Speaker 1: All right, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: My name is Sandy, coming to us from the Windy City,
Speaker 2: the city with broad shoulders from Chicago.
Speaker 1: JB is with us today.
Speaker 3: Wait, city with broad shoulders. I've never heard that, neither
Speaker 3: of you never heard that before, Wendy City, I've heard
Speaker 3: a million times. What is the story behind broad shoulders,
Speaker 3: I've never heard.
Speaker 1: I don't. I just thought that was a slogan of Chicago.
Speaker 2: I just have heard it before, the city with broad shoulder,
Speaker 2: city broad shoulders.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe Amy, I mean, just made it up.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Sometimes that happens too. I think I
Speaker 2: know things, and it's really just things I've made up.
Speaker 4: Why is Chicago called a big shoulders you're close.
Speaker 1: Close? What does it say?
Speaker 4: It's called big shoulders just because it's a hard working city. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just as hard working class kind of city.
Speaker 1: It wasn't.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the elitist New York or the Hollywood LA.
Speaker 1: Or the techie Austin. Yeah, all right, so I've never
Speaker 1: heard that. I learned like I like learning stuff? Well,
Speaker 1: you like learning? I like learning stuff to trist you
Speaker 1: like learning?
Speaker 4: I mean it's when I feel like it, uh.
Speaker 1: JB. Telebody quickly. Why while you're up in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm just up here, uh for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: I just got in. Uh. I do some some work
Speaker 3: with these power sports industry consultants, Like that's motorcycles, ATVs, boats,
Speaker 3: wave runners, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Side by sides the big into that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually like one of the fastest growing segments
Speaker 3: in power sports. Probably the fasting is the fastest is
Speaker 3: those side by sides and so and Now that's a
Speaker 3: weird turn, but that's like these off road where it
Speaker 3: looks like you're in a cage and you go off
Speaker 3: roading and it's super safe and fun, and yeah, that's
Speaker 3: a huge thing. Now.
Speaker 2: I flipped one a couple of summers ago and broke
Speaker 2: and broke the frame.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, I didn't know it was a side by side.
Speaker 2: Been going too fast out of a turn and just
Speaker 2: kat got out front of me, me and did two
Speaker 2: flips and landed on the top.
Speaker 3: But that's that's the point of why it's so popular
Speaker 3: now because what one you're still here if that was
Speaker 3: that was a motorcycle accident, right, yeah, not so safe.
Speaker 3: But these side by sides with the roll cages and
Speaker 3: you can do it with your you know, your significant other,
Speaker 3: your kids. Like there's it's it's huge. We got, we got,
Speaker 3: we were flipped over.
Speaker 2: It was with my buddy more up in anything to
Speaker 2: see that he was pissed me.
Speaker 1: It was he was pissed at me.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't his wasn't even his, and he was
Speaker 2: just mad that I was driving crazy. And but what
Speaker 2: was funny about it is, you know, people get these
Speaker 2: things and they get him all tricked out with winches
Speaker 2: and all kinds of stuff and we're flipped over on
Speaker 2: the hood. We got out and we're standing there like
Speaker 2: a couple of hillbilly's from Texas like, well, what do.
Speaker 1: We do now? What do we do? We call somebody?
Speaker 2: And no, thirty seconds later, this crew of guys rolled
Speaker 2: up in one of They're like, hey.
Speaker 1: You need some help.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they got the winch out.
Speaker 3: They looked it up and off road people get off
Speaker 3: on rescuing other off road people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a badge of honor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also kind of a karma thing. I call it, like,
Speaker 3: so I call it boat karma. I'm like like rilling boats.
Speaker 3: If someone's broken down and you just you want to
Speaker 3: drive by and ignore it. But you're like a boat karma.
Speaker 3: I got to have them because because it's going to
Speaker 3: come around.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Speaking of boats, have you heard about the flying boat
Speaker 2: on Lake Austin.
Speaker 1: No, No, flying is kind of a loose term.
Speaker 2: It's a they call it a flying electric boat is
Speaker 2: now at Lake Austin.
Speaker 1: The Four Seasons.
Speaker 2: Lake Austin partnered up with the company called Nevere and
Speaker 2: thirty and it is a hydrofoil boat. So there's a
Speaker 2: hydrofoil in the front and the back and once it
Speaker 2: gets up to speed, the boat part of it raises
Speaker 2: up in the air.
Speaker 1: You're just cruising along Lake Austin.
Speaker 2: They said they're going to launch twenty more of these
Speaker 2: electric boats across the United States by the end of
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: And there's does fly at foils? Correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You've probably seen a hydrofoil someone riding a board, you know,
Speaker 2: behind a boat.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it was probably twenty years ago when
Speaker 3: they introduced this in America's Cup.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And it was a big deal whether it
Speaker 2: was legal, yeah, Yachting Races, America's American Cup, America's Cup yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's sail boat racing.
Speaker 3: And then I think it was the US that showed
Speaker 3: up with a foil.
Speaker 1: Yep, it just destroyed everybody.
Speaker 3: Basically, the whole thing lifts out of the water and
Speaker 3: it's barely touching the water.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 2: And so it is pretty cool, and it's for for
Speaker 2: people at the residents at Lake Austin if they want
Speaker 2: to get from one part of the lake to the other. Now,
Speaker 2: I didn't know you could have any kind of powered
Speaker 2: boat on that part of the lake where the Four
Speaker 2: Seasons is.
Speaker 3: Oh. I wasn't even thinking about that when you said that.
Speaker 3: I was thinking of Lake Austin, SPA. And you said,
Speaker 3: you see you said four Seasons because you don't. You
Speaker 3: can't have motorized boats on Lake Austin except for the
Speaker 3: boat supporting the crew people.
Speaker 4: Right, it's downtown the Four Seasons. Yeah, right there.
Speaker 2: Interesting maybe because it's electric. I have no idea. I
Speaker 2: dug into this and couldn't find much more than that.
Speaker 2: It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: So you like dodging all the paddle borders, No kidding,
Speaker 3: there's a They're everywhere. Have you seen have you driven
Speaker 3: across Lake Austin on a weekend and I do it
Speaker 3: every how many padal boarders are out there, It's like, do.
Speaker 2: It every Sunday, Jam, Yeah, every Sunday when I come across.
Speaker 2: I'm heading north at about noon on every Sunday and
Speaker 2: as I drive across, I always look out there and
Speaker 2: to my right it's just packed.
Speaker 1: It's insane, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I remember when JB first got You knew someone
Speaker 2: that was in the stand up pedal board business or
Speaker 2: something like that, and you had one and you were
Speaker 2: explaining it to me and you're like, dude, this is
Speaker 2: going to be huge.
Speaker 1: You stand up pedal for something like, you're out of
Speaker 1: your mind wants to who wants to do that?
Speaker 4: I remember doing one and my abs were so sore
Speaker 4: for so long. It's it's a huge ab workout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're you're you're balancing and so you're you're having
Speaker 3: fun and but you're balancing, so you don't even realize
Speaker 3: you're working out.
Speaker 2: The super fun For those of who don't know, it's
Speaker 2: basically standing up on a surfboard with a paddle, yeah,
Speaker 2: and cruising around doing it that way. So anyway, Sanda
Speaker 2: Pattleports support of the Future coming up just a little bit.
Speaker 2: Tricia has got the story we love and I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you about it. I think a great senior prank
Speaker 2: at at Austin High School. Tricia, you're going to be
Speaker 2: proud of your Marina. I don't know, right what are
Speaker 2: you having? The story we love?
Speaker 4: All right, Texas Monthly's twenty twenty five list of the
Speaker 4: fifty best barbecue joints has been released. It's only released
Speaker 4: every four years. I'm going to tell you kind of
Speaker 4: where Austin and right around Austin stands, and I'm going
Speaker 4: to let you know that I have discovered the world's
Speaker 4: greatest job.
Speaker 1: All right, stay with us.
Speaker 2: The story we love coming up on Austin's eighties station
Speaker 2: one oh three point Texas Monthly's Best Barbecue issue is
Speaker 2: out and Trista's going to tell us how Austin, Central
Speaker 2: Texas fared in that list.
Speaker 1: That's in just a moment.
Speaker 2: But first, Tricia is a proud graduate of Austin High School.
Speaker 2: M hmm, oil Forever, Loil Forever, where they're incredibly intimidating.
Speaker 1: Mascot of mister Marou, which.
Speaker 4: Is a maroon puffball, doesn't really strike fear into the
Speaker 4: hearts of the competitors.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't, but they may want to change their
Speaker 2: name to the Austin High Camel. I know because the
Speaker 2: senior prank this year at Austin High is they got
Speaker 2: a camel brought to the school. I don't know how
Speaker 2: they did it or what they did, but it's pretty
Speaker 2: damn funny.
Speaker 4: They had to get it cleared and they had a
Speaker 4: camel handler handler. That's hard to say there the whole
Speaker 4: time to make sure the animal was was taken care of.
Speaker 4: But yes, that was that was their senior prank, to
Speaker 4: have a camel on campus.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just cruising around. Can like walk it through
Speaker 3: the building, Like what what do they do? Yeah, all
Speaker 3: the above. Just took it around the school. Yeah, walked
Speaker 3: it around. It had handler. I'm reading that right now.
Speaker 3: It had handlers. But still pretty damn funny.
Speaker 4: To get so random, right, a camel.
Speaker 2: So and today let's get a camel and bring it
Speaker 2: to school for a senior frank.
Speaker 1: We two humps. She's a one humper. Saw a picture.
Speaker 1: He's a one hunter one hump chump? What he is?
Speaker 4: I think it's more expensive to get a two humper.
Speaker 1: You wrote a camel once, didn't you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Landard, I did at the zoo in Omaha. Our
Speaker 4: camel's name was Angie. I remember that.
Speaker 1: It must have been when you were not with me,
Speaker 1: because I don't remember the whole I.
Speaker 4: Think we might have gone with your mom with Apple.
Speaker 2: I got you so way to go Austin High. But still,
Speaker 2: you guys can do better than mister Marou the puffball master.
Speaker 3: I think I think the big the big senior. It
Speaker 3: was not my class. I don't remember my class doing anything.
Speaker 3: This is a Georgetown High, and I actually graduated from.
Speaker 1: Westwood in northwest Austin, but I spent more time in Georgia.
Speaker 3: They put like an old Volkswagen on top of the building,
Speaker 3: like the class before meing.
Speaker 1: Really that was kind of fun. That's pretty clever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the seniors at Landry's school. They just
Speaker 4: taped up the bottom and top end of the stairwell
Speaker 4: and filled it with balloons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 1: Yeah too. I don't think my senior class did anything.
Speaker 4: I don't really recall ours doing anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5: From the Loser Whole studio.
Speaker 4: All right, So the twenty twenty five edition of Texas
Speaker 4: Monthly's fifty Best Barbecue Joints in Texas has come out.
Speaker 4: It only comes out every four years, which I guess
Speaker 4: it's because the barbecue editor the best job ever. His
Speaker 4: name is Daniel Vaughn. How do you get that job
Speaker 4: as barbecue editor?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: He and his staff traveled to three hundred and nineteen
Speaker 4: barbieq spots across the lone Star state in order to
Speaker 4: do this list. That's literally their job is just to
Speaker 4: drive around an eat barbecue.
Speaker 1: That's like trying one almost daily for a year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I think it's amazing.
Speaker 2: I only job better than Matt would be ranking the
Speaker 2: best strip bars in Peas.
Speaker 1: Know there's some bad ones.
Speaker 4: With the bad Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: Streamers on thirty five strip I don't remember the one
Speaker 2: if I thirty five dreamers is the porn chop.
Speaker 3: I found that I found. I don't mean to go
Speaker 3: off on tangent, but I found the most disgusting ones.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a mission. It was me and some of
Speaker 3: my college buddies in Dallas. I said, let's see if
Speaker 3: we can find the worst booby bar in town tonight.
Speaker 1: Now is this hold on?
Speaker 3: And we went to a whole bunch of them, and
Speaker 3: we ended up going to one. We didn't get there
Speaker 3: till after hours, but they still served us. Like after
Speaker 3: two a m.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was Shay Pussycat in Dallas on North US Highway
Speaker 3: by Bachman Lake, and we're like, okay, well they're selling
Speaker 3: us beards. After two am we were probably twenty three
Speaker 3: ish and that was the goal, let's find the worst
Speaker 3: strip bar in town.
Speaker 1: It got so no one was coming out.
Speaker 3: We're like, oh, that's pretty good if you want to
Speaker 3: be the worst. And then they had this small it
Speaker 3: was like it was in a strip center and they
Speaker 3: had a small rotating floor. And then finally someone came
Speaker 3: out to strip no less than eight months pregnant.
Speaker 1: Oh did you look at your buddies and go we
Speaker 1: found it. We got it right here. Wow.
Speaker 4: That was so disturbing.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Wow. Not one of the I mean hey, not one
Speaker 3: of the proudest moments in my life. But you see,
Speaker 3: but you see, we were doing it for the novelty,
Speaker 3: right right, R great challenge.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we weren't, cause we enjoyed it. It was like,
Speaker 3: how bad can this get?
Speaker 4: Maybe Texas Monthly will do our write up, y'all, So
Speaker 4: tell us about the barbecue.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 4: Very happy, that's okay, very happy to say that two
Speaker 4: Austin barbecue joints made the top ten list. Number six, yep,
Speaker 4: Interstellar Barbecue.
Speaker 1: I've heard Michel Award winner. Yeah, I haven't been to
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 4: I've heard about it so many too.
Speaker 1: I would say Franklin's and Terry Blacks.
Speaker 4: No, they did not make the top ten lists. There
Speaker 4: were a lot of things, a lot of the ones
Speaker 4: that are been regulars in like the top ten lists
Speaker 4: that did not make it because there are so many
Speaker 4: new barbecue places that are like infusing different cultures and
Speaker 4: stuff into the barbecue, and Franklin's and Terry Blacks are
Speaker 4: more traditional and they've been at the top for a
Speaker 4: long time. Number to Leroy and Lewis Barbecue and Austin.
Speaker 1: By the way till everybody.
Speaker 2: Interstellar is on Lake Creek Parkway off six point twenty.
Speaker 4: That's that's in our neck book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I so Leroy and Lewis. I've ridden by this
Speaker 3: on my bike. It's like it's like Ben White and
Speaker 3: Banister or something like that.
Speaker 4: Whoa out there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've ridden It's a new it's a new building,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, I bet that's good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go try it.
Speaker 3: I will go try this and get back to everybody
Speaker 3: because I've written by it and I got I just
Speaker 3: had a feeling it was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, another one I would put on there. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: it should be on there.
Speaker 3: I've been touting it at the at the demise of
Speaker 3: not being able to get barbecue because they run out.
Speaker 3: But Brown's Barbecue on South First and a trailer.
Speaker 4: Brown's Barbecue did not make it. They had the top
Speaker 4: ten and then they had a list of the best
Speaker 4: of the rest, which was all over Texas. Briskets is
Speaker 4: one of them. Franklin Barbecue made the best of the rest.
Speaker 4: The barbeque made the list of the best of the rest.
Speaker 4: Mm hm, Styles switch barbecue, Oh go ahead.
Speaker 3: They don't do it all the time. There's there's a
Speaker 3: few styles switch locations and the one and drip only
Speaker 3: that one for some reason, and it's not the right
Speaker 3: time of year to tell you, but they do a
Speaker 3: brisket gumbo.
Speaker 4: That sounds good.
Speaker 1: I stopped I.
Speaker 3: Stopped in there when I was going to meet a friend,
Speaker 3: and I was like, this is one of the most
Speaker 3: amazing things I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Really brisket brisket gumbo sounds good.
Speaker 4: Wow, that does sound amazing. They do give pro tips
Speaker 4: on some of these, and for styles Switch barbecue, they
Speaker 4: said that you should definitely try the Soronto glaze, which
Speaker 4: is standard on the pork ribs and the Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 4: Like they give little tips about what you should try
Speaker 4: when you're there. A new one that sounds so good
Speaker 4: is called Barbs BQ in Lockharts.
Speaker 1: I've heard of that one.
Speaker 4: Ah, it's kind of a new one. It's been around
Speaker 4: for a couple of years, and they said that it
Speaker 4: is incredible that you should go in and order the
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty dollars full house, which is like
Speaker 4: four different meats and all the sides and desserts.
Speaker 2: Did the one in Lexington Snows Barbecue make the list
Speaker 2: that one's supposed.
Speaker 1: To be great?
Speaker 4: I don't see that one.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you about one that's not going to ever
Speaker 2: make this list because it's the public can't have it.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you there's a dude at
Speaker 2: Spanish Oaks Country Club.
Speaker 1: His name is Jason.
Speaker 2: Jason does the barbecue at that So I think that
Speaker 2: golf course they've got little comfort stations around the golf
Speaker 2: course where you can duck in. It's pretty amazing, really.
Speaker 2: I mean they got candy bars, they got fruit, they
Speaker 2: got beer. I mean, you name it, it's in there.
Speaker 2: But at that particular one, they do barbecue. And that
Speaker 2: barbecue that that guy does is the best barbecue I've
Speaker 2: ever had.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Station Station Works Spanish Oaks. So it's
Speaker 2: not like you're a.
Speaker 3: Good friend, but I got to call you out, well,
Speaker 3: the best barbecues.
Speaker 2: Actually, it's a guest. I'm a guest. I'm a guest.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, I'm I'm just telling you. It's
Speaker 2: it's a shame that it's not the general public. Everybody
Speaker 2: will get it right, because I didn't. I want I
Speaker 2: just want a bunch of people to go. Hey, Andy said,
Speaker 2: barbecue is good here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, They're like, we're just here for barbecue. Sandy
Speaker 1: said it was good. Sorry, people are.
Speaker 4: Playing golf out here. People playing golf. Do y'all want
Speaker 4: to know what the number one barbecue place in Texas is,
Speaker 4: according to Texas Monthly? Oh yes, yes, I can find
Speaker 4: it in Sagine, Texas, Bert being Company.
Speaker 5: Bert being Company, Bert being Company. Interesting, that's big honors.
Speaker 5: That's huge. I think it's huge. Aaron Franklin is steaming
Speaker 5: mad right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's counting his money. He didn't care.
Speaker 3: He's been the darling forever. I'm glad someone that'd be
Speaker 3: a good day trip to go to sagein. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not that far with an hour maybe. Don't they got
Speaker 3: that egg processing plant there too? That a bunch of eggs?
Speaker 3: I think there is.
Speaker 2: I think there's like a big place where they a
Speaker 2: bunch of chickens that lay eggs, big egg plant.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I do want to go there
Speaker 4: simply because not only did they say that the barbico
Speaker 4: at taco was incredible along with.
Speaker 1: The pork barbicos that's English.
Speaker 4: Please, barbicoa is how are you kidding?
Speaker 1: I don't know barbicoa.
Speaker 4: It just has like a Mexican twist on pork, right,
Speaker 4: the sauce in it, And yeah, I believe so. But
Speaker 4: they're also known for their amazing sides and desserts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on trape all about the sides.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Burnt Bean Company, we should go there.
Speaker 1: Road trip to sageine, Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 4: And also, how do I get the barbecue editor?
Speaker 3: No one, no one does barbecue side better than Ruby's Rudy's.
Speaker 1: So I said, Ruby's Rudy True? Where you where you?
Speaker 3: Grab a thing of pudding on your life and a
Speaker 3: chunk of cheese and a giant pickle and a yeah
Speaker 3: in a giant pickle and a whole jalapeno.
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