ANMA - A Very Musical Texture Episode

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

Good Morning, Gus! From Freddo ATX on Oltorf, it's a very texture filled episode of ANMA. Listen as Gus and Geoff talk about An Influential spot, Uptown Sports Club potential episode, Casino El Camino stories, Funko Pops and Mondo, Renting a Dreamcast, I Luv Video, Wizard People Dear Reader, Austin animals, and Michael Jackson’s Death. If you loveSiriusXM Coffeehouse, you'll love this episode of ANMA. Come out and see us at RTX this July 7-9 where we'll be doing a live episode recording https://www.rtxaustin.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay. This will be a very musical episode. Of the Anarchy Me Anything podcast. That is the name of the show. Can I just say what we're waiting for, Gus to walk back? Anma, we're four, a lot of stuff. Like we're pro a lot of stuff. We talk about our love of a lot to walk back. Uh, Anma, we're four a lot of stuff. Like, we're pro a lot of stuff. We talk about our love of a lot of things Austin.

I'm gonna go, I'm just wanna be on record as saying Anma is against whoever the fuck this musician is. We do not like him and we don't support him. All right, whatever he's doing, I don't like it. Who do we not like? Whoever this is singing. An anti this guy.

There's John Mayer. There you go. I don't have it. Who do we not like? Whoever this is singing. I'm anti this guy. There's John Mayer. There you go. I don't have no idea. Oh, it pretty well. Good to meet you, John. Yeah. So last episode we are at Petika. We talked about the name of the show.

Rooster Teeth's 20th anniversary. Guston Puerto Rico. Bernie Spare Bedroom. Not owning intellectual property, and then being motivated by Spite. That was all the last episode, but that's, but this is episode 38. It feels very spiteful towards this radio station. We're at Frado. We're at Frado, which is like South Congress and Old Torf. Yeah, and it is very on the corner. So if you lived in Austin for a while, it's the really pretty old Wells Fargo.

Yeah. They talk into a coffee. But they still have a Wells Fargo ATM. That's true. Oh, and there's the Wells Fargo moved over there. Yeah. It's just a little extra. So this is actually a great spot to do anama

because this is a very, I think, influential spot for us wanting to do this podcast. Oh, yeah. yeah, okay. Jeff and I used to get our haircut at a barber shop across Congress. I can see it from here. Yeah. What was that was a twin oak shopping center? Yeah, cool.

It's called that. That's going to be torn down. But back in the corner over there, there was a barber shop where I think we told sort of like all the old dudes would hang out and tell stories about how Austin used to be. And we used to think that was so cool and that we wanted to be that someday. We wanted to be 75 year old dudes bitching about about the way how Austin used to be cooler before our 35. Yeah, so it's weird that we're back so close and I haven't really, you know, this, this, this shopping center actually say that shopping center is slated to be torn down.

So I really haven't paid attention to it in a long time Sure, I never realized that they kind of just demolished the end of it They should be at the old Maria's there used to be a restaurant. No, I wasn't Maria's a call. It was a tamale house tamale house Was it tamale house? I don't think it was tamale house on airport. Tamale house on airport. It was something it was a tamale place It was good Rosie's no Rosie's like Rosie's to Molly House. Shit dude, why can't I not remember this? I will say this is exactly what I thought this podcast was gonna be. If you lived in Austin before 2010 and went to Old Tarp in Congress,

tell us what the restaurant was and you know what's called. We can't remember. It was by where we got our haircut. What was the name was buyer was by where we got our haircut Runt by where we got her That is also bar But I get there's now like a temporary HB back there because they're rebuilding the other one that was over here. This is a corner historically the weirdest HB In the world I feel like. By weirdest, you mean worst.

It's just like half the people in there are like homeless, zombie, shuffling around. And the other half are people that are just there to buy ice and beer to go to some form of water. It's just such a weird, like mix. Yeah. And lots of St. Edward students, because St. Edward's university is right down the road

over there. And we're right by El Gaior Restaurant, which we mentioned to the other week. Which we now know closed in 2017, not 2004, like I thought. And hey, this guy's moved on to covering Michael Jackson. It's not the same guy, isn't it? Yeah, this guy, yeah, it's not, it's not.

They all sound the same. It's a lot. I don't know how much the music's coming through in the audio, but it is. In our brains, it's coming through so much. I hope you can hear it, audience. It is so, we got here and we're like, this is going to be a great spot. And we walked in and went, oh no. It's like everything's perfect except for this sound system.

Okay. I want to talk about something like this, we can learn. I wanna talk about something I did this weekend. Please talk about anything. I'm really excited about it. All right, there's a spot in the lesson that I have been waiting to see develop since I moved here in, well, whenever in the 90s.

Like an empty puddle end? Like an old run down establishment. Gotcha. On E6, there was for years and years and years. I don't know when they closed down, but as long as I've been here, it's been here. So since 94, probably, I feel like, a place called the Uptown Sports Club.

You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. We looked at that place as a potential office for us. We did. It didn't have, it had like a dirt floor and they were not interested. My ex-wife looked at trying to like, buy the land one time, they were not interested. it's at their undeveloped for many many years. The story was always that the owner was very, very, very particular about who could buy it and what would go in to replace that like. I guess it's pretty, pretty legendary location.

Well, I went there Saturday. Yeah. Yeah, it's open. I think the official opening day is today. They had a soft opening over the weekend. What is it? It is Uptown sports club. It is a it is a we can maybe do coffee there. They have coffee and it's like a coffee bar restaurant. We should go there. It is it's like New Orleans themed.

It's really pretty. It's gorgeous. I had run beans and rice. They were amazing. What I think uptown, I think New Orleans. It's trust me. It's gorgeous in there. And it looks very New Orleans-y. And it is a joint conglomeration. And this is where there is a very small tangential tie to Rucheteether. It is a joint conglomeration between Aaron Franklin, who you know from Franklin barbecue. Yeah.

And a guy named James Moody, who I don't know if you know Gus, but he's kind of locally famous. He started, he, he, he's a guy behind Mohawk. Okay. Yeah. And fun, fun, fun fest. Oh. And he and Aaron Franklin opened the hot luck festival together, that food festival, which is awesome.

But that guy Moody also is one of the partners in Gorilla Suit, who's the company that we hired for all the Roostery that we branding. That's awesome. So yeah, so they finally they were able to like Do this this figure out the secrets us to buy that place and it's now officially open and it is Yeah, absolutely the last time I was there was probably 2009 when we were looking for office space and

The building not have been suitable for it. It had it had dirt floor. There was like no floor. It was dirt And the outside structure was falling apart. And if I remember right, there was a historic building. So there was, there was very, there were very particular about what you could do to that building. It feels kind of like inside, I don't remember, I don't know the last time you went

to this place, but it feels kind of like Walton's fancy and staple. If you took the mom out. Okay. And I don't mean that in a bad way. The Walton's fancy staple is like kind of a cool mom place. out. Okay. And I don't mean that in a bad way. The Walton's fancy and staple is like kind of a cool mom place.

Yeah, yeah. You know, which zone by Sandra Bullock, by the way, Eric, kind of your big Sandra Bullock fan. I've seen her there before. Yeah. What, really? I have two actually, yeah. We probably did together actually.

But it's kind of like that same vibe, or at least what I remember that vibe being, but like kind of hip and e6th. Anyway, so that's it. I've been waiting for that place to be developed for like 20 years, and, I don't even like Cajun food, but the red beans and rice were phenomenal. So it's funny you bring up Aaron Franklin,

because you know, he has Franklin's barbecue, which is world famous, you know, people waiting line for hours to eat there. But before he had his current location, he used to operate off of a trailer, out of a trailer, like just off of 35, like 35, and just south of 38. It's through Cordia. Yeah.

And it used to be that you could just like, walk up and get barbecue. And I used to do that. I used to just like, go over and there'd be like, no line, you'd be like, he would recognize you because he had, you know, just a handful of people showing up and he'd be like, Hey, what's going on?

You know, we were talking about this amendment plan, like I wore this amendment plan short ones and you know, he's like, we talked about that for, that up and he'd be like, Hey, what's going on? You know, we were talking about dismemberment plan, like our award dismemberment plan short ones, and you know, he's like, we talked about that for, that's how he remembered me back, way back then. Do you remember what happened? Cause I used to do the same thing. Yeah, no, not at all. So that was like decent barbecue.

It was really a barbecue and there was never a line. It was like an Anthony Bourdain with it. Something fell in your coffee. Yeah. Oh, it just does. Yeah, and it was a weird spot because it was like an abandoned business that had like a chain link fence and he just had a trailer there.

That abandoned business is a coffee shop now. Oh, okay there. It's a progress coffee, which used to be right there on a fifth, yeah, like a fifth and kind of, all right, really close to fifth and 35 at the tail end of that building that we looked at were big- Top Media used to be, where we used to moonlight. It used to be there, that became Wright Brothers Brew and Brew, and then they eventually,

now they've opened up over there. So Anthony Bourdain went there, it blew up, and now he's got, uh, and now he's well-famous. The other brick and mortar and lines every day. Yeah, it's insane. I drove by it yesterday, and it was probably 150 people in line.

It's wild to me, because I used to just walk up and shoot the shit with Aaron Franklin and he'd be like, hey, try this, try this, you know? Really nice guy. Super nice. Yeah. I'm sure he still is. Just you don't get that experience anymore. Yeah. Now he's a culinary rock star. Yeah. There's ever at least so is this food so fucking awesome. Well, apparently the menu is real small. Add uptown sports club, but the meat thing they have is like a roast beef sandwich.

And it's like Franklin roast beef. So I bet that's pretty good. It's like going to good arbise. Yeah, we got to do a lunchtime and my episode. I was thinking about that the other day because we haven't done casino al Camino. Yeah, I mean that's definitely like on the list. They got a courtyard in the back. They do, very easy to record it. However, they're not exactly a coffee spot

and I don't think they're open at 10, 30 in the morning. I think they open at noon on Friday. So we're gonna have to start expanding a little bit into lunches. Maybe. Maybe. This is a caught primarily a coffee podcast, but we are finding places that are Austin,

that are going to spark conversation that we can do lunch. So does Cassino even have coffee? No, I can't imagine. Some bars have like a coffee pot, like not good coffee, but I'm gonna be so. I bet they have some kind of canned ice coffee that you could buy if you needed to. Have we told, have we told all our casino stories?

Probably not. On this podcast? No. Like there's some, I know that there's like a couple of you guys have sort of touched on it. You know, we had Frank, our Frank wanted to talk about casino stories when we had him on a couple of weeks ago, but we didn't even get around to that.

No. Man, because I'm thinking of like, oh my God, I'm thinking of when I thought the guy was giving us a discount because of red versus. Oh, we definitely talked about that. Oh, that's a good one. I'm thinking about when I thought the guy was giving us a discount because of red versus. We definitely talked about that. Oh, that's a good one. I'm thinking about when we saw the bartender do the get the shake down. I never heard that one.

Oh, wow. Whoa. We saw a sketchy moment at Casino once. Yeah. Well, I mean, we saw probably lots of sketchy moments. Yeah, that's true. At Casino, just because of the location being right there on Dirty Sixth. But I mean, another thing I always remember, I don't know if I mentioned this in the past,

is like, because of the name, you also inadvertently get a lot of old, out-of-town tourists wander in. They like take walk in the door, take three steps, look around, then turn around and walk out. Because they think it's a casino. They think you can go gambling there. And they walk in, look at them, like, oh, this is not for me.

And then you immediately like grandpa Simpson and it walk out the front door. Grandpa Simpson, yeah. But yeah, I mean, we should probably save a lot of that for what, if when slash if we actually do a full episode down there, casino. We did, we should probably save a lot of that for what if when slash if we actually do a Full episode down there casino. We did we will. I'm sure just being there will spark So many memories. We definitely will. I probably went there for years without ever going upstairs

Really? Yeah, we will save it. Let's talk The pool tables are yeah, I'm like, you know, I'm not good at pool. I don't like this. Yeah It's not much. Are you scared of it? I'd rather just sit around and talk and drink. I feel like, oh, I'm gonna do this thing. I feel the same way when I go to someone's house and they go, and now let's play a board game. Yeah.

miserable. I want to sit around and drink. What are we doing? Terrible. You want to talk about this coffee real fast? Yeah. Hey, let's do it. I don't know what y'all feeling on it is, but my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my on it is, but my my my my Americano is like coffee flavored hot water. Yeah, it's

incredibly weak. I my expectations were lowered when I saw the dude wasn't actually making the drinks himself. It's like a machine that he put a cup under and hit like a Americano for this too. Yep. And like you just like selected whatever it was and the machine makes it. It's like that's never good. No. That's never good. No. No.

This coffee is the world's okayest cup of coffee. It is, it's definitely just out of like the little pump thing that was at the counter, which is totally fine, but I saw that. There was no, there was no espresso. Yeah. There were no beans, there was nothing. There's no craftsmen's shit.

No, but, but. No industry. But, you guys both got a Biscoph cookie. We did get a free Biscoph cookie. That's true. And I, I don't like Biscoph cookies. Yeah, no, neither do I. But I do, I will say that my iced coffee is, or my cold brew, whatever it is,

is, I think it's all seven and a half. It's not bad. Can we get in the cargo back to all the gimmicks? Yeah. Oh my God, I went there yesterday. Did you really? It was closed. Oh.

It was turned. It was the bar that it is. Oh. The cider. What time did you go? Like three in the afternoon. I didn't. I wasn't expecting it to be open.

I was just, I had to go up the to the domain for something. Was it an Austin FC game yesterday? No, it was an outer deck. I was just up there because I had to go to the domain. And I thought, I wonder if I'll just check. And so I just drove by. And I wasn't upset that it was closed. That's too bad.

I wasn't surprised, but I thought maybe I'd get lucky. I thought if you said 11 a.m., I'd been like, wow, that's pretty crazy. And then you said three and I went, well, they were sold out of coffee at 10.45 when we got there. So on like a Monday, I didn't spend a lot of time in the car telling Emily and Millie how great it is. Oh, cool. That's fun! That's always the best. Make, well, it makes the best coffee shop in Austin. I'm telling you, it's our favorite so far.

It's easily our favorite. And then we drove by the other place, turn and sign, I'm like, that's our least favorite. Well, no, Tertzall's been replaced. It's the best regard to the congratulations, Tertzall. You're no longer at the bottom of the list. But I really like that about this podcast where now you're going. You're like, oh, I love this play. Who would have known that fucking existence?

Who would have known? I was fantastic. Even that I knew it existed. Still hard to ship to find. Yeah. It's not. It's about a whole gimmicks. Yeah.

And he's still hiding in an industrial complex. Yeah. Definitely is. You got to look for caliber collision in that street. That's like goes down to the to Q2 and then turn right there. The street across the street from there is where Mead and Jordan Swayers park when we go to an Austin FC game. I knew I was in the right area because I remembered

the door store that I saw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Door factory. There's a lot of like home renovation places up there in that area. Like a lot of flooring places, a lot of door places. Like, that's like the renovation district. Like if you're there, you're not happy. You got some shit going on. I've definitely had to go

up there before and it's never fun. You're always in the middle of like the fucking flooring I want to sold out or back order and I got to pick something else. I got to look at a million different kinds of floor. What a, what kind of Austin shit did you do this weekend? So I had family visiting from out of town this weekend. So it was an unusual weekend for that. So it was a lot of going to things that they wanted to do. Okay. So it's not, it wasn't necessarily a very Austin weekend.

So you went to Interspace Caverns and the Museum of Ice Cream. We went up, we had lunch at a place that I've been going to for years, went to Coco's Cafe up off a research. Oh yeah. I don't know when the last time you went to Coco's is. Not since it was by T&I.

Yeah, so we didn't get the chicken caraghi there. There used to be a Coco's down off of Voltor. Yeah. We're just the one you're talking about. But that one closed probably 20 years ago. Yeah, it's been a long time. There was one on Guadalupe for a while, right? It's still there, there's one by campus

and there's one up off a research. I love that place, but like you said, when there was that one off of Old Torf, we stayed there all the time way back in the day. But yeah, that place is still going, man. I mean, talk about like a consistent, Austin business that's been around for decades at this point. I didn't, I don't even know when that one on Guadalupe opened.

Yeah. You know, it's probably been there since the mid-90s and they're just like plugging away, making it big selling boba and fucking Taiwanese foods. Good food, yeah. Really, really great. Weird locations though, the one by campus I never go to just because the parking's terrible.

Yeah, there's no way to go to any of those buildings. Like anything on the drag, it's impossible. And then the one up off of research is like, it's kinda in the parking lot of that target. That's where that ramen tatsuya is. Oh, okay, yeah, I don't know where that is. Yeah, up there, which is another Austin staple. That's a low key, that's a real good target

to get cards from. Oh really? Yeah, it's kind of the forgotten target right there. And so if you go into the back, on the back wall they have like their fun copops and shit to the right of that, they'll have cards. Oh, fun copop. That's a, that's an Austin story.

That is, that's very interesting that you brought that up. Oh right. I hadn't thought about that. To especially talking about it on this show. You guys do anything with Mondo? We've had some, some Mondo? And what? We've had some Mondo prints in the past. Yeah.

I just saw one of our red versus blue Mondo prints getting hung up in the studio on Friday, or Thursday. They did phenomenal work. Yeah. I guess we should probably reset it. So Funko Pop bought Mondo. There's years ago in this. No, like less than a year ago.

Less than a year ago. Yeah. So two or three years ago. No, less than a year ago. I thought this was like two or three years ago. Oh my God. And they bought it from Alamo Drafthouse, who owned Mondo. And they were like, if you don't know what Mondo is, they, I guess they're like a design company that makes really, really, really high-end bespoke movie posters. Yeah, and it was also a little more than a poster,

something they would do with vinyl. They do other more than post something they would do. Final print. They do other stuff. Yeah, they do like figures. And they kind of cool like like limited run really high quality fandom stuff. I guess you would say, but mostly movie posters like the bread and butter. Yeah, they've been around since 04. Yeah, and almost as old as your teeth. Yeah, and they used to have like a little Mondo.

Do you remember the old original draft house they had for a little bit? Yeah, a little mando store under yeah next to the staircase and I want to say didn't they have one at South Lamar also for one? Yeah, yeah And yeah, I guess fun co bought them a year ago or so and then I guess I read on Friday laid everybody off and kind of Did they shatter the business or I don't I don't I'm sure they still have it open and they're using the name right? I think that's what they're gonna do. Yeah, I'm sure it'll still exist But it's not gonna be like the same Mondo that people were used to before

That's really sad. It's serious XM's coffee house. Oh That's a real lesson, too. This is very, for a place that's cool, this place's so least off. You're just making some of this fucking place. This is, I don't hate ragging on places. I don't wanna be like the negative person. But here's the thing, part of the thing about this podcast is that we're going to all these different coffee shops. People need to know if they come here.

There's people who are gonna go to all gimmicks when they come for RTX and stuff, which is July 7th. And also there's people that are gonna come here and love it and have a different opinion. Right, but I think you have to be. A opinion that may vary. But you have to be really upfront about what these places are, what you prefer and what you don't.

Okay, I don't prefer this one. Yeah. I'll leave it there. There's a lot more going on, but man. Yeah, we did some limited edition, Red versus Blue Prince with Mondo, but I don't think we did anything beyond beyond that. Here's what I'll say about Frado. They have a little dog run. Yeah, that's very cool. So if you bring your dog to the coffee shop, let it lock it in the little dog run and it plays and has fun.

Well, you drink your coffee. Dog jail. Dog jail. That's a big that's a that's a thumbs up for Frado right there. Way to go, dog jail. I know we know people that have worked there and stuff in the past, but. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. It's crazy to see something like that go. Because it always seemed like whatever they made

always sold out. Yeah. It was always limited edition stuff, and they make it, and it's not like they were selling it at a low price point. You paid a premium for a quality product, and if you wanted to buy something, you had to be on the email list,

and you had to show up on the website. Right when it opened, or you'd go to the brick and mortar and line up. When I used to share a workspace with Jack Patillo from the Ruchititha Achimilhunter, he was the guy who was like, dude, new poster, ghostbusters poster, 10 a.m. Ghostbusters poster, 10 a.m. Get it, just like, try to get it right now. I'm like, I don't really wanna ghostbusters poster, Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of the Chief of Chief of the Chief of the Chief of Chief of the Chief of Chief of the Chief of the Chief of Chief of Chief of the Chief of the Chief of Chief of the Chief of Chief of Chief of the Chief of Chief of Chief of the Chief of Chief of Chief of the Chief and just like fingers crossed. It was a great place to get a gift for someone. Like, especially the people we work with,

like you know the things that they're into. Like, oh, there's a, masters of universe, man at arms, limited edition, figure that's coming out, you know, it's gonna drop at 10 a.m., man. Like, man, I know exactly who would love this. Yeah. So it's really bizarre to me that they shut it up at the business.

From the outside, it seemed like everything was going super well, super successful. I guess just go show you never know. You never know, I guess, yeah. Yeah. But that might also speak to broader problems in that market with funco specifically. I think they've had to put some figures like in the landfill.

I think they have like an excess of stock that they're trying to deal with. Yeah, so a Mondo could be a victim of that. I've never quite understood the Funko market. I get collectible figures. I totally get that. But is there a rarity to Funko? I don't think so. Because it just seems like you can get any...

I think there are some... I think there are some... I think there are some that they'll do like limited edition runs of. Okay. But for the most part, like most of it, you can find pretty easily. Okay. I'm sure there's... We'll probably get... Yeah, who collect this stuff?

We're gonna get schooled in the comics, yeah. Who gives a fuck? Yeah. It's Funko Pops. Who gives a shit? It's crazy. Uh... It...

What a weird thing for them to be involved with Mondo. It seems like the exact opposite market. 100% Like Mondo and then Funko went, Why you guys aren't doing bigger stuff? Why come so small you're doing it? They went shut down. Crazy.

But it's not like that's a surprise. Mondo's been doing that for almost 20 years. No, no, it's not. It's just a surprise for Funko to get involved with. What did my Alamo sold them? I think the pandemic put them in a precarious position financially. Yeah.

And I think they were trying to stabilize after that. Because Alamo was really right before the pandemic, they were really expanding, right? Like they opened L.A. and like a bunch of other places. Yeah, I guess the question I have though is like if Mondo was a healthy business, that would probably prop that up. But who knows?

You might need a cash infusion. You might need a cash infusion. You also might just wanna like laser focus. Yep. If you're in your lane. If you're expanding your movie company thing and you're just trying to get the money to do that, Mondo's posters probably aren't the thing

where you just go, why does that's fine? Oh, Funko wants to fucking. Funko wants to fucking. get the money to do that. Mondo's posters probably aren't the thing where you just go, people, why does that's fine? Oh, Funko wants to fucking, Funko wants to fucking, I think it's probably that. Well, anyway, really, really sad to see a unique, clever, passion-driven, Austin business suffering. Yeah, absolutely. Very cool.

You own any Funko stuff? I'm sorry, I'm fine. I'm fine. I don't have any monster stuff now But I'm not into collectibles in that way, you know, I like my baseball cards, but that's about it Yeah, we need to open the all the sweet and baseball cards. We need to open all those fucking old baseball cards Yeah, well, let's put it on the calendar and do it next break. Sure. I've got a fucking giant suitcase I don't really get to it too. I really do. It's, we'll be doing it soon. We should be doing it soon. That'll be a lot of fun. That's something we can, we should see if we can open every, every, every,

every, just do the entire thing in one sitting. There, we don't have, I think Michael and Ferreto just played a Resident Evil 4 and it took 27 hours. So I think it'll probably take about that long to open a guess as far as. Oh my God. I don't want to do that. I want to open them. I don't want to take 27 hours. It'd be great take 27 hours. We can see how many Don's emmers.

We can take bets on over under how many Zimmers are in the entire pile. That's a good idea. Let the audience play along. We give a prize to whoever. If anyone guesses it exactly right, they get a super prize. If anyone gets close, they get some regular prize. It's like the jelly beans in the jar. Send them a Mondo print. The Zimmers in the suitcase.

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that inspired this podcast. There's like it was it's again. Okay. Old Torf. There's not a road I never on. There's a great Mexican restaurant just down here on the left, called Habanero. Highly recommended, super-adurated. I feel like it never shows up on any list. No one ever talks about it. It's been there at least 20, 25 years. Excellent place. We're also very close to the GNS lounge,

which is the bar we told the story about the guy fighting the dude with a monkey wrench and the other guy had a chair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and that parking lot. We're pretty close to a pinfield station where we heavily considered moving the business to. Yeah, we looked at some space there. There was a like a local tea company that got bought by Coca-Cola. And so they had evacuated their space there, not evacuated, they'd moved out of their space there. And we thought about taking that one over. We're right next to Sugar's the strip club. No, no, no, no, this is Red Rose.

If you used to be expose. Expose, I'm sorry, expose. Jesus Christ. I used to expose. I always got to consult the strip club dictionary, Gus. Yeah. This place, okay, so there is actually a place I always got to consult the strip club dictionary, Gus. Yeah. This place, okay, so there is actually a place that is another place that's very influential

to you and I. Okay. It's no longer here, but Cady Corner to us, at the southeast corner of Old Torf and Congress, I can't see what it is now. It's got a red awning on it, but that used to be a Hollywood video. Yeah. Oh! Right there. And Jeff and I back in the day when we couldn't afford consoles, we would rent consoles from the Hollywood video. That's where we rented the Dreamcast.

That is the Hollywood video. Yeah, they, when the Dreamcast came out back in 99, before you could buy it, like the week before you could rent it at Hollywood video video So Jeff and I came down to this Hollywood video here and we rented a dreamcast and played it for like a week non-stop That was the coolest thing we played it was it was like a week early, right? Yeah, that was so cool We played Sonic and Madden I remember yeah So it's like we we always preferred going to local places like Vulcan or Ila video But they didn't have game consoles Especially not like the Dreamcast so whenever we needed like a video game console or something

We would come down to this Hollywood video that was right here and we would we would rent video game consoles I used to love Vulcan video. I had to stop going for the lamest fucking reason in the world But I'm gonna admit to it right now Vulcan video used to be on South Congress. This is like just a little northeer Phenomenal local independent video store had the best like Just like weirdest off the wall shit the building's been torn down right like the buildings Yeah, the building's gone now. Yeah, it was right next to eco wise. That's the whole thing's been torn on There's a punk band that I've always loved my entire life

Not like the biggest punk band in the world. They never got very big, but they were prolific in the quality and the output. It was a band called J Church. They started in San Francisco. Lead singer was got named Lance Han. Many member changes had some of the members, well, a bunch of different talented musicians, punk musicians came in and out of that band,

including people from job-breaker or all kinds of bands. Lance Han moved to Austin. He had a record label called Honey Bear Records and he moved to Austin. I think he was just like his girlfriend was going to grad school or something. And he got a job at Vulcan Video and I walked in and I saw him and I couldn't talk because I was so

like honestly star struck by this guy and I loved him so much and I tried to strike up a conversation with him and I just fumbled it and then I tried again and I like it get out was like big fan and he just kept looking at me like I'm a fucking weirdo you know and so then I just never went back and then he died a couple years later probably from second-handed bearism if I had to do in a heart condition Oh, I saw jay church play a couple times in Austin. I was lucky enough, but yeah. I stopped going. Big fan. Yeah, I was so, it was like, it was as bad as at I Love Video. I remember they had a thing at I Love Video

where you could sign up for the rental card and there was a fee for it, but they would waive the fee if you brought in a blockbuster card and they cut it up. Hmm, so the only reason I ever got a blockbuster card was to get a free I Love Video card. I signed up at the blockbuster over on Riverside. Then went to the I Love Video.

I think it was the one over off of airport and gave it to them. So they cut it up so I could get an I Love video membership card to rent videos. Boy, that's the most guess way of going about things, isn't it? Yeah. I'll do the free thing to get me the other thing that cost me money. It was like five bucks. It was like five bucks.

It was like, yeah, I'll take the 10 minutes out of my life to say five bucks who wouldn't do that. Especially back in the 90s, it's like 10 bucks now. Also, if you ever find yourself in this area, Lucy's fried chickens right across from that Wells Fargo. It's okay, but they have really, really good Mexican coke sweet potato, like sweet mashed potatoes. Those are good. And Kura's grill, it's right that way. I'm not a big chorus fan. Really? Oh, I love it. I've only ever eaten there once, and I got tamales that had raisins in them, and I was like, I'm not eating big chorus fan really. Oh, I love it. I've only ever eaten there once and I got tamales

I had raisins in them and I was like I'm not eating here ever again That's why I wanted to it was at this location too. Did you order raisins? It was like the special was whatever the special of the day was And I was like I'm gonna eat that yeah I'm gonna raise the last two days. I can eat I love video on airport is gone. Yeah, it's Lazarus brewing now is Lazarus brewing is their second location I think, because their first one's on E6. That play's pretty good, actually.

Yeah. I like Lazarus Brewing. It's a cool place. I see you there, love. But I love video is coming back. So they are? They had like a Kickstarter or something to like start up again.

Do you guys know about this? No. Yeah. Yeah, I think that a Kickstarter or a GoFundMe or something that was like, hey, we're going to start up I love video again. It's people with a passion that are I think that a Kickstarter or a GoFundMe or something that was like, hey, we're gonna start up I love video again. It's people with a passion that are I think trying to open a new one.

That I love video location on airport was always amazing to me. Every time I walked in, it was so huge. And the selection was so vast. Like I think you kind of forget that, right? Like when you go through a streaming video site, like you just scroll for every like whatever, there's a million movies.

But to go and actually see like the physical representation of all of these movies Like I don't know what I want to watch like trying to narrow it down and figure it out and they got like Staff picks. They were always amazing. It's like oh, I haven't seen I've never heard of this movie like I'm gonna I'm gonna rent that one. They had a cult section that was the size of most blockbusters. Yeah, it was so cool They had a whole section for like skate videos and stuff. It was. They had like a bunch of like VHS like old VHS Yeah back back when it was a little bit harder to be a fan of shit like when I was super in the David Lynch Like I would love to go there because they would you could rent his college stuff like the grandmother and six men getting sick and All of his like early like pre-arraser head stuff. It was really cool

Missed that now I think you can probably watch on YouTube like early pre-arraser head stuff. It was really cool. I missed that. Now I think you can probably watch it on YouTube. That's good. It was something more fun about having to seek it out. Yeah, for sure. It puts a message into getting it. Back then it was also things existed. Almost like, that was good.

Almost like in legend. What's like, oh, have you ever seen this thing? Like I've never heard of that. Like, there were things you hadn't heard of and you were like, I don't know, this guy's full of shit, telling me stuff that's not actually true. Then you find the tape, you're like, oh shit, no, it's real.

Yeah. You know, there's like a whole mythos and a whole like story behind that. It's funny, I remember that I remember both those stores are very vividly vulcan and I love video. But I like, I couldn't tell you anything specific. I ever rented it either of those. Like it was so like in the air, like it was just like constant. It was like, whatever I was watching, I couldn't tell you anything specific I ever rented it either of those. Like, it was so like, in the air, like it was just like constant.

It was like, whatever I was watching, I probably got there. Man, this is some great audio history. I remember, this is a good one right here. Man. I could tell you something, I rented it Vulcan specifically because they were the only people that had it. They had that dear wizard reader people. Oh, VH, our tape that everybody was so big on. Yeah.

It was like a video that was like, it was a dude who ended up being a kind of a famous guy. reader people. Oh, VHR tape that everybody was so big on. Yeah. It was like a video that was like, it was a dude who ended up being a kind of a famous guy. I can't remember his name now. He did the animation. Uh, but it was like him like, it was almost like mystery science theater over Harry Potter. Oh, really? It was big for a while. It was big with your screenings. I like the draft house. Yeah. Uh, that was, that would have been like early 2000s, mid 2000s, maybe a four or a five. Wizard people, dear reader. Wizard people, dear reader. I didn't Google it, I had no idea.

Hahaha. I'm, I thought that was like super popular. It was, I think it was just like popular here. Hahaha. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like, uh, what's the thing that Andrew Roses does? Oh, like Master Pancake? Master Pancake?

Yeah, yeah. Which used to be called Mr. Sinus Theater. I don't know if you know that. What? Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K. Are you serious? Yeah, they got sued. Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K.

Are you serious? Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K. Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K. Are you serious? Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K. Are you serious? Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K. Yeah, they got sued by MST 3K.

Oh, I never heard about that. And trouble, and it became Master Pancake after that. Oh, I never, I had no idea. Yeah, yeah. When it was, when it used to do it downtown, it was Mr. Sinus Theater, I remember that. Then from one week to, it was Mr. Sinus Theater for a long time. Yeah, then there's like one week to the next, like, oh hey everyone, we're Master Pancake now. Oh wow. Yeah. That Master Pancake's a really cool thing.

If you're in Austin and you happen to be able to grab tickets to go to a thing they're doing. Absolutely. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. I've been a few times to see Andrew and it's great. Another Austin institution that's been around for decades. Yeah.

It's been around forever. I can't, I always think of that as being at the old original draft house down in Colorado. Oh, really? They were there, right? I remember it's for sinus being there. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. It's been around for so long. It's hard to imagine them not doing stuff. It is a great example of kind of a unique Austin thing. That's, I don't know. Makes our city special, I guess, in some dumb way. Is that in Mondo? That in Mondo.

Well, and also, please, have we done it in a long time? No. No. I don't know if you'd like it, but. I will. There's this place called the Long Time, which is basically like Austin field of dreams. A couple years ago, some welders. Like a baseball park?

Yeah, some welders over off East MLK. You know where the water treatment plan is? Like right past it, maybe like, I don't know, two miles. It's like past the freeway. That's what, what's that one-thirty year? Yeah, it's like a past agave. Yeah, it's past agave, two miles. It's like past the freeway. That's what was that one 30 year old? Yeah, it's like a pastor, gov. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For sure. But not too far past it. Like if you lived in a gov, you'd be so fucking close to where you live. But it's like a baseball field out there. And they have like an art gallery in the old house. And it's, they have like, Schultz beer garden runs the catering

and they have hot dogs and stuff. And then they have local sand lot baseball games Are on the weekend and it's free and you just go and like sit in the grass and just fucking watch like the Texas playboys play the I saw the Austin drag play which is like their the drag team. Yeah, and Not like the Guadalupe street drag but like people that dress and drag yeah, and And it's just fucking awesome. It's like, it's just like fun ass, taxi-se, viby, great music.

They have live country bands playing every Saturday and you just go out and like just fucking sit and eat good ass sausage dogs and watch people play baseball. Really? That sounds pretty great. It is really fun. That sounds great for a couple months out of the year.

Yeah, I can't imagine. It goes, I was leaving the schedule. It goes until October. I can't imagine being out there in June or July. August, like a month from now, it's going to be impossible. I went two, I went two weeks ago, and it was fucking amazing. Yeah, we really should. This past weekend would have been great. It was beautiful weather. If you're in the city on the weekend and you're looking for a free thing to do, you can't beat it. There's a lot of baseball like that in Austin. There's a bunch of Sandlot teams, Wes Ellis, or over creative director.

He was playing for the, I think, South Austin parakeets for a while. And it's really cool. It's fun stuff. Austin cultivates that kind of thing to me. And I didn't realize it, but I guess that team, the Playboy's, they helped kind of found the Sandlot League. Oh, I didn't know that. That's very cool.

That's very similar. Some of the earliest proponents, yeah, since 2006. Sandlot League stuff, I think, did some stuff with the field of dreams stuff, with MLB. Oh really? Yeah, to go play at like field of dreams stuff. Which is like fucking cool. That's really awesome. Baseball's back, baby.

I'm so excited. That's how I'm gonna go see Savannah Banana's play. That's so cool. Yeah, I like two weeks. That's awesome. I'm super excited. That's gonna be really exciting. They're a baseball team.

Oh, I'd rather. That contracts clues. Yeah, my fourth grade teacher talked about that. They play a special kind of baseball they invented called Banana Ball. And it's just, if you took everything out of baseball. They ended called banana ball and it's just If you took everything out of baseball that sucks, you've got banana ball Okay, if a fan catches a foul ball the the hitters out. Oh, that's cool. There's a two-hour cap on the game Whatever happens if the end of two hours the game is over. Yeah, they pitch whatever they have players who pitch on stilts

They just do wild shit if you're winning game and played for them recently if you're winning aren't you incentive to slow the game down then? No, because it doesn't matter who wins or loses. Oh, okay. Just have fun They like set baseball bats on fire and hit with them and just like they get they get a lot of like John like Johnny Damien played they have like a lot of Guys recently retired or guys who're still in shape or whatever Jake P.V. Just pitched again for them That's a Padre's MLB Sai Young winner. And it's like, I don't know, if I was just a guy, and to me, the Savannah Bans thing is like,

they're the Harlem Globetrotters. Yeah, they're the Los Angeles A-100%. So if I'm on the Washington Generals and former Sai Young pitcher, Jake Peevee was up to pitch, I'd be like, there's no, what do I do? He's on stils and I've got a fling me back if I hit it into the stands I'm fucking out oh it's exciting it's fun stuff this sounds fun yep we're at about 40-ish minutes oh

I want to keep mentioned Jeff mentioned something I want to follow up on real fact you mentioned maybe actually Eric mentioned the South Austin parakeets. Oh yeah. Which made me think about the parakeets. The monk parakeets, you see all around Austin. Yeah. One of my favorite things is people who show up on the Austin subreddit and they're like,

hey everyone, I think I found someone's pet bird. There's this green parakeet, there was in my yard and I caught it. And then the people are always like, no, they just live here. So like, they're just in some parts of town, like they are as prevalent as Greckles. Offer Riverside, you will see so many of them over there.

I moved here and they were in my yard and I came to work and I went, these fucking green birds are in my yard. They're like, not Greckles, they're just like regular birds and you're just like, what are they doing here? And Bernie went, oh, those are good luck. What the fuck does that mean? Also, no, they're not. They look like a bird you would buy at a pet store.

It's like, oh no, they're just here. They're good luck. They're loud as fuck. They are so loud. I hate those fuckers. Because if they decide to like wake up, if they decide to start the day near your house, it's like, oh, you're waking up when they wake up

because they will start screaming immediately. They're monk parakeets, I think, so everyone calls them. Yeah. There's conflicting stories about how they got here. Some people say like, there was a family that raised them and then they all escaped or a few got out and they just like proliferated and now they're...

And supposedly if you're like exotic bird escapes, it'll join their family and like yeah it's just a bunch of those in a two can yeah are there any other animal things in Austin that you guys think of that are like I I think there's a few I think you know there's like armadillos yeah you know it's pretty pretty commenting oh I was actually so I's pretty, a pretty common thing. Oh, I was actually, so I did see Duce a rather awesome thing over the weekend.

But it was purely by accident. I happened to be driving over the Congress bridge like right around sunset. Like right as the bats were coming out. Oh yeah. And it's like, I've lived here for 25 years. I probably only gone down there and like stood on the bridge twice to see the bats.

And it just so happened, I was like driving down the bridge and it looks like just a river of bats pouring out from under the bridge, flying up into the night sky. I thought it was bullshit for the first couple of years I lived here, because I tried like 10 times before I actually saw the bats. I did it last year in the least parents were in town and we took a river cruise, like a nighttime river cruise. It's fucking, it was awesome. I've never seen it from the water before. I know that's a super touristy thing to do, but even if you live in Austin, you should do it.

Cause it is a cool, it's a cool way to see those things. And if you're here for RTX, like the Vigil Center's right by the Congress Bridge, like you could walk to it from America, yeah. It's definitely a cool Austin thing. And I think it's a cool thing that you'll tell people about later. Cause it is so, it's unique.

Like a lot of that stuff, a convention is cool. I had a lot of fun this weekend, whatever. Saw a million bats. Yeah. And it looks like flowing water, like a river, just like ascending into the sky. Like, man, that is so cool. And then if one's on the ground, you just pick it up.

No. No. Do not. Yeah, you just handle it. Those are like the two, but those are the two animals I think of, specifically when I think of Austin, Central Texas, it's always armadillos and bats. Those are like, I feel like icons for central Texas

and for Austin. Back when I lived in clean and I would drive down to Austin for punctures, or just to get the fuck away from clean in the army. On that stretch of like 195 there, I probably hit 30 armadillos. They just, they come out of nowhere. They are so dumb.

Yeah. And so like they're just, well this is coming toward me, I better make sure I'm in front of it. Like they are dumb. I'll duck. Yeah. What they do.

They're armored, which is good for most things, but it's not good against cars. It's not good to get some Mazda B225 rolls in there. People always talk about, oh, you're not supposed to handle them, because they can carry leprosy. Yeah, they have little special bags for it. Yep, and it's like, they hang on to it.

Yeah, they find it, no. And they wanna show you. Yeah. I can get one of this. But like, I think it's so rare, but also I think if they carry leprosy at all, the government has to go, don't touch them. Hey, everyone, blanket response. Just don't touch them. Yeah, but don't touch them. Yeah, they don't touch them. Well, those who knows, you know what I mean maybe pick it up

Here's the deal they don't want to be touched either. No They want to be touched less than you want to touch them. Yeah, I guarantee you Sleeping the fuck on they're the nine banded army dealers those the ones we have out here Is it I don't know there's like nine banded and three banded oh? We have more than three. Yeah, all right. We got nine bandar The bands, but there's more than three. I'm gonna say, yeah, it's definitely more than three. Cause three banded, I think, don't carry a leprosy and nine banded could potentially. Three bands, just a concert, nine bands,

the music festival, yeah. That's awesome, baby. We got Armadillo Festival. So we kind of already talked about the coffee and fraydo, which, I'll be really frank and say, don't come here. It's not a spot that I would recommend. But here's my cold brew is good. I'm the ice stand by my coffee.

I'm 7 and a half coffee. I would say don't come here. For beer or getting a quick bite and hanging out, not a bad spot. Cool convenience. Yeah, cool occasion. For getting something to eat and having a beer, I would like this way more.

It's just the vibe that you're going for, this is not the vibe I'm going for for coffee. At all. But if there's nothing else, say about Frado, I do want to do our new segment, Anarchy Me Anything. Ooh. Pop quiz.

You can prompt or ask anything to Gus and Jeff. No, no, no, no, speaking to the audience. You can tweet at us at Anima Podcast and you can let us know that you have a topic like. So this is your guess is for the name. That's dude. That has been so much fun retweeting people and saying, oh, so close. Oh, try it. Oh, it's got it. Oh, nope. That's not it. You're really dialing it in. That's all boy, you're close. Cnex it at us. And I like this one,

because I kinda wanna see where it goes and then where we can take it from here. Possible anarchy topic. Do y'all remember what you are doing at the time of Michael Jackson's death? What a, is this what this segment is gonna be? Yes, it is truly like 2009. Yeah, I know what I was doing. So like, this is why I like this segment is gonna be the new in a short time. It's truly like 2009. Yeah.

I know what I was doing. So like, this is why I like this segment because it truly is, well, hey, the financial crisis, what was up with that? And then where were you and Michael Jackson down? Yeah, this is right after the financial crisis that we really dialed into a timeframe.

I had just bought my first house. Oh, really? Yeah, I was in the process of like trying to figure out how I was gonna renovate it and like getting all that process started So I remember I found out like driving to that house to meet a contractor To talk about potential renovations to that house

Because again like we talked about the other day That's when I bought my first house because it was right after the financial crisis You know things were kind of shaky and there was a slight pause in the increase in home values in Austin. So I jumped on it. I'm gonna guess I was probably drunk. That's why I don't remember specifically. And that would have, it fits the window of, it fits the window of like 1991 to 2016 or so.

It was like May 09? June, 2009. June 25th 2009, at the age of 50. Yeah, that's sick. I think I bought, that might be almost the exact date I bought my first house. It was like within a week of that. It was like right around there. Wow.

That's a weird way to celebrate his death. Yeah, why would you do that? Michael Jackson's gone. I'm gonna buy a house. He he. I was driving with my friend Brian, and we were a buy buy a best buy and we heard the news on the radio and went What then it was crazy. Yeah, I don't know this true But did you see that picture that was on Reddit over the weekend that was like from his bedroom at the time he died

And it was just like framed pictures of kids from like target ads What yeah, this sounds like one of those chat GPT auto generated images, like the Pope and a panel that's true and not it's just was. It's all right. You're just repeating it. Were there any celebrity death?

This is where I wanted this topic to go. It's the Michael Jackson thing and then go for it from here. There any celebrity deaths that it felt like like affected you or felt like they affected you. Are you already talked about the

punk guy who worked at a video store? But any celebrity deaths that you remember really vividly like where you were when you found out or like that affected you a lot? I remember when Kirk Cobain died, but I wasn't like a super fan. I just remember it because it was the day I met my friend, Jason Miller, my first friend in the army.

Oh, that's right. And that was the day I went to my first strip club and that was the day I got kicked out of my first strip club. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was all the day that Kirk Cobain died. That's an eventful day for you. Yeah. I remember what, like, specific moments,

but I remember being very, very, very sad when John Candy died. Yeah. That one hurt. That one hurt a lot. I was a big John Candy fan. I think it is very recent, but, man, Lance Reddick. Yeah, Lance Reddick. He's passing away, like way too young. Like, Lansreddick. Yeah, Lansreddick has a way too young.

He was always someone that's like, if I saw him in something, I was like, okay. And he was everywhere. Yeah, it's like everything. I'll enjoy this. This is gonna be all right. No matter what, at least there's Lansreddick. Yeah, he's gonna guide you through this.

It's shit. At the very least, we have Lansreddick. Uh, yeah, I think that. uh, another one that maybe a little sad just to see the trajectory how it played out was like DMX. Oh, yeah. Uh, I mean, just like, such a, I had to tragic not the right word, but such a, like, a, a, a, a poor trajectory, uh, in that, in that life, the way I ended up for her. Yeah. Um, that sucked. The one ended up for him. Yeah.

That sucked. How about you, Eric? Celebrity deaths that feel like they really affected me. The one that jumps to mind is one that I don't feel like a lot of people are going to know, but Steven Brody Stevens, who was a comedian that I really loved. Hangover one. Hangover two, cut out of hangover three. He's just a really funny guy from Recita, California, push and believe, positivity, great, funny

guy. He was the MC at the just for last festival. He would do a crowd warm up for Chelsea lately. That's exactly what I was going to say. I saw him do crowd warm up when I was on an episode of that midnight. Are you serious? Yeah, and I was like, what the fuck? This guy is so funny.

It was like, he's hilarious. He was making someone to mention something, someone in the crowd are mentioning something about Starbucks. So he started making a rap about Starbucks. I was like, like total improv out the top of his head. I was like, how the fuck is this guy so funny? He is so, he was so, so, so funny. And I think would get really manic

and would like really like push people away and start a lot of fights and then kind of come down and he struggled with that a lot and then killed himself and that was really, to me that was like, I was super affected by that. It really broke my heart because he is so... God, he's hilarious. I love Steven Brody Stevens.

He was a minor league pitcher. Like, he was like, he like played baseball through like high school and like a little in like college. And then like, I think did like some minor league stuff with like the Cardinals or something. Yeah goofy stuff. But great dude. Really a very. Super talented. Yeah. Super super talented. I would be remiss and people would be mad at me if I didn't bring up Salinas murder. Oh yeah. Because that was a big fucking deal in South Texas. I remember the day it happened like at my high school like it seemed like everyone was crying and broken up. Like, class, you know, school wasn't canceled or anything,

but like, nothing went on the rest of the day. Once everyone heard it was like a big, big fucking deal. She was in corpus, right? And she died, so yeah. Yeah, she was from corpus and that's where she got murdered. And I was just like, I remember just like, people in the hallway just like, wailing and crying and just like,

nothing happening the entire rest of the day, be like, all right, it's like a free day. No teachers even trying to teach anything. Yeah. That was a crazy day. Phil Hartman was sad. Oh yeah, yeah, Phil Hartman was a really big one. Yeah.

Damn, man. How about some- What a bummer. We're ending this episode on. How about a celebrity whose death affected you But they died before you were into them. Oh That's interesting. Oh I

Feel like a lot of people say John Lennon Probably a lot of people would say that yeah, I'm not one of them But I think a lot of people would say that man., that's a tough one. Like, I can throw one out. Yeah. Deboon of the Miniman. I didn't discover the Miniman until I was, you know, three or four years after he died, but I fell in love with him and then found out he was dead

and there would be no more Miniman. You know what I mean? And that was like, that sucked. Yep. The big bopper. Yeah, I wish you got it. The people are gonna go nuts. We got to stop talking about Buddy Holly Richie Val

Thanks, see Max, giving us a fucking bummer from a question Jim Croci had a restaurant. That's a coin Yeah, Jim, it was a restaurant called Croci's. It was like had a restaurant. It's a clone. Yeah, Jim, it was a restaurant called crochees. It was like bands would play and stuff and they had like cool crochees brunch and all this stuff and like his wife kept it going and then eventually had to like sell it. And it was like, oh, man, that's a bummer. Did they sell like briochees? Yeah, they still get. Come on down to get your crochees briochees. That's what they did. Yeah. Yes. Well, let's get

out of here. Yeah, let's do it. I can't. Yeah, this will be making me insane. All right. Well, if you want to send your anarchy topic you can at Annma podcast on Instagram and on Twitter, you can follow us there. See pictures from all these episodes and more. You can follow us there and find out that we are coming to RTX July 7 through 9th. I think it's on sale now, RTX event.com.

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So who's that? Happy 20th anniversary, guys. It's almost exactly where we are. Yeah, pretty close. Getting really close. So. I don't know why I look at my watch. You've aged impeccably.

Wait a minute. Thank you, you have not. Yep. Any final words for the folks out there listening to this? Rip Big Bopper. Yeah, sorry if you didn't like this episode. If you didn't like this episode, it's not our fault it's the bullshit playlist.

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