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October 9, 2025 31 mins

On today's special episode of The Hauraki Breakfast Podcast, Jerry and Manaia are joined by ACC Head G Lane poolside at the Westin Hotel in Austin, Texas.

The fellas discuss the flight over, the characters they've met along the way in the first 24 hours and the interesting gun laws in Texas...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H I live from the mobile Export Beer Gardens Studios.
This is Day one of the Export Beer Garden Tour
of Austin.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Agenda Podcast Texas edition right to you by Export Ultra.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh I get it there and welcome along.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It is the Export Bergarden Tour of Austin, Texas Day one.
It is breakfast with an Agenda with myself Glane and
it's a pleasure to introduce Manaia Stewart and Jeremy Wells's
re splendent in a pink cowboy hat.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'll tell you what you've got to say. This is
possibly the best place we've ever done a podcast from.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
It had been the top three for sure.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
The rooftop bar of our hotel. It's not only a
rooftop bar, so it's a pool well, rooftop bar and pool.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Rooftop bar and pool of the Western downtown in Austin.
We can be any closer to the action Day one.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I feel that.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Spirit's are high. I feel like the flight was well
executed from all involved. Yep, there was reports of some
people had eight hour sleeps. Yet on the flight of
a fourteen hour flight, you stayed away from the beef lane.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I stayed away from the beef. Controversially went for the fish.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
So did I Yeah, really yeah, And it's it's a
real dice roll because there's a chance you mighte spew
there's but it relaxes the gut.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's not as heavy on the gut.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
And I think after our last trip, you know, at
nauseum this week about the beef and the havoc that
wrought on our intestines, I think the fish was a
smart option.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah. Well I went with the beef because it was
the option. There was the chicken, there was the beef,
or there was the fish. And in my experience, fish
on a flight it's just very fishing.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, how long? When did that?

Speaker 4 (01:36):
You can't tell me that that's come straight from the
mo wana and then straight into the aircraft?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Who called that? Well?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
The fact was that where it was flying out of Auckland,
I thought, surely that snapper is fresh, surely coming out
of Austin, Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Maybe not. Maybe not.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
When I'm thinking Kimawana, I'm not thinking it rang waka.
I'm thinking I'm thinking just waka on the standard moyana.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Sure, but rangy Walker not how on?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Hey, so a very incident free lot of nerves landing
in Houston, Texas because people were very nervous about their
social media feeds. Obviously Trumpy having a bit of a crackdown.
Anything anti Trumpy will cause an issue. Yes, but we
sailed through. Well, the key was that.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
We spoke English, but anybody that spoke Spanish was immediately
taken out of the queue and sent somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Now, they did take it.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
They did have a double take at me, and for
some reason, Joe and I got called through customs together
and he goes, what's the relationship between you two?

Speaker 3 (02:34):
We're like bumming whatevers. Well, what's the right answer?

Speaker 5 (02:38):
Here is the one that's Textas we got through, a
man brandish to firearm at me as soon as I
walked past there.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
But luckily didn't get detained. But two of the group did. Yeah,
Ben and Courtney struck some issues just coming through randomly,
it turns out.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
But then they weren't allowed their phones, so they were
just terrified because isn't that you know how the story
goes like that, you get taken away, you don't have
your phone, you don't know. Then Ben had to stay
scrolling through his Instagram because he'd told them I've come
over with this radio station and they said, well, there
must be some evidence of that on you like so
then he's scrolling back through the ACC's Instagram to try

(03:11):
and find and at that point I was like, that
was a dangerous, dangerous.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Stupid, But they got through. We jumped on a bus
we had Ricky Bobby was our bus driver who took
us to Sorry, I just got distracted.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
The six who took us to Applebee's for dinner. Can
I say first impressions?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
I always think when you walk out of an airport,
you know, you remember the last time you walked into
an airport was in a completely different country, you know,
fifteen thousand k's away, and then all of a sudden
you walk into you walk out of that, and you
walk off a plane. Then you walk and for me,
it's always that first impression of the smell, of the
feeling of the atmosphere that hits you. And my first

(03:53):
thing that struck me walking out and out of the
Austin airport warm, moisture, uh steamy and this is like,
this is what five thirty at night?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Someone like that succeed at night. Well, I think it
was four when we landed but yeah, it was, it was,
it was. It was thick. I was expecting a dry heat,
but no, it's very, very humid.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Ricky Bobby our bus drivers as the first of I'm
sure many characters across this trip. But he so he
picked us up. He gave us all the recommendations of
things to do in Austin. He had the classic Texas accent.
And then we stopped at the Applebee's and Brenham, which
is equidistant between Austin and Houston, and we sat down

(04:33):
there and he regaled us with the gun laws.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Where you asked him if he was carrying Well, you
asked him, who's pecking?

Speaker 4 (04:41):
You said, you're pecking Ricky Bobby, and hell, he thought
we were talking about guns.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
We were, but he.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Laid the lay of the land down. He said, I
actually can't tell you whether I've got a gun on
me or not. And we're like, we'll do you an
I guess no. I was like, but how do we
know if you're lying or not?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But he had one on the bus. Oh, he had
one on the bus. He had one in a bag.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
He had two bags on the bus, one had his lunch,
one had a gun in it.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
But well, he did say that he was nervous because
he didn't have his gun with him, that he couldn't
protect us.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yes, which first off, I felt grateful for.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Apparently, the rules in Texas are you are allowed to
if you're licensed to carry a firearm, you're allowed to.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
You can have it on your person at any time.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
If you're walking into a bar, the bar needs to
be a restaurant to take your gun.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
You can't just go into a nightclub with a gun
on you. That seems fair enough. And is it a
concealed do you have to wear it on the outside
of your clothing. You do not have to wear it
on the outside of the clothing. Concealed.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
You have to conceal it because to display it is
considered brandishing, which is an offense. So you cannot brandish
a weapon, but you can carry one. That's different in
every state, because there's some states where.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
If you you have to brandish, you have to see
that you've got.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
So the thinking behind that, according to Ricky Bobby, is
if I'm a bad guy and I've come in to
do bad guy stuff and i can see who's got
the guns, I've already counted up and I can take
those people out first. But if they concealing, we don't
know who's got there, and that apparently is a deterrent.
He said, he doesn't know how we feel so safe
in our country when no one's got a gun.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
He's like, what are you going to do if someone
does something? And I'm like, with what, we don't whip
your hand in hand.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
He heard a bump in the night the other night,
Rocky Bobby, and and he got up to an in
to investigate. His wife followed him down with the Desert
Eagle or a three pointifty seven caliber handgun, a handgug
over his shoulder would have broken.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Her wrists had she fired a shot out of that thing.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
And I got to say, how Rocky Bobby didn't get
close range executed by his own wife.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
So you're going down with a handgun, your wife's also
walking around the handgun because you've heard a noise in
the house, assuming that some random has turned up into
your house. They're broken and somehow through the locks, and
then they are walking around with a gun trying to
kill you. For some reason, they come into your house,
no reason, just to kill you, to kill you, to
kill you and you're wandering around with a gun.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yourself with your wife. Also, like to me, that is
a dangerous situation. He's got the cannon on it.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Come on, what about a cricket bat. I mean, if
you have a baseball bat or a cricket bat, that's
going to do the track. You're wandering around with a
baseball bat.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
But then their theory is what if they've got a gun.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
That's right, and that's the theory.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh, if they've got a gun, they're going to and
you've got a gun, they're gonna shoot you. But if
they've got a gun and you don't have a gun,
chances are they'll just point the gun at you and
you go, I don't have a gun.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
They'll go and take what they want.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
So, and he's thought about this a lot as well.
What would happen in an active shooting situation? He's apparently
the rulers. Wait your turn, So someone pulls a gun out,
you don't just pull yours out and start blasting.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Wait your turn.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Now, I thought initially he was going to say, you
wait until the guy turns and engages you.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
At that point, you draw your weapon. You're justified.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
He said, no, you wait till he's not looking. That's
when you pull your piece out, blow you light them up?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
What is this going to happen?

Speaker 5 (07:50):
And also, but the other the idea that because there
might have been forty people at this bar who were
at the idea that one person is going to come in, then.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Everyone draws their weapons. How the hell are you going
to know who the bad guys?

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Everyone's shooting the turkeys ship at that stage.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, well that's what they say in those situations, the
fog of war, fog of war and apple of applebeets.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
So also, you can carry a weapon into a bank,
but not a pharmacy.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Not into a post post office.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
You can walk into a bank in Texas with a
gun on your hurt, but you cannot walk into the
post office. Okay, so they would rather protect the male,
I presume. And also you can take a gun into
the fucking city council.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
And also with the also whether the rules of engagement,
I believe if someone punches you in the face, you
cannot pull your gun out and shoot them.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
No, because that's not a life threatening situation unless yes,
you are a woman in roch case that is considered
life threatening, which I think is sixist.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I think equal opportunities for all shooting shooting victims.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
But yes, so if you're a woman then and you're
and you've been pasted the face, you are within your
rights to blast that.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
But choking someone puts their hands around your nick, you
can blow the head off.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
If you're a woman, again, you can. If you're being strangled,
if you're a man being strangled, no, okay. But if
he's coming at you, if someone's coming at you with
a knife, yes, spoon, no fork, no knife years okay,
you need to be very justified.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
And what about a sporwk No, no combination of fork?

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah, but what about one of those kiwi fruit things
that's both a knife and a spoon?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
A bread knife? Or what about a bread a knife?
And these are the issues.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Knife, I don't know if it's I'd rather by a
bread knife than a fork.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, but I don't know if it's a bread knife
or a real knife. I'm blowing your head off with
the dizzity.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
I know.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
But would you rather be attacked by a person with
a fork or a person with a bread knife?

Speaker 3 (09:45):
A bread knife? Yeah? Bread knife? Yeah? They need to
look at that law. Yeah, I think there's a few
gray areas in the gun law.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
But I do think it's about time they opened up
the top drawing, just sort the coutlory, what canon? What
canon can I is?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
So that was it was Houston.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
We got pay dot by Ricky Bobby obviously, topped apple
Bee's for dinner, and then came to arrived in Austin
late at night.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
It was probably ten o'clock at night. But actually even
before we got there, we've got a bunch of drinks
off from the off license, from the off license.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
The bottle store, which apparently was the size of a
fucking werehouse supermarket. And then also just as an aside,
we drove past Texas's largest petrol station, this thing I shout,
you know, as the size of Record and Mall, and it.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Is just a petrol stages. BUCkies, BUCkies, yeah, how many?
How many petrol nozzles you reckon? They've got forty? Yeah,
at least.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Just huge long lines of three deep.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
The original BUCkies was turn on a sixty nine for
a gallon, which is almost four leaders. So we're looking
at about sixty seventy cents a leader.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's reasonable, wasn't it? And alsoick my hand luggage the
old Texan.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
I guess they have oil here, so that sort of helps,
doesn't this where it's from. But I also we drove
past Texas is only cricket oval, yes, instigated and built
by some Michael Indians. When I say Indians, I don't
mean Native American Indians. I mean Southeast Asian Indians from India,
and they love crocket and they it actually looked like

(11:08):
it looked like a green seamer.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well look, well, the thing is Texas is quite green,
very very green, and green, yeah and green.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
And so we stopped at that off lasts.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
We've got a bunch of drinks and at this point
in the podcast, I need to issue an apology to you, Jeremy,
because your lovely partner, Tulsi has come over here with us.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
She she got.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
A brown paper bag filled with shots, single serve shots,
and she walked up the bus and we were doing
shot real lit. So she said, close your eyes, put
your hand in the bag, and grab a shot. I
closed my eyes and put my hand directly up her skirt,
at which point she said, you've you've missed the bag.
Your hand is up my skirt. So I had to

(11:52):
move my hands a shot of sorts. Yeah, and then
opened my eyes and and so so I just like
apology to you, Jeremy for that's fine.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Last so yeah, the road he was good.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was about a three hour drive from Houston to Austin, Texas,
and arrived here. We arrived at night times. We didn't
really get to see much of Austin. Immediately it was
a bag drop situation, so we informed the rest of
the rest of it. No, not an euphemism, so we
informed the rest of the party, throw.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Your bag at the back wall and get back down here.
That's right.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Nikita and Kristen from Dunedin, Lewis and Sarah and Ben
and Courtney from from Auckland, Tom and Haley and Nick
and Sam.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
And Gelane took to the mic, bringing us in Beacomf's
beij Tours that used to run in Europe where he'll
take lizards two different events around Europe. And immediately he
just straight was straight into lizard mode. He was like
the lizard king on the mic and suggesting to everybody
that they need to go up to their room and
wash away their long haul badge.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
And I could see that, Ricky Bobby.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
It was the first time he had ever been introduced
to the idea of long haul VOT as it's known
in New Zealand, and.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
His mind was boggling. He was, I wonder what that
could be.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I mean, if you've never flown long haul, which probably
most people in Texas haven't because you know, you probably
don't really leave Texas a huge state.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, I said, long haul, bad, long haul, balls and
swamp pass.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Get rid of it all.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Go have a quick shower, don't don't bag drop, and
then just come straight down bag drop, quick shower down.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I could see Ricky Bobby. He was looking around the place.
He was like, who is this lizard who's taken to
my microphone? And well, I have to bless it after
he leaves.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
So we arrived at bag Drops, sorted out.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
The long haul issues. Hurting on the toilet bot but
are hurting on several bowls.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Can I address the toilet situation in America? And I
don't know if this is the wider United States, but
Texas in particular, the water levels.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, in the toilets and in the urinals boggling. It is.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
You're getting tongue at all his kiss every single time
because you are sitting inches away from the water.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
I find that fault.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
I find that's quite good though, because the water then
seals off what you've done. Whereas in New Zealander's potential,
where you can create a white island situation where you've come,
you've come.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
The sea.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
I've seen that, and you have.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
And that's when you and that's where you that's where
it's problematic, so promatic.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
So I think in America here they've got the full water.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
And you're lay sometimes in a circular cable that will
end up almost doing a lap of the bowl. It
circumnavigates the bowl. I've seen some shocking things from my
own bow. Actually, if a good thing about that situation, man,
I is I'm pretty sure this is why they have
very low rates of bower cancer in the States, is
because you get to have a good look at what
you've done, and before you flush it, you look and you'

(14:49):
zeal And oftentimes she just slips down and you wouldn't
even know what you've done.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's like a long drop basically.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
Actually, speaking of long drops, on the bus, there was
a toilet installed on the bus and it is one
of the most hair throwing toilet experiences I've everhead you
walk into you open the door and walk into it
like you do on a plane, but for some reason,
it makes you hyper aware of how fast you're moving.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
About one hundred and forty kilometers down the high Rocky
Bobby was hammering it.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I was asking him for a story, and he was
turning around and talking to me on the front seat,
and he drove off the road.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
And the same when Joe was trying to work the stereo.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, and Ricky Bobby was helping him work the stereo,
and he was sort of he'd looked down for like
seven seconds and it was like Regcky Bobby, keep your
eyes on the road.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
And we were drifting off into the into the side part.
The rumble strip came. He goes, oh, sorry about yo yoel.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Our fust was way too big for how many people
we had?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
What a third fall?

Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, not even that, not even So you walk into
the toilet. Rocky Bobby's doing that g Lane's fucking with them,
just missing with the stereo. Rocky Bobby's all over the
road and you're bouncing around to this toilet. Yeah, all
of a sudden aware that you're moving one hundred and
forty kilometers about a foot away from Ashfelt and it's
the most terrifying passive ever ahead of my life. Anc
And all I could think of is the same thing

(16:02):
everyone that used to said when they came out.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Imagine if they crashed while you were in there.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
It's all thoughts like you're coveted, and then pulling your
body out, you just covered in.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Everyone else's as well. It's been going on there bus.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
We'll take a quick break. We'll be back to fill
you in with what happened post arrival. I got a
bag chuck, and then we were off to Friends Bar,
I believe, which.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
On the recommendation of the bartender here at the Western
and they said, off you go.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Friends.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Is the spot live music? Yes, And sure enough there
was a live three piece band.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
And the woman in the front there to describe them,
there's a woman who looked like Caitlyn Clark, Yes, the
w NBA.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Player Kaitlyn Clark. As she had a methodone addiction.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yes, and this woman could shred did when you guys arrived.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
You guys arrived a little later than Menji lab with
the Originally we walked into the bar and she was
shredding in the middle of the crowd. So she had
some kind of thing on a guitar, which meant that
obviously was paying back to the to the m and
she's no courts.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
She's in the middle of the of the guitar.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Just shredding up a store. Then she's treading up a storm.
Then she starts ordering a drink while she's shreading up
a storm, playing blues, like just killing it like Stevie Rayveall.
She exactly killing it. And it was a three piece.
He had the two females there.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
The rhythm section was was a male drummer who was
about nineteen.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Like the son of the bass guitarist, right yeah, and
he was getting orders back to him by the bass guitar.
So this band was entirely set up to leat Caitlin
Clark just wow.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
And Cassie Rayman was on bassis.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yes she was. She was with a cowboy hat. But
they could play. They could they could definitely play.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
And it was loud, but it was and it was
a Wednesday night, so it was a strange crowd. But
I noticed that they don't they don't dance the Americans.
They were standing around picture like a blue light disco
where the boys and the girls are separated and backs
up against the wall.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
That's basically what it was. I think we were the
only ones dancing, yes, yes, and the interestingly there was
from one of the members of the group. There was
a touching of the guitar at some point and oh
yea and things turned after that.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Actually, Caitlyn Jenna, she wasn't kid, It's not Katland Jenna.
She would she did not take kindly to that. And
nobody was tipping, so nobody was putting money in the
tip jar. So she's obviously paid by the venue detendant,
but probably minimally. And then she makes money on the tips,
and nobody was putting anyone. Everyone was sitting around listening
and she's performing and nobody's putting any money on the

(18:31):
tip jar. And then she had a crack and she
don't touch me, don't touch us, don't touch my guitar,
don't what else did she say? Don't talk to me
while I'm playing, BUTNK and none of you and none
of you put any tips on. What the hell was
wrong with you? She and swore at us.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
She had a real crack, and we were like, we've
just spent five hundred New Zealand dollars on a round
a beer, so it's like, can you take some of
that all of this? Oh yeah, she had a proper
crack and it kind of really killed the buzz because everyone.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
When Kay.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
Talking quite good before you're a bit yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Anyway, so we knocked it on the hit about two
and called it. We did send out Nikita and Crest
to go and do a bit of a conaissance at
some other bars.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
They didn't find anything.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
No, they came back and they said it's just creepy nightclubs,
no live music. So made the sensible decision to then
call it because we had a big day playing the next.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Day over two hundred and fifty live music venues in
the city, which is a.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
City freaky of less than a million people, so smaller
than Auckland.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, they called themselves the live music capital of the world,
which I thought was Nashville.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
But I got to be honest, I think they're onto something.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, And this morning we got
I must have out it was my sleep was a
mixture of an anisthenic, anesthetic, coma and asleep pretty much.
It was enveloped by the pillows and duvet, and then
I woke to a startle at about twenty to ten.
Worked out that the bus left at ten, so quickly

(19:58):
quickly ran down Stead and we jumped on a bus tour. Yeah,
because the thing with the time difference here, it's quite interesting.
Seven hours in front the day behind. Yeah, so you're
going so when you So we went to sleep at
what two? But you know, considering we had a long
haul fly, I could have probably stayed away for another
few hours. How I felt like sort of eight o'clock

(20:19):
night or something.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
When I woke up, I felt like, you know, and
you randomly have to sit in a larvel like three
in the morning or something.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
That's how I felt when.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Well I was three in the morning. Literally was yeah,
And so we got on the bus. Big shout out
to her Man Connor was our tour guide. He's got
a band flight by Nothing, I believe it's.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Called That's the one and the bus we were on.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
If anyone's been to Vegas or familiar with any movies
that are filmed in Vegas, it's the bus that looks
like will the strippers do the mobile stripping in It's
basically a kind of a large truck with a big
tinted black windows.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Was that what that pole Connor was? Yeah, okay, that
makes sense that.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, but gave us a quick tour into the capitol
Sexas capital here in Austin.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Which is impressive building.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Back in the day, of course, Austin, you weren't allowed
to build any building taller than the state Capitol building. Yeah,
the State Capitol Building looks exactly like the State Capitol
Building in Washington, d C. It's about the same size,
it's bigger.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
It's got the big.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Kind of dome top and then the steeple and then
the big wide sides. You know, the exact type of America,
classic American state buildings.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, everywhere.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
I couldn't believe it when I first threw when we
came around that corner, just the size of the thing.
I was thinking, like, so, like you said, Jared, twenty
years ago they changed the rule and said, okay, you
can build a building taller than it, because they wanted
it to be the jewel in the crown. But I
don't think you could have if you tried it up
until twenty years now, build a building taller than that.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
It was fucking massive.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Building and it makes you realize, you know, when you
come to a place like Austin, a million people in Austin,
but you realize, like this is this Texas is a state,
it's a country. It's its own country, and in fact,
there was for a while not even part of the
United States. Hence why the loan star state, because it's
just a star on it was a star on its
own and a state on its own, country on its own,
not part of the Union.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
And they this is the thing in Texas. They they're Texans.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, they're Texans first and foremost, and weirdly enough,
in Austin, they're from Austin first, then they're Texans, then
they're Americans. It's kind of like you get quite a
few layers before you get to the American part. Whereas
I think in New Zealand we think of all Americans
think of themselves as Americans. Nah, the Texans are very different.
They and they are different. They are incredibly friendly.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
What about the one of you will remember with the
story better than I but the statue of.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
The woman lighting the cannon.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh yes, the Savior of Savior of Austin.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
So this so back in the day, this was in
like the late eighteen hundreds, they tried to storm the
capitol and they wanted to move the Capitol from Austin
down to Houston. President Houston, so President Houston robutch boys
come up and they tried to just go into the
Capitol building.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Take all the shit out of the documents, the.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
Documents in there, and then fuck it off to Houston
so that they could set up the capitol down there.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Well, this woman, the Savior of Austin, she caught window
this little of it. She was the middle of night, hammered, hammered,
she's drunk in the middle of nights. Had to be
hanging out by the state building.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah, and saw these guys doing this, and she looked around,
and to her surprise, what does she find.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Of course, we're in Texas. A fucking cannon loaded, a
loaded cannon.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
She lights that, but tries to shoot the guys with
a cannon with a cannon, and the Capitol missed.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
She's not carrying a concealed weapon. She had a cannon.
Well it was it was just it was just a
random cannon.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
But apparently they had the cannon there loaded. They had
the cannon loaded and pointed at the capitol ready to
go for this.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
They had invaders. I reckon she would have just been
like every.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Night, she would have been walking back seat, like tonight
to night, someone goes in there on the light in there.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
But she was a statue. Can I say she's well
and out?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, she had massive cans and on the statue hots
to the hoosehole from she was she when she there's
a statue of her lighting and as as Conrad guide said,
she's in dangerously waste as she lit. The care obviously
blew up the other side of the capital. But wo
town and skied them away. Yeah, work the town up,
and the town worke up and see what's going on here,

(24:09):
and they ran them out of town and Austin remained
the capital to this day.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
I mean, what a crazy story. The savior of Austin. Yeah,
I mean she did. She saved Austin. What just a
crazy bitch.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
We need we need to go get a photo with it.
We need to we find them. I think it's just
down the right.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
She's a great New Zealander, just wild, drunk in the
middle of the night and just finally got an opportunity
to shop that can. Because she must have looked at
it every day and one day I'm going to light
that thing.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
To light a care you just fame. I presume.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, was having a dy didn't have darts and those
days did they on the pipes?

Speaker 3 (24:45):
The pipe striking match? I guess I'm carrying around matches
and those days would be matches everywhere.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
So that maybe a torch from no electricityricity m lamp the.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Tour then, so we went had to look through there
by the way full security. When when we had to
walk in there, it was like getting on an airplane.
He had to take everything out of your pockets, Jerry's
shoes or belt or something. Sit off the alarm when
you walk through the middle.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
How was our guy who was showing us through would
looked like a a really hot African American male stripper. Well,
he went out in a uniform and like with a
cowboy state trooper, state trooper what on ol.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Texas state trooper. He had a rig on him.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
It looked like it was designed specifically for him. You
could see the outline of every muscle he had. He
did look a stripper. He was the most beautiful man
I've ever seen in my life. And he had a
gun on his hip.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
He had a gun on his pants. By the look
of those pants were reasonably tight fitting around that. He
was rocking something.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
A cowboy hat on inside, but don't care. But he
looked it was like, I don't know. I didn't need
to deal with it. It was too much for me
at that time. Very friendly though.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
I think he does weddings, but as well in security
at the Capitol.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm surprised. I'm surprised he'd give us a car.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Right, so, and then we ended at the Yeah, we'll
take quick break because we'll come back with with obviously
at the same time as we're hear Funnily enough, Austin
City Limits, one of the biggest music festivals in America
is on. So we had to choose our festival outfits.
So we will come back and explain those, just to know, Okay, Well,
within at the end of our tour of Austin, Texas,

(26:21):
we stopped at South Congress Allen's Bootstore, which can only
just and you could smell it before you could.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Even see it from across the road. You could smell
the leather coming out of that shop.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, and you went in there. I don't think i've
seen that much leather. Since like my days in B
and D and K road.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I would say I would say ten rows, maybe twelve
market of boots, and each row I love the way
it was organized. Each row was a shoe size.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
And these were, like you said, supermarket aisles of every
kind of cowboy birds, the decorative ones, the cheap ones, expensive,
the alligator skin, the legit crocodile skin. There were ones
that you could actually wear on a work site. There
were steel kept cowboy boots in there, and we were
all just a bunch of Kiwi mutants and they're all
in stubbies and sunlits and T shirts and as soon

(27:10):
as we put them on, we.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Looked like we were strappers. Yeah, straight off the bat.
May Aaron looked after us.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
And then in the middle of it, in the middle
of shopping and a kind of a boot shop, he goes,
y'all wan tequila, and we're like, it's eleven thirty in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
We're like yep.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
So we get marched into the hat section. He goes,
We'll go down to the bar. It's like, what inside
the shop is that? Yeah, well you need to see
if the how comfortable the shoes are to walk around
and so we'll walk down the bar. He just walked
in behind the bar and started pouring tequila.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Shop genius.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
It was the most genius thing I've ever seen, because
the shop itself is large. Would I would say it's
the size of like an outdoor New Zealand outdoor kind
of store.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, you know, like a torpedo Yeah, yeah, big. And
then walking down into the hat section and.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
There were thousands of hats like all ticks and crazy
boy hats and US for one, yeah, a thousand us
the experiensive but beautiful hats, different sizes you could get
the molded shape.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
To your head.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
And then yeah, there was a bloody bar in the
middle of it. And such a smart move because when
you're going to spend, you know, if you want to
encourage someone to spend a thousand dollars on a pair
of boots, you get them a shot at tequila and
all of a sudden you're opening up that wallet.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Worked on me, Yeah, worked on No one cares. It's
like genius. It was incredible. So, yeah, so we bought
the He was showing me and Joe the boots. He
was making sure they fit perfectly. He made a passing
joke about going to get it together. We did go
and get the tequila. We had a tequila shot, went
back up. He put a couple of shirts on me,
a couple of pairs of jeans, We found the right
pair of boots, and then he goes, fuck you guys

(28:42):
want another shot.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
So we're back down the bar again, both for another shot.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
There was physic about it because Joe Jerry is that
he's trying on his boots on to get a boot
on us quite hard.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah you got It's a two men job. And then
Joe struggled with hair.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Took him up and he goes, look, mate, be honestly,
I'm probably not going to buy any He looked at
him and man, I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Get a fuck. Okay, you want a shot? He goes,
where's see David Seymour.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
David Seymour should come over and grab a pair of
those boots.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Didn't.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
We have a situation he's in when you're not allowed
to drink a glass of wine or something else at
the day an they've sort of changed that rule. I
imagine that you're allowed to buy you allowed to drink
a shot at.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
The shoe store. Probably not, surely not, I'd say not,
but why not? Why not? And why not?

Speaker 5 (29:26):
And then down the number one shoes trying to hear
boots and a shot.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
I did ask my mate Aaron if you had any
min's sized daisy Jukes for the music festival the next day,
and he goes, no, but I've got something better for you,
and he took me around did and got me go
a pair of.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
These daisy Jukes speedos.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yes, so that is my festival attire thought tomorrow as
daisy and I've got some for you guys as well.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm gonna be interested to see whether you, because you
are going to be the only one wearing those into
the festival, are allowed to wear those into a festival?

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Are you allowed to wespidos into festival? Will find out
tomorrow what they're Daisy Jukes?

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Well, no, they're speedo's but they got the denim on
the outside of them, but with a kind of a
sheer badge on the front.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Where you're downstairs is i'm sreft baedge in the back.
I mean you and you fill them out brilliantly.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
But I'm just saying I wonder whether or not there's
something in the teas and seas, which is you're not
allowed to wear speed.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
You think I should carry a spare pair of shorts
in to the festival at least when you're walking in there, Okay.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
A pair of daisy dukes, ideally actual pair of daisy dukes.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
The only thing I'm left wondering is because I'm going
to walk straight out of here, jump in the pool,
go down the lift by myself a gun. Will I
be allowed to take that? A dozen city limits that
sort of the location I've got, you can't take a
weep in it?

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Okay, Well we'll find out, because our next episode will
be post day one of Austin city limits here on
the export bier Gard into.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
The breakfast within the Gender.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
So we'll wrap this up, and I'd say we're probably
going to be in bits and pieces in the next body,
but you're going to come on the journey with us.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Man.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's going to be an interesting because I remember last
year when we went to the Munich Beer Festival, and
if you followed that journey, we started off cocker Hope
and by the end of it we had no soul.
So I am to be interested in finding out how
much soul we can I deplete.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, I think we're a one trick pony.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
I think we can do exactly the same as what
we did.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
But I'll tell you what Amsterdam in Munich, the difference
is I will have a handgun and that's going to
be very exciting. If I put a handout on the
table before we do a podcast, that's going to really
excite it.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Oh well, thanks to join us.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
We'll be back tomorrow with day two of the Export
Beer Guard and Tour to Austin, Texas.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Sea later The Agenda Podcast Texas edition, brought to you
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