ANMA - How Geoff Destroyed Bowling Night

Episode Date: June 13, 2022

Good Morning, Gus. From Epoch Coffee on North Loop, Gus & Geoff is back with more bad name guesses, not being able to drink the water, what restaurant we miss the most, filming in Austin, and going to your first SXSW. Hide your daiquiri factory boyfriend drama for this one. ANMA will have a LIVE EPISODE recording at RTX in Austin, TX this July 1-3. Go to http://RTXevent.com for more details coming soon and to get your tickets to come see us in person! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Uh, yeah, well good enough. Yeah. You didn't? No, it's a two-night sin of row that heartburn. I don't ever get heartburn since I quit drinking. And uh, I thought when you get old that you need very little sleep so it shouldn't matter. I mean, I'm functioning okay It's just like I'm just uncomfortable. Yeah, so that's coffee will help. I think it yeah, well, I'm I'm hoping that'll help us

I'm not so What stop them? Good morning Gus. What's the name of the coffee shop we're at today? I got a fight with you about this Yes, that's why I'm asking you you them've been back a year, you're so good. What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what is the name of this coffee shop? I think it's epoch, but is it supposed to be like epic? I call it epoch, because that's how you pronounce the word epoch.

The word you're pronouncing is epic. Well, there's, but there's an H, isn't there? Epic. I don't know why you're doing it. Why, why, epoch. What does that have to do with it, whether there's an H or not? I, you know what, that's a great, what sure thing. Yes. That's it's a fantastic point and I hadn't considered Oh, I'm alone epic. Oh, but I believe the Comshop is actually epoch. Okay, then fuck you. I think I think

The pronunciation of the word is epic, but I think the pronunciation of the word is Thank you for not with them. I lost the ability of the word is e-pop. Fuck off! Thank you. I lost the ability to say fuck you. After I played the definition. The pronunciation. So at e-pop on North Loop. I had my first minor fear when I was, I got here a little early because I was coming from the office.

I had to do some audio. And I had my first minor fear when I thought, this might be the first coffee shop we're going to, maybe not the first, but that has a lot of locations. And what if we meant different locations? What? Yeah, yeah. But then I was like, no, no, no,

we mean this, this is the main one, the first one. Yeah, this is the one I always think of. I know there are others, but I feel like when you say epoch, it's this one, when you say epoch on and then a street, it's one of the other ones. Like that's the way my mind works. This is definitely the epoch that I think of. What I think of epoch, but I actually go to the one

of far west more often these days. There's one, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Just because it's nice and my dog's vet is up there, so I found myself up there a lot. Peter Minnes-Belly. Peter Minnes-Belly. Peter Minnes-Belly is up there.

That's a great deal. You get a Peter Minnes-Belly if you eat a pistronomy. I said it out loud. I can't believe you said it out loud. Beatermen's belly. Beatermen's belly. Beatermen's belly is up there. That's great deal. You get a beatermen belly if you eat a pistronomy. I said it out loud. I can't believe you said it out loud. I said it out loud. I was waiting to see you. I was gonna ask what kind of sandwich you got. Podcast crossover.

Oh man. I got a sick on pistronomy once. This place is not too far from the home slice where we recorded episode three. It's just walking distance down the road from here. But this has always been like a strange, well not a strange, this has always been a part of Austin that I really liked. This little strip right here of North Loop,

which again, going like circling back to a conversation where it last, podcast episode, it stops being North Loop right over there and becomes 50th Street for no reason. And then it becomes Hancock up there. Yeah, and then it changes the name right over there again. I don't know, I feel like you and I used to come here a lot, not to the coffee shop necessarily,

but there used to be a bar right back, over your shoulder right over there called the parlor. That we used to go to all the time, and we would get pizza at. And now the parlor is now called workhorse, and the parlor moved and is now over off of Guadalupe. Yeah, it's like 43rd in Guadalupe, I wanna say. Yeah.

And it's weird, because that is what I think of, the parlor has been there for at least a decade. It's been there for a lot, probably longer than that. And it's where I, when I think of the parlor, that's where I think of, but you're right. It was here, they opened for a while, they were both open, like you go to either other. And then this one closed down,

and I remember being kind of happy, I liked this one, but it was small, and the new one has got so much more room. But then they opened up workhorse, and there was a period in time when I rented a house in Hyde Park, so I was getting some construction online. And so I would walk over to a workhorse,

I had a little solar routine I would do every Sunday. I would walk over to a workhorse. I had a little solar routine I would do every Sunday. I would walk over to workhorse. I would drink three beers and watch football on the TV and then walk home. And it was like my like my Sunday me time. Workhorse is pretty good too. They got good burger. Yeah, favorite there. It's good. But it makes me think that we used to talk about like as the city has changed over time and as things have changed, there used to be, like, pockets of the city that you would say, like, this feels like this area is untouched and unchanged. And only we're going to decide we're going to do the podcast here. I started thinking about some of these old areas we used to talk about.

And I think all of those areas are gone. They've all disappeared. And maybe, like, the last vestige slightly in a way is this little stretch of North loop over here of like the kind of anti establishment, counter culture, feel of Austin. Yeah. Old Austin. I guess that the places are still there. Pockets are gone, right?

I think you're dead on there. And this is I think where people, I've read some cynicism from people talking about our podcast whoever heard it yet, who I think that assumed that we are deriding the change in our system. No, no, no. But not at all. It's been, that's part of the fun of this, of one of his podcast has been such a wild ride to watch everything happen and to get to be a present for so much change. But I think you have, have keyed into something.

If you come to Austin in 2022, and you hear people talk about the way Austin was in the 90s in the early 2000s, which by the way when I came to Austin in the 90s, and you came in the 90s, people talked about how the way Austin was in the 70s and 80s. Right.

It's always been going on. Yeah, it's been going on forever. So, but this is what they're talking about. Like if you come down to North Loop, go to like uncommon objects, or is that what? That's not here, then. It's at least a self-conquest. What's the one here?

There's a room service. Room service, I was thinking of, sorry. Go to room service, go. Before being fruit right across the whole. Tygris is a cool place to get a mixtreme. Yeah. Workhorse. Monkey-wrench books.

Monkey-wrench books is, yeah, that's all. That's been a rough forever. That's been there for a long time. That is what like a lot of Austin, kind of the aesthetic and feel and kind of vibe a lot of Austin had. I would argue that it also exists in Crestview. I just didn't know Crestview existed

until like five years. Crestview. Why do you say that? Yeah, what, where, where, Crestview? Like in Little D. But that's like, one little shopping center. Yeah, but the neighborhood still has this kind of feel. Like overgrown old chain link fence Austin. Yeah, I could definitely see that.

So it's funny. You said something there that was something I kind of wanted to bring up as well, where you said, you know, in the 90s, people bitched about how Austin, you know, was different or changed and back in the 80s and the 70s going back. One of the things that I think this is circling back to something we had talked about before, you had said that we used to go to that barbershop of Old Torf, they were by Old Torf in Congress, and it was like those old dudes bitchy about how Austin used to be better in the 60s.

So when we went there in the 90s, and they were talking about the 60s, that was 30 years prior, we're here in the 2020s talking about the 90s. It's like we're encompassing that same amount of time change that those old dudes were talking about head Jeff's head is in his hands now We're like the time that has moved like we have achieved that status that you talked about being those those old dudes at the barbershop

Dude, I saw I just remind it Hey, that makes you feel incredibly old but be slightly worse than that I was I saw on Twitter yesterday a friend posted that us talking about 80s movies now is the same as our parents talking about Casablanca. Like in the 80s, 40 years ago was the 40s. And now we're in 2020 talking about 80, like ET. Yeah, I can't wait to see Casablanca Maverick this weekend. It's gonna really be good. I think it's right. I'm excited. Yeah, no, it's funny how that changes.

The scope, when you're young and you think back a couple of decades, it seems like ancient history and you get a little older and you think back a couple decades. Oh, that was just like a couple of years ago. So the audio texture for this episode is gonna be a little different than previous ones. I don't know if that picked up on the mic, but Epic itself, it's like,

North Loop isn't a busy street, but the patio area is really close to North Loop, but there's a lot of people there. So we came to some picnic tables that are out, like kind of next to a cemetery, and next to like an overgrown canal that may or may not have water in it. So it's gonna be a lot more rustic

of an audio texture this week. Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a dude doing some sort of needle drugs over there. Yeah, he went over there. So he didn't want to listen to us talk about stuff from 20 years ago. He's like, guys, come on, I'm trying to get higher here. Yeah. Let's walk down memory lane. The coffee here's good.

So Epic is great because, well, first of all, they're back to the snout, but they're open 24 hours again, pre-pandemic days to be open 24 hours. Yeah. During the pandemic. Oh, wait, night one. No, I'm not doing it, really. No, okay. During the pandemic.

That doesn't help if he's not going to look at them. They restricted the hours. But for some reason, Austin has this problem where you can't drink the water about every two years or so. Yeah. Where like a water factory fails or something. But when that happens,

Epic will still sell you coffee. They're friends with a brewery over here in airport that has like industrial water boilers. So when the rest of the city can't get water, Epic can still get water from this brewery right around the corner over here in airport. So you can still, if there's no water in Austin, you can still get coffee at Epic.

Yeah, also like at the early on in the pandemic, you could buy like a milk jug full of coffee from them too. I would get like cold from them. The can't drink the water in Austin thing. I'd never experienced, can't, I mean, can't drink the water because it's something I haven't do it. Never experienced until I moved here. Is that like, if you guys have lived here for long and

is that pretty consistent? Like, and they just don't do anything about it to make it better. It happens. No, it doesn't. So the other thing that happens sometimes is the water will get stinky. Have you been here for that yet? Yeah. Is it the zebra molasses thing?

You heard about it. Yeah, like, it's like, the water smells bad. And the city has to make a statement that's like, don't worry, the water smells bad, but you can drink it. Like, no, no, I'll wait a while. I'll buy a bottle of water for there too. I feel like, I've been here like 25 this years or whatever, 27 years.

I feel like every three years or so, you got to boil your water. Insane. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Yeah, the infrastructure, I think that's just a side effect of the growth, right? Like the infrastructure can't keep up with the amount of growth that the city's been having.

If you, I think the most obvious sign of that is driving and the infrastructure where traffic is spotty. It's consistent, but you never know. All of a sudden, for no reason, we're just stopped. It's going to take a long time to get wherever you go. You and I used to say, Jeff, the sign of being a local in Austin was knowing how to get where you were going without taking 35. Yeah. Back in the old pre-GPS get where you were going without taking 35. Yeah.

Like back in the old pre-GPS days, it's like you're going from point A to point B, it's like, how can I get there without getting on 35? Or MoPAC. Yeah, it's efficiently as possible. And just like learning all the surface streets and the roundabout ways to get where you need it to go, which inevitably we're faster than taking the stupid S 35. Do you want to hear some facts, a little bit of trivia about epoch that I remember to be true, but probably isn't?

Absolutely. Wow, we got epoch facts. I got epoch facts. I just got it in my head. Can we have like a special song, like a segment intro? Dennis put together a special song for epoch facts. No, there could be coffee shop facts in general,

but this particular one is epoch facts. Coffee facts. but this particular one is E-pop fact. Coffee facts. I remember that years and years and years ago that E-pop was opened by group of people and that there was some sort of a falling out and one of those people left and started be new. And that's how be new got really.

And that's why it's 24 hours a day as well. Like you basically recreated E-pop over on the East Side as be new. I didn't know that. Well, you might not have known that because it's 24 hours a day as well. Like you basically recreated epoch over on the East Side as B-new. I didn't know that. Well, I might not have known that because it's not true. I just remember that being something someone told me. Oh, okay. I've accepted his fact.

There's no way to verify that. Yeah. If I'm looking away from you Jeff while you're talking, it's because I'm making sure there's not a snake behind me because every now and then I hear something. No, I'm looking for a snake behind me. I'm like right up against a bunch of vegetation. I don't know if a snake behind me because every now and then I hear something. It sounds like a snake. I'm like right up against a bunch of vegetation. I don't know if a snake could get past

the empty pack of watermelon grape swishers. So I mean, that's pretty tough. And the McDonald's bag, we should be okay. Okay, we're good. We got a perimeter set up. The Liptin brisk over there is a cake, taking up the flank. Do you know any other apoc facts?

I don't know any other apoc facts. What, I do know a little bit about the cemetery though. Yeah, so this is the Austin State Hospital cemetery. It's a, it's like between 51st and North Loop here in Austin. Used to be open to the public, but I feel like it's always shut now. I feel like it used to be able to just walk in there. I didn't know that.

Yeah, this would just be a chain link fence and it would open and then you would just like, I just walk around while you drink coffee back in the day. Maybe that's why it's secure now, maybe you were never supposed to, but I think it was. It, I think that there are, there are not a lot of headstones there, but I believe there are many, many, many people buried. Yeah, I think there's a lot of unmarked graves. This was the cemetery for the Austin State Hospital, which is down the road not too far from here when people

You know were committed probably back in the early 1900s and had No family or nobody who was looking out for them like no support system And I think they're when they passed away. They would just throw them in the ground over here. Yeah. Oh my god Yeah, it's a oh my god. So there are, I think, I read the number one. So it's like a shockingly large number of burials in that plot. Yeah, way more than you would think. And it's, I don't know, I think it's messed up.

That it seems like it's dilapidated. Yeah. It's like this really crappy chain link fence on this side, which you know, obviously, whatever were up against the vegetation, you can't see it. But when you drive by on the street, it's also like really run down and like on the 51st side over there,

I can see from here, there's like these stone columns that are mostly knocked over. There's like one left standing from, I guess, what used to be the fence way back when. Yeah, that's a really uplifting center for this episode of Ranma. I didn't know that it was a summit, like when I moved here,

you would drive by it all the time. I didn't know it was a cemetery. I just never kind of like realized. I just went, wow, what a weird plot of land. And then sort of looked closer while driving and went, oh, I got it. Yeah, our studio is not too far down the road from here. Just two miles maybe, down the road in the east to here.

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ones you decide to make. is built with Intel Core i9 processors. And a frustrating Texas state hospital experience not too long ago. Texas state hospital. Or the Austin state, whatever, we were just talking about. Yeah. What does it cost to say to hospital? Austin State Hospital.

Well, this is the Austin State. It's in Texas. Cemetery, I don't know what the hospital's called anymore. Yeah, but the, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah. We filmed there sometimes in the basement for different stuff.

Yeah. In the past. We, there was, they had a call out on social media like maybe a year ago, they were low on shoes. They needed shoes for people that are there and so they were accepting donations. And I had just come off of this addiction to vans. And so I had like 40 pairs of shoes,

I was just not gonna wear. It's a lot of shoes. So I dominated like 20 pairs of shoes, and I just threw them all in H.E.B bags, and I took them, and they said just like, bring them up to the security gate or whatever, and we'll accept them. And I, so I was like, I'm gonna be responsible citizen.

I'm gonna do that. I got a ton of shoes on that wear, and I took them to the lady that was working security there, and she was like, what are these? And I go, oh, these are the shoes, and she was like, I see that. What am I supposed to do? And I was like, well, you guys,

you were requesting shoes to be donated. And so I'm donating shoes for the people that are here. And she goes, I don't know what you're talking about. And they're like, it's been, today's the last day you've been accepting shoe donations for like four days. Today is the final day I can donate. And she's like, I don't know, just leave them on the street.

And I was like, on the street, and she just had me leave them on the street in HB bags next time. And so I assume that on the street, and she just had me leave them on the street in H.E.B. bags next time. And so I assume that that's where they still are. I don't know. What? Yeah, it was frustrating. Maybe long to the city now.

They could. Well, I mean, they would have if he actually gave them the hospital. They belonged to the streets. Oh, that's right. It's a different levels of government. That's really frustrating. Wait, okay, you said that you filmed in the basement?

What is this? So the state hospital, yeah, it's like, uh, it's one of the, a couple of the buildings are super, super old. And so when we were filming our ghost hunting show, we would do like the first portion of it was like a campfire scene. We would tell the ghost stories around the campfire, and then we would reenact them kind of like drunk history. And so we filmed some scary stuff in the basement there. And I know, I know way back in the day,

we filmed some stuff, I read Joel filmed some stuff there. And it's funny, like these, the state-run facilities, there's a few of them around town. There's another one, I don't know if you know the one over there, like off of MoePack at 35th. Like it's just South of Camp Mayberry. No. It's like if you're heading south, it's on the Southwest corner.

Just west of Moe Pack, just south of 35th, there's like a little facility back over there. Okay. It's right here, no bother. Anyway, we filmed a little bit back there too. We did a fallout video years ago, and we had to try to recreate a post-apocalyptic room, like a post-apocalyptic house,

and just one of the buildings there looked like it hadn't been touched in 60 years. Like paint peeling off the walls, like ceilings collapse, like an environment you would see it fall out. And it's just shocking, like you drive by and you look at the outside, like, all right, whatever, it's just some brick building and you walk in and you're like, oh my God, this building has not been touched in decades.

I don't know if anybody's been in here. And it's just shocking that these buildings can get so to laugh at, at least the one over here that I think the one you're talking about is being renovated. Like they're updating it. They've been under construction for a year or two, but that other one on,

like I'm sure they have other buildings that are fine. The one at 35th and MoPack, just that one building we filmed in at least was, if you go back and watch a video, like you'll see, it's like, okay, we didn't do anything to stage that. We just walked here, like, perfect. Let's turn the camera on, let's'll see it's like okay, we didn't do anything to stage that we just walked here like perfect Let's turn the camera on let's film say we need a we need a dark basement with a hundred old hospital beds

Delapidated in a pile and one one doll with one arm and a missing out. Oh, no, we're good. We're good Yeah, oh you don't need a brainy. I we just show up. Okay cool great. I'll sit yeah, but it's it's funny Like how even just like you scratch beyond the surface of a building or a place, like what you can find, what you know, when you go in there, when you look around, I love stuff like that. Like it's almost like hidden in plain view. Yeah.

You just like investigate a little bit more and see what you can find. I'm gonna have to drive over it. South of Camp Mayberry. Yeah. The west of Mo Pag. Yeah. I'm sure you see it.

You can't see it in my head. It's probably just Pag. Yeah. I'm sure you see it. You can't see it in my head. It's probably just like a blind spot for you. Like, you see it? I'm sure if you go over there now and look at you, like, oh yeah, this place, just like, I probably assumed it was part of Camp Mayberry. Yeah, you maybe your brain just like blocks it out. Like, it's not open.

Since it's not open to you, it's not a place you can normally go. It's like, whatever, it's just whatever is there. But that whole area is kind of weird. I feel like there's like around that Campmayberry area specifically, like when you come off a 45th westbound and you hit just west of Moe Pack and you hit Cat-mayberry, you know, you can either turn left to get on the Moe Pack or turn right there. And if you turn right, you go around, like you drive on that road for a long way and then you come into this weird neighborhood that seems like it's recessed.

It seems like it would be a cool neighborhood, but it seems like a giant pain in the ass to get in and out of. Like there's only that one bottleneck to get in and out of the entire neighborhood. You're like, oh, if I'm gonna go to the grocery store, oh, that's 25 minutes. Yeah, each way to get to and from there.

Despite the fact you live pretty close to the center of Austin. I don't like that. Yeah, I'm trying to, I guess there's a Randles over there. There's that Randles on exposition, like exposition just south of 35th, by what's the cross street there? West Stover? Somewhere over there.

That'd be about it. Do you feel like stuff, it was fine. It was built that way 20 years ago or whatever, just with like the population, because you guys lived like, you like, you said like out here was like, oh man, this is like so far out. Originally from where you lived and everything. But at the time, like it was like,

those probably didn't feel like bottlenecks and everything, right? Like that's just the way that stuff was built and who cares? There was no such thing as traffic. Right. There was a real terrible. Yeah. It existed in the opening scene of office space. That's what I was going to reference.

We used to do this thing. We had a bowling league. And this is going back to the call center. Since it was a 24 hour call center, a lot of people would get off at midnight. Midnight's when the overnight shift started. So a lot of people would get off at midnight and they used to be a bowling alley up off of like 35

in Runberg and the call center was down like off of Ben White in 35. And you know, when we would get off of work at midnight, like a bunch of us would be like, let's go bowling and we drive up to Runberg in 35 because you're like dumb 20 year old. You're like, I could either go to sleep or I could go drive all the way across Austin

and go bowling. And so like we would all get together and go up there and go bowling, have a few beers, whatever. And it was a lot of fun. We did that for a long time until Jeff showed up. What? What?

Because then when Jeff got hired, you know, he wanted to hang out, you know, like he had talked about in a previous episode. He was, you know, I wanted to make friends. I wanted to make friends. Yeah, make his way. And so he was in a previous episode. He was, you know. I wanted to make friends, trying to make his way. And so he was like, oh, he drops this bomb on us. He's like, I used to bowl, like semi-professionally.

And you're like, oh, you should come bowling with us, Jeff. So then the first time Jeff showed up to our bowling night, he showed up with like that glove, that professional bowlers wear. He showed up with his own ball and his own shoes. Who's serious? And we were like, oh shit. And then he fucking destroyed everyone there.

And then it was like, man, yeah, this sucks. And we never, no one ever went bowling again. That you just showed up once to our bowling night and destroyed like a year's long tradition instantly destroyed by Jeff. I hate bowling. What? I hate it.

I hate it so much. You ever been good at something, but not as good as you want to be and I make you hate that thing? That was me in bowling. And when I decided that it was no longer gonna be a part of my life, I left it in the review mirror.

Very far in the review mirror. I only even attempted to bowl because I was so desperate for friends. And then I, I remember the night. I remember, I remember, I did terribly to me. He still destroyed us, right? We're all just like, we just wanna hang out and have a family.

Oh, I went through a 225. Yeah, I was like, I was like, I was like, one 70s or something. And I was just like miserable. And I was like, why the, it's not worth it. Friends aren't worth it. He was just like, I can't't do this. He was so dour and upset and mad. I had zero joy for him. And he brought, like, he brought down everyone's night. There were like 10 of us hanging out. And nobody had a good time because Jeff was

having a bad time. Like a mood vampire. I apologize. So not much has changed. But we said, you know, so do you bowl now? No. At all? No, no. But you're good at it. You have a glove and a ball and you don't bowl. Not anymore.

I threw all that shit away eventually. I got sick of moving around. You gave it to the state hospital. Yeah, I got sick of that. You really don't bowl at all? No, I haven't. I don't know, 15 years maybe. How did, so, but you're good?

Like you're good enough. I grew up, my parents were in bowling leagues. I joined a bowling league when I was like 14 and then I bowled every Saturday and I think Wednesday until I graduated high school. I went to like state tournaments and shit and the summer. You're learning something about Jeff, aren't you?

Yeah, and then I mean, I don't wanna be rude, but the realization came from, I just, bowling first of all made me frustrated, because it's like in your head, you know what to do, and you tell your body what to do, and then your body usually does it, but sometimes it doesn't, and it's like, why I didn't tell you to do that,

like why, that makes no sense. That's not the negotiation that I had with you arm, but in addition to that, I was like 17 or 18 when I was coming out of it and I just like, I just, I saw the people that I would, like I just didn't wanna be a part of that family anymore. Does that make sense? I just like, I just didn't wanna be a part

of the bowling family anymore. It was not how I wanted to spend my nights and weekends. Wow. And to get really good at it, I'd have to commit more time. And I just, it would have been more time around people I didn't wanna spend time with and doing something that genuinely made me mad at myself. Like, I just, a lot of seething in a rage.

Hey, hey. Now, it came out that night. No, no, we felt it. We all were there, we saw it first time. I hate it. But, I mean, that just goes to show going back to like, how, the reason I bring that up was like going back to like how light traffic was back then.

I kind of imagine any time of day now, well it's maybe like in the maybe 4 a.m. driving from like Ben White up to Runburg. That would used to be the bowling alley is now a school. It's like a private school. I don't know if you've ever driven by there now. Really? Yeah, they converted it to like some private school up there.

Like the building's still there. They just like took the sign down and repainted it. That's fun. And now it's a school. Yeah, it was a show place lanes. It's what it was called. Show place lanes. That place closed 15 years ago.

It's a school. You know what I said? It's also said that a dark bowl closed. Oh yeah. And that's not too far from here. Yeah, it's right next to the high school. And I always felt like I discovered Dark Bull too late. I think it's like middle and neighborhoods.

Like you gotta know, you gotta know it's there. And they had such a good restaurant. And I didn't discover it until like maybe, it's one of those things where I didn't find it until like three or four years ago. I was probably the first time I went, just to eat lunch there. And it was like right before they closed.

And then we're gone. I think I probably went because they were like, dark bowls and dangerous clothes in. I gotta go check it out before it's gone. Yeah. And now it's gone. There's not many bowling places left. There's like Highland lanes over there.

Yeah. Yeah. God, where else? If you want to bowl, is that the only place you could bowl? There must be other bowling. There must be, but I can't think of it. You know, it's funny because we have a friend who used to complain, I don't know if you remember this, who used to complain that all the batting cages in Austin were gone.

You remember that? Yeah. Yeah, like back in the night, they used to be one close to the call center back over there like at Ben White in 35 and that one closed like in 99 or 2000 and he would just complain, nonstop. Like now you got to drive to like San Marcos or batting cages because they're all gone. You do, you have to go so far north, you have to take like 130, they're like not around.

It's like you have to go up towards like Del Dime and you go to one. They take up a lot of space and they probably don't generate a lot of revenue. I guess, but like you would think that an old building would just have some batting machines in it and like some nets and it's like let me pay you quarters to hit baseball.

Quarter, there you go. Yeah, yeah. What I'm sensing is opportunity. I supposeters, there you go. Yeah, yeah. What I'm sensing is opportunity. I suppose so, but then that's a lot of work to open a batting cage for something I just want to do passingly. What if instead of quarters we charge Bitcoin

and we'll be billionaires? Or broke his block. You never heard of the Bitcoin batting cage? Good, it would be huge every South by Southwest. Just open it up for a week in March. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the first year you went to South by Southwest? That was a great takeaway.

The first year I went to South by Southwest, it probably wasn't until we started doing this. So it probably would have been like, oh, four maybe, oh, five, something like that. What about you? You probably went away before me. I think my first year was 96. But that was just for music, right?

Like it was just a music festival to me back then. I assumed that the other shit was there too. I just wasn't. I definitely feel. Yeah, and so I just remember, because it was 96, there was a like A band I wanted to see. And I think it was a band called Less Than Jake. And it was a $36 for wrist band. And I think it was a bank called Less Than Jake. And it was $36 for wristband, and I remember,

I'm gonna pay $36 to see a band, one band play. Like this is wild. And I ended up going to a bunch of other shows. But yeah, the idea that a wristband, I remember having to kind of scrounge for the money. How much is a music wristband now, like a thousand bucks? 1200, I think. Yeah.

The equivalent of what I had then is over $1,000. It's interesting to me, like thinking about that time frame, and you're talking about here like late 90s, 96. You know, these days, everyone's talking about, I don't want to get like two-downer on this podcast, but we're just talking about a cemetery. You know, everyone's talking about, you know, the recession, how's the economy doing?

And I feel like, you know, we've been, we've lived through a couple here in Austin, like a couple of busts, right? And the first one I remember living through would have been like the dot com bubble bursting in the late 90s. And it's funny because I was driving around and I was thinking about this this past weekend

about how it seemed in the mid to late 90s, everyone was like, this is it, Austin's gonna explode. It's gonna be like, like kind of like the talk they're having now, like the next San Francisco, like next tech, big innovation, all these, all these, you know, big things were happening. And then the dot com bubble burst. And it was like, for a brief period of time,

it was almost like a ghost town. At the time, that's when the skyline you see now, like all of that construction really started. Well, it hadn't quite started, but some of it had started at that point. And I remember that these companies had attached their name to buildings, that these companies no longer existed. So, like, they couldn't finish, there was a period of time where they were

unfinished buildings in Austin. There was one building down off of Caesar Chavez, where they only had the money to finish the exterior. So, again, going back to what we talked about the hospital. If you looked at the building from the outside, it looked fine. But if you went up to a window and looked in, it was all like dirt floors and like bare walls

because they didn't have any money to finish it. And like they had laid everyone off. So like these companies didn't need these buildings anymore. So they were just like shells. Intel had started building a building down on fifth street. They put up like the structural beams for it about like six or seven

stories up and then stopped. And it was just this bare building for eight years maybe. Yeah, about that. Yeah, and it was just left there that eventually had to demolish. And it was weird where it's like, oh shit, is this it? Is Austin over? Did we put too much money in this tech thing? And now it's not panning out, Now like the whole city's gonna contract. Yeah, that intel building was kind of like a big monument to our hubris for a brief period of time. Yeah.

And we just had to look at it for years, years, and years. And I remember, do you remember that they would, I don't know if it was for a long time, but they started doing aerial dancing. Yeah. And people like, yeah, they used the structure to have people like dance from ropes and cables and shit, which they still do at sea home sometimes.

Yeah. Which is very neat. Yeah, dude, that's wild. I forgot about that building. I remember when they imploded it, it was fucking loud. Yeah, it was really loud. It wasn't that long. I wanna say they imploded it.

2009, 2010. It was there for a long time. That's crazy. That's a really long time. It was there for a long time. That's crazy. That's a really long time. It was there for a really long time that that building was just there. It's where the federal courthouses now, over there kind of by like Republic Park,

that's where that change used to be over there. I gotta say that federal courthouse, I remember when I lurk in some skyscraper forums, I have for a very long time. And I remember when the plans for that came out and it was one of the ugliest looking sets of blueprints I've ever seen, and nobody was happy about it.

And then that building got built and it's actually quite striking. I think the biggest complaint I have about it, it looks fine. Yeah, it just seems like what else could it have been other than a federal courthouse? For sure. Especially like a raptor on that park

and there was a lot of opportunity there. Yeah, it's fine. I wish, even if they had extended the park or made a more welcoming public space, but I get it, whatever they need to have courthouse to make money off of the, putting people in jail or whatever. So you do you.

Oh man, we were talking about, we were talking about South by earlier and that like those early 90s South by that reminded me that show I went to was at the back room as first time I'd ever been to the back room. Oh God, that's a piece of Austin history right there. That was off of Riverside. It's emo's now.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. But there was this heavy metal bar called the Backroom Eric. You'd probably like it. So if you wanted to see like, I don't know, like one night it would be like death core, or grind core band, and the next night it would be like a metal band, the next night it would be like a skinhead oy band, and it was just like,

it'd be like, oh, I'm gonna go there and see the business tonight, and then tomorrow night it's like, I don't know, Megadeth or some shit. Not a band that big, but, you know, kill, switch, engage, or like one of those bands. And, but the thing that was crazy about that bar, I was amazed that lasted as long as it did, because there was a pool hall side on the left.

Like the bar was split. You walk in the front, there you go, the right, you go to this very dark rundown club, where you'd see bands. I remember being very narrow too. Yeah. I don't know if that was just my memory. And then to the left, you would go

and it's a pool hall like traditional bar. And on Friday nights, they would have 10 cent well drinks to like 11 PM. Are you serious? Yeah, to like 10 or 11 PM. What year was this? Oh, it was 97.98. So you would go there and there would be a bunch of like

medal necks as we used to call them, like redneck medal dudes seeing a band playing and fucking hammered. And then on the other side, you would just have the people that show up to get drunk for 10 cents a drink. And so it'd be a lot of gangs. And then a lot of just like really sketchy, unsavory dudes. And there was always a fight. Always a fight.

We used to wonder, like, is the police gonna have to roll the SWAT team to break up a riot at the back room this weekend? Like, I got, it was so regular. I got caught in a riot there. I was seeing this band called the Chromags play. Hell yeah. And I was, there was another band that was open in forum

who were like friends of friends and they were staying in my house. And so I was just like in the park a lot after the show and some dude walked by with a rebel flag belt buckle on. And it started a fight with some of the dudes that were hanging out there. And then it turned on the way full blown, like 40 people fighting in the street.

Nobody knew who was fighting who or why and I was just like, Stan are like, I ain't gonna get the fuck out of here. I saw a cop run up and mace two girls in the face and then shovel them off like a loading dock. And they just fucking ate shit. It was brutal. It was getting bad and I was like, I grabbed the friends and we got the fuck out of there. But that's what that place was like all the time. We have a friend.

I was gonna tell that store. You tell it, you tell it. I'm a friend named Jacob. Really nice guy. And. Really nice guy. Yeah, super nice. He was going to a show at the back room one time.

He worked at the call center too. It's how we knew him. He's 18 at this point, by the way. He's going to a show at the back room. You know, and he goes in and they're checking his ID at the door. They're gonna put the X's on his hands because he's under 21, so he can't drink. And he says that, you know, as he's handing over his ID at the door. They're gonna put the exes on his hands because he's under 21, so he can't drink. And he says that, as he's handing over his ID

to the bouncer, someone just like sucker punches him. What? It was worse than that. No, no, no, you're right. They, someone took a beer bottle and shoved it into his mouth. Like, neck first, into his mouth. He said it chipped one of his molars. He like bent over, obviously, because it's like unexpected. He's like spittingipped one of his molars. He like bent over, you know, obviously,

because it's like unexpected. He's like spitting out parts of his teeth and beer and like the bottle falls out of his mouth. He looks up and the dude who shoved the bottle in his mouth is knocking out the bouncer. The bouncer falls down. And like that, the riot starts at that moment. Yeah. He's just like literally walking in an 18 year old kid to go to a punk show and like opens a door. It gets a bottle. It gets his front teeth knocked out. Well, Riot starts at that moment. Yeah. He's just like literally walking in an 18-year-old kid to go to a punk show and like opens a door, gets a bottle, gets his front teeth knocked out, his molar cracked.

Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. It was that kind of place. It was that kind of place. You knew it. It couldn't last forever. It was just a matter of win.

That era was gonna end. Yeah. Man, the background thought about that place and forever. I used to live like right down the street over there and there was that real shitty apartment. That was you, yeah. Yeah. You were wet apartment and you was that real shitty apartment. That was you, yeah. Yeah, it was a wet apartment.

And you were supposed to get a part where those pretty close. Yeah, but I remembered something else. I'm sorry to step back here, talking about recession and plans changing and the city undergoing this threat of irrelevance. Sure. I'm sure you remember.

They built that condo downtown, or it's a apartment, it's whatever it is, the plaza. It was like, it's like over there, what is it like Guadalupe and forth or something? And they built it. And it's whatever,

it's kind of a boring building. And they built one side with no windows. It was just like flat wall. Because the plan was, was going to be another building built like another high-rise building. I'm right next to it immediately. And they're like, well, there's no point in putting windows on that side because you'll be building there. Except that building fell through during the dot com bubble burst. So you were left with this building with one brick side for a decade. Along with an adeg 15 years. Well, it was just like,

well, that's a really shitty boring looking building there because it's just like Entirely brick on one side. Yeah, so the east side he's facing side of that building. It's like a tan brick building It I want to say was that were they remember that was that place called Fuck what was it in the fox in the hound? I was thinking of the fox in the hound, but also the other place too. Oh, oh I was thinking of the Fox and the Hound. I was thinking of the Fox and the Hound, but also the other place too. Oh, oh, oh, oh. The beer place with the fallen over dude.

Yeah, it's still around. Wow, I can't remember. It was right across the street from there. Yeah. Yeah, so we cut all this out of the fifth. The Gingerman. The Gingerman. Gingerman.

Oh, God. It stays in. And I feel like Fox and the Hound and Gingerman were beers or bars we went to, not all the time. We had a friend that liked the bar. Yeah, we had a mutual friend who liked going over there. Yeah, Gus and I were, I feel like we had very similar tastes for bars and we were very particular

and we had our spots we liked going to. And if left our own devices, we had our like three places we wanted to go, but we always ended up going places with other people. Anyway, I remember those, I feel like those bars all got bulldozed in that or something similar and then they never, like it was one of those things where they had to tear the bar down

to put a high rise and then just nothing happened. Yeah, I think eventually years, I think there's something there now. Yeah. I think it was years later, I think if I remember right, and I could be way off here. I wanna say the Fox and the Hound and Gingerman

were both kicked out because they were gonna bulldoze it. Then plans changed. And I think a Waterloo ice house went in there for a while for a couple of years. And then eventually they finally did actually end up bulldozing and that's when Waterloo ice house had to vacate there. Again, it's been, it's been a few years. I could be remembering that timeline wrong on that. What is the, I feel like this episode's a little all over the place, but I'm having vacate there. Again, it's been, it's been a few years, I could be remembering the timeline wrong on that.

What is the, I feel like this episode's a little all over the place, but I'm having fun with it. What is the one restaurant that you used to eat or that you used to eat at that you miss that's gone now? Like a relic of the past. Does anything jump to mine? There's a couple that jumped to mine,

but it's gonna be like, I hate myself for saying them because it's like hipster douchebag Austinite who hates change answers. Sure. Like I used to like eating at the holiday house, but that's long gone. That's before, yeah, I never built that. There was one, the last one I wanna say was,

I think it was over on exposition. It might have been open when you were here in the late 90s, but I think I wanna say it closed like 99 or 2000. This is a recent one. They didn't close that long ago. Shady Grove. I love Shady Grove. I was like going down a Shady Grove.

They closed like last year. You have the problem with Shady Grove. The only problem with Shady Grove is Eric, they used to have this thing called Frings. French fries and onion rings, right? Everybody started Frings. But they had the best onion rings on the fucking planet. And at some point, they changed their recipe.

And those onion rings became a different onion rings and it spoiled, it kind of killed it for me. Although their air stream chili was really good. It was. So you said something that made me think of another restaurant I haven't thought about in years. Okay. You said fringes and it made me think about Shaggy's fries

down on South Congress and I missed Shaggy's, which was a Jamaican place, which became, is it still South Congress cafe? Yeah, I think so. Shaggy's Bumbastic, so it was called. You could get, like, jerk fries. And they put, like, jerk seasoning on fries. It was so good. And it was open late, because it was like a bar restaurant.

And it was when South Congress was still real shitty, so you could get, like, a huge basket of jerk fries for, for like three bucks or something. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, I really were talking about a little bit. The last episode or a previous one, we were talking about that area in Austin Motel and kind of how it all revitalized. And I forgot to mention that I stayed in the Austin Motel one time in 1994. We were, as long as in the army, we were going to Corpus for the weekend and we stopped in

Austin for the night on the way down. You barely made any progress. I was like an hour and a half down, but it was like after work and we wanted to like hang out in Austin. So we spent the night at the Austin motel. It was like 35 bucks. And yeah, there was like prostitutes and still, and this is like 94, there were still like prostitutes open indoors

when you pulled in and it was still, it was a very different place back then. Yeah, yeah. And I just drove down south congress this past weekend and that's like all luxury stores and all dude wrongs of tourists is horrors is closing i don't if you saw that i didn't see that after like thirty three years of being in business they now set their clothes at the end of this month you know they used

to be on congress that this is self congress to source oh wait no i mean uh further, they used to be up where the Mexican Museum is now, like at fourth in Congress, or third in Congress. Oh, were they there? Yeah, they were there and then they moved down to South Congress.

Oh, you're right. Years and years. Yeah, God. I forgot about that. I think I was working downtown at that other company when they were down there, like back late 90s, maybe. I want to say I remember them being over there. There was a lot, there was a lot of stuff right there in that area

that also got bulldozed for other buildings and higherizes, like lots of like little restaurants that are just gone forever. What about you, you didn't answer? What restaurants do you miss? I was headed towards Shaggies when you got there. Although supposedly, there's a bar on Weberville Cavalier and supposedly they have the recipe for the fries. I just haven't tried them.

But supposedly it's the same family that owns Shaggy's owns Cavalier, or family lineage, and so they have the recipe. Are these fry facts? These are fry facts. Okay, cool. Don't confuse them with the... With the coffee facts. This is an epoch facts or anything else.

These are distinct facts. No, but no yet, I appreciate the answer. I gotta try, do we try to go there once? And it was like, yeah, they were not open for lunch or something. Yeah, and we went, oh. Well, we'll get around to it eventually. There's so many places and things changed,

and I can't keep up. I know. I feel like there was a time where you and I used to talk about how we knew almost every bar and every restaurant town, you know, could pick the right thing for any moment. I have no, I'm so disconnected now. Everything has changed so dramatically

and is constantly changing so much. I can't keep up. Well, that's part of the reason for this podcast, right? Yeah. Send off the old places, but discover the new ones together maybe. Because I'm in the exact same boat where it's just, it's overwhelming.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess just from the pandemic, but also from just like insane, insane growth. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. We'll have to expand, you know, once we hit a few more coffee shops,

I think we have to expand to try some of like these other restaurants to go get these jerk fries. And we gotta go to like Casino, that seems like a good spot. Yeah. We have to just like go to like some of these other spots. Right. Casino's got like that little courtyard in the back,

or in the back, where we could record. I don't think I've been to a casino al Camino since I went with one or both of you. So I would love to go back. I can't remember how long I've been there in years. Probably since like an RTX, or a year and a half, or like a 64, yeah, 100%. Yeah, that's what we went.

We sat in the courtyard in the back. We, I think we touched on this in a previous episode, but we used to go down like multiple times a week down to like six. It's extremely, yeah. And I can't imagine doing that anymore. But we wanted, we were there was a point in time where I think we went to almost every bar on six street.

We were like, we come down here often enough. It's like, let's try to experience every place just to see what's out here. You don't know, you might, every day you might walk by your new favorite place and not realize it. So we tried to hop into every place we could. And I don't think it's there anymore. There should be a place down there called the Dacker Effector, which was just like the name

of the place. You walk in and it's just like a huge wall of Dacker machines. You tell them what you want. Very New Orleans. Not our scene, but in the spirit of, we're going to try a replace down here. We went to the Dacquery factory once, and I think, Jeff and I walked in, and we instantly knew,

this is in our place, this is in us. And they knew too. Yeah. And if I remember right, I want to say, they even had a hostess who met us at the door and took us to a table, and then a waitress came out to take our order and stuff, and the waitress came out to like take our order and stuff. And you know, the waitress came and took our order

and walked away and Jeff and I looked at each other like yeah, this place isn't for us. And she came back with our drinks and I don't know what possessed Jeff to say it, but like the waitress puts our drinks down and Jeff looks at her and goes, hey, just so you know, when she said it's down the hostess was talking shit about you.

Yeah. She, the waitress put our drinks down then through her tray on the ground, like and said, that bitch. I made a b line for the hostess stand. And I was just like, we gotta go. We gotta get out of here. I stumbled into boyfriend drama is what it was. There, I remember like her boyfriend was a soccer player at the school

I wear everything with the school saying ads or something and there was like we like I stepped in as a joke And we stepped in dohaki or soccer boyfriend drama and we got the fuck out of there. Oh my god Man, that was the one and only time. Uh, I ever went to the Dacry factory I don't even remember what Dacry ordered. I think it gets... Well, if you're gonna go once, you gotta make it count. I felt like that side of 6th Street was always lost on us. The people that go to like Maggie Maze and Pete's peanut. We had a friend who like going to Maggie Maze.

We did. And so I went a few times because of him, but yeah, it wasn't my thing. Blind pig pub was one I remember hating. Oh, you went another friend who'd like going there, yeah. That was not... I don't remember that dude's name. That's not important.

Justin? Yeah, I'm just trying to just guessing it in name. No one's ever going to know or just know, guess what saying friends and I had friends and air quotes in my head. I don't remember being too crazy about them. We're getting on towards the end. But I mean, we've been doing this for about 50 minutes. Have we?

This has been a ping pongy episode. But that's the fun of, the other episodes have been way more focused, where it's like, here's a story from this specific spot. I feel like this specific spot let us in so many different directions because it just got really tangential, right? Like it was the cemetery and that sort of talking,

and we got to jerk fries and stuff. We went all over the place. We haven't even mentioned the house across the street with the giant bare skull hanging from. I've never noticed that before. And you never noticed how they've got a body form on top of that post in their front yard? What the fuck?

That's going, circling back to what we talked about really, the vestiges of the counter culture that used to be, like used to see stuff like that a lot more often. Nothing used to be on that body from, didn't it? Wasn't it on top? I feel like it was their version of how almost lampooning how Hyde Park Grill has the giant fork with shit on top of it. Yeah, like a turkey during Thanksgiving. But it's been hanging there on the front floor for a long time. Many, many years. I wanted to get to a couple of guesses for the name. for a long time. Many, many years. I wanted to get to a couple of guesses for the name. Oh, okay.

So M. Pizca says, Anma, another time around the M being in the middle of time. Oh, that's interesting. No. Uh-huh. Another meaningless autobiography. A lot of these guesses have another as the first one. I think that's pretty, I think that's pretty prevalent.

And a doubt to my anxiety. That's a good guess. Austin, not my Austin, is a really prevalent guess. So if you think that that's the name of the podcast, you don't have to send that any time. Yeah, this side is not it. I see that one a lot. Yeah.

And embarrassment to Austin, the M being the second letter in embarrassment. I like the direction these people are going in. Somebody had tweeted and Gus actually replied and said, Hey, is Ann was titled multi lingual? I had made a guess of Austin in moochow adventures. So I'm just curious. And Gus said, good question, English only. Yeah, that's a really good question. I like that. I really like that a lot. Do you dream in Spanish? Sometimes, sometimes. I just ran them. Yeah, that's a really good question. I like that. I really like that a lot. Do you dream in Spanish?

Sometimes. Sometimes. I just ran them. Yeah, and it's funny how it works. Like sometimes it'll be all in Spanish, but then sometimes I don't know if like when I'm super deep asleep if the Spanish part of my brain doesn't want to wake up. I had a dream the other night that was supposed to be in Spanish, but this person who's talking to me, it's like, what, no, this is all jipperish, what? That doesn't make any sense, and then the dream changes. Where it's like, oh shit, he's on to us. Yeah.

Jeff, do you have a guess for the name of the podcast that you're currently on? How about, and my axe? That's pretty, I was pretty good. Yeah, that on the side. I was, I was, good job. Well, improv. Yeah.

That's good. I have some notes, but that's, I mean, this pretty good. You did a good job. Um, was that the, no, this, this shockingly, it's not. Anything more always. No, good guess, good guess. Uh, I, I will say at the end of, uh episode that was before this one was that episode

Whatever when we did a Thunderbird I said and an anma to you at the end And some I saw at least one person say I think Gus is trying to give us a clue with that. No, no, no, no No, that was that was just gibberish that's nothing I Like that people are getting into it like there's alternate reality game or something going on No, no, no, no, do you want to write the coffee or anything before we go? Oh, uh, tin. I've always like that coffee here Why is that so funny? Jack Eric loves it. He's like the sixth episode. It's just a cup of coffee at 10

Yeah, it's um, uh, it's literally perfect. All right. We'll see you next time. Coffee's a tin six or one to me It's literally perfect. All right, we'll see you next time. Coffee's a 10, 6 or 1 to me. 8 or 9, pretty good. Yeah, I like this place. It's good. It's a good cup of coffee that gets cold fast. I was, my one-cup clean is, I heard of the American, this is the smallest Americano I've got out of all the place we've been to, but it's not like it's pricey or anything.

Yeah, no, it's fine. It's a 7 or 8. I mean, I think it's a fine cup of coffee. I love 10, the idea of being this early and just a place that we go to. It's just a 10. There's no like, ooh, we're gonna like, compare stuff. No, this one's perfect. No notes.

Yeah, I'd send it. Ha ha ha ha ha. I think that does it. You can follow us at Anima Podcast on Twitter and Instagram. I'm sure we'll post more there eventually when I have more time. And you can take guesses at the name still.

Just tweet us, let us know what you think. I read all of them. If I find one anywhere, that's correct. I'm gonna bring it. I'll let you know. That's pretty exciting. I kind of hope we never solve it. You know, I think that we're getting really close

to never solving it. Yeah. Also feel like we should talk about how this podcast is going to be kind of like an eight episodes on two episodes off kind of a thing. Yeah, we're going to do a little bit. Seasonality is kind of a weird word for it because we're not really in seasons. It's just like, we'll do eight episodes and then two weeks we'll do like some supplementary content, just some stuff that's like smaller pieces because we don't leave you in the

lurch and then we'll come back for eight more and then we don't want you to forget about us in this two weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's the way podcast work is you stop listening for one week and then you forget and you're like out of feeling like catching up and then here we are without you. That's not good. Has that Razer guard been here the whole time? It has little hairs in it. I just noticed it. Yeah, so let's get out of here. Who's shh? Who's shh? You, I mean, you really want the answer to that question?

No, I guess it might be like, yeah, that question? Cause I, you know, yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. All right, thanks for the second. Sounds like free ideas of nothing to do with this podcast. Analyze various unsolved and rooster teeth's cryptic podcast, f**king face. Call to action. Feel free to add something show premise specific, but short. Listen to show name on Apple Spotify

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