off everybody else. and he comes from work and says our dishwasher didn't show up today. you are our new dishwasher. and i said, oh, really. and the next day i put on the apron and didn't take it off for 30 years. i'd wake up, all of us go to the beach, hang out on the beach until like 2:00, 3:00. >> yeah, it was fun. >> roll into work. work all night. drinking, getting high, drilling out food. you have all the food you wanted, all the liquor you wanted. >> all the sex you wanted. >> all the sex you wanted. >> it was true, it was fun. we had a good time. >> and yet you still were an essential part of the economy. >> it was a lot of fun, believe me, i remember. >> the flagship, it's where my cooking career started. where i started washing dishes, where i started have pretensions of culinary grandeur. >> it was a good gig for anybody. you had to be in a band, here we were, we were dishwashers. >> yeah, you get older and more sense and you realize that like, you know, you got to like pace yourself a little bit. >> otherwise, we still wouldn't be here. well, you know, many of our friends from those days didn't make it. >> many of my friends are dead, yeah. [ applause ] >> as you were. >> keep drinking, keep drinking. thank you. >> thank you, tony. >> this place has been here forever. >> that used to be the back room. >> back room's still there. >> see, it's all falling into place again. >> yeah. it's not that much different. >> it's early spring now, but come memorial day, it gets crazy around here and doesn't stop until labor day. provincetown was always gay-friendly, in my time and way, way before my time. and this place, the atlantic house known always and forever