Potato Pals

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Speaker 3 Good morning, Jeff. Good morning,

Speaker 3 beat you to it. I love it.
It's his podcast. He can be your phone.
I like it. It's his name, not mine.
It's my podcast. You heard him.

Speaker 3 We're walking around again.

Speaker 3 It's another walkie-talkie.

Speaker 3 We should trademark that.

Speaker 3 Walkie-talkie? I think they might all be walkie-talkies at the way this is going. I was telling my wife after something about the recording, and we've done, how many episodes of Amma did we do?

Speaker 3 73. 73.
Yeah. And so this is our third.
Pretty good. This is close enough, right? Yeah.
So 70-ish,

Speaker 3 and then we've done, this is our third of these. And I had more fun doing that walkie-talkie than any of the other ones for some reason.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, same. There's something great about walking around.
I don't know, it brings a different energy. So today we went to Rudy's on Lamar.
What was this like across from the Central Market? Yep.

Speaker 3 I never knew there was a parking garage down here. Me neither.
No, me either. Never needed it.
This is on Marathon Street, right?

Speaker 3 It's a weird street. So we're just going to walk around the area here and

Speaker 3 see what happens. You guys familiar with this? Yeah, I used to ride my bicycle around here a lot.
I like the neighborhoods. A few years ago,

Speaker 3 I did something really stupid and I fractured my foot and I had to buy a

Speaker 3 boot for my foot right over here. I guess that's where that orange theory is now.
There was like a... That's our regional offices, by the way.

Speaker 3 How did you break your foot or fracture your foot?

Speaker 3 I was at I'd gotten a haircut and I was leaving the barbershop and they were like three or four steps down to go down from there to the parking lot and I was texting I was like using my phone or something and I wasn't paying attention and I thought I'd done all the steps, but there was one more I hadn't accounted for so I kind of tripped and fell and just like landed awkwardly on my foot and it fractured my right foot.

Speaker 3 Let's go this way. And you know, I did that thing where

Speaker 3 I fell down, got super embarrassed, so like I popped back up and tried to play it off like nothing happened. remember that.
But then my foot was in incredible pain, so I fell down a second time. No!

Speaker 3 But at least your hair looked good. Yeah, at least it did.
So I had to wear a boot for like eight weeks or something. Oh, man, I had no memory of that.
Uh-uh. What year was that?

Speaker 3 That was like 2015, 2016, maybe. Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 Probably 2015, if I had to guess. We were definitely at stage five.
Huh. Jeff, you ever broken bones?

Speaker 3 Not really.

Speaker 3 I mean, I had my jaw rebuilt, right? So it was like spot into pieces. There's a lot of bones broken.
Yeah, that's a bunch, but it's done on purpose. But yeah, it was on purpose break.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't, I mean, I think I broke a toe a long time ago. Right.
And I'm pretty sure it's still broken because it's been hurting now for about six years.

Speaker 3 And I can't walk barefoot sometimes. Oh, wow, really? Yeah, it's that whole thing.

Speaker 3 You gotta put a boot on it. Yeah, maybe I should.
Maybe eight weeks of a boot might have saved me six years of misery.

Speaker 3 But no, other than that, maybe. Maybe Toe.
No, how about you?

Speaker 3 No, nothing broken. I think it would be gross to break something.
I wouldn't want to do it.

Speaker 3 This is exactly where I've got my boot.

Speaker 3 Well, it was like a medical equipment store before. It's weird because there's like a bunch of medical supply stores right here.
I guess the hospital is so close. Yes.

Speaker 3 But I'm with you, Jeff. That time I fractured my foot, that's the closest I've come to like breaking a bone.
Really? Yeah, and I guess technically it counts, but it wasn't like I had to put a cast on.

Speaker 3 It wasn't

Speaker 3 just a pain in the ass. Yeah, like I've never had a plaster cast in my life.
I had to have a cast on my hand after I had surgery on it, but that was because I ripped up a bunch of tendons.

Speaker 3 But the bones were fine.

Speaker 3 The odd thing was the doctor put an e-collar on him, too. Yeah,

Speaker 3 he just wouldn't stop chewing at it.

Speaker 3 He said if I could go two days without chewing on it, I'd be let me take it off, but I couldn't. So I had to wear it for a month.

Speaker 3 What are you gonna do? What's with uh palm trees in Austin? Why is that something that people are trying this right over here?

Speaker 3 You had to get it.

Speaker 3 I guess.

Speaker 3 It's hot as shit, I guess.

Speaker 3 They are down on the Texas coast, right? They haven't been corpus and shit. Yeah, yes.
Here, it's just so dry. Like, we go through periods of such severe drought.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I can't imagine

Speaker 3 that they would do well. Well, then it freezes, and they all die and melt.
And then it's like, oh, I guess we'll just replant these. Like, that's the plan? LA stopped doing it, right?

Speaker 3 They said they're just not going to be able to do it.

Speaker 3 I believe so, yeah i think i think they said that uh it was like the cost and the maintenance and everything for like a non-native species was just like why are we for a tree that doesn't want to be there yeah exactly they're filled with roaches right this little

Speaker 3 is that true i think they're just like roach motels this little compound right here at the corner is so cool it's like three different houses yeah it was for sale a couple years ago for way too much money

Speaker 3 but it'd be neat if you uh

Speaker 3 this is like regulation household is it you want to have like your little regulation compound you got your main house right here and you you got your little garage, and you got your sideways house going that way.

Speaker 3 Well, it's the studio, you know. Yeah, and that's it all makes sense.

Speaker 3 I don't know if I've ever been on this particular little street that we're on. I definitely.
If you take a left here, it cuts out to 38th and a half street. Okay.

Speaker 3 Right there where the hospital, all that stuff is. Yeah, I've been this way to the right.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I've come down this way. There's two little inlet streets that come right here.

Speaker 3 This is cool. Is that a volleyball net in the front yard? Looks like it.
That's awesome. Man, I left the volleyball in the car.

Speaker 3 I saw the dumbest thing earlier. I was heading over to where we were going to meet up, and I was driving down a street to

Speaker 3 get over to the highway, and a big tree had fallen over into the street, like one of these that you see here. I don't know what had happened.
Big branch fell over. It was blocking both directions.

Speaker 3 No one could get around it. And it was very visible.
The street was very straight. I could see it coming.
So as I'm approaching, I think, well, I'm not going to get around that.

Speaker 3 Doing the logical thing, I turned off onto a side street and worked my way around. Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 But I felt like I was the only person who did that. Every other person on the street just continued going, pulled up to the tree, and then just stopped.
Like, what do they think is going to happen?

Speaker 3 Right. Then, like, you see people starting to put it in reverse or starting to try to bust a UE.
Like,

Speaker 3 you saw it was there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Did you think you were going to honk at it and it was going to move?

Speaker 3 Get out of the way.

Speaker 3 I'm coming through. It was just so bizarre to watch.

Speaker 3 I don't know, like, they're just like,

Speaker 3 almost like you're driving on instinct or like a lemming or something. Where it's like, I'm driving, this is the street I'm on, that's where I need to go.
Well, there's no other option.

Speaker 3 That happened the other day when President Joe Biden was in town and you couldn't drive anywhere. But boy, people thought they were just going to jump on the freeway.

Speaker 3 Yeah, to be fair, a couple people did. This is one of the uglier houses in Austin, I think.
You think so? Super 90s. I mean, it's huge and fancy, but you get a good look at it.
It's fucking weird.

Speaker 3 It's just, it's like that wood. Or I'm sorry.
Look at that one on like the outside. Oh, the top is really weird.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and it's actually weirder further in like if you go to the other side you can't see the entrance is bizarre. Is that like a

Speaker 3 alcove like a balcony at the top? It looks yeah, it could be yeah like a weird balcony. Let me take a picture.
That's one of those artistic 90s house early 2000s houses like one of the

Speaker 3 one of the OGs of that era, I think. Weird.
Yeah. Very weird.

Speaker 3 I love how shady it is through here, but

Speaker 3 whoa, a stick almost hit Jeff. That's Gavin once

Speaker 3 where's future Jeff wait a minute

Speaker 3 but like

Speaker 3 if I lived in this much shade all the time I think I'd go crazy why is that it's just there's no sun hitting you like

Speaker 3 there's no sun hitting you directly on so many of these houses like so many of them are just permanently shaded that's great for your AC for your electricity I bet it's great it's bad for my mental health I bet it would make me nuts I bet it was bad for almost every one of these houses uh two and three years ago during the freezes oh yeah yeah there's nothing would melt it would all just hang on also all these trees just fell on their

Speaker 3 i assume just fell right on the roofs yeah heavy because you're right every house is covered by a giant limb yeah and these trees are weak as shit yeah it's really really shady through like this whole neighborhood they get deprived of water in the summer which weakens them and then at winter they don't have the

Speaker 3 It's what happened the last couple years, they don't have the strength to handle the weight of all the ice. Oh, is that right?

Speaker 3 Because they've been essentially sapped of their energy throughout the year.

Speaker 3 That tree I saw this morning didn't even take a freeze. It was a normal day.
Yeah. Fucking half of it fell off.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Come up to Ramsey Park here in a second. Oh, let's go there.
That's your park.

Speaker 3 We figured out our situation for paying, and it worked. Yeah, it did.
How are you feeling about it, Gus? Yeah, it's not great. We need to tool with it a bit.
We need to figure it out. So we got chalk.

Speaker 3 Gus has chalk-resistant tires. Yeah, Gus didn't love drawing on his car with chalk.
I have to wipe that off. That's what I was.
Yeah, that's. Yeah, it's not hard to do.
I thought it was.

Speaker 3 It was hard to get the chalk on there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You had to get it started on the ground.

Speaker 3 So now I just got to carry chalk in my car? I guess. I mean, we can leave it

Speaker 3 with the microphones or something. Yeah.
We'll do that. I mean, that's like the best we can do.
Yeah, nobody can expect you to carry chalk.

Speaker 3 It's dangerous to keep chalk in your car as hot as it gets here. Yeah.
I mean, the chalk. Spontaneous

Speaker 3 chalk

Speaker 3 on there. Melt? Does chalk melt? Yeah.
It does. Lava.
Lava. What? Is lava chalk? That's melting rocks.

Speaker 3 Did they say

Speaker 3 melted rocks? What the fuck?

Speaker 3 This is like talking to Gavin.

Speaker 3 Is chalk rocks? Yeah. Chalk's rocks.

Speaker 3 I'm not a part of this conversation. I'm looking at houses.
Chalk's absolutely rocks. Yeah, this looks like the most L.A.
home in Austin. This guy right on the left? Yeah, that's right here.

Speaker 3 The Spanish-style tile. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3 When I think of owning a home, that's what I think, like in my head, that's what it looks like because that's just what houses look like to me yeah

Speaker 3 like growing up that's just it oh you guys have solar white and stucco adobe and everything

Speaker 3 uh but guess ended up paying for our delicious meal it was good we uh we went and got the uh rudy's baked potato that's why we were at rudy's i guess i didn't mention that earlier um love the baked potato i feel like you know like i mentioned we went to the one here on lamar

Speaker 3 This Rudy's has been open for a couple of years. I think back in the day, Jeff and I used to always have to go to the one out by Barton Creek Mall off of 360.

Speaker 3 To this day, when I think of Rudy's, the image of Rudy's is that location. Yeah, is that right? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Wow.
Oh, yeah. 100%.

Speaker 3 I could not begin to imagine how many times I've eaten at that location. This is the start of Burnett.
Burnett starts here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, but then this one opened a couple of years ago. Much more central located.
But I feel like I mentioned this to you guys while we were eating our potatoes.

Speaker 3 I feel like when that one first, when the one here in Lamar first opened, it didn't taste the same as the other locations. I don't know if they were going through like

Speaker 3 growing pains or just like launching or what was going on. It wasn't as good.

Speaker 3 I feel like I remember there was a thing about that. Like, they weren't cooking their food there, they were bringing it in at first or something.
They had the cooker set up.

Speaker 3 It tastes the same now, though. Yeah, now it's totally fine.
Now it's like every other location. That's the thing with Rudy's.
It is super consistent.

Speaker 3 It doesn't matter what, look, at least in Austin, all locations I've been to,

Speaker 3 Austin, New Bronfel, is all on 35. Doesn't matter which one you go to.
Eric, I'm going to ask you a question about Rudy's and BBQ because it has been a major part of my life for the last 30 years.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And whether I want it to be or not, right? And

Speaker 3 it's so synonymous with here and Texas and Austin. Oh, for sure, yeah.
But you're from California. Yeah.
Was

Speaker 3 barbecue a big deal growing up or in California? And was it like when you thought barbecue, did you think of what Texas barbecue is? Or was it different?

Speaker 3 Was it when someone said barbecue, what came to mind?

Speaker 3 Yeah, what comes to mind? Because when Alabama, it was like always this like sloppy, saucy ribs and shit that I wasn't crazy about. Huh.
I wasn't a huge barbecue fan until I came here.

Speaker 3 I wasn't a huge barbecue fan until I came here either, but it was not a thing like in San Diego. There are places that do it.
There are like Phil's barbecue in San Diego is like the barbecue spot.

Speaker 3 They have like a couple of locations. It's good.

Speaker 3 And then you come out here and you have barbecue anywhere and you go, oh, I didn't know what it was supposed to be. I get it now.
What about the Top Gun Place? You go get barbecue there all the time?

Speaker 3 No, not all the time.

Speaker 3 would go to uh this is very bad went to a vision doctor who worked on the top gun movie and had the top gun movie playing all 24 hours a day on a tv in his office really yeah it was pretty cool i was a proud american right there

Speaker 3 um

Speaker 3 but when i think of barbecue it's what we got like today like it's brisket it's yeah

Speaker 3 stuff so did texas change your opinion like do you eat barbecue differently now

Speaker 3 i i love barbecue now yeah like before i was like oh i don't really care whatever and then now it's like oh damn dude like

Speaker 3 the the thing about it is

Speaker 3 it's so good

Speaker 3 out here that the like worst of it like you know i wouldn't say rudy's like the worst of it but man that's like the most baseline

Speaker 3 like oh it's like the same at all like their locations it's fucking good and then everything above that is like man this shit is awesome yeah but i got no problem going to Rudy's all the time and just getting that because it's so good.

Speaker 3 It's very equivalent to like a fast food barbecue, right?

Speaker 3 You go in, you get it, you know what you're getting. It's the same all the time.

Speaker 3 Yes, yeah, the consistency is the fastest. It's equivalent to consistency, but I would say it's way better than fast food.
Oh, dude. I completely agree.
Even though it is very fast food.

Speaker 3 But the nice thing about Rudy's, and we've always said, we've said this for years, is you go to Rudy's because it's consistent and you know you're going to get an A minus probably. Oh, for sure.

Speaker 3 Every day. Yep.
Whereas if you drive to Lockhart and you catch Smitties or Kreises on an off day, you've sunk an hour and 10 minutes of driving into a B minus, which is soul crushing. Yep.

Speaker 3 When you, when you want

Speaker 3 amazing Texas.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's like when people come here and visit, if they've never been here before, I take them to like Terry Black because it's, you know, it's just south of the river and it's right next to the Palmer Events Center.

Speaker 3 And it feels like Austin and you wait and then you eat there and it's like, wow, this is really good. And then when they've been here a couple of times, they just go, you just want to go to Rudy's?

Speaker 3 And they go, yeah. And they eat it.
And they go, this is fucking good. Yeah, there's plenty of other stuff you can do with that save time.
Exactly. Yeah, you have to do it.

Speaker 3 That's 24 hours of line time. Yeah.
And that to me is how much is your time worth? Because, man, that being said,

Speaker 3 for people that hear about how crazy the lions are and say it's not, no food can be worth this stuff. And I tend to agree.

Speaker 3 If you can get your hand on that level of barbecue,

Speaker 3 Interstellar, supposedly, I've never had it. Valentina's, I think, is going through some rough times, but like, let's say Franklin or La Barbecue, you absolutely should

Speaker 3 drop everything you're doing to eat it. It's so fucking good.
I've only had Franklin one time. It's just date kept from us.

Speaker 3 It was during COVID, and I had a friend, like, I guess they were doing like online orders or whatever. And he got the online order.
He's like, come over. I got this.
Let's fucking do it.

Speaker 3 And we ate a bunch of Franklin. I went, that's awesome.
I would not wait eight hours in like this.

Speaker 3 I used to do that sometimes for the salon girls back in the old days, right around the same time, because you'd have to get like too much for one person or one family. Yeah.

Speaker 3 But still, you could get it, and it was easy. You just drive it and they put it in your trunk and you drive off.
Yep. And so I would go drop it up there.

Speaker 3 Do you guys want to grab a bench over here and chill for a minute? Yeah, let's do it. This is nice.
Yeah, I would like some shade.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no kidding. The shit we were talking about shade earlier.
I could go for some right now.

Speaker 3 I talk no shit about shade. Flower is wilting.
But the thing about

Speaker 3 Rudy's is it's so consistent. Like, I didn't know what barbecue turkey was.
Like, I thought turkey was just whatever until I had, like, Rudy's, and I went, oh, this is fucking, this fucking rocks.

Speaker 3 I don't think they have a single bad thing on the menu. No, there's not a single thing where I would say, don't get that.
No, they had. No, absolutely not.
I'm going to

Speaker 3 put this on here. Jalapeno

Speaker 3 cheese brat thing or whatever. They're a jalapeno cheddar sausage.
Dude, it's so good. That's the best thing on the menu.
It is.

Speaker 3 People will say it's brisket, but I think that jalapeno cheddar sausage, and honestly, the prime rib. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You don't usually order it. Bernie would always get it on, like, when we'd have like a, I don't know, like a weekend get-together.
He would always get one.

Speaker 3 It's so fucking their prime rib is so fucking good, and you forget about it. They do something with brisket that, you know, I feel like we should talk about people.

Speaker 3 I should have brought my sunglasses, people who aren't from here, there's ants all over this thing,

Speaker 3 are going to find maybe a little strange. We'll order that one.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You can buy

Speaker 3 when you order brisket, you can order regular brisket,

Speaker 3 lean brisket, or moisture. Moist, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And moist just means fatty. Like all that fat has just melted.

Speaker 3 And you get the burn-ins too. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, and boy, it's fucking good.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I always go for the moist whenever possible.

Speaker 3 You know, we talked about this a little bit, but you said that you're like vegetarian mostly like weekdays, and then on the weekend, you kind of like go for it or whatever.

Speaker 3 You broke it in the middle of the week for Christmas.

Speaker 3 Yeah, hell yeah.

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Speaker 3 Can I ask a favor? Sure. Will you guys be my potato pals? Oh, fuck yeah.
Okay. Wait, wait, wait.
What does this entail? So I know exactly what he's getting at.

Speaker 3 What I found out, because I went to dinner with Jeff the other day, and I brought up going to get this potato. And then

Speaker 3 Jeff's wife doesn't like baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, any potato salad.

Speaker 3 She doesn't like the consistency of potatoes. She only likes them when they're more crunched than potatoes.
So like a crinkle fry, waffle fry,

Speaker 3 very overcooked tater tots, and very overcooked hash browns are the only things she'll touch. That's a while.
And so it's so weird because potato was probably the predominant

Speaker 3 ingredient to every meal of my childhood. Oh, yeah.
Like potato was served in some form or another, especially growing up in Alabama. Potato's cheap and easy.

Speaker 3 Very cheap and easy. And we had mashed potatoes probably five days a week when I was growing up.
Her family was the opposite. They never touched potatoes.
They don't fuck with potatoes. They're ricey.

Speaker 3 They're in that fat cat. There's either

Speaker 3 fat cat.

Speaker 3 Oh, fucking, there you go.

Speaker 3 You either, I think that you're either rice people or potato people. No, we definitely weren't rice people growing up.
I never had rice. No.
Very rarely. And so

Speaker 3 I guess that's where the break.

Speaker 3 We had Spanish rice, and that was really it. We had spanish rice and beans.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm not to perpetuate any stereotypes. No, no, no.
No, please, go ahead. Perpetuate.
No, but me too. Where do you land on tortillas?

Speaker 3 We had that, but dude, a baked potato where you just like, I'll just stab this with a fork and then I'll throw in the microwave and this thing's ready. And you just, we were talking about like.

Speaker 3 Mashed potatoes are like such a perfect form of the food, but that's why I like a baked potato because it's like having mashed potatoes in a little container. Yeah.
And oh, with none of the effort.

Speaker 3 No, zero. That's the thing.
And that's zero. It's like a soup and a bread bowl.
It is. It's like a soup and a bread bowl.
It is. It's a potato bowl.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a mashed potato bowl.

Speaker 3 And here's why I need you guys to be my potato pals because I I learned later in life to like a baked potato. Growing up, I thought they were boring.

Speaker 3 I thought they were, they weren't a sexy potato to me. It was always like a cheap version or like a quote-unquote healthy version of a mashed potato, which I much preferred.

Speaker 3 And so I ignored them until probably my mid-30s, late 30s. And now I'm married to a woman who won't look at them, and I just don't have access to them in my life.

Speaker 3 We finally have the technology to improve baked potatoes, and you're left wanting. Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 3 And so I want to have my potato pals. And that technology is smoking it, cutting it open, slamming it with all the cheese and sour cream and butter you can find, and then topping it with brisket.

Speaker 3 Listen,

Speaker 3 there was like a big stick of butter. There was so much.

Speaker 3 The baked potato potato at Rudy's is the best value of delicious to dollar you can get anywhere. Because the potato by itself, fully dressed, is like six bucks.

Speaker 3 And then if you want to throw a meat on there, like we got a brisket, it's like $10. Yeah.
And you get as much brisket as you would get if you bought like a sandwich for $14.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's definitely a sandwich amount. Yeah.
And the potato is loaded, like I said, with tons of butter, cheese, if you want, sour cream, chives, all that shit. Yeah, and it's just so much.

Speaker 3 I'm not saying like $10 is super cheap, just like the cheapest meal you can get. I'm just saying the amount of food you get and the quality of food you get for $10 is crazy.

Speaker 3 Cause I mean, I mean, that's like the big thing, right? Like McDonald's, you can't even get like a Big Mac meal for $10. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Me and Gus split one. We ate the whole thing.
I'm perfect.

Speaker 3 I feel so good.

Speaker 3 It was so fucking good. Every bite was like, God damn.
And then somehow there was a mystery fork.

Speaker 3 Someone put a fork in it. We got halfway through eating our potato and then went, why is there a fork sticking out of our potato?

Speaker 3 Now, you might be thinking, oh my God, somebody who was making this potato left a fork in there.

Speaker 3 No, one of us stabbed a fork straight up and down into the potato and then we just didn't see it as we were. And then we ate around it.

Speaker 3 It was like, we were like those drivers who didn't see the big branch

Speaker 3 eating around a fork that was standing straight up in the middle of our potato. He has a fork one.
It was crazy. And we just looked at it and went, where'd this fork come from? And guess what?

Speaker 3 I I don't know. I assumed it was your fork.
And then I looked in your head and you had a fork. We both had forks.
Then you had a fork and it was like, what happened here?

Speaker 3 And then it didn't matter because we just took it out and then kept eating. There was no hesitation.
Just went, oh, that's funny. One of us put it in there and we just didn't use it.
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 What's up, man? Did we record an anima here?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. We did, right? We went to Stinson's coffee shop, which is on the other side of this park, and got coffee and walked over here and sat somewhere over there.
I think, yeah, we were. We drove.

Speaker 3 We didn't walk over here. Oh, drove, man.
We were in that, right?

Speaker 3 isn't there like a little cover yeah yeah there's like a little pavilion thing I just got like the weirdest sense of deja vu and realized we had done this before yeah is this our first repeat location well we did figure eight twice wow those were different figure eights very different figure eights um yeah this is the first location that we've been to twice

Speaker 3 completely unit yeah no this was totally by accident yeah we just kept walking and then ended up here I was getting ready to turn on. I was like, man, it's hot.

Speaker 3 I'm glad we stopped because it's not like last summer where we're in the shade and the breeze is not killing me. No, i'm not actually cooling

Speaker 3 the breeze feels good in the shade and it's nice yeah uh but with that walk back is going to be pretty warm uh but whatever i'm not worried about but we'll walk back as the crow flies we meandered over here yeah

Speaker 3 yeah absolutely um this is going back to something i talked about last week this week you know it's it's hot i mean last week i talked about how cool it was and how nice it was this week is

Speaker 3 we are back at average highs for summer yes this is how summer is supposed to be

Speaker 3 uh it's like it's hot but you stop in the shade, you're fine. It's doable.
It is. It's not like we're in Phoenix.
The high is 95 today, which I think is probably average. The low is 78.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And it's 92 right now, and it feels like 92 without being like brutal.

Speaker 3 It's supposed to be 96, 97. Then it starts getting it like Saturday.
It's supposed to be like 99. Yeah.
Hot, but like not insane.

Speaker 3 And then hot on Sunday. But it's the difference between 99 and 109.
Exactly. It's such a difference.

Speaker 3 It's so much more than 10 degrees. It's a huge difference, especially especially in Austin, where the breeze is so hard to come by.

Speaker 3 Or when you do have it, it's like a blow dryer.

Speaker 3 The gentle breeze, growing up in San Diego, I'm just so used to, oh, there's just airflow like all the time. There's just always a wind that's blowing through.
You don't get that here all the time.

Speaker 3 So like when it's happening right now, it's like, oh my God, it feels so fucking good. And you can survive.
this weather.

Speaker 3 But boy, when it's 108 and there's no breeze and you just go, huh, it's like wearing an electric blanket all the time.

Speaker 3 It's back to a summer where you can enjoy it on the margins. Like I went for a bike ride this morning at 9 a.m.
Yeah, and it was breezy and gorgeous.

Speaker 3 And tonight at about 11, I'll walk the dog for 45 minutes or maybe 10. It'll be maybe 9.30 or so.

Speaker 3 And it'll be awesome. Like it'll be fucking gorgeous and wonderful.
And then you just, you know, in the daytime, you look at a computer. I've been walking the dog around 8 and it's been awesome.

Speaker 3 It's been so nice out. You're a big dog walking guy now.

Speaker 3 I love walking the dog now. I do too.
I'm all about walking that dog. Sounds like a euphemism.
I'm taking that dog. I'm walking that dog.
My old dog, my old dogs

Speaker 3 were too old. Yeah.
So they couldn't walk. This dog, he fucking can't stop.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 My dog doesn't need to walk, but he has like a backyard that he kind of hops around in or whatever. But he likes going on the walk.

Speaker 3 And then he comes home and he pants so much because he's like, we've really walked like a mile or whatever that my wife is like, is he okay? And I'm like, yeah, this is just what a dog does.

Speaker 3 This is, he's getting exercise. He's He's not used to that.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's not a couch potato. No, exactly.
Can I, I'm gonna, can I nerd out for a little bit here? Please allow me, if I may.

Speaker 3 I was curious, you mentioned about like the breeze in San Diego and how it was always wind blowing. I started really thinking about that the other day.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 Like, why is it when you're by the ocean that you get that sea breeze?

Speaker 3 And I finally realized, maybe I'm an idiot. Maybe everyone else knows this and it's common sense, but it finally clicked to me why sea breeze is a thing.

Speaker 3 The sun does not heat water at the same rate that it heats land. So the air over land gets hotter faster than the air over water.
So the air over land begins rising, you know, hot air rises.

Speaker 3 So then there's almost like there's less air on the ground. So then the cooler air from the sea goes right to replace it.

Speaker 3 It just never really blows hard enough where we're going to get, you know, we get like little dust doubles and everything, but it was never really hot enough to like, or cool enough with like the hot air to be like a disaster because everything's gentle.

Speaker 3 It doesn't get hot, hot, hot. So like the hot, hot air isn't crazy, crazy hot and the sea breeze isn't crazy, crazy cold.

Speaker 3 It's just all medium air sort of together and you get it blowing in constantly. It rocks.
It is so, oh, it's great.

Speaker 3 Now, see, I always just assumed it was just because there's no trees in the ocean to slow it down or buildings. And so it gets to build up wind speed and then it hits the land and it pushes in.

Speaker 3 And the further inland you get, the further obstructed it is. It's like friction.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he thought that it was God blowing on the ocean.
And then when it rained, it's his tears. And

Speaker 3 yeah, the marine layer layer and that like sea breeze and everything is why it's so easy in san diego all the time it's

Speaker 3 so nice i mean when you guys would come for comic-con which just passed at the time of this recording comic-con was a so yeah um i hope i never go there again me too uh the when you guys would come that was the

Speaker 3 ideal time for like summer vacation because people come in june but we have crazy June gloom where it just the marine layer comes like rolls in and doesn't burn off coastally.

Speaker 3 it just stays so it's just gloomy overcast all day every day like all through june july rolls in it starts getting hot so all that stuff burns off around 10 and then you're at the beach and it starts getting hot and everything and it's fucking great the last the best the last time i was out there was 2019 uh the last pre-covet comic-con i've not been back in yeah in five years but man it's uh it was nice that was a good trip yeah you recommend i go out to what was it obviously oh yeah yeah ocean beach dude yeah ob rocks yeah it's awesome it's it would be a really cool place to live.

Speaker 3 Way too expensive. Yeah, I looked at it.
I was like, this place's nice. I pulled up like Redfin Hall.
I was just like, oh, man, this is. It's brutal now.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 It used to just be where it's like, hey, what's up? Are you a burnout? Yeah. Come on down to Ocean Beach.
You're like, all right, cool. What were you doing at Comic-Con in 2019?

Speaker 3 I think I was there too, but we were

Speaker 3 the Warner Brothers boat. Yeah, we had to do content on the Warner Brothers boat.
Oh, I was on it with you. Yeah.
Yeah. That's right.
We did that together. That's what it was.
I was producing it.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And then I was out there with Drew Saplin, and we put it all together and everything.

Speaker 3 And then on the the last day when we were breaking it all down, he wanted to just pack it up and get like back to the car and take all this stuff back.

Speaker 3 And he's like getting all frustrated or whatever. And I'm like, no, we don't have to call a car.
We don't have to get anything.

Speaker 3 We'll have the boat take us across the harbor and then it'll drop us where the car is parked because that's where we unloaded or whatever. And he's getting all frustrated or whatever.

Speaker 3 And it takes like an hour and then it finally goes. And I remember being out in the harbor with him.

Speaker 3 The bartender gave us a bottle of bourbon that he mashed blackberries into that he didn't end up using for whatever the thing was so he gave that to us we're drinking it on the boat in the bay and dolphins were jumping around the boat and the breeze was cooking and everything and he just went i just want to tell you that i was wrong

Speaker 3 i think about it all the time it was like the it was like the last great time that i really had like in san diego where i went like this is like why people come here yeah it was that being on like a hornblower cruise and like the like the sea breeze is kicking and everything i don't know that i've still had that experience let's go

Speaker 3 it's always just a bunch of people pushing by me in fucking costumes dude let's let's go get that year on the boat that wasn't bad like we weren't like yeah he didn't have to

Speaker 3 go in it was just on the boat i i i all i remember about that is that guy telling us to piss out out of a second story window

Speaker 3 and how liberating it was yeah yeah uh i forgot about that let's uh i think that got cut

Speaker 3 from the final version

Speaker 3 that was cool as hell i don't think that made it

Speaker 3 Let's go to San Diego. Let's do one of these things over there.

Speaker 3 Let's do it on a hornblade.

Speaker 3 Eric's turf. Get a brunch.
Okay, here's what we do. Yeah.

Speaker 3 We all get in a car. Yeah.
We divide up the tire.

Speaker 3 We drive to the airport. Whoever's got the most tire on the ground, we have to go in and buy plane tickets.
That person has to buy three plane tickets to San Diego.

Speaker 3 Here's what we do. Fucking crazy.
We ask Nick to figure out how much money this podcast makes from

Speaker 3 DIA. Uh-huh.
And

Speaker 3 DII. DIA.
Directly integrated ads, direct ad integration. I think they're both correct.
Dynamically.

Speaker 3 Sorry, dynamic ad insertion, dynamically inserted ads. Dynamic ad insertion provides dynamically inserted ads.

Speaker 3 So see how much money we make out of D A I A

Speaker 3 and then just use that as our playing pool. We're going to have to make this podcast for five years.
Yeah, yeah. We save money by having

Speaker 3 to apply us there. Yeah.
No, that is not a cheaper way. No, come on.
You can do it. I can do it.
That is not a cheaper way.

Speaker 3 It would also take fucking forever. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It would be like driving a car there. It'd be faster, but it would not be pleasant.
I mean, if it's like a couple hundred, like a hundred bucks a month, we'll get there in like a year. Yeah, right?

Speaker 3 We just watch the fairs. Easy.
We can all share a hotel room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We can do it. We can do it old school.
We do it 2004 style. We'll just go stay at Eric's parents' house.

Speaker 3 They can go. Oh, they would totally be fine with it.
They'd be like, oh, yeah, absolutely. It's called Rocco.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Rocco would not be okay with it. Rocco would say no.
And

Speaker 3 it has to be you. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Sean would say yes, but he would also not have room for us, but he would have promised it before he thought about that.
It would be really good.

Speaker 3 I would love to go to San Diego with you guys and do something for like two days,

Speaker 3 like fly in,

Speaker 3 burritos, go to the beach, go on a hornblower cruise, like around the bay, all that stuff. Like, I think that would be so killer.
I would fucking love to see Eric Badour's NFT. Yeah.
Oh, dude.

Speaker 3 That would be a blast.

Speaker 3 It would be a blast. I would have so much fun.
You're selling me on this. I think it'd be great.
We should look into this. Yeah.

Speaker 3 legitimately look into it and see how we can make it i think we should make it happen like in a january time frame

Speaker 3 just like really peak tourist season yeah uh

Speaker 3 jeff looks concerned i'm totally no i was off of a different idea i was trying to think if we were there for three days could we do a season a season of the channel like a mini season do you like four episodes oh do you like four episodes there oh yeah absolutely yeah oh yeah there's so many coffee places we could go to that i want to go back to yeah uh we can go to we could do a whole burritos in the beach thing we could do one on a hornblower cruise we could go record shopping in san diego whoa burritos and beach yeah burritos and beach yeah i go definitely go record shopping we could time it so we go see probably my friend's bands play and then hit the neighborhoods and walk around oh yeah hit up a top gun tour you can do a top gun tour that's right you go to miramar you can look at it and then you can go to

Speaker 3 there's a place called brewski's i think it's called brewski's barcade and uh we found out about it after like right after it opened me and my friends were like oh this is sick it's a free play arcade like we don't have to pay to like get in, but it's a bar and arcade.

Speaker 3 So we're like, oh, we'll go get like some beers and play like these arcade games or whatever.

Speaker 3 So we order some beers and we're like, fuck, man, I'm hungry. They got food.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We look at the menus and it's like cheese sticks and chicken fingers and like that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 So we order it and the guy's like, yeah, we got it. No problem.
He rings it in. And then a few minutes go by and we're kind of hanging out at the bar having a drink.

Speaker 3 And then somebody walks in the front door with two baskets of food. Not through like the back or there was like no back.
It was just through like the front door with like two baskets of food.

Speaker 3 And hey, you guys had that, yeah, they sat it down and whatever. And we're like, What the? Why'd I come in through the fucking front?

Speaker 3 We were next door to the strip club, and we had ordered strip club food.

Speaker 3 They worked out of one kitchen,

Speaker 3 and we realized, like, oh, this is a place, this is like a before or after kind of situation where you're like, oh, we can get drunk and do this thing, and then we'll go do this thing.

Speaker 3 And it was like, oh, this is, oh, yeah, we are by like the Air Force base.

Speaker 3 We're all putting it together now. There's a, there used to be a couple of restaurants over here on airport and one of them's still there, Bunbelly.

Speaker 3 And right next to it used to be a place called Heyo Eatery. It was like just south of 51st on airport on the east side.

Speaker 3 And I remember one time I was driving by, I was like, oh, my wife and I were like, we should try that

Speaker 3 Heyo Eatery, right? So we go home and like look on the line, find their online ordering, order the food, drive over. And I go in to pick it up and I walk in and I walk in and the place is empty.

Speaker 3 Just a couple of tables and there's just like one dude sitting there using his phone.

Speaker 3 And I like walk in, I'm like, hey, on an online order? He's like, oh, okay, you know what's name? I tell him my name. He goes, okay.
And he walks out the front door, walks over next door to Bunbelly,

Speaker 3 gets the food and comes back and then gives it to me. I was like, what, what, what, what, what's going on here? Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. And it was stuff that wasn't on the Bunbelly menu.
What the fuck?

Speaker 3 It was like they had their own menu, but it was cooked next door. So I think...
I think both those restaurants moved. I think they're over in the, like, grounded by the hot pot place over by 99 Ranch.

Speaker 3 Oh, Oh, okay. And that's over there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, okay. But they used to be over there in the airport right next to each other.
That is the hardest shopping center to park in the city of Austin. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 You told me you had no trouble every time. A few episodes ago.
I have told you that a bunch, and I have changed my mind.

Speaker 3 I said it, and people heard it, and now all the spaces in the back are gone. It's terrible.
Yeah, the spaces in the back are gone. They used to be there.
You could park in the back. 91.
90 apartments.

Speaker 3 That's it's over. Nope.
All done. Yeah, you cannot go there at all on the weekend.

Speaker 3 It was a parkable place until maybe two months ago. Yeah, the problem is

Speaker 3 it needs to get worse before it gets better. Yeah, that's that's absolutely because where it's at right now is tenable enough where they're not going to fix it.
Right.

Speaker 3 All of the aisles are two-way parking. They just need to rethink it all down and redo it so it's one way away and you can sneak through.
Because right now it's like there's not enough room.

Speaker 3 All the spaces need to be redrawn because they're too small.

Speaker 3 It's just a nightmare.

Speaker 3 I wish you could cut and paste because there's that like three-story parking garage next to book people and rei oh yeah that has never been in use ever i mean it's available but that parking lot has never been full enough grab it and put it right down yeah if you could just yep put it right down you'd be set it's like if this was sim city rules yeah we could sim city it yeah i i think the other the other option if they didn't want to disrupt it too much would be to like dig down oh a little bit

Speaker 3 i bet that would that would take a long time that would be a pain in the it would take a like a lot of what would they hit on that side too like a lot of like rock that's a lot of rocks you're gonna need a you're gonna need a lot of jackhammers it's probably very firm because the the train track runs there so i'm sure it's

Speaker 3 yeah yeah yeah yeah yep it's very very firm that's all the trash that's no doubt buried there uh-huh it has to be awful you know that's what people used to do until the oh yeah 1800s yeah you just dig a hole and that's a trash hole your backyard yeah that's your trash hole and then most of it decomposes because it was chicken bones and discarded bread and garbage whatever but then it's also it's that and then glass bottles.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And so you just dig up and you go, it's a lot of glass bottles.
It's like a time caps.

Speaker 3 Ben Franklin, was it Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson? I think it was Ben Franklin, was one of the, like, started one of the first trash services in America in Austin, yeah. Huh.

Speaker 3 In like seven, in the mid-1700s.

Speaker 3 I found all this out in the soul, right?

Speaker 3 I was going to say, this is a soul right. Yeah, this is a soul.
It's all right, man. Come on, Jesus.
Start walking. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 3 let's start heading back. What's with all the weird, shady, illegal, legal gambling that's in Austin?

Speaker 3 I think it's the same thing as all the weird shady pseudo-legal weed stores that are in austin my gas there's a gas station by my house that sells liquor yeah they sell fireball and i was like how are you guys able to sell liquor and they're like oh there's like fireballs like just under the thing that they don't with us there's two different kinds of fireball there's one that's in like the larger you know like fireball fireball and then they have a lower abv one that they trip they don't change like almost any of the branding on and i think they got sued for Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. You did hear about that.
They also sell at a lot of gas stations. I don't know if you guys have seen it now.
A lot of pre-rolled joints. A lot.
A lot. A lot.

Speaker 3 They got gas stations just have like 300 pre-rolled

Speaker 3 THC joints.

Speaker 3 What's up?

Speaker 3 Puerto Rico license plate. That's cool.
I'm not sure if you're still looking for those. That's neat.
Yeah, put it on your list.

Speaker 3 It's not on the. Oh.

Speaker 3 Oh, you don't consider it? I need

Speaker 3 United States.

Speaker 3 I do. I 100% do.

Speaker 3 It's that fucking stupid game on my iPhone doesn't.

Speaker 3 I need South Carolina. It's the only state I need right now.

Speaker 3 You ever been to South Carolina? A bunch. Really? I went to college there.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, for a semester.
And then Gus and I did an event there. I think we talked about it on this podcast.

Speaker 3 We thought we were going to die on the plane. Yeah, yeah.
I do remember that.

Speaker 3 You're talking about those gaming rooms. Yeah.

Speaker 3 There's a Thai restaurant I really like over off of Lamar called Tataya. I don't know if you've ever been there.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kind of if you go like that parking lot behind it. Oh, I know.
There's a game room back there. Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 I haven't been to that game room, but I know exactly what he's talking about. And one time I got really curious about it, so I was like, I'm gonna go this way, yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, I'm gonna walk over to that game room. I'm gonna see what's going on.
You're crazy, and you're crazy. I walked up to it, and there's like a metal grate over the door.

Speaker 3 There's like a camera, and there's a sign that says, I forget what it says, but it says something like, to gain access, ring buzzer, and hold your ID up to the camera. Whoa.

Speaker 3 I was like, yeah, this is not something I'm doing.

Speaker 3 So I didn't go in, I was like, I'm curious to see what the setup is.

Speaker 3 I read

Speaker 3 a thread on the Austin subreddit about those a couple months ago, maybe a couple weeks ago, even. I don't know if you guys saw it.

Speaker 3 But somebody said that what they do in there is the way they, because

Speaker 3 they handle the pseudo-legality of it, is you buy...

Speaker 3 I may have misread this, but I don't think I did.

Speaker 3 I apologize if I'm getting this way wrong because I know it sounds ludicrous.

Speaker 3 I think you buy like Tide Pods or laundry detergent in some way, and then you bet with that yeah and then when you win you trade it for money that's it's it's like how gambling in japan works right

Speaker 3 it sounds like a pachiko party yeah where it's like oh you won plates you're like i didn't want plates oh you go next door with the plates and you exchange the plates for luckily enough through some weird coincidence there's a store next door that buys this exact kind of buttons i mean it's so lucky for you that you won all these plates the guy next door loves these plates he goes crazy for these plates you know just take all of these plates like across the alley right there.

Speaker 3 That guy who's chain smoking cigarettes, two hands, he'll buy those plates off you for some crazy shit.

Speaker 3 I will say, I don't know if it's a sign of like the world at large or the U.S. at large or if it's just an Austin thing,

Speaker 3 but I am feeling things get a little wild westy lately, these last year or so. I feel the same way.

Speaker 3 If you're out and about or going around, it's like... Things are a little wacky.
I love it. I do too.

Speaker 3 I want it. Like, people seem really comfortable operating illegal businesses in public right now.
Yes. That was not the case

Speaker 3 10 years ago.

Speaker 3 It definitely was not the case 20 years ago when I lived here. It is now commonplace and nobody seems to give a fuck.

Speaker 3 I'll tell you guys about the one that

Speaker 3 I see a lot because I don't want to give away its location, but it's exactly how what you're talking about is exactly how I feel because I see it and I just go, you can't possibly get away with this.

Speaker 3 And they are daily. People have realized the rules don't matter.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think we are really getting to that point.

Speaker 3 Like,

Speaker 3 peak realization, the rules don't matter. Well, I think a lot of it has to do with like the policing and stuff and like the quiet quitting.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. It's just in the...
It's like there's no consequence to most of this stuff. If the president's immune, I'm immune.
That's right, baby. If they come after the president, who's next? Me?

Speaker 3 He's the only reason they're stopping.

Speaker 3 He's stopping them. They're coming after me, but he's in the way.
Yeah, yeah. Have you ever been here to draft house? Yeah.
No. Yeah.
I didn't didn't even know this was here. It's a great spot.

Speaker 3 They got tons of great beer. It's like a British pub.

Speaker 3 I don't go there anymore, but it looks like they would have amazing food. They do not.
It's a bar. Oh.
But it is a great bar. And they have trailers outside.

Speaker 3 I was about to ask, what kind of food do they have? No, they don't.

Speaker 3 I used to get disappointed when I'd go there and I'd be like, oh, I was fucking starving. That's funny.
It's not the Alamo Draft House. Right.
No, no. It's the Draft House D-R-A-U-G-H-T.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Draught House.

Speaker 3 Drought. That's where

Speaker 3 my cousin had his political campaign. That's where he had his kickoff event.
Oh, is that right? Yeah. That's pretty cool.
So the fuck? I introduced him to give a speech. Nice.

Speaker 3 How do you guys feel about the cicadas?

Speaker 3 And the look. I don't care.
I feel the same way. Why are people, why do people dislike them? Why is there a dislike? I think it's way worse in other parts of the country.
Probably. Huh.

Speaker 3 It's got to be, right? Because this is not an issue. I equate them with summer.
Yeah. And just like being a kid and being out and about.
I'm much more, I think the fucking

Speaker 3 the plant jiz or tree sacrifices

Speaker 3 is way worse

Speaker 3 way bigger deal that we have to deal with in Austin. I forgot about tree calm.

Speaker 3 Just wake up every other day and your entire fucking yard and house and everything you own is covered in sticky.

Speaker 3 You guys want to go to Bumble? Make a new friend or whatever? That's their

Speaker 3 corporate headquarters, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is.

Speaker 3 Weird space for a corporate headquarters. I think that they

Speaker 3 laid off some people recently. No.
Speaking of, did you see Bungie? No, what happened? Announced they're doing layoffs. Are they really? Yeah, I think they said, I don't want to get it wrong.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 But I want to say that they announced like

Speaker 3 200 layoffs, but they're building out a new studio within PlayStation, within Sony proper, and they're going to move a bunch of them over there to try to help seed it.

Speaker 3 It's like a way to keep, but still a bunch of people are going to lose their jobs.

Speaker 3 And it's like, what, everything I was reading in the subreddit and the the reddit threads about is like it's just Sony slowly absorbing bungee until there's nothing left but uh this is crazy bungie I'll have to read more about it bungee makes destiny now is that like their thing well they've been for like the last 10 years right no but like that's like their thing right like they don't make they don't do they make anything else well this they have a marathon remake coming out okay so the answer to my question is no yeah

Speaker 3 if we ever wanted to work in a really cool building I think this marathon building right here is really cool I thought you were gonna say this is what a segue thought you were gonna say this law office and I'm like what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 No, it's weird that we're talking about marathon, but

Speaker 3 that's marathon street, and that building is called marathon. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Good work. We crack the code.
This means something. Yep.
We should talk about the potato and rudies and stuff because we're near like right, we're almost back to the car.

Speaker 3 I feel like the end of the day.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but we got to rate it because I want to know what Jeff thinks about

Speaker 3 the perfect fucking tin of a potato if I've ever had one. Incredible.
I don't know how it would be improved. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Maybe some more salt, but you put salt on a potato yourself. Yeah.
Yeah. Dude, you guys were doing barbecue sauce on it.
Didn't even cross my mind. Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 I got to do the barbecue sauce next time. Hell yeah.
That seemed like such a move. That was so smart.

Speaker 3 It just didn't hit me.

Speaker 3 I'm normally not like a big sauce person. I don't, in general, I don't like sauces.
I'm not a big ketchup person. I don't typically eat a lot of barbecue sauce either.

Speaker 3 But there's something about the Rudy's barbecue sauce with the Rudy's barbecue. It's just

Speaker 3 double plus good. Just really hitting.

Speaker 3 I feel the same way about

Speaker 3 what's that fucking salt lick.

Speaker 3 Like, I feel like their meat is mediocre until you put their barbecue sauce in it. And then somehow the two work.
But their barbecue sauce on its own, okay. It's fine.

Speaker 3 But it's something about how when you put the combination together, it works

Speaker 3 exceptionally well. And then you top it off with some blackberry cobbler? Yeah.
You set.

Speaker 3 So, also

Speaker 3 sides at that place.

Speaker 3 10 out of 10 potato. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 Oh, definitely. Like, this is the second time I've had it in four days.
I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 Give it to me again, please. I wouldn't know how to try to beat it in Austin.
I wouldn't even know where to go. No, it's so,

Speaker 3 so good. You know how we're trying to create like a, and I said by we, I mean, I have, I said it once,

Speaker 3 uh, that we should create a

Speaker 3 national hot dog registry for regulation. Yeah.
Maybe we need to have like a potato.

Speaker 3 Could be potato snaps. Send us your local potatoes.
Yeah. If you know of any great baked potatoes in Austin, please let us know.

Speaker 3 We're trying to build an Austin potato heat map. But what about our next episode? Are we calling our shot? Is there anywhere else that we want to go? Because

Speaker 3 it's happened every time so far on this run of episodes. I feel like we talked about another place that

Speaker 3 we did. I was jazzed about something else.
Really? I don't remember. It was.
I haven't started working on the edit for episode two, so I don't. It was not coffee.
No, it was something. It was a.

Speaker 3 Well, you're talking about breakfast tacos here. That was.
That's right. Yeah, that's right.
We're talking about here. We're talking about.

Speaker 3 I don't remember. Oh, you know what?

Speaker 3 It might have been Daynata.

Speaker 3 It was

Speaker 3 Danata. It was Daynata, yeah.
Maybe we got a Daynata. Maybe we can make that happen.
They don't open until 3 p.m. No, that's all afternoon.
Rooster Chief's not here to stop us. That's right.

Speaker 3 They can't stop us. And boy, ooh, they want to so bad.
But they can't. They can't.
Ooh, they want to. They're just going, ooh, we want to stop you.

Speaker 3 And they are us because we were rooster teeth, so we were going, like, oh, I want to stop us. I want to stop us.
I can't stop us. Well, that'll do it for this episode.
Good morning, Gus.

Speaker 3 Follow us on whatever the social media things are in the description if you haven't worked that out yet.

Speaker 3 Any final thoughts, parting words for the folks at home?

Speaker 3 Don't sell a potato short.

Speaker 3 Oh, he's taking a picture of the tire. It's a good tire.

Speaker 3 Bye.