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Speaker 3: is JB. Hello, Trisha's here as well. Hi everybody, and
Speaker 3: JBS stumbled upon something that I think you might find interesting.
Speaker 3: Someone that's going to be in town tomorrow night and
Speaker 3: doing two shows tomorrow and Thursday night. I remembered you
Speaker 3: were a fan of his sister, but I also think
Speaker 3: you were a fan of David Sedaris.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the writer. Yeah fan, he is.
Speaker 3: He's playing the Paramount Theater tomorrow night and on Thursday night.
Speaker 3: And I have a clip of him and he's here.
Speaker 3: He is, he's on a podcast and the host asked
Speaker 3: him about a children's book that he wrote. I thought
Speaker 3: you might get a kick out of it.
Speaker 2: There's no message in this book for the kids. There's
Speaker 2: no lesson and there's no message.
Speaker 1: And I just loved your defense of that, which was like, well, poor.
Speaker 2: Kids, I mean everybody, I mean and obviously, and there's
Speaker 2: a message.
Speaker 4: When you look at every children's book, there's a message,
Speaker 4: and they get caught and it's not doing any good.
Speaker 4: There's look at these adults. It didn't work.
Speaker 3: He's like, there's still a holes the messages. The message
Speaker 3: isn't doing any good. So why write a children's book
Speaker 3: with a message? They're not getting it?
Speaker 2: And so he's he's arguably the funniest writer ever.
Speaker 3: You like him more than I know. You're a big
Speaker 3: Dave Berry fan too. I know Dave's retired and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hits a little differently, but I'd say David
Speaker 1: Sedaris is probably my favorite humor writer of all time.
Speaker 1: And I've gone to one of these shows before he
Speaker 1: reads a lot from the book.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I was going to ask. What does
Speaker 3: a writer do with her I don't understand what do
Speaker 3: they do?
Speaker 1: They tell some stories and I actually paid for a
Speaker 1: meet and greet one time.
Speaker 2: I was such a big fan. And what do you say,
Speaker 2: it's so awkward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but uh yeah, they read from their some of
Speaker 1: their new stuff, and they'll share some stories. And he's
Speaker 1: got he's just one of the best storytellers ever. He
Speaker 1: got really big by telling his stories on the radio.
Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, and so you know, it was a
Speaker 1: public radio thing and that's where he got people got
Speaker 1: familiar with him.
Speaker 3: Just a brilliant storyteller. And he was a writer for
Speaker 3: the New Yorker or did he write for everybody?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Probably mostly the New Yorker. But he lives he's in
Speaker 1: New Yorker, but he he lives at least half the
Speaker 1: time in France too. He's a goofy guy. He used
Speaker 1: to walk around and pick up trash every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a neighbor that and I'm always like,
Speaker 3: thank God for people like her. I saw her once
Speaker 3: out like and she was not in the neighborhood. It's
Speaker 3: just outside of the neighborhood, on a main street, outside
Speaker 3: of a school. She'd walked her grandson to school and
Speaker 3: she was walking by and there's like this little canal
Speaker 3: like drainage sewage area, that water runoff area, and I
Speaker 3: saw her look and she looked over the edge and
Speaker 3: then she kind of stood up straight, and then she
Speaker 3: walked around and down into the ditch and came out
Speaker 3: holding a big old piece of trash. You know, she's
Speaker 3: out there looking for it.
Speaker 1: You know another writer that picks up trash almost daily
Speaker 1: is Michael Barnes from The Statesman.
Speaker 2: Really yeah.
Speaker 1: He he lives just off South Congress and you'll see
Speaker 1: him in the morning walking along. He's got the little
Speaker 1: trash grabber yeah yeah, and the claw clips yeah. And
Speaker 1: he'll cruise down Congress and pick up up some things.
Speaker 1: And I see every guy that's not a writer. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a writer. Maybe he is a writer.
Speaker 3: But I see a guy like at one eighty three
Speaker 3: and McNeil on the Access Road by the Tesla dealership there.
Speaker 3: I see him all the time walking around up and
Speaker 3: down that street, just picking up trash.
Speaker 4: Really, you know, they just had the annual cleanup on
Speaker 4: Ladyberg Lake. Volunteers signed up to pick up trash up
Speaker 4: and down Ladybird Lake.
Speaker 2: That's cool. I like that people do that.
Speaker 3: Also, this week only playing one show, but Tristia I
Speaker 3: know you're kind of sort of a fan. Sorry, friends,
Speaker 3: but we cannot play the music on the podcast. It's
Speaker 3: Tricia Yearwood who we're talking about.
Speaker 4: I like your music. I love to watch your cooking
Speaker 4: show because she's funny.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 4: You know, she's not all but up and serious. And
Speaker 4: she makes a mistake on her show. They show the mistake.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I relate to.
Speaker 3: Cooking show that you watch, and she is so boring too,
Speaker 3: but her food is so good. Yep, that is the
Speaker 3: most boring woman alive.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: She Oh my gosh, she every I'm a horrible cook.
Speaker 4: We've talked about this. I can't do it for some reason.
Speaker 4: But every one of the Pioneer Woman's recipes that I
Speaker 4: have tried have come out perfectly, and we've adopted one
Speaker 4: for all of the all of the holidays, the swee
Speaker 4: potato casserole. We call it the crack castrole. It's delicious
Speaker 4: and unbelievable. We got it from her. There's a few
Speaker 4: that we that I can make every once in a
Speaker 4: while that are hers.
Speaker 2: She is to listen to.
Speaker 4: She tries to spice it up a little bit. She'll
Speaker 4: throw out what she thinks is a little a little
Speaker 4: spicy joke or something like that and then kind of
Speaker 4: giggle it herself and I'm all, girl, lock this up.
Speaker 3: And what's funny is that my so, my mom's younger sister,
Speaker 3: lives with my parents and she's a big help with them,
Speaker 3: and she can't stand the Pioneer Woman hates her hates
Speaker 3: So what does Tricia give her for Christmas? Pioneer Woman cook?
Speaker 3: But yep, Tricia Yearwood Plane tomorrow acl live at the
Speaker 3: Movie Theater. That's kind of be a good show to
Speaker 3: see you forget. Trisia Yearwood had a ton.
Speaker 4: Of hits, a ton of hits in this beautiful voice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she can flat out sing. Coming up on the
Speaker 3: show too, This should be kind of fun. About seven
Speaker 3: twenty five ish iconic Austin restaurants by the decade when
Speaker 3: they started that are still around. Yeah, we often spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time griping about the ones that are gone,
Speaker 3: but let's talk about the ones that are still here.
Speaker 3: And they're great, a lot of great places. So we'll
Speaker 3: break that down for you in just a little bit.
Speaker 3: And Tricia's got the story we love coming up.
Speaker 2: What do you have? All Right?
Speaker 4: I told y'all that I'm obsessed with the Pope and
Speaker 4: the Vatican and the Conclave. So they have announced a
Speaker 4: date that the conclave is going to start, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to bring everybody up to date on that. I
Speaker 4: think stuff like this is so cool.
Speaker 2: Trisia's got the story we love.
Speaker 3: She's going to give you all the info that you
Speaker 3: might need to know about the conlay, which is where
Speaker 3: all the cardinals of the Catholic Church come together and
Speaker 3: roam to vote on the new pope. That's just a
Speaker 3: minute away. But first, would you guys like to know
Speaker 3: some of the titles of the most downloaded episodes of
Speaker 3: the JB and Sandy podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Yes, please, you become quite the title master.
Speaker 3: I really try hard at this, I really do. And
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, the better the title, the more downloads
Speaker 3: it gets.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: One of them that is done very well in the
Speaker 3: last thirty days. It's like it's titled it's like dating
Speaker 3: a chick with hairy arm pits. That's what we were
Speaker 3: talking about Westlake, and JB was telling us how it's
Speaker 3: very When he lived there, it was very strict and
Speaker 3: they don't want a bunch of perfectly manicured yards, natural,
Speaker 3: all natural and stuff, and I was like yeah, and
Speaker 3: JV said, you kind of get used to it, you know,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I was like, yeah, it's kind
Speaker 3: of like dating a chick with Harry arm Right. At
Speaker 3: first You're like, I don't know if I like that,
Speaker 3: and then you're like, I guess it's okay.
Speaker 4: I guess fire Danger. You put it next to Harry Arnt.
Speaker 4: Pit Girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another title that's doing really really well, still very popular,
Speaker 3: thank you. JB's I Like to pull down my pants
Speaker 3: and Sit in pudding. That was I don't remember, oh
Speaker 3: that was referring to the guy that had the T
Speaker 3: shirt that said I love bare feet.
Speaker 2: In grass or something like that.
Speaker 4: I was like, I would never date that person, and
Speaker 4: JB was like, it, what's.
Speaker 3: The point and you might as well have might as
Speaker 3: well say I like to pull down my pants and
Speaker 3: sit and pudding. A couple more fun titles that are
Speaker 3: doing very very well on the podcast is when JB
Speaker 3: and Sandy thought they were hot, We thought we were
Speaker 3: hot stuff. You got to go listen to that. And finally,
Speaker 3: another one that has done very well. Things you have
Speaker 3: been brainwashed to believe you need The big one on
Speaker 3: that was the twelve step skin care product program or whatever.
Speaker 4: It was routine, routine, right, all kinds of schedules and products.
Speaker 4: It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Go check out the podcast on the iHeartRadio app just
Speaker 3: search JB and Sandy The Stories We Love Live.
Speaker 2: From the Laser Holtz Studio.
Speaker 4: Here's Tricia Delicia. So the Catholic Cardinals announced on Monday
Speaker 4: that the date that the conclave is going to start
Speaker 4: to elect the new Pope Francis's successor is going to
Speaker 4: be May seventh. Now, there is a little bit of
Speaker 4: a delay, a two day delay from when normally they
Speaker 4: would start it based on I think there's like a
Speaker 4: fifteen day maybe ten to fifteen day time period from
Speaker 4: when the boat dies to when the conclave is supposed
Speaker 4: to start. They're delaying it by two days because there
Speaker 4: are so many new cardinals coming from all points of
Speaker 4: the world that most of them don't know each other,
Speaker 4: and in order for them to be more successful once
Speaker 4: they are locked into the Sistine Chapel to start the conclave,
Speaker 4: they're giving them a few extra days to get to
Speaker 4: know each other.
Speaker 2: Are you're out already?
Speaker 4: The other one is party at the Vatican. I guess
Speaker 4: so party at the Vatican. Some of the cardinals, twenty
Speaker 4: of them were just made cardinals in December by Pope Francis.
Speaker 4: Clean new Yes, So in the vote every day, right,
Speaker 4: the vote four times a day every day until there
Speaker 4: is a two thirds vote on who the new cardinal
Speaker 4: will be. The big question is is it going to
Speaker 4: be somebody who's elected who's going to continue the more
Speaker 4: progressive thoughts of Pope Francis, or is it going to
Speaker 4: be a pope that's going to take you back to
Speaker 4: the rule and law of the Bible and the doctrine.
Speaker 4: So that's the big question right now. Who it's going
Speaker 4: to be in which direction they're going to take it.
Speaker 3: I think that the series Conclave on Netflix. I read
Speaker 3: that the viewership of that is up like two hundred
Speaker 3: persons of this because the Pope frances passed right.
Speaker 4: And it's a complete and total coincidence that he passed
Speaker 4: away right when this series came out debuted. But from
Speaker 4: what I've read, I mean, yeah, what I've seen, it's
Speaker 4: supposed to be a very very good series.
Speaker 3: And black smoke, no white smoke, yes, yes, right, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: That's how they send the message out, which is what's
Speaker 3: kind of interesting if you're a history buff at all,
Speaker 3: is that they've been doing this the exact same way
Speaker 3: for two thousand years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like no change in the conclave, right, tradition at all.
Speaker 4: I think stuff like that's incredible.
Speaker 3: I do too, it's uh, I don't know. There something
Speaker 3: to be said for two thousand years of tradition.
Speaker 4: And not doing it on zoom, yes, not allowing any
Speaker 4: cameras in the Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 3: Uh. You know, it's also interesting to go down if
Speaker 3: we will, go down the rabbit hole. But you can
Speaker 3: look it up yourself. How the Dalai Lama's chosen. Have
Speaker 3: you ever read about that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, they look They look for all millions of signs,
Speaker 3: like where they look for a child starters, And because
Speaker 3: it's the belief is that it's a reincarnation, and it
Speaker 3: has a lot to do where the the llama is
Speaker 3: when he passes, where they look at different wind You
Speaker 3: can read up about it. It's kind of interesting how
Speaker 3: they how they go about it. So, and that's also
Speaker 3: steeped in years of tradition. Yeah, and how that's done.
Speaker 4: Do you know none of the cardinals who vote for
Speaker 4: the new pope can be over the age of eighty. Really,
Speaker 4: age limit only eighty and below. If you're eighty one,
Speaker 4: you're out. You can't vote.
Speaker 2: Huh do they still get to party?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: No, I'll think anybody knows what they do in there.
Speaker 2: They might have to tweak that. Over time, people are
Speaker 2: living a lot longer. That's true. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: So we don't know when once they start voting, we
Speaker 3: don't know how long it will be.
Speaker 4: It could be a day, it could be ten days.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 4: They just stay in there until they until they decide,
Speaker 4: and people stand outside the whole time waiting to see
Speaker 4: this color of the smoke.
Speaker 3: They should just live stream it. It's the live stream
Speaker 3: of the chimney, right.
Speaker 4: Well, hell, they're live streaming all the other random things
Speaker 4: moose migrations, rattlesnake dens. I feel like this one would
Speaker 4: be worthy of a live stream. Yeah, right, and then
Speaker 4: you get to find out what name the pope chooses.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I came up last week like, how long has it
Speaker 1: been since we've been through this process?
Speaker 2: Twelve years?
Speaker 4: Twelve years almost thirteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: That's the story, We love stay with us still to come.
Speaker 3: Iconic restaurants in Austin by the decade, all right, we
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time talking about the ones that
Speaker 3: are gone. Let's recognize the ones that have been here
Speaker 3: for a long time. We'll share them. Coming up on
Speaker 3: Austin's EIGHTES station. What O three point one, it's the
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Speaker 3: What oh three point one. There's an iconic bar in
Speaker 3: Austin that was purchased for three hundred dollars in the seventies. Wow,
Speaker 3: we're hundred three one hundred dollars. Wait, do we tell
Speaker 3: you what it is? I mean, it's shocking. But let's
Speaker 3: go back in time a little bit. We spent a
Speaker 3: lot of time talking about how much the city has
Speaker 3: changed and how many different iconic places have gone away
Speaker 3: in the last five ten years or so. But this
Speaker 3: is pretty fun. Iconic restaurants in Austin by the decade.
Speaker 3: We start with the nineteen fifties. I guess there were
Speaker 3: no restaurants in Austin before the nineteen fifties, but that's
Speaker 3: where it starts out. Cisco's opened in nineteen fifty Wow.
Speaker 2: On East sixth Street.
Speaker 1: Still yeah, I still got that sign out front, that
Speaker 1: kind of a caricature.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm the guy. Yeah wow.
Speaker 3: Then jump in wherever you guys want here and fifty
Speaker 3: one deep Betty Cabaret opened up.
Speaker 2: It was just their last week make Austin and it's been.
Speaker 1: It was just in the last year was made a
Speaker 1: historical marker which could preserve that place.
Speaker 4: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can't do anything with it. The building Yeah right.
Speaker 1: I mean right, I mean the rest that could go
Speaker 1: away in an office can move in there, but the
Speaker 1: building will live. I mean that place has had a resurgence.
Speaker 1: I think we it just meaning like forever it was
Speaker 1: just like the crustial locals.
Speaker 2: It was just a grumpy place.
Speaker 1: And now it's like really hip with the twenty somethings really,
Speaker 1: especially since they added it really changed when they added
Speaker 1: Pool Burger behind it, which is one of the best
Speaker 1: burgers in town.
Speaker 2: By the way, isn't that just a beer joint too?
Speaker 3: It's not a they have they have full bar now,
Speaker 3: oh they do, yeah, because that was a canned beer
Speaker 3: joint for a long time. Yeah, it was. It was rough.
Speaker 3: I've always said the professionals go to deep bed. I mean,
Speaker 3: those are real drinkers. You can't really talk tex mex
Speaker 3: In Austin without talking about mats al Rancho, which came
Speaker 3: around in nineteen fifty two on South Lamar.
Speaker 1: It's so funny that I was there, I don't know,
Speaker 1: six months ago or something. We met up with some
Speaker 1: friends and I wasn't like a regular going there growing
Speaker 1: up or anything.
Speaker 2: And it's so easy to think, oh, it's just overrated,
Speaker 2: it's just whatever, and.
Speaker 1: Then you go into Mattzell Ranch and the service is
Speaker 1: just amazing, real like they've had employees, you've worked there forever,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, places, a lot of places just
Speaker 1: don't have the hustle anymore. Like that place is just bomping,
Speaker 1: like they're on point. Great stuff. Well it's stuff.
Speaker 4: It's owned and operated by his daughters still, so it's
Speaker 4: been in the family this whole time.
Speaker 3: One hundred and two. No, I'm sorry, Matt Martinez from
Speaker 3: mattz a Rancho. He started out, it says uh in
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty three, selling to Molly's from a wooden push
Speaker 3: cart near.
Speaker 2: The Capitol when he was six. Yeah, she's a hustler
Speaker 2: from the beginning, right. Yeah, here's what trist I know.
Speaker 3: You've got some history with yeap el Patio on Guadalie four,
Speaker 3: my best.
Speaker 4: Friend Sean, she and her face, they're all the time.
Speaker 4: I've never been there without her, oh really ever. And
Speaker 4: it's where they started out by serving the saltine crackers,
Speaker 4: salsa saltines or and she and I would sit there
Speaker 4: and just eat crackers with butter, and everybody knew we're there.
Speaker 4: It's like she and her family were famous. And I
Speaker 4: didn't know this until just now that you can buy
Speaker 4: their salsa and hb.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah.
Speaker 1: So some place I almost went under what was a
Speaker 1: few years ago or maybe right before COVID.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that it was closing and lines were out the.
Speaker 2: Door or like got saved. Yeah saved.
Speaker 3: I remember someone talking about the back in the day.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't they still do it, but they if
Speaker 3: you had a crying baby with you, the staff and
Speaker 3: take the baby and.
Speaker 4: Hold the baby, walk around with the baby so you
Speaker 4: can eat. Yeah, I'll give me that baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just hand them away so I could eat
Speaker 3: my Enchiladas. Please, talking more restaurants. But Continental Club has
Speaker 3: been around since fifty five, which is surprising to me.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have guessed that. I wouldn't the early seventies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a lot longer than I thought. On Congress
Speaker 4: Avenue in the same spot this whole time, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I believe.
Speaker 2: So, I know.
Speaker 1: I know during COVID that era that the owner, Steve
Speaker 1: was he was on the news because you know, they
Speaker 1: were just killing everyone on property taxes. He's like, it's
Speaker 1: a historical landmark. I can't do any improvements. How was
Speaker 1: it worth more? Because it was going to run it
Speaker 1: out of business? That I mean, the taxes are a
Speaker 1: lot of the reasons that a lot of things got
Speaker 1: run out of business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh so they opened up what did you say,
Speaker 3: fifty five?
Speaker 2: Fifty five? If you're just if you're just joining us.
Speaker 3: We were talking about iconic Austin bars, restaurants and stuff
Speaker 3: that are still open. And when they opened. Let's go
Speaker 3: on to the nineteen sixties, right, the Carousel Lounge open.
Speaker 3: I'd ever been there sixty three.
Speaker 4: That's weird. I've heard of it my whole life, but
Speaker 4: I don't think that i've ever been there either, I
Speaker 4: don't think I have.
Speaker 3: No, I have been there. I've been there, and they're
Speaker 3: a beer and wine joint only.
Speaker 4: Circus themed bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was illegal to serve liquor by the drink when
Speaker 4: it was opened in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, which you have to buike. I'll take a keg.
Speaker 4: I guess, I guess so.
Speaker 2: Some other ones. Guys, what do you see Broken.
Speaker 4: Spoke is on the list, of course, there's we almost
Speaker 4: lost that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen years ago, we almost lost that. There was
Speaker 1: such a there was such a public outcry. They had
Speaker 1: to build, do all that development around it and keep
Speaker 1: it preserved.
Speaker 3: And then the people that lived around it are complaining
Speaker 3: about loud music.
Speaker 2: Shut up right.
Speaker 4: There since nineteen sixty four. Your condo building has been
Speaker 4: there for what like six years, and you're mad about
Speaker 4: the music coming out of the honky tonk that you
Speaker 4: moved into next door to come I know, and the roof.
Speaker 2: Has been collapsing in that place since nineteen sixty.
Speaker 4: Five, dragging lower and lower. I feel very tall, but
Speaker 4: I did not know really, probably based on the fact
Speaker 4: that I've only ever been in the Broken's book at
Speaker 4: night drinking beer into dance. Is that they have like
Speaker 4: really great chicken fried steak dinners. They start really good food.
Speaker 4: Apparently I had no idea and neither I didn't either.
Speaker 3: That's on again on sophomore Jabe, you've been a draft
Speaker 3: Horse pub, right, Yeah, that used to be well it's
Speaker 3: still around, thank goodness of rough Medical Parkway, just north
Speaker 3: of like thirty eighth or whatever.
Speaker 1: And that was like that's like heritage, heritage go to.
Speaker 1: Like you go in there and that beer is soaked
Speaker 1: into the tables.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it is. There's no cleaning those tables.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's it just it smells like your
Speaker 1: brewing beer in your grandma's basement. I like it kind
Speaker 1: of spills out into the parking lot too.
Speaker 3: Happy hours on the weekends, which is nice. We're gus
Speaker 3: move into the seventies now. Restaurant Top Notch Burgers, Yeah,
Speaker 3: open in nineteen seventy one on Burnett Road, still around.
Speaker 4: I haven't been there in so long.
Speaker 2: So long.
Speaker 4: They're charb They're like a grilled burger, right, I believe.
Speaker 4: So it's been a long time since I've been there.
Speaker 4: Days didn't confused film their Varsity Blues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, what else Dan's Hamburger.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, dance Hamburger's like and it's split to dance
Speaker 4: and Frams Dans of France because they got divorced. Those
Speaker 4: were late. That's like core memories for my childhood. There's
Speaker 4: no telling how many dance Hamburger's I've eaten in my lifetime. Really, yes,
Speaker 4: and they're exactly the same.
Speaker 2: Do they hit put thousand Island on them?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy seven, Esther's Follies are East Sixth Street opened
Speaker 3: up still there.
Speaker 2: Did not know that's been around that line. I didn't either.
Speaker 3: They say it was Texas's answer to Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 4: I'm in there a few times. It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: The people, the people that owned Liberty Lunch were the
Speaker 3: people behind Esther's Folly's.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: And finally, you guys want to know the place in Austin,
Speaker 3: iconic place that was bought for three hundred dollars on
Speaker 3: the outskirts of Austin, Okay in nineteen seventy eight. Guy
Speaker 3: but the name Bob Ogden bought Don's Depot. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: three hundred dollars on the outskirts of Austin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in nineteen seventy eight. It's on Fifth Street, I know.
Speaker 3: I guess that was the outskirts before probably Mopaq was built, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right next to it. Yeah, Buddy my tended bar
Speaker 3: there for a long time. His nickname, which I cannot
Speaker 3: say on the radio, is carved into the bar. It's
Speaker 3: pretty funny. So three hundred dollars Don's depot could be yours.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, is crazy.
Speaker 1: That's good these places are still around. I was going
Speaker 1: driving down Barton Springs last week, and you know, baby
Speaker 1: Akapolca's is gone. Yeah, the Shady Grove is gone. Green
Speaker 1: Mesquite just got saved by the employees. But like it
Speaker 1: just was kind of sad seeing Shady Grove all overgrown.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, oh yeah, it's like graffiti and overgrown and
Speaker 1: just sad.
Speaker 3: There's nothing there. Nothing's taken over, you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: abandoned again. It's probably priced out on Texas because it
Speaker 3: remember how the parking goes way back.
Speaker 2: Yeah find it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big footprint and I'm sure someone's trying
Speaker 1: to develop in into something else.
Speaker 4: I'm sure to end up being condos. Something, you know,
Speaker 4: some tall building. Barton Springs has it lost its charm?
Speaker 4: The whole strip kind of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it used to be, you know, because a lot
Speaker 1: of people were going to and from the pool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was like you were on like a little
Speaker 1: mini and it's like a little mini beach town. To
Speaker 1: go to Shady Grove or bake it baby ac pulcos
Speaker 1: hit the pool can take clothes.
Speaker 2: This I'll be I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 3: If you put me in front of where Shady Grove
Speaker 3: used to be and said, Sandy, you need to walk
Speaker 3: without looking at your phone to Barton Springs Pool, I
Speaker 3: don't think I could.
Speaker 2: Really, I don't think I could.
Speaker 3: I know it's on the other side, but I don't
Speaker 3: know where, Like I couldn't walk to it. I don't
Speaker 3: know exactly how to get to Barton Springs Pool never
Speaker 3: had like.
Speaker 1: The pool entrance. Well, there's two depends on which side
Speaker 1: you want to go to. You can go to that
Speaker 1: ac Morton side or the you know, the front side
Speaker 1: in the right. Yeah, but like do you know where
Speaker 1: the playground is, the big playground and you.
Speaker 4: Know where they aclfs the big giant field. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: literally across the street. You know where the Christmas tree is?
Speaker 2: Yes, right there. The gate to the pool is right
Speaker 2: like right far.
Speaker 4: From there, past the Christmas tree, and like down a
Speaker 4: little hill and it's right there. It's next to the park.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right, I guess you haven't been in
Speaker 2: a minute. Huh, I haven't. I haven't been in probably
Speaker 2: twenty years. It's funny. My daughter goes all the time
Speaker 2: with friends. I love it and just swims and just
Speaker 2: hangs out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or sometimes they'll they'll be too cheap and they'll just
Speaker 1: go under the spillway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what I do.
Speaker 2: Remember that, and how much is it to get in? Now?
Speaker 2: I have no idea? Do you good question? Do a
Speaker 2: quick search of that.
Speaker 4: Not it's not that expensive because we went a few
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 3: They still have that group of people that swim there
Speaker 3: every morning. That's so much their work.
Speaker 4: They're super early. Oh I'm trying to find how much
Speaker 4: take it's our.
Speaker 2: Come on to you.
Speaker 1: Two to five dollars for residents, depending on your age,
Speaker 1: four to nine dollars for non residents. I love that
Speaker 1: residents can get in cheaper.
Speaker 2: I do too. That's cool. Well, let's go Trish, get
Speaker 2: your bikini. It's so cold.
Speaker 4: It's so cold, I can't. I gave it up a
Speaker 4: long time ago.
Speaker 3: You're a big wiener. I know that's what you are.
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