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From the newest hits to the most classic of trash, Gabby and Chyenne are here to dish on the history, production and greatest moments reality TV has to offer.
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pop that button. Where's the chapstick? Can I be Mothman? Yes. don't know why I sound like an old woman. Who's Sabrina? What do you Charlie XCX is a woman?
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Yo, it's Gorilla Central out there. Get the fuck out. Juiceheads everywhere. You don't think that he's good for you? How do you know what's good for me? That's my opinion! Are you kidding me? I swear to Don't be f***ing... What are you doing? ...throwing the thing on me. I'll f***ing hurt you. Welcome to BoobTube. This is a special BoobTube. It's a crossover... Ah! ...event. It's a crossover... It's finally happening! It is.
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Because we finally have Nathan Stone from Politics of New America and some other special things coming out soon. Yeah, we've got a big slate for the fall and working to produce some of that right now. yeah, maybe we'll do a little sneak preview towards the end or something if you guys are interested. But yeah, I'm super happy to be here. Our shows are basically the same, feel.
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You know, we talk a lot about a lot of very, you know, intense pop culture subjects on politics in New America, the unitary executive theory, that one. the time. Oh yeah. I, yeah. Constantly on my feeds. That's all anyone's talking about. Yeah. I do think though that, you know, we can share a lot back and forth. could. Yeah. Because, you know, the president of the United States is also a reality TV star. So there you go.
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Um, check. got it. Check. We got it. Well, this is welcome. Our honorary boober, our honorary boober. And, um, so I'm Gabby next to me, Cheyenne. And of course we already said Nathan, um, we are doing for boob tube bar rescue. ah Yep. I remember mentioning it and Nathan was like, I have to be on this episode. I have to be.
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I did. It's really important to me this show, actually. And I don't mean that to be facetious or funny or anything. If I can digress for a moment and share my heartfelt story here. So I discovered Bar Rescue very by accident, just sick at home one day. Holy crap. What happened? You got pink eyes. Like 13, 14 years ago when my wife and I
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we're stealing cable. You mean illegal cable? Back in our old apartment, it was great. I miss that. I miss that cable. And so I watched it. was like, oh, this is a great sick show, right? Because each show is basically the same. And it's a very forming not mori. It's not mori. It's not mori. So it gives you a different flavor. It does. calm. It can basically be like mori. Yeah. Yeah. And so I watched a little bit of it and then didn't really think too much of it. But.
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What we found was we would rediscover Bar Rescue every time we went on vacation. Because our vacations, we vacation in a very specific way. We go somewhere and then we spend all of our time just doing big, huge walks. So on an average vacation, they will walk anywhere from like 25 to 45 kilometers. And we'll see things and we'll... Sorry, do want to repeat that? How long? Anywhere from like 25 to 45 kilometers. Holy shit. Yeah.
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I die walking up 12 stairs. Those are rookie numbers in this racket. Yeah. Do you do you dress up like hobbits and pretend like you're taking the ring to Mordor? Oh, God, yes. Look, I wasn't going to get into fetish talk already, yeah, yeah. Here we go. I'm going to leave it to your imagination who is Sam and who is Frodo. But I think you could probably figure it out. Suss it out if you wanted to.
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But yeah, so we would go on these big walks and then we'd come back to our hotel room. And to save money on vacation, we only usually eat out one meal a day. in the evenings, what we'll do is we'll have like big bags of like the store bought like kettle corn and popcorn and stuff. yeah. Mix them all together in these big into a bigger bag and we'll have some drinks. And at the end of the day, we're just wiped out, totally exhausted. But every cable package.
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always had Paramount or before that Spike. Oh Spike TV man, miss you. TV. There was about a 75 % chance if you turned on Spike TV, you would be in the middle of a four hour bar rescue marathon. Yep, bar rescue or Ink Master. One of the two. Yeah. And so we just got this thing where on vacations that's where we do, we would go, we would go hard at the end of the day, we would just hang out on the bed, eat popcorn, drink.
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and watch Bar Rescue. And honestly, watching the episodes that we did to research for this show just brought both of us back. Like last night, my wife and I both sat down. We watched like four hours of Bar Rescue and we're like, oh man, I remember those days. Yeah. Yeah. bringing families back together. was great. Yeah. So honestly, I do have a really special place in my heart for this show. yeah, of course, those days have gone.
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at least for now because we have a one year old. As soon as you get kids, you don't get TV no more. She precludes a lot of things right now, but hopefully eventually we'll be able to incorporate her into our crazy vacations and our walks and nice. And then I'm just gonna sit her down and give her some popcorn and a beer and show her how to watch Bar Rescue. Yeah, exactly. Let's rescue some bars, Let's rescue some bars, kids. Well...
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Shayan have you watched bar rescue before I loved bar rescue growing up because again just like nason said it was a really good like sick show You know to switch between like maury jerry springer judge judy. I was like, okay, I need I need less yelling Because listen sometimes the difference between everyone going uh
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Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I was like, okay, you need to listen because if you want to make money, you need to listen to me. And I like that because I'm like, yeah, I want to make money. I'm like money too. That's not yelling at me. That's giving me insight. yes, I'm listening. Yep. I, so growing up Spike TV has always been a huge part of my growing up. I think that's probably one of the reasons why I'm a lesbian.
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because it was like hot chicks, cars, guns, drinking, poker, everything. Poker? Stuff that men do. And it was just like, I grew up watching Bar Rescue. Well, I was already in my late teens, but then I also watched A Thousand Ways to Die. Yes.
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And then we also watch, think, I can't remember what the name is, but it's like a historical reality TV show where a bunch of these experts, like medical experts, historical experts and everything, they'll pit two uh historical figures together, like William Wallace versus uh Shaka Khan or-
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Shaka Khan, Shaka Zulu. Deadliest Warrior. Deadliest Warrior! That's it! it! That's it! That's it! That also when very late night when I couldn't sleep I would sneak down and sometimes there would be Girls Gone Wild. Oh boy. Yep. And now she's a lesbian. It all makes sense. It all makes sense. But it's like yeah she can watch Spike TV that's totally fine. It's just altering my brain chemistry.
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So the background of Bar Rescue, it is a reality TV series that airs on Paramount, which it's now called Paramount, but now it's used to be Spike TV. ah It stars Jon Taffer. He is a longtime food and beverage industry consultant specializing in nightclubs, bars and pubs. he's low-key a genius. He is low-key a genius, but rewatching this, I did notice that there are some things he shouldn't have done. Facts.
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So the show premiered on, of course, Spike in the United States on July 17th, 2011. And uh there was a spinoff series that happened years later titled Marriage Rescue, where Jon Taffer. No, he didn't. Yes, he did. Gabby, stop. No, he didn't. I've invited couples who tried conventional marriage therapy and failed to a five star resort in Puerto Rico. yeah. Yep.
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This was this thing where in May 2019, he announced that he would host a spin-off on Paramount called, like I said, Marriage Rescue, where he would work to save couples failing relationship. The spin-off series premiered on June 2nd and the series followed 12 couples as Taffer uses the Gestalt therapy to help them work through their issues. What is the Gestalt therapy? I would love to know. Yeah.
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The result therapy is according to Wikipedia, my trusted source. is uh a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist client relationship, the environmental and social context of a person's life and the self regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation. So.
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Just, you know, take accountability for your shit. Are are you like putting that down for like later? Just taking some notes. Just taking some notes. Um, I mean, John Taffer, he, um, he's a businessman. He focuses a lot on the business and, um, of course, but, uh, the thing is he, um, um
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This might also connect with uh politics in New America. He's a big Trump head. He loves Trump. Oh, John. Okay. Oh, I mean, that shouldn't surprise me. Because he's like a business guy. He I think he's looking at Trump like a business. Money. Money. Money. Yeah, it's all about money. It's all about the money, money, money. Yeah. He also uh he's also like a huge
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kind go innovator and bar technology. Like- Oh, nobody knows more about bar science. Exactly. It is basically every single time the uh intro, I guess, monologue is like, he takes everything down to like a bar science. I wonder if he can get that at like MIT or something. I got my BSA in like bar science. I feel like if they had offered bar science at our community college, I feel like some of us in this room might have-
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maybe made some different decisions? Well, a little bit part of me is when I was working at Noble Grape, if I didn't go to community college, I probably would have made a manager. I sent to my face and I was like, oh, great. Oh, fuck. Now you bring this up. at that moment, Gabby knew. She fucked up. She fucked up. uh No, I mean, I liked brewing a lot. I liked making wine. I liked making beer and stuff like that. And it'd be Nathan.
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And actually I met Nathan before going to school. Yes, that's how we first met. Yeah. And then realized that we had met afterwards after we started going to school together. Yeah. But yeah, I believe Gabby got one of my batches of beers started. What? Yeah, I think it was also during like the COVID era too. So we're all wearing masks. I was like, part of my guys' face eyes look familiar to me? That huge f-
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I've seen it somewhere. That billboard forehead. Yeah. You know, yeah. Actually, can I can I make a small complaint? Yeah. Not about you, but Noble Grape. I have a scar on my hand here. I know if you guys can see it. From a beer bottle going up and through, it just it shattered while I was putting the cap on. Yeah. And the last batch, actually the last two batches I made, I made a batch of cider and a batch of beer at the same time. Totally undrinkable. They. Yes. Yeah.
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uh Because when it comes to brewing your beer, I'm not like I'm not an expert, but I know that if the calculations of like the beer to sugar ratio or if it was like stored improperly, which probably it was because it's supposed to be in an airtight container, but with a stopper on top with like a water lock that will keep the gases from going out versus like air and other contaminants can taint.
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Contaminants? Contaminants. Thank you. Going in. And then if like a new, say, bacteria creates, it'll like goes into the beer, then it can cause the beer to become mainly foam. It's gonna be mostly head. That's exactly what happened. Yeah. Oh my God. No one knows more about beer science than me. Look at me. Then Gabby I am Gabby Taffer right now.
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I'm you can tell I'm snaps for Gabby Tapper. I'm I'm sweating for my art right now ah but yeah that sucks with the bottle though I probably would have been like oh shit because one quick other story about Noble Grape is uh When we moved locations which sucked I hated that location when we moved to Oxford perfect Oxford was It was so easy for me to get to like
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I could basically, my bus was right outside my door and like the bus stop was just basically right in front of the store too. So not even two steps. on Main Street in Dartmouth, right? Well, it's a, there was, that was one location, but it was on Lady Hammond for like a while and, um, like I'm complaining cause before I had the luxury of going to coffee shops and there was like a grocery store not too far away. And then we move and then I was like cousins. they fucked it all up. I know it was like cousins.
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or Tim Hortons or and of course at the time I was a vegetarian so I was like I don't eat meat and like all these other places like I can't really order anything unless like it's meat related or the vegetarian option is absolute dog shit so I was like fuck me okay yeah totally what though I did get them back for you I bled all over their floor that day was that at the new location? was at the new location yeah uh
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Yeah, so going on from that story when I was trying to say is this nice older woman, she was working at the we bought that location from another beer and wine making store. But um so we had this thing, it's like a levy or something like that. And you can put like really heavy um buckets or camera or the big fucking other name for
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like the other container, but it was like really good. I can like, wench it up, put it up and then went to back down, but it's on like a lock system. So to put it down, you just press the unlock and then you could slowly bring it down. And then she lost her grip and like the, um, the, like the, whatever the thing is, it just flips back and slammed on her hand oh and blood.
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everywhere and it was busy that day and I was like click click click click click over she's like bleeding and I'm like oh fuck me so I had to like bandage her up send her on their way and I was like you have to go to the hospital right now oh my lord have mercy so I have a question yes why is John Taffer not fucking called you in to be an expert I know a rescue I know call John Taffer give her a call call me right now I'll put up my no okay you know what don't do not put up my phone number
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I already get You can email us. You can email us at btube at gmail.com. I'm looking at Hannah. Is that the right one?
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You can also email info at hauntedmouseproductions.com. Yes, also info at hauntedmouseproductions.com. There you go. Yeah. And then you can hire Gabby as an expert and let's bring Bar Rescue back. Yeah, let's do it. I think it's still going. Oh, tell me about it, stud. Yeah, let me get to it. So with the format of Bar Rescue, John Taffer will go into a failing bar where the owner set like
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Probably usually, the owner usually reaches out to him, but we do have some exceptions where like other staff or family members who happen to also work or be around them also reach out to John Taffer and be like, listen, they're like X amount of money in debt. The bar is gonna close. We're gonna lose all our money. We're gonna lose our retirement. We're gonna do like, we're trying to make this succeed so we can have a future. So he'll go to them and then.
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What he'll do is he'll send in a recon. So normally the recon is his wife. Um, little secret spy action James Bond. Other times he'll have like, sometimes he had celebrities, like he has a couple of NFL players come in. ah
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think when Spike had this, like, Egyptian Pharaoh show...
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Between these two women when they finally get to express their love for each other. I mean it was kind of erotic.
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He had like actual actors go in like um Alexander Zidig and he tut it's called tut. Okay. I know. Of course it is. It is called tut. Yeah. So he actually had actors from there um go in and you know, just scout out this bar. And you know what, let's just go to clip five.
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So you can see just the recon. I'm ready for these clips. Recon is critical to my process. It's easy for me to understand the financial issues of the business. I also have to learn what the customer perspective is. That perspective is extremely helpful to my final decisions. Nicole heads into Pirates Tavern, a 2,800 square foot linear space with an underutilized stretch of table seating in the front and a bar area in the back. Outside is an unoccupied patio.
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So that's also another thing is like they'll always break down the space of the bar and be like, this place has X amount of like bar wells or anything like that. But it's crazy to me that in that clip, this is for the it's like a pirate tavern, pirates tavern, which is not spelled correctly because it's like pirate, like pirate, but it has a Z instead of the I. Like tavern. And that was like
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Out of all the other episodes I've seen compared to like many others, this was like probably one of the most tame. I agree. Like, you know, the owner is like, you know, she it's in um right outside of Washington, D.C. In like a central downtown area with corporate buildings all around. Yeah. And you know what?
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And let's put some pirates in there, boys. If this was a bar in Florida, I would have done a lot better. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Or even in fucking like Nova Scotia. No, no. Yeah. Like Nova Scotia. Come to Nova Scotia. Yeah. You just just put it on a boardwalk somewhere. Yeah. Just on the coast. Maryland, wherever. Just like, yeah. Put it wherever the tourists go. Not where. Go to the shore. Yeah. The shore. The shore. Yeah, the shore. The shore. Are you friends with her?
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Are you friends with her? God, tell me right now. Are you friends with her? Are friends with her? Are you going to pirates? Are you friends with her? So, yes, these owners are typically in debt and and like a lot of debt, a lot of debt, not even a little, a lot, a lot of debt. John only shows up for like six figures and above. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't go for like if you're fifty thousand dollars in debt. That's petty. That's petty.
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Literally. can't imagine. I've never had nine hundred thousand dollars in my life, which is what Tracy, who is the owner, Tracy Rubello, who is the owner of Pirates Tavern is in nine hundred thousand dollars in debt. I've never seen nine hundred thousand dollars. What does nine hundred thousand dollars look like? Can we like insert a clip of just specifically nine hundred thousand One dollar bills. One dollar bills. Please. Yes, it's.
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Honestly, it's insane. Like, go to clip four, where we see what her financial situation is.
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danger of sinking for good. Tracy has agreed to pull back the doors, bust open the books and make a call for help to bar rescue. Yep. So maybe maybe I'm being unreasonable here, before you lose your health house, wouldn't you lose the bar? Like, wouldn't you sell the bar? Maybe she put the mortgage mortgage mortgage into it. oh that's exactly what she would have done. Yeah. Yeah.
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I would have loved them to interview her family. Well, the fucking crazy thing is, Tracy still like she moved into her parents' home. The basement with her 17 year old daughter and husband. I would have been like, I want to live with dad. I'm not moving back into grandma's place. Like what? Like I want to like, no. It's like.
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I don't ever want to impeach on people's dreams, but sometimes you have to be reasonable. Like a pirate-themed bar in a landlocked area. if you're like, like I said, like Nathan said, it would be great if you were actually on a boardwalk. Right. doesn't, it literally does not take a bar science fucking person to be like, yeah, this isn't going to work. Yeah. Yeah. Open your fucking eyes.
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It's insane. It's literally insane to me. But also, I want to show you what Pirate's tavern actually looks like and go to clip two there. I know I'm like bouncing around.
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After a long career in corporate communications, Tracy Ribello hosted a successful pirate themed Halloween party. She wanted to bring this theme to her everyday life, so she launched Pirates Tap. Aw, sis. a pirate is the ultimate Peter Pan syndrome to live like a child, girl, yet be an adult. Peter Pan syndrome? No, I am Peter Pan. You're your Michael Jackson. I'm Peter Pan, my heart. Honestly, um...
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Just get a PlayStation. Just imagine if your kid grew up and said that. What? I want to live in the Peter Pan fantasy every day of my life. I would introduce her to LARPing. Yeah. Because I'd been like, that's great. I love that you have this creativity to you. But unfortunately, our society needs us to have a joff. Right?
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No, No, Or go put your goddamn pirate's bar on a boardwalk. Or I don't know. Go to Disneyland and work as like one of the Pirates of the Caribbean actors. There you go. got it. you go. Like under like the bare minimum wage to work at Disney. I don't know that the issue was that there were no other ways for her to express her love of pirates. Pirates? I think.
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It was more of a shared delusion though, because her employees fed her delusion as well. This episode is so unique in just how everyone in that bar is living totally spaced from reality. Yeah. Yeah. Like they're literally all in Delulu pirate land. Yeah. Go to clip three. We get to see one of these characters. Oh, is it one-eyed Mike? It's one-eyed Mike. Oh, it's one-eyed Mike. I honestly though, I did like one-eyed
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Mike a lot because even though he dressed as a pirate he was really into it he just seemed like a genuine dude he was willing to change he was he was yeah good for what I'd Mike now he works for Tesla what what he works for Tesla now my guy polled as a pirate still no all right roll that clip they call me when I'd Mike because well
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That's insane if that actually happened. Hats off to one-eyed Mike. Yeah, hats off.
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So that's like kind of the vibe Tracy has for her, like the whole sort of restaurant. now it is a restaurant as well as a bar. And barely. Yeah. Barely a restaurant. So- restaurant loosely. Yeah. But when John did the recon, he sent his wife in first dressed in normal clothes. She's going to stick out like
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sore thumb and I'm like John you're not thinking you gotta send pirates in there and that's what he does okay I I thought the exact opposite because I figured that they would be more suspicious of some people coming in dressed like pirates whereas ostensibly they would want normal people coming in off the street but then it seems to work like you said like she as she says in in the episode she got made
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They realized it was her. so they've got the kid gloves on. But then when he sends in two other bar owners dressed as pirates, the staff is just like, whatever. Because I have a feeling, um when it comes to productions, have a feeling that they'll let them know, OK, on this day, we're going to send in Jon Taffer and his, quote unquote, recon. So maybe they don't tell them who the recon is.
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but I think they know that they're expecting it. And I have a feeling like either like as soon as John's wife came in, then came out, they're probably like, okay, know, the recording's over. Like John Taffer is gonna come in soon and maybe they're just like, you know, I have a feeling like this is like a specialty bar where only people who have like, who are part of this pirate community would go to. So I have a feeling like it's staffed by the community. It's usually people.
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from the community goes into. This is like what Silver Springs? It's just Silver Spring, Maryland. It's like right outside of Washington. um And it's insane to me because it's just like, I have a feeling like people who dress up as pirate pirates just go in and they just do whatever the fuck they want. It's fucking weird, And I said it's fucking weird. Yeah. I mean, I think it's fun.
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It's good to have a theme because you have like what the jungle cafe. Yeah. But like make it make sense. Benita. Make it make sense in you know like. Landlocked Maryland. Yeah. Well corporate Maryland where there's nothing but like buildings full of like professionals and stuff like that and offices. And. my mind. Yeah. Yeah.
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Um, so let's go to, I want to show you the gross ass food. Cause normally when it comes with these shows, you show, they show the food that's gross. Yeah. So we're going to show clip seven where we get to see gross ass fish. favorite part of every episode. I'm actually hungry. It was a disgusting chunk of white smelly. I couldn't even take a bite. This sucks.
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That's supposed to be like Mahi.
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You heard it from the pirate too. It's srks. Okay. don't know how to pirate. No, got it. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly it. Arrrr shucks. She sucks. Yeah. Um, let's throw her overboard. So the chef is, oh God, I just realized cause we've got new lighting and every time it's cuts to me, I'm like, Okay. I went a little bit heavy on the blush today. Nevermind. No, you did not.
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I know. I'm just really sweaty and like it's making my mascara run a little bit. And I'm just like, I look a little insane right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to have like a heart attack. Like I'm surprised John Taffer never had a heart attack. We're going to walk out. That's it. Done. Yeah. Walk out. Done. That's coming up later. Um, but so the food is done by Tracy's husband, Juciano.
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Do you wish a fire name? I'm sorry. I'm just gonna say right now before we go anywhere's forward with this I love the name juicy. Oh, we're pro juicy. Oh, I know the name sucks. I like his name, but I like the name I don't know it's sound it sounded like an alias you you make up while stumbling over yourself talking to like cops. Yeah, like my name juice. Oh, yeah I totally have a boyfriend his name is Philip
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Class. Juciano. So Juciano does not like that John Taffer does not like his food. So let's go to clip 12. cleaned his hands too, guys. uh Juciano.
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This guy can't cook for the fucking lifeharm. I thought it was interesting that he got so offended because I'll get offended if someone criticizes something that I legitimately feel that I am skilled at and I have a background in. If you're putting your and soul into yeah. just wandered into the kitchen one day and his wife was like, hey, do you want this job? Yeah.
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He doesn't seem to, but he's still really upset when John criticizes him. yeah, it's weird. Also, I spent the whole damn episode trying to figure out where his accent was from and never did. Where is he from? I don't know. Couldn't tell. Couldn't tell you. Yeah, no, I don't think anyone could. Can we pull up the good old loogle or? Yeah, I can do that during the break. Perf, because I'd love to figure it out. But first I want to show you. same. Yeah, first I want to show you his, uh I call it radioactive chick.
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chicken. Oh my gosh. Look at how fucking red this chicken is. Go to clip 15. It literally made my eyes water just looking at it. And it's like habanero sauce and he just fucking donks that bitch in.
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Oh, I feel that shit. Come on, man, come on.
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. I see I like spicy foods. I think if I saw that, I'd be like, no, thank you. I'm telling you, my eyes were watering. Like my eyes were legit watering. I swear. I would die. Yeah. Like I am the mildest, most basic bitch when it comes No, literally same. Yeah. it comes to heat. it's just like, like the mild.
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like mild sauces, I'm like, oh, whoa, this is spicy, right? Something like that, it would be over for me. That would be it. They would find me dead in that kitchen. No, literally same. Like when it comes to pepperoni, can't, I eat honey garlic pepperoni, that's it. Because like mild pepperoni, too spicy for me. can't, I get it. I swear. I love the spice. I Ugh, my nose is running. But the thing is, this is my go-to chicken wing thing, is what I do, is I always get like,
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course, bread chicken wings and then like I always get the sauce on the side. So then I'll have like the hot sauce and then I'll have like the ranch and then I'll like a dip dip dip dip and milk. No, I love milk with my frickin with my my chicken wings with my ranch. love it. Do you fucking dip it in the milk? Oh God, no. Okay, that is was gonna say that would be heinous. I was gonna say, Gabby, don't don't even joke about that. Don't even make no nobody do that.
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Nobody do that. Moving on. So we've seen the kitchen. We've seen the disgusting food that Juiciano made. And now let's go on to the bar because with Pirates Tavern, they had a almost like a specialty drink called the grog. Let's go to clip 17. The grog.
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Ginger beer, cloves, lime and amaretto. Okay. And then it's all the rum. m
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Oh my god, I have heartburn. Heartburn? Yeah. Oof. But wait, there's Imagine the hangover from that. Oh, fuck me. Like that would be insane. that just reminds me.
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of all of the sugary drinks that I drank when I just turned 19. Literally, growing up, you're like, oh my God, let's get drunk. And then you're drinking everything that's like the mudslides and the freak. No. All that sugar. Buddy, the blue and red revs? Come on. Oh my God. My first drink. Your first drink was a rev? Wait, I can't believe you're old enough for revs. Yeah.
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cheapest highest alcohol right ten dollars get drunk good to go fuck it i was a late bloomer when it came to drinking uh so i started off with hard liquor and so my favorite thing for a while was was kraken rum release the kraken
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Mm-hmm. Oh, and so this is I would have been about 26 27. Yeah, and I Could now I was also I was a lot bigger than I was about 60 odd pounds heavier than I am now so I could handle drinks like that a little bit better, but the big thing was I would have like just just a glass like like a
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normal regular glass. Whoa, hello. Yeah, like that. Swear that never happens. Oh, man. Coming early today. That would be uh that would be kind of like my drink for for the night. And I would just work on that. get absolutely wasted. Yeah. And at some point, that power just turned off. And I drank some Kraken and I was like,
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Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. And I could feel my stomach writhing like a great beast. Like the, yes. And it it growled and it hissed at me. Oh my And I felt so gross. And it was just the worst rot gut I've ever experienced. And I've never touched dark rum since then. ah Now in my old age, ah there's a lot of like 4 % beers, lot of non-alcoholic beer nights.
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That's about it. My wife and I go to Gahan House for lunch once a week when we've got some babysitting. And I will have a single IPA and I will stand up and I'll be like, oh, oh no, I'm little tipsy. And yeah, so that is how the mighty have fallen. But there was a brief, wonderful time where I think I could have handled a grog. Oh my God. I, yeah.
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10 years ago, me, probably. Same. Now, looking at it, like looking at all that sugar and all of that rum, my face gets hot because sometimes when I drink dark rum, like my face gets really, really feel it right here. Like really red. I remember that. And I get like really patchy and shit like that. But then I just like the gut rot, like the fuck, I can feel the indigestion building up inside of me. so. I'm telling you.
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Oh, I literally feel it. oh literally. Right. Well, this has been the first half of BoobTube. We're going to take a little break. um Afterwards, we're going to we're going to sort of explore the sort of renovations of Pirates Tavern, but also we're going to get into some moments that happen in other episodes. Iconic moments. Yes. So. uh
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See you later. Stay tuned. I need some pizza.
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God, this is so awkward to me. Wow, I can't do this.
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Welcome back to BoobTube, our bar rescue. are graced by Gabby Taffer. Gabby Taffer? Gabby Taffer. had to stand up and walk around without my jacket on because I'm sweating like a bitch. So we looked at Pirates Tavern. Arrrr. Arrrr. The very beginning. Look at their faults. Obviously a theme in corporate Maryland.
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It's not gonna really go very well. They failed right there. They did. We see the bad cooking, the grok, and we're going, we need to see the light. Okay. Thank you. Blotted by the light. Ripped up by Gabby. In the middle of the day. Yeah, it's like middle of day.
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Oh, no, no. This is so weird. So uh we saw the grog and that was gross and that was disgusting. So normally what John Daffer does is he'll bring in like experts from the industry, like a uh chef, uh a bartender, mixologist doing things. Sometimes he'll bring in like dancers. Not Gabby, which makes no sense. Yeah. I've been making drinks for my parents all the time.
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since she was knee high to a grasshopper. yeah. that's a lie. Sometimes, my mom's like, do you want to make me a Caesar? I'm like, OK. I can't drink it yet, but I'll drink it. you. got you. Teach them young. Yeah. It's fine. Cheyenne and Nathan, you both have kids. Yes. So when are you going to start showing them how to make drinks, cocktails? Because when I come over, I want to have a cocktail right in my hand.
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It's actually so funny you say that because literally last night I don't drink. Yeah. But last night, Robert decided to have a couple of drinks, went to a little family functioning, and my kids are like, Daddy drinks alcohol. Yeah, sometimes, sometimes. And my youngest is like, is he an alcoholic? And my oldest is like, you can't be an alcoholic because you're not an alcohol bottle. So I mean, that checks out. Yeah. The logic follows. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think.
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I'm going to start with Ness uh getting me beer from the fridge. I love it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's kind of where you want to start. Yeah. And then once she gets a little bit older, she's actually got great dexterity for a baby. she's got really good hand-eye coordination. So I'm really hopeful that eventually we get to the liquor cart. And then she can start pouring me some gin cocktails. Nice. And yeah, that'll be really nice. I like five.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, not that late. No, no. Three at the latest. Yeah, right, three. She'll be ready to Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah. because they're at three. They're three-nagers, so it makes sense. yeah, yeah. Awesome. Can't My kids are not young anymore, so. That makes sense. OK, three-nagers. Love it. Yeah. So we're going to have a little... Yeah. Anyone has a question? You have a question, young man?
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Oh my god. We are... This is a new setup as people can tell. So we have a new... because normally what these like usually what a the experts do is like they'll introduce like new menu items. So we have one it's called the West End cocktail and I actually chose this one because I think it looks pretty darn good. So play clip 18 there for me bud.
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It looks good. It looks good. I love Aperol. I've been having a lot of something that's called Spaghetti and I realized it's not spaghetti, but it's actually Miller Highlife with Aperol and lemon juice. Very good, very good, very good spaghetti. So I've just been on an Aperol kick this whole summer. So I was like, that's what I want to try. Because normally when I'd watch Bar Rescue, I'd be like looking at the drink.
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um, the new drink, um, items. I was like, okay, I'll do this. I'll do this. I'll do this. Yeah. So I just wanted to show that, but also every single time with Jon Taffer, he has to introduce something to this bar. And sometimes I'm just like, this is just kind of like useless because he introduces a, it's like a cocktail ice. It's like the spherical cocktail ice.
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They all have their individual little bags. looks cool. It looks cool for you're doing like a little personal like drinking whiskey in your own or like whatever. But it's just like to have like a bar continuously take out like these like spherical ice out of these fucking bags. It's just wasteful in my opinion and also stupid. I'm so glad you brought that up. That drove me nuts. garbage. Yeah. Well and he got like a little freezer. He did. For those bags.
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Like he did. is a bar that is tiny. It's like a tiny little line of a thing. Yeah. And you were wasting space on a freezer for bagged ice balls. I would go insane. I'm like, I'm not doing are we doing here, John? I have a feeling that's probably like a sponsor. Oh, it's 100 % a is a sponsor. Like, so sponsor us if you want us to use spherical ice, because I'll change my tune. Yeah. Same. I'll do a little dance for a little coin. As many ice balls as you want. as many. can shove them right in my mouth.
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The whole thing is with like he introduces new items, new technology, and then he does give Pirates Tavern a huge makeover and it looks kind of stupid. So let's play clip 21. The corporate vibe. And it's actually called corporate. Oh, that's just. What the f*** is that?
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It says Post-Grid. I'm scared shitless.
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that we were for the business community and three, I had to communicate that we were food friendly. Hence the word tavern is gone. Corporate is the worst name that John has ever come up with on this show. ah Yes, it is. And he, I get he's like looking at the demographics of that area that will make them the most money. It's cool. It's cool, but it's like a soulless inside.
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There's nothing unique about it and whatever if I saw that place and I look in I'm like that looks boring as fuck. Well, I'm thinking okay. I'm a corporate person. Let's go to corporates No, no, that's fucking weird. Yeah, I'll just go to TGI Fridays the blank face sign With the suit like the John is like, okay like if we were doing kind of like some subversive kind of thing here John where you are critiquing the soullessness of corporate America
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Absolutely, bravo sir, but that's not what John is about. John is about the dollars. So this just seemed so phoned in and like some of his designs I like a lot of the ones for the episodes that we watched I didn't really at least like the names and stuff some of the interiors I liked and I thought this one was fine like the interior is fine. It's a Moxie's. Yeah, like don't get me wrong. I fucking love Moxie's. Moxie's you can sponsor us. I fucking love you.
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like those dry rubbed ribs. Delicious. Those G and T's with a little slush on top. Delicious. Love it. Anyways, moving on. yes, this place kind of sucks. And he introduces more shit other than the spherical ice. So if you want to play clip 23. Oh boy. This is a proto.
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something called the smart bar. The first is the smart thing will get dirty so quick. bar that can make a perfect drink in less than 10 seconds. This is a draft table system by Elixir. The second feature is an Elixir Draft Master Table, a self-service tap where customers can pour their own draft beer. After a server checks ID, customers can be given an access key that allows two beers per transaction. I mean, that's kind of cool. Thoughts? I don't love it.
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I don't love it. think it's I don't think a self-service model is great for a bar. especially if it's like a corporate bar, like these people are just, you know, soulless office job. They're probably like, I don't want to do any more shit. I just want to sit here, drink a draft, maybe shovel down some chicken wings and then call it a night. Yeah. But to do it myself, because I
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Don't think there's like some people who do not know how to pour a beer. can get like, some people just get all head and then they're going to go to you be like, what the fuck? Like I was supposed to get like this nice beer. I paid for two beers and now this beer is nothing but head. What are they going to do now? They're going to like, pour out that beer and then like pour another one. So you're to have like some people, like another staff member who could probably do other shit, just showing people how to use the goddamn tap system.
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It's stupid. Just pour him a beer at the bar. That's exactly it. And what kills me about this, too, is that, OK, I was born in southern Ontario. I lived most of my life in and around Toronto. Yeah. And the thing you should know about Toronto is that it is all soulless corporate people doing soulless corporate things. Oh, yeah. And there's one thing that they want, and that's a patio. And I will say.
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The fact that he actually took that backyard space and turned it into a seating area, like that is smart. That's what corporate people want. They want to drink beer under an umbrella in sweltering heat for some reason. that's the money. about the heat and like the cold beer. Yeah. It's just good. Yeah. Like try and get to a patio in Toronto after about 4 p.m. It's insane. You will spend a Herculean amount of time and effort trying to do that. It's like...
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trying to throw the ring into Mount Doom. By the time you finish, you're gonna be beaten bloody. You're gonna be missing a couple fingers. Yeah, you're just hoping that a big eagle swoops down and ends your suffering. They're not even here to save you, they're just carrying you off. that to me, that was the best decision he made about that bar. But the rest of it kinda, yeah, didn't grab me this one. So that is the whole sort of um
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Formula that happens with every single episode with a but with the exception of couple because you know uh But Tracy did not like it and I can sort of see why because she was so gung-ho about this fucking uh Pirate Dean bar and my girl Just pirates or nine hundred thousand dollars my girl. I know well she didn't want
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a bar, she wanted a clubhouse for her and her pirate friends. can do that in your basement. Yeah. Well, in your parents' basement. I guess in your parents' basement now, but before you just built- You had your own basement. You can invest all the money you went into opening a bar, you can invest it and put it in your basement. Yeah. And have like, because I have no, there's probably a bunch of people who have their own tap system. Listen, if she would have recorded that with literally a gathering of her and her friends.
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downstairs in her basement dressing up as pirates and having this huge clubhouse and put it on YouTube, she'd be famous and rich by now. She wouldn't be $900,000 in the freaking hole. so we're going to go back to Pirates because play clip 24 because she does not. Arrrr. The staff has adapted well to the new bar. The most important ex-pirate is struggling with the change. These changes are not what...
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Yeah, she- Like, whoa! Right after they, um, they opened, she just went straight back to the pyro theme. So it's- Womp womp. You know, it's- It is what it is. She just didn't like-
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the whole corporate idea. I get it. Corporate's like a stupid name and a stupid sign. it's nowhere you're at. But the good thing is, I think, right after October of 2016, Bar Refuge was playing, like Bar Rescue, opened in Melbourne, Florida. But in 2018, it didn't last. Oh.
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The bar was sold to new owners who kept the name and then in early 2022 bar refuge closed and another business now occupies the spot. So... Yowch. I... Listen, I'm from Nova Scotia. I'm not a big fan of pirates. I think it's fine. It's not my whole gist. Yeah. It's yeah. It's cool. It's whatever. Wouldn't wouldn't seek out pirate themed...
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activities for mean, dress up as a pirate for Halloween. Sure. Yeah. That's about it. Yeah. Yeah. As far as I'd go. You know, make like pirate-themed jokes that like if you're like out Halloween dressed up as a pirate, like, give me some rum or something like that. Where's the rum? Rrrrr. Should like that. But pointing to the light for Gabby, like Dylan suggested, and what is her? Gary needs her light. Rrrrr. That's about it.
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So that is the whole formula. Now we're going to move on to some other bars. That John has rescued. That John has rescued. Now the next one is Kid Chalines, or as it's now known as Chalines on 17. Which is a super catchy goddamn name. I'm not even going to lie. a little bit. It's a good one. Like John did his thing.
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Yeah, I like the ins. I liked the the Renault too, because I like that theme. I like a good Western theme. Vibey. Yeah, it's Vibey. Now, the owners, Scott and Donna Cheline, they're now divorced, but um oh, yeah. Yep. Shit. They had a bar called Kid Cheline's and let's go to Clip.
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It was pretty good.
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But then the owners, so I think a lot of like issues when it comes to owners of bars, like the alcohol's right there. They're gonna drink. So that's exactly what they did.
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They want to a good time. They want to drink, they drink. As they went from slinging drinks to throwing them back, their daughter, Aaliyah, was forced to wrangle the bar. Oh boy. And that's the thing that pissed me off the most is like the kid having to come in and try to save the whole bar because it's...
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When a child has to play adult, it literally gives me the ick. Like when the child has to take care of said parents, like that don't need taking care of at that point in time in their life, it literally gives me the ick because how fucking dare you? Yeah. I'm sorry. How dare you? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like your kid, your kid wants to go to college and shit. What are you doing? Yeah. Unless they're drinking your shots and they're burned and stuff. Oh, yeah. OK. There's a huge purport
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of Bar Rescue where you watch the show and you're just like, I don't think these people deserve to be saved. A lot of episodes, the owner is the problem, right? They encapsulate the entire issue with the bar. Yeah, the employees aren't doing things right often or, you know, management's bad. But you are the company. Exactly, thank you. And then you hired all these people and you are ultimately responsible for them.
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So it's really, really hard to empathize with the owners on this show, usually. And for so many episodes, John's coming in and he basically has to like, how Stella got her groove back, the owner, right? Like he has to relight that fire. He's got to, you know, get that passion going again, or get them to stop getting high on their own supply. And
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Every time I see it, just like, man, I don't really think these people deserve it. a part of me is just like, these people, have a problem. And if you put like an alcoholic near alcohol, like not saying all of them, but like sometimes like if they, you know, they really want to, they will get to it. Yeah. Like it's an addiction. It is. And it's a serious thing. Now.
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There's some crazy shit that kind of happened during this episode. One is, I have a joke. I have a joke. A horse walks into the bar. Oh? Play clip 33. What does that horse do? What happened?
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Holy f***
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A horse literally walks into the barn. Okay. That could be seriously dangerous.
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I bet the producers are like, you know what would be crazy? If we put a horse in a bar. Yeah. Right? Because it's like for the Western themes. then literally the horse, like I almost cried because I felt so bad for that freaking horse when he was slipping. But then the horse shit everywhere. I know. Gross! It is disgusting. That's awesome. Oh my god.
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beyond, I mean, animal kind of welfare side of it too. mean, horses are big, dumb and so strong, right? That horse could have easily, ah and especially when it slipped, like kicked someone, caved someone's in. Yeah, it's wild to see. It's extremely dangerous. I do wonder how much, because this is the same episode too where they have a motorcyclist coming in and just,
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revving his engine in the... Play that clip, play clip 27. uh
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God. I.
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Like a 21 year old is literally telling your parents who own the bar don't let people do stupid shit? Huh? What? I don't know what I would do if just a random guy came in with this fucking motorcycle. Imagine if you were just a tourist that like just went there because clearly it seems like this bar has a lot of locals. Imagine if you are a tourist coming in and you sit down, you're eating this food, you're drinking your beer and then you see a horse come in or a fucking motorcycle come in and just rev it up.
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Pardon me, I'm walking out immediately. Oh, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, that's. It's it's. A part of me is just like I have a feeling or I hope it is because I can't tell what these Americans anymore, and I'm sorry to our American listeners. You are the exception. And someone who who who studies American politics, it I would be surprised if it wasn't the
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producer who set it up because like a part of me is just like they can't be that stupid. Yeah, we see. We see everything in Bar Rescue is so generally formulaic that it kind of they almost have like an episode template every time they put in and then they'll throw in kind of some spicy bits. I wouldn't be surprised if those things, you know, happened because of the hidden cameras there and hidden cameras.
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It, but also just one thing I did want to mention is have you guys ever noticed that the hidden cameras were all just like covered in black tape? Oh yeah. Just to make them more hidden. they also have like actual camera operators on the floor. being like going, I'm like, they're not, there's no hidden cameras. There are people. Oh, John, didn't even think you were going to show up today. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Just like a bunch of
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Just people like coming in with cameras. So that was Kitchellines. Kitchellines ended up becoming apparently a successful barbecue place because Scott sold his, sold it to his daughter, which I think is running it properly. Oh. So, it's really grim, but Scott unfortunately fell back into his addiction because he then got himself into a
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and he got himself into a DUI that was unfortunately the cause of a fatal crash that killed his girlfriend at the time. Oh my God. It's a very sad story. at the end of this episode, I kind of hoped that the parents would kick the habit. too, because they were doing so good. They were doing so good because John was like, if you guys stay clean, I will stay and help.
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fix your bar and then so they just didn't drink. um And then throughout one of the stress tests, Scott was having the shakes is which something you can have when you're going through alcohol withdrawals, which, know, um super grim. ah That's not a good ending to Kitchellene's something I really hoped, you know. I hope the daughter's doing okay. I hope she's like the main person who I.
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feels like I want her to be okay. I want her to succeed because she really cared about it as the sort of sense of like she wanted it to be successful. Well, even when they were going downhill, like she was the one that was there showing up, getting shit done and doing it. And she called Bar Rescue, right? It's everything in Bar Rescue is so condensed because it's like a long weekend almost, The whole from Tafford showing up to the relaunch and that
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big opening night. I always wonder too, with a lot of these owners are like, how long can you fake this? And some of them can't, some of them can't even do it for three days, which is really sad. To condense into a 40 minute show as well, right? Exactly. And with this one too, it was nice to see Tafford go and get them therapy for the alcoholism. But again, you're just like, well,
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Like how long does that last? Like how much therapy is he paying for? Is it a month? Is it a year? Some people need therapy for years and years, right? Because one is three days. And this bar was operating in a place where the average median income was like 19 grand. It's just so like 10 grand below the national uh average income. And they relied heavily on tourists taking the I-17. That's why it's now called Chilean.
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on 17 because they rely so heavily on that highway for that income. Moving on, we're kind of speed running, but I want to make sure that we cover the last two because I feel like with those two. Oh my gosh. So we need to talk about them. So we're moving on. So.
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I kind of feel weird. I'm going say I feel weird saying this place's name because now the name is considered a slur against Romani and Irish travelers, which is so just know that we are not trying to discriminate against anyone. It's literally just the name of the freaking bar. Not to say like if anyways, it's still a slur, but it's a place called Gypsies. And it's it is in Las Vegas.
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Nathan's favorite place in the world. It is one of my favorite places. You have to go off strip though. You can't be, you can't be one of those people that just goes casino to casino. It helps that I don't gamble, but yeah. Vegas, if you're exploring the arts, there's a beautiful arts district. There's like a craft brewing district. There is, there is so much, there's ah the antiques. The antique There's so much more than boobs and liquor and gambling.
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And I'm there for all three, baby. I want the boobs, liquor and the poker. Let's go! We've come to Circus Circus! Circus Circus! I want to get bed bugged. Whatever it is you like to do, you'll find it right here at the circus. I got super COVID from Circus Circus. Just for you. Oh, that's right, because you went during our school year. So the only reason, yeah, the only reason I was at Circus Circus was my wife and I were doing our big crazy walks around Vegas. And Vegas is so much bigger than you think it is. A Vegas block is about 10
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blocks anywhere else. So we walked up and we were hitting up every casino that had table games to get chips. And now we got a collection of 54 unique chips from casinos around Vegas. But circus, circus. So I go in there and it is the most disgusting place imaginable. The ceilings are about like five foot like, well, I'm 5'11".
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I'm six feet in shoes, ah but I'm 5'11". The ceilings were like here, like it's claustrophobic and it smells like 1994. just imagine when you were a kid and m like you went over to someone's house who had been smoking for like 40 years in his house, right? And it's just, oh, and the way restaurants used to smell, that's how it smells. And the carpet is just hideous.
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everything about this place is shambles. Oh my God. And I go in there and we had to do two trips because the first time there was just no one manning any of the table games. And we come in the second time and finally I get my little shitty chip. Yeah. Dollar chip. And he hands it to me and then something happens in my chest and it just feels tight. Now I have asthma that's brought on by like
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wood dust, concrete dust, like just impurities in air. And we had been going to so many uh casinos that I was like, ah, it's probably just the asthma from the cigarette smoke. And I have, like, he hands me this chip. I turn to go and I have this hideous coughing fit, just disgusting. And I get out and then I get out in the fresh air and I'm like, okay, I think I'm okay. But then, like for the rest of the trip, I felt.
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something tight and awful in my chest. And it just kept getting worse and worse as the day goes on. And we were going over the Christmas holiday. So Christmas day is when I was like, oh no, there's something wrong with me. And we were supposed to fly out that day. Of course, there's a huge storm kind of in the Northeast. Everything gets shut down. we go to the airport instead and we can't get a flight except for the next day.
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And so we spend all day kind of going back and forth from the airport. Finally get comped a hotel room in this weird little hotel off strip for the night. And then the next day I wake up and I'm just like, if we don't get out today, I'm not, they're not going to let me fly. it was, yeah, I was like, there's something is wrong with me. ah so we, yeah, go to the airport, flight gets delayed, flight gets delayed. Finally.
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Over that night, December 26th to 27th was our trip home. By the time I got home, I was shaking. I was like fully like I had like I had like my master and I was like like this because I felt so bad, right? Like you didn't want to travel, but I also couldn't be stuck in Vegas. No. Oh my God. And you have to start working the strip. Yeah. Yeah. That would been it for me. Yeah. Yeah.
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put on the big feathers, the little bikini, and there we go. The last showgirl, there you go. Move aside, Pam Anderson. so the day of the 27th, I was awake for maybe four hours, and I was just in bed, and then Dee started coming down with it, and then for the next week and a half, we were just destroyed. done. But the trip was so good that even knowing
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how bad that was gonna be, I'd still taken it. I too legitimately love Las Vegas. Perfect. So the bar um was ran by Paul San Filippo. This man is a character. He is a loony tune. He is a loony tune. Dude's a straight up loser. He is. He Okay yeah, he is. He is a loser. So play clip 51.
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Dylan! You need to stop yelling at me at the bar
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I hear uh he's barely ever at the bar and when he does show up he acts just like this. Dylan! Dylan! Video boy! Thank you. Cheyenne is like a great like, mimicker. can just- Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Please I'm Janet Jackson! Now! Or you're fired! Dylan! Play the next clip. Cause it just keeps getting worse.
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Come here. Oh, you're kind of, um, what? Brandon! What? You put Janet on or you're fired. Put her on your fucking self. You own the jukebox. Brandon is a, Brandon, if you're out there, bud, you are a legend and you did not deserve anything from Bar Rescue or Paul. I mean, he did kind of dodge the bullet in getting fired at me in there.
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Just knowing what happened with that bar. um Paul is, he definitely has a problem, but um he throws a fit, he throws a glass, and then he basically just fucking sexually harasses his employees. Like he asks one of them to give him a lap dance. I'm like, no, that's not right. Like, oh my God, if HR was there, he'd be like.
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you know, fired or something. Well, I don't know. But he he does drink a lot and he plays this nice clip play, play clip 58 because he says that he's a nice man. And I don't think he is a nice man. So just just play that next clip. Throughout the years, I've gotten um a little too nice.
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Bitch. Bitch. He's not a nice man. Stick your head in my ass. What? So this, he got into a lot of fucking trouble. He has a lot of like one of the most serious like deaths that I've seen. um Um, like, he, oh, so he was slapped with a 400,000, um,
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dollar fee for not paying live entertainment taxes. So what he would do is he would have drag uh drag shows happen, which is great because Gypsy uh is a gay bar and it's one of the oldest gay bars on the strip. And it has like a place in it like queer history and it, you know, like we need which is literally iconic. Yeah. Like there's some I was super upset when Men's and Molly's closed down because I loved Men's and Molly's like reflections.
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Too many straight guys getting in and starting flirting with me. Yep. I'm trying to pick up a woman. I'm not trying to pick you up. I literally had to pretend I was a freaking lesbian because I'm like, well, it's also because I go to the gay bar to have fun. Yeah. I don't want to be picked up by a nasty man. to have people like especially like straight men, like I had to I had to chase a straight guy.
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Like we were on the upper levels of reflections and this guy who wouldn't leave my friends alone. So I went over, I'm like, you gotta fucking leave us alone. And then he just started like going from like each and every single one of us. And I was like, no, fucking leave us alone. And then he went and he went to grab for my hips with his hands and I like knocked his hands away. I'm like, you gotta get the fuck away from me right now. And he just, he ran all the way downstairs and I just kind of almost went after him, but I lost him in the crowd and I was like, I'm going to kill him.
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I'm just imagining you going after him like the T-1000. Just the the Taffer 1000? The Taffer 1000, yeah.
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I want to know is what is the thought process of as a straight dude going to a gay bar to try and pick up women? Because they probably don't think lesbians exist like outside of porn. Oh, think lesbians will want to be lesbians with a man. Yeah. They're like, oh, sick. I have my girlfriend and I pressured her to, I don't know, go on dating apps and be like, we're looking for a third. I'm like, no, I don't want to be a third. Doesn't work like that. No.
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Um, so anyways, he was slapped with that fee, but also during the show, um, he had $2 million in debt. $2 million. That is a lot of fucking money. that 2013 money. 2013. I don't even know what's that now, but it's like, yeah, it's.
01:17:53
Insane, like you found himself in like so much other like, uh he also found himself in legal troubles, which significantly affected the business and he was charged, get this, with multiple counts of arson and insurance fraud related to a fire at another one of his properties. Oh, I love that. I do love a little bit of arson, I to say. Unfortunately, San Filippo actually did.
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Pass away in 2022. Oh, now we're moving on to the legend, the clusterfuck that is the O face. Oh, face. Now, Gypsy was a bit of a ride, but it only kind of happened in like the first half. And I do have to say when it came to Gypsy, Jon Taffer, he should have consulted like gay club owners because he didn't want to have three drag stages. And I'm like, and he wanted
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the staff to dance like sexy boy, like boy dance. Sexy boy dance. Yeah. Leave their post in sexy boy dance. No, absolutely not. I'm like, I'm a bartender. I am not moving from behind this bar. Like, could you imagine being thrown into that? I have literally not want to. I have the fucking rhythm of like a board, like a wood board. Just like I can just move my body like this and then that's it.
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And it's, that's all I can do. In the episode when he brings in the expert and the expert has getting them to do the little, the little clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. At the time I was just like, Oh, that sounds hard. Is it like, that's the amount of rhythm I have where I was just like, clap, clap, clap. Yes. And then the thought of, yeah, of just switching your job to performing.
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for two minutes. You're like running through you're like picking getting ice and shit like that you're gonna be fucking sweaty and then you go up and you're gonna smell and do a two or three minute dance and then go back to the bar. No fuck that no I'm spending like that two three minute like a little break that I have and like sitting on a cardboard box or something. Or like power heaming a dirt. yeah anyways so
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This is now Oh Face. Oh Face. Oh Face is a council bluff bar that... The word dive doesn't even fucking begin. It's in a human trafficking shed. Yeah. That's the only way to describe this. It is. Oh my God. Nathan, you're so right. Yeah, go to Clip 63. I don't even want to be right, but that's what it is. Look at these girls behind the bar making your own drinks. uh
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perfect example of how to lose your liquor license. Unbelievable.
01:20:51
Listen, I've, oh, I've been, I've been where I would, I went behind the bar to make my drinks, but that was only when it was like, was during a couple Christmases ago where I went to my dad's place and he, he, he frequents a bar. So we went to that bar and it was just like, it was close to the public, but friends and family would go over and like sit, have drinks. I fucking drank a lot though. I, I don't remember. I don't remember how we got home, but.
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You're still here today to tell the story. do know we did take a cab because we had to go pick up the car the next day. like I remember being back then and I was just slinging beers because apparently I'm pretty good at it because you know I've seen people pour beers before. another reason why. Gabby Taffer. called you. Yeah. The bar is in your blood. It's in my blood. in your blood. Yeah it is. You cut me and I bleed Cores Light.
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Listen, if podcasting doesn't work out for you, my girl, I will follow you into the bar. If podcasting doesn't work out, I think I'm going to have to fake my own death because I've went to school twice to find a career. And if this doesn't fucking work out, I'm going to fake my own death just to get out of student debt because holy shit. so O face bar, if you can even call it a fucking bar.
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And what a dumb name. Oh, fuck, it's so fucking dumb. I can tell you that the husband probably thought of it and the wife was like a little bit trashy. He was like, oh, let me see your face. Ha ha ha. That's actually so. That's childish. I know. And they have like the O face shot. I can't remember the actual name, but it's a stupid fucking name. And he wouldn't tell people what was in the shot. Yeah. And people. because.
01:22:47
You know, if you don't know how much alcohol is in a shot, like if you could take a shot of Jameson, you know you've had a shot of Jameson. But if you take a shot of something that's been like mixed with like maybe Everclear and you didn't even fucking know, I can guarantee these people used Everclear. I'm not trying to get fucked up tonight. No. So want to know how much alcohol. Yeah, the recon girls, they came. They went and asked Sarissa, who is like probably one of only people who actually cared for like her little freaking heart.
01:23:16
Sarissa you deserve more but um she asked the owners like what's in the fucking shot and then they wouldn't tell her and then Amanda the manager which we're gonna play and clip 65 she gets really fucking abusive insane
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So Amanda's the woman with the backward tat and we're gonna play the next clip. manager. The manager. She manages of this bar. The owners hired her to manage the bar and so we're gonna play the next clip, 66, and we're gonna see a building fight.
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you really just me in the face? Look at this. How dysfunctional this is. hits the owner in the face. Go! Yeah. OK, that owner, though, is Matt, right? He's of shit. Not only is he a piece of shit, but he's a spineless piece of shit. Everything that his wife, Karen, which is just the perfect name for this woman. this. She just runs him over.
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constantly. She's got her terrible little bar bell that she dings for drinks. But the worst part of it is you see later on him getting all big and tough with like random customers and his employees, but he's such a little bitch. Like the whole time I was watching, turned to Dee and I was like, I want to call this this guy like like a soy boy beta cock as is, you sometimes you just have to call people that. You can probably, he probably thinks he's an alpha, but in reality he is like a soy have more respect.
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for the cuckold community than to include him because he's just an absolute pile of shit. He is. um And we're going to play the infamous cat fight. So play clip 67 because this is fucking insane.
01:25:26
Well, this, that clip of the fight, looks like Syrra is winning. So good on Syrra. uh
01:25:34
Just shut the fuck up!
01:25:45
Girl. Whoa. Yeah. It's insane because throughout also like as soon as Sarissa is like off to the corner, she's playing, she's like giving like these like really like faces like she's like play it, play the next clip just to show her lethal face card. mean, she's drunk. um
01:26:14
Nathan? Nathan? uh
01:26:41
Would you yell, if someone's like yelling at Dee, would you yell at the person yelling at your wife? Contextually dependent, of course. But yeah, I probably would. I would be very upset. I've never been in this exact situation before. I don't know. These people are just such trash though that like, I feel like any kind of yelling at these people is fine and good.
01:27:09
So with Oh Face, this bar is one of the bar very few bars that Jon Taffer walks out. hmm. And because that's not the only time that there was a fight there. uh
01:27:32
Oh buddy. Oh.
01:27:42
I'd be throwing hands. What do you mean? You just let that man who literally gives you a paycheck slap you in the face. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? White, white, rage and then walk away. He's probably like doing like it's good that he walked away. Yes. If he went like, you know, Adam, you know, there could be assault. He could hit his head.
01:28:07
These workers in Oh Face, and I do have a lot of sympathy for all of them that aren't Amanda. And Sick, who deserves a shout out. He seems like a very reasonable guy. But I do have to say, I don't know what Dave did. Like maybe not to say that hitting him isn't wrong. It is wrong. He should never have been hit by your employer, let alone another person. um
01:28:36
I don't know. escalated to point? I don't think it was anything. I really don't. think it was the fact that... probably a drunk fight. Yeah, it was probably some dumb little argument, right? Probably like maybe Dave said something about Karen, but it's just like this man apparently, I guess, loves his wife a lot. And, you know, yeah, I'd stick up for her if I...
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wife stick up for her, but if she's doing shitty things too, I'm gonna be like, yo, listen. You gotta tell your wife. Yeah, you don't, because you're married to someone doesn't mean that they become infallible in your eyes, right? You still have to be a responsible adult. if any of these employees sued and like there's...
01:29:29
clearly enough evidence just from this show to do that. Like that is it. Like John's trying to tell them that, you know, if her head hits the ground or something, I'm just like, no, no, sue them right now. Like, Sarissa, just go get a lawyer. You can get one of those great like ambulance chasers. It's like no win, no fee. and just take whatever meager assets Oh Face has left. Like that's what you should be doing.
01:29:57
come back and work for them. What? no, I would have sued the fuck out of them. it's so with Oh face, um Matt Overmire, who's the big fucking tough guy who was in the military. uh He apparently he would run afoul of the law again. But this time he was charged um or more serious than the drunken brawl in
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2016, who was arrested for charges of abuse and then re-arrested again for abuse in 2017. Oh my God. Surprise. Surprise. me shocked. Yeah. So, Face is still open. Shut up. Yeah. That's incredible. They're still open. A shootout took place in 2021. What? of fucking GORZA did. It's... Not the shootout! Yes. You know what?
01:30:55
There was a... they had a return to the bar and just basically it was... Oh Face was the same. They just got rid of some people. Like um I think Sick got fired by Matt. um I can't remember if Sarusso was in there but... I hope she got out. I hope she got out too. Girl, girl you did not deserve Yeah because Joanne just said you know what?
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Fuck this, I'm not doing this. leaps. He walked right out. He leaps I'm not rescuing this bear. Because he didn't want his reputation to be shattered. Of course. Yeah, but. I wouldn't want my name anywhere as close to that. No, I'm sure he would have renamed it something else, not O-Face. Yeah. Because that's a stupid fucking name. That's like probably like a bad strip club name. Yeah. Show me your O-Face. So. Name it corporate, but make the capital letter the O. And then it's a callback. There we go.
01:31:49
There we go. all the marketing genius. no, that's it. We do. I have I have one bar name. Yeah. So this has been Bar Rescue. um Final thoughts as go, Nathan. What do you think? I enjoyed the medley of episodes that you put together for us. And this is a show that is beautifully formulaic.
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and you always kind of know what's going to happen. And there's a few episodes like these ones where it changes up that formula, but otherwise it's just such a satisfying show to turn your brain off to. And that's a lot of why I love it so much. And yeah, I'm super pleased to talk about it today. We're so happy to have you here. Aw, thank you. Oh my gosh, the crossover episode. The crossover event.
01:32:41
Yeah, my final thoughts. I'm just going to leave it as what my children said. It reminds them of Gordon Ramsay just fixing bars. I like that. Yes. It's a it's a classic. Whenever I was on, I always watched it. I don't there's looking back, I did feel like Jon Taffer might have turned the bars like
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fix them for the worst, like, especially with Gypsy, like maybe incorporating different, like, uh gay bar owners just to sort of get the feel. Cause if it's like, curated for like the street, you know. Well, I think, I think that is one of John's weaknesses that you, you really hit on because he, like I say, within the show is very formulaic. John is very formulaic. John has a playbook that he does not deviate from.
01:33:41
And the man has an ego, let's be fair. Like he believes that no one knows more about bar science. so yeah, like a lot of times where you're just like, but you're not taking into account like the psychology of the people who are in the bar or run the bar or for example, history, like he's, yeah, he's like, oh, Vegas is about the future. And I'm like, yeah, it is, but like there's room there to like at least nod to the past, right? Like.
01:34:09
Yeah, you don't have to keep everything, but would it have killed you to have a little bit more theming around what this used to be? Yeah. Yeah. Well, this has been BoobTube. You can follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. I'm not saying it. uh Blue Sky. You find us on Patreon. You can get the hose down for $5. Whoa.
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