Austin New Year's Eve Party, Texas Socialites
A host describes attending a New Year's Eve party at a mansion in West Lake Hills, Austin, featuring guests from West Texas who have profited from fracking land rights. The gathering included numerous registered nurses and featured a private, low-altitude fireworks display. The host notes a demure mood among some attendees due to falling oil prices affecting local businesses like drilling pipe companies.
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00:00 Get some rockets, we'll give you some rockets. reruns or parades here just 100% live from FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state Austin Tate House. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's 1-115, I'm John C. Dvorak Happy New Year!
00:49 Me too. Did you not go out at all? I did when i finished the uh sending the closing out the spreadsheet At midnight, I did rush out to the front of the house and because I have a view from here or I can see that other side of the bay I could watch the diminutive fireworks display in San Francisco which is as usual boring it was too cold to stay outside so I came back inside It was freezing in Texas Oh yeah apparently there's almost going to snow in Dallas And they canceled most of the New Year's Eve celebrations here. Oh, because it was too cold! Well we had freezing rain which I think is exactly what you want with fireworks personally. Actually you do because otherwise a big cloud forms and you can't send them fireworks. Exactly so I found myself... It's hard to clean. I found myself at a private Texas party which i think there are some things that need to share You actually left the house? I did With an Uber
01:47 Well, that's the way to go but it must have been a premium on no there was no surge pricing and Surge so why would there be? Well you'd expect there to be some kind of surge just Because people are going around using this service Not wanting to drive themselves for two reason one because most people expected freezing rain I don't think that happened until like 5 this morning. So But I know great drivers you go where you went to some event. Yes, I did I went to a party at a house in the hills Let's just say a mansion Hills in the in the hills yes in the yeah We have hills here the West Lake Hills. I've seen those hills Yeah bills and this was so this is like usually preceded by kind of a square triangle sign triangular science says bump
02:42 Yeah, right Austin Hill. This is the kind of mansion that has a paddock in the backyard with a horse a Paddock a paddock does it have a helipad? That's even more important no helipad although I have been asked if I would be interested You'd be interested in what? Landing helicopter there and whenever people know you fly helicopters. Hey Ben. Let's land it by backyard yeah, okay sure So this particular party, a wealthy Austin socialite.
03:21 Small party, small party. A lot of people from West Texas now if you live in Texas then you know when somebody says people from West Texas were there... Well that means they talk like this! No no no. Well the only west Texans I know talk like this it all sounds like Ross Perot. That would be incorrect that's more North Texas because he was Plano which is Dallas so not at all like Ross Perot Okay, if you say Texas I'm sorry. I'm thinking East Texas yeah Doug dynasty is what you're thinking no Yeah West Texas is different West Texas's were actually the money is one area where all the money is John It's wine growing too is where all the money is
04:07 Yeah, it's Texas where it is nice and dusty and there's lots of money. Well... And why is there money? Because there's dust! No! No because all these people own property that have leased the rights for these fracking companies Oh So they are people just who make a million dollars a month A million a month Just in letting some derricks on their land However Nice However Not so happy new year for this people Right. Land rights have not been executed, there's one guy he has a drilling pipe company or he collects Teflon and the Teflon he then sells to a fracking pipe company. He collects teflon? Yeah yeah yes 30 000 pounds a month or something I was trying to understand Bring out your teflon! Bring out your teflon! I wonder where does one get excess teflon
05:07 I don't know, probably somewhere. Maybe in a gasket company. Orders canceled postponed so people are kind of freaking out because of this oil price everyone's you know the money is just stopped and it will continue to stop yeah So there was like... The mood was somewhat demure Oh, so it wasn't very festive is what you're saying. Well there were a lot of registered nurses for some reason at this party just in case He's keeling over You know Nurses are great. I love nurses. I bet you do because you know it's kind of like a flight attendant all you have to Do is say, you know? You guys really are the backbone of the Pharmaceutical or the medical the healing industry I think I said and they look their faces light up and like yes We get no props Like flight attendants if you say now you you were the people who will save us if we if we crash into the ocean Mm-hmm. All right, but you will get us out on time
06:05 So when you say this to a registered nurse, they light up. It's great! Yes yeah exactly. Oh thank... You're just a flatterer. Yeah I try. I really do try now um the couple so a couple other these registered nurses or i don't think that they were all all registered nurses but there was Texas women, and this was just a little different. Oh, there's the fireworks they had their own fireworks. That's a party! Really expensive fireworks but what was cool about them is that they were kind of like You know, kind of like you'd expect from a big firework display. Like Macy's or whatever but these were rigged so they exploded at the perfect height for residential. So it was your own private little thing but it was filled with big starburst and stuff like that. But they were lower? Yeah much lower! Perfect altitude just kinda oh yeah... Just our own little thing there
07:00 So that was nice. That is very nice with an electrical board, you know the whole thing well yeah some pro was doing it sure It's actually some dudes from the party like hey we'll do that Maybe they were invited for that purpose You could be Okay, so the women all brought food. There was enough drink and there was crazy amounts of alcohol and weed very typically. Weed? Yeah! In Austin?! I would have never expected weed in Austin. Well there was a big like a holo book you know one of those Sir Jimmy Holo books yeah
07:49 Like I picked a wrong time to quit weed This is good. No the chin no, it's not mead chat room. They're thinking mutton and meat no no weed weed now so the women all brought food and this was one of the open food yes And this is one these places that have been huge kitchen with big you know multiple stoves and ovens and all professional looking stuff So first of all, there was some queso there. Now if you know Texas and you can't kind of go anywhere without people whipping out the queso which is pretty much melted cheese and but oh man this was like magic sauce from West Texas! And then came the pièce de résistance... The strippers? Oh I wish no
08:44 Although the registered nurses did tell me something funny that every year at Halloween their friends who are not nurses called him and say hey Do you have a nurse outfit or leftover that I can use? Like they have some kind of rack They're all flabbergasted by this they can't understand but who do you think we are? My like but but seriously, do you have one of those come on? Now if you've heard of this, then you probably have. I'd never heard of it and certainly never eaten this. And it is a more... there were couple women from Louisiana originally so this is Louisiana cooking by the way if you say yeah been in New Orleans doesn't count as being ever having been to Louisiana Yeah you gotta get out there! This doubt did not count
