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August 16, 2025 18 mins

This week we're moving past Myrtle Beach and straight into my first official boyfriend, the decision to drop out of college, and the glamorous beginnings of my bartending career at the green age of 19. 

We'll talk about, white lighters, poorly named restaurants, my dog pooping out my weed in the middle of the neighborhood, and some other fun highlights. It's the start of my "real adult life".... if you can call it that.


The Unhinged Ginge is my unfiltered memoir in podcast form, just stories. The laughter is loud, the hindsight is still nursing a hangover, and the details are... as accurate as memory allows.

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(00:13):
All right.
Hey guys.
Welcome back.
Thanks for coming back.
Um, this is the Unhinged Ginge Iam Beaux, episode two.
Feeling a little more confidentI think.
Anywho.
let's see.
We ended with, me going off tocollege, so that's where we are
going to pick up.

(00:33):
So I went to college in Florida,and I left everything in
Virginia.
I traveled a lot as a kid, sogetting far away, from a space
I'd been in my opinion, stayingtoo long was imperative.
So I left Virginia and I wentdown to Florida to go to school
and, um, had some really stellarroommates that I met at

(00:56):
orientation.
Super fun.
Very cool girls.
Good girls.
much, much better women than Iwas, that's for sure.
anywho, so, um, I finally got aboyfriend when I was in college.
sweet, sweet baby.
little Jewish guy.
I don't know if he wants me touse his name or not, so I'm not

(01:18):
going to but respect.
You were the best.
he was a sweet angel.
I ended up taking his virginity,which was really cute.
he cared a lot more about thatthan I did, obviously from what
you heard last episode.
So I like lit candles.
You know, I made a playlist.

(01:39):
No know it had Coldplay on it,you know, it did.
So.
Shout out to cold play, for, forthat magical moment with, that
sweet man.
he was fantastic.
He treated me right.
He was a really good guy.
And, um, at the end of thatfirst year of college, we had
been together, I guess likethree.

(02:02):
Three or four months, not long.
Felt like a long time.
When it's your first boyfriend,it's like, oh my God, three
months.
But now that I'm saying out loudand thinking in hindsight like.
Holy shit.
We'd only been together threemonths.
No wonder his mother respondedthe way that she did.
I was pissed at the time and nowI'm like, oh wait.
Yeah, she had a really good, shehad a good point and probably

(02:22):
been fucking mad too.
So I dropped out, of college atthe end of my first year.
Uh, my mentor.
had killed himself and shot hiswife.
It was pretty intense.
So, um, the wind was just takenstraight out of my sails.
So I dropped outta school and,didn't have a plan.

(02:45):
told my parents that I droppedoutta school and didn't have a
plan and that I would, call themwhen I, when I did have a plan.
I'm such an asshole.
Um, so I.
Drove down to South Floridawhere he lived, to stay with him
for the summer because I was in,an apartment in college, but it

(03:07):
was student affiliated housing.
And I thought that I was gonnabe fine because, my lease wasn't
up until August and this was atlike the end of May, very
beginning of June.
So I was like, oh, it'll befine.
At least I have somewhere tostay for the next three months.
Well, when I dropped out.
I didn't, um, realize, eventhough it seems so fucking
obvious now that I was not gonnahave a place to live, and they

(03:30):
told me I had to like vacate thepremises, so I had nowhere to
go.
So, um, ooh, almost said hisname.
So Sweet Baby Angel.
Um, so I was like, oh no, justcome stay at my place for the
summer.
It'll be totally fine.
Mom's fine with it, blah, blah,blah.
So he told me that his motherwas okay with this.

(03:50):
I drive down there and find outwhen I get there that he hadn't
actually even told her what wasgoing on.
So, everyone, he, he told herall my way down basically is
what happened.
So she was shocked and notpleased.
But what are you gonna do?
Are you gonna like tell this19-year-old girl that she's

(04:11):
homeless now?
Or like, I don't know.
So She grinned and beared it andwas as nice, I guess, as she
could be for what we both justdropped on her.
So, uh, in full respect of that,I slept on the couch, not in his
room.
'cause that's the way that herrules were and that's how she
wanted.
I cleaned, I cooked, I dideverything that I possibly

(04:32):
could, but still had to, ask himwhat a shikha was.
Because I heard that word a lotand didn't, didn't realize what
that meant, but you know,whatever.
So it wasn't, um, the mostideal, uh, situation, but it was
a roof over my head.
His mother was very kind to givethat to me, and sorry about

(04:53):
that.
Um.
We could have, we could havebeen better people.
We for sure could have beenbetter people.
I could have been a betterperson.
But, all the men in his familyloved me.
They thought I was fantastic.
But the women were definitely inthe shiksa territory as, uh, as
far as their feelings for mewere concerned.
Um, I decided that I was goingto go back to Orlando.

(05:17):
'cause I definitely was notstaying in South Florida, so I,
had packed up my shit and headedback.
He also was going back toschool.
We were still together, so itjust made sense.
So, went back to Orlando.
I found some roommates onroommates.com'cause this was
like 2005, I found a house withthree people, a couple and this

(05:39):
other guy, and they were allmuch older than me, but probably
in their late twenties, soprobably maybe like 10 years.
felt like a lot more at the timefor sure.
I just, I did, it didn't fitright, so I decided to stop
along the way, and went to a,um, oh my God.

(06:04):
We adopt dogs.
A shelter.
I went to a shelter, I went toadopt a dog.
'cause I'd asked them before Igot up there, like, Hey, is it
okay if I have a dog?
Even though I didn't even have adog.
And they were like, yeah, wehave two.
It's fine.
No big deal.
So I was like, okay, perfect.
So I adopted a dog on my way togo move in with these people.
'cause I just did not wanna bealone.
I had no furniture, I hadnothing.

(06:25):
I had, like my clothes.
And, an air mattress and a dog.
My car was loaded up.
I had left the front seat openfor this dog that I was gonna
adopt, and I went and got her.
She was incredible.
Her name was Stone.
Um, stoner actually, because sheate my weed a lot.
When I moved in.

(06:46):
I thought that I was hiding ittoo well from myself and that I
was just high and I couldn'tremember.
Where I put it.
And then I was taking her for awalk and she shit a plastic
baggie and I was like, thisbitch.
And she would not answer to anyname that I had tried to name
her that first two weeks that Ihad her.
She would not respond at all,but when she shit that bag, I

(07:07):
was like, you fucking stoner.
And shook her tail and she waswagging and she was so excited
and I was like, oh my God.
Is that your name?
And I was like, stoner sick.
And she did.
And that was it.
So I called her stone instead ofstoner, for my parents' sake.
And, yeah, so got my dog, movedinto this house, was sleeping on

(07:28):
this air mattress.
the duration of me living there,I was sleeping on that air
mattress, but that livingsituation didn't actually, last
that long because I ended up, Ihad saved money when I was in
South Florida.
I was working at a cell phonekiosk in the mall, back when
singular was the thing, and Ihad saved some cash and was

(07:50):
paying my rent and whatever.
But then it's like, I, I didn't,I could not find a fucking job.
And so it.
Got to the point where I waslike, I have no skills.
That's what this is, is I haveno fucking skills.
So what am I going to do?
So I had enough money.
I could either go to bartendingschool and hope for the best,
and hopefully it would get me ajob, or I could pay next month's

(08:14):
rent and I'd have a home for amonth, but potentially couldn't
get a job because I didn't, Ihave skills doing anything.
So I opted for bartendingschool.
So I ended up going tobartending school and It was
like a week, like a 40 hour,five day week thing to like
teach how to do, the basics ofthe tricks of the trade.

(08:36):
it was really cool.
It was like this old guy thattaught us and he owned the
building.
He was a chain smoker and I hadended up, Not.
I had quit smoking for like sixmonths at that point.
I was very proud of myself.
But man, sitting in thatclassroom eight hours a day and
having this dude blow fuckingcigarettes smoke in your face.
Whew.
I made it, I think, one or twodays in that class before I

(08:57):
ended up breaking down.
I went outside on our breakbecause we'd have like a little
hour break in the middle ofthings and I went outside and,
this chick that was inbartending school with me and
walked up to me and asked if shecould bump a cigarette, and I
was like, I don't have any, Iwas actually about to go buy a
pack and she was like, dude, Iquit.
And I'm like, dude, me too.

(09:18):
And she is like, yeah, but Ijust can't be in this classroom
with this guy blowing smoke inmy face because.
Now I want a cigarette.
And I was like, alright, bet Sowe ended up, buying a pack and
splitting it.
And then that was like thesecond day of glass.
And after that we just sat nextto each other every day and
became thick as thieves.

(09:39):
I have spoken to her.
She did, she told me to changeher name.
we will talk about that later.
I owe her a lot.
And one of the things I owe heris an apology.
she was amazing.
She is amazing and I miss herterribly.
But any who, so she, ended upliving not too far from this
place that I was renting withthese people.

(09:59):
So she.
and I went out one night, blah,blah, blah, crashed at her place
and it just kind of turned intolike a, why don't we move in
together?
she had a one bedroom, but herlease was about to run up and
everything just kind of workedout great so that I could fall
in and we could live together.
And we both, like, we went andapplied for jobs together and
everything else, and we bothended up getting hired at the

(10:21):
same.
Restaurant.
So we both end up getting hiredat the same restaurant.
it has to be closed by now, butit was called the Captain and
the Cowboy, which now working atso many gay bars that I have,
that name is hilarious.
it was in an old like plantationhouse and it had three stories

(10:41):
it was.
Broken in half based on themes.
So half of it was this countrytheme with like steer horns and,
and fucking like.
Lots of wood and saddles andshit, and they played country
music.
And then the other side for thecaptain was, beach themed and,
had these beautiful murals onthe wall with like the ocean

(11:03):
whatnot, and played a lot of BobMarley and more of like a
Caribbean type vibe.
So I guess if you can't make upyour mind might as well just,
split down the middle.
So, we applied there asbartenders, but they, They hired
us as waitresses, which wasfine.
It wasn't because they didn'twant us to bartend.
It was because neither one of uswas 21.

(11:25):
And even though you didn't haveto be 21 in Florida to attend
bar, that's just what this placewanted.
So it was like, all right, fine.
So I'm 19.
I'm not mad about it.
in August when we had gottenthese jobs the restaurant hadn't
opened yet.
So it was kind of one of thosethings where.
They basically hired half thestaff with no experience, the

(11:46):
other half the staff withexperience.
And we did it where like theysaid like within three days
you're gonna know and we'regonna fire most of you.
So it's like, oh shit.
So I kept my job.
Unfortunately she did not.
It just.
Uh, in the cards for her at thetime.
But, um, loved that place.
Food was great.

(12:07):
they'd serve us underage, so wewould go, we'd drive 40 minutes
to get there before we'd go andtear the town up.
I don't even know why I'mtalking about this restaurant so
much.
It's crazy.
But that's how I started in,this business.
So I was waiting tables and myboss was like, Beaux.
Like, what are you doing man?

(12:27):
Like, you, like,'cause I'msitting on businessman's laps.
I'm having like a party and heis like, you need to be behind a
bar.
You cannot be working in finedining and things like this.
Like this is not, this isn'twhat you're cut out for.
So he ended up getting me a job,with at, at a biker bar that was
a few miles away.
And that's how I started.

(12:49):
My bartending journey.
I remember I walked in there, Iwas wearing six inch stilettos
and a miniskirt.
I was ready for this interview.
I was like, yes, no one's gonnasay no to me today.
And, um, turns out their dayshift girl had, not shown up.
So since she pulled no call, noshow, and I went in for an

(13:09):
interview, I ended up having tobartend right that day, um, in
six inch heels and a miniskirtat a biker bar.
And I was like, please, for thelove of fucking God, just
straight shots of liquor andbeer.
Straight shots of liquor andbeer.
'cause even though I knew what Iwas doing, I had no fucking clue
what I was doing.
I took a class and like I saidlast episode, like you can't

(13:33):
just read a book and, um, andexpect to know what the fuck
you're doing.
Yeah.
You have to, you have toexercise that.
And I hadn't exercised shit yet.
So I ended up, um, going outwith her one night and all we
had on us were our IDs, uh, packof cigarettes and two white

(13:55):
lighters.
And my boyfriend at the time waslike, man, you gotta get rid of
those white lighter or bad look.
And I never thought anything ofit.
And uh, we go out to this club,we're dancing, chilling, having
a good time.
And first thing was that all ofthe cigarettes in the pack, we
lost the pack and we ended upfinding it on the dance floor
and they were all like brokenright at the filter.

(14:17):
So I was like, damn, thatfucking sucks.
But wasn't nearly as big as adeal.
Like, uh, wasn't nearly as bigof a deal considering we were
trying to leave af like when theclub closed and she couldn't
find her keys.
Um.
If actually I take that back, Icouldn't find her keys because I

(14:39):
had pockets and she did not.
And so I was carryingeverything.
So this was completely my fault.
The keys had fallen out of mypocket and we're looking around,
we go out, we're like, well,let's just so go check on the
car.
And of course not, because it'sgot one of those like key fobs
on like beep, beep beep.
So, someone just must havewalked around the parking lot
beeping on this thing until theyfound her SUV and they stole it.

(15:04):
So here we are dressed likesluts just standing on the
street corner, 2005 in a dimlylit Ali, waiting for the cops to
come.
'cause we don't have.
Her car.
So we are waiting on the curbfor the cops to come.
The cops never fucking come.

(15:25):
So, we are dressed like hookers,standing on the corner, waiting
with the cops to show up,because we need to file a report
or something.
the cops up, were not veryhelpful.
They kept staring at my tits.
So, didn't get much from them.
Ended up hitchhiking home, withsome dudes.
I think it was in a truck.
I don't know.
It's all kind of fuzzy, but wecouldn't get into the house.

(15:49):
so we ended up having them dropus off at my boyfriend's
apartment because I knew he wasawake and our cell phones were
in the car, so we did not haveany act.
And my keys.
We're in the car, so we had noway to get to my house.
We had no way to get to herhouse, and we had no way to
contact anybody.
So we just went to myboyfriend's place and just

(16:10):
banged on the door until theyopened it.
And um, he sure shit was justlike, I told you not to go out
with those white lighters.
And we're like, you've gotta bekidding me.
So this is, we borrowed hisphone.
She called her parents, toldthem, excuse me, he told them
what happened and, We'restanding out on the balcony

(16:31):
smoking and he is like talkingabout shit about these white
lighters.
So we just throw the whitelighters off the balcony and
we're like, fine.
Fuck it.
They're that bad luck?.
Let's get rid of'em.
So we get rid of'em and I kidyou not within an hour of
throwing out those whitelighters.
her father had called myboyfriend to get in touch with
her to let her know that.

(16:53):
Someone had messaged him fromher phone saying that he had a
change of heart and had left hercar in a church parking lot, and
the keys were under the seat andgave him the address of where
her car could be located.
Like, you have to be fuckingkidding me.

(17:14):
So we, had my man drop us offthere and, Yeah, sure.
As shit.
And he had bagged up everything,like unhooked her system in the
bag, like our amps and likespeakers and shit, unhooked, all
of Put them on like everythingin her car.
Trash, not trash, everythingjust in grocery bags and.
Randomly just had a change ofheart as soon as we threw out

(17:36):
these fucking white lighters, achange of heart and left it in
the parking lot for us to grab.
So with his change of heart, Ialso had a change of heart.
And, um, shortly thereafter Iended up breaking up with that
guy, sweetheart.
But I realized after I took aroad trip to Virginia with my
roommate.
That I was silly in love with mybest friend and that I wasn't

(18:01):
doing myself any favors bystaying in a relationship with a
person that clearly cared moreabout me than I cared about him.
And that was another lesson initself but it did open up a very
big window for me to walkthrough kind of propelled my
party nature, so this one mighthave been a little bit of a

(18:24):
connecting episode so that weunderstand where we were
getting, but I the next one'sgot some spicy shit in it.
So, um, I think that's that.
I think we're gonna wrap it uptoday.
Thanks for showing up, and Iwill see you next Tuesday.
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