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Speaker 3: one o three point one. JB says, all right, Benson Boone,
Speaker 3: we've seen your flip.
Speaker 2: I've had it. Yeah, you've had it.
Speaker 3: For those who had it, Benson Boone is a yeah,
Speaker 3: you got a big, big hit right now.
Speaker 2: You may not know his name, but you do know
Speaker 2: this song.
Speaker 1: I want you on need to hold God Dune, take
Speaker 1: it up God.
Speaker 4: Flip flip flip like he's just flipping the whole song.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this cat shows up.
Speaker 1: I had heard his rumblings of his name for a while,
Speaker 1: and then I think it was on the Grammys.
Speaker 2: He performed yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And he came out in his I don't know he
Speaker 1: and he and what's his name? Clearly shot it. Who's
Speaker 1: the other guy that wears jumpsuits all the time. They
Speaker 1: shot at the same place.
Speaker 2: I don't know Adam Lambert, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he's all blinged up in his jumpsuit and comes
Speaker 1: out at the Grammys and does a flip, and I
Speaker 1: was like, WHOA.
Speaker 5: Got your attention?
Speaker 2: Got me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a fan like this guy. Not only amazing voice,
Speaker 1: great stage presence and all this. Now I can't get
Speaker 1: away from seeing clips of him flipping. It's everywhere another Oh,
Speaker 1: another Bens boom flip. Oh, another Ben, some flip. Oh,
Speaker 1: here's he's flipping again. He's flipping again. It's like, enough
Speaker 1: with the flips. We get it, get it, we get it, and.
Speaker 2: You can you can flip off a piano.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, stop just stop. And he was just he was
Speaker 1: just at Coachella and flipping around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he did.
Speaker 1: He did Queen a Queen song comes out with the flip,
Speaker 1: and and it's going everywhere because Brian May comes up
Speaker 1: on a stage riser and does the guitar solo.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, okay, got it, you can do a flip. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just keep our feet on the ground for a while.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Benson Boone.
Speaker 4: He's like, you, guys, I think maybe we gotta let
Speaker 4: the flip go, and his people are like, no, you
Speaker 4: gotta do the flip.
Speaker 5: That's how they know you.
Speaker 3: Here's what I'll say, Benson Boone is not thinking long term,
Speaker 3: not thinking long term with the flip in the rock
Speaker 3: and roll world, because at some point he's gonna get
Speaker 3: to an age where he can't do.
Speaker 2: The flip anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, like guys like it's it's Pete Townsend was thinking
Speaker 3: ahead because he could do the the windmill guitar thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, who wife, he could be old and do that.
Speaker 2: I'd be old and do that, right right.
Speaker 1: So. But also, but Benson to your point too, he's
Speaker 1: not thinking ahead. You've got to use it sparingly. I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example. How crazy would you go if
Speaker 1: you when Michael Jackson did the moonwalk? Ah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: he used it very sparingly.
Speaker 2: He didn't do it every damn time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the big question was is he going to do it?
Speaker 4: So you'd be glued to the TV to see if
Speaker 4: he was going to do it, and when he didn't
Speaker 4: do it, it was such a bummer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you were glued to the TV.
Speaker 3: The next time, another rocket roller, not thinking long term,
Speaker 3: davidly rothes his.
Speaker 2: High kicks his kicks and it splits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at some point in your rocket roll life, you're
Speaker 3: not gonna be able to do that anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking you got to be planning way down
Speaker 2: the road for a start.
Speaker 4: So that makes me think that maybe Axel Rose planned
Speaker 4: down the road because he has that.
Speaker 5: Snake, but his feet never leave the ground.
Speaker 4: He just has to liz up robot do it till
Speaker 4: he's a hundred, could do it till nice good point.
Speaker 2: You know who I'm worried about though.
Speaker 1: Eventually Angus Young from a C D C. He's going
Speaker 1: to get into that duck walk. He's going he's to
Speaker 1: get back up that. That is going to be a
Speaker 1: broken hip, mark my words.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Angus I think is dead.
Speaker 5: The duck walk what got him?
Speaker 2: Didn't know that. I didn't know that. No, I take
Speaker 2: it back. He is alive. Oh okay, he is alive.
Speaker 2: I thought he was dead, but he's not.
Speaker 3: But that there's why I thought that, because death hoaxes
Speaker 3: about him have sir, But Angus is still out there
Speaker 3: doing it.
Speaker 2: I'll tull he did the duck walk for a long time.
Speaker 2: That's true. He actually did a much more treacherous duck walk.
Speaker 5: She got lower, He got low with his duck walk.
Speaker 1: You know who was thinking ahead to something that's easy
Speaker 1: to do as you age.
Speaker 2: That's signature, right.
Speaker 1: Picture Robert plant on stage, the way he would hold
Speaker 1: the microphone in one hand and hold the cable in
Speaker 1: the other. He just kind of whip it, like, kind
Speaker 1: of hold his arm out and whip it and just
Speaker 1: kind of stick his hips out in his chest.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of Kenny Rogers holding the microphone in one
Speaker 4: hand and the cord in the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now what about Pink Oh, I can't get enough
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when she's up there, starves her aerial stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's amazing, right right.
Speaker 3: Steven Tyler thinking ahead, just having his guitar dressed like
Speaker 3: a pirate and covering his guitar stand covered in scarves
Speaker 3: and drapes.
Speaker 4: You want to know what I just found out about
Speaker 4: Steven Tyler and the scarves.
Speaker 2: He's a woman.
Speaker 4: No, His daughter Mia has written a book and she
Speaker 4: said the whole reason he started tying the star scarves
Speaker 4: to his microphone stand so he could hide his pills
Speaker 4: in the scarves and take him on stage live as
Speaker 4: he was playing when he back when he was super addicted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he put all those scarves on the
Speaker 1: microphone to try to convince us that Stevie Nicks was
Speaker 1: standing right.
Speaker 5: There like a little light.
Speaker 1: Their airs one of the most signature moves of all time.
Speaker 1: Now we haven't talked about yet. Think about it. Think
Speaker 1: picture women screaming in the audience.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know who it is. You thought of it first,
Speaker 2: so you said, screaming losing their.
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley, Yeah, Elvis.
Speaker 5: Was he still shaking his hips at the end?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Was it more of just a little bump, not really trying?
Speaker 5: Someone was still trying.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've watched that last concert of his many times he
Speaker 1: was super sweaty.
Speaker 2: Where was that do you remember? It doesn't matter, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, but he was.
Speaker 1: It's funny when they talk about him, you know, big
Speaker 1: Elvis before he passed, he wasn't that big on today's standards.
Speaker 2: No, noot. Elvis won that fat exactly.
Speaker 5: By today standards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think, but just people remember him as
Speaker 3: there's a photo JB of Elvis.
Speaker 2: That Tricia has thoughts on. Tell everyone about that.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: There's this one photograph taken of him walking down the hall.
Speaker 4: There's two of his guys walking behind him. He is
Speaker 4: on this like purple jacket, has it buttoned but no
Speaker 4: shirt on underneath it, and he's like waving to somebody
Speaker 4: off to the side. And I think it's the most
Speaker 4: hottest photo of a human being ever taken in the
Speaker 4: history of photos. I'm looking for it right now and
Speaker 4: I'm going to send it to you because even our
Speaker 4: friends who play for the other team are like, damn.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 4: I was like, right, yeah, you find it, and I
Speaker 4: even look at him, damn right, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It might be the best looking male ever till left.
Speaker 3: Did you Did you find it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: I'm still looking.
Speaker 1: Although have you ever had this This is a little
Speaker 1: slightly off topic, but sort of saying, Tricia, have you
Speaker 1: ever seen a painting or a sculpture of Jesus where
Speaker 1: it's a little too hot?
Speaker 5: Yeah? And then you feel like this is wrong something that.
Speaker 2: They made.
Speaker 1: The abs were just a little Hey, I believe he
Speaker 1: was cut, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Because he covered a lot of ground, he was he
Speaker 2: walked a lot, he got his steps, he did he
Speaker 2: did get his his fit bit was happy I found
Speaker 2: the picture.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, Oh, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying you I've seen a statue
Speaker 1: or a sculpture or two, or a painting where you go, dang, j.
Speaker 5: C, what's up?
Speaker 1: J C.
Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna get struck by lightning. And the truth
Speaker 4: is he looked nothing like he's portrayed.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting search what Jesus really looked like based
Speaker 3: on what.
Speaker 2: People come, let him be hot? Here you go, jam,
Speaker 2: here's that photo of Elvis. Okay, yeah, oh, I don't
Speaker 2: think I've seen this.
Speaker 5: Even if are doing something sexy and.
Speaker 1: The belt is not through the belt loops, it's like
Speaker 1: a woman would wear it that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, that's pretty pimp. That's a handsome dude, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just happy that it's not big top candy shops.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time the way Congress have
Speaker 1: and he's South Congress is changing. It's a matter of
Speaker 1: time before they're priced out.
Speaker 3: Another business apparently has been priced out and they are
Speaker 3: moving locations.
Speaker 1: Right yep, monkey see Monkey do is is closing up
Speaker 1: their South Congress store rent's too high because all these
Speaker 1: Foo Foo brands have moved in and priced them out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's frustrating because I live in the area.
Speaker 1: I'm on Congress Avenue every day, and we moved here
Speaker 1: for all the funky stores.
Speaker 2: Yeah we didn't. We didn't. We didn't move here to
Speaker 2: go to a Lululemon, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You know what I hate the places that have names
Speaker 3: like plush or lash or luxure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a her Maize store.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I'm saying that right.
Speaker 1: Just all that stuff has priced everybody out, and uh
Speaker 1: so they The good news is they've found a new location.
Speaker 1: You know that intersection at South Lamar and Manshak where
Speaker 1: it kind of splits off like a V.
Speaker 2: That's going to be the new spot. But you know, man,
Speaker 2: giving up.
Speaker 1: All that foot traffic that you have all the time
Speaker 1: on South Congress from all the tourists. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: like you don't, And I hope it works for him.
Speaker 1: But same thing with Big Top Candy Shop. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't always just leave the door with that as
Speaker 1: a destination your cruise in South Congress. You got the
Speaker 1: family with you, you stop for some ice cream, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: stop at Amy's, get an ice cream. Mom and dad
Speaker 1: have Margarita Aguero's. And then you're walking on down the street.
Speaker 1: The kids go into Monkey See Monkey Do, have a blast.
Speaker 1: You see the retro toys and stuff from your childhood.
Speaker 1: Then you go into Big Top, same thing.
Speaker 3: Same people, by the way, The same people that own
Speaker 3: Monkey See Monkey Do also own Big Top candy Shop.
Speaker 2: Oh is that right? So I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, I didn't know that, but man, I
Speaker 1: wish him the best.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Uncommon Objects bailed a few years ago. Lucy and the
Speaker 2: Sky has gone too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they retired that after forty some years.
Speaker 1: They hanging it up. But they were probably getting priced
Speaker 1: out too. Who took over their spot, the losing disguise spot?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You up good question. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I thought I thought we had talked about it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was technic we had. I just don't recall.
Speaker 1: It's been such a shuffle on all of South Congress.
Speaker 2: I can't keep up. I got this from Caveu, by
Speaker 2: the way, they say.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty four, Mikasa the Good Company and some
Speaker 3: Room sunn Room all shut down or move locations after seen.
Speaker 3: Listen to this, Triple digit rent increases in South Congress,
Speaker 3: triple digits increases.
Speaker 1: You know it won't it won't be the same family
Speaker 1: vibe for those kind of story.
Speaker 2: If it's all high end stuff, can.
Speaker 5: It end up being like an Arboreta.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm in a domain type showing area and
Speaker 4: that the Monkey place on sports wear is what replaced.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Swiss shoe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're run for thirty eight years.
Speaker 3: It all started when they ran the hookers off of
Speaker 3: South Congress. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end
Speaker 3: of a retail business.
Speaker 5: Because now everybody wants to be down there.
Speaker 2: Now bring back the hookers.
Speaker 5: That should be our protest.
Speaker 2: Makes self kind of shady again, just makes the Congress
Speaker 2: sketch again. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Back in the good old days, you never knew what
Speaker 2: was going on, right, you know.
Speaker 1: We still do have the guys that will ride their
Speaker 1: horses up and down. Yeah, and then you know, pull
Speaker 1: it whenever they do it. They do it all quite often,
Speaker 1: but you'll see it all over socials like tourists going crazy.
Speaker 1: Take out they'll actually go up to Joe's Coffee on
Speaker 1: their horse and order and the tourists are like, cool,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's so Austin.
Speaker 3: There must be some old Texas law where it's still allowed. Right,
Speaker 3: let's do that. Let's just get some horses and do that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, somebody who never rides.
Speaker 4: Let's just get some horses on a street with a
Speaker 4: ton of people and that easy Clydesdale.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: So the earth Rumble.
Speaker 3: Covered wagon like like eighteen eighty three, cruise down.
Speaker 4: My friend Tasha used to work downtown and she looked
Speaker 4: out of her office window one December and down at
Speaker 4: the light at Fifth in Congress with somebody dressed as
Speaker 4: Santa on a horse waiting.
Speaker 2: Every year, yeah there, every year.
Speaker 5: She sent it and she's like, I finally saw him.
Speaker 2: Tricia, line up some horses, so we can do that.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll get right on that.
Speaker 2: A few phone calls.
Speaker 4: I think I'd rather stand on the sign with the
Speaker 4: bring back the hookers on the corner with the sign.
Speaker 2: What you want to size? What did you say? JB?
Speaker 2: Make South Austin get shady again. I remember