On March 15th, 2020, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, ordered the closure of all wineries, nightclubs, brewpubs, and bars in the state to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. The closure was initially anticipated to be temporary, but it was longer. I’m Traci Ramos, a bartender in San Francisco, and this series follows my story of when I lost my job due to the pandemic. Through interviews with bartenders, servers, owners, and other professionals in the service industry, I’ll shed light on how the pandemic affected the bar and restaurant industry in San Francisco.
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Welcome back; this is BoozeNation The Podcast.
Happy July - which means we are in a post-Roe world right now. I don't know where to begin with about the decision and what it will mean for the future of women in this country. I'm saddened, disgusted and pissed!!!
Having said all that, I will now switch gears and switch this on a positive note. And talk about the highlight of my week. And the highlight of that awful week was my discussion with my next guest, Scottie Jeanette Madden. And usually, I speak with people directly connected to the bar and restaurant industry, bartenders, servers, front of the house, back of the house, all those peeps.
But this episode, I'm doing something a little different because Scottie Jeanette is a television writer, director, and producer. She's also on the board of directors of DTLA proud. She directed the documentary Proud In A Pandemic, which is about the pandemic and how it affected some of the queer bars and queer communities of downtown LA. Now, Scottie Jeanette worked in bars as a bar back, back in the day. So I felt that that gave her a lot of street cred in the bar industry world.
What I appreciated so much about Scottie Jeanette is that she is just so honest about her journey professionally and personally, which showcases her strength and intelligence throughout the interview and beyond the interview as well.
www.zuzubean.com/ted-talk.html
www.dtlaproud.org/proud-in-the-pandemic
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