Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / X Poll - First Bar Experience for May 8th, 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The ex bowl was pretty simple. We got talking about
- 0:03Speaker 1: it because so many people apparently had gone to my
- 0:09Speaker 1: ex wife's place as their first bar experience.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like my nephew his first bar experience.
- 0:15Speaker 2: He still loves to go there.
- 0:18Speaker 1: My wife, I think it was her first bar experience.
- 0:22Speaker 1: I think it might have been my son's first as well. Yeah,
- 0:25Speaker 1: and he goes there occasionally. Still. So what's your first
- 0:29Speaker 1: bar experience? Where was it? What was it like? What
- 0:32Speaker 1: did you do? Now? I do maintain though, that if
- 0:35Speaker 1: you're like me, if you can remember your first bar experience,
- 0:38Speaker 1: you didn't have a very good time, That's what I think.
- 0:41Speaker 1: But so just give us a call. What was your
- 0:45Speaker 1: what's your first bar experience? Where was it? What was
- 0:47Speaker 1: it like? Would you do?
- 0:47Speaker 3: Oh, let's see, here's a Texter. I spent my twenty
- 0:50Speaker 3: first birthday at Lucky thirteen. It's my family's favorite burger place.
- 0:55Speaker 3: But this was the first time I could go in
- 0:56Speaker 3: and partake of some adult beverages because it is a bar.
- 1:00Speaker 3: The only problem was this was only a week before
- 1:03Speaker 3: I left on my mission.
- 1:04Speaker 4: Well, so then, see, this is why you need to call,
- 1:06Speaker 4: because did you have a drink while you were there
- 1:09Speaker 4: or you just went to the ball exactly?
- 1:11Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six two nine six nine six is
- 1:14Speaker 1: the number. All right, it.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Looks like Tim the tree guy is here. Tim.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Hi Tim, good morning. Where's your first bar?
- 1:23Speaker 5: Well we're talking legal right.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Well, not necessarily have to be.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Wow, we'll go with the legal one.
- 1:31Speaker 6: My birthday is two days before Halloween, so I went
- 1:35Speaker 6: to the Holy Cow.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Oh my Halloween. Where was that?
- 1:39Speaker 2: And Urbane?
- 1:43Speaker 5: And uh saw elbow Fan?
- 1:45Speaker 2: No, so that was coold Elbowfin.
- 1:50Speaker 1: All right, did you you? Yeah? Just you remember it fondly.
- 1:57Speaker 5: I don't remember all of it.
- 1:59Speaker 1: There you go, all right, all right, thanks Tim, Thanks
- 2:02Speaker 1: Tim Elbowfin at the Holy Cow.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Good Lord Braiden is here.
- 2:07Speaker 7: Hello, Braidendo, Good morning everyone. Thank you for letting me listen.
- 2:13Speaker 1: You're welcome.
- 2:15Speaker 5: Uh.
- 2:16Speaker 7: My first bar experience was the Jackalope Downtown, and I
- 2:24Speaker 7: kind of remember most of it. The one thing I
- 2:26Speaker 7: definitely remember was the two people that were being intimate
- 2:30Speaker 7: in the bathroom when I.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Walked to WHOA, Well, okay, yeah you knew you were
- 2:34Speaker 1: you'd hit the big time yep, the Jackalope?
- 2:38Speaker 6: What time?
- 2:40Speaker 1: What did you what did you have? What what did
- 2:41Speaker 1: you order?
- 2:44Speaker 7: It was a Miller highlights because it was like two.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Fifty Champagne of beers.
- 2:51Speaker 1: All right, thank you, all right, thank you.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Let's go to Marty. I think Marty is here.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Marty, Marty, good morning, Good morning. You you went to
- 3:02Speaker 1: a really good place. This was your first bar experience? Really?
- 3:06Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 3:07Speaker 1: In the valley up in Huntsville.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I lived, and I was sixteen years old.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Me and my friends.
- 3:16Speaker 4: We rode our horses over and stuck in the back door, stood.
- 3:21Speaker 1: There of the shooting star.
- 3:23Speaker 2: You just stood in the back door. You were in there.
- 3:25Speaker 2: That counts as first being inside a bar.
- 3:30Speaker 1: So you didn't you didn't drink, You didn't. You didn't
- 3:32Speaker 1: go in there and drink or anything.
- 3:34Speaker 7: No, No, we just watched it, all right.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thanks Marty.
- 3:39Speaker 7: Thanks Marty, Sure.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Let's see we've got like Cara, Cara, Hi,
- 3:48Speaker 2: Karra or Kara Kara.
- 3:50Speaker 9: It's Kara.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it isn't. It's Cara.
- 3:54Speaker 2: And that's your parents' fault.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your h first bar?
- 3:59Speaker 9: So I was twenty two and I had my second child,
- 4:03Speaker 9: so I was breastfeating.
- 4:04Speaker 4: Oh wow, I had to go to the bathroom.
- 4:06Speaker 7: And pump and dump all night long.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I could have.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 4:13Speaker 8: And it was at the Bay, at the Bay, the
- 4:16Speaker 8: old Bay, Yeah.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Right over right over here.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a it's a restaurant.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Now yeah, carry and I went there with the Killer Tomatoes.
- 4:25Speaker 5: Awesome.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Yes, so I didn't really have that much fun.
- 4:28Speaker 6: Yeah, sound run into the bathroom.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Yeah all right, thanks Kara.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Anyway, thank you, bye, Let's go too.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Or was it Richard Hi Richard Hi Richard or is
- 4:40Speaker 1: it Richard.
- 4:41Speaker 10: Well Hoods Richard Ditch. I don't know, but yeah, you
- 4:46Speaker 10: guys need to help me out here, Lords and lady.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Okay.
- 4:49Speaker 10: There was a bar on Main Street back in nineteen
- 4:51Speaker 10: seventy eight and groups would play and I remember in
- 4:55Speaker 10: high school I was able to get in without getting indeed,
- 4:58Speaker 10: and it was rush and man.
- 5:03Speaker 2: What was then? Yeah, Main Street and what oh it
- 5:08Speaker 2: was downtown?
- 5:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it.
- 5:11Speaker 2: It burned down.
- 5:12Speaker 1: It was an old like it was like a like
- 5:13Speaker 1: an old grocery store or something that was converted into
- 5:16Speaker 1: a theater. Yeah, into a into it. I saw some
- 5:20Speaker 1: shows there too. I can't remember the Yeah, somebody will
- 5:23Speaker 1: remember the name. I keep listening to.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Somebody will great if bad Brad Wheeler is listening, he
- 5:29Speaker 3: will know.
- 5:30Speaker 2: But don't text Bill because he left his phone. I
- 5:33Speaker 2: left my phone home and Brad, I need to give
- 5:37Speaker 2: you my notes.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Yeah. That was the name of that place. Someone will remember.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's go to Adam.
- 5:46Speaker 1: I saw I saw a local bar band there there
- 5:49Speaker 1: were It was cow Jazz was the name of the
- 5:51Speaker 1: jazz and they were really good. Adam, Adam High.
- 5:55Speaker 6: Good morning, Odin lady.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Yeah, first bar experience, Faith.
- 6:01Speaker 6: Made college IDs. It were horrible, but the Vortex didn't
- 6:04Speaker 6: care and let us upstairs.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Oh, I have a I have a lot of phone
- 6:09Speaker 2: memories of the board.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Tex in the swell of the Vortex danced in a cage.
- 6:14Speaker 5: You did, I probably watched you.
- 6:19Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of a lot of stuff went down
- 6:21Speaker 2: at the Vortex.
- 6:23Speaker 1: It was a cool place, a great time.
- 6:26Speaker 2: I loved. That was one of my favorite jobs I
- 6:29Speaker 2: ever had. Was a freaking I know.
- 6:34Speaker 3: I was working at another radio station and what would
- 6:37Speaker 3: happen is we would plug the board, the soundboard of
- 6:41Speaker 3: the of the bar of the dance club to the
- 6:44Speaker 3: radio station, so you were hearing what was being played
- 6:47Speaker 3: at the club, which is a great idea. And then
- 6:50Speaker 3: I was walking around with a mobile microphone and I
- 6:53Speaker 3: would do radio breaks every now and then and talk
- 6:55Speaker 3: to people.
- 6:56Speaker 2: At the at the bar. And that was one of
- 6:58Speaker 2: the best jobs I ever.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Had, the whole Yes, all right, yeah, thank you, thank.
- 7:03Speaker 2: You very much. All right, So there you go. You
- 7:05Speaker 2: get the idea.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Tell us about your first bar experience, saloon in some cases,
- 7:11Speaker 3: drinking establishment, and we'll get to you over on the
- 7:16Speaker 3: other side of this.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Break, all right. The probably the music venue that the
- 7:21Speaker 1: guy was thinking of was probably the Terrace Ballroom. Yeah,
- 7:24Speaker 1: four sixty four South Main Street. It closed in nineteen
- 7:27Speaker 1: eighty one and was torn down after a fire in
- 7:30Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. There's and there's just a parking lot there.
- 7:34Speaker 3: I just remember hearing you because I was listening to
- 7:36Speaker 3: the radio as a kid, and you'd always hear this
- 7:38Speaker 3: band is playing at the Terrace Ballroom.
- 7:40Speaker 1: I saw, Oh yeah, I saw a bunch of bands there.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Yeah. So what we're looking for is your first bar experience.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Where was it, who'd you go with?
- 7:48Speaker 1: Would you drink?
- 7:49Speaker 4: What do you remember?
- 7:51Speaker 2: Do you remember eight seven, seven, six, two, nine, six nine.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Let's start with Mollie Mormon, what what what.
- 7:59Speaker 1: What were you doing going to a bar?
- 8:02Speaker 9: Well, what do you mean When I was thirteen and
- 8:04Speaker 9: I worked there?
- 8:05Speaker 2: Oh?
- 8:06Speaker 1: Really, what was it called?
- 8:09Speaker 9: It was called the wind Drift. It's not open anymore.
- 8:12Speaker 9: This was way back in the nineteen hundreds in New York,
- 8:15Speaker 9: a small town. I worked in the kitchen. I made salads,
- 8:18Speaker 9: I made desserts, and I washed the dishes. I a
- 8:21Speaker 9: family not allowed behind the bar, young lady.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Oh was it if your family owned this place?
- 8:29Speaker 9: A friend of the family did. But yeah, because it
- 8:33Speaker 9: was illegal for you to Friday and Saturday night.
- 8:35Speaker 1: It was illegal for you to be working there, wasn't it.
- 8:38Speaker 4: It sure was, Thanks Molly, Yes, it welcome, Thanks Molly.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Brian is here.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Hello Brian, Brian, Hi.
- 8:49Speaker 6: Thanks for letting me listen. My first I was nineteen,
- 8:54Speaker 6: but I was up in Calgary, so it was legal
- 8:57Speaker 6: for me to be there. And it was a place
- 8:59Speaker 6: called the French Maid. It was a grip club and
- 9:05Speaker 6: they were fully nude in there.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:07Speaker 6: Felt like in Utah. So I twenty one down here,
- 9:10Speaker 6: I never actually went to a bar.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Was was it exciting for you to do that?
- 9:16Speaker 6: Very And it was stampede week up there too, so
- 9:18Speaker 6: all the prisoners were kind of going crazy.
- 9:20Speaker 1: I guess yeah, the Calgary stamped Boy.
- 9:26Speaker 3: Yeah, you had a great time. All right, Thanks Ryan, Thanks, Thanks.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Let's go to Angie. Hello, Angie?
- 9:34Speaker 6: Hi? Hi?
- 9:35Speaker 1: Where'd you go?
- 9:38Speaker 6: It was the in Between?
- 9:40Speaker 4: Back in the in Between is a gay bar, back
- 9:44Speaker 4: in like nineteen eighty eight or eighty nine.
- 9:48Speaker 9: And it was before there was a big Pride celebration here.
- 9:51Speaker 5: So we went to the bars and celebrated.
- 9:53Speaker 7: I may or may not have.
- 9:55Speaker 4: Been twenty one, but a guy made an advance.
- 10:01Speaker 9: At me, and when I refused him, he beat me
- 10:04Speaker 9: up because apparently he didn't know what kind of bar
- 10:07Speaker 9: this was.
- 10:07Speaker 2: I was going to say, did he not realize? No
- 10:12Speaker 2: before it was before the Pride flag? I imagine.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Sorry, maybe I don't remember that between.
- 10:22Speaker 8: You don't remember it?
- 10:23Speaker 1: No?
- 10:25Speaker 7: H Yeah, it was pretty cool.
- 10:27Speaker 6: Box The next day, because of the bruises.
- 10:30Speaker 5: On my face, I actually struck up a conversation with
- 10:35Speaker 5: a guy who became the father of my children.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Wow, so there's something good that came.
- 10:40Speaker 1: You all right, Thank you complaining, Thanks for calling, Thank you?
- 10:44Speaker 6: All right.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Let's go to Amy. Hello, where'd you go?
- 10:51Speaker 1: Good? Where did you go?
- 10:54Speaker 8: The do drop in in late.
- 10:57Speaker 1: I've been there.
- 10:58Speaker 2: You've been to the Dude Drop in Chaine.
- 11:01Speaker 1: I don't think it's but have you been to Junior's Tavern?
- 11:05Speaker 2: Well, the old Juniors or what was that?
- 11:09Speaker 1: There was a bar. There was a bar and club
- 11:11Speaker 1: in uh. I think it was in Layton that they
- 11:13Speaker 1: had a lake out behind it. I don't know.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Is the dew Drop in still open?
- 11:20Speaker 8: You know?
- 11:20Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a couple of years ago.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Even great cocktails, it says here. I'll bet I think
- 11:31Speaker 2: order apple teeny. Yeah, that'll be good. It's still there.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Tom is here, Hello Tom, Tom, where'd you go?
- 11:39Speaker 6: Hey?
- 11:39Speaker 2: Thanks for letting me listen.
- 11:40Speaker 5: Uh the old not the new Rainbow Saloon on nineteen
- 11:46Speaker 5: hundred West in Roy, Utah.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Wow.
- 11:48Speaker 5: Yeah, walk yeah, walked into the bar, ordered what I
- 11:54Speaker 5: ordered and was just terrified that I was going to
- 11:56Speaker 5: get dab.
- 11:59Speaker 7: Bar.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I've been in places like that.
- 12:02Speaker 6: It was it was a Utah classic.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. There were some great bar There were
- 12:08Speaker 1: some great bars over there, Pegs Low Monico.
- 12:11Speaker 10: Yeah, And I could tell you stories about having to
- 12:14Speaker 10: go into Pegs Low Monica to get co workers out
- 12:16Speaker 10: of the bar when I was seventeen years old.
- 12:18Speaker 7: But that's a story.
- 12:19Speaker 3: That's another story. That's another ex pole. All right, thank you,
- 12:22Speaker 3: thank you Tom. Let's let's go to Mike.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Mike, how's it going good?
- 12:30Speaker 1: Where'd you go? What? What? What?
- 12:31Speaker 2: Bar?
- 12:34Speaker 6: I went to the Owl up in Logan.
- 12:36Speaker 1: What the white owl is?
- 12:38Speaker 2: White owl up in Ogan?
- 12:39Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, the white Owl up and Logan.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a great it's still a great.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Yeah. I DJed there once.
- 12:45Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Yeah, oh nice, yeah, really cool.
- 12:51Speaker 7: Yeah, just back from my mission, me and my return
- 12:54Speaker 7: missionary bodies. We all went there for a burger, no drink, sure,
- 12:58Speaker 7: you know. And the biggest dorks that you can possibly.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Imagine they have. They have great burgers there in the
- 13:05Speaker 1: in the summer, they open up then you can go
- 13:07Speaker 1: up on the roof and have burgers and bed. That's
- 13:10Speaker 1: where we went.
- 13:11Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's where we went.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Sah.
- 13:14Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Camille. Hello, Camille, Hi, good morning.
- 13:22Speaker 8: Uh So my first bar experience was just a couple
- 13:25Speaker 8: of months after I turned twenty one. I got off
- 13:29Speaker 8: my shift at this is the place, Pridige Park, and
- 13:32Speaker 8: I went to a gig for the Achetellor group I
- 13:37Speaker 8: was in at this coffee shops, and we went to
- 13:40Speaker 8: the bar next door to us as a rehearsal space.
- 13:44Speaker 8: Now I was still wearing I was I changed out
- 13:46Speaker 8: of my Pioneer costume. I was still wearing the boots
- 13:49Speaker 8: that I wore with me, and I had the bag
- 13:52Speaker 8: that I wore with it.
- 13:53Speaker 7: And so after we were done rehearsing.
- 13:55Speaker 8: At the bar, nobody was there because it was mid afternoon.
- 13:58Speaker 2: But there was this.
- 13:59Speaker 8: Old cowboy up to me asked if he could buy
- 14:01Speaker 8: me a drink, and I said no for very many reasons.
- 14:05Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thanks a lot. All right, let's
- 14:09Speaker 2: go to Ranger Kate Heello, Ranger Kate.
- 14:13Speaker 4: Hi, guys Hi. So I don't know if I count
- 14:16Speaker 4: all the ones that I went to before I was
- 14:18Speaker 4: twenty one, like day and the Vortex and Bricks Bricks. Yeah,
- 14:22Speaker 4: but twenty one was probably Liquid Joe's because my brother
- 14:27Speaker 4: was was a bouncer there.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Really I remember.
- 14:29Speaker 4: Waiting until he should like help get me, and I
- 14:32Speaker 4: may have gone slightly before twenty one, because you may have,
- 14:34Speaker 4: like ate the door guy looked the other way.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Listen, Kate, love to go there. Okay, you probably went
- 14:39Speaker 1: to Liquid Joe's because I used to do the ads
- 14:41Speaker 1: for them, and I'd say at the end of the ads,
- 14:43Speaker 1: tell everyone you'll meet them at Liquid Joe.
- 14:45Speaker 2: It was all Bill.
- 14:46Speaker 1: That's why you went there.
- 14:48Speaker 4: It was all Bill.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, Kate.
- 14:49Speaker 4: He used to have the best bands.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Yeah, they still do occasionally.
- 14:54Speaker 3: That he was my favorite reunion show was there just recently?
- 15:00Speaker 1: All right?
- 15:01Speaker 3: Minus Danny Elfman. Everybody else was in abandon. All right, thanks,
- 15:05Speaker 3: Let's go to Corey.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Okay, Corey, Corey.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:10Speaker 5: So I'm going to mention the first two because they're connected.
- 15:13Speaker 5: The Bayou and then Bewilder, and both places were with
- 15:17Speaker 5: friends of the program, friends who are currently in chat
- 15:21Speaker 5: Oh and some awesome people talking to you right now.
- 15:25Speaker 1: It's well good, it's.
- 15:26Speaker 5: Directly related to you, guys oh, because that's where I
- 15:29Speaker 5: met him.
- 15:30Speaker 3: I like to think we bring people together, we do,
- 15:32Speaker 3: and make them alcohol agains.
- 15:36Speaker 2: Thanks on the way, all right, let's go to Alex.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Hello Alex, Hey, how y'all doing good?
- 15:43Speaker 1: Where'd you go?
- 15:45Speaker 10: My first bar was actually in South Korea when I
- 15:47Speaker 10: was stationed with the Army, this place called j C's
- 15:50Speaker 10: Rock Bar.
- 15:50Speaker 5: I was just turned nineteen.
- 15:52Speaker 6: It is my first day of the unit.
- 15:54Speaker 3: Which which town in South Korea and Don gy Chon, okay.
- 15:59Speaker 1: And this is a bar that apparently catered to Americans.
- 16:05Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the two bar that we went to every week,
- 16:07Speaker 5: and that's where we started off and that's where we
- 16:10Speaker 5: ended every night.
- 16:11Speaker 2: All right, thanks Alex, Alex, all right, all have a
- 16:14Speaker 2: good and thank you. All right, let's go to jj Y.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Where'd you go?
- 16:22Speaker 6: There was the one and only in Saint George.
- 16:25Speaker 1: And there was the one and only because it was
- 16:29Speaker 1: at the.
- 16:29Speaker 9: Time, it really really was.
- 16:31Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead, Well sorry, I went there with my friends.
- 16:38Speaker 10: He was at dancing.
- 16:39Speaker 9: I went to the bar to get a drink. Some
- 16:40Speaker 9: guys across the bar.
- 16:42Speaker 1: We're making some of the guy who was sitting.
- 16:44Speaker 7: Next to you.
- 16:44Speaker 5: He wasn't the most attractive, so I'm talking to him.
- 16:47Speaker 6: Trying to make him feel better. And I turned and
- 16:50Speaker 6: looked at my friend dancing. I turned back and the
- 16:52Speaker 6: guy has his teeth in his hands and.
- 16:57Speaker 4: He's like, I just want you to see the real me.
- 17:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:02Speaker 4: No, it gets worse.
- 17:03Speaker 1: My friend comes over and.
- 17:04Speaker 10: I'm like, show her.
- 17:05Speaker 1: What you just showed me.
- 17:07Speaker 6: She jumped when he did it, knocks the teeth out
- 17:09Speaker 6: of his hand.
- 17:10Speaker 1: He put him back in a kind of creepy.
- 17:13Speaker 5: It sounds made up, but it's totally true, all
- 17:16Speaker 2: Right, thank you, Thanks JJY.