ANMA - Early is the New Late

Episode Date: October 30, 2023

Good morning, Gus! We venture over to Hyde Park's First Light Cafe & Bookstore for a cup then record in Shipe (not pronounced Shee-Pay) Park for today's episode. Gus and Geoff talk about Bad local burgers, F**kface pro tip, Food prices, San Antonio, Posters, Childhood coffee memories, and Coffee shops becoming ubiquitous. New merch coming your way soon so check out the old shirts at store.roosterteeth.com Sponsored by Fum http://tryfum.com/ANMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, this episode 62. This is a coffee episode, not a, nope. We'll get there. We're getting there, closer, slowly or in slowly. 72. We are 62, okay, it's 62. This is a coffee episode, not a hamburger episode. Last time was a hamburger episode, which is 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 mean, it's worth 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 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 class.

I don't like Wendy's. No, I'm trying to like avoid fast food like a local This is it does it exist I must I mean like the thing that I bet the oasis has a terrible hamburger They always has terrible everything. Yeah, so I'm sure they have a bad hamburger I'm here in T. You with a guaranteed We're gonna have a bad hamburger out there. You're a racist, just hamburger. I guarantee you with fucking the worst of you. We're gonna have an empty lake because of the water in the rear. This hamburger sucks, but at least this view sucks also.

It went from the view of this mud. It went from this awesome view of, I guess like Travis to this not so awesome view of the world's least impressive Grand Canyon. Yeah, it's a it's a it's an okay Canyon. It's an okay Canyon. Nothing grand about it, but people can find all their old cell phones and wallets and shit. That's finally. Those the bodies, those keys you lost. Good morning Gus. Yeah, there we go.

I'm sorry, I feel like we interrupted. We saw you in the video. Oh no, it's fine. I mean, this got us all going. So this is fine. I was just going to say we're in, it's a coffee episode for what we went to first light coffee shop. But now we're at Cheapay Park. So.

Shine by Park. We're just like two blocks away. Shine by Park. 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 like you did just like well how does she do it?

It's a flat stamp or a flat stamp. She like rolled over That sounds like something you'd have to learn in your first 30 would suck shit. She seems 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 gonna stand the cups and you go,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you know what, you can't figure it out. You never stand something on a curve so you don't know what the fuck you're doing. You make the, you fightin' out the cups, you stand up and then you rerun them. Here you go, rerun them. the, you flatten out the cups, the stamp on, and then you rerun them. Here you go. Oh, rerun them.

There, there might be a little leaky, but that's the price you pay for a stamp on a, on a cup. rerun these cups. I like, I like that place. We should talk about it. So, it's a place that you used to be a post office. Post office shut down two or three years ago now, I guess. Yeah.

And, well, maybe not even that long. In the two years ago. In the little, a hide 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 Mm-hmm 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 and it was all dark So 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 on the 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 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. But 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, that's what it sounds like. Yeah, it sounds like you totally get it and now you're mad about it. like you understand that you don't like it. That's what it sounds like. Yeah, 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 says, actually says, Cafe and Book Rabbit S. It does. It does. It does. It does.

Well, see, that's what I'm saying. It's hard to do around 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 that.

I like it. I mean, there's a window to order from I understood right away. Yeah, I totally got it I understand a little little pro tip. Uh-huh. They probably don't sell many books I don't know. It's a pretty looks like a pretty well stocked bookstore It was well stocked shopper People aren't buying it and it was all a lot of people buying books I saw those and it was very loud for a bookstore like I it was, like I thought it was loud for a cafe. Like music was, you should have shushed everyone.

Yeah, shush. Everyone came out. 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 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. Coffee. Also, because first light opened up a month before that other place did. That little grocery store thing just opened up Yeah, first lights hasn't been open very long two months maybe about two months. I've been here There's my fourth time coming Well, I came when it first opened and then I like that so I came again and then he's bringing his

The well you know the fourth of the 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 a reggae coffee. It was great. That's, that's fun. If I was gonna buy a book, it'd be there. Do you think that's a natural progression thing?

What? The, 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.

It 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 was fucking rude.

If I didn't have trucks, I'd be in bed at nine o'clock every night and I'd sleep by 9.45. It's the fucking best getting up early. Yeah, I went to the grocery store, then I went home, and I'd noticed my grass was high. So I cut my grass, started like, you know, banging up, like leaf blowing and banging up leaves and stuff. And I was like, I wonder if this was too early to do.

Like, it's like 845. 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 get through marketing slogans generationally. And for it was an army of one for a long time, it was be all you can be. Be all you can be. I swear I remember when I think we were when you were coming up.

Before that, or now I guess it's probably an army of one, when I was coming through, 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've always loved getting up early and doing stuff.

It really is, you get your whole day done by like 10 a.m. It's just your fish. Stuff's not crowded. Yeah, go into an efficient stuff, stuff's not crowded. Yeah, go into the grocery store, stuff's not crowded normally. Hang it 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 way different vibe. That's my pro tip to anybody listening. It's my face pro tip to anybody listening. I have my pro tip. Switch up. Well, cause we doing my f***. Okay. So.

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. He did it for every f***ing direction. So your I'm a pro tip is. It's just to like try hanging out with your friends in the morning instead of that 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 Swerves and a group chat with a few of these other guys or whatever, figuring out our old guy things and it's minds those Y-A-Bara shirts. And a cool hat, like a sun hat with like a feather in it. Like I think those would be my, and Domino's.

Breakfast crew is definitely gonna be my other old guy thing. I think it's gonna be like once a week, we're getting together for breakfast. We meet at 6.40 AM 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 wanna work on a Saturday at 6.40 a.m.

but I think that's I think that's the move is earlier and earlier for hangouts. I'm right there with you. Early is the new late. Early is the new late. That's our yes our next shirt. Yeah, I think early is the new late. I like that. Well, I think I think you're getting what you liked about late. Wherever no one's out. Like, 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, normal stuff. There's no people, you're not dealing with traffic, you're not dealing with like, cougts. You're just out at 6am and early's the new life. Yeah, when I was young in my early 20s,

that was my other move. It was like go to the grocery store at like two or three in the morning. Nobody there. No, no, no, no, it's seven in the morning. The fun thing about going to the grocery store at two or three in the morning is just the people watching.

You know, 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 width of urine? Oh, no. This is kind of like a... Are we in the pre-corner?

Yeah, I used to live over here. Oh, I smell, yeah. For about a year, a little over a year, Gavin, and I lived over here in a house, a couple of walks away. With the host. And we I lived over here in a house Yeah, a couple blocks away And we hung out over here quite a bit you mentioned Jordan swears We when I hung out with Jordan the most it was in that time period and we would play frisbee over here It's part of a lot me and Gavin and Jordan and you know mille and everybody

But anyway this this spot this covered spot was it's a like a homeless bathroom This spot, this covered spot was, it's like a homeless bathroom, mostly, yeah. That's what I remember about. Okay, you can, you're shielded, right out in the open. Yeah, it's protected. Say, the park by my house is the same way. It's like, if there's a water fountain, that's a shower,

and then the overhang is where you can pee, pee, poop, poop. It rained a lot last night, so we had to come to the, the overhang to find a dry table. Yeah, 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.

That was great. There was, 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 we would have ruined the vibe for 45 minutes. Yes. And I just didn't want to ruin other people's good times. I agree. Because that's a different vibe than what we bring. You'll have microphones. Yep. I think, and I was shocked at how quick, despite how busy they were, it's not like there was a line to order coffee.

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 crazy. Every other week, we spend about 12 maybe maybe 12 bucks, so you're in high 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 drain water or something. 60 fucking dollars. 60 dollars for three meals of breakfast

tacos. We each had three tacos. So nine tacos and three drinks was 60 bucks. I was out of the country what last week of the week before. And by the way we appreciate that thank you. It was really calming week. It was really eye opening to see how cheap food is in other countries. Maybe it's also because the dollar 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.

I came back, I ate at a restaurant here in Taipei. I actually got to go this past weekend from a Thai place. I got a dish that I really like. I was in Thailand. I got a dish that I eat in Thailand that I really liked. Well, is it a common guy? It's like a 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 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. Sure.

Here, the two of us, you know, order the same thing, it was $42. Yeah. And it was good, but 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. Yeah.

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. And people, it already kind of had that reputation for a while, regardless. But now it's really ratcheted up. I mean, we, Emily and Bernie of NSI went and had dinner last night after we went to the haunted house, house tournament thing. And we just dated a, I don't want to say shitty Mexican restaurant, but a very middling Mexican restaurant.

We had a 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. Cause we were driving around on a Sunday night and everything had lines out the fucking door or it wasn't open at eight o'clock on Sunday night. And it's middleing there. It was $120 for four people. And I had a Diet Coke and cheese and shaladas. And nobody, I mean, Bernie had a blood light

was the only beer, I was the only alcohol. Everybody else just had Diet Cokes. It's just fucking expensive to live in the 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 started trending down a little bit.

Yeah, but do you think prices for other things or it feels like people are going like, well, I guess that's what I pay. They'll get drugged down slowly, maybe. But I'm actually, you know, I've been trying to figure out plans for what to do after I'm really graduates. And if I'm going to co-locate, 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 might become a renter again. I'm not even, I was thinking about trying to buy a little condo or whatever. I think it may make more sense just a rent especially for 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. It's just math one third for 80% Yeah, I mean that's that's a buy it is a buy right? 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.

We'll talk about it to death, like how the housing market got too 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'll definitely see us 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 it and it said that average days on market for last month were, I think think 65 for houses selling and compare that to whatever was September of last year. I guess it was August of last year or the fire 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 4%. So it is slowed, but it hasn't, it hasn't did. Yeah, so you say, I mean, 10 days is insignificant, but that all adds up. Like if you look back, you know, a year before that, I remember when it was like 25, 30 days, like you know, I've essentially doubled. I remember when your house was already sold before it went on the market.

Yeah. Dude, yeah, yeah. Fucking hell. Like they would put the sign in. They would put the sign in the yard and it would already say like taking contingents offers. Yeah. And you're like, what the fuck? Yeah. I think it was already crazy. And then I think the start of the pandemic

elite amid 2020. Like that just drove it. Like it's put jet fuel into it. Yeah. And every like everybody from, I guess I'm speaking in generalities, but I don't mean too, but 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 nonstop flight. Is it? Go back to the convenience of a much larger city, for less. Yeah. That's the thing that's always been annoying about living in Austin. It's a pretty major city, but you're gonna connect

through Dallas or Houston, depending on who you're flying. It's getting better. It is getting better, but you know who I really feel bad for? It's San Antonio. Yeah. Because San Antonio has always been a bigger city than Austin and they are really fucked in their way. 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, it has been forever. I forever. I never considered it won't be forever. Like you go to San Antonio now.

I was thinking about the same day because I took Millie a couple months a week's go 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 think it would 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 they all the freeway like gets out of their car I was in a new supporter like 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 Like right around that time is when they went through all that growing pain You know Michael style went to high school in Waco too. I, or like in Temple. Yeah, like somewhere up just north of us. Oh, that's much weird. Yeah. He's just different. Yeah, he just, yeah, worse.

Yeah. And he considers them to be a Mississippi band because that's where they found it. Yes, he is. I guess they are in Mississippi band. I was in Georgia. But was it Georgia? Georgia, yeah.

I guess Georgia. Didn't they go, 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 the University. I don't know who cares. B-52s are a Georgia band.

Yeah. So I'm gonna 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. Interesting. Interesting. That sounds like people who answer to survey

instead of disregarding a survey because they have a density. So that's a certain level of not smart. Yeah, there's just something I don't think about, I guess. They're also lying. I have a master's degree check. So do I. Week.

I've got an MBA. I've got the equivalent of a master's degree and I've been jumping over three lanes. I don't want them to miss my exit. I went to the school of hard knocks. Oh man. Yeah, that's weird to me. I always felt, and Austin's always had that college city vibe because of UT. 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 the 80s and 90s when that was such a huge chunk of the population. Yeah. In fact, good segue. The first slide where it is now, that post office that used to be there was a post office that exclusively served the university. Oh. Well, 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 close 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 major one. It is a down here pretty regularly to this post office, because it was like a secret post office. It was a major one. It is a middle of a neighborhood.

You'd have to know this here. And I remember one time I was waiting in line for something and the woman in front of me went up and she was like, had a complaint about Mr. Leverd Mail or something, she's living in the neighborhood. And the person behind the counter was like, yeah, you need to go to the post office over like at 34th in 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, 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 in Lamar, it's next to that P Terry's? Yeah. S suck shit. That is maybe the work. No, 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 was definitely worse. This one is so bad.

Like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not saying all post office are bad. The one across park. One of great, one of far west is okay. You wanna far west is good. I had to mail something the other day. I was down at this post office at 34th in Lamar. It was a, I needed to mail an international letter,

I need to mail a letter internationally registered mail. Why are you sending an international mail? What are you? I'll tell you off mic. So I go up to, I know what I need. I have all my forms for that. We've dealt with the post office before. We know post office. I step up to the know what I need I have all my forms for that we've we've dealt with the post office before we know post on Russ 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 now looks because 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 is like no, I've done this before This envelope should work. And she's like, she's like, 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, Tim turned back around, looked at me, looked at the envelope and goes, oh, international, you need to fill out

a customs declaration for him. I was like, well, I don't, cause it's just documents. And then she'd me, looked at the envelope and goes, oh, international, you need to fill out a customs declaration for them. I was like, well, I don't, cause it's just documents. And then she'd like, glared at me and go, all right, fine, I'll go fill it out. And I just left and I went to the other post office and cross-park and they were like, oh, yeah, no, you don't need a customs form

when you're talking about it. Here you go. We just need that little register thing you already filled out, like, thank you. Jesus. Like, I'm not gonna fucking redo this. I'm not gonna buy a fucking $3 on below at the post office.

I know what I'm doing. I have it all filled out right. I'm ready to fucking redo this. I'm not gonna buy a fucking $3 on below 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, let's get the show on the road. But it's just like that every, every, I, every interaction I have with that. Get this, get this, get this, get this fist.

Get this fist. So take a photo. This is, just take just take a photo. It just makes me so fucking mad. And that's just like the latest example. I... Ha ha ha. That's the fucking thumbnail for the podcast.

That's our new logo. Our new, it's a new light. If you've ever in old R.T. podcast episodes, if you ever heard me complain about the post office, it was that location. If you ever heard him, but if you ever heard him complain. Whenever you heard him, I don't know.

I think we were like, we complained about the Burleson Post Office quite a bit. But like 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. Yes, do it. Yeah, let's do it. Hyde Park is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Austin, one of the most historic neighborhoods in Austin. When it was built, it was billed as, and you can find fucking photos of these sheets online.

It was built in advertisements, Whites Only Neighborhood. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah, you had to be white to live here or own a house here. Yeah, you can still see it. And it wasn't. And the grants came with 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 hide park as a neighborhood for white-only. Yeah.

Speedway from the park to the city. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Did you find him? I'm looking. Okay. I park M M sheep A. Right. He's who I'm gonna guess. You know, he's the agent. I conjectured may have been a racist mother. Yes. Well, 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 sheepay park. Why is this? You should piss all over this park. Just like the homeless. Yeah, do it. Yeah. And I think people forget that shit wasn't that long ago.

We talked about it before. For like lining Yeah, you know the neighborhoods east of 35. Thirteen five being that dividing line for the city It's fucking 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 East of 35 and it's like that What and they're like yeah red lining and I'm like oh fuck had no, no, no. East to 35. And it's like that, what? And they're like, yeah, red line. And you're like, oh, fuck.

But then there was Clark's Phil, which was a mostly minority neighborhood. Was it? Yeah, Clark's Phil was like a- They got red on the plate. Yeah, well, yeah. Jesus. 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 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 six street, for example, it converts to West when it's West of Congress, but all the addresses are East when it's East of Congress. That's why it's West 6th right there. I had no idea, I'm just like, why the fuck is it, why do I have to like this?

It's technically East, East, that's them. Yeah. I'd never heard that. Wow, that's crazy. So it's the two divide now. 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, yeah, the capital was like the big defining feature for so long when it came to the city

There you go. So now whenever you visit Austin you can you can you can talk like a local Yeah, a little bit of inside and you can you can correct people and be pedantic about it. Well, technically. If you're listening to this podcast, you're looking for a reason to be a pedantic person. For sixth and Trinity, we are in East Austin. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome.

Cool turkey may be great on sandwiches, but there's a better way to break your bad habits. We're not talking about some dark magic from your eccentric neighbor. We're talking about our sponsor fume. And they look at the problem in a different way Not everything in a bad habit is wrong So instead of a drastic uncomfortable change why not just remove the bad from your habit Fume is an innovative, award-nominated device that does just that instead of electronics fume is completely natural instead of vapor

Fume uses flavor there and instead of harmful chemicals Fume uses all natural delicious flavors. You get it instead of vapor, fume uses flavor there. And instead of harmful chemicals, fume uses all natural delicious flavors. You get it, instead of bad, fume is good. It's a habit you're free to enjoy and make replacing your bad habit easy. Stopping is something we all put off because it's hard, but switching to fume is easy, enjoyable, and even fun. Fume has served over 100,000 customers and has thousands of success stories, and there's no reason that that can't be you.

Join fume in accelerating humanity's breakup from destructive habits customers and has thousands of success stories and there's no reason that that can't be you. Join FUME in accelerating humanity's breakup from destructive habits by picking up the journey pack today. Hit to tryfumem.com and use code ANMA to save 10% off when you get the journey pack today. That's tryfum.com use code ANMA to save an additional 10% off of your order today. At Salesforce, we're all about asking more of AI. Questions like, where's the data going? Is it secure? Are you sure?

Are you sure you're sure? Get answers you can trust from Salesforce at AskMoreVai.com. We're gonna wait, I saw a message from an animal listener who visited Austin from Germany. Oh, cool. And said that they... Guten Abend. Oh, look at you.

Oh, no, I'm sorry. Guten Morgen. Hey. He said that he visited a lot of the places that we talked about, uh, on town, like a lot of coffee shops and burger places to, you know, to kind of round out his Anma experience. I think he said, uh, disnew that was his favorite coffee, if I remember right. Well, somebody had an idea in the comments, I saw a while back that said,

cause you know, we're on the struggle bus from merch and that we don't really have any. Cheachy. And there's not a lot of good ideas. Other than early is the new late, right? Yeah. As somebody said in Tony, we should do a poster, one of those city posters that has like all the locations,

like old Silicon Hills poster, but it's just all the coffee shops we've been to. I think that and I was a fun idea. And then at the bottom it's Austin. It used to be better. Yeah. That's Austin as according to Jeff and Gus or whatever. Is that a, that's a really fun idea. Do people buy posters?

I don't know. We always don't. Can we sell phone wallpapers? Yeah, they buy this JPEG. 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. They're great for pranks. Fuck, man, you sold a million of them.

They're great to cover a booth in. 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, what the fuck? Gen Z is killing this into the... Somebody should look into the national poster exodus. Yeah, what do you 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, $50 to make or whatever.

So profit margins, great. And they take up little to no space. And then, yeah. And then you're absolutely right. And then I'll just win away. Yeah, it was just like, that was such a money maker at conventions because they were, again, cheap and then easy to sign. Yeah, so much better than like a shirt or whatever.

Yeah. It was signed the poster and then everyone has this thing. And it was fun to do like different designs. You get them so fast and like we would have exclusive ones for conventions and then now nothing. The major 64 techs, mechs sucks. So a poster they sold at RTX. The best was fucking awesome.

Yeah, we talk about learning curve, learning process. We started early on selling sticker packs at convention. Oh, yeah. I remember we did it at, uh, what's, what's the one in Dallas? A con. A con. And, uh, we would sell a sticker pack of six stickers, right? And it was like, uh, Bouchick about out and like, uh, I don't know what the other fundamentals. What do we have? A politics makes me horny? I don't know. I like me. Uh, all that, all the old short 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? Maybe 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, it's grinds everything down to a halt. So, and then you also have to deal with the convention people going hey the people are sticking I've got a bone or from murder stickers everywhere or whatever can you fucking knock it off?

So stickers went away real quick conventions after that The things you don't think about you learn these hard way. Yeah. What if we do we do a caught We have an macaw fie mug which was great and it sold out. I mean, oh did it? Yeah people bought them Oh, I said I just heard No, he bought one more What if we do a a travel mug cup like a travel cup for like ice coffee? Oh, that's good. Yeah.

Like a tumbler type of thing. You think that's something we should do? Yeah, maybe. We can do it. There's no reason not to. Yeah, right. We also should sell coffee at some point. I think we're trying to.

I think we are working on it. Yeah. Working with the growers down in Columbia. All right. Well, you know, one of all this. That's what he's working with the people in Mexico. That's what the office is. And he's cheaper.

That's what his registered letter was about. There's a new way he signed in 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're not a big coffee. Yeah. Get that folder, special edition rose. That's, you guys know about that? I think that doing that shirt,

early is the new lights, a really good idea. I sent it to Tony and I said, like, hey, maybe here's an idea, whatever. I'm gonna send him the poster idea too. Okay. We'll see what they say. 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 would have a blast. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and really I'm just looking to Phil Tobin's time with fun things that he can do otherwise. Yeah, I'm sure Tobin's like, Tobin's like, fuck you. Yeah. Yeah. He designed all this FaceGM jammer's league stuff that we do, the spice rats and the crumbles and everything.

It's fucking great. I think that shit rips. But I'll send that and then we'll see about like a tumbler cup thing. We can sell it to Yahoo That now we're talking billions. They were gonna we're gonna be rich These are good ideas. I like a I like a merch meeting in the middle of the podcast works What are you do you have like early childhood memories of coffee? Like when I just said folders to you and it like triggered some like old memories. I remember I used to so my grandma, her neighbor

was like their best friend, the Holtz class. 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 look at my house and I have a puzzle going 3605 days a year. I've been over to his house

and there's just different puzzles. Your puzzle hit? It's crazy. Yeah, and I never stop. I never stop. I always have to have a puzzle going. Well, I learned that from the neighbors, the whole cause. They were just 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. It was like, do you want a cup of coffee? And I was like, I don't really know what I'm supposed to have this. And she was like, you're gonna love it when you're older. And I had to step and I was about seven, she offered me a cup of coffee. I was like, do you want a cup of coffee? And I was like, I don't really know if it's supposed to have this. And she was like, you're gonna love it when you're older. And I had a sip, and I was like,

it's too gross. And she was like, you'll love it someday. And I was thinking, this bitch says, I don't know what she's talking about. I'm not gonna 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.

It was definitely too young, shouldn't have. I was visiting my great-grandmother in Mexico. It's a real small, my family's from like, a really small town in Mexico. How far down? It's not too far from the border. It's not down in like Cabo? I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe from old conversations, but in my head, your family's from the north. Yeah, in northern Mexico. So I was out there visiting her. And I almost had been like 10 years old. And in her backyard, she kept animals. Like she had goats and pigs and chickens and whatever.

She would like slaughter them and eat them. Like she would raise these animals and... Is this the lady that would put the egg by your bed? No, that's my grandmother. That's 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 like 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 like went to a river. So it was like, it was dirty water. Yeah. And you know, being like a dumb 10 year old, I would like stand on one side of it and then like try to jump across to the other side and just like jump back and forth

over these 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 my 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 You know cursing at me. She makes me get out of all the wet clothes, you know You know rinse off put on dry clothes, and she makes me a big cup of coffee. What? And puts it in front of me, yeah, to like, I don't warm up, it's not like it was cold.

It's normally a Mexican right? It was like springtime in Mexico, it was fucking hot of shit. 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 just fucking delicious. My parents walk back in, and they walk into the kitchen

and I'm sitting there with a towel around me, this giant cup of coffee, and they had the angriest look on their face. Do you think, now do you think that that's why your parents got divorced? Ha ha ha ha ha. They're probably like years later, it's confessed. But that's the first time I do remember having coffee.

Was it my great grandma that made it in Mexico? Anytime Millie's talking about like her friends and she mentions like, their parents are getting divorced and I was like, well, you know, it's the kids fault, right? You know, it's definitely not. It inevitably is. 100%.

It wouldn't be getting divorced right now if it wasn't for your friend Carl or whatever. But I also remember like a lot of coffee TV ads from when I was young. I don't know if you remember them. Like, yeah, Sankha, Fulger's Crystal. Fulger's in Maxwell House. In the Maxwell House.

There was that Fulger's one where the sun comes home from college, pre-dawn, and starts the coffee maker, and the smell of coffee wakes up the family, and they're all like, oh, you're here. The best part of waking up is Fulger's in your car. 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, full-dish crystals? And he loses his mind and he's like, you can't get it. Yeah. I feel like, because I felt when we were young,

coffee commercials like that were pervasive. They were on, and 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. 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, it would be for truckers and your mom to wake up in the morning. It was by the big fucking thing of folders. Peel back, peel back the aluminum top and then have your gross scoop of coffee in your little drip coffee machine every morning. I would wake up before my mom

and then I would make the coffee. Me too. I would put it in there for her so she would wake up and have, I mean, just immediately like eyes closed wow to the coffee maker. I believe that means you're garbage. Yeah.

I know. You're absolutely right because I listen. If you made coffee for your parents, I listened to that episode and I went, I've never thought about that before. So podcast called Are You Garbage? Where they break down, people write in questions and ask like if you do this, Are You Garbage? And there was one where it was like, I'm like,

if I get 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. But do you guys have specific memories of teachers drinking coffee? Because that smell of stale Old classroom teachers lounge coffee is like stomach churning like headache inducing I know that smell, but that was always I so say that was walking by the teachers lounge school It was never in the class always had teachers who had big bugs I always just associated that smell with just coffee in general. That's just what coffee was like. It wasn't glamourous back then. No, not at all. And 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 take a 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, 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, old 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. That's brim, a coffee?

Yeah, it was like an old coffee, but I filled it to the rim with brim. Oh, wow. That's fucking, that's the thing. That's a dawn draper. That's a bargain in New Year's Eve. It's an amazing, it's an early 80s. Yeah, like early, early 80s.

That's something. I don't, like we're talking about this, you're talking 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. Oh, it would have been like, oh, two. Yep.

Maybe like right before we started Rooster, he might have been the first time I went to a Starbucks and had some. I think I'm probably right there with you. I like, 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, they're over there. I get that.

Right, they have been around, but, oh, they've been around. They all over there. I get that. Right. They have been around. But oh, Brim is ugly. That's that's what that's that's 70s colors. That is what a teacher's lounge smelled like is the Brown and orange and yellow. That coffee shops were around, but not in the way that Starbucks is around. There were always places like B new and places that were like sit down acoustic guitarry dark ham studying. Yeah, I think that was it. People viewed as like college study place. Yeah, like when I, you know, worked downtown at the old job before Ristartee, I worked at that building,

at the Littlefield building there at six 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 a 10th and Congress or 9th and Congress. I get my coffee over there. And- Little city is cool. Yeah, and I 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, we've got a cat in our coffee shop. Or there's board games here, like that kind of shit. Do you remember in Best in Show, there was that joke, we had a party pose and they did met each other at a Starbucks, but not the same Starbucks, he was at Starbucks Cross Street.

Now we saw each other cross street. That we had that in downtown Austin for a while. That coffee shop you're talking about was a cross street and down a little bit from the other one. It was, we literally, there must have been, how many Starbucks do you think are in America? Oh my God, in 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, and 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. I mean, like, it's like matcha 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, and McDonald's was everywhere. 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 US. Yeah. Yeah. You say number one. Go USA. Where do you go fellas? But speaking of coffee, we should talk about first light. Yeah. What do you think of the actual coffee? So I got the Americana. I got it hot this time because we're finally at an cooler weather.

Yeah, I came up super fast. 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. Yeah. 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. Yeah, I get it. What about you, Jeff?

I just got the black iced coffee. It is now the fourth time I've had it. I'm pretty used to it. I'll give it a 8.15. So 8.2. Okay. It rounds up to an 8.2. Great.

It's a great space. I thought the croissant I had was good, but we don't get on the history. It's more ambiance and flavor. It's for sure. Absolutely. It's definitely more of a flavor. Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. It's definitely more of a, but that's awesome at the moment.

Cafe bookstore than it is a coffee shop. Yeah, we didn't even talk about the attempted murder over here. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, forgot the attempted murder? There's been a life, couple for a nice neighborhood. It's a really nice one. It's only neighborhood.

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. Yeah. Just out of the blue, just snapped. Yeah. And the eventually caught the woman who did the stabbing. That believed she's still in jail, but it was just really big story all over the news for a while.

I was like, is this nurse who had just gone off her ship? Fell asleep in front of her home and someone just like walking down the street decided to stab her for no reason. Wow. Do you mention nurses in that reminds me of another hide park kind of thing. There's a trudies that is borders the southern end of hide

park, right? It's between the campus and yeah, sorry, trudies is a Mexican restaurant in Austin. We've talked about it. It's where you get the Mexican martini. You guess and I talked about how we tried to drink. Do the the grand slam or whatever we were trying to drink six and we didn't quite make it.

I used to love to go to that shooties, and unfortunately this is over now, they don't do this anymore, but that shooties used to be open for breakfast. They would open at like 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 truthies was famous for it, all the nurses would get off their shift and they would go and they would have 7 a.m. happier 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

then and eventually they stopped serving breakfast in that one away. Well, because that trudies is very central to like some of the major hospitals in town. Like, same day, this is over there, brachy ridges to be over there. There's right over there. Oh, yeah, they sent you to see nothing like what's there.

Part 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 happy hour, that they never get to enjoy. And I thought that that place. I mean, it's the end of the day for these people. So we might as well, you know, let them enjoy happy hour that they never get to enjoy. And I thought that was awesome. I always loved that. And then, unfortunately, it went the way the dinosaur. Yeah. We turned it into oil. Breakfast for oil.

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? And it feels like a lot of things like that around you. I feel like it's definitely here to serve the neighborhood. 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. And so I was, I spent a lot of her formative years here, so this place still feels kind of like home here. Like it's still, like Millie, most of her childhood park experiences were in this. Yeah, totally. And 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, that's the coffee, that's the neighborhood, but we should get into an anarchy question. If you want to send us an anarchy question you can, at Anma Podcast on Instagram and on Twitter, is where you can see the photos and also send us an anarchy question, but you can go to our slash and my podcast a subreddit we do not run and leave a question there. This is from a chilling. 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, but I would say Austin under indexes on Asian food, of all varieties, and probably Italian food. There is no Italian food here. The spios 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 outskirtsirts like I would really attribute that more to like lock heart Oh, I don't know. I think with a barbecue and Franklin and satellite and there's some this good aspect here fair fair So I think it's I think Even the Mexican food is definitely subpar 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 La Montreau, like you're talking about, which are very like middleing whatever. Yeah. Drowned the cheese. But we do have our very crease.

We do have some crease. Very crease is so good. I think breakfast tacos here, like man, awesome. Love a breakfast taco. I don't know, I mean, I'm sure there are better. I think breakfast tacos here, 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 I, Austin is the, Austin has the best breakfast tacos of everything.

We talked about it last time. Go for San Antonio or any more else. We asked people, hey, does your seat have breakfast tacos? Oh, I didn't know some of those. That was the other thing I wanted to get into. A lot of people saying, never had a breakfast taco, never seen it. There's people saying, I'm from the UK, I've never had a breakfast taco, I've 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. Nope. No surprise. Yeah. There are people saying New Mexico. Oh.

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. 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 Mill Wocky. Mill Wocky. Mill Wocky breakfast tacos. Terradactyl screeches, Connecticut serves them at a place near their house, but I 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, you know what I'm saying?

Like, they are the, they are the go to. The go to buy for sure. Buy for in this town. They're 90% of the breakfast 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 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, I get, 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.

There 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 daily bird 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. If there's a bunch of dudes in boots and high-vis shirts, you know those tacos are good. Yep, that's awesome. 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 Anima 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. 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's like Hyde Park, Bar and Grill over here.

It's not too far. They got right down the road. They got burgers. Yeah, I'm not familiar with that place. That might be another bad burger. I haven't had a burger there. I'm not familiar with that place. So I'm sure the burger's fine,

but we could find out someday if you want. Hydebox, Hydebox is a weirdo place, you're right, because there aren't, I don't, there's a lot of restaurants and stuff. There's an Italian restaurant over here. There's two Mexican restaurants. There's little nickeys, like a little Italian lunch spot. There's Fresh Plus, which is a gross,

awesome local grocery store. Oh, that's a fun little Austin fact. There's a local chain called Fresh Plus in Austin. This is a urban legend that I don't know is true, but I think it 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, my hair. That's your hair. That's your hair. The dudes in that mural looked very familiar

because it's hairy, sheer, and will-fair. What? Because they were supposed to film a movie about like 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 they didn't make in the movie and they've just left that we got to take a picture of that put that on the social now I don't know that that's true but that is what I've

been told the entire time I've well now we're gonna go look at it again and I if it's not true I don't want to know I seem to like keep it here we ever found it the store I see I always thought somebody somebody mentioned that to me and then other people people I've been told that 20 times. We're gonna drive by and I just, we're definitely gonna go out. Hell yeah. Well that's good.

Let's wrap this up so I can go see it. I really wanna go see it. FOS at Animal Podcast Instagram and on Twitter. That guy's releasing squirrels under the wild. Oh, he is. Squirrels. Oh, I don't know what he was doing. That's cool.

Maybe it's rats. No, I just watched him let the squirrel out. The squirrel just fuckin took off up the tree. That's neat. Awesome. Arsache Animal Podcast, as far as you guys see pictures. Keep an eye out for a new merch. Go check out the old merch. Anything else?

No, listen to all of our other stuff. Yeah. Oh, we recorded a retman test the other day. There you go. Oh, retman's gonna be coming from. Coming from point, tail from the stinky dragon. Still a little kickin'. Going strong. You don't do anything else, right? Yeah, you don't do anything else. That man's gonna become a point. Tails from the stinky dragon is still kicking. Going strong, you don't do anything else, right?

Yeah, you don't do anything else, right? So all right, and face jam for you. Yeah, we got so much stuff. A lot of shit. Yeah, but if you listen to this and you don't listen any of those, insane. Insane, insane. All right, we'll see you next time, bye.

All right, we'll see you next time, bye.