Talking Gelato

(EP 18) Summer fun and summer drinks! [Transcript of the interview below!] OK so I was walking down the mall here and I noticed a place called “Masters of Bartending” and that kinda seemed interesting and then I saw the guy outside and I thought I would ask a few questions. So tell me what is Masters of Bartending? -- Masters of Bartending is a training facility for bartending. -- A training facility, you learn how to become a bartender. -- Yes. Well I think of it more as a as a cooking school, you learn how to create cocktails. -- I can come here and I can learn how to make cocktails, right? -- Absolutely! -- And how many cocktails should I know how to make, more or less. to consider myself at least a beginning bartender? -- The must-knows. The must-knows, how many is that I don’t know, I never counted them. But it's... for... -- The must-knows, he’s calling them the must-knows in case you didn’t understand that, he’s thinking, well, which ones, well in other words, which ones do people order the most, so you have to know how to make those. -- Yes absolutely -- Well, tell me this, that name some of the most popular cocktails. -- How about like a Cape Cod, a Kamikaze, a Margarita -- OK hold up right there. He said Cape Cod which is... vodka, cranberry with squeezed lime -- vodka and cranberry juice with squeezed limes, then he said a kamikaze which is... it's a shooter, a lime-flavored shooter with vodka, triple sec and lime juice. -- OK I get it, it’s a vodka-based thing, and the other one, the last one you said? -- A margarita -- Margarita, we all know a margarita, I know that one, that’s tequila, right? -- Yes that's where a margarita’s from. OK so somebody takes this uh, take a course, How long does it take them to become more or less proficient? -- Umm, our program is two weeks everybody has a different learning curve some take longer than two weeks, some can do it faster than two weeks. -- So in two weeks I can learn to make a couple dozen cocktails... ---You know what? How about a I bring you into the class and I'll let you podcast this whole thing for the next two weeks -- Whoa, how about that, that’s a challenge that's a challenge, I don’t know if I’m up to that challenge because -- It's not it's not about just, you know, bartending, it's about being able to create, uhh it’s like cooking, you cook your guests. you host a party. you cook food. Bartending, it's not just about bartending, it’s about being able to create a good craft cocktail that you can enjoy an experience with you and your friends. And the first week, at least the first week, I give you four days to come in here I'll let you podcast the whole thing and I think this will be a fun little thing that might help boost your podcast here, but I think for me to try to explain this in a nutshell, it's almost impossible because you just have to see if yourself. And everything that you learn inside of here, it's it's truly an educational program whether you choose to be a bartender or not, this is a skill that you’re gonna take with you for life. -- Wow, this is a skill. Well I'm halfway, there because I already have the skill of drinking the cocktails right? -- Yeah boy! -- OK thanks a lot for your time! Hey, well uh take me up on that offer and I'm always right here whenever you wanna come on and your jazzed audience wants to see it. -- OK. all right thanks a lot, and thanks for listening!