Episode 47- The Night I Interviewed Lydia

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Excuse me, Can you move yourcar? You're blocking the entire bars parking
lot. Yeah, as soon asI finished my beer. Jesus, where
do I work? What can Iget you drunk? Welcome to episode forty

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seven of Behind Bars, Cocktails andWasted Nights. I'm your host, Greg.
I've been working as a bartender forover twenty years, and over those
years, I've seen a lot.My goal here is to share some of
those high and low lights with you. Quick warning, this podcast contains sex,
drugs, and some language that isn'tsuitable for anyone under twenty one years
of age, so you've got tohave some id First off, little housekeeping.

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I apologize for not putting an episodeout, but July was a bonker's
month. Sal the owner of Dimples, sadly passed, and I flew out
to la to attend his memorial service. And then the guitarist from our old
band, Gipsy Groove decided he,his friend and his nephew would drive out
to Colorado to visit me and catchthe Poisoned def Leopard and Motley Crue show.
And yes, that'll be a futureepisode. Okay, that said,

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after a few years of coaxing inviting, bothering, annoying, and generally begging,
Lydia finally decided to be a guest, and oh boy, it's a
hum dinger. But before we getstarted, you'll need a drink for this
one. Lydia wants us to doa Mitchellada. So first, rim a
pint glass with tahem rim, fillwith ice, Add two ounces of clomado

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not bloody, mix four dashes ofWorcestershire tappity tap tap tap a tapatio tad,
a squeeze of lime, and thenfill the glass with a good Mexican
lager Liz recommends m Hello Speciale.And when you're pouring that, by the
way, make sure you tilt theglass and do not, I repeat,
do not make contact with the tahinbecause otherwise science will happen and you'll have

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a foam volcano on your hands.And if you didn't hear me and fucking
do this anyway, keep the lineon hid to fight the foam uprising until
you win. And as always,if you don't have any of that shit
line around, line up a healthyline of blizz, smell it hard for
quality, and do what Lydia woulddo. Shoot a healthy, poor furnet,
and if you don't have furnett,stick with the tequila. Okay,

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without further ado, here's Lydia.All right, everybody, Welcome to episode
forty seven of Behind Bars, Cocktailsand Wasted Nights. I'm psyched tonight because
I have in studio a guest I'vebeen waiting for forever, Lydia aka Lidyards,
Lidyards. What's happening? Oh,you know the us the use what's

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the usee? What's actually not theusual? A? We're gonna give it
the pregame away? Is that whatwe're doing? So Lyddy and I worked
together forever. So like one ofmy first good friends in Denver, we're
of a certain age where we likewould rock out at the end of the
night listening to hair rock and stufflike that, sad songs. Yeah,

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the kids don't know what Van Halenor they don't or poison or Princes they
don't. That's okay, yeah,and you will, like Letz is the
kind of person that'll call me atlike two in the morning on our way
home to let me hear in thebackground that I Remember you by skid Row
is playing, or November Rain.November Rain is another big one. And
I've done this like eighteen hundred times. Yeah. Sometimes I don't answer the

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phone. I just wake up toit. I'm like, yeah, they're
is November rain? Start my dayoff. And she doesn't even talk to
me. She just plays the music. She's it's hilarious. Um, so
start off as we always start off. Let's how did you get into the
business. You're from Connecticut, You'refrom New Jersey from you're in New Yorker
basically, right, I mean,you know, I was born in Connecticut.
But my here goes my accent thatI only affect when I'm talking about

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this stuff. Um, I wasborn in Connecticut. My father was born
and raised in New Jersey. Iam Italian by birth. Um my father
did not want to raise us inNew Jersey where he grew up, so
even just to Connecticut. So Ihave a nice Connecticut upbringing. But I
am absolutely one hundred percent in NewJersey Italian at heart. Yeah, I

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would say I would agree with that. And we have like a similar background
educationally, But you're more performing thanme. But you went to like like
arts, right, like you sayingyou guys, by the way, this
has moves. This girl can dancelike I've seen her dance and it's insane.
I can dance if I want to. Everybody behind, Yeah, everybody,

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take off your pants. You can'tdance and you don't dance in here.
No friend of mine and I don'tdance, but we're still friends.
I just can't dance. So,yeah, where'd you go to school?
Oh? Where are we? Certain? I mean, let's go performance?
Sorry, like performing arts? ItsSkidmore College. Skidmore College. Some people
called it smoked More because we smokedso much weed there. Other people called

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it skid Mark skid Row. Isn'tit was not? We were the creative
ones. Yeah, And I wouldsay, like, didn't you have a
famous roommate or a classmate? Oh? Man, yep, I'm well.
A lot of my former classmates havegone on to do great things. But
the most notable I would say isone John Burnhall that I think a lot

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of people are familiar with. Yeah, like The Punisher. He was in
so many movies. At this point, I'm proud to say that I know
him and that we were roommates umin the summer of I think like nineteen
ninety eight or nineteen nine, whenwe were all struggling actors. Didn't you

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show me a video him going I'mgoing to be famous? Yeah? Trust
yeah I shouldd uh. You knowhere I am in the restaurant and just
just millions of dollars making movies.So I don't know where I went wrong.
Well, starting in the restaurant,a story, what happens. You
get easy money, you have alot of fun. And as a female,

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I think, you know, there'sthe casting couch, and I got
a little salty. I think onthat aspect of the industry. Casting couch.
Yeah, do tell every woman alwaysdoes well in dimples. Like what
you had to do if you werelike a hot female, you had to
go on the back and take offyour shirt and put on the dimple's tank
top in front of the boss.That's casting couchy. I guess what was

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your experience? Do you want toshare it? Or no? It doesn't
matter, No, no, no, it's fine. There are any number.
It was like every experience. Idon't know. It was like,
oh, you're cute, so youwant to go out for dinner. Let's
talk about your career. Gross,And then it was very clear that they
didn't give a shit about life,like it's swearing here, swearing here,

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Greg, stop swearing. I've beenliving this peachy life so long. Okay,
point man. So it was annoying. No, I'm not gonna fuck
you to get a role, right. You know you got you got in
there, you u you cut yourteeth, you proved your metal. You're

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a kick ass bartender. You werelike super fast. You know what I
loved about you, like working withyou behind the bar before you went to
the management side. Yes, we'llget to that later. She would put
people in their place in a verylike assertive way, not to the point
where you're like you're gonna yelp her, but you're like, oh, shut
yeah, I was misbehaving. Ohmy god, I'm completely out of line.
And I give like the mom lookof like, come on, did

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you really just say that? Yeah? Come on, think about we just
said and you you started off inthe bar New York. That was we
won't name the name, but itwas because of Omerta. But uh,
definitely not hip hop because it didn'texist them. Yeah, hippo, this
was some mom might have been anaffiliation here. Yeah, we won't name

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the family. But okay, soyou worked, Okay, how was that?
What was that, Like, let'ssee, I was twenty three,
I had just moved to New YorkCity. I thought I was king shit
until I moved to New York Cityand got a foot in my place very
quickly. And I had a bossthat let me know that if anybody ever
fucked with me, he was gonnalet them up dot dot dot dot anyway.

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So he kind of gave me thefreedom to assert myself and to speak
to people that way. Um inthe middle of Lower Manhattan at the very
young age of twenty three or twentyfour. So, oh my god,
you get the power, you havethe money, the fun, and you
have the power, and then youget the women scarface on. And I

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wasn't gonna look at for women,so that's irrelevant. But yeah, so
kind of giving my balls. Ithink I got some balls when I worked
there. And then I moved toDenver and I my first job was on
East colfax Um a eye opener,we shall say. I thought I had

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seen it all in New York atthe right bold age of twenty six.
Denver's got some ship. People wouldbe surprised. I was surprised my very
first Sunday day working at this particularbar. I was cutting fruit mining my
own business, and I noticed agentleman quote unquote across the street um with

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a backpack, and I was like, huh, where is he hiking too?
There's no hiking trails around here.We're in the middle of the city.
Dirt, dirt, dirt. Andthen he like ducked into an alley
and he started smoking what I assumedwas weed because I was again still a
little green. And then then Isaw the lighter go like several times.

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I was like, oh shit,he's not smoking weed. He's definitely smoking
crack. And it was like tenthirty in the morning. So he abruptly
like walked across the street and walkedright into my bar, and I was
like, oh, so, Idon't know really what to do here.
I'm new. So I asked oneof the guys in the kitchen what to

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do and he goes, well,he's probably thirsty. Give him a goddamn
beer. And it was like dollarPBR day at the times. I give
a dollar PBR and he's sitting thereand he's drinking it. He was fine.
Then he had a second. Hewas still fine. By beer number
three, dude was like on thefloor and I was like, okay,
we got to pick this guy up, like, get him out of here,

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like I went to college, whatam I doing? So they get
him out of the bar. Hegoes outside like, yells at a transformer
on the sidewalk, kicks it.Um, goes across the street, smokes
more. Crack goes into the adultvideo store next door, comes out with
a bicycle and pedals away, andI was like, what the fuck?

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Just asking how do you get abicycle? This is what I'm saying.
These are my questions. You wentto the porn shop to get a bicycle
because he was bike curious. Tothis day, I'm like, so,
what is the arrangement that you havewith like the porn shop. You're like,
Hey, can I leave my bikewhile I go a smoke? Crack
have a couple of dollars beers.I'll be right back. Didn't know it.

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That's amazing. M I wasn't evena rider then, still still not
Yeah, definitely not. We'll goback and edit that. Um. So,
you know, you get to assertyourself, You get to be a
badass and tell people you give hima what for? Sometimes I remember store,
you told told me when you wereworking a certain tavern where you couldn't

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use that, You had to useanother method to keep the peace well.
And I would say, because ofthe parties involved, it was the best
choice you could have, no Greg. What I've learned in all my years
in this industry is that sometimes youhave to read the room, you know,
and you have to figure out howto best um quelled situation. Every

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situation is different. It's true inthis particular instance, um, I mean,
do I start from the beginning ofthe story. It's the best place
unless you want to Quentin Tarantino forus. Oh what does that mean?

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John Travolta was on the toilet everysingle time somebody else got killed in pulp
fiction, every time somebody got killed, he was in the bathroom, fucking
dropping a deuce. Every every scenewhen somebody died, he was like even
Uma Thurm when she overdoses, he'sin I can never really thought he's in
the can. Yeah, reading thenewspaper. Yeah, damn with that stupid
hair. Anyway, contest who soanyway, you read the room, read

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the room? So um uh.This particular place had a particular crowd that
belonged to a particular motorcycle club thatwill also remain named ye Broun. Yeah,
that's it. Um. So theywere not they didn't take too kindly

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to people of different uh anything right, m you're going to kind of leave
that there as well. Um So, on this particular evening, there was
a gentleman who was pretty much theantithesis of everything that they stood for.

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He was a big black man,and he was gay, and he was
lamboyant, and he was mouthy andall the things. And he decided to
poke the bear and mess with thisparticular group of guys. He couldn't read
the room. He did not readthe room. He read maybe his like
ID that day, but I don'tthink so. He was using brail to

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read the room. He was layinghand. So anyway, got to the
point where it was going to cometo some blows, um, and that
could have gotten very volatile. Andso the only thing that I knew how
to do at that point was astep in the middle and flash my tits.

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Super unorthodox, yeah, but Imean, who doesn't live fucking titties
les has some big, captivating tits. By the way, this was also
like fifteen years ago. They wereso much better back then that's terrifying anyway.
So it stopped the music literally andwas like, next thing, you

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know, everybody is high fiving,hugging, like buying each other drinks exactly,
yeah, and like going to eachother's like fucking weddings and shit.
They didn't, but um, butwhat could have become a really bad situation
turned into like just hugs and love. This is amazing. This is why
I want to open my therapy practicewhere instill like dredging up things that depress

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you. We just talk about Disneytits and blow and you're gonna leave there
so happy. It's gonna make everybodyhappy. I don't worry about your I
mean, like walks of life thatwould never have like come together, came
together. You can pay out apocket, it doesn't matter. Yeah.
United That was like the karaoke bar. I had like a forensic accountant who
made like almost millions, and Ihad a guy who couldn't read who washed

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windows all day and had a gunbelt that had little pencils in the bullet
holes and squeegees in the gun holstersand they were best buds. It's like
a bar can bring people together.It's really weird. Oh, unification through
alcohol, and then they added kitchenand I want to hole anywhere that usually
happens. Just focus on the boozepeople. It's a lot different than where

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we used to work. We haveto break stuff up. You never have
any stuff there? Uh my mostrecent Yeah, oh, lots of things.
Let's see where where even start there? Um, let's see, let's
see, let's see. Oh,you know what, why you're buffering and
searching. We were both like superbig Van Halen fans, and we both

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know that Dave is kind of likereally like davely Roth's kind of eccentric.
Dave. Yeah, it's just aDave. You you had a running with
Dave. I did it. Idid I did it. Back to the
New York City days in my youknow, formative years. UM was sitting

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at a bar. I was twentyfour, like three four or five,
okay at the time. Um,and I'm sitting at a bar and I
was just trying to go have adrink by myself, which I did often
back then and sometimes still do anyway. Um. But also I was really

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feeling my like independence at that time, and like I'm young lady, and
I live in New York City andlike, yeah, I'm gonna have a
drink by myself anyway. So Igo this like dark bar. I just
feeling kind of hip that night,and um I looked down the bar and
there's this guy that looks a littlelike down and out. It's kind of
shaggy looking. He's got like,um, like an EMT jacket on.

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And I was like, oh man. I was like, okay, I
probably had like a really long night. He's like an EMT you know,
in New York City, and that'sgotta be rough. And I'm asking the
bartender about it, and he's like, yeah, that guy's definitely an empty
And I look at him a littlebit more close, and I was like,
is that David Lee Roth? Andthe bartenders like yeah, he's an

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empty right now in New York Cityand that's him. And I was like,
I was like, I'm so tornbetween like yeah, I'm just gonna
say anything, you know, youknow, it sounds like something he would
do. He's he's a maniac.You know. His dad was like a
surgeon. See him like doing that. Yeah, he got the same jeans.

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He just used his powers for theforces of debauchery. Oh, Wranglers
he's got a great podcast, bythe way, I highly recommend it.
You hear all like the it's likehe just opens up his head and just
lets it all out. And thenI saw him in concert like in two
thousand and seven, like many yearslater, and he was awesome, and
I was like, thank god,he's not on that truck anymore fucking saving

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lives. He just saved my lifetonight. You imagine being resuscitated and you
look up David Roth. You're likemy dad. Yeah, he's like he's
like oop was the lyric. Ihave no ideas on so much cocaine.
I have no idea. I scream, man. It's like I'll take some
ice creamer Mama, I love it. I'll just have a push pop my

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favorite. Okay, yeah, that'swhere we're gonna have lyrics. So my
favorite story working with you was whenyou were imagine you came back to help
us out and like the beer tapsupstairs of course from malfunctioning, and it
was all foam and you've been bartendingand you're a master bartender, and you
were pouring foam because the taps weresucked up, and that guy was like,

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oh, look at her. Shecan't even bartend. She doesn't even
know how to pour a beer.Oh my god. And I looked at
those guys. I turned around immediatelyand I was like, have a good
night, fellaws. You guys areout of here. And then, UH,
like, what what are you talkingabout? I'm like, just go
you're you're leaving? Yeah, andthen I waved security over. I'm like,

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I go, look behind you.Your rides here. That's right,
you said your rides here. Yeah, I definitely saved them from you.
That's as mean as I get yourrides here. Oh yeah, So you
sing, you dance any what's yourfavorite? I'm the tple threat, but

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I make up my own moves.You do have some crazy moves. Um.
Have you been in anything like likeplays and stuff like that, like
like as of late or just ingeneral? Give me the resume? Oh
okay, well will My favorite thingI ever did in high school? And

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I was Audrey and Little Shable Horrors, And I also was the princess in
Once Upon a Mattress, which CarolBurnett played originally like on Broadway, so
it was kind of fun to takeon like a comedic Carol Burnett esque role.
Um. But then when I gotto college and we started doing things

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that were more sort of serious quoteunquote, which they were. Um,
I did a lot of Brett,like Brett Old Brett and like who I
know wow, and you know,uh, studied a lot of like Russian
theater and if they would leave earlier, they wouldn't be Russian. It's true,

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why the hurry finish? We areso too fishes. We pre game.
Yeah, we had a burgers.Nobody wants like sober interviews. Um,
but yeah. There was one timethat we were on in a production

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off off off off Broadway, butthe address of the theater was Broadway.
It was just like way Downtown wereon literally exactly. It was like in
Chinatown, like nobody was going tosee our ship. But like we did
it. Like we were in thecity and we were a theater group and
we were like in our early twentieswhen we had to like eat a bagel

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a day to like survive for afew weeks. And but we did our
production and it sucks because we didn'tknow what we were doing. Beautiful.
We were humble, and we werelike went back to like a little upstate
New yorktown. We're like, okay, we have a lot to learn still,
and I had like family come toit too, and they were like,

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so we didn't quite get it.Business school. It sounds like your
waitressing career is going. Well,that's nice. How long have you been
at it? Oh my god,my whole life, my whole like professional
professional working, like uh long beforethat. My parents owned a restaurant when

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I was a kid, so yes. But when I got my first waitressing
gig when I was nineteen, myI called my dad and I was like,
hey, Dad, oh waitress.He was like, oh my god,
Lydia, do you know how fuckinghard I've worked for you to not
do this? Goddamn shit. I'mlike putting you in school. God.

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He's like, well, whatever didyou have to notice with your dad?
What are you gonna do? Hey, Dad, I gonna give you my
two week notice. I remember thatwhen it was waitressing and not serving.
I'm more comfortable with waitress or waiter, like instead of server. It's too
close to servant, correct, youknow what I mean? Like I was

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like, oh, server, it'smore. I'm like, no, it
isn't. Sounds like I'm cute,sounds like I'm looking around. I'm like,
hey, wait a little, you'regonna wait. Yeah, let's let's
do that. Let's go with that, let's go back to it. I
also want stewardess. I don't wantflight attendants. What does that mean?
Stewart? My name is stu Artists. Nice to meet you, all right,

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So getting back into bless you?Oh my god, what happened?
Is your nose irritated? For?What is that? Some snizz? Some
blizz? What's going on? Idiot? But you do you need a tissue?
No, let me reach in theback of my grandmother's buick and I'll
get you. Okay, all right, or my car next to the next

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of the velopments. You do havetissues in the back. It's hilarious also
smart. Um, So back intothe service industry. Um, you left
Bartending. Well, I was madwhen you defected to the other side because
I loved like being in a trenchwith you. Take me to the other
side and you went into management.Yep, what do you think of that?

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Oh? Well, you know versusBartending? Um, that's a loaded
question. That's what we do hereon a wasted night. Okay. Well,
Um, what I liked about itin my reasoning four was because I
wanted to buy a house, soI wanted more consistent income right right,

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And I felt at the time thatour place of business needed a little more
leadership than it had, and Iwas willing to do that because I felt
like I had the support of mywhole team behind me. Absolutely, we're
on your side. Like a bunchof people could be like, do this,
do this, Lydia said, dothis. Okay, we'll do it.
Lydia said, which is just likenobody ever in my whole life ever

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did that, which is kind ofdefinitely have like a mother goose and a
Mama bear kind of thing, youknow what I mean. I think that's
where I found it. Yeah,no, you have it. It's like
I pay attention even me, youknow me. That's not greggyem that's a
home. Yeah, that's not greggy. What does that mean? Just like

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I've just been saying that for sevenyears. I don't remember why. I
think it's because I don't tell theline you're supposed to do this, you'd
being so silly, greg, Dad'snot greggy, Okay, cool like Homer,
like, oh you know at home, you know he's gonna eat a
burger, He's gonna have a beardsay something silly, but you know that's

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a homer. Yeah. Um,so you're in management and you wanted to
buy a house. You had moreconsistent income, people who are listening to
you. We needed leadership, whichyou brought to the table. And so
those are the pros? Were there? More pros? Are we pros being?
You know? It was like thebiggest challenge in my life at that
point professionally, and I just wantedto see if I could do it.

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Did you know office stuff? LikeI don't know how to do office stuff,
So you had to learn all that. Yeah, and I still I
still don't know some of it.But you did the schedule and all that
stuff, like give me an Excelsheet. I'm like, exactly, I
mean Excel, give me a break. Yeah. I don't excel at Excel.
I do. I. I eventook a class on it once and
I was like, yeah, youlost me. Yeah, five minutes and
you're like checking your phone. WhenI was in college, we didn't like

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have computers. Yeah no, Iwas barely wed, like just had email
my school back then, and theWorldwide Web was new. Yeah you've got
male yeah, al messenger AOL.I had like a gateway computer, like
it looks like a cat. What'syour screen name, sparkly Lid? Oh,
I give out mine, but it'smy password to everything now, So

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I can't spark sparkly Lid because Iwas like on a lot of ecstasy and
seeing a lot of fish shows backthen, a lot of glitter. You're
a fishhead, and you say backthen, So it's like it was just
no glitter exactly. I've just takenthe glitter back. Where's the last time
you saw fish? Yeah, you'realways going to Mexico to see face.
Hey, I go to Mexico forvarious reasons. Uh, the last time

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I was there was to see fish. You are correct. That was last
February. Yes, nice, Yes, Okay, you ran into our friend
Richie in Mexico. That was afew years ago. I sure did.
Yeah. Oh man, he neededa friend too. I'm so glad.
I'm so glad I saw him.He really needed it. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just like a beaver and hewas tripping face. It was just

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like a beaver. Oh my god. In actually, it must have been
so hot. It was hot onmany levels. A beaver the best damn
costume you could have thought of.Thank you. And I hadn't slept for
like two days. Oh my god. Oh anyway, but then there was
Ritchie. I mean, he whoshall not be named. He's the mayor

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Denver. Everybody knows he had LikeI mentioned him in a previous episode,
the Stormy Daniels episode. He's theone that had to go to court at
eight in the morning. But hesaw us making out and he's like,
you know what, let's go tothis after party. I'll bring the booze
because my friends having a good time. Greg and Stormy making out. Let's
be clear. Yeah he's the best, but yeah, he had had too

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much that day and didn't know whatto do with himself. And he he
had like a trails like fries andlike chicken tenders, and we were in
a bowling alley and I'm just likea beaver and I was like hi,
Ritchie, and he was like,oh you like put everything down, and
he's like, thank god you're here. We had this whole hug and his
friends were like, oh my god, this is like the best he's been
all the day, Like he hasnot been normal whole day until he saw

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you. This is what the industrybrings to the table. Folks. This
is not going to happen, iswhat we look for a vacation. Yeah,
this is not going to happen.R Oh no, no, nope,
she's gonna go to an inclusive andnot leave it that. You guys
are in beaver costumes, Tripp andface going to see it was just a

(29:25):
hat. It was just a beaverhat. Actually, okay, now I
think about it. I had beena beaver for Halloween months prior, so
you're right, You're right. Thecostume was too hot, but the hat
itself was fine and seemed appropriate atthe time. So back to being our
manager in our leader. Oh right, right, do a little left turn

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there, that left turn out,So I get all my best jokes from
bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny. I wasalways like, okay, you can drive
the car, you can talk,but you cannot take the bunny hole and
slide it over that. I say, sorry, oh no, like this
match and on the other my friendBuggsy was in there, would I know,

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say, so, what are thecons of management ledyards? Oh?
Cons are there cons? Come on? No, everything's a dream, I
would imagine. So when I sawyou in actually the worst thing that would
like just I would just lose mymind, and you always kept it cool.
You're in the middle of a conversationand three people come up to you
at once and just start talking toyou an issue, Oh yeah, yeah,

(30:33):
that's that's a given. That's unbelievable. I couldn't do that, especially
in our place is so busy.Um. But I was prepared for that,
and I was okay with it.And I always wanted to like field
people's questions. And I had workedin enough places where I didn't feel like
I was heard as an employee,and I wanted my employees to be heard.

(30:56):
Yeah, you were a very opendoor policy, like you would listen,
you implement things, you respond.I would imagine though, because we're
an industry of like kind of likeon the on the fridges of sanity or
behavior, because you know, wedon't really have an HR keeping everybody in
line, people are a little weird. Like what's the weirdest or some of

(31:18):
the weirdest things you've had to dealwith from the employees, Boy, from
the employees, no, I can, I cannot. Let's see um hoof,
I mean it has run the gamutum. Did you have someone not
show up because they were in jail. Oh yeah, I mean like at

(31:40):
least once. Um. Yeah,they get one phone call, they call
me like really, it's like this. You know, you're worried about your
jobs. So that's cool. Um, I will make a note of that,
but you should probably call somebody elsethat can actually help you get out
of Joe free card does not existin the real world. Um, let's

(32:05):
see. Let's see. Let's seeemployees, I mean all manner of things.
Can you call my mom because Ididn't call her? Can you help
me with my pet? Can youyou know, they want you to go
babysit, the pet, it justanything, anything and everything. It's like,
oh my god, you guys,just like how are you even alive?
Exactly? Grow up? Yeah,put on your pants like I did

(32:29):
today. Yeah, I don't wantto wear pants. I don't want to
wear them. My favorite was likebecause I wear them right now, don't
get that twisted. I'm wearing askirt. Yeah, although it is hot
in the studio, so happens.But uh, like all the people that
we work with are super young,and it's like they don't It's like I
have food poisoning. Oh I can'tcome in. It's like bullshit. We
were all drinking together last night.You weren't there. I never once in

(32:50):
my life food poisoning, not once. You just you show up like Boston
James says, you show up,you get sent home. Correct. Yeah,
yep exactly, but at least youshow up exactly. I did that
on my twenty first birthday. Ishowed up hungover a ship. You had
to work the day after your Ohlet's hear this one. Oh I mean
so I was dating the manager.He was thirty, and he had actually

(33:14):
been telling everybody at the in thetown that I lived in at the time
that I was twenty one until itbecame my twenty first birthday, so that,
you know, was a dispelled myth. But anyway, I was drinking
U surfers on acid, divieger pineappleand Mala gross the worst, yeah,
combination of anything um and uh stillyraspberry and cranberries. Oh yeah, because

(33:39):
you know, I didn't like booze. I didn't like the wait it tasted,
so I wanted to drink all thesweet things. And then that same
manager was my manager, scheduled methe next morning and I had to open
and I couldn't. I couldn't doit. Oh no, I could not
do it. Um. I wasthe only front of house person. I
had to wait tables, bartend,do all the things, and all I

(34:01):
could do was vomit, like inthe bathroom, and the kitchen guy came
out and was like, go takea nap in the back. He's like,
I got this. So like thekitchen guy, Polly, his name
was Polly h He like ran thewhole show that day. He's like,
just go home. It's amazing.Cool. Kitchen guys are always like they're
in the back, they're quiet,you don't know anything about. They're assuming,

(34:22):
but when the hit the fan,they will step up. Oh yeah.
So then I got in trouble.I got in trouble for that,
which is obviously understandable. Um.So my punishment was I had to wash
dishes. Your manager boyfriend made youdo this? No, it was the
owner at that point was like he'slike, I see what's going on with
you too, Like, no morepreferential treatment, Like you want chef's girl,

(34:44):
You're gonna have to wash dishes.So so I washed dishes in a
Mexican restaurant. Um in the highto summer, in the heat of summer,
high to summer. Uh yeah,beans burned into the bottom of pots
and pants like rice all the things. So I did that for like a
few fridays, and he was like, all right, kid, like you
earned your stripes. You can havelike all the like sweet shifts like from

(35:06):
your own out. It's like,thank you, I'll never do it again.
Meanwhile, I'm doing it again tomorrowafter awhile. Meanwhile, now I'm
twenty one, I'm going to goout and do this every night. Yeah
I would. I remember like chookingin my lap in the back of a

(35:27):
cab quietly on my way home froma bar, like twenty first birthday.
Beautiful speaking of actual like advantageous momentsthough in the industry. Going back to
the bar I worked at in NewYork City, Um, I worked there
during the blackout of two thousand andthree, So all of Manhattan was blacked
out for forty eight hours. It'sall your credit card shits down everything.

(35:51):
I mean, we didn't have likea machine at that point. It was
all like yeah, anyway, sonobody's showed up for work because you know,
the power was out. But Iwalked to work. I showed up.
My boss flagged down an ice truck. He's like, well, you're
the only one here. You're likethe new girl whatever. He's like,

(36:12):
yet behind the bar, it's justyou. And I made like eight hundred
bucks that day. Oh my god, the place was busiest shit. Um.
And I then earned a Saturday dayshift from then on and made like
three four hundred dollars a shift intwo three. Yeah, like the entire
time I lived there. That's likeTuesday. And like the girls that had

(36:34):
worked there for like twenty twenty fiveyears were pissed. Oh I bet,
but guess what I showed up.I showed up. I didn't know what
else to do. Yeah, itdidn't occur to me to not show up.
It's like, it's a very muchof what have you done for me
lately? Just like Janet said,what have you done for me? Have
you done for me lately? Oh? Yeah, two songs? But it's

(37:00):
fine. Yeah, no, it'sfine my Janet Jackson. Um, So
you're here, you're in Denver,You're you're in transition right now. What
do you think is gonna be thenext move? You're gonna stay with it,
You're gonna go to another industry?What do you think you want?
To do. I mean, yougot a bunch of ideas, everything swirling
in the head. You know,I'm a dreamer, but my heart's a

(37:25):
gold at a runaway high. SoI wouldn't come home though. Just when
things went right doesn't mean that alwayswrong. Just take this song and you'll
never be left all alone. Takeme to your heart, fill me in

(37:49):
your bones. Just one more night, and I'm coming on this long and
one road. Wrong. I'm onmy way. I'm on my way home.
Sweet home, dude to I'm onmy way. Just admit free home,

(38:19):
sweet we were good for a littlewhile. Hit that up. I
guess we'll close with that. Imeant a story, but whatever, that's
nothing better than that. I mean, let's go. All right, that's
LIDZ. Thanks for being a fantasticepisode forty seven on Cocktails and Wastes.
So goodbye to the people. Goodnight people. Thank you. We're gonna

(38:42):
have you back. Let's do thisagain. All right, I'll be back,
I'll be front. Well, it'slet's call. So let me give
you a tip. Don't ask mein the middle of a rush to change
the channel to some game featuring yourcollege you didn't go to. Only so
you can look down at your phonethe whole time. Anyway, dick move
folks, it's been a blast.You don't have to go home, but
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So you want to get in thered, but you don't want to
like peg it right there, likethat's all distorted and shit, So okay,
okay, don't have to lean towardit. Just talk talk, just
talking talking, tell me some shitat your regular I'm gonna tell you some
shit sometimes sometimes I just walk aroundthe block with my dog. If I
had a leash for my cat,I would have done that too. Check

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one two, check one two.All right, we're good, and as
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