January 7, 2025 • 37 mins
Ever been called the "terminator of bartenders"? Nikki has, and she's here with Amber to share what life is truly like in the small-town bar scene. From the mental health challenges post-COVID to the unexpected exhaustion of day shifts meant for night owls, this episode pulls back the curtain on the bartending world. We address the common misconceptions as Nikki recounts her time at the Old Town Saloon, offering a candid look at the relentless hustle and hidden strains of the job.
In the heart of Clovis, the small business life is anything but dull. We chat about the Lucky 13 Embroidery shop and dive into the rollercoaster ride of managing new hires at a bar where punctuality is a rare gem. Balancing the demands of a busy bar shift with personal obligations like Thanksgiving dinner, we paint a vivid picture of the sacrifices made to keep things running smoothly. On a more serious note, we call out the discriminatory dress codes imposed by local authorities, raising questions about inclusivity and fairness in the community.
As the episode unfolds, we tackle the omnipresent stress of always being connected to work. The constant ping of emails and calls can take a toll, and in this industry, finding a balance is crucial. We explore strategies for carving out a healthier work-life dynamic and share insights into the camaraderie and pressures of the bar industry. Wrapping things up, we add a sprinkle of humor with a teaser of upcoming content, and remind you that whether you love us or hate us, your engagement is always appreciated.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Small Town , big Mouths podcast, where our
three hosts will be unravelingtales about dating and life in
general that will have youlaughing, nodding your head and
even cringing in sympathy.
So sit back, buckle up and getready for the ride.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back to Small Town, big Mouths.
This is Amber, your one andonly, and this is Nikki, your
resident bartender.
This is Amber, your one andonly, and this is Nikki, your
resident bartender, and today weare doing audio only because
life has been hectic and wehaven't been able to get
together to do a video.
So bear with us and this willmake my life easier for the next
few weeks anyways with justaudio files.
(00:39):
So I think Nikki had a topictoday and you want to share that
topic, nikki.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I do.
So we're going to talk about.
We've talked a lot about mentalhealth, like in dating and just
in life in general, but I wantto talk about mental health with
your job, because I feel likeeverybody has a job Hopefully.
Yeah, whether you're married,dating, whatever, and some
things have come to light thislast couple of weeks with my job
(01:04):
that have just made me likeit's hard, like it's holiday
season now.
Life is tough, like things arerough, and I really thought once
COVID was over that peoplewould want to like get back to
work, but I feel like they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, COVID was so long ago too.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's like three lifetimes ago for me I seriously
I'm I struggle to remember,like, what years.
It was like, wait a minute,what year was that?
What was I doing?
yeah, we're going into 2025 it'salready going to be history, I
know, but like the weird thingis is like.
So I feel like everyone knowsI'm a bartender.
I work at a bar here in town,the Old Town Saloon.
I've been there almost 25 yearsyour whole life.
(01:48):
I have been there half of myfucking adult life.
My life, my whole life, noteven my adult life.
I've been there my whole adultlife.
I've been there half my life.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, it's never been as difficult as it is right
now to find people to work.
Can you explain to me what'sgoing on?
Maybe not share names, but Imean, I think you guys have open
interviews at this point.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, pretty much.
So, we've had some solid daytimebartenders and it's hard to
work the day shift because we'rea nighttime bar.
So to work the day shift youhave to be able to come in, you
have to have a strongpersonality, because there's,
you know, 10 or so regulars thatcome in.
They can be pretty abrasivesometimes and then you don't
make a whole bunch of moneybecause it's not like super busy
(02:34):
, unless you have a followingand people that want to come see
you.
But otherwise you're sittingthere with these people that are
always going to be coming inand then a lot of it is prepping
for the night, cutting thefruit getting everything stocked
, making sure everything's ready.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You mean you don't just show up to a bar and like
pour drinks, right, yeah, no,people think that's what happens
.
Yeah, I mean I would never know, although I mean I, now that I
know you and I hear all thesedifferent things and the things
that you do and I'm like I'venever even thought about those
things I would think that, yes,you are a bartender, but you're
like the bar manager, basicallybecause you oversee and do the
shopping.
You pick up the shifts whensomebody doesn't show up, which
(03:15):
I don't know how you do it.
What do they say?
Terminator?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, someone called me the terminator of bartenders.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah.
I was like okay.
I'm mad for you.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
He was saying that, though, because I had a stoic
look on my face while I wasworking and I tried to tell him.
I'm like, okay, you guys areall here to have a good time.
I'm here actually working, Iwant everyone to have fun, but
sometimes I've taken so manydrink orders that I'm
concentrating so I'm not smiling.
And you know, know, that girlneeds change.
(03:50):
That girl ordered something.
That girl I need to putsomething on her tab.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That girl is over here waving at me to close her
tab, like there's so many thingsgoing on that I just sometimes
forget to smile.
Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I didn't know that you're a liar.
You're a fat liar right now,never even knew, didn't even
realize.
I mean, I always get a smile,but yeah wasn't it you that that
guy was telling you it's youwanted me to show some teeth or
something.
That was well, maybe you shouldtip her better.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And he was like well, maybe I would if I get a tooth
or two.
I smiled at that motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He must be a regular, because I don't.
I don't feel like I've neverseen him before.
But you know what?
The bar is so busy sometimes atnight that people will come in
on steve's side or sit onbecca's side and I've literally
like I never seen that guybefore, and then they'll be like
, oh, he was in here all nightsitting here with me and I I
don't know because I don't.
Yeah, unless they're directlyin front of me or I'm helping
them or they've come to me tohelp them, then I just don't
(04:36):
remember because I'm not lookingaround, I'm helping what's in
front of you were.
Yeah, well, I have thatreputation.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But I thought it was so funny when he was like, if I
could just get a tooth or two,and I'm like, oh my god, this
guy I should have went.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
If I had known that I'd be giving him a, I'd have
lifted my lip for him with myfinger.
You want a tooth?
What am I, elvis presley?
Oh you're, at least.
I have all my teeth, yeah now,but I'm bump anyway.
So we hired a couple of.
So the first girl we hired waslike this is gonna be, these are
(05:08):
gonna be some funny stories.
So we hired a girl that Ireally liked her.
I hired her and sorry, you guysnot bumping in the background
as roger's like sitting at myfeet wagging his tail.
This is one of the problemswith recording at home is
there's all these little thingsgoing on with roger?
Um, roger that, yeah, rogerthat.
So, uh, we hire this girl.
(05:31):
She comes to work like thefirst two weeks.
The second week she texts meshe's supposed to be there at
two.
She texts me at like 1 30telling me she has a flat tire,
she's trying to get it fixed,but she's in shaver.
And I'm like bitch, you weresupposed to be here at two, like
at 1.30, you're just nowrealizing that your tire is flat
(05:53):
.
You should have already been inthe car driving down the
fucking hill.
You know what I mean.
Like it's an hour drive.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
She was too busy wondering what kind of excuse
she was going to use.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So I just felt like, okay, she's not coming in.
So then she came in the nextday and like work the next
weekend.
But then the next weekend therewas another excuse, so she was
let go.
So then we hired this guy andhe was.
We hired a girl.
And we hired a girl, loved her.
She's one of my friends.
She ended up wanting to have ajob with insurance.
(06:21):
So, completely understand, leftfor a better job, Got it.
She still fills in here andthere.
I'm going to mention her namebecause it's not in a bad light
Shula.
She's one of our listeners,she's a friend of mine.
Love her, Good girl.
So Shula left and then we hiredanother dude a dude and he was
going to be part security, partbartender.
(06:42):
So he bartended Fridays andSaturdays.
He worked security Friday andSaturday nights and then he was
going to fill in here and there.
Also, the problem is it'sreally easy to work the day
shift because it's not busy.
The problem we have is findingsomeone that can fill in at
night also.
So to me, any bartender that'salready like worth their salt
(07:03):
already has a job.
They're not leaving their jobto come be a fill-in at old town
right, unless it's somebodythat has a different.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Whoops, uh, a different job and just looking
for some extra hours, right buteven that's like a small niche
of people, right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So it ended up.
He it was just, it wasn't thatit was too much for him.
He opened up his own businessand I will give him a shout out
to c Bankston he does, um, Ithink it's lucky 13 and he has
done some stuff for us.
He's done some hats.
Um, my daughter does ourstickers but, yeah, he, he has
done, I believe, shirts forpeople that I know.
Like I send everyone there,he'll do a shirt or two if you
(07:38):
just need them.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Great, great guy and all done.
If you want a small town, bigmouse hat hat, you can contact
him directly and he will make itfor you.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, cut out the middleman which would be us.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yes, yeah, we don't got time for that shit.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah so, um, lucky 13 is the name of his lucky 13
embroidery and they're righthere in Clovis and veteran owned
.
He's a veteran, super cool guy,really great, very reasonable,
um, really fast, with histurnaround time anyway.
So he left to go do that andhe's doing very well, so happy
for him.
He is still available to fillin here and there though.
So then here comes the new girl.
(08:12):
We just hired this girl, so wehire her.
She works I think it was liketwo weekends every day late.
The owner lets her in onFridays and I let her in on
Saturdays.
Every Saturday she's late.
So now she's like three weeksin, doesn't know how to turn on
the lights, doesn't know whereanything is, because we, because
(08:33):
when you're late, I got to openthe bar, so I got to fill the
ice, I got to get the fruit out,I got to do all the things that
you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's basically worthless.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Exactly, she comes in and makes drinks.
Exactly you said she doesn't doanything but come in and make
the drinks.
Because now everything's done.
Yeah, you get here.
You're supposed to be here at 2.
You get here at 2 30.
I've got everything done.
Yes, so then the last threeweeks, her child's in the
hospital.
Understandable, it's totallyunderstandable.
But it was weird because it waslike every thursday there would
(09:02):
be this oh, my daughter'sbetter, I'll see you guys
tomorrow.
Then every Friday it was likeoh, she's in the hospital.
I'm not like.
I it was weird, but I'm notDiminishing what was going on,
but it was just.
If that was what was going on.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, it was.
I mean because it was weird.
I would have been like I needto see a no or never bought in a
note.
Yeah, as the owner of the bar, Iwould ask for that and you're
able to.
Like, you keep calling in and,because that is a good excuse,
you don't want to fire somebody,right?
Because if that is reallywhat's going on, that could be a
(09:36):
problem, right?
So, asking for a note for yourdaughter, you could get one, no
problem, right?
Especially if she was in thehospital.
Show me the bill something Idon't know.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So then the fourth weekend she came to work friday,
on time saturday.
I went to let her in.
This was last saturday.
She doesn't show up until 225.
She texts me like oh, I don'thave a car, I have to get an
uber, but I'm on my way.
This was at 150.
I'm already in the parking lotgetting ready to unlock the
doors, because we open it too.
(10:09):
And that day the guys had like anascar draw thing that they
were doing.
So there was a bunch ofregulars like coming in, which
was cool for me because I got tosee people I haven't seen in a
few years, some of my oldregulars, which was cool.
But at the same time I'm stilllike fuck, I still got to come
to work tonight.
You know what I mean.
So when I got to work thatnight I was I'm going to say I
was a few minutes late.
(10:29):
I had already spent 25 minutesat the bar.
Actually I spent longer cause Ihad.
I talked to the people.
You know I was there like anhour.
I was there from two to three.
So I come back.
It's like eight, oh, three orwhatever three dudes sitting at
the bar.
I put my purse away.
I'm doing all the things.
I start what do you?
I start looking around, okay, Istart looking around.
(10:51):
I see three dudes sitting therewith no drinks, no, nothing.
So I put my purse away.
I kind of like evaluate thesituation.
I walk over, I said have youguys been helped yet?
Have you been ID'd?
No, so I'm like okay, so I gettheir IDs, I id.
Then I make their drinks, Iturn to her and I tell her babe,
it's very, very, very importantthat as soon as these people
walk in the door, you get theirid.
(11:12):
It wasn't like she was busy.
There was like two or threepeople at the bar and maybe a
table, and then these threedudes, but they were sitting
there the whole time.
I was putting my stuff away andshe wasn't even acknowledging
them.
So i'm'm just like OK.
So I tell her this, and thenshe doesn't say see, I'm used to
like when people leave their,their, their posts for the day,
(11:32):
do you need anything else?
Do you need anything else done?
Do you need the trash emptied,the ice stocked, whatever,
whatever, whatever.
She didn't do any of that.
She didn't even say goodbye tome, rude, yeah.
So I didn't know like I waslike okay, whatever.
Maybe she's upset that I was aminute or two late, but she was
25 minutes late, so I whatever.
(11:52):
So then this week I get thephone call.
I worked a double on Wednesdaybecause it was the day before
Thanksgiving and it wasimportant for us to be open, so
I went in at three, you know,worked all day till three
o'clock.
The next morning hostedThanksgiving at my house.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Thanksgiving dinner.
Thank you, nikki, you'rewelcome.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I had Amber and her mom and her daughters here and
we had a great time.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I didn't even want to stay and play games because I
was so comatose and thecheesecake was fire.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And then the next day was Friday, I had some errands
I was supposed to run and wewere supposed to record.
Well, I get this phone call atlike noon.
Hey, can you da, da, da, da.
She's not going to be able tocome in.
And then my boss is like maybewe don't open till four, maybe
we don't open till five.
This whole thing was going onand I wasn't really sure what
was going on.
Five this whole thing was goingon and I wasn't really sure
(12:45):
what was going on.
But anyway, I got to work atfour and when I walked in, his
son, who is part owner two, wasmad at me for not conveying to
him that I was going to be thereat four.
And I'm just like, I told yourdad.
And then his answer to me wasyou told the one motherfucker
that doesn't work here.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And I'm just like um that's the one that was
contacting me.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, I had been so my, my thing today is how work
affects you, like how it affectsyour mental health.
There are days that I just Ithink people look and they're
like, oh my God, it must be sofun to be a bartender.
It was.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It was about 20 years ago well, until you're talked
to disrespectfully yeah becauseeven in any other field I feel
like if somebody talks to youlike that, now you're, you're
putting me in a hostile workenvironment.
Yes, I've been very fortunateto where I've never had a bad
work environment.
I've always had like a veryclose-knit family work life with
(13:47):
anybody that I've ever workedwith for the most part.
So I've never had like, oh mygod, I don't want to go to work.
I mean, of course I say I don'twant to go to work because who
wants to go to work?
Right.
But it's not because of how I'mbeing treated, right?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I, I have to say I love my, my job.
I do, but it's and it's eventhough I spent 25 years here
it's not.
It's the grass isn't greeneranyplace else.
I worked at another bar too.
I feel like it's a it's maybe abar and restaurant thing.
It's the industry and the thingof it is is I feel like owners
sometimes feel like they canspeak to you however they want,
(14:22):
because they'll just blackballyou.
Like they can speak to youhowever they want, because
they'll just blackball you.
When someone else calls, theycan say no, I wouldn't rehire
her, and then that's just it.
You know right.
So that's very difficult and nomatter how good of a bartender
you are, if you have an attitude, then nobody wants you to work
for them.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So I mean you think about it too.
It's like even if you worked in, say, the medical field, right,
um, and you know you can havethese doctors talk to other
doctors, and now you're notrehirable in the medical field,
which can be horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Or, you know, even like working in the legal field
yeah, I was gonna say don'tlawyers talk to each other, yeah
lawyers, lawyers, I mean, butyeah, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
So I mean sometimes you hear different things or
whatever, but you just neverknow.
You know, I mean I're going toand I call you out on it and I
quit and I try to go worksomewhere else.
How are you going to do that?
(15:27):
You know how are you going tolike try to blackball me into
like not doing my job correctlybecause you're a fucking asshole
, Right.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But I feel like a lot of places too, especially like
corporate places, they have anHR department, absolutely, so
you can go to HR and make acomplaint.
But if I wanted to make acomplaint, who am I complaining
to?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You know what I mean my boss's dad, that's his dad.
Like whose side do you thinkhe's going to take?
You know what I mean it's likeand, at the end of the day, I
love the people that I work with, as people, right, right, maybe
not as my coworkers, some ofthem, but as people I like them.
It's just, you know, and it'sit's the whole dynamic of
(16:11):
everything.
I don't just get to come towork and make drinks.
I, especially in the bar, and Idon't feel like any of us do,
even Becca, who she's not thebar manager, but she doesn't get
to come to work and just do herjob.
She asks stuff to do too, andand, as the bartender, I'm
babysitting everyone that'sworking there, because when
you're a bartender, you're incharge of the whole bar, so
(16:31):
you're in charge of the security.
The dj, like are they playinggood music?
Is the security payingattention?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
like it's a lot to have on your plate I don't even
know how you pay attention tolike everything, because my mind
would just explode like I knowI, with everything that I do in
my own life work life I have ahundred tabs open, but like
that's a hundred tabs atdifferent times, yeah, you know,
but for you it's like so it'slike a chaos every Friday,
(16:58):
saturday night and you're tryingto manage everything, yeah,
while serving drinks.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
yeah, and it's not just like Friday and Saturday at
least there's more people.
It's also like Wednesday andThursday when there's less
people, because then I reallygot to like okay, why is the
bouncer outside for so long?
Is he IDing that guy?
Did he pat that guy down, didhe?
You know what I mean?
Why does that guy have a tattooon his neck and he's inside?
Why is?
(17:26):
Are those?
You can't you?
Clovis city of clovis rules nowhite t-shirts, no tattoos above
the neck.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
No, yeah, so last night there was a guy, I don't
like clovis.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right, he was tatted out right here and he had a
tattoo right here on his faceand he was in the bar and I'm.
He was nice, he was respectful.
It doesn't change how someoneis.
These are clovis pd's rules,because they don't want those
kind of people in clovis.
But that sounds sounds a littleracist.
I think that thosediscrimination.
Yeah, and I think those ruleswere made back when the good old
(17:50):
boys were running Clovis.
You know what I'm saying.
But now it's not that.
Clovis is a diverse community.
There's lots of people ofdifferent, you know, ethnicities
and different genres living allin the same place.
So you have to accommodatethose people.
Genres living all in the sameplace, so you have to
accommodate those people.
So at the end of the day, youknow, we just hold up the rules
that Clovis PD has enforced forthe bars.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So.
But what's up with the whiteshirts?
It's some gang thing.
Yeah, oh my God, I don't know.
That sounds pretty fuckingridiculous to me.
I'm so glad yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I don't like Clovis.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I knew I didn't like them for a reason, you know.
I mean, I know a lot of peoplewith tattoos that have maybe
done stupid shit or whatever,but that's not who they are
today.
Yes, there's tattoo removal,but not everybody can afford
that.
Or, you know, there's programs,but usually it's for, like, the
younger generation.
Here I am 40 and I know peopleand I'm like, why would you do
(18:44):
something like that?
But those were the choices thatthey made at a certain point in
their life, but that's not whothey are today.
If I did, if for me, all theshit that I've done, everybody
would be like what the fuck?
That's not even you, but that'snot who I am today.
Right?
(19:04):
So I really don't talk about mypast, because for what?
That's not who.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I am, and there is a guy.
I let him in.
I call him face.
He has a tattoo like on half ofhis face and I let him in.
Well, he was part of the poolleague so I had to let him in at
one time, but when he was therehe never caused a, and the
first time he came in and I'mjust Sometimes I let my mouth
override my brain.
No way.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
So the first time he came in I was like and I said,
listen, I'm going to tell youright now.
You're not even supposed to bein here with that, but I'm going
to let you stay because you'repart of the pool league and you
paid for your pool dues and blah, blah, blah, blah.
I said but you cause onefucking problem, dude, I have
not one problem calling ClovisPD on you.
And he was like, okay, he goes,I won't.
And I said, okay.
So then we became friends, yeah,and then I started calling him
(19:52):
face because he has a tattoo onhis face.
And he goes what can I call you?
And I'm like, I don't know, myname is Nikki.
And then I was like you couldcall me blue.
And he goes why blue?
And I said because there usedto be this bar that I worked at
and I wore this perfume calledblue and this guy liked the
smell of it and so he would callme blue.
So I said you can call me blue.
And so he, he comes in andevery once in a while he'll come
to the door on a busy night andmy boss is like, nope, but he
(20:13):
knows.
I said you can come in anyWednesday when I'm working, when
I'm here by myself, you cancome in.
But when he's here, heespecially on on the busy nights
, that's the nights that theydon't allow.
That shit, god, I just I wishthey're like I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Should be a case-by-case basis is what it
should be.
I, it's just a discrimination,yes, you know.
I mean and that's what bothersme the most um, I don't like
that.
I don't like face tattoos, buthis is huge I don't think we
should be judging people thatway, like it's okay for fresno
but it's not okay for Clovis.
The same shit that happens inFresno is the same shit that
happens in Clovis.
(20:50):
That's what they're trying toavoid though.
But why?
What's so good about Clovis?
It's a rural fucking area in thecentral Valley it's it's not
what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's the thing.
I think all these, that's thething I think all these Well, it
used to be very like the bar Iwork in.
There was nothing across thestreet, it was a field.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So it's really grown.
So with that comes growingpains and things that you have
to like.
You know there's differentpeople, there's different, you
(21:20):
know, ethnicities and differenteverything.
So you have to like it's not.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I'm sorry, I'm going to say it.
There's certain people they'relike oh my God, I'm from Clovis.
And I'm like fuck Clovis Likeit's still Fresno County I grew
up in Clovis, but I still amlike I don't know the difference
.
Like for me, I don't either.
You're a fucking human, and soam I.
Exactly, this is not BeverlyHills, this is not Orange County
(21:47):
.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yes, like someone is the central fucking valley
people.
I was at a party that we wereboth invited to.
I went, you didn't, yeah, andsomeone made the comment that
the girl, one of the girls, oh,she doesn't drive past Clovis
Avenue.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I've heard people be stupid like that.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like past Clovis Avenue.
I've heard people be stupidlike that, Like what the fuck Do
you know how much you'remissing out on the world if you
don't fucking drive past ClovisAvenue?
It's like I'm never.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm not.
I'm never leaving California.
Well, you're fucking dumb.
Yeah, I'm never leaving theUnited States.
How stupid does that sound?
If I can gift my children worldtravel, I would fucking do it
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I mean I want to gift myself world.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And that brings us right back to the point of
mental health at work.
How important is it for you tohave a vacation?
It's mandatory that's what Ikeep saying.
I haven't had a full vacationsince last november I mean I go
on a lot of little things likethree, four days a weekend you
(22:50):
know four days, but yeah, that'snot a vacation, though You're
rushed, you don't feel rested,right, so that that doesn't help
your mental health at all.
Because, yeah, you're gettingaway for a day or two, but the
rush of like packing, gettingeverything ready, just for what?
To leave for two days, to comeback to like unpack, do the
(23:10):
laundry, like read back to workright, read your emails, or
whatever the case may be for you, because I'm sure you have a
lot of emails that are likepiled up Right.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well, and I think that's the bad thing too is I
have emails on my phone.
My phone so and I'm one ofthose people that when things
come through like I want to justtake care of it.
So even when I am away, yeah,if something comes through and I
can answer it without like mylaptop, I'm gonna answer it, and
I think that's why, with what Ido, um, being available 24 7 is
(23:43):
why I'm so beneficial, right,because I just get it done.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Do you ever think, though, that that is a toll on
your mental health, because youare available 24 hours a day,
seven days a week?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I guess that could be a mental toll, because I don't
you feel the need to look atyour emails though?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, it just pops up when they come through.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
See, mine, doesn't Mine, doesn't you feel the need
to look at your emails though.
Well, it just pops up when theycome through, see mine doesn't,
mine doesn't, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So as soon as it comes through, I'm looking, you
know.
But I will say, duringThanksgiving week I have been
very good and it's been veryrefreshing to have my brain shut
off.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Ok, now let me ask you this Very refreshing when
you and I go on vacationvacation we're planning a
vacation in february will youhave your phone on?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I will not.
Well, um well, I already havetold the person I work for that
we are planning a trip, okay, umso he he already knows, but
what will be?
In a whole different asscountry.
I don't know if my phone willwork.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Um, I see, because when I worked for the tool
company and I would go onvacation, I could not fucking
help myself.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
every day I was checking the emails just to see
if, like, someone wascomplaining or I wasn't going to
answer anything, but I, ifthere was something immediate
that I needed to, a fire Ineeded to put out, I needed to
do that, yes, so even when I didmy trip for my birthday, um, I,
I did turn off my notifications, but like you still looked, I
still looked like in themornings, like you know,
(25:18):
everybody's sleeping or whatever, um, but on the cruise, and I
guess I did have wi-fi too, um,but it was like planned and
summertime is slow for me too,so it wasn't really that bad.
My auto response was on um, butyeah, because I I run
everything, I feel like I'mresponsible.
(25:40):
So probably what I'll do is,once the dates are finalized,
I'll probably add something inthe beginning of the year saying
FYI, I will be on vacation.
I will be on vacation and therewill be no responses If I check,
I check and I you know, but Iwould definitely want to put
that in my email signature.
(26:01):
Yes, Just so people know aheadof time.
Hey, this is what's going onand I'll probably add something
to our website.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Very good, yeah, I I those vacations that I took
where I was working at the toolcompany, my boss was with me.
So, and cause I ran things, Ifelt the responsibility to look
at my.
He never looked at the emails.
He didn't.
I never got, like you know,know, a knock on my door at the
hotel like, hey, did you checkthe email?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
he didn't even know what was going on, right yeah,
and I mean there will be,because the person I work for
does have like a work phone.
Yeah, I'll probably add to tomy auto response, like if it is
an immediate need or whatever,please go ahead and call yes
that number.
But I think as long as I giveenough notice in February, I
(26:50):
think will be good for me.
Anyways, although usually rightnow is super busy for me and it
hasn't been as busy as it hasbeen in previous years, I feel
like this year has kind of beenlike even throughout, and we
still have you know, done, havedone really well.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah.
So that leads me to likelisteners, like what kind of job
do you have and what are yourstresses?
So if you guys are listening,comment, like let me know.
Like they say if you.
Well, they say if you, how's itgo If you do something you love
(27:26):
, you never work a day in yourlife, but you're still working.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, you, I mean, you gotta be working, you gotta
be hustling, like I feel like ifI'm not, I'm always I got my
hand in everything, right.
So it's like throwing spaghettiat the wall.
What's going to stick?
What's going to take off?
What am I going to do?
Because I mean I got to figuresomething out.
(27:52):
I don't want to keep justmaking it surviving.
I would like something toreally take off, right, and hey,
you know, never know, right.
No, you never do, do know so,joe rogan joe, are you there?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
knock knock, hello, are you listening?
Yeah, um, but I just I I wonderlike, because I know like
people that are firemen orpolice officers, I know those
are stressful jobs yeah,absolutely, but they're like a
week on week I know.
But who would look and go?
Oh man, a bartender.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
That's a stressful job, you know what I mean Like
no one says that I feel likehaving a nine to five or eight
to five, whatever is easier thandoing what I do, even though,
like, I'm very flexible with mytime.
I mean, you see how my scheduleis.
I pretty much do what I want,but I also work two jobs.
(28:44):
Yes, I'm in office twice a weekfor a company that I help out
with, and then I also work fromwork from home.
So, having the two, I'm alwaystrying to fucking juggle
everything.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, do you ever get anything like confused?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I don't, because one job is strictly in office.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But even when I'm there, I get emails on my phone.
So I'm like you know, but I'mable to do that.
Yes, so it.
But it does suck when I am inoffice those days, because even
though I'm only there till threeo'clock, I come home and I
don't my, I don't want to workat home, I just want to be done.
But then I am working.
There's stuff to still be done.
(29:26):
There's still stuff to be donefor the most part.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean I can.
As long as I respond andconfirm shit, I can deal with
everything else the next day.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I just wonder, like what kind of jobs people have
and what their stresses are Like.
For me, like the most stressfulis like I work for a family, so
that's stressful to me becauseI hear one thing from the dad,
then another thing from the sonand it's.
You know, those two thingsdon't.
Sometimes they don't align, andI'm stuck in the middle and
(30:00):
after being there for so longit's like what do I do, you do,
and so that's stressful, butthere's no HR that I can go
running to.
So I know a lot of peopleprobably work for mom and pop
places.
Do you have the same stressesor do you just answer to one
boss?
Do you know what I mean?
I feel like I'm answering totwo people and sometimes it's
two different answers I have togive.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, I think too.
Another thing with that is howare you going to just leave a
job because of whatever is goingon?
Because, like in my personallife, when there's bad energy, I
avoid it, right, I don't wantnothing to do with it, I'm not
going to give it my energy.
So, but with a job, if you havenegative energy, you can't just
(30:45):
walk away, you have to dealwith that.
So what does that do to you, toyour mental health?
Leaving work, right, or whatkind of?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
you know like, I tried to leave once.
I literally tried to leave likefour years ago, and as soon as
I gave my, my boss, my two weeknotice, I got off the phone and
I was like in tears, I.
And then I got to work and Iwould cry every day that I was
there because it made me so sad,because I had been there for so
long.
(31:13):
Did they try to like say no,don't leave, or they were just
like whatever, nikki bye, kindof, because they're very like
they're men that's why, yeah,they're men, but also I feel
like they're very like if youcan do something better for
yourself to better yourself,then go ahead.
(31:34):
But I don't feel like they feellike that for everybody.
So I feel like I kind of, whenI told them I was leaving, I
kind of threw them through aloop.
The son said my dad didn't evenknow how to respond.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, I mean, I don't think they really know what
they got.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't think they do either.
I mean honestly, you know youdon't realize how much somebody
does until they're not around.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So a lot of things get thrown in my lap and I do a
lot of things behind the scenes,but I don't come and go like,
hey, I did this, this and this.
I don't make a list of shitthat I do for them.
You know what I mean.
So they may not even realizeall the things that I do.
So that's, you know, stressfultoo, because some days I want to
tell them you know, I did this,this and this today, and still
I have to come to work tonightand work.
(32:18):
You know, after I've alreadydone all these things Like today
I went and bought all the youknow bar supplies.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
You should have been fucking sleeping until I got
here, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I wish I was sleeping until you got here.
So, yeah, it's, it's hard, it'sstressful, like no-transcript
(32:55):
ever say it.
But I feel like there's otherwomen there and she's young and
she's like in charge of thesewomen and they're older and I
feel like they can be petty toher because she's younger right.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
They're like oh my god, why is this young girl
taking over?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
but the boss has taken her under her wing and,
like tina's smart this is howsmart tina is we did a fucking
escape room.
Okay, maybe I've told the story.
It was me and her, her wife,their child, my old roommate and
this guy that I was on a datewith.
We had been dating a coupletimes.
He was a cop and it was apirate.
(33:33):
Something themed escape room.
Do you want to know who got usout?
Tina, if I had to fuckinglisten to any of these other
people, I we'd still be in thatfucking room stuck oh my god
escape rooms are fun I know, andI looked at the guy I was
dating and I was like, are youfucking kidding me?
you're a cop, you should be ableto read clues.
He goes I'm not a cop on apirate ship.
And I was like, okay, I'll giveyou me.
You're a cop, you should beable to read clues.
(33:53):
He goes I'm not a cop on apirate ship.
And I was like, ok, I'll giveyou that because it was very,
you know, pirate ship themed.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, I mean, I've only done two escape rooms, but
they definitely get your mindgoing, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'm a freaking idiot when it comes to them.
So yeah, I don't think you'rean idiot nikki, I would read the
clues and I would just standthere like what?
Because you got to like readbetween the lines.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
So I have a um, I have a kind of a funny joke
regarding uh mental health andworking.
So it says why did the officeprinter go to therapy?
Why, why did the office printergo to therapy?
Because they had too many paperjams to sort out.
I know that's good office.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
That's good office humor.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, don't call HR now.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, well, that's, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's for the kids.
That's for the kids.
Yeah, here's another one.
Why did the employee bring aladder to work?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Why.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Because they were trying to rise above their
stress levels.
Oh my god that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
So, like I said in, any of my listeners or our
listeners want to come on andlike, make a comment or say,
like, what, what, what is yourjob, what are your stresses,
like.
And if you just want to vent,like we're on youtube, we're on
buzzsprout, we're on allplatforms yeah, all platforms
and especially if you go toyoutube, you can leave a comment
(35:23):
and we'll be able to commentback.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
So yeah, we get notifications.
Yeah, and, by the way, we'retrying to reach 500 subscribers
by the end of the year, so weneed your help.
We need your help to get thereand once we get to 500, and if
you message us and let us knowthat you followed us on YouTube,
because not everybody.
Sometimes I get notificationsabout who subscribed, but
(35:46):
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subscribing.
So if you want to be enteredinto a raffle for a $50 gift
card once we get to 500followers, subscribers on
YouTube, you'll be entered intothat.
And all they have to do issubscribe.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
It's free, right, free.
Yeah, that's all they got to do.
Yeah, subscribe please.
I mean, we each have like overa thousand followers on Facebook
, so if we could just get halfof our followers each, we'd have
a thousand like.
It's not that hard and I don'tfeel like we're asking for
anything that's like out of therealm of possibility.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
you know, I mean, you can cash, app us too, I mean,
if you really wanted to, but Ithink it'd be a lot easier to
just go over to YouTube andsubscribe to our page yes,
absolutely so but, and althoughthis is only audio, we will be
doing more um video sessions too.
It might be hit or miss hereand there, depending on our
schedule, and it is a lot easierto edit just audio.
(36:45):
You just wanted to yeah, do anaudio.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, we might see a few more audio sessions.
So, and then in a couple weeks,we're going to be interviewing
one of my friends in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
All right, well, do you want to wrap this?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, let's wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Thank you to everybody.
We love you and remember,subscribe, follow, share
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Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, comments, we love comments, something we can,
we can sink our teeth into andlike comment back to you would
be great.
So if you want to comment,comment, I don't care what it is
, I don't care what your commentis.
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That would be a good one.
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Speaker 2 (37:22):
I hate you, you suck yeah, haters gonna hate yes,
it's all right.
All right with that, I going tosay, roger, that Roger that.
Welcome to Small Town , big Mouths podcast, where our
three hosts will be unravelingtales about dating and life in
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So sit back, buckle up and getready for the ride.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back to Small Town, big Mouths.
This is Amber, your one andonly, and this is Nikki, your
resident bartender.
This is Amber, your one andonly, and this is Nikki, your
resident bartender, and today weare doing audio only because
life has been hectic and wehaven't been able to get
together to do a video.
So bear with us and this willmake my life easier for the next
few weeks anyways with justaudio files.
(00:39):
So I think Nikki had a topictoday and you want to share that
topic, nikki.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I do.
So we're going to talk about.
We've talked a lot about mentalhealth, like in dating and just
in life in general, but I wantto talk about mental health with
your job, because I feel likeeverybody has a job Hopefully.
Yeah, whether you're married,dating, whatever, and some
things have come to light thislast couple of weeks with my job
(01:04):
that have just made me likeit's hard, like it's holiday
season now.
Life is tough, like things arerough, and I really thought once
COVID was over that peoplewould want to like get back to
work, but I feel like they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, COVID was so long ago too.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's like three lifetimes ago for me I seriously
I'm I struggle to remember,like, what years.
It was like, wait a minute,what year was that?
What was I doing?
yeah, we're going into 2025 it'salready going to be history, I
know, but like the weird thingis is like.
So I feel like everyone knowsI'm a bartender.
I work at a bar here in town,the Old Town Saloon.
I've been there almost 25 yearsyour whole life.
(01:48):
I have been there half of myfucking adult life.
My life, my whole life, noteven my adult life.
I've been there my whole adultlife.
I've been there half my life.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, it's never been as difficult as it is right
now to find people to work.
Can you explain to me what'sgoing on?
Maybe not share names, but Imean, I think you guys have open
interviews at this point.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, pretty much.
So, we've had some solid daytimebartenders and it's hard to
work the day shift because we'rea nighttime bar.
So to work the day shift youhave to be able to come in, you
have to have a strongpersonality, because there's,
you know, 10 or so regulars thatcome in.
They can be pretty abrasivesometimes and then you don't
make a whole bunch of moneybecause it's not like super busy
(02:34):
, unless you have a followingand people that want to come see
you.
But otherwise you're sittingthere with these people that are
always going to be coming inand then a lot of it is prepping
for the night, cutting thefruit getting everything stocked
, making sure everything's ready.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You mean you don't just show up to a bar and like
pour drinks, right, yeah, no,people think that's what happens
.
Yeah, I mean I would never know, although I mean I, now that I
know you and I hear all thesedifferent things and the things
that you do and I'm like I'venever even thought about those
things I would think that, yes,you are a bartender, but you're
like the bar manager, basicallybecause you oversee and do the
shopping.
You pick up the shifts whensomebody doesn't show up, which
(03:15):
I don't know how you do it.
What do they say?
Terminator?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, someone called me the terminator of bartenders.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah.
I was like okay.
I'm mad for you.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
He was saying that, though, because I had a stoic
look on my face while I wasworking and I tried to tell him.
I'm like, okay, you guys areall here to have a good time.
I'm here actually working, Iwant everyone to have fun, but
sometimes I've taken so manydrink orders that I'm
concentrating so I'm not smiling.
And you know, know, that girlneeds change.
(03:50):
That girl ordered something.
That girl I need to putsomething on her tab.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That girl is over here waving at me to close her
tab, like there's so many thingsgoing on that I just sometimes
forget to smile.
Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I didn't know that you're a liar.
You're a fat liar right now,never even knew, didn't even
realize.
I mean, I always get a smile,but yeah wasn't it you that that
guy was telling you it's youwanted me to show some teeth or
something.
That was well, maybe you shouldtip her better.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And he was like well, maybe I would if I get a tooth
or two.
I smiled at that motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He must be a regular, because I don't.
I don't feel like I've neverseen him before.
But you know what?
The bar is so busy sometimes atnight that people will come in
on steve's side or sit onbecca's side and I've literally
like I never seen that guybefore, and then they'll be like
, oh, he was in here all nightsitting here with me and I I
don't know because I don't.
Yeah, unless they're directlyin front of me or I'm helping
them or they've come to me tohelp them, then I just don't
(04:36):
remember because I'm not lookingaround, I'm helping what's in
front of you were.
Yeah, well, I have thatreputation.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But I thought it was so funny when he was like, if I
could just get a tooth or two,and I'm like, oh my god, this
guy I should have went.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
If I had known that I'd be giving him a, I'd have
lifted my lip for him with myfinger.
You want a tooth?
What am I, elvis presley?
Oh you're, at least.
I have all my teeth, yeah now,but I'm bump anyway.
So we hired a couple of.
So the first girl we hired waslike this is gonna be, these are
(05:08):
gonna be some funny stories.
So we hired a girl that Ireally liked her.
I hired her and sorry, you guysnot bumping in the background
as roger's like sitting at myfeet wagging his tail.
This is one of the problemswith recording at home is
there's all these little thingsgoing on with roger?
Um, roger that, yeah, rogerthat.
So, uh, we hire this girl.
(05:31):
She comes to work like thefirst two weeks.
The second week she texts meshe's supposed to be there at
two.
She texts me at like 1 30telling me she has a flat tire,
she's trying to get it fixed,but she's in shaver.
And I'm like bitch, you weresupposed to be here at two, like
at 1.30, you're just nowrealizing that your tire is flat
(05:53):
.
You should have already been inthe car driving down the
fucking hill.
You know what I mean.
Like it's an hour drive.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
She was too busy wondering what kind of excuse
she was going to use.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So I just felt like, okay, she's not coming in.
So then she came in the nextday and like work the next
weekend.
But then the next weekend therewas another excuse, so she was
let go.
So then we hired this guy andhe was.
We hired a girl.
And we hired a girl, loved her.
She's one of my friends.
She ended up wanting to have ajob with insurance.
(06:21):
So, completely understand, leftfor a better job, Got it.
She still fills in here andthere.
I'm going to mention her namebecause it's not in a bad light
Shula.
She's one of our listeners,she's a friend of mine.
Love her, Good girl.
So Shula left and then we hiredanother dude a dude and he was
going to be part security, partbartender.
(06:42):
So he bartended Fridays andSaturdays.
He worked security Friday andSaturday nights and then he was
going to fill in here and there.
Also, the problem is it'sreally easy to work the day
shift because it's not busy.
The problem we have is findingsomeone that can fill in at
night also.
So to me, any bartender that'salready like worth their salt
(07:03):
already has a job.
They're not leaving their jobto come be a fill-in at old town
right, unless it's somebodythat has a different.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Whoops, uh, a different job and just looking
for some extra hours, right buteven that's like a small niche
of people, right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So it ended up.
He it was just, it wasn't thatit was too much for him.
He opened up his own businessand I will give him a shout out
to c Bankston he does, um, Ithink it's lucky 13 and he has
done some stuff for us.
He's done some hats.
Um, my daughter does ourstickers but, yeah, he, he has
done, I believe, shirts forpeople that I know.
Like I send everyone there,he'll do a shirt or two if you
(07:38):
just need them.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Great, great guy and all done.
If you want a small town, bigmouse hat hat, you can contact
him directly and he will make itfor you.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, cut out the middleman which would be us.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yes, yeah, we don't got time for that shit.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah so, um, lucky 13 is the name of his lucky 13
embroidery and they're righthere in Clovis and veteran owned
.
He's a veteran, super cool guy,really great, very reasonable,
um, really fast, with histurnaround time anyway.
So he left to go do that andhe's doing very well, so happy
for him.
He is still available to fillin here and there though.
So then here comes the new girl.
(08:12):
We just hired this girl, so wehire her.
She works I think it was liketwo weekends every day late.
The owner lets her in onFridays and I let her in on
Saturdays.
Every Saturday she's late.
So now she's like three weeksin, doesn't know how to turn on
the lights, doesn't know whereanything is, because we, because
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when you're late, I got to openthe bar, so I got to fill the
ice, I got to get the fruit out,I got to do all the things that
you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's basically worthless.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Exactly, she comes in and makes drinks.
Exactly you said she doesn't doanything but come in and make
the drinks.
Because now everything's done.
Yeah, you get here.
You're supposed to be here at 2.
You get here at 2 30.
I've got everything done.
Yes, so then the last threeweeks, her child's in the
hospital.
Understandable, it's totallyunderstandable.
But it was weird because it waslike every thursday there would
(09:02):
be this oh, my daughter'sbetter, I'll see you guys
tomorrow.
Then every Friday it was likeoh, she's in the hospital.
I'm not like.
I it was weird, but I'm notDiminishing what was going on,
but it was just.
If that was what was going on.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, it was.
I mean because it was weird.
I would have been like I needto see a no or never bought in a
note.
Yeah, as the owner of the bar, Iwould ask for that and you're
able to.
Like, you keep calling in and,because that is a good excuse,
you don't want to fire somebody,right?
Because if that is reallywhat's going on, that could be a
(09:36):
problem, right?
So, asking for a note for yourdaughter, you could get one, no
problem, right?
Especially if she was in thehospital.
Show me the bill something Idon't know.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So then the fourth weekend she came to work friday,
on time saturday.
I went to let her in.
This was last saturday.
She doesn't show up until 225.
She texts me like oh, I don'thave a car, I have to get an
uber, but I'm on my way.
This was at 150.
I'm already in the parking lotgetting ready to unlock the
doors, because we open it too.
(10:09):
And that day the guys had like anascar draw thing that they
were doing.
So there was a bunch ofregulars like coming in, which
was cool for me because I got tosee people I haven't seen in a
few years, some of my oldregulars, which was cool.
But at the same time I'm stilllike fuck, I still got to come
to work tonight.
You know what I mean.
So when I got to work thatnight I was I'm going to say I
was a few minutes late.
(10:29):
I had already spent 25 minutesat the bar.
Actually I spent longer cause Ihad.
I talked to the people.
You know I was there like anhour.
I was there from two to three.
So I come back.
It's like eight, oh, three orwhatever three dudes sitting at
the bar.
I put my purse away.
I'm doing all the things.
I start what do you?
I start looking around, okay, Istart looking around.
(10:51):
I see three dudes sitting therewith no drinks, no, nothing.
So I put my purse away.
I kind of like evaluate thesituation.
I walk over, I said have youguys been helped yet?
Have you been ID'd?
No, so I'm like okay, so I gettheir IDs, I id.
Then I make their drinks, Iturn to her and I tell her babe,
it's very, very, very importantthat as soon as these people
walk in the door, you get theirid.
(11:12):
It wasn't like she was busy.
There was like two or threepeople at the bar and maybe a
table, and then these threedudes, but they were sitting
there the whole time.
I was putting my stuff away andshe wasn't even acknowledging
them.
So i'm'm just like OK.
So I tell her this, and thenshe doesn't say see, I'm used to
like when people leave their,their, their posts for the day,
(11:32):
do you need anything else?
Do you need anything else done?
Do you need the trash emptied,the ice stocked, whatever,
whatever, whatever.
She didn't do any of that.
She didn't even say goodbye tome, rude, yeah.
So I didn't know like I waslike okay, whatever.
Maybe she's upset that I was aminute or two late, but she was
25 minutes late, so I whatever.
(11:52):
So then this week I get thephone call.
I worked a double on Wednesdaybecause it was the day before
Thanksgiving and it wasimportant for us to be open, so
I went in at three, you know,worked all day till three
o'clock.
The next morning hostedThanksgiving at my house.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Thanksgiving dinner.
Thank you, nikki, you'rewelcome.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I had Amber and her mom and her daughters here and
we had a great time.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I didn't even want to stay and play games because I
was so comatose and thecheesecake was fire.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And then the next day was Friday, I had some errands
I was supposed to run and wewere supposed to record.
Well, I get this phone call atlike noon.
Hey, can you da, da, da, da.
She's not going to be able tocome in.
And then my boss is like maybewe don't open till four, maybe
we don't open till five.
This whole thing was going onand I wasn't really sure what
was going on.
Five this whole thing was goingon and I wasn't really sure
(12:45):
what was going on.
But anyway, I got to work atfour and when I walked in, his
son, who is part owner two, wasmad at me for not conveying to
him that I was going to be thereat four.
And I'm just like, I told yourdad.
And then his answer to me wasyou told the one motherfucker
that doesn't work here.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And I'm just like um that's the one that was
contacting me.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, I had been so my, my thing today is how work
affects you, like how it affectsyour mental health.
There are days that I just Ithink people look and they're
like, oh my God, it must be sofun to be a bartender.
It was.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It was about 20 years ago well, until you're talked
to disrespectfully yeah becauseeven in any other field I feel
like if somebody talks to youlike that, now you're, you're
putting me in a hostile workenvironment.
Yes, I've been very fortunateto where I've never had a bad
work environment.
I've always had like a veryclose-knit family work life with
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anybody that I've ever workedwith for the most part.
So I've never had like, oh mygod, I don't want to go to work.
I mean, of course I say I don'twant to go to work because who
wants to go to work?
Right.
But it's not because of how I'mbeing treated, right?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I, I have to say I love my, my job.
I do, but it's and it's eventhough I spent 25 years here
it's not.
It's the grass isn't greeneranyplace else.
I worked at another bar too.
I feel like it's a it's maybe abar and restaurant thing.
It's the industry and the thingof it is is I feel like owners
sometimes feel like they canspeak to you however they want,
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because they'll just blackballyou.
Like they can speak to youhowever they want, because
they'll just blackball you.
When someone else calls, theycan say no, I wouldn't rehire
her, and then that's just it.
You know right.
So that's very difficult and nomatter how good of a bartender
you are, if you have an attitude, then nobody wants you to work
for them.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So I mean you think about it too.
It's like even if you worked in, say, the medical field, right,
um, and you know you can havethese doctors talk to other
doctors, and now you're notrehirable in the medical field,
which can be horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Or, you know, even like working in the legal field
yeah, I was gonna say don'tlawyers talk to each other, yeah
lawyers, lawyers, I mean, butyeah, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
So I mean sometimes you hear different things or
whatever, but you just neverknow.
You know, I mean I're going toand I call you out on it and I
quit and I try to go worksomewhere else.
How are you going to do that?
(15:27):
You know how are you going tolike try to blackball me into
like not doing my job correctlybecause you're a fucking asshole
, Right.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But I feel like a lot of places too, especially like
corporate places, they have anHR department, absolutely, so
you can go to HR and make acomplaint.
But if I wanted to make acomplaint, who am I complaining
to?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You know what I mean my boss's dad, that's his dad.
Like whose side do you thinkhe's going to take?
You know what I mean it's likeand, at the end of the day, I
love the people that I work with, as people, right, right, maybe
not as my coworkers, some ofthem, but as people I like them.
It's just, you know, and it'sit's the whole dynamic of
(16:11):
everything.
I don't just get to come towork and make drinks.
I, especially in the bar, and Idon't feel like any of us do,
even Becca, who she's not thebar manager, but she doesn't get
to come to work and just do herjob.
She asks stuff to do too, andand, as the bartender, I'm
babysitting everyone that'sworking there, because when
you're a bartender, you're incharge of the whole bar, so
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you're in charge of the security.
The dj, like are they playinggood music?
Is the security payingattention?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
like it's a lot to have on your plate I don't even
know how you pay attention tolike everything, because my mind
would just explode like I knowI, with everything that I do in
my own life work life I have ahundred tabs open, but like
that's a hundred tabs atdifferent times, yeah, you know,
but for you it's like so it'slike a chaos every Friday,
(16:58):
saturday night and you're tryingto manage everything, yeah,
while serving drinks.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
yeah, and it's not just like Friday and Saturday at
least there's more people.
It's also like Wednesday andThursday when there's less
people, because then I reallygot to like okay, why is the
bouncer outside for so long?
Is he IDing that guy?
Did he pat that guy down, didhe?
You know what I mean?
Why does that guy have a tattooon his neck and he's inside?
Why is?
(17:26):
Are those?
You can't you?
Clovis city of clovis rules nowhite t-shirts, no tattoos above
the neck.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
No, yeah, so last night there was a guy, I don't
like clovis.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right, he was tatted out right here and he had a
tattoo right here on his faceand he was in the bar and I'm.
He was nice, he was respectful.
It doesn't change how someoneis.
These are clovis pd's rules,because they don't want those
kind of people in clovis.
But that sounds sounds a littleracist.
I think that thosediscrimination.
Yeah, and I think those ruleswere made back when the good old
(17:50):
boys were running Clovis.
You know what I'm saying.
But now it's not that.
Clovis is a diverse community.
There's lots of people ofdifferent, you know, ethnicities
and different genres living allin the same place.
So you have to accommodatethose people.
Genres living all in the sameplace, so you have to
accommodate those people.
So at the end of the day, youknow, we just hold up the rules
that Clovis PD has enforced forthe bars.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So.
But what's up with the whiteshirts?
It's some gang thing.
Yeah, oh my God, I don't know.
That sounds pretty fuckingridiculous to me.
I'm so glad yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I don't like Clovis.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I knew I didn't like them for a reason, you know.
I mean, I know a lot of peoplewith tattoos that have maybe
done stupid shit or whatever,but that's not who they are
today.
Yes, there's tattoo removal,but not everybody can afford
that.
Or, you know, there's programs,but usually it's for, like, the
younger generation.
Here I am 40 and I know peopleand I'm like, why would you do
(18:44):
something like that?
But those were the choices thatthey made at a certain point in
their life, but that's not whothey are today.
If I did, if for me, all theshit that I've done, everybody
would be like what the fuck?
That's not even you, but that'snot who I am today.
Right?
(19:04):
So I really don't talk about mypast, because for what?
That's not who.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I am, and there is a guy.
I let him in.
I call him face.
He has a tattoo like on half ofhis face and I let him in.
Well, he was part of the poolleague so I had to let him in at
one time, but when he was therehe never caused a, and the
first time he came in and I'mjust Sometimes I let my mouth
override my brain.
No way.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
So the first time he came in I was like and I said,
listen, I'm going to tell youright now.
You're not even supposed to bein here with that, but I'm going
to let you stay because you'repart of the pool league and you
paid for your pool dues and blah, blah, blah, blah.
I said but you cause onefucking problem, dude, I have
not one problem calling ClovisPD on you.
And he was like, okay, he goes,I won't.
And I said, okay.
So then we became friends, yeah,and then I started calling him
(19:52):
face because he has a tattoo onhis face.
And he goes what can I call you?
And I'm like, I don't know, myname is Nikki.
And then I was like you couldcall me blue.
And he goes why blue?
And I said because there usedto be this bar that I worked at
and I wore this perfume calledblue and this guy liked the
smell of it and so he would callme blue.
So I said you can call me blue.
And so he, he comes in andevery once in a while he'll come
to the door on a busy night andmy boss is like, nope, but he
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knows.
I said you can come in anyWednesday when I'm working, when
I'm here by myself, you cancome in.
But when he's here, heespecially on on the busy nights
, that's the nights that theydon't allow.
That shit, god, I just I wishthey're like I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Should be a case-by-case basis is what it
should be.
I, it's just a discrimination,yes, you know.
I mean and that's what bothersme the most um, I don't like
that.
I don't like face tattoos, buthis is huge I don't think we
should be judging people thatway, like it's okay for fresno
but it's not okay for Clovis.
The same shit that happens inFresno is the same shit that
happens in Clovis.
(20:50):
That's what they're trying toavoid though.
But why?
What's so good about Clovis?
It's a rural fucking area in thecentral Valley it's it's not
what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's the thing.
I think all these, that's thething I think all these Well, it
used to be very like the bar Iwork in.
There was nothing across thestreet, it was a field.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So it's really grown.
So with that comes growingpains and things that you have
to like.
You know there's differentpeople, there's different, you
(21:20):
know, ethnicities and differenteverything.
So you have to like it's not.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I'm sorry, I'm going to say it.
There's certain people they'relike oh my God, I'm from Clovis.
And I'm like fuck Clovis Likeit's still Fresno County I grew
up in Clovis, but I still amlike I don't know the difference
.
Like for me, I don't either.
You're a fucking human, and soam I.
Exactly, this is not BeverlyHills, this is not Orange County
(21:47):
.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yes, like someone is the central fucking valley
people.
I was at a party that we wereboth invited to.
I went, you didn't, yeah, andsomeone made the comment that
the girl, one of the girls, oh,she doesn't drive past Clovis
Avenue.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I've heard people be stupid like that.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like past Clovis Avenue.
I've heard people be stupidlike that, Like what the fuck Do
you know how much you'remissing out on the world if you
don't fucking drive past ClovisAvenue?
It's like I'm never.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm not.
I'm never leaving California.
Well, you're fucking dumb.
Yeah, I'm never leaving theUnited States.
How stupid does that sound?
If I can gift my children worldtravel, I would fucking do it
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I mean I want to gift myself world.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And that brings us right back to the point of
mental health at work.
How important is it for you tohave a vacation?
It's mandatory that's what Ikeep saying.
I haven't had a full vacationsince last november I mean I go
on a lot of little things likethree, four days a weekend you
(22:50):
know four days, but yeah, that'snot a vacation, though You're
rushed, you don't feel rested,right, so that that doesn't help
your mental health at all.
Because, yeah, you're gettingaway for a day or two, but the
rush of like packing, gettingeverything ready, just for what?
To leave for two days, to comeback to like unpack, do the
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laundry, like read back to workright, read your emails, or
whatever the case may be for you, because I'm sure you have a
lot of emails that are likepiled up Right.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well, and I think that's the bad thing too is I
have emails on my phone.
My phone so and I'm one ofthose people that when things
come through like I want to justtake care of it.
So even when I am away, yeah,if something comes through and I
can answer it without like mylaptop, I'm gonna answer it, and
I think that's why, with what Ido, um, being available 24 7 is
(23:43):
why I'm so beneficial, right,because I just get it done.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Do you ever think, though, that that is a toll on
your mental health, because youare available 24 hours a day,
seven days a week?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I guess that could be a mental toll, because I don't
you feel the need to look atyour emails though?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, it just pops up when they come through.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
See, mine, doesn't Mine, doesn't you feel the need
to look at your emails though.
Well, it just pops up when theycome through, see mine doesn't,
mine doesn't, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So as soon as it comes through, I'm looking, you
know.
But I will say, duringThanksgiving week I have been
very good and it's been veryrefreshing to have my brain shut
off.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Ok, now let me ask you this Very refreshing when
you and I go on vacationvacation we're planning a
vacation in february will youhave your phone on?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I will not.
Well, um well, I already havetold the person I work for that
we are planning a trip, okay, umso he he already knows, but
what will be?
In a whole different asscountry.
I don't know if my phone willwork.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Um, I see, because when I worked for the tool
company and I would go onvacation, I could not fucking
help myself.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
every day I was checking the emails just to see
if, like, someone wascomplaining or I wasn't going to
answer anything, but I, ifthere was something immediate
that I needed to, a fire Ineeded to put out, I needed to
do that, yes, so even when I didmy trip for my birthday, um, I,
I did turn off my notifications, but like you still looked, I
still looked like in themornings, like you know,
(25:18):
everybody's sleeping or whatever, um, but on the cruise, and I
guess I did have wi-fi too, um,but it was like planned and
summertime is slow for me too,so it wasn't really that bad.
My auto response was on um, butyeah, because I I run
everything, I feel like I'mresponsible.
(25:40):
So probably what I'll do is,once the dates are finalized,
I'll probably add something inthe beginning of the year saying
FYI, I will be on vacation.
I will be on vacation and therewill be no responses If I check,
I check and I you know, but Iwould definitely want to put
that in my email signature.
(26:01):
Yes, Just so people know aheadof time.
Hey, this is what's going onand I'll probably add something
to our website.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Very good, yeah, I I those vacations that I took
where I was working at the toolcompany, my boss was with me.
So, and cause I ran things, Ifelt the responsibility to look
at my.
He never looked at the emails.
He didn't.
I never got, like you know,know, a knock on my door at the
hotel like, hey, did you checkthe email?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
he didn't even know what was going on, right yeah,
and I mean there will be,because the person I work for
does have like a work phone.
Yeah, I'll probably add to tomy auto response, like if it is
an immediate need or whatever,please go ahead and call yes
that number.
But I think as long as I giveenough notice in February, I
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think will be good for me.
Anyways, although usually rightnow is super busy for me and it
hasn't been as busy as it hasbeen in previous years, I feel
like this year has kind of beenlike even throughout, and we
still have you know, done, havedone really well.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah.
So that leads me to likelisteners, like what kind of job
do you have and what are yourstresses?
So if you guys are listening,comment, like let me know.
Like they say if you.
Well, they say if you, how's itgo If you do something you love
(27:26):
, you never work a day in yourlife, but you're still working.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, you, I mean, you gotta be working, you gotta
be hustling, like I feel like ifI'm not, I'm always I got my
hand in everything, right.
So it's like throwing spaghettiat the wall.
What's going to stick?
What's going to take off?
What am I going to do?
Because I mean I got to figuresomething out.
(27:52):
I don't want to keep justmaking it surviving.
I would like something toreally take off, right, and hey,
you know, never know, right.
No, you never do, do know so,joe rogan joe, are you there?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
knock knock, hello, are you listening?
Yeah, um, but I just I I wonderlike, because I know like
people that are firemen orpolice officers, I know those
are stressful jobs yeah,absolutely, but they're like a
week on week I know.
But who would look and go?
Oh man, a bartender.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
That's a stressful job, you know what I mean Like
no one says that I feel likehaving a nine to five or eight
to five, whatever is easier thandoing what I do, even though,
like, I'm very flexible with mytime.
I mean, you see how my scheduleis.
I pretty much do what I want,but I also work two jobs.
(28:44):
Yes, I'm in office twice a weekfor a company that I help out
with, and then I also work fromwork from home.
So, having the two, I'm alwaystrying to fucking juggle
everything.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, do you ever get anything like confused?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I don't, because one job is strictly in office.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But even when I'm there, I get emails on my phone.
So I'm like you know, but I'mable to do that.
Yes, so it.
But it does suck when I am inoffice those days, because even
though I'm only there till threeo'clock, I come home and I
don't my, I don't want to workat home, I just want to be done.
But then I am working.
There's stuff to still be done.
(29:26):
There's still stuff to be donefor the most part.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean I can.
As long as I respond andconfirm shit, I can deal with
everything else the next day.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I just wonder, like what kind of jobs people have
and what their stresses are Like.
For me, like the most stressfulis like I work for a family, so
that's stressful to me becauseI hear one thing from the dad,
then another thing from the sonand it's.
You know, those two thingsdon't.
Sometimes they don't align, andI'm stuck in the middle and
(30:00):
after being there for so longit's like what do I do, you do,
and so that's stressful, butthere's no HR that I can go
running to.
So I know a lot of peopleprobably work for mom and pop
places.
Do you have the same stressesor do you just answer to one
boss?
Do you know what I mean?
I feel like I'm answering totwo people and sometimes it's
two different answers I have togive.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, I think too.
Another thing with that is howare you going to just leave a
job because of whatever is goingon?
Because, like in my personallife, when there's bad energy, I
avoid it, right, I don't wantnothing to do with it, I'm not
going to give it my energy.
So, but with a job, if you havenegative energy, you can't just
(30:45):
walk away, you have to dealwith that.
So what does that do to you, toyour mental health?
Leaving work, right, or whatkind of?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
you know like, I tried to leave once.
I literally tried to leave likefour years ago, and as soon as
I gave my, my boss, my two weeknotice, I got off the phone and
I was like in tears, I.
And then I got to work and Iwould cry every day that I was
there because it made me so sad,because I had been there for so
long.
(31:13):
Did they try to like say no,don't leave, or they were just
like whatever, nikki bye, kindof, because they're very like
they're men that's why, yeah,they're men, but also I feel
like they're very like if youcan do something better for
yourself to better yourself,then go ahead.
(31:34):
But I don't feel like they feellike that for everybody.
So I feel like I kind of, whenI told them I was leaving, I
kind of threw them through aloop.
The son said my dad didn't evenknow how to respond.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, I mean, I don't think they really know what
they got.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't think they do either.
I mean honestly, you know youdon't realize how much somebody
does until they're not around.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So a lot of things get thrown in my lap and I do a
lot of things behind the scenes,but I don't come and go like,
hey, I did this, this and this.
I don't make a list of shitthat I do for them.
You know what I mean.
So they may not even realizeall the things that I do.
So that's, you know, stressfultoo, because some days I want to
tell them you know, I did this,this and this today, and still
I have to come to work tonightand work.
(32:18):
You know, after I've alreadydone all these things Like today
I went and bought all the youknow bar supplies.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
You should have been fucking sleeping until I got
here, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I wish I was sleeping until you got here.
So, yeah, it's, it's hard, it'sstressful, like no-transcript
(32:55):
ever say it.
But I feel like there's otherwomen there and she's young and
she's like in charge of thesewomen and they're older and I
feel like they can be petty toher because she's younger right.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
They're like oh my god, why is this young girl
taking over?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
but the boss has taken her under her wing and,
like tina's smart this is howsmart tina is we did a fucking
escape room.
Okay, maybe I've told the story.
It was me and her, her wife,their child, my old roommate and
this guy that I was on a datewith.
We had been dating a coupletimes.
He was a cop and it was apirate.
(33:33):
Something themed escape room.
Do you want to know who got usout?
Tina, if I had to fuckinglisten to any of these other
people, I we'd still be in thatfucking room stuck oh my god
escape rooms are fun I know, andI looked at the guy I was
dating and I was like, are youfucking kidding me?
you're a cop, you should be ableto read clues.
He goes I'm not a cop on apirate ship.
And I was like, okay, I'll giveyou me.
You're a cop, you should beable to read clues.
(33:53):
He goes I'm not a cop on apirate ship.
And I was like, ok, I'll giveyou that because it was very,
you know, pirate ship themed.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, I mean, I've only done two escape rooms, but
they definitely get your mindgoing, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'm a freaking idiot when it comes to them.
So yeah, I don't think you'rean idiot nikki, I would read the
clues and I would just standthere like what?
Because you got to like readbetween the lines.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
So I have a um, I have a kind of a funny joke
regarding uh mental health andworking.
So it says why did the officeprinter go to therapy?
Why, why did the office printergo to therapy?
Because they had too many paperjams to sort out.
I know that's good office.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
That's good office humor.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, don't call HR now.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, well, that's, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's for the kids.
That's for the kids.
Yeah, here's another one.
Why did the employee bring aladder to work?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Why.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Because they were trying to rise above their
stress levels.
Oh my god that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
So, like I said in, any of my listeners or our
listeners want to come on andlike, make a comment or say,
like, what, what, what is yourjob, what are your stresses,
like.
And if you just want to vent,like we're on youtube, we're on
buzzsprout, we're on allplatforms yeah, all platforms
and especially if you go toyoutube, you can leave a comment
(35:23):
and we'll be able to commentback.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
So yeah, we get notifications.
Yeah, and, by the way, we'retrying to reach 500 subscribers
by the end of the year, so weneed your help.
We need your help to get thereand once we get to 500, and if
you message us and let us knowthat you followed us on YouTube,
because not everybody.
Sometimes I get notificationsabout who subscribed, but
(35:46):
sometimes that is turned offbecause of settings on whoever's
subscribing.
So if you want to be enteredinto a raffle for a $50 gift
card once we get to 500followers, subscribers on
YouTube, you'll be entered intothat.
And all they have to do issubscribe.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
It's free, right, free.
Yeah, that's all they got to do.
Yeah, subscribe please.
I mean, we each have like overa thousand followers on Facebook
, so if we could just get halfof our followers each, we'd have
a thousand like.
It's not that hard and I don'tfeel like we're asking for
anything that's like out of therealm of possibility.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
you know, I mean, you can cash, app us too, I mean,
if you really wanted to, but Ithink it'd be a lot easier to
just go over to YouTube andsubscribe to our page yes,
absolutely so but, and althoughthis is only audio, we will be
doing more um video sessions too.
It might be hit or miss hereand there, depending on our
schedule, and it is a lot easierto edit just audio.
(36:45):
You just wanted to yeah, do anaudio.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, we might see a few more audio sessions.
So, and then in a couple weeks,we're going to be interviewing
one of my friends in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
All right, well, do you want to wrap this?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, let's wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Thank you to everybody.
We love you and remember,subscribe, follow, share
feedback.
We love it all.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, comments, we love comments, something we can,
we can sink our teeth into andlike comment back to you would
be great.
So if you want to comment,comment, I don't care what it is
, I don't care what your commentis.
I hate you guys, I don't care.
That would be a good one.
I come back with that.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
I hate you, you suck yeah, haters gonna hate yes,
it's all right.
All right with that, I going tosay, roger, that Roger that.
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