TalkTales the Podcast is a glimpse into the worlds of the people who keep our glasses filled
Over the course of the roughly ten years she’s been bartending, Shana Race has swapped a lot of stories with other bartenders. Some are funny, others are touching—but each one is a window into what it’s like to sling drinks in L.A.
“My original idea was to compile a book of stories,” she says. Then, around November of last year, she was drinking margaritas at El Compadre with friends and it occurred to her that the “book” could start as a podcast. Race, who currently tends bar at Cole’s French Dip downtown, recruited friend Matt Hernandez, who works at Bar Stella in Silver Lake, to be her cohost, and they launched TalkTales the Podcast.
Race and Hernandez recorded the first episode of TalkTales in December and launched…
