Diego. There are places that do it. There are like Phil's barbecue in San Diego is like the barbecue spot. They have like a couple of locations. It's good. And then you come out here and you have barbecue anywhere and you go, oh, I didn't know what it was supposed to be. I get it now.

What about the Top Gun place? You go get barbecue there all the time? No, not all the time. Would go to- That place is very bad. Went to a vision doctor who worked on the Top Gun movie and had the Top Gun movie playing all 24 hours a day on a TV in his office.

Really? Yeah, it was pretty cool. That's a proud American right there. Yeah. But when I think of barbecue, it's what we got like today. Like it's brisket. It's that stuff.

So did Texas change your opinion? Like, do you barbecue differently now? Oh, I love barbecue now. Yeah. Like before I was like, I don't really care. Whatever. And then now it's like, Oh damn dude. Like the, the thing about it is it's so good out here that the worst of it,

like, you know, I wouldn't say Rudy's like the worst of it, but man, that's like the most baseline. Like, it's like the same at all. Like their locations. It's fucking good. And then everything above that is like, man, this shit is awesome. Yeah, but I got no problem going to Rudy's all the time and just getting that because it's so good.

It's very equivalent to like fast food barbecue, right? You go in, you get it. You know what you're getting. It's the same all the time. Oh, yes. Yeah. The consistency is equivalent consistency. But I would say it's way better than fast food. Completely agree. Even though it is very fast food. But the nice thing about Rudy's and we've always said we said this for years, is you

go to Rudy's because it's consistent and you know you're going to get an A minus probably. Oh, for sure. Every day. Yep. Whereas if you drive to Lockhart and you catch Smitty's or Krites' on an off day, you've sunk an hour and 10 minutes of driving into a B minus, which is soul crushing. Yeah. When you when you want. Amazing Texas. Yeah, it's like when people come here and visit,

if they've never been here before, I take them to like Terry Black, because it's you know, it's just south of the river and it's right next to the Palmer Event Center. It feels like Austin and you wait and then you eat there. And it's like, wow, this is really good. And then when they've been here a couple of times, they just go, you just want to go to Rudy's and they go, yeah. And they go, this is fucking good.

Yeah, there's plenty of other stuff you can do with that. Save time. Exactly. Yeah, you save four hours of line time. Yeah. And that's that to me is how much is your time worth? Because, man, that being said, for people that hear about how crazy the lines are and say it's not that no food can be worth it and stuff. And I tend to agree. If you can get your hand on that level of barbecue uh interstellar supposedly I've

never had it uh Valentina's I think is going through some rough times but like let's say Franklin or La Barbecue yeah you absolutely should yeah definitely drop what everything you're doing to eat it it's so fucking good I've only had Franklin one time. It was just gate kept from us. It was during COVID and I had a friend, I guess they were doing like online orders or whatever. And he got the online order. He's like, come over, I got this, let's fucking do it.

And we ate a bunch of Franklin. I went, that's awesome. I would not wait eight hours in line. I used to do that sometimes for the salon girls back in the old days, right around the same time. Cause you could because you could you'd have to get like it a too much for one person or one family Yeah, but still you could get it and it was easy You just drive them they put it in your trunk and you drive off. Yep And so I would go drop it off there. You guys want to grab a bench over here and chill for a minute

Yeah, that's it. This is nice. Um, yeah would like some shade Yeah, no kidding the shit we were talking about shade earlier. I could go for some right now. I talk no shit about shade. Flowers will tune. But the thing about, the thing about Rudy's is it's so, I didn't know what barbecue turkey was. I thought turkey was just whatever

until I had Rudy's and I went, oh, this is, this fucking rocks. I don't think they have a single bad thing on the menu. No. There's not a single thing where I would say don't get that. No, they had no, absolutely not. They're jalapeno cheese, brot thing or whatever. They're jalapeno cheddar sausage.

Dude, it's so good. That's the best thing on the menu. It is. People will say it's brisket, but I think that jalapeno cheddar sausage and honestly the prime rib. Yeah. Don't usually order it.

Bernie would always get it on like when we'd have like a I don't know like a weekend get together. He would always get one. So fucking their prime rib is so fucking good. And you forget about it. They do something with brisket that, you know, I feel like we should talk about. And people should brought sunglasses. People who aren't from here and all over this thing

are going to find maybe a little strange. We've already that one. Yeah. You can buy, when you order brisket, you can order regular brisket, lean brisket, or moist brisket. Moist, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And moist just means fatty.

Yeah. Like all that fat has just melted. Mm-hmm. And you get the burn ends too. Yeah. Oh, and boy, it's fucking good. Yeah, I always go for the moist whenever possible. No, we talked about this a little bit, but you said that you're like vegetarian

mostly like these days and then on the weekend you kind of like go for it or whatever. You broke it in the middle of the week for this. It's content, baby. Yeah, hell yeah. This episode is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy. Ever captured a great night video only for it to be ruined by that one noisy talker? With audio erase on the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, you can reduce or remove unwanted noise and relive your favorite moments without the distractions. And that's not all.

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So what does this entail? So I know exactly what he's getting at. What I found out, cause I went to dinner with Jeff the other day and I brought up going to get this potato. And then Jeff's wife doesn't like baked potatoes, mashed potatoes. Any potatoes? Yeah, she doesn't like the consistency of potatoes. She only likes them when they're more crunch than

potatoes. So like a crinkle fry, waffle fry, very overcooked tater tots and very overcooked hash browns are the only thing she'll touch. That's wild. Yeah. And so it's so weird because potato was probably the predominant ingredient to every meal of my childhood. Oh yeah.

Like potato was served in some form or another, especially growing up in Alabama. Potato's cheap and easy. Very cheap and easy. And we had mashed potatoes probably five days a week when I was growing up. Her family was the opposite. They never touched potatoes.

They don't fuck with potatoes. They're rice people. I don't understand that. Fat cats. Yeah, big old fat cats. They lived in the woodlands. Yeah, uh-huh. Fucking there you go.

Uh-huh. You either, I think that you're either rice people or potato people. Yeah, no, I agree. And we definitely weren't rice people growing up. I never had rice. Very rarely. And so I guess that's where the break society is.

We had Spanish rice and that was really it. We had Spanish rice and beans. Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. About to perpetuate any stereotypes here. No, no, no. Please go ahead, perpetuate. No, but me too.

Where do you land on tortillas? We had that, but dude, a baked potato where you just like, I'll just stab this with a fork and then I'll throw the microwave and this thing's ready. And you just we're talking about like. Mashed potatoes are like such a perfect form of the food, but that's why I like a baked potato, because it's like having mashed potatoes in a little container.

And oh, it's so none of the effort. Not zero. That's the thing. And that's zero. It's like a soup in a bread bowl. It oh, with none of the effort. That's the thing. And that's zero. It's like a soup in a bread bowl. It is. It is. It's a potato bowl. Yeah, it's a mashed potato bowl.

And here's why I need you guys to be my potato pals because I learned later in life to like a baked potato. Growing up, I thought they were boring. I thought they weren't a sexy potato to me. It was always like a cheap version or like a quote unquote healthy version of a mashed potato Which I much preferred and so I ignored them until probably my mid 30s late 30s Wow now I'm married to a woman who won't look at them and I just don't have access to them in my life

We finally have the technology to improve big potatoes and you're left wanting Yeah, I know and that's why I want to have my potato pals. And that technology is smoking it, cutting it open, slamming it with all the cheese and sour cream and butter you can find and then topping it with brisket. Listen, that, oh, there was like a whole stick of butter. There was so much butter. The big potato at Rudy's is the best value

of delicious to dollar you can get anywhere. Cause the potato by itself fully dressed is like six bucks. And then if you want to throw a meat on there, like we've got brisket, it's like 10. Yeah. And you get as much brisket as you would get if you bought like a sandwich for 14 bucks. Yeah, it's definitely a sandwich amount.

Yeah. And the potato is loaded, like I said, with tons of butter, cheese, if you want sour cream, chives, all that shit. Yeah. And it's just so much. I'm not saying like 10 bucks is super cheap, just like the cheapest meal you can get. I'm just saying the amount of food you get and the quality of food you get for $10 is crazy.

Because I mean, that's like the big thing, right? Like McDonald's, you can't even get like a big McMeal for 10 bucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me and Gus split one. We ate the whole thing. I'm perfect. I'm perfect. I feel so good.

It was so fucking good. Every bite was like, goddamn. And then somehow there was a mystery fork. Yeah, there was a, someone put a fork in our potato? We got halfway through eating our potato and then went, why is there a fork sticking out of our potato? Now you might be thinking, oh, my God,

somebody who was making this potato left a fork in there. No, one of us stabbed a fork straight up and down into the potato. And then we just didn't see it as we were walking around. It was like we were like those drivers who didn't see the big branch. They're eating around a fork that was standing straight up in the middle of our potato. You have a fork blind. It was crazy. And we just looked at it and went, where'd this fork come from? I guess I went, I don't know. I assumed it was your fork. And then I looked in your head and you had a fork.

We both had forks. Then you had a fork. And it was like, what happened here? And then it didn't matter because we just took it out and then kept eating. There was no hesitation. Just went, oh, that's fucking weird. One of us put it in there and we just didn't remember it. Absolutely. What's up, man? Did we record an ANMA here? Oh yeah. We did, right? We went to Stinson's Coffee Shop,

which is on the other side of this park, and got coffee and walked over here and sat somewhere over there. I think, yeah, we were... We drove. We didn't walk over here. Oh, drove, maybe. We were in that, right?

Isn't there like a little covered area? Yeah, yeah, there's like a little pavilion thing over there. I just got like the weirdest sense of deja vu and realized we had done this before. Is this our first repeat location? Well, we did figure eight twice. Those were different figure eights. Very different figure eights.

Yeah, this is the first location that we've been to twice. Completely un-incorporated. This was totally by accident. We just kept walking and then ended up here. I was getting ready to turn around, I was like, man, this is, it's hot. I'm glad we stopped because it's not like last summer where we're in the shade and the breeze is not killing. No,

yeah, actually cooling down. The breeze feels good in the shade and it's nice. But with that walk back is going to be pretty warm. But whatever, I'm not worried about but we'll walk back as the crow flies. We meander. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um, this is going back to something I talked about last week. This week, you know, it This is going back to something I talked about last week. This week, you know, it's hot. Last week I talked about how cool it was and how nice it was.

This week is we are back at average highs for summer. Yes, absolutely. This is how summer is supposed to be. It's hot, but you stop in the shade, you're fine. It's doable. It's not like we're in Phoenix. The high is 95 today Well, I think it's probably average the lowest 78. Yeah, and It's 92 right now and it feels like 92 without being like brutal

It's supposed to be 96 97 then it starts getting it like Saturdays with me like 99 hot but like not insane And then hot on Sunday, but it's the difference between 99 and 109. Exactly. And that's such a difference. It's so much more than 10 degrees. It's a huge difference, especially in Austin, where the breeze is so hard to come by. Yeah. Or when you do have it, it's like a blow dryer.

Yes. The gentle breeze, growing up in San Diego, I'm just so used to, oh, there's just airflow. Like all the time, there's just always all wind that's blowing through. You don't get that here all the time. So like when it's happening right now, it's like, oh, my God feels so fucking good. And you can survive this weather.

But boy, when it's a hundred and eight and there's no breeze and you just go, huh, it's like we're in a electric blanket all the time. It's it's back to a summer where you can enjoy it on the margins. Like I went for a bike ride this morning at nine a.m. and it was breezy and gorgeous. Yeah. And tonight at about 11, I'll walk the dog for 45 minutes or maybe 10, maybe 930 or so. And it'll be awesome.

Like it'll be fucking gorgeous and wonderful. And then you just, you know, in the daytime, you look at a computer. I've been walking the dog around eight and it's been awesome. Yeah. It's been so nice out. You're a big dog walking guy. I love I love walking the dog now. I do too.

I'm all about walking the dog. Sounds like a euphemism. I'm taking that dog. I'm walking that dog. My old dog. My old dogs. My old dogs were too old. Yeah.

So they couldn't walk. This dog, he fucking can't stop down the walk. Yeah. Yeah. My dog doesn't need to walk, but he has like a backyard that he kind of hops around in or whatever. But he likes going on the walk and then he comes home and he pants so much because he's like we really walked like a mile or whatever that my wife is like, is he okay?

And I'm like, yeah, this is just what a dog does. This is he's getting exercise. He's not used to that. Yeah. Yeah. He's not a couch potato. No, exactly. Can I nerd out for a little bit here Please allow me if I may I was curious you mentioned about like the breeze in San Diego and how it was always wind blowing

I started really thinking about that the other day Uh-huh, like why is it when you're by the ocean that you get that sea breeze? Uh-huh, and I finally realized maybe I'm an idiot Maybe everyone else knows this and it's common sense, but it finally clicked to me why sea breeze is a thing The Sun does not heat water at the same rate that it heats land So the the air over land gets hotter faster than the air over water So the air over land begins rising in a hot air. Oh, yeah Yeah, then there's almost like there's less air on the ground

So then the cooler air from the sea blows right in place it It just it just never really blows hard enough where we're going to get you know we get like little dust doubles and everything but it was never really hot enough to like or or cool enough with like the hot air to be like a disaster because everything's gentle it doesn't get hot hot hot so like the hot hot air isn't crazy crazy hot and the sea breeze isn't crazy crazy cold it's just all medium air sort of together and you get it blowing in constantly. It rocks. It is so, oh, it's great. Now, see, I always just assumed it was just because there's no trees in the ocean to slow it down. Buildings. And so it gets to build up wind speed and it hits the land and it pushes in and the further inland you get, the further obstructed it is like friction.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. He thought that it was God blowing on the ocean and then when it rained it's his tears. And yeah, the marine layer and that like sea breeze and everything is why it's so easy in San Diego. San Diego. All the time, it's killer. The weather's so nice. I mean, when you guys would come for Comic-Con,

which just passed at the time of this recording, Comic-Con was this last video. Oh yeah. I hope I never go there again. Me too. When you guys would come, that was the ideal time for like summer vacation, because people come in June, but we have crazy June gloom where it just the marine layer comes like rolls in.

It doesn't burn off coastally. It just stays. So it's just gloomy overcast all, every day, like all through June. July rolls in, it starts getting hot. So all that stuff burns off around 10. And then you're at the beach and it starts getting hot and everything. And it's fucking great. The last the best. The last time I was out there was 2019.

The last pre covid comic con. I've not been back in five years. But man, it's it was nice. That was a good trip. Yeah. You recommend I go out to what was it? OBE? Oh, yeah. Ocean Beach, dude. OBE rocks. Yeah, it's a, it was nice. That was a good trip. You recommended I go out to, what was it? OB? Ocean Beach? Yeah, Ocean Beach, dude. OB rocks.

Yeah, it's awesome. It would be a really cool place to live. Way too expensive. I looked at it and I was like, this place is nice. I pulled up like Redfin while I was there. I was like, oh man, this is expensive. Brutal now.

Yeah, yeah. It used to just be where it's like, hey, what's up? Are you a burnout? Yeah. Come on down to Ocean Beach. And you're like, all right, cool. What were you doing at Comic Con in 2019? I think I was there too, but we were out there together. Warner Brothers boat. Yeah, we had to do content on down to Ocean Beach. You're like, all right, cool. What were you doing at Comic-Con in 2019?

I think I was there too, but we were not there together. Warner Brothers boat. Yeah, we had to do content on the Warner Brothers boat. Oh, I was on it with you. Yeah. That's right. We did that together. That's what it was. I was producing it.

Yeah. And then I was out there with Drew Saplin and we put it all together and everything. And then on the last day when we were breaking it all down he wanted to just pack it up and get like back to the car take all this stuff back. He's like, you know, frustrated or whatever. And like, no, we don't have to call a car.

We don't get anything. We'll have the boat take us across the harbor and then it'll drop us where the cars parked because that's where we unloaded or whatever. He's getting frustrated or whatever. And it takes like an hour and then finally goes. And I remember being out in the harbor with him. The bartender gave us a bottle of bourbon that he mashed blackberries into

that he didn't end up using for whatever the thing was. So he gave that to us. We're drinking it on the boat in the bay and dolphins were jumping around the boat and the breeze was cooking and everything. And he just went, I just want to tell you that I was wrong. I think about it all the time.

It was like the it was like the last great time that I really had, like in San Diego, where I went like, this is like why people come here. Yeah, that being on like a hornblower cruise and like the like the sea breeze is kicking and everything. I don't know that I've still had that experience. Let's go. It's always just a bunch of people pushing by me in fucking costumes. Dude, let's go.

When we did that year on the boat, that wasn't bad. Like we weren't like, Yeah, you didn't have to like, Yeah, you didn't have to go in. It was just on the boat. I, all I remember about that is that guy telling us to piss out of a second story window. And how liberating it was.

Yeah, yeah. I forgot about that. Let's uh. I think that got cut. From the final version. I don't think that made it. Let's go to San Diego. Let's do one of these things over there.

Let's do it on a hornblower cruise. Get a brunch and... Okay, here's what we do. We all get in a car. We divide up the tire. We drive to the airport. Whoever's got the most tire on the ground, we have to go in and buy plane tickets.

That person has to buy three plane tickets to San Diego right then. Here's what we do. Fucking crazy. We ask Nick to figure out how much money this podcast makes. From DIA. And- DAI.

DAI, directly integrated ads, direct ad integration. I think they're both correct. Dynamically. Sorry, dynamic ad insertion, dynamically inserted ads. Dynamic ad insertion provides dynamically inserted ads. So, see how much money we make out of D, A, I, A, A, A, and then just use that as our plane pool. We're gonna have to make this podcast for flying years.

Yeah, yeah. We save money by having you fly us there. Yeah. No, that is not a cheaper way. We saved money by having you fly us there. Yeah. No, that is not a cheaper way. No, come on, you can do it. I can do it. That's not, that is not a cheaper way. The...

It'll also take time forever. Yeah. It would be like driving a car there. It'd be faster, but it would not be pleasant. I mean, if it's like a couple of hundred, like a hundred bucks a month, we'll get there in like a year. Yeah, right?

We just watch the fairs. Easy. We can all share a hotel room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can do it. We can do it old school. We do it 2004 style. We'll just stay at Eric's parents' house. There you go.

Oh, they would totally be fine with it. They'd be like, oh, yeah, absolutely. It's called Rocco. Yeah. Rocco would not be okay with it. Rocco would say no. And it has to be you. Yeah.

Sean would say yes, but he would also not have room for us. Oh, no. But he would have promised it before he thought about that. It would be really good. I would love to go to San Diego with you guys and do something for like two days. Like fly in burritos, go to the beach, go on a hornblower cruise, like around the bay,

all that stuff. Like, I think that would be so killer. I would fucking love to see Eric Bedour's NFT. Yeah. Oh dude. That would be a blast. Of San Diego. It would be a blast. I would have so much fun. You're selling me on this. I think it'd Oh dude. That would be a blast. Of San Diego. It would be a blast. I would have so much fun.

You're selling me on this. I think it'd be great. We should look into this. Legitimately look into it and see how we can make it. I think we should make it happen like in a January timeframe. Just like really peak tourist season. Yeah.

Jeff looks concerned. I'm totally kidding. No, I was off to a different idea. I was trying to think if we were there for three days, could we do a season? A season of the show? Like a mini season, do you like four episodes? Oh, do you like four episodes there?

Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah, oh yeah. There's so many coffee places we could go to that I want to go back to. Yeah. We can go to, we could do a whole burritos in the beach thing. We could do one on a Hornblower cruise.

AirBee. We could go record shopping in San Diego. Whoa. Burritos in beach? Yeah, dude. Burritos in beach. Yeah, we could definitely go record shopping. We Diego. Whoa. Burritos and beach. Yeah, dude. Burritos and beach. Yeah. We can definitely go record shopping.

We can time it so you can see probably my friend's band's play. Hit the neighborhoods and walk around. Hit up a Top Gun tour. We can do a Top Gun tour. That's right. You can go to Miramar. You can look at it. And then you can go to, there's a place called Brucekies.

I think it's called Brucekies Barcade. And we found out about it right after it opened. Me and my friends were like, oh, this is fucking sick. It's a free play arcade. We don't have to pay to get in, but it's a bar and arcade. So we're like, oh, we'll go get some beers and play these arcade games or whatever. So we order some beers and we're like, fuck man, I'm hungry.

They got food? Yeah, yeah. We look at the menus and it's like cheese sticks and chicken fingers and that kind of stuff. So we order it and the guy's like, yeah, we got it. No problem. He rings it in. And then a few minutes go by and we're kind of hanging out at the bar having a drink. And then somebody walks in the front door

with two baskets of food, not through like the back. There was like no back. It was just through like the front door with like two baskets of food. Hey, you guys had the, yeah, they set it down and whatever. And we're like, what the, why'd it come in through the fucking front? We were next door to the strip club

and we had ordered strip club food. They worked out of one kitchen. And we realized like, oh, this is a place. This is like a before or after kind of situation where you're like, oh, we can get drunk and do this thing. And then we'll go do this thing. And it was like, oh, this is, oh yeah, we are by like the Air Force base.

We're all putting it together now. There used to be a couple of restaurants over here on Airport. One of them is still there, Bun Belly. And right next to it used to be a place called Heyo Eatery. It was like just south of 51st on Airport on the East side. And I remember one time I was driving by, I was like, oh, my wife and I were like, we should try that, hey-o eatery, right? So we go home and like look on the line,

find their online ordering, order the food, drive over. And I go in to pick it up and I walk in and I walk in and the place is empty. It's a couple of tables and there's just like one dude sitting there using his phone. And I walk in and I'm like, hey, an online order? He's like, oh, okay, you know what's the name? I tell him my name. He's okay. And he walks out the front'm like, hey, uh, I don't online order. He's like, oh, OK, you know what's the name? I tell him my name is OK.

And he walks out the front door, walks over next door to Bun Belly. Yes. Just the food comes back and then gives it to me. I was like, what? What? Why? What's going on here? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And it was stuff that wasn't on the Bun Belly menu. What the fuck? It was like they had their own menu, but it was cooked next door. So I think I think both those restaurants moved.

I think they're over in the, like kind of by the hot pot place over by 99 Ranch. I think they're over there now. But they used to be over there in the airport right next to each other. That is the hardest shopping center to park in in the city of Austin. Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You told me you had no trouble every time. A few episodes have gone hand in hand. I have told you that a bunch, and I have changed my mind. I said it and people heard it and now all the spaces in the back are gone. It's terrible. Yeah, the spaces in the back are gone. They used to be there.

You could park in the back. Not anymore. Buy the apartments. It's over. Nope. All done. Yeah, you cannot go there at all on the weekend. It was a parkable place until maybe two months ago. The problem is it needs to get worse before it gets better. Yeah.

That's absolutely, because where it's at right now is tenable enough or they're not going to fix it. Right. All of the aisles are two-way parking. They just need to re, they need to tear it all down and redo it. So it's one way and you can sneak through. Cause right now it's like, there's not enough room.

All the spaces need to be redrawn cause they're too small. It's just a nightmare. I wish you could cut and paste because there's that like three story parking garage next to book people and REI I mean it's available, but that parking lot has never been full enough grab it and put it right. Yeah, if you can just yep Put it right down you'd be set. It's like this was SimCity rules. Yeah Yeah, I think the other option if they didn't want to disrupt it too much would be to like dig down. Ooh, a little dig down. But I bet that would take a long time. It would take a lot. What would they hit on that side too? Like a

lot of like rock? That's a lot of rocks. You're gonna need a lot of jackhammers. It's probably very firm because the train track runs there. So I'm sure it's being ran on purpose because it's very, very firm. That's all the trash that's no doubt buried there. Uh-huh. It has to be awful. You know, that's what people used to do until the, I think it was the 1800s.

Yeah, you just dig a hole and that's your trash hole. In your backyard. Yeah, that's your trash hole. And then most of it decomposes because it was chicken bones and discarded bread and garbage, whatever. But then it's also it's that and then glass bottles. Yeah. And so you just dig up and you go,

it's a lot of glass bottles. It's like a time capsule. Ben Franklin, was it Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson? I think it was Ben Franklin. Was one of the, like started one of the first trash services in America. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Huh. And like seven in mid 1700. I found all this out in the soul, right? I was gonna say this is the soul, right? Yeah, this is the soul, right man. Come on. Should we start walking? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's start heading back. What's with all like the weird, shady,

illegal legal gambling that's in Austin? I think it's the same thing as all the weird, shady, pseudo legal weed stores that are in Austin. My gas, there's a gas station by my house that sells liquor. They sell Fireball and I was like, how are you guys able to sell liquor? And they're like, oh, there's like, Fireball's like just under the thing

that they don't fuck with us. There's two different kinds of Fireball. There's one that's in like the larger, you know, like Fireball Fireball. And then they have a lower ABV one that they treat They don't change like almost any of the branding on and I think they got sued for Oh, yeah, yeah here about that. They also sell at a lot of gas They I don't know if you guys have seen it now a lot of pre-rolled joints a lot a lot a lot

The gas stations just have like 300 pre-rolled. Yep THC George. Yeah What's that? Puerto Rico License Play. That's cool. I'm not sure if you're still looking for those. That's neat. Yeah, put it on your list. It's not on the...

Oh, you don't consider it part of the United States? I do. I 100% do. It's the fucking stupid game on my iPhone doesn't. I need South Carolina. It's the only state I need right now. I'm just gonna fucking sell. You ever been to South Carolina? A bunch. Really?

I went to college there. Oh, that's right. Forgot about that. For a semester and then Gus and I did an event there. Yeah. I think we talked about it on this podcast. Yeah. We thought we were gonna die on the plane.

Yeah, yeah. I do remember that. There's a... You're talking about those gaming rooms. Yeah. There's a Thai restaurant I really like over off of Lamar called Tatayas. I don't know if you've ever been there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of if you go like that

parking lot behind it. Oh, I know. There's a game room back there. Uh huh. And I've never been to that game room. But I know exactly what he's talking about. And one time I got really curious about it. So I was like, I'm gonna go this way. Yeah, I'm gonna walk over to that game room. I want to see what's going on. You're crazy. You're crazy. I walked up to it. And there's like a middle grate over the door. There's like a camera and there's a sign that says, I forget what it says, but it says something like, to gain access, ring buzzer and hold your ID up to the camera.

Whoa. I was like, yeah, this is not something I'm going to do. So I didn't go in, but I was like, I'm curious to see what the setup is. I read a thread on the Austin subreddit about those a couple months ago, maybe a couple of weeks ago even. I don't know if you guys saw it. But somebody said that what they do in there is they had,

the way they, because they handle the pseudo legality of it is you buy, I may have misread this, but I don't think I did. I apologize if I'm getting this way wrong because I know it sounds ludicrous. I think you buy like Tide Pods or laundry detergent in some way, and then you bet with that.

And then when you win, you trade it for money. That's, it's like how gambling in Japan works, right? That's what I was gonna say, it sounds like a pachinko partner. Yeah, where it's like, oh, you want plates. I didn't want plates. Oh, you go next door with the plates and you exchange the plates for stuff.

Luckily enough, through some weird coincidence, there's a store next door that buys this exact kind of plate. I mean, it's so lucky for you that you want all these plates. The guy next door loves these plates. He goes crazy for these plates. Just take all of these plates across the alley. Right there, that guy's gonna. That guy who's chain smoking cigarettes, two hands, he'll buy those

plates off you for some crazy shit. I will say, I don't know if it's a sign of like the world at large or the US at large or if it's just an Austin thing. But I am feeling things get a little wild Westie lately. Like last year or so. I feel the same way. If you're out and about or going around, it's like, things are a little wacky. I love it. I feel the same way. If you're out and about or going around, it's like... Things are a little wacky. I love it. I do too. I want it. Like people seem really comfortable operating illegal businesses in public right now. Yes. That was not the case 10 years ago. It definitely was not the case 20 years ago when I lived here. It is now commonplace and nobody seems to give a fuck. I will, I'll tell you guys about the one that I see a lot

because I don't want to give away its location, but it's exactly how, what you're talking about is exactly how I feel because I see it and I just go, you can't possibly get away with this. And they are daily. People have realized the rules don't matter. Yeah. Yeah. I think we were really getting to that point.

We're getting like peak realization that rules don't matter. Yeah. Yeah. I think we were really getting to that point. We're getting like what you do, like peak realization. The rules don't matter. Well, I think a lot of it has to do with like the policing and stuff and like. The quiet quitting. And yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just it's like there's no consequence to most of this stuff. If the president's immune, I'm immune. That's right, baby.

If they come after the president, who's next? Me. He's the only reason they're stopped. He's stopping them. They're coming after me, but he's in the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ever been here to Draft House? Yeah, no.

Yeah. I didn't even know this was here. It's a great spot. They got tons of great beer. It's like a British pub. I don't go there anymore. It looks like they would have amazing food. They do not.

It's a bar. Oh. But it is a great bar. And they have trailers outside. I was about to ask, what kind of food do they have? No, they don't. You'll every... I used to get disappointed when I'd go there. And I'd be like, oh, I was about to ask, what kind of food do they have? No, they don't. I used to get disappointed when I'd go there

and I'd be like, I don't know, I was fucking starving. That's not funny. It's not the Alamo Draft House. Right. No, no. It's the Draft House D-R-A-U-G-H-T. Yeah, Drought House. Drought. That's where my, when my cousin had his political campaign,

that's where he had his kickoff event. Oh, is that right? Yeah. That's pretty cool. The fuck? I introduced him, I gave a speech. Nice. How do you guys feel about the cicadas? And Yeah, that's pretty cool. What the fuck? I introduced him to give a speech. Nice. How do you guys feel about the cicadas? And the lute? I don't care.

I feel the same way. Why are people, why do people dislike them? I don't know. What's there to dislike? I think it's way worse in other parts of the country. Probably. Huh. It's gotta be right, because this is not an issue. I equate them with summer.

Yeah. And just like being a kid and being out and about. I'm much more, I think the fucking, the plant jizz or tree set jizz is way worse. I forgot about that. Way bigger deal than we have to deal with in Austin. I forgot about tree comb. Just wake up every other day in your entire

fucking yard and house and everything you own is covered in sticky. Yeah. You guys want to go to Bumble? Make a new friend or whatever? That's their corporate headquarters, right? Yeah. I think.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. Weird space for corporate headquarters. I think that they laid off some people recently. No. Speaking of, did you see Bungie? No, what happened? Announced they're doing layoffs. Are they really?

Yeah, I think they said, I don't want to get it wrong. But I want to say that they announced like 200 layoffs, but they're building out a new studio within PlayStation, within Sony proper, and they're going to move a bunch of them over there to try to help seed it. It's a way to keep. But still, a bunch of people are going to lose their jobs. And it's like what everything I was reading in the subreddit and the Reddit threads about it was like, it's just Sony slowly

absorbing Bungie until there's nothing left. But it's crazy. Bungie. I have to read more about it. Bungie makes Destiny now? Is that like their thing? Well, they've been for like the last 10 years. Right.

No, but that's like their thing, right? Like they don't make, do they make anything else? Well, this- I think they have a marathon remake coming out. Okay, so the answer to my question is no. Yeah. If we ever wanted to work in a really cool building, I think this marathon building is really neat.

I thought you were gonna say this- Look at that, what a segue. Thought you were gonna say this is a law office, and I'm like, what are you talking about? No, it's weird that we're talking about marathon, but that's Marathon Street, and that building is called Marathon. Yeah. Good work. We cracked the code, this means something. No, it's weird that we're talking about marathon, but that that's marathon street and that building is called marathon. Yeah

Good work We crack the code this means something We should talk about the potato and rudies and stuff because we're near like right we're almost back to the car I feel like we're at the end of the episode But yeah, but we got to rate it because I want to know what jeff thinks about this perfect Fucking tin of a potato if i've ever had one. I don't know how it would be improved. Yeah Um, yeah, maybe some more salt but you put salt on a potato if I've ever had one. I don't know how it would be improved. Yeah. Um, yeah, maybe some more salt, but you put salt on a potato yourself. Yeah. Dude, you were doing, you guys were doing barbecue sauce on it. Didn't even cross my mind. Oh yeah. I gotta do the barbecue sauce

next time. Hell yeah. That, that seemed like such a move. That was so smart. I didn't sit in, it just didn't hit me. I, I'm normally not like a big sauce person. I don't, in general, I don't like sauces. I'm not a big ketchup person. I don't typically eat a lot of barbecue sauce either, but there's something about the Rudy's barbecue sauce with the Rudy's barbecue that's just- They go together.

It's like double plus good. Just really hitting? I feel the same way about, what's that fucking Salt Lake? Like I feel like their meat is mediocre until you put their barbecue sauce in it. And then somehow the two work, but their barbecue sauce on its own, okay.

It's fine. But it's something about how when you put the combination together, it works. Yeah, for sure. Exceptionally well. And then you top it off with some blackberry cobbler. Yeah. You're set.

So also- The sides at that place. 10 out of 10 potato. Yeah, I agree. Oh, definitely. Like this is the second time I've had it in four days. I wouldn't- Let me give it to me again, please.

I wouldn't know how to try to beat it in Austin. I wouldn't even know where to go. No, it's so, so good. You know how we're trying to create like a, and I said by we, I mean, I said it once, that we should create a national hot dog registry for regulation. Maybe we need to have like a potato.

Could be. Potato map. Send us your local potatoes. Yeah. If you know of any great baked potatoes in Austin, please let us know. We're trying to build an Austin potato heat map. But what about our next episode?

Are we calling our shot? Is there anywhere else that we want to go? It's happened every time so far on this run of episodes. I feel like we talked about another place. We did, we did. I was jazzed about something else. Really? I don't remember. It was-

I haven't started working on the edit for episode two, so I don't know. It was not coffee. No, it was something, it was a... Well, you're talking about breakfast tacos here. That was that's right. Yeah, we're talking about here. We're talking about I don't remember. But oh, you know what? It might have been day nada. It was talking about a nada. It was day nada. Yeah.

Maybe we go to day nada. Maybe we can make that happen. They don't open till 3pm. No, that's a that's a little afternoon. Rooster Teeth's not here to stop us. Yeah, that's right. They don't open till 3pm. No, that's a that's a little afternoon. Rooster Teeth's not here to stop us. Yeah, that's right. They can't stop us. They and and boy, ooh, they want to so bad. Ooh, they can't. Ooh, they want to. They're they're just going, oh, we want to stop you. Um, and they are us because we were Rooster Teeth. So we were going like, oh, I want to stop. I want to stop us. I can't stop. Um,

well, that'll do it for this episode of Good Morning Gus. Uh, follow us on whatever the social media things are in the description. If you haven't worked that out yet. Any final thoughts parting words for the folks at home? Don't sell a potato short. Oh he's taking a picture of the tire. It's a good tire. Bye! You