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Sam Payne

Mathematician

Aug 21, 2026

6:35
stealing beers from your parents or
6:36
what? No, no, there wasn't much beer in my house.
6:40
There was a lot of boxed white wine, but not a lot of beer.
6:46
No, I, you know, the industry is, you know, kind of found me.
6:50
I ended up, I was working as kind of a concierge at a hotel, at an extended stay hotel downtown, you know, kind of like... know where the celebrities would come and stay if they were shooting in town these day for a couple months kind of thing and then uh you know at the end of that job i i would always go up to the fog and suds for lunch right sports and got to know the bartenders and that kind of thing and then uh it was time to to be gone from the from the hotel job and um and they're just like you want to bartend here I was like, sure.
7:22
And that was a great introduction to the industry.
7:25
Upbeat.

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52:08
Are you, what are you going to do? Just try to make it work better? It's

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