July 10, 2024 • 38 mins
Ever wonder what really happens behind the scenes at airport bars? Join us this week on Tales from an Airport Bar as we welcome my longtime friend Spencer, an airport restaurant veteran with over 13 years of experience. Spencer shares his unforgettable journey through various airport eateries like Riata Grill, Blue Mesa, and Uno's Pizza. From the grueling morning shifts and the unsympathetic owners to the labyrinthine badge process, Spencer reveals the gritty reality and rollercoaster of emotions that come with the territory. And don't miss the wild story of how a Yelp review almost got him fired—it's a cautionary tale you won't soon forget.
The episode then takes a hilarious turn as I recount my own whirlwind experiences, including an unexpected promotion that led to my role in opening a new IHOP. This sudden change caused a comedic and contentious exit from my previous job at Cantina. As we reminisce about workplace drama and job transitions, we also highlight the sense of camaraderie found at our beloved local hangout, The Apple. Whether it's bonding over bingo or enjoying good food, The Apple serves as a sanctuary where employees and patrons alike can unwind and create lasting friendships.
Finally, we explore some of the most outrageous and heartwarming airport stories: a chaotic adventure with a family friend during COVID and the unforgettable saga of a burst bathroom pipe that flooded a lounge and a Starbucks with ankle-deep water. These tales underscore the unpredictability and community spirit that define airport life. As we wrap up, we express our gratitude for your continued support and encourage you to like and follow the show. Remember, "you can't get hung over if you stay drunk!"
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back, guys.
Pull up a bar stool, grab abeer.
Welcome to episode six.
Tales from an Airport Bar.
Our guest this week is my good,good friend, spencer Spencer.
Welcome to the podcast thisweek.
Thanks for having me, sir.
Yes, sir, how are you doingtoday?
Living the dream, man.
(00:22):
Stop that.
Start living the life.
All right, give me a littlebackground.
How long have you been workingat the airport, where all of you
work?
Oh man we got what kind ofconcepts?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Like over 13 years at the airport, 17 in restaurant
industry altogether, Most of thestuff I've done in the airport.
I started at Riata Grill.
It was like steakhouse and kindof Tex-Mex.
They had really good tamales.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I remember that place .
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Upstairs.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, yeah, where Buffalo Wild Wings is now.
Yeah, it used to be Riata.
Yeah, that's where my daughterworks.
Oh, that's right, all right.
So anywho, yeah, that's where Istarted at the airport and then
moved around as stores opened.
It was just better money to goto new terminals, new stores.
In reality, I was in Terminal D, the international terminal.
(01:14):
I was just getting into theairports.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
the morning shifts, yep, where you know what you had
to do Get what you can get.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, so morning shifts in the international
terminal is a little rough.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But again, that was 13 years ago, so tipping culture
was even different then.
Like, the airport was theexpensive place to go.
Yes, like now, you can't go toCC's without dropping 100.
So it doesn't really pay outthat way.
It's evened us out more.
So, yeah, now the airport's notas fancy as it used to be.
(01:48):
So, yeah, then went to BlueMesa, opened that store from
Blue Mesa.
Well before Blue Mesa was a Uno,a Mexican food concept.
Blue Mesa was Mexican food andthen before that was Uno's pizza
.
Yeah, so Riyada was FGR foodsor whatever.
I forget what their companyname was, but anyhow, the guy
that owned the place wasn't thatcool.
(02:10):
So I opened this other pizzaplace for him.
And there was other bartendersthat I worked with that were
giving up their ships at Riyadato work over at that place.
And he just told us all hey,you can work two days over there
, that's it.
And I was working like workinglike three days at each
restaurant.
So three days at Rihanna andthen three days at Uno.
(02:31):
The guy came in.
The owner was like nah, y'allcan work two days over here.
I ain't got to explain nothingto you.
I was like dude, you just took$1,500 a month off of my table.
I need more of an explanationthan just we're all on the same
board here.
He was like I got 2,500employees.
I don't have time to care aboutyou.
I took my badge off, threw itat him, bounced it off his chin.
(02:52):
I had already started openingBlue Mesa probably five, six
days prior to that.
That was hilarious how I gotthat job.
Blue Mesa used to be belowRihanna.
It's our outdoor patio.
I could look over and see theirfull restaurant Open concept.
They did like fried food or no,the Blue Mesa.
(03:12):
It turned into a gas monkey,but before it was Blue Mesa,
which was a great Mexicanrestaurant.
Yeah, still is.
They're food.
They also have an iconic brunchin like downtown Fort Worth.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, the mimosa brunches oh for an iconic brunch
in like downtown Fort Worth.
Yeah, the mimosa brunches.
Oh, it's incredible Omelet baranything.
Enchiladas Adobe, chili,anything you could think of it's
incredible, incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I was working at Riatta and all my buddies got
hired on to open the new BlueMesa.
The owner was already beingdicked, so we all wanted to
leave and they sent me Back inthe day with the airport.
You had to get all your badgepaperwork, print it out and then
use the same colored pen tofill it all out.
Well, I remember it was worsethan going to the DMV trying to
(03:54):
get a badge.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I remember you used a blue or red pen.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I used to be a badge sponsor, so I'm the one that had
to make sure all that paperworkwas correct.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, because in the Inheritage you were allowed to
be a badge sponsor.
You have to be a minority to bea badge sponsor.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I was a liaison through HMS Host at the time
they don't get the tax cuts ifthey don't have their sponsor,
thing of minority.
So I walked down, had my buddysend me the email, printed out
all the badge paperwork, filledit all out, and then their area
director was down there at thestore one day and I've seen them
from the patio walk down thereand hand them all my paperwork.
(04:31):
He's like oh, when did we?
When do you start?
When did we hire you?
And I was like well, youhaven't hired me yet, but you're
going to like here's all thepaperwork.
You don't have to worry aboutthat, just give me a call when
you're ready.
Like two days days laterthey're like hey, man, we need
you here at four o'clock today.
Cool, I was like all right, butI told you that's how I got blue
Mesa and then from there endedup going to Cantina with you
(04:54):
guys.
That's a whole nother got firedfor some.
I've never been fired from anyplace in the airport for doing
my job.
It's always some bogus BS.
Like blue Mesa, it was a Yelpreview and then a week later the
company had to send out anemail that they will no longer
fire anyone over Yelp reviews,because everyone started writing
Yelp reviews to get peoplefired.
(05:14):
When you're making five $600 aday, it's kind of like a mafia.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like everyone, wants your job, whether you know it or
not, or whether you want tobelieve it or not those jobs are
very coveted.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's how it was at Blue Mesa.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Then I left there and went to Cantina and met you
guys.
Hell yeah, from Cantina I didRodeo Bar, which was just hot
dogs and chips and a lot ofdrunk people oh for sure, a
whole lot of drunk people.
Then I left and a lot of drunkpeople yeah for sure, a whole
lot of drunk people, jesus.
Then I left Rodeo and went toCantina for Star.
That bar was the mostdisgusting bar I've ever worked
(05:52):
in.
Took a one and D.
Yeah, like they're currentlytearing it down and turning it
into a Chili's Thank God.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Because you know we need more Chili's on the planet.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh yeah, well, you're doing the international thing,
bruh.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Americana baby.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I want my baby back bro.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I want my baby back.
Baby See, exactly, exactlyChilies.
Baby back Barbecue sauce.
Get in my belly, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So I remember working with you the first time.
I remember the first time Iever was introduced to a vaping
device that had I guess it wouldbe considered a controlled
substance Anyways a THC vape.
(06:44):
You guys have one at work andwe're like, hey, check this out.
You want to elaborate on thatat all, spencer?
I want to say that was aSaturday.
Both of you guys were there.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I want to say Spencer opened, chris was the mid and
then I was a closer.
We were all there in transitionthat day.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I think I were all there in transition that day.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I think I had to go home early that day.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, I mean, you got to remember too, I'm 35.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You're old and I'm just trying to get laid before I
graduate high school.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, so there's a big age difference here.
Shame on you when me and theteen agent bring in some new age
scientific weed that you push abutton.
I was getting cartridges andfilling them at this point.
They didn't come free.
You had to get two separatethings and heat it up with a
(07:39):
blow dryer and all kinds ofstupid stuff.
What a time to be alive.
It was great, but it was likethe crack of marijuana, mr Chris
here, doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It was like a microwave.
Yeah, let me tell you somethingyou don't know about me, joe
Brogan, I smoke rocks.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I smoke rocks baby.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So if you've ever handed Chris anything to smoke,
it happens quickly and intenselyyeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It happens quickly and intensely.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, it's like that scene in Half-Baked where Snoop
Dogg comes down and smokes awhole joint like two puffs.
That's what it's like sharingwith you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yes, I will ghost your weed my bad Secretly, I
like that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I want to say subconsciously, I knew you were
going to rip it and not be ableto stand.
Not subconsciously, we justknew it, we knew it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Next thing.
I know I'm freaking, slobberingon myself wondering what
terminal I'm in.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Just like the passengers.
I think you thought what planetyou were in.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Man, yeah, that was another level that day.
What was that?
Some?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Greek food.
Chris, you're going to have togo home.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You don't look so good, Chris I think I got this.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Why don't you go ahead and head out?
I think that's probably exactlywhat I told you.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I believe it was the Romulan, because I got there and
I saw.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Chris looking through me like I was a ghost and like
I was haunting the place, like Iwas Casper, Like here you want
some of what Chris had.
I said not really, but I'll tryit.
You're like no man, he justtook too much.
I don't really want to bewhatever this is, but I'll try
it.
Everything in moderation.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I still felt like.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I was floating, but I didn't feel like I was.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
At this point in my life, I've learned my lesson.
Are you sure I never repeat thesame mistake twice?
I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm pretty sure it happened 35 minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And then God, one of the first times Chris ever came
over to my apartment when I wasliving in Uptown living the
party life as a bachelor me andmy roommate at the 5 Mac.
Shout out to the OG.
We just purchased this bongtogether, which was about I
don't know what, do you think?
Two feet tall.
At least it had like a.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm a large man, and I mean, I'm not as big as you,
spencer, by any means.
You are giant, but I'm six foottall and this thing was half
the size of me, easily.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Easily so.
His name was LeBron James.
You're six foot tall.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I'm just a little bitty compared to you,
but we had just gotten this andChris came over.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This was whenever I first started working and met
Chris, probably maybe six monthsin, maybe less.
This is going on 10 years now.
Yeah, at this point, yeah, thiswas one of the first instances
and I said, hey, we got a newbong, come check it out.
He said, okay, and Chris is aconnoisseur, but he also does
too much and goes, he goes.
(10:41):
If there's a wall, he's goingheadfirst through it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Hey, this guy ain't half-assed a single thing in his
life.
No, that's what I'm saying.
He's going for it.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
He's reaching for the peach, all right, and so I knew
what it was.
I knew that this thing wouldknock you out.
It was probably about threefeet tall, probably had like
four different levels.
Anyways, it's crazy.
I'd like to think he did athird of it or one one hit.
(11:09):
He had to go on the patio smokea cigarette man, and then he
was like I don't think I candrive home tonight I think this
thing had 17 chambers in it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, how many, honestly.
How many, how?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
many chambers are there 36.
We still haven't got to thebottom of it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, so literally, how many filter chambers did
that thing have?
There were at least four.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
At least four honeycombs?
Yeah, it was.
It's really scientific.
I can't get into it right now.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Anyways, Chris was knocked out.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Was it for ants?
That's one of the first timesI've ever seen Chris just like.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm tapping out.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I was like, hey, I can't drive home tonight, I may
have to sleep on your couch.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was like I'm gonna at least have to sit here a good
hour.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Chris, that was one hit.
Nah, chris is taking more napson my couch than me.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, yes, we went okay.
So with that being said, allthat said, 20 minutes later we
go up on his rooftop where I cansmoke a cigarette, get some
fresh air.
This guy's really high.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Let's put him on the roof.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
After that it was good.
That was a hell of a view fromthe garage top, oh man.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That was overlooked.
All of Dallas.
Ultimate bachelor man.
Yeah, that was a cool place.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Have you all seen the TikTok, where it's the dude
with his two buddies.
He's like, yeah, have somerooftop beers with the boys.
Yeah, roofie boys.
And they're like, no, no don'tdo all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I have not seen that.
That's incredible we do roofieboys?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Dude, he's got like a compilation where he does it
like eight different times, likethat, no.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You can't say this oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Look that up, people.
Pretty good stuff.
I don't know the guy, it's justa funny video.
Let me go so.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I want you to tell me about the time, this one time,
at band camp.
So you worked with us.
So how did you exit when youleft Cantina jose?
Through text what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
oh okay, so that's interesting.
That brings us back to theoriginally, when I had opened
blue mesa and they fired me.
Like I worked with y'all for alittle while and then, uh, I got
a text from.
So there was, this guy drew andI trained him as a server, then
trained him in the bar, then itturns out he's friends with
owners or some crap and the AD,they're buddies, so he ends up
(13:32):
becoming a manager, and so whenthey fired me, he had just
started becoming a manager forBlue Mesa, which was DB Mitchell
, it's a company and they openedto IHOP and wanted him to be
the GM.
So he calls me why I'm at shiftwith one of you guys.
Yeah, one of you guys werethere and I got the call and
he's like hey, man, we're openon this IHOP.
(13:53):
Uh, we start trending on Monday.
I need you to come open thisbar for me.
I do recall that, and so I waslike all right, bet.
And then I just stopped showingup to candy Tina, as one does,
and it was probably a week afterI hadn't shut up for any of my
shifts, like the first two days.
I called, said I had some cartrouble or some shit.
Jose was like will you get yourshift covered?
And I was already calling youguys.
(14:15):
You were like yeah, we're goingto make more money.
There was three of us on theshift there only needs to be two
, so it's not like I was being adouche about it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Everyone was in on it , everyone was in on it, except
for Jose.
So the week after not showingup?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, he was our bar manager who was on our last
podcast Go on and I still hangout with Jose at the Hyatt.
Bought him some drinks, hebought me some drinks.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
He was on our last podcast, love Jose.
Please come back, jose.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But as a manager, I guess he felt he had to write up
some kind of termination letter.
And what was funny is he threwin this deal.
Like in our group chat, wedecided to include him because
we're cool with our managers.
We go out, we have beers, weyou know we're all just here to
work.
We're not doctors, that's it.
And so he was in our group chatand there was a message.
(15:04):
We had this girl, patsy, thatworked for us.
Super cute, fun, energetic,bubbly, really tiny, short girl,
dynamite, with a lot ofattitude, but really tiny girl,
you know.
There was a message, a tiktoklittle meme, something.
It was like a picture where ithad a basically a stick figure
and its dick was out and it wasresting on the other stick
figure's forehead and she saidsome comment that that gif was
(15:29):
an appropriate reply to.
But jose felt it to write up inhis message, like through
corporate and stuff, that I wasdoing inappropriate,
insubordinate things on groupmessaging.
On a work group message, I waslike no, that's not what it was,
because there was another dealwhere the liquor cage downstairs
had way too much of absolutelynothing and we were getting
(15:49):
bitched at for stocking liquorupstairs.
We were like, well, you haveall this BS down here.
I just sent him pictures ofthat because he sent a picture
of the upstairs cage.
So I sent a picture of thedownstairs cage.
He was like, well what, we gota lot of shit we don't need down
here, man, everything up therewe're using but anyhow.
So I just saw him.
(16:10):
After that happened, I saw thetermination email or whatever
and I was like that's stupid.
So I emailed it or forwarded itto all you guys.
Email or whatever.
I was like that's stupid.
I emailed it or forwarded it toall you guys.
We all had a laugh about it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's probably like three weeks later.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I do remember.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It's probably like three weeks later I'm at my
local bar, the Apple, off ofTrinity.
Shout out to the Apple, that'sa great airport bar.
The pizza's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Pizza's incredible.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You have to get that very large pizza.
Medium's not as good.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You've got to get the XL the New York style, real New
York Don't forget about that?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Friday buffet, baby, yes sir, that's incredible Two
drinks free buffet.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
They do that every day from like 1 to 4 o'clock,
monday through Friday, like 1 to4 o'clock and then they would
have that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What was that game, that raffle game?
That's fucking numbers.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
They don't do the raffles anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That used to be fun though we still do bingo on
Friday nights Didn't Parker winone?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh, Parker wins all the time.
My eight-year-old kills it atmusic bingo.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's a very family-oriented place.
Everyone's been working therefor 15, 20 years.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's really cool.
You feel like a family.
When you're there, you seepeople that you know.
It feels almost like a cheersbar.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We will have a future show featuring from the patio
of the Big Apple.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's a really solid airport bar.
There's a lot of communitythere.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You feel?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
protected as an airport employee drinking in
that bar, even as an employeethere's people there that are
waiting and drinking for peoplethat they're going to pick up
from a flight.
Oh yeah, All the airportthere's people there that are
waiting and drinking for peoplethat they're going to pick up
from a flight.
Oh, yeah, yeah, all the time,yeah, like I'm waiting to go to
Terminal C to pick up the flightfrom Temecula.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So it's like three weeks after I don't know.
It's like three weeks after allthat BS happened with him and
the email and I see him in theApple and he's like, hey, hard
feelings.
And I was like there's a littlehard feelings.
I don't feel the terminationletter was, you know,
necessarily accurate but.
I understand yeah, I was like Iunderstand your position you're
(18:05):
doing, you know your manager,tutorial bs.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
But come on bro you didn't have to fire me.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I quit a couple weeks ago, but you didn't notice and
I could have been straight upwith him, but I wasn't, because
I I mean, he has to do hiscorporate thing, I have to do my
fuck you employee thing.
So it was a fair trade.
There's two sides to the coin.
Jose's still a great guy.
We hang out, we love him.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, Jose will be a repeat guest on the podcast, I
promise.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Maybe even a reunion with everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Bring the Yoakums on.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Come on, guys, speaking of friends, there was
this one time you had a run-inwith a friend's mom on her way
to a funeral.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh yeah, so a really good friend of mine.
I grew up like these guys tookcare of me when I was kicked out
and 16 and living a hard lifeand whatnot.
But so like two years, yeah,again 35.
So half a lifetime ago, ok, soI still hang out with his
(19:18):
parents, ironically this wasonly a no, spencer.
I'm old, my life's half over.
I mean we're all dying from themoment we're born.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Hey, we're all dying.
Let's just get through this,yes.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
All right, let's go.
So if you'd stop interruptingme, you smirky little neighbor,
All right.
So all right, so ironically shecame out I think it was a
thursday, but I had monday wokeup early, put the kids on the
bus and stuff and then went andgot saltgrass and then their
house was just down the streetand so I stopped in there.
(19:48):
It's usually just his dad, hismom's always traveling around,
but anyhow, stopped in there,brought him a porterhouse, we
smoked, had a good time, gavehim some lunch, was like all
right, man see y'all later.
Nice visit.
They're kind of like parents tome Mine are dead or dead.
So a couple days later on thatThursday she calls me.
She was like, hey, are youworking?
(20:08):
My buddy's mom and I was likeyeah, yeah, yeah, I'm at work.
She, yet I was like, uh, dextension, I'm down at d one
through four.
She's like okay, I'm gonna comedown there.
I got a flight to catch.
I was like all right, cool.
She walks up, sits in the bar,tells me about, uh, how her aunt
, I think, passed away and goingto the funeral and I was like
all right, so I'm serving herdrinks and uh, she's there for
(20:30):
about three hours flight delaysand weather or something, but uh
, y'all gotta understand.
I've known this woman more thanhalf my life, yeah, yeah, and
she's been like we used to stealcigarettes from them because
they have cartons and there wasalways booze out, because
they're alcoholics, like goodpeople, but they smoke weed
cigarettes and drink.
Well, she doesn't smokecigarettes anymore, but anyhow,
(20:50):
they still drink a lot.
So I've seen this lady drink myentire existence of knowing her
that's's how you know her.
Yeah, by no means necessary.
Did I think I was ever going toover-serve her?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
She's a professional drinker.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Solid professional drinker.
So we're about two and a halfhours in and I'm like, hey, you
know they changed your gate.
You got to go over to TerminalE now Is that like E20 something
?
I was like you need to getgoing.
You got 30 minutes until theystart boring.
So she pays out, goes, and Ithink it was six Tito's and
cranberries in two and a halfhours, which I mean for normal
(21:26):
people it's not that bad.
But after the sixth one andlistening to her talk and stuff,
I was like, hey, what time didyou hear about this funeral
stuff?
She's like, oh, I got the callat seven this morning.
I was like, oh, it's like 6 30at night.
I'm like, well, did you wake upand have some drinks?
She's like, yeah, yeah, I'vebeen drinking all day.
I was like, okay, now you gotit, now it's making sense.
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I was like, well, don't talk toanybody, just get on the plane
and get going head down, showthem your boarding pass yep just
roll on.
So I'm walking, I'm doing my barthing, it you know, our bar is
a big triangle.
There's four gates, two on eachside of the bar, and we're the
only thing down there I see, sowith delays.
I mean there's 80 peoplestanding around this bar You're
getting rushed.
Yeah, it's like an ant pile andyou drop the freaking sugar cube
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on it.
So I get a call from herhusband, my buddy Mark, and he's
like dude, what the fuck didyou do to Angie?
She is wasted.
She doesn't know where she's at, doesn't know how to get to her
gate.
And I was like, oh my God, areyou serious?
So then I call her and I'm likehey, where the hell are you at?
She's like I'm by the bathrooms.
I'm like there's a thousand ofthose.
Can you see some numbers orsigns Like which bathroom are
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you by?
And I was like, okay, I knowexactly where you are.
So I go up there.
I find her and I'm like we gotto fucking go.
I look up the gate again.
I'm like, all right, cool, wegot to get on the fucking
Skylink, take the train over toE.
It aborted when I was talking toher.
It was three minutes pastshutdown time.
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I was like, yeah, now we're at,I think, 12 minutes until
departure.
I was like there's no way thedoor's going to be open.
I'm taking her there.
We're on the train riding.
She's got the waist.
It's staggering Ladies in their60s.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That train's hard to stand on sober.
It goes fast and it stops fast,but you don't want to sit yeah,
so I mean we're she's holdingon to me.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm better, I got her backpack or suitcase or
whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And we get there I have to take this later down,
then run over to it and they'restanding at the gate with the
doors closed and she's like hey,hey, I need to get on this
plane.
And they're like what's yourname?
She tells them her name andthey're like okay, cool, I need
to get on this plane.
And they're like what's yourname?
She tells them her name andthey're like okay, cool,
frontier.
They open the door and thislady took her off my arm and
fucking walked her down the jetbridge.
I was like no way this justhappened.
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I stand there by four Americangates and watch the closed doors
of people's faces all day long.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
They'll close it 15 minutes early.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Give you the double bird and then smile at you Well,
we're down at D1, and they'relike excuse me, I missed my
flight.
They're like too bad, d24 iscustomer service.
Like they don't even talk tothem or help them.
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They're like, we've been waiting for you.
We'd love to have you Come onin.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Come on in, baby, here's the red carpet, let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Took her off my arm and walked her on the flight.
Here's a glass of milk, get onthe plane.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And then she calls me on the plane and she's like I'm
on the plane, there's a reallynice guy next to me he grabs the
phone he's like hey, don'tworry bro, I think she's about
to go to sleep pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We're going to make sure she's cool.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'm like all right, I'm kind of like I don't know
who those guys were, but shoutout to them Good people
everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
She called me.
When she got there she was likeyeah, I made it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Those guys on the plane were so nice.
That's fucking awesome thatjust goes to show, man, there's
a difference with alcohol in theairport and I don't know what
it is.
I've been around alcoholics andan alcoholic my whole life.
Something about the airportchanges the drinking.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't get it.
Something about the airportchanges the drinking.
I don't get it.
Well, I also think since COVID,things have changed a lot.
I think people are a lot moreparanoid to fly.
I think they're taking Xanax,whatever.
No, COVID was way worse.
What was?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
it Two months into our COVID quarantine in our
state.
You look and you see, and itsays alcohol sales are up 532%.
You're like Jesus.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Christ In times of crisis.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
They already had to be high here.
What is there to do?
Here you go drink.
That's the culture.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
As long as I've been drinking, I feel since after
COVID, the chemical compositionmakeup of alcohol, something has
changed.
Do they make drinks differentlynow?
I don't know.
Something is different.
Y'all watched me and Corey sitthere and kill candles.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It's called promethazine.
No, promethazine was fun, mademy wee wee happy when these
people are taking thesetranquilizers and whatnot before
they ever get to the airportand then, all of a sudden,
they're delayed and they're like, well shit, I'm going to have a
drink.
They forgot delayed and they'relike, well shit, I'm gonna have
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a drink.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
They forgot they took something, they mixed that
alcohol with whatever they took.
We see that all the time andthat was because all the delays,
even weather delays, and I tellpeople multiple times I'm like,
look guys, don't take yourmedication till wheels up.
Yeah, like chew it up, snortedif you wanted to work that fast.
But you go ahead and thinkyou're boarding in 10 minutes
you pop a pill, walk over to thegate.
Now it's the late hour and ahalf.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The Xanax ain't waiting.
And let me get a double jack towash it down.
That's not going to work.
But I also think, since COVID,anxiety and all that stuff has
gone up, so everybody's on it.
So maybe that's part of it,that everybody's taking it and
everybody's drinking it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It got so bad during COVID that the FAA changed rules
and regulations for alcoholbrought onto the aircrafts.
You can no longer since COVIDthat's when that started bring
alcohol of your own onto anaircraft.
They went from 3,200 cases inover 12 years to 38,000 in one
month.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Like.
I watched ladies in their 50sduct, taped to wheelchairs and
gagged, being rolled out ofairplanes.
It was a bunch of people thatdidn't know how to travel, but
now they were getting paid andhad some money in the bank and
flights were cheap and thekicker was you could take your
mask off if you were sitting ina bar drinking.
So lots of people that don'tusually drink, maybe even you
yourself, sir would have sat ina bar and possibly ordered a
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cocktail.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Can I get a Corona please From here?
Maybe you have it.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm not going to drink it, but I'm going to tip.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Can you salt the?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
rim.
I want to lick the bottle.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So COVID was a shit show.
Like we watched a lady walkinto the back of Cantina, drop
her panties to knee level, squatand just piss in the middle of
the back of the restaurant andthen pull them up and walk out
like it was a normal Wednesday,dude, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Should I tell the story about the leak.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah .
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Spencer.
I'll have to show you video ofthis later.
This was insane.
This was probably I don't knowmaybe four months ago, something
like that, not that long ago.
Okay, it's a Saturday, I'mworking alone, open the bar, no
problem, chilling, hanging out.
It's like 1245.
I've got an hour and 15 minutes.
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I'm about to go home, justchilling, cruising, all of a
sudden straight across from thebar.
So our bar doesn't have walls,so you can see into the terminal
.
So it's the best peoplewatching on the planet.
It's incredible.
Uh, I start to look across it.
There's a lounge across from usand there's a starbucks to the
left of that and then to the farright there there's an
escalator that comes down to thetrain that takes you to all the
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terminals, to kind of give youa description.
So I'm looking straight aheadto the lounge and I've got a
full bar.
I start to see something comingout of the ceiling and it's a
liquid and I'm like is therewater leaking?
It's not raining.
And then I start to notice thecolor of the liquid is more of a
golden hue and I'm like, hmm,okay, and at first it's just a
(28:55):
small leak, but there's a halfinch on the floor and then one
of the ceiling panels like ifyou can imagine in an office,
like the giant rectangularceiling panels one of those
falls through because it's sosoaked and now there's just a
waterfall of yellow and yes,sorry not to interrupt the story
(29:15):
, guys but we're outside with anice view of a little foyer
behind us kind of area andthey're trimming trees.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So, as Blake's telling the story, there's a guy
holding a giant branch, so itjust looks like a freaking tree
walking, one of those likegorilla suits or something like.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I'm trying to take you seriously, like I just can't
focus right now.
I just can't do it.
There's a whole tree justbouncing.
This tree is dancing behind you.
I don't know if you know thisall right.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
So ceiling tiles are, and then orange amber, yes, and
one has fallen.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
A second one falls, and now it's about 10 gallons of
water dropping every threeseconds, I don't know, and
they're yellow.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I remember the video.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yes, this is now going into the restaurant.
It's going into the passengerlounge where two flight
attendants are trapped.
They have to step up onto thatexterior bar and help them Build
a ramp.
No, I'm just walking through it.
I'm in my Skechers.
I don't care, I'm walkingthrough it and I have to step
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and help these two flightattendants out of the lounge
because the floor is a half inchto three inches of piss,
because you come to find outthat these were the bathroom
pipes that have now busted.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
So we're ankle deep in urine.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yes, and so I get them out of there.
I get their luggage out ofthere right before it goes all
the way.
Now it's going into theescalators, it's going into the
back of the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now there's a waterfall.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
It's going into the Starbucks, and now there's like
the the video on this was great.
There's a glass gate I'll haveto put a link to it in the
fucking description of thisvideo because it's insane.
You won't believe it.
And then so our exterior islike a small thing, glass wall.
Now it's coming in through there, it's coming through the exit,
and so there's a phone on thewall where it's like that movie,
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the Blob.
That's literally what it is,but it's airport pits, the worst
pits, the worst you could everimagine.
There's pieces of paper in it.
It's insane.
And so you know there's thatphone for the airport on the
wall if you have an emergency orwhatever you can call like you
get the white phone.
Yeah, you can pick people up inwheelchairs at the restaurant
yeah, you know, if you know yourextension I picked that up and
(31:21):
I'm just pressing zero.
I'm like, hey, the pipes areleaking, I just need somebody
out here.
They they're like what?
And I'm like, yeah, there'sabout 50 gallons of I don't know
what.
At this point I haven't figuredit out.
I know it's a weird color, butI'm like of water leaking from
the ceiling.
Can you please get someone here?
They don't believe me.
They're like sir, what are youtalking about, ma'am?
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There is piss flying out of theceiling.
Piss flying out of the ceiling.
Starbucks is underwater.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's like if the Titanic was a toilet.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, Our restaurant's underwater.
Can you please help us?
She's like I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Can you please?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
just send someone to be whatever.
Please come out here.
It takes them an hour to getout there.
They get one of those gianttrash bins that they wheel
around the airport and they justput that underneath.
Within 10 minutes that's filledand overflowing.
Don't let go, jack.
They have that overflowing intoa trash can and then they have
to get another one.
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I'm like who is going to movethis?
Anyways, the craziest thingI've ever seen.
People are just walking around.
I'm like you might not want towalk through the piss and shit.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Because people are coming down the train escalators
.
At this point there's peanutsjust floating around.
It's happening so quickly.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I've just seen people slipping and sliding everywhere
.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I swear to God, people have snorkels out.
People have fins.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
They're getting through it, so people are coming
down the escalator.
It's happened so quickly,within a 10-15 minute period.
The airport doesn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
There's no one.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
No, there's no one there to even.
Is this a morning shift?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yes, it's about 1 o'clock in the afternoon on a
Saturday?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, nobody's there, and so the people that need to
fix things aren't there orthey're not listening.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
And the 2 o'clock hasn't showed up to relieve you.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Bailey.
I'm like Bailey, where are you?
You won't believe this shit,literally this shit.
Bring your floaties, little guy.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
And they won't.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
There's no one there to tell people when they get to
the bottom of the escalator.
Hey, you're walking through twoinches of piss.
I'm like go back up.
Well, you still can Go back up.
You know how to call Bailey andbe like Bailey.
You may not.
You might need the four-wheeldrive.
Anyways, god damn, I don't know.
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The next day I came back and itwas fine, but the bathrooms
were closed for two months themain water line over IHOP.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Kristen showed me a video at like 6.30 in the
morning.
It just busted through theceiling so there were two pipes
just right over there likelittle.
As soon as you walk in, therestaurant host stands on the
right side like rectangle lshape.
Yeah, you think you're arainforest cafe right yeah, and
then the to-go area is all rightthere that sells the coffee.
It, busted right over it, likeone of the pipes, is just
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draining the bos system.
Oh my god yeah so they were like, okay, we'll just uh, let's go
ahead and tap them beers.
Grab some bags of rice, we'llput them in front of the water
flow, make it drain into the bar.
Yeah, it took them seven hoursto get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Didn't send anybody home no, no, oh, they didn't
shut the restaurant down.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They kept trying to set people.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I'm like they're gonna walk through the cell cell
, cell the piss had gone intothe kitchen, I'm like, okay,
yeah, we'll stay open.
What about all the times?
okay, so y'all remember back inlike I would like to see time to
time we are first responders2014 ish, when, uh, uh, tgi
fridays and terminal d rememberthat used to be at like d 34 ish
(34:48):
.
Yeah, it had that corner spotwhere Wolfgang Puck is now.
So they had one of the cooksthat was pissed off and he was
dumping the grease in the drainsevery night.
Yeah, I've seen stuff like that.
Yeah, well, no, this was a bigthing.
Yeah, man Cause they it backedup Everybody's, shut down that
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whole section of D, like theyhad to find them, and that's
what closed them down at thatlocation, because they had to
pay fines and they're likeyou're not renewing your spot
now you allow this to happen now, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
But so there's this, this bar that serves pizza in
the airport.
The cook in the back thought hecould just put the pizza dough
that wasn't good down the drainof the back and just shut that
down.
He was doing doing that everyday.
If he made a bad batch he'djust throw it all down the
fucking grain and just push itdown and just move on.
Didn't tell any.
Oh my god.
I'm like grease okay, Maybe ifyou don't understand, but I'm
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like you put fucking pizza doughdown the drain.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You were managing at this point so you would remember
that's when they changed theregulations.
Then they had the grease thingsthat you had to pour it in and
wheel it all the way out to thefront, that dude at TGI Fridays
is why that happened?
Because we used to have barrelsthat they would pump it into
and take it down to the store.
Well then, that dude did that toFridays, cost him millions of
dollars.
(36:04):
And we're up in Riyadh at thatpoint with mcdonald's below us.
So mcdonald's grease flowed upinto our restaurant like dude.
It was raining down because itwas, uh, above what do you call
that?
Metronia sea level.
No, the restaurant was two-storywith overhanging mezzanine
mezzanine, yeah, it wasmezzanine style which you were
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talking about.
Scenery in the airport, dude,when I first I first started
there, I was coming from streetside and to the left of my bar
in the mornings was just a fullglass railing where you overhung
and looked down on thousands ofpeople walking by all day In
the international terminal andbrawls are not for every country
Like that was one of the besttimes, like I went from street
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side to lookie here.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Spencer, tell us how you really feel.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
And I made more money .
Sorry for partying the morning.
Bartending gig is rough thoughman, Especially if you go out
and day drink afterwards.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Well, that'll get you .
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Some of us bartenders don't even drink.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well, I'd sit in the parking lot and get high with
you for an hour and a half andthen be stuck in traffic for 45
minutes.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Well, there you go.
We got off at 3 if we hung outfor an hour.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Now it's 4.30 and I'm trying to go.
Other than being traffic sober,though, touche, but I could
have smoked weed and not been intraffic.
True, like I'd still stop atthe bar, because then I was like
, well, there's going to betraffic, I'll just stop at the
bar until the traffic dies down.
Now it's 7 o'clock and I'msleeping in the bar parking lot.
Chris is on his second Domino'sorder.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Spencer.
That's about all the time wegot for today.
I have so much more to tell.
We barely scratched the surface, spencer.
We will have you back on.
Thank you so much for coming onand being a guest this week.
Guys, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2 (38:23):
guys, you can't get hung over if you stay drunk.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Sure, all right, y'all Peace.
Welcome back, guys.
Pull up a bar stool, grab abeer.
Welcome to episode six.
Tales from an Airport Bar.
Our guest this week is my good,good friend, spencer Spencer.
Welcome to the podcast thisweek.
Thanks for having me, sir.
Yes, sir, how are you doingtoday?
Living the dream, man.
(00:22):
Stop that.
Start living the life.
All right, give me a littlebackground.
How long have you been workingat the airport, where all of you
work?
Oh man we got what kind ofconcepts?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Like over 13 years at the airport, 17 in restaurant
industry altogether, Most of thestuff I've done in the airport.
I started at Riata Grill.
It was like steakhouse and kindof Tex-Mex.
They had really good tamales.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I remember that place .
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Upstairs.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, yeah, where Buffalo Wild Wings is now.
Yeah, it used to be Riata.
Yeah, that's where my daughterworks.
Oh, that's right, all right.
So anywho, yeah, that's where Istarted at the airport and then
moved around as stores opened.
It was just better money to goto new terminals, new stores.
In reality, I was in Terminal D, the international terminal.
(01:14):
I was just getting into theairports.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
the morning shifts, yep, where you know what you had
to do Get what you can get.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, so morning shifts in the international
terminal is a little rough.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But again, that was 13 years ago, so tipping culture
was even different then.
Like, the airport was theexpensive place to go.
Yes, like now, you can't go toCC's without dropping 100.
So it doesn't really pay outthat way.
It's evened us out more.
So, yeah, now the airport's notas fancy as it used to be.
(01:48):
So, yeah, then went to BlueMesa, opened that store from
Blue Mesa.
Well before Blue Mesa was a Uno,a Mexican food concept.
Blue Mesa was Mexican food andthen before that was Uno's pizza
.
Yeah, so Riyada was FGR foodsor whatever.
I forget what their companyname was, but anyhow, the guy
that owned the place wasn't thatcool.
(02:10):
So I opened this other pizzaplace for him.
And there was other bartendersthat I worked with that were
giving up their ships at Riyadato work over at that place.
And he just told us all hey,you can work two days over there
, that's it.
And I was working like workinglike three days at each
restaurant.
So three days at Rihanna andthen three days at Uno.
(02:31):
The guy came in.
The owner was like nah, y'allcan work two days over here.
I ain't got to explain nothingto you.
I was like dude, you just took$1,500 a month off of my table.
I need more of an explanationthan just we're all on the same
board here.
He was like I got 2,500employees.
I don't have time to care aboutyou.
I took my badge off, threw itat him, bounced it off his chin.
(02:52):
I had already started openingBlue Mesa probably five, six
days prior to that.
That was hilarious how I gotthat job.
Blue Mesa used to be belowRihanna.
It's our outdoor patio.
I could look over and see theirfull restaurant Open concept.
They did like fried food or no,the Blue Mesa.
(03:12):
It turned into a gas monkey,but before it was Blue Mesa,
which was a great Mexicanrestaurant.
Yeah, still is.
They're food.
They also have an iconic brunchin like downtown Fort Worth.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, the mimosa brunches oh for an iconic brunch
in like downtown Fort Worth.
Yeah, the mimosa brunches.
Oh, it's incredible Omelet baranything.
Enchiladas Adobe, chili,anything you could think of it's
incredible, incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I was working at Riatta and all my buddies got
hired on to open the new BlueMesa.
The owner was already beingdicked, so we all wanted to
leave and they sent me Back inthe day with the airport.
You had to get all your badgepaperwork, print it out and then
use the same colored pen tofill it all out.
Well, I remember it was worsethan going to the DMV trying to
(03:54):
get a badge.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I remember you used a blue or red pen.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I used to be a badge sponsor, so I'm the one that had
to make sure all that paperworkwas correct.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, because in the Inheritage you were allowed to
be a badge sponsor.
You have to be a minority to bea badge sponsor.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I was a liaison through HMS Host at the time
they don't get the tax cuts ifthey don't have their sponsor,
thing of minority.
So I walked down, had my buddysend me the email, printed out
all the badge paperwork, filledit all out, and then their area
director was down there at thestore one day and I've seen them
from the patio walk down thereand hand them all my paperwork.
(04:31):
He's like oh, when did we?
When do you start?
When did we hire you?
And I was like well, youhaven't hired me yet, but you're
going to like here's all thepaperwork.
You don't have to worry aboutthat, just give me a call when
you're ready.
Like two days days laterthey're like hey, man, we need
you here at four o'clock today.
Cool, I was like all right, butI told you that's how I got blue
Mesa and then from there endedup going to Cantina with you
(04:54):
guys.
That's a whole nother got firedfor some.
I've never been fired from anyplace in the airport for doing
my job.
It's always some bogus BS.
Like blue Mesa, it was a Yelpreview and then a week later the
company had to send out anemail that they will no longer
fire anyone over Yelp reviews,because everyone started writing
Yelp reviews to get peoplefired.
(05:14):
When you're making five $600 aday, it's kind of like a mafia.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like everyone, wants your job, whether you know it or
not, or whether you want tobelieve it or not those jobs are
very coveted.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's how it was at Blue Mesa.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Then I left there and went to Cantina and met you
guys.
Hell yeah, from Cantina I didRodeo Bar, which was just hot
dogs and chips and a lot ofdrunk people oh for sure, a
whole lot of drunk people.
Then I left and a lot of drunkpeople yeah for sure, a whole
lot of drunk people, jesus.
Then I left Rodeo and went toCantina for Star.
That bar was the mostdisgusting bar I've ever worked
(05:52):
in.
Took a one and D.
Yeah, like they're currentlytearing it down and turning it
into a Chili's Thank God.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Because you know we need more Chili's on the planet.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh yeah, well, you're doing the international thing,
bruh.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Americana baby.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I want my baby back bro.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I want my baby back.
Baby See, exactly, exactlyChilies.
Baby back Barbecue sauce.
Get in my belly, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So I remember working with you the first time.
I remember the first time Iever was introduced to a vaping
device that had I guess it wouldbe considered a controlled
substance Anyways a THC vape.
(06:44):
You guys have one at work andwe're like, hey, check this out.
You want to elaborate on thatat all, spencer?
I want to say that was aSaturday.
Both of you guys were there.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I want to say Spencer opened, chris was the mid and
then I was a closer.
We were all there in transitionthat day.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I think I were all there in transition that day.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I think I had to go home early that day.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, I mean, you got to remember too, I'm 35.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You're old and I'm just trying to get laid before I
graduate high school.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, so there's a big age difference here.
Shame on you when me and theteen agent bring in some new age
scientific weed that you push abutton.
I was getting cartridges andfilling them at this point.
They didn't come free.
You had to get two separatethings and heat it up with a
(07:39):
blow dryer and all kinds ofstupid stuff.
What a time to be alive.
It was great, but it was likethe crack of marijuana, mr Chris
here, doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It was like a microwave.
Yeah, let me tell you somethingyou don't know about me, joe
Brogan, I smoke rocks.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I smoke rocks baby.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So if you've ever handed Chris anything to smoke,
it happens quickly and intenselyyeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It happens quickly and intensely.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, it's like that scene in Half-Baked where Snoop
Dogg comes down and smokes awhole joint like two puffs.
That's what it's like sharingwith you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yes, I will ghost your weed my bad Secretly, I
like that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I want to say subconsciously, I knew you were
going to rip it and not be ableto stand.
Not subconsciously, we justknew it, we knew it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Next thing.
I know I'm freaking, slobberingon myself wondering what
terminal I'm in.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Just like the passengers.
I think you thought what planetyou were in.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Man, yeah, that was another level that day.
What was that?
Some?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Greek food.
Chris, you're going to have togo home.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You don't look so good, Chris I think I got this.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Why don't you go ahead and head out?
I think that's probably exactlywhat I told you.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I believe it was the Romulan, because I got there and
I saw.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Chris looking through me like I was a ghost and like
I was haunting the place, like Iwas Casper, Like here you want
some of what Chris had.
I said not really, but I'll tryit.
You're like no man, he justtook too much.
I don't really want to bewhatever this is, but I'll try
it.
Everything in moderation.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I still felt like.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I was floating, but I didn't feel like I was.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
At this point in my life, I've learned my lesson.
Are you sure I never repeat thesame mistake twice?
I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm pretty sure it happened 35 minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And then God, one of the first times Chris ever came
over to my apartment when I wasliving in Uptown living the
party life as a bachelor me andmy roommate at the 5 Mac.
Shout out to the OG.
We just purchased this bongtogether, which was about I
don't know what, do you think?
Two feet tall.
At least it had like a.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm a large man, and I mean, I'm not as big as you,
spencer, by any means.
You are giant, but I'm six foottall and this thing was half
the size of me, easily.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Easily so.
His name was LeBron James.
You're six foot tall.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I'm just a little bitty compared to you,
but we had just gotten this andChris came over.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This was whenever I first started working and met
Chris, probably maybe six monthsin, maybe less.
This is going on 10 years now.
Yeah, at this point, yeah, thiswas one of the first instances
and I said, hey, we got a newbong, come check it out.
He said, okay, and Chris is aconnoisseur, but he also does
too much and goes, he goes.
(10:41):
If there's a wall, he's goingheadfirst through it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Hey, this guy ain't half-assed a single thing in his
life.
No, that's what I'm saying.
He's going for it.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
He's reaching for the peach, all right, and so I knew
what it was.
I knew that this thing wouldknock you out.
It was probably about threefeet tall, probably had like
four different levels.
Anyways, it's crazy.
I'd like to think he did athird of it or one one hit.
(11:09):
He had to go on the patio smokea cigarette man, and then he
was like I don't think I candrive home tonight I think this
thing had 17 chambers in it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, how many, honestly.
How many, how?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
many chambers are there 36.
We still haven't got to thebottom of it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, so literally, how many filter chambers did
that thing have?
There were at least four.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
At least four honeycombs?
Yeah, it was.
It's really scientific.
I can't get into it right now.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Anyways, Chris was knocked out.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Was it for ants?
That's one of the first timesI've ever seen Chris just like.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm tapping out.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I was like, hey, I can't drive home tonight, I may
have to sleep on your couch.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was like I'm gonna at least have to sit here a good
hour.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Chris, that was one hit.
Nah, chris is taking more napson my couch than me.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, yes, we went okay.
So with that being said, allthat said, 20 minutes later we
go up on his rooftop where I cansmoke a cigarette, get some
fresh air.
This guy's really high.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Let's put him on the roof.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
After that it was good.
That was a hell of a view fromthe garage top, oh man.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That was overlooked.
All of Dallas.
Ultimate bachelor man.
Yeah, that was a cool place.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Have you all seen the TikTok, where it's the dude
with his two buddies.
He's like, yeah, have somerooftop beers with the boys.
Yeah, roofie boys.
And they're like, no, no don'tdo all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I have not seen that.
That's incredible we do roofieboys?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Dude, he's got like a compilation where he does it
like eight different times, likethat, no.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You can't say this oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Look that up, people.
Pretty good stuff.
I don't know the guy, it's justa funny video.
Let me go so.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I want you to tell me about the time, this one time,
at band camp.
So you worked with us.
So how did you exit when youleft Cantina jose?
Through text what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
oh okay, so that's interesting.
That brings us back to theoriginally, when I had opened
blue mesa and they fired me.
Like I worked with y'all for alittle while and then, uh, I got
a text from.
So there was, this guy drew andI trained him as a server, then
trained him in the bar, then itturns out he's friends with
owners or some crap and the AD,they're buddies, so he ends up
(13:32):
becoming a manager, and so whenthey fired me, he had just
started becoming a manager forBlue Mesa, which was DB Mitchell
, it's a company and they openedto IHOP and wanted him to be
the GM.
So he calls me why I'm at shiftwith one of you guys.
Yeah, one of you guys werethere and I got the call and
he's like hey, man, we're openon this IHOP.
(13:53):
Uh, we start trending on Monday.
I need you to come open thisbar for me.
I do recall that, and so I waslike all right, bet.
And then I just stopped showingup to candy Tina, as one does,
and it was probably a week afterI hadn't shut up for any of my
shifts, like the first two days.
I called, said I had some cartrouble or some shit.
Jose was like will you get yourshift covered?
And I was already calling youguys.
(14:15):
You were like yeah, we're goingto make more money.
There was three of us on theshift there only needs to be two
, so it's not like I was being adouche about it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Everyone was in on it , everyone was in on it, except
for Jose.
So the week after not showingup?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, he was our bar manager who was on our last
podcast Go on and I still hangout with Jose at the Hyatt.
Bought him some drinks, hebought me some drinks.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
He was on our last podcast, love Jose.
Please come back, jose.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But as a manager, I guess he felt he had to write up
some kind of termination letter.
And what was funny is he threwin this deal.
Like in our group chat, wedecided to include him because
we're cool with our managers.
We go out, we have beers, weyou know we're all just here to
work.
We're not doctors, that's it.
And so he was in our group chatand there was a message.
(15:04):
We had this girl, patsy, thatworked for us.
Super cute, fun, energetic,bubbly, really tiny, short girl,
dynamite, with a lot ofattitude, but really tiny girl,
you know.
There was a message, a tiktoklittle meme, something.
It was like a picture where ithad a basically a stick figure
and its dick was out and it wasresting on the other stick
figure's forehead and she saidsome comment that that gif was
(15:29):
an appropriate reply to.
But jose felt it to write up inhis message, like through
corporate and stuff, that I wasdoing inappropriate,
insubordinate things on groupmessaging.
On a work group message, I waslike no, that's not what it was,
because there was another dealwhere the liquor cage downstairs
had way too much of absolutelynothing and we were getting
(15:49):
bitched at for stocking liquorupstairs.
We were like, well, you haveall this BS down here.
I just sent him pictures ofthat because he sent a picture
of the upstairs cage.
So I sent a picture of thedownstairs cage.
He was like, well what, we gota lot of shit we don't need down
here, man, everything up therewe're using but anyhow.
So I just saw him.
(16:10):
After that happened, I saw thetermination email or whatever
and I was like that's stupid.
So I emailed it or forwarded itto all you guys.
Email or whatever.
I was like that's stupid.
I emailed it or forwarded it toall you guys.
We all had a laugh about it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's probably like three weeks later.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I do remember.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It's probably like three weeks later I'm at my
local bar, the Apple, off ofTrinity.
Shout out to the Apple, that'sa great airport bar.
The pizza's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Pizza's incredible.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You have to get that very large pizza.
Medium's not as good.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You've got to get the XL the New York style, real New
York Don't forget about that?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Friday buffet, baby, yes sir, that's incredible Two
drinks free buffet.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
They do that every day from like 1 to 4 o'clock,
monday through Friday, like 1 to4 o'clock and then they would
have that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What was that game, that raffle game?
That's fucking numbers.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
They don't do the raffles anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That used to be fun though we still do bingo on
Friday nights Didn't Parker winone?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh, Parker wins all the time.
My eight-year-old kills it atmusic bingo.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's a very family-oriented place.
Everyone's been working therefor 15, 20 years.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's really cool.
You feel like a family.
When you're there, you seepeople that you know.
It feels almost like a cheersbar.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We will have a future show featuring from the patio
of the Big Apple.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's a really solid airport bar.
There's a lot of communitythere.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You feel?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
protected as an airport employee drinking in
that bar, even as an employeethere's people there that are
waiting and drinking for peoplethat they're going to pick up
from a flight.
Oh yeah, All the airportthere's people there that are
waiting and drinking for peoplethat they're going to pick up
from a flight.
Oh, yeah, yeah, all the time,yeah, like I'm waiting to go to
Terminal C to pick up the flightfrom Temecula.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So it's like three weeks after I don't know.
It's like three weeks after allthat BS happened with him and
the email and I see him in theApple and he's like, hey, hard
feelings.
And I was like there's a littlehard feelings.
I don't feel the terminationletter was, you know,
necessarily accurate but.
I understand yeah, I was like Iunderstand your position you're
(18:05):
doing, you know your manager,tutorial bs.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
But come on bro you didn't have to fire me.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I quit a couple weeks ago, but you didn't notice and
I could have been straight upwith him, but I wasn't, because
I I mean, he has to do hiscorporate thing, I have to do my
fuck you employee thing.
So it was a fair trade.
There's two sides to the coin.
Jose's still a great guy.
We hang out, we love him.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, Jose will be a repeat guest on the podcast, I
promise.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Maybe even a reunion with everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Bring the Yoakums on.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Come on, guys, speaking of friends, there was
this one time you had a run-inwith a friend's mom on her way
to a funeral.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh yeah, so a really good friend of mine.
I grew up like these guys tookcare of me when I was kicked out
and 16 and living a hard lifeand whatnot.
But so like two years, yeah,again 35.
So half a lifetime ago, ok, soI still hang out with his
(19:18):
parents, ironically this wasonly a no, spencer.
I'm old, my life's half over.
I mean we're all dying from themoment we're born.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Hey, we're all dying.
Let's just get through this,yes.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
All right, let's go.
So if you'd stop interruptingme, you smirky little neighbor,
All right.
So all right, so ironically shecame out I think it was a
thursday, but I had monday wokeup early, put the kids on the
bus and stuff and then went andgot saltgrass and then their
house was just down the streetand so I stopped in there.
(19:48):
It's usually just his dad, hismom's always traveling around,
but anyhow, stopped in there,brought him a porterhouse, we
smoked, had a good time, gavehim some lunch, was like all
right, man see y'all later.
Nice visit.
They're kind of like parents tome Mine are dead or dead.
So a couple days later on thatThursday she calls me.
She was like, hey, are youworking?
(20:08):
My buddy's mom and I was likeyeah, yeah, yeah, I'm at work.
She, yet I was like, uh, dextension, I'm down at d one
through four.
She's like okay, I'm gonna comedown there.
I got a flight to catch.
I was like all right, cool.
She walks up, sits in the bar,tells me about, uh, how her aunt
, I think, passed away and goingto the funeral and I was like
all right, so I'm serving herdrinks and uh, she's there for
(20:30):
about three hours flight delaysand weather or something, but uh
, y'all gotta understand.
I've known this woman more thanhalf my life, yeah, yeah, and
she's been like we used to stealcigarettes from them because
they have cartons and there wasalways booze out, because
they're alcoholics, like goodpeople, but they smoke weed
cigarettes and drink.
Well, she doesn't smokecigarettes anymore, but anyhow,
(20:50):
they still drink a lot.
So I've seen this lady drink myentire existence of knowing her
that's's how you know her.
Yeah, by no means necessary.
Did I think I was ever going toover-serve her?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
She's a professional drinker.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Solid professional drinker.
So we're about two and a halfhours in and I'm like, hey, you
know they changed your gate.
You got to go over to TerminalE now Is that like E20 something
?
I was like you need to getgoing.
You got 30 minutes until theystart boring.
So she pays out, goes, and Ithink it was six Tito's and
cranberries in two and a halfhours, which I mean for normal
(21:26):
people it's not that bad.
But after the sixth one andlistening to her talk and stuff,
I was like, hey, what time didyou hear about this funeral
stuff?
She's like, oh, I got the callat seven this morning.
I was like, oh, it's like 6 30at night.
I'm like, well, did you wake upand have some drinks?
She's like, yeah, yeah, I'vebeen drinking all day.
I was like, okay, now you gotit, now it's making sense.
(21:47):
I was like, well, don't talk toanybody, just get on the plane
and get going head down, showthem your boarding pass yep just
roll on.
So I'm walking, I'm doing my barthing, it you know, our bar is
a big triangle.
There's four gates, two on eachside of the bar, and we're the
only thing down there I see, sowith delays.
I mean there's 80 peoplestanding around this bar You're
getting rushed.
Yeah, it's like an ant pile andyou drop the freaking sugar cube
(22:08):
on it.
So I get a call from herhusband, my buddy Mark, and he's
like dude, what the fuck didyou do to Angie?
She is wasted.
She doesn't know where she's at, doesn't know how to get to her
gate.
And I was like, oh my God, areyou serious?
So then I call her and I'm likehey, where the hell are you at?
She's like I'm by the bathrooms.
I'm like there's a thousand ofthose.
Can you see some numbers orsigns Like which bathroom are
(22:30):
you by?
And I was like, okay, I knowexactly where you are.
So I go up there.
I find her and I'm like we gotto fucking go.
I look up the gate again.
I'm like, all right, cool, wegot to get on the fucking
Skylink, take the train over toE.
It aborted when I was talking toher.
It was three minutes pastshutdown time.
(22:51):
I was like, yeah, now we're at,I think, 12 minutes until
departure.
I was like there's no way thedoor's going to be open.
I'm taking her there.
We're on the train riding.
She's got the waist.
It's staggering Ladies in their60s.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That train's hard to stand on sober.
It goes fast and it stops fast,but you don't want to sit yeah,
so I mean we're she's holdingon to me.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm better, I got her backpack or suitcase or
whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And we get there I have to take this later down,
then run over to it and they'restanding at the gate with the
doors closed and she's like hey,hey, I need to get on this
plane.
And they're like what's yourname?
She tells them her name andthey're like okay, cool, I need
to get on this plane.
And they're like what's yourname?
She tells them her name andthey're like okay, cool,
frontier.
They open the door and thislady took her off my arm and
fucking walked her down the jetbridge.
I was like no way this justhappened.
(23:37):
I stand there by four Americangates and watch the closed doors
of people's faces all day long.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
They'll close it 15 minutes early.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Give you the double bird and then smile at you Well,
we're down at D1, and they'relike excuse me, I missed my
flight.
They're like too bad, d24 iscustomer service.
Like they don't even talk tothem or help them.
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They're like, we've been waiting for you.
We'd love to have you Come onin.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Come on in, baby, here's the red carpet, let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Took her off my arm and walked her on the flight.
Here's a glass of milk, get onthe plane.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And then she calls me on the plane and she's like I'm
on the plane, there's a reallynice guy next to me he grabs the
phone he's like hey, don'tworry bro, I think she's about
to go to sleep pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We're going to make sure she's cool.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'm like all right, I'm kind of like I don't know
who those guys were, but shoutout to them Good people
everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
She called me.
When she got there she was likeyeah, I made it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Those guys on the plane were so nice.
That's fucking awesome thatjust goes to show, man, there's
a difference with alcohol in theairport and I don't know what
it is.
I've been around alcoholics andan alcoholic my whole life.
Something about the airportchanges the drinking.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't get it.
Something about the airportchanges the drinking.
I don't get it.
Well, I also think since COVID,things have changed a lot.
I think people are a lot moreparanoid to fly.
I think they're taking Xanax,whatever.
No, COVID was way worse.
What was?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
it Two months into our COVID quarantine in our
state.
You look and you see, and itsays alcohol sales are up 532%.
You're like Jesus.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Christ In times of crisis.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
They already had to be high here.
What is there to do?
Here you go drink.
That's the culture.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
As long as I've been drinking, I feel since after
COVID, the chemical compositionmakeup of alcohol, something has
changed.
Do they make drinks differentlynow?
I don't know.
Something is different.
Y'all watched me and Corey sitthere and kill candles.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It's called promethazine.
No, promethazine was fun, mademy wee wee happy when these
people are taking thesetranquilizers and whatnot before
they ever get to the airportand then, all of a sudden,
they're delayed and they're like, well shit, I'm going to have a
drink.
They forgot delayed and they'relike, well shit, I'm gonna have
(25:54):
a drink.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
They forgot they took something, they mixed that
alcohol with whatever they took.
We see that all the time andthat was because all the delays,
even weather delays, and I tellpeople multiple times I'm like,
look guys, don't take yourmedication till wheels up.
Yeah, like chew it up, snortedif you wanted to work that fast.
But you go ahead and thinkyou're boarding in 10 minutes
you pop a pill, walk over to thegate.
Now it's the late hour and ahalf.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The Xanax ain't waiting.
And let me get a double jack towash it down.
That's not going to work.
But I also think, since COVID,anxiety and all that stuff has
gone up, so everybody's on it.
So maybe that's part of it,that everybody's taking it and
everybody's drinking it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It got so bad during COVID that the FAA changed rules
and regulations for alcoholbrought onto the aircrafts.
You can no longer since COVIDthat's when that started bring
alcohol of your own onto anaircraft.
They went from 3,200 cases inover 12 years to 38,000 in one
month.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Like.
I watched ladies in their 50sduct, taped to wheelchairs and
gagged, being rolled out ofairplanes.
It was a bunch of people thatdidn't know how to travel, but
now they were getting paid andhad some money in the bank and
flights were cheap and thekicker was you could take your
mask off if you were sitting ina bar drinking.
So lots of people that don'tusually drink, maybe even you
yourself, sir would have sat ina bar and possibly ordered a
(27:17):
cocktail.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Can I get a Corona please From here?
Maybe you have it.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm not going to drink it, but I'm going to tip.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Can you salt the?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
rim.
I want to lick the bottle.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So COVID was a shit show.
Like we watched a lady walkinto the back of Cantina, drop
her panties to knee level, squatand just piss in the middle of
the back of the restaurant andthen pull them up and walk out
like it was a normal Wednesday,dude, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Should I tell the story about the leak.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah .
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Spencer.
I'll have to show you video ofthis later.
This was insane.
This was probably I don't knowmaybe four months ago, something
like that, not that long ago.
Okay, it's a Saturday, I'mworking alone, open the bar, no
problem, chilling, hanging out.
It's like 1245.
I've got an hour and 15 minutes.
(28:09):
I'm about to go home, justchilling, cruising, all of a
sudden straight across from thebar.
So our bar doesn't have walls,so you can see into the terminal
.
So it's the best peoplewatching on the planet.
It's incredible.
Uh, I start to look across it.
There's a lounge across from usand there's a starbucks to the
left of that and then to the farright there there's an
escalator that comes down to thetrain that takes you to all the
(28:31):
terminals, to kind of give youa description.
So I'm looking straight aheadto the lounge and I've got a
full bar.
I start to see something comingout of the ceiling and it's a
liquid and I'm like is therewater leaking?
It's not raining.
And then I start to notice thecolor of the liquid is more of a
golden hue and I'm like, hmm,okay, and at first it's just a
(28:55):
small leak, but there's a halfinch on the floor and then one
of the ceiling panels like ifyou can imagine in an office,
like the giant rectangularceiling panels one of those
falls through because it's sosoaked and now there's just a
waterfall of yellow and yes,sorry not to interrupt the story
(29:15):
, guys but we're outside with anice view of a little foyer
behind us kind of area andthey're trimming trees.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So, as Blake's telling the story, there's a guy
holding a giant branch, so itjust looks like a freaking tree
walking, one of those likegorilla suits or something like.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I'm trying to take you seriously, like I just can't
focus right now.
I just can't do it.
There's a whole tree justbouncing.
This tree is dancing behind you.
I don't know if you know thisall right.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
So ceiling tiles are, and then orange amber, yes, and
one has fallen.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
A second one falls, and now it's about 10 gallons of
water dropping every threeseconds, I don't know, and
they're yellow.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I remember the video.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yes, this is now going into the restaurant.
It's going into the passengerlounge where two flight
attendants are trapped.
They have to step up onto thatexterior bar and help them Build
a ramp.
No, I'm just walking through it.
I'm in my Skechers.
I don't care, I'm walkingthrough it and I have to step
(30:17):
and help these two flightattendants out of the lounge
because the floor is a half inchto three inches of piss,
because you come to find outthat these were the bathroom
pipes that have now busted.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
So we're ankle deep in urine.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yes, and so I get them out of there.
I get their luggage out ofthere right before it goes all
the way.
Now it's going into theescalators, it's going into the
back of the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now there's a waterfall.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
It's going into the Starbucks, and now there's like
the the video on this was great.
There's a glass gate I'll haveto put a link to it in the
fucking description of thisvideo because it's insane.
You won't believe it.
And then so our exterior islike a small thing, glass wall.
Now it's coming in through there, it's coming through the exit,
and so there's a phone on thewall where it's like that movie,
(31:01):
the Blob.
That's literally what it is,but it's airport pits, the worst
pits, the worst you could everimagine.
There's pieces of paper in it.
It's insane.
And so you know there's thatphone for the airport on the
wall if you have an emergency orwhatever you can call like you
get the white phone.
Yeah, you can pick people up inwheelchairs at the restaurant
yeah, you know, if you know yourextension I picked that up and
(31:21):
I'm just pressing zero.
I'm like, hey, the pipes areleaking, I just need somebody
out here.
They they're like what?
And I'm like, yeah, there'sabout 50 gallons of I don't know
what.
At this point I haven't figuredit out.
I know it's a weird color, butI'm like of water leaking from
the ceiling.
Can you please get someone here?
They don't believe me.
They're like sir, what are youtalking about, ma'am?
(31:43):
There is piss flying out of theceiling.
Piss flying out of the ceiling.
Starbucks is underwater.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's like if the Titanic was a toilet.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, Our restaurant's underwater.
Can you please help us?
She's like I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Can you please?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
just send someone to be whatever.
Please come out here.
It takes them an hour to getout there.
They get one of those gianttrash bins that they wheel
around the airport and they justput that underneath.
Within 10 minutes that's filledand overflowing.
Don't let go, jack.
They have that overflowing intoa trash can and then they have
to get another one.
(32:20):
I'm like who is going to movethis?
Anyways, the craziest thingI've ever seen.
People are just walking around.
I'm like you might not want towalk through the piss and shit.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Because people are coming down the train escalators
.
At this point there's peanutsjust floating around.
It's happening so quickly.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I've just seen people slipping and sliding everywhere
.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I swear to God, people have snorkels out.
People have fins.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
They're getting through it, so people are coming
down the escalator.
It's happened so quickly,within a 10-15 minute period.
The airport doesn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
There's no one.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
No, there's no one there to even.
Is this a morning shift?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yes, it's about 1 o'clock in the afternoon on a
Saturday?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, nobody's there, and so the people that need to
fix things aren't there orthey're not listening.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
And the 2 o'clock hasn't showed up to relieve you.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Bailey.
I'm like Bailey, where are you?
You won't believe this shit,literally this shit.
Bring your floaties, little guy.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
And they won't.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
There's no one there to tell people when they get to
the bottom of the escalator.
Hey, you're walking through twoinches of piss.
I'm like go back up.
Well, you still can Go back up.
You know how to call Bailey andbe like Bailey.
You may not.
You might need the four-wheeldrive.
Anyways, god damn, I don't know.
(33:34):
The next day I came back and itwas fine, but the bathrooms
were closed for two months themain water line over IHOP.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Kristen showed me a video at like 6.30 in the
morning.
It just busted through theceiling so there were two pipes
just right over there likelittle.
As soon as you walk in, therestaurant host stands on the
right side like rectangle lshape.
Yeah, you think you're arainforest cafe right yeah, and
then the to-go area is all rightthere that sells the coffee.
It, busted right over it, likeone of the pipes, is just
(34:01):
draining the bos system.
Oh my god yeah so they were like, okay, we'll just uh, let's go
ahead and tap them beers.
Grab some bags of rice, we'llput them in front of the water
flow, make it drain into the bar.
Yeah, it took them seven hoursto get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Didn't send anybody home no, no, oh, they didn't
shut the restaurant down.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They kept trying to set people.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I'm like they're gonna walk through the cell cell
, cell the piss had gone intothe kitchen, I'm like, okay,
yeah, we'll stay open.
What about all the times?
okay, so y'all remember back inlike I would like to see time to
time we are first responders2014 ish, when, uh, uh, tgi
fridays and terminal d rememberthat used to be at like d 34 ish
(34:48):
.
Yeah, it had that corner spotwhere Wolfgang Puck is now.
So they had one of the cooksthat was pissed off and he was
dumping the grease in the drainsevery night.
Yeah, I've seen stuff like that.
Yeah, well, no, this was a bigthing.
Yeah, man Cause they it backedup Everybody's, shut down that
(35:10):
whole section of D, like theyhad to find them, and that's
what closed them down at thatlocation, because they had to
pay fines and they're likeyou're not renewing your spot
now you allow this to happen now, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
But so there's this, this bar that serves pizza in
the airport.
The cook in the back thought hecould just put the pizza dough
that wasn't good down the drainof the back and just shut that
down.
He was doing doing that everyday.
If he made a bad batch he'djust throw it all down the
fucking grain and just push itdown and just move on.
Didn't tell any.
Oh my god.
I'm like grease okay, Maybe ifyou don't understand, but I'm
(35:41):
like you put fucking pizza doughdown the drain.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You were managing at this point so you would remember
that's when they changed theregulations.
Then they had the grease thingsthat you had to pour it in and
wheel it all the way out to thefront, that dude at TGI Fridays
is why that happened?
Because we used to have barrelsthat they would pump it into
and take it down to the store.
Well then, that dude did that toFridays, cost him millions of
dollars.
(36:04):
And we're up in Riyadh at thatpoint with mcdonald's below us.
So mcdonald's grease flowed upinto our restaurant like dude.
It was raining down because itwas, uh, above what do you call
that?
Metronia sea level.
No, the restaurant was two-storywith overhanging mezzanine
mezzanine, yeah, it wasmezzanine style which you were
(36:27):
talking about.
Scenery in the airport, dude,when I first I first started
there, I was coming from streetside and to the left of my bar
in the mornings was just a fullglass railing where you overhung
and looked down on thousands ofpeople walking by all day In
the international terminal andbrawls are not for every country
Like that was one of the besttimes, like I went from street
(36:48):
side to lookie here.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Spencer, tell us how you really feel.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
And I made more money .
Sorry for partying the morning.
Bartending gig is rough thoughman, Especially if you go out
and day drink afterwards.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Well, that'll get you .
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Some of us bartenders don't even drink.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well, I'd sit in the parking lot and get high with
you for an hour and a half andthen be stuck in traffic for 45
minutes.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Well, there you go.
We got off at 3 if we hung outfor an hour.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Now it's 4.30 and I'm trying to go.
Other than being traffic sober,though, touche, but I could
have smoked weed and not been intraffic.
True, like I'd still stop atthe bar, because then I was like
, well, there's going to betraffic, I'll just stop at the
bar until the traffic dies down.
Now it's 7 o'clock and I'msleeping in the bar parking lot.
Chris is on his second Domino'sorder.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Spencer.
That's about all the time wegot for today.
I have so much more to tell.
We barely scratched the surface, spencer.
We will have you back on.
Thank you so much for coming onand being a guest this week.
Guys, thank you so much.
(38:02):
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Speaker 2 (38:23):
guys, you can't get hung over if you stay drunk.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Sure, all right, y'all Peace.
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