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RUNNIN' VEGAS - The John McNamara Podcast
Talking local sports, business and real estate.
RUNNIN' VEGAS - The John McNamara Podcast
Swimming Through Life: A Bartender's Tale with Hannah Halverson
Hey guys, John McNamara, our host running Vegas. We're talking local sports, business, real estate. If you guys like me, subscribe, follow us. I'm running Vegas podcast. I got my co-host, mr jordan and in the house.
Speaker 2:I thought you were gonna run out of air. I know I went on two walks this morning had to get the energy up for this one.
Speaker 1:We got a special guest, hannah halverson, bartender mermaid, in the house. Thanks for being on, hi, so we're excited to have you on. So let's hear more about Hannah. What's your story? Where are you from?
Speaker 3:Born and raised Vegas. Been here my whole life. I mean, I moved to Oregon, I moved to California, but I always ended up back here.
Speaker 2:So, born and raised, what part in California I'm from Cali, san Clemente. Oh okay, all right, I'm so born and raised. What part in california I'm from cali um, san clemente?
Speaker 1:oh okay, all right, I'm north but yeah, I was there for like. You're from the real california, right? Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3:I was there for like eight months I was married to like a marine.
Speaker 2:So oh, okay wow short-lived yeah, yeah, awesome, it's okay. That's a different lifestyle, for sure, yeah yeah, that didn't last long so how'd you get in the service industry being a bartender?
Speaker 3:tell us a little bit more about that um, so I first I was a full-time mermaid. I started mermaiding when I was 19.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow um, yeah, it's been a long time. Um, and then when coven hit, we were just like constantly like they would bring us back, and then they'd let us go, and then they'd bring us back. It was like shitty. And then so I at that time I was like I really want to be a bartender. I had a lot of friends that were bartenders. Um, so, yeah, so like 2021, like the beginning, I just like I got a job interview for a bar and the rest is history.
Speaker 2:So I have so many questions. Can we start?
Speaker 1:with the mermaid so how does one go about? I was going to covid servicing, but yeah, no, the mermaid, like how.
Speaker 2:So how does for one? Somebody is like I want to be a mermaid someday. Two, just is it something? Because it's so unique. It's not like you can take that talent to another city, right?
Speaker 3:like what other city has mermaids?
Speaker 2:yeah, so it's like how, how do you get into that one? That's funny, yeah it's like yeah, true, no it's well, we can get away with, I guess what I'm trying to say. To give you context, marketing here, right, could be very provocative because it's in las vegas. However, marketing here you do it anywhere else might be a little too risky.
Speaker 3:For sure, that's a good point. Yeah, so this city is very.
Speaker 2:it's not like the rest of the country, so yeah, well, so I didn't.
Speaker 3:I was a synchronized swimmer my whole life. Okay, so like six to 19,.
Speaker 2:I was synchronized swimming.
Speaker 3:And then. So a lot of people that would end their synchro career would just end up at the tank, or at the silver tin. We call it the tank.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, so there's a whole okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was like a network of synchro swimmers Okay, this makes more sense, yeah. My coach when I was 16 worked at the tank. My older sister worked there. Two of like my best friends worked there. They're older than me, so it's like it was like a natural, like I have to go there, yeah yeah, um, and is there certification for that?
Speaker 2:or because they're like underwater, right, and you have like a little oxygen tank, or do you go back, or do you because? I don't think I've ever seen them I know I've seen like little clips or something, but yeah, you have to come.
Speaker 3:Yeah, little clips or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I think it'll be a sprint story. Like my nieces, they would think that yeah, yeah, you have to come now so no, so you have to be scuba certified.
Speaker 3:So you just need, like your open water service is intense okay yeah, so I got certified for that. And then, yeah, we're underwater. We technically like don't have air like attached to us, so that's what makes it like risky, I guess. Um, but we do. We have like hoses at the bottom of the tank. We call them hookah lines okay um, and then. So you just go breathe off that when you want to, and then wow, wow you can sit on there the whole time.
Speaker 1:I mean, is it hard to swim with that like kind of fin or tail? I don't know what the heck you call it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a mermaid at first, yes, okay, um, so I like went to do when you get interviewed, like it's not, like you don't sit down and interview they like bring you in, you do like a practice swim or like a that's your audition, I guess. Um, so the first time I did it I was like this is so fucking scary and I might die because you're I mean, you're 17 feet under the water scary. I don't like that.
Speaker 3:Um, yeah, and your legs are like glued together, so it's like um, so I guess, yeah, at first it's hard, but I've been there so long it's like I'm so used to it. Um, but we do. Our tank is saltwater so you're like naturally buoyant yeah well, so no, so we have to wear weights. Oh yeah, so I have like a weight belt on and then.
Speaker 3:I have very unsafe yeah just anchoring me to the bottom and then I have a weight on my, like my tail, or like my fin, like the bottom of my feet.
Speaker 2:So I have two different sets of weights. How easy is it to get out in case of an emergency, though I guess my overthinking is a pretty easy one.
Speaker 1:Can you unlock them if you need to?
Speaker 3:Have you seen that video of that mermaid that got stuck and she had to remove her whole tail?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 3:That's what you'd have to do. You'd have to slip out of that shit, yeah, okay but we also like we have safety divers with us. So I have one safety diver on deck and one safety diver in the water with me oh great, so they're in like full scuba gear, okay, and they're like eyes on you the whole time, so like if something, like if I got stuck or like something. I just have to like right, right, find him and then okay that's good and how theoretically he could help me.
Speaker 1:How long are you in the water for?
Speaker 3:um, so our swims are 15 minutes. It's like a 15 minute show yeah, okay and we do. We usually have like three people on a day and we each do five swims so it's like five, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Five 15 minutes, that's like very different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't realize it was like a show too.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, cool.
Speaker 3:We call them shows, cause it's like I mean, you hop in that tank and there's 60 people staring at you.
Speaker 1:you know, oh, that's cool, okay yeah.
Speaker 3:There's like tricks we have to do.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's really cool.
Speaker 3:Dude do people always ask me. They're like do you hire men?
Speaker 2:and I'm like oh, really, yeah, I mean because I like and do you guys or no. I know we haven't, yeah, but it's not uh exclusive to women yeah, real estate doesn't work out.
Speaker 3:I'm a swimmer, I'll put in a good word I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:So it sounds like, yeah, you synchronized swim for a long time. What were the kind of lessons you learned through that? You were doing that at a young age, so yeah, um, I it's hard.
Speaker 3:Synchro is like a hard sport, yeah it's like tears you down and then builds you up. You know, but I was, yeah, I was swimming five days a week, four, three to four hours a day for 12 years, 13 years. It was hard, but it's like it's like such a big part of my life and like who I am that it's like it's nice too, because then when you go into mermaiding, it's like you have like I know how to hold myself in water. You know, it's like I know how to handle myself, so like when I am weighted at the bottom of that tank, like I know what to do. You know, yeah, I can hold my breath. I can hold my breath for like almost two minutes, so that's crazy yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 3:It's like it was like mermaid training.
Speaker 1:I guess, okay, well, if I said I could do it, you could do it, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for your confidence yeah, uh, so scuba diving, so you do scuba diving. You do that, so do you scuba dive when you travel? Was that something? Yeah?
Speaker 3:um, like I, yeah, I love scuba diving.
Speaker 2:Okay, because I've never done it and I want to, but it's like an immense amount of hours, though, right I mean no, like the first certification is just like an open water and it's.
Speaker 3:It's not that I mean you have to do like a class. Why did I think? It was like 500 hours no, okay, no, okay, all, no, okay, all right All right, so then maybe that could be on my bucket list I don't know exactly how long it is, but it's like you have to do, like, I think, two pool sessions and then like two like open water sessions, so it's like it's easy. Okay, All right, anybody can do it.
Speaker 2:Anybody can do it. I mean this last time, we just not. That smorgasbord is the same, but it's just kind of cool it just opens up your itinerary to do more.
Speaker 1:It does it freaks me out a little bit, because my uh, my stepdad is certified and he used to do it, but like when you go down, like you have to like stop and there's certain ranges and when he told me it freaked me out. So it's definitely like a bucket list thing to do, but it does kind of freak me out a little bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, it can be dangerous. If you're like not smart and safe about it, it's because, like the pressure, you have to stop, because the pressure, yeah, and you can like blow your eardrums, you can get like oh no yeah, like there's just like certain things that like you have to be careful about, but maybe it helps with their hearing problem though.
Speaker 3:I think that's why I like maybe he doesn't have very good hearing, so maybe that uh I, I swear to god, I I'm like halfway deaf from mermaiding for so long yeah but yeah, I I scuba dive when I go on vacation, but like it's hard because the only other person in my family that's certified is my sister and she doesn't really like to do it anymore. So it's like I don't want to go with a bunch of strangers and you have to go with people. You can't just go scoot every night yourself.
Speaker 3:It's not, it's not, it's not, yeah, yeah, you could just die underwater.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would not be good. All right, so you did that. That got into bartending, tell us. So how did you get into bartending? What are? So somebody is going to turn into a bartender, cause I actually don't know. I remembered I had I think I had to get like a TAM card and a food card. Is that still? A thing or this was like forever ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean you have to get a TAM card. You have to get a like a food handlers card If your bar serves food. I'm a gaming bartender, so it's like I work in a gaming bar, so it's like a local. Like machines, like slot not slot machines, but like machines on the bar. You know like you walk into like a PT's and like it's that kind of gaming, so you have to get like your gaming license. So there's like three different things that you have to get.
Speaker 2:Okay, and how long is that? I'm always worried about the times for everything.
Speaker 3:It's really not hard.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's really not hard. You have to like study and take a test. Do you need to do bartending classes as well? No, what I? Don't know, I don't know, he's just finding everything funny. Right now, bartending school, yeah, yeah, okay so that's like.
Speaker 3:it's such like a debate in the bartending world about bartending school, because it's like you don't need that right, you don't need that, but a lot of people do it and then, like other people are like that's a total waste of money and it's a scam like you.
Speaker 1:Don't need that, so I asked because it's 500 hours, so it was not 500 hours so it was a pretty cheap course.
Speaker 2:it was a cool teacher. It was in san francisco, Francisco. I thought I wanted to get into it, but it did get in me. It got me in the door at least in San Francisco, because everybody's about who knows who, yeah, and getting me into like a bar and getting enough experience to be able to go to a cooler bar. Yeah, See I don't know if it's like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I don't know, like you know, what I mean bartender school in other states obviously I've never done that, but at least here, like it's not necessary.
Speaker 2:Okay, it is basically about like who you know yeah, you just kind of get the experience or like people that just like want to take a chance on someone that like has no experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, okay interesting time for you to go into bartending right when COVID. So how was like that? Because that's a weird, that's an interesting time frame to get into it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we, the bar that I opened my first bartending job. They opened in December of 2020, which was like right when COVID was ending. There was still all like the mask rules and like you have to be six feet apart and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So it was hell on earth. They opened in december.
Speaker 3:I started in like late january. It was awful, like literally awful sometimes.
Speaker 1:I miss it, the part of like not as many people being out.
Speaker 3:Not covid, yeah yeah, so like you had to wear your mask right, so I like the first like four months of my bartending career, I had a mask on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then when it finally ended.
Speaker 3:People were like oh, that's what you look like like we had no idea but yeah, people like you could take your mask off if you were like actively eating or drinking right, but if you weren't, you had to put it back on and it's like people were yelling at us, like mad at us. I'm like it's not my fucking rule, right right put your mask on. It was and you had to like sanitize everything before like someone else could sit.
Speaker 1:It was a nightmare yeah, it was a nightmare. It was rough and I think in california too right, you had to like eat and drink at the same time.
Speaker 3:That's right, it was, we're here. We were just like like take a bite and then right, right, right, there's a lot of things that did not make sense, yeah, it was. It was rough, especially like for a new bar because we had just opened right so then you have like all this covid regulations.
Speaker 2:It was, it was kind of a nightmare, but so how do you choose like a neighborhood bar over, like the strip, just because it's like I'm sure, yeah, it's a huge different yeah, it has to be I.
Speaker 3:I feel like when I before I ever became a bartender, I always was like I want to be a bartender on the strip, like I want to work at clubs and I want to and like part of me still does, cause it's just like there's like different categories of bartending, so like a club bartending, you're basically just like rocking drinks, like you're just throwing drinks out. You know it's crazy environment.
Speaker 3:Yeah, um, gaming bartending is so like relaxed and it's like, like I said, like I have the easiest job in the world, like basically all I do is talk to people and serve them I love that.
Speaker 2:I still think I should go into that you should I think at some point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I first wanted to be a bartender too. Yeah, I loved it when I did do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah I'm like it's just yeah, it's like you hit.
Speaker 1:I hear all the hot goss and they're like, okay, yeah it's like a fun job, Depending on where you work, of course.
Speaker 3:It's like I, really I just like I talk to people, I get to know them, I build relationships and like make them drinks and serve them food.
Speaker 2:It's like it's fun yeah. Like a lot of people that I'm friends with, like you're there for a good time yeah.
Speaker 3:A lot of people that I'm friends with. I met through. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, I don't know. So we had this conversation. The other day.
Speaker 1:So do you consider yourself a mixologist or bartender? No, bartender, okay, yeah, oh, did you okay, okay. So you guys, yeah, I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I'm like I don't know I. I'm like I think she not that you don't take your craft seriously. I'm like I think there's like levels to it and people are like let's put these like bitters in there or whatever that is. It's like yeah, I was a bartender too. I was not a mixologist. I'm like yeah, yeah, it's just the most alcohol we could get in one drink. Good bartender, yeah, yeah you cannot call me a mixologist.
Speaker 3:I make titos and sodas and pour bud lights all day, so definitely not mix all.
Speaker 2:It's not like a team rabbit, no yeah, it's like a craft cocktail, right, right, which.
Speaker 3:I always like that was always like my goal, like I still like, would like to like get into that kind of bartending. So it's like there's different categories of bartending so it's like I'd like to dabble in a little bit of everything you know, yeah.
Speaker 2:So what's like next for you as far as? Are you looking for another bar? What's the experience you want to be a part of, or do you want to get into more of a higher end like?
Speaker 3:what's next for hannah, as far as this industry goes I I'm happy where I'm at right now so I actually just like switched bars in october, so like I haven't even been in my new job for like a year, but I'm like this is like the happiest I've ever been oh nice, yeah, with my career. So oh, very cool. You know, I'm like that's hard right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so if you are, why?
Speaker 3:yeah, sometimes the grass isn't greener yeah, we'll see like I said, I would like to dabble, but for now I'm I'm in like a really good bar. I have really good company.
Speaker 1:So okay, yeah, do you have any good bartending stories or mermaid stories you can share?
Speaker 3:oh my god so many so many it's like like being a bartender. I swear to god, when people say, like the stereotype of like, you're basically like an adult daycare yeah, it's like, it's like beyond. True, it's like that one is crying that one's happy. This one needs to eat. This one is fighting with the other one like it's right that one wants to sleep.
Speaker 2:Different clients. He deals with that on a daily basis.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's like it's so like a therapist, yeah, yeah it's constantly and like I do, like I love people, I love my customers, but it's like, yeah, it's hard sometimes because it's like you get alcohol on people and it, just like you know, turns into a mess, so like at least once a day.
Speaker 1:I'm dealing with something that shouldn't happen, yeah, so how do you deal with that in those situations? Because those are obviously uncomfortable and then alcohol is involved. So, yeah, everybody's emotions are on high.
Speaker 2:So how do you deal with those situations if I'm ever at your bar and I'm drinking a lot and I'm saying I'm gonna marry somebody. Hannah, hannah, don't let me do it, because you know I say that to everybody.
Speaker 1:So disclaimer been there at that point would be like cut him off you're done. Yeah, it gets in the bar all right, you know no yeah, it's it honestly.
Speaker 3:It is like I feel like when I obviously like, the longer you're in a career like, the more you get used to it, but it's like it's hard to learn how to like navigate people as a bartender, because it's like you have to know when to say this and when to say that and like what mood they're in and, yeah, if they're drunk and they're sad, it's like you have to like. It's just like hard. You have to like learn people in order to navigate and it's like there's been so many times when I like started bartending that I would go home and just fucking like cry oh, I was just like this is so much, and people are so mean, people are so mean, people are so mean yeah, to service industry, people, it's like like crazy.
Speaker 2:So it progresses, I would imagine right Like they start kind of normal and then they start getting meaner as they're drinking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like yeah, no, alcohol can.
Speaker 2:I've never been kicked out of a bar, but so how does one do that? Or a bartender do that? How do you do it so they're not offended and they don't cause a scene? How does that go down?
Speaker 1:I need it it's hard, it's hard, it's like there's like a fine line, are you?
Speaker 2:contemplating, like there's certain calls we don't want to make, right? You're like, oh, you just kind of dread it. You're like, oh, I gotta tell them, like they gotta go. Or do you approach the front?
Speaker 3:it's, it's so I mean, yeah, so many parts of bartending is like just being uncomfortable. Yeah, I don't want to have to like say this to you, but yeah, like kicking people out is like the worst, because then they're either going to like, just you know, swallow their pride and leave, or they're going to start screaming at you.
Speaker 3:Right and like be really angry and like it's just hard. It's like it's just hard. It's like people are so difficult. Yeah, yeah, but when, when, like when you have to cut someone off and kick them out, usually it's like they'll fight with you for a little bit and then they'll just end up leaving. Yeah, like I've never had to call the cops, or like do something. I mean I've had people like threatened to like beat me up and come across the bar Like okay yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, okay, yeah, so yeah, okay. Any other crazy stories? I guess that one.
Speaker 3:I had just questions but yeah, what's your craziest story at a bar? At a bar, I don't know, I mean I'd like there's so many that they just like sink in my brain. I've seen people like throw up directly on the bar like literally like standing in front of someone they just you know on my bar. I'm like, oh, that's sick, thank you so much.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, I see I couldn't do that, I would leave and yeah, right there, yeah, and if I worked out, I'm not cleaning it up either I had like a woman.
Speaker 3:She got like really mad because she like wasn't winning. So like obviously, like a gaming bar, you're trying to, you're gambling, so she got really mad. She like poured a whole bottle. She wanted a bottle of wine. She poured the bottle of wine on her machine. I've seen people like break the machines. It's like people are crazy yeah, the gambling and drinking is just a lot, I feel yeah, I don't know, you just get used to it, though it's like nothing's crazy to me anymore.
Speaker 2:you just kind of get you know, I'm so used to it.
Speaker 1:So, besides bartending, what do you do for fun? What are your kind of the spots that you like to go to?
Speaker 3:Um so, like I really like, like craft cocktails, like Velveteen, like I really like craft cocktail bars, like I like going downtown like the artist district.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we love Love. Okay, good, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll ask my question.
Speaker 2:I know I'm sorry, I get excited and then I piggyback off and then I have a few questions.
Speaker 3:I love like day drinking. There's so many things I love like day drinking downtown like in the arts district going to breweries it's the best it really is. I found, like my new favorite bar Nocturnal, Nocturnal. Where's that?
Speaker 2:So I saved it. That's one of the Instagrams, so him and I are actually going to do a follow Friday. That was going to be my question. Did you answer his question already? No, she couldn't do it. Okay, all right. All right, so yeah, we're going to do yeah, we'll go downtown. And then there area, so we'll go and just check out like 12 a time and have our fall of fridays. We'll have one little reel once, uh, once a week.
Speaker 1:So yeah, but there's so many cool places down there, it's really easy to get content is one of the ones I saved okay. So yeah, we're gonna check it out tomorrow. You have to go, okay and that's like.
Speaker 3:So, like craft cocktail bars, they're hard to. I mean, I don't want to say they're hard to find, but it's like so many of them are downtown, like in that art district Right, right, that's where they're all popping up, yeah, and they get
Speaker 2:locals too. They're so unique.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nocturnal is amazing. Okay, literally All right.
Speaker 2:Let's go there, okay. Then there's Prowl. Have you been to Prowl I? So it's fun though. Okay, yeah, we've been there. It's like especially well when it's really hot out though, yeah, it's perfect because we like to be outdoors, but, like voodoo brewery, all those stuff happens yeah, I like the outdoor.
Speaker 1:I'm glad there's more outdoor stuff and you can walk around it's rough this time of year, but spring and fall is still fun. I used to live downtown so I used to know it better. But it's crazy you don't go down there for a little bit, and how much change everything changes it's just building up so fast it's exciting.
Speaker 2:It is exciting, yeah, torno. Is that one of those places that opens at like 5 pm like everyone else, or is it open? Do you know they serve food too, or they serve food? What's the vibe in there?
Speaker 3:it's like dark, moody, and then, like you, the menu. It's like every kind of classic cocktail you could ever imagine but, then they have like every classic cocktail. They have like six versions of it. So it's like you get to pick so many different things, or you could just like ask the bartender like hey, make me what you like they're just like that's mixology yeah, I'm not an exologist, I like it all right, so tomorrow that's cool.
Speaker 1:That's the game plan yeah so it sounds like you're big into drinks, so what's like your favorite cocktail or?
Speaker 3:my favorite cocktail maybe depending on your mood.
Speaker 2:So, while you think about that, what's the one drink you hate making? Oh, that's a good question yeah it's like I need to know like which one's the easiest and which ones you're like. This is a pain, like this is not the type of one for that. Yeah, because I feel a little guilty at times.
Speaker 1:Asking for aperol spritz it's my okay all right, three ingredients, I know, but I'm like, oh god, we're at this far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, right, we went to a mind you, it was a golf course, uh you think that'd be the perfect?
Speaker 3:place for an aperol spritz.
Speaker 2:He's like I don't know what aperol is and I'm like, oh okay, I'm like I guess I won't take that, I'll take a beer.
Speaker 3:That's insane. Yeah, it's like one of the most popular drinks right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, yeah, yeah popular now so which one do you hate to make? And then, which one's your favorite to make, and what's?
Speaker 1:your favorite and what's your favorite? I'm sorry they all come yeah yeah my.
Speaker 2:PhD. I should have told you before you came on the show um, I hate mojitos.
Speaker 3:Mojitos suck. I don't want to moment, you know, I just don't want to. Um, like old fashions, like they're not hard to make, but every time someone orders one, I kind of roll my eyes. I'm like, okay, I don't want to do that yeah um, that's your friend jamie's an old-fashioned tequila old-fashioned. She only knows about that because of me, and the truth comes out studio right now there's definitely like drinks that like, when you order it, I'm like annoyed, you know like if someone comes in, they're like, they're like give me a long island like trash yeah I don't want to give that to you.
Speaker 3:I was trapped right when I turned 21. Like an Irish, car bomb yeah.
Speaker 2:I was in college and it was a means to have fun, I thought at the time, and save money.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, I tried to, it was just a bad hangover, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Irish car bombs.
Speaker 1:Nightmare. I just loved them. I love Irish car bombs. Nightmare, I love Irish car bombs.
Speaker 3:They were fun back in the day. You're everything she hates All the drinks you thought were really funny. Every drink that you thought was cool at 21 is the most annoying shit yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you ever have somebody come into the bar and you're like you can tell, cause I feel like I can't tell by what they drink and you're like oh, you never outgrew your college days or you never, right.
Speaker 3:I feel like as soon as someone walks in my bar. Or is that just a me judgment thing? I might be.
Speaker 2:Really I'm a judger. I think I'm all like oh okay, you're like, you must be from Washington.
Speaker 3:Right, I'm a Budweiser girl, so Judge.
Speaker 1:Chill out. At least you're not PBR. Yeah.
Speaker 3:No, that's pretty bad. Yeah, like I don't know, when people walk in, like I kind of immediately I don't know if it's because I've been a bartender for a while I immediately like know what kind of person you're gonna be right, and sometimes I'm proven wrong.
Speaker 1:you know, sometimes it's a nice test right now who's add is kicking in now? What do I drink? What you can't pick apple spray, you're gonna have to pick something else. But what, what?
Speaker 3:do you think I drink? What do you think he? Drinks go I don't know, just guess I feel like you drink like whiskey neat uh or beer there we go.
Speaker 2:Chrono, I got it right corona right because he's watching his figure um, no, no no whiskey, no hard alcohol yeah, no, thank you.
Speaker 1:Is it your whiskey? That was good gaps back in the day. Yes, yeah so what do we think?
Speaker 2:I don't know for george yeah, see, I drank with you the other day I'm like I can't turn around if I was a drink, what would I be surfing?
Speaker 1:no, she didn't, we were there for dinner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude it. We went. We got pasta. It was amazing. It was a portion enough for three of us like yeah oh, it was yeah good four times yeah I don't know you're drinking like a tito soda.
Speaker 3:I don't know no, no vodka okay, see, I don't pay attention. Yeah, whiskey, whiskey. Yeah, no, no yeah see jamie's wrong. Yeah, tequila shots, I don't know, there we go tequila. Yeah, I love definitely did tequila shots. Yeah, so I love tequila.
Speaker 2:We definitely did tequila shots, yeah, so I love tequila. I love champagne, like champagne I'm just a happy kid.
Speaker 3:That's interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a happy kid with everything, but it's just champagne. I feel like I don't.
Speaker 3:That's funny. I like don't ever serve champagne.
Speaker 2:Oh, really yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, unless messes me up.
Speaker 2:So it's just yeah, just the champagne. Yeah, it's really weird, okay, yeah, so do you have a favorite drink, or well, we asked like 10 more after that yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 3:Um no, I do love. I love an aperol spreads.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah the color makes me happy, it's a whole feeling. It's a cool looking drink. Yeah, I'm like it's like a summer vibe, like right, right, right in the very refreshing drinks. Yeah, because you like that, I still like mascot meals.
Speaker 1:That was my oh yeah when those came out.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I miss those yeah um, I don't know, I really like gin. Um, when it comes to like cocktails okay, like craft cocktails. So, like every time I go to like someplace, like nocturnal, I'm like I gravitate towards like whatever gin cocktail they have. So I like like fruity, I like sweet, cool yeah.
Speaker 2:See, that messes me up, like I don't have like a certain like favorite cocktail.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I used to drink a lot of whiskey. I try not to anymore, yeah, cause it makes me kind of crazy.
Speaker 1:But it makes me want to drink everybody. Are you Irish?
Speaker 3:No, okay, I don't know yeah, no, okay, I don't know, maybe yeah I like a whole bunch of white things. But yeah, can't drink whiskey anymore. Um, but yeah, I don't really have like a, I don't know, it's like favorite, I like everything, like I'll drink anything. I mean, no, if you put like jaeger in front of me, I'm not gonna drink it, but any kind of like cocktail I'll drink it, probably that in the fireball.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think of the things in college. Yeah, fireball back in the day I used to do rum bottles of rum back in the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah and now I wouldn't be able to take a sip of it like no there's some that haunt you forever oh, yeah, I used to like chug bombay out of a bottle.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, just I'm like that sounds like my sophomore year, when I started drinking.
Speaker 3:I was like 14.
Speaker 2:So I was in hard alcohol when I first started. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That was later I went to hard and went to beer yeah, and I didn't drink at all in like high school.
Speaker 3:I started drinking when I was like 14. Yeah, I think the first time I ever got drunk, was like warm kirkland tequila and like warm mosaic cuervo margarita mix, like just disgusting, yeah, and I used to like steal shit out of my parents bar like I would just fill a water bottle with anything I don't know.
Speaker 2:That's when you knew you were gonna be a bartender like I didn't even know what I was.
Speaker 3:I like I would pour like scotch into a water bottle and just be drinking that Like no, oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was terrible. All right, well, we're going to wrap this up. I want to thank my co-host, mr George Hernandez. If you guys, thank you for being on. If you guys are looking to go see the Mermaid Show, check out Hannah. She's your gal. Guys, we're running Vegas. Take care of yourselves today.