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Everyone in the service industry
has a story.

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Crazy
customers, wild orders and WITF moments.

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Do you want to start a tab?

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The podcast here to bring you those tales
from behind the bar.

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My name is Carl.

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I've been bartending for 11 plus years.

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Got many stories to share.

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Hopefully
for at least another year on this podcast.

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My name's Riley.

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I bartended for a little bit,
but I watch a lot of people at the bar.

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You do watch a lot of people at the bar.
Yeah.

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You watch me
make a fool of myself or something.

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But if I watch one more person scream

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about eggs in a cocktail,
I'm going to lose my mind.

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Okay.

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We just switched to, uh.

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What's the name of Aquafaba?

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Yeah. Then we have to explain that shit.

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Oh, it sounds fancy bean juice.

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Let's just.

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Let's just eliminate egg whites altogether
just to make others feel

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more comfortable. Right.

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So on that quick little egg white node.

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Welcome, Anders Akerson,
if you don't know who am.

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Wait, wait, wait. Am I wrong?

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Who's wrong? Right.

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Ericsson. Yes. Okay. I was right.

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It was Chuck

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Ericsson.

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God, have I been saying it
wrong for the whole time?

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And I've been telling you the whole time,

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So I've gone down, like,
step on an egg shells.

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Got it.

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So, Anders,
we both kind of started our YouTube.

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He's another follow you to bartender.

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He has a he's a significantly more

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likely bigger YouTube channel than ours.

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But a super good friend
him and his fiance.

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Fiance say others have their own channel
under your own personal name.

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And I'm going to quit talking.
Let you say hello.

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Let me say that again. I was

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going to

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say I'm going to stop talking
and let you say hello.

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Oh, yes, Yes. Oh, no, it's okay.

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It's all good.

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Yeah. Yeah, I.

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I know the both of you
through the YouTube community.

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Yeah.

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And as and I started the channel,
you know,

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right around the same time everybody else
did, you know, when the pandemic hit.

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Right.
And it's been a whirlwind ever since.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome.

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Yeah, if you've never.

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It still amazes me that I meet people
that have not seen your channel

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and and that, you know, like,
that's not a positive or negative.

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It's just kind of.

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Oh, yeah,
you should check out this guy's channel.

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It's, like, super good, you know?

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Yeah, you guys do a great job and.

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Yeah.
And so how long have you been bartending?

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Tell us a little bit
about your bartending career.

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Just a quick little, little nugget
elevator pitch.

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Yeah, I started bartending in May of

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2001, so it's been I was 11.

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Well, I.

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That said I was 11.

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11 plus you.

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Yeah.

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I started, you know, right

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after I turned 21
and didn't really know what I was doing.

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The whole idea was just to make some money
to move to Chicago.

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So I did that in northeast
Wisconsin, Door County where I grew up.

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And yeah,
I did that for a couple of years,

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moved to Chicago,
and I continued to bartend all the way up

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until the pandemic and I was out of a job.

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But it's been quite a ride.

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Like the you know, there's
so many different kinds of bartender.

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Mm hmm.

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You've got high volume bars
and everything,

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and all the bars that I've worked at
have been very small, very intimate.

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Right. I've never worked
in a bar with a television,

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which is kind of bizarre.

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Right?

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It's been good for conversation
and stories.

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So, yeah, it's it's it's fun.

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And it kind of got me really focused
on the actual cocktails themselves,

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You know, having a small bar,
it allows you to do that.

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So, yeah, it's it's always interesting.

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Like some people think
like title bartenders like myself

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and you like we look down
upon speed, bartenders or die bartenders.

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I'm like, absolutely not.

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That's a whole nother skill set
that I do not know how to do.

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And it takes someone an and I don't mean
this like in a negative sense,

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but just as amazing as what we do,

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I'm not saying again
we're more amazing or nothing,

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that it's just a whole nother,
I guess, skill set

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that I'm not really familiar
with on how to do.

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And I would probably
crumble like a little bitch

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if I had to try to

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like, you know, make 200 cocktails
an hour, you know, but.

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Right.

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Because yeah, I mean,
I've certainly had my, my busy nights,

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but it's just about like,
you know, getting everything out there

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when you go into these huge bars

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and they're just flying around,
especially if there's any sort of flair.

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Mhm. Like to me that is superhero stuff.

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Right.

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This is the kind of bartending
that I'm not familiar with.

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We, we just had lunch
with one of our friends and by me like we,

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I mean me, I ondas is not
and I understand, I think.

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Thank you, thank you. Grammar police.

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We should have a little.
Little please, sir.

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Like every time you correct me.

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Just a little please.

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So anyways,
we also need a button for your rambling.

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You know?

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So we had lunch with one of our other
fellow YouTube cattle.

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Well, he doesn't do anymore.

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But anyways, bartender, bar manager.

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And he told us he has a bar
at a high end cocktail bar restaurant

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where they have 12 to 15 bartenders
on a Friday or Saturday night.

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And that's, that's, that's a whole
nother level in itself, like,

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you know, volume, volume
plus making craft cocktails.

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Right. I couldn't even imagine.

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So his name is Gabriel
and he works at Sexy Fish.

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So if you're ever in Miami, in Miami.

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So if you're ever down that way,
tell him Ondas Riley and Carl sent you.

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Are you done talking?

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Yeah, I think so. Okay,
so what do we do on this podcast?

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What do we do?

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So what we do

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on this podcast is
we find stories on the Internet

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submitted by bartenders, guests
who see some unique stories.

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We read them, evaluate them,
have fun little discussions.

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Then we rate them on a on a scale of 1
to 5, one being an average story,

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five in a unique situation

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that someone has never seen or heard about
or just blows our mind.

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Right.

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So today we're going to Riley has a story
that she's going to write us a

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nice little. And that's a quickie.

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Yeah.

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See, you're

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sorry.

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It's easy to do that. Okay.

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And then and then Unders has a story
for us that he's going to share with us,

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and we're going to talk about it
and yeah, have a fun little time.

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So, Riley,
you want to get this well first?

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Anders, what are you drinking to see?

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Stop talking. Well, sorry,

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Boulevardier.

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I had full intentions
to have a cup of coffee here,

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but then I drank the coffee earlier, so.

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Yeah, now I'm on to Nice, nice cocktail.

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What's your.

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What's your favorite specs of that Cotto?

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I do two parts Bourbon, two one
part Campari and one part sweet vermouth.

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That's. I think that's the top.

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Yeah, that's.

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That's what I kind of like.

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It's a little bit more bourbon forward
in that cocktail.

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What's your favorite bourbon to use?

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So right now I'm using old granddad.

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That's not the 114 but the 100.

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Yeah, that's, it's, that's like it's
so funny at the, the bar, the hotel

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I work up and people see that like,
oh my God you have old granddad.

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101 40. My yeah. Is good.

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And then people don't know it,
you just show it to them like, oh this is

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good, beautiful.

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Okay, I'm getting a stop talking look.

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Yeah. What are you drinking? Really?

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Jesus Christ,

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sir. Putting a muzzle on you.

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That's later tonight.

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I am drinking a pina colada riff that I
created on the fly, and it's pretty good.

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What's in it? What's in it?

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It's got an ounce and a half of toasted
coconut rum,

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an ounce of Hamilton, Jamaican pot.

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Pot, still rum.

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The black stuff so good.

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And then liquid
after mix cream of coconut, coconut

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lime juice and something else.

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And some of those are.

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Yeah.

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And yes, this is really good.

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And then I'm doing a riff I guess.

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I mean, this is a passion for daiquiri.

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This bartender in Las Vegas
created this daiquiri

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and I'm using two ounces of the Overproof
Demerara run from Hamilton three

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or I'm doing half an ounce of passionfruit
sirup, half ounce of vanilla sirup,

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one ounce of lime
and two dashes of hellfire bitters.

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It's a big boy, right?

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And that's why he's rambling so much.

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It's great.

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It's a
podcast. You have to be making noise.

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Right? Right.

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Anybody but Carl can make those.

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Not that you talking is noise, Carl.

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Welcome to the Shed on Carl podcast.

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All right.

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Right. Let's just go to the store
and get this fucker over with.

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This was from the subreddit bartenders

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and it was submitted by the user Dead
Cowboy Society 11 months ago.

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I kind of like that username. Yep. Yep.

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So it's called Crazy Dive Bar.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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And just a reminder,
these are read verbatim

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as close to verbatim as possible,
because sometimes grammar errors are wild.

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But here we go.

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Are you ready for this wild, wild ride?

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I'm ready. I'm ready.

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Someone orders a pizza.

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And being that I'm the bartender and cook,
I walk back to make it.

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There are two doors,
one on each side of my L-shaped bar top.

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I look out the window of my door
while getting the cooked pizza

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and notice one of my regulars
sucking another regulars.

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Penis. Yep.

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This is my new story that tops a method
driving around, but they go on their van

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and that's it.

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That's it. That's it.

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I said it was a quickie.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Where do you start?

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Is there an asshole in this fucking story?

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The goat.

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I mean.

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I mean, the guy who get those go on.

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Their van is an asshole because the goat
should not have been on the van, right?

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Like, you have never worked at a dive bar,
right?

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Because under Saunders and
I really haven't, and I've never had any.

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Like, there's been some, like, feeling up,
you know, I've seen some of that.

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There's, there's always.
There's always sex in the walk in.

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But that's irrelevant.

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Right.

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But like, you're, I guess doing it,
I guess doing it out of the bar.

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I've never seen doing something that over.

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Yeah.

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Unless you ever seen
anything like that before.

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I feel like I can't really

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say anything about that of

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there have I've seen some things,
but like,

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those aren't my stories to tell.

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That's funny.

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Yeah. I don't know.

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Like I,
I guess I think there's certainly been

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kind of related last part
that I worked at.

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We had two two bathrooms
that were just single stalls

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so you could walk in there, lock the door,

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and you've got the whole place
to yourself, right?

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Well, I we also had these, you know,

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those really high intensity hand dryers.

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They're called like accelerators
or something.

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Yeah, you just put your hand underneath it
and just just like jet engine takes off.

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Yeah, right.

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Well, a couple of times that two people
would go in to the bathroom

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and you'd hear that thing kick on and off
kind of in rhythm, right?

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I don't know what they're doing.

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You just hear from from outside
the bathroom. You hear?

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That's when they have to knock.

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All right, everybody out.

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I mean, like right there at the bar, like,

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are they so much regulars that they just
feel comfortable, Like where they were?

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They sitting next to each other

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and one was bent over or was one
like you could just barely see the top

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of their head on,
like when they were all right.

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And you see like
you see the top of the. Yes.

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But then you have to give them
a list of rules.

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Right? Right.

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There was so right.

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We went to Arizona last year
and she went to this bar called Undertow.

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And I made the reservations.

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And I remember
like there was a bunch of rules, right.

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Because it's like this
very little speakeasy

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where they do a lot of, like,
ambiance stuff.

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It's it's a tiki bar that serves
complex cocktails and it seats like 30.

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Right.

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And, you know, it's
you know, they didn't want you

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to have your phones out
and all this other stuff.

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And I'm pretty sure one of the rules said
no public displays

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of affection, basically, that's fair
because it was real dark in there.

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Right?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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So it's like something must have happened
multiple times

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or then that put that as the rule.

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But and you know
but yeah I think the worst.

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Yeah. Oh go ahead.

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I was just to say I feel like yeah,

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it doesn't even have to be a dive bar
but just a dimly lit.

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Right.

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You just be wary of the corners

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or the booths.

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All right.

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I wonder how much of those also are like
drug fueled also besides the cocktails

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flowing, right?

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You know, like, do they do a bunch,

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you know, a little bit of coke
before they came down?

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You know, know
or a little bit of all Obama,

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you know, a little bit of something
this low over that, you know.

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And yeah, but,

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you know, maybe maybe we've been together
for 20 years, energized

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by something relationship, you know,

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event type I don't know

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public sex ed it I think it's
probably cleaner than their house

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so the the worst

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I don't know
of anyone ever having sex in the bathroom.

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Anybody ever worked at the work
like the closest thing is that

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I know of people having sex at the bar.

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So he's worked at what

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were you one of them?

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Absolutely not.

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Was the one in Louisville.

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Okay, maybe so. I did.

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I did work.
I guess I could just like restaurant.

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It wasn't a dive bar. Was a restaurant
just for a couple of months.

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But this is
this is that story where this woman,

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she was drinking all night and
she was having problems with her husband.

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She was like significantly older than me.

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And I think she kind of like me.

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And it whatever doesn't matter.

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She was getting drunk

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and then she went to the bathroom
and I'm closing the restaurant

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and time goes by
and I forget that she's there

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because you assume she just walked out
and left. Walked out, left.

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And then also I saw her car outside
and I'm like, Oh, she's still here.

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She's been in the bathroom
for like over an hour.

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And I'm like, Oh,
my gosh, she's passed out on the toilet,

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you know, like, or something, right?

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And so I call my boss and I'm like, Hey,
this woman's in the bathroom.

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I haven't seen her for.

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I you know, she has come out
and I need to go in there to check on her.

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But I'm calling you just to tell you
this is what I'm doing because I don't.

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Right.

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I don't want things that cover your mind.

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Yeah.

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And so I kept him on the phone
while I went in there.

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And you hope she's passed on the toilet?

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You know,
put their hands panties down her ankles.

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And I'm like, Oh, my God. And he's like,
just.

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Just be respectful.

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I know, But just this sucks.
This is sucks, right?

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So I'm like, trying to wake her up,

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try to help her,
you know, for pants, you know, and stuff.

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And then all of a sudden she comes to me
and she goes, I'm driving home.

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I'm like, Please don't drive home like
you are beyond Schippers know, fuck this.

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I'm driving home and she just drove home
and I followed her

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to make sure she got home and she lived
fucking like 20 minutes away.

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I'm like, Oh my God.

00:16:03:09 - 00:16:06:00
But yeah, that's that's my song.

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She made it. Yeah, she made it.

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Like back then it was like dark and curvy
roads down around Iowa City.

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Not more like North Liberty.

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And you don't know any spots
in the country.

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In the country, Yeah.

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So kind of similar.

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Probably like in Door County, right?

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Like people have these whiny turny roads
that they know that they know exactly

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when to turn left and right
and it could be pitch black

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and they could navigate it perfectly.
That's what she did.

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I'm like, okay,
so all muscle memory, right?

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Yes, that's exactly what it is.

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So so on the story, is there an ass?

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Obviously.

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I mean, the assholes are

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the person who decided they wanted
a blowjob in the middle of the bar.

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Is it the person that wanted the
blowjob or gave the blowjob?

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Well, that depends.

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Was the blowjob

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like request it
or was it freely given unprompted?

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Like, hey, how you know,
it'd be really cool if you suck my dick

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or Hey, I just thought of this pizza.

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Can you finish me off
before the pizza comes out?

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Right.

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That would be an asshole. Move.

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But if the giver just decided to do it,
then the giver would be the right.

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It's just like, Is there anyone else
at the bar at this time?

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Like watching this all happen?

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Pizzas got ordered
and I think they only ordered one.

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So there were definitely
other people there.

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What do you think they're doing?

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Like take talking shit real quick.

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You know, there's this snap
and that shit to their friends.

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Okay, So

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obviously the bar stories,
I mean, this is a bar.

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I mean, this is solely

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for just on the balls alone
and just doing it right there at the bar

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I go to for.

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Yeah, I'm going to, uh,
I'm going to go for 34.3.

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Okay.

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Just for the
just the risking the public nudity charge.

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Right.

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What do you rate this story honors?

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Yeah, I'm. I'm going to.

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I'm going to give it.

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I'm going to pump it up
even a little more.

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I'd say 4.4. All right.

00:18:08:16 - 00:18:11:09
I feel like
because it is such a rare thing to see

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and because it is so risky
and there's some serious deep.

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Well, we're talking exactly
what's being sucked here.

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Right.

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And and I'm also putting it up against

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the story that I'm going to share

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and thinking that this one's better.

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Yeah.

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No. Yeah, it's just

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weird. That's wild.

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Like, never in my mind has
it has had never has it crossed my mind.

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No matter how drunk I've been in my life
as performing a sexual act in public,

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been even on my radar.

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Right.

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What makes you think that's okay?

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I like.

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Right.

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It's the the fact that,
yeah, a sexual act is being performed.

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You know, nudity is one thing
that happens all the time.

00:19:04:01 - 00:19:05:04
Right? Right.

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And it's taken a step further.
Right? Right.

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That's that's when you cross a line.

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And it's both of the both. Okay.

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Right.

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Don't know.

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It's weird.

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All right.

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So now, Mr.

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Michael, it is Erick Erickson.

00:20:01:19 - 00:20:03:04
Erickson

00:20:06:23 - 00:20:08:16
you think you're friends of this guy.

00:20:08:16 - 00:20:11:03
I know that obviously not.

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He just deals with me like everyone else.

00:20:14:16 - 00:20:15:21
For real? Yeah.

00:20:15:22 - 00:20:17:01
He'll get a strong conservative.

00:20:17:01 - 00:20:19:01
Is my name right? It's all good.

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Usually my first name.

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Not my last name, but that's okay.

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All right.

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All right.

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In story time, let's let's hear
what you got to give the world.

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Well, and

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put it that way.

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There's a lot of pressure.

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When when you invited me on and he said,
Yeah, just share one of your stories.

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I actually had to think about it for
a little while because I do feel like that

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a lot of the best stories
that I know from bartending,

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like I mentioned earlier, I feel like
they're not my story to tell, Right?

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You know, the bars that I work at,
they're,

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you know, pretty small and intimate
and people share

00:21:02:06 - 00:21:06:01
some really fascinating, interesting,
sometimes embarrassing things.

00:21:06:11 - 00:21:10:16
And I like to say there's like a bartender
customer privilege thing, right?

00:21:11:10 - 00:21:13:07
I have to think of, like the stories

00:21:13:07 - 00:21:16:22
that are really more centered
around me as opposed to others.

00:21:17:02 - 00:21:17:10
Yeah,

00:21:18:18 - 00:21:20:22
But yeah, the

00:21:21:10 - 00:21:25:16
the first one that came to mind for me
was actually it happened a long time ago

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and it's really more of, of a moment
that happened.

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That is something I haven't forgotten
that I think about quite a bit.

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And it was when I was bartending up in

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Door County is a fine dining restaurant,

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really small, like eight C bar
just off of the dining room.

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It's a fine dining restaurant and

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the this couple came in.

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I had been working there for two years.

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I'd say it's probably 23
like 20 years ago.

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And I was young
and just trying to save money to move

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to Chicago, to pursue acting, actually.

00:22:01:17 - 00:22:04:10
And this couple comes in

00:22:04:19 - 00:22:09:03
and I remember she had a cosmopolitan,
he had a robbery, and he was

00:22:10:16 - 00:22:11:12
one of those guys

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that sits at the bar
and picks up as much as he can.

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And he's just got a booming voice, really,

00:22:18:06 - 00:22:20:15
you know, really big presence.

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And we're just kind of getting

00:22:24:01 - 00:22:27:02
the flow of service
and starting to pick up.

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And he's right in the middle of the bar.

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And and I,

00:22:32:04 - 00:22:35:16
I should preface this by saying in Door
County, it's

00:22:36:08 - 00:22:40:02
a highly seasonal summer time.

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It's really busy.

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A lot of tourists in the wintertime,
it really kind of dies out.

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So this was in the fall

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and I was about to move to Chicago
and I was trying to save up money.

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So this guy knew that, you know,
like things were going to get slow soon.

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And so he asked me, you know,
what my plans were for the off season.

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And I said, Well, honestly,
I'm just trying to save up as much money

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as possible to move to Chicago.

00:23:01:00 - 00:23:03:02
And he said, Oh, well,
I'm actually from the Chicago area.

00:23:03:14 - 00:23:06:07
Oh, what what is going to be bringing you
down there?

00:23:06:08 - 00:23:08:13
I said, Well, I'm I'm pursuing acting.

00:23:08:14 - 00:23:10:03
I was like 23 at this time.

00:23:11:05 - 00:23:13:13
I had no acting

00:23:14:16 - 00:23:15:23
Asian or anything.

00:23:15:23 - 00:23:19:07
But yeah, I was going to move to Chicago
and pursue acting

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and take some improv
and just kind of give it a go.

00:23:21:23 - 00:23:25:05
So I tell him this and he said,
All right, well, let's

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see what you got and think, Well,
well, what?

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What do you mean?

00:23:29:12 - 00:23:31:16
You know, I made you your your drink.

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And he's like, No, no, no.

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He's like, I want you to perform for me.

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It's like, Move me.

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And I said, What do you mean?

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He goes, I want to feel something like,
Make me laugh, make me cry, make me angry.

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Just, just, you know,
give me one of your characters and move me

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and maybe do a monologue
you have prepared.

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And I'm thinking,
I don't have a monologue for that.

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We should have. All right.

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And so this was back and forth, and

00:23:58:20 - 00:24:01:12
his wife, I could
tell, was a little embarrassed.

00:24:01:12 - 00:24:04:00
She's rolling her eyes at the whole thing.

00:24:04:00 - 00:24:07:00
And I'm starting to feel uncomfortable,
you know, because business

00:24:07:07 - 00:24:08:07
is picking up there.

00:24:08:07 - 00:24:10:08
We got tickets rolling.
I'm trying to make cocktails.

00:24:10:08 - 00:24:13:09
And he is just like, not letting me talk
to any other customers.

00:24:13:09 - 00:24:15:12
He's like, No, he's like,
if you want to make it,

00:24:15:21 - 00:24:18:14
it's like you got to be able
to, like, turn it on like that.

00:24:18:20 - 00:24:22:02
And you need to pull some sort of emotion
out of me.

00:24:22:14 - 00:24:25:04
And I'm starting to really get irritated
with this guy.

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You go away, let me work, right?

00:24:28:12 - 00:24:32:00
So I start kind of avoiding him
a little bit.

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Those two start drinking their cocktails
and he finishes up his Rob Roy

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and at the time
I had my head down on what I was doing.

00:24:40:00 - 00:24:42:07
If I was like
washing glassware or something.

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But he says, Hey,
can I get another Rob Roy?

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And I chose not to look up at him.

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So because, hey,
can I get another Rob Roy?

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So I slowly looked up at him.

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I said, What did you say?

00:24:55:06 - 00:24:56:16
He said, Another drink.

00:24:56:16 - 00:24:58:04
Can we just get another round here?

00:24:58:04 - 00:25:00:18
I said, How dare you?

00:25:01:05 - 00:25:04:11
You walk into this bar, you sit down,
you take up all this space,

00:25:04:15 - 00:25:06:21
you start yelling at me
like I'm your puppet.

00:25:06:21 - 00:25:08:22
You start saying,
Hey, make me feel something.

00:25:09:04 - 00:25:10:11
Be give me emotions.

00:25:10:11 - 00:25:11:14
All this kind of crap.

00:25:11:14 - 00:25:14:02
What's going on? You know, I'm like, Who?
Who do you think you are?

00:25:14:11 - 00:25:17:03
You think you're going to get a second Rob
Roy from me?

00:25:17:10 - 00:25:19:20
Then I start pointing at him
and said, Hey,

00:25:20:05 - 00:25:22:23
I want you to settle your tab.

00:25:23:00 - 00:25:23:22
There's the door.

00:25:23:22 - 00:25:26:10
Have a good night, pal.
I don't ever want to see your face again.

00:25:26:17 - 00:25:31:02
And at this point, he is leaning back
in his chair and it starts like rocking

00:25:31:12 - 00:25:34:00
and he's just turning
white and he's gasping for air.

00:25:34:00 - 00:25:34:13
His wife,

00:25:35:15 - 00:25:36:09
she put

00:25:36:09 - 00:25:39:10
she puts her hands on his shoulder
and she looks at him

00:25:39:10 - 00:25:42:08
right at the side of the head
and says, You have to apologize right now.

00:25:42:13 - 00:25:44:14
So she turns to me because I am
I am so sorry.

00:25:45:05 - 00:25:46:15
We will settle our tab.

00:25:46:15 - 00:25:48:12
I'm just I'm really sorry.

00:25:48:12 - 00:25:51:16
And the guy's got up. Yeah,
I'll close out.

00:25:52:02 - 00:25:54:17
I look up at him and I look at her
and I said, Do

00:25:54:17 - 00:25:56:08
you feel an emotion?

00:25:57:19 - 00:25:58:16
And there's like, this.

00:25:58:16 - 00:26:02:23
This pause where they're thinking, Is
he mad or is he not?

00:26:03:06 - 00:26:06:08
And then I burst into laughter
and she burst into laughter.

00:26:06:21 - 00:26:10:11
Another Rob Roy,
Everything was cool for him handsomely.

00:26:10:11 - 00:26:11:11
So that's awesome.

00:26:11:11 - 00:26:15:16
This list, this one time I felt like
I could actually speak my mind, right?

00:26:15:21 - 00:26:17:07
But I could play it off.

00:26:17:07 - 00:26:20:05
Like right now this is just a bit.

00:26:20:20 - 00:26:21:09
That's awesome.

00:26:22:16 - 00:26:25:18
Because like, we want to see that
to have to have the people.

00:26:25:18 - 00:26:28:00
But there are times
that that scenario comes up.

00:26:28:00 - 00:26:31:23
You just want to just lay into him
and you just let that kind

00:26:31:23 - 00:26:35:21
of like manifest more and more
because he was getting like, right, he's

00:26:35:21 - 00:26:37:04
getting agitated because you're not doing

00:26:37:04 - 00:26:40:05
he's trying like used to do well,
because he had like this

00:26:40:18 - 00:26:43:16
from what it sounds like
he had this like air of importance

00:26:43:16 - 00:26:47:00
where it's like, well,
prove to me that you can be an actor.

00:26:47:00 - 00:26:49:07
Why do I owe you a god damn thing?

00:26:50:10 - 00:26:52:16
Right? Exactly. Yeah. That's awesome.

00:26:52:16 - 00:26:55:14
I would have loved setting
like watching this guy.

00:26:55:14 - 00:26:59:03
Another customer is like,
What the fuck is going to all this?

00:26:59:03 - 00:27:00:15
Amazing. Yeah.

00:27:00:15 - 00:27:04:00
And the bar, it was a separate room
from the dining area.

00:27:04:00 - 00:27:06:09
But, you know, it's a big open space.

00:27:06:09 - 00:27:09:18
And certainly there were people
that were sitting at the tables

00:27:10:02 - 00:27:11:11
thinking that I was really pissed off.

00:27:13:22 - 00:27:16:22
So for the rest of the evening,
like people were coming up

00:27:16:22 - 00:27:18:05
and they're like,
Hey, was everything okay?

00:27:18:05 - 00:27:20:01
What was with that guy?

00:27:20:18 - 00:27:23:12
We were just having fun, right?

00:27:23:12 - 00:27:24:16
That's awesome.

00:27:24:16 - 00:27:26:20
I mean, that's like, yeah, because I mean,

00:27:27:07 - 00:27:30:11
it's so funny
that he like to catch all that.

00:27:30:11 - 00:27:31:18
That's what you're doing, right?

00:27:31:18 - 00:27:36:03
You know, like, he forgot
that's what he requested because you just.

00:27:36:04 - 00:27:37:13
It is timing, right?

00:27:37:13 - 00:27:40:09
They timed it perfectly to set it all up.

00:27:40:09 - 00:27:41:01
Right.

00:27:41:01 - 00:27:44:13
And you know, like we're you consciously
doing that or was it just kind of like

00:27:45:05 - 00:27:47:23
building up to it and you're like,
like it was his go, you know?

00:27:49:05 - 00:27:49:22
Right.

00:27:50:00 - 00:27:53:02
So I knew I wanted to do something
to surprise them.

00:27:53:02 - 00:27:55:22
Right? And so I just, like,
let it die out in the end.

00:27:55:22 - 00:27:59:01
Clearly he he thought that,
okay, this isn't going to happen.

00:28:00:03 - 00:28:02:09
And then when he asked for another drink,

00:28:02:09 - 00:28:05:17
that was like the moment of like,
okay, this is the sip to the guy.

00:28:05:21 - 00:28:11:06
I also, you know, had been watching him
to make sure that I was comfortable

00:28:11:06 - 00:28:14:06
enough with this guy,
you know, where I could pull this off.

00:28:14:10 - 00:28:14:21
Right.

00:28:14:21 - 00:28:17:14
You know, I could see how he would
interact with other people and everything.

00:28:17:14 - 00:28:20:15
And he seemed like a pretty,
pretty chill guy for the most part.

00:28:20:16 - 00:28:21:11
Right.

00:28:22:06 - 00:28:25:06
Why it stuck with me
was just the look on his face

00:28:25:14 - 00:28:29:00
like he started
you know, he's on bar stools,

00:28:29:13 - 00:28:32:11
a bar stool, not multiple.

00:28:32:11 - 00:28:36:14
And the way he, like,
kind of threw himself back.

00:28:36:14 - 00:28:39:02
And he was so shocked
that this was happening.

00:28:39:02 - 00:28:41:05
Like,
I thought he was going to fall backwards.

00:28:41:05 - 00:28:42:14
He's like,
but he's going to have a heart attack,

00:28:43:14 - 00:28:46:09
like went white
in the face and he could say anything.

00:28:46:22 - 00:28:49:19
And I just I just ate it up.

00:28:49:19 - 00:28:53:22
It was it was just a fun time
where I felt like I got him, you know?

00:28:54:02 - 00:28:54:22
Right.

00:28:55:03 - 00:28:59:15
I love those moments where, like,
you feel comfortable with that guess.

00:28:59:15 - 00:29:03:03
I mean, I guess I didn't they You think
you feel that comfortable, right?

00:29:03:03 - 00:29:04:09
Like you're always gambling.

00:29:04:09 - 00:29:06:21
Like how comfortable
you have this interaction.

00:29:06:21 - 00:29:08:16
How much how much leeway do I have?

00:29:08:16 - 00:29:11:01
Do something that might get me fired.
Right.

00:29:12:02 - 00:29:14:11
Right. Sometimes I can get fired.

00:29:14:11 - 00:29:16:20
Every other word
that comes out of my mouth.

00:29:16:20 - 00:29:19:06
Oh, but. Right.

00:29:19:06 - 00:29:19:11
Yeah.

00:29:19:11 - 00:29:22:21
Might be operative word, but it is fine.

00:29:22:21 - 00:29:25:22
Like,
I can do whatever I want with these two

00:29:26:05 - 00:29:30:20
or four or six, and they all just eat
out of palm of my hand.

00:29:30:20 - 00:29:33:08
And I don't mean that
in a destructive of wages.

00:29:33:08 - 00:29:34:17
They're here to have fun.

00:29:34:17 - 00:29:36:12
They're having a good time,
and you're delivering them.

00:29:36:12 - 00:29:40:07
And I'm delivering
and sometimes like ribbing is giving that

00:29:41:01 - 00:29:43:05
right utters that heavy rib, you know.

00:29:43:12 - 00:29:46:09
But he, he he goes like, you know, I like.

00:29:46:10 - 00:29:48:16
So if we're talking about
who's the asshole in this scenario,

00:29:48:16 - 00:29:52:03
the guy who's a dance
monkey is the asshole like him.

00:29:52:06 - 00:29:55:22
He was probably doing it in good fun
and he was probably thinking

00:29:55:22 - 00:29:56:18
he was helping you.

00:29:56:18 - 00:29:59:01
But that's still he's still an asshole
move.

00:29:59:01 - 00:30:01:05
Like, Oh, you want to
you want to be an actor?

00:30:01:05 - 00:30:03:14
Prove to me you can be an actor
while you're doing your job.

00:30:04:02 - 00:30:05:10
That's still an asshole. Move.

00:30:05:10 - 00:30:07:09
It's dance monkey.

00:30:07:09 - 00:30:09:16
Did he say exactly what it was?

00:30:10:02 - 00:30:14:13
Did he say what kind of like, job
or did you have any background

00:30:14:13 - 00:30:17:16
in, like an acting or entertainment world
or is this from Chicago?

00:30:17:16 - 00:30:20:06
Oh, no, no. Yeah, he he

00:30:21:14 - 00:30:23:00
yeah, I think he was just trying to

00:30:23:00 - 00:30:26:17
I thought that he was kind of be
you know, he's trying to be funny, right.

00:30:26:21 - 00:30:27:19
Trying to be helpful.

00:30:27:19 - 00:30:30:12
But yeah, he had no OC,

00:30:30:12 - 00:30:31:14
as far as I know.

00:30:31:14 - 00:30:33:13
Maybe he did a

00:30:33:17 - 00:30:36:16
casting director of some major theater.

00:30:37:03 - 00:30:37:16
Right?

00:30:39:02 - 00:30:40:14
It'd be so funny. Now he sees you.

00:30:40:14 - 00:30:43:13
Now it's like I remember that
juicer 20 years ago.

00:30:43:13 - 00:30:45:20
He almost gave you a hard time.
Now you just do a YouTube.

00:30:45:21 - 00:30:46:12
Oh, right.

00:30:46:12 - 00:30:48:18
That guy gives me the same vibes
that I get.

00:30:48:18 - 00:30:49:16
Like, when I say,

00:30:49:16 - 00:30:52:18
Yeah, I like metal music and guys
who don't think girls should listen

00:30:52:18 - 00:30:55:02
to metal music, I'm like, Oh yeah, well,
what are your favorite bands?

00:30:57:01 - 00:30:58:08
It doesn't matter. I'm not going to.

00:30:58:08 - 00:30:59:19
I don't have to prove myself to you.

00:31:01:01 - 00:31:02:12
Yeah, exactly.

00:31:02:12 - 00:31:06:23
Is that like, I don't know, like, right
now I'm just giving you a drink, right?

00:31:07:00 - 00:31:09:04
Like, I don't know who you are.

00:31:09:04 - 00:31:11:08
I'm not going to give you a show, Right?

00:31:11:08 - 00:31:14:08
And I'm in the middle of my job right now.

00:31:14:08 - 00:31:17:00
Yeah, like I'm doing my job.

00:31:17:00 - 00:31:18:19
Yeah. What's.

00:31:18:19 - 00:31:19:23
Oh, man. What?

00:31:19:23 - 00:31:22:05
What stupid movie is it?

00:31:22:05 - 00:31:27:07
I think it's where they turn this
old high school or something into like,

00:31:27:07 - 00:31:30:06
a college kid make their parents
think they're all good excepted.

00:31:30:13 - 00:31:30:20
Yeah.

00:31:30:20 - 00:31:34:16
And the guy is, like,
dressed up in a hot dog wiener costume,

00:31:34:16 - 00:31:39:12
and he's like, Maybe we should be about
my wiener, you know, and stuff like that.

00:31:39:12 - 00:31:42:05
Like, it's kind of been
you prepared my right.

00:31:44:21 - 00:31:46:11
I'm pretty sure that movie was not out.

00:31:46:11 - 00:31:47:17
Yeah. No,

00:31:49:04 - 00:31:50:05
I just think that Right.

00:31:50:05 - 00:31:54:09
This is like some I don't know some people
are some Shakespeare in love versus

00:31:55:17 - 00:31:56:08
Right.

00:31:57:21 - 00:31:58:04
Okay.

00:31:58:04 - 00:32:03:06
So this is actually like the most
like we've all had I mean, on the podcast

00:32:03:06 - 00:32:06:03
so far, people get very personal sources
like the most.

00:32:07:00 - 00:32:09:00
This is a very different type of story.

00:32:09:00 - 00:32:09:18
Right? Right.

00:32:10:09 - 00:32:11:21
So I mean, there's really yes, heat.

00:32:11:21 - 00:32:16:07
They're not islanders, but the other guy
guest It's kind of an asshole for pushing

00:32:17:10 - 00:32:18:22
nonsense down his throat.

00:32:18:22 - 00:32:21:16
Just winning like,
yeah, dance monkey dance type thing.

00:32:22:21 - 00:32:24:04
Um hmm.

00:32:24:04 - 00:32:25:07
What I hear

00:32:27:01 - 00:32:29:20
this is one of the harder was
the guy is if you had to rate this

00:32:29:20 - 00:32:31:22
on a scale of 1 to 5,
what would you give it?

00:32:32:02 - 00:32:34:09
Well,
that's tough because you have to think

00:32:34:09 - 00:32:38:02
about what the story has
and what it doesn't.

00:32:38:04 - 00:32:41:20
We have no real drugs
other than alcohol, right?

00:32:42:00 - 00:32:45:11
No nudity, no sexual activity.

00:32:46:09 - 00:32:50:00
Overall, it probably rates pretty low,
but but it does.

00:32:50:05 - 00:32:54:12
But then get 2.4, but then it does rate
really high on audacity.

00:32:55:01 - 00:32:56:20
Like it has a lot of audacity.

00:32:56:20 - 00:32:58:20
It does. Yeah.
So it rate's pretty high there.

00:32:59:20 - 00:33:01:00
So the like

00:33:01:00 - 00:33:05:17
I really like it because it's, it's just
something that I think about all the time.

00:33:05:17 - 00:33:06:11
Sure.

00:33:06:15 - 00:33:09:08
In the moment it was a big enough thing

00:33:09:08 - 00:33:12:08
to where everybody else in
the restaurant was kind of a part of.

00:33:12:08 - 00:33:13:01
Right. Yeah.

00:33:13:01 - 00:33:16:23
But yeah, as far as like bar stories
go, it's not really risque.

00:33:17:16 - 00:33:21:23
No, I don't think these stories always
had to be to be higher number.

00:33:21:23 - 00:33:24:22
But I would say I guess
I'm going to give it 2.8

00:33:26:02 - 00:33:30:18
because I think because of other
the guests or the other guests

00:33:30:18 - 00:33:35:10
coming up and asking you,
because there was such a moment.

00:33:35:11 - 00:33:37:11
Right.
However long that moment lasted. Right.

00:33:37:11 - 00:33:38:15
A couple of minutes or whatever like that.

00:33:38:15 - 00:33:41:19
They were they were like,
oh my God, how like what?

00:33:42:07 - 00:33:45:07
You know, you know, like everything okay,
I go a two point game.

00:33:45:17 - 00:33:47:08
I am going to

00:33:49:23 - 00:33:51:21
I'm going to break our rating system
a little bit.

00:33:51:21 - 00:33:53:09
Oh, dear God.

00:33:53:11 - 00:33:55:07
I'm going to give it a 3.5.

00:33:55:07 - 00:33:56:04
Okay.

00:33:57:04 - 00:33:59:03
Passable, passable.

00:33:59:03 - 00:34:00:11
So here's the thing.

00:34:00:11 - 00:34:02:22
Does this happen frequently?

00:34:02:22 - 00:34:05:02
Yeah, Like things like this.

00:34:05:14 - 00:34:08:07
Oh, you like, I guess

00:34:08:07 - 00:34:11:14
try to push the bartenders limits during,
like, super busy times, right?

00:34:11:18 - 00:34:13:09
Like,
this is not the time to be doing that.

00:34:13:09 - 00:34:14:06
Right.

00:34:15:01 - 00:34:18:12
I'm going to say it gets extra points
because

00:34:20:08 - 00:34:22:17
this is the first time
I've heard of it happening to a man.

00:34:23:08 - 00:34:24:03
Okay.

00:34:24:10 - 00:34:28:09
And I'm sure it does all the time.

00:34:28:09 - 00:34:30:21
But this is just the first time
I've heard of it.

00:34:30:21 - 00:34:35:16
And second,
because the my emotional response to

00:34:35:16 - 00:34:39:22
that would have like
I would have been bred almost in tears.

00:34:40:06 - 00:34:44:04
So like my my emotional response,
putting myself into the situation

00:34:44:04 - 00:34:47:03
with the empathy I have,
I would have been so pissed

00:34:47:11 - 00:34:49:22
and I would have held on to that story
for 20 years also.

00:34:49:23 - 00:34:53:22
And the fact that you've held on to it
for 20 years deserves more points

00:34:53:22 - 00:34:56:15
and that he can remember the two drinks
he made for them, right?

00:34:57:10 - 00:34:59:00
Yeah, right.

00:34:59:00 - 00:35:02:00
Because that's how I should have known
right there that I was going to be

00:35:02:00 - 00:35:02:23
a lifelong bartender,

00:35:04:13 - 00:35:06:16
which is that is there

00:35:06:16 - 00:35:11:04
because the emotional response was so high
and high enough to remember this story.

00:35:11:05 - 00:35:15:06
Out of all of the interactions
you've had as a bartender for 20 years,

00:35:15:12 - 00:35:17:11
it must be higher than the three.

00:35:17:11 - 00:35:18:09
I think

00:35:19:19 - 00:35:21:22
this is this is why I married my wife

00:35:21:22 - 00:35:25:12
for our marriage, you know, my wife.

00:35:26:07 - 00:35:29:02
But I mean, I wouldn't
change my two or 3.2.

00:35:29:02 - 00:35:29:21
Okay.

00:35:31:03 - 00:35:33:10
She's very open mine, I think.

00:35:33:10 - 00:35:35:07
I said, what, 2.4 or something. Yeah.

00:35:35:07 - 00:35:36:08
I don't know what I said.

00:35:36:08 - 00:35:36:18
Yeah.

00:35:36:18 - 00:35:40:00
I'm keeping it to my heart because like,
she's like you're

00:35:40:00 - 00:35:43:08
now reading all the stories
that you've had right there.

00:35:43:08 - 00:35:47:03
So like, one of these days,
all four of us are just going to drink

00:35:47:03 - 00:35:47:08
and we're

00:35:47:08 - 00:35:51:09
just going to tell each other stories
that would be like off the record and.

00:35:51:10 - 00:35:53:21
Right.
Yeah, you're right. That was just a 2.4.

00:35:55:02 - 00:35:55:16
Yeah.

00:35:56:16 - 00:35:58:10
Yeah. You know, it's funny.

00:35:58:10 - 00:36:01:09
You as, you know, like you accrue

00:36:01:09 - 00:36:04:13
all these stories and

00:36:04:13 - 00:36:08:08
when I you know, later
in my bartending career,

00:36:08:15 - 00:36:12:02
I felt like a lot of craziness
happened around me.

00:36:12:02 - 00:36:14:11
But like, I, in a way, I was

00:36:15:12 - 00:36:18:12
I could anticipate
that this crazy thing was going to happen.

00:36:18:17 - 00:36:21:08
I was just more in control of my domain.

00:36:21:14 - 00:36:21:23
Right.

00:36:21:23 - 00:36:25:13
But some of these stories that I have
when I was first starting out, sure.

00:36:25:14 - 00:36:27:05
Everything was so new to me.

00:36:27:05 - 00:36:29:14
And I feel like they were all like
little lessons,

00:36:29:23 - 00:36:34:18
you know, like how I learned,
you know, what a perfect Manhattan was or,

00:36:34:18 - 00:36:37:13
you know, one time I got my life
threatened over a rusty nail.

00:36:39:21 - 00:36:40:16
Where's that?

00:36:40:16 - 00:36:41:12
Sorry.

00:36:42:02 - 00:36:44:08
This time next year, Right.

00:36:44:08 - 00:36:46:21
All right. Yeah. Death by Rusty Nail.

00:36:48:15 - 00:36:48:20
Yeah.

00:36:49:05 - 00:36:51:20
That's what you should name
a riff on the rest of the.

00:36:51:20 - 00:36:53:00
Oh, yeah.

00:36:53:00 - 00:36:53:20
Okay.

00:36:54:02 - 00:36:54:21
Dibs.

00:36:56:21 - 00:36:58:05
Or how about this?

00:36:58:05 - 00:37:01:15
You and I each try to make a drink
called Death by Russ now,

00:37:01:16 - 00:37:04:17
and we'll see what we come up with.

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No doubt.

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Have a show to.

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Death by Rusty now.

00:37:09:03 - 00:37:11:10
All right, That's a great idea. Okay.

00:37:11:10 - 00:37:14:04
A mash up of a rusty nail
and a death in the afternoon.

00:37:14:06 - 00:37:16:06
Yeah, Yeah.

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Do you know what a death in afternoons is?

00:37:18:13 - 00:37:19:08
Vaguely.

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If it's absinthe and champagne crap.

00:37:21:16 - 00:37:22:05
I knew it was.

00:37:22:05 - 00:37:26:00
I knew I had champagne,
an urn had a absinthe and absinthe in it.

00:37:26:00 - 00:37:26:14
Yeah.

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All right. Come in.

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My mind is just like

00:37:33:03 - 00:37:35:07
it's a dumpster fire right now

00:37:35:07 - 00:37:39:05
because you put 151 HAMILTON Yeah,
that was a dumb idea.

00:37:39:05 - 00:37:40:17
KARL That was a dumb idea.

00:37:41:19 - 00:37:44:11
I All
right, so now what we're going to do,

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I guess, first of all, ideas,
is there anything that you like to plug

00:37:48:12 - 00:37:52:04
or tell people to go check out
of your projects that you have going on?

00:37:54:00 - 00:37:54:20
Oh, yeah.

00:37:54:20 - 00:37:56:00
Plug time.

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Yeah.

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Check us out on YouTube.

00:37:59:16 - 00:38:01:14
Anders Ericsson

00:38:02:08 - 00:38:04:18
Weekly uploads videos.

00:38:04:18 - 00:38:08:15
Then we're trying to build
a community on Patriot.

00:38:08:21 - 00:38:12:00
Nice. Are our

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will enable to support.

00:38:14:15 - 00:38:19:10
Yeah and then we've got some merch going
I've got a coffee

00:38:19:10 - 00:38:22:16
brand that coffee that's going
it seems that's going pretty well right.

00:38:22:16 - 00:38:24:15
You guys are all like sold out, you know.

00:38:24:15 - 00:38:25:22
Seems like. Right.

00:38:26:13 - 00:38:27:05
Yeah. Yeah.

00:38:27:05 - 00:38:31:03
We're actually working on
some other things to do with it,

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which hopefully in the next
it's a month or so, we want to launch

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some little
new things regarding the coffee.

00:38:40:02 - 00:38:45:00
Too much you're getting got to build
that build the suspense little teaser.

00:38:45:00 - 00:38:45:13
Yeah.

00:38:45:23 - 00:38:48:06
So note to self budget. Yeah.

00:38:48:08 - 00:38:51:09
I need to order coffee. Got it.

00:38:51:13 - 00:38:54:01
By that time we'll need to buy coffee,
so it'll be perfect.

00:38:54:03 - 00:38:55:16
Right? Exactly.

00:38:55:16 - 00:38:57:01
Okay, cool. Awesome.

00:38:57:01 - 00:39:02:12
So what we're going to do now is we're
going to do our page on Last Call.

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We're going to talk to on
just more about dive a little bit

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more into bartending and Door County
and his YouTube journey.

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And then he worked at a bar
called the Final Ward.

00:39:13:13 - 00:39:14:08
Correct?

00:39:15:20 - 00:39:17:12
It was ward eight or eight.

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That's it. Okay.

00:39:18:10 - 00:39:22:03
The final word I knew was
and that was a cocktail, I'm pretty sure.

00:39:22:03 - 00:39:23:08
Well, Ward did that.

00:39:23:08 - 00:39:24:03
You know what?

00:39:24:03 - 00:39:26:08
Ward eight is also a cocktail group.

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Yeah, we've had two before.

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So, yeah, we're going

00:39:30:15 - 00:39:34:13
to if you wanted to support us,
head over to our patron.

00:39:34:13 - 00:39:35:08
Do you want to start Tab?

00:39:35:08 - 00:39:40:14
It's just, just a small $3 month and we,
we interview all of our guests

00:39:40:14 - 00:39:44:10
and rally and I will eventually add
some more content about ourselves and yeah

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so yeah,

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you just remember don't be a dick
tip your bartender and drink responsibly.