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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think people have all sorts of opinions on this.
Is it right for a business that's operating to crowd
fund to stay open? That's what's happening to Maggie May's
on Sixth Street. Ah, they're trying to crowdsource using you know,
like a GoFundMe type of thing to raise three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars. So Maggie May's on Sixth Street,
(00:22):
which has been there since nineteen seventy eight, Yeah, to
stay open. I mean, I'll say, I kind of feel
like if you're in business and you've got to do that,
you should probably probably shut.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Down the business, make some changes maybe, right.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Jb'd you go there in college? Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That was one of the darling places in the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh yeah, see places.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Because most of the entertainment downtown was there was a
little bit of warehouse district, but it was mostly dirty
Sixth Street. All these all these up other options you
kids have today, we didn't have that, and Maggie May's
was the go to place because you'd have like there
was the little bar side and then in the main
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room they would usually have a cover band and then
sometimes they'd have music on the rooftop deck. And there
weren't very many rooftop decks back then, No, there weren't.
That was really cool. But yeah, I was definitely there
all the time, late eighties, early nineties. But that's you know,
there's a difference like that's kind of almost like feels
to me like a GoFundMe abuse a bit, meaning it's
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usually reserved for a new product to get made, or
someone really down on their luck, you know, a health
issue that's surprised, caught them off guard, you know, a fire,
something like that where insurance doesn't cover it. Right, you
don't just see it because well, we run the business
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into the ground.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You think they're coming at it from the the point
of view of this is an Austin icon's epitome of
all things Austin. So help save this, not though I
know they think they are. I'm gonna tell you it's
been around forever. My twenty first birthday, I threw up
right up in front of Meggie May's. Really, and it's
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what I remember. I remember being sick in front of
Maggie May's. It was like the third bar had gone
too and as I was actively getting sick on the sidewalk,
some guy walked by and went, that's hot.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, I don't know if it's still that way on
Dirty six, but back then you would you would get
a birthday shot. Almost everywhere. You'd show them your idea,
they'd give you a free birthday shot.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I mean it was like, that's what put me over
the edge that night.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Right, But man, that's interesting. I don't know, like, you know,
they have.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
A Leander location, what and Maggie May's and Leander?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Really yeah, that's interesting. Wow?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, what if that's what the go fund of me
is for?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's the one on Sick Street, I know, specifically the
one at sixth in Trinity.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, no, there's one in Leander that's random, same sign
and everything out front.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know. The bar business you think about, it's pretty tough.
I mean it's I think you pointed out JB. They're
all selling the same thing. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have a friend that's a consultant and you know,
and he but he's in motorcycle industry, but he compares
a dealership to a bar. You're all selling the same thing,
you know, So your product isn't the liquor. That's not
your product.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
A Crown royal shot.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Everywhere, everywhere. So the product is your environment. It's the temperature,
it's the music, it's the staff, it's the vibe, the
band that you booked, it's your playlist, it's karaoke night.
That's what you're selling.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So you know, if Maggie May's lost its way because
of that, maybe they lost track of who they are.
I think of it as a place to go see
a live man that you can walk in and pay
a cover at the door.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah. And I remember one of our friends had owned
a bar. I can't remember which one it was, but
he made a really good point. He owned a couple
of bars, and he was like, really, there is like
a small group of people in Austin that can make
or break your bar, like the like a certain crowd
of people that it was less than one hundred really
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that he said, if the word kind of gets out
that you're a cool place to go to amongst that
group of people, then it can make or break your bar.
Woh wow.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Certain people are like an age group certain no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Like a certain group of people that influential exactly exactly right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
If they say your place is lame, don't go there. Anymore,
you're done, right. But twenty years ago there were not
so many options so places could all survive. And now
it's like you got to be on point, you know, Yeah,
you have to trend in and out. It's big city
problems is.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
What it is. Maggie Bays is where you went to
to hear a cover band with a name like Tipsy Alligator.
That's what she did. Uh, coming up next, don't go anywhere.
This would be kind of fun. Things that people say
wrong and they say him on purpose, all right. A
good example of that would be Tris's grandmother. Right, wait
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till you hear what she purposely said wrong, and it's
always funny. Stay with us. That's coming up on Austin's
daty station one o three point one. Hey, real quick,
if you're with us. Just a minute ago we told
you how Maggie May's on six Street is crowdsourcing with
like a GoFundMe to raise money to stay open, and
their goal three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. They got
a ways to go, they do, because they've raised.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
One hundred and ninety five dollars one hundred ninety five,
not one hundred and ninety five thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
So you know what that tells me? Their own friends
and family don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Right, Yeah, you're right, My goodness, Should we get behind
it and save me?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
No, I mean we could them there since I was
twenty one. You know how you eat something and it
makes you throw up, you don't go back. Yeah, I
haven't been back since my twenty first birthdays.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like a shot at uzoh, I'll never have another.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I can't have the same reason.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, my first legal drink was a shot of uzo
that a buddy of aceh ruined the night. It was gross.
You can't drink gin jb.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, it got south on men freshman year at college,
and I haven't had one since. I can't get hell.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Good luck, Maggie Mays, You've got quite a fight in
front of you. You got a big journey. Things that
people say wrong on purpose. Trisha will give you a
great example of something that her grandmother purposely did. It
was always funny hmm.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Instead of saying the word shrimp, she would take the
h out and say the word shrimps.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And she knew it was wrong.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
She knew it was wrong, but we laughed every time,
So she did it every time. She did it on purpose.
Same with her medicine. The mall she's called ike Thol.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You ever hear about this, I tell you I heard
this is so Tricia's grandmother. How she rode horses to school, right, yes, yes,
tell her what she did, how she traded the kids.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, growing up they lived on a ranch, and anytime
one of us got a scrape or anything, injured anything,
she'd pull out this tube and this squeeze out this
black tar like substance, and she'd say, we're gonna throw
a little ikey Thol on it. Apparently ike Thol solved everything.
She'd say, if you had like a splinter, you'd put
it on. She'd say, suck a dog out of a well,
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let me get that splinter out.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No time. It was not a groan, it was a grown.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
When I found out that ichthy mal is horse medicine,
medicine or horses, she hided it all over every one
of the grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
She would have been a big Joe Rogan fan.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
She felt about ikey Thal the way my grandfather felt
about w D forty.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It was kind of like the big fat Greek wedding
right with the wind decks. That guy thought he could
fix anything with the wind decks. Uh, you know what
kind of everyone's heard this if you've been in Austin
for any amount of time. And I can say this
because he's a good, good, one of my very best friends.
But Scott cross it from Apple Leasing. What he do
is commercials and he'd tell you that when you leased
(08:26):
the car from Apple Leasing, you got half priced car
warshes from from Arbor car Wash, carharsh And I asked
Scott about that once he goes, Yeah, he goes. I
got called out on years ago, but I kept doing
it because people remember it. Ah, half priced carsh That's.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
What I've got. Relatives in the Midwest on my mom's
side would always say warsh Er Washington.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, where's the r in that guy? I don't know,
it's not there. Uh. My dad would never ever remember
the show Seinfeld Right, No, Steinfeld for some reasons.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And they don't change even if you're correct.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But doesn't care, doesn't care what's yours? Jb Oh, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I mean we'd still say all the words wrong that
are the way our daughter said, and it's just become
our vernacular here.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It's moved our house too, by say some of the
words your daughter said wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Too, And we call it the hermot.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
We will tell each other I feel little nermous, enormous nermous.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
My favorite Roley hagarism, and I use it all the time.
Is there a fucker in bold?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
When we were trying to get her to do something
like homework she was she would say, you know, because
we would bribe her with suckers, right, and she instead
of saying she would say, is there She's trying to say,
is there a sucker involved?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But the way she would say, is there a sucker
involved involved?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Still? Our daughter, Sandy, will you help me carry in
the groceries? Is there a sucker? And bawl all the time?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You guys? Yeah, we have We have a phrase that
she said she was doing a funeral for her hamster
nice and and we have it on video. And at
one point she was she said, I might cry, I
might not, but I might will. And so so we
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say that all the time, I might not, but I
might will about doing something.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh, it's cute, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Landry used to call hot coffee hot coffee, and we
definitely still call it hot.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
My mother calls it hotofy.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, I do all the time. Just to irritate our daughter.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Is I'll put the word the in front of something
where it shouldn't be, like the Google or the Low's.
I'll go one step further sometimes and call it thes.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Just to get her worked up.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Just an irritator, Mom, That's not what it is, and
it works because.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Like my dad, I had a friend in high school.
His name was Jeff Paspachelle right, it's a check name,
and my dad refused to call him paspahell. He called
him pastpa check still to this day, and I'll always
say the same because Jeff never got all of his
adult teeth, and so he'd always ask he goes, hey,
(11:30):
paspa check, get all his teeth yet fifty six years old? Now,
I never He looked exactly like Alfred E. Newman from
Mad magazine, exactly like him.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Your dad's just checking on it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Pasta check ever get all his teeth?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Nope, No, I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
His adult teeth. He never came in.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So what about when people say espresso, oh yeah, instead
of espresso.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's not really a mispronunciation, but maybe it is, but
one that drives me. It's just when people seen something. No,
you didn't see anything. You saw something, but you didn't
see I seen him at the movie theater. No, no,
you you did not see him. You saw him. Oh
that tries me, Insie, I have one.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What about when people say the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Hey, Google Maps says Golf of America.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I know, golf, does it? Is it changed on Google Maps?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah? No, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean it was like an immediate meaning.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
No way. Yeah, at the Gulf of America. It'll always be.
It'll always be the Golf of Mexico to me. I'm sorry,
care do.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I why I feel like that.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I read an article that somebody at a news outlet
got in trouble because they still say the Golf of
Mexico instead of the Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're not kidding. I'm on Google Map. Yeah, yeah, he
says Golf of America.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I just think it's weird.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
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