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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 17 of Tales from an
Airport Bar, TFAB.
As you guys know it, I'mChristopher and, as always, I've
got my esteemed co-host.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Block A.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And then this week we are super excited to have David
on.
David, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
David, give our listeners a little background on
how long you've worked, at whatairports and when did you start
?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I started about 12 years ago at DFW Airport in
Terminal D at Riata Grill, andyou know how us waiters are at
the airport we just bouncearound like Indian chasing
buffalo.
So then I went to we talk aboutit all the time, oh yeah Went
to Ling and Louie where I metyou, Chris, and then I went over
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there and said no.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm not going to work the Mexican concept.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Mexican concept, the Asian concept Right right Went
from the Asian concept to theMexican and I was like I don't
want to work here but, I endedup making more money, so I left.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, during that time, our boss remember, boss
Maria, yes, yes she said uh,david, I need you to go to love
build and um, I go over there tothe crew wine bar and, boy, how
do you could feel the tension.
They're like what are you doinghere?
The waiters and I'm like you,it was all waiter telepathy.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I'm like, let's just ask me to come down.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know what's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't want to make her mad.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Right.
So I got badged and I ended upnot going over there.
Basically, what it is is Boston.
Maria had to have a certainamount of lower level badges to
get her higher badge, so that'swhy she had to go.
So when we opened the crew atTerminal D, I said I want to
work there.
Well, I went through the winebar in Terminal D at D26.
(02:11):
And so I went through the fullformal training of crew and of
course it opens and it's notmaking any money.
That's right.
When Terminal D started havingall the reconstruction and stuff
and all these people wentthrough training I think they
would make the money.
They made it love.
They were not happy.
So I went back to uh.
I went back to God, mandy boss,mandy was there.
I was able to go back and Iworked one day a week at uh at
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the crew at DFW.
Well, the volume was so low,chris boss.
Chris said David, I need thatshift.
So I thought I was done withwine and crew, and then I think
it was like six months later,which will be seven years, I
said you're going to DFW.
I guess you came right before Idid Right, blake, and so now
I've been seven years.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You pulled everybody from over there.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, basically.
So I've now been at crew lovefield right as you come in
through TSA for the past sevenyears.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And that's the best part about it.
At that airport it's just oneterminal.
When you walk in, you gothrough security, you go up the
stairs or escalator and the veryfirst.
Thing on your right, rightafter you get past the stairs,
is that wine bar.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So you have all the alcoholics running into our bar
saying I want a shot of tequila,and we're like we're not a full
bar.
We're not a full bar and theyhave to keep going.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You're just the first thing they see.
Right, ask for whatever, so youknow we're about to get.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They're going to change the Bruegel bagels into
an Applebee's IHOP and I thoughtthat was just that's what that
company.
You just know it's a matter oftime before there's a country
redneck having pancakes and abeer, you know that's going to
happen.
They're going to have theirchocolate chip pancake and
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they're going to have a beersitting at the bar.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know, it probably looks like a guy like me,
except you know I don't drinkthe beer, right?
No, you don't Love me.
Some chocolate chip pancakes,though.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right, so you know.
So I'm anxious to see becauseit's right outside of TSA.
So the people hanging outwanting to see you know people
that they'll have a place tohave a beer instead of just
standing there.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So we'll see, there's only that little fly bar which
is so small.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah.
There's like four seats at itand there's a Dunkin' Donuts up
there, and you're not there inline, whereas now, when they
come out of TSA, the peopleyou're waiting for to come out
of the airport will be.
They can sit there and have abeer and watch them, as opposed
to couldn't do it at that flybar.
But anyway, I've been thereseven years, so I've been a
total of 12 years at the airport.
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I can't believe, chris.
I've known you 11 years.
Yeah, I met you.
So, that's pushing nine yearswith you, so it's been a while.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You met me way before my youngest son was born,
that's right, oh yeah, um, soyou've worked at all these
concepts at two differentairports.
Um, talk to me, what is?
What is some of the?
What's the wildest thing you'veever seen at the airport?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The wildest thing I ever saw at the airport was I
had two tables.
This was when those storms werecoming through and everybody
was stuck.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And one day, or they camped out, they were camping.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And they had young girls in middle school.
One table was from Upper EastSide rich Manhattan old money
and the other table was OldAtlanta Rich Money.
You're such a profiler?
Oh, I am.
So the Little Manhattan girlshad their hair back real tight
in ponytails and had on like$300 Tory Burch shoes.
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They were like 11 to 12, orthey had some sort of fancy
shoes on.
Atlanta had bows in their hairthat matched their little
outfits.
So the little Manhattan girlswere staring at the Atlanta
girls' bows in their hair andI'm like please don't start this
little war.
In my section we had that battle150 years ago.
Let's all get along.
We're past that now.
So anyway, the oldest Manhattangirl asked the oldest Atlanta
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girl why do you wear your hairlike that?
Oh, good, and little missAtlanta turned to her and said
we only wear our hair like yourswhen we're playing sports.
I was like, oh my God, where'sAndy Cohen?
There's a show happening in mysection.
I've never laughed so hard inmy entire life.
But I was like, thank you,atlanta, you won that battle for
us.
You won that battle.
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I just couldn't believe ithappened.
They kind of in their littleworlds.
They were like 11 and 12.
They didn't know they werebeing bitchy.
You know what I mean.
It was like they were right allthe time, which made it 10
times funnier.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
They're just being honest kids.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, right, and see, it's the candidness, it is the
candidness, it is correct.
That was even the funniest part, but that stare off was
hilarious.
I know you've met somecelebrities, right?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know, that's why I was talking to you guys doing
this show.
I was always kind of jealous,because I'm not into movies and
I'm not into sports and you guyswere always having your
pictures taken with athletes andfamous people.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
There were a ton of people that came.
That's not at Love Field, it'smore at DFW.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I've not really seen famous people.
So anyway, the bar is in thecenter.
I don't know if your listenersknow, but anyway I'm busy as
hell At the cantina, at cantina,and I'm walking, I'm
face-to-face with the actor,Leslie Jordan.
So, as a gay guy, that was abig deal to me Because he's one
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of the big iconic actors gayactors.
He died in 2022.
He died suddenly of a heartattack.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh, for all our listeners that don't know
David's gay.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yes, this is the gay show, and I'm now talking to
y'all you are our first LV,that's right.
That's why, and you know, fory'all to be a cool show, you
have to have that one of thoseepisodes.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know what?
You would be our friend nomatter what, and I love you guys
dearly.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I love y'all like brothers, especially as long as
we work together.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It's crazy, the time just flies by, it does and it
gets worse as you get older.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm just telling you.
But anyway, I, I'm busy and I'mwalking and all of a sudden
it's almost like we knew eachother.
He's like hi, he I guess heknew I was gay as well and I was
like hi, how are you so nice tomeet you?
I got my picture taken with him.
Well, um, one of his biggestperformances is he was on the
show will and grace and if youremember, there was will and
grace and then there was umkaren and um what was will's
(09:00):
best friends, and our sidekicknamed Sean Hayes is the actor.
But anyway, karen was verybitchy and Leslie Jordan was her
bitchy friend that she wasbitchy with.
So Leslie, to give you anexample, leslie's short and
stocky and they were arguing.
One time I still laugh she saidwhy don't you go back to your
treehouse and start making morecookies?
(09:21):
You know, call him a littleKeillor, but they were always at
each other, so it was perfectwhen I met him.
They will and grace.
I think Murphy Brown tried todo a remake.
I know Frazier's done one, willand grace did one as well A ton
of shows.
They've got no shows.
And I said, leslie, I go.
(09:43):
Have they called you to be onthe new Will and Grace show?
And he was referring to MeganKelly who plays Karen.
He goes, the bitch hasn'tcalled me yet and I thought that
was so awesome.
I just thought that was so coolthat when I end up watching the
show that he ended up beingback on again on several
episodes I'm like, well, I guessthe bitch did finally call it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I remember seeing him doing like funny TikTok videos
during COVID.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh yeah, he, yeah, he did a lot of stuff, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I remember coming across his and just giggling.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, he's hilarious and he's always been crazy out
there.
Well, what made him, what puthim on the map per se as an
actor, is there was a showcalled it was actually.
It started out as a play andthen it went on to become a
movie and they tried to do asitcom.
It was called Sorted Lives andit's what I think is interesting
(10:32):
.
It's called a black comedy butit had Olivia Newton-John, bo
Bridges, delta Burke fromDesigning Women, but it was
basically a white trash Texasfamily and they had he had a
brother boy.
Was was Leslie's name.
The family called him brotherboy, but anyway they would.
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They basically put him in amental institution just because
he was gay and he did drag forthe felt for the people at the
mental institution and he astanny winette and that's you
know he.
That's where he got his bigtake.
And then he had an, the showsabout his little nephew becoming
gay and his white trash, texasfamily dealing with it and wait.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
When did this air?
What?
Uh this air is called whatSorted.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's called Sorted Lives, okay, and it started out
as a play in the early 90s andthen around like 2000,.
2002 is when they did the movie.
Huh, and, like I said, it's gota bunch of famous people in it.
But it's, like I said, it's ablack comedy.
You know it's very dark, they,you know it's it's you know it's
, it's very interesting movie.
(11:39):
I have to put it on a to-dolist to watch.
Uh but uh, but basically heplays a direct anyway, he
escapes and gets out from it.
Yeah, yeah, he escaped, butbasically he's in there just
because of the simple fact thathis family thought he was crazy
because he was gay.
Yeah, it's a good movie.
It's interesting he was in ahorror picture show.
(12:03):
He was in the Help, the famousmovie the Help.
He's had little bits and piecesbut his big deal was the sordid
lives playing brother boy andbeing in the show Will and Grace
.
That kind of really put him onthe map where everybody knew who
he was.
But that's my big claim of allthe actors that I got to meet as
a gay guy.
I got to meet Leslie Jordan whoelse have you run into?
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I'm a big RuPaul drag race fanand you know, here in the Dallas
Fort Worth Metroplex back I'm58, back in the old days.
Just like Dallas and Fort Worthare very different, our gay
cultures are very different aswell.
Fort Worth gay culture istotally different from Dallas.
So back when I was young andcute and going out in the 80s,
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yeah.
Cowtown and Uptown are twototally different worlds.
And so when I was young andstarted going out, you wanted to
stay in Fort Worth but youneeded to have more fun in
Dallas because it was busier.
You wanted to stay in FortWorth but you needed to have
more fun in Dallas because itwas busier.
But anyway, I kind of was aFort Worth started out as a Fort
Worth gay boy and I was kind ofa both a Dallas one Aren't you
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a gay boy wherever you go.
No well, I'm just saying back tothere's some Fort Worth gay
boys that were like I'm notgoing to Dallas, and they stayed
in Fort Worth.
I have very my Fort Worth gayfriends and then Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Dallas was like is there a city to the west of us?
That's funny because it was.
You know, like growing up,coming out of high school and
stuff, when we would go party incollege, you know you were
either Fort Worth or you wereDallas, and there was just no
Y'all too.
It's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, but us, the Fort Worth gay boys, the world
stopped on Sunday night for usto watch the drag show, whereas
Roundup, which is the bigcountry Western gay bar in
Dallas, they wouldn't.
Now they have drag shows.
And it still freaks me out tosee a drag show at the Roundup,
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because back in the old daysthat would have never happened.
Uh, starting in the mid 90s,the dance bar s4, station four,
is the big gay dance bar inoaklawn area.
Uh, off the cedar springs theybuilt the rose room, which was a
little room that had this dragand now that has become a
national.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You know, everybody knows the rose room of dallas
and many of the rupaul, thefamous drag queen show, have
come from, uh, the rose room butback in the old really yeah,
but back in the old days, dallas, they didn't have drag, only
fort worth, so like um, we backin the day like, like I was
talking about, uh, on wednesdaynights they would have straight
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nights.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You remember, Kelsey, I love you for that.
So it was funny.
They're like I think that'sawesome, you knew about straight
nights.
So what was funny, y'all is.
Back in the day, we would allStraight boys had never seen two
girls dancing together and I'mlike straight boy, don't go out
there.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Why do you think we would Don't go out?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
there, I know, and the straight boys would be
salivating.
I'm like do not go out there,it's safer here for you.
Just listen to your gay friend.
Do not go talk to those twogirls.
They do not want you but youknow they'd go out there in that
bullseye.
I'm like straight boy run Run,but that's so funny.
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I remember telling one straightguy I'm like this is the
straight section, talking aboutthe side over there of this
board.
I'm like no, this entireneighborhood is the gay section.
But what's happening now is,with social media, it's kind of
hurt the gay bar businessBecause you know, I was a young
gay guy in South Fort Worth, Ihad a 45-minute drive to go to
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the nearest gay bar.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Now, david, you're still a young gay guy.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Thank you.
Thank you, little Chris.
Thank you, I am damn it untilyou put me in the coffin, but
anyway, now, like Pockets, whichis a very blue collar, you know
, we're here in the mid citiesin between Dallas, fort Worth,
blue collar, it's a veryblue-collar pool hall.
That's where the gay guys hangout.
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In other words, gay guys aren'tgoing to downtown Dallas or
downtown Fort Worth, they'rejust finding their local areas.
Well, the same thing'shappening now at the gay bars in
Oak Lawn.
It's expensive to live downthere.
A lot of it's for medical city,the hospital.
Anyway, now when you go, there'sprobably like 30% straight
folks now when you do go to thebuilding.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
When I moved down there.
Yeah, oh, that's right, youlived down the street.
We moved right off of it andthat was like the first kind of
beginning of that, where it kindof you know.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, in the drag world there's dynasties.
So, for example, if one personstarts doing drag, in this case
the Davenports are the bigDallas drag dynasty, so you take
on the last name and you have adrag mother.
So anyway, I got to meet.
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Kennedy yeah, it's all verymuch that you form a drag family
.
And now what I've learned isRuPaul's Drag Race has just
finished with season 17.
You almost now have to be apart of one of those dynasties
to get on the show.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You know it's now that it's entered into the years
, it's the networking which, ofcourse, you know it's humans
it's not what you know, it's whoyou know but anyway, I got to
meet Kennedy Davenport, who isfrom that uh dallas dynasty.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So that was real cool and again, just like with
leslie, it was so cool.
We knew each other were gay.
We instantly just startedtalking like we've known each
other forever.
And then the real elliot um isfrom woxahatchee and his husband
came in and had a picture ofthe real Elliot.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I go, I know who that is from RuPaul's Drag Race.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Oh, okay, yeah, he's another drag queen from
Waxahachie, so it's cool to knowthe drag queens.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It goes by the name Real Elliot.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Real Elliot Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, oh, there's all kinds.
The last show is pretty funny.
In Case you Forgot, acaciaForgot, and the one who won this
past season 17 on RuPaul's DragRace.
That was On your Nerves.
Yeah, drag names are awesome,oh, wow.
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But what's interesting aboutRuPaulul is everything was good
up until that yeah, I rememberone from from australia was uh
um katherine from finance and hewould dress like a business,
yeah they're, they're
Speaker 1 (18:38):
yeah all right it's's , but anyway, back to the
airport bars, yeah so anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I met.
I met.
Now they come in and see me nowwhenever they come in and out
of DFW, which is really cool.
Kennedy Davenport KennedyDavenport, from Dallas, very
famous from from.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Downstrike anybody else famous you've run into no,
that's about it Well at one timewe met Jane Lynn.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, which was so cool, and I was like yeah, I
know her, she was super awesome.
Yeah, and Ted Cruz.
I've never met the guy I methim both at.
I think it's so funny.
I was like leave my socialsecurity alone.
He goes that Ponzi scheme.
Let's have a picture.
So I have my picture taken.
Have a pitcher?
(19:24):
So I have my pitcher taken.
I'm like you did that onpurpose and uh, and then um, and
then uh, he.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I saw him again at crew about a year ago but we had
already closed the kitchen whenhe was trying to go to Cancun.
Yeah, you know what I shouldhave asked him?
Believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I wanted to tear into his butt.
Uh, ted Cruz is our one of oursenators from Texas here.
I wanted to say uh-huh.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I think everybody knows him from just that Right.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I think everybody knows, a few years back, when we
had the snowstorm, senator Cruzgets on a plane to what was it?
Cancun Him and his family.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Texas has just froze over.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The power grid went out.
They even had a picture of thelittle dog in the window.
They left the dog, so anywaybut that's that's about it on my
, you know, because, like I saidat love field, we just don't
have y'all, we don't have thefamous people coming through
like you guys at ufw.
Oh, and I had one another goodstory.
You know, here in Texas amajority of our wineries are in
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the hill country.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, like Frederick's.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Right and all around there, yeah, around Austin.
Well, grapevine Right has comearound, but all the grapes are
being grown in Lubbock.
And what I forgot about WestTexas is West Texas is hot as
hell, but it's cool at night,which the grapes love.
But I even told this story toone guy and he said we're
getting more per price forgrapes than we are cotton, but
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anyway like I said, we don'thave a lot of Europeans.
We don't have a lot of famouspeople.
Come through crew at Love Field.
So this guy about a year agowas from France.
I go, sir, where are you headedto today?
He goes I'm going to La Ville.
I said oh, sir, will you pleasesay if you guys y'all have to
know as Texans, that ishilarious to hear, to see
(21:13):
Lubbock in your vision and heara French guy go La Ville.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It just cracked me up .
It sounds so exotic.
I was like I said, sir, youmade.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Lubbock way more fancier, but I'm also proud of
Lubbock that the guy came fromFrance because he wanted to know
about how they grow the grapes.
I find that interesting.
I thought that was veryinteresting, so I'm going to
laugh my butt off as a Texan, asin the I know right right but,
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they said, now they're evenstarting to have wineries there,
so we'll see, but I thinkthat's funny.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I'm highly interested .
I've seen, I've seen that atleast one brand, yano LL oh,
from Lubbock.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I've seen that all over, yeah but I don't.
I'm not sure what else I'veseen a lot of them just get
shipped to the hill country theymay just sell their grapes even
.
That's what they do.
They do that in California allthe time.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I don't know what those bread raiders do in
Lubbock.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Lubbock Alright.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So Mexican food concept.
You worked at Wine Bar now.
Yeah, and the Asian foodconcept Right.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What else?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Where else have you worked?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Well before that, before I worked with you guys at
the airport, I'm an oldon-the-border person.
I'm a Tex-Mex on-the-border.
I was with them for many, manyyears, worked in the banking
industry.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But yeah, that's where my, you know what's
interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I don't know if y'all hear the term anymore, but they
call outside of waiting tables,outside the airport street side
.
I don't know where.
I wonder where that term camefrom.
Do y'all know?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It's just the 24 years I've been at the airport,
has always been called thestreet side, probably just us
people looking down from oureyes Right.
So my daughter just recentlyquit the airport.
She was working for a famouswing chain in the international
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terminal and she, just a coupleof weeks back, she's like she's
been calling me for weeks,crying from the bathroom.
I just want to walk out thisplace and I'm just like it's
just the airport.
You just need to get out ofplace, sucks.
And I'm just like it's just theairport.
You just need to get out of theinternational terminal and
you'll be fine.
Yeah, because you know what.
So she just had the audacitysingle mom that she is, uh, with
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my grandson, um, she had theballs to just walk out of her
shift, turn in her badge and islike I'm not doing this anymore,
not even two hours later on herway home.
She's like I'm going to find ajob on the way home.
And she went to the restaurantcapital of Texas and went down
(23:54):
the little restaurant row onMain Street in Roanoke and, uh,
found herself a job at a Mexicanfood place.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And it does well.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
They're paying her nice by the hour, oh cool and uh
she's made.
Well, because they can.
They can, uh, you know, makeher the lead bartender, paper um
, and pay her by the hour andshe's doing great.
I just remember she was a baby.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I can't believe how grown she is?
Yeah, she just turned 21.
Oh no, I can't believe that?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, I can't believe she's bartending before she's
21.
Wow, I mean, it seems to run inour family like that.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Right, my brother me yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
We all have bartended .
How old is your?
How does your brother?
Which one I forgot, how many?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
brothers do you have?
I've got 18.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
No two.
My older brother is 51, and myyounger brother is.
He's going to be 40 this year.
You're the middle child.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
No, not really, Because the youngest one's so
much younger.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Our listeners don't need to know about this.
So dad had three boys withthree different wives is what it
is.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So my older half-brother.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
My younger half-brother.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And then there's my half-sister from my mom.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I forgot about all that.
And then there's my half sisterfrom my mom.
I forgot about all that, andthen I would never forget my
sister, my stepsister, that Igrew up with.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
She's my sister, who all works at the airport.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Who all works at the airport.
That's family.
My brother has worked at theairport.
He was our first bartenderguest on episode 3.
Oh, wow, yeah, brotherly love,that's right.
My sister and I used to waittables together back in the day
(25:54):
at Shenanigans at TJF, right, ohyeah, oh yeah, a lot of
shenanigans.
But as far as other family thatI've worked with at the airport
, my older brother worked for meback in the day when we worked
at the little art bar.
He was our delivery driver.
(26:17):
He would go up to the terminalwith the van on the tarmac, load
the van up with like kegs andpre-made sandwiches and things
and we would ship it out to thelittle.
So you've been 25 years at theairport coming up on 24 of this
August.
Wow, too damn long.
Yeah, and then uh, you know, myex brother-in-law worked two of
(26:38):
my ex-brother-in-laws mysister's ex-husband and my
ex-wife's brother.
I have both for me.
Who else?
My sister-in-law, my brother'swife?
Because we do, we're lucky, youknow, no nepotism there.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Uh-uh, you know no nepotism there, uh-uh.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But you know, that's when I managed restaurants way
before I wised up in like what2013?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Hopped back behind the bar again.
Yeah, that's when I met you,yeah, behind the bar.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yes, geez.
Was I though, because you know,I remember you were talking
about boss Maria and we've we'vetalked a few times about Robert
.
I remember the first time theyever walked in.
I'm pouring shots for the thisgirl that had just turned 21 and
(27:39):
her mom's with her and a bunchof other girls, and there's this
.
I won't name any names, butthere's this young blonde girl,
it's anyways.
She's waiting tables and shegoes over to Robert and Maria
(28:00):
and proceeds to tell them Chrishas given away free shots.
Drama, drama, drama.
So Of course, after the shift,robert comes up to me.
He's like you're not going tobe in the bar anymore.
I said why?
He said because you're givingaway shots.
I said pull up the cameras andgo look at the receipt.
(28:22):
Everything was rung up.
And he's like I don't have todo that.
He's like you're just not goingto be in the bar anymore.
Really, yeah.
And then for two weeks I wasn'tin the bar and he comes back to
me and he's like we need you inthe bar.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That is just how y'all, that is just how our
lives is as being airportwaiters and bartenders.
Oh well, some of our old bosseshad some crazy power trips.
Yes, they did.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know, let's put it out there for our listeners
about Maria Boss.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Maria, we thought the company was going bankrupt
because they couldn't pay us ourtips.
Remember I threw.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, it was like weeks at a time.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So what it is is we would get tipped out cash from
all the waiters and waitresses,which we still do to an extent.
It just goes through a computersystem now.
We would get tipped out cashand they would put it, the
waiters and waitresses wouldturn it into the manager, they
would put it in an envelope andinside that one main envelope
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there would be individualenvelopes with all the
bartender's names on them andeach night they would get a
portion of the tip share.
Well, and you could comecollect it the next day or your
next shift, whenever you worked,and you would get this you know
little bit of cash coming inand taking the whole envelope
(30:03):
and going to, uh, winstar, thecasino about an hour north of
here, out of the dfw airport, um, and taking it and using it all
to gamble with one of ourfellow workers.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I can't remember her name.
She said I saw boss maria atwinstar with the actual tip
share envelope.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You're like I saw my name, yeah, but not only was she
the actual tip share envelope,you're like.
I saw my name on it, yeah, withthe actual envelope, but not
only was she taking the tip?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
share money now, our tips that we make as servers and
bartenders, we get in ourpaychecks which is awesome and
deposited in our bankingaccounts.
Back in the old days, andespecially being an old waiter,
you always got your credit cardtips at the end of the night.
They didn't have even the moneyto pay that.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We didn't even get that at Corsair.
We weren't getting paidanything.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We weren't even getting our tip money.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And I was going on vacation for three weeks.
And luckily Mary was like youknow what I need to get this?
And luckily she gave me mythree weeks that I had been
waiting on of money but weweren't collecting it for like.
But you thought you would neverthink boss maria would do
something like that, you seem.
(31:07):
She seemed very professional.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, she was like the most serious by the right
book, like yeah, so it wassurprising, but I was.
We really thought the companywas going under.
I thought it was the best thingthat ever happened yeah I do
too.
I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, she was something else I would always
walk up to her because she wouldwalk in like a robot and she
would be frowning.
I would always make her highfive me.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And then she would like grin a little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So there was this one time we've talked about Edna on
the show you know Edna.
Yeah, basically she's damn nearrelated to my youngest son's
baby, my baby's mama.
That's right, and it's I forgotabout that it's my Okay, so
it's basically my youngest son'sgrandmother it's her best
(31:52):
friend.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay, I knew there was a connection there Through
the baby shower, you know,million years ago for my baby's
mom.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
But so one day I grab , I'm over at the cantina and I
go back over to the AsianConcepts.
I had to go over there forsomething, and that's when both
of those restaurants were stillone company.
and uh, so liam, our buddythat's been on the show yeah he
(32:27):
asked me hey, uh, grab me amonster out of the fridge.
So I grabbed one out of the theto-go stand up front and so I
grab it and go back over tocanteen.
I grabbed two.
As a matter of fact, I grabbedone for myself.
I go back over to cantina and Igive them a monster or whatever
(32:49):
.
And I see Maria later.
She goes hey, did you take acouple of monsters out of the
to-go stand over at Cantina?
I was like, yeah, she's like.
You know, that's theft, right?
I said it's under five bucks.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
We earned that, you earned that.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I was like it's under five bucks.
I was like Liam asked me to gethim a soda.
And you know she loved Liam.
I was like.
Liam asked me to get him one.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She loved me too thank God.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
She's like well, we're going to teach you a
lesson.
I'm going to suspend your badgefor a week.
I was like how am I supposed towork and make money?
She's like I don't know I.
How am I supposed to work andmake money?
She's like I don't know.
I was like all right.
I said and what am I supposedto tell James about the?
Or what am I supposed to tellMandy about the schedule at
Cantina?
She's like I don't know whatyou going to do.
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
So she took it out.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
At the time I there was a young lady I was dating
who just so happened to be anexecutive at American Airlines.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I would just book me on a flight.
And so I'm in there workingwithout my badge, oh wow.
And I just so happened to beclocked out and Maria sees me
and she goes don't I have yourbadge?
I said I believe.
So yeah, I said yeah.
(34:28):
I said I don't need it, why shegoes.
How are you in the airport?
I said I'm a passenger and Ijust kept walking, wow.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Oh, how funny.
Oh, that's awesome.
That's so you, chris, that isso you?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, I'm a passenger , I'm a civilian today, yeah,
I'm flying out.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I got to go.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I got to get this 1038 to Kentucky.
Oh how funny.
That is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Oh man, that's hilarious.
Oh man, that's hilarious.
David man, thank you so muchfor coming.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Oh, you guys, thank you so much, I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
We will be having you back very soon.
Yay, guys, that's what we gotfor this week.
Thank you, guys, so much forkeeping up with the show.
We are almost there withgetting our equipment, equipment
, and then you will see us up onYouTube very soon and we will
be back soon with anotherepisode.
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Peace, guys, peace.
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 17 of Tales from an
Airport Bar, TFAB.
As you guys know it, I'mChristopher and, as always, I've
got my esteemed co-host.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Block A.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And then this week we are super excited to have David
on.
David, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
David, give our listeners a little background on
how long you've worked, at whatairports and when did you start
?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I started about 12 years ago at DFW Airport in
Terminal D at Riata Grill, andyou know how us waiters are at
the airport we just bouncearound like Indian chasing
buffalo.
So then I went to we talk aboutit all the time, oh yeah Went
to Ling and Louie where I metyou, Chris, and then I went over
(01:05):
there and said no.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm not going to work the Mexican concept.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Mexican concept, the Asian concept Right right Went
from the Asian concept to theMexican and I was like I don't
want to work here but, I endedup making more money, so I left.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, during that time, our boss remember, boss
Maria, yes, yes she said uh,david, I need you to go to love
build and um, I go over there tothe crew wine bar and, boy, how
do you could feel the tension.
They're like what are you doinghere?
The waiters and I'm like you,it was all waiter telepathy.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I'm like, let's just ask me to come down.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know what's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't want to make her mad.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Right.
So I got badged and I ended upnot going over there.
Basically, what it is is Boston.
Maria had to have a certainamount of lower level badges to
get her higher badge, so that'swhy she had to go.
So when we opened the crew atTerminal D, I said I want to
work there.
Well, I went through the winebar in Terminal D at D26.
(02:11):
And so I went through the fullformal training of crew and of
course it opens and it's notmaking any money.
That's right.
When Terminal D started havingall the reconstruction and stuff
and all these people wentthrough training I think they
would make the money.
They made it love.
They were not happy.
So I went back to uh.
I went back to God, mandy boss,mandy was there.
I was able to go back and Iworked one day a week at uh at
(02:37):
the crew at DFW.
Well, the volume was so low,chris boss.
Chris said David, I need thatshift.
So I thought I was done withwine and crew, and then I think
it was like six months later,which will be seven years, I
said you're going to DFW.
I guess you came right before Idid Right, blake, and so now
I've been seven years.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You pulled everybody from over there.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, basically.
So I've now been at crew lovefield right as you come in
through TSA for the past sevenyears.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And that's the best part about it.
At that airport it's just oneterminal.
When you walk in, you gothrough security, you go up the
stairs or escalator and the veryfirst.
Thing on your right, rightafter you get past the stairs,
is that wine bar.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So you have all the alcoholics running into our bar
saying I want a shot of tequila,and we're like we're not a full
bar.
We're not a full bar and theyhave to keep going.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You're just the first thing they see.
Right, ask for whatever, so youknow we're about to get.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They're going to change the Bruegel bagels into
an Applebee's IHOP and I thoughtthat was just that's what that
company.
You just know it's a matter oftime before there's a country
redneck having pancakes and abeer, you know that's going to
happen.
They're going to have theirchocolate chip pancake and
(03:58):
they're going to have a beersitting at the bar.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know, it probably looks like a guy like me,
except you know I don't drinkthe beer, right?
No, you don't Love me.
Some chocolate chip pancakes,though.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right, so you know.
So I'm anxious to see becauseit's right outside of TSA.
So the people hanging outwanting to see you know people
that they'll have a place tohave a beer instead of just
standing there.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So we'll see, there's only that little fly bar which
is so small.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah.
There's like four seats at itand there's a Dunkin' Donuts up
there, and you're not there inline, whereas now, when they
come out of TSA, the peopleyou're waiting for to come out
of the airport will be.
They can sit there and have abeer and watch them, as opposed
to couldn't do it at that flybar.
But anyway, I've been thereseven years, so I've been a
total of 12 years at the airport.
(04:50):
I can't believe, chris.
I've known you 11 years.
Yeah, I met you.
So, that's pushing nine yearswith you, so it's been a while.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You met me way before my youngest son was born,
that's right, oh yeah, um, soyou've worked at all these
concepts at two differentairports.
Um, talk to me, what is?
What is some of the?
What's the wildest thing you'veever seen at the airport?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The wildest thing I ever saw at the airport was I
had two tables.
This was when those storms werecoming through and everybody
was stuck.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And one day, or they camped out, they were camping.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And they had young girls in middle school.
One table was from Upper EastSide rich Manhattan old money
and the other table was OldAtlanta Rich Money.
You're such a profiler?
Oh, I am.
So the Little Manhattan girlshad their hair back real tight
in ponytails and had on like$300 Tory Burch shoes.
(05:58):
They were like 11 to 12, orthey had some sort of fancy
shoes on.
Atlanta had bows in their hairthat matched their little
outfits.
So the little Manhattan girlswere staring at the Atlanta
girls' bows in their hair andI'm like please don't start this
little war.
In my section we had that battle150 years ago.
Let's all get along.
We're past that now.
So anyway, the oldest Manhattangirl asked the oldest Atlanta
(06:22):
girl why do you wear your hairlike that?
Oh, good, and little missAtlanta turned to her and said
we only wear our hair like yourswhen we're playing sports.
I was like, oh my God, where'sAndy Cohen?
There's a show happening in mysection.
I've never laughed so hard inmy entire life.
But I was like, thank you,atlanta, you won that battle for
us.
You won that battle.
(06:43):
I just couldn't believe ithappened.
They kind of in their littleworlds.
They were like 11 and 12.
They didn't know they werebeing bitchy.
You know what I mean.
It was like they were right allthe time, which made it 10
times funnier.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
They're just being honest kids.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, right, and see, it's the candidness, it is the
candidness, it is correct.
That was even the funniest part, but that stare off was
hilarious.
I know you've met somecelebrities, right?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know, that's why I was talking to you guys doing
this show.
I was always kind of jealous,because I'm not into movies and
I'm not into sports and you guyswere always having your
pictures taken with athletes andfamous people.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
There were a ton of people that came.
That's not at Love Field, it'smore at DFW.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I've not really seen famous people.
So anyway, the bar is in thecenter.
I don't know if your listenersknow, but anyway I'm busy as
hell At the cantina, at cantina,and I'm walking, I'm
face-to-face with the actor,Leslie Jordan.
So, as a gay guy, that was abig deal to me Because he's one
(07:53):
of the big iconic actors gayactors.
He died in 2022.
He died suddenly of a heartattack.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh, for all our listeners that don't know
David's gay.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yes, this is the gay show, and I'm now talking to
y'all you are our first LV,that's right.
That's why, and you know, fory'all to be a cool show, you
have to have that one of thoseepisodes.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know what?
You would be our friend nomatter what, and I love you guys
dearly.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I love y'all like brothers, especially as long as
we work together.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It's crazy, the time just flies by, it does and it
gets worse as you get older.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm just telling you.
But anyway, I, I'm busy and I'mwalking and all of a sudden
it's almost like we knew eachother.
He's like hi, he I guess heknew I was gay as well and I was
like hi, how are you so nice tomeet you?
I got my picture taken with him.
Well, um, one of his biggestperformances is he was on the
show will and grace and if youremember, there was will and
grace and then there was umkaren and um what was will's
(09:00):
best friends, and our sidekicknamed Sean Hayes is the actor.
But anyway, karen was verybitchy and Leslie Jordan was her
bitchy friend that she wasbitchy with.
So Leslie, to give you anexample, leslie's short and
stocky and they were arguing.
One time I still laugh she saidwhy don't you go back to your
treehouse and start making morecookies?
(09:21):
You know, call him a littleKeillor, but they were always at
each other, so it was perfectwhen I met him.
They will and grace.
I think Murphy Brown tried todo a remake.
I know Frazier's done one, willand grace did one as well A ton
of shows.
They've got no shows.
And I said, leslie, I go.
(09:43):
Have they called you to be onthe new Will and Grace show?
And he was referring to MeganKelly who plays Karen.
He goes, the bitch hasn'tcalled me yet and I thought that
was so awesome.
I just thought that was so coolthat when I end up watching the
show that he ended up beingback on again on several
episodes I'm like, well, I guessthe bitch did finally call it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I remember seeing him doing like funny TikTok videos
during COVID.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh yeah, he, yeah, he did a lot of stuff, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I remember coming across his and just giggling.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, he's hilarious and he's always been crazy out
there.
Well, what made him, what puthim on the map per se as an
actor, is there was a showcalled it was actually.
It started out as a play andthen it went on to become a
movie and they tried to do asitcom.
It was called Sorted Lives andit's what I think is interesting
(10:32):
.
It's called a black comedy butit had Olivia Newton-John, bo
Bridges, delta Burke fromDesigning Women, but it was
basically a white trash Texasfamily and they had he had a
brother boy.
Was was Leslie's name.
The family called him brotherboy, but anyway they would.
(10:53):
They basically put him in amental institution just because
he was gay and he did drag forthe felt for the people at the
mental institution and he astanny winette and that's you
know he.
That's where he got his bigtake.
And then he had an, the showsabout his little nephew becoming
gay and his white trash, texasfamily dealing with it and wait.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
When did this air?
What?
Uh this air is called whatSorted.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's called Sorted Lives, okay, and it started out
as a play in the early 90s andthen around like 2000,.
2002 is when they did the movie.
Huh, and, like I said, it's gota bunch of famous people in it.
But it's, like I said, it's ablack comedy.
You know it's very dark, they,you know it's it's you know it's
, it's very interesting movie.
(11:39):
I have to put it on a to-dolist to watch.
Uh but uh, but basically heplays a direct anyway, he
escapes and gets out from it.
Yeah, yeah, he escaped, butbasically he's in there just
because of the simple fact thathis family thought he was crazy
because he was gay.
Yeah, it's a good movie.
It's interesting he was in ahorror picture show.
(12:03):
He was in the Help, the famousmovie the Help.
He's had little bits and piecesbut his big deal was the sordid
lives playing brother boy andbeing in the show Will and Grace
.
That kind of really put him onthe map where everybody knew who
he was.
But that's my big claim of allthe actors that I got to meet as
a gay guy.
I got to meet Leslie Jordan whoelse have you run into?
(12:28):
I'm a big RuPaul drag race fanand you know, here in the Dallas
Fort Worth Metroplex back I'm58, back in the old days.
Just like Dallas and Fort Worthare very different, our gay
cultures are very different aswell.
Fort Worth gay culture istotally different from Dallas.
So back when I was young andcute and going out in the 80s,
(12:49):
yeah.
Cowtown and Uptown are twototally different worlds.
And so when I was young andstarted going out, you wanted to
stay in Fort Worth but youneeded to have more fun in
Dallas because it was busier.
You wanted to stay in FortWorth but you needed to have
more fun in Dallas because itwas busier.
But anyway, I kind of was aFort Worth started out as a Fort
Worth gay boy and I was kind ofa both a Dallas one Aren't you
(13:11):
a gay boy wherever you go.
No well, I'm just saying back tothere's some Fort Worth gay
boys that were like I'm notgoing to Dallas, and they stayed
in Fort Worth.
I have very my Fort Worth gayfriends and then Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Dallas was like is there a city to the west of us?
That's funny because it was.
You know, like growing up,coming out of high school and
stuff, when we would go party incollege, you know you were
either Fort Worth or you wereDallas, and there was just no
Y'all too.
It's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, but us, the Fort Worth gay boys, the world
stopped on Sunday night for usto watch the drag show, whereas
Roundup, which is the bigcountry Western gay bar in
Dallas, they wouldn't.
Now they have drag shows.
And it still freaks me out tosee a drag show at the Roundup,
(14:07):
because back in the old daysthat would have never happened.
Uh, starting in the mid 90s,the dance bar s4, station four,
is the big gay dance bar inoaklawn area.
Uh, off the cedar springs theybuilt the rose room, which was a
little room that had this dragand now that has become a
national.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You know, everybody knows the rose room of dallas
and many of the rupaul, thefamous drag queen show, have
come from, uh, the rose room butback in the old really yeah,
but back in the old days, dallas, they didn't have drag, only
fort worth, so like um, we backin the day like, like I was
talking about, uh, on wednesdaynights they would have straight
(14:40):
nights.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You remember, Kelsey, I love you for that.
So it was funny.
They're like I think that'sawesome, you knew about straight
nights.
So what was funny, y'all is.
Back in the day, we would allStraight boys had never seen two
girls dancing together and I'mlike straight boy, don't go out
there.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Why do you think we would Don't go out?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
there, I know, and the straight boys would be
salivating.
I'm like do not go out there,it's safer here for you.
Just listen to your gay friend.
Do not go talk to those twogirls.
They do not want you but youknow they'd go out there in that
bullseye.
I'm like straight boy run Run,but that's so funny.
(15:17):
I remember telling one straightguy I'm like this is the
straight section, talking aboutthe side over there of this
board.
I'm like no, this entireneighborhood is the gay section.
But what's happening now is,with social media, it's kind of
hurt the gay bar businessBecause you know, I was a young
gay guy in South Fort Worth, Ihad a 45-minute drive to go to
(15:40):
the nearest gay bar.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Now, david, you're still a young gay guy.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Thank you.
Thank you, little Chris.
Thank you, I am damn it untilyou put me in the coffin, but
anyway, now, like Pockets, whichis a very blue collar, you know
, we're here in the mid citiesin between Dallas, fort Worth,
blue collar, it's a veryblue-collar pool hall.
That's where the gay guys hangout.
(16:04):
In other words, gay guys aren'tgoing to downtown Dallas or
downtown Fort Worth, they'rejust finding their local areas.
Well, the same thing'shappening now at the gay bars in
Oak Lawn.
It's expensive to live downthere.
A lot of it's for medical city,the hospital.
Anyway, now when you go, there'sprobably like 30% straight
folks now when you do go to thebuilding.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
When I moved down there.
Yeah, oh, that's right, youlived down the street.
We moved right off of it andthat was like the first kind of
beginning of that, where it kindof you know.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, in the drag world there's dynasties.
So, for example, if one personstarts doing drag, in this case
the Davenports are the bigDallas drag dynasty, so you take
on the last name and you have adrag mother.
So anyway, I got to meet.
(16:52):
Kennedy yeah, it's all verymuch that you form a drag family
.
And now what I've learned isRuPaul's Drag Race has just
finished with season 17.
You almost now have to be apart of one of those dynasties
to get on the show.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You know it's now that it's entered into the years
, it's the networking which, ofcourse, you know it's humans
it's not what you know, it's whoyou know but anyway, I got to
meet Kennedy Davenport, who isfrom that uh dallas dynasty.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So that was real cool and again, just like with
leslie, it was so cool.
We knew each other were gay.
We instantly just startedtalking like we've known each
other forever.
And then the real elliot um isfrom woxahatchee and his husband
came in and had a picture ofthe real Elliot.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I go, I know who that is from RuPaul's Drag Race.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Oh, okay, yeah, he's another drag queen from
Waxahachie, so it's cool to knowthe drag queens.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It goes by the name Real Elliot.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Real Elliot Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, oh, there's all kinds.
The last show is pretty funny.
In Case you Forgot, acaciaForgot, and the one who won this
past season 17 on RuPaul's DragRace.
That was On your Nerves.
Yeah, drag names are awesome,oh, wow.
(18:19):
But what's interesting aboutRuPaulul is everything was good
up until that yeah, I rememberone from from australia was uh
um katherine from finance and hewould dress like a business,
yeah they're, they're
Speaker 1 (18:38):
yeah all right it's's , but anyway, back to the
airport bars, yeah so anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I met.
I met.
Now they come in and see me nowwhenever they come in and out
of DFW, which is really cool.
Kennedy Davenport KennedyDavenport, from Dallas, very
famous from from.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Downstrike anybody else famous you've run into no,
that's about it Well at one timewe met Jane Lynn.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, which was so cool, and I was like yeah, I
know her, she was super awesome.
Yeah, and Ted Cruz.
I've never met the guy I methim both at.
I think it's so funny.
I was like leave my socialsecurity alone.
He goes that Ponzi scheme.
Let's have a picture.
So I have my picture taken.
Have a pitcher?
(19:24):
So I have my pitcher taken.
I'm like you did that onpurpose and uh, and then um, and
then uh, he.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I saw him again at crew about a year ago but we had
already closed the kitchen whenhe was trying to go to Cancun.
Yeah, you know what I shouldhave asked him?
Believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I wanted to tear into his butt.
Uh, ted Cruz is our one of oursenators from Texas here.
I wanted to say uh-huh.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I think everybody knows him from just that Right.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I think everybody knows, a few years back, when we
had the snowstorm, senator Cruzgets on a plane to what was it?
Cancun Him and his family.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Texas has just froze over.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The power grid went out.
They even had a picture of thelittle dog in the window.
They left the dog, so anywaybut that's that's about it on my
, you know, because, like I saidat love field, we just don't
have y'all, we don't have thefamous people coming through
like you guys at ufw.
Oh, and I had one another goodstory.
You know, here in Texas amajority of our wineries are in
(20:26):
the hill country.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, like Frederick's.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Right and all around there, yeah, around Austin.
Well, grapevine Right has comearound, but all the grapes are
being grown in Lubbock.
And what I forgot about WestTexas is West Texas is hot as
hell, but it's cool at night,which the grapes love.
But I even told this story toone guy and he said we're
getting more per price forgrapes than we are cotton, but
(20:53):
anyway like I said, we don'thave a lot of Europeans.
We don't have a lot of famouspeople.
Come through crew at Love Field.
So this guy about a year agowas from France.
I go, sir, where are you headedto today?
He goes I'm going to La Ville.
I said oh, sir, will you pleasesay if you guys y'all have to
know as Texans, that ishilarious to hear, to see
(21:13):
Lubbock in your vision and heara French guy go La Ville.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It just cracked me up .
It sounds so exotic.
I was like I said, sir, youmade.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Lubbock way more fancier, but I'm also proud of
Lubbock that the guy came fromFrance because he wanted to know
about how they grow the grapes.
I find that interesting.
I thought that was veryinteresting, so I'm going to
laugh my butt off as a Texan, asin the I know right right but,
(21:41):
they said, now they're evenstarting to have wineries there,
so we'll see, but I thinkthat's funny.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I'm highly interested .
I've seen, I've seen that atleast one brand, yano LL oh,
from Lubbock.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I've seen that all over, yeah but I don't.
I'm not sure what else I'veseen a lot of them just get
shipped to the hill country theymay just sell their grapes even
.
That's what they do.
They do that in California allthe time.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I don't know what those bread raiders do in
Lubbock.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Lubbock Alright.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So Mexican food concept.
You worked at Wine Bar now.
Yeah, and the Asian foodconcept Right.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What else?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Where else have you worked?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Well before that, before I worked with you guys at
the airport, I'm an oldon-the-border person.
I'm a Tex-Mex on-the-border.
I was with them for many, manyyears, worked in the banking
industry.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But yeah, that's where my, you know what's
interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I don't know if y'all hear the term anymore, but they
call outside of waiting tables,outside the airport street side
.
I don't know where.
I wonder where that term camefrom.
Do y'all know?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It's just the 24 years I've been at the airport,
has always been called thestreet side, probably just us
people looking down from oureyes Right.
So my daughter just recentlyquit the airport.
She was working for a famouswing chain in the international
(23:07):
terminal and she, just a coupleof weeks back, she's like she's
been calling me for weeks,crying from the bathroom.
I just want to walk out thisplace and I'm just like it's
just the airport.
You just need to get out ofplace, sucks.
And I'm just like it's just theairport.
You just need to get out of theinternational terminal and
you'll be fine.
Yeah, because you know what.
So she just had the audacitysingle mom that she is, uh, with
(23:32):
my grandson, um, she had theballs to just walk out of her
shift, turn in her badge and islike I'm not doing this anymore,
not even two hours later on herway home.
She's like I'm going to find ajob on the way home.
And she went to the restaurantcapital of Texas and went down
(23:54):
the little restaurant row onMain Street in Roanoke and, uh,
found herself a job at a Mexicanfood place.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And it does well.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
They're paying her nice by the hour, oh cool and uh
she's made.
Well, because they can.
They can, uh, you know, makeher the lead bartender, paper um
, and pay her by the hour andshe's doing great.
I just remember she was a baby.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I can't believe how grown she is?
Yeah, she just turned 21.
Oh no, I can't believe that?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, I can't believe she's bartending before she's
21.
Wow, I mean, it seems to run inour family like that.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Right, my brother me yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
We all have bartended .
How old is your?
How does your brother?
Which one I forgot, how many?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
brothers do you have?
I've got 18.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
No two.
My older brother is 51, and myyounger brother is.
He's going to be 40 this year.
You're the middle child.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
No, not really, Because the youngest one's so
much younger.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Our listeners don't need to know about this.
So dad had three boys withthree different wives is what it
is.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So my older half-brother.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
My younger half-brother.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And then there's my half-sister from my mom.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I forgot about all that.
And then there's my half sisterfrom my mom.
I forgot about all that, andthen I would never forget my
sister, my stepsister, that Igrew up with.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
She's my sister, who all works at the airport.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Who all works at the airport.
That's family.
My brother has worked at theairport.
He was our first bartenderguest on episode 3.
Oh, wow, yeah, brotherly love,that's right.
My sister and I used to waittables together back in the day
(25:54):
at Shenanigans at TJF, right, ohyeah, oh yeah, a lot of
shenanigans.
But as far as other family thatI've worked with at the airport
, my older brother worked for meback in the day when we worked
at the little art bar.
He was our delivery driver.
(26:17):
He would go up to the terminalwith the van on the tarmac, load
the van up with like kegs andpre-made sandwiches and things
and we would ship it out to thelittle.
So you've been 25 years at theairport coming up on 24 of this
August.
Wow, too damn long.
Yeah, and then uh, you know, myex brother-in-law worked two of
(26:38):
my ex-brother-in-laws mysister's ex-husband and my
ex-wife's brother.
I have both for me.
Who else?
My sister-in-law, my brother'swife?
Because we do, we're lucky, youknow, no nepotism there.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Uh-uh, you know no nepotism there, uh-uh.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But you know, that's when I managed restaurants way
before I wised up in like what2013?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Hopped back behind the bar again.
Yeah, that's when I met you,yeah, behind the bar.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yes, geez.
Was I though, because you know,I remember you were talking
about boss Maria and we've we'vetalked a few times about Robert
.
I remember the first time theyever walked in.
I'm pouring shots for the thisgirl that had just turned 21 and
(27:39):
her mom's with her and a bunchof other girls, and there's this
.
I won't name any names, butthere's this young blonde girl,
it's anyways.
She's waiting tables and shegoes over to Robert and Maria
(28:00):
and proceeds to tell them Chrishas given away free shots.
Drama, drama, drama.
So Of course, after the shift,robert comes up to me.
He's like you're not going tobe in the bar anymore.
I said why?
He said because you're givingaway shots.
I said pull up the cameras andgo look at the receipt.
(28:22):
Everything was rung up.
And he's like I don't have todo that.
He's like you're just not goingto be in the bar anymore.
Really, yeah.
And then for two weeks I wasn'tin the bar and he comes back to
me and he's like we need you inthe bar.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That is just how y'all, that is just how our
lives is as being airportwaiters and bartenders.
Oh well, some of our old bosseshad some crazy power trips.
Yes, they did.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know, let's put it out there for our listeners
about Maria Boss.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Maria, we thought the company was going bankrupt
because they couldn't pay us ourtips.
Remember I threw.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, it was like weeks at a time.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So what it is is we would get tipped out cash from
all the waiters and waitresses,which we still do to an extent.
It just goes through a computersystem now.
We would get tipped out cashand they would put it, the
waiters and waitresses wouldturn it into the manager, they
would put it in an envelope andinside that one main envelope
(29:29):
there would be individualenvelopes with all the
bartender's names on them andeach night they would get a
portion of the tip share.
Well, and you could comecollect it the next day or your
next shift, whenever you worked,and you would get this you know
little bit of cash coming inand taking the whole envelope
(30:03):
and going to, uh, winstar, thecasino about an hour north of
here, out of the dfw airport, um, and taking it and using it all
to gamble with one of ourfellow workers.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I can't remember her name.
She said I saw boss maria atwinstar with the actual tip
share envelope.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You're like I saw my name, yeah, but not only was she
the actual tip share envelope,you're like.
I saw my name on it, yeah, withthe actual envelope, but not
only was she taking the tip?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
share money now, our tips that we make as servers and
bartenders, we get in ourpaychecks which is awesome and
deposited in our bankingaccounts.
Back in the old days, andespecially being an old waiter,
you always got your credit cardtips at the end of the night.
They didn't have even the moneyto pay that.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We didn't even get that at Corsair.
We weren't getting paidanything.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We weren't even getting our tip money.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And I was going on vacation for three weeks.
And luckily Mary was like youknow what I need to get this?
And luckily she gave me mythree weeks that I had been
waiting on of money but weweren't collecting it for like.
But you thought you would neverthink boss maria would do
something like that, you seem.
(31:07):
She seemed very professional.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, she was like the most serious by the right
book, like yeah, so it wassurprising, but I was.
We really thought the companywas going under.
I thought it was the best thingthat ever happened yeah I do
too.
I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, she was something else I would always
walk up to her because she wouldwalk in like a robot and she
would be frowning.
I would always make her highfive me.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And then she would like grin a little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So there was this one time we've talked about Edna on
the show you know Edna.
Yeah, basically she's damn nearrelated to my youngest son's
baby, my baby's mama.
That's right, and it's I forgotabout that it's my Okay, so
it's basically my youngest son'sgrandmother it's her best
(31:52):
friend.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay, I knew there was a connection there Through
the baby shower, you know,million years ago for my baby's
mom.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
But so one day I grab , I'm over at the cantina and I
go back over to the AsianConcepts.
I had to go over there forsomething, and that's when both
of those restaurants were stillone company.
and uh, so liam, our buddythat's been on the show yeah he
(32:27):
asked me hey, uh, grab me amonster out of the fridge.
So I grabbed one out of the theto-go stand up front and so I
grab it and go back over tocanteen.
I grabbed two.
As a matter of fact, I grabbedone for myself.
I go back over to cantina and Igive them a monster or whatever
(32:49):
.
And I see Maria later.
She goes hey, did you take acouple of monsters out of the
to-go stand over at Cantina?
I was like, yeah, she's like.
You know, that's theft, right?
I said it's under five bucks.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
We earned that, you earned that.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I was like it's under five bucks.
I was like Liam asked me to gethim a soda.
And you know she loved Liam.
I was like.
Liam asked me to get him one.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She loved me too thank God.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
She's like well, we're going to teach you a
lesson.
I'm going to suspend your badgefor a week.
I was like how am I supposed towork and make money?
She's like I don't know I.
How am I supposed to work andmake money?
She's like I don't know.
I was like all right.
I said and what am I supposedto tell James about the?
Or what am I supposed to tellMandy about the schedule at
Cantina?
She's like I don't know whatyou going to do.
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
So she took it out.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
At the time I there was a young lady I was dating
who just so happened to be anexecutive at American Airlines.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I would just book me on a flight.
And so I'm in there workingwithout my badge, oh wow.
And I just so happened to beclocked out and Maria sees me
and she goes don't I have yourbadge?
I said I believe.
So yeah, I said yeah.
(34:28):
I said I don't need it, why shegoes.
How are you in the airport?
I said I'm a passenger and Ijust kept walking, wow.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Oh, how funny.
Oh, that's awesome.
That's so you, chris, that isso you?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, I'm a passenger , I'm a civilian today, yeah,
I'm flying out.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I got to go.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I got to get this 1038 to Kentucky.
Oh how funny.
That is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Oh man, that's hilarious.
Oh man, that's hilarious.
David man, thank you so muchfor coming.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Oh, you guys, thank you so much, I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
We will be having you back very soon.
Yay, guys, that's what we gotfor this week.
Thank you, guys, so much forkeeping up with the show.
We are almost there withgetting our equipment, equipment
, and then you will see us up onYouTube very soon and we will
be back soon with anotherepisode.
(35:28):
Peace, guys, peace.
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