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Speaker 1: today's podcast. Had a visitor on my walk yesterday on
Speaker 1: the Brushy Creek Trail and Cedar Park. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you about him in just a second, but real quick
Speaker 1: to watch much of the inauguration stuff yesterday, JB.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, on and off. A lot of background stuff,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I caught some moments here and there.
Speaker 1: Did you catch the I think it was the second
Speaker 1: speech that he gave to the other group of people
Speaker 1: after the big inauguration speech. Did everyone kind of hold
Speaker 1: their breath a little bit when he was talking about
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott and hold their breath saying, Oh God, Trump's
Speaker 1: gonna ask him to stand up.
Speaker 3: Before?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was done that before.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, he was praising Governor Abbott and then I
Speaker 1: was just holding my breath, going, oh God, don't ask
Speaker 1: him to stand up, Please, don't ask him to stand up.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. So anyway, the inauguration happened yesterday. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you could miss it. It just is
Speaker 1: eating up the entire news cycle of the day without
Speaker 1: a fact. But I had something kind of exciting happened
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. I was on my walk, which is about
Speaker 1: just over an hour walk, just over four mile walk
Speaker 1: than I do, at Rushy Creek Trail, and I'm walking
Speaker 1: along the trail with my friend David. I looked to
Speaker 1: my left and there is an enormous coyote right there.
Speaker 1: I mean, normally coyotes are pretty scraggly, skinny and small.
Speaker 1: This dude had been eaten really really well. I mean
Speaker 1: he was big, and I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, David, I go, are they like dangerous
Speaker 1: like a bear? Can they come at us? Well? You know,
Speaker 1: what do I do? I had no idea if they're skittish.
Speaker 1: Apparently they're very skittish and they stay away from people.
Speaker 1: But it just reminded me, man that even though you
Speaker 1: think you live in the neighborhood and stuff, we share
Speaker 1: these the land with these creatures that are all over
Speaker 1: the place, especially deer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not uncommon to see coyotes and foxes
Speaker 2: in my neighborhood. And I live close to downtown.
Speaker 1: You see coyotes.
Speaker 3: They're crazy.
Speaker 2: There's like a there's a creek like just a block
Speaker 2: from my house. It runs along I thirty five, and
Speaker 2: it's yeah, they cruise up and down that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: they're they're all over It's frightening.
Speaker 3: I mean, go ahead.
Speaker 2: You always see people on next door their cats go missing.
Speaker 3: You know they're eating.
Speaker 4: That video that you posted, Sandy, he was big. Like
Speaker 4: at first glance, I'm like, well, that's a wolf. There's
Speaker 4: a wolf in Cedar Park. Clearly there's not a wolf.
Speaker 4: He was really big.
Speaker 1: I was really glad that I had my knife with me.
Speaker 1: I was ready.
Speaker 3: Did you have your knife with you?
Speaker 1: I did. I had my knife in my backpack and
Speaker 1: I pulled it out. I was ready.
Speaker 2: You'll have to get my nephew to take you. Varmint
Speaker 2: hunting he does. He's on some competition thing. Do you
Speaker 2: know they have that?
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was competition varmit hunting.
Speaker 3: He's all over it.
Speaker 2: Jb yea wild hogs and coyotes and he wins prize
Speaker 2: money doing it.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, he sounds like the kind of guy that
Speaker 1: would go down to Florida and hunt those pythons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. But he does it all the time.
Speaker 2: They have like a team.
Speaker 3: Does he do that.
Speaker 4: When he sticks his arm down in holes and pulls
Speaker 4: that big giant fish?
Speaker 3: What's that called?
Speaker 1: Fish with your arm? That's a redneck too far for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a redneck bridge that I mean noodling. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a redneck. I've done some redneck stuff. I mean
Speaker 1: I have, but man, that's a redneck bridge. Too far
Speaker 1: for me. Stick your hand down in hole for fish
Speaker 1: and pull it out, No.
Speaker 3: Thanks, giant fish like once.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not doing that. They want to do arnments though,
Speaker 1: I would do varmits. Yeah, that'd be kind of fun,
Speaker 1: and people want them gone. Remember out on when s
Speaker 1: H one thirty was brand new and they had that
Speaker 1: barrel hog problem where people were running over pigs all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: Because they were running across the highway.
Speaker 1: They weren't used to it yet, right, Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: in California they made a pedestrian bridge for the wildlife.
Speaker 1: Did you see that. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, It's like the animals can read. They know
Speaker 4: where to go to the bridge? When did this happen?
Speaker 1: Did you know about that? GB?
Speaker 2: I've seen that. I didn't know where it was, but
Speaker 2: i've seen some of those. Yeah, I didn't know they
Speaker 2: had them in California. I figured it was Europe or something.
Speaker 1: That's the only place I've ever seen. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: bringing that up in Texas? In the legislature had got
Speaker 1: an idea, y'all, how about if we spend a bunch
Speaker 1: of money make a bridge so the wildlife have somewhere
Speaker 1: to cross the highway. It would be your last words
Speaker 1: is a Texas politician? Wouldn't it?
Speaker 3: I met it, get past, you'd be done.
Speaker 1: But that coyote was He wasn't messing around. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize they were so darned big, And I'm sure that
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's a kind of a neighborhood around
Speaker 1: that you mentioned next door? Are you on next door? JB?
Speaker 2: Occasionally?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh what a cesspool?
Speaker 3: That is a right. I couldn't get off fast enough
Speaker 3: once we got on it.
Speaker 2: Usually it's like I'm giving away free stuff at the curb,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, it's good for.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, that's true. But then there's always the person
Speaker 1: that gets nasty on that neighborhood. Yeah, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1: I'm still on the one from our old neighborhood and
Speaker 1: can't figure out how to get off of it.
Speaker 3: I know, I me too, I have the same problem,
Speaker 3: so I just blocked it.
Speaker 1: That's smart. I mean, be careful if you're out there, friends.
Speaker 1: Good news is that the rattlesnakes and all that stuff
Speaker 1: they're not going. You're not going to see them this
Speaker 1: time of year. We gotta wait for them to get
Speaker 1: a little bigger. Trisua will take you on the take
Speaker 1: out the tailor. They still do the roundup out there.
Speaker 3: I think I'm not getting anywhere near that. I am not.
Speaker 3: Mister Shoulders, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Stick around. We've got more coming up, would you guys say?
Speaker 1: Austin's a fun city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always something to do. I always tell people
Speaker 2: there's something to do every I mean, if you're a
Speaker 2: bored person this town, there's always options, right.
Speaker 1: You just gotta maybe have to look around a little
Speaker 1: bit more than others, but there's always something to do.
Speaker 1: You're right. Well. Austin landed number six on a list.
Speaker 1: I don't know who put this list out, but number
Speaker 1: six on a list of the most fun cities in America.
Speaker 1: So you're curious who they think is more fun than Austin.
Speaker 1: Got to hear this. Yeah, I mean very subjective obviously,
Speaker 1: but number five on the list of the most fun cities,
Speaker 1: New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if that's your kind of fun, yeah, right.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's very specific fun, Like you go there,
Speaker 4: you have fun, you go home. I feel like Austin
Speaker 4: is more of a sustained, everyday fun things kind of city, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's more options for fun in Austin than there
Speaker 1: are I think in New Orleans. Basically, all I've seen
Speaker 1: of New Orleans is kind of the French Quarter. That's it, right,
Speaker 1: Like JB said, that's a certain kind of fun.
Speaker 2: That's a certain same thing. But Vegas certain kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Vegas is on the list, right, number four on the list.
Speaker 1: When you think Atlanta, do you think fun?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, I don't either, not at all. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I think when I think Atlanta, but I don't
Speaker 1: think fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only thing I think that is fun is when
Speaker 2: I think like major League sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Outside of that, not a fun town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Number three on the list of the most fun
Speaker 1: cities Miami. I'm not cool enough for Miami.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not either.
Speaker 1: At all, not good looking enough for Miami, not rich enough,
Speaker 1: not rich, And I'm not nothing enough for Miami. So
Speaker 1: I'm nothing enough for Miami. Number two on the list. Again,
Speaker 1: these are very specific types of fun, JB. I think
Speaker 1: you nailed it because Orlando, Florida number two. Disney. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's not I don't want to do that for fun.
Speaker 3: Like once or twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's all the big theme parks now, there's
Speaker 2: like a couple of Universals, and there's I don't I
Speaker 2: don't even know how many there are. There's lots of them.
Speaker 2: It doesn't just be Disney.
Speaker 1: So if you're a theme park person, Orlando's your town
Speaker 1: and that's fun. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My daughter and I were there last year. We
Speaker 2: ducked into gator Land.
Speaker 1: What do they have there?
Speaker 2: It's been around since like the fifties or something. It's
Speaker 2: it's his classics. She actually enjoyed that more than a
Speaker 2: lot of the rides.
Speaker 1: I learned something when I lived in Cincinnati. I worked
Speaker 1: with someone that they very involved in the roller coaster
Speaker 1: culture of the of America. Like they took their vacations
Speaker 1: to go ride different roller coasters. That was their thing.
Speaker 1: Like what yeah, but hey, everyone's got a thing, right.
Speaker 1: And finally, Jimmy, you mentioned the number one earlier again
Speaker 1: it falls into that certain kind of fun Las Vegas
Speaker 1: number one city for fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two days tops. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I could live in Las Vegas though. A friend of
Speaker 1: mine lives there, and I went and visited. He lives,
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen minutes from the strip, you know,
Speaker 1: and like a normal neighborhood, like with normal people and
Speaker 1: not a bunch of not a bunch of.
Speaker 4: Normal being that close to the strip when you think
Speaker 4: of Vegas, right.
Speaker 1: Right, right. But it was great because he said so
Speaker 1: someone was really funny. He goes, yes, Andy, it's great
Speaker 1: living here because you get showered and you get dressed
Speaker 1: and you go to Vegas. It was like, yeah, Sam,
Speaker 1: that's a great way to look at it. But if
Speaker 1: that's a good point, he's like, you know, world class restaurants,
Speaker 1: world class entertainment, world class spas, all that stuff, that'd
Speaker 1: be pretty fun. Great golf, great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: A cousin who lived there for a few years, and
Speaker 4: he was like, I'd move back in a heartbeat if
Speaker 4: I could. He really lived there for work and said
Speaker 4: it was great.
Speaker 1: Huh, so Vegas would be all right. But man, on vacation,
Speaker 1: you nailed it two days. Yeah, get me the hell
Speaker 1: out of there. And the worst thing you can do
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas is book an early Sunday morning flight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, no, I'll go in early. No you won't.
Speaker 1: Oh you won't, you won't. Patricia and I were just talking.
Speaker 1: Why were we talking about going to Las Vegas. Oh
Speaker 1: for Kenny Chesney at the Sphere.
Speaker 4: Kenny Chesney at this sphere. Really, anybody at this sphere.
Speaker 4: I just want to go to the Spear. But I
Speaker 4: love Kenny Chesney and he's going to be there. He's
Speaker 4: doing a residency at the end of the year. I
Speaker 4: would love to go. I think this a great reason
Speaker 4: to go. I haven't played blackjack in years.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget JB. Once in Las Vegas with Tricia
Speaker 1: and her friend Brittany, and I get up in the
Speaker 1: morning and they go. These two never came home, right,
Speaker 1: She and Brittany never came back. Tristian ever came back
Speaker 1: to the hotel room. I go downstairs, there's Tricia and
Speaker 1: Brittany sitting at a five dollars blackjack table with a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people, and I'm like, how long have
Speaker 1: you been here? And she goes, what time is it?
Speaker 1: I go nine, and she goes about twelve hours, and.
Speaker 2: Then the other one down the table.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then the next day, same thing. They come.
Speaker 1: Tricia and Brittany your friend, come into the hotel room
Speaker 1: and she goes, what are we doing tomorrow? And right
Speaker 1: then Brittany opens up the blinds and it's bright sunlight
Speaker 1: out and Tricia goes, oh, my god, it is tomorrow.
Speaker 3: There's no time in Vegas. My god, you have no
Speaker 3: idea what time it is. When you're in those casinos.
Speaker 1: She'll sit there and play five dollar black jack all.
Speaker 3: Day long, all day long. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3: I went on a girl's trip. There was like six
Speaker 3: girls we sat down on with those five dollars tables.
Speaker 4: And you know how at the big tables where it
Speaker 4: costs like, I don't know, five hundred, one thousand dollars
Speaker 4: to play, they have the big groups of people around
Speaker 4: them because they want to see all the money exchanging hands,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of.
Speaker 3: Cheering and clapping.
Speaker 4: We had a crowd like that around our five dollars
Speaker 4: table because we were having so much fun and cheering
Speaker 4: and clapping like we were winning thousands of dollars on
Speaker 4: each hand.
Speaker 3: We're at the little five dollar table.
Speaker 1: Come you got a double down for five dollars and
Speaker 1: the place went nuts, right.
Speaker 3: We went crazy and the people cheering for.
Speaker 1: Us did too. That's funny. So again at Austin number
Speaker 1: six on the Most Fun Cities list, followed by New Orleans,
Speaker 1: Atlantis four, Miami three, Orlando number two, and Las Mais,
Speaker 1: Vegas number one. Stay with us more coming up on
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