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208 - Bar Rescue (feat. Slowpuke)
🕑 Added 2025-09-24 06:00:08 +0000 UTCSlowpuke (@SlowpukeLIVE) and the lads stake out a bar and scream in the faces of undiagnosed alcoholics as we cover Jon Taffer’s hit reality-television show: Bar Rescue. Topics include Taffer’s self-aggrandized past, the ethics of robot performers, and what it means to watch a man transform a bar from terrible to an entirely different kind of terrible.
Slowpuke: Twitch // Bluesky // Instagram
Media Referenced in this Episode:
Bar Rescue
S02E01: “Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Dumb”
S03E11: “Don’t Mess with Taffer’s Wife”
S02E22: “Punch-Drunk and Trailer-Trashed”
S04E25: “Sticky Situation”
Bar 702 (Sand Dollar) From Bar Rescue Has Been Sold by Matt. Barrescueupdates.com. June 22nd, 2014.
Breaking News - Spike TV Picks Up New Original Series, "Bar Rescue" and "Repo Games" | TheFutonCritic.com. January 1st, 2011.
Council Bluffs police investigating shooting at O'Face Bar by KMTV News. 3 News Now. February 27th, 2021.
Second arrest made in connection to weekend shooting outside Council Bluffs bar by First Alert 6 Staff. First Alert 6. March 25th, 2025.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “Bar Rescue Jr.” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. Josh Boerman as “Aggressive Narrator”, Slowpuke as “Mrs. Cunningham/Molly Cunningham”, and A.J. Ditty as “Jon Taffer/Customer”
Comments
Stevie McFly
Brian's Taffer is a terrible Taffer but an incredible that one teacher on Daria
Elizabeth Power
Honestly, if I went to a restaurant or a bar and the guy serving me said “good evening and welcome , ladies” like that I would think it was very classy. It doesn’t seem weird or overly pirate-y to me. Telling anyone to “talk normal” is just a recipe to make them feel awkward about themselves .
Nathan Woods
One thing y'all kinda glossed over (likely on purpose) is how common the insane degrees of alcoholism really are in the bar world. Particularly that one "shot for shot" girl that just gets immediately hired back, and nobody has a real answer for why. If you've been in the right dive bars at the wrong time of day, you've met dozens of her. I've seen bars survive what most businesses couldn't about 6 times over, all because of the constant patronage of like maybe 6 people max. And this smear of a human points a camera in their face and tells them to be their worst possible selves.
Dannyflanny
You guys missed (maybe intentionally) an important subset of the show: the strip club episodes, which might be the most spike tv episodes of a spike tv show ever made
