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Austin Barbecue Trip and Meeting Travis the Beautiful Non-Sexual Man
from Soak It Up · #93
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim recounts his Moon Tower Festival trip to Austin, a killer breakfast with comedians, driving to Lockhart for barbecue, and meeting his friend Ben's absurdly good-looking, personality-less friend Travis who seems almost mythically beautiful.
- 33:34Tim just returned from Austin, Texas and tried to enjoy barbecue but it's not for him—the meat sweats are a dealbreaker.
- 34:08He drove 30 minutes outside Austin to Lockhart instead of waiting four hours at Franklin Barbecue, where people apparently stand around drunk like animals in the summer heat.
- 34:44Tim's podcast was called immature, borderline paranoid, and without content by critics, and he's struggling to defend it now given who the guests were.
- 35:30Breakfast at Cisco's in Austin with Joe List, Krista Stefano, Dan Soder and others featured migas, killer biscuits with honey butter, and chorizo.
- 36:01Tim's friend Ben introduced him to Travis, a 6'5" statuesque man who is so beautiful he's essentially asexual—impossible to imagine having sex with.
- 36:53When Tim said Travis is too good-looking to be sexual, he meant it in the way of a mythical fairy or elven queen, not a regular person.
- 37:33Travis has the personality of a river-smoothed stone—completely blank and devoid of any character, yet he claims everyone wants to fight him and women throw themselves at him.
- 38:18Travis doesn't even seem interested in sex; he claims he doesn't have one-night stands and doesn't care about it, which strikes Tim as deeply strange.
Dan SoderFranklin BarbecueJoe ListKrista StefanoBarbecueLockhart, TexasCisco'sMoon TowerAustinBen Avery