Two Bartenders Trade Bar Stories, Nose-Hair Wisdom, And St. Patrick’s Day Plans

The week started with a cold, a cone of shame, and a surprise: people peeking downstairs to find out if that really is a studio under the bar. It is—and we put it to work, riffing through a freeform session where bar life meets real life, complete with an AI-made opening jingle that somehow lands between catchy and classy.

We dive into the craft you can taste but rarely see. Clean beer lines, monthly maintenance, and a draft system tuned for a proper half-inch head aren’t just nerdy details—they’re the difference between a forgettable pint and a pour that breathes. With the National Restaurant Association pointing to 1.55 trillion in sales, we talk about what matters as wallets tighten: value, warmth, and service that remembers your name. That’s why small gestures count, like a late-night ride home or the way a bartender rescues a pour without wasting a drop.

On deck: St. Patrick’s Day. We’re opening special, cueing live music, and workshopping a limited-run hot nut that nods to leprechauns without turning your coffee into toothpaste. We kick around names, flavor combos, and how to make cinnamon and gold flakes play nice. And because the building is part of the brand, we get honest about mural upkeep—spring thaws, flaking paint, and a spirited detour into whether graffiti is art when it isn’t your wall.

AI makes another cameo as our quiet SEO partner, helping shape copy and booking paths for a renovation project that’s selling before the glam shots exist. Between a daughter’s first missing tooth and the ongoing saga of a dog in recovery, we share the bars that changed our travel plans: a mountain-lodge vibe at Snow Trails and Riley’s Daughter at Midway, where a perfect Guinness and a good story made three-hour layovers feel short. That’s the blueprint—precision behind the scenes, personality up front, and a seasonal special people can’t help but talk about.

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Transcript

Cold Starts And Studio Vibes

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Alright. Billy strings even? Yeah, we have. What about your strings? Strings are even. You gotta have even strings. Even strings. Billy Billy's Billy strings.

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Bob on coming out. This is how it is.

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Many stories to flow. Good vibes.

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Big laughs. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

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Barpod, episode eight. No. We're doing this every week. You can't, you it can't be eight. It can't. I gotta tell you, I uh you had a little bit of a cold last week. Oh I don't think I'm making it through the winter season here in Northern Ohio without getting on feeling a little froggy. I hope it wasn't mine. I who knows. There's another you know thing about working in a bar. You uh you're gonna get it's like being in a it's like being in a uh daycare with alcohol sometimes. Yeah, an adult petri dish. Yeah. So that's what's going on. No, no, that's not right because alcohol kills all the bacteria. Yeah, yeah, alcohol's probably good for it. It's probably the best place to be, actually. Yeah, just drink bourbon.

Bar Life Health And The Petri Dish Joke

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Uh we're back at uh BarPod Studios this week. Um at the uh downstairs of Paddle Bar. That still sounds crazy. A lot of people looked at it and like looked downstairs this weekend and checked it out and they're like, is that a studio down there? I love it, dude. There was uh on Friday, there was a couple dudes from um where are they from? Columbus. I was talking to them about one of my favorite bars in Columbus, Xenos, my buddy Mitch owns, and uh they knew about that bar, but they were looking down here. What are you guys doing? And I said, Oh, it's a podcast. And right away they looked it up. Holy crap, man. We're gonna have to listen to that. I was like, dude, absolutely. Keep in touch. We'll see you in the summertime. Yeah, that's amazing. I love that. I love that. Uh, what's been going on this week um with you? Uh two things. Um, Ren, my daughter, she lost her front tooth. Oh, the tooth full last. I gotta give Amber credit, man. She just yanked it right out while she's a nurse. I know, man. I don't know if I could do it with the last line there. Last line defense and it like crunches one thing. Nah. But anyway, so that's cute as I'll get out because she knows took a picture and took her to school. All her friends are gonna be all jacked up. She's got the talking about how she can like use a straw to suck stuff through it. Yeah, she can just have a good time there. So cute. But yeah, and then uh what's going on with you? Uh well, Blue uh had to have surgery last week. He had a little mass on his uh on his uh leg

Listeners Discover The Basement Studio

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there. We had that removed. So we've been dealing with blue all week. Poor guy's been in a cone. Oh he is actually, you guys can't see it or hear it, but blue is actually sitting down there between Chad and I right now because he is our um executive producer today because T Dub is out. Yeah. Um so he's hanging with us. And uh yeah, it's you know, it's uh it's tough when you gotta deal with you. That that cone, when you put that on his head and he looks at you, he's like blaming you. Yeah, and you're wanting to be like, it's not my fault, I'm trying to help, but you feel horrible. And that look that they give you, it's tough. Could you imagine if we had to wear cones? I have some I know some people that should have cones, probably. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't man, that'd be tough. Now, granted. I feel a little off on this on this one. I do too. We were talking upstairs about how we're like, uh, this is the first episode. We both looked at each other. We're like, well, number one, we don't really, as I say it, he takes a sip. I was like, we don't really need a beer. Uh but well I have a drinking problem. It's kind of good, it's kind of good though. It is. Uh, but yeah, it is this one might be a little free more freeform. Oh, working on a song. So that should be on this one. Oh, there'll be a song, so a new opening song that'll actually have words and stuff. Playing with that a little bit. We we I mean, listen, every every good every good podcast I listen to has an

Family Updates And Dog In A Cone

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opening banger. So we're working on that. It's funny because the way this is recorded, we were just playing with it before this. So hopefully we'll I'll we'll be able to have it done when this is released and you'll be able to hear our new jam. New jammy. Give us some feedback on it. Jammy jam. Now, let me before we move on to some bar news, let me tell you, uh, I got I gotta get let me get serious for a second. Serious? Let me get serious for a second. All right. I want to talk to you about nose hairs. Nose hairs? Yeah. Okay. Now, 43 years old, that's where I'm currently at. And uh, for the first time, I feel like every other day I look up there. And you know, this is crucial. We're behind the bar, we're in the public eye. You can't be all you can't be all ratty all the time. No, you gotta. And I looked up there. I feel like if I pull a couple out, yeah, two days later, they're right back where they are. Oh, they're it's longer and more noticeable. It's well, you know, this is age.

unknown 4:40

Oh man.

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More nose hairs, more ear hair. I I don't I don't have too much earhair yet, but the the the nose hair thing, it's it's gotten me in a little bit of an uproar. You gotta get one of those fancy little uh Is it that time? 43? Oh. That's when that's when I'm getting nose hair? I've yeah, sorry. I mean, I've had it for a while, but nothing like the it's it's evolved. It keeps you awake when you're on a long drive. Yeah, it does. It's like it's like drinking a bread bowl when you pull a couple nose hairs out. That's the truth. Uh story for any or a quick quick little tip for anybody doing a long distance drive. Pull a couple nose hairs out. If you're getting sleepy, you'll wake right up. Remember Drew Carey? Drew Carey? Yeah. Drop your pencil there. Yeah, I'll leave it down there. You'll be fine. I don't need it. Uh Drew Carey, he had a good uh, you know, he's a Cleveland guy. Sure. Had a good uh uh stand-up where he talked about uh when you get older, yeah, your hair leaves from your head and it just walks down your body and it just starts tossing stuff off and uh like you know it's your nose, your ears, your body. That's accurate. Yeah, that's accurate. That's accurate. Yeah, little little patches of bass hair all over your face to your ass. I mean, these are things that happen with age. Anyway, we don't we don't have to spend any more time, but that's it. 43 years old, and next thing you know, I got Jesus Crime. Subconscious about my nose hairs. Look out, everybody. Don't look up there. Uh yeah. So the the nose hair. So this story is just That's it. Keep track of your nose hairs, keep track of your nose hairs. I gotta I gotta get serious about it. Hey, oh uh, what else? What are you drinking over there? Uh I'm drinking uh high North High? North High, thank you. North High Irish Red. They're from Columbus, I believe. It's a good beer. Nice. I like it. We just got in, we got a few um uh obviously St. Patrick's Day beers. Uh speaking of St. Patrick's Day, we are paddle bar is gonna be opening special that day because it's a Tuesday, I believe. Alex uh Dominicia is gonna be playing some live music. Nice. I'm sure there'll be shots of flying, but we have to talk

Freeform Plan And Theme Song Idea

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about your beer, and then we have to talk about then we have to talk about what we're gonna do for the uh hot nuts for um what we got coming up here, St. Patrick's Day. There you go. Yeah, uh my beer. I'm drinking, I'm drinking a little near and dear to my heart since I graduated from uh OU. That's a Jackie O's uh Who Cooks for You? Double double dry hopped pail. It's a f it's a fantastic beer. I uh it's funny that you brought up uh your college because I'll have a little story about uh a little college experience later on. Okay, oh perfect. We'll say that. I'll look forward to that. It's pretty funny. It has to do with the mural, actually. Everything tied back. Okay, nice. So uh bar news stuff, what's going on? The uh March Vegas thing is coming up. That's uh the uh bar and restaurant restaurant expo. We've never gone to we should go, I think. I don't know if we can pull it off this year. Could that be our trip? Ryan and I tell you. Oh, there's a golf course in Vegas. You're gonna make me golf. Oh, if we go to Vegas, absolutely. If we uh so we we haven't talked about this before, but uh three years ago we started doing a brotherly um ski trip. Yeah. And this year, if you paid attention to skiing or snow weather at all, there hasn't been a whole lot of snow. Out west got a little bit lately, but it's been one of their driest winters of all time. I might be in Key West those days. Um so we're trying to figure out if we're gonna do our ski trip or do something else. I recommended a little golf trip. Brian doesn't really play golf yet. I mean, I can play some golf, but uh centering a vacation around golf. I mean, it's also like having more nose hairs. It just feels like it's an age, it ages you. Compare golf to nose hairs. It's completely off base. You know, hey, hey guys, after after uh how many years of me just saying I'm never gonna play golf,

Nose Hair Crisis At Forty-Three

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I know. I take golf, it's a dumb sport. You bought clubs, I now play golf. I don't know that I'm a golfer. I don't know that I'm a vacationing golfer at this point. Yeah, maybe I get some white shoes and move to Florida in a retirement home, but I'm golfing, I guess. This is my new balance. This is my 407. I like a nice new balance. No, uh I would I live I've never played golf in an arid climate like that before. And those desert courses are always so cool. The ball goes farther, doesn't it? Uh uh. Because that's a mountaineer area. Um anyway, so that's maybe we'll go there. Let's see what happens. Yeah. I could fly from Key West to Vegas. Some people around here go, don't they? Uh yeah, you know, uh uh Daly's crew, like Dave's crew and uh and his he takes his step there once in a while, I think. We can hang out with them on that. That'd be fun. I'd see those guys out there. Yeah. Um National Restaurant Association projecting 1.55 trillion in industry sales this year, which is a little better than last year. That's more optimistic than that includes that would be that includes alcohol sales we're talking about. That's that yeah. So we're talking the whole the whole ball wax. Because I I because I I keep yet we bring it up for an 18th time. I keep seeing the whole Gen Z is not drinking story. Yeah, I you know, I I think that's I think that's gonna change. I think that the the trend though is people are still gonna go out, but they're gonna they're gonna and in the foreseeable future, everybody's gonna be careful with their money. So you really they're gonna go out regardless, but you're not gonna just stay home. So it it really is about the experience and like you know, making sure that there's something that's not only a good value for their money as far as product, but also the experience. And that's where it goes back to the stuff we preach all time and time again. Yeah. Is it's all about hospitality. Yeah. You know. Um wasn't too wasn't too long ago I drove somebody home from the bar. Oh, that was nice of you. Wasn't it? Yeah. It's little things like that. It's little things like that. Keep them coming back. I'm not gonna leave you high and dry. Don't drink and drive, folks. No, get a ride. No, I won't always do it. That was the first time I've done it. But get a ride, call a cab, walk. Maybe I'll help you out.

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Yeah.

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Call a friend. Yeah. Good stuff. It can happen. Um, so that's what's going on in the bar industry as of late. Uh, some maintenance stuff here. Here's where my story's gonna come in. So I noticed you know, we have that we have a great mural on the side of our building for anybody who's been to paddle. Uh, it is it's well, it's it's big. Um noticeable. And uh, but it requires a lot of maintenance. Every year, this time of year, when it starts thawing out, uh paint just starts flaking off of it. So luckily I have now every color and I'll be out there painting uh to patch it up in the uh flaking as soon as it warms up. It flakes we need yeah, we need some salsa blue for that. But I got a stuff it reminded me of a story in college. Oh, let's hear it. This is when I was at Boeing Green. I was taking a pop culture class. I know the story, I think. Right? So I the professor, this guy, uh he has well, he was bald and had a ponytail and had like a little little hat on.

Beers On Tap And St. Paddy’s Planning

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And so that should just like really like you know, just that should just tell you what you need to know. Uh sorry for anybody who has a ponytail and doesn't have hair up top. Was his name Ian? Yeah, probably like Ian or yeah, something like that. Yeah, whatever world music was popular that played. Awful. He had a very uh yeah, he had that vibe going on. And so we had to do, we were doing uh uh I don't know if it was a paper or whatever it was. It was a discussion on uh graffiti, and it was like the graffiti is art. Okay, you can call it art. That's fine, I'm okay with that. Okay, but then he was he was like defending graffiti on the side of New York subway trains, and I'm like, that's not your not your property, you don't just go paint on it. I'm sorry. Like and uh and he uh he didn't agree with me. And I said to him, I said, Hey, where do you live? And he says, Well, I live in Bowling Green. I was like, Well, I want your address. He said, Well, why? I was like, because I want to go put some art on your garage. This was during a this was during a class. Yeah, yeah. What do you say? Oh, I got a C in that class. I'm sure you did. He was pissed. I'm sure you did. What did he say? It was he's like, Well, that's different. Uh yeah, he was like, That's different. That's your deface. Yeah, I was like, Well, how is it different? It's not your property. You can't just just because it's art doesn't mean you can put it on the city. What's the difference between defacing your garage? But then again, we have a public place. Now we have Banksy, and he can pretty much put his stamp out wherever he wants. Nobody cares. Banksy. Banksy. He started going, yeah, whatever. So uh what else I got going on? Um, that's the college story. Just the the maintenance of the mirror reminded me of that. That's hilarious. You're lucky you got a C. Oh man, he was not happy. He wasn't. Let me go. Let me go, uh let me go deface your garage door. How's that feel? Get your patchouli stank out of here. Uh that's all those are all high fidelity quotes by the way. Yes, yes, good call. High fidelity. Great John Cusack movie. Great movie. Um so I've been working on websites uh again this week. You know, I we could talk about AI a little bit every week. I've been using those tools to really uh hypercharge our our SEO. That's search engine optimization. Look out for the folks who need that. And uh that's a real opportunity that you can do now because AI uh has the ability to give you uh SEO insight of what you used to have to pay a marketing for, you know, 10 large to figure out. It'll spit it back to you in 10 minutes. We're noticing a similar theme here almost every week about AI coming up. Uh, I mean, for example, Ryan brought up um earlier the song. We're trying to create a little jingle for the beginning of the bar pod. And I mean, we're up there taking notes and getting our stuff together for the show, and uh I look over and goes, hey Ryan, she goes, Hey, check this out. And all of a sudden there's like a Caribbean Jamaican vibe song about Ryan and Chad and bar pod. So I think that's gonna be 10 minutes. Uh 10 minutes. That's gonna be the beginning of the you'll probably hear that uh on this episode, actually. Those are tough, right? Uh a song at the beginning of your podcast because it's gotta be it's gotta be cheesy enough that it's catchy. Right, but like not so cheese that you hear it and you're like, what are they doing?

Travel, Trips, And The Golf Debate

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Right, you know, right? Well, I think they're already saying that. So we're probably what are we? We're probably we're probably still done. We still don't know, regardless of how we do it. Um so I've been using that, uh and then of course uh updates on the uh Cedar Teaks project over Bayview. Um garage door, well, roll up garage door is going on the building tomorrow. And I've been working on trying to get that website up because here's my problem. We're redoing the rooms, they're not done yet, but people are starting to book now. Okay. So I need a place for them to book, but there's no pictures for them to see. So it's a bit of a challenge on how I'm gonna handle that. It's like I gotta get it done, but you know, it's it's it's a big project that's not there yet to have all the great photos that need to go along with a good website because that is important. God, many pots in the fire, you many pots in the fire. Uh why did I say that? Like uh Pots in the fire? I don't is that a pots in the is that what no pots in the oven? Well, back in pots in the oven. If you're camping, I guess. I guess that's I'm allowed to say that. That's well, I uh I almost spelled birdseed this week. Oh, we're going back to birding, are we? Well, we're all over the place today, it seems like. Yeah, we are all over the place. I just brought up pudding. Let me hear it. Well, we talked about bird seed birding. I got a little tidbit about birding. And then I uh kind of cruised through, I was shopping in Meyer getting some stuff for the bar, and I saw some I didn't buy any, but I started kind of figuring out what move I'll make, what kind I'll buy, what kind of birds I want to try. I didn't go to the bird store, I was at Meyer. Oh, at Meyer, okay. So I walked by the birdseed section. I think if I do buy some bird seed, I'm gonna go to a local store. You were in Meyer just perusing the bird seeded. I want to support the local place. Uh yeah. You know, that's where I'll buy sure birdseed. But yeah, that's it. Did anything did you speak to anybody about birdseed in this? I didn't talk to anybody about birdseed. You just gotta get in the lay of the land. I just gotta get in the lay of the land. You know, the point is, is a week ago, I would have walked right by those seeds and not even known it. But today, but the other day, I'm cruising around kind of looking at different varietals of birdseed. Listen, I talked about nose hair earlier. You just walked into Meyer before you got birdseed to get the lay of the land. That's that's real. Almost already there. That's right, sure, sure. But let me scope this out uh so that way when I come back I know exactly where I'm going. Yeah. Within the Meyer confines of Meyer. Well,

Industry Outlook And Hospitality First

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um, in relation to birds, and then we can we can shove off to the next one. But uh I saw we were talking about how you get older and you start paying attention to birds. A new study came out yesterday last night that I saw that said birders, and all the birders out there are gonna love this. Uh active the active birding community shows that they have a denser brain tissue, leading to a higher perception and uh attention span. So it turns out birding has a positive influence on your old brain. I I it makes sense, doesn't it? You're you're doing a few things. You're you're stimulating a lot of different parts of your brain. You're also in a you're you're in nature, you're in a serene environment. So you're in a nice environment, you're you're kind of on a treasure hunt. You know, looking for birds, trying to find birds. It's like a it's like a live Pokemon. It's right. Well, it's Pokemon before you know everybody asshole had a phone. Right, right. The phones are brutal anymore. Ah, dude, I'm getting, I know. And he's sitting right here. The phones are brutal anymore. I gotta stop talking. I sound like I'm 58. All right. Not that there's anything wrong with being 58. But I'm sorry about everything else. Uh all right, done. So we gotta figure out something, and then we're gonna go into the kind of bar we love section. I think that's gonna be recurring or a bar that stands out. Um, but first let's do that. What are we gonna do? We gotta release them like tomorrow for the St. Paddy's Day hot nuts. Are they gonna be are they gonna be leprechauns testes? I have a I have a great idea. First thing, just right now. Which on the bar pod. When we release this show, yeah, uh maybe tonight or tomorrow morning. Probably, yeah, tonight or tomorrow. Um, if anyone listening or watching, give us a comment on some names that you think the new hot nuts for St. Paddy's Day should be. I believe last year we did we do uh St. Paddy's Day Hot Nuts. I'm sure we did, yeah. I think we did. Um I mean clearly, if you've ever been here, we are the OG hot nut is is impossible to beat, but we like to come out with holiday versions of them. We had Cupid's nuts for uh for uh Valentine's Day. Those were awesome. Those might have been the one of the best tasting ones. So what do you think for ingredients for the leprechaun? Well, you got you gotta make it uh you gotta make it green somehow, right? So crumb de mint? Yeah, the only thing that makes it green is mint, though, so that's tough. Well, we'll we'll we'll talk about the ingredients later. All right. But as far as the name goes, we need a great name for our St. Paddy's Day hot nut uh leprechaun's gold nuggets. Leprechaun's gold nuggets. I'm going with a leprechaun theme. That's a play. I see what you're doing. Oh, we could get some gold schlager in there and have some little flakes of gold schlager. We have do they gold schlager? Yeah. All right. Does that work with coffee? Cinnamon and cinnamon works with coffee. Cinnamon works, yeah. We'll check it out. We got some plays. I guess that's the point. Anybody, when you when when this comes out, if

The Mural, Maintenance, And Graffiti Debate

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you could comment or have any good ideas about what the uh the holiday hot nut for St. Patty's Day should be. It's debuting this Friday regardless, right? It's debuting this Friday regardless. You're working. All right, so we'll figure that out. We'll figure it out. Um this beer is good. It's great beer. What else we got? All right, let's move into uh bars that stand out. They don't have to be ones that you don't have to be like, this isn't my favorite bar ever. We do that a lot, but like just a bar that stands out for some reason that you've been to anywhere. I'll start off. What you got? Uh I'm gonna say uh uh it's a combination of two. Um the snowflake loft and the last run at Snow Trails. Oh yeah, well that's uh That's because we were just there. Yeah, we were just there. We're there pretty much once a week or once or twice a week. But Snow Trails down in Mansfield, Ohio, it's uh we've been going there since we were young kids. Our parents, our dad special specifically got us into snow skiing early. And uh Snow Trails is one of the best places on earth. And the bar in there is just fantastic. It's got that, it's almost it's got a Colorado ski lodge vibe. It's a vibe, yeah. They've managed to keep, right? It's tough to even think that, but how a ski area in in Mansfield, Ohio can have that vibe, but it does. They pull it off. They pull it off. It's got the the log cabin feel, there's the the fire pit in the middle of the snowflake loft, and they've got a little bar off to the side called the last run. But the vibes there are immaculate. Some with a lot of history there. I mean, trails is has is you know way been around forever. It's the last private ski area in in the state, right? Uh in the state, I believe so. Yeah, everything else is owned by Vale. I think there's maybe one. Wait, is there is there an eastern something? Is there some ski club somewhere east of Cleveland that's like more of a club that has a chairlift? Is the one down by Columbus owned by Vale as well now? Yeah, yeah, that's uh Mad River. Mad River, that's that's that's Vale now. That brand new mind, Boston Mills. Brandon, Boston Mills. But Snow Trails, it I can't I can't even put into words how great how great the entire place is, but man, the bar there is fantastic. Would agree, would agree. You ready for this? This bar is called Riley's Daughter. Riley's Daughter. And it is in the Chicago Midway Airport. Oh. Oh, I've been there. And this bar have you been there with me? I sent you a photo you were there. Yeah, so this bar, I used to have to fly through Chicago a lot for work years ago. And uh this bar was originally an Irish bar on the south side of Chicago, I believe. And this is we're talking, you know, I'm more than a decade since I've been there at this point. Um, and the owner moved it inside the airport, and this guy is an older Irish guy, wore the classic bartender uniform, black pants, white shirt. They poured a great Guinness, and uh he was just he would tell stories from his and apparently uh his bar was like the start of political season in Illinois. So every like presidential candidate from Obama to Bush. Like they went they did events at this bar when it was not at the airport. Yeah, yeah, of course. And so he would tell stories about all these, you know, politics and presidents and stuff. And it's just fascinating. Riley's daughter. Riley's daughter. And I would schedule my flight. It's a great name. So I would have a three-hour layover

AI For SEO And A Jingle In Minutes

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just so I could have a couple of drinks and bullshit with this guy. Scheduling a three-hour layer is you can sit down. Tell me that is not that is that that's good points for a bar that can make someone do that. Dude. I think that goes back to you know, I would sit you in once you got a bar seat there, you were like, I'm good. I'm good for a couple hours. That says a lot. Yeah, typically you want to you want to keep your layover in what, maybe 45 minutes. I remember having roommate. I'm like, that's awesome. Hammerton. It's a good time. So that's the one, Riley's daughter. I don't even know if it's still there. I'll have to look online and see if that's still there. But that was a nice memories. I was always there by myself. It was just one of those places. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. So uh anything else that you got going on? Um, what was I gonna talk about? Um, you know, I I wanted to bring up, I wanted to uh kind of fit a bar story into you know, because we were doing the bar stairs for a while, but you know I think we should continue with the bar story. We should. No, a lot of times you don't have anything crazy or funny that happens, um, little things here and there. But I think I write down to Vall Street in your bare feet. What now? What like you know like writing down your vault street? That was a good one. Yeah, that was a good one. I beat I beat that guy by a lot, by the way. No, you did, yeah. But I yeah, I'm trying to think. I I wanted to uh because that was you know one of the things that people wanted to hear more of is bar stories. Yeah. Do you have anything? As of late. I don't know. I mean, yeah. I know I don't have anything crazy. I do have one. I mean you could dig into the archives. You know what? I've got one. Okay, what you got? I've got one. I don't know, yeah, man. But when I was bartending at Splash, it put in back. Oh this is already gonna be good. Yeah. I'll keep it away from the R-rated ones, but this one, when I first started working there, this is back in this would have been 2005, probably. Um, it was the only swim pool bar yet on the island, right? Uh-huh. So it was kind of the first one. It was still very busy. There were like Browns and Indians players would come there and visit. Yep. So there were just a lot of people. Um this one, dude. This one guy used to come. He was a uh a DO, I think, right? One of the guys who does like what they do adjustments on your back and neck and stuff, but they also um prescribe medicine. Uh one of those guys. Whatever. Anyway, he used to come as a chiropractor. And he always rolled with a crew. And he clearly would tip us very well after we treated, treated, took care of their whole group. Um, he used to take Shane and I, the other, my friend that used to bartend with, he used to take us in the back and adjust our backs and neck as part of the as part of the that's nice, man.

Renovations, Bookings, And No-Photo Problem

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That's worth a couple hundred bucks. Come on, dude. Every time he came, Shane and I were like, oh man, dude, we're gonna feel good after this bar shift. Um, but it's not and that's not a crazy story, it's just something that I remember. That's a that's a good story. You know, get a little adjustment, a little tweak. A little adjustment, a little tweak. So, you know, if any uh any DOs want to come in and looks like I just got a text. They'll be cleaning the lines on Friday. Well, the beer lines? Beer lines every month. Yeah. Yeah. What about you know, so I told a little bar story. What's a little what's a little behind the scenes take from from this place that you could that you could tell? Because that's something else I want to incorporate in the that we should incorporate in the bar pod quite a bit. That that people might not see. Well, beer lines or something. You got it. There it is. You clean those once a month, is the way those work. And they have these little um sensors on them to keep them clean. Um, so that's something that you gotta do. It's required by the state. I think you should do it. Sometimes I do it myself. I mean, it's important. You want clean beer lines, yeah. Um uh because otherwise your beer will taste funky. Uh that's a behind-the-scenes thing. I mean, there are many, like you know, always dealing with it. I like the beer line one though. That's crucial because I've been in places where stuff doesn't taste quite right, you can tell the beer lines aren't clean. Beer lines are important. Um because draft beer is so sensitive. Yeah, yeah. You well, you know, if the temperature is a little wrong, it won't pour right. And that's you know, tweaking that draft beer system to make sure it pours properly, not wasting a lot of product, but coming out right. And you know, and and and it goes so much further down the line. Think about like you know some brewers personally, they're very, very protective of how their beer tastes. Right, right. And yeah, some won't distribute based on that. Right. And if you don't uh I mean, if you don't clean the beer lines and and have it tasting exactly like they want to, you're doing them a disservice as well. So it's very important. That's true. It is very important. That brings up a good question. It's here. If you're pouring a beer, what's your level of foam where you like it? Oh, uh I I think the perfect beer. Yeah, yeah. How much head on a beer? Blow the foam off of a few. I like that saying. That's right. Um say on this on this particular cup. Uh-huh. Um, you don't want to go with the the party pour. Right, right. You gotta do it with the top. Sometimes it happens, you mess up or whatever. But I mean, I'm I'm talking you need right about there. Yeah, right about there. Right, right, right in a can glass, right before the cover. What is that? About an inch of foam? Doing a little tilt, not even an inch, it's like a half inch. Yeah. Right before it starts tilt. But you need a little foam up top. Yeah, because if you don't have the foam at the top of the beer, when you're when you drink it, it's gonna make you feel fuller

Birdseed, Brain Benefits, And Screens

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too. Right. Right, right, right. Give you a little gas. If you want the bubbles, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, you get it's that's important. So, well, that's the wrap, I guess, on the week. Uh front bar is uh about done with its its uh upgrade for the spring. I can't wait to get that going again. Yeah. Um and uh we're kind of kind of ready for summer on here. But other than that, I mean that that that uh kind of kind of uh goes right into something I wanted to talk about. Oh, you got one more thing? Yeah, tiny little thing. One more thing. You brought it up. What you brought it up with we're getting ready for summer, getting ready for spring. Yeah. Um in our neighborhood, that means and and I don't know why. I I I thought I heard it the other day when I was walking outside of my house. It was not, of course, but I think it's like Pavlov's dog situation. Uh-huh. I thought I heard an ice cream truck. Oh. Which would be crazy because it's wintertime, right? Well, they don't, they probably don't come around your neighborhood very much. No, they come around my neighborhood, yeah. Okay. But but springtime is the start of ice cream trucks. Do those kids hear that ice cream noise? Do you know what I wish that they had instead of ice cream trucks or in addition to margarita trucks? Well, that's that's really good. I want like a taco truck that just goes around the neighborhood. Oh, like hands them out, like moves around. Yeah. Like, how come it's why are food trucks always parked and not moving around? How come they're just relegated to kids and ice cream? I want tacos one day. It's probably a little tough to cook them on the fly, but you could probably pack them up and and you know, get them moving. That's a good idea. I want to walk outside one time. I want to hear the taco truck music.

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You know what I mean? And jump up and go and run out the door with 10 bucks or 20 bucks and get a taco. So there's there it is. There's my list. If anybody needs a business idea, if you want to sell tacos in Chad's neighborhood, you have an automatic sale. Just saying. There it is. Uh I like that. Um, you know, I think we're just kind of rocking for the week and and and and you know, ready to go. Uh hopefully this weekend will be nice. Um I'm it's sunny out today, and I am sick of clouds. This is nice. This is I I'm starting to get to that level where I'm like, if it's gray anymore, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna lose it. This is the time of the year when it starts to get, we're we're getting pale, and uh I need some I need some vitamin vitamin D. Yeah. So well, hey, the good news is we talked about blue. He is on the mend. He's sitting right there chilling with us. Uh looks like we're gonna have well-fed

Naming The St. Paddy’s Hot Nut

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birds in the area. Yeah. And uh, you know, wash your nose hairs. Yeah, I'm gonna go after the show. I'm gonna go hunting for a nice tool for it. There you go. That's it. Hey, we will see you next week on Bar Pod if we don't see you this weekend at Battle Bar. Take it easy.

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Ryan Anjan.

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Bob Pod coming in, this is not the Let's Go, let's go.