Geoff & Eric’s Austin Adventure

and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other.

When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a four-litre jug.

When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

Oh, come on.

They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip.

Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.

Whatever.

You were made to outdo your holidays.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedia, made to travel.

Okay, check, check, check, check, check.

Testing, testing, check one, two.

Here we go.

Throw this in my pocket.

Mine's under everything and

under my shirt.

Hopefully, Nick's okay with that.

Sorry, Nick.

This is an experiment.

If it doesn't work, we'll just sit down and redo it at a table.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, if Nick goes, yeah, this sucks.

sorry nick

i have a an in for some reason i just have a personal inability to clip on the lav like to my around my neck that's funny it's always backwards or upside down i can never figure it out how goofy i went in here there's some cool stuff sometimes dude blue velvet uh

Blue Velvet was one of the first places I ever went to in Austin.

Yeah, it used to be over by Sound Exchange over on the drag.

And they were next door to each other, so you'd always go get like a cheap old beer t-shirt.

Oh, that's cool.

Back when it used to be cheap to go to a place like

that.

Yeah.

Been a long time.

Yep.

Yeah, it's been a minute.

That's fucking funny.

Oh, that's cool.

That's

real small world thing.

Hey, what's happening, man?

We're doing good, man.

How about y'all?

Doing too well?

All right.

Can I get a large cold brew, please?

Yeah, man.

Do you want it to go?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then we'll get a large drip, also.

Just black.

You got it, man.

What's going on?

Eric.

Eric.

83.

Cool.

And then we'll call y'all in just a second.

Right on.

Awesome.

You fellas have a nice day, all right?

Right on.

Thank you too.

Appreciate it.

Killer.

What a weird small world thing.

Emily just texted me and said, Gavin's Halo Regret Times thing is so funny.

So it must be because, you know, she doesn't understand, like, I don't know what the fuck's going on there, probably.

That's great.

That's good to hear.

The Blindside

The Blindside Small Soldiers thing that we put out today is so funny.

Oh I haven't watched it yet.

It is

the editing is good and

it's a funny moment.

I feel like we need to take a minute to sit down somewhere and just talk about I feel like we've had some absolute just fucking home runs lately.

Like on Monday we put out the Gavin Gavin's Secret Room in Halo, which I think is one of the funniest videos we've made and

really unique.

And that's just the first video that I don't think we've really talked about anywhere.

No.

People have no idea.

And I think that's like...

Yeah.

There's a very famous achievement hunter moment where...

Cool, thanks, brother.

Appreciate it.

Gavin, we're playing...

You want to go sit outside?

Yeah.

There's a very

famous within the achievement hunter world moment in a video, a Minecraft video, where Gavin's giving a tour of his house and they find a secret room that's got all of his little trophies that he gained from his victories.

Yeah.

And Jack makes fun of him and asks him him if he's got a note from his mom in there.

And it gives that exact same kind of energy.

That's great.

And people have been comparing it to that, which is cool.

It's been good stuff.

Whoa, I'm just kicking my coffee all over the place.

Okay.

This is nice.

Coming to

Epoch and getting a cup of coffee.

Man,

it's days like

January 31st, 2024,

when you think, why would I ever leave Austin, Texas?

It's 70 degrees and sunny and amazing.

It's killer out.

Like, we're sitting in the shade because it's so...

Dude, I sat in the backyard with my shirt popped off again yesterday.

It's the best.

I've been taking like morning walks because now it's not, you know, six degrees or whatever.

I'm sure it will be again soon, but like, that's the best.

I make a cup of coffee and then I walk like two, three miles, just like, just kind of putt around and like listen to stuff.

And it's fucking great.

It's the best.

It's,

I always get into a rhythm in the spring when I go walking a lot.

Like back when I used to live on the other side of town, I would walk to RT sometimes.

Oh, yeah.

And when we lived downtown for a little while, or when we worked downtown for a while, I was able to walk there.

Long walks, like two, three mile walks, but just like you just love it.

And then one day you're like, oh, it went from kind of uncomfortable to, I'll die.

I'll die on this walk.

I'll be dead in 30 minutes and then you're like i can't do this again until uh

well for seven months now you know it sucks i was i would get like really into the rhythm of it and really enjoy it and then it just gets taken away from me yeah

but we'll see

unbelievably mild winter yeah so i don't know what that means for i was uh i was talking to my wife yesterday and uh because we're at like right at like the end of january and she was

Just kind of going like I mean it was two days where it was kind of you know it like snowed the one and and then whatever and then I said yeah, do you think it's gonna freeze again?

And she went I don't I think we're I don't want to say we're on the other side, but it feels like it's not gonna

It got wet.

I mean it rained a lot.

It it has typically frozen.

Well, I say typically for the last three years we've had a February freeze.

Yeah.

But I'm just not getting the vibe that it's gonna happen.

There's a wrestling show I'm going to in like the last week of February and they do them outdoors at Empire Control Room

like on 7th and the one at the beginning of January was so fucking cold by the end of it like more than half the crowd left it was like brutal and then they announced their next show and they're like it's the last week of February and then it was me and my friends on our phones going like all right we're gonna heating pads we're gonna get I'm gonna like wear some like like long underwear we're gonna like bring hot cocoa like it's fucked I uh I like that Empire Control Room place.

I went to the first time to that Clown Course show.

I'd never been to that venue before.

It was pretty cool.

Oh, hey, should we say what we're doing real fast?

Sure, because we're a couple minutes in.

So it's a supplemental or non-canon episode.

Whatever.

Yeah.

There's no guss.

I almost said non-regulation, but I get, I'm confused in my podcast.

It's a different thing.

It's a gustless podcast, which means it's just you and I fucking around.

And we decided, we did our music episode last week.

So we decided that we're just going to have a little morning together,

get coffee, then we're going to go record shopping.

And then we're going to go grab a little slice of pizza or something for lunch.

And then just uh take you along you being the audience along with us yep uh as we go i'm feeling good about it so

we're at epoch yeah right now which we've been to before yes uh but it's a it's a nice little pocket of stuff like if i lived right here if i lived on north loop i'd be here all the time i'd be at double trouble all the time and then there's stuff to do around there this is always you know for my little Dimwit friends or whatever, it's fun when they come in from out of town and you take them to the vintage clothes store and the record shop and then the other vintage store and then the other vintage store.

And then the other vintage store.

Yeah, you're definitely on vintage road here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you ever, I know we talk about this a lot, and I always mention that, like, what does and doesn't have, doesn't have like an old Austin vibe, at least my old Austin from the mid-90s.

Man,

North Loop has it in Spain.

I was driving through the neighborhoods just, I guess, north of North Loop the other day, just on the other side of the road here, 51st, or I guess North Loop.

God damn.

And it's like driving in the 1998 again like none of the houses have changed it's what it's what my old neighborhood kind of looked like when I first moved here it's got the same vibe it's still like

more dilapidated than McMansion yeah which I love it's it's real nice I mean it's it's nice and a lot of it's walkable and it's little it'll all be

two-story mansions in three years yep enjoy it now

I think I think every city has like little pockets like this though like where you can find the little things to do I think the uh uh

a lot of it from where I grew up turned into from like nightlife went to daytime stuff, which I thought was very strange.

Uh, there's an area called North Park, and that's the place where we drank all the time in my 20s.

And uh, it was just bars, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, and you just get it was like a long street of bars.

I mean, it was like a tea, kind of like a bourbon street.

Yeah, I mean, but no, because it was all uh, dive bars and uh uh punk shows, almost like music and all like that stuff.

And then

it slowly turned into all the bars started moving out, restaurants started moving in, and it started just becoming daytime stuff.

And so now,

this is probably like a few years ago, I went back and visited, and I'm like, yeah, so you guys want to go out drinking at North Park?

And they went, where do you want to go drink in fucking North Park?

And I went, oh,

oh, I see.

I understand.

And that's when you realized you'd been gone too long.

Yeah, there was a bar called Bar Pink that we would go to all the the time because they had $2 tacates.

And then there would always be like a punk show playing or whatever.

And it was the guy from Rocket from the Crypt, John Reese, that was his bar.

And then it got sold and now it's some...

Yeah, we have vinyl and you can listen to records here.

And it's like, oh, and also it's kind of a speakeasy.

And I'm like, oh, I don't like any of this.

This all sucks ass.

I was reading the other day, well, they've been talking about this forever, but I guess they're actually making progress.

They're trying to do a similar thing to 36 in austin oh i've heard about this yeah when they're trying to make it more like a family-oriented destination and so like they've they've made they had they fired opening salvos years ago they brought in a restaurant called el solia la luna which moved from south congress i don't think it's still around no uh but they tried to they they tried a few things to try to turn over you know putting the uh the movie theater there they uh was an attempt and then of course now that's the mothership uh-huh the comedy the joe rogan comedy thing but um apparently some company i was reading about this on Reddit today actually, some company bought up a bunch of the properties and then they've

created their own private security force that runs off all the drug dealers and like

unhoused people and stuff.

And so

I guess their like draconian tactics are working though and apparently it's like

super cleaned up and apparently the Austin Alliance has done a lot of like trash pickup and supposedly I haven't been downtown in forever.

And I wouldn't if I did go downtown it wouldn't be to dirty Sixth, but apparently it's not so dirty anymore.

It's, I mean, I think you could kind of see it coming the way that they have East 6th now,

where it starts sort of at like that Shangri-La, like little, like that bar, and then sort of all the way down to where it's going to be.

It goes from Shangri-La to the grackle is the run, yeah.

And that's where you can start drinking and then end drinking, and you can get kicked out of the grackle like I did.

And then, so you have that area, and then on West 6th, they have everything, like kung fu and all, like, that other parlor and yard and all that shit.

And it feels like it's trying its best to strangle that sort of dirty six from like either side.

There was a

there was a period of about I want to say like six or seven really good years when East Sixth was I would say at its prime and

you would drink you would go bar crawl there but you would do it based solely on the order you wanted to eat the different East Side food trailers.

So this is like mid 2000s when that was kind of at the height food trailers were are kind of at the height.

It was before the Paul Keith flame out when he was kind of a big deal in Austin still.

And you would go, you would get the, you would go to Shangri-La first, which by the way, Emily lived at Shangri-La.

She hung out there.

Her boyfriend worked there.

Before I knew her, she was there seven days a week.

So I probably ran into Emily a million times.

We're probably in the same bar as Emily a million times and never knew it.

But they have Nissa King in the back that had these like bun sandwiches.

You would go and you'd start there and then you'd work your way down and then you would eventually end up in Liberty and at Liberty they had the veggie meshi which was this uh and the chicken kirage which you would get which was the veggie meshi was just like these brussels sprouts dude that were fucking insane and then the chicken kirage you would eat and you'd just be getting hammered and eating that stuff and yet that would sobe you up a little bit and then you'd end up at the grackle and the one outside the grackle they had these ramen bowls oh cool that had uh fried pork shoulder in them that was nice or not fried but just pork shoulder and it was like ugh and you would just get drunker and fuller as the night went on and then probably end up with a parasite from eating in a trailer uh-huh Yeah, it was good stuff.

How's the day?

Those are the days.

Yeah, and you still, I mean, you still have that.

There's still the

food trucks and all like that stuff.

It's just everything.

It's all different.

Yeah, it's all just changed over.

It's all just different.

Yeah, just different signs.

There's a spot that we drove by that I was going to point out.

We were talking about other stuff.

The

where, you know, flight path and

what's the fucking, the Biscuits and Groovy truck or whatever.

That place is overpriced.

Yes, it is.

Across the street from that is like the little gas station.

And then next to that is a trailer and it's called Feral Pizza.

And it's a new spot and I've heard really good things about

Feral Pizza.

Feral Pizza.

Okay.

Its logo is like a Feral Cat.

Maybe are they open?

I don't know.

You want to try that?

If it's open, maybe we'll get to there instead of

Little Deli.

Yeah.

Because I haven't been there and it seems like a spot that would be...

Well, it's hard.

I mean, a name like Feral Pizza, you know, it's probably pretty awesome.

Yeah.

Oh, don't worry.

They open at three.

There's a classic pizza time.

Classic pizza time.

There's a there's a lot of attitude in naming the place Feral.

Yeah.

They have

they have pizzas like the nervous breakdown.

The Elaine.

Kevin.

Nothing of Kevin please.

All right two Kevins.

Again two Kevins and an ankle biter.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

Do you remember like when you were a kid the first thing you ever wanted to be?

No.

I'm sure it was something that was just, you know, fireman faster, not, whatever.

But I've known that I've wanted to work in

broadcast

media since I was like 15.

See, like a young Howard Stern.

Since you were a kid, you were a little bit more than a year.

I just figured I'd be working in news because when I was 15,

there wasn't any of this.

So you weren't attracted to the news portion of it.

You were just attracted to the idea of broadcasting.

I love the live.

I love the live broadcast aspect.

And I love...

i found out the thing that i really love is producing is put is well you're very good at it other people's ideas helping them put them together and then execute and then um

so that's the thing that i've wanted to be most of my life and then i've just been doing it since then

i gotta say uh

it's clear i mean clearly you were made to do it because you're so good at it thank you that's why i only

I don't know if you know this, but I will only work with you and the company.

Oh, I appreciate that.

Yeah,

which to the annoyance of a couple of other people that I found out recently.

But

I just love, I just, I love, you're the best producer I've ever worked with.

Thank you.

Easily, hands down.

And that's not a slight to anybody else, but it's just become so,

it's so hard to find somebody you...

you have a really good creative working relationship with, right?

And there's a good give and take and an ebb and flow and that you kind of are aligned and see eye to eye.

And it's, I think that's one of the things

that's so great about the other podcast we do, the face podcast, is

we have a group of five people that are all pointed in the same direction, they're all creatively aligned.

But it's just so rare.

There's a lot of people that I've worked really well with.

I think you can work really well with most people in the world, but there are very few times when you meet somebody and you go, Oh, this is just such a perfect fit, right?

I think we have that.

At least I hope so.

At least on my end.

But

that's a long way around to go to say that I have

never understood what the joy of producing could be until a couple of years ago.

I was a creator-producer my entire career and never really thought about it and never really

paid too much attention to the producer side.

I was always more focused on my, you know, the creator portion of it.

But when I finally produced something, which was the Survive Block Island show that Trevor created and that Will Deloney directed so adeptly.

It was the first time I ever produced anything that I didn't participate in as talent.

And oh my god, it's fun.

I get it.

That was a very verbose way of just saying, dude, I get it.

It was in some ways,

and I couldn't believe that I was even feeling it, but it was in some ways the most rewarding experience I've had.

Helping other people realize

their vision, but also like helping them avoid mistakes and red tape or work through creative problems and issues.

And

it's so much,

it was such a fun puzzle.

Yeah, it is.

You know?

Yeah.

The way that I look at it is I'm trying my best to

be a coach that can keep the player focused on what they need to do.

So that way when they go up to the plate, they hit a home run.

And they don't have to worry about, oh, this person said that and this happened.

And what about this thing?

And how are we getting...

And you like to be able to put all of the pieces together so somebody can just walk in and sit down and do this thing and do it well and then like execute is like, that's my favorite.

Dude, I get it.

Helping someone hit a home run, as it turns out,

is maybe even more fun than hitting a home run yourself.

Yeah, yeah.

It's uh, I think it's really cool.

Um, you wanna run into this record store, see what we can find?

Yeah, let's do it.

I think it's open.

Let's go see what's up.

This passed to Shal.

I should probably take my phone and mobile keys.

What?

What are you doing?

Hang on.

Sorry.

Doing social media.

There we go.

Wait.

That's cool.

I found out recently.

I've been a big fan of the 0.5 ones.

Let me dump this real quick because they're not going going to want me to get in there.

I was talking about this not too long ago with mom.

The reason I asked you, well, the reason I asked you because I was interested, but

my mom reminded me that the first thing I ever wanted to be in my life, and I was pretty passionate about it, I guess, when I was younger, was I wanted to be a rodeo clown.

Really?

Which I guess I kind of became.

You've been to some ways.

Yeah, really.

You've been to a lot of rodeos?

I don't know that I've ever been to a rodeo.

I've been to so many rodeos.

Dude.

I've been to, what is this?

Psych Fest?

Oh, Courtney Barnett.

I love Courtney Barnett.

Chicano Batman.

This is, what is this, Austin Psych Fest?

Yeah, I don't remember.

Yeah, they have it every year.

Austin is like, I don't know, I was going to say quietly, but probably not quietly, quietly to me.

Austin's like a fucking psych hub.

Yeah, it really is.

It's cool.

It's never been my scene, but huh.

Seems like fun.

Yeah, I can catch you.

Courtney Barnett would be the only person I want to see on that list.

Right.

I'm not allowed to like them anymore.

Whoa.

This is uh.

When was the last time you went to a record store?

Uh,

Sunday.

Oh,

I haven't.

You go pretty often, baby.

No, I don't.

I don't go that often.

That just happened to be the last time.

See, I don't really buy anything that's like...

I don't buy stuff like this size.

That just ain't my speed.

Yeah.

But this soul section, I do want to see if we found

anything good.

Oh, there's a punk sale.

Hang on.

Let me check this blues and gospel section.

Friends will roam the kids.

D-R-I.

That's a cross-over album.

I'm not over that shit.

The fall.

Breakers, dickies.

I don't know.

I had a side out of mine.

Professor Longhair is a great name.

Dude, Professor Longhair.

That's what I'm gonna do.

I don't know why I'm looking at punk albums.

I should be looking at shit I've never heard of.

That's the fun of going record shopping in the drawer.

There's a lot in this

Blues and Gospel.

You from San Diego.

You probably love reggae.

I was listening to Sublime all the way in.

I don't know that that's real reggae, but like, yeah, I listen to, I usually put on ska

on like Sunday mornings and we make breakfast and coffee and stuff.

Yeah, love it.

The Gladiators 1983

Night Hockey P.

Don't be fooled by the colors.

That's everything.

I know, I know, I know.

The Gladiators.

The Perry.

That's a good one.

Is it really?

Never heard of it.

Yeah.

The Upsetters Return of the Super Age.

Oh, Lee Scratch Perry.

Oh.

Yep.

Fuck it, though.

That's a good one.

I'll pick this up.

Yeah.

It's a fun album.

It'll be...

I think it'll be a little...

It'll be what you want to hear.

Okay.

I think.

Jesus Lizard, Palehead.

This isn't new.

These are new.

Oh, these are new arrivals, right?

Yeah.

PJ Harvey.

So what happened to PJ Harvey?

I don't know.

Probably still around and we just don't know.

That's true.

Probably huge.

Yeah, exactly.

What's the name of this spot?

Breakaway Records.

That's right.

Yeah, we should mention we walked over from.

So we're in Breakaway Records, and we're just kind of rifling through now and seeing if there's anything that's

I've been wanting to get into like Doom Metal and Black Metal a little bit more.

Just because I'm a dog.

Just because of, you know, I listen, I get so much of it through Osmosis.

The Osmosis of being friends with those dudes.

This is

cool.

What is that?

KEXP presents Mud Honey on top of the Space Needle.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, but what year is it from?

2014?

I mean,

it's nice.

They lead with Touch Me, I'm Sick, so that's nice of them to do.

I like Mud Honey.

I don't love Mud Honey, but like, yeah, they're, they're um,

they're of a

sound of a time to me.

Ooh, Steely Dan, Katie Live.

Katie Lide's a good album.

Black Friday is a great song.

Bad Sneakers is a great song.

I don't live in New York City no more.

Dr.

Wu.

Everybody's gone to the movies.

That's a great song.

Your Gold Teeth Number 2, Chain Lightning.

Yeah, these are great.

It's a great album.

I like the cover.

It's got a little.

I hate it.

It's so ugly.

What's a Grasshopper?

Yeah,

it's gross.

I hate it.

Disgusting to look at.

I hate bugs.

Oh, Cat Stevens.

He hates America, though.

Ooh, God.

Offspring Ignition on Vinyl.

I hate that band with that passion.

That is where our age shows.

Yeah.

Because, boy, that was, I don't know that there was a cooler band to me and my friends in middle school.

They ruined Crazy Taxi to me.

Dude, that, that, I love it.

I fucking love it.

I'm not a big Joe Walsh fan, but that's a cool album code.

Yeah, yeah.

Like Came Underwater at a little table with a lobster.

Seriously, folks, does that have Life's Been Good?

Over and Over Tomorrow, Second Hand Store, Intertube.

No, it's getting a lot of fun.

Yeah, Life's been good.

Life's Been good, yeah.

Yes, that song is awesome, and it's really long.

This is so much fun.

Yeah, this is great.

I wonder if this makes for any kind of interesting content.

I hope you can.

Probably not, but something to do: the who, meaty, beady, big, and bouncy.

I don't get the who.

I never, dude, they're so full of themselves.

Marshall Tucker band.

A lot of Cat Stevens.

I've been listening to a lot of Cat Stevens lately.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah,

my favorite movie is Harold and Maude.

Oh, okay.

And I don't watch it much, but I think about it a lot.

And so

I listen to that soundtrack a few minutes.

Ooh, Randy Newman.

Little criminals.

Ooh, African.

And then I'll be rifling through this array game, my friend.

I want to see if they have any William Onyabor

God, fucking expensive.

The further sounds of S.

E.

Rogue.

Sierra Leone Independence, 1960.

Oh, this sounds cool.

The sound of S.

E.

Rogue.

Hmm.

Most of his combo.

Resistance music?

That's cool.

Oh, here you go.

William Onybor.

What a cool dude.

Here we go.

Look at that.

I got fly there.

That's awesome.

William Onybor and the mariachi out.

Sitting watching?

We released on the lake about

Iba Taylor.

Ooh, there's a band called Witch.

Get real.

Archival reissue of the Garage Site Zamrock masterpiece,

which in the past...

I'm definitely going to lose.

Okay.

Yeah.

Alright.

Were you ever into Exotica or Hi-Fi?

No.

They make good album covers.

Beach Arama.

Yeah.

Like this kind, I love that kind of art.

Like if it looks like rat pink.

Yeah, exactly

I bet this is good.

I'm gonna get this.

I'm gonna buy way too much stuff.

Yeah, that's that's the way this goes

typically how it goes

Okay Nor Jones on

I Think

I think the idea

Mm-hmm

This is a good album

But I don't need our vinyl song it's mixed for vinyl

this Freddie Gibbs.

Album.

Oh, yeah.

I really like it.

I like Freddie Gibbs.

Yeah.

I like this album a lot.

They did a song with the Kenny Brown looks, I think, I liked.

Oh, MF Doom.

Not

my speed.

Mad Bill.

Jeez, man.

This

whole album.

Yeah, it was 38 bucks.

And it's like, so...

It comes with all this 180 gram vinyl.

It's like, dude, I don't.

That's when I

heavy shit.

When I was in high school, that was like, oh, fuck Clips.

Oh, dude.

Which album is that?

Wampwamp?

This is a single, and then this is.

Oh, that's the album.

Wagwillen.

Waggwillin.

Gus was.

Is this his shit?

Gus was the huge Clips fan.

That's so funny.

I mean, there's really good albums.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Still really good.

Grinden is a great song.

Yeah.

Gangstelene.

That's a very...

Gangstelene, that's a very

Gus song?

Yeah, but what's his name?

Uh, the guy that produced it, I can't think of his name.

Pharrell.

It's a very Pharrell heavy song.

Beasty Boys.

50 bucks, huh?

Holiday.

I don't.

John Carpenter albums would be cool.

Like, these are neat.

Ghosts of Mars and like the shit that he did, like.

Him doing have you ever seen Ghosts of Mars?

No, it looks terrible.

I haven't either.

Is Is that Jason State?

Yes.

Cambridge.

Yo, this is cool.

I just remember Ice Cube being that I don't remember these other people.

Yo, look at that.

This is sick.

Look at this.

Oh, wow.

That's really cool.

I'm going to take a picture.

That's fucking cool.

Music by John Carpenter featuring guitar by Steve Vai.

There was a...

Buckethead did guitar of this.

There was a...

thing, I think with Vanity Fair that went up yesterday that was Kurt Russell talking about his classic characters or whatever.

And

I fucking love Kurt Russell.

But he was talking about working with John Carpenter and everything.

And he was just saying like he feels he can like see the whole vision for everything because he's like doing the music for it too and like all this stuff.

And I'm like, oh, that's so fucking cool.

Yeah.

I think that's so cool.

I still think John Carpenter is like the coolest dude.

Especially, I mean, I always loved him, but finding out that all he wants to do is watch festival play video games.

I think is so awesome.

He just doesn't give him.

I just want to live next door.

He doesn't hang out.

He doesn't care at all.

I think that rocks.

I don't either.

I think that's awesome.

Let me go look at the, I want to see if this remotes records.

Yeah, let's do it.

Oh, this is cool.

They have a listening station.

It's so funny.

I'm always immediately drawn to the punk and hardcore sections because it's of my life.

But

nine times out of ten, I'm not buying anything from this fucking...

No.

It's fucking UK Grime Grant.

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Subterranean jungle, I like.

Oh, dude.

You are talking to a...

I don't have a bad word to say about Ramones.

Oh, I love the Ramones album.

So, my friend...

Everybody has their favorite Ramones album.

I'm passionate about mine.

When we talked about my friend's band and whatever, they had a...

They play with Marky all the time.

Marky has a band.

Yeah, Marky has a band and

Razor Knights will open for him all the time.

He's the only one left alive.

Yep.

Dude.

Leaf Hum's a great album.

Leave Hum, I think.

End of the Century is, I think, the best album.

Ooh, but I'm

not Road to Ruin.

Road to Ruin's good.

But the problem with this is that I have to put this on when my wife's not home because she just goes like, I can't listen to this.

And I'm like, why?

This is so good.

Rocket to Russia is so fucking good.

Millie and I don't, you know, we have

converging and diverging music, yes.

But the Ramones is one where we always seem to like,

if we ever are in the car and we're like, sometimes it'll come on and and it's just like, it's where we, I don't know, really

meet sync up.

Yeah.

Sometimes this Minuteman Politics of Time is a fucking classic.

You ever listen to

Riverboat Gamblers?

I've seen them play a bunch.

Yeah.

They're

from like Denton, I think.

Yeah, I was.

I was going to a lot of shows at the time when they kind of got their start.

And they were playing

at Austin like every weekend for a while there.

They were just very fucking loud.

You would think that you'd see a $31.75.

No.

Oh fuck.

That MDC album fucked up.

Dude, this one rocks.

Dude, you know, they lived in Austin for a while.

Did they?

They were an Austin band.

They didn't stay in Austin band, but they were for a while.

Dude.

I have this on vinyl still.

Me first and the Gimme Gimmes, Tony went to LA and saw, and

they're still fucking kicking, man.

Dude, when I was

back when I was doing my punk scenes and stuff, way before all this, I did an interview with the the Swingin' Utters in New York City at the Coney Allen High, and

Spike

had become a new member of the

Swingin Utters.

And it was right when me first was getting huge.

And I was such a fan of that dude.

And I got to sit and talk to him for like two hours.

Such a cool guy.

That's cool.

John Reese plays with him.

Oh, hang on.

I have all these.

Oh, I don't have drive like Jehooo.

Yeah, I don't have Yank Crime.

I have

these Hot Snakes albums.

Biggest, one of my biggest regrets

was when they did

Jehoo did a reunion show at the San Diego

Oregon Pavilion.

It was a free show and it was outdoors or whatever and I wasn't in town.

I was like traveling for something and I didn't get a go.

And I think about it all the time and it really bums me out.

It bums you out.

Yeah, it bums me out.

And now

I mean Hot Snakes and Jehu are done.

Rick Froeberg died.

Concerts that I didn't get to go to are

some of the regrets that stick with me.

Which is funny because I don't regret a lot of stuff.

that's uh that's that's what that shit is just way up there lightning bolt l7 dude l7 that's cool definitely have a time yeah

i don't know why

as i hold this in my hand uh-huh the fucking donna's they're a very medium band to me and no longer a band but they have been coming up in my life over and over and over again for like the last three weeks it's really getting annoying uh the fact that i just put my hands down and it was normally two don's albums if you're gonna listen to one donna's album listen to spends the night and that's i think that's like their album.

And it should have been, like, they should have taken off.

Because you're right.

They're a pretty medium band, but I think that they were fun to watch.

And

they were like so radio.

And it was the right time for them.

They also, the drummer.

The drummer from the Donna's was in a Target commercial with Bunny Carlos from Cheap Trick.

Yeah.

And it's like, what the fuck?

It's so weird.

I don't know what it is, but the universe is trying to tell me to pay attention to the Donna's.

Yeah.

They were in, they were the,

I think this is where it started.

They were

prom band at that on that Jawbreaker movie I watched first of all, right?

Yep,

crazy.

Yeah, that's so funny.

This is a criminally uh underrated album because we checked all American the last album in the different than their other stuff a little bit, but it was so fucking good.

Oh, that's a great album.

I might grab this one.

Dude, dude, it's 28 bucks, and it's not mixed.

Can I tell you

a crazy fucking story?

Yeah.

Ooh, this one's good.

So

a couple years ago,

when we were still doing like more, we were heavier in the lifestyle brand,

when things were a little, when things were humming, you know, a pre-pandemic world.

Yeah.

And I was doing a lot of like the Jeff brand stuff.

Yeah.

And things were hot, kind of hotter back then.

Yeah.

We had an opportunity to work

with

off kind of.

Really?

They were trying to get a movie made or funded.

Oh, yeah.

And they were looking for funding for this movie called Watermelon.

I read the script.

It's fucking awesome.

And

we brainstormed some ideas of doing some merch collabs with them

because I'm a big fan of Keith Morris.

And so we found out through a friend of a friend knew Dimitri Coates, the guy who is the bassist for

Off.

Hold on just a second.

Let me make sure he is the bassist and not the guitarist.

I'd feel embarrassing.

Dimitri Coates is guitar.

Okay, sorry.

Let me re-cut, take that to me.

Had an opportunity, somebody reached out, or knew, somebody knew Dimitri Coates, who's the guitarist for Off,

and he was in some other bands before that that were pretty big.

And

he invited me out to his house in LA, up in the hills somewhere.

Yeah.

He lives in this mid-century modern Neutre masterpiece.

And he...

That's so cool he and one of the guys from the merch department and I went up and he we sat by his pool in the hills and he told me stories about being an off and about working with Keith Morris that's so fucking and just how fucking brilliant and insane and wild Keith Morris is and he talked our ears off for like four minutes

he talked our ears off for like four hours probably the best four hours of my life oh I bet he I left there just like numb like I I left there like numb from joy.

That's so good.

And we just never did anything with them?

It just never worked out.

I was trying to work out some sort of a deal between them and us and Gunpowder and Sky.

It never actually never came to anything, but I was always ready, and they were going to do some, they were going to release some special merch with us.

And we had like, and then we were going to try to use the merch to help fund the movie.

And it was like a, it was close, and then it just fell apart.

But I felt a genuine like sense of like camaraderie and

like kinship with Dimitri.

I mean, being able to do that's fucking crazy.

I would love to reconnect with him someday, yeah, but I just don't even, you know, I don't know.

I thought it was more than just like a transactional thing, you know, I get it.

But

I don't know that that'll ever happen, but he was just a really cool guy.

He told me a cool story that he got invited to a party at Dave Grohl's house one time, and so he went, like, this is fucking crazy.

I'm some punk rock dude going to Dave Grohl's house.

Yeah.

He said when he walked into Dave Grohl's house, his entryway, Dave Grohl had the first four off EPs from

in his hallway.

Oh, that's cool.

And Dave Grohl showed them to him and was like, this is how big of a fan of you I am.

I can't imagine what that's like.

That's fucking awesome.

Isn't that crazy?

That's so cool.

Anyway, I'm going to grab Wasted Years.

I really like this album a lot.

And then also Rock for Light, which I don't have.

I just started listening to Rock for Light recently.

It's a good album.

I like the Rochester Eat Bad Brains.

It's good.

I think my favorite Bad Brains album is Black Dots, which is a

sort of like a live recorded thing or whatever.

But

I really like Rock for Light.

I have a friend who, my mechanic Barbara Masseuse, when he does his massage stuff, the name of his massage thing is Touch for Light.

And it's...

I thought that was cool.

I'm going to, on a whim, I'm going to grab this Angry Simon's.

Angry Simone's Inside My Brand album because I love it.

Limited.

And they're not.

Limited Red Vinyl.

That's cool.

I don't care about that, but I just...

It's a great album.

Yeah.

See what happens when you come over to the punk section?

Yeah.

You knew what you were going to find.

You knew what you were going to find.

Yeah, there's always one more album I need.

Yeah.

It's the way it always goes.

This, where did it go?

This Hot Snakes.

I have the Hot Snakes stuff, the Jeho stuff, whatever.

John Reese has this solo album called Ride the Wild Knight.

It's under his SWAMI name.

I really like it, but it's...

My problem with a lot of this stuff is that none of it's mixed for vinyl.

And so

buying vinyl for a lot of stuff that is just meant for your headphones is not my speed.

But these are.

This off album and this Bad Breeds album are definitely...

I think we got it.

Hey, check it out, Mordanas.

They're fucking everywhere lately.

And they broke up in like 2014 or something.

I read about them, but it's just weird that they come up daily right now for me.

I think you just got to check out Spend the Night.

Yeah, maybe I'll listen to it again.

It's fine.

Guided by voices.

I remember

contemporary stuff that isn't going to be.

I remember Howard Stern shitting all over him once.

Really?

Yeah.

That's fucking awesome.

Before we go,

anything in the metal section

that you want to check out?

Fuck,

maybe some like pagan altar would be cool.

Ooh, this car's album's good.

Devo.

Dude, you want to.

Inexcess.

I wish this guy didn't kill himself sucking his own dick or whatever the fuck, because

Inex S is a joke now, but man.

Oh my god, dude.

This album.

When Kik came out, I was in the sixth grade, seventh grade,

and it was like

they were so fucking cool.

Everybody in my school came to had a skateboard the next day because of that fucking album cover, and they were it's just like I just wish they didn't uh, you know, end the way they did, I guess.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Uh, New Sensation was such a fucking oh, it's incredible, right?

Huge hit, Super Tramp, Rod Stewart.

All right, let's see what they got in the

camera next to see Gaucho.

Let's see

what we got here.

The biggest impediment to me with metal

is I just can't read the fucking band names.

Yeah.

I just never know what it is.

You gotta get burned, bro.

I know.

I gotta ask Bernie for help.

Yep.

Like, what does this say?

Like, what does this say?

Pecka chicka-check?

Yeah.

Pitchip, pellachecky?

Yep.

Is that even a P-P-E

Pecker?

Pecker Lord?

Yeah, you're doing great.

Yeah, it's impossible.

I can't buy that because I don't know what it is.

Yeah.

Paul Bear.

I already have this, but...

Earthbreakers?

No, the Heart.

Oh, Heartbreakers.

Johnny Thunders.

Oh.

From

Dude, this is so...

I just...

I already have it, but fuck, the LAMF is so...

This is great.

There's so many good songs on that.

Ooh, the $3 section.

Mm-hmm.

Get a...

Get some stuff you never want to listen to.

Tray Lee Lewis.

Tom Jones.

Boz Skaggs.

The fucking Talbot Brothers.

Woof.

Burt Bacharak.

Fog Hat.

I love Fog Hat.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, this is for other people.

Alright, I think we're good.

Yeah.

Alright.

All right.

I'm going to go buy these

two mic albums.

I told myself I was going to buy three.

I'm buying six.

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

Doubling up, huh?

Yeah.

Way to go.

You guys ready to go?

Yes, sir.

Alright, this let's boogie.

Good stuff.

Dude, that was fun.

I can't do that too often.

Yeah, no.

No.

I don't have any self-control in an environment like that.

I'm very excited to listen to these.

The

Rock for Light album is the original mix that they remastered, and I think that's so fucking cool.

All right.

Let's go get a slice of pizza.

Yeah.

I'm hungry.

Hopefully, we're still recording.

I'm sure we are.

When I set up my new

house.

Yeah.

I'm not that there is a new house or that I even have a prospect on a new house or something.

Just keep it wrong, don't matter.

Making sure it was.

Location.

Yeah.

Someday when I buy a new house and I get to start from scratch,

I am going to design the entire house with music in mind.

Oh, that's cool.

That's a good idea.

Yeah.

And I want to have speakers throughout the house

and I want to have a really good dedicated vinyl section where I can with like a really nice turntable and I because I just have like a fucking just audio technic or whatever.

Yeah, exactly.

I have a not cheap but like it's it's okay.

Yeah.

And I don't really understand my setup and I don't have a fancy setup.

If you go in there and you see like floor long like like five foot tall speakers and fucking receivers with giant knobs and shit and it looks very 1980s again.

It's all very overwhelming.

And I really,

I really want to, I really want to focus on that.

Yeah.

Because that's what I seem to enjoy the most in my life.

Are we getting a slice of pizza?

Yeah, you want to do.

Yeah, let's do it.

You want to do a little deli?

Yeah.

Let's do that.

Let's do little deli.

Hell yeah.

I've been to Little Deli in a minute.

I wish there was a coffee shop up there that we would see a reason for us to do a proper episode.

I'm pumped on these records.

This is great.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I hope that it's working and recording and compelling in any way because...

Yeah, it was fun to do.

Yeah, it was a nice little mid-morning thing.

If you hate this, sorry.

If you like this, all right.

There you go.

Little Deli is going to be up here on the left somewhere, huh?

Probably past.

Let's see.

Too many text messages from one group chain about the Padres.

Uh-oh.

50 minutes, or 50 minutes, 50 days from, I think, spring training starting, or baseball starting.

It's very soon.

Little Dully.

Are you excited?

Yeah, I can't wait.

Do you think the Padres are going to be better this year?

Yeah, a lot better.

Addition by subtraction?

Yeah, probably.

Who did they pick up in the...

They didn't pick up fucking anybody.

I think they lost a lot of people, but I think that

Juan Soto just never did anything for me.

Like, personally, he's not a guy that I get excited about.

And I understand that his numbers and analytics say different, but I think that this being a Tatis machado thing is going to be a lot stronger than having uh more people in it so we'll see too many chefs yeah pretty much yeah little little delis up on the left

haven't been here in a minute i feel like the dodgers will probably be pretty good this year oh yeah you think so yeah

no way huh yeah really you know who won't with my white socks dude i might i've been a white sock fan since robin ventura and ozzie gehan and frank thomas when I was in,

I don't know, probably fifth or sixth grade or something.

Right.

I've been rolling with the White Sox through the ups and the downs, but it has been really fucking hard the last couple years.

And if I'm going to pick, if I'm going to be a fan of a

American League bottom feeder fucking dog shit team, why not just pick the Tigers?

Yep.

They're all the time anyway.

So I'm going to see, I'm considering transferring allegiances to the Tigers.

I don't know.

I don't know how it works being a Tiger and a White Sox fan.

I don't know that that's possible.

I don't know that it is either, but you're going to give it a shot.

But yeah, I just like,

I don't know, especially if I end up in Michigan someday.

It would be,

I can go to, they basically will pay you to go to a Tigers game.

Yeah, for now.

Yeah.

Until they're at least halfway decent again in the next, you know, 10 years or whatever.

That seems like a cool field.

It seems like a great.

Dude.

We I got to go watch Shohave play there

this summer.

It was so fucking cool.

That rocks.

It was so fucking cool.

I'm going to be so fucking sick of watching Shohei Otani play.

Not thrilled.

Well, at least you're not going to have to watch him pitch.

That's great.

I think we should throw at him.

He's just DHing for the year, right?

For the whole fucking A season.

Because he had

Tommy John?

Yeah, he had Thomas John surgery.

Is that

now Tommy John surgery?

Because I've heard it, I've heard it basically said that like every pitcher is gonna need it eventually.

Yes, like the way everyone's throwing now, yeah.

So why aren't you just knocking on in like fucking first year of college?

Because it's not about putting something in or whatever.

It's why are there so many people at Style Switch?

Dude, people love barbecue.

What the fuck?

It's like packed here.

Style Switch is more popular than it is good.

Style Switch is gay.

It's fine.

Taking my dad there, he loved it.

And it's because, you know, you don't have barbecue and then he goes, wow, this is great.

They're like that kind of thing.

It's a great spot.

Yeah, I've always founded the barbecue there to be a little greasy.

Yeah.

It is.

It definitely is.

So Tommy John is like putting a tendon in, like replacing a tendon, and that's all it is.

There are guys that have gotten it two or three times and still are pitching.

So like it's not about like, yeah, get it done early.

It's about this thing's worn out.

You need another one.

Okay.

So you just, got it.

So you just, you pitch till you can't.

Yeah, pretty pretty.

Change tires.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's kind of like that, I think.

I see.

Yeah, there are guys in the league that have had it like twice.

Oof.

Yeah.

Is it painful to recover from?

I mean, I can't imagine it's easy, but when you're pitching, I think it's even worse.

Like, Bryce Harper just had it, but Bryce Harper could just go out and DH within like six, eight months or whatever, and he was fine.

He's not throwing.

I just found out that

the puppy is going to need at six to eight.

Tommy John?

Is going to need Tommy John's.

Oh, no.

His fastball.

He's not Tommy John he's gonna need the fucking

this surgery that they give they have to give you know dogs that have been bred into fucking uh diplomatic yeah like our dog unfortunately uh he's basically got to have his like it's i guess it's essentially like dog deviated septum surgery but he's got to go in and have his like nose holes fixed or they'll collapse the lady said the doctor said and he's got to have his like i guess it's a thing henry never had these surgeries nor were they recommended so i don't know if it means that this dog is more fucked up

just a different

he has like a wake apnea.

Yeah, he has like a wake apnea.

And then he has to have his palate.

I guess their palates are too long.

And so they can actually go in and shave the back of his throat, which will open up his throat a little bit and allow him to breathe and eat better.

Jesus.

So when he's six to eight months old, we're going to have to have his fucking

fucking CPAP surgery.

Jesus.

I hooked up my dog to the CPAP machine.

This just sucks.

I'm sure, I'm sure it's going to be very expensive.

Oh, absolutely.

They don't do dog surgery for chief.

No, they don't.

Man,

when Arrow started to go at the end, which is going to have her seizures, and I had to take her to the vet, and they weren't sure if they could save her.

And they weren't quite sure what was wrong with her.

And I was so desperate.

So desperate to help her.

Yeah.

It was like one weekend, I spent nine grand.

Oh.

Yeah.

And then she died two weeks later.

Jeff.

Oh my God.

I was just like, here's my retirement money.

Just help this poor, help my fucking dog.

And they were like, and they were like, we'll do everything we can.

That's brutal.

You fucking mark.

Yeah.

We got him.

We got him.

And then she died.

Fuck.

Fuck.

$9,000 and

a funeral.

All right, let's, now we're at Little Deli.

We're going to go get these.

All right, let's go get some pizza.

So, the wine shop.

That used to be a little

ice cream paint.

That was a cool little social hanging.

Violet Crown

thing, yeah.

It's still the violet crown.

Now it's a coffee shop and wine bar.

Oh, shit.

Oh, we should.

Okay, now it's a coffee shop.

There you go.

Maybe that's where our next one is.

Yeah, that'll be nice.

That's awesome.

I'll let you out here.

Jan and Claire,

you have a dark online.

One thing I love about little delivery archer bags is they have the old school salad bowls from the 80s, the wooden ones.

What are you getting?

A couple slices of pizza.

Is it for you?

Pepperoni, garlic, lime, tomato.

That sounds good.

And that's what they got.

Man,

I air-fried bacon for the first time in my life last night.

I didn't know you could do that.

I didn't either.

Good?

Probably the best bacon I've ever had.

Yeah.

I couldn't believe it.

I make a lot of bacon.

I pride myself on being good at making bacon.

That's weird.

I definitely don't make a lot of bacon.

You don't?

Oh, God, dude.

I make bacon at least once a week.

Every week of my life.

What?

Really?

Is that not a lot, or is that a lot?

That's a lot.

Yeah, a lot of them.

I probably made bacon the last time in October.

Bacon is its own food group in Alabama where I was growing up.

Wild.

Anyway, on the rare occasion that you make bacon, give an air fryer a try.

It was also cool because all the bacon fat drained to the bottom of my air fryer.

And then what I was making was broccoli.

And I thought, wouldn't it be fun to

crumble up some bacon and put on top of it?

But what I didn't anticipate, which really helped, it was like, I cut up a bunch of garlic and onions and put it all in there with the broccoli.

But then I cooked the bacon first.

So then

when I went to put the broccoli in, in,

it cooked in all the bacon fat.

Yeah.

Made it even better.

Oh.

Smart.

I do that with chicken thighs in the oven with vegetables, like potatoes and stuff.

You just toss it all together and then let it cook on one tray and the fat just goes everywhere.

It's great.

Potatoes are the one area where I would say my marriage can improve.

Really?

Yeah, Emily's just not into potatoes.

I don't understand what that, I don't know how.

She doesn't like the consistency of the potato.

She'll eat a french fry.

Certain french fries, but like, she thinks mashed potatoes are the worst.

That's, she, I'm gonna tell my wife that, and she's gonna fight your wife.

I know.

Trust me, man.

It's like, you would think it would be good because it's like, oh, cool, I'll just eat all the mashed potatoes in the relationship.

But what it really means is there just aren't a lot of mashed potatoes.

Thank you.

It's pretty funny.

Can I just get two of the slices of the day and a soda?

Make it, just double all that.

I got it.

Oh, thanks, sir.

Yeah.

Uh, pretty.

One more minute.

Oh, do, Eric.

Cool, thanks, brother.

Appreciate it.

Die Coco.

What are you gonna drink?

Red beer.

It's not diet.

Does that matter?

What do you think?

Is she hanging out in the vestibule?

Or is it full of wasps?

Not yet.

How do we sit over there now?

Nah, now we're good.

This is good.

Dude, I got to come over here more often.

I'm completely ignorant of this whole new coffee shop thing.

I didn't know there was a coffee shop.

Now we definitely want to go there.

Well,

we got our little deli pizza.

This slice is fucking...

Yes, the daily special, so it was pepperoni, roasted garlic, which is of which there's plenty of

so much, and then these little like Roma tomatoes.

So good.

It's half of the pizza we ordered, but

we definitely ordered more, but here we are.

Also, didn't get a receipt, so we probably just didn't put it in right.

Or we're eating somebody else's pizza.

I asked if it was Eric six times.

Yeah,

dude.

Oh my god, those tomatoes are so good.

Fuck, this is hot.

Woo!

What a nice little morning in Austin.

I've never had an issue with tomatoes in my life.

I've always enjoyed them and pizza and ketchup and spaghetti and stuff, but I feel like

as I've matured, I've really learned to appreciate the tomato on its own.

It's less of an ingredient,

more of a star in its own right.

Well, you learn that you can salt and pepper it and everything and it tastes like food.

Ooh, hot.

God damn.

I know I swear I would never eat on camera again but here we are.

Well sorry guys.

Nick will cut this out.

Yeah Nick cut all this out.

Nick cut all of this out.

It's so good though Nick I wish you were here.

God damn.

That a juicy pizza.

Not something you usually describe a pizza as but

I don't know why I don't come to Little Del anymore.

I guess it's just like a little headache to like get to.

But they open one right down the street from the office.

I was about to say, there is one pretty close to R2.

I've never been there though.

I've been there a bunch of times.

Is it good?

Yeah, it's great.

Same thing.

Yeah, this.

I like this one because it's like.

And the reason that it's kind of a pain in the ass to get here is it is in the middle of a neighborhood.

It's not close to any major streets, really.

It is a little neighborhood pizza place next to a little neighborhood grocery fresh plus.

Now, if

now, if you do go to the new one, I think you will be

shocked with like, it's like so like modern inside and like a little like restaurant.

But

the food's so fucking good.

I wish

my goal in life is to someday live somewhere where I can walk to something like this.

Oh,

when I lived in Golden Hill in San Diego, we would walk up to Luigi's Pizza.

That place was killer.

And then go across the street to Turf, Turf Supper Club, where you can cook your own steak.

And it was just like the darkest like little bar and it was such a great like little neighborhood thing uh luigi's pizza in san diego i really recommend it's fucking great when we hung out with kojima from metal gear we took him there during comic-con one year he loved it he thought it was so cool the mega 64 kojima connection is so funny to me kojima rocks i wonder what he should put y'all in them or them in a uh in a game yeah i agree like death stranding three rocket with it might as well.

So what do you think of our Austin morning?

Dude, I've had a blast.

Are you kidding?

Like,

I tricked the company, like, I tricked the company into thinking this is work.

You and I, we go to a record shop, we get some coffee, we go get a pizza, and we're quote-unquote filming.

It's an experiment, too, because we're just so, if you guys don't know, we're wearing like these lav mics that I actually borrowed from Jaron from Dog Bark.

And we've just had them on and recording as soon as you take them out of like the little package, they're on and they're recording.

And then you plug them back into like the little package, and there's like a USB-C in the back, and you just pull all the audio off of it.

That's so cool.

There's no cards, it's all just on like these mics.

So, if it sounds kind of weird, sorry,

but this is probably way longer than like a regular supplemental thing.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how long it ends up being.

And sorry if it's not very cohesive, we're good.

Yeah, we're just testing something out.

We tried something, yeah, we're trying something new, uh-huh.

And if it sucks, then now we know.

Yeah, I think it's important to note that if it sucks,

it's only because Gus abandons us and we have to get creative.

So if it's not good and you're mad about it, be mad at Gus.

And if you like it, no credit to Gus.

This is all us.

We have to come over here and have this coffee.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, we'll be back here very soon.

Mm-hmm.

This will probably be our first episode back.

Yeah.

I do wish this little shop in Center had one more thing, you know?

It's so close to being so good, but it's too functional instead of like the hangout thing.

Yeah.

This is...

If it was just this and then there was like a pub right there, I would assume this is what it's like to be in Milwaukee.

Dude, I thought Milwaukee's awesome.

Never been.

Always wanted to go.

Would love to go to Milwaukee.

Well, what do you rate this pizza?

What do you think?

I guess we have to get something we're eating.

Eat my peaceful salt close.

I got to be honest, I'm going to give this pizza a 10.

This is a perfect slice of pizza.

This is so for a slice.

I'll say, I'm glad we only got one slice each.

Yes, me too.

Because I can eat another one.

I wouldn't feel good.

Yeah, it...

I wouldn't feel good, and I wouldn't feel good about throwing the remainder away.

Because it's so good.

I wouldn't feel good, and I wouldn't feel good about myself, unfortunately.

One turns out to have been the right choice, because it was a pretty big pizza.

But man, the

as a pepperoni pizza, it would have been a 10.

As a pepperoni and garlic pizza, it would have been a 10.

And as a pepperoni and tomato pizza, it would have been a 10.

Just like all together.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Sitting outside on like a nice day too, it rocks.

Little Deli is a great name for this place because

it's fucking small.

They also have great sandwiches and great salad.

Like everything at Little Deli is good.

They have cookies and desserts too.

It really is

a fantastic spot.

See, the thing about biking in Austin is I want to do it, but I don't trust any of these fucking drivers to not annihilate me.

I've already been fucking creamed on a bike once, dude.

Have you really?

I got run over.

Did you?

I don't know that story.

It was like right before my 21st birthday and I was riding to class.

I had to borrow my truck had blown a head gasket and I had to borrow a bike from my vegan stoner roommate who

took in and repaired bikes at our house.

And he's like, oh, you can borrow this one.

And I rode to class and a car, like a truck, like at a stop sign,

I went in front of him and he just went.

Yeah.

And he just ran me over and I just kept, I just remember riding the bike and going, no, no, no, no, no.

They ran me over.

So I have like a fucked up ankle from it.

Oh, dude, that sucks.

I can understand your trepidation.

So like, it's not like I'm afraid to do it.

It's that if I have a choice, I'm not going to fucking do it.

Well, I've never been hit on a bike and I'm a lunatic on a bike.

I fully recognize that I am irresponsible as a bike owner, bike rider.

But also the one thing I'll say that's nice about Austin is like those guys right there that we were looking at when we were riding through,

on the end of the block is a bike lane that's protected and it goes for miles.

And I'll say, you know, I do my 24 mile bike ride every as often as I can.

I haven't been doing it lately because of the weather, but I'm only on a road for about a

maybe fifth of it.

Really?

Yeah, most of it is to like to get to trails and then I'm on a trail and I'm fine.

Like I'm the vast majority of it, I'm on a protected trail or a protected bike lane.

I very rarely am in danger of other cars.

Interesting.

Yeah, I've got

a route figured out, but it's like, it definitely helps because I'm the same way.

Emily is terrified I'm going to get hit by, she's ridden bikes with me, so she knows I'm an idiot.

And so she's terrified I'm going to get hit by a car, ride with my eyes closed or something.

So to help mitigate her fears, I stay off roads.

And it's possible.

You have like an off-road bike?

I mean, I know it's like an e-bike thing or whatever, but it's just, is a bike-road?

Huh?

It's a hybrid, so it can handle.

I'm not going like, I'm not going on trails and shit, but it can handle like gravel paths and stuff.

Okay.

So, yeah.

Like a lot of, like, there's a hike and bike trail around the river that's about 10 miles, and there's a trail called Shoal Creek that connects into it.

And so, yeah.

Fuck, maybe I'll check it out.

Yeah.

I got an extra e-bike too if you're willing to go ride.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, I'm definitely down to go riding.

I think it'd be fun as hell.

Okay, I think that'll do it for this episode of Anva, whatever this was.

Dude, maybe the next time we do one of these, we'll do it on e-bikes.

I think that's a fucking cool idea.

That's a great idea, right?

Eight weeks, find out if we remember that.

Okay, we did it.

Go

at animo podcast, r slash animo podcast, anarchymeanything.com, and you can see stuff from this episode and more.

We should get Gus to put a trailer for the Clone Wars up there.

Not the Clone Wars.

What was the first Star Wars

Phantom Menace?

Phantom Menace.

We should get Gus to put a trailer of the Phantom Menace up there.

Because

that was the biggest trailer in the world, and I remember it being the destination on the internet for a while.

At that time.

My eighth-grade math teacher took me to go see Phantom Menace.

All right, we'll see you next time.

I'm during the molesting?

Bye.