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The Buttered Handshake, $19 Cocktails, and Why Nobody Drinks Anymore

#377 This week on Happy Half Hour, two of San Diego's sharpest hospitality minds—Christian Siglin of Happy Medium and Eric Johnson of Lou's Deli—join Troy and Jackie to talk about the strange, scrappy, and often hilarious life behind the bar. They get into it: they unpack their careers spent working at the city's most iconic bars and restaurants; the three paths a bartender's life can take, whether Gen Z is really skipping booze for less hedonistic pleasures, how traveling together (NOMA, Oaxaca, and one wild Mexican hotel party) reshaped their worldview, and yes, the story of the infamous…

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