I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, John Slover on the show today. Hello sir, how are you? I'm very good. How are you?

Great to see you. You too. So when do you get in wine? I got into wine totally out of the blue in 96 when I was living in Boston.

I had been out of college maybe three or four years.

What were you like in college?

What was the young slover?

I was an athlete.

But I studied biology math.

You know, I wasn't really,

I didn't really have aspirations going to grad school,

but I worked in science for Lube.

I was a lab tech at MIT for a little bit

in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,

very important.

And tutored organic chemistry at UMass Boston a little bit but you know I sort of moved

around a little bit and didn't really have I wasn't in a job for very long I was also

playing music of all things I've been a... So you're trying to get late?

Yeah, it wasn't working. Let me play you this guitar solo. I just...

Like that kind of musician? I was in bands buddy. I was rocking. No, I played in a band in college and then kept going after college. But a good friend of mine from high school from Brookline, but turned into a total New Yorker was a phenomenal songwriter and

so he asked me to sort of help him start a band which is why I eventually moved to New York City. But before that I was living in Boston, and

for a lark, which is sort of how I've done everything, I lied my way into a restaurant job, a waiter job.

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