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  • I think, you know, we all do.

  • Other jobs were starting out on that.

  • Lots of people do the classic catering.

  • David Schwimmer.

  • You went one up from waiting tables.

  • You did?

  • Waiting tables with a little bit extra.

  • I waited tables for a long time, about seven years.

  • But my first gig was as a roller skating waiter.

  • Yeah, it was good.

  • It was at this really cool place in Chicago.

  • Cool.

  • It was.

  • It was called.

  • It's called The Better Way Doors that came out of this place.

  • Character.

  • Yeah, I was Romeo.

  • I was Frankie.

  • Only Romeo Roller skated in Chicago.

  • They had roller skating, all right, So and I was roller skates and, um, and then and I was serving all the outdoor table.

  • So there was a huge parking lot on a pretty wide sidewalk with tables lined up like picnic tables where families would comment and you'd make not very much money with minimum wage in the States is your where.

  • But you made a lot of money by performing stunts, so I would like line up people's kids and they would like, you know, they wouldn't kneel next to each other in a line.

  • I could probably jump over three or four.

  • Serious.

  • And then I would say, Hey, you guys want to see, you know, the parents were like, Yeah, go for it.

  • I just like I would just take off down the street and jump all over I mean, over over them and then on then kind of like Skid to a stop.

  • And then I'd get you know, all these fancy tips from doing it.

  • But you had to play a character, and my character was like Romeo the romancer.

  • You know, he's kind of based a little on Travolta in, you know, grease or something.

  • I mean, it was a fifties diner, so had a big pop the door and, you know, bigger muscles at the time.

  • Is this from that time?

  • Is this when you were Romeo?

  • Theo had bone Had that hearing that screams Romeo?

  • Yeah.

  • No, but my was not as long as that.

  • It was more of a pompadour.

  • Okay.

I think, you know, we all do.

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