ANMA - Bowling Alley Burgers

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

Good morning, Gus! We're attacking the pins and hoping this episode is a Strike, in a good way, as we get the burger from Lebowski's Grill inside Highland Lanes bowling alley. This week Gus and Geoff talk about Geoff is fired up, Bowling alley carpet, A waving kinda town, Bouncing tires, Podcasts, Shower thinking, and Mt Dew sickness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're gutter ball. Is it two fucking. God. That's right. We're at the roller. You guys might recognize the sounds. This is a public library. This is episode 53, 52 here at Medici Coffee.

Medici. Oh, right. It's not Medici. Right. We're in Italy. Medici. Medici? No, we're in Texas, so that's licensed to miss pronouns. I just forgot. I just forgot what it was. I made a whole thing about it.

No, I didn't. I was directed at this little day. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to pitch and choose Jeff. Gus and I are having a thing about it like I was directed at this little day. Yeah, I'm gonna be I'm gonna pitch and choose Jeff's just I guess I have a thing to just feisty today. I'm not feisty. You're feisty. You're feisty I'm the mirror of how you treat me. I'm so nice today Who's Nice way because you try to throw my food away an hour after being a thing head for an hour

We're gonna get kicked out of the bowling alley Good morning Well last time we're at Medici or whatever coffee This time we took a break from the coffee We needed a little bit of lunch So we came to a little bit of air conditioning. Yeah, that is that either. Yeah. We came down to Lebowski Grill at the Highland Lanes.

I've never been to Highland Lanes before. This is actually my first time in here. I have also, no, I've been in one. So I've been from Millie's, like I kid birthday party. Okay. With Millie, but yeah. I've never bold here.

I've never hung out here. I've never eaten here. I don't think. It's very much a bowl, I think I very much like a throwback like with exactly what you picture one thing I will say they've got like these murals of the Austin skyline on either side of the alley Let's say I got you know the UT tower the penny backer bridge a capital Texas flag and all this and I thought it was a painting When I know it's carpet. It's carpet. Yeah, it's been woven I saw this side who we got closer to it, that it's fraying a bit.

I guess from where kids pull at it or something over here. It's actually much cooler when you realize that it's like a hooker hug or something. Right, close. That's really neat. The carpet that I noticed when we first walked in is of course the standard bowling alley carpet that's over here, it's just like, they have a very niche specific market

when they make this carpet over here. Yeah, it's just like bowling balls and pins flying around, it's like, nobody else is buying this. Like, I'm sure they probably have not made this carpet in 30 years. I bet there's, I bet there's a, by the way, what's interesting about these minerals

is their mirrors of each other. I thought it was interesting. Like, they're identical. You see? Yeah, look at that. Yeah. And they put the clock on the UT Tower, a working clock. Which is kind of cute. Is that, is there not, oh, I get it.

That's fun. That's also a fun idea. They have to incorporate someone bowling. Yeah. Which, legionably, like there's a commercial carpet industry that services hotels and conventions centers and bowling areas, right? So you know like when you call up those guys, you know like I need the bowling department, there's probably like, what do you think?

This is what I would find most interesting. There's probably like four or five sizes of bowling alleys and they're like, do you want the, which one of the, point to which one you want? Because I bet there's like industry standards. I think you're on the right. One as far as the size? Yeah, like a side is like, because I'm sure most bowling alleys look like this, right?

So I'm sure the runners, where the carpet is, are pretty standard. And so you'd say like, do you want the 10 foot one or the 15 foot one? Do you want cutouts every, I don't know, 50 feet? How many feet of bowling alle alley carpet do you need? Well, we're a medium, small bowling alley and they go, we got you.

Oh, class two. Yeah. Yeah, you guys are class two, class two's for, class two's for 30 to 44 lanes, right? And they're like, yeah, I'm in there. There's a 40 lane theater. That's it. Yeah, that's it.

We came down here to get a burger because we've heard what Bousie's grill is an underrated burger spot in Austin. There was a thread on the Austin subred at the other day. Someone posted that LaBousey Grille had the best cheeseburger in Austin. There were people in the comments like agreeing. Like yeah, right on, I feel like not enough people will go there. Do you think that there are people that have felt that for a very long time that are just continuing that? Or do you think it's some sort of a holdover from... There was a place

that was very, very, very popular in Austin called Dartball that closed a couple years ago. It's a parking lot now. Well, it's a pile of rubble now. It's going to be condos. And they were had what was considered to be like one of the sneaky best little restaurants in the city. Oh really? And everybody ate I think they're a bunch. They have good chili cheese, good phoetopide there. And I would eat their semi-regulately, and I wonder if now that that's gone,

people are just transferring that love to this. Listen, I'm all about, they're transferring love to a local business that's been around for a long time, and really supporting it, and trying to send more people their way so I'm not gonna play the next one. Yeah, more power to them.

Absolutely. We're only five minutes in but I kind of want to talk about the food. Yes, it's pretty fresh. Um, I got an inferno burger. Jeff also got an inferno burger. Gus got a buffalo dude. I got a buffalo burger and the only reason I did that was because I got the buffalo burger at Casino.

Oh, okay. And I feel like you don't see a Buffalo burger too often on the menu. So in the spirit of always trying to order the same coffee, I tried to order the same burger since they had it as an option here as well. I think that's fun. I am also similarly going to try to order any jalapeno burger in my hand on it. Me too. Because that's what I go to. Me too.

So 100%. What do you think about the inferno? I, it's not hot. There was zero spice zero heat, but, but that's what I come to expect with any kind of even like you got it without like the jalapeno ranch. Halapeno ranch just made it a little bit wet. It didn't really do anything for it. Yeah. I will say do I think it's one of the best burgers in Austin? No, but was it so fucking easy to eat,

I could have five? Absolutely. 100%. That was the easiest burger, one of the easiest burgers of my life that I have ever eaten. Yeah, especially compared to where we just went to Pool Burger, which was phenomenal burgers,

but my burger fell apart after like four bites, and I just had a bowl of burger in front of me. This one maintained its integrity. Phenomenal like Hawaiian-esque bun. I thought so. One of the standouts, really soft bun. Yep. I agree with you.

Burger itself, zero spice even with the jalapenos. That's okay. I also come to expect that. I'm normally not a sweet roll bun. Oh really? I don't, I'm not, not really. But it wasn't sweet. Yeah, it wasn't like super sweet.

Like the Kikwaian rolls, it was too sweet. It was the pillowy-ness of it. It was very, very, very, very soft. Yeah. And I really liked that. But I give it an eight. Yeah, 7.9. Yeah.

Sure, 7.9. Yeah, somewhere in there. Yeah, it's fine. It's not bad, it's not. It's fine. It's not the best burger I've ever had but that's saying a lot, you know I think that's a very high bar. I'll say this about it I would never go out of my way to eat here, but if we were coming bowling

I wouldn't eat before I came right because I'd be like oh we'll just eat a Lavas and I play pretty good. Um, okay One thing before I get into that If we ever did an anima meetup. I want to do it here I want everyone to eat it Lebowski's and I want to bowl. Okay, well some of this will. Jeff, Jeff walked in. He sat, we ordered, we sat down and Jeff said,

I don't like the way this place is affecting me. So the way he sat, he sat at the end of the table so he could face the bowlers. Like normally when you sit at these tables, you're facing like a way, you're not facing the bowling alley You're not facing where people are bowling Jeff sat at the end of the table So he could watch and you could see it in his eyes. He immediately began judging and the way people were bullied It was like watching the terminator scanning everyone to see the close fit

But instead of a terminating anyone. He was simply judging them. Yeah, it's like if the Terminator was the judgeinator They're what all right, so there's league play on the other end. We've moved I would do yeah, that was I don't think they're playing. They're not doing league play. They're league players to practice There's one very good boulder one dude who's pretty good at picking up spares and then a lot of just mediocre Full of themselves the a-nm guy is the best guy the guy the left of them in the blue shirt That dude has got is got real good stright. He's got real good spare precision But he hasn't had a lot of pin action when he when he when he throws his first ball And everybody else around them fucking stunk it up

Right no respect for most of those people those two guys I had a little respect for Is it the sounds that got you? The prop, I hate, I'd say, I hate bowling, right? We have a sense of that. But he has a spunker. I don't know if it's technically true that he hates bowling. I think, I told you when we came that we sat down, that nothing makes me want to put a fucking gun in my mouth and blow my brains out of the back of my head and all over that carpeted mural, then not bowling a strike.

And I can't allow myself to get there. I can't allow myself to disappointment of me. I hate myself so much in and through the context of bowling that I can't, I can't hate myself. I already have enough issues with me. I can't exacerbate it with bowling. I will say I fucking love the smell and the sound of a bowling. It's unmistakable. Eric, you commented on who we walked in.

It's like, you go ahead, you said it. We walked in, and just before we walked in the front doors, it smelled like cigarettes. Yeah. And then the doors opened, and it smelled like shoe cleaner, and you heard the crash of the bowling pins and it was like this is so unique and so familiar It's uh, it's a very similar smell to the bingo home. Yes. Yeah, yeah, there you go

It's maybe an equal proportion of senior citizens compared to what we're seeing today just we're here in the middle of the day on a Monday We made a friend. There was a yeah That dude wanted to get a strong. That's sweet. He was the sweet little old guy. He was. They're getting mad at us for not drinking. He kept trying to get us to go to the bar.

Boy, he wanted us to go to the bar so bad, and then told us about how he gets drunk and uses his dull computer. The sun bought out for him. It was adorable. He was saying that he can get drunk because he doesn't drive anymore. Yeah, he doesn't drive anymore.

I love that kind of interaction. All about it. That guy is the best of old Austin. That's what yeah. That guy is like that because that's how you used to make friends in this town. Before we were talking about that yesterday, I went out, we rented a boat and went out on the lake yesterday, Emily and some friends and I go go now Joey. Go go now Joey. Go go now Joey and go go down Samara. We had a different podcast, but we had our return to the water together.

We had a boat together, so. Did you have to jump out and swim to another boat? No, it was pretty safe. But we were remarking on how, you passed my other boats in Jetskiers, the kayakers and wave, and nobody in Austin waves anymore. Oh, crazy.

Like one out of every 15 people we passed wave back. And we were like, what the fuck happened to Austin? Austin used to be a wave in Austin waves anymore. Oh, crazy. Like one out of every like 15 people we passed wave back. And we were like, what the fuck happened to Austin? Austin used to be a wave in kind of town. And it's just, we decided it was all the new Austin people that don't know how to wave yet. So I'm speaking to you new Austinites. I'm not judging you. I'm not angry.

There's no acrimony here. But what I'm saying is we're a polite town. And you should embrace that as you discover and fall in love with and live here. Be a little out going. Wave in a stranger. Wave in a neighbor. It's different from maybe where you move from. People are genuinely nice here and people are are are a love to strike up a conversation by the bar at a bow and alley at noon and tell you about their Dell computer. Embrace that.

Counterpoint. That's the flavor of life. I don't give a fuck about anyone else in another boat or another car. If someone lets me in to traffic, sure. I'll give a life. But driving to the other direction, someone drives by and the same kind of car is being going to the other direction. Waves it, me, fuck you. It's expected on a boat. Is it? Yeah. It's different than the street, man. You share in the same road. You're always sharing the same lane. It's water rules, Gus. Yeah. I don't understand. Kim and Coss are different. Why do I have to leave it? I don't understand. A wavy, who cares?

What's that? Who cares? It's just a thing you do. I don't know why you wouldn't care. This is like, I don't know. You wave at somebody like, hey, how's it going? And they just look at you and keep going. That's like, oh, why is it?

I said someone waved at me. I'd probably wave back, but I wouldn't go out of my way to be like waving at other people. Like, their lives have no impact on mine. Like this dude here, that's fine. It's, you know, we're hanging out, we're at the same place, you know, we're standing next to each other,

like speeding by on a boat next to someone else. Like you're gonna leave lost in someday, right? Yeah, sure. Okay. Let's get to the... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha take some of that with you, Betty. When I was a kid and we would go on the boat, that was my favorite part was waving at people. And people wave back. It's a thing.

How do you? 11? Interesting. Interesting. He wasn't the only one waving. It's just that is true. Other people would wave. It is a common courtesy on a boat to wave at other people.

Eating your sweet potato fries, riding around on a boat. Have you seen people standing up for sweet potato fries? I saw you retweet one person. Yeah, they're overwhelming comments are like that. They're not as good I also really like that they said I'm gonna be on the wrong side of history and say I'm more sweet potato fries Nobody's saying they should replace potato like normal fries We're just saying they have value and they're fine, but I will say Tater tots with a hamburger those Tater tots I can eat Tater tots all fucking day. Oh, yeah I had they had red onion rings like the daily special where I was like what is that like? Oh, we're just we make we make onion rings with red onions like oh, okay?

It tastes any different. I mean yeah a little bit, you know Not as white onions have very much like kind of a bite to them But when they're any week typically they can be pretty sweet. This was sweet without the bite. Yeah, I usually see red onion rings as strings. Oh, yeah, yeah. They'll fry up and then put on almost like a shallot, but you do it with like a red onion and batter a little bit and then fry it and then put it on like top of burger. And it's like a big like messy nest.

But having a big ring of it was like, oh, that's interesting. Me and Jeff didn't get a taste those. We had our Tater Tots. We had Tater Tots. Tots are good. I'm the big Tater Tot guy. That's my preferred TOT.

My preferred potato is in TOT form. I get to, I get to be eating so many different things that that grow. They have a great little setup with that bar in there. I might come back on like a Saturday. There might be an old dude trying to bully you to go in the middle. Oh dude, I'll buy a shot on Saturday.

When you're not working, we'll sit down and, yeah. Yeah, Jim, Jim Bean. But, do you like Jim Bean? Yes, that's his dream. Yeah, that's his favorite dream. Uh, this is a great throwback thing. There are like a lot of kids here at Summer, right? Oh yeah.

There are like a lot of kids here and like a lot of retirees. I'm surprised there's like a whole group of like gothy teenagers. There are, yeah. They all look like they're like 18, 19. Yep. I think bowling is just an easy thing.

Hey, hey, hey. Is bowling back? Yeah. Jeff is bowling back. Don't look at me. I think bowling might be back. I'm a fucking mall guy. I am not, and I haven't been a bowling guy in a very long time.

I have no idea. Are there ever bowling alleys and malls? Is that a thing? I've never seen one, but I bet there have been. I bet there's one in the mall in the Americas, right? That's like a crazy mall. They've got amusement park in there. Now I bet there are, because the mall is so,

there's like nothing really going on. And I bet they're like, oh, we'll put in like this bar that's also a bowling alley. This used to be a dealer. Absolutely. The bowling alley that I grew up with was called, was it Parkway Bowl? And it was a bowling alley that was connected to a

Arcade called boardwalk and so you would play Mortal Kombat 3 and then walk over and bowl and then go back and play Street Fighter 2 and it was awesome So many birthdays there so many so cool and then you got older and then you would stop going and then you got a little bit older and then you'd go to the bar Cool and then you got older and then you would stop going and then you got a little bit older and then you'd go to the bar And there's something for everyone. Yeah, yeah, you play some pool. You go to the bar really underrated bars at bowling alleys I think I agree with that. I think it might be because I bet they're cheap We had three burgers the employees are on to us. Oh, yeah, I think I can come over and say something a conversation about it I really was watching to go down all right Well, if we if we have to end this thing,

we're about what, 16 minutes in, so that's good to know. We'll finish it in the car. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we'll go somewhere else, air conditioned. That's, did you grow up with a bowling alley? No, I grew up in a really small town, so there were no bowling alley. I thought it was a big city thing.

I would see it on TV and movies. Wow, we're good. It was like, one day I'd like to go to a bowling alley. I don't think I went to a bowling alley until I was in college. Like I moved to Houston. I think that might have been the first time I went to a bowling alley. Did it, yeah. Was it everything you hoped it'd be? Oh, yeah, it was great.

It was awesome. Just like the movies. Yeah, we didn't have much of the town I grew up in. There was definitely, I don't even know where the nearest bowling alley was probably in San Antonio, like a two and a half, three hour drive away. Really? You don't think there's a closer bowling alley in Mexico? Oh, I've never been to a bowling alley was probably in San Antonio like a two and a half three hour drive away. Really? You don't think there's a closer bowling alley in Mexico? Oh, I've never been to a bowling alley in Mexico.

I don't... I wonder how they differ. It's at all. I wonder... Man, there probably was not one in Mexico. No, I would have known about that. No, I'm going to say no. There was not.

Okay. Then there was only one big city right across the border. I guess maybe in... Yeah, there was nothing else like close on that side of the one city. There was like a black rocks bowling alley. No, no, there was not. And then your anti-bowling, so, I mean, we've already talked about your dismay for bowling.

We don't need to get into it. Okay. How about this area of town though? Like. This is like, we're like at Burnett and 183. Like we're real close to common interest What you've talked about before the karaoke place is just down a little bit on Burnett from here Then we're actually real close to just a little further up Burnett and with Q2 stadium and that coffee place and

We've talked about that over close to the skateland where you went skating. Yep the other day But yeah, this is a I feel like what this was always almost kind of like a a transitionary part of town for me. Yes. I would rarely spend time here but definitely frequently passed through. It's definitely a place you go through to get to another part of town. Yeah, one time years ago, when was it? Probably late 90s, maybe 2000, 2000, when something like that. I was on 183 here. I was on 183 Southbound.

And I was driving in the far right lane. And there was an 18, like a semi passing me in one of the left lanes. And we're on that part of 183, where it goes right over Bernette. So it's like a race, it's elevated. And as the truck was passing me, one of 183 where it goes right over Burnett so it's like a race, it's elevated. And as the truck was passing me, one of the tires on it on my side came loose and came off of the truck and I had to hit my brakes

and it just like started bouncing and it bounced right in front of my car and it bounced over the edge of the overpass down in the intersection of Burnett and 183. Dude, I remember you telling me that when it happened. It was crazy. I never heard anything about it. I assume it must not have hit anyone or anything,

but it's like, that is terrifying. Dude, I've seen some videos on TikTok of that exact thing happening, and a tire can fucking ruin a car really quickly. You're going so fast. See cars hit it and then flip and stuff. It's just dangerous. So I think about that every time I'm in this area,

because I feel like this year, like Highland lanes is like where it would have been heading towards. We saw that once when we were coming up 35 around Old Torf, we may have been on the access or the Old Torf. It might have been before Rooster Street, it might have been in the Telon Aerogades. And somebody popped the tire,

somebody's tire popped off, and it just was rolling the wrong way down to the south down the north on lane. And people just went around it, it wasn't like going crazy, but it was just like just teeter on the road the tire still has down in Central America now Some say yeah that's it's all all the way to Guatemala by now It's still way down there. Uh you guys ever got a pinballs the pinballs it's over here

Was that ever a thing that was like a thing you would do? Came around later pinballs is a In the scheme of time that I've been that we've been in Austin. It's a much later. Yeah. Oh really I didn't know that I think that pinballs probably didn't open till 2010 2010 2011 is when I was in I know that now and it was kind of it was I don't know about I can't speak for you but it launched at a time when I was less I was a little bit older and less interested in that kind of thing. So I've been the pinballs I've been to pinballs for kids, birthday parties, and that's about it.

It's not a hangout spot for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not yet. I mean, I've been there a few times, but it wasn't here when we were younger, and it was maybe a little more targeted for us. Like, when we were in our Daven Busters age, we would have probably loved it.

How funny, I thought it was like an older Austin place. Because there's like three of them. Yeah, they just kind of exploded. The one war by was the original war. Yeah. Yeah. How funny. I thought it was like an older Austin place. It just, because there's like three of them. Yeah, they just kind of exploded. The one war by was the original one. Yes. Yeah. The one down in Buda, pinball's kingdom, that's where that restaurant used to be with the dirtiest fish tank that had the

said catfish in it. Cafe 18. It was like, Rosset 223 or something like that. Yeah. Rosset, are you alright, mate? Wait, like it was near it or that's what it used to be? That's what it was. Oh, no way. I didn't know Yeah. Yeah. So remember us talking about

yeah, that that restaurant that's where pinball's kingdom and beauties. Now that's the same building. Yeah. Yeah. So that's like how recent it is in our in term of our we were making. We were in like season four of red versus blue. It was still that other restaurant. Yeah. Wow. I had no idea. Yeah. Oh, speaking of Red vs. Blue, can we post that video? I mean, you can do whatever you want.

I was telling Eric this morning, because you all are doing the first episode of the Break Show later today. Oh yeah. Whenever you talk about the Break Show, it always makes me think of, let's get Break Stuff, which, you know, I was, I made a reference to it and I turned Eric.

I was like, you know that was the original theme song for the first episode, zero of Red vs. Blue. And I think he thought I was fucking made a reference to it and I turned Eric. I was like you know that was the original theme song for the first like episode Zero of Red vs Blue and he thought I think he thought I was fucking with him. Yeah No, I found someone else who would re upload the video I don't think it's on any of our official channels because it's got licensed music in it obviously. Yeah We switched it out pretty early on. Yeah, I remember how fucking how much Bernie liked how proud Bernie was of that I thought it was really funny because it's such a juxtaposition. Like it's so high energy and action oriented in the show starts and it's just like very

dialog. I'm sure that's what he was going for. Yeah, there's no way he thought it was cool. But I guess maybe people maybe that's like one of those things that's like lost in time or that's been long forgotten. It's like that old original episode zero with Limpus gets a break stuff. There are people that like get music and have good taste in music and understand music. I count the three of us at the table in that category.

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I would give up books and movies and TV and video games before I'd give up music. Yeah. They would be the last thing I like to, by far. I've been trying to get Michael Jones to listen to a podcast called R U Garbage forever because it is so up his alley and I can't even do it. I get so many clips on TikTok for that thing. It's so funny. It is made for him.

I saw the other day speaking to podcasts on podcast charts that the RD&D podcast salesman is sticky dragon. Number 60. The Royal Week, Ristz, the podcast salesman is sticky dragon. It was like number 60 on the Spotify charts. On the Spotify charts. And it was just behind Ben Shapiro,

who I think was like number 57. And Tilsworth's thingy Dragon is a, you know, it's a successful podcast. It gets a lot of downloads. It's pretty popular, but that contextualized Ben Shapiro's numbers for me. It gave me a real solid number to compare against like, you're not as big as I thought you were than are you?

Well, not to descend him. I have any way whatsoever. But that's the Spotify charts are different from the global charts. What Spotify is, it's probably the number one of the charts. He's like number six or seven on the global charts. I saw.

Unfortunately. It's really interesting the way that a lot of those like index two where it's like by whole catalog, by recent episode, like that kind of stuff. It's the way that you can use facts to really solidify your position while the facts might not necessarily be as factual as you're making. Listen, number 60's not how much below 57.

Number 60 is a, that's a banger. And dude, you guys are like the puppets and everything. Like stinky drag, if you're not listening to stinky dragon, check it out. Number eight on the overall list. Jesus, did you like this? Did you like this? Did you like this?

Did you like this? Oh, my God, there it comes. Michael's a big part of that. Yeah, this happened. Wow, okay, yeah, he's way very good. I realized how big an office lady's was. Who listens to that? Office lady's huge.

Yeah. Call her daddy's huge. Cause nobody has peacocks, so they can't watch the office. Yeah, yeah. So now listen to people talk about the office. It's a heartbreaker. I'm, I don't know why, but I, I don't know, impulsive with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with that smart list is so high. Me too. Yeah. I hate that it's used as an example for me in every meeting that I'm in.

Yeah. Stop telling me that you listen to the biggest podcasts in the world. So does everyone else. Yeah. Way to go. You're great. Hey, if you guys have watched a show

it's called the office. Hey, you should do stuff like that. It seems to be on the hit. People have to think it. Have you thought about everything? It's like off the beat. No, I have certainly not. That's great. The thing about podcasts is it can be anything

and there's people out there who want it. So it can be, I think that's almost the difficulty in creating podcasts, right? Is it can be anything, so what do you make it be? Like there's so many, I know, we've probably talked about this before, like there's so many podcasts that start and then don't even get to episode three. Yeah, it's so hard, I know, we've probably talked about this before. Like, there's so many podcasts at start, and then don't even get to episode three.

Yeah. It's so hard to find what your purpose is, what your style is, and what you're doing, and then to continue to do it. I think the continuing to do it is, like, it's fun to do one. Boy, boy, it's fun to do one episode of a podcast. Right. And then when they go, so what time are we doing this next week? Yeah.

That's when you go, no, I think I got this out of my system. Right, it's like, oh, wait, well, it becomes easy, like, oh, I got a thing on this day, I got a thing on this day, I got a thing on this day. I'm gonna just keep getting punted. Dude, and that maintains, that truth is maintained no matter where you are in your career. Like, I, I'm still, I'm not on the fence, I'm gonna do it,

but I was on the fence for a long time about the new podcast that I'm gonna do that's just me, because I'm like, do I really, like, I'm having, I'm not on the fence, I'm gonna do it. But I was on the fence for a long time about the new podcast that I'm gonna do, that's just me, because I'm like, do I really, like I'm having fun now, am I really, how am I gonna feel on episode 19? How am I gonna feel on episode 52? Am I gonna wanna kill myself by episode 100? Yeah.

You know, and I had to, I decided, that's why I've recorded five or six, and we haven't released any, because I wanna build the cadence up and see if I'm gonna keep it up. And I am and I'm gonna do it. But that was a part of the process for me was making sure am I just locking myself into misery

or is this something that I really wanna maintain? It's funny you say that because this morning when I was in the shower, I do a lot of thinking in the shower. I was thinking about a good news rat man. Yeah. And I was trying to think about like in my mind, I was like pacing out,

the season one, that's what we were gonna make, how it's gonna go, what beats we need to hit, when we need to hit it, which episodes, and then thinking like, if we continue it, and we do a season two, how was this gonna play into that? What is that gonna arc into, and then how does that continue? And am I going to hate it?

And you have to think like, is, do I wanna do, like, is it worth it to just do a season one? Like, if I don't wanna do a season two or three, should I bother doing a season one? Cause sometimes that answer alone has had me not do certain projects. Now, I would like you guys to do,

I'm not trying to talk yet, I don't want you guys to do it. But I've definitely killed stuff when I thought like, oh, I'm not. I'm not going to want to do this past eight episodes. I think I think a big thing is also knowing that like what size of show you're trying to accomplish. Like when we talk about face, it is like high ceiling because we have found people want more and so we're do more and then we're doing these things and that's like a lot of fun. more and so we're do more and then we're doing these things and that's like a lot of fun. Anna is like and here's where we get a cup of coffee thing out. Yeah, yeah, and we're not trying to make this a thing for everyone. It's Austin Centric. It's you guys Centric. We're not trying to compete with Theo Vaughn and

all these other shows and I don't think there's anything wrong with knowing the sizing of you. Yeah. And like what the show is, we're not fuckface, we're trying to sell merch to maintain this podcast, we know what it is, we're not trying to beat you to death, selling you t-shirts and say, that's not appropriate for here. This is really just, I mean,

this is a very bottom of funnily show. Yeah, no really, it's honestly, it's, I mean, it scratches a huge itch for me, which is that Gus and I created a company with a lot of help from a lot of other talented people. Gus and I are a part of creating a company of creative people that do creative things because we loved being creative together.

Gus and I started making shit together almost the day we met. And it was three years later, I think, before Rusey would keep happening. Right? Before. And we had a bunch of projects. If Rusey had never happened,

Gus and I would still be making other projects. However, the price of success is, Gus and I created a company, 20 years later, he's on one side of the arm on the other, we don't make shit together anymore. And so this scratches that it's for me, and finally getting to make something with my buddy that I started a fucking company with 20 years ago.

And also, to be 100% honest, it's kind of, like at least in my view, it's fan service. I just, I wanna give something back to the community that's been with us since the beginning, by retelling those old stories and adding some context to it, and creating something that's like designed for that. When we, you know, years ago, back in, when we started RT podcast, back in late 2008, the way I thought about it at the time

was that it was intended to give everyone of look at how we were doing, what we're doing, and why we were doing it. It was almost like, this is a terrible analogy. This is the best analogy I could think of at the time. It was like, it was like on Teraj, where you're following these people who are doing this thing that is, you know,

unusual, kind of out of reach for a lot of people, but you're along for the ride. You're gonna see how it all goes down, what happens, and, you know, we're gonna pull back the curtain on a lot of stuff. And I think over time, we shifted, and that wasn't really the focus of that, showing you more. But I think we kind of touch on that here,

like talking about how to make a podcast, how does a podcast break out? What is your goal? Even approaching, if we're going to make this project, how do you think about it, and how do you frame it to try to set yourself up for the most success possible? I think that's the thing that, yeah, I think that's the thing that most people miss when they look at not even just us, but all the millions of people that are making content,

making it successfully right now is, is that people see the end result and it looks really easy. And by design, I mean like Achievement Hunter was designed to make it look easy to play video games with your friends like uh And they missed the steps like how much fucking how many how many day how many shower days you have just on good morning rat man Yeah, or a good day rat man. What is it good news rat man? Sorry and Good old rat man. I got I got it completed in your good morning from hell in my head Weird I wonder if that's ever happened to anybody else.

Good morning, good news. I just, oh, do you have that problem? I had to. Great minds. Canonically, now there's going to be a reason for that, just because I couldn't keep it straight in my head. Anyway, sorry. But it's nice to be able to have that,

to provide that context of watching three idiots play pranks on each other seems really like, it seems really like you just pick it up and you go, but there's like so many hours of the week that go into preparing for a f*** face and writing. Like I've written more for f*** face than I've written probably in the history of my career leading up to it, you know. And the amount of planning that goes into something like good news, rap man, the amount of work that goes into it. Black box down.

Yeah, it's when you, you know, I wrote a rough draft of an episode of One of Good News Wrap, man, a couple of weeks ago. And when I was writing it, I almost had to kind of trick myself into doing it because it's like, if I tell myself I'm gonna sit down and write episode one, it's like, oh man, that's so much work I can't do it.

So I sat down and was like, I'm just gonna write a couple lines, I don't know what at the beginning of the scene. Oh, this is going good. I mean, that's just a few more. Just a few more and then before you know, I was like, okay, I'm done. I did all the episode one. I don't know at the beginning of the scene. Like, oh, this is going good. I mean, I just did a few more. I never thought you'd know. I was like, okay, I'm done. I did all the other side of the way. Took, you know, an hour, an hour, half, whatever.

It's like, but I'm like getting over that stumbling block of just starting it. Like, I just, I just like, I just need it to do it a little bit. Get the ball rolling. And that's something that like never goes away. At least for me, like, it affects you early on when you feel like you don't know what you're doing.

Like, trying to get into writing or producing, creating content, whether it's video games or skits with your friend or whatever, like you get the burst of inspiration and you think I could do that. And then when you sit down to do it, it's very quickly overwhelming when you're faced with the totality of what you're trying to do. That's, and that's, that is, I would say, what stops 90% of people that try this in their tracks. That never goes away. You have to figure that you have to get past that

and then you have to get past it the next time and the next time and if you're lucky enough to be doing it 21 years like us has, you're still gonna have to overcome it. I think starting with the, it's a hard part of it. It does suck. I think starting with a blank page

is the hardest thing about writing. If you just get words on a page, at least you have something and then it really, it's momentum that builds and then you can go back and get rid of the words that didn't work. That's fine. What really helped when I was doing that with Ratman the other week was, Elise had written kind of like an outline, a generic show outline like these are the beats That we could hit in an episode so like just taking that I'm still yeah, instead of having a blank page having like generic beats I mean like okay, what could go in this generic beat we're gonna put this what happens from that? Oh, okay, let's type a little bit all right, you know, oh I reach the next beat It's crazy that it's just like that's all it takes is just

Sometimes it's just the little thing that's on the page that gets you going in a direction that you just didn't have, because man when you're staring and it's just blank and you see the cursor just blinked. And you just go, all right, the title. Uh, okay. And that's it, it's really hard. It's really hard. I always kind of liked the way Kevin Smith described his writing process, uh, back in the 90s, when I was very excited about Kevin Smith. Uh writing process back in the 90s when I was very excited about Kevin Smith. He would say that, like he would just write a scene, he would write scenes, whatever scene

came to his mind. He had an idea for a scene, conversation at a coffee shop, two guys looking over comic books at the back of a comic, and like he would just write these disparate scenes, and then once he had enough he could kind of put them on the ground and figure out where they go together, and then it he had enough He could kind of put them on the ground and figure out where they go together And then it's just putting a puzzle together and that that's another like bite-sized way to tackle it We're not even thinking linearly. You're just thinking like I know I have this moment Let me get that moment out to

Next moment and at some point we'll figure out how they all fit. Yeah That's clerks. Yeah, clerks is just, this happens at the video store. This happens at the convenience store. They go to like a funeral? Remember, like, they go to like a funeral or like a mortuary or something. Like, yeah, that's like a part that nobody remembers about that movie.

That's my favorite scene. They like leave and like go to a funeral. I just remember, I just remember 37 and, you know, raw, ooh, Navy SEALS. It's, I think the process is different from everyone or for everyone. It's important to find yours, even if you don't know what it is. It doesn't mean you have to get it right the first time.

It just means it was fuck at least trying something, you know? Yeah, and I think that's also it for like that kind of ties into it, like that's another stomach blocking, that's another obstacle for a lot of people, it's like you got a lot of bad shit in you. He's got to burn through it. He's got to practice and do it over and over and over. Yeah, it's the Robert Rodriguez quote that Bernie Unleaves pull up what Robert one time said, everybody's got about 50 bad movies in them.

And the faster you get through those, the faster you get to the good ones, you know? Man, that's great. We definitely burnt through a lot of bad website I do. Oh, hell yeah. In those four years. Oh hell yeah. How many bad podcasts I've burnt through?

Now, we have Anima, we're getting to the good ones. Yeah. We can eat a hamburger, have a cup of coffee. It's great. Or a big red. Okay. What? It's like a Texas thing, right?

Is it? Big red? You ever have big red when you were growing up? No, it's a Texas thing. Oh, I love it. I mean, I don't think it only exists in Texas, but big red wasn't a thing until I came to Texas. Oh, okay.

I'll fucking love big red. It's always funny when you hang out with people who are like from Austin or like from Texas You go get a burger or whatever and they do that they order a big red Yeah, you just go like and you're like from here cat. What was I gonna get a Pepsi? Well, yeah, I got a root beer Jack has big red in his veins. There you go. I mean that's cat It she's the same way she'll order a big red and we all just go like really? Yeah, Big Red's awesome, man I think it's like the same like bottler who did Dr. Pepper

up my wake-o. Yeah. So I think, yeah, it's very much original. He just never got as big as Dr. Pepper. It is awesome. I just can't, it's like drinking sugar. It is, yeah. And diet big red is not good.

I love big red. I'm not crazy about diet big red. What about big red zero? I've never had Big Red Zero. What is that? Like the Zero version of Big Red? It doesn't exist. Oh, I'll try it.

I've never had it. There's also, there's a lot of rough you've seen it. There's also Big Blue. I've had Big Blue before. I don't like Big Blue as much as Big Red. I've never had Big Peach. Call me when they have like a small red. I'll try like a smaller version of Big Red.

Red baby. Yeah. People always complain, you know, like, you know, what people who are from Texas, they'll see someone here, you know, order a big red. And the big complaint I was here is like, what is that? What is it the flavor of? And my response is always, what's the flavor of Coke?

Yeah. I don't know, it's just good. It's like, like, a big red is like, I would say it's like a sugary red cream soda. Yeah. If you like made me answer what it was. Yeah, but you don't have to know what the flavor of everything is. What's the flavor of Mountain Dew?

Yeah, what is Pepsi? Right, like you don't ask that about any other soda But for some reason people see a big red they freak out and they're like, what's the flavor of it? It's the color and the Undescriptive name. It is the fact that it is a big red drink and it's called big red Here's a deal You're not gonna call a drink big red, unless you're confident that that drink is a fucking banger. So if you see a drink called big red,

as a consumer, I would think, oh, that's my go, I gotta try that right now, because they clearly have all the confidence in the world in their product. I thought it was gonna be cinnamon the first time I tried it. It's because of the gum, the big red gum. Absolutely. No relation. Yeah. Yeah.

I think that's what people... It's kind of weird that you would call a gum the same thing as a soda. I assume it's from like a long time ago back before, like with things are a lot more regional. Yeah. And before, you know, all of that, it was a lot easier to get the stuff nationwide.

We were talking about this the other day. Are you gonna get back into Mountain Dew? You're gonna try Mountain Dew and just see if it's like a thing. Yeah. You don't think so? No. I'm not, I'm not jazzed about it now. You're not what?

I'm not jazzed about it now. Okay. I had some Mountain Dew the other day. How was it? For the first time in years? It's good. Mountain Dew's good man. Mountain Dew's delicious.

It's his gamer juice dude. I had a bad, I had an experience with Mountain Dew when I was like 13, 14. And I just, my cousin and I, we spent the summer together at his house in Florida. And his mom, because I was like 13 and he was like 12, so we were just like eating and drinking everything in sight. So his mom went to like Costco or Sam's

and got us two cases of Mountain Dew because it was probably the cheapest thing they had. And Adam and I were like, okay, we've got two weeks to get through two cases of Mountain Dew because it was probably the cheapest thing they had. And Adam and I were like, okay, we've got two weeks to get through two cases of Mountain Dew, we can do this. And we did it. And I will never drink another Mountain Dew. Even the thought of that makes me nauseous, still to this day.

We talked about it the other day, and it was like, really? You're only at half a case a week. You're a big baby. That's too much. That's too much Mountain Dew. It might not have been too much of a lot of other things, but Mountain Dew is a particular taste.

That if you OD on, it's hard to come back from. It's like tequila. Everyone's got a tequila story, but not everyone has a Mountain Dew story. It's true. So unique there. Man, yeah, before I had Mountain Dew the other day, I cannot remember the last time I had it.

It was definitely a drink I had that I liked a lot, probably in that same age, or it's like 13, 4, do I think like every kid probably goes to a phase like that. People love that, what is that one? That people like so much code blue or code red. Code red? I just like the best one. Yeah, that's what I like red.

Let's try it, cause it's red. Maybe, I'll try it cause it's red like big red. It's red maybe yeah, I'll try it cuz it's red like big red It's red like big red are there are there still other I mean I don't know Obviously I've lived here for so long you lived here, but like what's the marker are there other regional sodas like that? Like you know, it's baffling to me that big red's not a national thing or that's not as well known like what are the what are the other Regional sodas were missing out on do you remember when remember when spamman would always come to visit us? Yeah, I'll eight. I'll eight one. I'll fucking have a L. A. One. It's a ginger ale, right? Fago is really big in Detroit. Like when I go up to Detroit, they're fake guys everywhere. Yeah, but the jugalos of kind of like introduced that Yeah, a little bit and nationally. Yeah

Yeah, I suppose that there's more probably listen there's a again only living here. This isn't a little bit, and nationally. Yep. Yeah, I suppose that there's more, probably. There's a, again, only living here. This isn't a Texas thing, but Abita, you know, the beer brewer, they make a root beer, which I think is not a beta root beer. Which is Louisiana? Yeah, it's like a Louisiana thing. I think that's also regional.

I think we get it here because we're a proximity base. When I lived in Louisiana, Abita was everywhere. Yeah, Abita is really, really good. Yeah. Huh. So, there's gotta be more. I feel like we're missing out.

Let us know. This isn't soda. Let us know what your regional soda is. Your insane regional soda. I'll say this, like all the potato chips are different in Michigan. Really? Which is brands, I don't know.

Like best made, I don't know. Best made, I've never heard of. It's pretty good. Best made like the pickles? I guess so. Is it have the little girl with her tongue sticking out? Yeah, they have the bunch of them. They make potato chips.

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Let me look. Not yet scared of me, but I'm pretty sure. No, no, they make the best pickles. So they make potato chips, I want to get in on that. Damn. I do love regional potato chips, too

Hers is not a chip you can get very very easily down here Do you find it you find your pizza. Yeah, this is what I get yeah, this is right like that Can I click on one of these yeah? I go for zoom in or zoom in on a better made better made. Oh, sorry better made Okay, okay, and they have a bunch of other brands that I don't know too. I'm learning the potato chips of the Midwest right now. Ah, go on through it. I love that, I love that stuff. That's the exciting thing about moving to a new place.

Yeah, I feel like the internet and it has helped us all become so connected and makes things so easy to find and buy like traveling and going overseas and buying like tourist shit used to be a big deal. Yeah. And now it's like you can buy anything on the internet. Yeah, it's fucking cares. But shit like this, better made potato chips.

I don't know what that is. I've never seen that. Everywhere. Yeah. I kind of opened my eyes up to it because we're doing a chip challenge on the other podcast of f*** face. Uh huh. We're going to England versus Canada versus the US.

We all get to present four chips or five, four or five, four. And then we're going to eat them all and determine who's got the best potato chips. So I wanted to make sure I represented the US well. And so I looked at like, I read like a million lists. And there's four, if you do that, you won't recognize 40% of the potato chips you see. It's wild.

I love that stuff. Yeah, me too. We're getting on to time and also it's getting a little crowded in this bowling alley for a Monday afternoon. Yeah, good job, man. It's getting rowdy. It's 120 PM and all the lanes are almost all the lanes. A lot of young people too.

Yeah, young hit, a lot of tattoos. Hey, my back was to the lanes. I couldn't tell, I just turned around and wow. Hey, Gus, bowling might be back. Yeah. Well. It can, you guys can have it. Energy question.

I'll give you a moment. Here's a question from the gaming turtle on the Anima podcast subreddit, R-Slasher Anima podcast. What one thing would have to change about Austin for you to want to leave immediately? Or what part of Austin is irreplaceable when compared to other cities. It's already happened. Really? Yeah. People aren't way thinking.

I'm the thing that made me want to leave Austin has already happened, which is they're taking away reproductive rights from women. Yeah. So like my daughter and my fiancee. So it's interesting because the thing I was going to say is very closely tied to that, which is I'm worried that the state government will supersede local government and overtake the state of Austin.

Because you already see a lot of budding between city and state government. And because it's been happening. Right. In rare instances. Create a district like Washington, DC, where it's like a state run municipality where the local voters have no rights.

Yeah. I'm not trying to get up on a political soapbox here But my daughter lost her entire health care team because the Hospital that we went through provided Care for trans kids and they all got fucking fired and now I'm having to go through and find all new doctors from my kid I hate that shit. I hate that people can't go see a doctor to get medical help they need. I hate the fact that women in the state of Texas have to figure out how to fucking fly to Colorado

to get an abortion, because a bunch of mother fucking assholes who don't even believe in their own bullshit are trying to make it impossible to win some sort of a political fucking game like it's baseball. That's what I hate. It doesn't even appeal to a majority of Americans. It doesn't appeal to like 80 fucking percent of Americans. Right. So that's why people want to know why I'm looking at Michigan because it's a blue state that

takes care of women. Yeah. You know, half the people on the earth. Yeah. Like 54% of people on the earth think. We're not good at keeping ourselves alive. God damn dude. Yeah, no, it's terrible, it's awful. I fucking love Austin, Texas.

But unfortunately, it is surrounded by a sea of dog tours. So I think that there's this misnomer that I don't like. And I feel like it's a long con that's been perpetuated on us where people always say, like Austin is a blueberry in the sea of tomato soup or whatever, right? And I feel like statements like that are funny, but it's intended to kind of subvert people's thinking. I mean, like, oh, there's no point in me trying.

I see what you're saying. Like we're just so overwhelmed. Right, it's a very defeated outlook. And I think that it's been played for so long that we all have drank the Kool-Aid and we all believe it because it's true obviously. But I think it disincentivizes people to try to participate.

I hear you, man, but I've been watching, I've been being told Texas is gonna go purple since I moved here in 1994. Yeah. And it's still in purple. And it's not getting any closer. If anything, I feel like things are going the other way. So it's like, it's a defeatist attitude,

but I feel pretty fucking defeated. Yeah. Oh, nevermind, really. Me too. Unfortunately. Well, thanks, thanks, gaming turtle, for this uplifting. What the fuck gaming turtle? Sorry, I didn't mean to get out my soapbox.

No, no, it's good. And I hope it made, I hope people listen, and they went like, I wish they'd stay out of politics. I don't fuck off, I don't know. I just want my daughter to get the care she deserves I don't want it to be impossible for my daughter to or my fiance to get birth control. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's The writings on the wall. Uh This is from great and are there any interests or hobbies you wish you had in your late 20s? Tracer hobbies you wish you had in your late 20s. Yes.

Yes. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There.

There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There.

There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. I would have played a lot more baseball probably. I probably would have hit a lot more dingers in my 20s. You know what I've realized,

largely through black box down, I used to say the South Town black box down in the San Anman now. I wish if I had known in my mid to late 20s, what I know now, I would have become an air traffic controller. I would have at least applied to try to be one. Really? Because the cutoff age is 31.

And you put 25 years in and you retire. And the retirement, like the pay is good, you don't need a college education, the retirement's excellent. It's a very high stress job, but if you can do it, you're taking care of it. Here's a morbid stat that may not still be accurate, because it's a stat from 1994, 393.94.

But when I was in the army going through journalism school, at the time, journalism school was the second, had the second highest suicide rate of all schools in the military. Really? The highest, and we weren't even close was air traffic control Oh, oh, highest suicide rate in the entire army was air traffic control. Wow. Yeah, and they don't fly a lot in the army It's all helicopters, right? I mean, that's just way worse than the Navy the Air Force

But it's just just on that out there. They have been a little more stressed than you Listen, we've lived through plenty of stress doing what we do instead. I also I also went through that journalism school and at no point wanted to kill myself but but the thought of not bowling a strike. Yeah Let's talk about really matters This was good. This was a this was everything I wanted this episode to be I'm glad they didn't shut us down I'm too. It was close. Yeah, it was the closest we've come. Well, I mean, I think the 19-year-old to work here probably saw us and they went,

what do I go to? You kick them out. Yeah. This was really good. This is a lot of fun. This is exactly what I wanted it to be with the sounds in the background. If you love audio texture, this is your episode.

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Discuss ANMA with other people who listen to the show. I guess. What are our listeners? ANMA heads, ANMA files? And a maniacs. That's right. And a maniacs. Meet up with the other ANMA maniacs. If you're an ANMA maniac, you go to R That's right, and a maniac. And maniacs. Meet up with the other and maniacs.

If you're an and maniac, you go to our slash and a podcast. I'm wacko. Yeah, boy, as you are. This has been really great. I would recommend this hamburger if we do a meet up for andma with fans. I would say, yeah, this is, this is an NFT.

I would, yeah. Oh, it's a little Austin favor. Yeah, this is an NFT. I would, yeah. Oh! It's a little Austin NFT for you. Yeah, it is. It's just like, this is just like your bowling alley and your shitty town. This is just the bowling alley and our shitty town. Here's why you come to, here's why you come to this

bowling alley to eat. It's Friday, it's 6.45. Your friends just told you, hey, you want to go to bite the eat. You're like, off, of course I do. It's Friday night. Then you go, oh wait, we live in Austin. There's nowhere. We could go right now That's not a two and a half hour wait, right? But wait there is it's the bowling alley

Yep, go ahead and have a lovely little burger get some red onion onion rings and fucking listen to the pins and then and bowl Bowl, yeah, but if you gotta we do that there's probably a wait. There's probably a wait don't bowl If it's like this Monday afternoon, I kind of imagine what it's like on the weekend. Yeah, they'll be a wait for the bowling, but you don't want to do that anyway, because you want to enjoy your day. There was a bar, and that was her looks cool. There was a dude over here at the end,

he's gone out at number 40, who like started bowling, ordered food, kept bowling, they called him, came back with his burger, and was eating his burger, but we... While bowling. While bowling, it seemed like, what legend. He's living, maybe. That bar look cool

I want to come back for the bar. Oh game room here. We got some Cloud machines in an air hockey table The air hockey machine might be out of order too. Well, that'll do for this episode of anima any final thoughts party words for the folks at home Fuck you dude. let's go bowl. Don't bowl! So, I don't have enough podcasts, not enough places for me to spew nonsense. So I started a new one. It's about things that are interesting to me.

Who shot J.R.? Irish folk music? What happened to Acapulco? Hopefully you will listen to it, and you'll find out the answers to these and other in-name questions. Alright.