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0:43

this is Anima76, the last one we were

0:45

at Lamp Post Coffee. We're talking about Third

0:47

Wave Coffee. We

0:50

talked about early voting, malls

0:52

around Austin, movies at the

0:54

Cheesecake Factory, having a tail, and Madame

0:56

Web. When are we gonna get to Fourth Wave? It's

0:59

the year 2024. I'm sick of Third Wave Coffee.

1:01

It's been around since the 90s. I want Fourth

1:03

Wave Coffee. Do you think that there could be

1:05

Fourth Wave Ska? Is there Fourth Wave Ska? Do you

1:07

know? It feels like there's probably

1:09

Fourth Wave Ska, right? I would assume so, yeah. Yeah.

1:12

I think Ska Punk was, er, like, yeah, Ska Punk

1:14

was like Fourth Wave, right? Yeah, I don't think so.

1:16

Because Third Wave was still like Ska-Voo-Vee in the Epitones

1:18

and shit. That was a straight shot. So you're saying

1:20

we're in the Ska-Voo-Vee era of Coffee still and I'm

1:23

not for it. We gotta get to Fourth Wave. I

1:25

guess Ska-Voo-Vee may be more popular. Ah, fuck, who cares?

1:28

Call Bruce Green. I don't give a shit. I

1:31

like how he's the one who dove into it and

1:33

got mad at himself or like just mad in general.

1:35

I just got annoyed thinking about it. There's

1:38

some knowledge and memories you start to unlock and you're like, I don't

1:40

wanna go back through this. I survived

1:42

Ska. I don't need to go back

1:45

through Ska. Survived Ska. We all did.

2:00

And this we've done what you said is episode 76

2:03

This is the first time I've seen Jeff

2:05

walk with purpose and like find the way

2:08

You would like let the way through the coffee shop straight

2:10

to line We left you were like a bullet like straight

2:12

for well out of that car. I just don't have time

2:15

for the nonsense. No No,

2:21

I think it's just because for

2:23

about two years this was my

2:25

front yard Yeah, when

2:27

I was going through the divorce and transitioning

2:29

into you know finding a new home and

2:31

stuff I lived in a condo not gonna

2:33

out it, but I lived in a condo

2:35

very very close here got it There's

2:38

like 10 15 you

2:40

can see yeah around this. I lived in one this

2:42

I considered this to be my front yard There's

2:45

a yes. It was it was unusual seeing

2:48

you merit copy that merit coffee was my

2:50

coffee shop for two years We

2:52

walked in that shop from the door

2:54

that long side yeah, and But

2:58

it was fine because we had somebody a sherpa leading

3:00

us all the way to where we needed to be

3:02

I would have gone the wrong way to like he

3:04

walked like around the counter and like gotten to a

3:06

line that I didn't know Exist it like oh man

3:08

way to go apparently. It's just a place. I know Let's

3:11

say um so this I think

3:13

merit coffee is actually a San Antonio show. Yeah, they

3:15

are Yeah, I talked to the dude who was running

3:18

the one on the triangle one time and he told

3:20

me all about it I've been

3:22

to that one before yeah I

3:24

have not drank from this coffee yet, but I've drank at some

3:26

of the other locations normally. It's really good I will get into

3:28

that in a bit, but they they

3:30

I saw this thing in there Which pissed me off

3:32

which Eric kept telling me to wait oh, I just

3:34

have a pipe. Oh my god save it Oh my

3:36

god save it people take their dogs too many places.

3:38

I have a dog thing right here I'm a dog

3:41

person yeah But like I feel

3:43

like every other time I go to the grocery store so it's

3:45

got their fucking dog in there. Yeah And

3:48

someone had their dog here in merit and

3:50

apparently it's fine They're like I'll acknowledge merit

3:52

had a bowl for water for a dog

3:54

inside the establishment Which I personally think is

3:56

kind of weird, but whatever that's their prerogative.

3:58

They can do that That's fine. If the establishment's

4:01

okay with it, that's on them. But

4:04

this dude walked in with a dog. The dog

4:06

walked straight up to the counter, got on its

4:08

hind legs, and put its paws on the counter,

4:10

where people get their food and their coffee. And

4:13

then the dude reached over. What did he grab

4:15

something? Water or something? It was like a treat.

4:17

Like a little treat. Yeah, and started giving it

4:19

to the dog while the dog's slobbering all over

4:21

the counter, where people get their food and their

4:23

coffee. He's like, okay, that's too far. And then

4:26

he proceeded to come over and get in everyone's

4:28

way and block the only way in and out.

4:30

Yeah. Uh, if

4:32

the dog... The

4:34

way the dog stood at the counter... What kind of dog was this?

4:37

Uh, a blue healer. Yeah. That thing.

4:39

Uh, the way the dog stood at the

4:42

counter and put his paws on the counter at the perfect

4:44

height, looked like he was about to pull out glasses, put

4:46

them on, and order his own drink. Yeah. It

4:49

was like a shaggy DA type situation. It really

4:51

was a shaggy DA type situation. It's too much.

4:54

It's too much. I get it. It's fine. Let

4:56

your dog put their paws on the counter and slobber all

4:58

over it. Have them sit. They're

5:00

a good boy. They deserve a treat. Give it to

5:02

them on the ground, not where the people food and

5:05

the people drinks go. Please. Someone's

5:07

gonna put their hands there. Then they're

5:09

gonna shake my hand. I'm gonna have dog shit all over

5:11

my hand. I don't... I don't want it. Let's talk about

5:13

dog shit for a second. Let's talk about one of my

5:15

favorite spots in Austin. This

5:18

giant square of fake

5:20

grass right here... Yeah. ...that is set

5:22

out with a bunch of Adirondack chairs.

5:25

It's bordered by... if you're not here,

5:27

it's bordered by a pet store, a

5:29

Trader Joe's... ...a ice cream store, the

5:31

coffee shop. There's a True Foods restaurant.

5:35

So it's just like a little square... like a

5:37

little patch of grass, a park area almost,

5:39

in the middle of all of these establishments.

5:41

Yeah. But it's small, right? It's really small.

5:43

It's like the size of... it's maybe like

5:45

the length of a basketball

5:48

court. If that. Yeah. If that. And

5:50

it's a square. So... but what you

5:52

will see if you come down here on the weekends, or

5:54

if you live here like I used to... ...moms

5:56

and dads bring their kids to this little patch

5:59

of grass here. and they play all

6:01

day long. You just see, like, by about 2

6:03

p.m. there'll just be 30 strollers here, and there'll

6:05

just be kids running around playing ball and rolling

6:07

around and having a time. It's

6:09

adorable. At about 7 p.m.,

6:11

they all go home to feed their kids

6:14

and stuff, and everybody who lives here, they

6:17

all bring their dogs out to take pisses

6:19

and shits right there on that spot of

6:21

fake land, of fake grass, right? All

6:23

night long, thousands of dogs piss

6:25

all over this. And

6:27

then in the morning, the kids come out,

6:29

and they roll around in it, and it's

6:32

all fucking rich kids. It's all these rich

6:34

kids and strollers just rolling around in dried

6:36

dog pisses. I will say, that is on

6:38

the parents. Yeah. There is very clearly a

6:41

dog waste station right here in one of the quarters

6:43

with baggies, but you know what the purpose of

6:45

this is. It's 100% on the parents. But

6:48

Emily and I would sit here, and we'd go to

6:50

that, like, baked bear place every once in a while

6:52

and get some ice cream, and I'd just be by

6:54

myself, I'd just sit, and I'd just watch kids roll

6:56

around. Sometimes in the day, you can watch a dog

6:58

come up, take a piss, then leave, and then three

7:00

minutes later, a lady pull up a scroller and a

7:02

kid will go fucking do a somersault right through it.

7:04

That's kind of tangential to

7:07

the reason, you know, when we would

7:09

go do a lot of events back in the day, you know,

7:12

people would bring us stuff to sign. Yeah. And

7:14

it's part of the reason, if

7:16

anyone ever handed me a shoe to, like, sign, I

7:18

would never sign a shoe. Ugh, you should sign the

7:20

shoes. Yeah, that's all it is. Like, it's not just,

7:22

what you're talking about is not a phenomenon limited to

7:24

that grass patch. It's everywhere. I

7:27

have a real problem with people that

7:29

don't tie their shoes for that. Oh,

7:31

yeah. Like, my daughter used to do

7:33

that a lot. She'd just walk around,

7:35

she's like, I don't care, just have

7:37

untied shoelaces, and it's like, no! Because

7:39

those shoelaces are now covered in piss

7:41

and shit and dead animals and rotting

7:43

food and everything that touches the ground.

7:45

Remember, I've said this before, all

7:48

of this that we see right now is

7:50

a toilet for birds. Mm-hmm. A

7:52

dinosaur probably took a big dump somewhere

7:54

around here. Yeah, but it's powering my car

7:56

now. I apologize. Yeah. Uh,

7:59

yeah. It's just gross. And that's what I

8:01

don't get when people wear

8:03

shoes inside of a house. Like

8:06

you're just tracking all of that in. Yeah. Eric's

8:09

thinking of a counterpoint. No, no, no counterpoint. I

8:11

was gonna... I started thinking about... So when you

8:13

have people over, you ask them to take off

8:16

your shoes, but you don't have people over. Right.

8:18

Problem solved. Yeah, there you go. Done and done.

8:20

So really, that's why I stopped and paused. The

8:22

words were coming out of my mouth, but then

8:24

I answered my own question. I have a little

8:26

box of shoe booties by my door. So if

8:28

there's service people like electricians or plumbers who come

8:30

by, I'm gonna put it on. You

8:33

ever offer those guys a beer? I'm

8:36

from water. I wouldn't ever offer them a beer.

8:38

When they're getting done, I'm just like, going

8:40

for the road. And usually the guy's like, ah, no, it's all right.

8:42

But I've had one or two guys that are like, all

8:45

right. Yeah, those are my guys. This is

8:48

where we're sitting here. This is a part

8:50

of Austin that's obviously, if you look around,

8:52

it's undergone extreme transformation. None

8:55

of these buildings used to be here. But I think

8:57

we... I will say all the transformation here took place

8:59

eight, nine years ago. It's been this for a while.

9:01

Yeah, for some reason I still feel like that's fairly

9:03

recent, but you're right. It hasn't all been here a

9:05

while. In fact, that

9:07

over there, the monarch, that building, that condo, I think

9:10

we mentioned it once in the past. One of the

9:12

former Austin mayors used to live there, Will Wynn. And

9:14

it was kind of a local scandal because there

9:17

was security camera footage of him choking a dude

9:19

out. Really? I

9:21

guess, like, Will, the mayor was having

9:23

a party and some dude who wasn't invited showed

9:26

up and they got into an altercation. And the

9:28

mayor started beating him up and

9:30

choking him. And it was on the surveillance footage from

9:32

the condo. And it was plain nonstop on the local

9:35

news for a while. That's why we say in Austin,

9:37

our mayor could beat up your mayor. But

9:41

I don't think we say that anymore.

9:44

But there used to be a lot of... Obviously,

9:46

before they built all this stuff, there was other

9:48

things here before. Whenever I come down to this area, I was

9:50

thinking about, like... I don't remember exactly

9:53

where I was anymore, but, like, La Zona Rosa and

9:55

Austin Music Hall used to be around. I think Austin

9:57

Music Hall was a little used to gear over there

9:59

by kind of... where Melo

10:01

Johnny's is maybe? Well, Zona Rosa was

10:03

also by Melo Johnny. Yeah. You

10:05

go further, it's 4th Street, right? Yeah. You

10:07

go further down. It's still there. The building is still

10:10

there. Oh, is it? Rosa

10:13

on the outside used to have pictures

10:16

of Willie Nelson and famous musicians

10:18

that have played there. They're all

10:20

still there. Oh, okay. Like

10:22

the building is still there. It looks the same. It's just some

10:25

tech company or something. Right

10:27

on the other side. Yeah, the Austin Music Hall is

10:29

definitely gone. That's why I remember being in my... Well, now

10:31

it's a new Austin Music Hall, right?

10:33

Early to mid-20s, I guess before

10:35

we did Rooster Teeth, going to a

10:38

bunch of different concerts. Like, not like...

10:40

I saw Weezer there with you at

10:42

the Austin Music Hall. Yeah, I saw also

10:44

garbage there when they were... We saw Tenacious

10:47

D there, I think. Yeah, I think so.

10:49

That's how long ago that was. When if

10:51

an... So, some of the... It's

10:53

like if an act wasn't big enough to fill an

10:55

arena, but still super popular, because it was a big

10:57

venue. It was too big to play like emos. Right.

11:00

It was like the perfect size mid-size

11:02

venue for acts

11:05

like that of that caliber. It definitely

11:07

picked up a lot, because we used to have a

11:09

place called Liberty Lunch that was a

11:11

little bit bigger than emos, and it kind of

11:13

filled that space. That's where I saw the Cranberries

11:15

play. But when Liberty Lunch closed, then Austin Music

11:18

Hall would be like a Cranberries destination. Yeah. Like

11:21

a level of band. Right. Oh

11:23

man, speaking of music venues, on the way in we drove

11:26

down 35, and we drove by

11:28

the Irwin Center, which is being demolished. We got

11:30

replaced by the Moody Center. And now if

11:32

you look through... So the Irwin Center used

11:34

to be a music venue. Pretty

11:36

decent size. It's kind of locally famous, because it's right

11:38

off the interstate, and it's a circular

11:41

building. It looks like a

11:43

flan. It looks like a what? A flan? It

11:45

looks like a flan. Yeah, it does. And now

11:47

they're tearing it down, because the Moody Center opened

11:49

up, and you can look through it from 35.

11:52

If you look over as you're in traffic, you can see straight

11:54

through it, and you can see that they've gutted it, and they're

11:57

just tearing all the innards out. Which was,

11:59

because I don't even think they... That had been around too long. I think the

12:01

Irwin Center only got constructed in the early 70s maybe so

12:03

maybe it was around like 50 years I

12:06

saw did you ever see the documentaries searching for

12:08

Sugarman came out? I don't know

12:10

maybe 10 years ago now I never did now,

12:12

but I heard of it. I saw Rodriguez perform

12:14

at The Irwin Center.

12:16

Did you really? Yeah after that documentary he did

12:18

a couple of tours. How was it? It was

12:20

great I think that might be the only concert

12:22

I ever saw in the Irwin Center. Oh, man,

12:24

I saw um When

12:27

I was 18 years old my friend

12:29

made me go with him to a Pink Floyd

12:31

laser light show there They have that there. Yeah

12:34

at the Irwin Center They had a Pink Floyd

12:36

laser light show and this would have been 1994

12:38

probably or 95 and I was I hated it

12:41

Wasn't my scene at the time and he was on acid

12:43

so he loved it I was not And

12:45

then the only other concert I think I went to is

12:48

I saw I took Millie and her friends to see panic

12:50

at the disco there ah On

12:52

that set that's what that's the entirety of my

12:54

experience at Frank Orman Center I think I saw

12:56

a pink Floyd laser light show at like the

12:59

Natural History Museum in Houston when I was like

13:03

Do they still do that anymore? I don't know but I was a

13:05

real for a while It's where you go when you're 18 apparently because

13:07

I was also 18 when I saw Oh,

13:11

oh so this

13:13

past weekend I I drove through San

13:15

Antonio and I had

13:18

a memory of something in Austin that you and I used

13:20

to see fairly regularly and we would always laugh about When

13:24

we worked at the call center You

13:27

know down south there We've

13:29

talked about like some of the other businesses that were

13:31

there off of Burleson close by that we talked about

13:33

You know happy taco. Talk about that mermaids place, but

13:36

like right across the street I don't

13:38

remember when it was it might have been like 2000

13:40

2001 this this establishment opened up

13:44

in one of those Little house malls

13:46

no no it was like you know how you come out

13:48

There's like the conical was right there like just to the

13:50

left was that little building The

13:53

one where Robert Rodriguez was but

13:55

they had the old trouble extra studio I thought that was down to the right

13:57

that was oh you right that was to the right yeah That

14:00

comic had slush puppies. You did with some time you'd

14:02

go on break and go get slush puppies You never

14:04

you guys hard to get slush puppies. You guys told

14:06

me that specifically when we drove by that And

14:09

it was like man. This is hard living My

14:12

historical knowledge of candy related things is

14:15

huge, dude But uh

14:17

there a business opened up around 2000 or

14:19

2001 and it was called paradise for gentlemen

14:21

I remember that they had a neon sign

14:23

out there on Burleson and it was like

14:26

a Shapely palm tree with two

14:28

suggestive coconuts on it That's

14:30

wow you that got him. Yeah,

14:33

do you remember it now? I do That

14:35

business was around for a while and then eventually it closed

14:37

and then one day, you know, they took the neon sign

14:39

away It's like oh, that's that it was always funny to

14:41

like see the neon sign of you like that's a sexy

14:43

palm tree But then like a couple

14:45

of months later We saw it in San Antonio

14:47

like some business either the business had moved or

14:49

someone had reappropriated it and it was like I

14:51

don't remember exactly where it's like off of 35

14:55

and 410 maybe somewhere in

14:57

that neighborhood and like just driving

14:59

back off the freeway like holy shit Anyway,

15:04

I drove through San Antonio this past weekend of the sign

15:06

wasn't there who knows how long it's been gone But I

15:08

drove by there. I was like, oh man That's where the

15:10

paradise for gentleman sign used to be after it left Austin

15:12

And it was just it was just like it was so

15:14

funny to me to think about do you think that do

15:16

you think that? Sign is just making its way down at

15:18

35 and like it's it The

15:24

body of a 35 to 40 year old was

15:26

found face down in the parking lot at paradise

15:29

for gentlemen in the 4,000 block Of

15:31

North North Panem Expressway. This is from 2012

15:35

Well, and an expressway where is that

15:37

San Antonio? So you're probably right that

15:40

it is moving They're

15:42

like that was probably the end of it there

15:44

and I bet it's just moving south paradise is

15:46

just slowly head south It's climate change really You

15:50

gotta move I

15:52

tried it's funny cuz after I thought about it. I

15:55

tried googling to look for the neon signs looking for

15:57

it now I couldn't find it Do

16:00

you think you ever take a photo of it? I know I know

16:02

it was like before I would yeah I

16:05

tried over the weekend to find a Name

16:09

it even I just couldn't find it this dude's

16:11

dogs about to go take a big-ass piss right

16:13

I want that and a little girl in a

16:15

sundress is gonna go fucking play with her doll

16:17

there You

16:24

know what I had to do me that I can jack off to it again I

16:28

had to put it in quotes paradise for gentlemen and

16:31

then search San Antonio, Texas Okay,

16:34

probably had a longer life there are there are

16:36

actually a few pictures of it, okay? This is

16:39

pretty crazy, but I should

16:41

have searched San Antonio. I was only searching Austin I mean

16:43

who would have thought yeah, well it was only an Austin

16:45

wow that it was in it was a fantastic for way

16:47

Long I will say calling that a palm tree is Really

16:50

bold that's just that's wow that's

16:53

really That's

16:55

very shapely I don't know yeah, I just checked off.

16:57

Yes. I mean that image. I'll put it on the

16:59

website Yeah, I'll put something on it But

17:03

it was like such a weird core memory something we

17:05

saw every day and I

17:07

totally forgot about I probably could have gone my whole

17:09

life and die without everything about that fine again But

17:12

like yeah just driving down that section of road in

17:14

San Antonio I was like even driving we drove down

17:16

that that stretch of burleson in Austin a couple weeks

17:18

ago Yes, we did and I didn't think

17:20

about it, but like driving down that stretch of Santa was like oh Paradise

17:23

for gentlemen I would have never thought about it for the

17:25

rest of my life if you hadn't mentioned the palm trees

17:27

like even when you mentioned the Name I was like yeah,

17:29

I do remember that that was a place and I was

17:31

thinking of myself It was that was like

17:34

all nude places or

17:36

is that what the thing was but no is yeah It

17:38

was the palm tree. Yeah, I have no idea what that

17:40

business was it was just we worked really close Yeah, it's

17:42

not that sign all the time you didn't

17:44

know what the business. Well. I have a good

17:46

idea Yeah, but uh I think I knew what

17:48

the business was I don't know if they Jack

17:50

you off or you Jack yourself off like what?

17:52

What does it work you got yeah, that's absolutely

17:54

right and then you get found nude in the

17:56

parking lot face down Betty died

17:59

happy though There's a

18:01

couple of places like that still around town.

18:03

There's that place over there by the office right off

18:05

of 35. Pleasures? Pleasures. That's

18:07

been there forever. I

18:09

used to live right over there. Like, sort of like

18:12

on that other side. And you

18:15

never saw people go in and out, but you

18:17

would see cars parked there. You can't be good.

18:21

It's not a place that you think, you look at it

18:23

and you think, yeah, there's pleasure in there. Definitely. No,

18:26

it should be called Pains. Ooh,

18:30

bread. All

18:33

of that, I think, is getting demolished. Oh, is it? I

18:36

think for the 35 expansion, that, the... No

18:38

one's mounting a campaign to save pleasure. No. I

18:41

just want to say that. It's that spot. There's like a little tea shop.

18:43

Oh, yeah. That's getting demolished. It's a

18:45

weird location. That whole strip is a weird

18:47

location. Speaking of stuff that's getting demolished and

18:49

developed, did you see it looks like that,

18:51

I think the city finally approved the development

18:54

of that area just south of the river,

18:57

where Joe's Crab Shack is,

18:59

where we went and fixed Fiona's friend's computer is. All

19:01

that area is going to be, they just like, you can

19:03

build, I think, 50 stories

19:06

high now, and they're going to like, dense it

19:08

in. It's going to be like where the Austin-American

19:10

Statesman was. That whole strip is going to be...

19:12

Oh, really? Yeah, I think the old Statesman location,

19:14

they envisioned almost like a second downtown, where you

19:16

just go across the river and it's just more

19:19

high-rises and built out. It's basically going

19:21

to be like, what you see north of the river,

19:23

just immediately on the other side of it. I mean,

19:25

fine. Good. I love it. Austin's side arcade must be

19:27

fucking losing it. They must

19:29

be so stoked. Well, the fucking Austin-American Statesman

19:32

building's just been sitting empty forever, and that's

19:34

a huge space. Four years? Four

19:36

or five years, yeah. I mean, it was empty

19:38

enough to film a bunch of that funhouse sketch

19:40

comedy show in there. Went down there and filmed

19:43

it, and it was just like, oh, this place

19:45

is empty, empty, crazy.

19:49

It'll be interesting to see, like, the skyline is

19:51

so different since when

19:53

we moved here. It'll be wild to see it spread

19:55

to the other side of the river. The river's always

19:57

been such a barrier, you know, such

19:59

a... a dividing line between in

20:03

Austin. It'll be interesting to see something finally try to

20:05

bridge that gap and connect it. I

20:08

was talking to Brandon Farmihi yesterday about this. How

20:11

do you feel about what you would call, there's

20:14

proposal for what you would

20:16

call a second downtown or what people are calling it

20:18

up at a domain. Do you care

20:21

at all? Does that

20:23

matter to you? I feel like people say that

20:25

all the time. They say that about the domain.

20:27

They say that about Riverside, where the ballpark was.

20:29

They say that about the Brody Oaks down south.

20:31

Yeah, but have you guys been to the domain

20:33

lately or driven by it? Yeah, it's not. It

20:36

looks like a second downtown. There's

20:38

a stadium and a top golf, and

20:40

there's golf. There's the

20:42

headquarters to fucking Indeed

20:44

is there. It's a pretty

20:46

big space, and there's already six or seven

20:48

buildings that are in the 20 story range.

20:51

But that's how I feel about it is just

20:53

do it. They raise the variance there, too. You're

20:56

going to be able to develop higher there. Why

20:58

not expand in that area

21:01

to eliminate the need for

21:03

everyone to come down here all the time?

21:06

That's like Houston, right? Houston has like three

21:08

downtowns. Like

21:11

three clustered downtowns. But that's like major cities do

21:14

that. Not everything has to be in the 15

21:16

block radius right here. I think that

21:19

we all agree with you. Good. And

21:22

we're going to keep it that way. It's become strangely

21:24

like everything else in

21:26

this country right now. It's become like a politicized

21:28

fight, right? The idea of building

21:30

everything close to people and having walkable

21:33

15 minute cities is

21:36

viewed as the attempt to take cars away from

21:38

people. Take

21:42

them away. I don't believe it. It's the dumbest thing in the world. If

21:44

I didn't have to drive everywhere, oh my god. Yeah,

21:47

if we could walk to everything or take public

21:49

transportation. Take all the cars away so we'd have

21:51

to live like those poor, miserable sons of bitches

21:53

in the rest of the world with their public

21:55

transport. Man, when we had our studio downtown, and

21:57

I lived, you know, Uh,

22:00

over on West, what is that, West 6th? West

22:03

5th? Uh, I would take the

22:05

bus to work downtown every day, to and from, like,

22:07

I loved it. It was fucking great. Can

22:10

you imagine living in a city with

22:12

the dillo again? Like, if I lived downtown and

22:14

the dillo existed again, I wouldn't need anything. Mm-hmm.

22:17

I miss that shit. You guys have talked about it before?

22:19

I would love if that was something. It was the best!

22:21

I would love if we had that stuff. I know that

22:23

they're doing, uh, like, Express

22:26

Bus expansion. Mm-hmm. That's

22:28

gonna go right by our office. Oh,

22:30

really? That's gonna come down to- oh, they're, like, building-

22:32

Oh, I saw that, yeah. Yeah. It's, like, in Mueller.

22:34

It goes out towards, like, the Expo- Are you gonna

22:37

take it to the airport? It goes to, like, the

22:39

Expo Center. Yeah. It comes downtown, it stops in Mueller,

22:41

and it's, like, dude, it drops you

22:43

off right by, uh, the, uh, the

22:45

Moody Center. Yeah, I saw it. I was excited.

22:47

I was like, I could just get on that

22:49

bus from the office and go straight to the

22:51

airport. Can you imagine? Yeah. Like, dude, that would-

22:53

that would be fucking awesome. Yeah. I would love

22:55

to have that. I might use it. Yeah. What

22:58

do you mean? Oh, weird. God.

23:01

Uh, anyway, uh, who

23:03

knew, uh, Polutransit? So polarizing.

23:06

Just fucking do it. So stupid. Um, I got- I

23:08

think- yeah, I texted you guys about this. I got

23:10

so fucking mad the other day. Unreasonably

23:13

mad. Um, you

23:16

know, it's a new year. I got an email from my

23:18

mortgage provider. That was, like, uh, there's a

23:20

shortage in your escrow. Oh, right. Oh, then. Click

23:23

on the link in this email to find out more. I

23:25

was like, okay. Uh, I

23:27

clicked it, and rather than taking- you know,

23:29

rather than taking me to a website where

23:31

I can log in and view my mortgage,

23:33

it took me to a, quote, unquote, personalized

23:35

video that explained the escrow shortage to me.

23:37

So rather than just showing me a static

23:40

website with my mortgage, and

23:42

how much I owe, and what the escrow shortage is, it

23:45

took me to a two-minute video that

23:47

started with, Hello,

23:49

Gustavo. This

23:51

is what an escrow is. It's a two-minute long explanation of

23:54

an escrow, and then in the video it's like, and here

23:56

is your shortage. It's like, thirty bucks a month

23:58

or whatever. $360 over the year. Yeah,

24:00

okay. That's why couldn't why did I have to

24:02

watch this video? Why did you why not send

24:04

me the fucking email or tell me to log

24:06

into my account? Let me look at it. I

24:08

don't need a primer on this. He's like, I

24:10

don't need you to explain escrow to me I

24:12

already have it. I'm not paying the bills for

24:15

fucking five years. I understand escrow Ryan. I understand

24:17

the Valley for Someone who's

24:19

maybe getting a you know, who's their first experience

24:21

in the mortgage Yeah, I have the video as an option for them if

24:23

they want to see it for an explanation But

24:25

yeah, so just give me the information directly

24:28

I don't know how often I see I don't know if you want

24:30

if you are subscribed to the personal finance

24:32

subreddit but I feel like Multiple

24:35

times a week. It's a post from someone who says

24:37

hey my mortgage payment went up this year I don't

24:39

know why but I have to pay $300 a

24:41

month more than I did last year Does anyone know why

24:43

it's like? Yeah, your property taxes went up. Yeah or

24:47

like you didn't fight your property

24:49

or it's a new build and The

24:52

previous year when you bought it it was assessed on the

24:54

undeveloped land and now there's a house on it so it's

24:56

being assessed the tax value with a

24:58

house on it and It's

25:00

just wild to me how

25:02

much that can go up and no one warns you when

25:05

you buy your house. Yeah, like hey Your

25:07

house is gonna get revalued and you might have to

25:09

pay a lot more on your mortgage next year Cuz

25:11

a lot of people might just budget for What

25:14

this is my payment. This is what I'm

25:16

gonna be paying not realizing it could be

25:18

very different next year I think that's irresponsible

25:20

it uh here's always be aware

25:23

that it can go up very rarely can it ever

25:25

go down? Be

25:27

prepared for it to go up. Yeah, the government's not

25:29

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25:32

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29:09

was driving like I said I was driving through San Antonio the other day so I

29:11

had to drive up and down 35 and it's always interesting

29:14

to me once you get a little further out

29:17

of Austin the billboards I love

29:19

billboards I think they're incredibly stupid yes

29:21

that's so and then I love when I see

29:23

a stupid billboard and out

29:26

there between like new

29:28

brothels and San Marcos there's this one billboard that's always

29:30

like super political and I

29:32

was like oh I wonder if they changed and they did it was a

29:35

it's always something about keeping kept knowing the past I've

29:37

seen the stuff about keeping Californians out of Texas and

29:41

things like that but the message you changed

29:43

a little bit this time it was a close the

29:45

dang border keep Texas red okay

29:47

now not matter California anymore man

29:50

at the border of a different border yeah

29:52

but I was driving through Kyle gotta be

29:54

mad at somebody that gotta be mad can't

29:56

just be cool but I was driving through Kyle

29:59

and there was a a billboard

30:01

for a lawyer that we don't see in

30:03

Austin. It was like I guess a Kyle based lawyer and It

30:06

was like I forgot what the name

30:09

of the law firm was but they built him. He built

30:11

himself as warrior

30:13

lawyer and I

30:15

kept I kept saying it out like

30:17

a warrior lawyer warrior lawyer warrior lawyer

30:22

That's a real word. Yeah That

30:26

is a Not

30:28

the best not the best thing. I saw another one. I just

30:30

said like what is a law

30:32

gun law? What does that mean? No, no,

30:34

no, I've seen log. Have you okay? That's

30:36

my wife's favorite one. She thinks that

30:39

so she's like that's the funniest thing that you could

30:41

be as a lawyer is a log gun Like

30:44

everyone has to like make an like a carve

30:46

out their their niche and like what are they

30:48

the law gun? But

30:51

yeah small-town billboards are the best one she especially

30:54

once you go I feel like once you go

30:56

north out of Austin it becomes very religious lots

30:58

of lots of Jesus billboards one

31:00

of the craziest things was when we were

31:03

The year of the election the last election we

31:06

took a road trip up to Detroit from Austin

31:08

and so we drove through Arkansas

31:11

Oklahoma Tennessee

31:15

a bunch of places and we

31:17

just we counted by state like

31:20

we just for fun How many Trump ads

31:22

versus Biden ads from state to state? It

31:25

was interesting to see I don't remember the figures now But

31:27

it was interesting to see

31:30

and it was a staggering amount of

31:32

Trump billboards Yeah, and and homemade

31:34

signs and like yeah, I just everywhere. I didn't

31:36

see many billboards I'm sure it's probably not close

31:38

enough for the election yet. Yeah, but I did

31:40

see a lot of Flags

31:43

and homemade signs a lot of homemade sign feel very passionate

31:45

about it I Bummer

31:49

a lot of passion out there. Yeah, if

31:51

only people well never mind I was gonna say if

31:53

only people would take that passion and do something with

31:56

it other than fucking paint a sign But maybe those

31:58

people shouldn't be Exactly

32:00

maybe we should yeah you keep making your signs. We

32:02

already that that's that's the difference You know we did

32:04

not making your dumb sign. We did that one day

32:07

in January That's

32:11

probably fine work yeah, I Haven't

32:14

been down here to this area in a while He's

32:16

here at this true food kitchen every now and then we get and

32:19

I guess like every now and then I might

32:21

come to Trader Joe's I'm not like crazy about

32:23

Trader Joe's like some other people are really I

32:25

love it There's definitely like some people who all

32:27

about it. It's fine. It's just very cheap Yeah,

32:30

and that when you find the stuff you like

32:32

there. You were I just really there certain things

32:35

I really like there and like

32:37

they have a really good like Frozen

32:40

like chicken masala thing

32:43

that I love to eat you popping the microwave No,

32:46

because my microwave is broken You

32:49

didn't go buy one for like 30 bucks. Are you doing it? I

32:51

don't really use a microwave that often I was trying to have a

32:54

really cool. Yeah, I Put

32:57

it in for 128 minutes, and it got

32:59

lukewarm. Yeah, let's hope it out

33:01

damn. Yeah, you foiled me this time Ramsey But

33:06

yeah, I remember it was a big deal this was was

33:08

it this was the first trader Joe's in Austin no

33:11

Who's the first one? Oh? It was over in rolling

33:13

water like off of B. Cave out towards the Hudson

33:16

on the bend or whatever yeah that was it was

33:18

a restaurant hasn't been there in 40 years People

33:21

are freaking the fuck out when that goes

33:23

open Like

33:25

lines it was a it was nuts. Yeah, that was the

33:27

first one There's one up at the Arboretum, and then there's

33:29

this one. I think there's only three in town. Yeah Yeah,

33:32

there are there's the Arboretum on this one and that one out there.

33:34

I think that's it. Yeah, I think you're right Yeah, I always go

33:36

to the Arboretum one I don't just cuz this

33:39

one I might actually be closer to me where I

33:41

live But it's just a fucking pain

33:43

to drive a car downtown now

33:45

Yeah, but and then got a park over here

33:47

rush here is easier the parking lot at the

33:49

Arboretum is terrible I've never really I that's

33:52

not true. Yeah, you might walk a bit, but

33:54

yeah It's a and people get really aggressive people

33:56

some guy got really mad at me out of

33:58

life the other day I

34:01

pulled up like there were a few cars in

34:03

front of me. I was in the left turn lane Uh-huh, and

34:06

they all started going then I think

34:08

two cars in front of me as he was going

34:10

through the intersection the light turned yellow So

34:12

he went through the car in front of me continued going through

34:14

cuz it was yellow then I didn't go through cuz I knew

34:17

was about to turn around and The

34:19

guy behind me I could see him over

34:21

here I started honking and throwing his hands up all angry

34:24

and like hitting his steering wheel. I was

34:26

like You know,

34:28

I felt uncomfortable but going through that like that guy

34:30

he would have been extra fussed He would have been

34:32

red the entire time he went through and I was

34:34

like, you know what? That guy's so

34:36

like we ended up waiting I timed it it

34:38

was like 70 seconds until the green arrow came

34:40

back on and we could go like why do

34:42

that mad over? I'm gonna I'm gonna glasses half

34:44

full of the situation. I'm gonna say that that

34:46

guy he wasn't being a dick because he was

34:48

mad at you He was frustrated cuz he had

34:51

Explosive diarrhea maybe and he's just trying to get

34:53

home to his toilet and he's like I've

34:56

been in that situation. I'm in that situation a lot. Yeah,

34:59

70 seconds is a long time. This dog is gonna do

35:01

it, too That's

35:05

right where a kid's gonna play with his little transformer toy

35:07

roll around in it now

35:10

people get Really angry in their

35:12

cars. I uh My

35:14

go-to move if someone makes me mad,

35:16

you know cuts me off all man I got cut off the other

35:18

day rather than like flip someone off or get really angry Mm-hmm, that's

35:20

kind of shake my head and give him a thumbs down. So

35:23

disappointed. I'm so disappointed I'm not mad at this. Yeah, it

35:25

could be could have done so much better Down

35:28

it's just so it's just so degrading I

35:30

thought across like a crosswalk guard a

35:33

crossing guard do that once that was like, oh,

35:35

that's the move such a fun Like it's like

35:37

someone blew through the the lane when she was

35:39

trying to like stop it for kids to cross

35:41

She just like thumbs down them really aggressively. I

35:43

was like, oh, that's it. Yeah, that's some hit

35:45

hard Yeah, I was like that that's the way

35:47

to do it. Oh bet now the dog's taking the dump. Uh,

35:50

yeah, fuck Yeah, that's where I'm a roller end in that

35:52

so you lived around here. You come over to merit What

35:54

are the other spots that you would hit in this area

35:56

that you felt like were your spots? uh

36:01

Well, there weren't

36:03

a ton because I

36:05

was getting sober, and

36:07

most of the shit around here is bars.

36:10

That's definitely true. And most of the shit around

36:12

here that isn't a bar has a bar-like atmosphere,

36:14

and so I felt pretty... It was

36:17

probably not the best time to live downtown above a bunch of bars.

36:19

Oh, spot-to. Just the way it worked out. Great spot.

36:22

But so, I loved here. I used to go to

36:24

Irene's a lot, which is a little restaurant bar

36:26

over there. Oh, look up there. I like

36:28

Irene's. I used to go to Frank and Angie's

36:30

all the time. Honestly, it's gone now. Sammy's is

36:33

there. It's awesome. For Frank

36:35

and Angie and the fucking hamburger hutch used

36:37

to be. Yeah,

36:41

there's a place over there now called Favorite

36:43

Pizza that's fucking awesome, and I

36:45

recommend anybody in Austin who wants, or anybody

36:48

visiting who just wants a quick slice of

36:50

New York-style pizza and to have a little bit of a New

36:52

York vibe when they do it. It's a great spot. Honestly,

36:56

I always considered Whole Foods and

36:59

Trader Joe's to be my places, because I had Whole

37:01

Foods on one side of me and Trader Joe's on

37:03

the other, and so it was awesome. That's

37:05

where I spent a lot of my time. That

37:08

Whole Foods has seven restaurants in it. That's great. Yeah,

37:11

there's so many different places to eat there. That

37:13

Favorite Pizza place, that used to be a liquor store.

37:15

What's it called? Centennial Liquor? It's the first liquor store

37:17

I ever went into. It's the first liquor store I

37:19

bought liquor from when I turned 21. Why, really? Yeah.

37:23

It's the first liquor store I ever set foot in. We both

37:25

and I bought a bottle of rum there one time when our

37:27

office was downtown. We walked over here. I think we had had

37:29

lunch at Whole Foods. On the way back, we stopped by that

37:31

liquor store. We bought a bottle of rum. We were walking back

37:33

to the office, and we got to

37:35

the office. That was the day Brandon was

37:37

interviewing to work for us. Oh, wow. He was

37:39

on his way out. I think he was talking

37:41

to Bernie, and he walked up with that bottle

37:43

of rum, and he just looked at it and

37:45

said, we're going to get drunk. He

37:48

walked upstairs to the office. That

37:51

was the first time we ever met Brandon Farmage. That was our

37:53

first interaction with him. I did not remember

37:55

that, but that's funny. That's also not the first liquor store

37:57

I ever walked into. I don't

37:59

know why. I'm just sitting here thinking about that's

38:01

not true. Mmm. I can't be true Well, then why

38:03

did you I don't know in

38:05

my head. I thought it was true for a second

38:07

It's definitely an early place But I turned but I'm

38:09

just trying to go back and try to Reconnect

38:12

the dots and you realize your memories are a little

38:14

foggy. You were 21 before you got here Yeah, but

38:16

I was 21 in Texas. Oh true Yeah, I was

38:18

in clean and I would come down here a lot

38:21

But I think I'm confusing it with another liquor

38:23

store in Austin But even then

38:25

I think I probably went to one on base.

38:27

Yeah, so you probably yeah that over there Total

38:29

bullshit liquor stores on base. Yeah, everything

38:32

on base wild. Yeah, liquor tax

38:34

I like it on base at the army. Why not? Your

38:37

girl at the arm. You're not on

38:40

you're on on deployment here fucking you're off a lot

38:42

of time You're on the government prop. You're on what

38:45

they want to make money, too. They got a whole store

38:47

there Right, I guess just liquor is

38:49

a weird thing that I would I wouldn't think that the

38:51

government would be like, yeah sell it on our Probably yeah,

38:53

dude. They want to make money money It's

38:56

like a company store Military, it's

38:58

just like so the world used to work before we had

39:00

unions. It's like yeah fucking buy it

39:02

here put it on credit We don't care then

39:04

you'll owe us forever. You'll never go to the

39:06

fuck. Yeah, the dollar is company money. Yeah

39:11

Makes you think I don't know what it makes you think

39:13

about but it makes you think If

39:16

you're home right now and you're thinking let us know. Yeah, you're

39:18

welcome Let us know

39:20

what it was you thought about. Um, let's

39:22

talk about merit a little bit So

39:25

the reason that I wanted to come to merit outside

39:27

of it being in the spot and everything I gave

39:29

you guys two locations to pick from and

39:31

we picked this one Merit just got

39:33

the contract with Austin FC at Q2

39:35

Stadium to provide the cold brew coffee,

39:37

which they never done before They

39:39

never had coffee at the stadium, which is fucking insane. Yeah,

39:41

it's not yeah No, especially in the middle

39:43

of summer where it's so fucking hot like

39:46

yeah, let me just chug it They

39:48

have the contract now to have that there.

39:50

So they have like a little corner Area

39:53

where in one of

39:55

like the snack area like snack bar things or

39:57

whatever not an Austin business. Okay, that's

39:59

what I wanted to say there are

40:01

other places that were up for that contract

40:03

that didn't get it That

40:06

are Austin based and they went with the San

40:08

Antonio one It's weird like for people who aren't

40:10

from here even the airport here in Austin is

40:13

all like all the food is local places Yeah,

40:15

we've kind of it's kind of

40:17

a thing in Austin. They pride themselves on Supporting

40:20

local business. It's a thing in Q2

40:23

Stadium. Yeah, I had they've

40:25

slow the checks. They have easy tiger

40:27

They have one taco They

40:30

have pluckers they have all these Austin

40:32

places is why go Austin or Dallas?

40:34

I don't know I thought I was assumed it

40:36

was Austin, but I could be wrong I

40:41

Couldn't believe that merit got that contract

40:43

not being a Austin business. That's so

40:45

crazy everything all their branding is San

40:48

Antonio I

40:50

think this place from San Antonio look at the cup like oh, yeah Believe

40:53

that it got that a non Austin based

40:55

place got that especially with the amount of

40:57

coffee shops and roasteries that we have here

41:00

Mm-hmm to go with merit hundred-percent

41:02

local. That's what I thought I

41:04

really like one talk is the only place

41:07

that my wife will get tacos really in

41:09

Austin because it'll be the little street Oh,

41:11

she just wants She

41:13

wants carne asada onion cilantro put it

41:15

on the taco. Let me eat all classic two bites

41:17

each. Oh Speaking of tacos

41:19

I saw that a very cruise has birria tacos

41:21

now I must be the brick and mortar not

41:24

a trailer, but I'm gonna go check that

41:26

out. Okay, so Merit

41:29

San Antonio has like three or four

41:32

locations in Austin. Yeah, there's one down

41:34

south from where we are There's one

41:36

here on fourth and then I think

41:38

there's one on like North Lamar. Yeah

41:40

triangle Yeah, and so there's like there's

41:42

a few but that's they're just on

41:44

like one drag. Let's take

41:47

it over Right like free

41:49

birds isn't technically an Austin business, but we've

41:51

claimed it for many many years Let's

41:55

just claim merit. It's ours. Just cuz it started in

41:57

San Antonio doesn't mean it's not trying to do stop

41:59

us to do. Kick

42:01

our ass. Spurs having city. Oh yeah did

42:04

you get Spurs tickets? I did. I bought

42:07

tickets to Spurs Nuggets on March

42:09

15th I think. Here in Austin?

42:11

Yeah. Look for Jeff on TV.

42:13

I mean if they show him instead of Drake

42:15

and John Mulaney and every other celebrity in the

42:17

city. It's an equal opportunity. That's the reason I

42:19

picked that game is because we went, Eric and

42:21

I went last year and we saw like A-Rod

42:23

and I don't even remember who else saw a

42:25

bunch of famous people. The San Antonio creature. It's

42:27

not a San Antonio creature. They've

42:30

been doing this thing where they're, last year they

42:32

had two San Antonio Spurs games in Austin. This

42:34

year I think they have four or eight. Oh.

42:37

And they're really trying to expand it. They're making it

42:39

like a week long thing. They're doing a couple of

42:41

examples. It's Spurs week in Austin that week. The reason

42:43

I wanted to go this year, actually I wanted to

42:45

go because with the Niyama I want to see them

42:47

but the tickets were ridiculous. Coyote. But

42:49

the reason, the main reason I wanted

42:51

to go is I realized this game is

42:53

going to be in Austin on the

42:56

main Friday of South by South West.

42:58

Oh god. And it's windy and

43:00

Joker, NBA champion Joker playing

43:02

against each other so I figured the celebrity

43:04

sighting and the nonsense is getting through the

43:06

roof for sure. So there's no way I'm

43:08

missing that game. So the NBA is feeling

43:10

out Austin for a team then is what

43:12

I'm gathering here. No fucking chance. Fucking hope

43:15

so. There's no way the Spurs or anyone

43:17

else is going to let Austin have this.

43:19

They are, it is the Spurs going, I

43:21

think when you make money off this fucking

43:24

dope ass city. Yeah, hell yeah. The only,

43:26

I got the Mavericks and the Spurs here

43:28

and then of course the Rockets. The Rockets.

43:30

But like the Spurs on

43:32

Austin team and the Mavericks, the 35 series.

43:34

Yeah. All up and down the

43:36

I-35 quarter. So they're, what

43:39

people are saying behind

43:41

the scenes is that they're, if

43:45

Austin is to ever get an NBA team, it

43:47

would have to be the Spurs moving from San

43:49

Antonio to Austin. And there has been some discussion

43:51

about that over the last few years. We took

43:54

merit. We're going to take the fucking Spurs. I'll

43:56

trade them. Yeah, no, it's like, that was, yeah, we took your

43:58

coffee and now we're taking your team. Hell yeah. Here's the

44:00

creature dressed like maybe Yoda. It's a coyote. It's not

44:02

a creature. Why is it a creature? It's a coyote.

44:04

If you move... If you

44:06

move the Spurs to Austin, I'll be a fucking Spurs fan.

44:09

Oh. Yeah. Why not? Fuck it. Absolutely. I

44:11

made it to my entire life. And if you keep

44:13

the creature, I'm way in. Now we're gonna

44:15

make it a bat. Ooh, I like that.

44:18

Yeah. Put just put wings off. Oh,

44:20

have you ever seen him be Batman? No. Oh,

44:22

okay. So... The bat coyote? So the thing that

44:24

happens in a lot of Spurs games is, uh,

44:26

bats fly in. This is real. Uh...

44:29

Bats fly in, and they have... It's

44:32

rabies night at the Spurs. They have him dressed like Batman,

44:35

and he will go out with a net and catch the

44:37

bat. Oh my god. What is that? That AT&T center? What

44:39

is it called? Yeah. It is such a dump. Is it?

44:41

Yeah, you've never been? I actually saw a Spurs game there

44:43

once, but it was a long time. It was like 20

44:45

years ago or something. I've been to about half of the

44:47

NBA stadiums now, and it is definitely in the bottom. I

44:49

saw the Spurs... Here, from what I've seen. When I was

44:51

a kid, I was like... Frostbank, right? Frostbank Center? Is that

44:53

what it's called? I thought it was AT&T. Oh, you said

44:55

AT&T. I saw the

44:57

Spurs play the Suns at the Alamo Dome

45:00

once. That was fucking garbage. What

45:02

year was that? That would have been like... Yeah.

45:07

You watched Charles Barkley's suit up? I did. I

45:09

did. I did. I did. I did. I did.

45:11

I did. I did. I did. I did. I

45:14

did. I did. I did. I did. I did.

45:16

I did. I did. I did. I did. I

45:18

did. I did. I did.

45:21

I did. I did. I did.

45:24

I did. I did. I

45:27

did. I did, too, I think are... I might be biased because

45:29

I've been a merit fan for awhile. I

45:36

have even transferred my love of merit to

45:38

the triangle location. That's

45:41

actually one of my 4 or 5 in my rotation. This

45:53

is a great Americano. It's

45:56

not the best in the world that I've had. I

45:58

think we've had better here, but it's really solid. I would

46:00

give this like 8.2

46:03

this place to me is the Rudy's barbecue coffee.

46:05

Yeah, I mean that's a fair assessment Like you

46:07

can go to Franklin you could go to Des

46:09

Nudo But if you don't want

46:11

to wait in line Rudy's

46:14

barbecue and merit always gonna have an

46:16

A plus coffee is Rudy's barbecue Yes,

46:20

I think we claim it, but it's actually from the hill country.

46:22

I think you're right. You're right. Yeah But

46:24

we've been claiming it for a very long time With

46:27

merit nobody knows just like with the other day. Yeah,

46:29

you say it long enough you claim it long enough

46:32

it becomes yours I

46:53

mean you could I'm just saying But

46:56

it's a it's a fine cup of coffee I would never

46:58

come down here specifically for it, but if I was in

47:00

the area I would walk your a trader Joe's if yeah

47:02

if you do if you do find yourself over here get

47:05

a cup of coffee Spend about 10 minutes watching the kids

47:07

play in piss and then walk down

47:09

this way over to the library We have a

47:11

fancy new life was not new anymore, but we

47:13

have a fancy new library But I'm not telling

47:15

you to go to library. Oh the library is

47:17

awesome, but there's a little suspension bridge Oh, I

47:19

love that. Yeah, and there are fucking photo shoots

47:22

going on on that bridge Three

47:24

hundred sixty five days a year and it's fun

47:26

just to go watch assholes try to pretend to

47:28

be professional photographers Yeah, you have a 15 minutes.

47:30

Yep. We talked about that library once you talk

47:32

about doing an episode from there But she logistically

47:34

I think it's yeah, I think I tried to

47:36

go there now one of those rooms maybe Getting

47:41

the coffee. Yeah, I think I went there with

47:43

a friend one time and it was closed So

47:45

we just ended up around this area. Yeah, it's

47:47

a cool area. It's great library, but this is

47:49

a you know, Merrick coffee It's a good one.

47:51

Yeah, I like this. I love this area I

47:53

like being in a downtown if I lived

47:55

in a walkable spot This would be an easy spot

47:57

to go to this restaurants pretty good in bro kitchen

48:00

I haven't eaten there in a while, but it was good when I

48:02

went there. It's in the old power

48:04

plant. Yeah So this used to be a

48:06

power point is that what this is? Yeah Yeah, this whole

48:08

thing used to be the Austin power plant weird see home

48:10

on the other side of this is the big old fronted

48:13

power plant with like a big grass yard

48:15

in front of The power plant

48:18

to vote what's with that? You

48:20

go to the power plant of not not not always the

48:22

one in Mueller like the awesome Whatever the

48:24

city facility. Yeah, just weird to go in

48:26

there. Also. It's way too nice We had

48:28

talked at one point a long time ago

48:30

about potentially carving some space out here in

48:33

see home for roosterteeth. Yeah But

48:35

it was like it was gonna be super expensive. It

48:38

was like super premium price So we're like we don't

48:40

we don't have that kind of money But

48:44

that's merit and we'll check out other coffee spots But

48:46

now it's time to get into an anarchy question you

48:48

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49:00

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49:02

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49:04

Ian? Yeah, Lou you yeah

49:06

You love the show

49:08

and hand anarchy question What are Gus and

49:10

Jeff's thoughts on the feud slash superiority battle

49:13

between the major cities in? Texas

49:16

do they have any thoughts towards cities like Dallas

49:18

or Houston as someone who was born and raised

49:20

in San Antonio all my life I always saw

49:22

Austin as a snooty rich city And

49:25

while my attitude towards it is definitely mellowed out over

49:27

the years I still have the lingering feeling towards it.

49:29

That's mainly the pride that I have my own home

49:31

town. I Think lots of

49:33

Texas use Austin that way. Yeah, that's fine.

49:36

I don't give a shit about the rest of Texas I

49:39

love San Antonio. I think San Antonio

49:42

is awesome. I'm not a Santa. I'm over

49:44

Houston fan really I'm like, I'm a San Antonio fan. I

49:46

have become a San Antonio fan. I think it's a really

49:48

cool place If I

49:50

were to live anywhere outside Austin in Texas, I probably

49:52

would live in San Antonio I'm

49:54

ambivalent towards Houston don't really have an opinion about

49:56

it one way or the other I used to

49:59

hate Dallas called LA light

50:01

You want to talk about snooty like

50:03

Dallas is like fucking rich dickhead, Texas

50:05

right there But I will say the

50:07

last couple years I've really softened on it and I've had

50:09

a really nice time there and I've learned to enjoy it

50:12

I'm in Dallas in a while. I'm really

50:14

I feel ambivalent. I to borrow

50:16

your word about Dallas, but I love Houston

50:21

I think I'm thinking sick of San Antonio because growing

50:23

up in We were well you were a fighter count?

50:25

Yeah, it's like that was the only place we would

50:27

go tech that was a big see that was our

50:29

escape and I just like I don't know.

50:31

I don't I associate it too much with growing up down there.

50:33

I'll say this Alleluia I Think

50:37

the rest of Texas hates Austin

50:39

or when they think about Austin It's negatively and I

50:41

think the people that live in Austin don't think about

50:44

the rest of Texas. I think that's fair Yeah, I

50:46

think that's I think that's pretty on the money. Yeah

50:50

I Growing up in San Diego, like

50:52

I always be Los Angeles is like it's like a place I

50:54

don't like It

50:56

was always like Little Brothers syndrome for yeah, Los

50:58

Angeles And I think Los Angeles doesn't think of

51:00

San Diego at all And yeah, that's sort of

51:02

what this is similar. I think what's funny to

51:04

me is San Antonio is a bigger city than

51:06

Austin Yeah has been forever and

51:09

but the airport's head to your social

51:11

He like all of the

51:13

routes come out of Austin like everyone every airline

51:15

flights in and out of Austin But really not

51:17

so much you remember back in the day though

51:20

before Mueller when you would have to sometimes you

51:22

would drive to San Antonio to fly out because

51:24

they had better flights. No we had before Bergstrom

51:26

before Yeah, yeah, but

51:28

yeah now with Bergstrom. It's totally flipped. Yeah

51:32

So note like Houston just get off Scott

51:34

Scott free, huh? I like Houston. I like Houston a lot

51:37

I mean they they're big-ass cities the thing that

51:39

they have that I'll give they

51:42

have Museums museums are

51:44

great. They have big shitty amenities big

51:46

shitty big city amenities Yeah,

51:49

they have big city amenities and Austin does

51:51

not they have Aquariums

51:54

and shit like that that we just don't have the

51:56

query we have an aquarium. Yeah. Yeah, I'm scam aquariums

51:58

We do have a scam Aquarium that's very true

52:02

interesting what about like that's all this part what

52:05

about like El Paso there's nothing else in Texas

52:07

I'll say this about El Paso I

52:11

have a lot of friends through my wife who

52:13

are from El Paso people

52:15

who are from El Paso think

52:18

it is the greatest place on earth however

52:21

they don't live there anymore they all

52:23

live in Austin but everybody that's from

52:25

El Paso really genuinely loves El Paso

52:27

it makes me almost want to go

52:29

check it out I

52:31

spent a summer there when I was 14 and someone offered to take

52:33

me to Mexico for a donkey show how

52:36

was it I did not go be the donkey

52:39

that's all I think about with

52:41

a past like man that's a that's a rough first

52:43

experience to have with a city

52:45

it's cool to drive down the interstate because you can

52:47

literally you know like one side of the interstate to

52:49

Mexico and the other side of America and it's neat

52:51

to see you know don't try to murder me there

52:53

too in El Paso yeah well

52:56

let's expand on that story yeah it seemed

52:58

like you let whatever that didn't have anything

53:01

but then you're getting murdered story really something

53:03

I was a at

53:05

UTEP and like right by the football field

53:07

there's a kind of

53:10

a big hill slash small mountain okay you probably see

53:12

like you ever watch like UTEP football it's all you

53:14

see it like right next to the stadium and I

53:16

was up there with some friends of mine is

53:18

this when you were 14 yeah okay and it was the summer

53:21

not there's nothing really to do and we were just hanging out there on

53:23

this like the side of this mountain and then the

53:26

like I said it was summer so class wasn't in

53:28

session the whole campus was empty there's nobody in the

53:30

stadium and one of the guys I was out there with was

53:32

like hey you think if I throw this rock I

53:34

can make it into the stadium from here I was

53:36

like nah there's no way you can throw a rock far to

53:39

get into the stadium from here he's like all

53:41

right I'm he tried to keep

53:43

it through the rock to see if you can make it

53:45

in the stadium and like he'd like you know winds up

53:47

let's go and right as he's letting go of the rock

53:49

a dude walks out onto the bleachers and

53:52

I'm like oh no he throws

53:54

the rock in his beautiful arc and he makes it in

53:56

the stadium and the

53:58

rock comes down hits the bleachers pretty close to this

54:00

guy and the

54:02

guy looks back at us and starts

54:04

screaming something but it's hard to hear and

54:07

the dude who threw the rock like starts

54:09

screaming back and i'm like this this isn't

54:11

good yeah right they start like arguing and

54:13

everything no no no okay um

54:15

and then the dude in the stadium like turns

54:17

his back and like just keeps walking down the

54:19

bleachers and then you know he walks out

54:21

of the stadium there's one car in the parking lot and you can

54:24

see him he puts his you've got like a backpack puts his

54:26

backpack and it's a hatchback i think or he opens

54:28

up the trunk or the hatchback puts his

54:30

you know bag in uh pulls out a

54:32

giant machete uh it starts running at the

54:34

hill flash mountain and

54:37

i'm like so

54:41

um we all start

54:43

running down the mountain and like she's

54:45

like chasing us down through

54:48

the campus which is empty like i said there's nobody there so

54:50

nobody can ask for help yeah

54:53

so uh i think i

54:55

get away and i'm like walking down this empty street uh like

54:58

trying to walking back trying to get leave

55:00

campus and uh around the corner comes that

55:02

car screeching and then

55:04

like it flies down the road past me and like slams on

55:06

the brakes and then i can hear it put in the park

55:09

and the dude jumps out with that machete still in his hands

55:11

starts running after me i'm like fuck so

55:13

i go to like the nearest building i can start pulling in all

55:15

the doors and i find one that's open and you said it's like

55:18

a horror movie like trying to go up and down the stairs in

55:20

the building trying to like lose him and eventually i go out like

55:22

the other side and i lose him somehow in the staircase you got

55:24

the machete the whole time he's got the machete the whole time get

55:28

back to uh i would have

55:30

gotten my car driven off i

55:32

was like man what a fucking nightmare so anyway

55:34

i don't like opasso uh yeah

55:36

i guess so you think that guy's still looking for you

55:40

just like i can't get back to opasso it's not safe

55:42

he's on a slow march i didn't want to say it

55:44

was a mistake i didn't throw it it was my friends

55:46

who threw it and who talked all the shit i was

55:48

just there i didn't do anything god

55:51

damn so anyway funny that's opasso well don't

55:53

throw rocks in opasso there you go uh

55:57

well i think that'll do it for anba that i don't know that we can

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end on something else other than Yeah, that's pretty good. Again,

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if you want to send us questions, you can.

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At Animal Podcast, Twitter and Instagram, r slash Animal

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Podcast, it's our Reddit that we do not run.

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Check it out. You can also go to anarchymeanything.com.

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Check out... I'll put

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some pictures. Pictures or something? I don't know. I'll

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put the sexy pump tree there. Go listen to

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next week's episode there. Just go, go to the

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website. We got a hit counter, right? Yes, I

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do want to say I love that people are

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still trying to fight over what

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President's Day is. Oh, it's so good. And the other

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day someone was like, it's in February. Like, just go

56:29

be different. Like, oh, awesome. Please keep it up. Keep

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the math going. I really like people who are posting

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and going, hey, I tried to sign the guest book,

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and it says that I'm a bot, and it won't

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let me do it. And then they'll post the caption,

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and they'll be like, I entered it. It's this. And

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then everyone going, it's not what it is. It's not

56:44

what it is. You got it wrong. And it's like,

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it might be a robot. Yeah, this

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might be a difficulty to sound this way. It's

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very clearly not the thing you're typing. So

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if you're getting an IP band

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on the guest book, just know that you

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are a robot. And I

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mean, that's it. You're a robot. Beep, beep, beep, 1001. Stonk.

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That's the swear word. All

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right, well, that'll do it for Anma. Any parting

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words for the folks at home? Stay

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away from the little plaza. Don't roll around in grass. Stay

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grass. Over. Bye.