Supplemental: Where to Take a Friend Visiting Austin

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Hello, it's another supplemental episode.

Gus isn't here.

He chooses not to be.

It's not that he's forced out.

He chooses not to be here.

But I'm here with Jeff.

Hi, Jeff.

Hello, Eric.

How are you?

I love your enthusiasm this morning.

I'm excited.

I went to Veracruz.

I'm having a good time.

I'm doing good.

Which Veracruz did you go to?

I went to the new one in Mueller.

Oh, is that a brick and mortar?

Yes.

Have you been to that that yet?

No, and I don't even know where it is.

It is.

It used to be like JT Youngblood's Chicken or whatever.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that fucking

that place.

It's Veracruz now.

And

it's weird because you can order food, but it's a bar restaurant where you're supposed to like sit down.

Okay.

And that is not what I was expecting.

I have a friend that's in town, so he's taking off like a little later today.

I'm like, oh, let's get some coffee and get like some breakfast tacos.

The coffee was so watery and such a bummer.

Yeah.

Well, they make tacos, not coffee.

And they made some excellent tacos.

They were very good.

But when you walk in, there's like a hostess stand, and we're like, oh, we just wanted to order some tacos to go.

And she's like, oh, okay, well, come here.

And then we walked over to like the bar area.

She took her order, and then we just stood around.

And it was like, none of this is conducive to this element of like what I thought Veracruz was.

Yeah.

But man, the tacos were really fucking good.

Those were great.

So let me ask you, because you had a friend in town.

I met him at RTX, or not RTX, I'm sorry, at Extra Life.

At Extra Life, the other event we do.

Yeah, my friend Jason Cryer.

Seemed like a lovely dude.

I assume he's probably from San Diego.

No, he's actually from like Marin County up in like the Bay, like I quote unquote Bay Area.

But he does a bunch of work with Mega 64.

Oh, that's so funny that he's from Marin County because I've been listening to Moon Over Marin by the Dead Kennedys pretty late.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I just got, I just like, I did an episode of the Soul Alright podcast a couple, maybe a month or two ago now, about my favorite screams and songs.

And the

remake of California Uber Alis that they did called We've Got an Even Bigger Problem Now that was all about Ronald Reagan.

That song has one of the best screams of all time in it.

And I've just been listening to that album and like non-stop since I recorded that.

And then somehow I got in and I've just been like obsessed with Moon Over Marin again.

Wow.

Just a fucking great song.

That's awesome.

That's crazy.

But that's not what I wanted to talk about.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Jason, right?

Was that his first time in Austin?

Yes.

I think that's his first time he's been here.

Yes.

One of the things

I like about you is that you bring in people to visit all the time.

I feel like every other week.

Yes.

I feel like every other week you have a friend in from out of town, which is something Gus and I used to do way back in the day, especially in the early days of Rooster Teeth.

But Austin was a very different city then.

So there was less to take people to.

So I always wonder, like, the Austin you, like, what did you,

how did, how did you show Austin to Jason?

What are the places you should?

I feel like this is super germane to this podcast.

No, no, no, no.

This is, yeah, yeah.

So he, he's definitely more into some of like the older stuff.

And, and, um,

I wanted to show him the stuff in Austin that was like, um,

it had been around and it didn't have to be like the newest thing and and all that i just didn't think he was going to enjoy that as much so we um he got in and we i picked him up and we went to texas chili parlor that was like a number one on his list he wanted to go to texas chili parlor had he heard of it before or yeah yeah from from like the movie yeah yeah but not just the movie he just knew about it as like an old restaurant in austin that he wanted to check out okay cool so we went there he loved it that he said that was like the highlight of his trip was that spot he's like the burger was so good the chili was great.

The whole atmosphere was awesome.

He's like, everything about it was fucking awesome.

I don't know if you know this, but Emily's dad loves Texas Chili Parlor so much that last time he came to visit, I had to pick him up from the airport.

And at his request, we drove straight to Texas Chili Parlor before anything else and ate lunch before we even dropped his bags off.

Oh my God.

Jesus Christ.

That's crazy.

It's an awesome place.

I mean, I feel much the same about it.

Yeah.

Oh, I love it.

I think, I think Texas Chili Parlor is like, to me, one of the austin staple kind of spots where if i'm going to take people somewhere it might not always be there you got to like know the right people to you know take there or whatever but going there was awesome he loved it and it was so so

good um

so that was a lot of fun just kind of hopping around and and uh going to like

around

like downtown Austin and everything like that.

So Texas Chili Parlor was really great.

We went to De Daynada, which is a little Mexican food place on Cesar Chavez, and then went to Central Machine Works just to like, hey, this is outdoor.

This is Tex-Mex.

Here's kind of what you're getting.

So, what is, is Daynata like a trailer or a restaurant at Central Machine Works?

No, it's across the street from Central Machine Works.

They open, there's a place called Sawyer Co., and it's like a little diner.

Yeah, I've been to Sawyer Co.

So, right next to the diner, there's another place that's called Daynata, and it is a Tex-Mex place.

They got a great sort of like margarita and like tequila list and stuff but their chips and queso are great and then it's like a sit-down

yeah yeah we'll sit down spot okay um i really recommend it i think it's i think it's really really good um gets a little crowded but i think most things do now so you know it is what it is and then central machine works i've only ever been there for rooster teeth parties oh really what what is that place on its own is it a bar or it's it's a bar right yeah it's a bar like brewery thing with a big back patio i usually only go if i'm going to like it's never a place that i go out of my way for because I don't think it's really like worth going out of your way for.

But if you're around, it's kind of a spot where you go, oh, okay, cool.

Yeah, we'll go here also.

It was great when you go to like Coco, Bavarian, and now that place is closed.

So you then go to like Central Machine Works also.

They have there's a brewery and, you know, indoor, outdoor stuff or whatever.

And it's just like a nice little, oh, we're hanging out out back and having like a beer before, you know, while we have to wait 30 minutes to get our name called for tacos.

Like that, that's the kind of place it is.

Gotcha.

So that was fun.

And then we went out to Zilker because he wanted to check out.

You know, I'm just like, here's a big outdoor thing.

Let's walk around.

He can check it out, take some photos and stuff.

And so they're closing, like, most of it's closed down right now because they're putting up all like the lights.

Yeah, I walked around it yesterday.

It's uh, it's all pretty shut down now.

Yeah, so, but we, we still like walked around it, and it was still, you know, it was still cool.

Like, we really enjoyed it and kind of hopping around there and everything was really cool.

We went out to a place called Hoopers.

It is a restaurant in Kingsland, which is about an hour and a half outside of Austin.

Maybe a little shorter, but it is a restaurant that is named after Toby Hooper,

who

the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And the house is the house from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it is a restaurant.

You go in, and it is

the house from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And it's it's not.

We were trying to describe how it is because it is

that.

It is the house.

It is crazy that it is the house.

And they don't acknowledge almost at all that it's the house.

It is.

That's such a cool move.

It's like they're embarrassed about it.

Like they don't.

It seemed like the kind of place where the waitress would, you know, when you look at it from the outside, you think it's going to be a thing where like the waitress is going to come up to to you as you sit.

And she goes, Have you guys been here before?

No.

And she, and then you would just have to listen to a spiel about in 1974, this movie was made.

Toby Hooper is this guy.

This is what it is.

And we moved the house.

It was here and then it was there, like a little spiel.

Zero,

zero percent of that.

The waitress called a sweetheart.

She sat us down.

She gave us menus and she went, What do you guys want to drink?

And it was like, Coffee and water.

She went, be right back.

Hey, gotcha.

Be right back.

And then came back with coffee and water.

And then we just shot the shit with her for a little bit and put in an order for food.

The food was so fucking good.

And that was it.

There was nothing.

They have some t-shirts and a picture of Leatherface above a counter.

And that's it.

That's it.

It's so weird.

It's so weird.

Is it good?

Is it worth the drive?

Do you recommend it?

I think if there was more to do in Kingsland, it would be an easier thing to recommend.

Yeah.

The food is really good.

If it was in Austin, I would recommend it to everyone all day long.

But boy,

it's a hike to get out there.

So I would say if you're really trying to make a day of going out that way, then hell yeah.

But otherwise, I don't know.

It would be a little hard.

This might be a moment where we can engage the audience for a little bit of help because

I've always heard it pronounced Tob Hooper, and I don't know if it's Tobe or Toby.

Oh, I always thought it was Toby.

I think it's Toby.

Well, I mean, it's spelled Toby.

I think.

I don't know.

Isn't it called?

Isn't it T-O-B E?

It's Toby.

T-O-E.

Yeah.

I just have never known, but I love that dude.

First off, I love, you know, every kid that grew up in my era loved Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I loved him because he directed a movie called Invaders from Mars, which I think is one of the greatest 80s kids movies ever.

It's about a kid who finds out that the entire town is being taken over by aliens and he's got to stop it by himself.

And it's like, it is like the ultimate, like, you just want to, like, when you were like a 12-year-old kid in the 80s, you could so see yourself being this kid and having this adventure.

And it's so great.

And

I've always loved him because of that movie.

Although there's some interesting trivia about that movie, supposedly

the rumor is that Spielberg was really unhappy with him on that movie.

And it was while he was directing Poltergeist, I believe.

And that he supposedly came down and shadow directed half of that film.

And that's.

I've heard the same thing.

Yeah.

I have crazy.

Crazy.

Who knows if it's true or not, but that is what the rumor has been for years.

Okay, so you guys went to, you went to Hooper's.

What else did you

clearly went to Veracruz?

Yeah.

Like when somebody comes to Austin from California and they, because you guys have your Cali Mechs and all of that.

We were talking about this the other day on this podcast, I believe, just like how what a thing breakfast tacos are in Austin that we assume are everywhere and they're not.

But there are, you know, some people wrote in to tell us that they're, you know, like my pocket of Wisconsin has them or whatever.

But

is is he impressed?

Does he go like, oh, I get it?

Or is he like, eh?

Oh, no, he was all about it.

So he's from, you know, like that, that Northern California is a totally different style of Mexican food from what I eat.

Okay.

Like in Southern California.

It's just a different style of Mexican food.

And then when he came out here, I'm like, we got, you know, Tex-Mex is like, he's like one of the guys that helps design like the Tex-Mex sucks poster from Mega 64.

Like that's, you know what I mean?

Like, yeah, yeah.

Like he does that stuff.

He's a graphic designer and does that stuff for like Mega 64 and everything.

So he's like, oh, we got to try it.

You know, he's like, I got to try Tex Max.

So he had Day Nod and he was like, this is fucking awesome.

The thing he kept saying is this salsa at every place we went to.

He's like, this salsa blows everything out of the water.

He loved the salsa every place we went to.

He really loved the breakfast taco that he had at Hooper's.

He really loved the breakfast tacos that we had at uh Veracruz.

It's just a different, you know, it's just not food that he usually gets.

And he was all about it.

He loved it.

So it was a lot of fun to see him kind of like enjoy that

because I didn't know how that was going to go.

It's always kind of a 50-50 when it comes to like, I think, Tex-Mex.

If it's going to be really good or if it's going to be like, oh, I don't know about this.

So

he was into it.

Took him to Terry Black's.

Because he'd never had, you know, barbecue here.

And to me, Terry Black's is a place in Austin

that is local enough that locals will eat it, but it is like the lowest tier of like

good, acceptable barbecue.

It's definitely, I'm glad to hear you say that.

Yep.

Uh, it is the, I would consider it the lowest tier of acceptable barbecue.

I agree.

And, and to me, you're getting, it's not just the barbecue there because I really like the, I think the barbecue there is fantastic.

I think the barbecue sauce is kind of whack.

I don't think it's very good.

Um,

but I think it's not just that.

It's the waiting in line, getting a beer at the beer window on the way in,

seeing Austin Skyline as you're waiting in line, getting in, and it's this big crowded thing that feels hectic and crazy, and then sitting down at like these big tables and eating this barbecue and having a beer.

And it's like this big, overwhelming experience.

And that to me is

what's so good about Terry Black, where you can get it at a food truck and then sit outside of the food.

You know what I mean?

Like you get Franklin and then sit outside of this thing and whatever.

This is

like the whole thing.

You're getting the whole experience in one spot.

And you don't have to drive to Lockhart to do it.

He said next time he comes out, he wants to go to Lockhart.

All right.

Well,

by the way, and I'll throw this out there.

Anytime anybody's going to Lockhart for barbecue, you got to let me know.

I will invite, I will wedge myself into that.

We're talking about, he's like, next time I come out, I want to go down there, maybe stay overnight, like just stay down there for like a day or whatever.

And he's like, I want to try, like, want to try this place.

I want to go to that place.

He's like, it just seems like a cool spot to have like a drink at a bar.

And then you kind of crash out because you've been eating barbecue all day.

And then you wake up and you do it again.

And then you drive back into Austin.

I'm like, that's the right way to do it.

You know where we need to go.

And I think Gus has already been there, maybe, but I've never been.

We need to go to Snow's Barbecue.

I was just reading a thread on, it was a big deal like around 2018, 2019.

I kind of forgot about it, but I was just reading a thread on the Austin subreddit about today where people were saying, you still have to get there at two in the morning to get in line.

What?

Yeah.

People,

like today, I think it's like in

where it's, let me look it up.

Where is Snow's barbecue?

I don't like, is it like a, it's like, it's in Lex, it's in Lexington.

It's 45 miles from here.

Whoa, what the fuck?

Wow.

Yeah.

Jeez.

It's

supposedly like the lines are worse now than ever before.

Oh, my God.

Oh, geez.

There's also a place up in North Austin called Interstellar Barbecue that is supposed to be really fucking good.

It's over by the well, it's up like a, it's over where I used to, uh, I used to take Henry to a doctor over there.

So okay, but uh, yeah, anyway, that place is supposed to be really good, too.

I, I feel like I'm so I hit a point, I don't know about you, but I hit a point maybe after about 20 years of living here where I'd had just honestly enough barbecue.

Yeah,

and enough, enough barbecue that causes me to jump through hoops.

I get it.

And so I really don't crave it anymore.

I'll go do an event for it, like, I'll go to like we had it for Emily's birthday when we were all in Lockhart, actually, yep, this year, right?

It was great at that house, like, it's fun in those situations, but I don't often crave it or look to make any effort to go find it.

Totally, totally.

Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other.

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

The thing that he brought up to me wanting to go to Loghart is that he found out about a place called Barb's BQ.

Have you heard about this?

I've heard of it.

Yeah, it's an all-woman-run barbecue place.

It's supposed to be very good.

Yeah.

He said that, uh, he said it looked really cool.

He's like, next time we, he's like, next time I come out, we got to just go down there or whatever.

But if you go to their website and then you go to about, it's the picture of them in front of the store and there's a heart drawn on it and it says just three rats with a dream.

Oh, you got to love that.

Yeah, I think that's very funny.

But it just seems like a cool place.

It seems like Lockhart's like the spot for it, too.

It is a great place.

It's a fun place.

It is definitely a fun place to spend one night.

Yes, that is, and that's what he wants to do.

And I'm super into it.

He loved the barbecue at Terry Black.

Of course, I mean, it's so fucking good.

We're talking about like, oh, there's like the lowest acceptable barbecue.

It blows everything I've ever had anywhere else out of the water.

It was like the first, it was like a place that I ate, and I went, I don't think I've ever had barbecue before, apparently.

Uh, I love it, I think it's so good.

So we went there, and then uh, in between, we've been watching a lot of Sopranos too, which has been a great way to sort of like, okay, we feel like shit because we ate so much.

Let's watch two episodes of the Sopranos and then figure out something else to do.

We went to LT Gray.

I took him to L T Gray.

Okay.

I was just there the other day too.

Fucking great.

It was fucking great.

It's so good.

The coffee was great.

There was one girl there who was working and she was getting run ragged because it got really busy.

And it was like, oh, sorry.

But great spot.

Really cool.

They have.

really good breakfast tacos there too.

Emily and I had some the other day.

They were really good.

Yeah.

Like

noticeably good.

You know, you're like, holy, holy shit.

Damn.

I wasn't expecting that.

I'm going to have to try that sometime.

And then later, we actually ended up kind of like, we missed it and then ended up making a thing out of it where it's like, oh, we got a reservation for Tikitatsuya, which is a thing where I knew that he was going to like it for like the kitsch of it.

But I also thought he'd be impressed by the detail that went into it.

So we went to Tikitatsuya and it was really cool.

It wasn't very busy.

So we got to talk to the server and she was like, oh, yeah, this is like, you know, our regular homage menu, whatever.

She's like, we also have like all these B-side drinks that are off menu and like we've just created here.

So we have those and they're fucking awesome.

It was so cool.

It was a great sort of way to like cap that trip off of

getting drunk at 4.30 p.m.

on just really good, really strong liquor.

And then,

you know, trying to, trying to find our time and kind of hang out for a little bit.

And then going to like, you know what?

We got to get Amy's ice cream.

So we got Amy's ice cream and it was a real Austin day.

It was fucked.

It was.

Which Amy's ice cream did you get to?

The one on Maynard.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that one was easy to go to.

I think Thunderbird is closing or it has closed.

I think it's closed and is maybe something else now already.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know if you've driven down Maynor in a minute, but man, they built a lot of stuff.

I thought I went down the wrong street

right at like Maynard and Airport.

Holy fucking shit.

They built so much stuff there all of a sudden there's just apartment buildings on either side of you it looms it's really crazy emily and i actually had that exact same conversation we cut through there the other day to i don't know to go to her salon or something and there was an entire like city block apartment building yeah that just exists that I have never seen before.

And I feel like I go down that street fairly regularly.

Yeah.

Don't you feel like you're going down that street probably weekly?

And then

all of a sudden those are there.

It's not like they were like oh wow there they are they're getting bigger getting bigger it was like i'd never been down that part of the road before and it was just the beginning of the road at airport i had a similar pro similar uh situation i was going down a part of lamar i don't always go down up kind of north by 183 and just uh there were like three apartment complexes that just exist there now that

are bigger than any apartment complex that would have been in austin 10 years ago you know and they just like went up overnight And you just think like, I swear I was down this road last week.

Like, how did this happen?

It's crazy.

It's insane.

Right.

Like, that's just, it just goes up so fast.

And you're like, I feel like I was just here.

And you keep wondering like when it's going to slow.

Yeah.

And I will say, because I count cranes downtown and I have for years.

Yeah.

There are less cranes downtown than there have been in a long time, but there's still probably a dozen.

There used to be somewhere in the 20 to 30 range.

There's still probably a dozen.

But what's so like the down, I feel like downtown growth has slowed a little bit.

It's just in terms of my anecdotal crane counting.

But

the era of the block-sized five or seven-story apartment condo with first-floor retail, that has exploded in Austin.

And like you go up down, up and down Burnett and Lamar

and

Fifth Street.

It's just like every time you turn around, there's just like a new place for 500 people to live.

It's crazy.

It's really wild.

And there need to be places for people to live because we're we don't have a lot of them.

But yeah, the thing that comes with that is the thing I was going to bring up.

I took him to Lebowski's to get a burger.

Lebowski's grill at Highland Lanes.

That's closing soon, right?

Didn't we find that out?

That's exactly what I was going to say.

It's anticipating to close in late 2024.

Okay, late 2024.

Okay.

That's plenty.

So

there's time.

It's just the thing where it's like, damn, man, really?

Like, there's just not going to be anything to do.

Also, we went there.

It was like a Saturday.

I think it was like Saturday night, maybe.

Yeah, no, Friday night.

And

it was

packed.

I mean, every lane was going.

There were people at the bar.

There were people ordering hamburgers.

It was nuts.

It was so packed.

And it's like, wow, they're going to close this, huh?

I think the problem, it's Austin is so

overpopulated

for the entertainment infrastructure that we have that, and this isn't an indictment on Lebowski's at all.

I'm not including them in this, but it's just like,

you could put a fucking, like a game of horseshoes in your front yard and charge $5 and you'd have a line.

I agree.

People need places to go and hang out.

And so.

It's like, I feel like it's just like, even, even as, as much growth as there's been and as much construction as there's been, I feel like Austin's still starved for shit for people to do for fun.

And so people are, everything is packed all the time.

You got a bingo, you know, go to old ass, but where people are wheeling in oxygen tanks and we go there all the time and it's always fucking packed to the gills.

And you're just like, fuck, man.

It's just people are.

Bingo.

People are just looking for something to do, man.

It's, it's crazy.

But that was kind of like the whole trip.

It was just running around Austin, checking stuff out, you know, driving around north of the river, south of the river, north of the river, south of the river, like hopping kind of back and forth.

The other place, I was going to talk to you and Gus about this later.

We ended up going and meeting some friends

for a drink over at Radio East.

Radio Coffee opened another location on Montopolis.

I don't know that I can really

like impact on you how big their backyard is.

I'm going to put a photo here in our chat together.

And you see that and it looks big.

When I tell you at the stage,

it goes back another 30 yards past the stage to the back wall and there's nothing there.

There are no tables or chairs.

There's nothing there.

I don't understand

what is happening or why other than occasionally they have like a pop-up market?

But again, that's only been, they've only been open for

a couple months.

It's I want to go there.

We need to do an episode of Anma there because it's so

it's so fucking big.

It's unreal.

The back is so big, it's wild.

Crazy, crazy, crazy.

Fucking, I would not believe it.

I wonder if they're just keeping it for future expansion because 100%.

That radio that we, you know, the main one that we, we did one episode there, that thing is packed all the time.

This one is going to be packed

crazy.

They're going to put so they're going to put food trucks back there.

They're going to put like, it's just, there's just going to be so much stuff.

It's so big in the back.

I couldn't, I couldn't believe it.

And when we went there, they had two food things in the front.

They had.

a pizza truck and then they had like their little like you know burgers and whatever like food truck that they have at both um both radio locations and

it there's tons of parking there it's it's in like a little area where it just doesn't seem like there's going to be much it's great i really like this place i really want to live with you do you like the other radio i think the other radio is fine there's nowhere to park yeah it's i'm i'm super ambivalent towards it but i'm i'm excited to try this out i love space and south austin is where all the space is honestly yeah and and this is i mean this is just off montopolis and trade center which is you know nothing yeah but um it's really crazy.

I'm going to drop another picture here.

Not that far from Annie's Day and Night where we went that time.

No, no, not that far at all.

So I'm

okay.

What I've done here is I've dropped a picture.

And where I circled is where the stage is.

Look at how much

it goes back 30 more yards.

It's like the stage is 30% of the way in.

Like it's got another two-thirds of location behind it.

There's nothing back there.

It's crazy.

It's crazy.

It's really funny.

Yeah.

So it's a cool, cooler.

I bet the folks at Southern Datacom Incorporated are happy.

Oh, you know, I think it's something for them to go to.

But when the band starts playing, we were hanging out inside.

It was cold.

So we're like, oh, we'll hang out inside.

And then a guy wheeled in a drum kit and speakers.

And we went, so we're going to go outside

because whatever band is about to start playing i don't want to listen to at all and and if they start playing and we get up and leave i don't know if i can i don't know if i can do that this can be tough

so that was jason's austin trip it was a good it was a great austin oh and then he came to

he came to extra life and uh

got to meet you guys and and see what we did for extra life and and raise a bunch of money and everything and that was really great Yeah, a lot of fun.

How are you feeling after that, by the way?

Oh, great.

I had some really bad farts yesterday and the rest of Saturday from whatever that spicy shit we kept eating was.

But, I mean, I felt great.

We raised a bunch of money.

I think we specifically raised a bunch of money for what we did.

And, you know, you and I kind of went into it.

And

the one concern I had, but I also wasn't super concerned because we've all got our 10,000 hours in, you know, but it's just that like.

Extra life always, it skews wacky and like big and over the top.

And it's always like one of those things where like the young kids, and by young kids, I used to mean Gavin and

Barbara and Bland stuff and Michael now, but now I guess I mean like best friends today.

Yeah.

Where they just electrocute each other and

get hit with paintballs and shit.

And that's not me.

And so

I always feel a little lame when I do the extra life stuff just because I'm not looking to get hit in the dick as much as I joke about it.

But people seem to really enjoy our segment, the break show segment.

And I had a lot of fun destroying, like just the idea idea of all those cards that I, because, you know, everything on that table I bought just for my personal collection that I have been, I had an idea to do the break show over about four years ago now, right around the time we started

face, maybe even a little before it.

And I started collecting product.

And so a lot of that stuff I bought three and four years ago that I've just been dying to open.

And it was so much fun.

to get it all open and just see this mess of cards on the table.

And it broke my heart to destroy a bunch of them, but it was also for a much better cause.

cause right and and it was like you know we we destroyed like 200 worth of cards to to make i don't know 20 000.

so it's like clearly it's it's well worth it um but i i had a really i had a really lovely time and i had a lot more fun than i thought i would have and i thought i would have a fun time but it's just like it's a great environment to be in i felt the same way it it was a lot of fun it was super

fun to be there and do that stuff and to watch what everyone else was doing too.

Like, I don't know if you saw, you probably missed what Dog Bark was doing, but they had Jack's beard saved from five years ago or whatever when they shaved it.

And if they got a certain amount, they put it on, they put it on Alfredo and Joe's face.

They just re-glued Jack's beard onto their face and then also did shots of thickened drinks with Jack's beard in it.

Nice.

Yeah, it was fucking gross.

It was,

I watched it with Sammy from Best Friends Today, and

it was a lot of fun to watch that with him and just kind of like see what it was and everything.

And then we were talking basketball.

I want to get him on the break show.

Oh, yeah.

He's a huge basketball guy.

Who's his team?

He is a, he's from Cleveland, but he is a, I think he's a Lakers fan.

And I went, oh, that's cool.

Jeff's a Celtics fan.

And he was like, fuck, man.

It was just that.

And I went, all right, cool.

We got to get him on the show.

I like Sammy a lot.

I would love to talk shit about him and his dumb team all right now.

That would be great.

That's that's fucking awesome.

All right, cool.

We'll have him on the show then.

That'll be great.

That'll be a lot of fun.

Sounds awesome.

I would love that.

Hey, can you believe that the goal of this was we were going to talk about music and then we didn't even do that?

And it was just, that was half an hour.

Well,

it's wild how that happens.

I was just so interested in Jason's trip because, like I said, people don't often visit me anymore.

And so

I don't have the reason to get up and go explore Austin.

And Friends from Out of Town is like the best way to enjoy your own city because it forces you to get out and look for stuff to do and check in on things and try to find new things.

And I feel like, that's what I was saying earlier.

I feel like you, you benefit from that because I feel like there's always like a friend coming into town or a family member that you got to ushering around.

And I feel like that really helps you, helps you have touch points and like current touch points in the city.

And so I'm just interested to hear like what

more than music choices, I was just interested to hear like what a person who doesn't come to Austin sees when they come to Austin in 2023.

Yeah, I think, I think the thing is that it's got to be a mix of new and old because there's, there's still old stuff, but there's not a ton.

And there's, there's mostly new stuff, but you have to find the flavor of what Austin was.

And I think that we did a really good job of kind of going like, oh, yeah, we drank it like Violet Crown and then went to Shangri-Law and

ran into like Cat, another one of our producers or whatever.

And it was just sort of like, oh, well, you're here.

Hey, how's it going?

You know, like that kind of like being out and about thing.

I thought that was great.

Like

pieces like that are very cool.

That's one of the few things i genuinely miss about drinking is being at bars meant you ran into people yep you know and like if you don't drink and you don't go to bars and especially in such a uh like a party centric city it you like sometimes i run into people at coffee shops but not very often you know yeah uh and i do kind of like running into cat would be such a fun novelty yeah and i'll i'll just never have those experiences anymore because you know nobody's up and moving at 10 and 10 in the morning no well early is the new late late and you can get a shirt that says so at store.rishiteith.com and you can check it out there uh you can also get our fill it to the rim with animo shirt

i do love that shirt

you can check that stuff out uh we have another supplemental that we'll be doing next week but i think we'll probably record that um you know but by the time that we record that it's going to be right before it comes out probably so that's great we give us a little bit of time away from this to do that and that's that's a lot of fun um yeah

this was a this was a cool one.

This is definitely one where here's a bunch of recommendations for where you could go if you come to Austin.

That's really what this ends up being.

So enjoy that.

It is the exact opposite of what I thought it would be today.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

Well,

Jeff, any wise words or parting thoughts that you want to give to these people before we sort of take off and leave them?

I'll leave you with this one.

Listen to the song I'll Carry On by Gene

from the album Down in the Valley.

That's my musical recommendation for you.

I'll carry on.

on.

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