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Lisa's Lounge: Illegal Kitchens, Shit Herself Marge, and the Easter Basket Line
from Tough Love · #3
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim tells a long string of stories about the regulars at Lisa's Lounge, a Long Island dive bar named after the owner's daughter who died in a drunk driving accident, including having his illegal kitchen physically removed by bar friends, old lady Marge soiling herself, bartender Tracy's Easter basket joke, and tragic regulars.
- 52:44Tim gets reported by a rat on his block for running an illegal kitchen downstairs.
- 52:56Union guys and neighborhood characters from Lisa's Lounge help him move his stove to avoid the fine.
- 53:47Easter at Lisa's Lounge: Tim would hang out, play Tom Petty on loop, and drink with regulars.
- 54:15Marge, a regular who bought rounds for everyone, shit herself in the bar one night.
- 54:58Bartender Tracy forgot to buy Easter baskets for her kids, jokes that's why they live with their father.
- 55:19Settlement winner blew $120,000 on a woman named Carol and ended up living in a car.
- 55:38One regular's grandson shot himself; another guy from AA came to the bar every night because his friends kept him somewhat sober.
- 56:14Giants won Super Bowl in 2007 or 2008 and the whole bar erupted, especially the man whose grandson had died.
- 56:34Tim knew another guy whose friend killed himself earlier that year, but was the happiest person alive when the Giants won.
- 56:57Lisa's Lounge was a crazy, dark bar that meant everything to its people.