Slowpuke (SlowpukeLIVE) and the lads stake out a bar and scream in the faces of undiagnosed alcoholics as we cover Jon Taffer’s hit reality-television show: Bar Rescue. Topics include Taffer’s self-aggrandized past, the ethics of robot performers, and what it means to watch a man transform a bar from terrible to an entirely different kind of terrible.   Slowpuke: Twitch // Bluesky // Instagram   Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Bar Rescue
  • S02E01: “Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Dumb”
  • S03E11: “Don’t Mess with Taffer’s Wife”
  • S02E22: “Punch-Drunk and Trailer-Trashed”
  • S04E25: “Sticky Situation”
• Bar 702 (Sand Dollar) From Bar Rescue Has Been Sold by Matt. Barrescueupdates.com. June 22nd, 2014.
• Breaking News - Spike TV Picks Up New Original Series, "Bar Rescue" and "Repo Games" | TheFutonCritic.com. January 1st, 2011.
• Council Bluffs police investigating shooting at O'Face Bar by KMTV News. 3 News Now. February 27th, 2021.
• Domestic Violence Case Dismissed by Staff Consortium. The Virgin Islands Consortium. March 19th, 2021.
• How "Bar Rescue" host Jon Taffer helped changed the way we watch the NFL by Aaron Torres. Fox Sports. January 7th, 2014.
• jon taffer spaceship robot story
• Second arrest made in connection to weekend shooting outside Council Bluffs bar by First Alert 6 Staff. First Alert 6. March 25th, 2025.
• Wilkes Assault Lawsuit

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com   Interstitial: “Bar Rescue Jr.” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. Josh Boerman as “Aggressive Narrator”, Slowpuke as “Mrs. Cunningham/Molly Cunningham”, and A.J. Ditty as “Jon Taffer/Customer”