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- So, you meet somebody, you meet a girl

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and you're interested in her, like,

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so what do you do?

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Well, I tend bar over at blah, blah, blah.

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They're like, oh, so
what do you really do?

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And I'm like, no, I really
do that, in fact I was there

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just a couple hours ago, I really do that.

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(upbeat music)

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Over the last 25 years I've spent

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the vast majority of that working

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the front of house restaurants,

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both bar tending and serving, managing.

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Yeah, server and bar
tender has been in my blood

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for two decades.

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I've done fine dining and
I've worked in wine bars

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and I've done breakfast joints.

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God, breakfast joints are so much fun.

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It gets in you and it's an addiction.

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A few years back I was
dating a girl at the time

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that was encouraging me, she
was working in corporate,

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was very successful, so I
pursued having a normal job,

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that's when I had my
desk job, my normal job.

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And I ended up working in insurance.

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I went through the training
and I went through all this,

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I was getting up every
morning and havin' my coffee,

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driving into work, I
would sit in this cubicle,

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that's really what people wanna do,

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and it's like, I can't
judge anybody for it,

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but for me I just
remember that one morning,

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like, it just hit me and I just sat down

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and I just started crying.

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I went from tending bar
to having a desk job

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and I went from working four days a week

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to working five days a week
and I took a third pay cut.

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I guess I kinda convinced myself

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having a more adult job was the next thing

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I had to be doing.

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Once I let go of that, and I
started working weekend brunch

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at a little joint in my
neighborhood I'm like,

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I was workin' seven days a week,

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people were like, aren't you nuts,

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you're working seven days a week,

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and I'm like, no, no, no,
I'm at work five days a week

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and I get to go have fun at a restaurant

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on the weekends.

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'Cause like that, oh, my
God, I was moving again,

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I felt energized, I was so like,

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it was amazing how much
it was giving back to me.

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When you're in the bar
and restaurant business

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you meet some of the
most fascinating people

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from all walks of life.

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I mean, people who have
traveled the world,

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ministers, acupuncturists, master masons.

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People I would never have
ever come into contact with

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if I didn't work behind the bar

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or on the floor of a restaurant.

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I work four days a week
and I have three days

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that I don't have to be anywhere

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unless I've scheduled some things.

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For me it's really important to have

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down time where I get
to work on side projects

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and I get to have time to travel.

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Right before I came to do this

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I had a meeting with a guy about

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a business model for a new concept.

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At home I'm working on
three woodworking projects.

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I used to write for a magazine,
host beer tasting classes.

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I know that my lifestyle's
not the most traditional,

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but it's the way I need it to be.

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Sincerely, you just quit giving

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so much of a fuck about
what other people think.

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(laughter)

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(cheering)