I'm going to shill the daylight computer here, because for me, reading on it is such a great experience.

@CJWracing afterwards got a whole bunch of beef cheek to smoke. Also, @Svetski says it's his favorite cut of beef. I've also tried, and my beef cheek isn't that bad, though not as good as L&L. You can still get beef cheek for like $2.99/lb at HEB.

But then again, maybe it'll get more popular. I've been told by life-long Texans that brisket used to be $0.35 per pound. It's now like 12x that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but barbacoa is like the shredded version, no (barbacoa:beef cheek = chopped:brisket)? They have that, too, but the beef cheek is like a more delicious, much smaller brisket that absorbs more flavor. Also, note they only serve it at the restaurant on Fridays and I don't think it's as good as it was when it was a food truck.

I'm going to disagree with @Car here. The beef cheeks, at least when they were a food truck, was amazing. Several people that I introduced that to have said that they like the beef cheek better than Franklin or La BBQ.

Random fact, when I was writing Bitcoin and the American Dream with my co-authors here in Austin, I treated them to lots of local food, like Franklin, La BBQ, Gus's Fried Chicken, Terry Black's. The one that they all remembered the most is the beef cheek from Leroy and Lewis. They're mentioned in the acknowledgements.

I sat down with Mike and talked to him for several hours back in 2022. From that conversation, I concluded that his priority is always his politics, and at a more fundamental level, his confidence in his own worldview.

We talked about a lot of things in those few hours, including libertarianism, COVID lockdowns, Bitcoin, Austrian economics. His take was consistently progressive, though he claimed to have been libertarian at some point. He defended the lockdowns, thought libertarian principles were BS, that Austrian economics was bad.

So for someone like that, I was surprised to hear that he was into Bitcoin, but then I learned that he worked for Jack Dorsey and it was actually Jack that convinced him over a number of weeks (interestingly, there was very little actual argument, just exposure to Bitcoin and its ideas). I'm guessing that once he left Dorsey's orbit (I don't know that he has, this is my speculation), his loyalty to Bitcoin disappeared with it.

It's really hard for progressive BItcoiners. Not only do they have their own political tribe against Bitcoin because of Trump, but their worldview is increasingly us vs them, which doesn't allow for much dissension in anything. I've seen a lot of progressive Bitcoiners drop one of the two labels. Mike obviously dropped the latter.

Funny because Brock worked for Jack D. Actually was in charge of adding Bitcoin purchasing to Cash App IIRC.

Jays lost because their pinch runner didn't know how to take a proper lead off of third base and didn't run through on a force play. One step more on a lead, or run straight through and he's probably safe and the game is over.