Speaker 1: JV's going to tell us how he and his daughter
Speaker 1: have prepared for her trip to Iceland, which I want
Speaker 1: to hear more about, which sounds like a great place
Speaker 1: to visit.
Speaker 2: JB.
Speaker 1: I'll tell us about it in just a second, but
Speaker 1: real quick. There's something going on this all this weekend.
Speaker 1: You might want to get out and check it out.
Speaker 1: I've actually been to it. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: It is the Austin Greek Festival.
Speaker 2: This is happening this weekend. If you want to get
Speaker 2: out and we have great food, great fun.
Speaker 1: If you want to dance sorority girls.
Speaker 2: Not that one.
Speaker 1: This is living the Greek life that's going on at
Speaker 1: the Transfiguration.
Speaker 2: Greek Orthodox Church.
Speaker 1: It starts Friday at eleven goes till Sunday at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: Maybe I have a soft spot for these types of festivals.
Speaker 1: I grew up going to these types of church festivals
Speaker 1: as a kid. There was every parish would have a
Speaker 1: different festival and it was always fun and we'd wait
Speaker 1: until the last night at the festival. At One of
Speaker 1: the best ones was at Saint Peter and Paul was
Speaker 1: which was mostly Italian people, and at the end of
Speaker 1: the Sunday night they had would have all these Italian
Speaker 1: sausage and peppers and stuff left over, and they would
Speaker 1: sell them to us for like a quarter.
Speaker 2: You know, we would sit there and eat like ten
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: At the end of the festival, Sandy just waiting for
Speaker 3: the sausage.
Speaker 2: I have to go.
Speaker 1: And it was amazing how the parish priest always won
Speaker 1: the car giveaway.
Speaker 4: It's always weird how that happened, very very very priest
Speaker 4: down it.
Speaker 1: Jabie's daughter quite the world traveler. She's been to New
Speaker 1: Zealand recently. Now she's off to Iceland and you guys
Speaker 1: wanted to figure out what's going on in Iceland.
Speaker 2: Tell everyone how you did it.
Speaker 3: I know she's very adventurous and I like that, and
Speaker 3: I encourage her to do it. She loves traveling, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, she's twenty three years old, by the way,
Speaker 3: and I was like, you know, in my twenties, I
Speaker 3: was addicted to work. All I did was work, work, work, work, work,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you wake up and
Speaker 3: you're in your forties and you go, wait, when happened.
Speaker 3: It can happen pretty easily, So I encourage her to
Speaker 3: travel she loves it. She is going going with her
Speaker 3: boyfriend and their family, and I say boyfriend loosely. They're
Speaker 3: kind of not sure where they are right now, but
Speaker 3: they're going on the trip together anyway, let's leave it
Speaker 3: at that. And they had planned this for like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, six months, and so I was like, she
Speaker 3: was asking me about Iceland. I'd like, I have no idea,
Speaker 3: but it's just and this is what I'm about to
Speaker 3: say is probably so obvious a lot of you are
Speaker 3: going to sit there and go duh. But I was like, well,
Speaker 3: let's watch some travel shows on YouTube. And then I'm like,
Speaker 3: you tend to go grab your laptop and pop it open,
Speaker 3: right right, And I'm like, oh, well, why don't we
Speaker 3: just watch these on the YouTube app on our big
Speaker 3: screen TV. And it's I was shocked at how many
Speaker 3: really well produced, good YouTube travel shows there are, like,
Speaker 3: not network shows, not travel networks, just people YouTubers up here.
Speaker 3: Ten things you got to do in Iceland, right and
Speaker 3: then and then of course the algorithm takes you to
Speaker 3: the next one, and the next one and the next one.
Speaker 3: We just sat there and watched all these tourism shows
Speaker 3: on Iceland and she just sat there and kind of
Speaker 3: made her list. You know, it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 3: of hiking and hot springs and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's a huge volcano there, right, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of hot springs that the water
Speaker 1: table has been heated by them because of the volcano.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then you know, some of the people just say
Speaker 3: it's the most one of the most beautiful places they've
Speaker 3: ever been, Right, but then the weather, the weather can
Speaker 3: be really dicey in May, like you don't know if
Speaker 3: it could be forty degrees or eighty degrees one day
Speaker 3: to the next.
Speaker 5: So is she gonna make sure she tries to see
Speaker 5: the northern lights?
Speaker 3: I think that's on the list.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They I mean they're gonna be there. It's like a
Speaker 3: ten day trip, well a couple of days in Boston,
Speaker 3: but but anyhow, it's just like, I guess the point is,
Speaker 3: I just didn't think of using YouTube that way, that
Speaker 3: we would all just sit around and watch shows together
Speaker 3: on YouTube.
Speaker 1: YouTube shows, right, and has what I always wonder what
Speaker 1: the travel shows, like, how do these people get money
Speaker 1: to go do this? Like I would love to have
Speaker 1: a bunch of money to go make a travel show
Speaker 1: about Iceland.
Speaker 3: They're they're they're banking on enough views to pay for it.
Speaker 2: That's not a smart business plan.
Speaker 6: And then if they get enough views, then they get
Speaker 6: sponsors who pay for them to do the travel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is believing. We've had a couple of
Speaker 3: encounters with influencers. Yeah, when like, because so my daughter
Speaker 3: has a wake surf school and we've had a couple
Speaker 3: of people go, uh, yeah, do you have do you
Speaker 3: have any programs for influencers And you're like, uh.
Speaker 5: No, we actually charge them more.
Speaker 3: They expect things for free.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of them expect they call you want
Speaker 1: to do it for free because they're an influencer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what usually shuts them up because
Speaker 3: they'll go, well, you know, i've got five hundred thousand instagrams,
Speaker 3: sscribers or TikTok or whatever. They go, just tell him,
Speaker 3: show me a post of something you promoted. Then you
Speaker 3: know that you've got a hookup on and show me
Speaker 3: the results it got. And they can't produce one. They
Speaker 3: have a general subscribership of junk users. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: if they share something they did, you go, you've only
Speaker 3: got twenty likes like, how am I going to convert
Speaker 3: that into business? So it's very annoying.
Speaker 1: I kind of remember reading an article about like some
Speaker 1: hotels somewhere was they got a huge issue with people
Speaker 1: calling them all the time to do make content, but
Speaker 1: they didn't want to pay for the room or the
Speaker 1: spa or whatever. We had an experience ab with a
Speaker 1: guy's a travel guy travel show, a Texas travel show,
Speaker 1: and we were at the spot that he was doing
Speaker 1: the story on and I introduced myself and visited and stuff,
Speaker 1: and you know, gave him a business card and was like.
Speaker 2: Hey, we'd love to have you on the radio show.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, Trisha, were you call and
Speaker 1: try to book this guy on the radio show? You
Speaker 1: think we were trying to get George Clooney on the show.
Speaker 4: I was like, we're good, yeah, never mind, never exactly example,
Speaker 4: you're too difficult, No, thank you, We're done, goodbye.
Speaker 2: And that was the end of that.
Speaker 3: So well, I hope she has a great I guess
Speaker 3: who that is?
Speaker 2: Off the air? How's that? Okay, you'll guess?
Speaker 1: I think you probably now is this a backpacking trip
Speaker 1: or is this? You know, how are they doing it?
Speaker 3: It's just they are going to do a lot of hiking,
Speaker 3: and she loves hiking really except for that time we
Speaker 3: sent her to a wilderness program.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she has a lot of experience.
Speaker 3: She was very mad about it at the time. Now
Speaker 3: she reflects fondly on her lover of nature. It took
Speaker 3: a minute to get there. Oh, she's going to kick
Speaker 3: you in the growing and she laughs about it. Now,
Speaker 3: she laughs about it. I have another friend whose son
Speaker 3: went to that twice.
Speaker 2: Actually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she jokes that she was the strongest hiker, so
Speaker 3: she'd have to carry all the pots and pans. They
Speaker 3: just be clanking her and they'd be gone. They'd be
Speaker 3: gone for weeks at a time.
Speaker 1: All right, Austin is we're real good at complaining about
Speaker 1: things that are going away. I mean, Austin Knight's are
Speaker 1: really really good at that. And there's another one that's
Speaker 1: going away. But I'm kind of on the other side
Speaker 1: of it. I'm like, okay, whatever, we'll get to it
Speaker 1: in just a second. I got a first effort thing
Speaker 1: happened to me with Amazon. Thought i'd seen it all
Speaker 1: with Amazon. Got a message from them it said, hey,
Speaker 1: your item might be lost. Thanks, So I clicked on
Speaker 1: the thing and it said you want to cancel this
Speaker 1: or get a refund? Yes, click, and they go, well,
Speaker 1: not so fast. It might not be that lost. We
Speaker 1: might be able to find it. I'm like, that's weird,
Speaker 1: all right. It's first time ever for Amazon. Of all
Speaker 1: this stuff I've ever ordered, they've never lost anything. It's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. It's a stupid little thing that
Speaker 1: it cleans the inside of your window on your car.
Speaker 1: It's on a little stick and it's got a microfiber
Speaker 1: thing and you just kind of like a squeegee.
Speaker 3: Oh that sounds like an INSTA got me as I call.
Speaker 2: It, and.
Speaker 5: I one so cool. He's jealous of mine?
Speaker 2: You can borrow mine, cdy No, no, no, I don't
Speaker 2: like to borrow things from.
Speaker 5: Treesture because she don't give him back.
Speaker 2: And then and if it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Come back exactly like you took it from her, she
Speaker 1: throws a fit.
Speaker 5: As if that's incorrect.
Speaker 6: I shouldn't expect my item back exactly the way I
Speaker 6: gave it to you.
Speaker 5: Why are you making it sound like that's crazy?
Speaker 2: Because you're my wife and I should be able to
Speaker 2: do what I want.
Speaker 5: You have to complain about me?
Speaker 3: Rub out the people that borrow stuff, and then you
Speaker 3: have to get resort to asking for your own thing back.
Speaker 2: I've got the set me off.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I've got the ultimate story about that. So
Speaker 1: my neighbor when we lived in Valente, my neighbor, I'm
Speaker 1: calling out.
Speaker 2: His name's Darryl. Daryl borrowed my chainsaw.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's preface this by saying, Darryl is it's a
Speaker 6: perfect candidate to live.
Speaker 5: In a cult.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like what's mine is yours, and what yours is mine.
Speaker 1: It's like community property is. And so I let him
Speaker 1: borrow my chainsaw. And you know, six eight weeks go
Speaker 1: by and I see Darrel. I go, hey, Darryl, can
Speaker 1: I get my chainsaw back? He goes why, And I
Speaker 1: go why, Well, I mean cause it's it's my chainsaw.
Speaker 1: He goes, what do you have a project you're working on?
Speaker 1: I go no, He goes, well, why do you need
Speaker 1: it back?
Speaker 5: It's like it's just down at my house.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, it's just down at my house.
Speaker 1: You can come here. No sense to him. Yeah, He's like,
Speaker 1: you can just come down and get it whenever you want.
Speaker 1: I go, darl you don't understand I bought the chainsaw.
Speaker 1: I want it in my garage so I don't have
Speaker 1: to come down to your house.
Speaker 3: This is a sore subject.
Speaker 2: Twenty years ago. I'm still mad about it.
Speaker 5: I just said, here we go the nerve.
Speaker 1: To think that I want to want something that belongs
Speaker 1: to me under my roof.
Speaker 6: But in Darryl's mind, again, perfect candidate for a cult.
Speaker 6: He's like, but you know where it is, and it's
Speaker 6: right there, and you can use it, and I can
Speaker 6: use it, and fill across the street can use it.
Speaker 5: And it's over one big happy family. That's literally what
Speaker 5: his thinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how he is. That's the way I should
Speaker 2: have known it too.
Speaker 1: But anyway, let's talk about the closing, the least ending
Speaker 1: of the Museum of ice.
Speaker 5: Cream in the domain.
Speaker 2: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: A lot of headlines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it must be slow news. Have you ever been Nope,
Speaker 1: didn't even know we had one.
Speaker 3: Didn't know we had one there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've made plans three different.
Speaker 6: Times over the last I don't know, four or five
Speaker 6: years to go with our daughter, and two at the
Speaker 6: times they were sold out, to get sold out. And
Speaker 6: when I've been in the domain, every time I walked past,
Speaker 6: if the line was out the door. So it's a
Speaker 6: big deal. And I never actually made it inside.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I guess I don't knowunderstand why is is
Speaker 1: Austin a hotspot for ice cream?
Speaker 2: I know Amy's is a big deal.
Speaker 6: Amy's has something in their bluebell a bunch of local
Speaker 6: ice creamries. It's like it's just like a mysterious ice
Speaker 6: cream that's from Bluebelt. It's just a tip of the
Speaker 6: hat to how much everybody loves ice cream, and the
Speaker 6: kids go nuts. There's like a huge sprinkle pool, you
Speaker 6: know how you have a ballpit?
Speaker 3: Do they probably? I can't remember doing this as a
Speaker 3: kid and thinking it was cool. It was like making
Speaker 3: ice cream from scratch with ice and solid and.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if kids today would do that, I'd
Speaker 3: be like, they.
Speaker 2: Would go trust me.
Speaker 6: We made it all the time at my grandparents ranch.
Speaker 6: And my grandfather would refuse to have an electric ice
Speaker 6: cream maker. Yeah, take cranking it or else. He wouldn't
Speaker 6: eat it. He's like, no, if we're doing it, we're
Speaker 6: doing it the right way.
Speaker 3: It was better that way, though. The vanilla would come
Speaker 3: out more like Amy's Mexican vanilla.
Speaker 5: Oh, had some strawberries on it. That's the best combo.
Speaker 2: We had rock salt to it. What did that do?
Speaker 5: Something about helping it freeze or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it helps it get to a cooler temperature.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not in the ice cream. It's on the outside.
Speaker 3: Right, you had to pour the rock salt on there
Speaker 3: and elsa. Maybe it's the opposite. I don't know. It
Speaker 3: does something to the texture of it.
Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, but the.
Speaker 3: Thing is, yeah, there's this big public outcry that it's closing.
Speaker 3: None of us have been right. This is so awesten
Speaker 3: to never go do something and then all complain when
Speaker 3: it goes away.
Speaker 5: Be sad.
Speaker 3: We always do this. Ye, like when Shady Grove closed
Speaker 3: and people were all crying about it. I go, when's
Speaker 3: the last time you went.
Speaker 5: To it.
Speaker 6: It's hard to get to it, hard to park, but
Speaker 6: I've had comfort knowing it was there, right.
Speaker 3: Thread Gills is gone. You know Janis Joplin used to
Speaker 3: play there. I go, that's probably the last time you went?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You used to say this when when the jazz station
Speaker 3: would go away and there'd be there'd be this public outcry,
Speaker 3: and go did just support it?
Speaker 2: Right, did you listen to No?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: It was there, right, just like the comfort of knowing
Speaker 5: that's where it was.
Speaker 1: It's weird how we get worked up about things that
Speaker 1: we don't support and they go away, and then we
Speaker 1: get mad that they go away.
Speaker 6: But then there's a few things that people that the
Speaker 6: moment that they hear any kind of a whisper that
Speaker 6: it might go away, people freak out and like chain
Speaker 6: themselves to trees like Peter Pan Golf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they keep getting extensions. Remember when El Patio was
Speaker 3: going to close and then people stepped in and bought it.
Speaker 3: That was people were ready to chain themselves to that place.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Sandy was going to chain himself to Dirty Martins.
Speaker 3: But again, I've never been to El Patio.
Speaker 5: Oh it's really so long since I've been.
Speaker 3: Never been, and I haven't been to Dirty Martins. And
Speaker 3: man definitely pre Covid I.
Speaker 2: Go for about the last three years.
Speaker 1: I go about once a month because I have to
Speaker 1: go downtown for something and it's like I don't know
Speaker 1: ten blocks away, so I always duck in.
Speaker 2: There and have a burger.
Speaker 3: That's one that's a place that people continue to support. Yeah,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, right, but you never know who's going
Speaker 3: to be in there. I know I took it was
Speaker 3: before COVID, so it was probably at least five years ago.
Speaker 3: My dad was in town. He lives here now, he's visiting. Said, man,
Speaker 3: where can you get a good flat grill burger? Like
Speaker 3: that's what he grew up on. And you don't see
Speaker 3: that as much anymore, flat grill burger. They're more broiled.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, have you never had dirties? Oh?
Speaker 3: So I took him to Dirty Martin's and I said,
Speaker 3: I said, just wait, you never know what legendary longhorn
Speaker 3: you might see here, somebody legendary. And sure enough we're
Speaker 3: sitting there, and then Ed Clemens walks around the corner
Speaker 3: the radio all the time. Yeah, and he waves and
Speaker 3: starts walking over towards us. But with him was Ben Crenshaw.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I thought my dad was going to lose
Speaker 3: his He was star struck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Masters twice and it's a longhorn too that school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Ed and Ben they probably get together on
Speaker 3: the regular. But those guys are college buddies. They go
Speaker 3: all the way, they go all the way back to college.
Speaker 3: They were I think they were fraternity brothers. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but that's a classic Dirties moment right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've seen back in the day, I
Speaker 1: saw Coach Brown there. Just weird seeing Coach Brown there
Speaker 1: sitting eating a cheeseburger praying to guy who doesn't recognize
Speaker 1: me because of our coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did for years.
Speaker 1: So for those of you that don't know, Dirty Martin's
Speaker 1: is a hamburger joint on the drag what is it,
Speaker 1: twenty eighth something like that, and it's been around for
Speaker 1: over one hundred years, and there was talks of it
Speaker 1: going away because of the light rail proposal for the
Speaker 1: that guy people worked out, Yeah, for sure, and they
Speaker 1: were going to run the train tracks right through Dirty
Speaker 1: Martins and they wised up and they re routed it
Speaker 1: a different direction. So I can't remember the name of
Speaker 1: that organization that was doing that, but they took a
Speaker 1: lot of heat when they started talking about Dirty Martin's
Speaker 1: closing down. In fact, they bought t shirts that said
Speaker 1: save Dirtys and keep Austin Dirty.
Speaker 3: The other one that they that Austin Nites are really
Speaker 3: clinging onto. So it used to be back in to
Speaker 3: save our springs day. It was everything. Anything changing was disaster,
Speaker 3: like total disaster.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: But the other thing that gets Austinites worked up, and
Speaker 3: I'll go, well, when's the last time you went there
Speaker 3: is the Muni golf Course.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: I go tell what, find me someone who's played there
Speaker 3: under over the age of fifteen. Let's start with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right,