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  • think way.

  • 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 would have tables for a long time.

  • About seven years.

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

  • Yeah, it was good.

  • It was at this really cool place in Chicago.

  • Cool.

  • It was It was called the better way with 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 them and I was serving all the outdoor table.

  • So there was a huge parking lot and 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 you're aware, 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 Greece or something.

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

  • Is this from that time?

  • Is this when you were Romeo with Travolta?

  • Had had that hearing that screams Romeo?

  • Yeah, no, but I was not.

  • As long as that.

  • It was more of a pompadour.

  • Okay.

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