ANMA - The Year That Breaks Me

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

Good morning Gus! This week we head down Springdale to Medici Coffee which is pronounced different from how you think. Listen to Gus and Geoff talk about Human leather, Coffee opinions, Nicest restaurants in Austin, Burger wars, Phil’s ice house & Vince Young’s steakhouse, Chupie, Rental car issues, and Discovering your city. Sponsored by Shady Rays http://shadyrays.com and use code ANMA, and Henson Shaving https://hensonshaving.com and enter ANMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Last time we were at fat cats. We sumped for hovitas. We talked about the locks. We talked about building on the mar. Jim Spencer and mud puppies talked about Crestview, Italian and Mexican food tourism and families leaving Austin. Talked about the strokes in Vampire Weekend. We talked about Star Wars Galaxy.

Well that was all last time. This time, this is a different one. This is a new episode. Apparently we talked about the military at some point too, because I had a bunch of people send me nice messages about supporting the military. Wow, nice messages? Yeah, on occasion you get them.

On the internet? These are. That's why it stood out. These are few and far between my friends. The guy didn't tell me to suck my own dick or anything. I mean, you're gonna do it anyway. Right, he just didn't tell him to. I'm doing it like I permission.

I mean, if you wanna do it, you just do it. Good morning, Gus. Good morning, Eric. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Isn't morning? How is it this hot? How is it that? So. Is this fucking hot this early in the morning? How is it this hot? How is it that so is this fucking hot this early in the morning? 90 degrees 1019. It feels way worse than that. Yes it does. I I just spent nine days in Michigan and Gross Point the Gross Point area where it was about 70 to 72.

The whole time I was there. Is it winter there or something? And dude, coming home, I knew what to expect. I'm used to it. I've lived here for 29 years or something. I think this is the year that breaks me. I just, it's too much. Like it finally, you can go, you can go one of two ways. You can go, okay, this is enough, enough. I refuse to accept this.

I gotta do something different. Or you can go, I'm just gonna turn into human leather. And I just, I don't wanna turn into human leather. But that's the only way to enjoy Texas, or the only way to enjoy Austin now, from like May to October, if you wanna be outside and in the world, is just to accept that you're going to turn into a belt.

And the whole leather belt. I mean, on the bright side, this is probably gonna be the coolest somewhere in the rest of our lives. So, we got that going for us. I mean, on the bright side, this is probably going to be the coolest somewhere in the rest of our lives. So, we got that going for us. I mean, just really, I'm a glass half full kind of guy. Like, I'm a real optimist here trying to go. It's going to be so much worse next year.

It's going to be so much worse next year. Oh, man. This year, so, you know, like we said, we're off of Springdale. We're, I think we talked about this before. Maybe we haven't. There's a, we know a guy who bought a house, a couple blocks away from here. And I went to, I was going to a house-forming party of his once, and I got lost, and wasn't sure where I was going.

So I was driving real slow up and down the street next to a convenience store a couple of times, and there were some dudes on lawn chair sitting out by this side of the convenience store, and I guess I was driving real slow and I passed by enough times that they got up to walk over to my of times and there were like some dudes on lawn chair sitting out by this side of the convenience store. And I guess I was driving a real slow and I passed by enough times that they got up to walk over to my car and I was like, oh, there's, oh, no, I'm not buying.

No, no, no, we decided misunderstanding, sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to make you stand up and just drove away. I never went to the housewarming party. I just went back home. That is what this area used to be, huh? Yeah, yeah. It's not that anymore.

Yeah. It is definitely not that anymore. Used it. They're recording, so you just see a dude in sweatpants and a puffy jacket for standing for nine hours at a time, and it's 100 and fucking eight degrees outside. Now, man, I had no idea all this stuff was here.

It looks like, I don't know, they built this whole, like, shopping center, question mark. It looks like a warehouse, like they built they built this whole shopping center question mark. It looks like a warehouse, they built it to look really industrial, like a warehouses with sheet metal, but there's no warehouses here. There's a window over there that says cute stuff, fun people. There's like a Japanese or Makase place over here. Is that Clover Maven?

What if the fuck that is? There's a broad shop right there. It's very much a shop inside that's intended to look cool and industrial, but it was never industrial. It's a, it was always these hipster shops. It, it's interesting, because I had been here once before, a couple of years ago to the little sushi restaurant inside, and we came at night, or Tonari.

Tonari, I think. Yeah, we came here at like nine o'clock a night. It was like the last sitting in the night and I'd never been here and I was just having a conversation with my cousin in his car. And we got here and I was like, I didn't realize I was like,

I don't know what the fuck I am. And then we had great sushi. And then I forgot about the place. And every once in a while, I think about it and go like, it's almost as if it was a dream because I knew it was somewhere over here, but there's nothing like this over here in my mind.

And I never bothered to track it down. Today I found out here we are. This is crazy. I could have gone the rest of my life. I probably not known that this was here. Hey, do anyone tell the police this area's different now? Yeah, guys, come on.

There you go. That's how you know the area's different. There's police response. Yeah. Oh, man, yeah, this is still quite a bit of change going. There's a lot of construction going on here on spring day. I like, especially on this side of airport. There's like that big apartment complex is getting built right behind us over here. Yeah. Oh, this is crazy. It's an area that like I can't believe how fast they've built here

and the amount they've done in like the amount of how fast they've built here and the amount they've done in like the amount of time that they've had post COVID. It's crazy. I, you know, I think that's one of the frequent things we talk about is like the change of Austin and how things used to be and how things are now not like bitching about it or anything by any stretch of the imagination.

But over the weekend, I saw a, there was a story linked on like the KV website, like one of the local news affiliates, right? I went to the local network affiliate, did a new story about Mueller closing down and moving to Berkshire, which has been like 24 years ago now. And they had like footage from Mueller and footage of like the planes landing at Mueller, like over 35. Man, yeah, that's crazy to think that that was,

that stopped 24 years ago, because I remember that so clearly, so vividly. Did you ever fly into that airport? No, I picked up someone from that airport once, but I never actually flew into Mueller. I flew into maybe four times. You would fly into it and then either drive up to Colleen, or you would take a little puddle jumper up to Colleen,

because that's station and Colleen, right? Yeah. You would also, like, also, it was like the closest hub, so a lot of flights went in. As if on cue, there's a plane. Yeah, you, you know, you sounds like you were traveling there because of the military. By the time it closed, I was 21 and I didn't have money to fly into trouble.

I was only flying. Yeah, right. So it wasn't a, flying wasn't a thing I did very often back then. How old were you when you took your first flight? I flew when I was like a baby once. But you remember that? We, my family flipped to Colorado. Okay.

I have no memory of that. The first time I remember flying anywhere, I was probably like 14, it was like a school trip. Okay. And you probably didn't fly again for a while. Yeah, then it was like long stretch, yeah. Cause remember I grew up Small town middle in the way we had to drive like two and a half three hours to get to San Antonio to get to the airport

To even make that flight. Well, I grew up in Alabama where airplanes were things for rich people to fly It's I've just thinking it's it's wild because I think similarly The idea of getting on a plane was a very unattainable Similarly, the idea of getting on a plane was a very unattainable dream as a kid. And it's weird how much that flips, depending on career and stuff, as you get it later in life. Yeah, by the time I left the call center, I was working my job after that was a travel job, you know.

By the time I was 21, I was 21 or 22, like I was flying multiple times a week, you know, just like non-stop on a plane living out of a suitcase. I think I flew up to Oregon once, twice, because we lived up in Oregon for a while. And I think I flew up to move there and then flew back to visit my grandma and Alabama. And that's like twice in my life before I turned 18.

And one of those times I flew by myself and I was like 11. I remember that pretty clearly. Yeah, they just put the thing on you. And then also, like a lamb. But then also, you know, Millie is flown, well, she's practically an adult now,

but she flew alone like that when she was 16, 15. And it's like the scariest thing in the world is a parent now. Because you just take him to the airport and then you're like, go up the escalator i guess and i'll and i hope hopefully you'll find where it like when i did it my grandparents were waiting for me at the gate

you know and my mom dropped me off at the gate i was only alone in the you know on the jet bridge in the plane that's it yeah on the flip side of that though it's like millie can now has like a star trek level communication device in her pocket. Oh, that's true, and Millie is staying in contact. Millie also has about 500,000 fucking miles on her American account already. It's already flown like 4,000 times.

Like she's an old soul. She's definitely a pro at it, but. Is she smarter than you? Yeah, easily. Okay. Is that the point of like, well, that's why I ask. Of, of, yeah. that's why I ask of Yeah

Prereating to make something smarter than you really the point of procreating is to is to make something smarter and better than you in every way And then you just slowly the I can feel myself getting dumber I can feel my vocabulary shrinking and my brain shrinking But I see her blossoming so I figure it's just goes there maybe yeah, or it's getting Absorbed by the hot Texas sun. Or maybe it's snapping it out of you. Beliched out of me. I know we normally don't talk about the coffee

until much later. Oh, you want to talk about it? Take a, take a whiff of my coffee, if you would. Or take a little smell of that. It smells like a skunk. You know when you're around bad weed that has been smoked yesterday? Yeah.

That's kind of what that smells like. It's, I mean, smells very, very, very burnt. Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. It's not that the espresso smells burned. Like, they didn't burn it while they were making it. The bean smell burned. The bean smell very, very, very, very burned.

They smell old and burned. I'm jealous of you guys. I see you all drinking your coffee, and I'm like, man, I can barely put this to my face. It doesn't smell like old weed to me. It smells like almost like burnt oil. Wow. Like almost like a burnt motor oil smell.

Kind of like what they described when Bob would show up in Twin Peaks. Yeah, Twin Peaks coffee. Well, let's talk about... Let's talk about the coffee then. Any thoughts on the coffee, Jeff? Let's see, we're at Caffe Medici. How do you say it almost?

That's fine. It's not in a... Like, it often people say Medici, but I was assaulted by every Italian person in this country. He's assaulted by every Italian person in this country. He was assaulted by a dude. What were you saying? Are we in Italy or are we in Africa? If you say Medici, Italy, they will say,

it's never been Medici, it's Medici. Please say it the right way. And so I learned much like I say, meldban the way they want me to. Or even bra, the way they ask me to. Because I don't want to insult the locals. Okay, I'm, I mean, you're insulting the locals here though. Yeah, fuck the locals here. I'm not locals here.

It's not Medici, it's Medici, just say it right. Okay, so what, caffeine, Medici. Uh huh, so what do you think of the coffee at cafe Medici? Uh, let me take another sip. Okay. I think that's fair. I got just for the record. I got an iced Americano today because it's hot as fuck.

It is so hot. Yeah, I also got the cold brew. I think it's, it's melted out a bit, so that started drinking it. Maybe the ice is It is so hot. Yeah. I also got the cold brew. I think it's, it's melted out a bit. So that started drinking it. Maybe the ice is melting a little bit. Yeah. diluted it. It's a little bitter for me.

A little, little, it's got twinge of, I don't know. We might get, I got like six and a half. Oh, whoa. I was gonna say we might get below a nine. This is maybe a nine or a nine and a half. Now, now, you think so? It's a little, like there is, there's no, there's a little bit of think so? There's a little bit of sourness. It has a little bit of floral sweetness.

That's a little sour. It has a strong coffee taste. The after taste isn't bitter at all. It is a very, very, very, very, very, very easy cup to drink. This is like what I look at. There's almost like a chocolate, like a dark chocolate kind of like aftertaste,

the kind of like hangs out. I really, really like this cup of cold drink. I really enjoy this. I feel like I'm gonna start changing my tune a little bit because as the ice is melting, this is actually getting really good. It's really starting to dilute and get to the right level. This is like a nine or a nine five.

I really, I love that we're so disparate on what this is. I really liked my first taste. And then it kind of went downhill after that. I know. There is such almost like a floral sweetness to it. Like, it has almost like a flowery kind of flavor. No, not baking flower. Like, like the way when you smell a lilac or something,

where it has like a... It's just saying it tastes like essential oils. Mm-hmm. smell a lilac or something where it has like a it tastes like essential oils. It has a flavor that is like that smell. I really do like this a lot. This is a place that I've come to a bunch, but I've only I've never gotten the cold brew. I've only ever gotten cortados here. It's a little local chain.

There's a at least two of them. I think there's probably four or five. Yeah, I mean, there's one around Wesslin. There's one on South Lamar near the draft house, then the one on Wesslin. So at least three, yeah. I'm sure there's more. Yeah, they're out forever too.

So this is sort of like the crown jewel of this little center. This was the first thing I was telling you guys. It was like the first thing that was built here, sort of, I think like pre-COVID into COVID and then nothing else was really here. Like all this stuff was like built, but that was built here, sort of I think like pre-COVID into COVID, and then nothing else was really here. Like all this stuff was like built, but nothing was in here. And then COVID stopped,

and it is like how fast can we fucking move stuff into this thing? We're recording out in front of something called front page, which appears to be like a bar. I don't know, but it's also part of this little indoor shopping thing where Jeff had sushi. What's wild to me is that, like I'm looking around and from here I can see four of these buildings

that he talked about that they built, but that one over there says number six. So I assume there's two more back over there, so. This goes really, really far back. Is there a restaurant called Damn Claim, or is that something else? Damn Glam. I think it's a... Yeah, I think it's... I think it's...

It wouldn't be so much better as a clam though. It's right over there. It's a like a stylus place. Oh, okay. a, I think it's, I think it's, I think it's, it's a, it's a, like a stylus place. Oh, okay. What did you want it to be? I wanted to be like a clam restaurant. Like, we're clams. We got clams sauce, we got clams, clams casino, we got clams spaghetti. Clams casino? Wow. You know a lot about clams, but I don't, you don't like clams what you wanted to be a clam restaurant. I thought that would be interesting. Oh, okay. That'd be unique. Does that to be for me? I'm sure there's a, to be a clam restaurant. I thought that would be interesting. Oh, okay. That would be unique. Doesn't have to be for me. I'm sure there's a clam community out there. You know, Austin, big in the clams in the seafood.

I don't yet. Hence the 4,000 fucking sushi restaurants. What is with that? They're all chasing that Uchi-hi. I think Uchi-hi are chasing this. Because there really wasn't much in the way of sushi here. Like I try to think pre-Utie bomb Yeah, man that if you ever looked up the

Health scores for that place. No, but my fiance loves it. It's you like yeah regularly. It's really shockingly low scores So to saps, but it never stopped my Air I know and she was and she was she was patering it to the very bitter end The new place is great there. Conte that took over that space from Saps the Great. I've been there a couple times. Yeah, I feel like then Uchi showed up and then it became like a big thing. Like, oh, they really started spreading it.

Like I think about pre-Uchi, like you're right. It was like Ichibon. There was that bonsai sushi over there on the mar. Meekato. Meekato. Is there? Oh, no, no, no.iban, there was that bonsai sushi over there on the mar. Meekato, is there, meekato? Oh no, no, no, no, you're thinking of that place over by, um, on Burnett, maybe?

China, there's a place under, that was under Chinatown. Yeah. Off of Greystone. What was that place called? Stugler, more remote? No, it's not with an M. Meekamoto? No, that's a droid place, I think.

Oh, how, how is it, how would anybody listen to us talk about this? How does anybody still listen to the podcast at this point? Well, they're washing dishes, their hands are wet, and they can't get over to their phone to stop. Turn it up, switch to anything else. They've disabled the voice activation. It's a customary Siri.

Cut it out. Mis-remembering names of Sushi restaurants I never went to. I mean, that's the whole podcast. I know. Moussashino. Moussashino. It was the place that was under Chinatown off-Greystone.

Oh, man. Right. Wow. I went there once with the, well, we went there for business dinner once. Yeah, I went there. Yeah, I remember that. What was business dinner?

I was with our fulfillment house, I think. Maybe. Oh, I thought we also went, didn't we go there once also when we worked at the call center? We didn't we take like some food. Yes, that's what business dinner. That's what I was talking about. Right.

We went there with our Dallas clients. Yeah. Uh, Uchi Uchi Co, two different places. Mm-hmm. Same family. But same chef. I haven't been to either of them. Very good, worth it?

Yes. Expensive? Yeah, Uchi Co is better than Uchi. Now, what's with that? Why is it so expensive? It's that good. Because they're getting good fish in the middle of Texas. Because it's like, it's like, I'm spe beard award-winning food. Wow. Yeah, huh Tyson Tyson's a Tyson cold dude's a very successful

Chef is that restaurant in there? Uchi and then Uchi goes a second restaurant Uchi goes like the cheaper one. I don't wouldn't call one necessarily cheap, but the more experimental one where they focus, like Uchi is more traditional sushi fare, and then in Uchi Ko, it's more farm fresh, they say, or whatever that means, in terms of sushi, and then more experimental less traditional, like they're gonna get a little wackier.

Yeah, you might, they have at Uchi, for example, like at Uchi Ko, they have a Tasmanian sea trout, I believe it is. It's like a cut of fish I've never seen at a sushi-ko, they have a Tasmanian sea trout, I believe it is. It's like a cut of fish I've never seen at a sushi restaurant before and you get it and it looks like salmon, but it tastes nothing like salmon and it might be the most delicious thing I've ever eaten. But you're gonna pay out the ass for it. Is that like getting cotton candy for a gore?

Yeah, kind of like getting cotton candy for a gore out, that kind of vibe. They have a, you know, I'm not big into fish or sushi, but I eat it, for sure. They have a sea bream there that my fiancee just can't get enough of. Really? Big sea bream fan. I eat it, it's okay. Yeah. Yeah, that, I mean, both those restaurants are fucking awesome, but it can be difficult

to get in, like they're busy. They're gonna be busy, and you're gonna pay a lot of money for the privilege of eating there. Yeah, so that's like one of those like two people date night, maybe like a hundred eighty two hundred and fifty bucks somewhere there. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty pricey. I haven't been either of those in a couple of years. It's a it's like once a year kind of restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. But worth it. Are there other places like that here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's tons. Maybe that's I'm there's probably other sushi restaurants like that, but there are other, I would say the nicest restaurant in Austin's,

probably Jeffries, and that's where you'll go and pay 125 bucks for a steak, but everybody that works there is gonna be in a tux with fucking bow ties and they wheel stuff out, and it's like, it's like the most luxurious 70s restaurant you've ever been in, kind of, you know. Also a place you go to, that's a place you go like once every five years. I went there once with Emily four years ago.

Oh, you're coming up. Yeah, make your reservation soon. Yeah, I feel like it didn't used to be like that. Like the idea of a fancy restaurant in Austin used to be like Manuel's on Congress or something, right? Like what like back in the 90s? What was like the fancy restaurant in Austin? Oh Well Jeffries was there and it was the fancy restaurant you and I didn't know about it Yeah, I know that fancy but Jeffries and fondess and the gal Oh, fun was the big restaurants and then the restaurant of the four seasons. I think was always considered. I'd never been there

Yeah and then the restaurant of the four seasons, I think was always considered. I'd never been there. Yeah. Fundasan Miguel, people love that place and the food's fine. Just, I've eaten there a couple of times, not very many, but I always feel like every time I walk in, it's like you're walking into an old folks home. I know. Like, lots of, like the entire clientele

is silver-haired people. It's like going to the Frisco kind of, where you're gonna be the youngest person in there by a couple of decades. But they're very fancy, very rich old people, and they all have reservations. And it's like one of the places where you, if they probably get a reservation

two, three weeks in advance. I think I believe I heard that it's Elon Musk's favorite restaurant in Austin. Oh, guys, we gotta go. I'm kind of late. Like I like Fannas and Miguel. I've been there twice, I think. It's not that good the way, I like Fonus Emigil. I've been there twice, I think. It's not that good.

Yeah, I agree with you. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Well, Jeffries is that good. Uchi-ko is that good. Fonus Emigil is not that good. Really?

It's just good. It's good. Like I said, I've only been a couple of times. And it's fine. I don't get the big deal about it. It's beautiful. Oh yeah. It's beautiful.

It is a gorgeous building. Do you guys have a favorite restaurant right now in Austin? Yeah, easily really Well for like every day food top notch Whatever whatever you whatever you qualify as favorite restaurant. I've got I've got to top notch for just like I'm gonna get a burger And annoyed us because he doesn't want to support that restaurant. No, and then it's become a big selling point for me I got a new vested interest in seeing top notch succeed in thrive. And then for a nice restaurant, and I will fucking die on the sword for this place,

Abba. The Mediterranean restaurant on South Congress and the new fancy buildings that are like four stories and condos and hotels and very expensive or the Nike and our meds store. Over on the east side, yeah, of Congress. Yeah, okay. There's a Mediterranean restaurant called Abba, ABA. That is, you gotta make reservations like two months in advance.

Wow. I've eaten there probably seven or eight times. As soon as I eat there, I make a reservation for the next time. Oh my god. I'm between, I am between reservations right now because I forgot to do it last time. But it's phenomenal.

They have the, I don't know, I'm not even a big hummus fan, but they give you this hummus plate with three different kinds of hummus, and the best pita bread you'll ever put in your mouth. And you just sit there and it's just, I don't know what to say. Like, I'm getting my dick hard thinking about it. This is Jesus.

I've had, that's something I feel like it's overlooked. Like, I've had good pita in the past, but lots of the places, lots of the Mediterranean places here that, you know, I have pita bread, it's like really subpar. Like I've had good PETA in the past, but lots of the places, lots of the Mediterranean places here that, you know, have PETA bread, it's like really subpar. Like they have great food, but then he's like, you get the PETA bread saying, man, this is like obviously store bought and warmed up

in a microwave, it's not that great. For me, one of my favorite restaurants, I've talked about it many times, way better than top-notch is Hilbert's. Fantastic place. That's over, I believe they're down to one location over on Cameron. They used to have a couple of locations around town.

In fact, Hilbert's on Lamar, which we talked about this like an episode two, is where it's a P Terry's now. That location on Lamar, that's the first time I ever had Frank's Red Hot Sauce. They used to leave it out because they sell wings too. They used to leave it out in all the tables. And I was like, oh, what's this? I'm going to put it on my burger.

It was like, oh my god, when I first discovered what'm going to put on my burger. It's like, oh my God. You know, that's when I first discovered what Frank's Red Hot was because of Hilbert's man. That old hill that the P Terry's in the Mar that used to be a Hilbert's. I feel bad for everybody in Austin who didn't have the experience of going into that restaurant and ordering food and sitting at that tiny little table up against the wall. Yeah. Because I was the only place to sit in there as as like a little bench seat. It's like up against the window. Yeah. Because I was the only place to sit in there as there's like little bench seats. It's like up against the window, right? Like, you can see up on the window.

Yeah, up against the window. And everything was sticky and covered in grease and 150 years old. And it was hot as hell. And it was hot as hell. Because the sun would come into that side. Hot as hell was awesome. It was great.

What about non-Hamburger restaurant? Like favorite places to eat in Austin? Yeah, one. Non-Hamburger restaurant right now I'm really digging that conti that took the place of saps. I've only eaten there a couple of times So they just started out like it's it's a it's a new recommended. Yeah, I would definitely recommend it You know, it's another place. I don't know if we talked about it on this podcast or if we've had this conversation off mic High Wings is also really good. Yeah, uh

Been going to high wings since you recommended it. Yeah. That's over there like off of Anderson and Burnett in the Old North Cross Mall. They do like fried chicken that's phenomenal. Great garlic parmesan fries. Like the best garlic parmesan fries. They write that on the menu. The best garlic parmesan fries. Really?

Lots of places write that on the menu. It's true. They fall short. This place like, no, it's, oh no, you guys, like you legitimately have this. I was a huge tumble 22 fan, like National Hot Chicken, and Till Gus turned me on the high wings, and now I'm 100% high wings.

They do so much better. Is it bone in or boneless, or does they have a both? They both, they have a both. I typically get bone in, but yeah, you can also get boneless. Not a bone in guy. It's more flavor with the bone. Yeah. I'm not looking for more flavor on the chicken, I don't think.

I think it's the, what is this thing soaked in that is going to scorch my mouth? I get that, it's definitely a balance, right? I feel like lots of places can have good sauce to cover up subpar chicken. That's true. Okay. I feel like this place, I will get the sauce on the side

so I can meter out. Wow. I would be quality chicken and the sauce. Okay. So like, not so places, I'll go, I'll just, yeah, dump the sauce all over the shit. I can meter out. Wow! I would be quality chicken and the sauce. Okay. So like not so places, I'll go, I'll just, like, yeah, dump the sauce all over the shit. I don't give a fuck. High wings definitely get it on the side.

That way you can manually control the sweetness. I'm hiding. I gotta go try this. How do I know that you? Favorite restaurants? Yeah. Oh, can I just go and soup leave full fast too? Soup leave leave.

I'm going there tonight. I love it so much. Oh, really? What are your, I don't know that I have, honestly, this is gonna be a weird pick. I think my burger place is one that I go to rarely, but I really enjoy it. And I think you guys are going to grimace at this.

But when I'm feeling real, like, I don't want to do shit. And I want just a burger that is like not, every bite is bad for me, is Phil's ice house? Oh my god. I knew that you were gonna be like, oh, come on. I don't know what it is about Phil's fucking ice house.

Those with like their onion rings, it's the greasiest food that you can possibly eat. There's a special place in my grease-filled heart for that particular murder. So I'm grimacing because it's bad. I'm just grimacing because I feel like there's better places. Oh there's definitely better places. It's fine. 100%. So if you're not from Austin Phil's Ice House is a little burger hot dog restaurant attached to an Amy's ice cream which is a very very very popular ice cream chain in Austin. Do you did we talk about the story behind Phil's ice house?

No, I don't know anything about it. I've just been there so I accidentally, and I really enjoyed it so I keep eating it. I don't know if it was Amy's husband or her partner, if they were ever married or what, but her long time. That's why they're connected. That's why.

Partner was a guy named Phil, and it was his dream, I guess, to open up a burger restaurant. And they never got around to it. They were all consumed with Amy's and trying to get that grown. And they never got around to it. They were all consumed with amies and trying to get that grown. And then he died, I don't know if it was unexpectedly or if he died of an illness or whatever, but she created Phil's ice house in his honor

so that even though he didn't get to live to see it, I think it's creating an homage to him. The one on, what is it on Burnett? I think that's the only one. Is it? Yeah., it's I love it Yeah, it is that's my Amy's I got that Amy's all it's like dance and friends both away like a way more With a night with a night there would be nice about it And also I'll tell you this you know

I'm still this is from the other podcast, but I'm sworn off hot dog or a corn dog If I were to eat a corn dog it would be a fills eyes. Oh, hot dog or a corn dog. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Corn dog again. If I were to eat a corn dog, it would be a fillsize. Ooh, I gotta get a corn dog. It fills. Very good, then. I don't know about you.

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when you have regular potato french fries. Okay, healthier? No, fuck them. It's fried potato. If you're eating a french fry, yeah, what are you looking for? I'm like, what the fuck do you want? Don't need a sweet potato fry when you have regular potato french fries. Okay. Okay. Healthier? No. Fuck them. It's fried potato. If you're eating a french fry, yeah, what are you looking for? I'm with the fuck you want. Don't eat a fucking french fry.

I'm just telling you, that's the reason. Fills ice house. I remember, I've only been there a couple of times. They love the sweet potato fries. Yeah, sweet potato fries. Fuck that. I hate sweet potato fries. I get the onion rings.

I like sweet potato fries. Yeah. I'm fine with it. No. No. It's just not as good as real fries, but they're fine. Everyone tell us why sweet potato fries send us messages on social media. And the podcast why we put it on and the worst and don't deserve to explain. Let us know. Feel free to disagree with Gus. It's been on the

floor and enjoy sweet potato fries. Be on the right side of history here. I get the unearned rings and they're so greasy. It's fucking incredible. Um, that's like my burger pick. I think my restaurant and I don't think this is going to be one that you guys agree with either, but it's the one that I enjoy and I go with my wife and we both really like it. It's Vince Young's Steakhouse down down. I don't think it's the best Steakhouse in Austin, but it is definitely the one that I love going to. My wife, I can get my wife to go to it and it is enjoyable. I really like it. That's a, that's a Michael Jones joint too. Right, he's a big fan.

So went there and then started going there more because he was like, I'm going to this thing, do you wanna come and it was like, damn, I really figured out my order there. I really like the, there's particular sides and the way they do stuff, I really like it. And it has, it's a fancy steakhouse in Austin called the Vince Young steakhouse

that is in no way connected to Vince Young anymore. I think it used to be in his own way. Yeah, in no longer. Yeah, it's just his name. It's right by the convention center too. So I don't go to it that often. It's pretty rare, but. I prefer medium rare.

That's, look folks. Jesus Christ. I think those are my picks. I don't think they're gonna be super popular picks, but they're where I enjoy. A lot of people like to then stay cast. It's a very good steak. I haven't been there in years.

Probably since right after they first opened. I went there once and we had like biscuits and our biscuits were frozen on the inside. And so they were like a super apologetic and took them away and brought us new biscuits and then they were cold too. It was a weird thing. I think I only went once.

This was a long time ago. I'm sure management's changed. So I'm giving a big caveat. And a big asterisk and a big out for them here. I remember having a similar experience where I went with my wife and next she ordered a side and it was cold. It was not cooked all the way through.

And then she was back when people were in the yellow. She posted a yellow review about it. And the manager of Ince Young State House replied to her Yelp review saying, you're a liar, we don't even serve that side here. So that's as impossible. Your story is you are full of shit. And I was like, we were both like,

what the hell is wrong with them? And like, they came up actively angry, accusing her of lying, saying that they don't even have that. It's like, you can see it on their online menu. It's right there. That's fucking reply with a pictures of the man. Yeah, they was like all right There's this stupid. There's no point. So yeah, that it's been on the it's been on my shit list since then wow wow Oh, I got a tri-alba though. That sounds everybody should try. I'll be so fucking good. What what would you recommend? Let me look at the menu. Oh, okay. Well, that didn't mean for it to go in that direction.

I'll tell you later. Thanks, man. I thought maybe you'd just be like, oh, I usually get this thing. The whole thing is like a three-humbest thing. Right, right, there's that, but I figured you'd be like, and here's the meat thing that I get. It had to be the menu, because I bounce around a lot.

Here's the inside info. Oh, okay, so let me, let me ask that. When you go to a restaurant, are you getting the same thing pretty consistently, or are you be bounce around? Really? But at Abai bounce around, because everything's unexpected. I don go to a restaurant, are you getting the same thing pretty consistently or are you being asked around? Most of the time, really. But at Abba, I bounce around. Because everything's unexpected.

I don't know a lot about Mediterranean food. So like, I'm learning every time I go there, you know? Abba's one of the few places. Like Indian food and Mediterranean food, I'll try new stuff. But most other restaurants, I have my exact order and I stick to it. Like I've been eating the same thing at Maudi's since 1994.

What is Maudi's? So Mexican restaurant, the Gus Hates. It's a Tex-Mex restaurant. I'm not sure. Tex-Mex restaurant, the Gus Hates. I've been eating there since like 90, not maybe not 94, maybe 95 or 96, but I've gotten the exact same thing every time I've been there.

So Gus was just so ready to do it. Yeah. Let's get the cuisine to my side. Sorry, it's a local Tex-M right now. Let's get the quiz. It's a local text next. Do you like cheese soup? Because everything is a variation of some kind of cheese soup. He's not wrong. Give you guys a little heads up that Chupi, the Chupacabra cat,

recently was taken to Torchie's tacos and would not eat it. And then went to another place called Taco Taco, it was like a taco truck, we'll wolf them down. Torchie's has fallen off so far, the cat won't eat it. And that cat, that cat, that cat, that cat, that cat, that cat will probably not cat approve. Wait, is today, today is Chupi's birthday.

Today is Chupi's birthday. Yeah, happy birthday Chupi. Yeah, Chupi is doing an event at Little Darling, which is such a cool idea if it wasn't 108 degrees today. By the time you listen to this. The Netherlands kind of an outdoor place. Yeah, kind of. By the time you listen to this, you missed it.

It was a, Chupi's birthday was last week for you, sucker. Yeah, idiot. Little darling's on those places that I like it. It's fine if I lived in South Austin that go. Yeah, I'm not gonna drive down there for it. I feel the same way for, and it's like not, it's not like it's downtown. Right. It drive down there for it. I feel the same way for, and it's like not, it's not like it's downtown.

Right. It's down there. It's like down William Cannon, so right? Not that far. It is far. It's little darlings far. It's south Austin. That's really far.

Yeah, I'll go down that far for Bahama Bucks, but that's about it. I, Bahama, oh right, the stone place. So complex. Yeah, you said, but I'm a box and it like unlocked a memory I forgot about. Okay.

I don't know if you remember this years ago. We were traveling. We were up in Seattle. I don't know why we were there. Maybe it was when we were playing Halo 2 or something like it. When it was beta before came out. I 100% know where you're going with this. Okay.

You do remember it was like one of the early. So maybe one of the first times I've been to Seattle and me, you burning and I remember me, you and burn you. I don't remember for this, but maybe it was Matt to them. And we had some time to kill before our flight back to Austin and we were driving around and Bernie was like, Hey, let's, we were past like a Bahama breeze, you know, like that bar in the bird's like, Hey, let's just stop in and get a drink and then we'll head down to the airport and you know, catch our flight back to Austin whatever, you know, we park, get down, get a drink, then we'll head down to the airport and catch our flight back to Austin, whatever.

We park, get down, get a drink, I don't know what the fuck, I drank like a rusty nail or some got off of a drink. Yeah, let's some sugary beach drink. And we're like, all right, you know, we should probably be heading back to the airport. Now we walk out to our car and it was like,

we'd rented like a minivan. Like a, so there must have been four of us if, you know. It was a slightly bigger vehicle. And we get out and all along the passenger side, like the entire passenger side front door and like the sliding door and everything we're just like dented all the way down the the vehicle We don't know we're like what the fuck Yeah, it was like this huge dent and we're like shit in braids like Bernie has the one who had rented the car

He's like man, I didn't get the insurance like what's gonna happen? We're gonna go return this car like I think you know, see this in charges like thousands of bucks in damage. And it's like, oh, man, you know, what a, what a downer shitty note to end this trip on. So we go back and like, fuck, you know, we drive to the airport, return the car. And they don't say anything about it. And we're like, maybe they'll contact us after the fact and bill us or something. And we get all the way back to Austin, it's like, they still haven't said anything.

And as far as I know, like, time passed and nothing ever came of it. Yeah, they'd never said anything. I had a similar thing years and years and years ago where I was visiting my ex-brother in law, like from my previous marriage, his family, and I'd rented a car and he backed into it and dented in the passenger side pretty bad. And I didn't know what to do about it,

like the rental place was closed on the weekend. And so when I returned it, I just returned it and walked away and I never heard anything back. And they never asked me for any information about it. I figured I'd just get dinged or fucked or I'd get a call and be like, it was like, two grand, I never heard anything about it, Ever again. But it wasn't as bad as the one. It was bad. It was bad in the Bahamadi's Park. We got sides. We were in there for 25 minutes. It was not long. Not long at all. It was just a quick drink before the airport. And they fucking wrecked that cuff that van. Wow. So moralist story don't sweat it. That's good enough fun. It'll be fine.

People aren't paying attention. Here's two examples. There were no negative consequences. We were going to go do maybe a hamburger today from a place that we'll probably end up doing next week. I would think. I can tell you now it's fine. Lebowski's grill.

Oh, I love it. A lot of lines. I wanted to go do that, but the schedule didn't work out today, so we'll probably have to do it next week. Go get a burger or whatever, which I love that's an extension of this podcast now, is getting a hamburger. Yeah. It's very cool.

Anything from Dart Bulls Gone. Highland lanes is sort of like it. Is there more? There used to be show place lanes off of 35, but that's gone. Highland lanes is sort of like it. Is there more? There used to be show place lanes off of 35, but that's gone. That's a school now. Is there something with like an ATM or something there? Oh, do we talk about that? I don't know.

How do you know about that? I think you told me, but I don't remember if it was. There was a strip club down. It's still there. I don't know what it's called. Plazio, is that what it's called? There's a strip club like I'm a 35 and Ben White. He doesn't know what it's called. And it used to, it used to fucking membership.

It used to be a platinum member. It used to be called Show Palace. And if you use the ATM there, the ATM was spent out of receipt that said Show Place. And I thought it was funny, it was like a possible deniability. Like no, I use the ATM at Show Place. They charged me a $20 ATM fee.

That's what they do there. That's what they do there. That's what they do. It's a, man, that's been a long time. Yeah, it's been a long time. He had a membership. But yeah, show place lanes. Are there any other bowling places around? Not that I know of.

I feel like that's a business that takes a lot of real estate. And you can't charge enough money to make it work in the core of the city anymore. Out of the three, which did you go to the most? I think I went to... From you, a show place, Lane. Show place the most. Because that's where we used to go.

Because that one was 24 hours. That was the T and I place. That's when we go to the call center. Yeah, and that's where you were in bowling. Yeah, you were in bowling. I only went to Dart Bowl maybe three times. Yeah, I wish I'd gone more. Now it's just a fucking...

That's a part of it, right? Yeah, I think they're bulldozing the whole thing. Yeah, it's all fucking... I didn't break somebody's heart about that the other day. I'm gonna let them know that Dartbull is shut the fuck down and bulldozing. It's been gone for a while, they didn't know. That's what I said. They're like, what do you mean?

And I'm like, how often are you going to Dartbull? Apparently it's not that big of a law-free. It's been gone for four or five years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, maybe... Yeah Yeah, apparently it's not that big of a loss for you. It's been gone for about four or five years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, maybe, yeah. I think it was pretty pandemic. Yeah. But yeah, that stuff was fun.

And like I said, now with all this stuff, where we're sitting being built, there's no way to make, to financially make a business like that work. And I think you were bitching off Mike the other day about how the lack of batting cages. Oh yeah, there's a batting cages, yeah. It's the fucking Alamo D draft house couldn't make the bull and Ellie thing worked. I don't know who could yeah Remember they used to have like the two lane thing don't they still have it over there?

Like it got close for a long time because of COVID. I don't know if it's back open yet I don't know if it's become a bar at which which Alamo was it South Lamar that's that's high that's like high ball Yeah, yeah, I don't think it has anymore. It's just a's just a bar. Back when it was the, we talked about this recently, when it was the shopping center before they demolished it all. Like the shopping center was kind of like a horseshoe. Yeah, and Drafthouse was at the very back and had these two arms that went out towards Lamar. If you were facing Lamar, on the left was like vintage shops

and guitar places. In the middle of parking lot, there was like a thunder cloud. Then up the right arm, at the very end, that's where the high ball was. It was the high ball and then trash doors, like alien scooter. Yeah, probably alien scooter. A bunch of weird shit. And over there, the high ball had multiple lanes and was like fairly decent size, but then they demolished all of that to like rebuild that draft house out the more. And then the high ball almost became like an addition to the draft house where where it's like kind of off to the side and it's much smaller than

it used to be. Aren't there those places like in the domain and downtown that are like bowling and ping pong and a bunch of shit at one that like grown up punch punch punch punch punch social yeah I hate that fucking place. I think it's a Colorado place. It sucks. That place sucks. But that's the only way you can make a business like that work now. It's like selling out for a while. Yeah, yeah. Have it all and sell a bunch of booths to subsidize. And this sort of leads me into the anarchy question

that I wanted to get to this. Oh, look at you, Segway. This is from a 40% jump by volume. Good name. The Reddit, our slash animal podcast. Which again, I want to be clear, we don't run, I just go to. That's all of these subreddits, we don't, these are user-owned and operated, not us.

We're not user, we simply go. I like those sunglasses, by the way. Thank you. Does that come up a lot? No, I just wanna be clear. Okay, it's the same thing with like, here, I guess what I'm driving at by saying that, when people have issues with,

hey, this thing happened on the Discord, and it's like, we don't have a Discord. Well, this happened on the subreddit. I don't run that. I just want to be really clear that if things arise, things happen, stuff like that, nothing has occurred. I just want to be clear that we don't,

this is just a resource for me. I could just easily... We can't accept. I could pull questions from what people tweet at us at a new podcast, right? And we don't run that. Is this the called tweeting? Or do they ex you now? We will simply call it tweeting.

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you can truly hear the deep love for it, despite its flaws. I'm 20 years younger than you guys, and I find it really hard to connect to the city that I live in. You live in the wrong city. But yeah, and they said, maybe I'm just being a whatse about it. And I think that that's interesting.

I think that, if anything, discoveries wait easier now. I agree. Because of platforms, like review platforms, Google, Yelp, like all of that shit. Things surface that you might be interested in. I think the thing that's different about Austin today than when we went is Austin was definitely a laid back

cowboy hippie town, a college town. So if anything, Gus and I probably had to work a little harder to find shit back then because there was less obvious stuff around than Austin wasn't as big. Now it would be, I think the hardest thing, like to be our age when we met and growing up in Austin now would just be, there's too much. Like you've never, like I felt like I knew everything about Austin after about five years, six years. I don't think you could ever feel that way, but Austin, it's so big now. And I think it's still totally possible

because I am that process of falling in love with a place and getting excited about it and going and exploring and learning little bits about it. I'm going through that with Detroit right now. Interesting. And it's charming. And I found myself this morning thinking about Detroit in my living room. I'm gonna, I'm gonna ask you a question

because before you said that part, I was trying to think about like learning a new city and how the process and I was thinking back to when we were learning about us and when we first moved in, I think we've talked about this before about what a resource the chronicle was for helping direct us and like list everything that we could potentially be interested in in one place. Do you find yourself since you're an old man? Like me, do you find yourself gravitating to like a local newspaper like that as well? Or is it more internet-based for certain?

No, no, the internet is just a lot of white noise to me at this point, you know? I like the little local newspaper, but my favorite thing to do is like, rent a bicycle, rent a city bike, and just explore, you know, and then word of mouth to like Detroit helps a lot because it I Emily's family lives up there so they have so many recommendations and so many places they've already

tried and so you can kind of learn through other people as well. Yeah I don't know. I'm not I shouldn't poopoo technology there. I certainly do use it to discover stuff. Yeah I feel like maybe for you and I, the algorithm is broken for us a lot of times for it because of work, but I feel like for the most part, technology and like media platforms surface things and show you ads for things that you're going to be interested in. So it's a lot easier to get that stuff put in front of your face because it's like it's going to be super targeted and easier to find in that respect. I do feel like it's easier if I wanted to know what's going on in Austin next week. It would be easier for me to pick up an Austin Chronicle and spend 15 minutes looking through it. I feel like I'd have a full picture of the city. As opposed to now, I have to

go to two different Instagram accounts that like what when we're Austin and Austin thinks to do and then there's do 512.com and like there's a To aggregate all that information Can be a bit unwieldy and it's so much easier just to pick up the chronicle and go like oh here's the five places I need I need to be care about we're definitely old That's fine. We're definitely I'm right on that cuss, but I'm with you where When I was really discovering San Diego When I was younger it was grabbing the weekly reader, San Diego weekly reader, and opening it up and seeing,

here's all the shows that are playing, here's all the stuff that's happening, here are these restaurants, check this place out, like, leaving through it and circling stuff, and then going, hey, we're gonna go here today. And like, I think that is such a resource for like so many things, but word of mouth is gonna be the biggest.

When you have a friend, this just happened the other day. I had a friend who was in town from Portland and we were kinda hopping around, we had to pin balls, never been. It's like, oh cool, you know, go to that. He's like, how do you wanna do it? I'm like, let's go get a bite to eat. And I took him to top notch

and I went with a couple of other friends who'd never been at top notch, but live here. And they were like, let's go get a bite to eat. And I took him to top notch and I went with a couple of other friends who'd never been at top notch, but live here. And they were like, this is fucking, nobody would take, like who would have taken us here? And it's like, this is like an institution for. Yeah, it's weird that they would be unaware of that. It's actually to be a tourist attraction because they're based in confused, but it's not anymore.

It used to be. And so I think a lot of those places are sort of, do 512 isn't promoting top notch, right? You know what I mean? Like the the word of mouth is going to be an endless thing and it was when I was younger in San Diego I had a friend named Mario who was like yeah, we're going to this place Yeah, check this but you know, yeah, it's all about the new stuff now. What's coming? What's just open versus what's been here for a while? I think also probably some of it depends on your personality type.

Like I've always been a collector. When I was a kid I collected baseball cards and comic books. And when I was a younger kid I collected stamps and I used to clip fucking Sunday Sunday funnies out and put them in. I used to put them in a photo album So I could read like beetle Bailey all the way through. That's awesome. Now I know where you're in the army. Yeah. It makes sense now. This is me.

And I don't know why I pulled Beetle Bailey out there. I was much more of a bloom county guy, but I definitely read Beetle Bailey. But, and I think I like to collect experiences in places in Austin, you know. And like, it's like a puzzle, the, like a city is like a puzzle You're trying to put together and I want to find every fucking piece

I want to know I want to know like the back of my hand and I can't wait to get there And if I'm not there yet, it makes me itchy like I got to go out and just like drive around until I feel like I have a handle on it Good luck everything's changing here so much. I know it's that's the best part about Austin is you go out of town for nine days and come home And you're like oh, they built four houses and a con Holy shit, I mean we came here today and that you were saying the last time you were over here is you go out of town for nine days and come home and you're like oh they built four houses in a company holy shit. I mean we came here today and that you were saying the last time you were over here is you know you always got so dressed yeah right now. This is a totally redone area. You go you keep going down Springdale and they have what easy ally or whatever the brewery is and the rock climbing place and you keep going past the police station and connects you all to like the South Austin

The big arteries like this are constantly in flux. Let's be honest the drugs are still here. They've just changed. It's a hundred percent right? Just to be just to be Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just not in the neighborhood where you get them. You have to go over to blocks I think that's one of the you know because I'm Talked about this a lot, but I'm thinking about, you know, a future where I'm not a primary Austin resident someday, although I'm really starting to doubt my ability to leave this city completely. I just don't know that I can. It's got a hold on me that I don't think it's ever going to let go. But one of the things that I have, and people bitch and complain about Austin changing

and growing and becoming a different place than it was. Like they were doing it when Gus and I moved here. Of course. They'll be doing it after we leave. But one of the things that I love about Austin that keeps it interesting to me, and that keeps it exciting to me, is that the growth has never stopped.

And I love growth. I just love to watch places change and evolve. I love to watch buildings and houses get built. I love to watch places get revived. It's sad to see old things go. I wish I could eat it nows for the rest of my life, but that's not the way the world works. And hopefully whatever comes after nows

and that spot will be cool in its own way. And it'll be around for decades or do its own thing. Do its own thing. Yeah. It's so weird. It seems like such a natural thing. Like you start a restaurant, El Gayo. You start El Gayo, you know, family on restaurant. You run it for 40 or 50 years.

If there's nobody to turn it over to, and you want to retire, you just close down. That's natural, it's okay. People get so up and arms about it, and I do too, but I really, as I've gotten older, I started to realize, it's okay for things to end. And especially if they're ending on the creator's terms. I think that's really important,

is that it doesn't mean it was not successful because it came to an end. It was very successful for a very long time. And then it ended. And it's done with it. Yeah, and then you go, okay, that's all. You're like, oh, I don't want to run a restaurant anymore. I'm 68, I've got a few years left.

And my kids don't want to run my restaurant. And who else am I going to sell it to a stranger? And then have them take the name, like, no. Yeah. Yeah, and I think that's not necessary to something unique to Austin. I think we're definitely experiencing a lot of that. I watched a great documentary a couple of weeks ago

about like a mochi shop in San Francisco that had been around for a hundred years. And it was like, the dude who was running it was like the son of the original owner and he was now like in his seventies. He's like, I've been doing this every day for 50, 60 years. Like, I don't want my kids to do this. Like, I'm just gonna shut it down.

And it's like this, you know, huge outpouring of support. Like you say, people are like, sad that it's done. He's like, I- Like save the place. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, I just, I don't wanna do this anymore. Like, I want to retire. And like, that's it.

It's done. It's over. A huge outpouring of support. And the guys going, please stop. No, I mean, he was, they were very grateful about it. And they were like a big ceremony and everything, but it's like, they're not, they're not like struggling like, oh no, we couldn't save it. It's like, no, it's just done.

That's it. We had our run, a hundred year run, which is fucking crazy. Incredible. Incredible. It's awesome that there are like restaurants in China that have forever soup that have been in operation for 400 years. You know, that's fucking cool. I think that's really phenomenal actually,

but not everything is that, and that everything should be, and we shouldn't expect them to be. I think about it, it's the same, we're talking about restaurants now, but they're very similar parallels to our industry that we all work in as well, you know? And it's like, people gotta be okay with things they like

ending when the people that are cooking them or making them Don't want to do it anymore. Yeah, Tom Warner doesn't own Warner brothers anymore Whatever the fuck their name was but I think that's where it comes from with our industries like you look at movie studios You think those have been around forever when honestly they really haven't in the scope of things They've been around for no time. Yeah, I think Warner media only know that's because we're part of them But like hundred years ago. This year is their 100 year anniversary, right? And so when you dial it back, you go, hmm, when did it start?

1923, not that long ago. Not that long. No, definitely within recorded history. I kind of want to wrap this up in everything, but I want to get a final review on the coffee because you finished yours. And Gus, what do you think? It's not my favorite. You got better as the ice melted, but it's still not my favorite. If I was going to give that a rating, I'd give it maybe a record around a seven or so.

I'm definitely going up from my first thought. I'm going up. I'm going up to a 6.8. It's a 6.8. Great. I really do recommend this cup of coffee. It's very good. I will say that if you do come here, prepare to hear every song from TikTok that you've heard in the last three months, just played at you, but it's the whole song and you can't skip it. So that is what's at all. Hell yeah. It's some great audio texture to end the session. We thought we were getting through without audio texture, baby. Audio texture. Take us out, trash can. I- I-

You can follow us at Animal Podcasts on Twitter. I'm going to that played that blue song I haven't heard that since the 90s Yep, oh that's because it wasn't that it's the BB Rex a version that came out a couple years ago It just does not know I know I know he doesn't I think it was heard David yeah, I feel 65 That was the original and then BB Rex a bless her heart wants to be famous so bad It's trying trying her hardest and terrible remix. But you, wow, at Anna podcast on Twitter and on Instagram, let us know what coffee you're drinking, let us know what you got going on.

Let us know why you put a fries of the worst. Yeah. Hey, if you're listening to this on Monday, the seventh, later today, me and Jeff will be starting... Jeff and I. Why even? Why even plug it? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You can watch it live on Reese's teeth or the fuck face YouTube channel the VOD which is video on demand trying to break the curse Oh, that's what that means the internal language going external the video you can watch it later on Thursday on the fuck face YouTube channel

So you can check that out that'll be later today if you're listening on Monday If you if you're listening on Tuesday, you've missed it, but that's okay because again you can watch it on Thursday Early reports are in it's gonna be a raucous good time. So let me, let me say this. The first episode, myself, Jeff and Emily, the second episode, guess what you like to be on? Hell yeah. And we can do Jeff's, we can do Gus's cards. August 14th.

Yeah. Okay, if you're around. Oh, you'll get to be wearily. We went through this whole, well, you could use your busy guy, I wanna make sure you're filming. I don't, yeah. We went through this whole episode

and this will be our cliffhanger. This will be our Husha JR for this episode. We didn't talk about the fact that you flew with Gus. Oh, and I wanna know. I wanna know. I wanna know. I wanna know everything about that. Eric flew the plane.

I don't know anything about it. Don't tell me anything about it. You can be in suspense, keep the audience in suspense. I'm not talking about it in the car. I don't wanna hear about it until next one. And at Animal Podcast, Twitter and Instagram, any parting words, anything else? Man, go inside, it's fucking hot.

It's 95%. Go inside or go to Michigan. It's 72 degrees. Ha, bye-bye. So I don't have enough podcasts, not enough places for me to spew nonsense, so I started a new one. It's about things that are interesting to me. Who shot J.R., Irish Folk music?

What happened to Acapulco? Hopefully you will listen to it, and you'll find out the answers to these and other in-name questions. Alright. answers to these and other in-name questions. All right.