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Okay.

This is episode 62.

This is a coffee episode.

Not a...

Nope.

We'll get there.

We're getting there.

Closer and close.

Slowlier and slowlier.

72.

We are 60.

Okay, it's 62.

This is a coffee episode, not a hamburger episode.

Last time was a hamburger episode, which was very nice.

I enjoy the hamburger episodes.

They're good.

It's a nice little change of pace.

Yeah.

Yet to have a bad hamburger.

I think that's where we're cherry-picking good ones.

Yeah, but I also don't know when the last time I had a bad hamburger was.

It was the last time I had a bad, like a bad hamburger.

What's a bad hamburger you've had in town?

I mean, the only thing would be fast food that I have to eat for a different time.

I don't like Wendy's.

No, I'm trying to avoid

fast food, like a local place.

Oh, a local place with a bad hamburger.

Does it exist?

It must.

I mean, like, the thing that I...

I bet the Oasis has a terrible hamburger.

The Oasis has terrible everything.

It's a great place to be.

So I'm sure they have a bad hamburger on it.

It's like the oasis' hamburger.

I guarantee you it fucking

gorgeous view.

We're going to have an empty lake because of this.

There hasn't been water.

This hamburger sucks, but at least this view sucks also.

It's like it went from awesome view of, I guess, Lake Travis to this not-so-awesome view of the world's least impressive Grand Canyon.

Yeah.

It's an okay canyon.

It's an okay canyon.

There's nothing grand about it.

But people can find all their old cell phones and wallets and sh that they're driving.

Those

the bodies, those keys you lost.

Good morning, Gus.

Yeah, there we go.

I'm sorry.

I feel like we interrupted.

Oh, no, it's fine.

I mean, this got us all going, so this is fine.

I was just going to say we're at it's a coffee episode.

Well, we went to First Light coffee shop, but now we're at Chipei Park.

So

Chipei Park.

We're just like two blocks away from from there.

So the place is called First Light, but I feel like they really leaned into like this rabbit motif.

There was a, there were rabbit pins, there were rabbit stickers.

There's a rabbit stamp on my coffee.

Mine also has a small rabbit stamp on my coffee.

I watched the lady stamp the cups last time I was there.

Really?

Yeah, it was cool.

Was it very therapeutic?

Just like...

Well, how does she do it?

It's just a cup.

It's a flat stamp or right.

It sounds like a flat stamp and she like rolled over it.

God, that sounds like something you'd have to learn and your first 30 would suck shit.

It sounds pretty easy.

She seemed to have a pretty fucking down.

Yeah, but she probably does it a lot.

But like when you're 17 and it's your first job and they go, okay, you're going to stamp the cups and you go,

you're like, you can't figure it out.

You never stamp something on a curve so you don't know what the fuck you're doing.

You flatten out the cups, you stamp them, and then you reround them.

Here you go.

They might be a little leaky, but that's the price you pay for a stamp on a cup.

Reround these cups.

I like that place.

We should talk about it.

So

it used to be a post office.

Post office shut down two or three years ago now, I guess.

Yeah.

And maybe not even that last year.

Maybe two or three years ago.

It was a Hyde Park.

Yeah.

And they redeveloped it into a coffee shop.

And what there's other stuff there, isn't there?

So the right half of it is a little coffee shop called First Light.

It's a coffee shop slash bookstore.

And by the way, I made this mistake.

If you get there before 9 a.m.,

don't go inside.

They're not open.

They have a window for you to go through.

Yeah, I went in the back door.

It was unlocked for some reason.

It was all dark.

So then they were like, I guess we'll serve you.

But it was really awkward.

So it's called First Light, and you can't go in for coffee before 9 a.m.

You can go to the counter for coffee.

You just can't go in there.

They have a window on the outside that we walked by that says, like, coffee service here.

Why wouldn't you be able to go in?

Because the bookstore wasn't open yet.

But they already.

The coffee shop was open.

Well, there's one light.

It's the first light, and it's the light in the window that you're supposed to use.

I don't understand.

It's a dual establishment.

They have a bookstore and a coffee.

It's all the same store.

It doesn't say first light coffee.

It says first light books, cafe, and books.

It sounds like you do understand.

It sounds like you understand that you don't like it.

It actually.

Yeah, it sounds like you understand it.

It sounds like you totally get it, and now you're mad about it.

You get it, and you just disagree with it.

The stamp actually says cafe and book rabbit S.

S is not near the rest of books.

Well, see, that's what I'm saying.

It's hard to do a round stamp.

It's not easy.

Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

I don't like that.

You're right.

Yeah, there you go.

He just doesn't like it.

I don't like it.

I mean, there's a window to order from.

I understood right away.

Yeah.

I totally got it.

I understand.

I'll give you a little pro tip.

They probably don't sell many books.

I don't know.

It's a pretty.

It looks like a pretty well-stocked bookstore.

It was well-stocked.

Yeah, it was because people aren't buying it.

I saw a lot of people buying books last time.

And it was very loud for a bookstore.

Like,

I thought it was loud for a cafe.

Like, music was.

You should have shushed everyone.

Everyone kicked it.

This library.

I'm changing this, and this is a library now.

Anyway, to the left of it, which was where the majority of the post office was, is like a local grocery store, I think.

Oh.

oh, is it like one of those no-package places?

I don't know if it's no-package or not.

I just know that it's a grocery store that they also sell coffee.

So

I don't know if they're separate establishments that are just co-located, but I get the impression we could probably go get coffee at the grocery store and have another episode just there.

I haven't been to that grocery store yet.

First store, coffee.

Also, because First Light opened up a month before that other place did.

Yeah.

That little grocery store thing just opened up.

Yeah, and First Light hasn't been open very long.

Two months, maybe?

About two months.

I've been here.

This is my fourth time coming, so it's been here long enough for me to get.

Well, I came when it first opened, and then I liked it, so I came again.

And then

the,

well, you know the fourth on the list.

The

no.

You know, the

group, the hangout group that you stopped hanging out with,

me and Nick and Jason and Gavin, we have switched to mornings because it's everybody's too old to hang out at night.

So now we get coffee in the morning, and that was where we got coffee.

It was great.

That sounds fun.

If I was going to buy a book, it'd be there.

Do you think that's a natural progression thing?

What?

You said, like, hanging out in the morning instead of at night.

Dude, it's the best.

Like, that's the move, right?

It's the best.

Wake up earlier.

As the years go on, I wake up earlier.

I never used to be a morning person.

I used to be like a don't wake me up before noon kind of guy.

Uh-huh.

I just wake up at like six every morning now.

It's like, oh, I get so much done in the morning.

I went to the grocery store over the weekend at 7 a.m.

Oh, no one there.

It was fucking empty.

It fucking ruled.

If I didn't have trucks, I'd be in bed at 9 o'clock o'clock every night and asleep by 9.45.

It's the fucking best getting up early.

Yeah, I went to the grocery store, then I went home, and I noticed my grass was high, so I cut my grass, started like, you know, bagging up, leaf blowing and bagging up leaves and stuff.

And I was like, I wonder if this was too early to do.

It's like 8.45.

It was absolutely not too early.

It was electric, so it wasn't like a gas-powered anything.

It reminds me of when I joined the army.

You know, they go through marketing slogans generationally.

And it was an army of one for a long time.

It was be all-you-can-be.

Be-all-you-can-be is what I remember.

When we were coming up,

uh, before that, or now I guess it's probably an army of one.

When I was coming through, uh, it was the

United States Army.

We get more done by 8 a.m.

than most people do all day.

I remember that, yeah.

And that was definitely true.

And I've always felt like there was power in that.

And I always loved getting up early and doing stuff.

It really is.

You get your whole day done by like 10 a.m.

if you're efficient.

Stuff's not crowded.

Yeah.

Going to the grocery store.

Hanging out with those dipshits the other day.

Everybody was like awake and we were all about to go to work.

Everybody was chipper and it was like, it's a way different vibe.

That's my pro tip to anybody listening.

It's my fing face pro tip to anybody listening.

Your Admiral Pro tip.

Switch up.

Well, because we do them a f ⁇ ing.

Okay.

So.

So.

Just saying.

It's a different podcast, dude.

So, all right.

He was already getting hammered last week for having too many shows.

Hit it from every fucking direction.

So your Admiral Pro tip is...

Is just to, like, try hanging out with your friends in the morning instead of at happy hour.

It's uh you might be surprised.

I have so I think I've talked about it on this podcast before, but talking with like Jordan Sweers and a group chat with a few of these other guys or whatever, figuring out our old guy things.

And it's mine's those Wyubera shirts and a cool hat, like a sun hat with like a feather in it.

Like I think those will be my thing.

And dominoes.

Breakfast crew is definitely going to be my other old guy thing.

I think it's going to be like once a week, we're getting together for breakfast.

We meet at 6.40 a.m.

And it will be like, we're getting the same thing.

We sit in the same spot.

The same 19-year-old girl has to serve us, and she doesn't want to work on a Saturday at 6.40 a.m.

But

I think that's the move is earlier and earlier for hangouts.

I'm right there with you.

Early's the new late.

Early's the new late.

That's our next shirt.

Yeah, I think

the new late.

I like that.

Well,

I think you're getting what you liked about late

where no one's out.

I think early works as the sort of like inverse of late because you're getting,

oh yeah, no one's here.

You don't have to deal with any of the crew.

What is that texture?

There's like a beeping sound.

Yeah.

Just normal stuff.

There's no people.

You're not dealing with traffic.

You're not dealing with like kooks.

You're just out at 6 a.m.

and early's the new late.

Yeah, when I was young in my early 20s, that was my other move, was like go to the grocery store at like 2 or 3 in the morning.

Nobody there.

Now it's 7 in the morning.

The fun thing about going to the grocery store at 2 or 3 in the morning is just the people watching.

Because there will be four dudes there, and those four dudes are worth watching.

You know what I mean?

I know.

I was one of them.

Are you guys picking up on

the gentle whiff of urine?

Oh, no.

This is kind of like a...

Are we in the P-Corner?

Yeah, I used to live over here.

Oh, I smell it yeah for about a year a little over a year gavin and i lived over here in a house not a couple blocks away

um and uh we hung out over here quite a bit you mentioned jordan sweers we when i hung out with jordan the most it was in that time period and we would play frisbee over here around this park a lot me and gavin and jordan and you know millie and everybody uh but anyway this uh this spot this covered spot was it's uh like a homeless bathroom mostly yeah that's what i remember

you can you're shielded not out in the open yeah it's protected like the park by my house is the same same way.

It's like if there's a water fountain, that's a shower.

And then the overhang is where you go pee-pee-poo-poo.

It rained a lot last night, so we had to come to the overhang to find a dry table.

Yeah.

Otherwise, we'd have wet bottoms.

I thought that maybe there would be an off-chance that we would be able to record in front of First Light.

There were so many people.

There was crowded.

There was a table.

There was like a table.

Like we could have, but boy, we would have been so close to people who would have been close to us.

I think it would have just been, I think we would have ruined the vibe for 45 minutes.

Yes.

And I think it was, I just didn't want to ruin other people's good time.

I agree.

Because that's a different vibe than what we bring.

We have microphones.

Yep.

I think, and I was shocked at how quick, despite, you know, despite how busy they were, it's not like there was a line to order coffee.

You know, we immediately went up to the order place and they got our coffees out super quick.

I was very impressed with the quick turnaround on that.

It was, I will say, I think this is indicative of sort of what Austin is and not just here, but sort of coffee shops everywhere.

We got three coffees and a cinnamon sugar croissant.

So good.

And with tip, it was like 21 bucks.

Wow.

And that is the most expensive.

And that's not me saying like, oh my God, this is, it's crazy.

Every other week, we spend about 12.

Maybe.

Maybe 12 bucks.

Dude.

You're in Hyde Park, baby.

No kidding.

I went to big time.

Saturday, I think we went to Taco Deli for just breakfast tacos.

For me, Emily, and Millie, the three of us, to get breakfast tacos, and I think Emily and I both got Diet Cokes, and Millie probably got a bottle of water or like a Richard Rainwater or something.

$60.

$60

for three meals of breakfast tacos.

We each had three tacos.

So nine tacos and three drinks was $60.

I was out of the country, what, last week, the week before?

By the way, we appreciate that.

Thank you.

It was a really calming week for me.

Nice.

It was really eye-opening to see how cheap food is in other countries.

Maybe it's also because the dollar is so strong right now.

The exchange rate is definitely in our favor.

But it's like, I would go and get lunch, and my lunch was like three or four bucks.

Like, not an exaggeration.

You know,

I came back.

I ate at a restaurant here in Thai.

I actually got to go this past weekend from

a Thai place.

I got a dish that I really liked.

I was in Thailand.

I got a dish that I had eaten in Thailand that I really liked.

What was it?

Kaomang Gai.

It's like chicken rice.

Okay.

Chicken fat rice.

And,

you know.

How is it different from like larb or so?

Larb is typically ground, right?

Right.

Like, this is like, you take, like, a chicken breast and you slice it up and put it on top of a chicken fat rice.

And it's not necessarily served hot.

It could be served like room temperature.

Oh, okay.

And then this one comes with a little soup on the side.

The, like, if my wife and I were in Thailand, if we both got that dish in Thailand, we might spend 12 to 15 bucks total for the two of us.

Here, the two of us, you know, ordering the same thing, it was $42.

And it was good, but man,

it's not as good as being there.

And it was literally almost triple the price.

I also think that Austin is just expensive.

It is.

I mean, as evidenced by my property taxes, by all the things we bitch about on this podcast, it has also just become an expensive city.

It already kind of had that reputation.

It's had that reputation for a while, regardless, but now it's really ratcheted up.

I mean, we

Emily and Bernie and Vanessa, I went and had dinner last night after we went to the haunted house, House of Torment thing.

And

we just ate at a...

I don't want to say shitty Mexican restaurant, but a very middling Mexican restaurant.

We ate this place called La Mancha just because it had availability.

Because we were driving around on a Sunday night and everything had lines out the fucking door or it wasn't open.

And at 8 o'clock on Sunday night,

it was

$120 for four people and I had a Diet Coke and cheese enchiladas and nobody I mean Bernie had a Bud Light was the only beer it was the only alcohol everybody else just had Diet Cokes it's just fucking expensive to live in this city right now and probably forever although I did read this morning that rental prices in Austin are going down yeah it seems to have like stabilized and start started trending down a little bit yeah but do you think prices for other other things are it feels like people are going like well i guess that's what i pay they'll get drugged down slowly maybe but i uh i'm actually you know we've been trying to figure out plans for what to do after millie graduates and if i'm gonna co-locate but you know split time between here and michigan or whatever i think the current plan right now is to sell my house and rent a house yeah i think i think i might become a renter again i might not even i was thinking about trying to buy a little condo or whatever i think it may make more sense just to rent especially if rent prices are going down no property tax yeah i was looking at what's available for rent right now, and it's like a third of what I pay in my mortgage for a house that's 80% as nice as mine.

It's

that's just math.

Fuck.

It's just math.

One-third for 80%?

Yeah.

I mean, that's a buy.

It is a buy, right?

If I was Jim Kramer, I'd be hitting a button.

As Emily says, that's girl math.

Yeah,

it'll be interesting to see.

You know, I think the...

We talked about that extensively on this podcast.

People talked about it to death, like how

the housing market got hot here.

It was out of control, runaway.

And I think now, you know, I don't think we'll see necessarily a down, like a severe downturn.

We will definitely see a minor correction or maybe a slowing in growth as things catch up and it becomes, you know, normal again.

I get the realty Austin flyers in the mail.

And the most recent one I got, I looked at, and it said that average days on market for last month were, I think, 65

for houses selling.

And compare that to, whatever it was, September of last year.

I guess it was August of last year or the flyer uh

was

52 or something so it's gone up like 10 days which is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things and the cost of houses has gone up four percent so it has slowed but it hasn't it hasn't dipped yeah so you say i mean 10 days is you know insignificant but that all adds up like if you look back it does you know a year before that it would you know i remember when it was like 25 30 days like you know it essentially doubled i remember when you

when your house was already sold before it went on the the market.

Yeah.

Dude, yeah.

Yeah.

Fucking hell.

Like, like, they would put this listing stuff.

They would put the sign in the yard and it would already say like taking contingence offers.

Yeah.

You know, and you're like, what the fuck?

Yeah.

I think it was already crazy.

And then I think the start of the pandemic, early to mid-2020,

like that just drove it.

Like, they'll just put jet fuel into it.

Yeah.

And every, like, everybody from,

I guess I'm speaking in generalities, but I don't mean to, but like, everybody from California or other zip codes who wanted to move during the pandemic to a cheaper, cool place and thought Austin was that place all flooded the market to find out that it's just as expensive as those other places, if not more.

Yeah, go back to Dallas.

What are you doing at this point?

Go back to Houston.

Go back to a city where you can get a non-stop flight.

Go back to the convenience of a much larger city for less.

Yeah.

That's the thing that's...

It's always been annoying about living in Austin.

It's like, it's a pretty major city, but you're going to connect through Dallas or Houston, depending on who you're from.

it's getting better it is getting better but it's it's like but you know who I really feel bad for is San Antonio yeah because San Antonio has always been a bigger city than Austin and they are really fucked in there like you cannot get anything out of there San Antonio a bigger city than Austin yeah oh yeah oh I never thought about that yeah and it has been for forever

I never considered it won't be it won't be forever like you go to San Antonio now I was thinking about this the other day because we went I took Millie a couple months weeks ago for something and there were zero cranes in the sky at downtown And I was just like, wow, it's weird to see a city that's done.

Yeah, they went through a lot of growing pains in the mid-90s.

Well, I'm thinking like specifically freeway construction in the mid to late 90s.

Like, you know, that REM music video, Everybody Hurts, where they're like, it's black and white, and they're on the road.

That was shot in San Antonio.

Was it really?

Yeah, because all the freeways.

Everybody gets out of their cars, and it's like the news reporter.

They're just getting out of their cars and walking.

Yeah, because all the freeways were shut down because of all the construction.

So that's why they were able to film that music video in San Antonio.

Oh.

So

right around that time is when they went through all that growing pain.

You know, Michael Stipe went to high school in Waco, too, I think.

Or like in Tinley?

Yeah, like somewhere up.

Somewhere up just north of us.

Oh, that's what's weird.

Yeah.

He just built different.

He just, yeah, worse.

Everybody considers them to be a Mississippi band because that's where they founded.

I guess they're, because they are a Mississippi band.

I was in Georgia.

But was it Georgia?

Georgia, yeah.

I guess Georgia.

Didn't they go to where did they go to school?

I thought they were like from Decatur or something.

That's what I always thought.

I thought they went to school in Mississippi, though.

Maybe he just went to Georgia in Mississippi.

Who cares?

B-52s are a Georgia band.

Yeah.

Something to think about.

Do you see that Austin is the fourth most educated city in America?

I did see that.

So, like, that doesn't translate to, like, knowing how to drive or

anything in general.

What were the cities?

Do you know?

Yeah, it was Washington, D.C.

was number one or whatever that is.

Then some city in Virginia, I think.

Then number three was Atlanta, Georgia, and then we were number four.

Huh.

Interesting.

Interesting.

That sounds like people who answered a survey instead of disregarding a survey because they have no things to do.

So that's a certain level of not smartness.

No, that's just something to think about, I guess.

They're also lying.

I have a master's degree, check.

So do I.

I've got an MBA.

I've got the equivalent of a master's degree.

Time to jump over three lanes.

I don't want to miss my exit.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

Oh, man.

Yeah,

that's weird to me.

You know, I always felt, and Austin's always had that college city vibe, because the U-T.

But I feel like as the city grows, that's definitely less and less, because there's more people not affiliated with the university here now versus, you know, the 80s and 90s when that was such a huge chunk of the population.

Yeah.

In fact, in good segue, the first light where it is now, that post office that used to be there was a post office that exclusively served the university.

Oh.

That's that place?

Yeah.

Oh, I didn't know that.

And the only reason I know that is this post office, this is probably the closest post office to our office.

So I would come down here pretty regularly to this post office because it was like a secret post office.

Like, it wasn't a lot of fun.

It's in the middle of a neighborhood.

You'd have to know it was here.

And I remember one time I was waiting in line for something and the woman in front of me went up.

She was like, had a complaint about misdelivered mail or something.

She's lived in the neighborhood.

And the person behind the counter was like, Yeah, you need to go to the post office over like at 34th and Lamar.

They service this area.

We only service the university at this post office.

I was like, oh, that's really bizarre to think about because it's on Speedway.

So it's like you can just take Speedway down a few blocks.

It's not too far to get down to the university itself.

And I guess

they probably just consolidated that into either somewhere on campus or one another bigger post office.

And that post office, if I may, at like 34th and Lamar, it's next to that P.

Terry's.

Yeah.

Sucks shit.

That is maybe the worst.

No, no, no.

I've been to worst post office.

Yeah, I was about to say, I go to the one up on Anderson.

That one's definitely worse.

This one is so bad.

Like,

I'm not saying all post offices are bad.

The one at Cross Park is great.

One of the far west is okay.

The one at Far West is good.

I had to mail something the other day.

I was down at this post office at 34th and Lamar.

It was a, I needed to mail an international letter.

I need to mail a letter internationally registered mail.

Why are you sending international mail?

What do you?

I'll tell you off mic.

So I go up to, I know what I need.

I have all my forms filled out.

We've dealt with the post office before.

We know post office.

I step up to the counter and I'm like, hello, I would like to mail this envelope registered mail.

And I have the little registered mail thing in my hand.

The woman behind the counter sitting down, looks at me, goes, certified mail?

And go, no, registered mail, please.

She's like, oh, you can't mail it in that envelope.

You need to buy one of those brown envelopes.

You know, the ones they have there in the post office.

I was like, no, I've done this before.

This envelope should work.

And she's like, she's under her breath turning around like, every motherfucker thinks they know what they're talking about.

I'm like,

okay.

In this instance, this motherfucker does.

Yeah, I actually do.

Then, you know, she like, I don't know what she did.

She like spun around, got something,

turned back around, looked at me, looked at the envelope, and goes, Oh, international, you need to fill out a customs declaration form.

I was like, Well, I don't, because it's just documents.

And then she like glared at me.

I go, All right, fine, I'll go fill it out.

I just left and I went to the other post office in Cross Park, and they were like, Oh, yeah, you don't need a customs form.

What are you talking about?

Here you go.

We just need that little register thing you already filled out.

Like, thank you.

Like, I'm not gonna fucking redo this.

I'm not gonna buy a fucking $3 envelope at the post office.

I know what I'm doing.

I have it all filled out right.

I'm ready to fucking send this.

Charge me however exorbitant fee you need.

Just fucking, just get the show on the road.

But just like that,

every, every, I, every interaction I have with you.

Get this.

Look at his fist.

So take a photo.

This is.

Just, you're taking social media photos.

It just makes me so fucking mad.

And that's just like the latest example.

That's the fucking thumbnail for the podcast.

That's our new logo.

Early is the new light.

If you've ever, in old Archie podcast episodes, if you ever heard me complain about the post office, it was that location.

If you ever heard him complain.

If you ever heard him compliment.

Whenever you heard him compliment.

I don't know.

I figured we complained about the Burleson Post Office quite a bit.

But contemporary complaints I was having.

It was that one.

That fucking post office.

Sucks shit.

Now we're doing some anima fellas.

We're talking about high food prices.

We're talking about hating the post office.

While we're at it, let's talk about the fucking racist history of this neighborhood.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

Yeah, let's do it.

Hyde Park.

this is one of the nicest neighborhoods in austin one of the most historic neighborhoods austin when it was built it was billed as and you can find photos of these sheets online it was billed at advertisements whites only neighborhood yeah yeah whoa yeah you had to be white to live here or own a house here yeah you can you can you can still say it and it wasn't In the grand scheme of things, it was not that long ago.

No.

Like 1910s or something, 1920s?

It was later than that.

I could be wrong, but it's like there were newspaper ads advertising Hyde Park as a neighborhood for whites only.

Speedway from the park to the city.

Yep.

Wow.

Yo, did you find one?

I'm looking.

Oh, okay.

Hyde Park, M.M.

Shepe.

Shawty.

Shape.

Right.

I'm going to guess.

He's the agent.

I conjecture may have been a racist motherfucker.

Maybe.

Yes.

Well, he's the agent for this.

He's listed at the bottom, and it says Hyde Park is strictly for white people yeah and now we're in his park take that you piece of shit fucking sheep a park why is it still you should piss all over this park just like the whole yeah do it um yeah and i think people forget that that shit wasn't that long ago we talked about it before with like lining yeah yeah you know the neighborhoods east of 35 like 35 being that dividing line for the city um it's fucking terrible it's terrible i didn't know about it until i moved here i had no idea when people talked about east austin and everything didn't know it was just like oh yeah like way out east And it's like, no, no, no, no.

East of 35.

And it's like, that, what?

And they're like, yeah, red lining.

And I'm like, oh, fuck.

But then there was Clarksville, which was a

mostly minority neighborhood.

Was it?

Yeah, Clarksville was like

an enclave.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

Jesus.

Well,

it's funny because

depending on how you're referencing it, there can be two different definitions of east side when it comes to Austin.

Yes.

Because

35, everyone considers 35 like the east side and west.

But then the other division would be Congress because Congress divides streets from west to east.

Yes.

Congress is technically the dividing line.

So East Austin is really anything east of Congress.

So that's how I think of it.

Any of the number streets, like 6th Street, for example, it converts to west when it's west of Congress, but all the addresses are east when it's

west 6th right there.

I had no idea.

I'm just like, why the fuck is it?

What?

36th Austin is Congress.

It's technically East.

Wow.

I'd never heard that.

Wow, that's crazy.

So it's the two dividing.

So between Congress and 35 is like that weird, it is the east side, but I think most people wouldn't consider it east because they don't realize that.

Because they don't realize that, but it is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because, yeah, the capital was like the big defining feature for so long when it came to the city.

Wow.

There you go.

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Speaking of which, I saw a message from an ANMA listener who visited Austin from Germany.

Oh, cool.

And said that they.

Guten Auben.

Ooh, look at you.

Oh, no, I'm sorry.

Guten Morgan.

Hey.

He said that he visited a lot of the places that we talked about on town and found a lot of coffee shops and burger places to, you know, to kind of...

round out his ANMA experience.

I think he said Disnuda was his favorite coffee, if I remember right.

Somebody had an idea in the comments I saw a while back that said, because you know,

we're on the struggle bus for merch in that we don't really have to do it.

Choo-choo.

And there's not a lot of good ideas.

Other than early is the new late, right?

And somebody said, Tony, we should do a poster, one of those city posters that has like all the locations, like the old Silicon Bills poster, but it's just all the coffee shops we've been to.

I think that and

then at the bottom, it says Austin.

It used to be better.

Yeah.

That's Austin.

that's according to jeff and guss or whatever is that a that's a really fun idea do people buy posters i don't know we always

sell phone wall papers

yeah there you go buy this j-pan i mean i think it's the same thing that we ran into at mega 64 that you guys ran into at conventions where posters were the thing you sold

pranks fuck man you sold a million of them they're great to cover a booth in uh and then all of a sudden there was just one summer where it was like we don't buy posters anymore and then we're done and it was like like, what the fuck?

Gen Z is killing this industry.

Somebody should look into the national poster exodus.

Yeah, what do you do?

See, like, did that industry collapse?

Because you're right.

We used to, they were the best because they take up next to no space.

You know, you just get that heavy cardboard sleeve that they all come in.

You can bring 200 or 500 to a convention, sell them for 10 bucks.

They cost, I don't know, $1.50 to make or whatever.

So the profit margin's great and they take up little to no space.

And then, yeah, and then you're absolutely right.

Then it all just went away.

Yeah.

It was just like that was such a money maker at conventions because they were, again, cheap and then easy to sign.

It's so much better than like a shirt or whatever.

And it was sign the poster, and then everyone has this thing.

And

it was fun to do like different designs and you get them so fast.

And like we would have exclusive ones for conventions, and then now nothing.

The Mega 64 Tex-Mex Sucks.

A poster they sold at RTX

was fucking awesome.

We, we,

talk about learning curve, learning process.

We started early on selling sticker packs at conventions.

Oh, yeah.

I remember we did it at what's the one in Dallas?

Acon.

Acon.

And we would sell a sticker pack of six stickers, right?

And it was like

Bouchicabow Wow and like

I don't know what the other fucking one.

Do we have a Politics Makes Me Horny one?

I don't know.

Probably I like me and Politics Makes Me Horny.

All that done.

All the old shirt quotes, you know.

And

we would sell them and they were like cellophane together, like wrapped.

And people would open them up in front of us and then hand six stickers to us and go, Can you sign all these?

And you'd be like, Oh, I have to sign six for everything,

which is whatever.

We didn't value our signature, but we valued our time.

And it just like

mines everything down to a halt.

So, and then you also have to deal with the convention people going, Hey, people are sticking, I've got a boner for murder stickers everywhere or whatever.

Can you fucking knock it off?

So, stickers went away real quick at conventions after that.

The things you don't think about, you learn these the hard way.

Yeah, what if we do, we do a cop, we have an Anma coffee mug, which was great and it sold out i mean oh did it yeah people bought them can you believe that crazy not just all i saw not just tour guard yeah he didn't even buy it we're saving it free oh no he bought one more oh did he yeah

thanks tour guard um we would have sent you the other one free

what if we do a uh a travel mug cup like a travel cup for like iced coffee oh that's good yeah like a tumbler type of thing we could do that you think that's something we should do yeah maybe we could look into it there's no no reason not to yeah right we also should sell coffee at some point i think we're trying trying to.

I think we are working on it.

I've been working with the growers down in Colombia.

All right.

Well, that's like, wow, you know.

Juan Valdez.

That's what I've been working with the people in Mexico.

That's what Chiapas.

That's what his registered letter was about.

I knew it.

He's signing the contracts.

I knew it.

We are trying to get a coffee going, but we're trying to, we're working with some specific people and trying to get some stuff moving.

It's hard.

to do certain things specifically, like the way that we're doing it, but I think it'll pay off.

I'm really excited about it.

If we get it going, we'll be a big coffee.

Yeah, we get that Folger special edition roast.

You guys know about that?

I think that doing that shirt of Early is the New Lights a really good idea.

I sent it to Tony, and I said, Hey, maybe here's an idea, whatever.

I'm going to send him the poster idea, too.

Okay.

Will send it to him.

That seems like something Tobin would have a blast.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And really, I'm just looking to fill Tobin's time with fun things that he can do.

Otherwise, yeah, I'm sure Tobin's time.

Tobin's like, fuck you.

He designed all this Face Jam Jammers League stuff that we did, the spice rats and the grapples and everything.

Fucking great.

I think that shit rips.

But I'll send that and then we'll see about a Tumblr cup thing.

We can sell it to Yahoo.

That now we're talking.

Billions.

We're going to be rich.

These are good ideas.

I like a merch meeting in the middle of the podcast.

This works.

What are your, do you have like...

early childhood memories of coffee?

Like when I said Folgers to you and it triggered some like old memories.

I remember I used, so my grandma, her neighbor was like their best friend, the Holtzclaus.

And we would, I would spend a lot of time over there.

It's where I fell in love with puzzles.

I don't know if you know this because I wasn't in puzzles for most of our friendship, but I have a puzzle nook in my house, and I have a puzzle going 365 days a year.

I've been over to his house, and there's just different puzzles.

Your puzzle head?

It's crazy.

Yeah, and I never stop.

I never stopped.

I always have to have a puzzle going.

Well, I learned that from the neighbors, the Holtzclaus.

They were

just this this really sweet older couple, and the dad would let me shoot BB guns in the backyard, and the mom would do puzzles with me.

And I remember one time when I was about seven, she offered me a cup of coffee.

She was like, Do you want a cup of coffee?

And I was like, I don't think I'm supposed to have this.

And she's like, You're going to love it when you're older.

And I had to sip, and I was like, Ugh, too gross.

And she's like, You'll love it someday.

And I was thinking, This bitch does not know what she's talking about.

I'm not going to love it.

That's my only old coffee memory.

I remember, it's funny you say that.

I remember the first time I had coffee as well.

Definitely, you know, too young, shouldn't have.

I was visiting my great-grandmother in Mexico.

It's a real small, small like my family's from like a really small town in Mexico and how far down

it's not too far from the border okay you know it's not down in like Cabo

I don't know why maybe from old conversations but in my head your family's from the north yeah yeah northern Mexico

so I was out there visiting her and

I must have been like 10 years old

and in her backyard she kept animals like she had you know goats and pigs and chickens and whatever right she would like slaughter them and eat them like she would raise these animals.

Is this the lady that would put the egg by your bed?

No, that's my grandmother.

That was my great-grandmother talking about.

And in her backyard, there was like a ditch with water that would flow through.

And it was just like runoff, right?

Like everyone would grow

stuff in their backyard or take care of animals, and like all the water would run off.

And this ditch kind of just ran through a lot of people's backyards and eventually went to a river.

So it was like, it was dirty water.

Yeah.

And being like a dumb 10-year-old, I would stand on one side of it and then try to jump across to the other side and just like jump back and forth over this ditch of like runoff and one time like I made the jump and then like the dirt just gave out under my foot and I slipped and I fell back into the water.

And I was there with my great-grandmother alone.

My parents had gone off to do something.

And so I go inside and I'm just like soaking wet.

My great-grandmother's cursing at me.

She makes me get out of all the wet clothes, you know,

you know, rinse off, put on dry clothes, and then she makes me a big cup of coffee.

What?

And puts it in front of me.

Yeah.

To like, you know, warm up.

It's not like it was cold.

it's northern mexico right it's like it's like springtime in in mexico it's fucking hot as shit um so like i'm sitting there and she puts like a bunch of milk and a bunch of sugar in it so it's like candy it's so fucking delicious i remember my parents walk back in you know and they walk into the kitchen and i'm sitting there with a towel around me this giant cup of coffee and they have the angriest look on their face

do you think now do you think that that's why your parents got divorced

probably like years later it's infested um but that that's the first time i do remember having coffee was uh was My great-grandmother made it in Mexico.

Anytime Millie's talking about her friends and she mentions their parents are getting divorced, I was like, well, you know, it's the kids' fault, right?

Like, you know it's definitely

fault.

100%.

They wouldn't be getting divorced right now if it wasn't for your friend Carl or whatever.

But I also remember a lot of

coffee TV ads from when I was young.

I don't know if you remember them.

Yeah, Sanka, Folgers Crystal.

Folgers and Maxwell House are the ones I always remember.

There was that Folgers one where like the son comes home from college pre-dawn and like starts the coffee maker and like the smell of coffee wakes up the family and they're all like oh you're here the best part of waking up is Folgers in your career right yeah do you remember that SNL skit where Chris Farley is at the restaurant and they're like we secretly replaced your coffee with Senka or whatever or Folger's crystals and he loses his mind and he's like fucking

I feel like

Because I felt when we were young, coffee commercials like that were pervasive.

They were on, at least in my memory, they were on very regularly.

I don't know the last time I saw an ad for coffee.

I think Starbucks really changed things.

Okay.

Because when we were younger, there weren't coffee shops everywhere all the time the way there are now.

Yeah, true.

I mean, it really was.

You got coffee from gas stations.

Yeah.

I mean, you would, it would be for truckers and your mom to wake up in the morning.

Yeah.

It was buy the big fucking thing of Foliers, peel back,

peel back the aluminum top, and then have your gross scoop of coffee in your little drip coffee machine every morning.

My mom, I would wake up before my mom

and then I would make the coffee.

Me too.

I would put it in before her so she would wake up and have, I mean, just immediately like eyes closed, walking to the coffee maker.

I believe that means you're garbage.

You're absolutely right because I know.

You made coffee for your parents.

I listened to that episode and I went, oh, I've never thought about that before.

It's a podcast called Are You Garbage, where they break down, quit people writing questions and ask, like, if you do this, are you garbage?

And there was one where it was like, I'm like, if I beat my parents up for work in my garbage.

And the answer is yes.

And the answer is also, I am.

And it was,

but growing up, I hated coffee because it was like, it always just meant the beginning of the day.

Yeah.

But do you guys have specific memories of teachers drinking coffee?

Because that smell of stale old classroom teacher's lounge coffee is like stomach churning, like headache-inducing.

I know that smell, but that was always, I associate that with walking by the teacher's lounge.

Yeah, that was it was never in the class.

Always had teachers who had big mugs.

I always just associated that smell with just coffee in general.

Like, that's just what coffee was like.

It wasn't glamorous back then.

No, not at all.

And, like, I didn't think I would ever, I've discussed on this podcast, I'm not going to retell the story about when I first had coffee in the army and the guy told me about how to, you know, take it black and everything.

But until that moment, because that was 1993 that I had that experience, or 94, 93.

There's still, it's like coffee shops still didn't exist, right?

And so, coffee was very utilitarian.

It wasn't fancy.

You didn't, it wasn't,

it wasn't,

it was a tool that people used, and you did get it from a gas station.

Like, I remember my dad would stop at the gas station and get coffee out of a styrofoam cup, and then you would drink it for a little bit before you would drive.

And that's what coffee was.

So, I always viewed it as a gross, like cigarettes.

It was a gross old person thing.

And it wasn't until the coffee explosion of the mid-90s, thanks to, I guess, Starbucks and this Pacific Northwest, that everybody started to see coffee a little differently.

Do you remember Fill It to the Rim with Brim?

You remember those commercials?

Oh, I forgot about that.

I probably would have died never having thought about that again.

Was that Brim a coffee?

Yeah, it was like an old coffee plate.

Fill it to the Rim with Brim.

Oh, wow.

That's fucking

Dawn Draper ass.

That's a smart

thing.

This is on Madison Avenue.

This is early 80s.

Yeah.

Like, early, early 80s.

I don't, like, we're talking about this.

You talk about the Starbucks explosion.

I'm struggling to remember the first time I ever went to a Starbucks.

Like, it would have been well after they became popular.

It would have been like 02.

Yep.

Maybe like right before we started Rooster Teeth might have been the first time I went to a Starbucks and had some.

I think I'm probably right there with you.

It was just, they became so pervasive and it was everywhere.

And then you're at the mall and outside of the mall is the Starbucks that they just built or whatever.

So you would go with your friends and be like, oh, if you try to frappuccino, and it's like, you don't know what the fuck this is.

Coffee culture was just different.

And we're talking about coffee shops, and there's people going, like, oh, they've been around.

I get that.

Right.

They have been around, but oh, Brim is ugly.

That's that's that's what that's that's 70s colors, right?

That is what a teacher's lounge smelled like, is the brown and orange and yellow.

Uh, the coffee shops were around, but not in the way that Starbucks is around.

There were always places like Beanu and places that were like sit-down, acoustic guitar-y, dark.

Hey, I'm studying.

Yeah, like that was it.

People viewed it as like college

study place.

Yeah, like when I, you know, worked downtown

at the old job before Rooster Teeth, I worked at that building, at the Littlefield building there at 6th in Congress.

And there was a Starbucks right across the street on the other side of Congress, but I would never go there for coffee.

I'd always go up the street to Little City, which was like at 10th in Congress or 9th in Congress.

I get my coffee over there.

Little City was cool.

Yeah.

And I think think that there was no like national chain.

There was no like underlying, this is the copy paste of this.

It was all like, hey, we've got a cat at our coffee shop or

there's board games here, you know, like

that kind of shit.

Do you remember like in Beston Show, there was that joke where Parkapose and the dude met each other at a Starbucks, but not the same Starbucks.

He was at Starbucks across the street.

And I was on it, we saw each other across the street.

We had that in downtown Austin for a while.

That coffee shop you're talking about was across the street and down a little bit from the other one.

Yeah.

It was, we literally,

there must have been

how many,

how many Starbucks do you think are in America?

Oh my God.

An insane amount, I'm sure.

Do you remember when we've talked about this a lot lately for some reason, but when we went to Valve to work on that portal commercial?

Like if I walked out of the front door of the building, I could see three different Starbucks.

There was like one where I was, one across the street to my right, and then another one across the street directly in front of me.

It's like, there are three different ones at one corner here.

Yeah.

I mean, like, it's like mattress stores.

Yeah, but like the reason that hack joke exists is because that was a real thing, and we'd never seen anything.

There wasn't a McDonald's across the street from a McDonald's.

Yeah.

And McDonald's was everywhere.

Yeah.

Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks was a real thing that happened.

It was an explosion.

Yeah.

There are 16,255 Starbucks stores in the United States as of October 9th, 2023.

That is so many.

Worldwide, 35,000.

So almost half of them are here in the U.S.

USA, number one.

Go USA.

Way to go, fellas.

But speaking of it, but speaking of coffee, we should talk about First Light.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What do you think of the actual coffee?

So I got the American.

I got it hot this time because we're finally

in cooler weather.

Yeah.

Come on.

It's not my favorite.

It's not anywhere close to my favorite.

It's not like that place on South Congress or anything.

Right.

Where they can use the machine.

But this is like a seven.

Yeah.

It's like it's really surprisingly bitter.

Oh, really?

Yeah, and just has

a teacher's lounge arrow

feel to it.

I get it.

What about you, Jeff?

I just got the black iced coffee.

It is now the fourth time I've had it, so I'm pretty used to it.

I'll give it a 8.15, so 8.2.

It rounds up to 1.2.

Great.

It's a great space.

I thought the croissant I had was good, but we don't grate on it.

Look at history.

It's more ambiance and flavor.

Yeah, for sure.

It's definitely more of a

cafe bookstore than it is a coffee shop.

Yeah.

We didn't even talk about the attempted murder over here.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

Did you know that?

No,

it's been a lesbian couple for a nice neighborhood.

I'm not nice why it's only there.

It's a murder.

It's a really quiet neighborhood, but right next to that bookstore, I guess just north of it, there's like a little apartment complex.

And I remember six or seven years ago, there was like a story about a nurse who had just finished working in an overnight shift.

She came home to that apartment complex, and it was like in the early morning.

I think it was like eight in the morning.

She said she sat down outside the apartment, dozed off, and then some random pedestrian who was walking by just like stabbed her repeatedly.

Just out of the blue, just snapped.

Yeah.

And

they eventually caught the woman who did the stabbing.

I believe she's still in jail, but it was just really big story all over the news for a while.

It was this nurse who had just gotten off her shift, fell asleep in front of her home, and someone just like walking down the street decided to stab her for no reason.

Wow.

You mentioned nurses, and that reminds me of another Hyde Park kind of thing.

There's a Trudy's that borders the southern end of Hyde Park, right?

It's between the campus.

Sorry, Trudy's is a Mexican restaurant in Austin.

We've talked about it.

It's where you get the Mexican martini.

Gus and I talked about how we tried to drink, do the Grand Slam or whatever, where you tried to drink six, and we didn't quite make it.

I used to love to go to that Trudy's, and unfortunately this is over.

Now they don't do this anymore.

But that Trudy's used to be open for breakfast.

They would open at like 6 6 a.m.

or 5 a.m.

And I would always go in there after I would take Millie to school or preschool or whatever and get breakfast there because

this central Trudy's was famous for it.

All the nurses would get off their shift and they would go and they would have 7 a.m.

happy hour.

And they had drink specials for all the nurses.

So they would be getting hammered at 7 a.m.

on Mexican martinis and just cutting up and relaxing.

and like blowing off steam from the day.

And it was always such a fun environment to have breakfast in.

And eventually they stopped serving breakfast and and that went away.

Well, because that Trudy's is very central to like some of the major hospitals in town, like St.

David's is over there, Bracken Ridge used to be over there, right over there.

Oh, yeah, the ascension seat and off of like Western Heart Hospital of Austin is pretty close.

So, yeah, I could see why that would be the spot.

It's like, right?

It's like equidistant to a bunch of hospitals.

And they just leaned into it and were like, we'll just be that place.

I mean, it's the end of the day for these people.

So, we might as well, you know, let them enjoy a happy hour that they never get to enjoy.

Yeah.

And I thought that was awesome.

I always loved that.

And then, unfortunately, it went the way of the dinosaur.

Yeah.

We turned it into oil.

Breakfast for oil.

Yeah, it's a, it's, it's a weird little spot where if I lived here,

I could see myself going to this coffee shop, but I don't, so I won't.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And it feels like a lot of things like that around here.

It feels like it's definitely here to serve the neighborhood.

Yeah.

I like to sit outside.

And maybe it's because I used to live in this neighborhood, and so I still feel kind of at home here.

Like it's still like Millie, most of her childhood park experiences were in this.

Yeah, totally.

So I was, I spent a lot of her formative years here.

So this place still feels kind of like home.

I get it.

To me.

Totally get it.

Well, that's the coffee.

That's the neighborhood.

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Chillin.

There's a lot of chat about how Austin has some of the best food.

I don't know if I agree with that, but I get it.

I don't agree with that.

But I'm curious about what foods that you find better outside of Austin.

Everything.

I disagree with that.

I would say Austin under-indexes on Asian food of all varieties and probably Italian food.

There is no Italian food here.

Vespayo is really good, but that's about it.

I think

Austin does great burgers and great pizza.

And great barbecue.

Great barbecue.

But really, that's also like the outskirts.

Like, I would really attribute that more to like Lockhart.

Oh, I don't know.

I think with La Barbecue and Franklin and Satellite, and there's some

good aspects.

Barbecue here.

Fair.

So I think it's, I think

even the Mexican food is definitely sub-par here.

Like, you go down the road to San Antonio, like, you get a much better variety and much better quality of Mexican food.

Like, versus here, it's a lot of copy-paste text.

A lot of places like like La Mancha, like you're talking about, which is a very middling, whatever.

Yeah.

Drowned in cheese.

But we do have our Veracruz.

We have some.

Veracruz is so good.

I think breakfast tacos here are like, man, awesome.

Love a breakfast taco.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm sure there are better places to get breakfast tacos, but

Austin has the best breakfast tacos of our reading.

We talked about it last time.

San Antonio or anywhere else.

We asked people, hey, does your city have breakfast tacos?

Oh, I did have some of those.

That was the other thing I wanted to get into.

A lot of people saying, I've never had a breakfast taco, taco, never seen it.

There's people saying, I'm from the UK.

I've never even had a taco.

A lot of England people saying, no, Torgard says Denmark here.

Nope.

No surprise.

Yeah.

There are people saying New Mexico.

Here's, I like this.

This is imaginary waffle iron.

Great name.

I grew up in New Mexico, spent a lot of time in Colorado, five years in SoCal, two years in Montana, weird.

And three years in Pennsylvania.

We had breakfast burritos where I grew up, but no breakfast tacos.

Never even seen them offered.

But you know who has them?

Alex of Not Link says Milwaukee.

Milwaukee?

Milwaukee breakfast tacos.

Pterodactyl Screech says Connecticut serves them at a place near their house, but I've definitely seen them in Chicago.

People are saying, check out the breakfast burrito in Phoenix.

But again, it doesn't look like breakfast tacos are super everywhere.

And it's also, it's not like we talk about them like they're an option, but you know how like when you go to work and somebody's like, oh, I brought a dozen donuts?

Yeah.

It's like that, but with tacos,

they are the they are the go-to, the go-to by far

by far in this town.

They're 90% of the breakfasts in Austin.

I woke up early the other day and went to, I finished a cup of coffee and then went to a gas station to just get another cup of coffee.

I didn't want to make one.

So I went down and it was like

maybe like 6.45 in the morning.

I'm like, it'll be fresh coffee, whatever.

The gas station was packed and it was packed with people specifically just going to the one little counter where they serve breakfast tacos, and they were turning people around so fucking fast.

It was people going like three of those, two of those, hand them out, hand them out, just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

It was all like day labor, guys.

It was just like high-vis shirts.

a white can of monster and getting just a bunch of breakfast tacos.

We need to open a taco, breakfast taco trailer.

We really should.

Dude, if you want to know where to go get breakfast tacos in town, if you ever don't, look for dudes in high-vis shirts.

Yep.

If there's a bunch of dudes in like boots and high-vis shirts, you know those tacos are good.

Yep.

That's absolutely.

Because they can go anywhere.

Yeah.

They're driving somewhere.

They're mobile.

Yeah.

Oh, you know they're mobile.

So there you go.

That's Anma this week.

I thought this was a fun one.

We went on a journey.

Different little area.

Not a burger episode, but really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed it.

I had a lot of fun.

This was great.

And this is Hyde Park.

I don't know.

There might be other places that we come in Hyde Park.

There'sn't like Hyde Hyde Park Bar and Grill over here.

It's not too far.

It's not too far.

They're not right down the road.

They got burgers?

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that place.

Oh, that might be another bed burger?

I haven't had a burger in there.

I'm not a bad person.

I've never had a burger there.

So I'm sure the burger is fine, but we could find out someday if you want.

Hyde Park's a weirdo place.

You're right, because there aren't.

There's a lot of restaurants and stuff.

There's an Italian restaurant over here.

There's two Mexican restaurants.

There's Lil Nikki's, like a little Italian lunch spot.

There's Fresh Plus, which is awesome local grocery store.

Oh, that's a fun little Austin fact.

There's a local chain called Fresh Plus in Austin.

This is an urban legend that I don't know is true, but I think might be.

And I think they have four locations that I'm aware of, but the most central, and I think the original one,

actually maybe Westland, but this one's been around for a very long time.

It's right there at like 43rd and Duval.

And on one of the walls, there's a mural of two dudes holding a basket full of vegetables.

Yeah, I've seen that.

Two farmers, right?

The dudes in that mural look very familiar because it's Harry Scheer and Will Farrell.

What?

What?

Because they were supposed to film a movie about a local farmer's market grocery store kind of thing there in the early 2000s, and they painted the mural, and then the funding fell through or whatever, and they didn't end up making the movie.

And they've just left that.

We got to take a picture of that and put that on the social media.

Now, I don't know that that's true, but that is what I've been told the entire time I've lived in.

Well, now we're going to go look at it again.

And if it's not true, I don't want to know.

I assumed it was like

whoever found it the store.

I always thought so, too.

Somebody mentioned that to me, and then other people have people.

I've been told that 20 times.

Are we going to drive by it?

We're definitely going to drive by it.

Yeah.

Well, that's good.

Let's wrap this up so I can go see it.

I really want to go see it.

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Dude, that guy's releasing Squirrels Into the Wild.

Oh.

Oh, he is.

Squirrels.

I was knew what he was doing.

That's cool.

Maybe it's rats.

He just no, I just watched him let the squirrel out.

The squirrel just fucking took off off the tree.

That's neat.

Awesome.

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Anything else?

Nah, listen to all of our other stuff.

Yeah.

Oh, we recorded a Ratman test the other day.

Hopefully, I'm glad that's in the progress.

It's coming soon.

Ratman's going to be coming at some point.

Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

Still kicking, going strong.

You don't do anything else, right?

Yeah, you don't do anything else.

So alright.

And the face.

Face jam for you.

Yeah.

We got a lot of stuff.

So much stuff.

A lot of shit.

Yeah.

But if you listen to this and you don't listen to any of those,

insane.

Insane.

Insane.

All right.

We'll see you next time.

Bye.