That’s a rough one… Theres two Publix’s in the same area that are much nicer.
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I’m listening to this thing at 1.8x and I still feel like the guys talk so slowly.
Haven’t lived in Georgia for 20 years, but my brother was regional or district manager or some shit for like 25 Kroger’s so I guess I’ll ride or die with Kroger fuck it. All I remember about Publix was when they built the first one in Athens while I lived there and there were picketers/protesters all out front for weeks. I was too young to even know what was going on.
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No mention of Goodie Mob in the rapper rankings? Or did I miss it.
Outkast > Any rap/hip hop ever made. Dont @ me.
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Lived off Cascade for a couple years until this year. I routinely shopped at that Kroger in the West End because it was right there by me. And boy the chaos in there was something. But in a way I became a regular and it felt like home.
Took a buddy in there once and he was blown away that there was a barber shop, hair salon, nail salon, and oils/lotion shop all together.
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Checking in from one of the Canadian “Prairie States” where one of the Atlanta NHL franchises relocated.
Good episode aside from this egregious error. Big Randy has already committed on Twitter to it being addressed next episode, however. Good, I may not have to take this to Canadian President Justin Trudeau.
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You’re welcome.
The Kroger off Moreland and United was my spot when I lived in Grant Park in early-2000s. It had so many car jackings that it was called it Kro-Jack. Yelp reviews are sick.
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Calling the 1991 Twins team trash is…something. They went 95-67 and had the second best record in the baseball. I about turned it off at that point.
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As someone newer to Atlanta, podcasts like this are essential to educating myself about my new hometown. Thank you @tron and @Randy for getting one of the best on the pod.
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Never been to Atlanta, but it’s a city I’d like to visit and really explore.
It has seemed to me that Atlanta is a city with a lot of civic ambition - going after the Olympics and so forth. It really wants to be the great metropolis of the South. Is that a fair characterization? Has it achieved that status, or fallen a bit short?
It also seems to have really good nodes of density and activity, like Midtown, but perhaps hamstrung in getting to the next level of cities by being sprawling as a metro region.
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Otis Nixon came and spoke to the athletic dept at Auburn in like 2005 about drugs. He looked like he was 98.
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Bunk, you’re not too off the mark in your assessment. Thankful these outer cities are adapting their own culture/scene that is really giving the metro character. Public transit is an abomination but there’s something for everyone!
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an all time athletic feat (spencer was 100% correct about javy too, ladies loved him)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSHzGtPx8zo
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One of my hometown brags is having David Justice, Otis Nixon, and Ron Gant’s autographs.
Not to mention some others from the 90s Braves, but I’m quite proud of the Otis Nixon one.
Gotta say as a diehard Atlanta pro sports fan, I thoroughly enjoyed the synopsis Spencer gave about how wild it is to follow these teams. If something terrible hasn’t been done yet in sports, wait for Atlanta to show up.
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i’ve lived here my whole live so extremely biased, but Atlanta is unequivocally the great city of the south. I think it has definitely achieved that status and there isn’t another city really vying for that title. But is 100% stuck in that Tier 2 or 3 of cities because it’s just too sprawling. atlanta, the city, is a pretty small thing. atlanta, the metropolitan area, is a vast thing that tron eloquently described as being greater than the sum of its parts.
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Very cool.
Atlanta, Dallas/Forth Worth and Houston are the three bigger US cities I have not yet been to. My plan has always been to win the Masters lottery and go then, but that never materializes, so might just make it part of a trip to the South in Georgia and the Carolinas. Damn 'Rona.
Agree. Watching Charlotte grow over the past 5-10 years has me thinking that their banking sector may cause us to play second fiddle