Daniel Ralston | Rockin' The Cash Bar

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4.9 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Daniel Ralston (The True Story Of The Fake Zombies) joins Matt & JD to discuss rock’n’roll frauds, good advice from Jason Reitman, buying your own karaoke songs to use at the bar, fighting hair loss, America’s greatest bald men, the ethics of a cash bar wedding, the “no booze during speeches” rule, barring couples from sitting at the bar, how pantomiming can get you out of awkward conversations, the relationship between effort and tipping, when it’s okay to drink on the job, and lesser-known Ben & Jerry’s flavors. 🎧 Check out Daniel’s Podcast — The True Story Of The Fake Zombies: http://bit.ly/46iwGvA 👕 Is [This] Good? Merch: https://breakingt.com/isthisgood 📺 Subscribe to Is [This] Good? on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isthisgood 😎 Follow Is [This] Good? on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isthisgoodpod 📸 Follow Matt Osten on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosten 📸 Follow JD on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjasondoyle 🏀 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nodunksinc

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0:00.0	Can you give us a life hack here? What's a good way to get out of a conversation with a chatty customer?
0:04.8	I pretend like there's stairs behind the bar and I just start walking down.
0:10.0	I got to go into the basement and then I just lay on the crowd until they can't see me.
0:15.7	No, I'm just kidding.
0:16.7	Gotta change a keg.
0:18.4	Then you walk back up the stairs and then you go.
0:20.7	Well, JD, That was really good.
0:21.8	That looked real.
0:23.2	Hello and welcome.
0:23.6	Hello and welcome to, Is This Good?
0:37.1	The show are we boldly, conclusively, and scientifically decide what things in this big, wide world are good.
0:43.6	I'm Matt Austin, and with me, as always, is production powerhouse, Jason Doyle.
0:47.8	Hello.
0:48.7	Hi, J.D., thanks for coming, and today's guest is a writer and podcaster whose new show,
0:53.9	The True Story of the Fake Zombies, is out now via Talk House and IHeart Media.
0:58.0	The eight-part pod was just named one of the best podcasts of the week in The Guardian,
1:02.0	who called it, quote,
1:04.0	a lively piece of pop history with a wild story behind it.
1:08.0	Please welcome an actual friend of the pod.
1:10.0	He can get you buzzed. He can get
1:12.4	you smiling. He can make you feel like you're sitting on an island. It's the last barman poet
1:17.5	Daniel Ralston. Wow. The intros are always so good and I will gladly accept that very
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