Comeback Burger Episode

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We're

here at Dirty Martins.

It's a burger episode.

Dirty Martin's Comeback Burger.

Yeah.

Is that the full name?

Yep.

A-U-M-B-A, yeah, comeback place.

That's what it is.

All the burgers are like the comeback burger and they got comeback sauce and all that shit.

I always get a BLT here, though.

You were saying BLT is a new hot dog for you.

For a while, I've been like, if I see a BLT on the menu, I just like, I fucking zero in on it.

It's all I can see.

Wow.

I really like a BLT, man.

The simplicity of a BLT

is hard to beat.

You were saying that you mix it up at home.

I add onion to it.

I make a blot at home.

I've been making blots lately.

Why'd you go with blot instead of bolt?

I think blots are more fun to say.

Do you add avocado?

Bolt sounds more dynamic.

No, I don't like avocado.

Neither does Gus.

We'd appreciate it if you didn't mention it.

Then it'd be a bloat.

Yeah.

You guys don't like avocado?

No, we don't like to talk about it.

You're getting the breaking news here.

No, we both say, avocado is a regrettable

vegetable for me.

Yeah.

I want to like it.

I'm going to, yeah, I'll eat it.

I'm going to eat around it if it's in my food.

And I might take a bite every now and then, just remind myself and give it a try.

But man, it's always disappointing.

I'm never going to murder a horse.

And everybody's like, what?

You don't like guacamole?

That's crazy.

I agree.

I want to like it.

I like it.

Everybody loves it.

It's not fun missing out on a thing that everybody on Else likes.

I get that.

Everybody else on Earth likes but you.

Just hang my head and kick at a rock.

Pull up my own underwear, fix my cell phone.

So we're walking about a part of Austin that you and I have no connection to.

Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second.

Is that right?

Yeah, but I got scared when we pulled into Dirty Martin's here a little while ago because there was a sign on the

entrance there to the parking lot that said

restaurant closed today for parking lot repairs.

Yeah.

They were very open though.

They were very open.

There's a lot of people eating there.

We pulled into that parking lot that said that, and then we just saw 30 people eating hamburgers at the front and went, okay, well, I guess maybe not.

Yeah, it's totally fine.

So, it's a hamburger place right by campus.

Yeah, what is that?

About a bottle of 30th or 29th or something.

Um,

and I think we've mentioned this place before just because

it's potentially one of the businesses that may get demolished to make way for

light rail, light rail, or mass transit of some kind.

But it's been around since, like, I mean, it says it on the signs,

1910, 26, yeah,

yeah.

So, it's like a 99-year-old place.

It is definitely an Austin institution, and it's definitely one of those places that if you went to UT, you feel a certain way about, you know?

Yeah.

I didn't go to UT, but I still enjoy it.

It's still great.

I feel like it's been a long time since I'd eaten there.

Probably before this meal today, it might have been 15, 20 years since I've eaten there.

I don't know.

It's been a long time.

Emily and I always have a place that sticks with us, you know?

And it was Dirty Martins for a while where we would go every Sunday in the afternoon when we were just out shopping or doing business.

We'd always stop in.

I want to say we did that for about three months.

And then we stopped in on a Friday night at like maybe 8 p.m.

and thought it'd be dead ass empty because it's just college students around here and we figured they'd be out doing college stuff.

College stuff is apparently hanging out in like rave gear at Dirty Martins in the

most packed I've ever seen it.

Everybody looked like

literally like

24-hour party people just got out and everybody came over here and the guy when he gave us our video goes i'm sorry about all the npcs tonight and i was like what the fuck wow that's a weird way to refer

but yeah i kind of see what you mean and uh and then we just didn't go back going to dirty martins on a friday night i think is nuts oh yeah it was our it was our mistake yeah it was absolutely our mistake i think coming to anything around campus on like a friday night saturday night is like You're asking for it.

That's why I typically, that's why I haven't been here in so long.

It's so close to campus.

It's typically a pain in the ass to get you or get around.

There was a period of time where I probably came here every other day for two or three years.

But it does have a parking lot, and it is usually dead in the daytime on the weekends.

It does have a parking lot, which we weren't able to park in today because it wasn't just dead.

We had to find street parking down the block.

I'm never going to find where we left the car.

Yeah, well,

we'll just walk back towards Hamburger.

It wasn't dead there, but it was nice and quiet.

Service was quick.

Everything was easy.

And we just sat in that middle back room that was nothing but hardwood and old photos and autographs.

That was awesome.

There were like two old dudes sitting at the bar watching March Madness.

That rocked.

That was like.

It is

way more often.

It's when you, that room we were in, that sticky room we were in with all the pictures of Roe Campbell.

If you go in there on like a Saturday at 2 p.m., it's just old dudes with newspapers figuring out fantasy football shit and all the basketball shit.

We mentioned this while we were eating a little while ago, but before today, I'd never sat in that room.

Yeah, I hadn't either.

As many times as I've been there, as often as I've gone, I've never sat in that room.

So we're walking, I was like, oh, we should sit here.

I was too scared to sit in that room.

Well, it's because we're old now.

Yeah, we're old.

Oh, no.

We graduated to be able to sit there.

We don't have to sit at the picnic tables anymore.

Right.

Congratulations.

We made it.

So we walked out of the back of, not the Guadalupe side, but I guess the other side.

I don't know what the facing street is.

Maybe San Antonio or something.

Maybe.

And

we just took a left and started walking south, I guess, towards the city.

This will be an interesting one for us because Gus and I have

we've done now 14 or 15 episodes where we go to a part of Austin that we know very well that Reminiscence.

You and I didn't go to UT.

Right.

We both actively dislike UT.

I wouldn't go that far.

I would.

I wouldn't

say both.

But

it's a weird black hole.

It's trying to be diplomatic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It tells a different story.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course.

It's a weird like.

That's not what you were saying on the drive here.

it's like a weird, uh, black hole in my sense of the city of Austin.

Yes, like it's it's an area that I typically wouldn't go through because there's really nothing here unless you're a student, and the parking and traffic can be really bad.

I think it might be spring break right now, that's why it's maybe a little it.

That's that is what it is, yes.

I've I used to come here to go with Bernie when we do a talk at UT, and now I come here to hang out with Jordan Levin when he does a talk at UT.

And that's pretty much it.

Yeah, aside from going to Noises, Noises, Okay.

Makes sense.

Lio Grande is a couple blocks that way, and that's the path.

That's the bike lane I used to take to cut the cross.

You're going to cross the go that way?

Let's go.

Noises means nuts.

When you talk about this being a black hole or whatever, I don't think I've ever been down this street.

If Krista Maris and Blaine were here, they'd be like, oh my God, and oh my God.

And dude, do you remember?

And oh, you got to try and drink some ice cream.

They talk about stuff that happened forever.

Look at these buildings.

This is all new.

Yeah, this is all brand new.

It is crazy.

Despite the fact that it's a black box i do travel through it to get from point a to point b

fairly often and so i've seen the ridiculous growth it is maybe

the most concentrated growth in austin since i've lived here it's a lot and there's more we walked by a bunch of construction i just read yesterday that they're gonna allow 600 foot towers south of the river now they're sitting oh really yeah is it like a like over at the uh

statesman center that's exactly what i was gonna ask

like whenever they do the construction like next year or something wow they're also building i saw a, and I think this has already been approved.

I don't think the 600-foot thing is totally done yet, but I guess they approved, they're building like another domain style development right there at Bolm and 183.

Oh, I saw that.

On the west side of 183.

And that, you know, like where

our distributor used to be back in that area.

They're not anymore.

But like back in the old days of Rooste, we used to spend a lot of time over there.

Kind of near Texas Surplus?

Exactly.

Exactly where Texas Surplus is.

I love Texas Surplus.

Texas Surplus is the best.

You want to sift through a bucket of knives for three bucks?

Hell yeah.

Yeah, hell yeah.

I need a neck pillow that's definitely been used a lot.

If you're not familiar with what Texas Surplus is, it's a place where all the shit that gets confiscated at the airports in the state of Texas, but also when they clean out a state office

building and they have a bunch of desks and file cabinets they don't know what to do with, they just throw it in surplus and you can go in and it's like a warehouse.

You can just go get shit from very cheap.

If you want to buy a giant wood desk from the late 60s, early 70s that weighs 8,000 pounds.

Yeah, and a handful of knives.

Yeah, if you can buy that there.

Yeah, if you need to decorate a set on the cheap,

Texas Surplus is great.

That's what we did for 100% easy.

Also, if you've got a knife confiscated at the Austin airport, it's over there.

Go 20 months and then go get it back.

They also sell surplus vehicles.

I don't know if you ever noticed that.

No.

In the parking lot, there's always like a couple of what look like decommissioned police cruisers.

Yes.

If you walk up to them, they've got prices written on them.

Yeah, yeah.

There's also a Camp Camp sticker on one of the registers.

I've not noticed that.

I was there with Jordan Sweers and he went, oh, whoa, all right.

I was there just a couple weeks ago.

That's funny.

That's great.

So we're kind of walking,

and I'm glad we're not on the drag because I feel like the drag's not a place for us.

Yeah.

We don't really belong on it.

I think that would be a weird discussion for us to have about how much that has changed.

Yeah.

I don't want to get into that.

Yeah, it's a very different place.

But yeah, we're like, there's like a food trailer place.

So we're like a block off.

There's a University Wiener I've never heard of, but Eric.

We got a hot dog spot right now.

We're gonna have to check that out.

I actually looked this place up the other day.

I was looking for a place to get hot dogs.

You looked up University Wiener?

Yeah, and I found this place, but again, it's in West Campus.

I was like, I'm not gonna go down there.

Where am I gonna park?

That happens to me a lot.

When I was 18 and 19, and I would come to Austin by myself a lot on at night, like it.

If you're 18 years old and you're sitting in an army base in the barracks at 6 p.m.

on a Friday night and you have nothing to do, you instantly drive to Austin just to be in a different place and pretend like you're not in the army.

And my favorite thing to do, because I was under 21, if I was by myself, would be to come to the drag here and pretend I was a UT student and not a soldier and try to fit in.

And so there was a coffee shop called Insomniac that I would hang out or Insomnia

that I would hang out at all the time.

But there's also a record store called Sound Exchange that is where the

It's where the,

well, puppy.

It's where the Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnson mural was.

Ah, it was on the side of that building.

It eventually became a Baja Fresh, I think.

And then it got bulldozed.

It got, yeah, Thai placed.

But the wall is still.

Thai Fresh, yeah.

So now the wall has been left.

It's been cut out, and it's going to be, I think, in the, I think it's going to be like in the lobby of a hotel they're building on the site.

Really?

And you're just going to walk in and see where the, kind of like if you go to London, sometimes you'll go like in a parking garage and you'll be like, here's a, here's a Roman wall that's existed for 10,000 years.

And you're like, what the fuck?

Somebody's just parked a, you know, a fiat next to it.

This used to mean something to someone.

Anyway, that was a long time ago.

Yeah, anyways, dump litter right here.

And that's what the drag was to me when it was something to me.

Yeah.

And then I grew out of that pretty quickly.

And I really stopped coming here, except for the occasional restaurant, like dirties.

It's weird because that whole area, by the way, we just walked through maybe the worst possible configuration

to encounter on a sidewalk.

There was a port-a-potty door left and a dumpster door right.

But it's fine because once you pass that, there were three more dumpsters on our right.

Gus was just pointing at shit.

The audience doesn't get this.

It was a very angry Gus Walk that we got to do.

Why would they put that there?

Anyway,

who would use that?

The drag underwent such a radical transformation so quickly.

I feel like probably in the late 90s, early 2000s.

It was the late 90s, that gap opened up there.

Yes.

And it was like, that's a weird business to be here.

And then it it was like, very quickly after that, it was like, like just a proliferation of chains moved in and pushed out all the local businesses.

And then now all of them are gone.

It's like, it's like a weird death.

I think Urban Outfitters is probably the only one still there.

Maybe, yeah.

But it's like, it's regressed back now to like a bunch of local businesses, but

like it's all food now, I think.

Yes, yeah.

But a lot of this stuff around here is just food.

Well, a lot of the stuff that it used to be used for is no longer necessary.

Like i would go there in the 90s because of sound exchange and tower records right tower records was a chain but it was one of the yes temp poles of yeah the drag

and who the is going to a record store in 2025 you know what are you going to replace those with

i guess it was yeah it was those and there was that uh

i don't know why it sticks out of my head there was that Eckerts, right?

They had the thing, the tiling on the ground in front of the

ground in front of the ground.

Yeah, now it's a, I think that's a university

clothing store now.

Is it?

What, you're trying to get my dumpsters?

Yeah, I'm trying to get by more dumpsters.

Well, those college stores?

Yeah, I think you're right.

Well, we were even driving down like Guad and stuff to get here.

And

right after that Via 313, it's all just like foreign to me.

Like when you're heading south, it's like you hit Via 313 and I go, that's as far south as I get into

that area.

Right.

I don't come here.

No, not at all.

And, but all of this makes sense.

Like, we keep one of the things I keep bitching about.

That cat, it wants to get out of that window so bad.

I keep bitching about the traffic, but I think that's one of the key reasons they wanted to try to build that light rail right here.

Yeah.

Like that would alleviate a lot of those traffic and parking concerns because you could move people much more efficiently and they don't have to find a place to stash their car.

Yeah.

So talking about how much this area has changed, if for the audio audience here,

we're standing around looking at essentially a bunch of five and six story condo buildings that are a little little older.

This is mostly what it used to look like, but when you branch out to the right and you go over to Rio Grande this way or back that way, there's just like these 15, 20, 30 story towers now that are brand new that have like slides that go from the second floor down to the lobby.

All the dumb shit that got built in the mid-2000s.

And

this whole area used to look like this.

Yeah.

This little pocket right here, or even smaller, like little, like houses that are portioned up into like four apartments.

And

i feel like we found like the only little pocket of it that's left

it's crazy it looks like when you see when you come down or when you come up mopac from the south when you get around

where barton springs is yeah the drag looks like a second downtown on the horizon yeah it really looks like yeah for sure it's crazy how big it looks i mean a lot of these are There's some height to some of these buildings.

Yes, I mean, obviously, like a newer one here.

Yeah.

But it's weird because when you start, like, if we keep heading this way, it just gets bigger, too.

Yeah, and there's nothing like there's like not stuff over here, it's just housing, it's just housing, yeah, it's just for the enormous amount of yes, there's so many

housing and UT buildings that you don't realize are UT buildings, yes, there's a lot of that too, definitely.

A lot of uh

France and stuff, yeah.

This is a nice looking building, yeah.

This is the K-E-Tau people, whatever the fuck that is.

And they have a fortress, it looks like.

You're thinking it was a Scientology or something.

Aww.

That's something we can talk about.

The Scientology building finally opened back up on the drag.

How long was that under construction?

It was under construction for more than a decade.

Yeah.

And it, but it wasn't.

It's been done.

I think it was finished about three years before they moved back in.

I read a little bit about this on Reddit, so take it with a grain of salt, how true this is.

But apparently, it was finished, and they were in a temporary temporary space over like off Mopax or the Highland country.

I've seen that place, yeah.

Yeah,

apparently,

they couldn't move back into the main facility because the

attendance had dwindled, and they didn't have the minimum number of people to

operate the big space, and they didn't want to have a like a lackluster launch.

And so they held off as long as they could

to boost their numbers, I guess, until they eventually

were were able to reassume it.

I feel like that's what I read.

I could be wrong, but I think it was something along those lines.

They had to grind out some levels.

Yeah, they had to grind out a couple XP levels before they could take the space back over.

And it was just sitting there empty for years.

Talking about that Scientology Building reminder me is something else we both used to do on the drag all the time.

That was like right next to it.

We used to be La Fun and Einstein's.

Yeah.

It was like two arcades there.

And were they both 24 hours or was it just La Fun?

I don't remember Einstein's being 24 hours, but it it might have been.

But I definitely was more of a La Fun.

Yeah.

What, these are arcades?

Yeah, there was like two arcades right next to each other, side by side.

What?

What the fuck?

Yeah.

Why?

Till the 2000s.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then our Arcade UFO opened up when one of those closed, I think.

Well, I think Arcade UFO was like over.

Yeah, it's down the road, but not in the same area.

It's over closer to.

It's like out of Speedway, I think.

Yeah.

Well, that's where it was when it opened.

Anyway, yeah, it was like...

An arcade's already a weird business to have.

Typically thinking of an arcade, it's like, if it is, if it does exist, it's in a mall.

It's like, no, there were two here, and they were side by side on the drag next to where the Scientology building or office is.

Bazaar.

Yeah, so when we used to work at the call center, sometimes we would get off.

If you got off late at night, we'd either go to Insomnia, which is that coffee shop Jeff was talking about, and or then go to La Fun,

which is also right next to it.

Damn.

Insomnia was on the other side of the arcades from

what did you, what did you play mostly?

They had, I don't remember what it was called.

They had that stupid game where it's like that giant, almost like a helmet you could put on, and it was like you were in a machine gun or something.

You remember that?

I don't.

It's like when you walked in, it was on the right side.

And then

opposite it to the left was the DDR machine.

I used to play a lot of DDR machine.

I played Gals Panic.

They had that.

That was a band, too.

So I thought it was cool to play the game that was the band.

I played, I think they had a Yar Kung Fu there.

I was a big Yar Kung Fu guy at the arcade.

Yeah, I don't remember what else.

I was not sober there a lot no

at the arcade yeah damn those are junker days yeah gus and i were in our early 20s different days guys those those places have been i mean i can't remember when einstein's and the fun closed that's early 2000s it's been a long time at least 20 years yeah why would you open an arcade next to an arcade there was that much traffic back then that's these arcades packed yeah i know there's enough traffic for another arcade wild

they weren't and they weren't huge though

They were pretty small, modest-sized in terms of arcades.

There are no pinballs.

No, definitely not.

There's no,

what's that place in Beautiful?

Pinballs Kingdom.

Pinball's Kingdom.

Oh, the one that used to be the burger shop?

Yeah.

Yeah.

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What do you mean?

We just walked by 25th and a half.

We're by a barber shop.

Oh, yeah, it's also a leasing office.

There's some guy hanging out in his bare feet.

You want to hang a left and come back the way we speak?

I think we should.

I'm getting scared.

All these young people.

Scared.

You're going to ask me if I'm goaded and I don't have an answer.

But yeah, this is definitely the part of Austin that I don't feel as versed in.

No, not at all.

um well that that makes sense this is all nothing yeah

well it's like this uh here's a fraternity that clearly had a big party recently

feeling the after effects of it

um no one's here because it's spring break these motherfuckers have a basketball corner baby jesus there i saw so we're we're walking by this parking meter and it's got like all that plastic wrap on it I saw the dumbest post in the Austin subreddit a couple days ago.

Like last week.

So I was like, hey, I'm downtown.

Why are all the poles wrapped in this plastic?

Why do y'all love wrapping poles in Austin?

South by dipshit.

Yeah.

If you don't wrap the poles in, they're just going to get covered in flyers and stickers.

Stickers and shit.

Yeah.

Why wouldn't you wrap them?

It's easier to wrap it and then just take it off at the end.

I also saw an interesting post the other day about how

net migration into the city of Austin is cratering.

We were talking.

I think we were talking about that.

You sent us a link.

13,000?

It was the most the biggest drop-off since the maybe ever but since the 80s yeah sure

it was interesting looking at the graph because the other

drop-off it wasn't as bad as that was back in 2001 during the dot-com crash and that was a pretty significant dip on that graph but nothing compared you know we knew people

we knew people that left during that yeah a lot of people we worked with the tele network had always

their exit yeah people that not that they were still at telenetwork necessarily but people that had left and like couldn't find work or whatever and that was yeah the signal to go.

I mean, this is

causing the uh housing market to kind of like relax, right?

To get back to where it was.

Well, and also, uh, all of the construction that's been going on in Austin for the last five years is completing in various stages, and there's more housing available.

There's so much housing if you listen to our vice president, he's praising it.

Are you serious?

Yeah, you didn't see that speech he did the other day, praising uh city of Austin decisions that have led to uh lower housing costs,

Okay.

That's actual.

That's hilarious.

Don't kill the messenger, man.

I just saw it.

Why am I moving out of Texas again?

To get away from these fucking property costs?

Yeah, it was a wild thing to see.

There was also that,

I'm just going to keep hitting you with the Austin news.

Please do, man.

That's what this podcast is.

There was also that story.

I don't know if either of you saw it about how the city council's having to backtrack on a decision they made.

They were going to commission a bunch of art for the airport.

Ah, and they didn't hire a single Austin or Texas-based artist.

Is that right?

They had such

a $10.6 million budget, and not a single dollar was going to a local artist.

They didn't award it to a single fucking dollar demand.

No, in a city like Austin,

like, let's be honest, Austin over-index on artists.

You could throw a rock and hit 10 artists in any direction.

Yep.

So, yeah, that was removed from the city council agenda.

They're going to reevaluate that.

It's like, wow, how did it even get to that point?

How did it get to that point?

No one at any point along that was like, hey, who are you giving this money to?

Why don't we inject some of these funds into our local communities?

Spend city money in the city.

How about that?

Yeah.

Fucking now, dickheads.

So stupid.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

That's fucking nuts.

It's a lot of money.

And the problem is that it just encourages people to be upset about the spending.

of money for art in the first place.

Which that's not what I'm mad about.

That's fine.

The argument gets conflated very quickly.

Right.

It's like the argument is that the money should be spent on local artists.

Because even the airport here is unusual in the fact that the places that have food, it's local chains.

Yeah.

It's not like you go to most airports and it's like, oh.

And by the way, it's what the main attraction to our airport is.

It's all anybody fucking talks about.

Right.

Is all the food options in the airport.

And another, by the way, hey, he knows, another by the way

is that none of that food is very fucking good.

And it's not, it doesn't taste anything like the wheel restaurants.

No, not at all.

Like if you think you came to Austin and you had Via 313 or Salt Lake, you didn't.

Yep.

You had it in name, and it was like you had something that's like 75% as good as it.

But you really should go to the actual restaurant.

I want to head to get a cup of coffee.

There is a coffee shop that Jordan and I go to sometimes around here.

What's it called?

Black Dog, maybe, something like that.

Lucky Lab.

Lucky Lab.

That's exactly what I was looking at.

Lucky Lab.

Yeah, it's evil.

If we go down this all the way and then turn right on, you're never going to believe what road.

Noasis.

Oh,

then

we'll be pretty cool.

All right.

Yeah, so

all the airport food places, they all have to get their food from the same vendor.

That's the problem.

It's like the restaurants can't use their actual vendor.

They would use at their real locations.

They have to use Cisco or whatever, whatever

the airport equivalent of the distributor is.

And those chains aren't necessarily, or those locations aren't necessarily run

the businesses.

It's like a licensed franchise that then, like, the catering company for the airport staffs and takes care of.

Which is in no way an indictment on the process.

I have no issue with it.

I still eat at those places.

They're fine.

It's just not the same.

It's a distinction, right?

It's not the same.

It's a distinction.

Yeah.

I'd rather, honestly, I'd rather go there and eat most of a fucking fly right than go and eat burger cake.

It's a great point.

And I'm happy to continue to promote a local business in whatever form as much as possible.

Absolutely.

When given the choice, always choose a local business over something that isn't.

Especially at the airport.

Which is

a local artist.

It'd be like, you know when you land artists.

You know like when you land in the Austin airport and there's some like really sad looking dude or lady who's sitting on a chair with a guitar playing

in the corner.

Can you imagine if those people were all from Wichita?

They're just like, yeah, we don't want to use any local musicians.

We're just going to ship them all in from

the

It's easy.

That airport's about to be crazy for several years.

I mean, like, construction is

taking off.

It's nuts.

Yeah.

When will it finish?

Do you know?

Look, when do you think?

I think they said they want to be done in 10 years.

I don't think that's a 10-year project.

It looks like a bigger than 10-year project.

Yeah.

There's a lot happening to that airport.

Dude, also, that's a small airport.

There's a lot happening to Austin in every direction.

That airport is undergoing an insane

facelift.

There's just a time for everyone to be leaving.

Just the time for everybody leaving.

The convention center is reshaping downtown

right now.

Coda is developing it.

A fake and theme park?

Yeah, there's an amazing.

Do you know about this?

Like, it's got a 30,000 square foot.

Which makes sense because when they have an event out there, there's nothing else.

It's like

you go there and that's it.

It's like, why not build more stuff to try to keep people there and capture more money?

Completely agree, and I'm glad to see them doing it.

It's just crazy how much is happening all at once.

And you keep waiting for it to slow down.

Yeah.

Well, it's also crazy how long it took them to do that out there in Dakota.

Yeah.

Well, I think they're trying really hard to keep their F1 contract because I saw that they want to have it done or at least most of it done before F1 this year.

Yep.

October?

Yes.

Yeah.

They're going to have a botanical garden in there so that people can get a break from the sun.

Yeah.

They're going to, there's going to be like roller coasters, like multiple roller coasters.

They're trying to do all this stuff before F1 this year.

Austin was a city that had an F1 and that put a lot of it on the map.

Hey, guys, we got F1 track.

This is like a whole thing.

And then all of a sudden, it's like, here's Miami and Vegas.

And everyone went, What?

I'm not going to the Austin one.

Yeah.

Vegas?

Yeah.

Huh?

Yeah.

Although they really shit.

The Vegas one's bad.

It's awesome.

It's completely and totally fucked up.

Fucking awesome.

That's pretty cool.

The Austin one had a Rocky Lodge, too.

It did.

It did for sure.

But we didn't cut every tree in Austin down to do it.

And then we didn't put fucking blackout screens on every visible view of the city.

Right.

It was so weird.

Such a dumb decision.

Yeah.

It's like, yeah.

don't even get me started.

It's like not hiring local artists.

Vegas isn't really my thing.

I love it.

But I really want to go back and go to like Fremont.

I just want to, I want to hang out there.

We're going to do that for my birthday this year, Gus.

I'm ready for content.

We're going to go.

Because I'll be 50 this year.

I was born in 75.

So we can only go to restaurants and casinos and hotels that existed in 1975.

So

I'm going to turn it into into work and do content, but

this truck was really thinking about it.

Yeah.

I'm going to guess looking at their phone.

He's busy.

Tweets.

Do you know the first casino to ever open in Las Vegas is still open?

Yes, I think only because you told me that.

Oh, really?

I was like, I know I've got to go.

I got Vegas on the brain.

Oh, yeah, right.

There's Jeff.

Yeah, then we talked about escalators, I think, right after that.

You and I went on one of the longest escalators in the world.

Oh, yeah,

there's the longest escalator in the southern hemisphere.

In the southern hemisphere, yeah, the longest escalator, right?

Yeah.

Think about it.

The long escalator.

It's like, think about when you take an escalator like at the airport and then you get off.

Just imagine if you didn't get off.

And it kept going.

Yeah.

It was like that.

Where did it take you?

I think it was at a subway.

It was at a subway station.

I think it was in Melbourne.

It was in Melbourne.

Yeah.

To the top.

Yeah, where

we're all the way.

way.

I forgot about that.

It would be like the longest escalator in the southern hemisphere or just another flight of stairs, I guess, when it's like not working.

Uh-huh.

That sucks.

A lot of stairs.

Yeah.

That's really a bummer.

It'd be the longest escalator or the reason you're not going to that building.

Yeah.

I love qualifiers like in the southern hemisphere.

Yeah, yeah.

Or like, it's like, oh, like, like the big tower that's going up in Austin right now at Rainy Street is gonna be the lot the tallest tower in the southwest yeah

residential in the southwest

i think even when they built like the frostbank facing northeast they when they built the frostbank tower i think they tried to get away with a bunch of qualifiers like that like yeah the tallest commercial construction western mississippi since 1999 like there are all those asterisks put at the end to like qualify just don't say any of that right the frostbank tower seemed like such a big building when they built it and then i went not too long after that to chicago for a thing Oh, yeah, and it just looked like somebody lopped the top of any building off in Chicago and just dropped it in Austin.

I felt so fucking dinky and sprayed.

You're taking it right here, yeah.

Hang on right, Pizza Press.

What's that?

It's probably pizza.

Oh, Meta Mims, doesn't matter.

It's a newspapers.

Any of this shit.

Yeah, it's funny how very quickly the Frostbank Tower just became.

You couldn't notice it in the skyline.

Yeah.

It went from being the

impossible to miss to hard to find.

Daydreamer Coffee is pretty.

That's coffee shop.

It is, and we're going to keep going past this.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

I don't want to go to whatever's in there.

I feel like when we walked by earlier going this direction, there were two girls sitting outside the pad, and I felt like they were judging me.

I think that might be kind of like a you thing.

Yeah, what is it?

They were definitely judging me.

Is this a hotel or a fancy place where people live?

It looks like a solo house.

It really does.

I think it's a fancy place where people live.

I'm calling it.

There's a lot of expensive foliage.

Yeah, there's like someone sitting there working.

Foliage.

Foilage.

Foilisa.

Foilage.

Foliage.

New Killer.

How many songs do you think The Simpsons have ruined for you?

Because every now and then a song will come on and I'll hear it and be like, I cannot hear this song.

I only hear Homer singing it or Barbara.

Oh, I brought it up the other day.

Fucking Chumba Lamba.

Yeah.

Tumb Thumping.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Homer going, I'll take a whiskey drink, take a chocolate drink.

I'm going to have to pee and use the kitchen seat.

There are so many songs like that.

The Simpsons specifically have ruined, and I can no longer hear the actual original original version.

I think Nacho Man is probably that.

Yeah.

Anytime I hear

Whip It by Devo, I think it's

singing it.

Licorice Whip.

Licorice Whip.

Licorice Whip.

Dress like a cowboy.

See my vest?

Oh, God.

It's great.

What a

man.

What a run that show had of just like, all right, we're just not going to miss.

We're just not going to miss for years.

Yep.

Just, I mean, reshaped reshaped or actually shaped pop culture.

Yeah.

Yeah,

it just shaped it.

Yeah.

If we hang a left here on 25th and then go right down with the next street, I think that's right.

There are so many leaf blowers.

I was in the seventh grade when The Simpsons debuted.

Wow.

And it set a bomb off in my school.

Yep.

Unlike anything I have ever seen culturally before or since.

Definitely.

So if we go here and then cross again to the right,

go down and go right.

That's where we're at.

Yeah, I mean, like, when I was a kid, it was such a

thing.

It was like, what, like, 89 or whatever?

Yeah.

What was this start?

Like, I remember that's when I discovered unlicensed merchandise.

Yeah.

Suddenly, you wanted to go to the flea market so you could get a Donna the Cowman shirt or the Bartman shirt.

Yeah.

It was

definitely not on the up and up.

Yeah.

But that's all the best stuff.

Eat pants.

Eat pants.

I love that bootleg stuff.

And I feel like,

well,

generally it's considered that, you know, The Simpsons heyday was back then at that time.

I love all of the remixing of Simpsons content that surfaces on social media nowadays.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Like there's whole

Instagram pages just dedicated to like mashing up Simpsons stuff or redoing it.

I feel like Mo has had a whole career outside of The Simpsons just in meme for it.

Yeah, definitely.

There we go.

You make an image of Marge crumping, put it wherever.

I'm clicking like.

There's already

a car coming.

There's a crumping.

Oh, man.

This area next to this place used to be on the weekends, like there's like an open court area on the other side of this coffee shop.

On the weekends, it used to be where like the hippie fair always was.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

Go and get like some shitty

rug and a necklace and a cool

death tones vinyl or whatever.

Yep, that was totally it.

Oh, you mean all the good stuff.

Yeah.

And it's nothing like that anymore.

It is not.

I'm gonna go walk over there while you order coffee, Eric.

I'm not gonna go far, but let's go right here.

Okay.

Do you want what?

Does Cinnamon want anything?

I guess not.

Oh, wow, that was very cold.

Seriously.

Yeah, it's coffee wet.

There is a screen.

Is there anywhere to get some taffy?

That's actually down the courtyard.

Hunting.

I want to check it out.

It's no longer the spot.

No.

Used to be.

And I feel like for a long time, after those people weren't here selling that stuff here, they got kicked out to South Congress.

And they got kicked out there too.

Yeah, and then there was like that empty lot over there where they set up for a long time.

That's where the bookstore was for so long, yeah.

And then all of that redeveloped.

They got kicked out.

I don't even, they're just gone.

They're on the other side of Congress where the church is sometimes over there.

And then also, uncommon objects moved down to Ben White

and in the backyard.

They have a huge backyard.

They have a setup every weekend there, too.

Okay.

So they've been.

So now you know where to avoid all those places.

You want like a large cold brew?

Yeah.

You know anything?

No, I'm good.

Cool.

I'm not insane.

You guys want to go sit?

Yeah.

Chill?

Oh, Bananarchy, Brandon Farm Kini's favorite place.

They're here?

Oh.

It's like the

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The only other location I know they've moved around, the only other location I know of for them was like off South First over by where

Southside Tattoo used to be.

Yeah.

Like kind of close to South First and Mary.

I don't know.

I thought they were out of business.

I didn't realize because that time I went there with Brandon.

That was we were still in Ralph Alblonedo at that point.

So that was easily over 10 years ago.

And what is what is banana artist?

Frozen bananas?

Like chocolate dips, frozen bananas.

Now you're telling me they might not be in business anymore.

Brandon

was the greatest thing ever invented.

He was like, this is the new snow cone.

Mark my words.

It's good.

They're fine.

Yeah.

I don't think I've had one in 10 years.

Yeah, I haven't had one since that time I went with Brandon.

I might get one now.

They are fine.

These are the new snow cone.

Banana?

Actually, it's funny.

I had to freeze a banana the other day

and I took it out of the freezer and ate it.

And as I was eating, I was like, I forgot how good a frozen bananas is.

No, that's my preferred method.

I hate bananas.

I do not like them.

I eat one every day.

I hate bananas.

But if I can, I'll freeze it.

And I have a frozen banana.

Very good.

It's surprisingly not as

firm as you would think.

Like, I thought it was gonna be like biting into like an ice cube or something.

No, no.

Totally fine.

It holds its.

I think my problem with the banana is texture.

Yeah.

I don't like the taste.

I don't mind the taste, I guess.

Doesn't that tent over there?

I spelled

fucked up.

Look like where Karen Allen would live in an Indiana Jones thing or something.

The dude's going to show up with the collapsible coat hanger.

It's pretty good.

It's pretty cool.

Very out of place.

Yeah.

But that's definitely how I feel over here.

Very out of place.

Oh, there's a giant moth on you.

That's fine.

Dude, I didn't feel yet right there.

I didn't feel like I was in place when I was of the age to be here.

I was trying so desperately to fit in.

Yeah.

I definitely don't now.

They say you've come from a mile away.

Before we came here, just an afternoon, obviously, it's a burger episode, so it's not the morning, but before I came out to meet you guys, I was sitting at my house and I heard like

maybe a knock at my front door or maybe like Amazon dropped a package and like the package hit my front door or something.

I was like, that's weird.

I'm not expecting anything.

So I pulled up the

security camera footage and it was not a package.

It was not Amazon.

It was a hawk had cornerty pigeon at my front door, caught it, slammed it into the ground, and started eating it right in front of my door.

Wow.

I was like, oh,

that's great.

You should put that on TikTok.

I was like, nature is fucking scary.

Like that pigeon,

which is flying around, ended up like in an awkward position, and a hawk just like swooped in and made one roll.

Yeah, one roll pigeon move.

I mean, that's birds.

You can't trust them.

And then the hawk's sitting there eating the pigeon on my front door.

And then two crows show up.

And I'm wondering, are they mad at the hawk?

No, they're wanting to eat some of the pigeon too.

They're hoping for leftovers.

Yeah, they're coming for the scraps.

I didn't realize we had crows like that here.

They were fucking huge.

That's crazy.

I first thought they were grackles.

Like, no, that's like the size of my dog.

Do you know why you don't know about those crows?

Too healthy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wait, give it a couple years, and

you'll see nothing but those crows.

The thing that like freaks me out when I get close to them, and I feel like I've been close to them more in like the last couple of weeks than recently, is like the buzzards or like the vultures that fly around.

There's a couple of times like I go over to like Barrett's a park and kind of like walk over, and there's one just like standing on like an easement

eating something that has just been there and it'll eat it and then it'll fucking look at me and then just goes back and I'm like, this is

fucked up.

I don't, I don't, I can't find buzzards to be scary because of Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Yeah, when I see the buzzard, when I think of it, they go,

I'm like, that's slow, dumb bastard.

Stupid ass bird.

He's no threat.

They look.

It's that they're big.

Yeah, and they have like that turkey head.

Yeah, that big turkey head.

They eat dead things.

Yeah.

They definitely have like dinosaur features.

Yeah.

You shouldn't still exist.

What to you is the most dinosaur bird?

There's that shoe bill.

You will never top a shoe bill.

That's a pretty good one.

The way they move,

to me, it's roadrunners.

They are, they look like the little dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.

Yeah, the way like they, like, they skitter skitter and then like look around and it doesn't yeah just put their head down and start running it like it doesn't look like a bird doing it it looks like a lizard it looks like those what's called cap capies or something the little dinosaurs in jurassic park something like that cat cases

capries something like that

yeah yeah those little ones what's the what's the big blue-headed bird that like fucking got like crazy it's like a big emu looking thing cask cat oh the sorry yeah oh i thought you were talking about the bald eagle in uh

Muppets?

In Muppets, yeah.

No, I don't think he's a dinosaur.

I think he's a patriot.

He's a Sam Eagle?

Yeah, Sam Eagle.

Was he Kazoway?

Cazaway?

Casaway.

Cassowary.

They will kill you.

Yeah, they're not going to kill you.

That's a dinosaur.

I learned that from Far Card 3.

Exactly, me too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you got to be careful.

You have to look out.

They got the big claws.

They'll sneak up on you.

There was a punk band in Austin for many years called Gals Panic, named after the arcade machine.

And they had a song called Kick It Like a Cassowary.

Oh, that's awesome.

It's popped into my head.

That's so that's so fucking cool

Man.

Uh we're on episode seven

this week.

We have one more one more uh of the season and then we have to have a vote on if we're continuing to do this or not

But we're at around like we're at like the 40 45 minute mark like right around there if we don't like the outcome Can we demand a recount?

Is there like an electoral college situation here?

Does my vote count for like 13?

Well, let's let's talk about it because uh I vote no

classic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I vote, I vote that what happens happens.

The audience was afraid of you saying no.

Did you see that?

It was a bunch of people online.

Go like, I thought Eric was going to say no.

Why would I

say no?

This is the easiest thing in the world.

Hey, what's up?

You want to get a free hamburger or a free cup of coffee?

Well, if you insist,

yeah, well, okay.

But we do have to vote.

Like, next episode is the big vote.

Yeah.

Where are we going for the last episode?

Do you guys want to do the

TNI?

What's do you guys think about it?

Cool with whatever.

I thought it would be funny to do the Burlson TNI because that's where I got some I met.

Yeah.

But let's get a cup of coffee and go there because we can get the coffee, we can record driving over there.

Yeah.

And then we can go there.

We'll show you that.

Yeah.

I think it's a good idea.

I think it's funny.

So we'll get coffee somewhere.

Don't you record.

Don't you meet us there, listeners?

Yeah.

Yeah.

10 weeks in the back.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Don't worry.

I'll get these to Richard.

They should come out more timely, man.

But I like how long it takes, honestly.

I think it's funny.

And also, after the last episode, we never said anything about how long we're going to be off for.

So it's just like,

listen, I saw some people say, oh, are they going to start a Patreon?

Look, you know, send them money.

No, see,

because now there's no pressure, there's no expectation.

We can do it how we want.

It comes out when it comes out.

I had, and we're not trying to make money off now.

Go give to the other Patreon center.

I have our other Patreon center.

Get that money to Stinky Dragon or regulation.

100%.

You get the money through regulation.

We had

a lot of people reach out to me and be like, hey, I want to buy you guys a cup of coffee.

Like, can you let me know how much it is?

And I'll send you the money.

And I just went, I'll let you know if that's something that happens.

And it's like, this seems like, that's such a cool offer.

And I really appreciate it.

And if this was something that we were still at Rooster Heath with, or if we were like a different company and like, this was like a thing, like with an indefinite sort of whatever, then what a cool idea.

Yeah.

Hey, buy us a cup of coffee.

Hey, this is, hey, thanks, Mark from Langston, whatever.

But like, Mark from Langston's having a good good day.

One guy was washing his dishes and he dropped it on the ground.

It's a real Kaiser Sozi moment as well.

There never was a Mark in Langston.

I feel like that's a real throwback to the way the internet used to work.

Like, that's how we did drunk gamers back in the day or the early days where you just put a PayPal button back then.

You know, it's like, hey, if you like it, send us a buck or whatever.

And I really appreciate people asking if that's something they can do.

And if it is, maybe something, if it's something we continue, maybe it is something that we do because we can set up.

They didn't ask until we were well into like this season.

I like the no pressure.

I like the notes.

But that's the thing is that I don't want, and I don't think they would ever be upset.

Oh, you didn't do this or whatever.

It's like, there's an obligation factor to it that

this is just us, hey, do you want to get a hamburger?

Yeah, oh, we should go to this instead.

Like, it just pivots us.

It overcomplicates it.

And this is like, to be totally clear, this is my,

this is third in my list of priorities professionally.

It's got to be probably third in yours.

I imagine it's second or third in yours.

Yeah, something like that.

And so

we have to eliminate any barrier to ease.

Yeah.

Because if it gets difficult to do, we won't want to do it.

So we have to make it as easy.

And the easiest way for us to do it is just to get together and

let regulation buy us college.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

It's essentially what it is.

And we're happy with that.

Yeah.

That woman left that business, walked out, went somewhere, and came back carrying a Starbucks drink and a Starbucks pastry.

She met her Uber driver.

There is a

local place right here.

She fucking hates that costume.

Yep, yep.

I guarantee you.

What I liked is that it looked like she walked up to the door and then read the sign, but it was like the sign that she put there.

And it was like, you can just go in.

You just left.

You're good.

Don't worry about it.

You're fine.

Let's talk about During Martin's a little bit.

What did you guys get?

I got the comeback burger, the large comeback burger fries, and Jeff ordered some corn fritters.

Yeah, I got a BLT fries and the corn fritters, which is my usual order.

Sometimes I'll get the tater tots, but I'll be honest, the tater tots there are just okay.

Yeah.

I got the, I'd never been, I got the habanero burger, and the lady was like, listen, if this is your first time having it, just put them on the side.

They're pickled in-house.

They're pickled habaneros sliced up.

And you can put them on how you want.

But like, that's what we advise people the first time they come.

That's the right way to do it.

They're not crazy hot, but I did my best to not get a ton of seeds.

And in like the little ramekin thing that they gave me, there were a lot of pieces with a lot of fucking seeds.

And if I was eating a burger that size, I got the small one.

It was pretty small.

And it was loaded up with that amount.

Overwhelming.

Holy shit.

It would be a lot, a lot.

That place rocks.

I want to go back and eat there for dinner.

Like, it's so fucking good.

There's a reason it's been around for 99 years.

Yeah.

And I think that it's a good, that place is a good metaphor for a a lot of the things we talk about in this podcast.

I was excited to go there.

It's a beloved institution.

It's been there for years.

It might be going away soon.

Like things change.

The city's always changing.

Rooster teeth went away.

Like there's just like a lot of constant evolution.

Yeah.

And, you know, if you enjoy something, go there while you can, you know, and

enjoy it while it's there.

Yeah, go there as much as you can or while you can.

And I think that's, I think that's totally cool.

And like,

that was great.

I went there and got a burger and like a tall beer and then we walked a bunch and I got like an iced coffee and I feel great.

I'm going to bounce out on the way out.

I was like, damn, whoa.

This is why people move here.

We're in that window of time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what I was just reminded of when we were talking about enjoy it while you can?

Players.

Oh, players.

The strip club?

No.

There was another hamburger restaurant.

It was like in the corner of MLK and

Guadalupe.

Guadalupe.

It was like right there, huh?

And it was very similar to...

Well, it wasn't similar at all to Dirty Martins, but it was just like a college burger restaurant that they, their big thing was malts they had like great malts you could get and uh that was a place that they fought closure for many many years like like put it off for a long time put it off for a long time you know there were protests people signed signatures the whole thing and then eventually it closed there was an idea that maybe it would open up at another location somewhere and it didn't and the world is just without a players and it no longer exists and that'll probably happen at dirty martens at some point so enjoy the hell out of the lighting center awesome rings of players they did yeah they did miss those ounning rings like their malts damn they just had like that simple green neon sign, it was like a little parking lot out front.

Now there's like a tower there, there's like a giant building there.

It turned into a yeah,

oh, yeah, you, you, you, you needed to land for something.

There's something very big, like, like everything else, it's condos with a sprint star on the bottom floor.

It's uh, you know, it is what it is, but man, this was this was nice getting out on a day like this and doing this or whatever.

When we had a couple of really cold episodes, yeah, yeah, I brought it, it was cold this morning, I brought a jacket out in the car.

Yeah, the low today was 35, yeah, the high today is 81.

It's currently 74.

That's a big spread.

Almost a 50-point temperature swing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's fucking crazy.

That's what I'm used to back home.

Like, I didn't know that temperatures kind of stayed in like short ranges until I moved.

It was just like, oh, you wake up and it's like 38, and then like the day it's like 92.

And you go, oh, yeah, it's just, you know,

it's hot.

It's hot in the afternoon.

Do you like 90 to 105?

Because boy, have I got a place for you?

Maybe.

If you like 105 at 5 p.m., try 105 at 1 a.m.

The lowest 88.

It hits totally different.

The lowest 88.

When is that at?

4:15 for eight minutes.

When does the sunrise?

10 minutes before that.

Brutal, brutal.

That's what we're going to get into.

I think it's going to be a hot, hot summer.

I think it's going to be hot.

It's going to be very high 88.

Very little rain over here.

Very, very little rain.

My neighbor keeps complaining about it.

He's just like,

desperately watered his trees.

We got into it with Nick today during a recording.

We didn't get it.

Gavin got into it with Nick.

For probably 10 minutes about his,

he's trying to like water these trees that he has,

but he didn't have time.

And it was like this whole thing.

And Gavin's like, why don't you set up like a sprinkler?

And Nick's like, why don't I like watering them?

And they just fought and fought and fought.

And it was like.

Eric was just needling it.

Well, yeah, because all I wanted to, it was like, he's like, it's the best time to do it.

And I'm like, right, but you didn't have time.

You were almost late for this recording.

If only there was an automated system.

He's like, right, but that's the best time for the tree.

And I went, yeah, but what's the best time for Nick?

Right.

I want to know what the best sign for Nick is.

What podcast is the tree on?

I don't remember the name of it.

That's what I'm saying.

He's paying for the tree.

The green life is good.

Just one of those tree bladder things, like those rings that you fill up with water?

That's done.

Yeah, but he likes it.

And then Gavin couldn't understand, so Gavin attacked him.

What is the tree like?

Water.

It doesn't matter how it's getting.

Yeah, it was two trees and Gavin attacked him for a long time.

We didn't know it was two trees till the last bit.

That's a big revelation.

That's a very

exciting.

Having Gavin just question a guy about his tree watering habits when Gavin, I don't know that Gavin can keep anything alive.

It's pretty exciting.

He's got cats that are trying to kill him actively, so I don't know.

It's pretty nuts.

He can't use a ceiling fan because there's going to be wasps in it.

Well, Dirty Martins recommend big style.

Love it.

Thought it was great.

10 out of 10 on the

food.

This iced coffee from Luck Lab, I really like also.

It's about the same as the iced coffee I had last week at

back in the bushes.

Yeah, this is very good.

It's totally fine.

It's cold and it's it's warm out, so I love it.

Uh, but all right, I think that'll do it for us this week, yeah.

Because, uh, sneaky too for yeah, doing a coffee review anyway.

That's that's the way we do it here.

Um, it's maximum content, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're welcome for maximum content.

Uh, but next next week,

live from the parking lot, will we do another episode?

Hopefully, an episode where uh place that we have anything to talk about whatsoever.

Yep, we will see, but uh,

any wise words for the people listening at home?

Eat a banana.

What the heck?

Freeze it first.

Oh, that's a good idea.

All right, cool.

See you next time.

Bye.

Yo, this is important, man.

My favorite Lululemon shorts, the ones he got me back in the day, I think they're called Pacebreakers.

The ones with all the pockets.

I just got back from vacation and I left them in in my hotel room.

And, dude, I need to replace these shorts.

I wear them like three times a week.

Could you send me the link to where you got them?

Oh, also, my birthday is coming up soon.

So, anyways, thanks, bro.

Talk soon.

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