May 7, 2024 • 37 mins
Pull up a stool and lend an ear, because today’s episode is brimming with tales you'd expect to overhear at a secluded airport bar. Ever wonder what it's like to serve a drink to the likes of Rob Lowe or share a silent nod with James Marsden? I've got the inside scoop on these starry encounters, plus some not-so-glinting moments, like Steve Harvey's early morning demands. We'll explore the intertwining of fame and humanity—where every pour and tip reveals a narrative etched in the glitz and grit of celebrity life.
The glamor isn't confined to the silver screen; sometimes it walks right into your day job. Imagine chatting with Clark Gregg about his Marvel adventures or Patrick Warburton's distinctive voice filling the room. This episode spins a yarn about these moments and more, including a quiet exchange with SNL's Andrew Dismukes and a hearty handshake from country star Pat Green. It's not just the brush with fame that lingers but the humility and warmth these figures exude amidst their travels.
Yet the life of an airport bartender isn't always garnished with star sightings. Today, I recount a sobering tale of excess and the shadow it casts over the glitzy encounters. We discuss the pitfalls of substance use, especially in the high-flying context of post-pandemic travel, and the impact it leaves on both the famous and the fans. So, settle in with your drink of choice, as we mix a cocktail of celebrity run-ins and life lessons learned beyond the bar top.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome back.
Episode 2.
Pull up a chair, let's grab youa drink.
Tell us from an airport bar,episode 2.
Let's go.
We're going to talk about somecelebrities today and a couple
interesting stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Also, we actually have mics this week, so
hopefully this sounds better,Let us know.
If it doesn't, Let us know.
You know quality-wise, butwe'll see.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm going to start with a couple celebrities I've
bumped into at the airport overthe years and some interesting
things behind that.
So met Rob Lowe.
I said Charles Barkley wasprobably one of the nicest
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celebrities I met.
I got to thinking about things.
Rob Lowe was the nicestcelebrity I've ever seen in my
life.
He was traveling with his, Ibelieve, like maybe his
brother's cousin, something, andhis father, and his father was
more elderly and he was justmore concerned about his father
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than anything and just was supernice.
More concerned about his fatherthan anything and just was
super nice.
Uh tipped me amazing, um, I'msure they were traveling abroad
because it was the internationalterminal.
Um, that same restaurant, alittle pizza restaurant above
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another restaurant I used tomanage and bartender, uh, I also
got to sit down and uh, whileMichael Cera was eating uh pizza
at my restaurant one eveninglate, he was uh, one of the only
uh people in the restaurant.
He was like hey, why don't yousit down?
And he's just super like, youknow kind of his, like his
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characters, you know he's kindof awkward and yeah, but super,
super nice, sit down with him.
He was telling me a story.
He was on his way to likeargentina, chile something to
film some independent film.
And six months later, sureenough, I saw it.
I it.
I think it was on Netflix orsomething.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I never watched it but I saw it.
Uh and um, who else have I met?
Like, oh my gosh.
It goes on and on and on and on.
Owen Wilson was super nice.
Uh, just sit at the bar.
Had a beer pizza at that place,oh, really cool.
(02:47):
Jared Leto, and he was with hisbrother and his, I guess,
bandmates, if you will.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, they were traveling through.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
They were actually downstairs at the pub.
They were traveling.
You know, InternationalTerminal, Not everybody has a
private jet and they tookpictures with everybody.
And Jared Leto was super cool,Super nice guy.
Who else you know?
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One of my regulars was PudgeRodriguez.
When I worked at an Asiancuisine bar and grill, he would
come in and drink Bud Lightslike it was going out of style.
But you know, super nice,excellent tipper, Steve Harvey.
(03:37):
That guy was a dick.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And then you know this was super long time ago, so
we're talking about 2003, 2004.
It was a day when we had abunch of cancellations and
things.
It was super early in themorning and we weren't even open
yet.
And he comes in and talks tothe manager and he's got his
bodyguards with him and stuff.
Well, he comes up to me firstbecause I'm at the bar and
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there's just his bodyguards withhim and stuff.
Well, he comes up to me firstbecause I'm at the bar and just
one of our gates are openbecause you know everything, you
pull down these gates to closeoff these little restaurants.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Everything has to be secure.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, well, not the one we work at now.
Well, yeah, of courseEverything's supposed to be Well
anyways, you would pull downthese gates and close the
restaurants at night.
And we had one of the gatesopen and I was in there opening
up the bar and my manager was inthe kitchen, I think, cooking
himself some breakfast.
And uh, steve Harvey walks inand he walks up to me and he's
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like hey, can we get somebreakfast?
And I was just like, ah, we'renot open, you know, for like
another 30 minutes or so.
That's my manager back therecooking.
He's like well, my guy's hungry.
And there's this big, huge dudestanding there with him.
He's like my guy's hungry andyou won't like him if we don't
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feed him.
I was like, you know, let meget my manager, sir.
You're like, what are yousupposed to say to that?
Anyways, they ended up sittingdown and my manager took care of
him for the most part.
He was just, you know, superneedy celebrity, thought he was
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a little better than everybodyelse.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Definitely a little bit of entitlement there.
I don't care if you're open.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Same thing with you, know, okay, okay.
So I worked at this little barand you could see people walking
.
When I first started, I workedat this little tiny bar and, uh,
it had uh two little, uh littlebar tables basically built into
the wall, and it had a littlefour top bar and next to that,
towards the entrance of thislittle place, it it had a little
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walk-up counter.
You know a deli case.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Grab and go food, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, this, at this particular bar I hired my
brother and, you know, mybrother-in-laws, and this is
when I first started out.
I was all of what, 23, 24.
And so after 9-11, I gottransferred to this little bar
to take it over and ended updoing amazing things with that.
(06:22):
To this little bar to take itover and ended up doing amazing
things with that.
But so you would have to bebussed out to this little
terminal and, anyways, you'reback behind this bar and it's
towards the tiniest little thingand it was the only thing out
there besides a little like Iwould call it a newsstand, and
(06:44):
it sold magazines and candy barsand that was it, did you?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
guys have to get bussed out to the bar too, or
did you guys walk out to it?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, we actually our company had a private vehicle
because we would have to handdeliver everything we had like
sandwich prep, up at the mainrestaurant.
And they'd prep it and thensend it to you, or we would take
our van and I would deliverpegs and whatever that's
interesting.
So anyways, I'm bartending oneday and this dude walks by this
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little short guy and he walks byand this is a long time ago.
We're talking, I don't know,2003, 2004, maybe 2005, maybe
probably 2003, 2004, somewherein there.
And um, this guy's walking byand he's got this huge gold belt
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buckle on of this sun rightHair all braided up.
He walks by.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Can't even guess who this is, and I was like was that
ludicrous?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And I was like no, I was like it's definitely not
ludicrous.
Anyways, comes back in with alittle entourage of like five
people and I told you there'sthese two little tables built in
, these two little four topsbuilt into the wall across from
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the bar I mean standing room,only tables.
And so he comes up to the barand we have to ID everyone, just
policy.
And I asked for his ID and he'slike you got ID'd me, man.
And I was like yeah, andthere's a picture on the wall of
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this elderly lady and it saysyes, they even ID'd me too.
And anyways, he comes.
He was like let me get a BloodyMary.
And gosh, I still remember thisfrom 20 plus years ago.
Uh, he's like let me get abloody mary.
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I was like okay, and his littleentourage is going through the
deli line next to the bar rightthere, I mean just tiny little
place, and uh, I get him hisbloody mary and I look at his id
and it says something.
I didn't pay attention.
I was like you know what, Iknow who you are, he goes.
Oh attention.
I was like you know what, Iknow who you are, he goes.
Oh, do you?
I was like yeah, you're thatlittle pimp from Friday After
(09:28):
Mix.
And he just started laughingand he was kind of standoffish,
celebrity-like, you know, andhe's like, yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Pimp down.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Paid for his Bloody Mary, set at a four top by
himself and made his entourage afive top with only four chairs
set separately from him and Ithought that was the weirdest
thing.
And then he drank his BloodyMary, got up, put a $20 bill of
cash in my tip jar and bouncedand I was like, isn't that cool?
(10:03):
Yeah, so that same little bar.
Put a $20 bill of cash in mytip jar and bounce and I was
like cool, um.
Yeah, so that same little bar Imet, uh, ll Cool J.
Um waited on we man there hehad.
I remember I'll never forget hehad three Miller lights and
fell off the barstool in there.
Just, you know, um body weightwise, he can't drink that much
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alcohol, evidently.
And oh, I've told you thisstory.
Wow, what was his name?
Josie Scott, from a little bandcalled Saliva.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not to be confused with Nickelback.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Both just fantastic so they come in these.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
This, this band called saliva comes into this
little bar Right and you knowthe four top, they take over the
four or the four bar stools andyou know I've got two little
four tops and they've got eightpeople drinking at them, all
just random strangers.
And then you've got four orfive people standing up in there
and everybody's partying.
And I'm talking as big as thislittle studio we're in right now
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recording this.
People don't care.
So this guy comes in and he'sbuying shots of Midori for
everybody and you know it's alittle commuter.
Back then it was all the littleprop planes and little tiny
regional jets.
Now you don't even have anyregional prop planes anymore.
They're all larger regionaljets, we actually work in that
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version of the terminal.
Again, you would have to bebussed out to basically what was
a large trailer park.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It's probably kind of like at schools, where they add
the classrooms outdoors, youget your little AC unit.
It's not really a building, butit kind of is.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So yeah, anyways, things would be so much more
stringent now.
But uh, where was I thatrecently I kind of had a
situation like that you didn'tactually get bussed out, but you
had to walk across the tarmacand go up the plane.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, I know I think it was uh, cabo, yeah, yeah, I was
gonna say it makes sense.
I know in know, in Hawaii I hadto, because you fly to the big
airport to get to Hawaii andthen you have to fly to
whichever island you're going to, if you're not, and there are
clearly small airports out there, and then boom, you walk off
down the stairs yourself off theairplane, walk into the
terminal.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
So yeah, needless to say, Cat Williams, he was a good
tipper, yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
They were probably on tour or something.
He was probably tired of beingaround the same people all the
time.
He was like you guys get awayfrom me for a minute, I'm going
to have my bloody hair.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You know, I wasn't even aware of him.
Oh, but we were talking aboutJosie Scott.
He came in and his band, saliva, and they're all partying and
they're drinking shots of Midoriand evidently they're
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celebrating what a weird thingto take shots of, by the way.
And I talked to him and I waslike, oh yeah, I get to talking
to him.
And uh, I was like, oh yeah, Iget to talking to him.
And I was like, yeah, didn'tyou?
Aren't you on that uhspider-man soundtrack song with
uh nickelback?
He's like, yeah, I was likethat song for you guys is
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different sound, that kind ofblows.
It was like a song you know, alittle trendy for me, man.
And he was like, oh yeah, I waslike, you know, and I'm
thinking whatever about himbuying shots of Midori for
starters.
And he goes, oh yeah, he goes.
(14:02):
I co-wrote that with so-and-sothe lead singer.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Mr Nickelback himself .
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know what that dude's name is.
I'm not into those guys.
He goes.
Yeah, I won a Grammy for thatjust a couple of days ago.
I was like, oh wow, I'm goingto go back here in the back and
put my foot right in my mouth.
Let me pour you a couple moreMidori's.
And anyways ended up being thenicest guys and they tipped very
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well and so, yeah, they partied, but they partied with Midori's
.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So anyways whatever.
Different strokes, differentfolks.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't judge, I just pour the drinks.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I did have an old manager that got me into.
He was like have you ever hadshots of Grand Marnier?
I'm like no, because it's thesame thing.
It's like a liqueur, it's notthe main.
I went to this little burritobar after I worked that day.
I was like, hey, let me get achilled shot.
And I was like, hey, let me geta chilled shot.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It was actually pretty damn good.
It surprised me Not to namenames, but Malcolm, who we
worked with.
He would always sip on a littleGrand Marnier with his beer.
It's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's pretty good.
Surprisingly, it's weird andit's not something I do all the
time.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Again, I'm not a drinker, so maybe Madora would
be your style.
Again, I know what, I've tastedeverything.
I know everything under the sunas far as flavor profiles.
Master mixologist.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Master mixologist.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So talk to me, Blake.
Tell me some celebrities you'vemet when we first opened.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
We used to see them all the time, but let's see and
this is like a C or D listcelebrity Even on what was it?
I guess it was Saturday morningI had one of the or no.
No, it wasn't Saturday morning,it was Friday morning.
I had one of the or no.
No, it wasn't Saturday morning,it was Friday morning.
I had one of the dudes fromSaturday Night Live.
His name, I think his name isAndrew Dismute, something like
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that.
I mean, he's like a.
He's one in the newer SNL.
He's not like super huge oranything, but that was entering.
Super cool guy, Super chill.
He's like a younger white guy,brown hair, just super nice guy,
brown hair, just super nice guy.
But he's pretty funny.
On this one I'm trying to think.
And then recently we had PuttyPatrick.
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What's his name?
Patrick Welbutin?
I get his last name confusedwith.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Welbutin, I would love to know if you told me I
used to love Seinfeld.
But he was Putty.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He did the Tick.
I believe he did the cartoonversion.
Back in the day he did one ofmy favorite shows growing up
Rules of Engagement with DavidSpade.
That show was awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What was the McFarland newer show that he was
on?
It was kind of a Star Trekspoof.
I don't think he was in that.
Yeah, I definitely thought hewas one of the characters in
that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
He wasn't one of the main characters.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He was one of the aliens that you couldn't tell
who he was.
He had like a big long nose.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Was he Elephant no?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
What show was that?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That was the Seth MacFarlane space show.
I can't remember.
I thought you were watchingthat one.
I was a while back and then Ilost the.
I know it had the dude thatplays Steve in American Dad in
it the red-headed dude.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I want to say that the dude that played Putty, like
you said, maybe he was in thatand I've already forgotten.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Anywho, I've slept since then.
But he was cool, super quiet,just got a nice tea and like a
salad.
You know, I noticed more andmore of these celebrities.
They come in with a chill vibeand they just try and like just
be quiet and do their thing andnot be noticed a lot of you know
who was super cool and I wasn'teven working.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I came in to do a little inventory and comes in,
he's wearing this hawaiian shirtsuper cool, sets at seat 10 uh,
right there on the corner, oractually you would probably
consider it 11, whatever.
And comes in and I actually gethim a drink because the
bartenders were goofing offwhatever, and I'm in just my
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civvies and I get his order andI think I pass it off to the
bartender and I'm on the otherside, or I'm doing some
inventory, and I get to talkingto him and it's Sean Gunn, james
Gunn, director of the Guardiansof the Galaxy movies, and now
(18:38):
he's the head of dc.
Um, his brother is uh, acts inall his movies.
The he did.
He was in the suicide squadreboot, he's.
Who did he play?
What was he?
Uh?
What was he in that uh?
okay, so so so you've seen theguardians of the galaxy.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes, um, the guy with the whistle uh, gosh the, the
guy with the whistle, gosh, theolder guy with the whistle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm losing mytrain of thought.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He took in Star-Lord.
Yeah, that guy, the guy thattakes over for him.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Okay, see, that's who I was thinking yeah, yeah, yeah
, he puts the mohawk on.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And takes over the whistle.
He talks with a little kind ofcountry.
Bumpkin accent yes yes, yes,yes, yes, yes.
So he was in and I got totalking to him, and this was
back a little while ago.
I got to talking to him abouthis brother getting fired from
the Guardians of the Galaxyproject and, sure enough, right
after that, he gets rehired tocome back and do the last
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guardians of the galaxy andthank god, man he was in that
third one.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Uh, he took over for xan do, is that?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
the xan do yes, thank you I cannot remember his
character's name either, um butmy son could tell you but um,
yeah, so he was super awesome,super, super under the radar as
far as Marvel characters goJames Marsden, mr Cyclops yeah,
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I met.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Hat on sunglasses?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I don't want to get this backwards.
I believe it's Greg Clark.
No, I think it's Clark Greg.
He was Agent Coulson in all themarvel movies and then he had
agents of shield.
He's great, he was in.
It was funny.
Uh, years and years ago this iswhen I worked, so this is over
10 plus years ago uh, when Iworked at the asian bar and
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grill um, he was in on asaturday I had one person
sitting at the bar reading abook and, funny, he was reading
a book himself and he wassitting at a little two-top out
on the floor and the only twopeople in the restaurant.
And I look over and I'm like Iwas just watching Agents of
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SHIELD this morning with my son.
We were catching up on ourepisodes.
And, sure enough, I walk overto him and I'm like aren't you
Agent Coulson, greg Clark?
And he's like or, clark Greg,excuse me.
And he's like, yeah, I was likeme and my son were just
watching this morning.
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And he's like, oh cool, yeah,he's like you want me to sign an
autograph for your son.
I was like how cool would thatbe?
I was like, I think at the time, my son was like 12, 13.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And Agents of SHIELD was probably just starting.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I think it was season uh, an
autograph.
It says uh, from directorColson to agent Caden, and
underneath that he signed anautograph as a name and it said,
uh, clark, clark, greg.
(21:50):
I believe that the two first.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I always get it backwards.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know, it throws you off.
Yeah, so uh, he was super niceguy.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, most of them are prettycool overall, most of them, oh
you know another Marvelcharacter we've seen at um at
the where we're working now isuh, the Punisher, uh.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
John, he's badass from the show or from the movies
uh, from the Marvel show, okayUh.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That marvel show, okay, uh, that was on netflix
and now, and there's also shaneand walking dead, which is where
he got his yeah, his kind ofbreak.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I mean, I'm sure he's been in stuff like he's been in
.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Everything it starts with wall street he was in he
was, oh, he did this awesome,awesome, awesome character in um
in glorious bastards.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yep, yeah, he's been in everything.
Yeah, he's.
He's a great actor and I hearhe's coming back as the punisher
for the new daredevil series.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
They're getting ready to do oh badass, I loved, I
loved both.
Daredevil was really good andso I watched a lot of those
shows.
Daredevil is badass man.
Some of those scenes, the waythat they shoot those.
There's like one epic scenewhere he's going down the
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stairwell fighting like 40 guys.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I believe that's season two and that is
one of the most epic fightscenes I have ever seen.
It's just insane.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
He's going down the stairwell and he's just getting
the whooping act.
Mind you, if you guys don'tknow Daredevil, he's like a
blind superhero and he basicallyknows kung fu or some sort of
martial art and he just goesdown the stairwell hand-to-hand
combat, blind as 50 guys todeath, fights his way out of
this.
It's the most, one of thecoolest very john wick ass.
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Yes yeah just the way they shootit.
I don't I can't even explain it, but it's incredible.
Check that scene out.
I don't know, probably onyoutube oh, it is devil
staircase fight scene.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that's exactly what you do insane.
I just sent that over to one ofour other bartenders actually a
couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It's insane.
Yeah, that got me hooked onthat show.
Who?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
else have we seen?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't know but see recently I.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Marvel characters I don't know about superheroes.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Right Recently I did see Pat Green, old Texas country
.
He's been in a lot, you know,super cool.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
My girlfriend was telling me I waited on some
badass country singer, ChrisYoung maybe no, is that?
She was just telling me aboutit this morning and I couldn't
tell you.
And he was super nice.
This was just recently.
Uh, uh, her, he's playing inthe Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Stapleton.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm trying to think, I don't know, I don't know, I
think his last name was youngthat you saw him because I said,
hey, I waited on this countrysinger today and she's like oh,
he told you who he was or peoplearound him?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Cause, you know people always like hey, is that,
will you ask, if?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
that's whoever across the board, oh gosh.
So she was even telling meabout it this morning.
I slipped my mind what his namewas.
I don't listen to country, buthe's anybody out there listening
.
He's playing in the Seattlearea this weekend because her
son's going to his concert there.
You go Seattle area thisweekend because her son's going
to his concert.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I only know Pat Green because he's iconic.
I've waited on Pat Green Gosh.
Double, Tito's Ice-T Chill.
He was going still performing.
I saw him when I was 19.
I remember him Some lady in thefront row.
It was in Ardmore, oklahoma,probably 2,000 people there,
nothing crazy.
Anyways, some lady had thisgiant furry feather boa in the
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front row and he took it fromher.
He's hammered on stage, wrapsit around himself, does the
whole concert with this giantpink boa on it was hilarious.
That's just Pat Green.
That's Pat Green to a T, rightthere.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I waited on Pat Green .
Again, I don to a T right there.
I waited on Pat Green and again, I don't know country singers,
but I remember this, probably 20some odd years ago, when he was
first starting out, becausepeople were going nuts over him.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yes, and people at the bar were like hey, Pat,
where are you going, man?
He's like oh yeah, I'm stillperforming, going down, blah,
blah, blah.
It's funny to watch people atthe bar start to notice, because
sometimes they don't, becausepeople at the airport are doing
their own thing, they're notpaying attention, exactly.
But, then they look up.
Is that whoever over there?
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And then other people around.
I'm like I don't know who thatis, but I'm going to Google it.
And then you start to noticelike this energy and like this
murmur around the bar whenpeople notice it's a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Or people after that, after like five minutes of that
, then people start walking upto them.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh, hey, yes.
And then once it starts, youknow it doesn't stop.
Most of the was.
I used to love the showHonorage.
I can't tell you the actor'sname, but he was the lead, the
guy that played Vince.
I used to love that show and hecame in one day.
He's been in a lot of things.
He's been in a lot of stuff, butthat was his big cha-ching man.
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That show was badass, Based onMark Wahlberg, and his honorage
back in the day Couldn't lookanything less like Mark Wahlberg
Tall, skinny, long black hair.
The complete opposite of MarkWahlberg.
But anyways, I tried to not buythat thing.
I was like, hey, man, huge fan,blah, blah, blah.
But you can always tell whenthey just want to do their own
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thing and be unbothered.
But man, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You remember when we were bartending that one day?
Man, that was, that was prettycool.
You remember when we werebartending that one day?
And uh, uh, we're like wait,who is that the curly fro?
And we see him going up theescalator.
We all wave and he waves backand it was a little dicky.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It was a little dicky and at that time, pillow talk
was his big song that I was afan of, and there's this part,
there's this whole deal, butanyways, I yelled one of the
lyrics to it, which is do youfuck with the war?
I yelled that up the escalator.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I think it was him and Gata.
I didn't know who Gata was atthe time.
He's huge on the show now.
They're going up the escalator.
I yelled it.
He just giggled and yelledsomething back.
That was probably my favoritecelebrity sighting.
All right, music-wise, who elsehave I seen?
I've seen Erykah Badu.
She was at a table, though.
Oh yeah, she's from Dallas.
Dmx came to the bar and got ashot one time.
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Oh, just came to the bar realquick.
Hey, just getting a shot fromme and my buddy boom In and out
Short sweet Met Little Johntwice.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He was super cool.
What.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh God yeah.
Gavin Rosdell what is LittleJohn like when he's not being
Little John, he's just like hey,he's just like a regular dude
like us, you know.
I don't know, reminds me of theDave Chappelle skit Exactly,
and he like, has a Britishaccent.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Exactly no, wow, he's just a regular dude.
I was going to say I met GavinRosdale.
He was a super nice guy.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
What.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Bush.
Gwen Stefani is our husband.
Looks like Jude Law.
Okay, kind of, they're bothEnglish.
Okay, kind of Nah Nah.
Okay, they're both English,whatever, but no Same thing,
same thing, but different.
But different.
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Oh, waited on, met them.
My ex-girlfriend used to partywith them.
Met them long time ago but thenwaited on them a couple times
at two different restaurantsI've worked at in the airport
Pantera.
Okay, Long long time ago,Dimebag Darryl rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Remember we had old Smash Mouth come in a couple of
times, oh yeah, yeah.
Well, that last time Again.
Rip this guy man.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He was on another level.
Yes, yes, he was, and that wasonly man that was right before
he passed.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yes, and the worst thing was.
So he was drinking like redwine, which, okay, normally when
people are drinking wine it'snot that great, but they were
downing it, yeah, and then theywould get a shot.
But then they got some nachosand stuff and you're like, okay,
it's cool, but man, they werepartying and they didn't get
that great.
Like he was drunk, that's forsure, but he didn't get that
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crazy there.
But I think they went on abender that night, cause the
next day I'm on Reddit, you knowsocial media, and I'm.
I see this footage of him andthey're playing like this, like
fall festival for like somesmall town in new england or
something like you know.
They're just taking whatthey're performing at proms,
whatever, but it's just likethis small thing, like they
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wouldn't sign up to it unlessthey needed the money.
But he's on stage and he isjust he's wearing the same
clothes that he was wearing whenhe was at the bar the night
before.
I'm like that's not good, uh,and he is just so belligerent,
you can't understand he's juston, hey, just like literally
drooling on himself, and I'mjust like oh my did we help
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facilitate?
I'm like they must have juststayed up all night.
And, oh my god, and then Iguess godly that was I was like
trash mouth.
I was like I hope we didn'tfuel that, but this was like 16
hours later, I he must.
They stayed up all night.
Who knows, that was insane.
We can't.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
We can't be responsible, uh, for over
serving, but we can't beresponsible for what else people
do.
Yes, you know, and it seemslike, since since COVID has been
over, that people are on oneyes, and everybody's taken like
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I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, drinking's gone up period since COVID, right,
but I'm talking to like theXanax and whatever people do
before they the gummies andeverything, and then they want
to come to the bar and mix itwith alcohol and I'm just like
that's not a good look, yo.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, it's like you know what happens in our
terminal lot.
They get, like you know, wehave the regional planes, so
they get delayed and it might befour hours later or canceled.
It might be four or five hoursand they pop the Xanax like
they're getting on the plane andthen they're like hey never
mind you're canceled for fourhours or delayed for four hours,
and then they're like theyforget or they just don't think
about it, and then they come upto them.
They're sober as can be.
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And then, two seconds later,yeah, and you're like what
happened?
You're like, oh yeah, I forgetEverybody's on Xanax at the
airport.
Yeah, it's ridiculous, it'sscary.
And you're like, what can I do?
I gave them one drink, but andthen?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
you know there's not much you can do.
What we have to do is show thereceipt to the officer when they
come to Giddle.
Yes, hey, we served them theirlegal limit and then we cut them
off.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Hey, once I realized, you know, but there's not much
I can do.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
They're not going to be a responsible adult today, or
that one beer that they hadthat, didn't put them, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
but it's scary man, it's hard to tell.
Who else have we seen?
I've seen a bunch of Rangers.
Mitch Moreland used to comethrough the airport all the time
.
He was drinking Shiners.
Good old Texas boy drinkingShiners.
Who else Prince Fielder flewthrough?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
a couple times.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
One of the nicest guys ever.
Family guy Always tipped atleast $100.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Waited on Mike Madonna a couple times.
Super awesome guy.
I have a story about him but Idon't think we should talk about
that on air.
Who else I told you?
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Numerous NBA players, A ton.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Hmm, I said a ton.
Yeah, one of the first days Iever worked at the airport I met
Tony Allen.
He used to play.
Oh yeah, he went to OklahomaState.
It was like an all-defensiveNBA two-guard badass player.
He played for Memphis, heplayed for he might have even
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played for the Celtics at onepoint, badass.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Weighted on Josh Heupel, who is now the head
coach of Tennessee?
Badass Super awesome guy.
Who's now the head coach ofTennessee?
Badass, Super awesome guy.
And obviously you and I areboth OU guys, being that I'm
originally from Oklahoma and yougrew up in Norman Super awesome
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guy.
I think we talked last time onthe last podcast, first episode,
about Bob Stoops coming in.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Cool One of the most genuine people.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, who else?
So he's coming out of theairport one day, out of the
Hyatt Hotel that's attached toone of the terminals, and sure
enough bump into this guy'sgetting out of a car and I'm
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trying to walk across the streetor whatever, and sure enough
bumps right into me and says,excuse me, he's big, this guy's
kind of big, but he's old man,and sure enough it was Jerry
Jones.
He's like you, big son of a gun.
You still got it, bro.
This was probably gosh.
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This is over 10 plus years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You might break him if you walk into him now.
Yeah, the center for Arkansasover 10 plus years ago yeah,
sheesh, you might break them ifyou walk into them now.
Yeah, let's see the center forArkansas with the whole Barry
Switzer and Jimmy Johnson, andJimmy was there too right At
Arkansas and they won a nationaltitle.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
As a matter of fact, I believe that is Arkansas' only
national title.
Sounds about right?
Yeah, that's about right.
Yeah, sounds about right.
Oh, I've waited on KeyshawnJohnson Badass, yeah, badass.
He was super cool.
This was while he was playingfor the Cowboys, as a matter of
fact, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
A couple solid years here at the end.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Sam Bradford.
Yeah, badass, a couple solidyears here at the end Sam
Bradford, yep Badass, one of theNFL's busts, but the boy got
paid yeah.
The boy got paid.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think that was the last year where he got drafted
in the first round, wherefirst-round pictures got paid
crazy.
He got a $60 million deal as arookie, yeah.
And then I think the next yearit went into effect hey, rookies
, you can't make this much.
This is stupid, because thingslike that would happen.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Well, I think that's going to conclude it for now.
We've got to save some materialfor later.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
We could go all day if you let us y'all.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
We don't want to tire you guys out on the second
episode, so thanks for joiningus.
We'll have plenty more to talkabout and come episode three,
we're going to start havingother bartenders on to tell
their stories and collaborateour silliness.
So tune in and check it out.
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Peace.
Hey, welcome back.
Episode 2.
Pull up a chair, let's grab youa drink.
Tell us from an airport bar,episode 2.
Let's go.
We're going to talk about somecelebrities today and a couple
interesting stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Also, we actually have mics this week, so
hopefully this sounds better,Let us know.
If it doesn't, Let us know.
You know quality-wise, butwe'll see.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm going to start with a couple celebrities I've
bumped into at the airport overthe years and some interesting
things behind that.
So met Rob Lowe.
I said Charles Barkley wasprobably one of the nicest
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celebrities I met.
I got to thinking about things.
Rob Lowe was the nicestcelebrity I've ever seen in my
life.
He was traveling with his, Ibelieve, like maybe his
brother's cousin, something, andhis father, and his father was
more elderly and he was justmore concerned about his father
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than anything and just was supernice.
More concerned about his fatherthan anything and just was
super nice.
Uh tipped me amazing, um, I'msure they were traveling abroad
because it was the internationalterminal.
Um, that same restaurant, alittle pizza restaurant above
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another restaurant I used tomanage and bartender, uh, I also
got to sit down and uh, whileMichael Cera was eating uh pizza
at my restaurant one eveninglate, he was uh, one of the only
uh people in the restaurant.
He was like hey, why don't yousit down?
And he's just super like, youknow kind of his, like his
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characters, you know he's kindof awkward and yeah, but super,
super nice, sit down with him.
He was telling me a story.
He was on his way to likeargentina, chile something to
film some independent film.
And six months later, sureenough, I saw it.
I it.
I think it was on Netflix orsomething.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I never watched it but I saw it.
Uh and um, who else have I met?
Like, oh my gosh.
It goes on and on and on and on.
Owen Wilson was super nice.
Uh, just sit at the bar.
Had a beer pizza at that place,oh, really cool.
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Jared Leto, and he was with hisbrother and his, I guess,
bandmates, if you will.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, they were traveling through.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
They were actually downstairs at the pub.
They were traveling.
You know, InternationalTerminal, Not everybody has a
private jet and they tookpictures with everybody.
And Jared Leto was super cool,Super nice guy.
Who else you know?
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One of my regulars was PudgeRodriguez.
When I worked at an Asiancuisine bar and grill, he would
come in and drink Bud Lightslike it was going out of style.
But you know, super nice,excellent tipper, Steve Harvey.
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That guy was a dick.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And then you know this was super long time ago, so
we're talking about 2003, 2004.
It was a day when we had abunch of cancellations and
things.
It was super early in themorning and we weren't even open
yet.
And he comes in and talks tothe manager and he's got his
bodyguards with him and stuff.
Well, he comes up to me firstbecause I'm at the bar and
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there's just his bodyguards withhim and stuff.
Well, he comes up to me firstbecause I'm at the bar and just
one of our gates are openbecause you know everything, you
pull down these gates to closeoff these little restaurants.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Everything has to be secure.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, well, not the one we work at now.
Well, yeah, of courseEverything's supposed to be Well
anyways, you would pull downthese gates and close the
restaurants at night.
And we had one of the gatesopen and I was in there opening
up the bar and my manager was inthe kitchen, I think, cooking
himself some breakfast.
And uh, steve Harvey walks inand he walks up to me and he's
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like hey, can we get somebreakfast?
And I was just like, ah, we'renot open, you know, for like
another 30 minutes or so.
That's my manager back therecooking.
He's like well, my guy's hungry.
And there's this big, huge dudestanding there with him.
He's like my guy's hungry andyou won't like him if we don't
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feed him.
I was like, you know, let meget my manager, sir.
You're like, what are yousupposed to say to that?
Anyways, they ended up sittingdown and my manager took care of
him for the most part.
He was just, you know, superneedy celebrity, thought he was
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a little better than everybodyelse.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Definitely a little bit of entitlement there.
I don't care if you're open.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Same thing with you, know, okay, okay.
So I worked at this little barand you could see people walking
.
When I first started, I workedat this little tiny bar and, uh,
it had uh two little, uh littlebar tables basically built into
the wall, and it had a littlefour top bar and next to that,
towards the entrance of thislittle place, it it had a little
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walk-up counter.
You know a deli case.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Grab and go food, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, this, at this particular bar I hired my
brother and, you know, mybrother-in-laws, and this is
when I first started out.
I was all of what, 23, 24.
And so after 9-11, I gottransferred to this little bar
to take it over and ended updoing amazing things with that.
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To this little bar to take itover and ended up doing amazing
things with that.
But so you would have to bebussed out to this little
terminal and, anyways, you'reback behind this bar and it's
towards the tiniest little thingand it was the only thing out
there besides a little like Iwould call it a newsstand, and
(06:44):
it sold magazines and candy barsand that was it, did you?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
guys have to get bussed out to the bar too, or
did you guys walk out to it?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, we actually our company had a private vehicle
because we would have to handdeliver everything we had like
sandwich prep, up at the mainrestaurant.
And they'd prep it and thensend it to you, or we would take
our van and I would deliverpegs and whatever that's
interesting.
So anyways, I'm bartending oneday and this dude walks by this
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little short guy and he walks byand this is a long time ago.
We're talking, I don't know,2003, 2004, maybe 2005, maybe
probably 2003, 2004, somewherein there.
And um, this guy's walking byand he's got this huge gold belt
(07:46):
buckle on of this sun rightHair all braided up.
He walks by.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Can't even guess who this is, and I was like was that
ludicrous?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And I was like no, I was like it's definitely not
ludicrous.
Anyways, comes back in with alittle entourage of like five
people and I told you there'sthese two little tables built in
, these two little four topsbuilt into the wall across from
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the bar I mean standing room,only tables.
And so he comes up to the barand we have to ID everyone, just
policy.
And I asked for his ID and he'slike you got ID'd me, man.
And I was like yeah, andthere's a picture on the wall of
(08:44):
this elderly lady and it saysyes, they even ID'd me too.
And anyways, he comes.
He was like let me get a BloodyMary.
And gosh, I still remember thisfrom 20 plus years ago.
Uh, he's like let me get abloody mary.
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I was like okay, and his littleentourage is going through the
deli line next to the bar rightthere, I mean just tiny little
place, and uh, I get him hisbloody mary and I look at his id
and it says something.
I didn't pay attention.
I was like you know what, Iknow who you are, he goes.
Oh attention.
I was like you know what, Iknow who you are, he goes.
Oh, do you?
I was like yeah, you're thatlittle pimp from Friday After
(09:28):
Mix.
And he just started laughingand he was kind of standoffish,
celebrity-like, you know, andhe's like, yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Pimp down.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Paid for his Bloody Mary, set at a four top by
himself and made his entourage afive top with only four chairs
set separately from him and Ithought that was the weirdest
thing.
And then he drank his BloodyMary, got up, put a $20 bill of
cash in my tip jar and bouncedand I was like, isn't that cool?
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Yeah, so that same little bar.
Put a $20 bill of cash in mytip jar and bounce and I was
like cool, um.
Yeah, so that same little bar Imet, uh, ll Cool J.
Um waited on we man there hehad.
I remember I'll never forget hehad three Miller lights and
fell off the barstool in there.
Just, you know, um body weightwise, he can't drink that much
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alcohol, evidently.
And oh, I've told you thisstory.
Wow, what was his name?
Josie Scott, from a little bandcalled Saliva.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not to be confused with Nickelback.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Both just fantastic so they come in these.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
This, this band called saliva comes into this
little bar Right and you knowthe four top, they take over the
four or the four bar stools andyou know I've got two little
four tops and they've got eightpeople drinking at them, all
just random strangers.
And then you've got four orfive people standing up in there
and everybody's partying.
And I'm talking as big as thislittle studio we're in right now
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recording this.
People don't care.
So this guy comes in and he'sbuying shots of Midori for
everybody and you know it's alittle commuter.
Back then it was all the littleprop planes and little tiny
regional jets.
Now you don't even have anyregional prop planes anymore.
They're all larger regionaljets, we actually work in that
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version of the terminal.
Again, you would have to bebussed out to basically what was
a large trailer park.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It's probably kind of like at schools, where they add
the classrooms outdoors, youget your little AC unit.
It's not really a building, butit kind of is.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So yeah, anyways, things would be so much more
stringent now.
But uh, where was I thatrecently I kind of had a
situation like that you didn'tactually get bussed out, but you
had to walk across the tarmacand go up the plane.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, I know I think it was uh, cabo, yeah, yeah, I was
gonna say it makes sense.
I know in know, in Hawaii I hadto, because you fly to the big
airport to get to Hawaii andthen you have to fly to
whichever island you're going to, if you're not, and there are
clearly small airports out there, and then boom, you walk off
down the stairs yourself off theairplane, walk into the
terminal.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
So yeah, needless to say, Cat Williams, he was a good
tipper, yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
They were probably on tour or something.
He was probably tired of beingaround the same people all the
time.
He was like you guys get awayfrom me for a minute, I'm going
to have my bloody hair.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You know, I wasn't even aware of him.
Oh, but we were talking aboutJosie Scott.
He came in and his band, saliva, and they're all partying and
they're drinking shots of Midoriand evidently they're
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celebrating what a weird thingto take shots of, by the way.
And I talked to him and I waslike, oh yeah, I get to talking
to him.
And uh, I was like, oh yeah, Iget to talking to him.
And I was like, yeah, didn'tyou?
Aren't you on that uhspider-man soundtrack song with
uh nickelback?
He's like, yeah, I was likethat song for you guys is
(13:40):
different sound, that kind ofblows.
It was like a song you know, alittle trendy for me, man.
And he was like, oh yeah, I waslike, you know, and I'm
thinking whatever about himbuying shots of Midori for
starters.
And he goes, oh yeah, he goes.
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I co-wrote that with so-and-sothe lead singer.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Mr Nickelback himself .
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know what that dude's name is.
I'm not into those guys.
He goes.
Yeah, I won a Grammy for thatjust a couple of days ago.
I was like, oh wow, I'm goingto go back here in the back and
put my foot right in my mouth.
Let me pour you a couple moreMidori's.
And anyways ended up being thenicest guys and they tipped very
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well and so, yeah, they partied, but they partied with Midori's
.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So anyways whatever.
Different strokes, differentfolks.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't judge, I just pour the drinks.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I did have an old manager that got me into.
He was like have you ever hadshots of Grand Marnier?
I'm like no, because it's thesame thing.
It's like a liqueur, it's notthe main.
I went to this little burritobar after I worked that day.
I was like, hey, let me get achilled shot.
And I was like, hey, let me geta chilled shot.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It was actually pretty damn good.
It surprised me Not to namenames, but Malcolm, who we
worked with.
He would always sip on a littleGrand Marnier with his beer.
It's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's pretty good.
Surprisingly, it's weird andit's not something I do all the
time.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Again, I'm not a drinker, so maybe Madora would
be your style.
Again, I know what, I've tastedeverything.
I know everything under the sunas far as flavor profiles.
Master mixologist.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Master mixologist.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So talk to me, Blake.
Tell me some celebrities you'vemet when we first opened.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
We used to see them all the time, but let's see and
this is like a C or D listcelebrity Even on what was it?
I guess it was Saturday morningI had one of the or no.
No, it wasn't Saturday morning,it was Friday morning.
I had one of the or no.
No, it wasn't Saturday morning,it was Friday morning.
I had one of the dudes fromSaturday Night Live.
His name, I think his name isAndrew Dismute, something like
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that.
I mean, he's like a.
He's one in the newer SNL.
He's not like super huge oranything, but that was entering.
Super cool guy, Super chill.
He's like a younger white guy,brown hair, just super nice guy,
brown hair, just super nice guy.
But he's pretty funny.
On this one I'm trying to think.
And then recently we had PuttyPatrick.
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What's his name?
Patrick Welbutin?
I get his last name confusedwith.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Welbutin, I would love to know if you told me I
used to love Seinfeld.
But he was Putty.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He did the Tick.
I believe he did the cartoonversion.
Back in the day he did one ofmy favorite shows growing up
Rules of Engagement with DavidSpade.
That show was awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What was the McFarland newer show that he was
on?
It was kind of a Star Trekspoof.
I don't think he was in that.
Yeah, I definitely thought hewas one of the characters in
that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
He wasn't one of the main characters.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He was one of the aliens that you couldn't tell
who he was.
He had like a big long nose.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Was he Elephant no?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
What show was that?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That was the Seth MacFarlane space show.
I can't remember.
I thought you were watchingthat one.
I was a while back and then Ilost the.
I know it had the dude thatplays Steve in American Dad in
it the red-headed dude.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I want to say that the dude that played Putty, like
you said, maybe he was in thatand I've already forgotten.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Anywho, I've slept since then.
But he was cool, super quiet,just got a nice tea and like a
salad.
You know, I noticed more andmore of these celebrities.
They come in with a chill vibeand they just try and like just
be quiet and do their thing andnot be noticed a lot of you know
who was super cool and I wasn'teven working.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I came in to do a little inventory and comes in,
he's wearing this hawaiian shirtsuper cool, sets at seat 10 uh,
right there on the corner, oractually you would probably
consider it 11, whatever.
And comes in and I actually gethim a drink because the
bartenders were goofing offwhatever, and I'm in just my
(18:13):
civvies and I get his order andI think I pass it off to the
bartender and I'm on the otherside, or I'm doing some
inventory, and I get to talkingto him and it's Sean Gunn, james
Gunn, director of the Guardiansof the Galaxy movies, and now
(18:38):
he's the head of dc.
Um, his brother is uh, acts inall his movies.
The he did.
He was in the suicide squadreboot, he's.
Who did he play?
What was he?
Uh?
What was he in that uh?
okay, so so so you've seen theguardians of the galaxy.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes, um, the guy with the whistle uh, gosh the, the
guy with the whistle, gosh, theolder guy with the whistle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm losing mytrain of thought.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He took in Star-Lord.
Yeah, that guy, the guy thattakes over for him.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Okay, see, that's who I was thinking yeah, yeah, yeah
, he puts the mohawk on.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And takes over the whistle.
He talks with a little kind ofcountry.
Bumpkin accent yes yes, yes,yes, yes, yes.
So he was in and I got totalking to him, and this was
back a little while ago.
I got to talking to him abouthis brother getting fired from
the Guardians of the Galaxyproject and, sure enough, right
after that, he gets rehired tocome back and do the last
(19:42):
guardians of the galaxy andthank god, man he was in that
third one.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Uh, he took over for xan do, is that?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
the xan do yes, thank you I cannot remember his
character's name either, um butmy son could tell you but um,
yeah, so he was super awesome,super, super under the radar as
far as Marvel characters goJames Marsden, mr Cyclops yeah,
(20:07):
I met.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Hat on sunglasses?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I don't want to get this backwards.
I believe it's Greg Clark.
No, I think it's Clark Greg.
He was Agent Coulson in all themarvel movies and then he had
agents of shield.
He's great, he was in.
It was funny.
Uh, years and years ago this iswhen I worked, so this is over
10 plus years ago uh, when Iworked at the asian bar and
(20:33):
grill um, he was in on asaturday I had one person
sitting at the bar reading abook and, funny, he was reading
a book himself and he wassitting at a little two-top out
on the floor and the only twopeople in the restaurant.
And I look over and I'm like Iwas just watching Agents of
(20:53):
SHIELD this morning with my son.
We were catching up on ourepisodes.
And, sure enough, I walk overto him and I'm like aren't you
Agent Coulson, greg Clark?
And he's like or, clark Greg,excuse me.
And he's like, yeah, I was likeme and my son were just
watching this morning.
(21:14):
And he's like, oh cool, yeah,he's like you want me to sign an
autograph for your son.
I was like how cool would thatbe?
I was like, I think at the time, my son was like 12, 13.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And Agents of SHIELD was probably just starting.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I think it was season uh, an
autograph.
It says uh, from directorColson to agent Caden, and
underneath that he signed anautograph as a name and it said,
uh, clark, clark, greg.
(21:50):
I believe that the two first.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I always get it backwards.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know, it throws you off.
Yeah, so uh, he was super niceguy.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, most of them are prettycool overall, most of them, oh
you know another Marvelcharacter we've seen at um at
the where we're working now isuh, the Punisher, uh.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
John, he's badass from the show or from the movies
uh, from the Marvel show, okayUh.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That marvel show, okay, uh, that was on netflix
and now, and there's also shaneand walking dead, which is where
he got his yeah, his kind ofbreak.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I mean, I'm sure he's been in stuff like he's been in
.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Everything it starts with wall street he was in he
was, oh, he did this awesome,awesome, awesome character in um
in glorious bastards.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yep, yeah, he's been in everything.
Yeah, he's.
He's a great actor and I hearhe's coming back as the punisher
for the new daredevil series.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
They're getting ready to do oh badass, I loved, I
loved both.
Daredevil was really good andso I watched a lot of those
shows.
Daredevil is badass man.
Some of those scenes, the waythat they shoot those.
There's like one epic scenewhere he's going down the
(23:11):
stairwell fighting like 40 guys.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I believe that's season two and that is
one of the most epic fightscenes I have ever seen.
It's just insane.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
He's going down the stairwell and he's just getting
the whooping act.
Mind you, if you guys don'tknow Daredevil, he's like a
blind superhero and he basicallyknows kung fu or some sort of
martial art and he just goesdown the stairwell hand-to-hand
combat, blind as 50 guys todeath, fights his way out of
this.
It's the most, one of thecoolest very john wick ass.
(23:39):
Yes yeah just the way they shootit.
I don't I can't even explain it, but it's incredible.
Check that scene out.
I don't know, probably onyoutube oh, it is devil
staircase fight scene.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that's exactly what you do insane.
I just sent that over to one ofour other bartenders actually a
couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It's insane.
Yeah, that got me hooked onthat show.
Who?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
else have we seen?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't know but see recently I.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Marvel characters I don't know about superheroes.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Right Recently I did see Pat Green, old Texas country
.
He's been in a lot, you know,super cool.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
My girlfriend was telling me I waited on some
badass country singer, ChrisYoung maybe no, is that?
She was just telling me aboutit this morning and I couldn't
tell you.
And he was super nice.
This was just recently.
Uh, uh, her, he's playing inthe Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Stapleton.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm trying to think, I don't know, I don't know, I
think his last name was youngthat you saw him because I said,
hey, I waited on this countrysinger today and she's like oh,
he told you who he was or peoplearound him?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Cause, you know people always like hey, is that,
will you ask, if?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
that's whoever across the board, oh gosh.
So she was even telling meabout it this morning.
I slipped my mind what his namewas.
I don't listen to country, buthe's anybody out there listening
.
He's playing in the Seattlearea this weekend because her
son's going to his concert there.
You go Seattle area thisweekend because her son's going
to his concert.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I only know Pat Green because he's iconic.
I've waited on Pat Green Gosh.
Double, Tito's Ice-T Chill.
He was going still performing.
I saw him when I was 19.
I remember him Some lady in thefront row.
It was in Ardmore, oklahoma,probably 2,000 people there,
nothing crazy.
Anyways, some lady had thisgiant furry feather boa in the
(25:34):
front row and he took it fromher.
He's hammered on stage, wrapsit around himself, does the
whole concert with this giantpink boa on it was hilarious.
That's just Pat Green.
That's Pat Green to a T, rightthere.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I waited on Pat Green .
Again, I don to a T right there.
I waited on Pat Green and again, I don't know country singers,
but I remember this, probably 20some odd years ago, when he was
first starting out, becausepeople were going nuts over him.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yes, and people at the bar were like hey, Pat,
where are you going, man?
He's like oh yeah, I'm stillperforming, going down, blah,
blah, blah.
It's funny to watch people atthe bar start to notice, because
sometimes they don't, becausepeople at the airport are doing
their own thing, they're notpaying attention, exactly.
But, then they look up.
Is that whoever over there?
(26:25):
And then other people around.
I'm like I don't know who thatis, but I'm going to Google it.
And then you start to noticelike this energy and like this
murmur around the bar whenpeople notice it's a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Or people after that, after like five minutes of that
, then people start walking upto them.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh, hey, yes.
And then once it starts, youknow it doesn't stop.
Most of the was.
I used to love the showHonorage.
I can't tell you the actor'sname, but he was the lead, the
guy that played Vince.
I used to love that show and hecame in one day.
He's been in a lot of things.
He's been in a lot of stuff, butthat was his big cha-ching man.
(27:02):
That show was badass, Based onMark Wahlberg, and his honorage
back in the day Couldn't lookanything less like Mark Wahlberg
Tall, skinny, long black hair.
The complete opposite of MarkWahlberg.
But anyways, I tried to not buythat thing.
I was like, hey, man, huge fan,blah, blah, blah.
But you can always tell whenthey just want to do their own
(27:23):
thing and be unbothered.
But man, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You remember when we were bartending that one day?
Man, that was, that was prettycool.
You remember when we werebartending that one day?
And uh, uh, we're like wait,who is that the curly fro?
And we see him going up theescalator.
We all wave and he waves backand it was a little dicky.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It was a little dicky and at that time, pillow talk
was his big song that I was afan of, and there's this part,
there's this whole deal, butanyways, I yelled one of the
lyrics to it, which is do youfuck with the war?
I yelled that up the escalator.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I think it was him and Gata.
I didn't know who Gata was atthe time.
He's huge on the show now.
They're going up the escalator.
I yelled it.
He just giggled and yelledsomething back.
That was probably my favoritecelebrity sighting.
All right, music-wise, who elsehave I seen?
I've seen Erykah Badu.
She was at a table, though.
Oh yeah, she's from Dallas.
Dmx came to the bar and got ashot one time.
(28:16):
Oh, just came to the bar realquick.
Hey, just getting a shot fromme and my buddy boom In and out
Short sweet Met Little Johntwice.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He was super cool.
What.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh God yeah.
Gavin Rosdell what is LittleJohn like when he's not being
Little John, he's just like hey,he's just like a regular dude
like us, you know.
I don't know, reminds me of theDave Chappelle skit Exactly,
and he like, has a Britishaccent.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Exactly no, wow, he's just a regular dude.
I was going to say I met GavinRosdale.
He was a super nice guy.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
What.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Bush.
Gwen Stefani is our husband.
Looks like Jude Law.
Okay, kind of, they're bothEnglish.
Okay, kind of Nah Nah.
Okay, they're both English,whatever, but no Same thing,
same thing, but different.
But different.
(29:20):
Oh, waited on, met them.
My ex-girlfriend used to partywith them.
Met them long time ago but thenwaited on them a couple times
at two different restaurantsI've worked at in the airport
Pantera.
Okay, Long long time ago,Dimebag Darryl rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Remember we had old Smash Mouth come in a couple of
times, oh yeah, yeah.
Well, that last time Again.
Rip this guy man.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He was on another level.
Yes, yes, he was, and that wasonly man that was right before
he passed.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yes, and the worst thing was.
So he was drinking like redwine, which, okay, normally when
people are drinking wine it'snot that great, but they were
downing it, yeah, and then theywould get a shot.
But then they got some nachosand stuff and you're like, okay,
it's cool, but man, they werepartying and they didn't get
that great.
Like he was drunk, that's forsure, but he didn't get that
(30:15):
crazy there.
But I think they went on abender that night, cause the
next day I'm on Reddit, you knowsocial media, and I'm.
I see this footage of him andthey're playing like this, like
fall festival for like somesmall town in new england or
something like you know.
They're just taking whatthey're performing at proms,
whatever, but it's just likethis small thing, like they
(30:37):
wouldn't sign up to it unlessthey needed the money.
But he's on stage and he isjust he's wearing the same
clothes that he was wearing whenhe was at the bar the night
before.
I'm like that's not good, uh,and he is just so belligerent,
you can't understand he's juston, hey, just like literally
drooling on himself, and I'mjust like oh my did we help
(31:02):
facilitate?
I'm like they must have juststayed up all night.
And, oh my god, and then Iguess godly that was I was like
trash mouth.
I was like I hope we didn'tfuel that, but this was like 16
hours later, I he must.
They stayed up all night.
Who knows, that was insane.
We can't.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
We can't be responsible, uh, for over
serving, but we can't beresponsible for what else people
do.
Yes, you know, and it seemslike, since since COVID has been
over, that people are on oneyes, and everybody's taken like
(31:45):
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, drinking's gone up period since COVID, right,
but I'm talking to like theXanax and whatever people do
before they the gummies andeverything, and then they want
to come to the bar and mix itwith alcohol and I'm just like
that's not a good look, yo.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, it's like you know what happens in our
terminal lot.
They get, like you know, wehave the regional planes, so
they get delayed and it might befour hours later or canceled.
It might be four or five hoursand they pop the Xanax like
they're getting on the plane andthen they're like hey never
mind you're canceled for fourhours or delayed for four hours,
and then they're like theyforget or they just don't think
about it, and then they come upto them.
They're sober as can be.
(32:26):
And then, two seconds later,yeah, and you're like what
happened?
You're like, oh yeah, I forgetEverybody's on Xanax at the
airport.
Yeah, it's ridiculous, it'sscary.
And you're like, what can I do?
I gave them one drink, but andthen?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
you know there's not much you can do.
What we have to do is show thereceipt to the officer when they
come to Giddle.
Yes, hey, we served them theirlegal limit and then we cut them
off.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Hey, once I realized, you know, but there's not much
I can do.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
They're not going to be a responsible adult today, or
that one beer that they hadthat, didn't put them, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
but it's scary man, it's hard to tell.
Who else have we seen?
I've seen a bunch of Rangers.
Mitch Moreland used to comethrough the airport all the time
.
He was drinking Shiners.
Good old Texas boy drinkingShiners.
Who else Prince Fielder flewthrough?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
a couple times.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
One of the nicest guys ever.
Family guy Always tipped atleast $100.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Waited on Mike Madonna a couple times.
Super awesome guy.
I have a story about him but Idon't think we should talk about
that on air.
Who else I told you?
(33:51):
Numerous NBA players, A ton.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Hmm, I said a ton.
Yeah, one of the first days Iever worked at the airport I met
Tony Allen.
He used to play.
Oh yeah, he went to OklahomaState.
It was like an all-defensiveNBA two-guard badass player.
He played for Memphis, heplayed for he might have even
(34:17):
played for the Celtics at onepoint, badass.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Weighted on Josh Heupel, who is now the head
coach of Tennessee?
Badass Super awesome guy.
Who's now the head coach ofTennessee?
Badass, Super awesome guy.
And obviously you and I areboth OU guys, being that I'm
originally from Oklahoma and yougrew up in Norman Super awesome
(34:44):
guy.
I think we talked last time onthe last podcast, first episode,
about Bob Stoops coming in.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Cool One of the most genuine people.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, who else?
So he's coming out of theairport one day, out of the
Hyatt Hotel that's attached toone of the terminals, and sure
enough bump into this guy'sgetting out of a car and I'm
(35:20):
trying to walk across the streetor whatever, and sure enough
bumps right into me and says,excuse me, he's big, this guy's
kind of big, but he's old man,and sure enough it was Jerry
Jones.
He's like you, big son of a gun.
You still got it, bro.
This was probably gosh.
(35:42):
This is over 10 plus years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You might break him if you walk into him now.
Yeah, the center for Arkansasover 10 plus years ago yeah,
sheesh, you might break them ifyou walk into them now.
Yeah, let's see the center forArkansas with the whole Barry
Switzer and Jimmy Johnson, andJimmy was there too right At
Arkansas and they won a nationaltitle.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
As a matter of fact, I believe that is Arkansas' only
national title.
Sounds about right?
Yeah, that's about right.
Yeah, sounds about right.
Oh, I've waited on KeyshawnJohnson Badass, yeah, badass.
He was super cool.
This was while he was playingfor the Cowboys, as a matter of
fact, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
A couple solid years here at the end.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Sam Bradford.
Yeah, badass, a couple solidyears here at the end Sam
Bradford, yep Badass, one of theNFL's busts, but the boy got
paid yeah.
The boy got paid.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think that was the last year where he got drafted
in the first round, wherefirst-round pictures got paid
crazy.
He got a $60 million deal as arookie, yeah.
And then I think the next yearit went into effect hey, rookies
, you can't make this much.
This is stupid, because thingslike that would happen.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Well, I think that's going to conclude it for now.
We've got to save some materialfor later.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
We could go all day if you let us y'all.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
We don't want to tire you guys out on the second
episode, so thanks for joiningus.
We'll have plenty more to talkabout and come episode three,
we're going to start havingother bartenders on to tell
their stories and collaborateour silliness.
So tune in and check it out.
(37:35):
Peace.
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