July 7, 2024 • 41 mins
Ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes at an airport bar? Meet Jose, our seasoned bartender with over 12 years of experience, as he takes us on a rollercoaster ride of outrageous stories and unforgettable moments. From the jaw-dropping incident of a couple caught in the act at the bar to the shifts in passenger behavior pre- and post-COVID, Jose's tales are as entertaining as they are enlightening. Hear firsthand how he manages the early partiers and the already tipsy travelers with his unique blend of humor and skill.
Buckle up for some star-studded anecdotes as Jose regales us with his celebrity encounters. Ever spotted Bill Russell at your local watering hole or had a chat with Pauly Shore over a drink? Jose has, and he shares these delightful experiences, including the time Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top slipped by unnoticed. The laughs continue with stories of playful banter, like giving a patron named Sean a hard time for daring to order water. These moments not only offer a glimpse into the life of an airport bartender but also highlight the camaraderie and witty repartee that define the job.
To top it all off, Jose opens up about the dynamic and unpredictable nature of his work environment. From handling eccentric regulars like Cliff to navigating the cultural nuances of a diverse clientele, every shift is an adventure. Learn how the bar staff collaborates to create a welcoming atmosphere, ensuring every passenger's experience is a bit brighter despite the chaos. Whether it's dealing with unexpected gifts or subtly encouraging drink sales, this episode captures the essence of airport bartending like never before.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome back guys.
Episode 5, tales from anAirport Bar.
We've got our third guest on.
Welcome Jose to the show, josethanks for coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What's up, fellas, how we doing it's been a minute.
Yeah, it's been a minute.
It's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Jose is going to divulge some of his stories from
his time out at the airport.
Let's start with how long haveyou been out at the airport,
Jose?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh man, I've been at the airport now over 12 years,
Okay yeah, so I've been there aminute, seen a little bit of
stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, a few things.
All right, let's start withwhat's the craziest thing you've
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What's the craziest?
You want me to top five?
You want me to Because there'sjust so many.
Sure, break them down.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
One of the craziest things that happened that I just
to this day.
I am just so baffled by youcan't make this stuff up no, I'm
over at Rodeo Bar.
Ryan is working the bar, yeah,going over there doing inventory
(01:17):
, doing something right there.
And then Ryan turns around andlooks over and he goes what are
y'all doing?
You know, and Ryan, you know,if you need Ryan, good guy, a
little flamboyant, you know,he's just, you know, does his
deal.
What are you guys doing?
And I look at him and he looksat him.
He goes was that moaning I hear?
(01:40):
And the lady looks up.
She got, you know, she movesover.
She was on the guy's lap andthere was a couple that was
sitting on the corner whereeverybody comes to pay and they
were literally having sex righton the corner of the bar.
Ryan goes oh my gosh, guys,there's a family bathroom right
(02:04):
there and I'm sitting there andI'm like I was, oh my gosh, guys
, there's a family bathroomright there.
And I'm sitting there and I'mlike oh.
And the lady goes we justhadn't seen ourselves in so long
, we just couldn't wait.
I'm like, oh Lord.
So they end up paying andbouncing, but that is probably
the craziest thing that I havebeen part of at the bar.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think I saw them.
I was at the main bar thatnight.
I saw them sprinting up theescalator and police chasing
them.
And then Ryan came over and hewas like I had some people
having sex earlier, Did you seethem?
They ran out of here quick.
I was like, oh, that's the twopeople that the police were
chasing up the escalator.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I was like, oh okay.
I was like, oh my goodness, itwas crazy.
It couldn't happen to a morecrazy person than Brian, because
Brian, he would take it to thatnext level.
Like, oh my God, he would makesure everybody would know that
it was happening.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You wouldn't believe what happened to him.
So that's probably the craziestthing.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Alright.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That was pre-COVID, after COVID, during COVID.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was a different world, a different world.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
A different world.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, it was.
You know, blake, and I havetalked about this on the podcast
before.
I think everybody is.
You know, Blake, and I havetalked about this on the podcast
before.
I think everybody is startingthe party early before they get
to the airport.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm not sure they're ever stopping the party.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, that could be, but, man, I tell you, people get
one drink at them at the barand here we go yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's crazy.
I mean, one of the craziestthings that happened is I'm
sitting it was me and Stephanie.
We were working one night atCantina and this lady walks up
and I'm pretty good, becausewhen we first opened up Cantina,
we would get people fucked up.
When we first opened up CanteenNight, we would get people
fucked up.
Finally, dfw Police comes overand they tell us hey, you guys
(04:08):
got to stop or we're going totake your liquor license away.
Remember the earlier days?
We were just so busy we didn'thave time to babysit people.
You couldn't, you were just toobusy.
The problem is it wasn't thatthey were getting so drunk, it's
just that you don't know whatthey take.
They drunk is just that youdon't know what they take.
They're about to get on theirflight, they cash out, they pop
a volume.
You don't know they popped avolume.
(04:29):
Flight's delayed.
Next thing you know they'relike.
I'm like, I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Can I get another one ?
They?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
only had two drinks.
They're like, oh my gosh, thislady walks up, she's sitting
there, she comes up and sheordered the Tito's soda splash
of cream and I go okay.
So my next question normallyalways single or double.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's what I always ask after my next question.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But I couldn't tell.
So I just ordered a single.
And she started talking to theguy that was at the bar right
there and I could just hear herslurring her words.
So she was pre-gaming itsomewhere else.
So she ordered another one.
And you know, bartenders, wework for tips, right?
That's just the bottom line.
(05:16):
You know, I don't care what youlook like, what you smell like,
what you do.
If you leave me the green, wegood.
You don't leave me the green,we ain't.
You know, I'm like, you know,the only thing I care about is
that green, that cheddar, that'sall.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I want, so you don't want to be my friend.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You don't want to be my free friend, you ugly, I make
you look pretty, I make youfeel pretty.
You know what I'm saying,Because that's it is man.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You don't want to be my therapist.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So therapy, leave a bigger tip.
That's all I ask.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Therapists make more now.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'll give you the best advice.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I can Trust me.
I've been through a lot.
I get some pretty damn goodadvice.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Best advice I can give you Don't take my advice.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So the lady's on the edge, and so she orders another
drink.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And she looks like the walking dead at this point,
yeah, and so I'm like, yeah,pretty much, pretty much, and I
go.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think you've had enough.
So I gave her her check, paysme with a $100 bill, leaves and
doesn't tip me.
So you know, we bartenders, weknow that the karma guys, you
know, will take care of themdown the road.
So I go.
Karma will take care of her, soI don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It goes around comes around yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And someone else will come in and tip you right after
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Exactly so.
The guy left me a bigger tipbecause he noticed I didn't tip,
so I don't worry about it, butkarma is a real thing.
The thing that I don't get iswhen they're going to Vegas and
they're going to go gamble andthen you're not going to tip
your bartender.
Oh yeah, you're going to leaveyour shirt pretty much open, but
at the end of the day sheleaves.
(06:57):
Two hours later Stephanie goes,jose look, dfw police in
handcuffs is taking her out andwalking her away.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They're waiting her right in front of the restaurant
.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're like it was a dollar right in the car.
I don't want Carmen to be thatbad, you know what I'm saying
Maybe it had built up to thatpoint where you're like it was
horrible.
I decided to be like okay washorrible.
So I decided to be like okay,it is what it is Two days later.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
No, it's what the bartender made it yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Two days later I get a text from Steph.
The text has a link and shegoes Jose, check this out.
I opened up the text, dallasBusiness Journal.
I scroll down this lady'smugshot is right there and
(07:54):
you're like, oh, what hadhappened was?
She continued pre-gaming, goton the flight, asked the flight
attendant for a drink and theflight attendant said I think
you've had enough already andsaid no.
Proceeded to get angry, stoodup, slapped the flight attendant
(08:17):
and went up and startedknocking on the door to the
cockpit, telling, trying to getthe pilots to get out, and say I
want some more.
Tell them to serve me a drink.
So on the deal, there was arecording of the guy of the
police, when they turned theplane around, de-planned the
plane, someone recorded it andit's.
(08:39):
You see the deal the cops go.
I didn't do nothing.
That's what she said, and soafter that point that's when I
saw her walking out I'm likesome people you just don't know
what's going on out there.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You're like ma'am, I was trying to stop you from
getting to this point.
That's why I cut you off.
I wasn't doing it to try to bea dick.
You just clearly didn't needmore.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If I ain't doing it to try to be a dick, you just
clearly didn't need more.
If I ain't cutting you off, I'mpretty good.
I'm not going to cut you offjust to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We're pretty lenient, you're going to be a little
crazy.
At that point I'd like to thinkI use fair judgment with
everyone.
You're being cool and you weigh350 pounds.
I might let you have a fifthbeer.
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, especially if you'redrinking the short ones, you
know whatever.
(09:31):
But you know, if you weigh 100pounds and you're knocking back
shots of tequila, I'm going tocut.
You're only going to get aboutthree, maybe four, maybe four
the legal limit's four, and Idon't even know if I want to go
there.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, yeah, you got to use your judgment on that
Especially.
You know when you're going on aplane, you're in a tin can in
the air.
You know you got to be supercareful because you don't want
somebody to do like that ladywhen she was like that's a real
alien, that's how I'm applied.
She was all freaking out.
I don't know if you guys sawthat video, what's that?
Yeah, there was a lady thatfreaked out.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You didn't see that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, you didn't see that one.
I missed that.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Elaborate, it's not real.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's not real.
That is not.
I did radio for years.
I was a paranormal person.
I believe in aliens, I believein that whole men in black thing
.
They are among us.
So I don't think she's crazyfrom that regard.
(10:36):
I don't even think she wasdrunk, to be honest with you.
But at the end of the day, youdon't want people in that type
of a situation Panic To paniclike that.
So it's crazy.
Yeah, look it up alien on aplane or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's a Delta flight right and she was like a big
head of a PR firm too, and hadto come back pale-tucked and do
a video to be like.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I promise I'm not a psychopath, I'm not crazy.
But you do a video to be like.
I promise I'm not a psychopath,but you know, yeah, it was a
pretty big deal.
I believe in aliens, you know.
That's a whole differentpodcast.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But they're flying the plane, so we're good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
True, true, true.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
They know this guy.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Hey, best pilots on our planet.
Oh my god.
Wow, how did we get here?
I told you, so talk to me realquick.
I don't want to jump off ofyour.
(11:39):
We'll come back to your topfive list, but real quick.
What celebrities have you metor interacted with, good and or
bad?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
oh, man, celebrities.
The one that was bad was, youknow, and not to say that I
didn't interact with him, but hewas in the restaurant and the
girls just went crazy.
Was that Charlie?
Yeah, charlie, I remember thatthe girls just went crazy.
Was that Charlie Hunters?
Yeah, charlie, I remember thatthe girls just went crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I remember hearing about this.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The girls went crazy.
You know, I like the guy.
What was it?
King Arthur, whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
That, and then he was in that biker show Sons of
Honor, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Sons of Honor.
Good looking cat, but the girlsare like girls like guys in
leather jackets on motorcycles.
They're all freaking out Prettymuch, and so that was my.
That was probably the one thatyou're like all right, I lost
productivity for about 10, 15minutes.
You know I got to see BillRussell.
(12:44):
Bill Russell was really cool.
I saw Pauly Shore comes throughall the time.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I've met Pauly Shore myself.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know he goes.
What was it the weasel thing?
Yes, you know, it's a good guy,sinbad Sinbad.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
My all-time favorite.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I met Sinbad when I was a kid at the Penn Square
Mall in Oklahoma City.
This is probably 88, 89, whenhe was on top of the world,
anyways.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I love Sinbad Clean comedy, you know what I'm saying
.
I do love.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Sinbad, but still recognizes one of the greats
with that, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So that's hard to do in this world that everybody
wants to hear you.
See, I even asked him to justsay it.
But at the end of the day itwas shortly after because he was
sick and he'd come out and he'ddo Sinbad.
When I saw him on what was thatmovie with him?
The guy that.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Houseguest is my favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Love Houseguest, one of my favorite movies of all
time, and when you see him thereand you saw him there he was
just so frail and you knowyou're like it's like the life
was almost zapped out of him?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, I think he had a stroke, I believe, and
something else.
Now he's in a wheelchair andstuff.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's tough.
He's one of the greats, thoughTo me one of the greats he was
cool to see I'm older, so theolder ones when I used to watch,
like the new one, the CharlieHunnam.
Now I know him because I sawthe thing earlier but I didn't
know who he was Everybody elsetoo.
I'm not a celebrity and and Ijust leave them, let them do
(14:32):
their thing.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well, you can read the vibes too.
It's like if they just they'vebeen bothered all day and they
just want to draw back, I'll letthem.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So cool man, I'm not gonna be one to harass you
craziest story is one time, um,I was, I was sitting at the bar
and I'm working and I'm, youknow, I'm just doing my thing
and guy walks up what is sellingthem long, and that's his beard
down like here.
Remember, my beard used to bedown pretty low too, but his
beard was longer than mine and Igo.
So I go in and I'm talking tohim and I go.
(15:04):
I don't get it very often, butI got beard envy.
Good job, man, good job.
So I'm sitting there and hegoes.
Hey, you know, we get theirnames, we find out who they are.
His name was Billy and I goBilly, you know the selling down
bull, very quiet.
And so I go all right man.
(15:24):
Billy, another one.
He said two and he left.
And the guy that was sitting onthe corner over here, he goes.
You have no clue who that was,do you?
And I go?
No, and he goes, that was Billy.
That was Billy.
It was Billy from ZZ Time.
(15:45):
He used to come in all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He used to always get Tito's Bloody.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Berries with me.
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
But I didn't know either, because it would always
be a guess this is what I wastalking about with Dashlet Like
sometimes you don't know orother people don't know, but
then there starts to be thismurmur and there's like people
like Googling, they're like hey,is this him?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And then you find out , and then people come up to him
and kind of talk to him.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I'm like I Look, you don't know who you're just
talking to.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
No.
So, billy Gibbons, if you'reout there and you hear this
Applebee's D of W, I got SimonYoung Blanc there.
Okay, d-11, d-11, that's wherewe're at.
But no, he was a good guy.
He was a good guy and what thisguy was working one day he's in
the well, blake is.
Yeah, he's working the well.
It was a Saturday or a Friday,I don't remember what it was.
(16:32):
I'm sitting there and this guycomes up and he sits down.
I'm an asshole.
I'm an asshole.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It takes one to know one Jose.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
If you're sitting in a bar and you don't order
alcohol, I'm going to give youshit.
That's what I do.
If you don't want to be givingshit, don't sit at a bar.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
One water at the bar, please yes.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Exactly, you know, and that goes back to when I
started with Fridays.
I had my bar manager at thetime, Nick.
He tells me he goes.
It should piss you off ifsomebody sits at your bar and
doesn't order alcohol.
You're a bartender, that's yourjob, and he would force us to
(17:17):
be arrested.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I got hired to sell alcohol.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
yes, it's called bartender, exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So when I give shit, I get a little shit back every
once in a while, but most peoplearound that person that I'm
giving shit to are laughing,having a good time.
I ain't worried about thisperson because they're probably
going to stiff me.
I'm okay If they're notdrinking.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
They're not going to be there that long anyway,
exactly so.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
This guy, blake, over here, is in the well and he's
making drinks and this guy sitsdown and he orders the fajitas
and orders water.
And I go vodka, tequila,whiskey you know my spiel,
trying to do your job.
He goes no, I'm good, I go,you're just going to order water
(18:02):
in my bar.
I go.
That's kind of disappointing.
And so I ask him his name.
His name was Sean, and so whenSean, I'm talking to Sean, I go.
So every time when they don'tdrink, I particularly you ready
for that real drink, man, youready for that real drink?
You ready to go from water?
Because I look at my shift as agame.
You know my goal is to pitch aperfect game.
(18:24):
So a perfect game was everybodythat sits with me drinks
alcohol.
That's a perfect game.
So if I have somebody orderwater, then that's a hit in my
perfect game.
So it rules my perfect game.
So you know it's just kind offun, there goes your no-hitter.
Yeah, there goes the no-hitterperfect game all at once you
know if we got a couple and oneperson orders a drink and then
(18:50):
the other one.
Okay, I still have a no-h bar.
So at the end of the day we'resitting there and I'm getting
them just laying it on thick.
And then Blake finally comes upto me.
He goes Jose.
I go yeah, what's up, blake?
He goes leave Sean Lee alone.
He's probably going to trainingcamp.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I'm like man.
He's on his way to trainingcamp.
Let the man live.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I go.
That's Sean Lee, I go.
He's a lot smaller than Ithought I go.
And Blake, I love you, but I'ma Giants fan.
So you ready for the tequilafor dessert?
Sean?
Yeah, so that was fromCelebrity.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I'm just now remembering this, as you say, it
.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I was like who is Sean.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm trying to remember it was fucking John Lee
sitting there Starting to looklike a cowboy Trying to drink
some water.
You know, nice clean cut, Iwould never get a drink of that.
Oh really, he's never drank.
I don't know If I would haveknown that he seems like that
guy yeah, he does, he almostseems Mormon.
I don't think he is, but hejust seems like that clean cut
(20:03):
all-American.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
He does.
Got that.
Look, where do you go to schoolat?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Penn State yeah linebacker.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, I'm just saying , I forgot.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, I'm just saying I forgot Jose.
Leave Sean Lee alone.
He needs to make 100 tacklesthis year.
Leave him alone.
Tequila.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sean.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Tequila, oh my.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
God, that's amazing.
I know you've met more starathletes, more celebrities.
Who was the coolest celebrity,or the one that you were most
excited about Maybe starstruck alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Celebrities don't starstruck me, athletes don't
starstruck me, but there was one.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
There was one.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
He's probably not a big known person but to me as a
kid I grew up in New York so Iwas a big Big East Syracuse fan.
Yeah, and Billy Owens was myfavorite player.
Growing up as a kid I had his.
You know, the first jersey Iever bought was a Billy Owens
Syracuse jersey and that's goingto stick with you.
(21:10):
Yeah, absolutely.
So one day I look up and I gothey were doing that
three-on-three basketball orsomething like that yeah, the
big three or whatever the bigthree or whatever.
So he was going back home, Iguess, to wherever he lives, and
he pops in and I go, that'sBilly Owens.
(21:30):
I'm like, oh my gosh.
So I walk up to him and I talkto him.
I go.
You used to be my favoriteplayer growing up as a kid.
He goes really, nicest guy, hegoes.
Yeah, blah, blah, he goes.
Yeah, I grew up at Syracusewith my team.
You know it was you and DerekColeman and Avery Johnson and
Ronnie Cycling.
I'm just, you know, rattlingoff the team that he was playing
(21:52):
.
Oh, yeah, blah, blah, he goes.
Hey, I just saw DC at the threeand three thing that I'm coming
back from.
Really, how is he doing Blah,blah.
We're just sitting theretalking just like regular people
.
You were old friends that wejust kind of just had met and
haven't seen each other in awhile.
We're sitting there talking.
He is the only person in the 12years and I've seen a lot of
(22:14):
celebrities, I've seen good, badugly.
Who was that little Andy Dickguy?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, he lives up to his last name.
Yeah, he was rude man.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
He comes in and you know, and I'm like I met Kathy
Griffin.
I'm like you know she was allright.
I've met a bunch of athletesI've met.
Ethan Hawke went through, let'ssee who else and that was right
after he had won, did he go foran Oscar or something like that
(22:49):
?
Did that be, or something likethat?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I think he did that one about the sun, where they
filmed it over like 25 years orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I know we won that one yeah, yeah, so that I think
he was going flying somewhere todo like a premiere of that
movie or something like that.
He swung by.
Um, you guys remember karen?
she helped them who didn't knowwho he was, I'm like yeah, okay
you know, but Karen, you know,but yeah, so I've seen a ton of
people Only one that I've evergone up to and said hey, I gotta
(23:20):
ask you for a picture.
I don't do this, but I gottahave a picture and he always
cool with it.
So we took a picture.
So I still have a picture tothis very day.
It's badass, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Only one that I've ever asked for a picture with.
I don't think I've ever askedfor a picture.
I'm trying to think.
I'm the same way where I'm likeI don't know, I don't want to
just harass you guys.
The ones that I have wanted to.
There's been 1,800 others.
I go up and I'm like I don'twant to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Some of them are cool , some of them aren't.
You can always tell.
Some of them.
They'll be talking, and they'retalking about this person.
They talk about it.
Then the other ones, you know,like the guy from Entourage yeah
, that's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That was the one that I fanboyed.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
What was his name?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
In the show.
His name's Vince, I think hisname's Adrian.
I can't remember his last nameGrenier, yeah, grenier.
Or something like that yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He was sitting.
You know now that I didn't meethim personally, but you know I
think I was.
You told me you could tell hedidn't want to be bothered
because he has a hoodie on andhis headphones on.
You, just, you know, just, I'mnot gonna bother those people.
You just gotta do down and doyou, do you, do you, and when
you had um click yes, you knowyeah and then he's just like oh
yeah, and he's telling you know,I'm a drummer, you know he's
(24:38):
just the drummer from whitesnake?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
yeah, he's just a salesman, just like us.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah absolutely, he's a people guy yeah, so it just
depends on who you're, who youdeal with.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh, yeah, you know.
I think that alludes back towhat bartenders are probably the
best at reading body language.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I will say my favorite Cliff story.
You might have even been therethat night, but you know Cliff
would always come in hand you ahundred dollar bill and say
let's party.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
So wait, wait, wait, come on, let's paint a little
bit bigger picture for ouraudience.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So I don't know that we can even paint a picture of
Cliff.
He's just so.
I don't know that we can evenpaint a picture of Cliff.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
He's just so, I don't know.
Older silverhead guy Lookssuper young though.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Wearing three-piece suits To the T Pocket squares.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
These very exotic three-piece suits.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Doesn't look like a drummer from the 80s yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But he's doing some sort of real estate thing now,
flying across the country.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Well, he was also doing marijuana gross.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, probably that too.
Yeah, you know that could bepart of it and he was going to.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know he'd go to different places to get a look
for talent.
So you know he had a bunch ofdifferent.
He was handing out a lot ofdifferent deals.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I remember the night he came in and handed me a $100
bill I just made my firstmillion off my marijuana
grow-ups.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Oh yeah, More $100 bills.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Show me the other free samples.
Yeah, show me the other freesamples.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
No, give me free samples of the other stuff you
know Well, we did talk aboutthat last episode of guys that
literally handed us weed acrossthe bar.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Oh, yeah, edibles, all the time.
What are you?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
doing yeah, I, oh, yeah, edibles, all the time.
What are you doing?
I'm a pro in Arkansas, oh,colorado, okay, where are my
gummies?
The next thing, you know, youwalk back and you got a cookie
or you got a what's it called.
The best part is you pop it onthe way home.
And then, when you pop it onthe way home, you're like
sometimes it's okay and thensometimes you're like, oh my God
(26:32):
, it's a crap shoot.
Sometimes you don't I call itgummy roulette, it's all good,
you never know.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You never know what you're going to get until you
eat it.
Yeah, you're like that wascrazy, my favorite Cliff story.
So he walks in.
We have been hanging out withCliff for years at this point as
a regular Twice a week probablyat least and he comes in, he
goes up to JoJo and he goes JoJo.
What city am I in?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And she goes, this girl we used to bartend with.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You're in the only city you ever see me Dallas.
He goes oh shit, I'm supposedto be in Ohio or something.
He's like all right, you betterpour me a double.
I didn Better pour me a double.
He didn't know which way was up.
I remember I was there with youguys.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I was the well that night.
Where am I?
He didn't have a clue whatairport he was in.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
It was awesome, all right, well, give me a double
then.
If that's the case, can?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I get a 16-ounce glass of Kettle One.
No ice, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
One of a kind.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
One of a kind.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
One of a kind.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Such a great guy.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
You could be having the worst day and Cliff walks in
and your whole mood is going tochange.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He's just one of those guys that just steps in,
and it's a part of it.
All His energy is great, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Vibes Today's going to be alright.
Today's going to be alright.
You, today's going to be allright.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You know what?
Can I be honest with you?
Most of the people that flythrough, a lot of them.
They're usually good, but thenthere are those people that you
wish you never seen againAbsolutely.
Please don't come back.
You're like please don't comeback, Just because you can tell
by their energy.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Their energy is not good.
I don't want, yeah, when theydrain from your tank of energy,
that's when you're like okay.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, exactly, you know.
Don't come in and piss on myparade.
You know you're delayed, not me.
I'm trying to make it betterfor you.
Yeah, it's the only reason Ihave a freaking job.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yep, we tell them the bar, we're not dressing up.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I do not work for the airline operator Right.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And it doesn't help us People are like oh, you're
making money, we're delayed.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, we're not and it's raining.
Don't talk to me.
Talk to the guy upstairs.
He's the one that makes it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I did do a rain dance on my way to work today.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
We're the first line of defense, so take it out on
somebody absolutely absolutely Ilike to think most of the time
we win them over.
By the end of it they figureout that we're their friend
exactly and, but there's someyou just can't win, and you know
, it just is what it looks allright, you sometimes win and
sometimes you lose.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Sometimes you know it's for me, it's the
non-drinkers that they don'tlike me, but 95% of them are you
know.
They laugh and they chuckle andthey just you know it's not
that serious, but there are somepeople in the world that are
just too damn serious.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, people act like it's so absurd that you offer
them a drink at the bar.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You offer me alcohol at the bar.
Oh, my goodness, that's my jobdescription.
You know I'm a holy roller.
I go to church.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It does say grill and bar right here on my shirt.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, absolutely, and I'm not trying to be
blasphemous or anything, but youknow, just because you go to
church.
Point taken, I had this Muslimguy come in once.
Didn't Jesus drink wine?
He turned water to wine.
He drank wine yeah, absolutely.
He turned water to wine.
He drank wine yeah, absolutely.
That's why I can get after thatdude, because he does what I
did.
(29:59):
But, yeah, but at the end of theday it was.
A Muslim guy comes up and I'moffering you know, hey, you know
, start you over with a beer,wine, cocktail, you know that
stuff.
I look at them as dollar signs.
I don't care about yourreligion, I don't care what you
(30:19):
are.
All I care about is puttingyour tab up so I can make more
money.
What's this?
And he looks up at me and goes,oh no, I don't want to go to
hell.
And I'm like, okay, so I comeback and get him his little diet
drink or soda or whatever hegot.
You know he wants acheeseburger.
You know he goes.
I go, well, I'm an upseller, soI go.
(30:40):
You want to add bacon to thatcheeseburger?
Oh, you want to add bacon tothat cheeseburger?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Oh no, oh no, I don't want to go to hell and I'm like
, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So let me get this no alcohol, no bacon, no alcohol.
If I drink alcohol and eatbacon, I'm going to hell.
He goes, yes, I know.
Well, your hell is my heavenbrother.
And his eyes get all big.
Can't believe that.
I'm like all right, give it tome, I'll take it.
(31:10):
I'll take all your bacon, allyour alcohol, exactly, and so
and you know.
But but it's fun because youknow he looks at me and after
that he was fine.
But, um, but then I had anotherguy that said no, I'm muslim, I
don't drink.
He's on the phone, he comesback and he comes to the bar and
he orders a beer and I thoughtyou were my somebody to get a
drink.
He goes, I'm over here, I'mokay and I'm like okay, and I
(31:31):
don't care.
I gave him the drink, that'swhat he wanted.
But people reserve the right tochange their mind and the goal
is I influence them to changetheir mind and drink alcohol.
And I will stop you before youget too bad.
So when you get on your flight,you're not belligerent, or
(31:52):
what's it called.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I can only tell you one yeah, we are professional
arm twisters.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
That happened Sunday night.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Sammy was taken.
Sammy, sweet kid we work with,he's younger, he's still new to
it.
He's not as good at pushing thealcohol if someone doesn't want
it, like we kind of know how to.
Anyways, this guy had gottenwater and he's getting just some
beef tacos or something.
I'm like hey, man, you didn'tneed a drink.
He's like well, I had plenty ofbourbon on the plane I was like
(32:24):
I got Basil Hayden right herewith your name on it.
He goes oh shit, you have BasilHayden.
Okay, then boom.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
All right, here you go, here you go.
All it is is you're saying theright thing, you just need a
little arm twist, just a littlebit.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I like how you said it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
A little twist.
It's not a kick down a flightof stairs, it's just a little
push oh man.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
But it's a good time, man.
It's fun.
It's crazy.
You get to meet a lot of peopleat the airport.
You just see different types ofpersonalities, different
behaviors.
It's just a fun, fun, funnature of most people.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
And it's never the same, never the same, if you
like, people watching set in anairport terminal.
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yes, you know what I like.
I don't get those entitledregulars that they got out in
the real world that they expectyou to bend over run back and
forth to the kitchen and getthem 57 sides of ranch.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And maybe a quarter on all their bloodlines to judge
.
Thank you for the short nameBecause you don't tip.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm hoping you get the picture and don't come back.
That might be more attention.
Oh wait, did I say that outloud?
That's my inside voice.
My inside voice sometimes comesout, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Well, didn't Justin used to chase people in the
bathroom?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
that wouldn't tip Like he'd chase them out of the
restaurant and stuff if theywouldn't tip or didn't leave the
percentage that he wanted.
We'll have this young man on atsome point, a good friend of
mine.
Um, I'll call him billy.
He goes by another name, butI'll call him billy anyways.
I remember what I was workingat the irish pub, somebody, an
(34:19):
international terminal man.
People don't know better,seriously, they don't know
better in their countries.
You don't tip the waiterwaitress, they don't know you
know.
That's why the gratuity is onthe check anyways.
This table paid with cash.
They had a bunch of coins orsomething I'm talking, you know,
at least 20 pieces of coin,change coins on left on the
(34:44):
table.
What does Billy do?
He scrapes it up, follows themdown the terminal and throws it
at the window sitting next tothem and change just goes flying
everywhere.
Needless to say, billy got firedthat day.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I would expect that, but I would assume he knew that
when he did that and he mighthave not got a badge again.
That could almost be a soulfound federal property real talk
statute of limitations on Billy.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
hopefully is gone, oh man, so that's crazy.
That's crazy, that's crazy.
But yeah, you just see thatsometimes you know if you're
going to have anything go down.
(35:39):
Most people are good people,you know you don't have to worry
about much at the airport whensome people get angry.
Yes, I was at work the otherday and some dude bowed up to
one of the servers because hemumbled something to the server
and the server comes up and goes.
I'm sorry, what did you say?
(36:00):
Because he didn't literallyhear.
You can't hear it's loud in theairport and the guy bows up to
me and goes you got a problem.
Blah, blah, blah.
He had one drink with me.
Granted, it was an IPA, and hehounded it.
He wasn't going to come back, Iwasn't going to give him
another one, but he tried tofight him.
He was trying to fight thisperson.
Some people just can't handletheir alcohol.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
What's really going on at home?
Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I mean I literally helped the guy out.
I go look, bro, you're boardingright now and you're about a
seven to eight minute walk toyour gate.
Here's the check.
Let's go Get up.
This is going to tip me, butI'm helping him out.
But at the end of the day, youdo right.
You try to live a golden ruletype of life Do unto others as
(36:52):
you would have done unto you.
I look at it this way.
I try to treat people the waythat I would want them to treat
my daughter.
My daughters, just with respectand dignity, my daughter.
They sit at a bar and theydon't know how the bartender
gives them a little shit.
They know they're sitting at abar.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
My daughter works in a bar.
So yeah, tip, everybody tip, mydaughter Tip your waitress
they're putting up with.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
A lot of People are special, like COVID.
If either of the people werespecial before COVID, after
COVID, it's a whole new breed.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
COVID is when I stopped asking people if they
want doubles, yeah, I was likeI'm just not going to do that
anymore Because they startedtaking me up on it every time,
yeah.
And then they wanted 10 of themand I'm just like oh, no, no.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
and then they wanted 10 of them and I'm just like, oh
, covid was great, we were wideopen here in Texas you could
take your alcohol to go.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
That was nice, you could take your alcohol to go.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
People from Cali, crazy, michigan, new York.
They were all coming hereconnecting here so they can go
party in Mexico.
You got to meet some reallycool people that were you know,
that were kind of like-mindedbecause I wasn't a you know that
guy.
If you go, look back at all thecomplaints of me not wearing my
(38:15):
mask bartender didn't wear hismask.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
No, I didn't.
That's like you're sitting at abar, yeah you're sitting at a
bar, drink some tequila.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's what we do to kill it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, you know, the funny thing is is what I would
tell everybody is like I said,we have 22, 23 seats around the
bar.
Everybody would sit down.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
And we still had that many seats during.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
COVID, you'd have the bar fill up and everybody would
sit down and take their maskoff, right, and people would sit
down and leave their mask on,sitting next to 20 other people
that had their mask off, and I'mlike, and then they would take
their mask down to eat andwhatnot and I'm like you know
that when you sit down, theCOVID virus deactivates, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Isn't that the way?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
that it works.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
It's just crazy to me that these masks everybody
thought the mask was going totake care of everything.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
A lot of them didn't know when they would come to my
bar.
I'd be like just so you know,this is a no-mask bar, so if
you're going to wear a mask, gosit at the tables.
In this bar you don't wear amask, because a lot of people
would be like we can take ourmasks off and they would just
take them off.
And then it was just like therewas a whole different type of
(39:38):
you know.
There were a couple of Karens,don't get me wrong.
Don't get me wrong.
It was like whoa.
People were like this is Texas,we didn't do that here, that's
what we were talking aboutOutside the airport.
Inside the airport, the onlyreason the airport had to do the
mask was because it was federal.
Anywhere else in Texas aroundthe airport, nobody wore a mask.
(40:01):
I'm sending pictures of myfriends out at the bars, elbow
to elbow, partying, dancing,blah, blah, blah blah, and in
California and New York, andthey're like you, suck man,
because they're stuck in theirhouses.
You know, maybe they can gooutside and eat somewhere.
You know, it was just acompletely different world.
But the one thing that I domiss, the one thing I do miss
(40:22):
about COVID okay, is peopleactually wash their hands and as
a germaphobe, it was nice tosee people using proper hygiene,
because that's all it really is.
To stop the spread of being sickis proper hygiene.
Now you go to the bathroom andpeople are like you know.
They come out of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
They come out of the stall and don't wash their hands
and the next thing you knowthey're sitting at your bar and
people are like you know.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
They come out of the toilet, they come out of the
stall, they don't wash theirhands and the next thing you
know they're sitting at your barand I'm like you're nasty, and
then they want to shake yourhand when you introduce yourself
.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You're like okay.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
I'll be like fist bump, you know kind of a
situation.
You know, it's just that wasyou know.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Talk about integrity.
Yeah, integrity, it's crazy.
Well, hey guys, let's go aheadand wrap things up.
Jose, thank you so much forcoming on, and we would love to
have you back again.
I know you've got a lot morestories up your sleeve for us.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Absolutely.
Let me know when guys I'm freeTuesdays in the morning.
Every other Tuesdays, yeah,just let me know when guys I'm
free.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Tuesdays in the morning.
Every other Tuesdays, yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Just let me know when y'all need a guest and I would
be glad to fill in if I'm intown.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Perfect.
Thank you, Jose.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
So if you guys are flying through DFW Airport, come
and see me at Applebee's DFW,you know, go say what's up you
know, absolutely, absolutely up.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
You know absolutely.
Uh, thanks for tuning in guys.
Um, that'll wrap it up allright, y'all peace.
Hey, welcome back guys.
Episode 5, tales from anAirport Bar.
We've got our third guest on.
Welcome Jose to the show, josethanks for coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What's up, fellas, how we doing it's been a minute.
Yeah, it's been a minute.
It's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Jose is going to divulge some of his stories from
his time out at the airport.
Let's start with how long haveyou been out at the airport,
Jose?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh man, I've been at the airport now over 12 years,
Okay yeah, so I've been there aminute, seen a little bit of
stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, a few things.
All right, let's start withwhat's the craziest thing you've
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What's the craziest?
You want me to top five?
You want me to Because there'sjust so many.
Sure, break them down.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
One of the craziest things that happened that I just
to this day.
I am just so baffled by youcan't make this stuff up no, I'm
over at Rodeo Bar.
Ryan is working the bar, yeah,going over there doing inventory
(01:17):
, doing something right there.
And then Ryan turns around andlooks over and he goes what are
y'all doing?
You know, and Ryan, you know,if you need Ryan, good guy, a
little flamboyant, you know,he's just, you know, does his
deal.
What are you guys doing?
And I look at him and he looksat him.
He goes was that moaning I hear?
(01:40):
And the lady looks up.
She got, you know, she movesover.
She was on the guy's lap andthere was a couple that was
sitting on the corner whereeverybody comes to pay and they
were literally having sex righton the corner of the bar.
Ryan goes oh my gosh, guys,there's a family bathroom right
(02:04):
there and I'm sitting there andI'm like I was, oh my gosh, guys
, there's a family bathroomright there.
And I'm sitting there and I'mlike oh.
And the lady goes we justhadn't seen ourselves in so long
, we just couldn't wait.
I'm like, oh Lord.
So they end up paying andbouncing, but that is probably
the craziest thing that I havebeen part of at the bar.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think I saw them.
I was at the main bar thatnight.
I saw them sprinting up theescalator and police chasing
them.
And then Ryan came over and hewas like I had some people
having sex earlier, Did you seethem?
They ran out of here quick.
I was like, oh, that's the twopeople that the police were
chasing up the escalator.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I was like, oh okay.
I was like, oh my goodness, itwas crazy.
It couldn't happen to a morecrazy person than Brian, because
Brian, he would take it to thatnext level.
Like, oh my God, he would makesure everybody would know that
it was happening.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You wouldn't believe what happened to him.
So that's probably the craziestthing.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Alright.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That was pre-COVID, after COVID, during COVID.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was a different world, a different world.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
A different world.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, it was.
You know, blake, and I havetalked about this on the podcast
before.
I think everybody is.
You know, Blake, and I havetalked about this on the podcast
before.
I think everybody is startingthe party early before they get
to the airport.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm not sure they're ever stopping the party.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, that could be, but, man, I tell you, people get
one drink at them at the barand here we go yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's crazy.
I mean, one of the craziestthings that happened is I'm
sitting it was me and Stephanie.
We were working one night atCantina and this lady walks up
and I'm pretty good, becausewhen we first opened up Cantina,
we would get people fucked up.
When we first opened up CanteenNight, we would get people
fucked up.
Finally, dfw Police comes overand they tell us hey, you guys
(04:08):
got to stop or we're going totake your liquor license away.
Remember the earlier days?
We were just so busy we didn'thave time to babysit people.
You couldn't, you were just toobusy.
The problem is it wasn't thatthey were getting so drunk, it's
just that you don't know whatthey take.
They drunk is just that youdon't know what they take.
They're about to get on theirflight, they cash out, they pop
a volume.
You don't know they popped avolume.
(04:29):
Flight's delayed.
Next thing you know they'relike.
I'm like, I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Can I get another one ?
They?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
only had two drinks.
They're like, oh my gosh, thislady walks up, she's sitting
there, she comes up and sheordered the Tito's soda splash
of cream and I go okay.
So my next question normallyalways single or double.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's what I always ask after my next question.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But I couldn't tell.
So I just ordered a single.
And she started talking to theguy that was at the bar right
there and I could just hear herslurring her words.
So she was pre-gaming itsomewhere else.
So she ordered another one.
And you know, bartenders, wework for tips, right?
That's just the bottom line.
(05:16):
You know, I don't care what youlook like, what you smell like,
what you do.
If you leave me the green, wegood.
You don't leave me the green,we ain't.
You know, I'm like, you know,the only thing I care about is
that green, that cheddar, that'sall.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I want, so you don't want to be my friend.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You don't want to be my free friend, you ugly, I make
you look pretty, I make youfeel pretty.
You know what I'm saying,Because that's it is man.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You don't want to be my therapist.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So therapy, leave a bigger tip.
That's all I ask.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Therapists make more now.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'll give you the best advice.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I can Trust me.
I've been through a lot.
I get some pretty damn goodadvice.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Best advice I can give you Don't take my advice.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So the lady's on the edge, and so she orders another
drink.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And she looks like the walking dead at this point,
yeah, and so I'm like, yeah,pretty much, pretty much, and I
go.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think you've had enough.
So I gave her her check, paysme with a $100 bill, leaves and
doesn't tip me.
So you know, we bartenders, weknow that the karma guys, you
know, will take care of themdown the road.
So I go.
Karma will take care of her, soI don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It goes around comes around yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And someone else will come in and tip you right after
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Exactly so.
The guy left me a bigger tipbecause he noticed I didn't tip,
so I don't worry about it, butkarma is a real thing.
The thing that I don't get iswhen they're going to Vegas and
they're going to go gamble andthen you're not going to tip
your bartender.
Oh yeah, you're going to leaveyour shirt pretty much open, but
at the end of the day sheleaves.
(06:57):
Two hours later Stephanie goes,jose look, dfw police in
handcuffs is taking her out andwalking her away.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They're waiting her right in front of the restaurant
.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're like it was a dollar right in the car.
I don't want Carmen to be thatbad, you know what I'm saying
Maybe it had built up to thatpoint where you're like it was
horrible.
I decided to be like okay washorrible.
So I decided to be like okay,it is what it is Two days later.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
No, it's what the bartender made it yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Two days later I get a text from Steph.
The text has a link and shegoes Jose, check this out.
I opened up the text, dallasBusiness Journal.
I scroll down this lady'smugshot is right there and
(07:54):
you're like, oh, what hadhappened was?
She continued pre-gaming, goton the flight, asked the flight
attendant for a drink and theflight attendant said I think
you've had enough already andsaid no.
Proceeded to get angry, stoodup, slapped the flight attendant
(08:17):
and went up and startedknocking on the door to the
cockpit, telling, trying to getthe pilots to get out, and say I
want some more.
Tell them to serve me a drink.
So on the deal, there was arecording of the guy of the
police, when they turned theplane around, de-planned the
plane, someone recorded it andit's.
(08:39):
You see the deal the cops go.
I didn't do nothing.
That's what she said, and soafter that point that's when I
saw her walking out I'm likesome people you just don't know
what's going on out there.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You're like ma'am, I was trying to stop you from
getting to this point.
That's why I cut you off.
I wasn't doing it to try to bea dick.
You just clearly didn't needmore.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If I ain't doing it to try to be a dick, you just
clearly didn't need more.
If I ain't cutting you off, I'mpretty good.
I'm not going to cut you offjust to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We're pretty lenient, you're going to be a little
crazy.
At that point I'd like to thinkI use fair judgment with
everyone.
You're being cool and you weigh350 pounds.
I might let you have a fifthbeer.
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, especially if you'redrinking the short ones, you
know whatever.
(09:31):
But you know, if you weigh 100pounds and you're knocking back
shots of tequila, I'm going tocut.
You're only going to get aboutthree, maybe four, maybe four
the legal limit's four, and Idon't even know if I want to go
there.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, yeah, you got to use your judgment on that
Especially.
You know when you're going on aplane, you're in a tin can in
the air.
You know you got to be supercareful because you don't want
somebody to do like that ladywhen she was like that's a real
alien, that's how I'm applied.
She was all freaking out.
I don't know if you guys sawthat video, what's that?
Yeah, there was a lady thatfreaked out.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You didn't see that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, you didn't see that one.
I missed that.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Elaborate, it's not real.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's not real.
That is not.
I did radio for years.
I was a paranormal person.
I believe in aliens, I believein that whole men in black thing
.
They are among us.
So I don't think she's crazyfrom that regard.
(10:36):
I don't even think she wasdrunk, to be honest with you.
But at the end of the day, youdon't want people in that type
of a situation Panic To paniclike that.
So it's crazy.
Yeah, look it up alien on aplane or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's a Delta flight right and she was like a big
head of a PR firm too, and hadto come back pale-tucked and do
a video to be like.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I promise I'm not a psychopath, I'm not crazy.
But you do a video to be like.
I promise I'm not a psychopath,but you know, yeah, it was a
pretty big deal.
I believe in aliens, you know.
That's a whole differentpodcast.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But they're flying the plane, so we're good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
True, true, true.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
They know this guy.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Hey, best pilots on our planet.
Oh my god.
Wow, how did we get here?
I told you, so talk to me realquick.
I don't want to jump off ofyour.
(11:39):
We'll come back to your topfive list, but real quick.
What celebrities have you metor interacted with, good and or
bad?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
oh, man, celebrities.
The one that was bad was, youknow, and not to say that I
didn't interact with him, but hewas in the restaurant and the
girls just went crazy.
Was that Charlie?
Yeah, charlie, I remember thatthe girls just went crazy.
Was that Charlie Hunters?
Yeah, charlie, I remember thatthe girls just went crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I remember hearing about this.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The girls went crazy.
You know, I like the guy.
What was it?
King Arthur, whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
That, and then he was in that biker show Sons of
Honor, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Sons of Honor.
Good looking cat, but the girlsare like girls like guys in
leather jackets on motorcycles.
They're all freaking out Prettymuch, and so that was my.
That was probably the one thatyou're like all right, I lost
productivity for about 10, 15minutes.
You know I got to see BillRussell.
(12:44):
Bill Russell was really cool.
I saw Pauly Shore comes throughall the time.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I've met Pauly Shore myself.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know he goes.
What was it the weasel thing?
Yes, you know, it's a good guy,sinbad Sinbad.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
My all-time favorite.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I met Sinbad when I was a kid at the Penn Square
Mall in Oklahoma City.
This is probably 88, 89, whenhe was on top of the world,
anyways.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I love Sinbad Clean comedy, you know what I'm saying
.
I do love.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Sinbad, but still recognizes one of the greats
with that, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So that's hard to do in this world that everybody
wants to hear you.
See, I even asked him to justsay it.
But at the end of the day itwas shortly after because he was
sick and he'd come out and he'ddo Sinbad.
When I saw him on what was thatmovie with him?
The guy that.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Houseguest is my favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Love Houseguest, one of my favorite movies of all
time, and when you see him thereand you saw him there he was
just so frail and you knowyou're like it's like the life
was almost zapped out of him?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, I think he had a stroke, I believe, and
something else.
Now he's in a wheelchair andstuff.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's tough.
He's one of the greats, thoughTo me one of the greats he was
cool to see I'm older, so theolder ones when I used to watch,
like the new one, the CharlieHunnam.
Now I know him because I sawthe thing earlier but I didn't
know who he was Everybody elsetoo.
I'm not a celebrity and and Ijust leave them, let them do
(14:32):
their thing.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well, you can read the vibes too.
It's like if they just they'vebeen bothered all day and they
just want to draw back, I'll letthem.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So cool man, I'm not gonna be one to harass you
craziest story is one time, um,I was, I was sitting at the bar
and I'm working and I'm, youknow, I'm just doing my thing
and guy walks up what is sellingthem long, and that's his beard
down like here.
Remember, my beard used to bedown pretty low too, but his
beard was longer than mine and Igo.
So I go in and I'm talking tohim and I go.
(15:04):
I don't get it very often, butI got beard envy.
Good job, man, good job.
So I'm sitting there and hegoes.
Hey, you know, we get theirnames, we find out who they are.
His name was Billy and I goBilly, you know the selling down
bull, very quiet.
And so I go all right man.
(15:24):
Billy, another one.
He said two and he left.
And the guy that was sitting onthe corner over here, he goes.
You have no clue who that was,do you?
And I go?
No, and he goes, that was Billy.
That was Billy.
It was Billy from ZZ Time.
(15:45):
He used to come in all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He used to always get Tito's Bloody.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Berries with me.
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
But I didn't know either, because it would always
be a guess this is what I wastalking about with Dashlet Like
sometimes you don't know orother people don't know, but
then there starts to be thismurmur and there's like people
like Googling, they're like hey,is this him?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And then you find out , and then people come up to him
and kind of talk to him.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I'm like I Look, you don't know who you're just
talking to.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
No.
So, billy Gibbons, if you'reout there and you hear this
Applebee's D of W, I got SimonYoung Blanc there.
Okay, d-11, d-11, that's wherewe're at.
But no, he was a good guy.
He was a good guy and what thisguy was working one day he's in
the well, blake is.
Yeah, he's working the well.
It was a Saturday or a Friday,I don't remember what it was.
(16:32):
I'm sitting there and this guycomes up and he sits down.
I'm an asshole.
I'm an asshole.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It takes one to know one Jose.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
If you're sitting in a bar and you don't order
alcohol, I'm going to give youshit.
That's what I do.
If you don't want to be givingshit, don't sit at a bar.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
One water at the bar, please yes.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Exactly, you know, and that goes back to when I
started with Fridays.
I had my bar manager at thetime, Nick.
He tells me he goes.
It should piss you off ifsomebody sits at your bar and
doesn't order alcohol.
You're a bartender, that's yourjob, and he would force us to
(17:17):
be arrested.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I got hired to sell alcohol.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
yes, it's called bartender, exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So when I give shit, I get a little shit back every
once in a while, but most peoplearound that person that I'm
giving shit to are laughing,having a good time.
I ain't worried about thisperson because they're probably
going to stiff me.
I'm okay If they're notdrinking.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
They're not going to be there that long anyway,
exactly so.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
This guy, blake, over here, is in the well and he's
making drinks and this guy sitsdown and he orders the fajitas
and orders water.
And I go vodka, tequila,whiskey you know my spiel,
trying to do your job.
He goes no, I'm good, I go,you're just going to order water
(18:02):
in my bar.
I go.
That's kind of disappointing.
And so I ask him his name.
His name was Sean, and so whenSean, I'm talking to Sean, I go.
So every time when they don'tdrink, I particularly you ready
for that real drink, man, youready for that real drink?
You ready to go from water?
Because I look at my shift as agame.
You know my goal is to pitch aperfect game.
(18:24):
So a perfect game was everybodythat sits with me drinks
alcohol.
That's a perfect game.
So if I have somebody orderwater, then that's a hit in my
perfect game.
So it rules my perfect game.
So you know it's just kind offun, there goes your no-hitter.
Yeah, there goes the no-hitterperfect game all at once you
know if we got a couple and oneperson orders a drink and then
(18:50):
the other one.
Okay, I still have a no-h bar.
So at the end of the day we'resitting there and I'm getting
them just laying it on thick.
And then Blake finally comes upto me.
He goes Jose.
I go yeah, what's up, blake?
He goes leave Sean Lee alone.
He's probably going to trainingcamp.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I'm like man.
He's on his way to trainingcamp.
Let the man live.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I go.
That's Sean Lee, I go.
He's a lot smaller than Ithought I go.
And Blake, I love you, but I'ma Giants fan.
So you ready for the tequilafor dessert?
Sean?
Yeah, so that was fromCelebrity.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I'm just now remembering this, as you say, it
.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I was like who is Sean.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm trying to remember it was fucking John Lee
sitting there Starting to looklike a cowboy Trying to drink
some water.
You know, nice clean cut, Iwould never get a drink of that.
Oh really, he's never drank.
I don't know If I would haveknown that he seems like that
guy yeah, he does, he almostseems Mormon.
I don't think he is, but hejust seems like that clean cut
(20:03):
all-American.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
He does.
Got that.
Look, where do you go to schoolat?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Penn State yeah linebacker.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, I'm just saying , I forgot.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, I'm just saying I forgot Jose.
Leave Sean Lee alone.
He needs to make 100 tacklesthis year.
Leave him alone.
Tequila.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sean.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Tequila, oh my.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
God, that's amazing.
I know you've met more starathletes, more celebrities.
Who was the coolest celebrity,or the one that you were most
excited about Maybe starstruck alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Celebrities don't starstruck me, athletes don't
starstruck me, but there was one.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
There was one.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
He's probably not a big known person but to me as a
kid I grew up in New York so Iwas a big Big East Syracuse fan.
Yeah, and Billy Owens was myfavorite player.
Growing up as a kid I had his.
You know, the first jersey Iever bought was a Billy Owens
Syracuse jersey and that's goingto stick with you.
(21:10):
Yeah, absolutely.
So one day I look up and I gothey were doing that
three-on-three basketball orsomething like that yeah, the
big three or whatever the bigthree or whatever.
So he was going back home, Iguess, to wherever he lives, and
he pops in and I go, that'sBilly Owens.
(21:30):
I'm like, oh my gosh.
So I walk up to him and I talkto him.
I go.
You used to be my favoriteplayer growing up as a kid.
He goes really, nicest guy, hegoes.
Yeah, blah, blah, he goes.
Yeah, I grew up at Syracusewith my team.
You know it was you and DerekColeman and Avery Johnson and
Ronnie Cycling.
I'm just, you know, rattlingoff the team that he was playing
(21:52):
.
Oh, yeah, blah, blah, he goes.
Hey, I just saw DC at the threeand three thing that I'm coming
back from.
Really, how is he doing Blah,blah.
We're just sitting theretalking just like regular people
.
You were old friends that wejust kind of just had met and
haven't seen each other in awhile.
We're sitting there talking.
He is the only person in the 12years and I've seen a lot of
(22:14):
celebrities, I've seen good, badugly.
Who was that little Andy Dickguy?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, he lives up to his last name.
Yeah, he was rude man.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
He comes in and you know, and I'm like I met Kathy
Griffin.
I'm like you know she was allright.
I've met a bunch of athletesI've met.
Ethan Hawke went through, let'ssee who else and that was right
after he had won, did he go foran Oscar or something like that
(22:49):
?
Did that be, or something likethat?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I think he did that one about the sun, where they
filmed it over like 25 years orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I know we won that one yeah, yeah, so that I think
he was going flying somewhere todo like a premiere of that
movie or something like that.
He swung by.
Um, you guys remember karen?
she helped them who didn't knowwho he was, I'm like yeah, okay
you know, but Karen, you know,but yeah, so I've seen a ton of
people Only one that I've evergone up to and said hey, I gotta
(23:20):
ask you for a picture.
I don't do this, but I gottahave a picture and he always
cool with it.
So we took a picture.
So I still have a picture tothis very day.
It's badass, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Only one that I've ever asked for a picture with.
I don't think I've ever askedfor a picture.
I'm trying to think.
I'm the same way where I'm likeI don't know, I don't want to
just harass you guys.
The ones that I have wanted to.
There's been 1,800 others.
I go up and I'm like I don'twant to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Some of them are cool , some of them aren't.
You can always tell.
Some of them.
They'll be talking, and they'retalking about this person.
They talk about it.
Then the other ones, you know,like the guy from Entourage yeah
, that's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That was the one that I fanboyed.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
What was his name?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
In the show.
His name's Vince, I think hisname's Adrian.
I can't remember his last nameGrenier, yeah, grenier.
Or something like that yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He was sitting.
You know now that I didn't meethim personally, but you know I
think I was.
You told me you could tell hedidn't want to be bothered
because he has a hoodie on andhis headphones on.
You, just, you know, just, I'mnot gonna bother those people.
You just gotta do down and doyou, do you, do you, and when
you had um click yes, you knowyeah and then he's just like oh
yeah, and he's telling you know,I'm a drummer, you know he's
(24:38):
just the drummer from whitesnake?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
yeah, he's just a salesman, just like us.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah absolutely, he's a people guy yeah, so it just
depends on who you're, who youdeal with.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh, yeah, you know.
I think that alludes back towhat bartenders are probably the
best at reading body language.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I will say my favorite Cliff story.
You might have even been therethat night, but you know Cliff
would always come in hand you ahundred dollar bill and say
let's party.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
So wait, wait, wait, come on, let's paint a little
bit bigger picture for ouraudience.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So I don't know that we can even paint a picture of
Cliff.
He's just so.
I don't know that we can evenpaint a picture of Cliff.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
He's just so, I don't know.
Older silverhead guy Lookssuper young though.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Wearing three-piece suits To the T Pocket squares.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
These very exotic three-piece suits.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Doesn't look like a drummer from the 80s yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But he's doing some sort of real estate thing now,
flying across the country.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Well, he was also doing marijuana gross.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, probably that too.
Yeah, you know that could bepart of it and he was going to.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know he'd go to different places to get a look
for talent.
So you know he had a bunch ofdifferent.
He was handing out a lot ofdifferent deals.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I remember the night he came in and handed me a $100
bill I just made my firstmillion off my marijuana
grow-ups.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Oh yeah, More $100 bills.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Show me the other free samples.
Yeah, show me the other freesamples.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
No, give me free samples of the other stuff you
know Well, we did talk aboutthat last episode of guys that
literally handed us weed acrossthe bar.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Oh, yeah, edibles, all the time.
What are you?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
doing yeah, I, oh, yeah, edibles, all the time.
What are you doing?
I'm a pro in Arkansas, oh,colorado, okay, where are my
gummies?
The next thing, you know, youwalk back and you got a cookie
or you got a what's it called.
The best part is you pop it onthe way home.
And then, when you pop it onthe way home, you're like
sometimes it's okay and thensometimes you're like, oh my God
(26:32):
, it's a crap shoot.
Sometimes you don't I call itgummy roulette, it's all good,
you never know.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You never know what you're going to get until you
eat it.
Yeah, you're like that wascrazy, my favorite Cliff story.
So he walks in.
We have been hanging out withCliff for years at this point as
a regular Twice a week probablyat least and he comes in, he
goes up to JoJo and he goes JoJo.
What city am I in?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And she goes, this girl we used to bartend with.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You're in the only city you ever see me Dallas.
He goes oh shit, I'm supposedto be in Ohio or something.
He's like all right, you betterpour me a double.
I didn Better pour me a double.
He didn't know which way was up.
I remember I was there with youguys.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I was the well that night.
Where am I?
He didn't have a clue whatairport he was in.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
It was awesome, all right, well, give me a double
then.
If that's the case, can?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I get a 16-ounce glass of Kettle One.
No ice, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
One of a kind.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
One of a kind.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
One of a kind.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Such a great guy.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
You could be having the worst day and Cliff walks in
and your whole mood is going tochange.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He's just one of those guys that just steps in,
and it's a part of it.
All His energy is great, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Vibes Today's going to be alright.
Today's going to be alright.
You, today's going to be allright.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You know what?
Can I be honest with you?
Most of the people that flythrough, a lot of them.
They're usually good, but thenthere are those people that you
wish you never seen againAbsolutely.
Please don't come back.
You're like please don't comeback, Just because you can tell
by their energy.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Their energy is not good.
I don't want, yeah, when theydrain from your tank of energy,
that's when you're like okay.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, exactly, you know.
Don't come in and piss on myparade.
You know you're delayed, not me.
I'm trying to make it betterfor you.
Yeah, it's the only reason Ihave a freaking job.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yep, we tell them the bar, we're not dressing up.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I do not work for the airline operator Right.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And it doesn't help us People are like oh, you're
making money, we're delayed.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, we're not and it's raining.
Don't talk to me.
Talk to the guy upstairs.
He's the one that makes it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I did do a rain dance on my way to work today.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
We're the first line of defense, so take it out on
somebody absolutely absolutely Ilike to think most of the time
we win them over.
By the end of it they figureout that we're their friend
exactly and, but there's someyou just can't win, and you know
, it just is what it looks allright, you sometimes win and
sometimes you lose.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Sometimes you know it's for me, it's the
non-drinkers that they don'tlike me, but 95% of them are you
know.
They laugh and they chuckle andthey just you know it's not
that serious, but there are somepeople in the world that are
just too damn serious.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, people act like it's so absurd that you offer
them a drink at the bar.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You offer me alcohol at the bar.
Oh, my goodness, that's my jobdescription.
You know I'm a holy roller.
I go to church.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It does say grill and bar right here on my shirt.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, absolutely, and I'm not trying to be
blasphemous or anything, but youknow, just because you go to
church.
Point taken, I had this Muslimguy come in once.
Didn't Jesus drink wine?
He turned water to wine.
He drank wine yeah, absolutely.
He turned water to wine.
He drank wine yeah, absolutely.
That's why I can get after thatdude, because he does what I
did.
(29:59):
But, yeah, but at the end of theday it was.
A Muslim guy comes up and I'moffering you know, hey, you know
, start you over with a beer,wine, cocktail, you know that
stuff.
I look at them as dollar signs.
I don't care about yourreligion, I don't care what you
(30:19):
are.
All I care about is puttingyour tab up so I can make more
money.
What's this?
And he looks up at me and goes,oh no, I don't want to go to
hell.
And I'm like, okay, so I comeback and get him his little diet
drink or soda or whatever hegot.
You know he wants acheeseburger.
You know he goes.
I go, well, I'm an upseller, soI go.
(30:40):
You want to add bacon to thatcheeseburger?
Oh, you want to add bacon tothat cheeseburger?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Oh no, oh no, I don't want to go to hell and I'm like
, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So let me get this no alcohol, no bacon, no alcohol.
If I drink alcohol and eatbacon, I'm going to hell.
He goes, yes, I know.
Well, your hell is my heavenbrother.
And his eyes get all big.
Can't believe that.
I'm like all right, give it tome, I'll take it.
(31:10):
I'll take all your bacon, allyour alcohol, exactly, and so
and you know.
But but it's fun because youknow he looks at me and after
that he was fine.
But, um, but then I had anotherguy that said no, I'm muslim, I
don't drink.
He's on the phone, he comesback and he comes to the bar and
he orders a beer and I thoughtyou were my somebody to get a
drink.
He goes, I'm over here, I'mokay and I'm like okay, and I
(31:31):
don't care.
I gave him the drink, that'swhat he wanted.
But people reserve the right tochange their mind and the goal
is I influence them to changetheir mind and drink alcohol.
And I will stop you before youget too bad.
So when you get on your flight,you're not belligerent, or
(31:52):
what's it called.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I can only tell you one yeah, we are professional
arm twisters.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
That happened Sunday night.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Sammy was taken.
Sammy, sweet kid we work with,he's younger, he's still new to
it.
He's not as good at pushing thealcohol if someone doesn't want
it, like we kind of know how to.
Anyways, this guy had gottenwater and he's getting just some
beef tacos or something.
I'm like hey, man, you didn'tneed a drink.
He's like well, I had plenty ofbourbon on the plane I was like
(32:24):
I got Basil Hayden right herewith your name on it.
He goes oh shit, you have BasilHayden.
Okay, then boom.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
All right, here you go, here you go.
All it is is you're saying theright thing, you just need a
little arm twist, just a littlebit.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I like how you said it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
A little twist.
It's not a kick down a flightof stairs, it's just a little
push oh man.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
But it's a good time, man.
It's fun.
It's crazy.
You get to meet a lot of peopleat the airport.
You just see different types ofpersonalities, different
behaviors.
It's just a fun, fun, funnature of most people.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
And it's never the same, never the same, if you
like, people watching set in anairport terminal.
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yes, you know what I like.
I don't get those entitledregulars that they got out in
the real world that they expectyou to bend over run back and
forth to the kitchen and getthem 57 sides of ranch.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And maybe a quarter on all their bloodlines to judge
.
Thank you for the short nameBecause you don't tip.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm hoping you get the picture and don't come back.
That might be more attention.
Oh wait, did I say that outloud?
That's my inside voice.
My inside voice sometimes comesout, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Well, didn't Justin used to chase people in the
bathroom?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
that wouldn't tip Like he'd chase them out of the
restaurant and stuff if theywouldn't tip or didn't leave the
percentage that he wanted.
We'll have this young man on atsome point, a good friend of
mine.
Um, I'll call him billy.
He goes by another name, butI'll call him billy anyways.
I remember what I was workingat the irish pub, somebody, an
(34:19):
international terminal man.
People don't know better,seriously, they don't know
better in their countries.
You don't tip the waiterwaitress, they don't know you
know.
That's why the gratuity is onthe check anyways.
This table paid with cash.
They had a bunch of coins orsomething I'm talking, you know,
at least 20 pieces of coin,change coins on left on the
(34:44):
table.
What does Billy do?
He scrapes it up, follows themdown the terminal and throws it
at the window sitting next tothem and change just goes flying
everywhere.
Needless to say, billy got firedthat day.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I would expect that, but I would assume he knew that
when he did that and he mighthave not got a badge again.
That could almost be a soulfound federal property real talk
statute of limitations on Billy.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
hopefully is gone, oh man, so that's crazy.
That's crazy, that's crazy.
But yeah, you just see thatsometimes you know if you're
going to have anything go down.
(35:39):
Most people are good people,you know you don't have to worry
about much at the airport whensome people get angry.
Yes, I was at work the otherday and some dude bowed up to
one of the servers because hemumbled something to the server
and the server comes up and goes.
I'm sorry, what did you say?
(36:00):
Because he didn't literallyhear.
You can't hear it's loud in theairport and the guy bows up to
me and goes you got a problem.
Blah, blah, blah.
He had one drink with me.
Granted, it was an IPA, and hehounded it.
He wasn't going to come back, Iwasn't going to give him
another one, but he tried tofight him.
He was trying to fight thisperson.
Some people just can't handletheir alcohol.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
What's really going on at home?
Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I mean I literally helped the guy out.
I go look, bro, you're boardingright now and you're about a
seven to eight minute walk toyour gate.
Here's the check.
Let's go Get up.
This is going to tip me, butI'm helping him out.
But at the end of the day, youdo right.
You try to live a golden ruletype of life Do unto others as
(36:52):
you would have done unto you.
I look at it this way.
I try to treat people the waythat I would want them to treat
my daughter.
My daughters, just with respectand dignity, my daughter.
They sit at a bar and theydon't know how the bartender
gives them a little shit.
They know they're sitting at abar.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
My daughter works in a bar.
So yeah, tip, everybody tip, mydaughter Tip your waitress
they're putting up with.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
A lot of People are special, like COVID.
If either of the people werespecial before COVID, after
COVID, it's a whole new breed.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
COVID is when I stopped asking people if they
want doubles, yeah, I was likeI'm just not going to do that
anymore Because they startedtaking me up on it every time,
yeah.
And then they wanted 10 of themand I'm just like oh, no, no.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
and then they wanted 10 of them and I'm just like, oh
, covid was great, we were wideopen here in Texas you could
take your alcohol to go.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
That was nice, you could take your alcohol to go.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
People from Cali, crazy, michigan, new York.
They were all coming hereconnecting here so they can go
party in Mexico.
You got to meet some reallycool people that were you know,
that were kind of like-mindedbecause I wasn't a you know that
guy.
If you go, look back at all thecomplaints of me not wearing my
(38:15):
mask bartender didn't wear hismask.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
No, I didn't.
That's like you're sitting at abar, yeah you're sitting at a
bar, drink some tequila.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's what we do to kill it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, you know, the funny thing is is what I would
tell everybody is like I said,we have 22, 23 seats around the
bar.
Everybody would sit down.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
And we still had that many seats during.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
COVID, you'd have the bar fill up and everybody would
sit down and take their maskoff, right, and people would sit
down and leave their mask on,sitting next to 20 other people
that had their mask off, and I'mlike, and then they would take
their mask down to eat andwhatnot and I'm like you know
that when you sit down, theCOVID virus deactivates, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Isn't that the way?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
that it works.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
It's just crazy to me that these masks everybody
thought the mask was going totake care of everything.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
A lot of them didn't know when they would come to my
bar.
I'd be like just so you know,this is a no-mask bar, so if
you're going to wear a mask, gosit at the tables.
In this bar you don't wear amask, because a lot of people
would be like we can take ourmasks off and they would just
take them off.
And then it was just like therewas a whole different type of
(39:38):
you know.
There were a couple of Karens,don't get me wrong.
Don't get me wrong.
It was like whoa.
People were like this is Texas,we didn't do that here, that's
what we were talking aboutOutside the airport.
Inside the airport, the onlyreason the airport had to do the
mask was because it was federal.
Anywhere else in Texas aroundthe airport, nobody wore a mask.
(40:01):
I'm sending pictures of myfriends out at the bars, elbow
to elbow, partying, dancing,blah, blah, blah blah, and in
California and New York, andthey're like you, suck man,
because they're stuck in theirhouses.
You know, maybe they can gooutside and eat somewhere.
You know, it was just acompletely different world.
But the one thing that I domiss, the one thing I do miss
(40:22):
about COVID okay, is peopleactually wash their hands and as
a germaphobe, it was nice tosee people using proper hygiene,
because that's all it really is.
To stop the spread of being sickis proper hygiene.
Now you go to the bathroom andpeople are like you know.
They come out of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
They come out of the stall and don't wash their hands
and the next thing you knowthey're sitting at your bar and
people are like you know.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
They come out of the toilet, they come out of the
stall, they don't wash theirhands and the next thing you
know they're sitting at your barand I'm like you're nasty, and
then they want to shake yourhand when you introduce yourself
.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You're like okay.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
I'll be like fist bump, you know kind of a
situation.
You know, it's just that wasyou know.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Talk about integrity.
Yeah, integrity, it's crazy.
Well, hey guys, let's go aheadand wrap things up.
Jose, thank you so much forcoming on, and we would love to
have you back again.
I know you've got a lot morestories up your sleeve for us.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Absolutely.
Let me know when guys I'm freeTuesdays in the morning.
Every other Tuesdays, yeah,just let me know when guys I'm
free.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Tuesdays in the morning.
Every other Tuesdays, yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Just let me know when y'all need a guest and I would
be glad to fill in if I'm intown.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Perfect.
Thank you, Jose.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
So if you guys are flying through DFW Airport, come
and see me at Applebee's DFW,you know, go say what's up you
know, absolutely, absolutely up.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
You know absolutely.
Uh, thanks for tuning in guys.
Um, that'll wrap it up allright, y'all peace.
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