ANMA - More Drive Than Talent

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

Good Morning Gus! From Hot L Coffee (which is actually the Carpenter Coffee Bar), its a hot episode of ANMA. It's a warm day south of the river so Gus and Geoff talk about Geoff’s disappointment, Barton Springs tips, 20th anniversary, Chuy’s memories, Botanical Garden, Comic Con, The changing skyline, Kite festival, & Danger in Dallas. RTX is coming up July 7-9 and we'll be doing a live episode. get tickets now at www.rtxaustin.com Sponsored by Shady Rays  http://shadyrays.com + code ANMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Man, fuck today already, alright. Look, it's just a shitty start. You can check the hours. Tough start? Tough start. You didn't remember the name of the coffee shop. It's true tough start it's not Eric's fault yet one

except I think it's a reasonable assumption that a coffee shop would be open in the morning uh... we went to the Austin Botanical Gardens the zilka botanical gardens zilka botanical gardens sorry correct correct yes zilka botanical gardens uh Zilch or botanical garden. Sorry. Yeah correct. Yes, zilch or botanical gardens Would you have to pay to get into it took us? We paid 18 bucks in there. Well shut up shut up shut up shut up Six bucks ahead three bucks to get in to go to a trailer that just said This had sorry we're closed and didn't have operating hours. No anywhere looked it up looked it up 11 a.m What had no idea? didn't have operating hours anywhere. Looked it up, looked it up, 11 a.m. What?

Had no idea. Who wants coffee in the morning? That place, the Patel Garden was hopping. Oh my God. That place, I've never, I've, I've, I've been to that Patel Garden so many times, I've never seen that, it's a fucking Monday morning. Dude, I've never seen that many people.

More people in the parking lot of the Patel Garden than I've seen cumulatively in 20 years at the Botanical Garden. Yeah, I don't know There must have been a fucking flower show today or something maybe I'll a hundred year work it is right bloom For the first time ever or some shit in a hundred years. I would guess yeah So we went there Gus got out and looked to see if the coffee shop was open no hours no nothing. It just had sorry we're closed Gus got out and looked to see if the coffee shop was open. No hours, no nothing, it just said, sorry we're closed. The group of people came by looking for coffee too,

I had to tell them. I'm telling you, so many people probably did the same fucking thing. And they just went, what's the coffee shop? I even asked the guy at the entrance, like, hey, is there a coffee place here? He's like, yeah, haven't seen the employees. Don't know where they are, don't know what's going on. Yeah, he was funny.

He was funny. If you ever want a little comedy bit, go pay six bucks and soak up about a three minute interaction with a very funny, who's cool? The guy. He asked if we lived in Austin and Jeff went, yes, far as you know.

Okay. I guess you pay more if you're not from, I don't know. So pretty cute coffee was closed. Yeah. Jeff was gracious in his pivot and gave us a great little location. Underbending. Which broke my heart.

So, yeah, so I'm becoming reticent to blow up my spots, but I mentioned Littlefield, so I got a little fields all the time. The other coffee shop that I go to three times a week, probably, is a place called Hot L Coffee, which is a fucking, it's in a hotel, get it on. Oh. Oh.

Oh, I can't get it in a hotel. I can't get it in a hotel. I'll be honest, I didn't get it for the first, probably 15 times I would. Oh. Place called Carpenter Hotel, which is right behind the very first Pteres on the bar. I'm like, basically, if you wanted to know where it is,

it's by where Snow Beach used to be. Yeah, there you go, it's where it, it's where we're, we're a block and a half away from where the filling station was in Trying to get in this area I was like, oh, I never come down here. It's so different from 2008 There was a snow beach over there That's why it's one like to take over the lake because they take the snow beach

Although snow beach fucking moved and was over there behind chuees for a long time And it might still be there in a parking lot. We should get some snow beach if Although snow beach fucking moved and was over there behind Chouys for a long time and it might still be there in a parking lot. We should get some snow beach if they're still around. When this is over, let's drive over and look. Anyway, so it's right at the mouth of Barton Springs and Lamar and I go here probably three times a week on my bike because I do my big 30 mile bike ride every couple days and this is where I stop and get coffee

because it's like halfway. It's a close-up trip. Yeah, it's a great spot. I'm trying to get inside quite a bit. It's awesome. It's awesome. by trip. Yeah, it's quite a bit. It's awesome. It's awesome. I've stayed here for like a weekend getaway like a staycation kind of thing.

I love it. The problem was. The Bristol was super friendly too. The Bristol was not super friendly and they didn't have fucking ice coffee for the first time in maybe 130 times I've been here. And there was no like remorse about that. No, no, no, no, fuck your trip.

It was like, yeah, we don't have hot coffee. We don't have ice coffee. And I'm like, butorse about that. No, no, no, no, fuck your trip. It was like, yeah, we don't have hot coffee. We don't have ice coffee, and I'm like, but you carry it, you just out, and she's like, yeah, sure, whatever. Go fuck yourself. And here's the thing, I would be like, if this is a regular coffee shop, or something like all gimmicks,

where it was like, hey, we just don't have it, sorry. Or they were super fucking busy, it would be like, I understand. Got it. This truly was one person making one cup of coffee and no other cups of coffee. I've never seen eyes say fuck you so clearly in my mind. And it was like, it was crazy. I guess she doesn't like our new logo.

Yeah. Damn. Anyway, it's a real bummer because I came in all the time and the ice coffee's a nine. Like, it's not as good as all gimmicks, but it's right there. It's really nice. This black coffee's fucking great too though.

I'm not gonna complain. Oh, I just had my first dimmer coffee. Good morning, here. This is good. It's really good coffee. I like your sweater. I wore this special for the podcast. Yeah, definitely.

I noticed that earlier in the day. I love food court. Yeah. Where's your get that? There's a company called Feel So Good, like a local t-shirt maker. And they do the t-shirts for, I was at kind of tropical, which is like a bar restaurant kind of area.

I, yeah. And they had a really cool shirt that I was thinking about getting. And so I went to their website and it led me to the Feel So Good site. And then I saw, they had like a bunch of just funny shirts. But they got a, I got a, I got a hilarious home alone faces of death,

mashup shirt. It's pretty funny. And then I saw this Highland Park food, Highland Mall food court sweatshirt. Even though it's 80 fucking degrees this morning, I had to wear it. It could be 90 today. Yeah, I had to wear it for Anna.

It's just, I, I haven't been, I don't spend a lot of time in this area. We've talked about a lot of stories about businesses in this area, we talked about the speed taries, we talked about the snow beaches to be over there. The green muskets right behind you where Frank stuck his finger into my beer. Yeah.

And even driving here, I felt like there were so many places we passed that we were talking about, like what used to be there or what we frequented it. And in some respects, you got a much better memory than me. We were drove by Terry Blacks and I was like, thanks to being a talent restaurant, we used to go to all the time.

What was it called? And you remembered like immediately. Yeah, yeah. You had like fun facts. I do, I do. Well, I spent a lot of time over here still. Like I'm still here a couple times a week, probably. Which is why we were having a discussion about

what it would be like to live over here. I've looked at some condos over here for the future someday. And you guys were lamenting how shitty it would be with traffic. I agree. But if I already spend most of my free time here, I figure it might as well. I used to always go into the office. I used to always look at not like trying to buy, but whenever I would drive by, I would look at that.

I don't know. Those apartments are condos up there on the hill over here, right? Shoulder there at Barton Springs and Lamar. And when, you know, I used to think how cool it would be to live in those and to be right here in this area back, you know, I was in my late 20s. On the backside of that like hill area of neighborhoods, there's a really steep street that goes down, that goes right into what they call the North entrance of Barton Springs, which I've never understood because it's on the east side. And I think it's technically

a little south of the other entrance, but it's called the North entrance. And a lot of people don't even know about it. But if you're ever going to go to Barton Springs, go through the North entrance. I've never been through it. It's so much easier. It's so much fucking easier. It's so much easier. And there's always parking. It's great. And it's also, it's like, we're the... If you're ever, if you ever go to like a zilker park and you're like, oh, this is pretty, people are flying kites and like having picnics and fucking throwing for his piece and stuff.

And you're like, I kinda missed those drug parks where people are doing all that, but they're also dancing to a drum circle, smoking pot and kicking a hack, you sack around. They're over there, they're at the north. Yeah, they're at that side. Anyway, that, that, that hill, that's, well, if you wanna buy drugs or whatever, I'm gonna say that. Yeah, if They're at the north. Yeah, they're at that side. Anyway. So only go there if you're cool. That hill, well, if you want to buy drugs or whatever. Okay.

Yeah, if you're cool. It's very cool. Yeah. If you want to see, like, if you want to see gross dudes almost naked, there's a hill that goes real deep down in there and I hit, I hit over, I hit like 42 on my bike the other day going down the hill. Oh my god.

Yeah, it was fucking scary. You're like, you're almost a car on a freeway. Yeah. Wow. I don't know if you guys ever got 42 miles an hour on a bicycle. No. Like, 25 is plenty fine for me. That's a lot. Yeah, that's I don't know if you guys ever got 42 miles an hour in a bicycle. No.

Like 25 is plenty fine for me. That's a lot. Yeah, that's good enough. 42, that's too much. So you ride down here a lot? I have a route that I take that's 24 miles with some branches to make it longer or shorter. And I do it when life doesn't get in the way,

I do it five days a week. Oh wow. Yeah, I'm down here probably at least twice a week, three times a week. Wow, how long is it taking to do that route? Two hours. Yeah. Hour 45.

Just going to be going out. I'm 42 the whole way. You're going 42 the whole way. I think that thing coming to 20. Unfortunately, it's not downhill all the way to my house. If it's downhill, both ways. You know, we just had our 20th anniversary for Ruchu Teeth this past weekend. Yeah.

And the actual day was on Saturday. And I was really nostalgic driving around town. I drove down to the old call center way down south, the original one. Yeah, before we moved, like the really small one in the warehouse. And it's funny going back there down Burleson. in the warehouse. And it's funny going back there, down Burleson. Yeah, yeah. And it's funny going back there, because I drove in, and I drove, like,

it was in like the back of a warehouse area, right? And I drove all the way around back to the front door of the place, and it's funny driving around now, how small that parking lot is, because I parked there, and I looked at the old call center and I thought, how the fuck did we ever park here? How the fuck did we ever do anything? And like get in there, it's such a small parking lot,

such a small area for business. It seems like a nightmare now looking at it. Like if you, tomorrow I was like, I need to open a call center. I would not pick that up. Well, I don't know if you remember, but part of why we moved from that call center space was because a new tenant moved in that was a,

they cleaned up like floods or some shit. Oh yeah, yeah. And they, the landlord gave them like half of our spaces. And they wouldn't let us park there anymore. And we just like lost a bunch of our spaces and we had to, that was not tenable for us. So Rist had an urn of Ristuth. Tell us how to move. Yeah. Wow. But it's been a long time since I've been down there in that area. It's like, oh, the gas

station still here. It's a different different brand gas. McDonald's still there. Catharsth parlor still there. McDonald's still there. I didn't see Catharsth parlor. I presume they're still there. Yeah. I saw out. Happy taco still there. No, they're there. I didn't see Cafe Farler. I presume they're still there. Yeah. I saw Happy Taka still there. No, they're not. I drove by outhouse. They're still, they're building still over there. Oh, Saturday, no one was there.

Yeah. But yeah, it's just wild to drive back and like, think about all that stuff. I was like, I drive you in. I was like, oh, that's where sticker car was. And it's gone now. It's gone. It's out there anymore. But I don't know who's in that space now.

Like there's no sign on the door. Maybe it's empty, I don't know. But the building itself is still there and looks identical to how it looked back in the late 90s. It's entirely unchanged. That's why. No one has touched it.

Inside there is an office inside of a warehouse with a shitty drop ceiling. Man, talk about it. It's not even a pretty location. There's nothing nice about it at all, but then you go in and you work. It's like, man, I wish I had a window. But even if you had a window, what the fuck you be looking at? We used to, I remember there was like woods around it and we used to play, you, Bernie and I used to play paintball on those woods a little bit and I was always scared we were

going to find a dead body. Yeah. It was a kind of place where you would definitely find a dumped body or something? Yeah, yeah. Over there. I don't think that train runs there anymore. I remember a couple times, like the train,

there's train tracks, their trains would run every now and then, but I think that's all unused now at this point. I could be wrong. Flipnodics, shady grove, Schlatsky. Now you're naming places that used to be here? Here on Food2. Yeah, you guys were pointing out that used to be here. One, two, two. Yeah, you guys were pointing out Romeo's. Oh, Romeo's there.

It's Juliet's now, right? Yeah, Romeo changed the Juliet. What do I think is quite clever, honestly. What else? He used to be over here. There's a bunch of places in the interim that are these places that you guys frequented, like when you're at. Yeah, I'm excited.

Shady Grove, we'd go to all the time. Oh, we Shady Grove. It was a restaurant, an Austin restaurant, and it had the best fringes on Earth. Oh, yeah. Yeah, french fries and rings, to the other. Yeah, you know, most people don't know what that is. Really?

Yeah, had a whole conversation about fringes and people were like, I don't know what that is. You're not living. That's not saying. I have to this day, I still think about the fucking onion rings at Shady Grove. They were so flaky and so fucking good. They were good.

I was a good ass restaurant. It was also, it was owned by the same people who own chouis. Chouis, yeah. It was like, why would you use like southern food kind of, but not really? I don't like Texasy kind of. They had like, they had a thing called Airstream Chili that was really good, I always get.

It was like decorated, almost like a, like a lodge in the woods. Yeah, kind of like pictures of cowboys and Lots of snow in your career, yeah, but they got a lot of these places still here like you guys are pointing out green mosquito, right? I don't know how they're still I don't know why they're still here Yeah, it wasn't good then I can't imagine it's getting them. I had it not to probably like a year or two ago Yeah You've ever eaten green mosquito you've eaten ironworks and if you've ever eaten green miski, you've eaten ironworks. And if you've ever eaten ironworks, you've eaten green miski.

It's pretty close. It's the same fucking quality. Pretty close, yeah. But their chewies is still down here. Is that, that's like a thing, right? Like, people give a fuck about chewies. Not anymore. Oh, really?

I don't think, I don't think people in Austin care about chewies anymore. I don't, it's like a local thing. Is that what you think is what? They started here. Yeah, chewies is local. Yeah. And then they sold to a, like like a big company and then they became

nationwide. And they changed the mint. They reduced the menu, which I think caused a lot of problems. Yeah. We're pretty upset about it. And there's been I, you always hear people bitch about quality going down. I can't, I don't know. Chewies was never the best Mexican restaurant in Austin. Yeah. They, they, they had expanded for a bit. They were a small chain before they sold. Like I know, they were a couple around town here. Yeah, they were a couple in Houston. Just like a small chain before they sold. Like I know they were around town here. They were a couple in Houston. Just like a small regional change getting started. And now they're much bigger. I haven't been there in probably 20 years. The last time I looked at their website,

they had like 60 something locations. I feel like yeah. They like exploded in the like 2014. They did innovate in the field of creamy jalapeno. Yeah, shit. Like jalapeno ranch, I will give them that. Yeah, I'll tell you what Chewy's had and why we all went to Chewy's so much

is they would have like a fucking happy hour and they had this bar area that was like where you would go to wait to get your table because you know, back in the day, there were like eight places to eat in Austin and that was one of them. So it was always a line. It was brutal to try to get a Chewy's

but you would sit in the, in the happy hour area in like a booth, and they had free salsa bar. And chuey's has the best salsa. It was good. It's really good, and you just eat it for free. And you get filled, you buy two beers, and then fill up on chips in salsa, and then just leave.

Hell yeah. We used to do that a lot. Yeah, for sure. Those chips were always super greasy. Like, yeah. Sal salty and greasy, man. You'd line the basket with that paper, and then by the time you were done, like the paper was transparent

from like all the grease that had like dripped through. You rub it in your hair and you use it again. But I never understood that they had like a weird Elvis Presley fixation. Yeah, they have the Elvis Presley Memorial combo number one is like that's their main. Have you never been a chewy? No, I've never been to Chouys. Oh, yeah, it's like, I don't even remember what it is.

It's like a shrine to Elvis in the beginning. Yeah, this is Shrine Elvis in there. Right behind a glass case and shit, yeah. And Chouys? Yeah, I don't get it. I don't know. I think it was just like a quirky thing, right? Like whenever they started, like, oh,

we're going, our thing's going to be Elvis. Oh, maybe the owners love Elvis or something. You know, this is probably in the 70s. Yeah. So, that's also, you know what, You know this is probably in the 70s. Yeah, so That's also you know what Chewies is famous for Chewies is famous for oh You're right. I forgot about that. Chewies is where the Bush girls got caught drinking underage. That was Chewies Yeah, it was this one right over here on part three. That's the famous Chewies when G. W. Was president that was awesome. Yeah, that was so cool. What a cool thing. That was juic. That was when GW was president. That was awesome. Yeah. That was so cool.

What a cool thing. That was so cool. There is, they lived over by a friend of ours. I don't know if you ever knew that. I had no idea. Over off of like Red River, just north of campus. I don't remember what the name of the apartment complex is, but I would go hang out over there

and you'd always see like a couple of dudes and suits just sitting in a car outside. Really? Yeah, I'd be like, oh, okay, got it. That's great. Did they go to UT? Yeah. Oh, that makes sense that they were drinking at Chewie's,

and it's all coming together. All the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit. I'm really getting it. I think if you go to UT, there's probably a lot of conversation especially back then of like, hey, we're underage, where can we go drink? And people go, oh, there's probably a lot of conversation, especially back then, of like, hey, we're underage, where can we go drink? And people go, oh, I got a list for you. Where can't you get underage in Austin,

the 90s and early 2000s? When I moved to Austin, people, I moved to Austin, I first came, I guess I moved to the area in 94, but when I moved to Austin full time, it was 97, I guess, or 98, people were still driving with beers as an accepted practice. I remember the city starting to crack down

when we were working at the call center and people bitching and being complaining, but I can't fucking drive around with a beer in my lap anymore. Eric shaking his head, but the open container law had only recently passed before that. Yeah, yeah. That's the same thing with cell phones out here.

Like, by the time I moved out here, it had already been banned for a decade plus, and they moved out here, and it's like, oh yeah, they just banned that. And it's like, they just banned it. And they're like, yeah, but everyone just does it. It's like, oh, I can tell by how long I have to sit at a green light every time.

Wow. Not a practice I can don't, by the way. I just like just for historical record. Yeah. So the open container law and then the cell phone thing, were people like smoking inside and nobody gave a fuck? Like it was just like that all the time? Like bars and stuff.

Yeah. That didn't pass till the mid 2000s, early 2000s. Yeah, I remember like you would go out and it's like whenever you got home, you would definitely take all your clothes off and like set it aside or immediately wash, put it in the washing machine because it would just leak a smoke. And it was just like that everywhere. Yeah. The flip notics, which was the first coffee shop I went to in Austin, used to be up in

the hill right over there. Yeah, I Think it's a daily juice now or something maybe It I remember my first wife She was she smoked like a chimney and we were in there drinking coffee one time and somebody came in and asked her to put her cigarette out And she was like what are you talking about? I remember like the guy got a little aggressive and I was like I might have to fight some dude over her inability to put her cigarette out and she was like, what are you talking about? I remember like, the guy got a little aggressive and I was like, am I gonna have to fight some dude over her inability to put out a cigarette?

But then it was like just because people could smoke then, still. It's wild to think about. I had kind of hoped that we were going to record over at the Batalka Garden, because I was gonna bring this up and I'm gonna bring it up anyway. I'm sure you're gonna get in here.

Please do. When I was a kid, you know, I was born in Austin and my parents used to take me to the Botanical Gardens all the time when I was a little kid and my mom has like a giant photo album filled with photos of me like two or three years old just running around the Botanical Garden. Do you know like different locations all over and I should show you something. It'd be funny to like try to recreate them now. Can we recreate baby Gus in the locations?

Yeah, yeah. A lot of them are still there. That'd be a great photo essay. Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. I'll talk to a, I'll see if I can find it. I gotta dig those photos out. Talk to a wester camera, and I bet we can make a T-shirt.

I really do it, yeah. Yeah, that'd be cool. Half and half thing, that's a good idea. Yeah, that's a lot of fun. Some of my like old early memories are like stomping around the battalca gardens here or at like the Hancock Center, the way it used to be before they changed it.

What does that mean? Like, it used to be different. They used to have big potted plants and kind of an outdoor area, but they changed that back in the 80s. That was wherever it go. Okay. Just like,

those pictures you could not recreate because Hancock doesn't look that way anymore. But Batalc Garden, a lot of the structures are still there. That's really largely untouched. And I feel like, we were kind of alluded to this earlier. I feel like the Batalco Garden, a lot, all of the structures are still there. That's really largely on touch. And I feel like the Batalco Garden, we were kind of alluded to this earlier. I feel like the Batalco Garden is largely overlooked in town.

Yeah, I think it's a beautiful space. It's right across from Zilker. Everyone goes over to Zilker to hang out. But the Batalco Garden is like, right there. I would, given the choice, I'd much rather go to the Batalco Garden and just like sit around there. They have the most beautiful Rose Garden. And they have the most beautiful, beautiful like I guess like Asian Garden area

It's Jack Boyce Garden with coi fish and stuff. It's just it's fucking it's it's adorable. It's where I was yeah, it's right I got married are you serious? Yeah Really yeah at the botanical garden. It was just really just for photos. Did you guys just show up and do it like yeah? And Gus was that Gus showed up and he signed paperwork and took the photos. That's awesome. Yeah, it was great. It's such a cool.

It's a great place. It's a really cool place. I take my parents from there in town, like my parents love it. I think it's a really cool spot. To me, it's a very like Austin touristy kind of thing that tourists don't go to. But man, it's a very cool walk and they have a dinosaur and it's pretty neat.

Do you think it's like this everywhere? I was downtown a lot this weekend because I went to a comedy show and then I went to Honk TX that brass band thing I was telling you guys about. And so I was in and around the city all weekend. And I was wondering, does it feel like this in every big city where if you're downtown, you're just automatically assumed to be a tourist and you have to convince people you're from you live here? Is that really your case here? I feel like well.

Dude, I went to Taco Deli the other day, the one, there's one at like fourth and whatever. And they're like, I'm wearing a town from and it's like I've lived here for 30 years. Well, that's because who the fuck? Everywhere. Who the fuck goes to the Taco Deli downtown? I think also there were a lot of events going on.

Yeah, this past weekend. This past weekend, this past month. Yeah. This past 20 years. Dude, it's like we had like the CMAs or whatever. Here comes Count Andy. Here comes the audio texture. The audio texture you've been waiting for.

We had the CMAs, we had NASCAR, we had a Southby. We had. Had Noto GP. Yeah, we had a lot. There's Moto GPs next week actually. Yeah, all right around here though. Yep, week yeah yeah that's awesome that's like every week there's a music festival or something yep i mean that doesn't really surprised me it's mostly what it's like to like if

you're in sandiego and you're in gas lamp like it was soon yeah like if i lit when i move back to sandiego i'm not gonna go to gas lamp for breakfast i'm not a fucking psycho that's not that's nuts. That's the tourist area.

But has it always been designated as the tourist area? Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't know. No, no, no, no. In the 90s, you didn't go down there or you got super stabbed. I just, I feel, well, that was never a problem in Austin, but I just feel like there were places that you could go.

And then now, if you go there, it's a different, it's a whole different world. Oh, for sure. Yeah, definitely. I think that there's San Diego went through what Austin's going through now, but in like the 90s where everyone moved there and everything boomed. And then there were parts that you didn't like go to. Everyone moved out of downtown and into like the suburbs, or whatever. And then all of the downtown got, got like renovated. And now it's all the tourist area, and so everyone's just assumed to be a tourist. Like that, it's the same thing here. I built a pedestrian bridge over that fucking railroad track

outside the convention center. Why won't they build a pedestrian bridge at Q2 stadium so I can park and walk across? Gus, I don't fucking know. It is the waiting for that train at Comic Con, the worst. It's fucking worse. It's so long and you just stand there with a bunch of people dressed like Boba Fett. Yeah.

The worst. Comic Con's a mess. It really is. That's a lot of people. You miss it? No. We went back and you were there when 2019. Yep.

We did a couple of small events, you know and just some like interview stuff and that was fine That in that Respect I missed a little bit of it But like the going and working the booth and setting up and being in there for five or six days straight No, that I do not miss but small stuff. Yeah, sure. Why not what do you miss? just like Seeing all the people who are like excited about stuff. Yeah, I get that. Then even you know, it's kind of cheesy and get a lot of the

shit online, but like some of the stuff that people sell like you don't see otherwise like what is it? Super seven? Is that them? You know, I know they've got a website, but like seeing some of the like limited small stuff they make, I think they do a really good job. There is an enthusiasm to those things that can't be faked. Yeah, I will say. That's what honk to ATX, honk to TX this weekend was like. You just like, it's an event for these people

that they get to do once a year that doesn't make any money, but they're just so fucking into it and so excited. Like, I don't really care about that kind of music. I just go to watch them have fun. And then, like the, I ran into a roostee fan there, by the way. Oh, really? Who says hi?

Oh, that's cool. Hey, hey, hi. What's up? Limergo was there right he's in Limerga. Oh really? Oh hell yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's really good. They're really good. They're awesome. They uh, that's the uh, that's the Austin FC Supporter section band. Yeah. Yeah. They do all the chance and everything and it's really cool. There was a band from a band It was like three high school kids from Pittsburgh who I think they were called like big blitz or blitz band or something, but they were so fucking good. It was a drummer and two saxophones.

And you would not think that that sound would fill out, but it does. And at one point, one of the kids played two saxophones at once. That's pretty cool. All of them time. And I was just like, you just watched it some kid who's maybe 19 playing a big and a little saxophone at the same time for like three minutes and you're just like, man, there

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Um, just to look around, just to like think back over the last 20 years and I guess longer than that, but how things have changed. That was, that was my weekend. And I watched physical 100. I feel like, I'll tell you a little thing. I feel like I am the more, especially as we've gotten older, maybe this was not the case previously, but I would say the last few years it's been.

I feel like I am more sentimental and nostalgic than the other founders. And so this weekend on Saturday, I was about to send the text to say happy anniversary to everybody, and then I held on, I thought, you know what, I'm text to say happy anniversary to everybody, and then I held on, I thought, you know what, I'm gonna let somebody else send that text, and then I'll respond.

Oh yeah. And then at about 11 a.m., I couldn't wait any more. So he's nobody's sitting the text, and I finally had to send it. And then we had the lovely conversation. Yeah, you said that man. I was like, huh, I thought you sent it.

I did, I couldn't wait any longer. You guys didn't give a fuck. You know me, come on. Yeah, Gus was gonna reach out. I'm so sentimental. In my own way, you know, privately, that's why I drove down to the old place. Yeah, that's why I drove down to the old place.

I look at it. There's sentiment there. For sure. But that's like for me. Yes, yeah. Yeah, which is fine. I think that's fair. I have sentiment for things too, not necessarily for this, but like for things.. I think that's fair. I have sentiment for things too, not necessarily for this,

but like for things, and I think that's nice. I don't know if there's anything wrong with that, right? No, and there shouldn't be. Gus and I were lucky enough to get to be a part of history. We created, we helped create a company. Most companies, the vast majority of companies don't last 20 years.

No. Then you take production companies into consideration. The vast majority of production companies don't last three years. And then the fall off is at five. And then by the time you get to 10, we're talking like, you got like a 5% chance. The fact that we were lucky enough,

and in the right place, in the right time, and had the right combination of talent or drive, or more driving than talent. Definitely, no, 100%. Because as you, I think you'll learn, especially if you work and create, in a creative medium, the older you get, talent is everywhere.

It is not like everybody thinks like, oh, I just don't have the talent to do that thing. Talent is the X factor. It's really not. It's drive and determination. We don't do it. Everybody's got, and a wealth of talent, whether they've realized it or whether they found out where it exists in them, or not, it's super easy.

It really is. It's just going to be, you have to stick with me. It's going to be a little bit of a journey to get there. But I watched Physical 100 this past weekend, which was a, you know, Netflix show about like, finding, what do they call it, like the perfect physique or something, right? Fuck it off. And it's like a bunch of like, really in-shape muscular people doing these different competitions to see, you know, who can,

who's the ultimate? Of note, Olympians, like, people that are at the top of their field. Olympians, like, strongmen, all kinds of stuff. And my takeaway from that in the end was that it's not necessarily about who's the strongest or the most capable, although that is very important. A lot of it was the mental game. Yeah, a lot of it was people saying like,

I looked over at this other competitor and they did not look faced. They looked really common collected and then that made me start to wave out in my own conviction. And I think that's a lot of it, like playing into what you're not tying into what you're saying, is like just having the determination and the drive and be like, I'm gonna do this thing and then applying yourself and doing it and sticking with it and not looking around and be like, oh these other people are better than me. Just do your thing, stick to you and focus on what you're

doing and you know, you can do a lot more than you think. You know, I think people will be impressed by that. Yeah. I was just looking over my shoulder here, while you're talking about reminiscing and the past 20 years. Not a single one of the buildings in the skyline was here. No, when we moved here.

Like, you could not see any of those buildings. When peteries went up, this peteries right here that you hate, went up none of these buildings. From coal, like including coal right in front of this, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, you can see the top of the monarch, even that wasn't there, but that was one of the first. That was like early 2000s?

Yeah, like to that, yeah. Oh, six maybe? Yeah, maybe somewhere around there. But that's it, man, none of these other buildings. And then what are we looking at? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, probably 11 buildings within our island right now. Yeah, zero of them.

And now the McDonald's here is gone to Lamar and Park Springs RIP. Right right next to Peter Pan Minigolf where we filmed hardcore Minigolf. Yeah. Which was a fun day. I think two days fun two days one one day one day. I can't remember. I think I mentioned it before but this was the McDonald's I was I was here for some reason when you called me and said that those people wanted to run banner ads on a glee internet way back in the day. Oh really? Yeah, like you were at that McDonald's? I had gone to Barton Springs for the day

and then I was like taking off and I was like, I'm gonna get something to drink here at the McDonald's like a soda or ice cream or something. I stopped in this McDonald's and you called me on my cell phone and I was standing in that McDonald's when I found out for the first time that we were gonna get paid for putting stuff on the internet. I wanna find that check, I still have it at home.

I never cashed it. It was $16 to the blah, blah network. If you can find it and take a picture, I'd love to post that. I probably can. We can block out pertinent info or whatever, but like, I doubt there's any other information. We did check would be written to Jeff think anyway.

Oh, wow. Dude, that's crazy. I know the bag that it's in and I think it might be in storage, so I'll look for it. See, that's why you don't need a storage unit to keep in your house, you know, and then you don't have to worry about it. Yeah.

And if I can joke on me. And then you get trapped inside the storage complex and then you can't get out and you have to call people. It's sucker. And then right down here, right down Lamar, it's a little further south from here. It's the Draft House, South Lamar. Yeah. Which I don't remember when they opened right down Lamar, it's a little further south from here, it's the Draft House, South Lamar. Yeah.

Which, I don't remember when they opened the South Lamar Draft House, but even that is radically different than what it looked like before. Yeah. It was a, it's not at all the same. There was like a little shopping center in the area. There was like a vintage guitar place.

Yeah, it was like a big, it was like three corners of a square of one story building. Yeah. And it was like, it was like a big, it was like three corners of a square of one story building. Yeah. And it was like, it was an alien scooter. There was the new life bookstore that was like religious books. There was a Thunder Cloud sub in the parking lot. Thunder Cloud sub in the, in like one of those little stamp pop up buildings.

Yeah. There was a HB and then a ton of like, the whole right side of it was just like, there was like little vintage shop back there, little vintage shop and like, yeah. But yeah, and then eventually the high balls took over if you were facing it, the left side. Yeah.

And then it was there for a long time and then they just tore the whole thing down. Well, most, it tore 95% of the thing down and then rebuilt it into what it is today, which is just so incredibly different, which it's a much better use of space. There was so much parking lot before and so little actual business in there.

Yeah, and that they've managed to keep the movie, make the movie theater that was there better, add seven restaurants, including a Shake Shack, and then I don't know, 300 apartments on top for people to live. And there's still, in the space of a fucking a hottest shit Texas parking lot. Yeah, and there's still plenty of parking. Like I never dread going to that theater.

Cause I never have to buy for a while. Well, they built the garage now. Exactly. It was actually kind of shitty back in when it was a huge parking lot. Mm hmm. It was actually difficult to park. And then the secret was to park behind the the draft house. Yeah. You go around because everyone would try to park out front. You just drive around back and park right there. It's plenty of parking. It's by the way, the secret for going to the Alamo up on Anderson to still. Yeah, yeah, by the way, ever go there and you get to the park behind. Absolutely. That's a huge parking lot. It's like you make it stab that 11 o'clock

at night when you come to your theater. But if you do in the daytime, you'll be safe. You're good. You're good. But that, you know, you know, you joke about that. It's really not that bad. Austin's always been a very say that all the bodies are pulling out of town like that's just that's that's not anyone getting say that to the do you think I shot in the face in his car dude it's not wild compared to other major cities it's not that bad you're right it used to be way less but even now even with the numbers going up it it's still not bad at all. Did you see that I was driving yesterday, going to my buddy, raise place, different, right?

And there were so many state troopers pulling people over on the highways. I read about that yesterday. It was insane. Like, when I saw two, I went, wow, that's a lot. I saw at least 10 more. Just pulled over. Apparently the governor or maybe the mayor, okay, the state troopers come in to like do,

like road enforcement. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think it's an invitation of Mayor Watson, yeah. Yeah. Because of the understaffing at the APD and also... What has been co-auteless and I am not weighing in, one way or the other, I'm not trying to push off anybody,

but I'll piss them off. What Redd says is... Shit to me. The cops are quiet quitting. You read story, I read a story on Reddit this morning about a guy who can work anymore, man, who was saying he has a local business, which I guess must be a liquor store. Oh, yeah, I did.

I did. And APD shut up and just took a statement and left. And even any mail addressed, yeah. I think, yeah, there's a try to piss off APD. I mind. There's a, you know, they do have the highest budget they've ever had. Uh huh. There is ongoing negotiations between the city

and the police department, which is causing some hurt feelings. Hot data, we're a gag sweater. Yeah, damn. I was, I was really impressed that you showed up with that when you got out of your car. And I thought, I suppose we got 91 to that. I put pants on and I thought maybe this is gonna be a big issue to make sure that you're short. We had so many conversations about how I was all in the food court specifically

How about not where the first time of year to buy that? Yeah, no, I think it's really cool. Is your back sweaty? Yeah, is it so gross? Yeah, I'm gonna take a shower when I go It's like you rode a bike I take my wedding photos today or my English photos after this oh man God I'll leave here have a quick little trip to the dentist to get some drill and done, and then straight to the... Jesus, fuck it. You're the Grackle, so out.

It's a crack attack. Come here for RTX, be the Grackle. Oh, that's right. July 7th or 9th, we'll be doing a live anima. So we've been talking more about doing live anima stuff. And again, this isn't for people to weigh in on. Here's how you do it. Not what I'm looking for.

What are you looking for? I'm not looking for anything. Okay. In fact, it is being clear. I am looking at like, how can we do this, what can we do, and figuring it out in the best way that works for us. And I think we have some good ideas. And I think we've like, we just have to do it.

I think we have to find the time to do it. I think that's it. Yeah, I think we can put the budget into making it work, but we have to figure out if we do it on the back of something, or if we just go to Milwaukee and be like, we did a convention here one time, like, yeah, you know what I mean? I think going to old places that you guys have been will be like a lot of fun and then just doing a small engagement live show

What if we go to someplace we've never been to like Milwaukee? I mean we can I've never been to Milwaukee. I mean either I love the guy's gonna go if we're gonna do an animal on the road We got it Milwaukee's got me the first stop We got a build memories in a new place so that we can go back and visit it later and then we'll try to do this. We can try to do this right into the center of the country. Yeah, kind of, not quite.

Anarchy, Milwaukee, anything. We're here, baby. I think it would be a lot of fun to do. We've got to do some LeBron and Shirley stuff. Oh, is he doing like a tour? I think it would be fun to do. He'll do it. I'm more of a squeaky type than a Lenny type,

but that's's yeah, they're both dead. Yeah. Is everybody dead, huh? I think so probably. Penational die, right? Yeah, it's been different a while. I do think that traveling together and doing it very like small and just going to a place would be like a lot of fun. Yeah, I was telling Eric, I went to a comedy podcast show this weekend. How could you? At a place called, for research. At a place called The Creek in the Cave, which used to be a bar called Baracuda and Red Seven.

Okay, Red Seven, I know where that is. I know where she's talking about it. It, and it was for this podcast called R U Garbage, which is a couple of standup comedians from Philly. And that's a very Philly centric. And they did such a good job, and it was so bare bones and easy, because it's just, the whole point of, and they did such a good job, and it was so bare bones and easy, because it's just the whole point of

there is the interaction between the hosts, and they just fucking nailed it, and it was great, and they had good audience interaction. Their podcast is built off, well, in this instance, like audience sends in questions ahead of time, and then it was great, it was awesome. And it really made me, like, it was very different from what we would do,

because they were also doing 30-minute stand-up routines. Oh, they're funny. Yeah, they're funny. They're fucking very funny, actually. Best stand-up show I've seen in Austin since I've started to see a ton of stand-up shows. Oh, wow, that's really cool. Yeah, high praise. Yeah, no, for sure.

But anyway, it just really lit a fire under me to want to do this with you. Okay. Guys, at some point. I think we just have to find the right place and then sort of Not get a ton of involvement No, that is you know what I mean. We just have to go and do it. Yeah And then it'd be like where were you guys on Thursday and Friday and it's like Milwaukee

Man, I'll tell you what I didn't do watch a blues game. Oh, we guess it's a brew crew. Yeah I I'll tell you what I didn't do. We watch a blues game. Oh, we go see the brew crew. Yeah. I did not go to the kite festival in the Silver Park because I tried to at about 10 a.m. on Saturday. And the traffic was backed up north of the city. Are you serious? Wow. Emily and I were in line for,

we were in traffic for over an hour. Eventually we quit. we gave up, when Aiden at a restaurant over, we were quite, we were very loud about it, actually. Aiden a little restaurant and then went and got some bird shit at Wild Birds Unlimited, which my home went from home, shout out to the birds, and got some new feeders for the backyard.

Nice. I just had to fucking throw in the towel. I just like, you couldn't get there with a car. I've never been, so I guess it's really popular. I hadn't been since Millie was in a stroller probably. And it is apparently very fun. It looked like, it looked like trying to go see the trail lights. It was that crowded.

Wow. I'd friends that went to the Renaissance fair, you guys ever go to the Renaissance fair? No, but Millie went a couple of times, she loved it. Yeah, I hear good things. I've never been, we filmed some of blood fest out there at that location. That's the one time I've ever been.

It seems like a cool thing. It's so not my speed that I don't think I would enjoy myself. Is that sure would for us? Yeah, I don't think I would enjoy it either, but Emily and Millie both insisted I would. Really? It's like I can get a big turkey leg anywhere.

Can you? And then you like, is it just me or, is it just me or like, you eat a big turkey leg and then you're like, you have like three bites and you're like, well, that was, that was it. Yeah, well, yeah, you don't get a big turkey leg. Yeah, I don't know what else you would go for. Yeah, I don't.

Watch the falcon here, I guess. I mean, I would be an, I am a falcon fan, so I guess that I would be. I think it's just for drinking me and shit, you know what I mean? And you're not gonna be a bad guy. You guys drive 50 minutes out of control. That's so far. And you have to go early. Because if you? And you're not doing that. You guys drive 50 minutes out of control. So far. And you have to go early.

Yeah. Because if you wait, you're like, yeah, we'll go around one. It's like, no, you fucking won't. There's just like a wait to get into the rest of the race. Then it's a kite festival situation. Yeah, man. Damn, dude. If you're in the Anma community and you went to the kite festival this weekend, drop us

a line and let me know how it was. Yeah. It's not really wanted to go. It was so bummed. Tell us what your favorite kite was. Who wanted a kite competition? Dude, it's you, it's cool. I don't know to walk through a heart.

There's strings, a thousand kites in the air of different sizes and shapes, and that's a neat experience. You think they had neat dogs? It's fun to be a monk. Oh, that'd be fucking cool. Yeah, right. I guarantee you they had dogs fun and kites. Yeah, guarantee you.

That would be sick. It's a cool dog and a whole family. Okay, so we you they had dogs fun. Yeah, guarantee you have a cool dog. Oh, yeah, okay So we should talk about Carpenter coffee is what it's called apparently hot L. Yeah, okay So we branded well, I mean that's the branding on the cup that they gave us so probably Fuck the stamp came off on my hands. Oh, no We got into Carpenter coffee parked easy walked, easy, walked right in. So some thought I was a new bird. Yep, no one was there, so we walked right in,

and it was very easy, and apparently there were a very overwhelmed staff of one. At an ice coffee, didn't they? Making a cappuccino, out of ice coffee, and then a dog was incredibly friendly to us. It was also incredibly fast. Yeah, super fat, little cute dog came over, wanted to be friends, we were friends.

We were friends for we were friends. We were friends for a few minutes. And then they walked over to where everyone else was sitting and got fucking pissed. Yeah. So that was not like. So that's cool. That was us, which is nice.

What do you think about the coffee? Jeff, you already said that it's, you know, this is what you prefer, but you got, you got a hot coffee. I had to get a hot coffee because they were out of iced coffee for no reason um well Some morning it's gonna be 90 degrees today. Well hang on. I if we head on over to pretty cute coffee. Yeah, they just opened Do you think our the our

Interesting part parking still good. Yeah, he goes. I remember you guys. Come on in We had laughs Yeah, I was like I'd love to let you guys back in but a policy's a policy That's right that guy seemed like a real rules guy. Yeah. So what would you rate this coffee? What do you think? This coffee's good, it's solid.

It's not like the best in the world, but it's not bad. I would drink it again. It's like an eight. I give it a nine. Yeah, I'm right around an eight. I think it's a, I think it was a fine cup of coffee. Here's what I will say.

It's so fucking strong, I'm flying right now. I am, I had a cup of coffee this morning. and then I'm like, oh, this is gonna get a cup of coffee for Anma. I Want to run back to the office will race right now. I'm You think 42 miles an hour was fast on your bike Man, it feels like it's taking everything in me right now. If I'm chatted this episode, I'm sorry. It's like everything in me right now, to sit still, it is so hard. Yeah, I'm vibrant in that now.

Woo, so I would recommend this place though. Like, there's the thing, there's a lot of stuff in this area that I would never come down for. Like the Peter Pan golf is cool. Like the McDonald's. The pizza potted. I did his way better. Oh, yeah.

The pizza potted's fucking great. You gotta check out the pizza potted. Okay, like the McDonald's. The blinded is way better. Oh, yeah. The pigeon puss fucking great. You gotta check out pigeon putt. Okay. Uh, uh, uh, uh, McDonald's resting piece. Uh, but like this is peteries and they have like, there's stuff down here. It's a cool little area. I dry by it all the time.

Tons of restaurants. Yeah. This is a great spot. If you're staying in Austin downtown, it's a lot easier to get to if you rent a little scooter and come down or ride a bike. Or you're staying at the hotel or whatever. That to me is what this stuff is for.

Yeah, if you're not from Austin, the rub is, if you live south of the river, you don't like to go north of the river. And if you live north of the river, it's inconvenient to go south of the river. We all live north of the river. This is south of, just south of the river. So it's just, it adds like 30 minutes to every. If you have to cross there, it's a choke point. You can go to a bridge, it's fucking traffic.

Went to my buddy race place yesterday and he'll have south of the river. And he's like, man, I'm sorry, you had to come so far. I'm like, it was 22 minutes to get here. I think I'm gonna be all right. And I was on the freeway the whole time. You're good. It's kind of like how I assume when people are in LA

and they're like, burbank. Yeah, yes. Eight, That's four miles away. It's maybe two hours to get there. It's definitely that. Austin just has that. But everything's 25 minutes in Austin. Yeah. Yeah. It's good estimate. I mean, I'd go up to Round Rock with my wife on the weekend and I just kept going, oh, it's so far, 23 minutes. It's like, what's the same? They're fucking same all the traffic. It's always traffic on 35 up around. It's the worst. Um, now that we've reviewed the coffee and all of that, checking all the boxes.

Yeah, I'm checking them, baby. Uh, here's the anarchy me anything segment of our favorite new segment of Anma. It is. Third incarnation. People will prompt and ask us really anything. Mainly, we send it around the financial crisis.

Yeah, really, it's somebody asked, hey, any other world events that you guys don't talk about? No, I don't want to get into that. Sarah sent a question. Does Gus and or Jeff have a favorite employee, Pastor President? Me. That's not where I thought that question was gonna go. Me, obviously. Jeff.

Yeah, I think the best employee, I'll be honest. I've said this before, so this is, just me repeating, should I've already said in the past, I think the best employee, I think the best hire in the history of Ruchertitas Patrick Sallesar. Oh, I absolutely agree with that. Yeah, 100%. There have been some phenomenal people that have worked in that company

uh... and then still do but patrick sales are has been uh... he has been a fucking grand slam since day one yeah he's uh... my boss and he hired me and i don't i don't know that i could have done what I did and the department for like broadcast and everything could have done what they did without Patrick. He is like a beacon of hope. And like we are doing this, here's what you drive toward.

He's so good at that. He is so easy to work with. He's, that's great. But it is kind of hard because there have been so many talented people over the years, so many fun, good, awesome people that we've had the fortune of working with. Yeah, I would be, it would take hours to name them.

Remiss to name anyone for fear of forgetting anyone else. Right. Which is my big fear. Yeah. But I'll agree Patrick is great. Gun to my head, I'm saying Patrick Salazar. It's a good pick. Pick him too. He's great. Gun to my head, I'm saying Patrick's cells are. It's a good pick. Pick him too.

He's great. It's not much a Patrick. Yeah. Have a question from Michael. Ever had moments in your careers where that were super sketchy or made you feel like you were in danger. Anything jumped to mind, thinking you were in danger, maybe convention or yeah. I don't know if it's what you're thinking of. One time, we were doing an event up in Dallas.

And I think you're thinking of? That was one of them. I did an event in Dallas. I think it was ACON. It could be wrong. And since it was in Dallas, we just filled up a U-Haul. Yeah, it was filled up a U-Haul with a bunch of merch and drove it up there.

And we were going to use that to supply our booth. And so we got up there and we're like, you know, we're all tired, we'll just, you know, park the U-Haul and we'll get to, you know, we'll set up the booth tomorrow. We, you know, go to unload the U-Haul the next morning and someone has cut the lock and just taken everything out of the back of the U-Haul. God. And we're like, shit, we have nothing. So we're like, what were we in Dallas?

So we'll just call our fulfillment house in Austin and have them just send a bunch of stuff up to us to sell. So trying to work out the logistics of all this and it's like, oh, they can put all the stuff on the Greyhound bus. And then we'll just go down to the bus station in Dallas and get all of our stuff that way. I guess it's the service they do.

So me and Jeff go down to the the Greyhound bus station. Never again will I go to that. In Dallas to get all of our boxes of stuff. That was a little scary. That was, that was, that was, some people were a little confrontational there. Really? Do you remember the dude?

Yes, I do. That was a dude who worked there. The guy we had to interact with, who was, maybe I'm remembering him being bigger and scarier than he was but I my memory is he was about six three six four Had this incredibly deep voice very intimidating a lot of tattoos like neck I could yeah, which is less of a thing Yeah, I was gonna say 23 than it was like in 2004. I was a back then neck tattoos were boy That was a statement. Yeah, now everyone has a big of a deal now. We're gonna space tattoos and it's's not that big of a deal now. We have now we're in the post-molone era. Yeah, absolutely But uh he goes he's just like super intimidating and we're like he looks at a Gus when he goes

y'all red and blue and He has deep fucking voice like man voice and we're like yes, yes, sir and he goes like a videos and we're like thank you I think what he said was funny shit. Yeah I thought you were gonna talk about the time I used to do all the booking for events and stuff Oh, and I fucking hated it. Yeah, and Bernie was always like stop spending money Spend his little money's possible, which I get so I booked Gus and Bernie at a place in Toronto. It was Toronto. For an event. And then I get a call from Bernie that's like, what have you done to us?

And I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. And I wasn't there, so I don't know. But apparently that place was very, very sketchy because you guys both came back like, ashen. It was like, it wasn't a hostel. It was somewhere between a hostel and a hotel. Not that hostels are inherently bad. But it was like, it was definitely not a hostel. It was somewhere between a hostel and a hotel. Not that hostels are inherently bad. But it was definitely not a hotel. You walked in, it was almost like a condo, and

there was like a dude sitting at a desk and you're like, we're here to check in. He's like, okay, cool. Here's your key. He hands you like a house key. You go up, you take the elevator up to your place. And across the street from the building we were staying in was another building that looked like it was bombed out like all of the windows all of the windows were shattered and we were like that place is probably condemned they're probably about to tear that place down no like there were people in that building like watching TV and stuff. Oh my God. There were just signs in the lobby that were like handwritten and taped to the wall. And I wish I could tell you what they were,

but it was like, they were in every language, but English, which again, is not an inherently bad thing. And I'm not calling any specific language out. It was just everywhere. So maybe think it was like a stopping point for people who were maybe like on their way into the country or like fleeing somewhere else and maybe immigrating into Canada. It was like a very weird, it was just a very strange place to me. What? Yeah, I don't remember where it was, I don't remember anything else about it, other than the all the signs and the building across the street looking like a bomb had gone off in it.

And it wasn't like a hotel either. It was almost like a studio apartment. We walked into the room and there was like two beds in there side by side. We were sharing a room too. Thanks Jeff. You and I just sleep in the same bed. You used to thanks Jeff. Uh. We you and I you know you should we you know you should sleep in the same bed. You should sleep head to toe. Yeah. Uh yeah. It was uh it was uh it was uh it was a it was a weird place man.

I'll tell you what happened after that. Yeah. Bernie took away he he he revoked my booking travel privileges. I never he's like you can't do that anymore and I was like oh, I'm shocked. Oh no. I guess I'll have to do it now. No. Oh no. Don't do that anymore and I was like, oh, I'm shocked. Oh no, someone else will have to do it now. Oh no, oh no, don't do that to me. Oh, damn it Gus, I guess you get the responsibility now. Oh man, that's, I guess she's the blade, but Gus used to keep me doing it on purpose.

Oh, yeah, I knew it. I didn't really didn't, I just didn't, I just thought I was gonna make an admission here. Do it, oh I love it. So then I took over booking. One time I was mad at someone that we worked with. So normally I know, even before Ruchichi, I used to have a job where I traveled five days out of the week.

So I'd been traveling quite a bit. I know for the most flexibility and to be safe, typically you book directly with the airline. My cost a little bit more, but if something goes wrong, you can talk to them and change the ticket, right? You book through a third party, you can talk to them. It's kind of fucked up. One time, we worked with someone who had pissed me off.

I don't remember why, they had pissed me off. And then I needed to book them a trip somewhere. And I was like, I'm gonna book them the best trip possible. What? So I booked them, like, it was like, they had to go to LA. I booked them a trip that had like two stops on the way to LA, and I booked them through a third party company

And I picked a middle seat for them Knowing that they couldn't touch the reservation and nothing would be able to happen and so they had to take like an all-day trip to LA Like circling all around the United States in a middle seat to get there. That's fuck To get there that's Fuck I'm flying I'm flying to LA. Why is my layover in Charlotte? What the fuck yeah, I was that was really shitty, but they were they they did it. Yeah, okay I'm sure they did I don't remember what they did I'm sure they deserve it. I'm sure they did I wouldn't have done it if they had doesn't everybody deserve it at some point absolutely I Think that'll do it. they had. Does it, does it, everybody deserve it at some point? Absolutely.

I think that'll do it. What a note to end on, man. You can follow us at Anima Podcast on Instagram and on Twitter. You can see photos from the P Terry's sitting area that we are at near the Carpenter Hotel. You can check that out. Check out all the previous photos and everything. You can listen to these records. Jesus Christ. Oh, you come to RTX Meet a Greco. Yeah, yeah, seven through ninth. We're gonna be doing a live episode of Anima there

It should be a lot of fun. We'll have coffee and you know, you know, all the places we talk about Yeah, coffee at some of the plate go to all gimmicks come to this spot. It's a good. There's a yeah I mean if you're staying high shit to do per square mile Yeah, big time. There's a good, there's a, yeah. I mean, if you're staying high shit to do per square mile, there's a lot of stuff right around here. There's like a beer and cheese garden thing like right over here. There's like a little wine spot. It's pretty cool.

There's like a lot over here. Really recommended. If you know, we've got a sculpture garden, Barton Springs, Zilker Park, Chewy's where the, where the bush girls got caught under he's drinking, Luz Bodega, Juliet's good Italian restaurant. People love Terry Blacks, it's right over here. You can go direct. Terry Blacks, right, take people in from out of town that have never had barbecue.

There's that Mexican restaurant over here. Is it Mercado? What's it called? El Mercado. It's on first street. There's one right here on what it's called. It's on Barton Street, it's right across from the Palmer Event Center.

They've got Pina Rita's, which are Pinaina colada Mark. Oh, is that El Alma? El Alma. That's it. Yeah, yeah, that place for the good. Yeah, delicious. Very nice. I told about the same dude that owns El Chile and El Cholito Oh cool. I didn't know that well Thanks for listening to another episode of Anma anything You guys want to leave these folks with any thoughts parting wisdom Don't piss me off. We're all book you on a two-stop trip to LA. Oh my god. Yeah, be nice to your travel agent I got rtx austin dot confer tickets. So we'll see you guys soon. Bye Describe the show to a newcomer in a more familiar way. Do you like apples? Example together and trepid hosts

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