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Okay, this is episode 65.

Nice.

All right.

So you guys just made me laugh so fucking loud.

We were talking about,

we were actually talking about my upcoming wedding and what people are going to wear.

And then we got to talking about trucks, which if you don't, if you only listen to this podcast and you don't listen to the face podcast, you wouldn't know that I'm obsessed with a game called Snow Runner.

that I play with some friends.

And Gus was asking me where I'm hauling log.

Yeah, where were you?

Yeah, yeah.

And I was saying, I was telling him I was in Tamir, Russia.

That's the map we're on.

And somehow you guys conflated it to be that I'm in an Ender's game situation.

Yeah, you think I'm playing a video game, but I'm really happy

the Russian military steal stuff from Ukraine.

You said you're taking grain out of Ukraine, and I think it really is.

I mean, you're just really driving autonomous trucks.

It's either Ender's game or Project X.

I went with Ender's Game.

Wasn't there another movie recently, like a movie about a party called Project X?

Oh,

yeah, that was

in maybe 2010.

Yeah.

Recently.

Yeah.

Yeah.

More recently than the other Project X.

Matthew Broderick and the monkey did it first.

He didn't.

Apple, Virgil.

Apple.

It's recent.

Anyway, welcome to Anima.

That was recent, right?

Yeah, 13.

I mean, the other one was pre-Cold War or during the Cold War, I should say.

Oh, man.

So it's a slightly different time.

But this is episode 65.

The monkeys were flying and dropping bombs on Russia.

Great.

Last time we were at Coffee People.

Man, the 80s were wild.

We talked about eradicating deer, Lance Armstrong, how Jason knew everyone, acquaintanceship bracelets,

idea, ideosity,

sandwiches, and IMAX.

But that was all last time.

Now that's this time.

Oh, man.

We know someone who...

God, we're like jumping all over.

So we just recorded the other episode yesterday.

Yeah,

we're recording up to get ready for my wedding and stuff.

So there's two things I wanted to, that I'm like flashing back to, that we didn't get around to yesterday.

First of all, we know someone who applied at Idiocity and didn't get hired.

Remember, he made his resume to look like a Playboy Centerfold thing with like stats and everything.

It had his photo, and it was like his likes, his dislikes.

It was like a picture of a cat on it.

You don't remember that?

I thought it was the best resume.

Somebody I know very well.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah, I do.

Was that such a good idea?

Yeah, it was awesome.

It was like a one-shot resume.

Especially for that kind of company, right?

Yeah, right.

It didn't work, but I thought it was a really cool resume.

It's like turn-ons, turn-offs.

That's the kind of fucking inventiveness and creativity that a place like Idea City needed.

The other thing I was going to mention that we never got around to yesterday was shortly after we started taping, there was like another dude came and joined.

Like, he didn't join us, but he sat like at the next table over.

Oh, he was like listening to music or something.

He was listening along.

Singing along.

I don't know if it came across in the recording at all.

Yeah, I don't think it probably got picked up, but boy, he was listening to music on his phone phone and having a good time.

You all couldn't see it because the way we were seated, your backs were kind of to him, and he was more in my line of view.

After a while, as he was thinking, he took his shoes and socks off and started rubbing his feet.

I was like, man, I don't know if I keep doing this podcast right now.

It was gnarly.

When I saw him walk up,

I clocked him as potentially, like, maybe homeless.

But he had what looked like

a lunch from Whole Foods, and that shit ain't cheap.

And then he was listening to music on an iPhone.

So I think maybe he was just

an old Austin dude.

Yeah, he just a foot massage at a park bench in front of people kind of guy.

He didn't have, I think he forgot to grab a fork to eat his food because he started, he like tore off a piece of the cardboard from the container and started scooping the food out of the container and eating it that way.

Dude, that guy was a whole fucking scene.

Behind you, it was.

I couldn't stop looking at it.

It was all going on.

You maintained excellent composure because we had no idea.

There was a pause at one point, I think, when he took his shoes off, and I was just like, I was fixated.

I couldn't bring myself back to the future.

I feel like we met eyes about it one time, and it was like, I don't know what this is.

But today, Double Trouble.

I don't want to make you jealous.

You got it.

But you can't see it because behind me,

I have a great view of a woman who appears to be working on a spreadsheet

while drinking her coffee.

That's much more mundane.

If she gets her feet out, text Gavin.

We're at Double Trouble, which is over on North Duke.

It's not too far from Epic, which is one of our first, or Epoch, which is one of our first first episodes.

This is a brand new spot?

Is that really good?

It's been around maybe three months.

Yeah.

So they, so even though it's a coffee shop called Double Trouble, they serve Barrett's beans, which Barrett's is right down the road, like Barrett's

bar in your Justin's, right?

Yeah.

It's not far.

St.

John's?

St.

John's.

St.

John's.

St.

John's.

You can't see it from here, but where it says Leo's River back there, if you walk around there, there's a little like kids' playground area that is so fucking cute and adorable.

And it's all like locked in.

So so you can just like this is one of those places if you see it from the street it's on north loop it doesn't look like much no uh it's cool logo it's like uh fists with double treble type like tattooed on the knuckles but then you come back and there's a huge courtyard i came here for the first time on a saturday i've not been here this is i think my fourth time here uh

i came here on a saturday and there were a bunch of stalls all around this back these back walls and people were selling jewelry and clothes and shit like a little saturday fair market kind of thing this is a big like outdoor seating area yeah and there's like bands that play over there it's very nice this feels like a big weekend hangout spot it was and packed and you can tell that it's a really popular place uh because there are three parking spots out front and then none anywhere else so you know it's awesome

all the neighboring businesses say no coffee shop parking which is uh

and uh the people that have lived here probably for years around the corner are going fucking god damn

yeah

so

you know um Like I said, we're right by where we did a previous episode, but from here, I can see the new We Love Video and Warhorse.

This Warhorse bar right across the street, that used to be the parlor.

Yeah, that was the original location of the parlor.

And I think we mentioned the parlor in the episode we did over by where the draft house is.

Yes, yeah, we did.

So parlor used to be here.

We got pizza bar.

Yeah.

We Love Video used to be a vintage store.

Well, I Love Video used to be a movie store over on airport that closed.

And this is like the revival.

It's We Love Video, and that used to be a vintage store.

And I think that vintage store is over on Lamar and like 51st Street.

You're right, you're right.

zenia there's like there has been this little area of north loop if you're familiar with austin or not familiar with austin has just been uh

like a a rotation of vintage shops over the last like 15

for the entire time i've been here because room service is right over here which is like which is i bought a sofa i was the side of the sofa in my house i bought from room service i was thinking about that the other day one of the best sofas i've ever owned across the street next to workhorse is a place called i think it's called tigress and then next to that there was i don't think it's there anymore i I think it's something else.

There was a little goth

like clothing store or whatever.

Bloody Rose.

Yeah, Bloody Rose.

And I had a friend that was in town, and we went there one time, and it was a great place to buy leather bracelets or plasmatics t-shirts.

Get your Wendy O.

Williams.

100%.

So that place, World Course, is a bar, I feel like I should say, because we've talked about it, but we didn't say what it is.

And they have burgers and stuff, and it's pretty good.

When I lived, when I was doing some renovation, and Gavin and I lived a couple blocks from here for about a year.

Over by the Will Ferrell Mural.

Over by the Will Ferrell Mural.

That's right.

I lived over there.

I would walk on Sundays.

I would get up.

It was like my ritual I had all by myself without Millie or my ex-wife or Gavin or anybody.

We all live together and our friend Patricia.

I would walk over here at like 2 p.m.

on a Sunday and I would sit at workhorse and they would always have football on in the fall and I would drink like three beers and watch whatever was on until I finished my third beer and then I would walk home and it was like the most peaceful.

I still, I don't miss the alcohol part, but I still miss that little ritual I had because I did it for a long time.

Mentally, like when you say that, it seems far, but now that I think about it, it's only like 10 blocks down the road.

It's a 20-minute walk through a gorgeous, one of the prettiest neighborhoods in Austin in the fall when football's on.

It's just beautiful.

It's like right now, right?

Oh, yeah, true.

Yeah.

Yeah, the three weeks of fall that we get.

I saw somebody said that like fall, like we're at, like the end of fall and winter is coming up.

And I was like, no, that can't be right.

And I looked and fall started at the end of September.

Yeah.

But the high is 84 today.

Yeah.

Yeah, but we're in the morning in the shade, so it's great.

It's awesome.

For as much as we bitched about the 100-degree days, we should definitely enjoy these pleasant days while we can.

These are our reward

for what we went through.

I, man, so I don't know if you all get this thing, but

the local electricity providers, Austin Energy, if you live here.

Yeah.

And they love sending these emails.

I get them once a week.

That's like, you used X amount more or less electricity every than last week.

It's like, yeah, no shit.

It's 100 degrees this week.

It was 80 degrees last week.

Of course I used more.

Stop trying to scare me.

Yeah,

I know.

Hey, how about you correlate this with the fucking temperature outside?

It's so annoying.

It's like, here you are compared to your neighbors.

Your rank number, whatever.

That's the part.

I don't mind them telling me what I used.

I hate when they rank me against my neighbors.

I'm better than my neighbors.

You don't have to put it in numbers.

I know it.

It's fine.

It's clear.

Look at me.

Should we talk about We Love Video?

It's right there.

Because they are the people that run that place.

They went to RTX.

I met one of the dudes at RTX.

And they're,

I don't know how to say like, they're like, I don't know if they're like Rooster Teeth community members, but they're definitely Rooster Teeth aware.

Yeah.

And I think that they have a, it's just a video lending library, right?

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They have, like, they know us well enough to have a copy of the Tuxedo at the front.

Yeah, it's like a VS copy of the Tuxedo

by the register out front.

Which is so fucking cool.

It's a cool place.

I mean, I Love Video was, I think we've talked about it before, Video Store around for many, many years.

I think

it suffered because of streaming, and then I think the pandemic kind of put a nail in the coffin.

I was always more of a Vulcan guy.

I was always more of a Vulcan guy myself.

I think because of you, I was more of a Vulcan guy, too.

But, I mean, I went to I Love Video every now and then.

I did too.

And now they're back here as we love video.

But, like, they were in a spot that became so expensive.

Yes.

And that spot was Austin.

Yeah, right, exactly.

I mean, on airport where they were was, I used to live right over there.

And it was like...

What a cool thing to walk to.

Yeah.

And then with the big Slacker mural and everything.

And then immediately it was like, oh, we're closing down.

By the way, this new thing's getting built.

And they put in like Lazarus Brewing, and it is huge.

And you're like, oh, that's what this, that's, got it.

Okay, I get what they're doing here.

I don't know if you've been to Lazarus Brewing.

I haven't been to that location.

I haven't been to that one.

Yeah.

No, there's one on East near the Sixth Street Cool Store, or what used to be the Sixth Street Cool Store.

Really, really good tacos.

I went there with some friends a long time ago, got the tacos and some coffee.

And it was like, if I lived by it, I'd go all the time.

When I was getting sober, that was my morning place.

I would go there every morning and get two tacos and ice coffee.

I don't think I was drinking iced coffee yet, so I was drinking just black coffee.

But yeah, that was my spot.

Man.

I haven't been back in years and years and years, but I probably went there 40 times in like two years.

Have you been over to the

speaking of going back?

Have you been over to the new Wheel of Video location?

No.

I went a couple weeks ago.

Oh, really?

How is it?

Yeah, it's nice.

They got a lot of stuff.

It's weird.

I can't remember the last time I walked into a video rental store.

So it's kind of weird to walk and be like, oh, right, this is how we used to do it.

And then walking around being like, oh, here's the sci-fi movies, and they're all alphabetized.

Or whatever, you know, genre.

It's strange.

I'm so conditioned now to

scrolling endlessly through whatever video streaming platform you're looking at.

Whereas here, it's just like, oh, here's...

I have an idea what I'm looking for.

There it is, right there.

It's super charming.

Isn't it?

Like,

I went to the last blockbuster in Bend, Oregon a couple years ago.

I think it's still open.

I think it turned into like an Airbnb or something, but I think it's still open.

Anyway, Emily's parents used to live up there, so we went

in the pre-Michigan days, we went up there, and it was such an odd nostalgia hit to walk in, and there's like all the section with the candy, and then you go back, and yeah, you can, like, in the span of two seconds with your eyes, you can scan eight minutes worth of scrolling in Netflix.

Like,

it's such a faster way to do it.

I mean, I understand that there's the getting off your couch and getting in your car and driving to a place and spending gas and time, but it I really,

I would be lying if I said I didn't miss it a little bit.

I mean, yeah, I mean, it's like nostalgia, also, right?

Like, I think the thing that always sucked for me the most was when you're done, like, oh, great, now I got to take it back.

It was always the taking it back that was like the worst part.

Like, I got to go out of my way.

I'm not getting anything.

I'm just not paying a late fee now.

It's true.

I think I've just, as I've gotten older and I've slowed down a little bit, I've learned to appreciate things that took a little more time, just in general.

You know,

so they have, you know, VHS, like you mentioned, they have the tuxedo and VHS on display.

And it got me really wondering, like,

how many VCRs are left operational in the world?

And like, nobody makes VCRs anymore, right?

Like, they don't make new VHS tapes.

So is that like there's going to be a point at which the last VCR breaks

and you know, nobody's going to fix it.

It's kind of like your Tesla.

Yeah, I mean, are they making?

Is there not one place that's making a yeah, you're probably right.

They're done making, they don't make VHS like new movies don't release on VHS anymore.

Yeah,

so

it is a dying industry.

It's something that was like ubiquitous, it was everywhere, and it's just gonna go away.

I wonder if it's one of those things that will come in vogue again, like how they're making Polaroid film again, you know, or

like cassette tapes are popular.

I don't know if you know this, but like my friend Bat Dog,

the guy I truck with, he collects cassette tapes, and it's a huge market, and he does album covers for bands and stuff.

He's an artist, and he does, he's doing an album cover right now.

The album is only coming out on cassette.

But that is niche, right?

I mean, that's not like mainstream.

You're not going to go.

It's niche, but I mean, so is Rooster Teeth.

I mean, it's niche in the way that vinyl was niche.

Yeah.

Remember when no one was doing anything with vinyl, and then all of a sudden it was- Dude, if you go to Target right now, the vinyl section is bigger than the CD section.

So it's cassette is niche in that way like the beginnings of vinyl coming back yeah i mean you see also sucks shit cassettes fucking suck yeah saying cassettes sound like shit vinyl sells more than cd is kind of i'm just sells more i'm just saying like if you go to

target you're gonna see more well they're bigger records than cds i think they have more is what i'm saying

they're physically

larger jesus christ dudes

They're bigger.

That's the argument we're trying to make.

I'm just saying, of course it's going to take more space.

That's not

even close to what anybody's saying.

But it's true.

Why are you being

and then think about it?

Cassettes even smaller.

Yeah, so it would be crazy if that took more space.

Unless they used the big packaging like they used to have where it's all huge.

This is the dumbest fucking episode of the show.

I'm just saying, you've got to think about it.

Speaking of packaging,

I watched Defending Your Life the other day for the first time ever.

Have you ever seen that movie?

No.

It's a Meryl Streep Albert Brooks film.

Okay.

Came out in I guess the late 80s in like the height of Albert Brooks' fame.

And it's basically a dude goes to heaven.

Well, he thinks he gets hit by a car and he thinks he's going to heaven, but what he really does is he goes to a place called Judgment City.

And Judgment City is kind of like purgatory, but you, it basically what happens is you get a lawyer and then there's a lawyer for the universe and then they have a case where they go over your life to determine if you're

going worthy to move forward.

Gotcha.

There's no heaven or hell in this.

It's like you move further into the universe.

If you're too dumb, you have to go back and be reincarnated and live a life again until you get enough shit right to move forward.

And it's just a very funny movie of Albert Brooks trying to defend his life and his decisions.

But early on, he buys like a BMW and it's got a CD player in it.

So this is...

when it's a big deal to have a CD player in a car and it's kind of a joke.

And the guy gives him a bunch of CDs.

And I had forgotten that CDs used to come in these long cardboard packages that were a little bit wider than a CD, but like three times the length of a CD.

Yeah, yeah.

And it was like, it was, it was like basically if you folded a record up around a CD, like a record cover, around a CD, it was so much cardboard.

Yeah.

You know why they did that?

Theft, right?

Well, because records are bigger than C D's.

Oh my God.

They wanted you to make sure you saw it.

You were used to looking at a big package to buy music.

Can you kill him?

You're a co-host.

This is your friend, man.

You're going to make me hamburgers.

This is going to be a whole thing.

They only did that for like a year or like the first couple year cds were out i think they needed to get people's attention um to like try to buy this new kind of music or this new format for music distribution i remember watching that slowly go away or actually pretty quickly go away but like i remember i think l7

was the last album i bought or the last cd i bought that had the packaging on it oh really yeah i remember because i remember seeing it and thinking that still it was weird that it still had it i don't think i ever bought a i didn't have a cd player when that was still going on i don't think i ever bought a cd that had the big packaging like that i remember seeing it in the store.

We didn't have those big city CD players.

We'll put some pictures on the Instagram for those of you that are under 45

so you understand what we're talking about.

It sounds like packaging was just stupid.

Yeah.

It was just

like I mentioned, they even did it with cassettes for a while.

Cassettes had like that big, and they also had that big plastic thing for theft.

I think that's what you're thinking about.

So you couldn't just stick it in your pocket and you'd have to take the giant plastic thing to the register and they'd take it out.

Remember you'd walk around in the record store with holding the other end and swinging it.

It was like 12 inches long with a tape at the end of it.

Do you remember also they would have that thing where they would put, you know, if they, if the tapes weren't in that giant plastic thing, they would put them like all lined up on a wall, like alphabetically, and there was plastic, like hard plastic over it.

And there was like a small hole you could stick your hand in,

grab a cassette, look at it, and see if it's the one you wanted, like flip it over, see what the tracks were, put it back.

And then when you were finally ready to buy one, you'd call them over, they'd have the key, they'd unlock it, and take you to the register.

What a stupid system.

What a pain in the ass.

I sound like my grandfather complaining about something.

Dude,

I went to a fiesta the other day, and they do that with tide there.

Really?

Yeah, it's all like, all the tide was like locked behind plastic, and you had to get somebody to come out and unlock it for you.

I guess it must be a high theft item.

Tide?

Yeah, weird.

I don't know.

Huh.

It's expensive?

It's pretty expensive.

Tide pods, yeah.

It was pods.

They're delicious, too.

You're going to keep fucking eating them.

Yeah.

Yum yum yum.

Cheaper than snacks.

We should talk about this spot a little bit.

We can talk about the coffee and everything, too, but like, I mean, we're like 20 minutes in, but really, I'm so interested in

this area.

We were talking about North Loop being kind of like a high turnover place or whatever.

What other places were around here?

Is this an area you guys came to?

I mean, I assume you didn't come to a lot because we were making fun of a friend that lived over by where Home Slice is now.

You'd be like, oh, I don't want to drive all the way up there.

Yeah, that was like years ago.

Early.

Early.

After a while,

I started coming over here a little more.

When the parlor was here, we would come here.

Came here a ton.

Very regularly.

I went to workhorse a lot.

I went to the parlor a lot.

I've been to room service one million times.

Like I said, I have a sofa in my bedroom from room service.

There's another bar

right over there that's kind of nice.

Oh, drink well.

Drink well.

Went to there a little bit.

I mean, in the grand scheme of things, that's newer than this other stuff.

Yes, a little newer.

There is a place across the street called big bertha's which i think is the worst name for a for a clothing antique store i've never been there go in there you will be blown away you think it's just like an old vintage shop where you're gonna get like a fucking gigam shirt for thirty dollars or a willie nelson t-shirt uh everything in there is like vintage Louis Vuitton,

vintage like Gucci, Chanel.

It's very expensive in that place.

Really?

The name of the store does no justice to what they have inside.

It is incredible.

Ice Sweet is like a whatever.

No, very expensive.

very expensive in there really nice stuff bertha's got an expensive taste she does jesus wow big dollar big dollar bertha they had to abbreviate it they did money bertha yeah on the on the sign um but this place specifically where we're at double trouble used to be farah's yeah this used to be a mediterranean place called farahs which i never went to no i don't know why

it was never open yeah i think it was like a nighttime dinner

always open at weird hours yeah yeah uh but it was here for a long time supposedly very good yeah um never never got a chance to check it out i don't know why but i guess it's weird hours, just never over here.

Then, of course, Epoch down the road, been there many times.

There's also vintage stores over there, too, next to Epoch.

You mentioned a bar Tigress, right across the street.

Tigris is where I took Emily on her first date.

Oh, is that right?

Yeah, even though I was sober at the point at that point.

That's cool.

So she could have a cocktail.

If you ever get a chance, if you're ever in Austin, you want to have an awesome experience at a quiet, tucked away, very well-curated bar.

There's a lady that works in there.

There's like maybe eight seats in all of Tigress.

I haven't been there in six years, so it could have changed.

But there's like maybe eight to 10 seats in all of Tigris.

It's very small.

And they make like two cocktails a day.

And she's like, this is what we're serving today.

And it's the lady just makes them very meticulously in front of you.

She's like a genius.

She's like an alcohol wizard.

And she makes these wonderful drinks.

And then you just sit in there and just soak up the vibe.

It's an awesome, awesome place.

It's one of the first bars I ever went to when I was here.

Really?

I stayed with Jordan Sweers and him and his now wife were like, Oh, we won't take you to this.

Let's check this place out.

Let's go to Tigris.

And I was like, Okay.

And it was so, I'd never been to like this part of Austin, driving through all this stuff or whatever.

And then going to that place, and I was just like, What the?

Like, where the fuck am I?

I'd only ever been like downtown.

You know what I mean?

If you're ever wondering, like, if you're not from Austin and you're trying to get a handle on what this area is, it is very much like a corridor that goes east to west that begins, I would say, like the vintage antique zone of Austin.

And you go through North Loop and there's a ton.

And then you, North Loop runs into Burnett and then you can go south or north on Burnett and there'll be another 20 antique stores or vintage stores up and down those that road.

Come right on down, drive by the cemetery, grab a cool old shirt, a cup of coffee, and a cocktail.

It's just, there's very like.

Oh, Monkey Wrench Books is

like an anarchist anti-establishment bookstore.

They have like a zine library.

If you want to go get like

stock up on Howard's Inn, that's the place to go.

That's a really interesting place.

We have a friend that used to work there.

Yeah.

Forbidden Fruits Rod over there.

Forbidden Fruits Ride over there.

If you want to get a legally purchased dildo,

what?

It used to be illegal in Texas for

a weird thing.

A bunch of fucking weird asses.

Paul still does.

Well, luckily, they really got their act together here in Texas.

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I

tried to renew my driver's license yesterday.

How'd it go?

Not well.

Why?

What do you mean, not well?

So I tried to do it online,

and they were like...

Is it expired?

No, it expires in February.

Okay.

But they're like, can't do it online.

And I know everyone always bitches that it takes forever to get an appointment.

So I was like, I'm going to take care of this early.

Why couldn't you do it online?

They just told me I couldn't do it online.

Okay.

You mean a new picture?

I guess so.

I think every once in a while they want to see you in person.

Yeah.

So like

check up on you.

See how you're looking.

A month, month and a half ago, I got the alert.

So made an appointment.

Appointment was yesterday.

Okay, fine, whatever.

Show up at my appointment.

You walk in, pull a number, fill out a little paperwork, wait, like, even though you have an appointment, wait half an hour.

They call me up and they're like, okay, I'm like, here's my form.

The woman's like, where's your license?

Here's my license.

She's like, okay, where's your proof of legal status?

What does that mean?

I'm like, what?

She goes, oh, you know, like your birth certificate or your passport or something.

I was like, well, I don't have that.

She's like, oh, yeah.

Since 2019, if you're renewing your license in person, we need to see your proof of legal status in the United States.

Like, well, I was like, well, I was born here in Austin.

You have it.

It's my driver's license.

Yeah, that's one of those.

And she's like, nah, that doesn't count.

She's like, don't worry, we'll just reschedule you.

You can come back.

I'll get you the next available appointment.

Cool, cool, no big deal.

She's like, how does December 8th work for you?

I was like, all right, it's fine.

Like I said, it doesn't expire until February.

That's why I'm getting ahead of it.

Like, all right, that's fine.

A month,

next appointment, a month away.

Yeah, it's cool.

No big deal.

So I got to get my fucking birth certificate or passport or some shit to renew my driver's license for some reason.

Do you think that's why they wanted to see you in person?

Just have a look and go.

Probably why.

Let me see that documentation.

Gustavo, a little ethnic sounding there.

This is a little.

Did they put you in the Sorolla bucket?

And they're like, that sounds pretty fucking shitty, dude.

Yeah.

So

this is a cautionary tale for you guys.

If you need to, when you need to renew your license, Jeff with a G is a little ethnic sounding too.

So just give you a heads up.

I guess anyone listening in the state of Texas, you may have to do that at some point.

I'm good until 2031.

Oh, you're set.

Yeah.

You'll be dead by then.

Yeah.

Oh, good.

Yeah.

That is the one nice thing.

The licenses are good for a long time.

It'll be hopefully good for a lot longer than I live in Austin.

So

we'll see.

But man, what a pain in the ass that whole process is.

And I only mention that because that is Austin-related.

I just had to renew my registration.

Same kind of thing.

I couldn't renew it online.

Before registration.

Couldn't renew it online.

There used to be a drive-through over on airport where you could just drive through.

That's closed down.

You can only do it by going in in person cool over on on cameron road so i had to go do the like it was 19 uh 97 again yeah you know i was trying to pay my cable bill it was fucking annoying that's crazy that's funny you say that i have memories like of being a kid going my mom to pay like the cable bill like at a drive-through at the like the cable building downtown like what a fucking stupid way to do things.

Today's the day we're to drive around town and go to all the places and pay our bills.

I'm so happy that ended right as I became an adult.

I had probably three years of it.

Like when I lived in Kaleen in in the Army, there was a day every month I'd go and I'd pay the gas bill and then I would go drive to pay the electric bill and then you would pay your car insurance and you just fucking go around town going to buildings and standing in line just to give people money.

Yeah, and but I will seem so normal.

I

there is something I hate about paying our bills online now, specifically the gas bill here in Austin.

Okay.

Anytime you pay your fucking gas bill, they're like, oh, that's a $3.95 convenience fee on top of it.

It's so convenient.

Like, I mean, I'm glad I don't have to drive and go do this in person, but $3.95, really?

Also, it's like, even if you don't use any gas, all the service charges every month, you're paying a minimum $25.

Go pay it in person.

Say I'm keeping the $3.95.

Yeah.

I should.

Yeah, give them a check.

You'll go to Texas Gas Service and they'll go, what are you doing?

And you're like, I'm here to pay my bill.

I don't want to pay no convenience fee.

And they're like,

we haven't taken money in person in 15 years.

We don't have to do that.

We can't write a check.

That's a great idea.

Do you have a checkbook?

Do I think you have a checkbook?

Absolutely.

No.

Yeah, I do too.

I was wondering if, like, where the cutoff was.

I don't.

I used to.

What if you have to go?

When

do I do that?

I had to write a check recently.

What do I have to write a check for?

I go to the bank and I say, hey, I need a check for this amount.

And they go, okay.

And then I've done that once this year.

Don't think at all last year.

The year before I had to go to the bank, I think two times.

I bet I write five checks a year, probably.

Really?

Yeah.

I write about 15 to 20.

Really?

Yeah.

I definitely write a few.

What do you write them for?

Like HOI use.

Yeah.

I had to write a check for...

I think I had to write a check for my Windows when I got my Windows fixed.

Pay the guy cash.

They get it done a little bit faster.

Cash in hand.

A little bit of cash.

$3,300?

$2,600.

A little faster.

I had to pay some wedding stuff in check.

Really?

Now that I think about it.

I think when...

I feel like just dealing with government stuff, it had to be checked.

But no, even that, I had to.

It was card.

You don't write a check to the IRS?

I have a guy.

He writes it for you?

Don't worry about where my money goes.

$3,300?

Huh?

Or like

$3,600?

Don't worry about what happens.

United States Department of Treasury?

Let's talk here.

I got some cash.

You need some cash.

Let's work it out.

Yeah,

I'm glad to see it going away.

Do you remember in school?

Did you have to take check writing in school?

No.

Like, it was a part of general math one year.

We had to learn how to write checks and balance a budget.

I was in, like, maybe eighth grade or ninth grade.

That actually sounds useful.

I wish they would teach me.

I didn't mind like that.

That's how I learned how to balance my checkbook.

I did that in, like, sixth grade.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to say I did it in ninth grade, like, idiot math.

My parents taught me how to do it.

I figured that's how everyone learned.

Well, not everybody gets to grow up with such a healthy

mom and dad together.

Just like I got to learn about the birds and the bees.

That's what your mom and and dad showing you?

Hey, son, get a load of this.

Oh, no.

We're about to make your sister.

It's the thing you see now

talking about, you know, the checkbooks going away, whatever.

It's the same when people go like, ah, these kids don't even know how to like write a letter.

And it's like, or like mail a letter.

And it's like, how often do you fucking mail a letter?

The thing I've been seeing online is Taylor Swift's new album came out.

It's on a CD.

And it's these girls who are probably like 11 trying to figure out how to, like, how to play it, opening the case and like how to get it out, and like the thing to put it in, and how it works, and which side is up and down.

And then it's people like, it's like their parents like filming, like, haha, they don't know how to use like a CD.

And I guess that's the novelty of like this thing that was so everywhere for me.

They don't know how to do it.

It's like, right, a thing you didn't teach them.

They don't know how to do.

That's crazy.

But that's just technology.

Yeah.

Give them a cassette.

They don't know how to fucking use that either.

But like, you shouldn't.

It's this is, these are dead mediums.

It's not you, not useful information.

The people recording their daughters going, yeah, they don't know how to use a CD.

Put an ink ribbon in a typewriter, you dip shit.

Yeah, no kidding.

Like, this is how this thing works.

Or it's like, okay,

navigate Snapchat.

You know how to do it.

Yeah.

You fucking dumbass.

You think you're all high in mighty because you know how to use a fucking cassette?

Yeah, because you figured out because your kid taught you how to film something on TikTok.

You didn't figure that out on your own.

I filmed, I probably helped you post this.

I was gonna say, I filmed this of you.

How do I post this?

Make it popular.

Can we add a viral to that?

How do you,

we want this video to go viral.

I'm thinking about making probably about five viral videos.

Make sure we get on Colbert first.

That'll be our first appearance after this gets posted.

Now, how do I make people see this?

Awesome.

Is the president going to see it?

Is your grandma going to see it?

But in that order.

Make sure the president sees it and then your grandma sees it.

But there are, like, you know, thinking back about old technologies, like you mentioned cassettes, and for some reason, it made me think about this, like, there were a lot of little, like,

stupid tricks and hacks you needed to know with some of that stuff.

Like, VHS tapes and cassettes shared that little notch at the back for like record protection, so you wouldn't record over it.

But it's like you could, if you had, like, a piece of tape, you could put it over.

That way you could be able to record on it again.

We're just like, I can't remember the last time I had to do that.

I was probably like, it was probably 30 years ago the last time I had to do something like that.

And by default, every movie you bought had the little notch out so that you wouldn't automatically record over it.

But then sometimes you'd be like, no, this movie sucks.

It's worth more as a blank tape for me.

Didn't the Dead Kennedys have a blank side to one of their cassettes?

I think so, yeah.

It was just like steal other people's music.

Like this side intentionally left blank.

Kill the recording industry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That sounds right, right?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right.

Yeah.

I remember doing that when I was a kid, like making mixtapes off the radio for songs that I liked.

People our age got to be so fucking careful not to be such dipshits about that stuff.

I remember when we worked at the tech sport company, I took a call early on.

I was probably just

about hitting level two.

I took a call from a guy who was probably in the 70s or 80s.

He was an older gentleman, and he was having trouble typing in his password.

And I helped him do it.

And he was just a really nice guy.

And it was one of those memories that imprints on you for the rest of your life.

And the guy was talking to me about it.

And he was like, you know, it probably seems pretty silly to you that I'm having trouble with something so simple as a password error.

And I have to agree with you, but I want to give you a cautionary.

I want to give you a bit of warning, son.

And I was like, okay.

He's like, how old are you?

And I'm like, I'm 23.

And he's like, all right.

I was in 1965, one of the 50 smartest people in America on computers.

I helped design the punch card system.

I knew computers backwards and forwards.

I was on the bleeding edge of technology.

And here I am, just 50 years later, 40 years later, and I can't type in a password because I didn't understand the caps lock key.

Wow.

Be careful.

This is your future.

He was like, just don't ever lose sight of that.

You're so smart right now.

You understand this technology.

There will be a point in your life when technology passes you by and you're in the same boat as I am.

And I just want to thank you for treating me with respect and being

gentle with me and kind with me because a lot of kids your age aren't.

And you guys are all in for this someday.

Everybody thinks that, you know, like they're on top of the ball, but at some point it's going to flip and you're going to be me.

And I just hope that the people that you have to talk to are as nice to you as you were to me, which I thought was a really sweet call from the guy.

But I still think about that all the time.

And I can feel it happening.

I've been feeling it happening for about 10 years.

At first, it's a joke.

At first, it's like, haha, that's funny.

That's super.

And then it's like, oh, wait, it's just happening more and more and more.

And more.

It gets away from you very quickly.

That's crazy.

But

it's the march of time, right?

Time marches on.

It is what it is.

I mean, it's what you just said about like, I don't know, I navigate Snapchat, you dip shit.

It's exactly what it is.

Yeah.

Man, this is a busy street.

There was like a van parked out there.

There was a UPS being delivered.

There's a semi out there now.

A lot of antiques got things loaded.

This is not a very big street.

It's like

one lane in each direction and a turn lane in the middle.

It's kind of curvy.

But don't worry.

When you try to park and you can't park there, you have to back out into where you can't see.

So that way you can park in another spot where you're not allowed to park.

So you can back out where you can't see.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's great.

So just park around the corner.

And there's a used appliance store.

You can pick up a washing machine.

I almost bought a washing machine there.

Did you?

Yeah, but I went like,

I think my wife's going to go not going to feel good about me buying a used washing machine.

You can, so what I used to do when I was younger and I wanted, you know, I had to buy a washing machine is I would go to like

maybe not a used washing machine place, but like a place that sold dinged up washing machines.

There used to be a place over here on Lamar where it was like, they sold new washing machines that nobody wanted because like, oh, in shipment, this one got a huge dent in the side.

So now it's like half price.

Like, it's a perfectly fine washing machine.

I get why nobody wants to pay the full price for it.

It's like, I'll pay half price for a dinged washing machine.

It does the same thing.

I grew up across the street from this is only a san diego thing i think there were two or three locations that's a store called gtm

and it had

you waving at people someone waved at me uh it just had stuff that essentially stuff that like oh this captain crunch box got beat up and then it's just a store full of the stuff they couldn't sell at kroger or vaughns or whatever and growing up across the street from that we go all the time and that's where we got a bunch of food and they had that stuff they had xbox 360 controllers controllers, I don't know why, for like the brand Xbox 360 actual controllers for like 15 bucks.

Wow, and it was like

crazy.

I met the guy who started it, and I'm like, Man, I grew up here, and I never knew GTM, I don't know what it stands for.

He's like, I don't stand for anything, it was just letters that we were like, This is what it is.

But he's like, But I'll let you know.

I always say, Get the money, and I went, This is my kind of place.

Those places are so few and far between now.

Yeah, oh, really?

They were so infrequent, I think, in like the 90s and like early 2000s.

There aren't a lot of like those, this thing fell off the truck kind of places anymore.

I don't know why.

Around the corner from here on Lamar, it's like a couch place now.

That used to be a big warehouse.

That's where I bought like my dented washing machine.

Like that, it was just a giant warehouse.

I was like, these are all brand new washing machines.

They're all a little fucked up.

Yeah.

But

you can get one here.

Emily's parents have had the same washer and dryer her entire life.

Really?

Yeah.

It's got, it's going on like 40 years old.

They're just old, ugly metal like washer and dryer that just I think a roll pull or whatever, but there's no circuit board on them.

And so they just work.

And anytime it breaks, they can be repaired.

It's a very mechanical thing.

Yeah, it's just, and her mom swears by them, and they fucking, they've had them.

I saw them hump them from Oregon to Michigan.

They're still going strong.

Jeez.

Yeah.

Buy it for life, I guess.

Yeah.

Yeah, pretty much.

That's crazy.

I was going to say get some new ones, but why?

If it still works, who cares?

I have ones that I bought four years ago that suck shit.

Yeah, mine.

But I've already had to have repaired ones.

Yeah.

And that's the way it's not built to last.

Sam song.

Sometimes there are nice things about it.

Like, I will say, um, the washing machine I have now

connects to my Wi-Fi.

So like when it's done, it lets me know.

Like I get an alert on my phone, like, hey, your washing machine's done.

So if you don't hear it, like, oh, it's not.

Mine goes, ding-dong.

And I go, oh, I can hear it.

It's done.

We have

ours plays a little song, and we call it the washing machine song.

And that's how you know it's done.

Weird.

what a weird podcast.

Uh, hey, we should, uh, I actually want to give an update on something, and then we should talk about this.

Oh, yes,

pause for dramatic effect, yeah, you can't see the stuff he's doing with his hands, all gimmicks is closed, what, what

so at the end of October, all gimmicks closed down because they're finding a brick-and-mortar shop to open up a new area.

You scared me, exactly.

Lead with they're moving.

So, are they

remember fools?

Because all gimmicks just operates outside of their brewery is the brewery still around yeah uh cider or whatever yeah so uh i think that place is still there i assume they just want to expand and reclaim that space

and i think that's what it is so and so all gimmicks is finding they on their instagram they said hey october 29th is our last day i wish we would have gone i didn't know about it until after but um it's our last day and we're hopefully it'll be a quick move as we move into a brick and mortar store When they do that, we should go.

Oh, my God.

Absolutely.

I don't, it doesn't say, I don't have any information.

So they're keeping it pretty close to the vest.

so we'll just have to see.

Oh, speaking of, there's another coffee shop.

Emily's friend owns Figure Eight Coffee.

Yeah.

That place over here.

Yeah.

And she just opened up a new location over on airport by the Grand, and they just had their grand opening.

I went to their grand opening, actually.

The Grand Grand Opening?

The Grand Grand Opening.

The Grand was already open.

The Grand was already open.

But anyway, we should go to the new Figure Eight together at some point.

It's so close to here.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's over on

airport and 35.

Yeah, we'll have to record at the office because unless we're going to stay in the parking lot.

Yeah, it's

nothing to record.

I used to live like right behind the the grand, which was cool, but boy, there ain't fucking nothing there.

Weren't you trapped in your house once because there was a swarm of bees going down the street?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was just like, don't come out, do not come out.

And then the bees have taken over.

The bees were flying everywhere, and then the parrots landed in my front yard.

And Bernie said, oh, that's good luck.

And I went, that's made up.

That's stupid.

The only other thing over there, it's the Grand.

There's a toy joy over there, I think.

And then the Omeletry, which has got to be the most overrated restaurant in all of this.

Soup Pedler's there.

Soup Pedler, yeah.

You should be at today's style there.

I think so.

So fucking bummed living there, going to the omeletry and going,

this sucks.

Sucks.

Because that would have been the spot every day to go over and get a cup of coffee and a waffle or whatever.

And you just go, this sucks.

The most canned-ass tomatoes that I have in my past.

How the fuck?

How?

How?

And it's one of those beloved places.

Like, they moved and it was a big deal.

They used to be over on Burnett or Lamar.

I think it was Burnett.

And it was a big deal when they moved to that spot and everything.

And I ate it both, and I just, I never got it.

I never understood why people loved it so much.

So they were over kind of by where that top drawer place is across the street, I think.

Which moved.

Oh, top drawer moved.

That's right.

And I think Austin's diner used to be where Voodoo Donut is now, which used to be Lucy's Fried Chicken.

And then Austin's Diner moved down.

Like over by

that CBS and the Chu Sando place.

It's over where that

H Mart is going to be, right?

Yeah.

That seems small for an H Mart, doesn't it?

It seems really small.

Small parking lot for an H Mart.

It was a Sabers before.

Yeah.

And so it's decent size, but for an H Mart, it seems like it's really tiny.

But I go to that Austin Diner all the time.

I really like Austin Diner.

Right there next to you to Chu.

It shouldn't have been there.

Choose really cool.

I went there.

We went with Blaine's, Blaine and his girlfriend.

We went to Austin Diner, and then as we were leaving, there was no one in Chu.

And I'm like, Blaine, do you know about this place?

And he went, no.

And I'm like, Gus likes it.

And he went, oh, I got to get something.

The other day I went, my wife and I went, and we're like, let's just pick up something early.

Let's go when they first open.

They would just get it because it doesn't need to be hot necessarily.

We showed up like right when they opened, like at 10 or whatever.

There was a line

going down the shopping center.

We waited in line maybe

half an hour or so.

Wow.

Like all told before we got our food and were able to leave.

It was fucking, I don't know if someone posted something online or like people are like on to that place now.

It is busy.

It's fucking hopping.

Wow.

So order ahead.

It's crazy how, and this is going to date this, but this isn't coming out for like a couple of weeks.

When you have influencers who are big in like a food space or whatever, and they give a stamp of approval to like a really small place and all of a sudden it blows up.

It's happening in Atlanta.

There's a guy.

Oh my gosh.

Keith Lee.

That's a big thing.

Have you seen that?

Yeah.

Keith Lee and he went to go eat at like these brunch spots in Atlanta and like

they wouldn't like seat him and his like his family and all this stuff, but it wasn't like

they were trying to give him preferential treatment.

And he's like, I'm just a regular guy.

There are people waiting for like an hour and a half to come eat here.

The service is fucking terrible.

All this stuff.

And And he's just like, it's not like he's fucking railing against them.

It's just a lot of people holding him up and going, like, everything he's saying.

I'm glad people know about what's happening in Atlanta, but he seems like a really cool guy.

Also, he's like an MMA fighter.

So, like, really fucking crazy.

But

when he gives like a place, like a stamp of approval, all of a sudden it's people going, like, we had this restaurant for like nine months and like, we were really struggling.

He came, he ate here, and he just said, hey, I like this place.

Come if you live in like the area.

And it's a line out the door and around the corner.

And it's like the nicest thing.

It's so cool it's awesome just spreading that because i don't think people have the awareness of like what's going on like in their area in their town just in like a word of mouth so when someone like that does something it like really kind of pops it off and it's very cool franklin barbecue when it opened up it was a trailer

kind of in an area town that i was that was kind of close to where i lived so i could i could go there fairly easily and i ate there I don't know, a dozen times in the first like eight months they were open.

It was always empty.

He was always just standing there.

Well, you could talk to Aaron forever because he was lonely and bored.

And then Anthony Bourdain ate there.

And it was like somebody flipped a switch and instantly

there was a line down the block and you could never eat there again.

And it was really just like that one moment and everything changed.

Yeah, I used to go there all the time too.

And like I remember one time like I wore a dismemberment plan shirt.

I was like getting some food and he was like, oh, you know, dismemberment plan.

Did you see them?

Like we'd start talking about times we'd seen him in Austin, like shows we'd been to, because there was no line.

Like there was nobody there.

It's like we just shot the shit for like 15 minutes about the memory plan.

It's like, all right, let them get your food, you know, puts it together.

And they're like, all right, I'm going to take this and go eat.

Crazy.

Yeah, then

now people like line up at dawn and wait three or four hours to get into that place.

Fucking wild.

We should talk about Double Trouble.

What do you guys think of Double Trouble as a spot and the coffee and everything?

I love it.

This coffee's so good.

I love it.

I've been here, like I said,

I've been here four times in the last two weeks now.

I've written some of the porno here.

That's for another show.

Don't worry about it.

Yeah.

We're so close to the studio, man.

I feel like I should just come work out of here.

You'll see me.

I sit in the window

facing the street.

They got Wi-Fi?

Yeah, they got Wi-Fi.

I'm going to take my meetings here.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

No, seriously.

I've been working here and at Bartlett's lately.

These are the two spots.

You got coffee and a taco.

Yeah.

So like I mentioned last episode, daylight savings just happened, so I'm a little hungry, a little early.

I decided to try a vegan taco.

It's like a tempeh bacon uh tofu scramble uh taco and i make tofu scramble myself sometimes this is not how i make it typically but this is still this is really good uh it was excellent uh vegan taco and i got a hot american that that the taco we're not here to talk about right the taco is just there so

should we mention that the the food controversy for this place Are you familiar with it?

Oh, I forgot about that.

So

it's a vegan place.

It was.

It was a vegan place.

And when it opened up, they had a partnership with, I guess, the vegan nom was running the local taco place.

Yeah, and I guess they decided they wanted to also serve eggs in the morning, but prepare them on a different grill and stuff.

And the vegan nom was like, that is not what we're about.

And so they pulled out, and they had like this Instagram

argument between the two establishments.

And I guess now their vegan stuff is run by Zucchini Kill, which we mentioned

right down the street, and which we mentioned in the last episode.

Yeah.

So it's still largely vegan.

I think they just have some eggs in their breakfast tacos.

That's it.

What it looked like to me,

I forgot, so I didn't pay attention to the menu very much.

It looked like uh the menu was split down in half the left side was all the vegan stuff and the right side had like had egg yeah they had a lot of vegan stuff yeah it was a lot of vegan tacos i just picked the first one on the list i think they're pretty way more vegan than egg in this place seems like that's what it seems like for sure uh everyone was really nice also yeah yeah very low-friendly very cool this place really rules uh we came right at like what 10 yeah and it was like not crowded inside few people working inside few people in like the back we found a quiet spot in the back uh just middle of the day or whatever and it's it's really nice what

What do you think?

What do you rate the coffee?

This coffee's like, man, I don't know, a nine, 9.5, somewhere.

It's so good.

I'm going to give, I guess, Barrett's coffee, right?

I'm going to give it like a 9.2.

Yeah.

I've loved

every cup of coffee I've had here.

Yep.

I said 10.

This is

so good.

The beans are like as we leave, they have...

Barrett's coffee here, and now I can just grab some on the way out, and I don't have to drive down to Barrett's and fight for parking since we already parked here.

Yeah, I do love.

Barrett's isn't far from here.

No, it's great to go there, but the parking is

tough here too, but we're already parked.

We had a little grouse fest in the car on the way here.

I was talking about how I'm considering not going to Barrett's anymore because I'm just sick of trying to park there.

And even here, if you can go park in the neighborhood, it's not a far walk.

When I had to park in the neighborhood of Barrett's, it's a bit of a hole to get back there.

I don't know if you noticed, the neighborhood parking here is really packed.

Like both sides of the street had tons of cars on it.

There's a lot of people who walk out here to this area.

Yep.

Do what we did.

Yep.

It's great.

Also, if you have a family, there is a like protected little kids' playground off kind of tucked away.

I say protected, and it's like there's only one entrance and exit so your kids can't get lost.

And it's really cute and adorable and a great little spot.

It looks kind of like the play spot.

I can't see it very well from here, but it looks kind of like the play spot over at a home spot.

Yes, very similar.

Very similar.

Very cool.

Yeah.

It's great.

I mean, it's a.

Never been here, driven by it a million times.

Gonna come here more often.

For sure.

Especially with Barrett's Beans.

Check this place out if you're in town.

I mean, especially if you want to see some different part of Austin.

This is definitely a different part of it.

Also, this is a bit of a time capsule spot.

If you want to experience the feeling of what Austin was like in the 96 when Gus and I were falling in love with it, it feels very much still like old Austin.

For sure.

There's not many spots like this.

There was a section of Burnett that I felt like held on for a long time, and that's really starting to slip away as well.

I would say here and over where in Crestview, where Little Deli is, that little shopping center, that's about it.

There's really not much left.

Well, come on down to double trouble, but we should get into an anarchy question.

You can send a question at animo podcast, Twitter, and on Instagram, r/animopodcast, a subreddit we don't run, but you can leave your questions there also.

Uh, just before we get to it, this is the last episode in our run, so the next two will be me and Jeff doing supplemental episodes, shorter pieces, and stuff, and then we'll be back with uh more episodes for our next winter thing.

Yeah, hey, winter is coming.

Oh,

we work for Warner, so it's we have to contractually obligated to say that.

Oh, no, yeah, um, This is a question from Brendan Tate on Twitter.

Jeff, do you remember riding bikes with Gavin about 10 years ago?

No.

All right.

All right.

Good question.

No.

I mean, I'm assuming we must have, but no.

Okay.

That's the whole question?

Yeah.

No.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm afraid I don't.

There you go, Brenda.

Our next question is from

Miri Gold Monkey.

Are there any?

You really don't remember, huh?

I have

No.

I wish I did.

If we did ride bikes, nothing of consequence happened.

Okay.

If you say so, that's fine.

Mary Gold Monkey asking this question on the subreddit.

Are there any local urban legends in Austin that you have witnessed firsthand?

Austin urban legends.

Are there any Austin urban legends?

Other than Bernie telling me that the parrots are good luck?

I have witnessed the parrots

firsthand.

We do have the

monk parricates.

I guess the serial killer is an urban legend, but I haven't experienced it yet.

Not yet.

Give it time.

Rainy Street Killer.

Yeah.

That's not.

The Rainy Street Killer is drunk tech bros falling over the edge of a bridge into the water and going which way's up.

That's all it is.

Yeah, it is.

That's definitely Urban Legend.

Urban Legend.

I know you would be like, I think the closest you get to Urban Legend was back then or in the past would be like running into like a public access personality in person.

It would be like, oh, did you know?

Alex Jones is here.

It's the girl from Raw Time.

Yeah, Alex.

Raw time.

Yeah, no, I can't really think of normal.

I guess Leslie was kind of a legend when he was around.

He's like a real tangible person.

It's not like a...

He's not like a wear bat or whatever they're looking for here.

I feel like

that mythos and the stories about him have changed over time.

I feel like

now that he's no longer around,

he's larger than life a lot more fondly than he than you they experienced him in person right he was a bit of a prick i mean the the no the closest that we have for something right here is like marfa lights and everything like that right like that's i mean that's not austin but like that's the closest i can think i just don't know of any that are like you know ask red web uh i don't i don't know of any austin urban legends yeah i don't either i think maybe like uh one i can think of they say that you know that uh that there's that one of those tall buildings downtown the norwood building it's like on congress and eighth or 9th.

It's like a tall white building.

Yeah.

There's a mansion on top of it.

If you ever noticed it, I guess the guy who built it wanted to build his wife a palace in the sky.

So he put a big house on top of what was the tallest building at the time in downtown Austin.

I don't know if it's true or not.

It's like one of those things you hear word of mouth.

There are like three single-family homes over there, like on Congress that you wouldn't know about.

Or like one on sixth and then like two on Congress.

Yeah, yeah.

Like one of them even has a pool.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Follow-up question from the same user.

You have any squirrel updates in your backyard?

So, no, not squirrel updates, but raccoons.

Raccoons are the new squirrels.

Early is the new late, and raccoons is the new squirrels.

So I've got a dog, Oswald.

And, you know, whenever he goes out and he, you know, takes a dump, I pick it up, little baggies.

And I used to have like a bucket.

I would just throw them in in the backyard.

And then when it trashed day, I'd empty the bucket into the trash can.

Raccoon started coming around, rooting around in the bucket.

Like, okay, I can't do this anymore.

So I had to get a trash can with a lid.

Like a little one that you like, I got it for my kids, like a little one.

You step on a button and it opens up and you put the baggies in there.

It styme eat the raccoons for about a year.

They've learned to tip it over.

The past three or four nights in a row, they've tipped it over and they take the baggies out and they rip them up and they eat whatever they can find in there.

So last night...

Yesterday, I decided to fill the little trash can with cinnamon because raccoons don't like cinnamon.

They didn't tip it over last night.

They They had tipped it over like three nights in a row.

They didn't tip it over last night.

So I think

I'm back on top again cinnamon they brought a toy for my dog

Wait to distract it?

I was out of town for a while.

I told you I was fucking tedious raccoonish shit.

I was overseas for for a week or two and then when I came back there was like one of those ball dog toys with like little spikes on it that they grab and it was just like right in the middle of my backyard.

I was like, that's weird.

The raccoons had brought security, I saw my security camera, they brought it and left it there.

We were back for like a day or two, and I was like, what the hell is this thing?

So I kicked it off the grass, put it, you know, onto

like off of my property.

And the raccoons came that night, they brought it back, put it back in the middle of my lawn again.

So I kicked it off again, and then they took it away.

Like I don't know where it went.

They came back in the middle of the night.

I saw my security camera.

They took their ball and went home.

I don't know what they're doing.

They're up to something.

You can tell it.

There's a raccoon jamboree in my backyard every night.

There's like eight of them that come around.

Dude, you're going to to lay down in your pillow one night in like three months and you're going to feel something hard and you're going to move your pillow and that ball is going to be there.

I was like, the pillow's just going to be a raccoon.

So

no real squirrel updates, but raccoons, man, they're all up in my business lately.

What the fuck?

That is insane.

They want to fight me, I think.

Sounded like they were trying to make peace.

Yeah, well, they were trying, and then peace was not an option.

Interesting.

Gus chose violence.

Yeah, no kidding.

Well,

give a little eight-episode run.

Some up and down coffee, but

good one to end on.

I'm happy we had some down coffee.

We had way too many ups for a while.

Yeah, the coffee was too good.

Don't you hate that?

Yeah,

it's like

you can't enjoy the good if you don't have some bad to contrast it with.

I can enjoy the good.

Do you want to go to that coffee shop at Congress in Old Torff again then?

Have a cup of coffee there?

No, we had coffee people yesterday.

I'm good.

Well, thanks for listening.

We'll be back in a couple of weeks, but don't forget the supplementals that me and Jeff will be on the next two weeks.

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That's right.

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But

Gus, Jeff, any parting words as people won't hear from you for a couple of weeks?

Come to double trouble.

This place rules.

No parting words from me, you'll hear from me for the next couple of weeks.

Oh, that's right.

Okay.

Well, talk to you soon.

Bye.