WEBVTT - Finally! A Show About a Fish Throwing Crooner 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:09.160 Okay. It is sixth a m. And I have three. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.440 Cats in bed. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.319 One of them was sleeping on my chest and the other 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.560 two on my legs. I love waking up like that, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:25.040 so closy. My husband is still in bed asleep. Usually 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.840 we go to work together about today. He goes in 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.960 at a different time, so I get ready on my 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:31.560 own and. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.879 I'm gonna go do my skincare now that. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.440 I brush my teeth, and then I almostly get ready 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.960 in the dark, and then I'll go down to work, which. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.519 Is very close. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.840 So I don't go to work till six forty five, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.120 and sometimes I don't get out of bed till. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:56.440 Six fifteen. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:58.840 And today I think I'll. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.560 Go down there about sixty five, so I have a 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:03.360 little bit of time. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:06.160 Let's get going. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.400 This is finally a show about a fishmonger in Seattle. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.160 For five years, Hillary Brannick was until recently the only 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:24.120 woman on staff at the world famous Pike Place fish Market. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.360 You want me in the middle of a snack, I'm 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.560 eating some donuts. If you'd like some, have have some. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.640 I have to go tip the donut people. Do you 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.679 want to come daily? Dozen makes us hot coffee every 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.320 morning and taking care of us. They're old friends of 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.560 the fish market, old old old friends. And right now 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.400 I'm gonna go give them tips because they just gave 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.120 us some donuts. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.000 Welcome to Pikeways. Fish. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.920 People come here for an experience that they're not gonna 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:08.839 get anywhere else, which is really us connecting with them 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.880 in the moments that they're here, like directly, like this. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.080 But we also throw fish, which is a huge crowd driver. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.240 So we get these fish in right here. These are 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.959 called tetefish. They're like dummy fish, so we use these 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.639 to learn how to throw customers real fish, so we're 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.440 only ever throwing real fish. But like this lady in 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.400 the purple may want this salmon, and so what I 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.320 will do is I pick up the salmon, and then 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.519 I go, where are you from, Purple hoodie? I would 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.680 say co ho for Indiana, and then I'd launch it 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.160 over the counter, and then they would hear that and 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.520 we would continue. So everyone knows what's happening all the time. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:03:13.600 So when we shout like he's gonna do now. My 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.520 name's Hillary Brannick slash Segar because I just got married, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:16.799 so I. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:17.520 Have a couple of names. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.919 Right now, I'm thirty three and I'm from a very 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:27.160 small town called Florence in Colorado State. I am from Florence, Colorado, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:28.960 a little tiny town just. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.720 At the foothills of the Rockies. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.920 My mother, Kathleen, is a Wisconsin native, but she and 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.960 my dad moved to Colorado to start a family. So 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.960 me and my brother and my sister were all born 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.480 in Pueblo, Colorado, which is about forty minutes west of 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.280 where we live. Growing up in Florence is really really 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.080 small town. I mean, this is the kind of place 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.640 where everyone I graduated with were the same people I 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.280 went to preschool with, and it was our class was 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:06.360 like one hundred and five people. So growing up, everybody 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.960 knows everything about you, all your dirt, all your good stuff, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.120 all your weird stuff, every growth you've had in your 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.080 life and development. Everyone in the county knew that about me, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.919 and I knew it about them, which is interesting to 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.120 navigate when you're trying to find your own identity in 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:27.839 whatever part of your life. So I was definitely considered 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.240 a loser. I was bullied a lot when I was 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.280 in middle school. I was a very timid person. I 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.040 was really afraid of everyone. I never ever ever in 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.440 my life would stand up for myself. You know, a 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.760 lot of kids have that experience. I definitely was one 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.919 of them. Okay, we have this big silver top counter 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.520 that makes sort of a half oval shape, and in 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.680 the corner of it there's a little spot that you 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.479 could say on it's like a ninety degree angle, and 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.160 that's where we catch fish from our bench, which is 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.080 a big metal display about I don't know. It was 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.800 like ten yards away, ten yards away something like that. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:00.680 Uh. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.560 So, as soon as someone yells t T, which is 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.720 test toss or tourist hoss, we all race each other 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.240 over to this little corner so you can get there first. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.039 And so he'll go t T and then we respond TT. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.760 And then as soon as he starts to throw the fish, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.680 we go hey. And then as soon as it hits 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.960 his hands like that, we go yeah, so hey, And 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.200 so we do that anytime we throw anything. Uh and 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:31.680 then we say backjack, backjack b ack j a c K. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.719 It means put it back where it came from. So 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.520 I'll go back jack too, both. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:41.280 Too. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.400 Here's the slap of the paper and how we did that. Alrighty, 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.560 who's got those rainbow trout where are you come on over? 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:49.960 Boss? 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:57.479 After I graduated high school, I moved to Boston for college. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.640 I went to Berkeley College of Music for songwriting in 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:08.080 twenty ten, I think maybe twenty eleven. Somewhere in between there, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.720 I going to school regular and then I worked at 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.880 this place called the Poorhouse. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.719 Right on Boylston Street. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.800 Anybody that's listening that lived in Boston knows the place, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.400 really fun bar and on Marathon Monday. The first time 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.440 I worked Marathon Monday, my voice was so shot afterwards 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.039 that I just couldn't talk. And I thought I just 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.640 had laryngitis and that it would go away, and then 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.599 it really wouldn't go away. And then I went to 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.440 a doctor and he's like, well, you have nodes or nodules, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.080 which are not something that can be fixed. And so 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.480 I just went into a very spiraled, bad depression for 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.480 like two and a half years. And the really crazy 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.160 thing was I was misdiagnosed, so I just went he 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.200 told me what it was, and I was like, well, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.560 I guess this is what I'm working with. And so 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.120 I just had to drop out because I couldn't perform. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.839 And then I just off doing music all together because 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.960 it killed me not to be able to sing, and 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.840 I didn't want to write. And I had a lot 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.680 of friends who wanted to help me, and they're like, well, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.760 you should learn to you know, play piano and you know, 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.400 play guitar and do this, and like, at the time, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.800 I didn't know how to respond to that in a 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.880 way that was positive because I was just so frustrated 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.240 and my friends and my loved ones were trying to 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.080 help me, but what I felt like. And I remember 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.880 telling one of my friends I got frustrated, and I 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.320 wasn't frustrated with her, but I was expressing to her 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.360 I felt and I was like, I feel like when 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.360 somebody says that to me, it'd be like me telling 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.320 a pianist to learn how to sings, Like what if 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:40.240 I broke your hands and you're a pianist. So I 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.600 just had this whole horrible two year experience where I 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.520 was just really depressed. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:45.200 I quit music. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.240 I didn't play music, I didn't really do anything. I 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.880 stopped listening in music kind of regularly, just kind of 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.880 became not ideal. And then a really good friend of 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.000 mine named Jeremy, who I also went to school with. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:55.760 Jeremy Blass. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.800 He and I were walking down the street and I 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.760 was drunk and I was crying, and I was talking 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.920 about how I wanted to disappear and do something else 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.680 because I was still so crushed. Music was the only 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:10.559 thing I ever cared about. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:11.400 All growing up. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.000 I didn't care about anything else. I didn't want to 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.800 be anything else. That was my thing was in some way, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.480 I was going to be a singer. And I didn't 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.840 know what that meant. Sometimes I still don't, but I 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.280 knew it's what I wanted. We were walking down the 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.280 street and he's like, you need to go see another doctor, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:26.520 and I was like, I don't want to go again. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.680 He's like, you have to go. Will you please go? 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.480 He's like, will you just go for me? He's like, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.520 you have different insurance now you can see a different doctor. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.200 He's like, just as a friend, do me the favor. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.559 Just go one more time. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.120 And because he and I were such good friends, I 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.959 was like, Okay, I'll be reasonable, I'll go again. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:44.560 Maybe I just needed second set eyes. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:47.120 People come from. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.920 All over the world to see us throwfish. We obviously 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.719 don't want to throw customers fish that they're paying for 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.080 because we take really good care of those. So she 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.640 would order this, and I would ask her, do you 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.200 want us to cut this for you? We do that 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.520 for free. Do you want us to leave it whole 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.400 so you can do it? We kind of get whatever 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.280 they want as instructions and then we throw it over. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.640 And the reason that we shout the way we do, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.040 or sing the way that we do, chant whatever people 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.760 call it, is so that you tell me one time 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.280 what you want. I tell everybody at the same time, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.520 so that whoever gets to you first knows what to 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:20.920 help you with. So then you know how to repeat 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.959 yourself to ten people, you know. And it's not like 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:25.920 a grocery store. You take your stuff and you go 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.920 check out. We grab every single thing for you. And 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.720 that's how we communicate. So that the guy in the 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.600 red that's JB red Hair, he will never have to 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.160 come down here to get anything. He'll just call for 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.840 it and then we'll send it up to him, and 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.760 vice versa. So I went and I went to Massachusetts 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.480 and Ear Infirmary, which has done surgery. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:46.679 I'm like opera singers. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.880 There's been a lot of really big people that have 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:54.320 been treated there and they're fantastic. And my doctor he 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.640 did what they call is a larenscopy. So they take 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.680 this camera and it goes up on my as the 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.400 left side of my nostril goes all the way up 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.839 and then down my throat. And so he put this 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.120 camera in my throat and asked me to sing so 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.360 that he could see how my vocal colds are functioning. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:18.160 And I'm singing and then he goes, oh, and I 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.600 go what. He goes, you don't have nodes or nodules, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.360 and I go what. He's like, I think I can 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.640 fix this. And with this camera in my mouth, I'm 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.000 like in shock. I'm crying. He's trying to get me 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.880 to calm down, but I'm so excited and trying not 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.280 to let myself be excited because I also know how 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 medicine works and it's not always that way. But I 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.880 was like, holy shit, this doctor thinks he can do it. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.960 After he explained what I had, which was essentially I 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.160 had a tear in my vocal cord and then it 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.120 grew cysts. It just basically grew inside itself. And if 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.560 you guys can all put your two pointed fingers together 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.840 in a horizontal way, that's what your vocal cords look like, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.920 but they are kind of like rubber bands. And if 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.520 you pull a rubber band apart into a long string, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.400 that is what your vocal culture are like. And so 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.079 if you imagine two marbles in the middle of it, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.959 when you talk or you sing, they get really tight 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.559 and then the sound goes through. But I had basically 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.240 little tiny marbles, and so I would lose my range 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.760 in certain places because when I would sing or speak, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.920 it would just stop or wouldn't close enough for the 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:30.680 sound to get out properly. I guess sing something before 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.280 you made me okay, if it's bad, you have to 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:42.520 delete it, though, Oh come to bed with you, but 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.400 don't love me. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:55.720 I won't love you, and that just kay fee, I 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.200 don't want. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.480 To feel you. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:14.120 That's a new song. Does it sound okay? 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.480 Why can't I. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:28.240 Leave a launch here and a launch of gone get 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.520 away from Me? 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.439 You can call out anything from anywhere. It's basically just 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.040 to let someone know. Somebody needs help right now, somebody 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.640 needs something next, And so we try to do it 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.560 in a way that you can get everything succinct and 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.000 quick and in a good cadence. So we always say 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.440 you get the response that you call. And so if 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:55.360 I'm like two bows, houses like they're not gonna hear that, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.240 they're also not going to respond very well. So then 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.040 I'll go two bows, two bows. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.800 This is that's not real. That was just a test 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:04.440 that she could hear. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.760 But see how everyone immediately like perked up and knew 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:08.240 what to do. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:09.320 That's why we do that. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.480 So even the person over here selling smoke salmon knows 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.880 that two rainbow trout are coming over the counter, and 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:19.280 then that person that wants to trout might want the 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.240 smoked salmon as well. So Adrian knows, oh, you're getting 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.680 trout too cool, I'm going to add this to your order, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:26.319 and then he'll go. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.400 Smoke with the bows. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.200 And so we just kind of all have to listen 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.280 all the time and then just keep That's how we 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:48.200 keep tack of our customers want I was it, okay, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.680 I got Here's so weird. I ended up in Seattle 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.800 at the end of twenty sixteen. When I was living 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.600 in Nashville is when Trump first ran for office. The 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.040 people I was living with openly began to become like 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.079 they were openly racist after he came out and ran 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.160 for president, and they were openly doing racist shit, and 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.560 so I was like, not a chance. So I packed 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.520 up all my stuff. I took some of it to 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.960 my aunt's house in Wisconsin, my aunt uncle's house, and 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.040 then I took shoved the rest of it in a 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.760 closet and left for the summer. And then I worked 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.800 in Boston, got some money together, just to see what 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.280 I was going to do next. And one of my 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.720 friends that I met at a festival was like, Hey, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.600 I'm going to move to Seattle. I know you're up 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.720 in the air about what you want to do. Do 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.480 you want to move with me to Seattle? And I 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.320 was like, I've never been there, Let's do it. My 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.360 first job was here in the market, and the second 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.480 I stepped into this market, people took care of me immediately. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.400 I actually came here. The first day I came to 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.040 Seattle was allo of the day I moved here, just 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.280 like Boston. But that first week we came down to 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.080 Pipe Place Market, which I'd never heard of before, never saw, 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.480 never knew anything about. I really just didn't know about 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.520 Seattle at all. I will say Seattle is one of 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.000 my favorite cities now, but it's also like a hidden city, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.000 like people kind of forget that this is a metropolitan place. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.240 So I came down here and I stood outside pipe 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.120 place fish actually, and I was standing by Rachel. This 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.000 big golden pig that's right in front of the shop. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:26.800 It's a statue. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.920 Definitely google it. She's a prize winning pig. It's really weird. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:30.960 It's like a bronze thing. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.080 But I was standing there next to Rachel, just staring 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.640 at the fish market and they're throwing stuff and they're screaming. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.880 I've never even seen a fish market before. I don't 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.320 even know what I'm looking at. And this guy, who 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.280 is a legend here's name's Justin Hall shouts. He's like, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.480 you gonna buy something? And I'm like, ah, I'm poor, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.040 Yes I will. I'm like, I don't have any money, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.760 I don't live anywhere, but I'm for sure about to 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.080 buy this cocktail, this shrimp cocktail. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:57.920 So I get it. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.480 And I started talking to the guys and they're like, oh, 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.440 you know, where are you from? And I told him 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.200 I just moved here. I'm looking for work. And I 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.160 asked them, you know, I was a very experienced bartender. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.760 You know, I bartended for and waitressed over a decade, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.840 so I was like, do you know any restaurants that 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.760 need help? Because I'm the lady, they will hire me. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.920 And one of the guys at the time was dating 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.200 a lady that had also been down here about twenty 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:26.480 five years. He's like, yeah, my girlfriend runs Albaracho upstairs, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.360 and you know, I'll put in a word for you. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.560 And I went in there and got hired, and it 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.680 was funny because I did all the things you shouldn't do, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.800 and all the servers out there we'll understand this. I 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.200 went in on a Friday afternoon with like a shoddy 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.360 resume because I didn't have a printer, and it was 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.520 like during a rush. I also wasn't really sure what 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.280 day was or well, you know, I was in like 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.000 this insane place in my life where I didn't live anywhere, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.760 I didn't have any money. I was trying to get 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.840 a job desperately. So I walked in on a Friday 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.840 afternoon lunch rush and I was like, hey, hire me. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.600 And then I had to convince Kira to hire me, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.720 and she did, and she told me she was a 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.359 straightforward lady. I loved working for her. She's really fun 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.080 and really cool and really took me under her wing 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.080 in the market and she was like, honestly, she's like, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.440 I would never hire someone coming in on a Friday. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.200 But I convinced her. I was like, you need to 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.000 hire me. You will be happy that you hired me. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:18.520 I was like, I know that I have no one 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.040 here to vouch for me. I was like, but I 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.480 promise you. I was like, I don't even have a 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.480 place to sleep tonight, but I will be here every 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.520 day on time. And I was there every single day 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.240 on time. And I worked there for a year and 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:28.560 a half. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.560 So they're called TETs, which stands for. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.240 Test toss or tourist toss, and they are a keeto 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.320 or chump salmon, and we actually buy them for throwing 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:47.440 and then we donate. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.480 Them to the zoo and also a Wolfhaven. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:18:01.720 Pay did. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.359 Thanks boss? Oh, thank you? 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.960 Don We have different whole fish all the time, but 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.800 also some of the stuff kind of lives here, so 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.399 we always have king salmon we filter through coho and 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:18.600 sake depending on season, halib it from Alaska. We've got 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:23.359 Alaskan black cod, we have trout from Idaho springs, and 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.960 bronzino come fresh from Turkey, so we get those fresh, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.240 which is really cool eleven hour flight or something. Yeah, 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:36.000 it's awesome. All sustainable. We're sustainable seafood market. Our octopus 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.800 come from Spain because we can get them sustainably. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:39.119 There. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.919 Actually one of the people that works here show she 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:47.560 makes authentic Spanish ink prints. She used the Spanish octopus 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:49.800 to make ink prints. They're beautiful. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:53.840 And then I got fired. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.639 I think that me getting fired from this place was 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.840 actually it didn't go the way any of us wanted 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.600 it too. I'm still very good friends with the owners 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:04.800 and it's all okay now, so I definitely have no 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.000 bad blood there. But it was hard. It was a 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.160 hard let go. I don't think it's when anyone wanted. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.960 It just happened that way for whatever complex reasons. And 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.800 then I stopped serving and I'd wanted out for a 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.800 really long time because I'm also sober six years and 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.240 alcohol was an issue for me, and I had stopped 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.399 drinking a few months before I got fired because my 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.359 grandmother got sick and I wanted to take care of her, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.000 and so I just I always told myself, like, I 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.119 could have a drink again if when she got better, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.800 and she never did. She passed, and so I stayed sober, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.760 and one of the things that helped me with that 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.639 was not going back to restaurants. And I knew that 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.720 if I wanted to stay sober, that was probably for 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.199 me one of the healthiest ways to do it. And 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:46.520 I didn't know how I was going to do that, 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.760 and then I ended up getting fired, which I knew 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.840 was coming. I knew it, and then I just, you know, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.959 chose because I was able to just not go and 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.040 work in another restaurant. I was very fortunate that I 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.960 I didn't have to do that, so I was supported 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.359 and I wasn't ever in danger of not having a 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.800 place to live or not having food because people here 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.040 take care of you like a family. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:09.240 You know. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.240 I came in here homeless and people were bringing me 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.160 groceries that didn't have to be refrigerated and making sure 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.359 I had somewhere to stay. And nobody was like giving 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.639 me money or anything, but they checked in and they 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.560 treated me like family. The second you start in the 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.160 market and you become a market worker, you become part 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:28.000 of this really insane, loving circus family and there's nothing 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.639 anybody down here wouldn't do for you. So I was 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.479 able to not have to dive back into getting tips 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.680 every day, and I ended up one of my regulars, 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.000 who was also just a very good friend, hired me 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.480 at the ice cream shop Shy Giant here in the market, 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.399 and then as I worked there, I worked there for 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.199 about a year and a half as well. Where I 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.199 worked in Pipe Place Market, there's many stalls. If you 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:56.000 haven't ever looked it up, google it. There's tons of businesses. 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.600 There's eight floors. Some of it's an indoor market, some 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.000