Sep 15, 2026 · 39 min · 8 segments
As $trippers, we often have some very unusual customers, in this episode we hear some stories about their favorite surprising customer interactions. Kate Cloud and Artina Darkly, who shared some of…
Artina DarklyGuest
Kate CloudGuest
Peekaboo PointeHost
Um, and I've mostly worked in Portland, Oregon, and I've been at Mary's Club, the iconic Mary's Club in Portland, Oregon, since, eh, I think late 2017, early 2018.
Um, so that's very much my home away from home, and it's owned and run by women, so I love it there.
Um, [lips smack] I'm also a burlesque vendor, so I run a shop called Hellbent for Glitter.
So I'm just involved in the naked world in general, [laughs] in burlesque and strip club stripping.
I actually have notebooks of stories, like, scribbled and, like, filed away in a drawer that I should put in a fucking book, right? But, um, I recently had a story published in an amazing magazine in Portland that's run by sex workers.
It's D-I-V-I-I and E, but they asked me for a story, so I'm gonna tell you the, the verbal rendition of the story that was published in the magazine recently.
Um, oftentimes when you're a stripper, you are paying very close attention to how customers react to other dancers approaching them, and it might help you make a decision about how you approach the customer or if you approach [laughs] the customer at all.
Um, for example, if I saw a customer getting private dances with someone else, um, I would wait until sh- as, as a courtesy, I would wait until their business was finished, and then I would immediately approach him because that behavior tells me he knows why he's at the strip club.
He's ready to spend money, and, um, you know, why not, why not with me? So sometimes the opposite happens, and you'll see a customer that looks cranky.
So [laughs] I was working at Mary's Club, and there was a customer sitting at the bar, and he just looked, he looked miserable, right? He was hunched over his whiskey shot, which was half gone, and he had two empty whiskey shots in front of him, and he's just arched back, and he honestly looked, like, really angry and maybe a little sad.
So [laughs] I was like, "Something is up with this guy." Um, if you strip for a long time, you know that, um, you make the most money when you talk to everyone, even if they seem unapproachable.
Um, you're gonna go for your, your easiest targets, your most likely customers first.
But then on a slow shift, when you run out of those people, you might approach people you, you wouldn't, you know, spend time with immediately.
So I was like, "Well, I'm gonna give this guy a shot." So I walk over, and I just said, "Hi, my name's Kate." He turns his face and looks up at me, his eyes are red, and he goes, "Fuck off." And I was like, "Wow.
Okay." [laughs] And I said to him, "You know what? You might be having a shitty day, but you don't need to be shitty to me." I said, "I'm actually having kind of a shitty day too, and I'm gonna sit right here and have a drink.
Um, and I've mostly worked in Portland, Oregon, and I've been at Mary's Club, the iconic Mary's Club in Portland, Oregon, since, eh, I think late 2017, early 2018.
Um, so that's very much my home away from home, and it's owned and run by women, so I love it there.
Um, [lips smack] I'm also a burlesque vendor, so I run a shop called Hellbent for Glitter.
So I'm just involved in the naked world in general, [laughs] in burlesque and strip club stripping.
I actually have notebooks of stories, like, scribbled and, like, filed away in a drawer that I should put in a fucking book, right? But, um, I recently had a story published in an amazing magazine in Portland that's run by sex workers.
It's D-I-V-I-I and E, but they asked me for a story, so I'm gonna tell you the, the verbal rendition of the story that was published in the magazine recently.
Um, oftentimes when you're a stripper, you are paying very close attention to how customers react to other dancers approaching them, and it might help you make a decision about how you approach the customer or if you approach [laughs] the customer at all.
Um, for example, if I saw a customer getting private dances with someone else, um, I would wait until sh- as, as a courtesy, I would wait until their business was finished, and then I would immediately approach him because that behavior tells me he knows why he's at the strip club.
He's ready to spend money, and, um, you know, why not, why not with me? So sometimes the opposite happens, and you'll see a customer that looks cranky.
So [laughs] I was working at Mary's Club, and there was a customer sitting at the bar, and he just looked, he looked miserable, right? He was hunched over his whiskey shot, which was half gone, and he had two empty whiskey shots in front of him, and he's just arched back, and he honestly looked, like, really angry and maybe a little sad.
So [laughs] I was like, "Something is up with this guy." Um, if you strip for a long time, you know that, um, you make the most money when you talk to everyone, even if they seem unapproachable.
Um, you're gonna go for your, your easiest targets, your most likely customers first.
But then on a slow shift, when you run out of those people, you might approach people you, you wouldn't, you know, spend time with immediately.
So I was like, "Well, I'm gonna give this guy a shot." So I walk over, and I just said, "Hi, my name's Kate." He turns his face and looks up at me, his eyes are red, and he goes, "Fuck off." And I was like, "Wow.
Okay." [laughs] And I said to him, "You know what? You might be having a shitty day, but you don't need to be shitty to me." I said, "I'm actually having kind of a shitty day too, and I'm gonna sit right here and have a drink.
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