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Every drink has a story. Every shift has a moment

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that sticks with you. Good, bad, or completely

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insane, behind the laughter, the chaos, and the

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clinking of the glasses, that's where the real

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stories live. This is Bartender Bangers, where

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we pour out the truth straight. No chaser. What's

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up, everybody, and welcome to this week's episode

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of Bartender Bangers. I'm your host, Mark the

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Shark, a .k .a. Schmark, and this week we are

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in Farmingdale, New York. at McGrath's, a special

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place to me because two of my buddies own it.

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And we have my first internet friend on the show.

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Some people know him as the gaming mixologist.

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Others know him by Frankie Francis. Frankie,

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welcome to the show. Thank you so much for making

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the trip. Thanks for having me, man. This is

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awesome. Hell yeah, dude. I'm excited. We actually

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made this happen. Yeah. We've been talking about

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this for like... Seven or eight months now. It's

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been a while, yeah. But yeah, I'm finally, I'm

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passing through. I'm like, let's do a quick little

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detour to Long Island. Hell yeah, let's get this

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going. We start off every episode kind of giving

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your credentials. So like where you got started

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in the business, like in the service industry,

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where you worked, what positions you've had.

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Getting you to where you're at now. Hell yeah.

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So I started bar backing in 2009, I think it

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was. So I started in the North End, Boston's

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North End. I was at an Italian restaurant there

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called Baco Ristorante. I've worked in pretty

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much every kind of establishment. I've worked

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in fine dining, dive bars. I worked in Mexican

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restaurants, Brazilian Rodizios. I worked on

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cruise ships. I worked in hotel bars. Quite a

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bit. Yeah, that's a lot. I used to be a personal

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trainer, fun fact, way back in the day. So when

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the economy crashed in 2008, bars did pretty

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well during that time. And I was in a bar one

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night and I was watching the bartender just do

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his thing. He's having multiple conversations

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with different people and making drinks the whole

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time. He never stopped moving. And I'm watching

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him like, okay, I don't know how to make drinks,

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but I feel like my personality would be better

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suited for that. And so I just started. Looking

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into it, and I eventually got a job barbacking

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in Boston, like I said. And then 16 years later,

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almost 17 now, I'm still doing it. Any end in

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sight, or you're sticking with it? I don't see

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one right now. I mean, I'm always one of those

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people that, like, okay, when it's not fun anymore,

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when I'm getting no enjoyment out of the job

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at all, then it's probably time to move on to

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something else. Yeah, smart. If you could look

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back at Frankie, a young Frankie, just getting

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started in the industry, what is some advice

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you would give him? Some advice I'd give him

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is just try to be consistent. But one thing I

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learned really early on, I had a guy that really

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taught me this, is you get really, really good

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at making classic cocktails. When you go to a

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new place and they've got their cocktail list

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and all the specs on there, and I've worked a

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place where they're meticulous about you jigger

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every single ingredient to make sure it's on

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point every time. Focus first on getting good

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at the classic. Make a great old -fashioned.

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Make a great Cosmo. Make a great margarita. Don't

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just make your own shit up. But, yeah, get really

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good at making the classics. I tell every young

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bartender that because cocktail lists will come

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and go. You'll work in different places. But

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if you get really good at the classics. You can

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get a job anywhere. Yeah, that's for sure. And

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then if you were to give advice to rookies you

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see now starting, like you see people making

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mistakes, what would you tell them? Or like what

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are some rookie mistakes you see people making?

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Number one is finish your task, whatever task

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you're currently on. Because, you know, we all

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multitask. We all get pulled in many directions.

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We all wear many hats when we're behind the bar

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or even when you're serving. You're going to

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get pulled by this person who needs this and

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this other guest that needs that. Finish your

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task. You'll be glad you did, and then you'll

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need to look back on it. Okay, that's done. Now

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I can go on to the next thing, and it's just

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out of sight, out of mind because you don't want

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to just dwell too long on one single thing because,

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again, you've got to be fast. You've got to be

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multifunctional. So just finish your first task,

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then move on. Yeah, and so you do, if people

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don't know, Frankie does content creation as

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well, known as the gaming mixologist. Where did

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that whole concept come from? It was during the

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tail end of COVID. I've always been just a nerd,

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so I love video games, especially classic video

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games. And like I said, I was bartending. I've

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been bartending for a long time, and I decided

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to just combine work with play. At the time,

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I was working in a hotel bar where... Because

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of COVID restrictions, we could only have so

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many people in the restaurant at one time, so

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many people in the bar at one time or at the

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bar at one time. And so because I was used to

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the high volume, I just started getting bored.

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So I started coming up with new cocktails for

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an upcoming menu. And like I said, when you get

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good at making the classics, usually most cocktails

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that you create are usually a riff on a classic

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of some sort. I started just doing some riffs

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on some classic drinks, and one of them was a

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twist on one of my favorite kind of like sweeter

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drinks. I used to love Pearl Harbors in my early

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20s. I used to love them. So vodka, Midori, pineapple.

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So I wanted to do like a martini version of that

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with a raspberry flavor to it. So I was putting

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raspberries as a garnish in this like green drink

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in a martini glass, and I remember I dropped

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the raspberries in, and they were kind of floating.

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throughout the drink. And I'm like, that kind

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of looks like the Metroid enemies from the Metroid

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video games. And that became the Metroid martini.

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So I made like three or four drinks that day.

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And I based on different video games. And that's

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where it started. And so it kind of snowballed

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from there being like, all right, well, I love

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this game. Let's make a drink for it. Or I have

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this idea, make a drink. And it's like, oh, that

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kind of reminds me of this character or this

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like, so it just kind of snowballed from there.

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And that was, I think I posted my first video

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on TikTok. back in the end of 2021, I think it

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was. Okay. And then it's been going ever since.

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I mean, I've gotten some success on TikTok and

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Instagram, especially because I got the most

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followers there. And yeah, it's, and that's one

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of those things that it's still fun, you know?

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Yeah, for sure. It gets the, it's my creative

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outlet. So, you know, rather than doing hard

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drugs, it's just kind of, it's just to focus

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your creativity. And so, and I love doing it.

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It's like, and if people get enjoyment out of

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it, that's the best part. When people say, I

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love that drink you made, or they'll send me

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a picture of like, hey, I made that drink you

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posted the other day. It's so good. I'm like,

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that's awesome. Yeah, what a compliment to you.

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Yeah, I love that. That's why you post the recipes.

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I want to see people do that. I love when people

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will take something that you created, and either

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they made it your way, or even if they made it

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their own, and tweak certain things. I'm like,

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you know what? They got enjoyment out of it.

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That's the best, man. What was the first video

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you posted that went viral, where you were like?

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Viral. I got to think what it was. It was probably,

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I've gotten the most views out of not so much

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a really intricate craft cocktail or even a video

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game inspired one. People love those Long Island

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iced tea videos, man. Yeah, I do too. So I made

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one that was four different variations of a Long

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Island. So it was Long Island iced tea, Long

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Beach iced tea, Tokyo iced tea, and then the

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Adios, I'll do the voice for you, the Adios motherfucker.

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I posted those four drinks and that one went

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viral. So that was my first video that got over

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a million hits. It got a million on TikTok. I

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think on TikTok now it's up to, I think, 8 .2

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million views now. And then it got another million

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or so on Facebook and another 700 ,000 on YouTube

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and then a couple million on Instagram. And then

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I've kind of expanded on that. So I've done like,

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you know. That's four. Well, here's five. Yeah.

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Well, here's six different variations. I'll throw

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in like a Grateful Dead or an L .A. water. Trash

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can. Trash can. And then there was one called

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a Boston iced tea, which I never even knew about.

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So I had eight drinks on the bar at one time,

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making all these different variations. And to

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date, that video has almost, I think it's like

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17 and a half million views on Instagram. Holy

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shit. People like to get drunk, man. That's why

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we do what we do. That's why we're still in the

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business. You also have a good delivery. The

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way you tell, even the way you do the audios,

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it's something that sticks out. I remember that

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right away. As soon as I started seeing your

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content, I'm like, I've got to talk with this

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guy. He's fun. Like I said, you've got to have

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fun with it. It's little. subtle things like

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that that get you your views. I mean, it's not

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always just like you could be so intricate and

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plan all this stuff, but sometimes the best videos

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you have are just shit you throw at the wall.

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Yeah. You know, and that was like, okay, well,

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let's try this for a long on video and see what

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happens. And that's, that's what really took

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it off. So I've gained, I mean, that's, I go

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back to that well kind of off where I'll remake

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them or I'll do like, you know, seven different

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variations or maybe I might do a 10, a 10 different

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variation one day, but it gets. It gets the views.

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It gets people interested in the channel. And

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they keep coming back. So that's awesome. Now,

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when you make all those Long Island iced teas,

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what happens to them? Should I let the seeker

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out of the bag? If I'm going to do it, I'll do

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it on Bartender Bangus. So here it is. You don't

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have to. It depends. I'm not drinking eight Long

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Island. I'm fucking deceased. You need some friends

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over. I might have some friends over to help

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share in these, but it depends what I have going

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on that day. If I have my kids that day or if

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I have to work later that day, then I'm probably

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not going to have more than one of anything.

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If it's an old -fashioned type of variation,

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rest assured I'm drinking that shit. But, yeah,

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the eight Long Islands, yeah, I think I'd...

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I might have the Tokyo Teaks. It's pretty delicious.

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And I'm like, okay, I can't do the rest of these.

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Otherwise, I'll be called into work. I'm not

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going to go to work in a cab. I'll go to work

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in a hearse. Do you ever use fake alcohol? Do

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you ever use water? Maybe. Maybe? Yeah. We can

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edit anything out, too. That's totally fine.

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Booze is expensive, so sometimes if it's something

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I'm not going to be drinking that day, especially

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with those Long Island videos, you go through

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so much. It'd be so much booze. The vodka, gin,

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rum, tequila, base, that might be water. I won't

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say. I don't blame you. That's smart. Listen,

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man. You're not like... You're not wasting alcohol,

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so I think people would appreciate that. Yeah,

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exactly. I don't think anybody would hold that

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against you. They call me a conservationist for

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that. Yeah, exactly. Do you think that doing

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the whole content, and you've got a nice big

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following, affects your work in a positive way?

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Does it bring you in a lot of clients, customers?

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Some, yes. And I always tell people that if you...

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I will sometimes post where I work. I don't like

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posting my schedule and stuff like that because

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I don't want like, you know, that's a little

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bit too personal. When people come in, they've

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seen my videos and whatnot, and they're like,

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hey, I really like that drink you made. Can you

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make that here? And if I have all the ingredients,

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the answer is most likely going to be yes. Yeah.

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Will I pour eight different long ounce for one

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person? No. Right. I made one where I used an

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entire bottle of Jim Beam. Just regular Jim Beam,

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not the Red Stag. That's the Red Stag special

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at this place. But yeah, if it's not one of these

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over -the -top things that's supposed to be just

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stupid, then yeah. If I have all the ingredients,

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absolutely I will. And do you have a lot of people

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that come in and they're like... I've seen you.

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Or, like, they get excited? Not a ton. I mean,

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there's definitely a few. It's been more so at

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this job I have right now. I've worked at this

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place currently for two years. And I get some

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that come in. And I work in a small town. So,

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like, a lot of people in my town, like, have

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seen me. They already know. You know, either

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on Facebook or on Instagram or whatever. And

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I'm not saying they come. Some don't necessarily

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come in simply for me because our restaurant's,

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you know, it's pretty good. So it's pretty well

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known in town. But if somebody wants something

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they saw on my social media, if I have the ingredients

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to make it. Absolutely. Yeah. You got to pay

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for it. I'm not making it for free, so. Your

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videos, you feel like you get a lot of bartenders

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or like just like home people that like to make

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drinks for themselves. A little bit of both.

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Sometimes the, I'm friends with a lot of bartenders

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on social media and we'll share our stuff back

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and forth. Like, you know, I'll send them, hey,

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check this drink out or. I like collabing that

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way where if I see a drink that somebody made,

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I'm like, oh, that's really, really good. I'm

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going to make that drink myself, make sure I

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tag the original person who posted it so they

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get credit for it. Like I said, it's good to

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do something. That was the Rumpel Rita. Oh, God.

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Should we talk about that? I think we have to,

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man. For sure. That was nasty. What was her name?

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Madison. She was a cool girl. She works at a

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punk rock bar. The mojito. I'm thinking of your

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other drink. The Rumpel Margarita. You saw that

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and you were like, I'm making this. That sounds

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like a punk rock kind of thing. That video did

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good, though. We got a couple hundred thousand

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views out of that one. It did really good. It

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got me a bunch of followers. It was awesome.

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It didn't even need to say much. I literally

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heard you saying that and you going, wait, what?

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And then me going, fuck it. Challenge accepted.

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Have you actually made it here? No. It's awful.

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Absolutely not. It's awful. No, I saw your face.

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I didn't need to try it. It was terrible. It's

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like lime and mouthwash. Yes. What? Well, I never

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heard anybody refer to it as Satan's mouthwash

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before, too. That was a great nickname. And that

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was off the cuff. Oh, yeah. That just slipped

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out. It's perfect. The Malort video that I did

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recently where I called it fecal matter liqueur,

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that just came out. That wasn't rehearsed. I

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just kind of said it. And after, I was like.

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That's a great way to describe it. And that was

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the Malort Mojito. Yeah, I did two Malort videos

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this week. Yeah, I saw the other one. And I can't

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remember. The Malort Mojito was somewhere. I

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don't know if it was a comment I got in a video

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or something somebody posted. That's why I didn't

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tag anybody. I don't know where the idea came

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from. If I just had the idea in my head, I'm

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not really even sure. But, yeah, that was terrible.

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But I did that one, which, again, disgusting.

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But then I wanted to try, like, I saw people

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doing this. This experiment with a Brita filter

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where they pour like, you know, really just like

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rail, you know, bottom of the barrel, you know,

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vodka. You know, the kind that you pay like,

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you know, $6 .99 for a handle of and then just,

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you know, you get a hangover before you get a

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buzz. But they pour that into a Brita filter

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and they'd say the vodka tasted better. And so

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I thought, how would that work with fucking Malort?

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Just to let you know, it didn't work that well.

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Your face said it all. Well, it was smoother.

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At first, but then that Malort bitterness kicks

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you in the face and gives you a black eye and

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gives you a black eye to anybody that's near

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you. It did not help very, very much. So that's

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going to be the last Malort video for a while.

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How do you feel about Fernette? I like Fernette.

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Okay. My old bar manager and one of my mentors,

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Tara, she calls Fernette Jaeger for classy bitches.

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And I can't think of a better pseudonym for that.

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I do like Fernette. I mean, it's kind of like

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the unofficial industry shot. You know, when

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someone orders Fernette, you just want to say,

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like, so what bar do you work at? And they'll

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usually off the top be able to respond real fast.

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They call it the bartender's handshake. I've

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never heard that. I like Fernette. So Jaeger,

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not so much. But Fernette's good. I like Fernette.

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Yeah. Our last guest said he likes Malort better

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than Fernette. I don't know. Why? Everybody's

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got an opinion. Man, that dude needs therapy.

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Get him in here, put this little chair all the

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way down, and just let him tell you all his feelings.

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But if he likes Malort better than Fernette,

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then you might be the one that's laying down.

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You're like, I can't do this too much. From content

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creating to bartending, which would you think

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is harder? Oh, actual bartending, easily. You're

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getting pulled in every direction. When I didn't

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bartend for a while and I got a quote -unquote

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real job, you miss it. It's like Godfather Part

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3. When you thought you're out, something pulls

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you back in. When I'm not bartending, especially

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if it's long periods of time, you miss the three

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Cs, the chaos, the cash, and the camaraderie.

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You know, you see coworkers that will get together

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that you would not normally see hang out, where

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all of a sudden it's like you go through, you

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know, an insane rush and everybody gets weeded,

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but then you go out somewhere and you're with

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barbacks, you're with, you know, servers, you're

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with, you know, back of the house, dishwashers,

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and just it's all of a sudden like the title's

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at the door at the end of the day, like you all

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survived. together right as a family and that's

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just camaraderie you don't at least i've never

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experienced any of the line of work i've done

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you know there's drinks with co -workers and

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you know company parties and whatnot but like

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just those those simple after shift drinks your

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co -workers i mean you miss that camaraderie

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so i like the way you said that you leave your

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titles at the door yeah you know like really

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like doesn't matter where you're at when you're

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at together everybody's just family yeah and

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bars and bars do that with guests too i mean

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that you can have You can have, I think it was

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John Taffer, you can have a CEO of a Fortune

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500 company sitting next to a garbage man, and

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while they're having a drink next to each other,

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they can find some sort of common ground. Yeah,

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without a doubt. So you can leave titles like

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that at the door. It's something we're kind of

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losing in this day and age. At the end of the

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day, we're just people. Things that make sense

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for you might not make sense for them. You've

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got to live your life the way it makes sense

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for you. So not everyone has that straight point

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A to point B. plan with life i know i fucking

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don't so but find out what works for you so yeah

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just play that some of your content isn't just

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um making drinks right you do some skit content

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that's like hysterical oh thanks and you put

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on the wig you'll dress and you'll act out some

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wild like customer experiences and stuff i have

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great tits and i'm a woman right you do actually

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you do yeah they're perky they stand up pretty

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you want to hear a funny story about that So

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when I had the idea to start doing skits, I bought

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some cheap wigs on Amazon. And then I'm like,

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all right, well, I need some other things. I

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went to the dollar store to go buy some cheap

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glasses and sunglasses or whatever. And I was

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walking through the kids' toy aisle. And there

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was these little small, little tiny basketballs.

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And I looked at those and I thought, those would

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make great tits. So I bought those and I used

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those for the boobs for the female characters

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I was playing. But what happened was, this is

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going to sound horrible, my kids were playing

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with them one day, and one of them went missing.

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I'm like, fuck, my kids lost one of my tits.

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So I had to go back to Dollar Tree to buy more.

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I was trying to find another one of the basketballs.

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Of course, I didn't have them, but it was close

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to Halloween, and I found these styrofoam pumpkins,

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and I'm like, those are going to work so much

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better. They've got a nipple. Yeah, they did.

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They were huge. So it was basically like, oh,

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I gave myself a boob job for $2 .99. So not a

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bad thing. What a bargain. I love doing the skits.

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The problem is, though, they're just time consuming.

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I can shoot a drink video, depending on what

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it is, and have it edited and posted within.

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couple hours even when it's all done edited more

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so if I have to appear on camera and if I'm doing

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different angles and stuff but usually a couple

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hours but the skits take time because sometimes

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you know you're playing different characters

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you want to make sure that you're in frames I'm

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a one man show so I don't do a whole lot of collabs

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I'd love to do more but when I do the skits it's

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just me so if I'm not looking in the right direction

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I'm like I gotta reshoot that or if I'm too far

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to the right or too far to the left I gotta Fix

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that. Redo. They take more time. But, again,

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I have so many skits I want to do, but I just

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need the time to actually do it. Yeah. And your

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skits, you're really getting, because I know

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they say, like, inspired by real events. Yep.

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They are. They are. Yeah. They are. It either

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happened to me or a co -worker or a story somebody

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told me. Yeah. I haven't done a good skit. The

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last skit I did was when I worked in this hotel

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bar, and I call last call. And everybody's ordering

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this and ordering that, trying to get, you know,

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their last drink or whatever. And this lady,

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like, kind of jumps to front and, like, goes,

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like, can I get a hot tea? And I'm, like, really?

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It's, you know, we're closed in five minutes.

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You're going to make me go all the way to the

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back, get a hot tea? It's, like, no, just. And

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so I told her, like, we have Tito's, we have

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tequila. Which one do you want? I was, like,

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I'm not going to the back to get tea right now.

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I got 750 people here that all want alcohol right

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now. When the bar closes down and we can't serve

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anymore. I'll be happy to get you that tea. Yeah.

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But right now, kind of busy. Yeah, read the room.

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Read the room, honey. Read the room. So that's

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my biggest thing I always give to, like, you

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know, bar guests. Like, you know, somebody asked

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me, like, you know, what advice as a bartender

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would you give to bar guests? Just act like you've

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been there before, you know. Even if it's your

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first and only trip you'll ever make to the Super

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Bowl, act like you've been there. Yeah. Fake

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it till you make it. Exactly. What's your favorite

00:22:15.539 --> 00:22:18.519
skit you did? Off the top of my head, I would

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say probably the one that I really liked was

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the Baked Haddock story, where this woman came

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into a restaurant that I worked at at the time,

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and she wanted Baked Haddock, which is a very

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popular dish in New England. What's it? Baked

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Haddock. So it's basically a white fish with

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lemon, butter, breadcrumbs on it. They bake it.

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Very popular Massachusetts dish. So she ordered

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the baked tatek, and then she modified it so

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much that it ended up just being just chicken

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fingers and fries by the end. And that actually

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happened. So she modified it with chicken. Well,

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she's like, instead of the baked tatek, I'd like

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it fried. Instead of the mashed potatoes, I want

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fries. Instead of the... the broccoli or whatever

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it was. I just want a big bowl of ranch dressing.

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And instead of the fried hat, can I just do chicken

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tendies instead? She said fried chicken, but

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I thought chicken tendies was funnier. That's

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why I say inspired by, which sometimes it's word

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for word. Like one I posted recently was these

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two ladies came to the bar and they asked what

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flavor high noons that we had. And so I list

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off the high noon flavors. They both said their

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favorite flavor. So what do you do? You grab

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the two flavors and you go to hand them. Then

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she's like, what are you doing? I'm like. you

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wanted these. I asked what flavors you had. I

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never said that I wanted any. I was like, okay.

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And then she goes, we'll do two espresso martinis,

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which aggravates the fuck up. People say expresso.

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Heavy on the X. Yeah. Because again, the town

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I work in, it's a big Italian community. And

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when an Italian guy says he wants expresso, I'm

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like, motherfucker, you invented this shit. And

00:23:54.029 --> 00:23:56.670
you can't pronounce it right. But that's sort

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of the two ladies, the one asking me about high

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noon flavors and then just ordering something

00:24:01.230 --> 00:24:04.029
completely different. That was almost verbatim,

00:24:04.029 --> 00:24:06.549
word for word, actually happened. Right. That's

00:24:06.549 --> 00:24:11.950
funny. And if you could think of, like, the weirdest

00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:16.190
customer experience you've ever had. Like, the

00:24:16.190 --> 00:24:19.750
most strange. I'm sure you've had a million,

00:24:19.849 --> 00:24:22.509
so just one that pops. I don't think I've ever

00:24:22.509 --> 00:24:24.589
told this story on a podcast. I think you're

00:24:24.589 --> 00:24:28.269
going to be the lucky one. So would you like

00:24:28.269 --> 00:24:32.240
to hear the flying dildo story? 100%. I want

00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.500
to hear any story you have, but especially that

00:24:34.500 --> 00:24:37.000
one. All right. So the flying dildo story. So

00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:45.079
I despise bachelorette parties. That's my least

00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:47.400
favorite demographic people to deal with. So

00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:50.160
any time I see a grown -ass woman in a sash,

00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:53.980
a tiara, I just get agita, which is an Italian

00:24:53.980 --> 00:24:56.200
word for anxiety, heartburn. So I'm just like,

00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:02.880
fuck. So one day, it was about... I want to say

00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:05.720
it was like 10, 12 women came in. They've all

00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.180
got their sashes on. You know, you got the bride,

00:25:08.619 --> 00:25:11.839
bridesmaid, maid of honor, mother of the bride,

00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:14.900
cousin of the bride. They all walk in. And mind

00:25:14.900 --> 00:25:17.740
you, this is lunch, not dinner. So it's not like

00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:19.200
it's a late night. This bachelorette party started

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:21.079
very early. So they came in at like 12 o 'clock.

00:25:21.740 --> 00:25:25.440
And they've all got, you know, they've got their,

00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:28.599
they've got all the phalluses. So they've got,

00:25:28.619 --> 00:25:30.640
like, you know, the... The straws. Yeah, they've

00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.480
got the penis straws and the penis pacifiers

00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.259
and penis necklaces. And they brought their own

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:42.640
centerpiece for the table. I'm talking just this

00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:46.799
fucking black monolith. I'm just like... And

00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:48.059
I watched them walk in with this, and they're

00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:50.079
just carrying it like this. It's flowers and

00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.079
a little wreath on the bottom. Like, that thing's

00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:53.519
going to hurt me by the end of the night. They

00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.319
decorated it. Yeah. And, again, this was not

00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:59.700
even dinner. It was lunch. But the bar that I

00:25:59.700 --> 00:26:03.720
was on, we didn't have a whole lot of highball

00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.079
glasses. We put all of our regular mixed drinks

00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.640
in hurricane glasses. So there was a rack above

00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:11.099
the bar, and the glasses were all kind of hanging

00:26:11.099 --> 00:26:15.640
down and whatnot. The bachelorette party, they

00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:17.160
actually stayed at their table the whole time.

00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:18.440
Their server was taking good care of them, so

00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.380
almost none of them ever came up to the bar or

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:22.460
not. So they were all there, but they would start

00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:25.500
getting progressively louder and louder and louder.

00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:27.319
Again, this is lunch. This is like families here

00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:30.039
and kids and stuff. They're getting louder. Eventually,

00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.819
the centerpiece started getting handed around.

00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:40.460
At one point, I heard a little bit of noise in

00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:42.019
the table. I don't know what was happening because

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:43.079
I had my back and I was ringing something in

00:26:43.079 --> 00:26:44.880
the register. All of a sudden, I hear this loud

00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.279
fucking crash. I'm like, what the fuck? I turn

00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:53.180
around and all I see above me, instead of the

00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:55.859
hurricane glass, is just the bottom of the stem

00:26:55.859 --> 00:26:59.779
hanging there. There is broken glass all over

00:26:59.779 --> 00:27:02.220
the bar. It's in my fruit tray. It's in my ice.

00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:04.980
It's in my salt and sugar caddy for margaritas

00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:07.720
and stuff. And in the middle of this fucking

00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:12.440
mess is the black dildo. And I'm just sitting

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:13.859
there. I don't even know what to say. I'm like,

00:27:13.940 --> 00:27:18.160
what? I can't even get the words, what the actual

00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:20.980
fuck out. I'm staring. It's like, what? And so

00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:22.779
this is what pissed me off more than anything

00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:24.539
else and breaking all my shit and destroying

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:27.259
my ice. One of the girls from the table came

00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:32.519
up with two linen napkins, walked over, picked

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:36.140
up the dildo, cleaned all the glass up. and turned

00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:39.480
and walked away. Not an apology, not a nothing,

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.460
like not a word. Just went out, got the dildo,

00:27:42.460 --> 00:27:46.160
and then they left like a minute later. And they

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:49.460
had already paid him? They paid, yeah. They paid

00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:51.420
and they left. So I'm like, and I'm just standing

00:27:51.420 --> 00:27:54.599
like, what just happened right here? Anyway,

00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:56.900
I've never told that story before. I save that

00:27:56.900 --> 00:28:00.470
for you. That's a great story. Yeah, so to this

00:28:00.470 --> 00:28:03.269
day, like, any time I see a bachelorette party,

00:28:03.430 --> 00:28:05.369
I'm just like, I would rather deal with any other,

00:28:05.509 --> 00:28:09.970
like, difficult demographic. Like, give me a

00:28:09.970 --> 00:28:12.049
table full of Karens. Right. And they all want

00:28:12.049 --> 00:28:13.289
to talk to the manager for different reasons.

00:28:13.369 --> 00:28:15.730
I'll take that any day over a bachelorette party.

00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:19.869
Give me, like, the meanest, rudest people. I'd

00:28:19.869 --> 00:28:22.450
rather that than a bachelorette party. Because

00:28:22.450 --> 00:28:23.990
bachelorette parties are fucking savages. They

00:28:23.990 --> 00:28:25.970
really are. You would hate to work out in Fire

00:28:25.970 --> 00:28:28.490
Island. Where I work, it's like... bachelorette

00:28:28.490 --> 00:28:31.049
party central we have like three or four a night

00:28:31.049 --> 00:28:35.630
yeah it's insane i got a dm one time of a woman

00:28:35.630 --> 00:28:37.670
who was in massachusetts saying like hey you

00:28:37.670 --> 00:28:39.630
know our our we have a bachelorette party coming

00:28:39.630 --> 00:28:41.269
up would you be willing to like you know make

00:28:41.269 --> 00:28:43.549
drinks for us at my friend's house i'm like no

00:28:43.549 --> 00:28:47.109
we didn't even talk money i'm like no i was gonna

00:28:47.109 --> 00:28:49.849
say what if they offered you a good amount it

00:28:49.849 --> 00:28:51.529
depends what it was. We never got that far, but

00:28:51.529 --> 00:28:52.869
I was like, I don't want to deal with this shit.

00:28:52.990 --> 00:28:56.430
Just no, no. And bachelor parties are fine. Bachelor

00:28:56.430 --> 00:28:58.849
parties, usually they just want to get their

00:28:58.849 --> 00:29:00.710
buddy drunk, remind him that his life is over,

00:29:00.869 --> 00:29:03.569
and usually they just come in for a drink, maybe

00:29:03.569 --> 00:29:05.150
two. They might have some dinner, and then they're

00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:11.809
off to more of a open kind of place. Tits out.

00:29:12.049 --> 00:29:14.509
Pretty much, yeah. Which, again, to each their

00:29:14.509 --> 00:29:18.549
own. Bachelor parties, yeah, they're easy. Bachelorette

00:29:18.549 --> 00:29:20.990
parties, And bachelor parties, I feel like, are

00:29:20.990 --> 00:29:24.450
more low -key. They are. Like I said, when I

00:29:24.450 --> 00:29:26.430
got married, I'm divorced now, but when I got

00:29:26.430 --> 00:29:29.250
married, my bachelor party was all things a bachelor

00:29:29.250 --> 00:29:31.369
party would normally be and honestly, pretty

00:29:31.369 --> 00:29:34.369
tame. Yeah. I went with two of my buddies down

00:29:34.369 --> 00:29:37.750
to Tampa. We didn't wear anything matching. No

00:29:37.750 --> 00:29:42.210
sashes? No sashes, no matching hats, no matching

00:29:42.210 --> 00:29:45.470
t -shirts. You didn't wear a tiara, Mark? I might

00:29:45.470 --> 00:29:47.069
have worn one, but I didn't make them wear one.

00:29:49.250 --> 00:29:51.849
That's awesome. Bachelorette parties are a no

00:29:51.849 --> 00:29:56.470
-go. What other customers would be like, they

00:29:56.470 --> 00:29:59.470
walk in and you're like, oh, no. Like, if a customer

00:29:59.470 --> 00:30:02.849
comes in and orders X, you know that's going

00:30:02.849 --> 00:30:07.789
to be trouble. The only one I can think of recently

00:30:07.789 --> 00:30:12.289
was this lady wanted to order a drink and she

00:30:12.289 --> 00:30:14.470
kept asking, how much is this? How much is that?

00:30:14.650 --> 00:30:17.609
Oh, yeah. You know, your house vodka. What is

00:30:17.609 --> 00:30:19.960
it? okay, how much is that compared to Tito's

00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:22.400
and compared to Grey Goose? And I'm like, because

00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:24.420
I don't know about you, but I mean, you might

00:30:24.420 --> 00:30:26.220
have a couple of your prices memorized, but you

00:30:26.220 --> 00:30:27.599
don't have every single liquor memory. So you

00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:29.480
literally go on the computer like, check it.

00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:33.720
And the difference isn't enough where like, if

00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:36.259
you like Tito's that much, just get the Tito's.

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:39.400
Exactly. A drink order, it's a red flag for me.

00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:41.980
I keep going back to that. Usually a Long Island

00:30:41.980 --> 00:30:45.460
of any variation. It's like, oh God. So that's

00:30:45.460 --> 00:30:47.799
usually kind of the bigger ones. But other than

00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:50.779
that, it's never so much like a drink order.

00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:55.660
I don't judge people by what they look like or

00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:57.980
how they dress because I've been surprised many,

00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:02.480
many times. In my younger days, my veteran bartender

00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:04.079
year, I'd be like, oh, watch out for these people.

00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:05.880
And then I would take them and be like, they

00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:08.079
were awesome. They were really, really nice.

00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:11.220
You can't judge a book by its cover. Never, never.

00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:17.220
I always come at every person or I approach every

00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:19.319
person. Again, I don't call them customers. I

00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:21.859
call them guests. That's just what I do. You're

00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:24.019
a guest in my place, and as long as you are a

00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:25.660
respectable guest, I will treat you with respect

00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:28.740
the entire time. Even if you're a guest in your

00:31:28.740 --> 00:31:29.920
friend's house, you're not just going to take

00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.180
your shoes off and throw one at the wall and

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:36.259
one over there. Treat it like it's your own and

00:31:36.259 --> 00:31:38.279
make yourself comfortable there. It's my job

00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.339
to serve you. There's been times when I've had

00:31:41.339 --> 00:31:44.660
people come in where you might think, this person's

00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:45.960
a little rough around the edges. Next thing you

00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.160
know, they tip the entire bill. You never know.

00:31:49.259 --> 00:31:51.079
No, it's so true. You never know. I've had people

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:54.440
who come in. At the hotel bar that I worked at,

00:31:54.500 --> 00:31:59.240
I had people that are paying for $50 ,000, $75

00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.480
,000 weddings, six -figure weddings. I've been

00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:03.160
treated the worst by people like that, people

00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:05.160
that have a lot of money. But I've also been

00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:06.680
treated really good by people like that as well.

00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:09.940
No, there's no way to really tell. There's no

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:15.599
set standard for that. Another thing I tell my

00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.940
younger self is you don't always get what you

00:32:17.940 --> 00:32:20.420
give. So if you give somebody, if you're really

00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:22.220
kind to somebody, you give them amazing hospitality,

00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:26.279
it might come back to you in a good way. come

00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:27.880
back to you in a bad way or might not come back

00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.319
to you at all. So at the end of the day, if you're

00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.480
really good at your job, you'll always get it

00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:34.900
somewhere else. I mean, I've very rarely, I can

00:32:34.900 --> 00:32:36.299
think of maybe one or two occasions where I was

00:32:36.299 --> 00:32:38.059
actually pissed off at a tip that a guest gave

00:32:38.059 --> 00:32:40.599
me. Because if you're good at what you do, and

00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:42.200
that's whether you're a server, whether you're

00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:44.259
a bartender, if you're good at what you do, you'll

00:32:44.259 --> 00:32:46.859
always get it somewhere else. So this guy stiffed

00:32:46.859 --> 00:32:50.589
you on a $200 tab, left you zero. Well, you're

00:32:50.589 --> 00:32:52.609
going to get 35 % from that regular. You're going

00:32:52.609 --> 00:32:54.869
to get 25 % from that regular. It's going to

00:32:54.869 --> 00:32:56.329
average out the end of the night. It gets made

00:32:56.329 --> 00:32:59.309
up, yeah. I used to work with a server who, she'd

00:32:59.309 --> 00:33:02.630
been at that restaurant for way too long. We

00:33:02.630 --> 00:33:04.289
all have one of those where they've been working

00:33:04.289 --> 00:33:06.190
here for so long, it's like, how are you still

00:33:06.190 --> 00:33:07.569
here? Like, you hate it here. You're complaining

00:33:07.569 --> 00:33:10.970
constantly. If she didn't get exactly a 20 %

00:33:10.970 --> 00:33:13.390
tip, she would bitch about it like crazy. So

00:33:13.390 --> 00:33:16.309
I remember this guy came in. His tab, he paid

00:33:16.309 --> 00:33:20.799
it. It was a $55 tab. Okay. So 20 % of $55 is

00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:25.420
$11. So he paid on his card, left a $10 bill.

00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:28.859
She would not stop complaining over a dollar.

00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.480
I'm like, bro. Here's two, shut up. I literally,

00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:34.779
I gave her a dollar in my pocket. It's like,

00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:36.640
no, no, I don't want that. Just like, he should

00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:38.619
have like, he didn't have to do anything. Yeah.

00:33:39.140 --> 00:33:41.700
Like I said, like they don't have to tip. Right.

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:45.859
Can we kick somebody out for not tipping? Some

00:33:45.859 --> 00:33:49.740
places do, but most places don't. It would have

00:33:49.740 --> 00:33:52.539
to be, like, an extreme. Like, two weeks ago,

00:33:52.579 --> 00:33:54.420
I did call somebody out for it. It was, like,

00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:58.259
a $185 tab. He, like, showed it to me that, like,

00:33:58.299 --> 00:34:00.380
he didn't tip. But, like, we had given him good

00:34:00.380 --> 00:34:03.380
service. He just was, he felt that the prices

00:34:03.380 --> 00:34:06.259
were too much. Yeah. We work in a tourist place.

00:34:06.460 --> 00:34:08.800
They're expensive prices. You go on vacation,

00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:12.820
you're going to pay more. We didn't overcharge

00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:15.619
him. We gave him the itemized receipt. He agreed

00:34:15.619 --> 00:34:18.619
that he drank everything that was on there. So

00:34:18.619 --> 00:34:22.360
I was like, what did we do wrong? Oh, nothing.

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.219
I just thought that it was overpriced. And he

00:34:24.219 --> 00:34:30.099
felt justified in that. I'm like, well, you know

00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:31.840
what? Never mind. All good. Have a good one.

00:34:32.019 --> 00:34:34.099
I had to catch myself like that because I wanted

00:34:34.099 --> 00:34:36.340
to tell him, go fuck yourself. Don't ever come

00:34:36.340 --> 00:34:38.960
to a bar if you don't know how to handle that.

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:43.420
But you can't. I mean, you can, but it doesn't

00:34:43.420 --> 00:34:45.579
work out in your favor. Here's the argument to

00:34:45.579 --> 00:34:49.860
that, and I see the point, but the argument to

00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:53.400
that is like, okay, so if you do that, what kind

00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:55.780
of result do you want from that? Do you want

00:34:55.780 --> 00:34:57.260
to reach into his pocket and throw out an extra

00:34:57.260 --> 00:35:02.360
$5 or $10 or $20? You can do that, and it might

00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:04.840
happen, but I've also worked in one place where...

00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:08.500
If you don't get tipped and you ever confront

00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:11.019
a guest about it, I will fire you on the spot.

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:14.000
Because I get it. You got stiffed. It is what

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.599
it is. But at the end of the day, they don't

00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:20.440
have to. And I've never had an experience in

00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:23.860
a restaurant or bar ever where I needed to really

00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:27.059
try to either stick it to the bartender or stick

00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:30.659
it to the server or make that person cry or whatnot.

00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.909
At the end of the day, it's a meal. Yeah. It's

00:35:33.909 --> 00:35:35.489
a meal. It's one meal of your life. We have three

00:35:35.489 --> 00:35:39.050
meals a day usually. I'm the kind of person,

00:35:39.130 --> 00:35:42.829
if I'm the guest, and there's something a little

00:35:42.829 --> 00:35:45.309
off, there's something wrong, I just tough it

00:35:45.309 --> 00:35:47.710
up. I don't even like to complain. If it's really,

00:35:47.969 --> 00:35:50.829
really off, I might say something, but I can

00:35:50.829 --> 00:35:52.849
think of maybe two times in my life that that's

00:35:52.849 --> 00:35:54.409
happened. Like I said, if you're good at your

00:35:54.409 --> 00:35:56.469
job, you will get it somewhere else. The only

00:35:56.469 --> 00:35:57.389
time I can think off the top of my head that

00:35:57.389 --> 00:36:00.050
I was really pissed off about a tip was I had

00:36:00.050 --> 00:36:04.530
four people at the bar. probably eight, ten years

00:36:04.530 --> 00:36:07.090
ago. Four people at the bar. I used to work at

00:36:07.090 --> 00:36:08.469
this place, and on a Wednesday night, it was

00:36:08.469 --> 00:36:10.789
like my night behind the bar by myself, and it

00:36:10.789 --> 00:36:12.110
usually was a pretty good night, but for whatever

00:36:12.110 --> 00:36:14.769
reason, this particular night was just dead.

00:36:14.889 --> 00:36:16.889
So I had these two couples come in together.

00:36:17.030 --> 00:36:19.170
It was a party of four, and the restaurant was

00:36:19.170 --> 00:36:20.250
slow. Like, you guys want to just sit at the

00:36:20.250 --> 00:36:21.489
bar? We can grab the corner over here. And so

00:36:21.489 --> 00:36:26.449
I gave them amazing service, drinks, apps, oysters,

00:36:26.670 --> 00:36:30.230
dinner, dessert, espresso martinis at the end.

00:36:30.650 --> 00:36:33.170
They were... Awesome. And their bill was like

00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:36.590
over 400 bucks. Everything was great. There was

00:36:36.590 --> 00:36:39.730
no bickering between anybody until the bill came.

00:36:40.369 --> 00:36:42.530
It wasn't what was on the bill. It was who was

00:36:42.530 --> 00:36:46.650
paying the bill. So again, two couples, you know,

00:36:46.670 --> 00:36:49.369
guy and a girl, not the guy and a girl. And the

00:36:49.369 --> 00:36:51.190
two guys were getting into it about who's going

00:36:51.190 --> 00:36:53.130
to pay. They were like literally like literally

00:36:53.130 --> 00:36:54.690
shouting at each other at this point. They were

00:36:54.690 --> 00:36:57.219
not that busy. So it's. It's traveling, so the

00:36:57.219 --> 00:36:58.760
girl's like, no, just split it, just split it.

00:36:58.860 --> 00:37:00.400
He's like, no, I'm paying for it. The other guy's

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:03.420
like, no, I'm paying for it. And so usually,

00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:06.199
nowadays, I mean, I was pretty young and inexperienced

00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:08.000
at the time, but when I went, I would go over

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.920
and nowadays I'd be like, take your time, guys,

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:12.699
and I'm just going to go take a lap and let them

00:37:12.699 --> 00:37:16.019
figure it out. But it was getting to the point

00:37:16.019 --> 00:37:18.280
where I was young and inexperienced, and so this

00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:20.739
is on me for not having the experience. I basically

00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:22.219
just grabbed one guy's card, and I just want

00:37:22.219 --> 00:37:23.519
to get the hell out of this situation, like,

00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:26.000
just leave at this point. Swipe the one guy's

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:27.780
card, get back to him. It's a pleasure serving

00:37:27.780 --> 00:37:30.079
you guys. Everybody have a nice night. And he

00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:32.099
goes, you too. And so the guy whose card I took,

00:37:32.260 --> 00:37:35.420
you know, he won, quote unquote. The other guy

00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:38.480
was fuming. So the other guy goes, I'll tip him.

00:37:39.500 --> 00:37:41.699
And the other guy goes, fine. Because the two

00:37:41.699 --> 00:37:45.000
guys are just at odds now because somebody else

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.699
paid the bill. Me, I'd be like, pay it. Fuck

00:37:46.699 --> 00:37:49.280
it. I got no problem with that. I want a friend

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:53.710
like that. So. I walk away. I go talk to the

00:37:53.710 --> 00:37:57.070
one other person that's at the bar, and they

00:37:57.070 --> 00:38:00.030
leave. I walked over to the exit way. I shook

00:38:00.030 --> 00:38:02.090
all four of their hands on the way out. Have

00:38:02.090 --> 00:38:05.130
a good night, Frank. You guys too. I go back.

00:38:05.989 --> 00:38:08.309
I open the billfold. There's a signed credit

00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:11.909
card receipt. Nothing inside. There's a line

00:38:11.909 --> 00:38:13.309
through the tip because the guy said he was going

00:38:13.309 --> 00:38:19.210
to pay. Nothing. No cash. $414 tab. So it would

00:38:19.210 --> 00:38:20.809
have been at least an $80 tip. I'm looking on

00:38:20.809 --> 00:38:22.409
the ground, looking everywhere else. I'm like,

00:38:22.530 --> 00:38:25.730
fuck. And I was pissed because that was my night.

00:38:25.849 --> 00:38:28.369
That was all I had. We were not that busy. Usually

00:38:28.369 --> 00:38:30.630
that night I'd make between, I'd usually make

00:38:30.630 --> 00:38:33.809
between on a Wednesday night by myself, $350,

00:38:34.150 --> 00:38:36.289
sometimes over $500 if it was really busy and

00:38:36.289 --> 00:38:37.989
I was by myself. This was going to be one of

00:38:37.989 --> 00:38:39.750
those really not so great nights. It was going

00:38:39.750 --> 00:38:42.250
to be a lot lower than that. So I went over to

00:38:42.250 --> 00:38:44.829
the owner. The manager on duty that night was

00:38:44.829 --> 00:38:47.159
the owner. I went over to him like, can I just

00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:49.440
take 10 minutes? I just want to just go take

00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:50.840
a little walk right now. And I told him what

00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:52.840
happened. I'm like, let me go. Can I please go

00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:54.760
take 10 minutes? When I come back, I'll be over

00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:56.239
it. Yeah. And we're good. He goes, okay, fine.

00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:59.460
So I just went, took a little walk, went to the

00:38:59.460 --> 00:39:01.119
bathroom, screamed at the stall, just yelled,

00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:04.340
fuck. And then I came back and he just goes,

00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:05.760
you good? I'm like, I'm good. Let's move on.

00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:08.900
Yeah. Cause what are you going to do? Hey, you

00:39:08.900 --> 00:39:11.539
can't drag it out. Yeah. So it's just, do you

00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:14.179
think that guy, actually meant to not leave you

00:39:14.179 --> 00:39:16.760
anything or that he just got distracted, like

00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:18.940
lost? No, he definitely meant not to. Oh, yeah.

00:39:19.099 --> 00:39:20.239
Because he was pissed I took the other guy's

00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.980
car. Yeah. Nowadays, I would handle that situation

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:25.420
much, much differently. I'd be like, I'm going

00:39:25.420 --> 00:39:26.860
to give you guys some more time and I'd go find

00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:28.219
something else to do. Even if I only had one

00:39:28.219 --> 00:39:31.599
other person at the bar, I would go in the kitchen.

00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:33.579
Yeah, yeah. Go do something. Get out of sight.

00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:36.639
Let them figure it out. Let the situation diffuse

00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:40.400
on its own. Then go over and see what the resolution

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:44.489
is. Any more time? I'll be back. But at that

00:39:44.489 --> 00:39:45.989
situation, like I said, when you're young and

00:39:45.989 --> 00:39:49.670
experienced, you just want it to be done at that

00:39:49.670 --> 00:39:54.289
point. Sometimes, because I work at a bar where

00:39:54.289 --> 00:39:57.969
I can have a little more fun. It's live music.

00:39:58.050 --> 00:40:01.469
It's a little more rowdy. So if I have guys that

00:40:01.469 --> 00:40:03.530
are like that, we get a lot of boaters coming

00:40:03.530 --> 00:40:06.400
over from Long Island over to Fire Island. And

00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.420
you get a lot of like two guys and they all,

00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:11.679
hey, I'll pay. No, I'll pay. And sometimes I'll

00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:15.460
say, who's going to tip more? All right, I'll

00:40:15.460 --> 00:40:17.619
take his. I've always wanted to do that. Like,

00:40:17.619 --> 00:40:18.519
I've always wanted to be like, okay. I can get

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:19.900
away with it, yeah. Like, how much are you going

00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:22.539
to tip me? Like, oh, 20%. Okay, 20%. Do I hear

00:40:22.539 --> 00:40:25.480
22 %? Yeah, yeah. Like, I've never had the balls

00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:27.619
to do that, but I want to so bad. I'll do it

00:40:27.619 --> 00:40:29.539
playfully. Like, you know, like, I won't do it

00:40:29.539 --> 00:40:31.280
like, you know, but I'll do it with a smile.

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:34.340
Like, who's tipping more? Come on. Yeah, there's

00:40:34.340 --> 00:40:35.860
environments where, like, you can get away with

00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:37.659
that. I've never tried it. I've always wanted

00:40:37.659 --> 00:40:39.619
to. It could be really funny to see because,

00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:41.320
again, what's the worst thing? If someone says

00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:42.380
they're not going to tip me at all, I'm like,

00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.889
okay. Right. I'll split it all in all your cards

00:40:44.889 --> 00:40:46.329
or whatever. I'll just, like, charge double,

00:40:46.469 --> 00:40:48.469
whatever. Yeah. I wouldn't charge them double,

00:40:48.510 --> 00:40:50.829
but... No, but it'll... Hopefully you end up

00:40:50.829 --> 00:40:52.210
getting a better tip if you're splitting it on

00:40:52.210 --> 00:40:54.070
the cards and shit. Remember whose ceiling you're

00:40:54.070 --> 00:40:56.329
crashing through, so... Yeah, yeah. Unless my

00:40:56.329 --> 00:40:59.869
name's on the side of the building, then I always

00:40:59.869 --> 00:41:01.530
try to mind my P's and Q's. Do you feel like

00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:03.869
customers are more sensitive now than they were

00:41:03.869 --> 00:41:09.469
10, 15 years ago when you started? Yes and no.

00:41:11.809 --> 00:41:14.630
Most of them are because, again, it's different

00:41:14.630 --> 00:41:17.269
when I wait tables because people that wait tables,

00:41:17.510 --> 00:41:20.190
it's very different than people that are at the

00:41:20.190 --> 00:41:22.750
bar. Bar people just kind of get how the world

00:41:22.750 --> 00:41:26.590
works a lot better. People at tables, my strangest

00:41:26.590 --> 00:41:28.230
interaction I've ever had with guests all came

00:41:28.230 --> 00:41:30.670
from waiting tables. The bar doesn't get that

00:41:30.670 --> 00:41:33.650
much. Bar people are a different breed than just

00:41:33.650 --> 00:41:37.409
people who prefer to always sit at a table away

00:41:37.409 --> 00:41:42.260
from the bar. I think during COVID time, there

00:41:42.260 --> 00:41:46.340
was a period, at least in the place that I worked,

00:41:46.380 --> 00:41:50.199
that was very kind of like entitled. They would

00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:51.340
be like, oh, thank you so much for being open.

00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:54.280
It's so good to be here. And they'd tip huge,

00:41:54.539 --> 00:41:57.500
and then that kind of faded away after a while.

00:41:57.599 --> 00:41:59.400
But the place I work right now, I don't have

00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:02.340
too many bad guest interactions, which is really

00:42:02.340 --> 00:42:05.360
cool. Most people are pretty respectful. It's

00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:11.000
a blue -collar kind of place. I live in Barton

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.760
in a huge fishing town. So it's a lot of blue

00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:17.139
-collar people that just grind and work tough

00:42:17.139 --> 00:42:20.179
jobs for a living. So they're a lot more lenient

00:42:20.179 --> 00:42:23.300
in terms of like, can't do it? Okay. I'll buy

00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:27.699
this instead. Done. Do you think industry people

00:42:27.699 --> 00:42:34.360
make the best customers or the worst? Hmm. How

00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:38.239
do I say this? That's why it's a hot take. It's

00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:43.940
a hot take. I don't mean this to sound sexist,

00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:46.960
but a lot of times the male population is a lot

00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:48.760
more laid back than the female one. Sometimes,

00:42:48.940 --> 00:42:51.320
oh, we're easy. We're super easy. We're super

00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.019
easy. Oh, by the way, can you do the A, B, C,

00:42:54.019 --> 00:42:56.840
D, E, F, and G to this item? I'm like, what?

00:42:57.659 --> 00:43:00.460
You said you were easy. Whatever someone says

00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:03.380
that we're super easy, I'm just like. this is

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:09.559
not going to go well. A little bit of both. Guys

00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:11.900
are not exempt from that either. I've seen dudes

00:43:11.900 --> 00:43:17.000
be like, can I get tenders instead of wings?

00:43:17.179 --> 00:43:18.980
My tummy doesn't like the bones. You don't eat

00:43:18.980 --> 00:43:23.079
the bones, do you? I'm that guy. You're that

00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:28.159
guy? I don't like chicken on the bone. I mean,

00:43:28.219 --> 00:43:29.380
depending on how you cook, it's usually more

00:43:29.380 --> 00:43:32.480
tender. In the last episode, we did a review

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.840
with a guy who does wing reviews named the Wing

00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.099
Scout, and I had to eat it on the bone on camera.

00:43:37.340 --> 00:43:40.539
And I just suddenly eat the little white meat

00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:42.500
on the outside. I'm picturing you taking the

00:43:42.500 --> 00:43:47.199
tiniest slipper. That's awesome. I'm a chicken

00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:51.380
wing bitch. I love wings. I prefer wings more

00:43:51.380 --> 00:43:53.739
than tenders. I mean, tenders, like, everybody

00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:57.030
makes them. Yeah. I like seeing, like, wings

00:43:57.030 --> 00:43:58.670
that have, like, a really, like, good flavorful

00:43:58.670 --> 00:44:00.989
sauce. I mean, the bar I work at right now, we

00:44:00.989 --> 00:44:02.429
have a lot of flavors from wings, but one that

00:44:02.429 --> 00:44:05.170
I just love is our dry rub. It's like our head

00:44:05.170 --> 00:44:07.289
chef has, like, a barbecue background, so he

00:44:07.289 --> 00:44:10.349
puts, like, a barbecue Cajun blend dry rub on

00:44:10.349 --> 00:44:12.210
the wings. And so I don't want it with buffalo.

00:44:12.289 --> 00:44:13.670
Just give me that with a side of blue cheese,

00:44:13.670 --> 00:44:17.150
and I am happy as a clam. Okay. Blue cheese.

00:44:17.690 --> 00:44:19.670
No ranch. Blue cheese over ranch. Yeah, for sure.

00:44:19.789 --> 00:44:23.780
I like ranch. I like ranch in different – I don't

00:44:23.780 --> 00:44:25.400
usually dip my wings in ranch. But if people

00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:28.519
like that, we each their own. For sure. Was that

00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.480
one of your questions? No. Well, I mean, it wasn't

00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:34.079
one of my questions, but it's definitely a good

00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:35.400
hot take. It is a good hot take. Blue cheese

00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:37.739
versus ranch. Because I will eat ranch with,

00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:39.820
like, fries. I'll eat ranch with things, but

00:44:39.820 --> 00:44:42.420
not with my wings. I like a spicy ranch. So if

00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:43.980
someone has, like, a Chipotle ranch, that's –

00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:45.639
Oh, yeah. I'll put that on anything. Chipotle

00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:48.300
anything. Yeah, exactly. I love that. How do

00:44:48.300 --> 00:44:51.150
you feel about – The person, the customer that

00:44:51.150 --> 00:44:54.389
has to tell you, I used to bartend. Doesn't usually

00:44:54.389 --> 00:44:58.590
affect me at all. I mean, I've never had, I might

00:44:58.590 --> 00:45:01.190
kind of ask a little random industry things here

00:45:01.190 --> 00:45:03.869
and there, but I've never had somebody say, oh,

00:45:03.869 --> 00:45:05.289
you're doing that wrong or anything like that.

00:45:05.409 --> 00:45:07.750
Trying to correct you. Yeah. So I've never had

00:45:07.750 --> 00:45:09.849
an issue with that at all. So fortunately, I

00:45:09.849 --> 00:45:12.150
know a lot of people where they've had the exact

00:45:12.150 --> 00:45:13.590
opposite. Right, they don't want to tell you

00:45:13.590 --> 00:45:16.429
what they're doing. Or what about the people

00:45:16.429 --> 00:45:19.619
that say, I know the owner? They have to let

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:26.400
you know. So do I. Yeah. I work for them. I haven't

00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:28.460
heard that one in a while, which is interesting.

00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.360
Because, again, bar owners are usually pretty

00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:35.119
social people. They know a lot of people. So

00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:38.199
the line I use if it starts getting a little

00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:41.639
bit more, oh, I know the owner and this and that,

00:45:41.699 --> 00:45:43.519
I'll be like, listen, if you really know the

00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:46.079
owner and you are real friends with them, don't

00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:48.420
you want to support their business? Yep. And

00:45:48.420 --> 00:45:51.500
not expect free shit. Yeah. I always tell people

00:45:51.500 --> 00:45:53.980
that, like, people that have to text the owner

00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:55.480
and let them know, like, oh, I'm going to your

00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:57.900
spot. I'm going to your place. Like, let them

00:45:57.900 --> 00:46:00.519
know afterwards. You know, stop looking for the

00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:02.460
handout. Yeah. If you want to let somebody know,

00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:04.360
hey, I just visited your place. It was great.

00:46:04.539 --> 00:46:06.320
That's one thing. But I'm going to your place.

00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.699
That's looking for the handout. If I get a personal,

00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.340
like, text from the owner saying, hey, my friend

00:46:12.340 --> 00:46:14.659
so -and -so is coming in. His first round's on

00:46:14.659 --> 00:46:18.159
me. No problem. For sure. I won't tell them that

00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:21.400
until after they leave, but the place I'm at

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.840
right now, I've been there for two years, never

00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.500
gotten one of those texts. I always remind them,

00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:28.840
if you want to support your friend's business,

00:46:28.980 --> 00:46:33.579
don't you want them to stay in business? Everybody

00:46:33.579 --> 00:46:38.199
knows so -and -so. I said borrowers are usually

00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:42.559
social people. How do you feel about over -the

00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:47.239
-top garnishes on drinks? Because that's becoming,

00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:49.179
I feel like, more of a trend of just doing these

00:46:49.179 --> 00:46:54.380
crazy garnishes. So I worked in this one place

00:46:54.380 --> 00:46:57.440
where it was a really elaborate craft cocktail

00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:00.360
bar. So what I would do to try to make my bar

00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:03.579
manager's job easier was I would do a prep day

00:47:03.579 --> 00:47:05.480
for the bar. Now, usually it would be me making

00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.980
simple syrup, making sangria, Bloody Mary mix.

00:47:08.860 --> 00:47:12.460
But it used to be like a... I need to batch a

00:47:12.460 --> 00:47:14.199
couple cocktails and mix the booze out together

00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:17.800
and measure it properly. Maybe make one other

00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:20.239
simple syrup or one other random thing in the

00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:23.980
kitchen. By the time I was done with that place,

00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:25.639
it was an eight -hour shift in the back of the

00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:27.559
house. I'm making a different syrup for every

00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:31.780
one of our ten different drinks. All these crazy

00:47:31.780 --> 00:47:36.440
garnish combinations and fresh juices and purees.

00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:39.929
I had to do all this stuff by hand. Take a while.

00:47:40.170 --> 00:47:43.929
And it started getting a little more, very much

00:47:43.929 --> 00:47:46.130
in detail. And I pulled her aside in one of our

00:47:46.130 --> 00:47:48.269
last conversations where I decided to say, I've

00:47:48.269 --> 00:47:50.210
got to get out of this place. I was like, can

00:47:50.210 --> 00:47:52.090
we scale this back a little bit? Like, I see

00:47:52.090 --> 00:47:53.269
what you're doing, and I love what you're doing,

00:47:53.309 --> 00:47:56.449
but it's getting a little much for your bartenders.

00:47:56.510 --> 00:47:57.929
It's getting a little much for me on prep day.

00:47:58.030 --> 00:47:59.650
Because, like, my kids are getting out of school

00:47:59.650 --> 00:48:01.809
soon, and I've got to go get them. This used

00:48:01.809 --> 00:48:03.349
to be a three -hour day. Now it's an eight -hour

00:48:03.349 --> 00:48:06.889
day. Yeah. So it can be too much. When I do over

00:48:06.889 --> 00:48:09.949
-the -top garnish myself, I always try to think

00:48:09.949 --> 00:48:11.570
of like, what's Saturday night going to look

00:48:11.570 --> 00:48:14.409
like? Do I have to do all this stuff for Saturday

00:48:14.409 --> 00:48:16.269
night? So if I do over the top garnishes, I'm

00:48:16.269 --> 00:48:17.829
going to do it on social media only. So that's

00:48:17.829 --> 00:48:20.969
part of the reason why I have that. So you're

00:48:20.969 --> 00:48:25.250
the one who's making the customers or the, what

00:48:25.250 --> 00:48:27.809
do you, you don't call them customers. I call,

00:48:27.889 --> 00:48:29.349
I call them guests, but I always say, I always

00:48:29.349 --> 00:48:32.099
say like, just like. Put yourself in the trenches

00:48:32.099 --> 00:48:36.179
and see how you respond to it when you've got

00:48:36.179 --> 00:48:38.239
seven different servers needing this and that

00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:40.300
and asking this and modifying that when you have

00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:43.519
20 guests around shouting stuff at you and the

00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:45.639
keg just blew and you broke glass in your ice

00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:49.059
well. Do you still want to do those kind of...

00:48:49.059 --> 00:48:52.059
Is it still worth it? It's not? Okay. Maybe we

00:48:52.059 --> 00:49:01.599
shouldn't do it. And then some other fun... You've

00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:03.619
worked at a ton of bars. You've done a lot of

00:49:03.619 --> 00:49:06.840
cleaning up at the end of the night. What are

00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:08.760
some of the funny or weird things that you've

00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:10.719
found at the end of the night when cleaning?

00:49:11.500 --> 00:49:15.280
I had a manager who cleaned up a table that had

00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.300
a, I don't know if it was a bachelor party or

00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:19.420
a girls' night out, but he had a whole tray full

00:49:19.420 --> 00:49:23.840
of just acrylic nails. Or like, I don't know

00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:25.320
if they're called acrylic, but the one, the...

00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:27.280
they were pressed on nails back in the day i

00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:28.219
don't know what they call them now but it was

00:49:28.219 --> 00:49:31.380
just like it was like it was a tray of like i

00:49:31.380 --> 00:49:34.460
don't know how many so there was that um i found

00:49:34.460 --> 00:49:38.460
a thong on the floor once i know people who have

00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:42.219
found worse um but off the top of my head that's

00:49:42.219 --> 00:49:43.519
been the worst and that was when i worked in

00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:46.619
like you know not the place i'm at right now

00:49:46.619 --> 00:49:49.380
that place is You might find a fry on the ground,

00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:51.860
not much, but you don't see a lot of stuff like

00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:53.840
that nowadays. But when you work in the super

00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:56.500
late -night places or the busy dive bars, you

00:49:56.500 --> 00:49:58.880
find all kinds of shit. Sometimes you find actual

00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:03.239
shit. That's for sure. Bathrooms. Which bathroom's

00:50:03.239 --> 00:50:05.300
worse, the men or the women's? I don't go in

00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:07.159
the women's room, so I have no idea. Even cleaning

00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:08.440
up at the end of the night, you never had to?

00:50:08.659 --> 00:50:11.260
Nope. I've never had to clean the women's room

00:50:11.260 --> 00:50:14.630
in my life. Lucky you. A lot of places I've worked,

00:50:14.690 --> 00:50:16.409
especially in the last decade or so, we've all

00:50:16.409 --> 00:50:20.849
had cleaning crews who do that. I personally

00:50:20.849 --> 00:50:22.809
have never had to, I can't recall having to go

00:50:22.809 --> 00:50:25.829
in the women's room for anything. Good. It's

00:50:25.829 --> 00:50:29.090
frowned upon if I go in there. Even if I'm invited.

00:50:31.250 --> 00:50:34.829
Which I'm not. In most cases. Maybe you have

00:50:34.829 --> 00:50:40.980
once. Hopefully. It's been a while, man. If you

00:50:40.980 --> 00:50:43.099
could think of a drink trend that's going on

00:50:43.099 --> 00:50:45.619
right now that you would boot to the curb, a

00:50:45.619 --> 00:50:49.119
drink trend that needs to go. I think the Aperol

00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:53.079
Spritz is really overrated. Yeah. It looks pretty,

00:50:53.179 --> 00:50:57.840
but I think there's just much more fun spritzers

00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.400
you can have. I think the Hugo Spritz is getting

00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:02.099
more popular, so that's one I would recommend.

00:51:02.500 --> 00:51:06.960
A Lemoncello Spritz, easy for me to say, I think

00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.119
that's fucking delicious, but I think the Aperol

00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:11.619
Spritz is overrated. I think Espresso Martinis

00:51:11.619 --> 00:51:15.599
are still, that's still really popular. I keep

00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:17.360
waiting for that to die down, but just like,

00:51:17.539 --> 00:51:19.500
anybody that needs a late pick -me -up, I just,

00:51:19.659 --> 00:51:22.099
you know. I don't see that one dying anytime

00:51:22.099 --> 00:51:26.480
soon. What time would be the cutoff for an espresso

00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:30.059
martini if you could make a cutoff for it? Last

00:51:30.059 --> 00:51:33.239
call. You don't care? No. At the end of the day,

00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.940
again, we can make a complaint about certain

00:51:36.940 --> 00:51:39.500
things we need to do as bartenders, but at the

00:51:39.500 --> 00:51:41.539
end of the day, we're there to make drinks. Well,

00:51:41.539 --> 00:51:44.420
not even making it. I just feel like if I'm serving

00:51:44.420 --> 00:51:49.599
somebody an espresso martini at 1 a .m., they're

00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:51.400
having that espresso. They're going to be a wild

00:51:51.400 --> 00:51:54.019
drunk. You know, like, they're getting crazy.

00:51:54.260 --> 00:51:57.039
It might be an issue. I'm like, eh. If the bar

00:51:57.039 --> 00:52:01.840
is closing and it's the end of the night, do

00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:03.039
you want espresso martini? You want to be up

00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:05.019
for, you know, four straight hours after you

00:52:05.019 --> 00:52:08.280
leave the bar? That's on you, dude. I mean, I'll

00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:09.659
make anybody anything. So if somebody wants a

00:52:09.659 --> 00:52:12.539
martini that's half Tito's and half Jameson,

00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:16.260
okay. It's fucking weird, but I'll do it. What's

00:52:16.260 --> 00:52:17.860
the weirdest drink you've ever been asked for?

00:52:18.780 --> 00:52:26.590
Rumpelmintz margarita. Recently, somebody, it

00:52:26.590 --> 00:52:28.889
was just the way the service ticket was printed

00:52:28.889 --> 00:52:30.730
that made me laugh. So there's nothing in that

00:52:30.730 --> 00:52:34.250
super weird cocktail, but it was a glass of Cabernet

00:52:34.250 --> 00:52:36.269
and then it said with a side of olives. And I

00:52:36.269 --> 00:52:39.369
was like, what the fuck? So I said to the server,

00:52:39.409 --> 00:52:41.849
I'm like, please explain the Cabernet with a

00:52:41.849 --> 00:52:44.349
side of olives. And then she goes, oh, the olives

00:52:44.349 --> 00:52:46.610
are for a baby. I'm like, that doesn't answer

00:52:46.610 --> 00:52:51.570
the question. I just raised it more. I had a

00:52:51.570 --> 00:52:56.670
guy want a Johnny Walker Black shaken with crushed

00:52:56.670 --> 00:52:58.510
ice. I'm like, that's going to be the wateriest

00:52:58.510 --> 00:53:01.929
scotch ever. Other than that, I really can't

00:53:01.929 --> 00:53:04.650
think of anything much. The Rumpet's Margarita

00:53:04.650 --> 00:53:07.650
was what Madison said, and I had to make that.

00:53:08.550 --> 00:53:11.030
We don't serve, at the bar I'm at right now,

00:53:11.090 --> 00:53:13.050
we don't have Rumpelmintz, we don't have Malort.

00:53:15.530 --> 00:53:18.329
What else? We don't have Fernette, unfortunately.

00:53:18.349 --> 00:53:20.739
I'm trying to get Fernette there. So I really

00:53:20.739 --> 00:53:23.679
haven't had anything super weird lately. You

00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:26.960
have Jaeger there? No. That's another one I've

00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:28.420
heard a bunch of people say. Like two different

00:53:28.420 --> 00:53:30.639
guests have said that they've gotten Jaeger milk.

00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:33.760
I've heard of that. Never did. Oh, I made a cement

00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:36.179
mixture for somebody once. Oof. And they ordered

00:53:36.179 --> 00:53:38.400
it. They wanted that. A guy ordered it for his

00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:40.860
friend. So Bailey's and lime juice. Yeah, yeah.

00:53:41.219 --> 00:53:43.219
You pour the liquid shot by the time they get

00:53:43.219 --> 00:53:46.800
there, it's a little chunky. Yeah. You ever do

00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:53.489
the... Like the jellyfish shot. Actually, I've

00:53:53.489 --> 00:53:59.170
never made one. Yeah, it's like Baileys and vodka,

00:53:59.389 --> 00:54:02.230
but you put the lime juice in there, so the Baileys

00:54:02.230 --> 00:54:05.889
curdles, and then you put like a grenadine, a

00:54:05.889 --> 00:54:09.070
drop of grenadine. Oh, that one. So I did a brain

00:54:09.070 --> 00:54:10.829
hemorrhage shot, which is similar to that. It

00:54:10.829 --> 00:54:12.329
might be the same thing. So brain hemorrhages,

00:54:12.429 --> 00:54:16.449
I think it's... Peach schnapps and Bailey's then

00:54:16.449 --> 00:54:19.670
you drop the granny down. It looks like a Brain

00:54:19.670 --> 00:54:21.909
hemorrhaging. Yeah, there's also a monkey brain.

00:54:22.090 --> 00:54:23.849
Yeah, we're an alien brain hemorrhage where you

00:54:23.849 --> 00:54:26.710
do blue curacao and or Melnick you are forget

00:54:26.710 --> 00:54:28.449
what you wanted that man before but the jellyfish

00:54:28.449 --> 00:54:31.590
shot I think is like I think it's blue curacao

00:54:31.590 --> 00:54:34.389
something else then you drop in like a like an

00:54:34.389 --> 00:54:36.309
eyedropper of like milk and the way it kind of

00:54:36.309 --> 00:54:38.329
goes down looks like an actual like jellyfish

00:54:38.329 --> 00:54:40.550
loading I've actually never made one of those.

00:54:40.650 --> 00:54:42.250
I've seen videos of online. I should make I should

00:54:42.250 --> 00:54:45.280
make that videos There you go. We're coming up

00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:48.139
with new content. Give me ideas. I love it, Mark.

00:54:48.639 --> 00:54:51.440
How about a drink that if somebody comes in and

00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:56.420
orders, automatically gets your respect? Automatically

00:54:56.420 --> 00:55:05.840
gets my respect. It's three. A paper plane. That's

00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:09.880
a big one right now. Love those. And one of my

00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:12.119
personal favorite drinks, Naked and Famous. I

00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:16.670
love Naked and Famous. And a last word. And a

00:55:16.670 --> 00:55:18.869
what? A last word. A last word, yeah. So when

00:55:18.869 --> 00:55:20.070
someone orders one of those three, I'm like,

00:55:20.170 --> 00:55:23.050
ooh, hell yeah. Yeah. And again, as long as I

00:55:23.050 --> 00:55:25.010
have all the ingredients. I haven't had anybody

00:55:25.010 --> 00:55:26.610
make a last word in a long time because the bar

00:55:26.610 --> 00:55:29.429
I work at now has yellow chartreuse and not green.

00:55:29.909 --> 00:55:32.650
So I try to push the naked and famous more. Okay.

00:55:32.730 --> 00:55:35.030
Which is one of my favorite cocktails ever. Yeah.

00:55:35.090 --> 00:55:36.670
Because I love Mezcal. I know you love Mezcal

00:55:36.670 --> 00:55:39.769
too. Hell yeah. Mezcal is like my probably number...

00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:42.360
two or three favorite spirit yeah bourbon's number

00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:45.159
one but then it would be like mezcal tequila

00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:47.619
sometime we'll go back and forth but uh mezcal

00:55:47.619 --> 00:55:49.760
is just because mezcal is so versatile you know

00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:53.599
Either you love it or you hate it, too. Yeah,

00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:55.320
I think what Mezcal's going through right now,

00:55:55.380 --> 00:55:57.739
honestly, is it's kind of what tequila went through

00:55:57.739 --> 00:56:00.300
probably in the early 2000s, late 90s, where

00:56:00.300 --> 00:56:02.659
if someone said tequila, like, oh, no, tequila,

00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:05.679
and I can't drink that. No, well, last time you

00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:07.739
drank, you had 17 shots of Cuervo on an empty

00:56:07.739 --> 00:56:09.300
stomach when you were in frickin' high school.

00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:12.340
So there's a lot of good quality tequilas. Most

00:56:12.340 --> 00:56:14.099
of it's not that expensive, the good shit. So

00:56:14.099 --> 00:56:16.559
just do a little research, you know? Right. I

00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:20.000
mean, you can find a really good, you know, additive

00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:25.219
-free, Tequila for $40, $45 a bottle or even

00:56:25.219 --> 00:56:29.800
less. Right. Just do a little research. And then

00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:31.800
you've been in this industry long enough. What

00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:35.079
would you say is something that, a skill that

00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:38.480
bartending gave you in the rest of your life?

00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:43.559
I think you can take a really good bartender

00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:46.139
or a really good server or even a really good

00:56:46.139 --> 00:56:48.699
line cook or someone who's a really experienced

00:56:48.699 --> 00:56:52.300
restaurant veteran. and you can put them in almost

00:56:52.300 --> 00:56:55.000
any line of work and they'll figure it out. So

00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:57.599
the ability to work under pressure, the ability

00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:01.719
to multitask, the ability to be on your feet

00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:04.219
for a long period of time, the ability to hustle

00:57:04.219 --> 00:57:06.460
because, like I said, just because you have all

00:57:06.460 --> 00:57:10.119
these tabs that are $200, $300, $500 or more

00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:11.579
doesn't mean you're getting tipped the proper

00:57:11.579 --> 00:57:13.420
amount. So you've got to work your ass off of

00:57:13.420 --> 00:57:17.219
that shit. Can other jobs teach you those same

00:57:17.219 --> 00:57:20.099
kind of skill sets? Yes, but I would love to

00:57:20.099 --> 00:57:25.900
see a person with a nice cushioned office job

00:57:25.900 --> 00:57:29.280
or a CEO of a big company, and you say to them,

00:57:29.340 --> 00:57:32.079
okay, so here's the situation. It's the first

00:57:32.079 --> 00:57:35.239
nice day of spring. The patio is open. It's a

00:57:35.239 --> 00:57:37.300
gorgeous day. There are 200 people out to walk

00:57:37.300 --> 00:57:40.820
in the door. Go. I guarantee you most people

00:57:40.820 --> 00:57:45.420
would just not be able to succeed. Yeah. You

00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:50.179
put any good, hardworking, like, restaurant lifer

00:57:50.179 --> 00:57:53.679
in almost any job situation, they'll figure it

00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:55.760
out. Yeah. They'll grind. They'll find a way.

00:57:55.820 --> 00:57:58.719
They'll ask for help when they need it, but they

00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:01.760
will find a way. That's another important thing,

00:58:01.820 --> 00:58:03.559
too, is asking for help when you need it. Yeah.

00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:05.920
Some people, like, have that pride where they

00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:07.659
don't want to or they want to try to make more

00:58:07.659 --> 00:58:10.400
money. Oh, I'm not sharing my tips, but you end

00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:12.329
up making less. Because you're not given the

00:58:12.329 --> 00:58:16.369
proper service like that? And it's not just like

00:58:16.369 --> 00:58:19.010
a young person thing to not ask for help. Because

00:58:19.010 --> 00:58:22.130
I see people who have been bartending for 10,

00:58:22.250 --> 00:58:24.150
15, 20 years or more, and they still are like

00:58:24.150 --> 00:58:26.530
that. Like, no, I got it. I'm like, I'm willing

00:58:26.530 --> 00:58:28.530
to help you. Like, you don't need to change that

00:58:28.530 --> 00:58:31.590
gigantic keg. I mean, I'm not Superman, but I

00:58:31.590 --> 00:58:33.889
can at least change the keg for you. Right. So

00:58:33.889 --> 00:58:37.110
you're not killing your back. But some people

00:58:37.110 --> 00:58:40.360
just need to do shit on their own. There's also

00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:41.880
people that when you do something on their own

00:58:41.880 --> 00:58:43.559
and you don't help them, because even though

00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:44.920
they told you not to, they'll still get mad at

00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:48.179
you for not helping them. Like, I tried. Yep.

00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:52.679
Damn if you do. Yeah. Going into some rapid fire

00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:54.699
questions. You just pick one or the other. Yeah.

00:58:55.800 --> 00:59:01.099
Bartender or creator? Bartender. Beer or cocktail?

00:59:01.420 --> 00:59:08.860
Cocktail. Dive bar or cocktail bar? Dive bar.

00:59:09.500 --> 00:59:14.280
It's just more fun. Tequila or whiskey? Oh, fuck,

00:59:14.340 --> 00:59:20.280
dude. I hate to do this. I hate shooting out

00:59:20.280 --> 00:59:22.119
tequila. I got to go whiskey over tequila. Go

00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:25.539
whiskey? I'm a bourbon guy, so I love tequila,

00:59:25.539 --> 00:59:27.079
too, so that one kind of stings a little bit.

00:59:27.860 --> 00:59:31.159
How about espresso martini or old -fashioned?

00:59:31.300 --> 00:59:33.099
Old -fashioned. Any day of the week. I knew you

00:59:33.099 --> 00:59:34.119
were going to say that one. Twice on Sundays.

00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.110
I don't drink coffee, believe it or not. Me either.

00:59:37.230 --> 00:59:39.429
Yeah, I don't drink coffee. I drink those terrible

00:59:39.429 --> 00:59:41.349
energy drinks that have like 300 milligrams of

00:59:41.349 --> 00:59:44.909
caffeine. I don't drink caffeine at all. I like

00:59:44.909 --> 00:59:47.349
caffeine, but I've never been to coffee. I don't

00:59:47.349 --> 00:59:49.690
even like coffee ice cream. But old -fashioned,

00:59:49.849 --> 00:59:52.070
you put it old -fashioned, it's almost any other

00:59:52.070 --> 00:59:54.630
cocktail. Mezcal old -fashioned. Fuck yeah, dude.

00:59:55.210 --> 00:59:56.550
That's what I'm drinking. Speaking my language.

00:59:56.610 --> 01:00:04.699
Yeah. Instagram or TikTok? Instagram. I like

01:00:04.699 --> 01:00:07.659
TikTok's editing software better, but Instagram.

01:00:11.340 --> 01:00:17.980
Home bar or professional bar? You get in less

01:00:17.980 --> 01:00:19.900
trouble in your home bar. That's a fact. You

01:00:19.900 --> 01:00:21.400
spend less money in your home bar, so I'm going

01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:27.099
to go home bar. Would you rather serve a first

01:00:27.099 --> 01:00:36.590
date or a group outing? It depends on the outing.

01:00:36.590 --> 01:00:40.489
I'll go first date because I actually had a couple

01:00:40.489 --> 01:00:44.909
who they told me a year and a half after it happened,

01:00:45.030 --> 01:00:47.210
like, you were our bartender at this restaurant

01:00:47.210 --> 01:00:49.469
on our very first date. We're getting married

01:00:49.469 --> 01:00:51.949
next year. I'm like, oh, shit. You made it happen.

01:00:52.090 --> 01:00:53.710
They actually invited me to the wedding. Did

01:00:53.710 --> 01:00:55.829
you go? I could not go. Uh -uh. Because I couldn't

01:00:55.829 --> 01:00:58.150
get the time off. They wouldn't give me the,

01:00:58.210 --> 01:00:59.710
oh, we have like six people that are out that

01:00:59.710 --> 01:01:03.090
week. Like, we need you. Like, sorry. But I did

01:01:03.090 --> 01:01:04.820
get invited, which is cool. Yeah, that's cute,

01:01:04.880 --> 01:01:06.699
though. That's, like, you know, ended up together.

01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:08.840
Plus, it's kind of fun when it's a first date.

01:01:08.900 --> 01:01:12.000
You can kind of, like, especially if they tell

01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.519
you that, it's kind of fun to, because, I mean,

01:01:14.539 --> 01:01:16.039
I don't care who you are. You're nervous on a

01:01:16.039 --> 01:01:18.079
first date. To help alleviate some of the tension,

01:01:18.300 --> 01:01:20.179
like, you know, so it kind of, like, just breaks

01:01:20.179 --> 01:01:22.360
them an eye. Like, okay, you know what? Let's

01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:25.199
have fun with this. Right. Speaking of dates,

01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:27.239
you ever see, like, a good couple fight at the

01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:29.340
bar? All the time. I'll tell you my favorite

01:01:29.340 --> 01:01:32.119
story with that. Please. So the place I used

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to bartend was a hotel bar that overlooked the

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ocean, overlooked the harbor. And this couple

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was arguing, but they were actually being very

01:01:40.219 --> 01:01:41.980
respectful about it. But you could tell they

01:01:41.980 --> 01:01:43.739
were like, by their body language, they were

01:01:43.739 --> 01:01:45.579
kind of covering their faces. And every time

01:01:45.579 --> 01:01:47.719
I walked, I could hear part of them, but every

01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:49.360
time I walked closer, they would get quieter.

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So they knew it was going on. So at one point,

01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:54.039
I go over to them, and I'm like, is everything

01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:56.139
okay? If it's not, we're great. We'll do one

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more round. And as I walked away, I heard her

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say to the guy, and I quote, I am done with this

01:02:02.579 --> 01:02:04.739
conversation. Why don't you look out at the boats

01:02:04.739 --> 01:02:09.460
and shut the fuck up? That's my favorite. And

01:02:09.460 --> 01:02:11.599
he did that? Huh? Did he listen? Oh, God, no.

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He kept going. I think he piped down for about

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like a minute. And then it was like, and another

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thing. I'm like, oh, God, there they go. Whoops.

01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:23.900
I want to make a t -shirt of that. Look out at

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the boats and shut the fuck up. Works in any

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city by the ocean that will work. That's great.

01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:34.300
Would you rather an industry crowd or a regular

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crowd? Industry. The best night I ever had bartending

01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:43.500
was I bartended an industry wedding. Okay. That

01:02:43.500 --> 01:02:47.280
was amazing because their cocktails, their signature

01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:50.460
drinks were simple. What they did was this couple

01:02:50.460 --> 01:02:51.699
had been working in a restaurant since they were

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teenagers, and they owned a restaurant together.

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They were in their late 30s. So they closed their

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restaurant so all their employees could go. They

01:03:00.179 --> 01:03:01.360
didn't want people to miss, like, we are going

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to close. And they put the signs on the door

01:03:03.239 --> 01:03:06.280
like, so -and -so is getting married. The restaurant

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is going to be closed for the weekend. So they

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brought every employee to the restaurant, busboys,

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dishwashers, bartenders. Everybody was there

01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:16.469
for it. And it was an open bar. And they were

01:03:16.469 --> 01:03:18.369
just throwing like crazy. And at the end of the

01:03:18.369 --> 01:03:21.090
night, there was two bartenders working. The

01:03:21.090 --> 01:03:24.690
bride and groom who owned the restaurant gave

01:03:24.690 --> 01:03:28.150
the bartenders $1 ,500 each. Shit. As our tip.

01:03:28.869 --> 01:03:31.050
In addition to everything else we made. Was that

01:03:31.050 --> 01:03:33.349
the biggest tip you've ever gotten? Singular

01:03:33.349 --> 01:03:38.510
tip, yeah. Plus, again, we made, we each made

01:03:38.510 --> 01:03:41.210
almost three grand that night. On top of that.

01:03:41.619 --> 01:03:45.380
Total, with their $1 ,500. They were all industries.

01:03:45.860 --> 01:03:49.639
When they saw us busy, just boom, 20s, 10s, just

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constantly. We got a few hundred dollar bills

01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.219
thrown at us that night. It was such a fun night.

01:03:55.340 --> 01:03:58.420
They were so much fun. They got hammered and

01:03:58.420 --> 01:04:02.719
zero issues. Zero. They've all seen it. They've

01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:05.159
all been through it. They didn't want to cause

01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:07.280
that. They wanted to just have fun, party their

01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:09.360
faces off, and have a good time. That was...

01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:11.360
That was the best night I ever had, like, bartending

01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:14.980
-wise. Yeah, I love it. And then some little

01:04:14.980 --> 01:04:18.340
wrap -up questions. What's the biggest lesson

01:04:18.340 --> 01:04:23.940
bartending has ever taught you? Biggest lesson

01:04:23.940 --> 01:04:34.619
bartending has ever taught me. That's a tough

01:04:34.619 --> 01:04:38.599
one. We can go to something different if you

01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:41.199
want. No, I want to answer this. It's a really

01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:49.920
good question. Hustle, but keep a level head.

01:04:51.139 --> 01:04:53.920
Because, like I said earlier, you don't always

01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:56.559
get what you put in. But that doesn't mean you

01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:59.400
shouldn't put in your best effort. Yeah. So I

01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:02.780
would say that. Always put in a full effort.

01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.380
Always put in the full effort. Even if it's not

01:05:05.380 --> 01:05:07.860
going to be reciprocated all the way, it will

01:05:07.860 --> 01:05:10.340
at least be reciprocated partially. And at the

01:05:10.340 --> 01:05:13.860
end, when you average it all out, it turns out

01:05:13.860 --> 01:05:16.719
pretty good. Yeah. I agree with you. I think

01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:20.179
in life, that kind of happens. Who you are, it

01:05:20.179 --> 01:05:22.000
does come back to you. It's not tit for tat.

01:05:22.199 --> 01:05:25.139
But if you're a good person, good things do happen

01:05:25.139 --> 01:05:27.340
to you. Sometimes it is tit for tat, where it

01:05:27.340 --> 01:05:29.860
is equal. And sometimes it's better than equal.

01:05:30.059 --> 01:05:33.369
Right. At the end of the day, it will average

01:05:33.369 --> 01:05:41.469
out. Yeah. And one hospitality rule that you

01:05:41.469 --> 01:05:46.730
would make a law? For guests or for a... It could

01:05:46.730 --> 01:05:48.710
be for anything. Just in the industry. It could

01:05:48.710 --> 01:05:53.230
be for, yeah, whatever you see. I would say for

01:05:53.230 --> 01:05:56.409
a guest, just act like you've been in a bar before.

01:05:56.630 --> 01:06:01.099
Yeah. Like, just... Treat people with respect.

01:06:01.619 --> 01:06:06.699
Again, we're serving. We're not slaves. So it's

01:06:06.699 --> 01:06:09.460
my job to make sure that you have the best night

01:06:09.460 --> 01:06:12.039
possible. I have partial responsibility in that.

01:06:12.179 --> 01:06:14.860
So just act like you've been to a bar before.

01:06:15.199 --> 01:06:18.000
If you've never been to the Super Bowl, act like

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:28.579
you've been there. For employees, at the end

01:06:28.579 --> 01:06:31.219
of the day, Like, you're there to serve, but

01:06:31.219 --> 01:06:33.420
that doesn't mean you need to take somebody's

01:06:33.420 --> 01:06:37.460
abuse. Right. There's a fine line between, like,

01:06:37.480 --> 01:06:40.699
banter is one thing. Because my guests break

01:06:40.699 --> 01:06:42.900
my balls, as they should. Yeah. You know, it's

01:06:42.900 --> 01:06:44.559
a bar. We're all adults here. We're all having

01:06:44.559 --> 01:06:45.719
fun. At the end of the day, we're just serving

01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:47.500
food and drinks. Right. Just having fun with

01:06:47.500 --> 01:06:52.539
that. But banter's good. Abuse is not. Yeah.

01:06:53.380 --> 01:06:56.059
So take no shit in that aspect. Yeah, for sure.

01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.610
And... What's up next for the gaming mixologist?

01:07:01.909 --> 01:07:07.369
I want to do more skits because they're just

01:07:07.369 --> 01:07:08.809
fun to make, but they are time -consuming, so

01:07:08.809 --> 01:07:11.429
I've got to be more stricter for that. I'm on

01:07:11.429 --> 01:07:13.710
my way to too many games right now, so I have

01:07:13.710 --> 01:07:16.889
a few fun ideas that I hope will come to fruition.

01:07:16.989 --> 01:07:19.010
We'll see what happens. I don't want to jinx

01:07:19.010 --> 01:07:22.119
anything, but other than that... What's coming

01:07:22.119 --> 01:07:25.059
up next? I'm open to doing more collabs. I would

01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:27.059
love to do more stuff like I did with you. I

01:07:27.059 --> 01:07:30.219
did a bunch of collabs with this guy, Gary, who

01:07:30.219 --> 01:07:32.239
I made a bunch of videos with. He's a character.

01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:34.340
Dude, he's so much fun. He's funny. He is so

01:07:34.340 --> 01:07:39.000
much fun. Gary Marandola, follow him. He is so

01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:42.639
kind. He is so funny. He's batshit insane. Yeah.

01:07:44.519 --> 01:07:47.239
The day we spent together making content, we

01:07:47.239 --> 01:07:49.980
had so much fun. We made a bunch of videos. We

01:07:49.980 --> 01:07:52.099
made a bunch of drinks. We smoked a lot of meat.

01:07:52.159 --> 01:07:55.500
We smoked a lot of weed. It was such a fun, fun

01:07:55.500 --> 01:07:57.420
day. I want to do more stuff where I'm doing

01:07:57.420 --> 01:07:59.179
this with other people. For the most part, I'm

01:07:59.179 --> 01:08:02.400
a one -man show with what I do. I made a video

01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:04.039
with my buddy Tony recently where we reviewed

01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:06.099
these ready -to -drink espresso martinis that

01:08:06.099 --> 01:08:08.119
are bourbon -based. That was a blast. I'm going

01:08:08.119 --> 01:08:10.639
to do more stuff with him. I just want to do

01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:13.099
more collabs, people. I just want to keep the

01:08:13.099 --> 01:08:16.539
audience engaged and just keep things fresh.

01:08:16.819 --> 01:08:19.100
Yeah. I think that's such a cool thing that I'm

01:08:19.100 --> 01:08:22.520
learning by getting involved in online content

01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:25.619
and stuff. The community is really cool. Everybody

01:08:25.619 --> 01:08:28.699
can build each other up a lot. As much as I've

01:08:28.699 --> 01:08:31.789
found, at least. Meeting you. Everybody seems

01:08:31.789 --> 01:08:34.250
to give each other support. The collabs are fun.

01:08:34.329 --> 01:08:35.770
You're going to learn different stuff with different

01:08:35.770 --> 01:08:37.649
people. With your interviews and stuff, you'll

01:08:37.649 --> 01:08:39.250
learn different things with different people.

01:08:39.510 --> 01:08:40.989
It's going to make you better at the end of the

01:08:40.989 --> 01:08:45.109
day. There's things that when I worked with Gary,

01:08:45.250 --> 01:08:48.109
I'm like, okay, he does this. It works for him.

01:08:48.449 --> 01:08:50.770
Will this work for me? Yes, great. I'll keep

01:08:50.770 --> 01:08:52.550
it. This didn't work for me. I'm not going to

01:08:52.550 --> 01:08:54.850
use that. It's like Bruce Lee always said when

01:08:54.850 --> 01:08:56.770
he created Jeet Kune Do. He basically took parts

01:08:56.770 --> 01:08:59.560
of... I like this aspect of taekwondo. I like

01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:01.460
this aspect of karate. Create your own style

01:09:01.460 --> 01:09:05.079
to it. Eventually, people will do the same thing

01:09:05.079 --> 01:09:08.159
with you. You kind of work off each other. That's

01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:10.619
what's fun about it. At the end of the day, it

01:09:10.619 --> 01:09:12.699
makes you grow as a person. It just makes you

01:09:12.699 --> 01:09:16.039
better at what you're doing. Smart man. Frankie,

01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:18.699
a lot of great insight, a lot of great advice

01:09:18.699 --> 01:09:20.659
from you today. I really appreciate you making

01:09:20.659 --> 01:09:22.579
the trip out here. Oh, dude, of course, man.

01:09:22.699 --> 01:09:24.899
I'm happy to be here. Yeah, for real. It's finally

01:09:24.899 --> 01:09:27.359
nice to meet you. You know, like, we've been

01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:29.420
in contact for, like, six or seven months. Like

01:09:29.420 --> 01:09:32.239
I said, he's my first online friend that I've

01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:34.199
ever met up with in person, so that's pretty

01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:36.859
cool. And I didn't molest him. No. Not yet. Yeah.

01:09:37.529 --> 01:09:40.329
Not until we go over to Phil's. Are we going

01:09:40.329 --> 01:09:41.949
to Phil's? I want to go to Phil's. We're going

01:09:41.949 --> 01:09:43.409
to Phil's. All right. We're going to Phil's.

01:09:43.430 --> 01:09:45.550
Anthony, we're coming for you. All right. Thank

01:09:45.550 --> 01:09:47.029
you, everybody, for listening to this week's

01:09:47.029 --> 01:09:49.670
episode of Bartender Bangers. Big shout -out

01:09:49.670 --> 01:09:51.529
to Ross and Richie over here at McGrath's for

01:09:51.529 --> 01:09:53.510
letting us film in here. Bigger shout -out to

01:09:53.510 --> 01:09:55.550
Frankie, the gaming mixologist. Make sure to

01:09:55.550 --> 01:09:58.989
follow him on Instagram, TikTok. He's got the

01:09:58.989 --> 01:10:14.619
best content. He's a lot of fun. Thank you. Peace.