ANMA - Gus Gets Puked On

Episode Date: July 18, 2022

Good Morning, Gus. We're back to our regular show this week and coming to you from Cherrywood Coffeehouse. A lot is argued about here, especially the food, but Gus & Geoff get into the Austin Cobra Saga, Frank, Speakers from the back of a van, eating a serrano, and more. Download the audio version at https://bit.ly/3Npy83T. Do us a favor and tell a friend about ANMA. They can take a guess at the name but mostly check out the show. Remember that person you used to watch RvB with? Tweet them a link. This episode is sponsored by Dad Grass (https://www.breathefum.com/ANMA) and Fum (http://www.breathefum.com/ANMA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Um. We're at Cherrywood Coffee House, which is not my favorite coffee house in all of Austin, but before we get into the coffee, so our last episode was at RTX. It was the leaked audio. I'm gonna find whoever leaked it and get them. But that wasn't originally the plan

for what we're supposed to release. Eric and I were gonna sit down after our panel at RTX and record a special mini episode. Oh really? But Eric forgot to bring batteries to the core. Okay, so we started recording. And then like 30 seconds in, Eric's like, oh, that's weird, it stopped recording.

And I said, are the batteries dead? He said, no, it's got full batteries. And he turned it on again and it immediately died again. And I said, it looks like the batteries are dead, dude. He's like, no, it says it's full. Then he was like, 10 seconds later, he's like, oh no, you're right, they're dead. It starts it full.

This is a little zoom recorder where it starts this great audio catcher. It's trash, dude. It starts his full and then will just bars will disappear. That's a lot of texture. And so we were sitting down with my friend Jomi was there, works for the ringer and then James Williams was there and we're like, oh this will be like a lot of fun and then we just couldn't record

anything. So let me get this straight. Yeah, we're a seasonal podcast. Correct. But when we went off season, you and I did a special episode. And then we did we somehow the panel at RTS, I don't know. I don't know who got that, yes. And then you had a plan to record another because that was just a supplemental episode. Yes. So if we're gonna cover every week with supplemental episodes,

I hear we season. That's the thing. I, you're right. I agree. I told Eric, we shouldn't be doing an episode every week. The point is to take a break and to step away, not to record. Like, I wanna say, was look at black box down. We step away, we do, we space out supplemental releases

to give us some research time. And then we come back fresh. Look at face every week. Boom, never take a break. Never. And you're not burned out at all on that, right? You know the face. You can do it until the end of time. That show has X factors that I don't know we have in other shows.

And mostly that's just Andrew Panton with an idea into which. Oh man. Yeah. So I like that there's signs all over the inside of this coffee shop. Let's say please bus your own table, but nobody does. And the grackles are going to town over there. I have always bus my own table. By the way, good morning Gus.

Good morning Eric. Yes, yes. Good morning. I mean, this is Grackle Town right now going on over here. So this coffee shop's right next to a convenience store called Monarch, Monarch Food Mart. It's been here for a long time. I can't remember.

Do you remember what it was before it was checked? No, it was a coffee shop. Oh, shit. No, I don't remember. It was quacks. It was quacks. It was Quacks, right. It was a Quackin' Bush Award. That was back in 99.

Mr. Mark. 2000? Yeah, it would have been somewhere around here. I want to say they flipped to Cherrywood, maybe around 2003 or 2004. Wasn't that late, I thought it was earlier. So Quacks is over at at 43rd and Duval. Captain Quacken bushes.

They used to have a couple locations. Didn't they have a location down on the drag as well? Yeah, they had one on the drag. Yeah, now it's just 43rd and Duval. But the monarch is right next door, which is a commune store I've been going to for a long time. I used to play D&D with Adam Justin and Frank. And Adam lived not too far from here,

a little south back in the god I don't know what was late nineties early 2000s. Oh down on MLK or whatever. Yeah, I've got stories about the house actually I'm telling a minute. Do you remember the day we drove by and we saw the house next to it burned to the ground? Yeah, that was wild. We got out and we took photos with our phones. No, we digital cameras. They're digital cameras. I don't get whatever happened to those photos But I used to stop here on the way down to Adams because I would I don't know why like happened to those photos. But I used to stop here on the way down to Adams, because I don't know why. Like I think I would turn here and I would go down Cherrywood, which turns into pleasant valley over there.

And I would get like beer, whatever at the monarch. I've been going to this, can we store for a long time? And I remember these to always be this like really friendly Pakistani dude who worked there. But like all of a sudden one day like in 2009, 2010, he was just like gone. Yeah, and I was wondering what happened He was like, I don't know. He was always like super affable and like always talked to everyone

Like he remembered like I don't think coming like once a week maybe but he'd always remember me and like just chat about whatever One of those dudes that instantly remembered your name. Yeah, and you felt like a like a like a like a regular Yeah, he made you feel like a regular. Yeah. I remember him too. He was a delight. And then he, well, he left. I think that what the story I heard, because he worked with another man from Pakistan. The other man was older. Yeah. And he was like a nephew or something.

Right. I think he was the dude's uncle. And I asked about him, or I don't remember how I heard it actually but I heard that he got sent back to Pakistan. I don't know if he got in trouble here or something happened but he was no longer here. Not like legal trouble. I think he got like a family trouble or something. He didn't commit a bunch of crimes and then have to get, no no no. Leave the country or anything.

He was awesome guy. Yeah, God, I wish you remember his name was like, Samir, it's been so long. I mean, it's been over a decade. But anyway, I used to drive down, like I say, nice to drive down over here, cause I would drive down Cherrywood to get to Adam's old house.

It was like off of, I don't wanna say, just basically, it was over there. You know where it was. And he doesn't live there anymore, and he hasn't for a very long time. He has not lived there for a long time, but I remember it was, it was, I think, it was back. House might.

Back, the house is still there. I drove by it a couple of weeks ago, but back, you know, we talk about degentrification and how much Austin has pushed east and pushed a lot of people out. That neighborhood was like, it was a little rough around the edges back then. And I remember sometimes I would go down there to play D&D at Adams and later he didn't have a very big driveway

or anything, so I'd not kept a park in the neighborhood. And I regularly, I would park in there to play D&D at Adams and later he didn't have a very big driveway or anything So I'd not have to park in the neighborhood and Regularly I would park in front of a house get out with my my D&D books and dies to go to Adams house And the owner of the house would come out and start yelling at me telling me I couldn't park in front of their house And I'd be like well, I'm not gonna leave my car here They're gonna always be a fuck with it if I leave so I'd have to like get in my car and try to find a house where no one was paying attention to park there to go play Dungeon Dragons I remember we were playing D&D once at Adam's house and we were in the kitchen around the kitchen table playing

and I was like, Adam, I think there's someone on your front porch out in front of your front door. He was, oh yeah, that's my neighbor. I was like, what's he doing out there? And Adam's like, oh, he sells drugs there sometimes. And I was like, what? He goes, yeah, he doesn't want to do it in front of his house because he doesn't want to get in trouble.

So he comes and sells it in front of my house. And I'm like, are you okay with that? He's like, well, I'm not gonna tell him no. Oh my God. Adam then moved to another house further east. Where I would go, it's a really cool place actually. But I would go visit him and it'd be like, you know, like a Texas summer day like today, where it's gonna hit 110 degrees. And there would go visit him and it'd be like, you know, like a Texas summer day like today,

where it's gonna hit 110 degrees, and there would be a dude outside it to in the afternoon with a puffy jacket on, you know? So I guess the drug dealers followed him. Yeah. He was just attracted to a certain neighborhood. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, but yeah, that was a good time. That dude was always out there. I never never talked to him. I never met him. But I was like, I could recognize him. I was like, I know that dude. Man, yeah, that was a, it feels like that was a lifetime ago. How's that, how's your summer? So far, how's your Texas summer?

It's okay, it's unbearably hot right now. My, Erkhot, which is like the energy reliability council of Texas, they like managed to power grid for the state of Texas, issued an alert today that they're going to potentially have rolling blackouts in the entire state because it's so hot and they don't have enough electricity. Yeah.

Thank God we're not connected to the fucking US grid. Yes. That would be terrible if we could request more power. It rained yesterday. In some, like in North Austin. Northwest Austin. It rained on me yesterday. Really?

Yeah, I'm not in North, whatever Austin though. Like it rained for probably like 10 minutes. Like big fat drops that like it was never a big steady rain, just big heavy drops that you could like walk in between. It was crazy. And it was 16 degrees. I went to a, it was not, it didn't,

like I don't live too far from without outing my, so I don't live too terribly far from far west, but I went to a state sale there last night to try to buy some baseball cards. Last night. Yeah, it opened it, it was a 5.30 PM, it was a surprise the state sale. A 5.30 PM Sunday night.

Yeah, state sale. What happened as I understand it? I think this is a prank, we used to play when we used to go to garage sales back in the day. Here, I can explain it. So my girlfriend is in with all the estate sale companies. Like she falls them on Instagram and she converses with them.

And they had in a state sale. And then I think they cleared the place out. Then they opened the attic and realized that they hadn't checked the attic. And there was a whole bunch of more shit there. And so they had like, for three hours, like 530 to 830, you come on a Sunday night and whatever's here, you can, you know.

So we got there and it had just rained. And I don't live too terribly far from that. And it was dry as dicks where I was. Anyway, there was a lot of baseball cards and some fucking old man with a, like some old man with like a spulunkers light on his forehead. The big spulunky cosplay. Like he was serious, he had like tactical gear on.

Like he was like, this guy's like a fucking, like at a state sail his forehead. The big spelunky cosplay. Like he was serious. He had like tactical gear on. Like he was like, this guy's like a fucking, like at a state sail raider. And he somehow snaked it all from me. I think, yeah, yeah, it was really bummed. That reminds me. Really bummed. When you, you know, we've talked about your house that got foreclosed on by the HOA.

Yeah. The three of us and everything. You left a bunch of comics in the attic of that house. I left 13 video game consoles in that attic too. Our entire collection that we had gotten from Graschelles. Yeah. We forgot about it. Left it all in the attic of that house. I left 13 video game consoles in that attic too. Our entire collection that we had gotten from Graschael. Yeah. We forgot about it.

Left it on the attic. And then I remembered, and I went, eh. Yeah, I can't. But wasn't it like years worth of comics? Yeah. There's a lot. There's a lot. You try not to think about it, you don't seem very enthusiastic.

I just took about this topic at the moment. Yeah, I was like, I somehow along the way lost about 10,000 comic books. And I'm not, they were some of them were there. It wasn't all of them. And I'm not, it was, I vaguely remember in my drinkiest of drinking days offering them to somebody, but I don't remember giving them to anyone. And I feel like I would remember going to my storage shed and unlocking it and opening it and helping people

take out 12 long boxes of comics. But they're just not there. And so I don't know if somebody broke into my storage shed and got them, or if I was that hammered that long boxes of comics, but they're just not there. And so I don't know if somebody broke into my storage shed and got them, or if I was that hammered, that I just don't remember it, but yeah, it's like, there's a gap in my memory, and I don't know what happened to those.

I was driving down in South Austin last weekend. Yeah, last week, well, I, like in the holiday week, and right, like, for the July, for the July, right around then. And I drove down, what is that? Like, South, first, and William Cannon, and I passed by that old comic shop. Oh, yeah.

Where he used to go to, he used to spend a lot of time there. Like, yeah, I used to, I used to work there sometimes. Yeah, like, 25 years ago or something. Yeah. I was like, it was like, that's Strip Mall, or not, that's Strip Mall, it's not even a Strip Mall. Like, little shopping centers, like identical. Like, the names of the businesses have changed, or not that's StripMall, it's not even a StripMall, like little shopping centers like identical. Like the names of the businesses have changed,

but you could take a look at that and you'd have no idea what year you were in looking at it from the street. That guy's name was Mark. He was one of my first friends in Austin. I lost contact with him over the years. That was, have I told the, my Neil Gaiman story on this podcast?

No. I, so he was the first person I made friends with. I lived at William Cannon in South first. Before I worked, yeah, even before I worked at Telon, I feel like we have heard the new game of story on this podcast. We probably have. But how are you acting like? Yeah, I was his comic shop. Yeah, I was working on it. That's cool. Um, yeah, I lived at South first William Cannon a place called Cooper's Hill. It's not Cooper's Hill anymore. It's still there, but it's a different. Yeah.

Yeah. I was just asking you guys how you're enjoying your summer. I delighted at all the threads on Reddit right now and the Austin Subred from people that are discovering Austin Subred for the first time. Like I just met you from South Carolina and I thought South Carolina was hot. And it's like, no, it's hot.

There's, okay. It's a lot of like, is this normal? Like this is on how the people, this isn't sort of sustainable. It's like, is this normal? Like, this is on how the people, this isn't so sustainable. The Austin subreddit is very snarkey and mean. But there's one dude, they're not mean enough to. And I'm glad you brought up the Austin subreddit because I've been thinking about this person.

Last week in the Austin subreddit, someone posted a thread that was like, my thoughts on Austin after four days. It's like someone who moved on after four days. Oh my God. And they were all, everyone was like super positive. They were like, oh yeah, super cool. And the person was like, I moved here, I forget from where, like, down in the South

first and Dittmar area, which is down. Well, that's what we're talking about, that area. And, you know, had their thoughts on various things in Austin so far. And everyone was like super positive, and I was like, well, that's weird. Oh well, whatever. Then he made a follow-up post yesterday that's like,

a follow-up, my thoughts on Austin after 11 days. You're 11 days. And continued thoughts on, you know, buta, I guess, because he lives so far south. And then, again, everyone's super positive. Like, oh yeah, this is great. Thank you. Oh, this was a great read.

I'm like, this is the Austin subreddit, right? I thought everyone here was super mean. And they're being super nice to this person. I was like, come on guys We can't let this slide. You can't be nice to this person who cares what the fuck this person thinks You have to live here for 25 years and start a podcast before people listen to your thoughts on Austin. It's just very like Surface level like we ate it these food trucks and it's like yeah So you saw it too. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, because I just went this is fucking absurd Just went like who care that's like if I were to visit Chicago right now and be like my thoughts on Chicago after three days And it's like you've know you're on a surface

So I moved to Brooklyn. Yeah, here's day experience. That's 100% what it is. It's that. I've got to figure that out. I don't think there's a need to be like gatekeep you about Austin. It just feels weird and I agree with Gus because the Austin subreddit is such a... It's so me firm. It is one of the more entransages of the credits. And then to have a guy go, I love this place after 11 days and it's like

Great I guess when I even before the four days and then it was like my last night was popular So I'm gonna do a follow up here my 11 day. Here's what I thought after one long weekend Bizarre yeah, I don't know. I don't read other city subreddits Why why would right but it's like, I subscribed to the awesome one just because, well, first of all, you can keep up on like local news, but second of all, it's like, it's just really entertaining. Everyone's really into it.

Like I remember a few years ago, there was the Austin Cobra, and people got really into that on the Austin subreddit. Were you living here when the Austin Cobra happened? Yeah, Austin Cobra. There was like a snake. Yeah, there was a cobra on the loose in the city. What? And there were like, track again on the Austin subreddit. It was like a dude who owned a bunch of snakes and animals.

I want to say he was from Colleen or somewhere just north of here. And he came down to Austin and the police found him dead in his car in a parking lot of like a home depot in North Austin. And the doors were open and there were parking lot of like a home depot in North Austin. And the doors were open and there were a bunch of like empty animal carriers. And yeah, he apparently owned a cobra and the cobra had gotten out of the carrier

and was then loose somewhere in North Austin. It got killed him. Yeah. I think the speculation is that he had the snake bite like he committed suicide by the snake. Suicide by snake. And then let the snake loose. And so for like a couple of weeks, people were freaked out.

Like there's a cobra loose you have to find it. They found the dead cobra a couple weeks ago. It got run over in the parking lot. Like it made it like 50 feet and got run over by a car. But the Austin sorbite was just rife with people speculating about where the Austin cobra was and who they wanted it to bite. I moved here when there were a bunch of male bombs

or like that. That was like the weak guy moved here and my mom was going, oh, how's Austin? I'm like, great, I think they're still trying to catch that guy who's blown people up or something. That was so sad. That was crazy. That was insane.

That was ridiculous. The weirdest part was insane. That was ridiculous. The weirdest part about that to me was, you know, after the investigation, they found the guy and, you know, he died. But the weirdest part about that to me was when the FBI was like, yeah, we got his manifesto and all of his writings, but it's all nonsense, so we're not going to release any of it. Really? Yeah, they never released any of his writings or any of his audio or anything. They just said, it's beyond comprehension.

There's no value from releasing any of this because it was such a weird random act. So no real closure on it. It was seemingly random. He was mailing some. He would set up explosives on sidewalks and random neighborhoods. There was no method to it. He went down. I think he set up like a trip wire and mine like down off of Southwest Parkway,

which that area down there, that interchange of highways used to always intimidate me when I first moved to Austin. Like what is that? Like Ben-Wai Mo-Pak and like what, two 90 and 71, like just before the Y. Just because it's like you confused us to where to go? Well, yeah, because back then,

the only Best Buy in town was that Best Buy down there at that intersection. So if I wanted to go buy a DVD or a video game, do you remember that we would go to that Best Buy constantly? Yeah. We would also go to that Serrano's next door just because there was a hostess that we were all at the hotspot.

Yeah. I wanted to super pretty. It's funny you say, because I wanted to tell a Serrano story today, but we used to always go to that Best Buy on Tuesday, cause Andrew, you know, let us clue this into the fact that, that, you know, obviously we knew

that's when new movies came out, but that Best Buy would sell them on a discount like on their release day. So whenever we'd have lunch from the call center, we'd go down to that Best Buy, cause it was, well, Ben White didn't extend all the way, Easter 35, but we'd get on Ben White, and I mean, it did extend, but it wasn't a freeway.

And we'd go down to that best spot to look for movies on Tuesdays. But we would do a lot of, we would try to find activities to do at lunch. I don't know if you remember. I was also thinking about this the other day. Do you remember when we would go to the airport for lunch? Yes, yes.

This was pre-9-11. Yes, please. When you could walk into the airport and do whatever you wanted, there was a Salt Lake at the airport. Yeah. And it was like, oh, we like going to the Salt Lake, but it's so far, it's like, our call center wasn't too far from the airport. It's like, oh, let's just go to the airport,

we'll get like a brisket sandwich at the Salt Lake. It was like a third the distance to go eat at the Salt Lake at the airport, then it was to get on 1826 or whatever and get on the airport. And the Salt Lake back then, the Salt Lake is still at the airport, but back then it's like, it was across the way from where it is now, like, over where that Amy's ice cream is. And they even had a little pit

where they would supposedly cook the food there. It was really, really weird. Now it looks a lot more professional, but we would go down there just because you could. I mean, we were trying to get away from the call center and just do something to get through the drudgery of the day. But Seranos, that's what I was gonna talk about. Okay.

There used to be a Seranos over there, like off of Red River and 11th or 12th, like just east of the capital. And we would eat there every now. And then it became a brick oven pizza. I don't know what it is now. It's like by what a breakfast hospital used to be. It was a brick oven, it's still the shell

of a brick oven pizza. I think it has been gated off and they're gonna put a condo or some sort of office park there. The Austin evolution. But we had a nice courtyard that surrounded us. Yeah, we ate at that Toronto's a few times, you and your first ex-wife.

And I don't know if you remember this. What? I tricked her into eating a Serrano pepper one time at that restaurant. Do you remember that? Oh my gosh, yeah, she was. Oh, I'll say this about her. time at that restaurant. Do you remember that? Yeah, she was... I'll say this about her. Uh, she never got over that.

She never forgave you for that. That imprinted on her. And she... Yeah, I think that about... I mean, I haven't spoken to her in 20 years, but I would imagine she's still bothered by it. We... So, the name of the restaurant is Serrano.

So, like, anytime you... Any dish you get of the restaurant, Serrano, so like any time any dish you get, there's a Serrano pepper on the plate. And. He's so cute. I don't know. Like we don't eat, our meals are whatever. And so you know, you don't eat the Serrano,

it's hot as hell. And some of the state. She's like, I don't know what possessor she asked us. She was like, like we know what to do with these peppers. Are they really hot? And I was like, no, they're really not. They're really delicious.

That's why they put it on the plate. Yeah, you're supposed to eat it. Why aren't you eating it? And I picked it, picked mine up from my plate and I pretended to take a bite out of it. I was like, look, see, it's fine. Oh good. And she was like, oh, okay.

So she picked hers up and took a giant bite out of it. It's just like this raw serrano pepper on the plate. And I remember sitting there just like being like, don't laugh, don't smile, just like try to have a neutral expression on your face. And she like turned red. It was like watching a cartoon where like a cartoon character just like turns red and steam comes out of their ears.

And it was a combination of spiciness and fury, in no case though. She was from Upset, New York. They didn't have spicy food up there. You know what though? I'll say this and not because of any of the divorce stuff, but she deserved it and I'll tell you why. She deserved it specifically with you and from you

because she did something to you or we are on the friendship. I can tell it's jogged in memory. She one time, we're like 23, we're very young back then. She, one time, went out with a bunch of her friends from work wherever she worked at the time. And they were gonna go out drinking on a Friday night. And I remember they, it was just, she was a homebody,

so it was weird for her to go out at all. And she was also, she's kind of mean. And so she didn't have a lot of friends in general. Like, she didn't like people and people mostly didn't like her It was kind of a mutual thing. I'm not gonna fault her for not liking people. No, I mean People are here. I know she and Gus got along right like us and like people either But anyway, so she went out and and was gonna go drink in one night and Gus never hanging out playing video games And we get a call at like

It's funny you say I was thinking 10 30 but yeah It's not pretty early on a Friday night and she like can barely talk like she's Awesafide. Yeah, like I need you to come get get me. I'm ready to come home Had that like I had to leave her car there like incomprehensible slurring. It was difficult to figure out and so Gus and I were like fuck Okay, so we get in the car and we drive. I don't remember where she went I remember where to go. It was common interest. What is common interest? It's at karaoke place over on Burnett. Yeah, I felt like it was on Burnett. Yeah, so we were off a riverside at the time.

Yeah. So we had to take the back then, the 10 minute drive up to Burnett. To the other end of the world. Yeah. To pick her up. And she's outside waiting for us with our friends and she's just fucking hammered and obnoxious.

And we're having to not carry, but walk her to the car and she's like fighting us and like wanting to party. She's being like a typical drunk person, you know, like, oh, this is a hurry for you know that kind of stuff and Gus is like, we really gotta get you home. This is you need to go home. And then she just turned around and full-throated threw up on Gus. Yeah, I got, I got a lot of luck. Just out of the blue, just like mid-settings like, I don't need to, and just hurled at Gus all over him. And I was covered in what I suspect was

a Tom Collins at one point, or multiple Tom Collins. And what about Tom Collins? That was the only thing we knew. I think it was. Yeah. It was probably three. That was her, that was her pass out limit. And with the time columns, that was the only thing we didn't think it was. Yeah. It was probably three. That was her pass out limit. And I remember after that, I felt so bad. And so we had to get in the car and get Gus all cleaned up and everything.

And then I remember not too terribly long after that, we got separated and then eventually divorced. And I remember Gus telling me once that that night was an inflection point in our friendship. And he went home and made a list of pros and cons. Seriously, a list of pros and cons about whether it was worth it to maintain the friendship with me because of her. And I think it was close. I mean, I mean, I mean, at least it's back when I lived at that apartment where we talked about before,

where the dude came out and told me his roommate was eating a habanero pepper, as I was living down there. I made a, I put pen to paper. It was a... Such a fucking disgusting thing to do. How close was it? I think it was like, it was neck and neck. I think it was like one vote in the pro.

Like, I was one vote away from getting the liminator from our friendship. I was like, I was gonna get voted off friendship Island. No rooster team because of this pros and cons. It would have been an awkward working environment when we worked together. Hey, do you wanna hang out later? Absolutely.

No, yeah. Let me show you my list. I always wanted to see that list. I think I made it and I threw it away. I'm sure you did. I'm sure you did. You hold on too. I had no idea at the time how close I came

to losing my friendship with Gus. And now here we are, 25 years later. We're still friends. Yeah, we're still friends. Jokes on them. Yeah. We showed everyone else. Yeah, common interest is still there.

I've never been. I mean, I've been to the parking lot. I think I went in once. I don't carry Oki's. I don't either. I think it was like back at the cost. And maybe before you moved here, it's like with the budget cost center.

Well, I remember like Ray and Nicole and all those people love that. Yeah. Most people like that. That was the bowling crew. That was the bowling crew. Yeah, the bowling group. Man, I haven't seen those people in forever. It's been a real long time. Most people like that. That was the bowling crew. That was the bowling crew. Yeah. The bowling crew.

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Defy boundaries and start gaming now at Alienware.com. Next-gen gaming is built with Intel Core i9 processors. Yeah, but it was one of those things when she threw up on me, not to, not to, not to bel- not to just, you know, focus on the point. Yeah, belabor. Thank you. I was gonna say belay. I was like, that's not it. Not to belabor the point, but I remember Thank you. I was gonna say, the labor. I was like, that's not it. Not to the labor, the point. But I remember it happened.

And I thought, like, in the moment, I was like, I can't get angry. I can't yell. She's drunk. Like, there's no reasoning with this. And also, I don't want to discourage her from calling us again if she's too drunk to drive. So I was like, I'm just have to, there's nothing I can do. Yeah, I just have to say, get vomited on. Also, by the way, she did the right thing.

Yeah, absolutely did the right thing. She called us and we came and picked her up. I was, thank God, she did that. Instead of getting behind the wheel. Yeah, that would be awful. So it was a real bite in your tongue moment, but I got her back by making her bite that Toronto. She did the dumbest shit.

I don't wanna make this a whole indictment on my failed relationships, but I'm just gonna say one thing about this woman that pissed me off. One day I got a call while I was at work and she said, hey, just to let you know I'm buying a new car. And I said, can we, what? At why?

And she goes, I just decided I'm ready for a new car. And I go, but your car's not that old. And she goes, yeah, I don't care. And I go, what are you getting? She was like, I'm at Toyota. And I was like, well, hold on, I'll take a lunch break and I'll come meet you and help you. And she goes, no, no,'t care. And I go, what are you getting? She was like, I'm at Toyota. And I was like, well, hold on, I'll take a lunch break and I'll come meet you and help you. And she goes, no, no, I can do this on my own.

I don't need your help. And I go, I really think that we, there's a major purchase. We should probably make it together, you know? And she goes, no, just, I'll see you when you get home. And I come home and sure enough, there's a brand new Toyota Echo in my front, an hour front driveway.

And I go, okay, you know, why? And she was just like, I just decided I was ready for a new car. She had like a Geo Metro and she upgraded. I cannot remember what car she was for. It was a silver, it looked like a egg. It was like a Geo Metro. I remember the Echo, but I can't remember

what I was going for. And so then she proceeded to tell me about what a good deal she got. She was like, really, like, I don't need you for this. I'm an independent person. I can handle this. I'm like, yeah, whatever. She got tricked into buying a Toyota Echo. She told me it was the rarest color that you could almost couldn't get it anywhere.

C-phone blue. C-phone blue. Every Toyota Echo with C-phone blue, by the way. C-phone green is what's called. C-phone green. I corrected because I thought you were, but it was C-Phone Green. Which was great because every time we would leave

the house I'd go, oh look, another one of those super rare Toyota Echoes. Well, you don't see those every day, except every day in Austin, because it's the main color. It's like, oh, I bought a tan camera, you don't see those. Sweet, what you did, I didn't have a tan camera.

Yeah, I did. I did. What would you imagine that her interest rate would be? Just you asking the question, I don't even want to get. What year was it? 2000? This would have been the year of our Lord 2001. 2001?

OK. 2000, 2001, yeah. I'm not going to, whatever you're about to tell me, is going to. 13.5%. She got an interest rate on a car for 13 and a half percent on a Toyota fucking echo. Wait a minute, see phone blue.

Green. See phone green. See the same thing. It looked like a blue card. And she's like, what is that bad? And I'm like, are you fucking serious? Well, I was in her defense. Car dealerships are sketchiest fuckers.

Yes. And they will do that thing where they're like, what do you want to pay a month? I know, right. That's why I wanted to be there. But that's it. they're like what do you want to pay a month? I know right? That's why I wanted to be there. That's it. That's exactly what I was Predatory is that you're not going there to be like I'll solve this for you. You're going there to make sure Everything on the up and we both don't get fucked. It's a team thing and you're just like don't worry And then I have this and then then then

fucking then we get separated and divorced or whatever and then I find out she she's like I'm gonna sell the echo yeah and I'm like okay cool and this isn't that period during the divorce where it's disentangangling our stuff. She was like, I'm gonna sell the echo and I'm like, I look it up, Kelly Blue Book, it's worth 9,800 or something, I wanna say. She sold it for, told me she got a good deal on it. She sold it for $3,500 in cash.

Oh my God. Out of dealer. She was like, yeah, I got a good deal. I got to be $3,500. And I was like, it's worth 9,000 and she's like, that's not what they said. Thank God we're getting divorced. It's insane.

Yeah. I'm doing the math in my head. That's a bad deal. Just, why not? Not nervous. It took me a second to get, I was waiting. They were both taking a drink. I was like, oh, this is going to be perfectly timed.

They were both. So now that we're, talked about a bunch of failed relationship stuff, because you want to talk about cleaning your gun? No, we can hold off on that all the time. That's a teaser. We'll get there eventually. I did go jet skiing yesterday. What?

Yeah, Sunday jet skiing. It's too hot. It was fucking hot. Like what better way to beat the heat than being in the water? But you're not in the water. You're not in the water. No, I wasn't. I was on the water.

Yeah, it was hot. It was hot. Is brutal. How much sunscreen do you have to put on? I put on a fair amount. Yeah. I wasn't. I was on the water. Yeah, it was hot. It was hot. It was brutal. How much sunscreen do you have to put on? I put on the fair amount. Yeah. Do I look? I don't look burned.

No, I'm assuming that your tattoo is in there. You have to slather yourself. I just use like a SPF 50, like spray. I don't have problems. Now let me ask you guys this. It feels like when you hear about people going in the water here, you don't go in the water around the city, you gotta go like way out, like Travis, all that stuff.

Has it always been- Fuck like Travis. The reason is, and you're probably asking because of like Lady Bird Lake, right? Yeah, it's that stuff. And then you always hear about that. Has it always been that way, I guess. So Lady Bird Lake used to be called,

probably when you moved here, it was town like. It was town like there. A few years ago You do you know why you're not supposed to go in the water there? I just assume it's gross It's filled with construction debris. Yeah, always that right right when they were like and toxic algae right now Yeah, but yeah during one of the earlier boom periods of Austin when they were destroying and rebuilding everything Instead of taking all the construction debris to be probably disposed of they they just bulldozed it into the ladybird lake. So you have to be careful.

That's why they also tell you don't jump off of bridges into the water, because you might get stabbed with rebar. Yeah. If you go too far into the water, it's just filled with old concrete rebar and steel so the bottom there. So it is like, when people say like,

this water's fucking gross down going this water. Yeah. That's, they mean, Yeah, there's probably us bestas and... Dude, that's... Everything you can imagine. That's a great thing to look up on TikTok or Instagram is all the people that go supping on town lake

or on Lady Bird and then they decide they're gonna swim and then they come back and they just have hives all over their body from all this fucking toxic algae. Yeah. I would stay either. I think there's a... Lake Travis is too far away and it's too choppy and trashy.

Lake Austin is perfect. I like Lake Austin. I think they found a light Travis is too far away and it's too choppy and trashy Lake Austin is perfect I like like Austin. I think they found a new strain of toxic algae Really in a ladybird Lake just this past weekend. I think I thought you story about it. Keep your fucking dogs. Yeah, it's super Talks ladybird. It's really bad for dogs But yes, it's too hot. It was like a hit like a hundred and ten yesterday too hot to be out on the lake The reason I did it is because at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, I'm getting the, I'm getting my dick laser off like blow fell. Did the James Bond get in your dick later. Get in the, the second. I'm going to laser my balls. So I can't,

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That's what they do for me. They're gonna polite a cane on me. That's it. And they're gonna They go right in. That's what they do for me. They're gonna put lidocaine on me. And they're gonna give me laughing. Let me tell you that you're in the door. No, listen, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no it. They said, I'll feel a pinch, but then they'll put me, give me the laughing gas. And dude, I've been laughing gas is, I believe in, because that's how I've gotten through my 92 Rookanelles. Sean said, the craziest thing is the smell. Yeah, I've heard that the smell.

When you hear it and then you smell it and you go, oh, that's just, that's my balls. This is burning balls, yeah. Wow. So I had to get one last jet ski out before I that's my balls. Just burning balls, yeah. Wow. So I had to get one last jet ski out before I came. I got to take care of the, yeah. You got to go come on a jet ski and then, that was right.

That was great. You got to swimers out one last time. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Well, congratulations. Yeah, I think so. Question marks.

Yeah. Okay, so, say like we're getting around about like the 35 40-minute mark whatever Coffee here because there was a lot of Gus not a fan. Yeah, how long did it so you we we walked in we got our coffee immediately we waited for years for an hour Yes, and there's like your work you all were next in line. So I said oh, okay I'm gonna go outside. I'm gonna find a spot. I wasn't sure how crowd it was gonna be. I came out here and sat alone for 20 minutes.

While you all waited for coffee. Should be fair, we were watching Creep Show on the TV. Yeah, it was pretty cool. It was good. We got our coffee right away. We got me and Jeff got ice coffees. I'm ice coffee during the summer guy. Ten at 10.

It's a 93 degrees at 10 30 in the morning. So of course I'm drinking a hot Americano. Oh, I asked you if you wanted it ice and you said hot and I said, okay, I may not be at any of the sleep in it. Yeah. Um, so it's okay. It's better than I remember. Okay. That's good. Maybe it's it's it's it's not out of all the place we've been. It's not my favorite. Mm-hmm. But it's fine. There's nothing great food here. Shrimp and Gritz on the weekend. Very good here. What? Shrp and grits? Yeah, like on Sundays. Brunch. I don't know how to process that.

That shrimp, you come to the coffee house and get shrimp and grits? Are you guys not, you guys are from, no, I don't eat, it's a big, it's a big weekend meal in the south. I know shrimp and grits. Yeah. I think we're more concerned about

we're in question to location, you're getting it from. Going to the coffee house and getting the shrimp and grits is not what we're questioning. It's here. What's wrong with getting shrimp and grits here? At the coffee house? Yeah, they have a full bowl.

They have a full kitchen. I guess I did not, I didn't look at the full kitchen. They have all kinds of food. I'm telling you the bacon egg and cheese sandwich is phenomenal. But like bacon egg and cheese, so like that's the thing. Here's the thing. But shrimp and grits is like just like, but the breakfast and brunch food. But you explain like, yeah, the breakfast sandwich is good here.

It's like, oh, you got most coffee shops and there's like a breakfast sandwich or breakfast tacos or whatever. Shrimp and grits is such a like far throw from a breakfast sandwich. Listen, you should try their lasagna. What? I'm kidding. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I Mean guys looked at each other Why not?

Like you can you can raise a pig and chickens right here where we're sitting if you want to you can't raise fucking shrimp here No, also I would be worried if I was eating chicken that was raised here. I worried about eating shrimp here Oh come on you can buy shrimp at HB that's different They have a whole supply chain they get it from fucking Cisco just like everybody else in Austin I sure the shrimp come is sourced from the same fucking company that all the that Uchi co gets it from I really doubt that I Have not done that I got coffee has next to the monarch Um Jeff looked over the fence for the first time when it was your review of the other side of the fence

What was a anyone the needle drugs? No, it was the needle drug. What is this building by the way? Isn't this like a commercial laundry facility or something? Yeah, it's been a laundry facility the entire day. It smells like it. I keep smelling laundry.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever, I know I've never been inside, but I think I've seen like laundry trucks coming and going over the many years I've been in this area. So we reviewed the coffee. Why does everything sing garden district? I have a question. I'm looking at their sign the many years I've been in this area. So we reviewed the coffee. Why does everything sing garden district? I have a question. I'm looking at their sign out there on the street.

Cherrywood coffee house. Why do they have to emphasize that they have real food? Well, they shrimp and grits on the food. Lunch dinner, real food. Like, Because they're like this is fucking breakfast taco nonsense. We're not just repackaging, because you know what it is?

Because they're like, we're not just reselling day old taco, deli tacos, like everybody else does. We're making just re-packaging, because you know what it is? Because we're not just reselling day old Taco Deli tacos, like everybody else does. We're making real food. We're gonna cook sandwich. I'm cooked. Come get, forget those bacon egg and cheese tacos from Taco Deli.

Dude, the bacon egg and cheese tacos, we can get a bacon egg and cheese sandwich here. Yeah, the difference being the bacon egg and cheese tacos from Taco Deli that you would get here or anywhere else isn't made there It's made a day before at the Taco Deli factory and then it shipped across town Taco Deli factory huge factory. Yeah, it's on burn it I I find it weird that you guys are Criticizing a place just for caring enough to create real food

is a weird thing to put on your sign. That's all. Like they already says lunch dinner. Okay, I get it. Like real food, that makes me question it. I think they just wanna emphasize their shrimp and grits without saying it explicitly. You know, I don't even know if they still have shrimp and grits.

I just what I used to eat here all the time. I haven't been here in years. I've been here in five years. How does it feel to be back then? Identical. Hasn't changed at all. Yeah. Doesn't seem like it. Yeah, I haven't been here in years. I've been here in five years. How does it feel to be back then? Identical. Hasn't changed at all. Yeah. Doesn't seem like it.

Yeah, I haven't been here in, I don't think I've been here in probably like seven or eight years, but you're right, it feels exactly the same. I feel like nothing has changed at all. Locked in that location. Yeah, honestly. But you know, it's funny because this coffee shop

is close to Thunderbird, which you did a previous episode at, it's just down Cherrywood over here. But like if I was in the middle between these two coffee shops, I think I would go to Thunderbird every time. I think the coffee's better at Thunderbird, for my taste personally. I've got a lot to say on the drive here.

Thunderbird to me is more of a like, you go and you get a coffee and you take off, like on your way to somewhere. I feel like when I go to Cherrywood, it's to sit down. It's, I feel like the ambiance of a coffee shop means a lot to you because you have to say about the ambiance of a coffee shop means a lot to you, because you had, you need to say about the ambiance of over a flight path, which also isn't too far from here.

Yeah. It's weird for me, it's just the coffee, I don't give a fuck what the place looks like. Like, if I'm gonna sit down, do they have Wi-Fi for me to, use, fine, great, coffee, cool. I think it's because if I had to guess, a lot of it probably has to do with growing up in Alabama, and just having there be nothing cool to explore like when I was in high school

There wasn't a place like this and I remember when I was in the army. I was like maybe 20 We I was I spent a summer in South Carolina and Columbia going to like throughout a photography program at the University of South Carolina Go game Cox, right and That's the closest thing I have because I did one semester at the University of South Carolina Go game Cox That's the closest thing I have because I did one semester at the University of South Carolina This is like go go get in Cox. What they are right? You can make anything They don't tell you know Yeah, we're the game Cox what is Tennessee's like the volunteers yeah game Cocks, yeah fuck and

At least not a racist name they have to change Yeah, let's look on the bright side. There was a coffee shop by the college that I would go to that was just like a typical, I was trying to say typical and stereotypical at the same time. Stereotypical coffee shop, like college coffee shop, like broken ass couches, brightly painted old walls in an old house that's kind of like, been converted, you know, like, a bunch of like dudes in Berets, trying to impress girls, reading, you know, reading sartre and stuff.

And I just fell in love with it because it was like, what I'd seen in movies, right? Like, and so I just, I thought like this is, I finally get to experience these places. And I think since that moment at like imprinted, that matter, it's always matter to me. I see. So you're looking for like that idyllic movie or TV experience.

I think so, yeah. I get it. I think so, yeah. It's funny, because I also, I grew're looking for like that idyllic movie or TV experience. I think so, yeah. I think so, yeah. It's funny, because I also grew up in a small town of middle and nowhere. I just want anything. Maybe that's what it was. That's why they're like, anything is better than nothing. Anything's better than where I grew up out in the ass end of nowhere.

I remember I was talking to my wife the other day. She's visited the town of grew up in a few times. And I don't know why we're talking about it. We were talking about the town I grew up in. And she was like, I know you told me what a shit hole it was and how there was nothing to do there all the time. But I wasn't, even that didn't prepare me for when I visited the first time.

She's like, you were not exaggerating. That's like in the middle of nowhere, nothing. I was like, yeah, and the town you visited is about twice as big as the town I grew up in. Like it was even less going on back then. What a, and no internet. God, God. That's kind of like I've taken people up to

Colleen and Harker Heights and I describe, like what I was stationed, I describe it as like a third world country and people like, yeah, whatever. And they go and they're like, oh, I would never go back. It's like liquor stores, pawn shops and wig stores. Yeah, pretty much. It's like, it's just places designed to take your paycheck on payday.

The wig store. It just stood out to me. There on payday. The wig store. It just stood out to me. There's a lot of one there. I don't know. Not that I go there often or anything. It's probably been 20 years since I've been there. And then there's no way.

I don't even know why I've been the last time I would be there. But anyway, I'm glad we're here in Austin. And we have been here for the last 25 years so we can talk about it and share stupid experiences like drug dealers selling drugs on the front door of a house that's not's not in a cobra. I'm excited to for like this next season of the show since we're seasonal to find some other coffee shops.

We've been kind of like East, maybe try to go a little north and like a little West and everything. And yeah, we've stayed pretty close to Rishi T. And I think we're we're hitting up all the all the stuff in the general vicinity. So we're going to start expanding. I think we should we're going to need to probably do some down south. Just to be fun like our old stomping grounds where you still live and whatnot. There's no that's unrecognizable down there.

There's probably 30 coffee shops on South first alone. Just like every block. Yeah. Should we, I mean, it feels like we're getting pretty close throughout. Should we tell one quick story that's a holdover, we can cover this real fast. Okay. Dude selling speakers. Oh, yeah, speaking of South Austin.

Speaking of South Austin. That's good. And by the way, this might have been the case in other cities in the 90s and in the 2000s. It just was very much the case in Austin. Also, it was very specific because, I don't know if you remember, I'm sure you remember.

In the late night when we both moved here, they had just build that metropolitan theater down south we were so excited yeah and right across them at these to be another theater I think it was a 10th of 10 south was it the tensile yeah tensile tensile that one got built right around the same time and I want to say that theater opened in 99 or 2000 it opened before metropolitan did it yeah okay and I think only we ever went to that regal I'm sorry we only went to that 10th of oh, I'm sorry. We only went to that just town south one time, make twice. We saw, this gives you an idea how long ago. We saw Mission Impossible Two there together.

Was that, wow, okay. So when they were building that theater, you know, this is when I lived off a riverside, I felt like any time I would go, there was a used bank of America at the time, fuck them by the way. There was an ATM, it's still there. Like I write off a riverside and,

you know, I'm talking, I think, Club Carnival's parking lot. Like I ran off a riverside and, you know what I'm talking about, I think, Cardinal Vols parking lot. I would always go to that ATM. A Frank story there. And anytime I would use that ATM, there was always a white van that would drive up. And it was always the same spill every time,

like, hey, you want to, I'm working to install the speaker system down at the Tinseltown South, but my boss accidentally ordered too many speakers. Yeah, they sent these extra ones, it's theater quality speakers. You want to buy them for 300 bucks or whatever? He's like, he says if I come back with these speakers, I'm gonna lose my job. Yeah, and I was fucking broke his hill back then. First of all, I wouldn't have bought the speakers. Second of all, I didn't have $300.

And I'd be like, no, dude, sorry, I don't have the money. And he'd always be like, but you ride in an ATM, you can pull it out. Like, you want to see the balance? Like, I don't have the 300 bucks. But it was always like, no dude, sorry, I don't have the money. And he'd always be like, but you're riding at an ATM, you can pull it out. You want to see the balance? Like, I don't have the 300 bucks. But it was always, there was always the same dudes in the same white van trying to sell the same shitty speakers, claiming it was for the Tinseltown South to whoever it could. And they would anywhere in the South. Anytime you would go to a gas station,

there was like a 25% chance. You'd have to look over your shoulder. There was like a 25% chance some dude would walk up and be like, hey man, you like speakers? You listen to music and you're like, what? And he'd always give you the same fucking spiel. Yeah, I remember we used to always eat at Super Salad down there. And I felt like every time I would go down there and I would get gas

around that Super Salad. It was like South Le Mans and Ben White. Yeah, it's where the Chuty South used to be, right? Yeah, yeah, Red Cross, across the street from there. Yeah, and it was constant. It was like you just constantly harassed about speakers. Yeah. Any time you would stop in a parking lot

or a gas station in Austin for about five years there. Yeah, they're gone now. I can't remember the last time anyone tried that, tried to pull that. I assume that scam exists in other cities and states too. I mean, I got it when I was on, when I was going to college. They would come to like college campus and then fall,

like in like the parking lot and be like, oh, I'll just fall you to an ATM and it's like, no, you fucking won. It was, there was another thing they would always do. I remember this in your apartment complex, is they would always be like, a dude would always show up from like pizza, Pedro, or one, two, three pizza.

And to be like, maybe I want a $5 pizza, I got pizza here and he would just have like pizzas they would make. And just go around the apartment complexes. He's be like, Peppermint pizza, eight bucks, five bucks. What? They would just like,

I don't know if they- That's insane. I don't know if that was like a strategy of theirs or if it was like a fake order. And like the pizza now left with the next-tra-pizza and you would just be like in the parking lot yelling, who wants a pizza? And a do great business.

Somebody would always buy those pizzas. Whatever works. Whatever works. Whatever works. Entrepreneurship. Yep. Do you remember that ATM? You're talking about it specifically. I remember one that you were so fucking mad.

You came home when we lived together. You would've been hanging out with Frank. You came home and you were like, I'm a fucking kill Frank. And I'm like, why? What's going on? He's like, I fucking, it's lucky Frank is a nose-cunc-thoo because I would fucking kill him.

And I'm like, what is going on? It was like, where the, it's midnight. We're at, stop at the ATM. And Riverside was a sketchy part of town back then. I guess it's not, I mean, it's, it's a college part of town. But it was fucking, it was pretty gross back in the 90s and early 2000s. And, God was like, I'm in that fucking ATM.

And it's always scary, because there's always just like, dudes driving by and cars slow at night. Try to kill you. You just speak your stia. And there's like people, like I remember I stopped going to the cabana on Riverside at night because there were too many fights at the cabana. And I'd be like, oh, I don't wanna go to cabana

but I don't wanna see two guys get into a gang fight, you know? And guys was like, so I'm at this fucking, and I'm like taking up money to pay rent or something and Frank's with me and there's like 10 dudes behind me who all look like they want to kill me and and Frank's like $300 oh my god What do you need so much money for and I'm like Frank shut the fuck up and he's like dude seriously That's a lot of money. Is that the max you can take out in an ATM 300? Oh, I forgot about this. Oh my

I was like I had to run to my car. I forgot about that. Oh my God. That's a very frank thing to do. Yeah, it's just socially inept, very frank. Inept, unaware. That's unaware. Yeah, of the surroundings. Oh my God.

One time, here's another great Frank story. He used to work out of FM 2222, which I don't know if you've been on that road. But it wasn't super windy before you get up to 360, right? And it's actually where I've been taking my daughter to learn how to drive because it's good for that. And it's scary as shit to teach somebody to drive on. One day I get a call from Frank at like 8 a.m.

He's like, hey, man, can you give me a ride? And I'm like, yeah, I guess. Where do you need a ride to? And he's like, well, I need a ride to work, but I got to pick someone from my car first. And I'm like, why don't you just take your car to work? And he's like, well, I can't because I wrecked it. But anyway, can you go, I take me to my car,

I got to get something out of my car for work, and then can you take me to work? And I'm like, I guess he wrecked his car in 2222, driving like 80 miles an hour and crashed on a side road. He, I had to drive over, pick him up, get the stuff out of his car, because it was still a band in there. And I'm like, what the fuck happened to your car?

And he's like, I wrecked it again, man. And I'm like, what is going on? And there was like the third or fourth time he had wrecked a car or a motorcycle going way too fast on roads like FM2222. And another thing that annoyed me about him that day is I was like, I helped him pick up the stuff. And then he's like, yeah, I gotta be at work at nine.

And I'm like, well, we're gonna, okay, well, I can get you there on time. And he's like, let's stop and get breakfast first. And I'm like, I gotta be at work at nine. And I'm like, well, working at, okay, well, I can get you there on time. And he's like, let's stop and get breakfast first. And I'm like, you gotta be at work at nine. And he's like, yeah, but I gotta eat. And like, I didn't, no, didn't care to be at work on time. I'm like, why you was in such a fucking hurry in your car then? And I was like, like close to intervention time.

It's like, you keep wrecking these fucking cars. Yeah. You got it. And I told him, I said, what have you learned? What, like, seriously, Frank, what have you learned? And he goes, I need a performance vehicle. No, I think what he says, I need a performance tires. I'm gonna be driving like, I need a performance tires.

That was his takeaway. Was that like, everything he was doing was fine. He just didn't have the right tires. Do you remember one time, so we're on the Frank Trench, I'm sorry, we're gonna keep going. No, this is great. I was hanging out at my apartment. It was like a Friday or Saturday night. You guys Friday Saturday night

It was late. It was like 11 p.m. or midnight and my phone rang and it was frank and He's like, hey, I need a favor said I wrecked my car and I need you to come pick me up. I was like, okay. Where are you league city? The fuck is out of Houston? What what yeah, and I'm like, okay, where are you? League City. There's the fuck is Austin. What? What? Yeah, and I'm like, okay.

So I get in my car like at 11 PM or midnight and I drive down to like, it's like three hour drive. I get there like at one or two in the morning and you know, Frank's there with his fucked up car. Oh no, I pick up Frank. I mean, he's like, hey, we just stop by my car. So I get some stuff. There's some, there's a pattern here. We got him.

His car is just totally fucked up. He like helped him get whatever shit he needs out of his car. And then we have to drive back to Austin. And that motherfucker falls asleep on the drive back. He pulled over and picked him out. Pick him out. I got back home like a five or six and I was like, Don, I just, I'd been driving to and from league city all night.

We, do you remember? I was actually having this, I was having a conversation slash argument with Emily over the weekend about, I don't like living spaces. I think that stores gross. And she wants to go there a lot. And I'm like, I'm not gonna,

it's like, it's a weird, it's a weird thing. I have I get it She's like you're so weird about this one thing. You don't care about anything else But you don't want it. I'm weird about furniture, right and We used to do you know we used to get a Houston so much back in the day But one of the main reasons we used to go to Houston back in the day was because that was where the IKEA was Yeah, so we would all get together on the weekend and I had a truck for a little while Yeah, and we would drive we we'd have big Ikea trips. We drive down to Houston, three and a half hours to go shop.

And Ikea all day. It was only like, yeah, two and a half hours. Two and a half hours. Yeah. Wasn't that bad. It was by the gateway. Oh, the West side. And because there was nowhere else for 25 year olds to buy furniture that they could afford in Austin, because there was no Ikea, right? It was the only affordable place. And it used to be, we would get so excited. And we would spend all day and we would eat. It was like a right it was the only affordable place and it used to be we would get so excited and we would spend all day and we would eat it was like a it's a new level like yeah and it was like it was so fucking cool to us to get to drive down and by like I don't know

reasonably cool furniture that you can afford my car broke down there that's a let's start for another time well I was gonna say this reminds me of a certain trip you and I and uh once again my first ex wife took to Houston to visit our friend John Oh God you got you got we'll tell the story That's another story you got drunk me you got our Humanity you did too you locked yourself in a bedroom you put we have to pull over so you get out and vomit that's true That's true that's true but I didn't lock myself in a bedroom and refuse to come out and we're not all the other people at the party We also do you know bad things we did there.

We got drunk. We did a bad thing. We had to save it. We did bad thing. We did bad thing. I'm not my proudest moment. No. By far.

No, not at all. All right. I think they were trying to wrap up forever. No, this is fine. You want to get on these tangents. You want to get tangential with this show because all of a sudden it's like here's four Frank stories. They are the craziest thing I've sudden it's like, here's four Frank stories. And they are the craziest thing I've ever heard.

Well, that's a template. I'm sure you figured it out by now. I will say, the first time I heard it, wow, that's crazy. And then the second time I heard it, I went, oh, that sounds familiar. Wow. One time, one time Frank. One time, one time, one time, one time.

Saturday night, four in the morning, my doorbell rings. I get up, I go to my doorbell, it's Frank. In a full, like in full drag, like in a dress and makeup and everything, I don't know why, and he goes, hey man, can I get it right home? I go, yeah, what do you, what do you get going on here? What's, well, you all dressed up for me?

I don't even remember why. He was like, I was just doing a thing. And I was like, okay. All right, whatever. And I'm like, how did you get for me. I don't even remember why. He was like, I was just doing a thing. And I was like, okay. All right, whatever. And I'm like, how did you get here? And I don't remember, but he somehow got to my house at four in the morning to get a ride home. I don't know how we got to my house.

Let alone, but that was a very frank thing. You just like, you would go to bed and you'd be like, maybe tonight's the night I get the doorbell rings before I go. Yeah, maybe the truth, burial visit, you, maybe the thing. Maybe I'll have to go to Houston. You know, you never know. I think it's always great to have friends like that.

Yeah, even it's interesting. Yeah, where it is just an X factor of like, Hey, I'm in rehab. Can you break me out and you go, yeah, or hey, do you want to go get breakfast? I'll definitely be late for work. Hey, I can't, there's a different story, a different day, probably shouldn't,

a little darker, but be like, hey man, I gotta go to work today. Can you come breathe in my car? That was not him. That was someone else. That was someone else. Wow, it was exciting. Hey, can you write, if I come over to your house

and I give you a piece of paper, can you sign it saying that I haven't drank? And you're like, yeah, sure. I can do that for you, sure. And they come over and they go, okay, can you do it in this? Here's nine pins in different colors. Can you sign all these dates in different colors? So it looks like, and can you try

to vary your signature a little bit? Also a different person, not different person. Wow. I can't wait to hear these stories. This is great. Any guests for the name for Anma? New season, we should have good guesses. You've had many weeks off.

Another meticulous autocracy. Ooh, that's good, is that it? That's too fancy. Animals. No, that's good, is that it? That's too fancy. Animals. No, that's very fitting, but no. Damn. Well, I'm out of guesses. If you want a guess, you can tweet at us at Animal Podcast

and you can hit us on Instagram at Animal Podcast. Keep up with, to date with the show probably or whatever. I know, Maritime Adventure. That's a different show. That's if we were getting shrimp for shrimp. Yeah. Some weirdy guys are weirded up by shrimp. We should probably come out with merch for the show eventually.

Coffee book. Just enjoy it. Yeah, we should have a coffee. I feel like we'll have a coffee line at some point. Yeah, well, I had a lot of people message me and say, I came a coffee roaster. I would love to have coffee for you. I will say, please don't message me about that.

Or if you can have a job, I can't do either one of these things. I can't, I don't have the power that it takes. I didn't start this company, so I don't have the power. I don't message me about that or if you can have a job I can't do either one of these things. I can't I don't have the power that it takes I didn't start this company So I have the power I don't have the power. I don't see there you go The Gus and I did start the company. We have zero power somehow, so don't ask us people ask me for stuff sometimes I can't I'll be like I didn't just start like I've never done but I mean like I could probably get your free t-shirt I'm powerless. I did see a bunch of people saying that if we were gonna make a shirt So I don't feel like this is a merch heavy podcast. No, no, but there's space where that's all we do. But yeah, but like there should be, I feel like there's something.

I saw a couple of people say that we, like, I guess at some point we said like make your own podcast and like somebody said that would make you a joke. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. So send all your suggestions to Eric Bidour. God damn it, no, don't do that. A funny shirt or poster could just be all the different attempts at.

Like, camera. Like, cross out and everything. But then at the bottom it just says andma right until it's a blank space where you can fill in whatever you think. But that'll do it for this week. That's I think the ninth episode of this podcast. Yes, Jesus. Big episode number 10 coming up.

You do anything special for it or a bomb at her over. Yeah, I'm gonna shoot blanks. I'm gonna show up with like a frozen bag of peas on your day. I bought two bags of peas yesterday. They recommend the peas. Here's the thing. I've thought about a secret H.E.D.

It's because penis. Oh, thought about a vasectomy, but the thing that worries me is the first time you fire off after I would just be worried it's blood. You know what I mean? It probably will be. No! I don't know. I should ask about that. Well, we'll see you guys next time.

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