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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the JV and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties station
what O three point one. Hey, if you want to
win one thousand dollars, be listening at nine o'clock. That's
your first chance today. It's coming up at nine on
Austin's eighties station one oh three point one. It's that
time of year where your allergies are probably kicking your
butt and it's yellow and gross and nastylo. It's almost
(00:21):
all gone. But it's also before you know what. The
mosquitos are going to be here. Tris is going to
tell you in just a second what the most mosquito
cities in Austin in Texas are and JB's got a
good way to fight the mosquitoes. But before we get
to that, I want to share any text message that
I got from Kate. You can text us anytime seven
(00:41):
three seven three zero one ninety six hundred. Again, for
those of you in Butte, I'll say that slow seven
three seven three zero one ninety six hundred. What Trisha,
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You're an entire city, that's where you're people are from.
They live in and around Butta. Yeah, Creed moretile buta
heck ya so anyway, I got.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This text message and this woman says listening to the
April tenth shows, So she was listening to the podcast
of it. And by the way, thanks to all of
you that are listening. The numbers keep going up and up.
It says. Y'all were talking about what each of you
are doing for exercise, and I had to chuckle when
JB said he was doing some light running and it
was more difficult at his age. Tell him that I
(01:28):
just turned seventy three and I'm also trying to run again.
I get that, Yeah, Kate says at this point, I walk,
then run for two minutes, then walk and run for
a total of three miles. I love listening to you guys,
and we'll be listening on my next light run seventy three. Impress.
(01:50):
That is really impressive. Good for you, Kate, that is good.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
My dad's eighty and goes to the gym regularly. My
mom just turned eighty this year as well, and she's
still playing tennis.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My dad's eighty four and has four martinis.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I have a clock at start and eighty five he'll
have five martini.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, six, doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks about it.
It's a good life and he just sits there. It's
like he's like Scooter. He bore me another. He doesn't
have to get up to make it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You know, he's got that swagger. Though I haven't seen
your dad in a minute, but you know from my recollection,
he's got that pilot swagger. And what's a pilot going
to do when they come in, you know, an Air
Force pilot. They're they're gonna go to have a martini
in the officers club.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
It's brand Yes, my dad was John Hamm before John
Hamm was John. Yeah, I can see that. I'll tell
you a real quick funny story. We're gonna get to
this mosquito thing in a minute, but a really funny story.
You talk about after work and having a drink.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
So my dad I was young, I was maybe four,
three five, I don't know. He came home from work
one day and the phone rang and they it was
the command post at the base, and they said to him,
I think he was a captain or lieutenant at the time,
They said, have you had a drink yet? And he
(03:18):
goes no, which was very surprising, very out of there.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They had a mission for him.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Huh yeah, and they go, we need you to get
to the flight line right now.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wow. It's like okay, and you were like four, and
you remember this.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
My dad told me the story. He's told me the story,
and he didn't know what was going on, but when
he got there, he found out. And he said, we
had a ten minute mission brief and we got in
the airplane. Airplane had been hijacked out of we lived
in Michigan, had been hijacked out of Detroit and if
you remember, there was a lot of hijackings were huge
(03:55):
in the seventies, you know, we're talking like seventy two,
seventy three, something like that. And so he said, my
job was to follow that airplane all over the country.
We're right below them the whole time. The hijackers had
absolutely no idea that we were, that we were there, wow,
that's all. And we followed them, he said, like from
(04:18):
Michigan to Colorado, and they were they were Cubans, that
were It was something to do with what was going
on in Cuba at the time, and they had all
these demands and all this stuff. And they finally landed
somewhere because they needed fuel. And when they got there,
the FBI shot out the tires of the airplane and
(04:38):
that was it, and the guys just gave yeah wow,
And he said, but we followed them with orders that
we didn't want to have to, you know, to do
right if they had to take out the plane exactly
and so so, but it's just kind of a crazy story.
It's great the older my dad gets the most interesting stories.
(04:59):
He tells about. That's like a scene out of Top Gun.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah, like a movie, absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I mean Harrison Ford should have been in that movie, right,
Have I never?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Right?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Have I not heard this story?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean I've heard a bunch of stories that your
dad have told, has told, but that one's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, it's crazy. So anyway, let's get into this mosquito thing.
Austin's not the kind.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Of followed that story with mosquito list.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, So mosquitos are not as big a problem in
Austin as they are where Tricia.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, sorry about your luck if you live in Dallas
and if you live in Houston, because according to termin X,
those are the two of the top ten urban areas
that are the most mosquitoe And yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, it is
so swampy there and.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Flat, so swampy Dallas.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I would I would think Austin would be worse than Dallas,
just because Dallas is so much pavement and development where
we have a lot more green space increased.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Right a little further north and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They Terminis did the report and they said that it
was based on the perfect storm of warm temperatures, plenty
of rain, and stagnant water, which is like perfect breeding ground.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Does it sound gross?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And they say that that is where you get mosquito infestations.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
The word infestation.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Ah, nothing good follows in front of or behind the
word infestation. There's not a good infestation of anything. And
that just gives me the creepy crawleys.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm one of those really really lucky people that mosquitoes
have no interest in.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
They just oh, I'm the opposite. I'm the one they
go after, and everyone around me's fine.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
You feel a little kind of bad about that.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Just a little more tasty.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I guess yes.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Sometimes sometimes if they feel like it, they do.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
If they don't, I mean, they say it's your your
blood type has something to do with that.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, I'm trying to find out right now, what kind
of person. This is right. This is pretty funny. This
is what I put into grock. What type of person
do mosquitos like?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It's like a mosquito dating website.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Here's you're right, JB top of the list.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Blood type.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Blood type often for people with type O blood over
type A or B. How do they know? I don't
even know what type of blood I have. Carbon dioxide output,
your body heat and your sweat, if you got bacteria
on your skin. They love people that drink alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's where they got They were they all over you
when you were a drinker, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I mean, have you noticed a difference since you Yeah,
I guess, I.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah about yeah, I guess. So maybe that's what it is. Pregnancy.
They love pregnant women. That's cruel. Already pregnant woman in Houston, man,
I'm feeling for you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Do you want to know the number one city that
Terminent said is the most mosquito infested in Texas? Nope,
in the in the country country, New Orleans, it's got
to be.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, something Louisy, Mississippi, Alabama?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Someone there um where a Forrest Gump lived?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, Yellow Florida, it's got to be in Florida.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
No Los Angeles? What real Los Angeles? The first time
of Florida City pops up?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Is it number eight? Orlando? Number nine? Tampa?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
La is so dry and so much of a zero
escape desert.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Ye, I know, it's very strange.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Washington.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They're probably like everybody else. They're probably just like all
the people in California, and they want to leave too,
you know what I mean, Just don't come here. What's
the place to be that you had or you don't
used to have to fight the mosquito?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh my god, cause I get bit back. I need
to get this system again. And there are some franchises
and stuff out there that do this. But there's am
an Austin company that's it's local and they have their
own proprietary systems they've built. And I had it when
the last house we had in Westlake, we bought it
(09:08):
for the backyard and like the first day we were
unpacked and like gonna enjoy the backyard, we got devoured
by mosquitos. And I was like, I was like, I said,
turn to my wife, I can't sit out here. And
I just started doing all this research and I found
this company Mosquito control systems and they've been friends ever since.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I just need to get the system again. Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
It's a tad pricey, but worth it if you get
devoured by mosquitos. What they do is they come in
and they put this big barrel sized.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Tank on the side of your house. You'll forget it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And then they put a mixture of like concentrated citronella
so it's nothing hard, it's not harmful chemicals, it's natural
and water. And then they they bury a line around
the perimeter of your yard and these little these little
time what they figured out that when they when a
(10:05):
lot of those mosquito companies first came out spraying like that,
they were putting them up on the fence line. Then
they're like mosquitoes live like under and jump around like
mostly under a foot okay, And so they put these
little like faucet nozzles that are copper. So over time
they they kind of you know, you know, copper gets
(10:27):
turns kind of green and tarnishes that you don't even notice.
The faucets after a while blend one they start to
blend and then they like automatically goes off at like
midnight and like four am. And then you can pull
out a remote control if you want to give it
an extra blast before you go outside, and really slows
them down.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It's amazing, really amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow, tell me it's an Austin company.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Told me the name again, it's Mosquito Control Systems. And
I think they also do they they also do, uh,
the the misters if you're if you're into that, if
your patio is just a little too hot or whatever.
But man, it's it's awesome, and it's it's their own
it's their own equipment. I think you can do different
plans where you fill it yourself or they maintain it.
(11:16):
But what I like when I did it is like
I got on the plan where they they fill it
like three times a year. I think because in the
winter you don't need it. They fill it like three
times a year. And if you get on that plan,
like you know, say the dog breaks one of the nozzles,
or if you don't have a fence and a deer
(11:37):
does it or something, they're out there within like twenty
within twenty four hours replacing it. Like they only charge
your parts, like not labor if you're on that plan.
So anyhow, Thomas.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Your backyard, Yeah, it gets Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Thomas, Thomas and Enrique are the owners, the founders of it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And Thomas and Rique. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
My dad moved here just under two years ago and
he got it on his back patio.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But it's amazing, like I need to get it again.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Coming up on the show, another South Congress business bites
the dust all.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Right, moving, not totally gone, but forced out.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
All right. That's who it is and what's happening stick around.
It's coming up on Austin's eighties station three point one,
streaming on my iHeartRadio app. I'm just happy that it's
not big top candy shopping.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It's just a matter of time.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The way the way Congress Avenues South Congress is changing,
It's a matter of time before they're priced out.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Another business apparently has been priced out and they are
moving locations.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Right yep, Monkey See Monkey Do is closing up their
South Congress store. Rent's too high because all these fu
fu brands have moved in and priced him out.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
O't you know. It's it's frustrating because I live.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
In the area. I'm on Congress Avenue every day and
we moved here for all the funky stores Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We didn't. We didn't move here to go to a Lululemon,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You know, I hate the places that have names like
plush or lash or luxure.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah there's a her Maize store. I don't even know
if I'm saying that right, Just all that stuff is
priced to everybody out and uh so they the good
news is they've found a new location. You know that
intersection at South Lamar and Manshak where it kind of
splits off like a V.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's going to be the new spot.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
But you know, man, giving up all that foot traffic
that you have all the time on South Congress from
all the tourists. Yeah you don't like you don't I
and I and I hope it works for him. But
the same thing with Big Top Candy shop. You know,
you don't always just leave the door with that as
a destination.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Your cruise in South Congress. You got the family with you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You stopped for some ice cream, right, yeah, stop at Amy's,
get an ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Mom and dad have Margherita Aguero's.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
And then you're walking on down the street, the kids
going to Monkey See Monkey.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Do have a blast.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You see the retro toys and stuff from your childhood.
Then you go into Big Top, same.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Thing, same people, by the way, The same people that
own Monkey see Monkey do also own Big Top candy Shop.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh is right?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh so I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
But yeah, man, I didn't know that, But man, I
wish him the best. You know, Uncommon Objects bailed a
few years ago. Lucy and the Sky's gone too. Yeah,
I think they retired. That was after forty some years.
They've hanging it up, but they were probably getting priced
out too. Who took over their spot, the losing disguise spot?
(14:57):
Do you know? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Got up good question, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
I'm sorry. I thought I thought we had talked about it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I thought it was technical we have. I just don't recall.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It's been such a shuffle on all of South Congress.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I got this from Cave. By the way, they say
in twenty twenty four, Mikasa, the Good Company and Some Room,
Sun Room all shut down or move locations after seen
listen to this. Triple digit rent increases in South Congress.
Triple digits increases.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, it won't.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It won't be the same family vibe for those kind
of story.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
If it's all high end stuff, can it end up
being like an arboreta. I'm sorry, I'm in a domain
type cheffing area. And that the Monkey place on sports
wears what replaced?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Oh yeah, the Swiss shoe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, they're a run for thirty eight years.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It all started when they ran the hookers off of
South Congress. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end
of a retail business.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Everybody wants to be down there now. Bring the hookers
should be our protest.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Makes shady again, just.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Make some Congress sketch again. I'm all for it. Man.
Back in the good days, you never knew what was
going on, right.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You know, we still do have the guys that will
ride their horses up and down. Yeah, and then you know,
pull it whenever they do it. They do it all
quite often, but you'll see it all over socials, like
tourists going crazy to get will actually go up to
Joe's Coffee on their horse and order.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And the tourists are like, oh my god, that's so Austin.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
There must be some old Texas law where it's still allowed. Right,
let's do that.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Let's just get some horses and do that.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, somebody who never rides.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Let's just get some horses on a street with a ton.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Of people and.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Clyde Dale's so.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
The Earth Rumble covered wagon.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like like eighteen eighty three, cruise down.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
My friend Tasha used to work downtown and she looked
out of her office window one December and down at
the light at fifth in Congress with somebody dressed as
Santa on a horse waiting.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Every year, Yeah, every year, she said it.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
And she's like, I finally saw him.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Chrisha, line up some horses, so we can do that.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Okay, I'll get right on that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like a few phone calls.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I think I'd rather stand on the sign with the
bring back the hookers on the corner with the sign what.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You want to science? What did you say? JB? Make
South Austin get shady again?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I remember
It's the JV and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties station
what O three point one. Hey, if you want to
win one thousand dollars, be listening at nine o'clock. That's
your first chance today. It's coming up at nine on
Austin's eighties station one oh three point one. It's that
time of year where your allergies are probably kicking your
butt and it's yellow and gross and nastylo. It's almost
(00:21):
all gone. But it's also before you know what. The
mosquitos are going to be here. Tris is going to
tell you in just a second what the most mosquito
cities in Austin in Texas are and JB's got a
good way to fight the mosquitoes. But before we get
to that, I want to share any text message that
I got from Kate. You can text us anytime seven
(00:41):
three seven three zero one ninety six hundred. Again, for
those of you in Butte, I'll say that slow seven
three seven three zero one ninety six hundred. What Trisha,
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You're an entire city, that's where you're people are from.
They live in and around Butta. Yeah, Creed moretile buta
heck ya so anyway, I got.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This text message and this woman says listening to the
April tenth shows, So she was listening to the podcast
of it. And by the way, thanks to all of
you that are listening. The numbers keep going up and up.
It says. Y'all were talking about what each of you
are doing for exercise, and I had to chuckle when
JB said he was doing some light running and it
was more difficult at his age. Tell him that I
(01:28):
just turned seventy three and I'm also trying to run again.
I get that, Yeah, Kate says at this point, I walk,
then run for two minutes, then walk and run for
a total of three miles. I love listening to you guys,
and we'll be listening on my next light run seventy three. Impress.
(01:50):
That is really impressive. Good for you, Kate, that is good.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
My dad's eighty and goes to the gym regularly. My
mom just turned eighty this year as well, and she's
still playing tennis.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My dad's eighty four and has four martinis.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I have a clock at start and eighty five he'll
have five martini.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, six, doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks about it.
It's a good life and he just sits there. It's
like he's like Scooter. He bore me another. He doesn't
have to get up to make it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You know, he's got that swagger. Though I haven't seen
your dad in a minute, but you know from my recollection,
he's got that pilot swagger. And what's a pilot going
to do when they come in, you know, an Air
Force pilot. They're they're gonna go to have a martini
in the officers club.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
It's brand Yes, my dad was John Hamm before John
Hamm was John. Yeah, I can see that. I'll tell
you a real quick funny story. We're gonna get to
this mosquito thing in a minute, but a really funny story.
You talk about after work and having a drink.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
So my dad I was young, I was maybe four,
three five, I don't know. He came home from work
one day and the phone rang and they it was
the command post at the base, and they said to him,
I think he was a captain or lieutenant at the time,
They said, have you had a drink yet? And he
(03:18):
goes no, which was very surprising, very out of there.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They had a mission for him.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Huh yeah, and they go, we need you to get
to the flight line right now.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wow. It's like okay, and you were like four, and
you remember this.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
My dad told me the story. He's told me the story,
and he didn't know what was going on, but when
he got there, he found out. And he said, we
had a ten minute mission brief and we got in
the airplane. Airplane had been hijacked out of we lived
in Michigan, had been hijacked out of Detroit and if
you remember, there was a lot of hijackings were huge
(03:55):
in the seventies, you know, we're talking like seventy two,
seventy three, something like that. And so he said, my
job was to follow that airplane all over the country.
We're right below them the whole time. The hijackers had
absolutely no idea that we were, that we were there, wow,
that's all. And we followed them, he said, like from
(04:18):
Michigan to Colorado, and they were they were Cubans, that
were It was something to do with what was going
on in Cuba at the time, and they had all
these demands and all this stuff. And they finally landed
somewhere because they needed fuel. And when they got there,
the FBI shot out the tires of the airplane and
(04:38):
that was it, and the guys just gave yeah wow,
And he said, but we followed them with orders that
we didn't want to have to, you know, to do
right if they had to take out the plane exactly
and so so, but it's just kind of a crazy story.
It's great the older my dad gets the most interesting stories.
(04:59):
He tells about. That's like a scene out of Top Gun.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah, like a movie, absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I mean Harrison Ford should have been in that movie, right,
Have I never?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Right?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Have I not heard this story?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean I've heard a bunch of stories that your
dad have told, has told, but that one's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, it's crazy. So anyway, let's get into this mosquito thing.
Austin's not the kind.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Of followed that story with mosquito list.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, So mosquitos are not as big a problem in
Austin as they are where Tricia.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, sorry about your luck if you live in Dallas
and if you live in Houston, because according to termin X,
those are the two of the top ten urban areas
that are the most mosquitoe And yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, it is
so swampy there and.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Flat, so swampy Dallas.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I would I would think Austin would be worse than Dallas,
just because Dallas is so much pavement and development where
we have a lot more green space increased.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Right a little further north and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They Terminis did the report and they said that it
was based on the perfect storm of warm temperatures, plenty
of rain, and stagnant water, which is like perfect breeding ground.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Does it sound gross?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And they say that that is where you get mosquito infestations.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
The word infestation.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Ah, nothing good follows in front of or behind the
word infestation. There's not a good infestation of anything. And
that just gives me the creepy crawleys.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm one of those really really lucky people that mosquitoes
have no interest in.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
They just oh, I'm the opposite. I'm the one they
go after, and everyone around me's fine.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
You feel a little kind of bad about that.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Just a little more tasty.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I guess yes.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Sometimes sometimes if they feel like it, they do.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
If they don't, I mean, they say it's your your
blood type has something to do with that.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, I'm trying to find out right now, what kind
of person. This is right. This is pretty funny. This
is what I put into grock. What type of person
do mosquitos like?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It's like a mosquito dating website.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Here's you're right, JB top of the list.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Blood type.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Blood type often for people with type O blood over
type A or B. How do they know? I don't
even know what type of blood I have. Carbon dioxide output,
your body heat and your sweat, if you got bacteria
on your skin. They love people that drink alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's where they got They were they all over you
when you were a drinker, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I mean, have you noticed a difference since you Yeah,
I guess, I.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah about yeah, I guess. So maybe that's what it is. Pregnancy.
They love pregnant women. That's cruel. Already pregnant woman in Houston, man,
I'm feeling for you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Do you want to know the number one city that
Terminent said is the most mosquito infested in Texas? Nope,
in the in the country country, New Orleans, it's got
to be.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, something Louisy, Mississippi, Alabama?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Someone there um where a Forrest Gump lived?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, Yellow Florida, it's got to be in Florida.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
No Los Angeles? What real Los Angeles? The first time
of Florida City pops up?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Is it number eight? Orlando? Number nine? Tampa?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
La is so dry and so much of a zero
escape desert.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Ye, I know, it's very strange.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Washington.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They're probably like everybody else. They're probably just like all
the people in California, and they want to leave too,
you know what I mean, Just don't come here. What's
the place to be that you had or you don't
used to have to fight the mosquito?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh my god, cause I get bit back. I need
to get this system again. And there are some franchises
and stuff out there that do this. But there's am
an Austin company that's it's local and they have their
own proprietary systems they've built. And I had it when
the last house we had in Westlake, we bought it
(09:08):
for the backyard and like the first day we were
unpacked and like gonna enjoy the backyard, we got devoured
by mosquitos. And I was like, I was like, I said,
turn to my wife, I can't sit out here. And
I just started doing all this research and I found
this company Mosquito control systems and they've been friends ever since.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I just need to get the system again. Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
It's a tad pricey, but worth it if you get
devoured by mosquitos. What they do is they come in
and they put this big barrel sized.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Tank on the side of your house. You'll forget it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And then they put a mixture of like concentrated citronella
so it's nothing hard, it's not harmful chemicals, it's natural
and water. And then they they bury a line around
the perimeter of your yard and these little these little
time what they figured out that when they when a
(10:05):
lot of those mosquito companies first came out spraying like that,
they were putting them up on the fence line. Then
they're like mosquitoes live like under and jump around like
mostly under a foot okay, And so they put these
little like faucet nozzles that are copper. So over time
they they kind of you know, you know, copper gets
(10:27):
turns kind of green and tarnishes that you don't even notice.
The faucets after a while blend one they start to
blend and then they like automatically goes off at like
midnight and like four am. And then you can pull
out a remote control if you want to give it
an extra blast before you go outside, and really slows
them down.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It's amazing, really amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow, tell me it's an Austin company.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Told me the name again, it's Mosquito Control Systems. And
I think they also do they they also do, uh,
the the misters if you're if you're into that, if
your patio is just a little too hot or whatever.
But man, it's it's awesome, and it's it's their own
it's their own equipment. I think you can do different
plans where you fill it yourself or they maintain it.
(11:16):
But what I like when I did it is like
I got on the plan where they they fill it
like three times a year. I think because in the
winter you don't need it. They fill it like three
times a year. And if you get on that plan,
like you know, say the dog breaks one of the nozzles,
or if you don't have a fence and a deer
(11:37):
does it or something, they're out there within like twenty
within twenty four hours replacing it. Like they only charge
your parts, like not labor if you're on that plan.
So anyhow, Thomas.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Your backyard, Yeah, it gets Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Thomas, Thomas and Enrique are the owners, the founders of it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And Thomas and Rique. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
My dad moved here just under two years ago and
he got it on his back patio.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But it's amazing, like I need to get it again.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Coming up on the show, another South Congress business bites
the dust all.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Right, moving, not totally gone, but forced out.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
All right. That's who it is and what's happening stick around.
It's coming up on Austin's eighties station three point one,
streaming on my iHeartRadio app. I'm just happy that it's
not big top candy shopping.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It's just a matter of time.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The way the way Congress Avenues South Congress is changing,
It's a matter of time before they're priced out.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Another business apparently has been priced out and they are
moving locations.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Right yep, Monkey See Monkey Do is closing up their
South Congress store. Rent's too high because all these fu
fu brands have moved in and priced him out.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
O't you know. It's it's frustrating because I live.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
In the area. I'm on Congress Avenue every day and
we moved here for all the funky stores Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We didn't. We didn't move here to go to a Lululemon,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You know, I hate the places that have names like
plush or lash or luxure.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah there's a her Maize store. I don't even know
if I'm saying that right, Just all that stuff is
priced to everybody out and uh so they the good
news is they've found a new location. You know that
intersection at South Lamar and Manshak where it kind of
splits off like a V.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's going to be the new spot.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
But you know, man, giving up all that foot traffic
that you have all the time on South Congress from
all the tourists. Yeah you don't like you don't I
and I and I hope it works for him. But
the same thing with Big Top Candy shop. You know,
you don't always just leave the door with that as
a destination.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Your cruise in South Congress. You got the family with you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You stopped for some ice cream, right, yeah, stop at Amy's,
get an ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Mom and dad have Margherita Aguero's.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
And then you're walking on down the street, the kids
going to Monkey See Monkey.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Do have a blast.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You see the retro toys and stuff from your childhood.
Then you go into Big Top, same.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Thing, same people, by the way, The same people that
own Monkey see Monkey do also own Big Top candy Shop.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh is right?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh so I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
But yeah, man, I didn't know that, But man, I
wish him the best. You know, Uncommon Objects bailed a
few years ago. Lucy and the Sky's gone too. Yeah,
I think they retired. That was after forty some years.
They've hanging it up, but they were probably getting priced
out too. Who took over their spot, the losing disguise spot?
(14:57):
Do you know? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Got up good question, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
I'm sorry. I thought I thought we had talked about it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I thought it was technical we have. I just don't recall.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It's been such a shuffle on all of South Congress.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I got this from Cave. By the way, they say
in twenty twenty four, Mikasa, the Good Company and Some Room,
Sun Room all shut down or move locations after seen
listen to this. Triple digit rent increases in South Congress.
Triple digits increases.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, it won't.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It won't be the same family vibe for those kind
of story.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
If it's all high end stuff, can it end up
being like an arboreta. I'm sorry, I'm in a domain
type cheffing area. And that the Monkey place on sports
wears what replaced?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Oh yeah, the Swiss shoe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, they're a run for thirty eight years.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It all started when they ran the hookers off of
South Congress. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end
of a retail business.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Everybody wants to be down there now. Bring the hookers
should be our protest.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Makes shady again, just.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Make some Congress sketch again. I'm all for it. Man.
Back in the good days, you never knew what was
going on, right.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You know, we still do have the guys that will
ride their horses up and down. Yeah, and then you know,
pull it whenever they do it. They do it all
quite often, but you'll see it all over socials, like
tourists going crazy to get will actually go up to
Joe's Coffee on their horse and order.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And the tourists are like, oh my god, that's so Austin.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
There must be some old Texas law where it's still allowed. Right,
let's do that.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Let's just get some horses and do that.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, somebody who never rides.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Let's just get some horses on a street with a ton.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Of people and.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Clyde Dale's so.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
The Earth Rumble covered wagon.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like like eighteen eighty three, cruise down.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
My friend Tasha used to work downtown and she looked
out of her office window one December and down at
the light at fifth in Congress with somebody dressed as
Santa on a horse waiting.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Every year, Yeah, every year, she said it.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
And she's like, I finally saw him.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Chrisha, line up some horses, so we can do that.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Okay, I'll get right on that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like a few phone calls.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I think I'd rather stand on the sign with the
bring back the hookers on the corner with the sign what.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You want to science? What did you say? JB? Make
South Austin get shady again?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
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