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Speaker 3: When I'm looking Corollertown Beer, sometimes I'll go to HB
Speaker 3: and HGB had a store pop up. I mean they've
Speaker 3: had a couple of stores pop up, you know DFW
Speaker 3: over the years, but not in Dallas proper, right, And
Speaker 3: we're learning the HB is going to get a spot
Speaker 3: in Dallas at the southeast corner of Hillcrest Road and LBJ.
Speaker 4: Wow, let's go.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait what corner southeast corner Hill Chris Road and LBJ.
Speaker 5: Okay, pretty great location in North Dallas. Yeah, pretty great location.
Speaker 5: I had a post up the other day and I
Speaker 5: was asking people about things that are overrated. What's something
Speaker 5: that's or hyped up that you don't get And a
Speaker 5: lot of people were jelly roll BUCkies, maybe jelly roll
Speaker 5: jelly rolls of different things.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I know there's a couple of people put up AGB.
Speaker 5: Come on and I will tell you if you put
Speaker 5: up a GiB, you haven't experienced it. Like you're missing out,
Speaker 5: like you're you're wrong about that. I don't think it's
Speaker 5: it is elite. It is such a badass grocery store.
Speaker 3: It takes a special kind of person to think any
Speaker 3: grocery store is overrated.
Speaker 4: Are things that you don't get it. I don't like
Speaker 4: it's a store.
Speaker 6: What makes it better or different from grocery stores.
Speaker 5: There's the the it's kind of like a restaurant, Like
Speaker 5: there's so many pre cooked meals or meals that you
Speaker 5: just have to warm up. I guess those are pre cooked.
Speaker 5: And it's like high end, like super super nice. And
Speaker 5: there's like a barbecue joint. There's just like achb barbecue.
Speaker 7: Joint and it's good.
Speaker 4: Their barbecue place is awesome.
Speaker 7: It's like nuts and it'll get in.
Speaker 5: There's like a badass florist and then they they actually
Speaker 5: have an awesome selection of like craft beer and wine
Speaker 5: and dude.
Speaker 4: It is Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean tom Thumb has all of that, and that's
Speaker 6: where I go. Like they have pre meals right there.
Speaker 1: But what I would say this is, I mean we
Speaker 1: have a tom Thumb by our house and we go
Speaker 1: to that tom Thumb. Yeah, I would rather go to
Speaker 1: the Achib. I have to drive further to get there.
Speaker 1: But in al And I have a tom Thumb I
Speaker 1: don't know, eight minutes from my house and I have
Speaker 1: an Agib fifteen minutes from my house. I would rather
Speaker 1: drive to the Agib. And I like the tom Thumb
Speaker 1: just fine, right, Yeah, I like Tom Thumb too.
Speaker 5: Tom Thumb's just fine, but it's it's special, man, it's special.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 5: It is to normal grocery stores what a Bucky's is
Speaker 5: to a gas station.
Speaker 4: I won't disagree with that.
Speaker 7: Fair.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's others that are in Like
Speaker 1: I don't even know that I'm being fair and comparing
Speaker 1: Hib to Tom Thumb, like maybe it should be Achib
Speaker 1: compared to Central Market.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's got you know, Trader Joe Vibe too,
Speaker 3: because they have their own brand of raff too.
Speaker 4: Trader Joe's more like in the Sprouts category. And yeah,
Speaker 4: it's probably fair. There are some.
Speaker 5: Elite there's some elite Kroger's, there are some market places.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's a bunch of great stores, and then
Speaker 5: within some brands they have higher level stores.
Speaker 4: Right, but every AGB is magical. It's just everyone is
Speaker 4: exactly the same. It's a badass.
Speaker 3: The reason it's a big deal. Every time one pops up,
Speaker 3: there's a huge news story about it.
Speaker 1: And part of it is because it was mainly a
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Austin thing. Like when I went to school
Speaker 1: at ut in eighty nine to ninety, that's where I
Speaker 1: saw Egb's. I'd never heard of it. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is, and then you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't lived it down there in so long. But
Speaker 1: then when they started popping up here, it's just because
Speaker 1: they were they're like the South Central region, and then
Speaker 1: they kind of came into our marketplace. And when they
Speaker 1: go when they pop up, it's it's a people go nuts,
Speaker 1: like there's weights. It's kind of like when In and
Speaker 1: out Burger first showdout, You're like, why is there a
Speaker 1: line out in the seventy five? I don't understand, But
Speaker 1: it's the newness of it and that it's offering something
Speaker 1: that you're not getting at your other places.
Speaker 3: So a couple of years ago, it was a big
Speaker 3: deal when the Long Horned Ballroom was coming back, and
Speaker 3: I remember going, Okay, that's cool, but I've never experienced
Speaker 3: a long horn ballroom. I don't even know when it
Speaker 3: went away. Actually, I was like, okay, but any talking
Speaker 3: about venues coming back to the legendary venue. And then
Speaker 3: the first time I went there, I was pretty blown
Speaker 3: away by how historic it is too. Not only it's
Speaker 3: just a good venue, like how historical is you can
Speaker 3: walk through like I can't describe it. Where the bathrooms
Speaker 3: are on the other side. When you walk in opposite
Speaker 3: side of the entrance, they have these shrines to legendary
Speaker 3: acts and concerts that had played there over the years.
Speaker 1: When the current ownership group, led by this guy Edwin,
Speaker 1: bought it, they bought it to preserve the history of it.
Speaker 1: They had no desire to tear it down. And like
Speaker 1: one of the great venues from me growing up going
Speaker 1: to shows is the Bronco Bowl. The Bronco Bowl got
Speaker 1: torn down and turned into I believe, a home depot,
Speaker 1: so the building's not even there. So like where I
Speaker 1: saw Outcast and DiAngelo and all these great shows, now
Speaker 1: you go there, it's a different building and you can
Speaker 1: buy lumber. But the Longhorn Ballroom, when Edwin and his
Speaker 1: group bought it, they bought it and they worked with
Speaker 1: the city with the sole purpose of preserving a historic site,
Speaker 1: like the way they do in certain neighborhoods. You cannot
Speaker 1: tear this house down. It has historic value because of
Speaker 1: the architecture, and no matter what, we will not let
Speaker 1: you zone to tear this house down.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like what he did with that venue.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's crazy. All kinds of iconic acts have
Speaker 3: played there, but one of them is the sex Pistols.
Speaker 3: I'll admit I don't know a ton about but in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight they played the Longhorn Ballroom and a
Speaker 3: week after that concert the band was pretty much broken
Speaker 3: up because a lot of bad things happened.
Speaker 4: They had a lot of problem The.
Speaker 3: Bass player was accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death
Speaker 3: in New York said vicious.
Speaker 4: Have they ever seen Sid and Nancy? Anybody's seen that?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's worth seeing if you've never seen Sid Nancy
Speaker 1: Courtney Love, isn't it really? She plays a friend of Nancy's.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, have been weird. She was Nancy because you
Speaker 1: know she was just would have been strange. But then
Speaker 1: he died of a heroin overdose.
Speaker 3: Anyway, the point is when they came here January tenth,
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight, was a huge show. Then in fact
Speaker 3: the Marquis there's a picture of it. It's them and
Speaker 3: Merle Haggard's the other name on there. Merle Haggard played
Speaker 3: the long Horn Ball. Well, that concert is being released
Speaker 3: as a live album. Really, and I don't know who
Speaker 3: all has gotten like how do you even preserve that.
Speaker 3: I mean, someone had it and had it there for fifty.
Speaker 1: Years and they remastered it. Someone probably sad because I
Speaker 1: do know the Longhorn used to have a recording facility there.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's been recorded to, you know
Speaker 1: what the source material is. But yeah, probably it might've
Speaker 1: just come straight off the board onto a deck nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight.
Speaker 4: That would have that wouldn't have been that weird.
Speaker 3: The tickets for that concert in nineteen seventy eight were
Speaker 3: three dollars and fifty cents. Yeah, and they were selling
Speaker 3: it back last summer they were selling this.
Speaker 4: I guess there's probably back Longhorn Ballroom's back.
Speaker 3: So Herritage Auctions was selling those or had some un
Speaker 3: used concert tickets and they sold and bids were starting
Speaker 3: at thirteen hundred dollars to buy the tick to have
Speaker 3: the ticket.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: So it's a huge, famous show and it's going to
Speaker 3: be released underneath a universal music group.
Speaker 1: Sid Vicious got smashed in the Sid Vicious is the
Speaker 1: bass player you reference. He got smashed in the face
Speaker 1: with a bottle and was bleeding everywhere on stage.
Speaker 4: At this show, at this show. There's an iconic picture
Speaker 4: ticket events.
Speaker 1: Right, that's from Lotimore Ball fantastic And I believe I'm
Speaker 1: doing this off the top of my head, so forgive
Speaker 1: me if it's an accurate I believe they only played
Speaker 1: six American shows.
Speaker 3: That might be true because they're releasing and maybe less.
Speaker 3: Say they're releasing the Atlanta one, the San Francisco one
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so they were coming to America do an
Speaker 1: American tour and they didn't get to do a lot
Speaker 1: of shows because they imploded. Do they have like a
Speaker 1: popular song, God Save the Queen. Yeah, it's I Am
Speaker 1: the antique riest that one. I know, I'd probably reconi
Speaker 1: a man.
Speaker 4: It's punk.
Speaker 1: It's like you would have to be you know. It's
Speaker 1: not like they had radio hit. Yeah, Like, uh, didn't
Speaker 1: they do? We built this city?
Speaker 4: That's them. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now Generation X, which was Billy Idols group, had Ready
Speaker 1: Steady Go.
Speaker 4: That was like a song that actually kind of people
Speaker 4: know and they've heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's from those punk guys and gals. Getting on
Speaker 3: the radio was a middle finger to them. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: didn't want to be on They want that right now.
Speaker 3: They were actually uh, you know, rebelling against big stadium
Speaker 3: rock music that was dominating radio in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was that a queen?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, anything any like big rock any yeah, Zeppelin,
Speaker 1: any big rock band of that era, for sure.
Speaker 3: Boy, it's a documentary. It's a documentary. Time of year
Speaker 3: for me and Christine, the SNL documentary Tonight on Peacock
Speaker 3: Thecock come and then we're a month away or less
Speaker 3: than a month away from the led Zeppelin documentary.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be good, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever do you guys know the lead
Speaker 1: singer of the sex Pistols.
Speaker 7: I know Steve Nash.
Speaker 4: That's accurate.
Speaker 1: His name is he went when he was with the
Speaker 1: sex Pistols, he went under the name Johnny Rotten. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but his name was John Leyden and he had another
Speaker 1: group called Public Image Limited that actually had some decent
Speaker 1: sized alternative hits in the eighties. So if you ever
Speaker 1: see the band p I L.
Speaker 4: What is their most.
Speaker 8: Popular I could be wrong, I could be right. That's
Speaker 8: Supreme Court. They're uh, they're talking this over here.
Speaker 7: What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3: Are we gonna ban TikTok?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 4: They're discussing it. Ah, my girl, look at you in there.
Speaker 7: Curs data like I kind of want it to happen.
Speaker 4: Why do you say that.
Speaker 6: I don't use it so, but I know that it
Speaker 6: is good for small businesses and stuff like that. But
Speaker 6: the main thing is kids are just on it all
Speaker 6: the time. They're getting fake information from it and believing it.
Speaker 6: You hear all stories, stories, usually about some TikTok trend
Speaker 6: where these kids get hurt because they saw it on TikTok.
Speaker 7: So I don't really care.
Speaker 1: Most most nights, if I wake up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, my wife's back has turned to me
Speaker 1: and I see a glow and she's not She will
Speaker 1: even admit it, Like I think if they took TikTok away,
Speaker 1: she'd be like, well, cab six new hours a day back,
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do with this?
Speaker 7: Instagram's bad at that too. Yeah, Instagram's bad at that too.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: That's so funny that you say that, because this morning
Speaker 5: I couldn't go back to sleep and so I had
Speaker 5: that glow going on my side of the head.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I do the same thing.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 5: You look up, You're like, oh my god, I've been
Speaker 5: scrolling for forty five minutes. I've learned nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I'm on my phone just as much, probably
Speaker 1: more than she is. I'm just not looking at TikTok.
Speaker 1: She'll figure out what to do with that time. Everybody
Speaker 1: will figure it out. My kids are on TikTok. I
Speaker 1: don't know if dez is Maya's on it. My wife
Speaker 1: is on it a lot. I remember our very first
Speaker 1: show on The Eagle. Mark Cuban was in studio with
Speaker 1: this for the first hour, and I remember him talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, TikTok is you know, addictive. He's talk about
Speaker 1: how big it's going to get. It was already big,
Speaker 1: and how big it's going to get, and that.
Speaker 3: Always like stuck with me? Is he just talked about
Speaker 3: the addictive nature of it. And I think the question
Speaker 3: was more about like endgame entertainment and things like that,
Speaker 3: and how do you keep people folks on the game.
Speaker 3: But I've just done a pretty good job of not
Speaker 3: allowing myself to go down the hole the wormhole.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in other words, not taking on another app.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just kind of I have it, but I
Speaker 3: don't if I if I even do the TikTok, like
Speaker 3: the scroll five, six, seven, eight, and then I've found
Speaker 3: a way to stop, and I've tried to condition myself
Speaker 3: five years ago to do that, so I didn't get
Speaker 3: lost in that place because I just didn't want to,
Speaker 3: because yeah, I would feel I would feel guilty about it.
Speaker 5: I think I just do the same thing with not
Speaker 5: as you. I do the same things with people who
Speaker 5: watched TikTok. I just do it with Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, reels, reels s I uh, but I'll jump on Instagram.
Speaker 1: But I think when I'm on Instagram, I'm usually only
Speaker 1: on it like five to ten minutes at a time,
Speaker 1: and so I don't do as much scrolling, but I
Speaker 1: do stare at the screenk I mean, I do a
Speaker 1: ton of reading, and then obviously text messages and emails
Speaker 1: like you can.
Speaker 4: I can sit in a chair and spend.
Speaker 1: An hour doing emails and text messages because that same
Speaker 1: satisfaction you get from TikTok, where you're scrolling and something
Speaker 1: new is happening. If I send three or four text messages,
Speaker 1: there's a chance that there's two or three responses. So
Speaker 1: I'm having several text chains and looking at emails. It's
Speaker 1: the same sensation. Sure, you know, it's like a new
Speaker 1: thing is popping up, like busy work.
Speaker 3: Right the the lawyer for TikTok basically said, they will
Speaker 3: go dark on Sunday unless you're Supreme Court justices grant
Speaker 3: a temporary reprieve and it's been thrown out. Sixty to
Speaker 3: ninety days could happen. And this is basically going to
Speaker 3: come down to what does Trump want because the Supreme
Speaker 3: Court of six to three, and they will basically if
Speaker 3: Trump tells them to do this.
Speaker 4: They will.
Speaker 3: I think they're kind of debating, and I've seen that.
Speaker 3: Even Biden his last days because the inauguration is Monday,
Speaker 3: He's like, well, maybe we should do a reprieve, so
Speaker 3: that might be something that we agree on as we
Speaker 3: unite the country.
Speaker 4: And mister Best talking about buying it.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen that, but every time I open up
Speaker 3: Amazon Prime to watch Pop Culture Jeopardy, I see a
Speaker 3: Mister Beasts commercial and I don't like his face.
Speaker 7: It's a fake smile. It's a little irritating.
Speaker 4: I could not pick him out of a lineup of
Speaker 4: PGA guys.
Speaker 3: I couldn't until he was thrown at me on Amazon
Speaker 3: Prime a lot, and I just are you with me, honest,
Speaker 3: something weird.
Speaker 9: He's got a punchable he's got a punch of face.
Speaker 9: Sell to some of my favorite people, Colin, Jeff, just
Speaker 9: culture Jeff, you just have a punchable face face, Eli
Speaker 9: definitely Eli.
Speaker 4: Yes, all right, there you have it.
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