A Suggestion for The Roadside Fruit Guy

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Lovely three Shall us up? That's currently my favorite intro. All right, so everybody's looking for things to do in this summer. At the beginning of the month, we told you a few things that Austin Monthly said would be fun to do for June. Now that we're in the last week, we're going to recap some of the cool things that you can do, and really this is the

Yeah, she's got a lot chy and what did she am see? Golden globes holding globes? Yep, killed and killed it, killed it. Yes, she's one of over a lot of people with that.

And she's also on the rotation of the roasters like she's always.

Yeah, she's really really good at it too, and she's super freaking hot.

She is, She's not bad to look at, right. So Yeah, tickets available, two shows on the twenty second. Another cool thing to do. I feel like this is more for the guys to see The Big Lebowski on the big screen at the Paramount.

I've never seen that movie with Jeff Bridges. I've never seen.

I know that's a lot of people's favorite of all. Yeah, I don't know why I haven't seen her.

The following that's at the Paramount on June twenty second. Here's something I've done more than a few times growing up in Texas, the Luling Watermelon Thump.

Twenty Still I didn't know that was still going on. Yeah, that's been round forever.

Ever and we were talking about it recently and Sandy goes, I mean, like, what's it like. I was like, it's an outdoor festival in a small town featuring watermelon, just like the Floresville Strawberry Festival is an outdoor festival in a Texas small town, and Strawberry has been to that one too.

I bet they got a peaches one in Frederick's.

I bet you're right now.

I was just thinking the peaches are in full effect right now with the with the roadside stand.

You know what I do. That's how I know they're in season. All the people saw them on the side of their road.

A little little marketing tip for your roadside fruit vendor, just a little let me give you a little little business advice here. Put a sign up about a mile before you're set up, right.

Because by the time we know you're there, we're gone.

But if we know you're yeah, that that the knives and jerky guys are good at us. And the peach guy come on up, you're getting hide rugs.

Guys.

You need a few bucks to get a sign ahead of time. Did you not learn anything from BUCkies.

They let you know.

Hundreds of me eight miles ahead is the BUCkies.

They let you know. By the way.

Speaking of watermelon, I carved up the first summer watermelon yesterday.

JB. I had to watch.

I had to watch an Instagram video on the right way to cut up a watermelon.

You just wanted to use your cool knives.

Well, my new knight, my knives really did the job. I always want I buy watermelon. I'm lazy. I buy it.

Because I just I just feel so white trash walking out of my arm. I'm just being honest. It just feels like we're getting the family together and this is all we can scrape out watermelon.

I buy the pre slice so I can see if it's good or not. How many times am I unscrewed choosing the wrong whole water melon?

I picked the right one. This one's good.

Oh he brought he cut it up. I heard a bunch of banging around in the kitchen and then he comes in with this giant tupware of sliced watermelon and like forces me to eat it. He's like, I picked the best one.

I could pick him. I'm in charge of watermelon. Now, what do you look for, you.

Spot on the outside or the side that it laid on the most. Yep, that's what you got to look for. If it's got one of those, it's a good one, right. Really, our friend Anthony.

Taught us that, ye, and he's not wrong, except I still managed to screw it up a couple of times. So I went back to pre sliced watermelon. I think, I think I want to do a roadside fruit stand.

With a twist. With a twist, I'll pre promote a mile out. I got that mile. But here's some ma catch.

I'm going to put a sign of it says, but you'll say peaches, right, But underneath that even bigger, it says under new management.

Just a throw op people. And if they do stop, they're gonna want to know the story.

Yeah, yeah, we're in litigation.

I can't talk of that last I was stealing from us, right, it was embezzling peaches.

That's pretty funny.

And that whole thing, that whole roadside fruit standing in Texas m d a schmeyery.

Those people could have dried out that jerky under their bed. People are still going to buy it and eat it. Nobody asked questions. I mean, the peach is a peach, I guess. I don't know. I just recently watched the Thailand All Murders, remember when they were injecting cyanide, So I don't think that that's not the first thing that jumps these people could be injecting all of these pieces of fruit.

Good catch them pretty quick.

I don't know.

Maybe the poor peach salesman listening to this right now.

So bod, dude, I told you the story. I think once before I was I went out to Mono Ray Calfer to Pebble Beach. I got hired to cover the car show out there and do a podcast that was really really cool. And the people that yes, exactly and the people that hired me to do it just they did everything first class. It was nice and landed in San Jose, had to drive to Pebble Beach. Well, you go through really agricultural land there. You forget that part of California is all ag I mean, it's it's just

The hotel room again for the rest of the night.

And for the rest of the night I saw on the toyy looking at Instagram, doubled in pain. Mom, you were right. It's one of those things, you know. It's like a like a dog that shoes up a shoe. They know they're going to get a whipping, but they're like, it's worth it.

Yeah, it's my wife with something with gluten in it, like a dessert, and she's like she knows that the bloating's coming.

Yeah, but it's just sometimes it's worth it.

It is.

It's also the same way with you in donuts, Sandy. Oh, you're right, can't stuck with donuts.

I have eat the donut over a year though.

Yeah, but when you do, you ate twelve of them?

Yeah, well I ate. Did you get a chip? A potato chip?

No. Six one year chip, donut shapes chip?

Oh, I should do that, Donuts Anonymous, Like I could joke. I'm joke.

I'm not laughing at the thing because Sandy's approaching ten years a real chip, but that's only a donut chip.

That can add things that are going on this summer.

Yeah, I have one more left though, don't forget on the twenty fifth. Damn that cancer. Oh I'm sorry, yeah, June twenty fifth. Is it the thirtieth? Let me check, but damn that the.

Thirtieth, Monday thirtieth, Yes, and obviously you can't participate that those people have all committed and been selected and raised their money.

But there is a great after party.

This starts at like five or six pm at the LCR, a lawn next to Hulah. It's great. It's a really good organization. They raise over a million dollars with all those stand up paddlers paddling all of Lake Austin twenty one miles. They raise over a million a year. And the money they literally write checks to therapists.

Wow.

And they provide like if you have a cancer diagnosis in your family, they tell them about the Flatwater Foundation is the group. And if anybody you you know, the person who's who has cancer or anyone in your family needs counseling during this time, you know, here go and the Flatwater Foundation will pay the therapist.

What a great thing, you know what I mean, what a great not I want to say niche. But they fill the need right there, yep.

For that.

That's very very cool. So that's coming up at the end of the month. You know, I might be busy on Saturday. I'm gonna head down to Peace Park because there's a big, a casual blitz chess tournament starts at one thirty and runs no later than three point thirty two hours. The club generally ends at four fifteen. I just thought that was kind of cool. There's a chess tournament and chess club.

That meets at Peas Park, and I feel like it's all pea poles playing. I know what, I would want to see all the pea poles play in the park like in New York and.

Young Russians is what I picture. I pictured a bunch of young foreign.

Ut State. That's exactly who I picture too. It's right down the hill from the Universe from West Campus, so I know.

But if I go, I want to see all pe poles with John T hats in the park, just like you're do in movies in New York. You know what I mean? Central Park.

Did you watch The Queen's Gambit?

Yes?

I did.

Did you love it?

I did love it. I don't know why. I know nothing about chess nothing, and I still know nothing after watching the movie that I loved that movie.

Jabe, you played chess, right, I can. I got really into it in like middle school. Yeah, I did too.

And uh boy, if you don't play often, it goes like I'll occasionally I'll pick it up and play against the computer and I'm just like, oh my god, I just made the toughest man. You have to play it often to be sharp. I need to and I don't.

My dad gave me a really really cool I think it's called sandstone, like when they make the rook and the Night and all whatever you call the pieces of the chess board. And it's really cool. He got it in Southeast Asia or something, I can't remember.

They're made out of sandstone.

Yeah, and brought it back and it's just a really cool chess set. So I'm gonna be in Nebraska next week, JB. I'll bring it back. You and I can sit down. We'll go to Peace Park, we'll smoke a pipe, and we'll play chess. It'll be fun. It'll be fun.

That'll be great. I'll wear my jump seat. There you go, There you go.