ANMA - Supplemental: Where to Take a Friend Visiting Austin

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

Good morning, Austin! Geoff and Eric are here for you this week and next with some supplemental content. In this week's ep, Geoff grills Eric about what he did with his friend Jason Cryer www.jasoncryer.com when he came in to Austin to visit. A good template on the does and don'ts of hosting. Plus they talk about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre house. Check out our ANMA shirts at store.roosterteeth.com Sponsored by Misty Mountain Gaming https://mistymountaingaming.com and use code ANMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, it's another supplemental episode. Gus isn't here. He chooses not to be. It's not that he's forced out. He chooses not to be here. But I'm here with Jeff. Hi Jeff. Hello Eric, how are you?

I love your enthusiasm this morning. I'm excited. I want to varicrews. I'm having a good time. I'm doing good. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Which varicose did you get to? Huh, I went to the new one in Mueller. Oh, is that a brick and mortar?

Yes. Have you been to that yet? No, not even know where it is. It used to be like J. JT Youngblood's chicken or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that fucking, that place, it's Veracruz now. And it's weird because you can order food but it's a bar restaurant where you're supposed

to like sit down. Okay. And that is not what I was expected. I have a friend that's in town. So he's taking off like a little later today. I'm like, oh, let's get some coffee and get some breakfast tacos. The coffee was so watery and such a bummer. Yeah.

Well, they make tacos not coffee. And they made some excellent tacos. They were very good. But when you walk in, there's like a host to stand and we're like, oh, we just wanted to order some tacos to go. And she's like, oh, okay, we were very good. But when you walked in, there's like a host to stand and we're like, oh, we just wanted to order some tacos to go and she's like, oh, okay, we'll come here. And then we walked over to like the bar area. She took our order and then we just stood around.

And it was like, none of this is conducive to this element of like what I thought Veracruz was. Yeah. But man, the tacos were really fucking good. Those were great. So let me ask you, because you had a friend in town, I met him at RTX, or not RTX, I'm sorry, at extra life. And extra life, yeah.

The other event we do. Yeah, my friend Jason Cryer. Yeah. You seem like a lovely dude. I assume he's probably from San Diego. No, he's actually from like Marin County up in like the Bay, like I quote unquote Bay area. But he does a bunch of work with Mega 64.

Oh, that's so funny that he's from Marin County because I've been listening to Moon Over Marin by the Dead Kennedys pretty like. Oh, really? Yeah, I just got, I just like, I did an episode of the Soul All Right podcast couple, maybe a month or two ago now about my favorite screams in songs. And the remake of California Uralis that we did, called We've Got An Even Bigger Problem Now, that was all about Ronald Reagan. That song has one of the best screams of all time in it.

And I've just been listening to that album and like non-stop since I recorded that. And then somehow I got it. And now I've just been like obsessed with Moonover and Marin again. Just a fucking great song. That's awesome. That's crazy. But that's not what I've just been obsessed with Moonover Merin again. Just a fucking great song. That's awesome. That's crazy.

But that's not what I wanted to talk about with you. Oh, okay, yeah. Jay-Syn, right? Was that his first time in Austin? Yes, I think that's his first time he's been here. Yes. One of the things I like about you is that you bring in people to visit all the time.

I feel like every other week, I feel like every other week, you have a friend in from out of town, which is something Gus and I used to do way back in the day, especially in the early days of Rouge teeth, but Austin was a very different city than so there was less to take people to. So I always wonder, like the Austin you,

like what did you, how did you show Austin to Jason? What are the places you, I feel like this is super germane to this podcast. No, no, no, no, no, this is it. Yeah. Yeah. So he, he's definitely more into someone like the older stuff and, and I wanted to show him this stuff in Austin that was like, it had been around and it didn't have to be like the newest thing and all that. I just didn't think he's going to enjoy that as much. So we, he got in and we, I picked him up and we went to Texas chili parlor. Okay.

That was like a number one on his list. He wanted to go to Texas chili parlor. How do you heard of it before? Yeah. Yeah. From like the movie. Yeah. But not just the movie.

He just knew about it as like an old restaurant in Austin that he wanted to check out. Okay. Cool. So we went there. He loved it. That he said that was like the highlight of his trip was that spot. He's like, the burger was so good, the chili was great. The whole atmosphere was awesome.

He's like, everything about it was fucking awesome. I don't know if you know this, but Emily's dad loves Texas Chili Parlor so much that last time he came to visit, I had to pick him up from the airport and at his request, we drove straight to Texas Chili parlor before anything else and ate lunch before we even dropped his bags off. Oh my God.

Yeah. Jesus Christ. That's crazy. It's an awesome place. I mean, I feel much the same about it. Yeah. Oh, I love it. I think Texas chili parlor is like, to me, one of the Austin staple kind of spots, where if I'm gonna take people somewhere,

it might not always be there. You gotta know the right people to take there or whatever, but going there was awesome. He loved it and it was so fucking good. So that was a lot of fun, just kinda hopping around and going to around like downtown Austin and everything like that. So Texas chili parlor was really great. We went to de nada, which is a little

Mexican food place on the East Cesar Chavez and then went to central machine works just to like, hey, this is outdoor, this is Tex Max. Here's kind of what you're getting. So what is is de nada like a trailer or a restaurant at Central Machine Works? No, it's across the street from Central Machine Works. They open, there's a place called Sawyer and Co and it's like a little diner. Yeah, I've been to Sawyer and Co. So right next to the diner, there's another place

it's called De Nada and it is a Tex-Mex place. They got a great sort of like Margarita and like to kill a list and stuff but their chips and case are great. And then they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, yeah. We'll sit down, spot. Okay. I really but their chips and case are great. And then it's like a sit down. Yeah, yeah, we'll sit down. Spock, I really recommend it.

I think it's, I think it's really, really good. Gets a little crowded, but I think most things do now. So, you know, it is what it is. And then central machine works, I've only ever been there for rooster teeth parties. Oh really? What is that place on its own? Is it a bar or?

It's a bar, right? Yeah, it's a bar like brewery thing with a big back patio. I usually only go if I'm going to, like it's never a place that I go out of my way for because I don't think it's really like worth going out of your way for, but if you're around, it's kind of a spot where you go, oh, okay, cool, yeah, we'll go here also.

It was great when you go to like Coco Bavarian and now that place is closed. So you then go to like central machine works also. They have, there's a brewery and, you know, indoor outdoor stuff or whatever. And it's just like a nice little, oh, we're hanging out out back and having like a beer before, you know, while we have to wait 30 minutes to get our name called for tacos. Like that, that's the kind of place it is. Gotcha.

So that was fun. And then we went out to, uh, we went to Zilker because he wanted to check out, you know, I'm just like, here's a big outdoor thing. Let's walk around. he can check it out, take some photos and stuff. And so they're closing, like most of it's closed down right now because they're putting up all like the lights. Yeah, I walked around it yesterday.

It's all pretty shut down now. Yeah, so, but we still like walked around it and it was still, you know, it was still cool. Like we really enjoyed it and kind of hopping around there and everything was really cool. We went enjoyed it and kind of hopping around there and everything was really cool. We went out to a place called Hoopers. It is a restaurant in Kingsland,

which is about an hour and a half outside of Austin, maybe a little shorter, but it is a restaurant that is named after Toby Hooper, who made the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And the house is the house from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it is a restaurant. You go in and it is the house from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And it's not, we were trying to describe how it is,

because it is that. it is the house. It is crazy that it is the house and they don't acknowledge almost at all that it's the house. That's such a cool move. It's like they're embarrassed about it. Like they don't, it seemed like the kind of place where the waitress would, you know, when you look at it from the outside,

you think it's gonna be a thing where like the waitress is gonna come up to you as you said. And she goes, if you guys been here before, no. And she, and then you would just have to listen to a spiel about. In 1974, this movie was made. Toby Hoopers, this guy, this is what it is. And we moved the house.

It was here and then it was there. Like a little spiel. Zero, zero percent of that. The waitress called the sweetheart. She sat us down. She gave us menus and she went, what do you guys want to drink? And it was like, coffee and water.

She went, be right back. Yeah, hey, gotcha, be right back. And then came back with coffee and water and then we just shot the shit with her for a little bit and put in an order for food. The food was so fucking good And that was it. There was nothing. They have some t-shirts and a picture of leather face above a counter That's it. That's it. It's so weird. It's so weird. Is it good? Is it worth a drive? Do you recommend it? I think if there was more to do in Kingsland, it would be an easier thing to recommend.

The food is really good. If it was in Austin, I would recommend it to everyone all day long. But boy, it's a hike to get out there. So I would say if you're really trying to make a day of going out that way, then hell yeah. But otherwise, I don't know. It would be a little hard.

This might be a moment where we can engage the audience for a little bit of help. Because I'm a, I've always heard it pronounced tobe hooper and I don't know if it's tobe or tobe. Oh, I always thought it was tobe. I think it's spelled tobe. Well, I mean it's spelled tobe. Yeah, I think I don't know.

What's built tobe? Isn't it called, is it T-O-B-E? It's tobe. T-O-B-E, yeah. I just have never known But I love that dude first off I love you know every kid that grew up in my era love Texas chance I'm ask her but I loved him because he directed a movie

Called Invaders from Mars, which I think is one of the greatest 80s kids movies ever It's about a kid who finds out that the entire town is being taken over by aliens And he's got to stop it by himself. And it's like, it is like the ultimate, like you just want it, like when you were like a 12 year old kid in the 80s, you could so see yourself being this kid and having this adventure and it's so great.

And I've always loved him because of that movie. Although there's some interesting trivia about that movie. Supposedly, the rumor is that Spielberg was really unhappy with him on that movie and it was while he was directing Poltergeist doubly. And that he supposedly came down and shadow directed half of that film. And that's the same thing. I have crazy, crazy.

Who knows if it's true or not, but that is what the rumor has been for years. Okay, so you guys went to, you went to Hooper's. What else did you, clearly you went to Hooper's what else did you clearly went to Veracruz? Yeah, like when when somebody comes to Austin from California and that because you know you guys have your Cali mechs and all of that. We were talking about this the other day on on this podcast, I believe, just like how what a thing breakfast tacos are in Austin that we assume are everywhere and they're not. And that but there are, you know, some people wrote in to tell us that they, you know, like my pocket of Wisconsin has number, whatever.

But is he impressed? Does he go like, Oh, I get it. Or is he like, Oh, no, he was all about it. So he's from, you know, like that, that Northern California is a totally different style of Mexican food from what I eat. Okay. Like in Southern California, it's just a different style of Mexican food. And then when he came out here, I'm like, we got, you know, text mechs is like, he's like one of

the guys that helps design like the text mechs sucks poster from mega 64. Like that's, you know what I mean? Like yeah, yeah. Like he does that stuff. He's a graphic designer and does that stuff for like mega 64 and everything. So he's like, oh, we got to try it. He, he's like, I got to try Tex-Mex. So he had, did not, and he was like, this is fucking awesome. The thing he kept saying is this salsa at every place we went to, he's like, this salsa blows everything out of the water.

He loved the salsa every place we went to. He really loved the breakfast taco that he had at Hoopers. He really loved the breakfast tacos that we had at Veracruz. It's just a different, you know, it's just not food that he usually gets and he was all about it. He loved it. So it was a lot of fun to see him kind of like enjoy that

because I didn't know how that was gonna go. It's always kind of a 50-50 when it comes to like, I think Tex Max, if it's gonna be really good or if if it's going to be like, I don't know about this. So he was into it. Took him to Terry Blacks because he never had barbecue here. And to me, Terry Blacks is a place in Austin that is local enough that locals will eat it, but it is like the lowest tier of good acceptable barbecue. It's definitely, I'm glad to hear you say that.

Yep. It is the, I would consider it the lowest tier of acceptable barbecue. I agree. And to me, you're getting, it's not just the barbecue there, because I really like the, I think the barbecue there is fantastic. I think the barbecue sauce is kind of whack. the, I think the barbecue there is fantastic. I think the barbecue sauce is kind of whack.

I don't think it's gonna be good. But I think it's not just that, it's the waiting in line, getting a beer at the beer window on the way and seeing Austin's skyline as you're waiting in line, getting in and it's this big crowded thing that feels hectic and crazy and then sitting down at like these big tables

and eating this barbecue and having a beer, and it's like this big overwhelming experience. And that to me is what's so good about Terry Black, where you can get it in a food truck and then sit outside of the food. You know what I mean? Like you get my plan and then sit outside of the thing and whatever, this is like the whole thing.

You're getting the whole experience in one spot. And you don't have to drive the lock heart to do it. Exactly. He said next time he comes out, he wants to go to lock heart. All right. Well, if by the way, and I'll throw this out there, anytime anybody's going to lock heart for barbecue, you gotta let me know. I will.

Okay. I will invoke wedge myself into that. He's a we're talking about. He's like next time I come out, I wanna go down there, maybe stay overnight, like just stay down there for like a day or whatever, and he's like, I wanna try, like, I wanna try this place, I wanna go to that place,

he's like, it just seems like a cool spot to have like a drink at a bar, and then you kinda crash out because you've been eating barbecue all day, and then you wake up and you do it again, and then you drive back into Austin. I'm like, that's the right way to do it. You know where we need to go.

And I think Gus has already been there maybe, but I've never been. We need to go to Snow's barbecue. I was just reading the thread on, it was a big deal like on 2018, 2019. I kind of forgot about it, but I was just reading a thread on the Austin sub-red about today

where people were saying, you still have to get there two in the morning to get in line. What? Yeah. People like today, I think it's like a, where is that, let me look at that. Where is Snow's barbecue?

I don't like, is it like a, it's like it's in Lexington? It's 45 miles from here. Whoa, what the fuck? Wow. Yeah. Yes. It's supposedly like the lines are worse now

than ever before. Oh my God. Oh geez. There's also a place up in North Austin called the inner stellar barbecue that is supposed to be really fucking good. It's over by the well, it's up like a it's over. I used to I used to take Henry to a doctor over there. Okay. But yeah, anyway, that place supposed to be really good to I feel like I'm, I hit a point, I don't know about you, but I hit a point maybe after about 20 years of living here, where I'd had just honestly enough barbecue. Yeah, I get enough barbecue that causes me to jump through hoops. I get it. And so I really don't crave it anymore.

I'll go do an event for it, like I'll go to, like we had it for Emily's birthday when we were all in Lockhart, actually. Yep, yep, right? It was great at that house. Like it's fun in those situations, but I don't often crave it or look to make any effort to go find it. Totally, totally. Today's episode is sponsored by Misty Mountain Gaming, a dice company that has an incredible

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Again, that's mistymountaingaming.com, use code ANMA for a free acrylic Dyset of your choice when you spend $20 or more. The thing that he brought up to me wanting to go to log heart is that he found out about a place called barbs BQ. Have you heard about this? I've heard of it. Yeah, it's a woman run barbecue place. It's supposed to be very good.

Yeah, he said that he said it looked really cool. He's like, next time we, he's like, next time I come out, we got to just go down there or whatever. But if you go to their website and then you go to about, it's the picture of them in front of the store and there's a heart drawn on it and it says just three rats with a dream. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to love that. Yeah, that's very funny. And it, but it just seems like a cool place. It seems like it lock hearts like the spot for it too.

It is a great place. It's a fun, it is definitely a fun place to spend one night. Yes, that is, and that, that's what he wants to do. And I'm super into it. He loved the barbecue. It's very black. Of course, I mean, it's, it's so fucking, the bar, we're talking about like, oh, there's like the lowest

acceptable barbecue. It blows everything I've ever had anywhere else out of the water. It was like, it was like a place that I ate. And I went, I don't think I've ever had barbecue before apparently. I love it. I think it's so good. So we went there and then in between, we've been watching a lot of sopranos too, which has been a great way to sort of like, okay, we feel like shit because we ate so much. Let's watch two episodes of the sopranos and figure out something else to do. Um, we went to LT Grey. I took them

now LT Grey. Okay, I, I, I was just there the other day too. Fucking great. It was fucking great. It's so good. The coffee was great. There was one girl there who was working and she was getting run ragged because it got really busy. And it was like, oh, sorry.

But great spot. Really cool. They have really good breakfast tacos there too. Emily and I had some of the other day. They're really good. Like noticeably good. You know, you're like, holy shit. Damn, I'm worth expecting that.

I'm gonna have to try that sometime. And then later we actually ended up kind of like, we missed it and then ended up making a thing out of it where it's like, oh, we got a reservation for Tiki Tatsuya, which is a thing where I knew that he was gonna like it for like the catch of it. But I also thought he'd be impressed by the detail that went into it.

So he went to Tikitatsuya and it was really cool. It wasn't very busy. So we got to talk to the server and she was like, oh yeah, this is like, you know, our regular homage menu, whatever. She's like, we also have like all these B side drinks that are off menu and like we've just created here. So we had those and they're fucking awesome.

It was so cool. It was a great sort of way to like cap that trip off of getting drunk at 4.30 p.m. on just really good, really strong liquor. And then, um, you know, trying to try to find our time and kind of hang out for a little bit and then going to like, you know what, we gotta get Amy's ice cream. So we got Amy's ice cream and it was a real Austin day. It was fun.

It was crazy. Which Amy's ice cream did you get to? The one on Maynard. Okay. Yeah, that one was easy to go to. I think Thunderbird is closing or it has closed. I think it's closed and there's maybe something else now. Okay, all right Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know if you've driven down Maynard in a minute, but man, they built a lot of stuff. I thought I'd went down the wrong street, right at like Maynard and airport, holy fucking shit. They built so much stuff there, all of a sudden, there's just apartment buildings on either side of you. It looms.

It's really crazy. Yeah. Emily and I actually had that exact same conversation we cut through there the other day to, I don't know, go to her salon or something, and there was an entire city block apartment building that just exists that I have never seen before. And I feel like I got on that too.

Fairly regularly. Yeah, I was, don't you feel like you're going down that street probably weekly? And then all of a sudden, those are there. It's not like they were like, oh wow, there they are, they're getting bigger, getting bigger.

It was like I'd never been down that part of the road before. And it was just the beginning of the road at airport. I had a similar situation. I was going down a part of Lamar. I don't always go down up kind of north by one of the three. And just, there were like three apartment complexes that just exist there now that are bigger

than any apartment complex that would have been in Austin 10 years ago, you know? And they just like went up overnight. And you just think like, I swear I was down this road last week, like how did this happen? It's crazy. It's insane construction, right? Like that's just, it just goes up so fast.

And you're like, I feel like I was just here. And you keep wondering like when it's gonna slow. Yeah. And I will say, because I count cranes downtown, I have three years. Yeah. There are less cranes downtown than there have been in a long time,

but there's still probably a dozen. There used to be somewhere in the 20 to 30 range. There's still probably a dozen, but what's, so like the down, I feel like downtown growth has slowed a little bit. It's just in terms of my anecdotal crane counting. But the era of the block sized five or seven story apartment condo

with first floor retail, that is exploded in Austin. And like you go up down, up and down Burnett and Lamar and fifth street, it's just like every time you turn around, there's just like a new place for 500 people to live. Mm-hmm, it's crazy. It's really wild.

And there need to be places for people to live because we're, we don't have a lot of them. But the thing that comes with that is the thing I was gonna bring up, I took them to Lebowski's to get a burger, Lebowski's grill at Highland lanes. It's closing soon, right? Didn't we find that out? That's exactly what I was gonna say.

It's anticipating a close in late 2024. Okay, late 2024. Okay, that's what I noticed. There's time, it's just the thing where it's like, damn man, really? Like, there's just not going to be anything to do. Also, we went there. It was like a sad, I think it was like Saturday night,

maybe, yeah, no Friday night. And it was packed. I mean, every lane was going, there were people at the bar, there were people ordering hamburgers. It was nuts. It was so packed. And it's like, wow, they're gonna close this, huh?

Wait, I think the problem, it's Austin is so overpopulated for the entertainment infrastructure that we have that, and this isn't an indictment on Lebowski's at all. I'm not including them in this, but it's just like, you could put a fucking, like a game of horseshoes in your front yard and charge $5 and you'd have a line.

I agree. I do think people need places to go and hang out. And so I feel like it's just like, even as much growth as there's been in as much construction as there's been, I feel like Austin's still starved for shit for as there's been in as much construction as there's been, I feel like Austin's still starved for shit for people to do for fun. And so people are, everything is packed all the time.

You got a bingo, you know? We got an old ass, where people are wheeling in oxygen tanks and we go there all the time and it's always fucking packed to the gills. And you're just like, fuck, man. It's just people are- People are just looking for something to do, man.

It's crazy. But that was kind of like the whole trip. It was just running around Austin checking stuff out, driving around North of the River South of the River, North of the River South of the River, like hopping kind of back and forth. The other place, I was gonna talk to you and Gus about this later.

We ended up going and meeting some friends for a drink over at Radio East. Radio coffee opened another location on Montaupolis. I don't know that I can really like impact on you how big their backyard is. I'm gonna, I'm gonna drop a, I'm gonna put a photo here in our chat together. And you see that and it looks big. When I tell you at the stage, it goes back another 30 yards past the stage to the back wall and there's nothing there. There are no tables or chairs.

There's nothing there. I don't understand what is happening or why, other than occasionally they have like a pop up market. But again, that's only been, they've only been open for a couple months. It's, I want to go there, we need to do an episode of Anma there because it's so, it's so fucking big, it's unreal.

The back is so big, it's wild. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Fucking, I would not believe it. I wonder if they're just keeping it for future expansion because that's 100%. That radio that we, you know, the main one that we we did one episode there that thing is packed all the time this one is going to be packed like crazy they're going to put so they're gonna put food trucks back there they're gonna put like it's just there's just gonna be so much stuff it's so big in the back I couldn't I couldn't believe it and when we went there they had two food things in the back. I couldn't, I couldn't believe it. And when we went there, they had two food things in the front. They had a pizza truck and then they had like their little like, you know, burgers and whatever

like food truck that they have it both, both radio locations. And there's tons of parking. There, it's, it's in like a little area where it just doesn't seem like there's gonna be much. It's fucking great. I really like this place. I really wanna go with you. Do you like the other radio? I think the other radio is fine. There's nowhere to park. Yeah, I'm super ambivalent towards it,

but I'm excited to try this out. I love the space. And South Austin is where all the space is, honestly. Yeah, and this is, I mean, this is just off Montaupolis and Trade Center, which is nothing. But it's really crazy. I mean, it's just off Montopolis and Trade Center, which is, you know, nothing. But it's really crazy. I'm gonna drop another picture here.

So not that far from Annie's day and night, where we went that time. No, no, not that far at all. So I'm, okay, what I've done here is I've dropped a picture and where I circled is where the stage is. Hahaha. Look at how much it goes back. It's 30 more yards. It's like the stages 30% of the way in. Like it's got another two thirds of location behind it. There's nothing back there. It's crazy. It's crazy. That's easily funny. Yeah. So it's a cool, cool.

It's not the folks that Southern data comm incorporated are funny. Yeah. So it's a cool, cool. It's not the folks that Southern Datacom incorporated are happy. Oh, you know, I think it's something for them to go to, but when the band starts playing, we were hanging out inside. It was cold. So we're like, Oh, we'll hang out inside. And then a guy wheeled in a drum kit and speakers.

And we went, so we're going to go go outside because whatever band is about to start playing, I don't wanna listen to at all. And if they start playing and we get up and leave, I don't know if I can do that, this can be tough. So that was Jason's Austin trip, it was a good, it was a great Austin, oh, and then he came to, he came to Extra Life and got to meet you guys and see what we did for Extra Life and raise a bunch of money and everything, and that was really great. he came to extra life and got to meet you guys

and see what we did for extra life and raised a bunch of money and everything, and that was really great. Yeah, a lot of fun. How are you feeling after that, by the way? Oh great. I had some really bad farts yesterday and the rest of Saturday

from whatever that spicy shit we kept eating was. But I mean, I felt great. We raised a bunch of money. I think we specifically raised a bunch of money for what we did. And you know, you and I kind of went into it and the one concern I had, but I also wasn't super concerned because we've all got our 10,000 hours in, you know?

But it's just that like, extra life always, it skews wacky and like big and over the top. And it's always like one of those things where like the young kids, and by young kids I used to mean Gavin and, and, and, and, and,

Michael now, but now I guess I mean like best friends today. Yeah. Where they just electrocute each other and, and, and get hit with paintballs and shit. And that's not me. And so I always, I always feel a little lame when I do the extra life stuff

just because of like I'm not looking to get hit I do the extra life stuff just because I'm not looking to get hit in the dick as much as I joke about it. But people seem to really enjoy the break show segment and I had a lot of fun destroying just the idea of all those cards because everything on that table I bought was from my personal collection that I had an idea to do the break show about four years ago now. Right around the time we started a f*** face, maybe even a little before it. And I started collecting product.

And so a lot of that stuff I bought three and four years ago that I've just been dying to open. And it was so much fun to get it all open and just see this a mess of cards on the table. And it broke my heart to destroy a bunch of them, but it was also for a much better cause. Right. And it was like, you know, we destroyed like $200

with the cards to make, I don't know, 20,000. So it's like, clearly, it's well worth it. But I had a really, I had a really lovely time and I had a lot more fun than I thought I would have and I thought I would have a fun time. But it's just like, it's a great environment to be in. I felt the same way. It was a lot of fun.

It was super fun to be there and do that stuff and to watch what everyone else was doing too. I don't know if you saw, you probably missed what dog bark was doing, but they had Jack's beard saved from five years ago or whatever when they shaved it. If they got a certain amount, they put it on, they put it on Alfredo and Joe's face. They just re glued Jack's beard onto their face and then also did shots of thickened drinks with Jack's beard in it. Nice. Yeah, it was fucking gross.

It was, I watched it with Sammy from Best Friends today and it was a lot of fun to watch that with him and just kind of like see what it was a lot of fun to watch that with him and just kinda like see what it was and everything. And then we were talking basketball. I wanna get him on the break show. Oh yeah, he's a huge basketball guy. So, he's just team. He's from Cleveland, but he is a,

he's a Lakers fan. And I went, oh that's cool, Jeff's a Celtics fan. And he was like, fuck man, it was just that. And I went, all right, cool, Jeff say Celtics fan and he was like, fuck man. It was just that and I went, alright cool, we gotta get him a little bit. Oh, I like Sammy a lot. I would love to talk shit about him and his dumb team. Oh, that'd be great. That's, that's fucking awesome.

Alright cool, we'll have him on the show then. That'll be great. That'll be a lot of fun. That's awesome. I would love that. Hey can you believe that the goal of this was we were gonna talk about music and then we didn't even do that and it was just, that was half an hour.

Well, it's wild on it happens. I was just so interested in Jason's trip because like I said, people don't often visit me anymore and so I don't have the reason to get up and go explore Austin. And France from out of town is like the best way to enjoy your own city because it forces you to get out

and look for stuff to do and check in on things and try to find new things. And I feel like, that's not what I was saying earlier. I feel like you benefit from that because I feel like there's always like a friend coming in a town or a family member that you gotta rush around. And I feel like that really helps you have touch points

and like current touch points in the city. And so I just interested to hear like what, more than music choices, I was just interested to hear like what a person who doesn't come to Austin sees when they come to Austin in 2023. Yeah, I think the thing is that it's gotta be a mix of new and old because there's still old stuff but there's not a ton and there's mostly new stuff.

But you have to find the flavor of what Austin was and I think that we did a really good job of kind of going like, oh yeah, we drank it like violet crown and then went to Shangri-la and ran into like cat, another one of our producers or whatever. And it was just sort of like, oh, well, you're here. Hey, I was like, you know, like that kind of like being out and about thing. I thought that was great. Like, pieces like that are very cool. That's one of the few things I genuinely miss about drinking is being at bars that you ran into people. You know, and like, if you don't drink and you don't go to bars, especially in such a,

like a party, centric city, you, like sometimes I run into people at coffee shops, but not very often, you know. And I do kind of like run into cat, it shops, but not very often. Yeah. And I do run it into cat. It would be such a fun novelty. I'll just never have those experiences anymore because nobody's up and moving it 10 in the morning. Now, while early is the new late and you can get a shirt that says so,

it's stored out where she's got come and you can check it out there. You can also get our fill it to the rim with Animo shirt. That's a pretty low-matte shirt. That's a good little picture. You can check that stuff out. We have another supplemental that we'll be doing next week, but I think we'll probably record that. By the time that we record that, it's going to be right before it comes out probably.

So that's great. We give it a little bit of time away from this to do that. And that's a lot of fun. This was a cool one. This is definitely one where here's a bunch of recommendations for where you could go if you come to Austin. That's really what this ends up being. So enjoy that. And it is the exact opposite of what I thought it would be today. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Well, Jeff, any wise words or parting thoughts that you want to give to these people before we sort of take off and leave them.

I'll leave you with this one. Listen to the song I'll Carry On by Jean from the album Down in the Valley. That's my musical recommendation for you. I'll Carry On. Beautiful. Well, thank you for listening at Anima Podcast on Twitter and on Instagram and our slash Anima Podcasts where you can follow us on a subreddit We don't run send it your anarchy questions. Thank you so much for listening. We'll have another supplemental episode next week and then we'll be back with another batch, fresh batch of eight episodes of Anima right after that. We will talk to you guys soon. Bye bye.

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