Episode 18 - Setting Up

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ROSLYN: You've reached the Love and Luck Podcast.

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KANE: Hey honey, just a reminder that the tradie is coming by today for the bar's touch ups. Oh, and the sign guy will be by do some measurements as well. I'll drop by the bank during my lunch break to finish setting up the accounts. Hopefully if all goes well we'll be officially trading by the end of the week, if not sooner!

I love you, and I hope you slept well this morning.

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JASON: Hey babe, I slept pretty okay actually. I hope I didn't bother you too much when I slithered back into bed with you in the middle of the night. You're too warm and nice to not cuddle, though.

The sign guy has come and gone, still waiting on the tradie, though.

Oh, and I have some ideas about opening night. If we're going to start strong in our first year, I really think a killer launch will make a huge difference, especially since we don't have alcohol to pull people in with, hah. I've been in touch with a few friends of friends who are in bands, and I realized that I know, like, at least three people who are really experienced in circus arts too, and it might be cool to have them come along and do something.

Still pondering details on a lot of stuff, obviously, but the wheels are definitely turning. I think a big performance night will be the best way to go, honestly. Melbourne loves its performing arts, and we sure as hell do not have a shortage of talent, even in our own social circles let alone people we don't know yet.

Oh, sounds like the tradie's here, gotta go. Love you.

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JASON: Hey! Okay so, tradie's come and gone - he said that there's not actually much stuff that needs work, and a lot of what needs to be done is mostly cosmetic and fairly easy. He gave us a quote, and I've forwarded the email to you so you can check it out. Nice guy, incidentally.

Anyway, so, yeah, opening night! I figure we can't go wrong with live music, especially later in the night, but we might want to start on something a little easier to socialize around. That's why I thought of the circus stuff - you can easily talk and watch a juggler or ribbon acrobat at the same time, you know? Uh, not that I'm sure we could have any aerial stuff - damn, should have had the tradie check the structural stuff for that while he was here. Damn it. Oh well, I'll ask him about it when he comes back to start work.

I'm going to go shopping for bar stools today, which I should probably get onto doing, like, soon, since the day is wearing on. Love you, talk to you later!

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KANE: Hey, I checked the email with the quote and it's pretty good, so I've called the tradie and confirmed everything with him. He'll start work tomorrow. Which, sadly, probably means a few early mornings for you if there's going to be construction noise. Hopefully it won't be too bad, though.

Your launch ideas are really good... I'm so glad you're here for this, I'd be so out of my depth trying to organize a big fun thing like an opening night event, oh my god. I'm so glad you can handle all that and I don't need to worry!

I hope you're enjoying furniture shopping! I'll see you tonight. Love you.

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JASON: Shopping is all done! I got really cute stools, they're blue! I wanted to kind of avoid the dingy bar sort of look so I figure we'll go for some bright colours in the decor. Might help it feel a little bigger than it is, too, especially if we match them with some lighter neutrals. Should be able to sand back and stain up the timber in here to a nice light pine colour I think. That'd be really nice.

[Jokingly] Furniture shopping is very tiring, though. I am so very tired and so very sore. It is a very hard life, this startup party business stuff. I am definitely going to need some kind of full body massage tonight. You know, to ease the pains brought on by messing around with furniture all day.

Just because of that, I mean... no ulterior motive...

[Laughs] Okay I can't even keep that up, I do have an ulterior motive. What can I say? I'll take any excuse I can get for more touching.

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KANE: [Jokingly] Oh no! Well, furniture shopping is very strenuous. I will make sure to give you my full, therapeutic attention the moment I get home.

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JASON: So, I just woke up a few minutes ago, and at first I was really pleased because I actually went to sleep at the same time as you... until I realized that it's four o'clock in the morning and not like, some reasonable hour to be awake. [Sighs]

It was still nice to fall asleep with you, though. That doesn't happen much. I mean... it's not like, essential to our relationship or anything, I'm normally quite happy to tuck you in and then just come back and crawl in next to you later, but there is something very nice about actually going to sleep together every now and then.

Well, I'm going to do some quiet unpacking and cleaning and stuff for a while, and hopefully I'll get back to sleep in a little while. Love you.

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KANE: Ugh, work fucking sucks today. Everyone's in a bad mood and all I can think about is how I can't wait to be rid of this place. I swear to god, even if we make no money at all and live on two minute noodles while running the bar, it is still going to be more fun than this god damn phone monkey wage slavery bullshit.

[Sighs] Not long to go. Only a couple more weeks till I leave. I can totally hang on a couple more weeks. Hey, when you get up, leave me a nice voicemail? I could definitely use a pick me up as the day drags on, and waking up to the one you left me last night was really nice.

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JASON: Hey, I'm sorry you're having a shitty day. Hopefully it will get better soon, or at the very least not get any worse.

I'm really sorry you have to keep going for a couple more weeks. Like... I get it, our budget is tight as it is, so working till opening night makes sense, but... damn, I hate to see you feeling crappy, you know?

Oh, I have some good news, though! That band we were talking about last night, Lalić? I booked them for opening night. It's gonna be so good!

I'm still waiting on confirmation from a couple of other performers, but even if they all flake, I've got some other back ups in mind that are all really cool too. And I mean, I know a lot of these people, or we have mutual friends, so I trust that they're pretty decent folks all around. Regardless of who can or can't do it, the list is long enough that I'm feeling very confident that our lineup is going to be really great.

I love you, and yes, there's only a couple more weeks of call center hell to go. Soon it will be fancy drinks, happy queers, and supporting the arts every day. I love you a lot. See you when you get home.

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ROSLYN: Love and Luck is written by Erin Kyan, and produced by Passer Vulpes Productions. Kane is voiced by Lee Davis-Thalbourne. Jason is voiced by Erin Kyan. Credits spoken by Roslyn Quin. Recorded by Kermie Breydon.

Lalić is a real band in Melbourne, and you can check them out on bandcamp - lalic.bandcamp.com. That's l-a-l-i-c.bandcamp.com

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