August 5, 2024 • 42 mins
Ever wonder what it’s like to work in the fast-paced world of airport establishments? This episode, we sit down with Kevin, who takes us on a wild ride through his career, starting from a small hot dog stand called the Art Bar to his time at Vintage Texas, a full-service restaurant. Kevin opens up about the heady mix of excitement and chaos that defines airport life, sharing his journey from humble beginnings to management roles after HMS took over. He talks candidly about the unique experiences, unpredictable events, and the steady income that makes airport work a reliable fallback. Plus, you'll hear about his latest venture at an Asian concept restaurant and why he decided to move on.
But that’s just part of the adventure. Kevin also shares some unforgettable moments from his youth, like the time James Brown became an unexpected hero at a 311 concert. You’ll laugh, gasp, and maybe even get a little nostalgic as we recount tales of camaraderie, heroism, and the unpredictable nature of youthful adventures. Whether it's dealing with a drunken military man or reconnecting with old friends, Kevin’s stories are sure to keep you entertained and reflective. So grab your headphones and join us for a rollercoaster of emotions and experiences that you won't want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 7,.
Tell Us From An Airport BarPull up a chair, let's get you a
drink.
Let's get this going.
We have a special guest today,kevin, welcome to the show.
Thanks for coming on.
It's great to be here.
Thank you, tell us how long youworked at the airport and some
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of the places you worked.
Long you worked at the airportand you know some of the places
you worked.
I left Oklahoma.
What year was that?
I mean I got, I got tocontribute this illustrious
career this is probably about2002, 2003.
So, like that, this is after myson was born, okay, so?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
two hours oh.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I started there in a one, so I think this is about
2003.
Oh man, raise it up one.
So I don't feel like I'veworked there that long 2004.
Yeah, we'll say 2004.
Uh, you got me into the airportback when the badging process
was a month long.
Yeah, beating of just runningback and forth and having
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different people sign off, andthat was by a man named Dennis
Gordon who signed off on thatoperation.
He was a airport legend of somesorts.
Yeah, but I started at theremote terminal terminal A-1, a
hot dog stand called the art bar.
Yeah, we've talked about thisin the past a little.
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Uh, what I had two little fourtops in there and then a four,
four bar stools and a hot dogmaker and a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Stainy yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well and a little bar with uh, I think we had two
beers on tap, something likethat two beers on tap and full
rail.
I don't even think we had wells.
I think it was just like westarted at call or for some kind
of premium.
Yeah, it's the airport.
But within a week I rememberbeing astounded by the amount of
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sales that we drew in and beinglike, okay, so this might, we
got something.
Yeah, we got something to workwith here and, uh oh, they went
from doing 1500 a day and by thetime I was done, we worked, I
worked out there.
What a little over a year and ahalf, two years and we went
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from doing 1,000, 1,500 a day toalmost 6,000 a day With two
people.
Yeah, it was a slaughter fest.
Two people in the morning, twopeople at night.
That was probably when I had,or at least maintained, the most
money that I've had in a longtime, because we were working so
much that we couldn't spend it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You couldn't spend it .
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You just had to be back the next day and do it
again when the shifts start at 5in the morning, the odds of
spending the amount of moneythat you want to spend to have a
good time they're just gone.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You don't have the energy to do it, Even if you
wanted to.
You're just like fuck this,that was back when good reefer
first came around.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I remember it being like this defining came around I
don't have to just be involvedwith this horrible stuff.
And then we had a guy named.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Eroge.
That worked at the other.
My second, another waiter slashsports.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I knew, yeah, it was, he was quite the character.
We'll just say that.
But okay, so the art bar andthen to vintage texas.
Uh, so yeah, another restaurantwithin the same realm in the
same company which a fullservice restaurant, but it was a
world-class saloon like yeah,we've talked about it upstairs
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and working there technicallygot me addicted to being at the
airport, like because when youwork there as long like, it's
not just the money, it'sdefinitely not the people you
work with, because you know whatI mean.
Some of them are rough, right,but it's like I don't know what
it was, but I was addicted tothe action of the airport every
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day because you knew it was justgonna be nuts like full and
then you were going to leavewith all this money.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's never a dull day .
That's why I was like there'snever a single dull day at the
airport Ever.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Even I mean the slowest days are usually the
most interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, well, because you have time to even see all
the crazy shit that's going onaround you.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're wow, that's nuts.
There's some guy naked walkingdown the terminal right now.
So that's all over, youtube,man, like that's all over.
So I guess hms bought, boughtthe company I worked for we
worked for at the time, yeah andthen dispersed us as management
.
Well, they, they said do youwant to be a manager?
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or bartender and and you know Iwas young and had kids and a
young family and so I wentmanagement and I believe you did
too.
I did too because it was thefalse.
It was this right thing thatyou wanted to do, because you
thought in the long run it wouldpay off.
But in retrospect probablyshould have stayed tipping
bottles upside down, yeah and.
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But I have really no regretsabout it because I've stayed
tipping bottles upside down,yeah and uh, but I don't.
I have really no regrets aboutit because I've I've met some
insane people but we did Chili'sto get into several different
companies Irish pub at theairport and seeing how it's
worked and I have relied on itin my life for a fallback later
like go out and try somethingand you know it's not working.
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You're like I can always goback to the airport and I can
make X amount of dollars a dayfor the rest of my life.
It works out as a good safetynet.
I mean, yeah, that's theairport, it's not going anywhere
.
No, and it's getting bigger.
I'm sure you guys have heardwhat happened at the old,
previous L-I-N-G-S, the Asianconcept.
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That you were currently workingat.
That.
I was until 14 days ago, yougot a timer on it, dude.
It's awesome.
I don't know what it is, butyou get to a point, usually
after several years, whereyou're like, I'm coming to this
airport.
There is, but you get to apoint, usually after several
years, where you're like, if Icome into this airport, I'm
going to let it go.
There is a breaking point at acertain point.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's awesome, but when you get broke, you get
broke and you're ready to leaveand I got that chance, so I'm
happy about that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm trying to take full advantage of it.
It's more work but it's lessphone calls.
So talk to me more about whenyou worked at the full service
restaurant at 816.
We had my brother on the firstepisode as our first guest and
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he mentioned you a few times.
I want to know who was drivingthe van that everybody smoked in
?
Oh no, who was driving the vanwhen it got wrecked?
Okay, there are two scenarios tothis van and we probably should
leave one of them vague.
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So there's James' story,there's your story and then
there's the truth.
Okay, so I believe there wastwo versions of this van being
mishandled.
Oh, I mishandled that van acouple times.
James, I think was the actualaccident.
(07:21):
That was okay.
I think the actual accidentthat I had probably should have
been addressed at every leveland, uh, very well could have
done some damage.
That needed to be addressedimmediately.
I don't care how you put thattogether, but use your
imagination.
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I know for a fact that I mayhave backed into a luggage cart
pretty fast and sent thatluggage cart in the general
direction of the important pieceof equipment.
Avionics, avionics, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But it was the.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
BTSA1 terminal.
Nobody cares for anybody whodies on those flights.
They're regionals.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Those flights can go down.
The world's going to keepturning TA's A1 terminal.
Nobody cares for me if it dieson those flights.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
They're regionals, those flights can go down.
The world's going to keepturning.
It wasn't Kevin's fault, it'sthe big one.
So, to avoid any conflict, Iwill accept half of the
responsibility for that.
But James Brown?
The most important part aboutJames Brown that you need to
know is that either we obtained,or we're going to obtain, a
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flow beat because he had theworld's worst haircut.
And when I tell you it was theworld's worst haircut, it was
without a doubt.
I think maybe my dad cut it.
Was it a bowl?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
cut.
No, bro, a combo, it was justthere.
It was all different lengthsand it was, it was all different
lengths.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It was James.
That's how James rolled.
Dude, james is a one timefellow.
So there was this one time yousaved my brother.
He fell into a table at A16,the full service restaurant.
Came out of the office and fellinto a table, basically passed
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out.
After that woke up of theoffice and fell into a table,
basically passed out.
After that Woke up in theoffice several hours later you
had talked to the table and toldhim he was a full-time student
or something.
I have pieces of this becauseLong time ago I was James was
passed out because he was havinga rough day, a bender.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
He talked about walking beers Walking beers.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like going in the walk-in.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's like every time you went in the walk-in you
didn't have a beer, so theoffice, the walk-in the access
to the walk-in was inside theoffice.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It was all concealed, yeah, behind the bar.
It was all concealed, yeah,behind the bar.
It was awesome.
I was usually sleeping In theoffice, in the office, but I
used to do this thing to where Iwould put a quarter pan in
front of all the taps and I'dpull all the taps forward and it
would pour all the beers intothis quarter pan, all of them
mixed together like a suicide.
(10:05):
Yeah, and I think that may ormay not be what James is
referring to, because thosethings have a an effect on you.
He talked about how he fellinto the table and you apologize
to the table, said he was afull-time student.
That's why I'm, that's why I'mthe guy.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And then they leave him a hundred dollars.
He woke up with a hundreddollar tip and they thanked him.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Here's what I love, because I'm piecing that
together right, but I think ourfondness I don't remember all of
it.
I remember him falling into atable, a lot of bong rips inside
, a lot of I mean, millions.
It was A16 was kind of a placewhere stuff like that may or may
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not happen during your shift.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, and all the time when you're trying to, and
you survive it.
Well, what about?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
uh, what was the cook ?
Uh, muhammad.
Oh, my god, let's check thisout, dude.
I'm coming to work at 5, 5, 30.
This guy was from morocco, hewas probably 6, 4, yeah, and he
would say, okay, man, and he hadabout four teeth, yeah, yeah,
and they were all facingdifferent directions nicest guy
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on the planet.
Okay, man, like the kitchenwould never be nobody back there
.
We'd be getting ten $10,000worth of business, and he's just
one of the time.
Okay, man, so every night Iwould give him suicide beers, a
whole quarter pan.
He lived at the airport, go on.
Okay so, uh, suicide beers, uh,and one night I come in at five
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in the morning, dude, and assoon as I open the door, like
the door to the restaurant, Ijust hear this very, very loud
Arabic music dude, and I'm likewhat the fuck's going on, dude?
I round the corner and there'sfeet sticking out of my office
door.
Feet just face down, like noton their back, no, face down.
His toes were pointed down andI was like what the fuck's going
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on, dude?
Did I go in the office?
He had broken in, drank like 17Heinekens, right, and just had
Arab music on full blast In theoffice.
The manager's office dudePassed out colder than a hammer,
woke him up.
Okay, man, and I want to say heeven came back to work that day
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maybe not a couple days afterthat.
I don't remember if I was kindof like I don't know what to
fucking do.
Man, I don't know what to tellyou, but like, this is one of
those things.
It's like clean these bottlesand get to work, because then
you also think that, well, if hedoesn't come, I'm going to have
to go.
I don't want to come.
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Let's just pretend this neverhappened.
Muhammad, and get this thing.
You need a suicide beer to wakeup.
What do you need, sir?
He'd take the luggage cartsback every night, all across the
airport.
He lived there full time, justlike Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks, yeah, yeah.
He had, he had like I'm tellingyou, he had like six, seven
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jobs.
It was unreal and he wasobviously hammered at all of
them all day long.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Your brother saved me .
That's probably why he wasmoving that speed.
Okay, he did not give a fuckman, there was no.
No, it's just.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
you know what you're going to get your brother saved
my life at a 311 concert.
One time when we were young men, we were at a 311 concert.
I want to say he was like 18.
And we were up at the front andit's getting crazy.
And I turned around and I havevery much a personality and a
face that you just want to sockright when you see it.
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That's the kind of guy I am allright, you either like me or
you just want to sock me.
Obviously, this guy who was likethat's, that's the right there,
I'm going to get him and heruns this, I see it, so I'm
ready.
This guy's running full blastand out of nowhere.
You guys are in the pit.
James Brown destroys this guy.
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Hockey checks him Feet up inthe air, like you see on the
internet now.
I remember looking at him atthat point and being like, oh,
my god, it was one of thosethings you see in your life
where you're like, holy shit,james didn't care.
I was like, yeah, it was.
It was one of those things yousee in your life where you're
like, oh yeah, james didn't care.
Did you listen to three 11?
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Okay, let's keep it going.
That was crazy.
No, jimmy Brown, saving oldmemories, um so back to a 16, um
, and I want to know if youremember this, there was, uh, I
think I want to say scott wasbartending yeah, scott was
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bartending, if I'm not mistaken,but this guy, this military guy
, it's trash.
He was like stand down.
Yeah, tell me about this, tellme about this.
I might get this mixed upbecause there's two very similar
situations.
There was one time a guy wastelling me to stand down, like
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yelling at me.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I think you were there, dude, he was yelling.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I just walked in from the other bar to turn in the
money.
Didn't somebody put him down orsomething?
Yeah, you I'm just trying toremember this Wrapped him up.
Wrapped him up like a cardboardbox.
Yeah, go on.
Okay, man.
So straighten this feller out.
You know what I mean.
And when you're backed into aquarter man, this guy's hammered
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.
He's in my face with a backpackon, yeah, military, and I don't
know why.
Quarter man, this guy's hammeredand he's like in my face with a
backpack on yeah, military, andI don't know why he's well, I
also dressed like an obnoxiousprick back then, like don
johnson.
You know what I mean fullpastel out from express.
Once again, referring back topunching people, but, he just
comes right up to you, forwhatever reason well, scott heap
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was notorious for gettingpeople just absolutely
obliterated right and thencoming to me and being like hey,
man we're having issues.
Help me with this fuck you,scott.
You know what you're having likeyeah, not weird I'm sleeping in
the office, bro, like why areyou this guy?
comes out and tells me to standdown manager log and I I'm this
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is dude, I gotta a lot right,stand down, I got a lot right on
.
So I may it's not my finestmoment, but I may have wrapped a
guy up and we called the copsand the back's in and the cops
just used to hang outside of A16, up and down the terminal, yeah
, and we used to fuck withpeople and be like dude, you
don't want to mess with, canfully keep you from getting on
your flight and nobody wouldever believe you.
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And then Scott, he would pointout and be like and the next
thing you know, there's theirkind of like.
So when I was a manager at a 16, you know what a manager read
book is.
So yeah manager log.
So you guys can communicate.
Uh, every and none of us reallyknew what we were doing back
then about the red.
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This is all documentation.
You put your cells in there.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yes, there's a series .
Oh, we got a leak, or you knowit's.
You come in, you read it, youcan figure out what's going on
from the day Communication law.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I know now, after the events, I'm going to explain
that those are legally bindingdocuments.
Uh, uh, documentation.
Yeah, so we're using thesemanager books and it gets to a
point to where I'm prettyintoxicated all of the time,
kind of at this point like I'mwriting it pretty solid and I
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start writing in the managerbooks.
Just I believe there was acouple other people writing.
Yeah, we were all like fuckingwith each other in these manager
books.
But it would start with like,hey man, make sure and wash
Frank's car today and Frank wasthe owner of the.
He was the GM slash proprietorof the company.
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Pretty much Frank was a very,very important and we were
writing all these horrible notesabout hey man, when you leave,
make sure you go, wash Frank'scar, man.
And like that's just the tip ofthe iceberg, right, it gets a
lot worse.
I'm sure it escalated Into thepoint of pretty questionable
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shit.
I walk in one day, dude, andFrank's standing there and he's
got like 15 manager books in hishand and he was like, oh man,
we gotta talk man, come on man.
And we went back and it wasthis complete explanation of
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that.
These things are legallybinding documents.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What is said?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
in here is admissible in court because we were saying
horrible things, man, which Iprobably I don't want to put out
there in either.
But I mean, like now, if youwere to get caught saying some
of this stuff, you know probablywe've got the cancel plane.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, and it was bad, bad dude, it was so bad so that
was he said we have to burnthese, let's start over.
Here's the new manager, mom, hewas, he was fucking mad dude.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I remember he was like red in the face.
So like once friday, like age16s, they're pumping and I'm
like I gotta get out of here.
Dude, it's like six o'clock, Igot a date or something, so I
just closed the doors at six ona friday night.
Put them all the way down, dude, and get everybody out of there
.
I'm leaving on friday like sixthirty and right when I hit the
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gate, dude frank's there thehell is this man?
You know, I go well, you know wedidn't have any cooks.
I made something up.
He's like that's what you'rehere for man.
So he made me go back in thereand open that fucking thing up,
put all the money back in andthen cook and bartend.
He worked the shift with meafter he had read these red
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books, just so.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It was just a horrible it was like I need to
keep a closer eye on this place,apparently that was one of the
most embarrassing times becauseI knew what he had his hands.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh you, the second you walked in, you do.
There's a stack of them andeverybody that worked there was
like you guys are an idiot, butthose guys that.
I worked with were incredibledudes back then Joe Wilson,
brent, archibald and myself andScott and Johnny, and the list
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goes on of world class dudes.
And that's the bottom line.
When you find a place like thatto work at, you ride the pine,
but usually then the band breaksup, always breaks up, and
that's the bottom line is wehave when you find a place like
that to work, out your eye topine, but usually then that the
band breaks up.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I always break something here, you went over to
the sports bar internally for alittle while Varsity sports bar
at e31.
Yeah, long time ago Somebodywas sitting there.
We did like $400 in sales a day, right, maybe there's this big
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backboard behind the bartender,right, it's like a basketball.
There's a basketball andthere's one guy in this
restaurant drinking a martinidude, and I have this basketball
.
I'm not maternal and I whizzedthis basketball in there, dude,
and it ricochets perfectly intothis guy's martini glass.
I was going to say it's goingright to the martini.
Blew this martini glass up outof nowhere.
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Dude, a good manager like I am,I ran.
I let the bartender deal withit.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Who did that?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What happened?
Where'd that come from?
I was bored.
I remember smoking in thatrestaurant and people getting
off the airplane gate rightbeside it and being like it
smells like cigarettes in here.
You know what people smokingcigarettes in here?
Because we used to smoke wewere like back yeah, go out the
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back door and get free Starbucksacross the terminal.
I used free Starbucks and Ididn't realize the amount of
free Starbucks that was possibleat the time.
This was a long time ago, butwe had access with the new
company to get free Starbucks asmanagers and we went wild with
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it.
Everybody gets free Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Starbucks is not cheap.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No, we just didn't realize it at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It was really odd the amount of coffee that we
receive it's kind of like whenyou go to a resort or something
you get all inclusive, you'relike well, let's just fucking
get everything.
I'll take three buckets of beerFor everybody in the restaurant
.
I'll take the porterhouse.
Okay, alright.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Everybody in here want something.
Be right back, and usuallycoffee was necessary to sober
half of a month.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You just have to have it up here.
You have to have it up here.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You have to have steady flow.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Oh, so you want to elaborate on.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I think you remember when so we had the cash room and
we had to go pick up cash onthe unsecured side of the
terminal down at the other endof the terminal, then we would
have to take it through securityand bring it into the
restaurant.
Do you remember that Rightbefore Christmas, the whole cash
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room got robbed?
I was thinking that's the onlything I really remember.
It was like Christmas Eve,somebody went in there and took
every single cash back.
It was not me, motherfuckers, Iswear on my children, I wasn't
even there.
But Frank, being the genius whohe is, and the fact that he
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made like 1% of the sales of allthe Hudson News every day.
Like he had his fingers ineverything highest grossing
chilies, he was fucking loaded.
He went through and filled themall back to the top out of his
own pocket and made it right andthere was nothing that was ever
said about him.
Wow, at least as far as I knew.
I didn't know if you knewanything different but that was
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like uh what uh the followingyear?
remember somebody stole a 400bag uh out of the safe and brent
and all the managers cametogether and uh put the 400
together and put it back in mysafe at my restaurant when they
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all worked at differentrestaurants, so I didn't get
fired for it.
What restaurant were you?
And they put a note on there Iwas at varsity, somebody had
stole a bank bag like a 400 bankbag.
I was switching shifts.
Uh the lupe, the morning managerdidn't sign off the money I
didn't sign over the money to meand stuff and trace frank was a
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paperwork guy and it tracedback to me that there was like a
$420.
I do remember this and all themanagers started losing my job
while I was on leave overChristmas.
This happened during Christmas,so I had a free vacation during
Christmas, came back, all themanagers had put that $400, got
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together, put the $400 in therewith a note that said sorry, I
stole the money and theyprobably signed my name on it.
Motherfuckers, if I know them,all assholes and anyway, frank
would always call me the Lazarusman.
Because I came back from thedead because I should have been
fired.
Frank used to sell us.
You remember, back from thedead because I should have been
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fired.
Frank used to tell us do youremember?
Hey, man, it's all aboutcommunication and accountability
.
Oh, don't forget to follow up,follow up.
And we used to rip his assright as I get into my 40s and
start to do.
You couldn't be more right andI couldn't have been more of a
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young, dumb, arrogant fella thanI was at the time talking about
that guy.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So it was you're like damn it, he was right this
whole time this whole damn time.
He was right, if I played mycar right.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I probably could have pretty successful corporate
career with them, but it justwasn't in the cards for me at
all.
I just couldn't.
It got to the point where I wasdoing nothing every day and had
watched all the videos on theinternet Like it was just over
man and I was like I can't, Ican't sit here anymore, I can't
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do nothing anymore.
This won't fire, it was sofunny there's one lady that
worked there.
She'd come to work this wasduring the epidemic of pain
pills and every day she'd cometo work she'd have this fucking
giant bottle of codeine.
And I would come into work andI'd be like hi Diana, can I have
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a couple of those Sure Doorshut Breakcom Feet up on the
desk Writing horrible shit inthe Red Book.
See you guys later.
I play internet poker all thetime.
I'm not good.
You can play internet poker 10or 15 hands at a time.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Frank, will you spot me?
I would miss, I would be like.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Hey, I'm in the middle of a hand.
Frank, will you spot me?
I would be like, hey, I'm inthe middle of a hand.
I can't come help you right now, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I can't talk to this table.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, fucking jacks are better right here, dude.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
There's a grease fire , hold on.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Muhammad's on it.
Okay, that's good stuff.
So you also worked at the Irishpub to get to the Irish pub
with Chuck Flotman and you andtypical bartender guy every
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bartender has got a story thisone guy, jimmy.
He said he was the guy thatbroke Owen Wilson's nose.
That's what he told me.
You know why Owen Wilson's noseis gross.
He's from here.
I actually had him set up a barwith stuff, but you know, it's
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like You're like okay, kind of alittle closer You're reaching
but you know the story.
It's like you're like okay, yeah, you're like alright kind of a
little closer you're reaching.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Make it a little bit more you're name dropping.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, make it a little bit more believable, if
you were to sit down at the barand you'd have been like, hey
man, I broke that dude's nose.
I'd have been like, if any anyfun stories, any shenanigans at
the Irish pub?
I, yeah, there was cashhandling issues.
(28:53):
The procedures there were allmessed up and get them
straightened out.
It was so funny, dude I was.
I was bartending with this guyand there's a point, usually
during the day, until you'relike turn it off and, uh,
(29:15):
counting everything out, dude,I'll never forget this guy walks
, he goes and he walks up and hejust sticks a $100 bill right
in my pocket and I was like Ithink we may have had some cash
handling issues all night.
You know, and it was that placewas the wild west too as well.
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They sold the second mostGuinness in the state there.
Is that right.
At one point they were sellingsecond most Guinness in the
state there.
Is that right.
At one point they were sellingthe most Guinness in the state.
Yeah, I mean, they would haveworld records come in.
Worst food you ever had in yourlife too.
That's why you need to drinkmore Guinness, because the food
tastes the way it is.
Food from England, I'm sorry.
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I've been, I've had it.
The fish and chips are good,but beans and toast, yeah, I
don't get blood sausage, man, Ijust don't get it.
Or blood pudding or whateverit's called.
Don't understand it.
You know different strokes fordifferent folks.
Yeah, sure you still thinkyou're weird if you eat it.
Yeah, judge me all you want allday.
I just breakfast.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Come on, man and then room temperature beer, whatever
.
Isn't that what they drink?
I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I understand that if you're an alcoholic dude you
don't give a shit and most ofthe people can't do it.
Just I can't if it's not, if mybeer gets hot.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm like, give me another one.
I haven't had ice cold drinks.
I'm good, it's gotta be cold.
It's too hot here.
Do it 100 out.
Yeah, I'm not drinking alukewarm beer.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I was playing golf with Chuck Flotman from Tiggins
Good guy.
We were on like hole six in thesummer walking and he pulled a
bottle of piss warm tequila outof his golf bag and was, like
you, ready to start drinking.
I'm like no man.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No not that, absolutely Not that.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
He's a 140 degrees dude and he was like I am 140
degrees dude.
And he was like I am good luck.
I fire or I had to fire chuck,because it's one of the greatest
firings ever from the varsity.
What we were talking about?
Because on camera the shift'sover.
I remember he goes out, dude,he's got a cup in his hand and
he's got a bottle.
If I'm not mistaken, when theyzoomed in, it was john Johnny
(31:19):
Walker Black.
Yeah, he grabs his bottle andhe does like a solid one two,
three, four, five, six, six,count and then he's like you
know what?
There's nobody around dude andhe looks up and he goes, just
nods his head like oh yeah, andturns the bottle upside down,
dude.
There's nobody around.
Why am I poor and single?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
it's like you could watch him convince himself you
saw the thought process gothrough in the light bulb.
You know what fuck it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Nobody's watching.
I showed him the video.
I think we showed him the video.
I was like I don't want to tellyou.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Chuck, what can I do?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I watch you nod your head go for a second there's
nothing I can do my hands aretied, but I love you, chuck.
You're such a legend and, inthe grand scheme of things, that
goddamn double pour he pouredhimself.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
He went on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It was a microcosm in the grand schemes that were
wrong with the place.
Oh, that was the very least ofthe issues and it started at the
top.
It always is.
It always is Drake's.
The last thing I'm like myissue now.
I don't give a shit about thesnow cone, so I want you to tell
me about Throwing away theplates and feeding the rats.
(32:29):
What the fuck does that mean?
Oh, he knows exactly what thatmeans.
I don't know If that's probablythe greatest move, but I will
elaborate loosely.
During my extended tenure atthe airport, I may or may not
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have worked at a restaurant thathad issues with keeping plates
in our hands, and you got tohave plates.
Unless I have plates to do myjob right.
So my thing was is I'm justgoing to start throwing these
plates away and when we're out,sorry, we can't serve anymore.
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Well, it's going to force theirhand To buy more plates, to buy
more plates.
So I'm walking around and likethere's people with trays out
and I'd walk by and I'd just hittheir trays and fucking glass
would fly everywhere, break allover the ground, and then I take
my whole tray out there, justthrow the whole goddamn thing in
the Every plate on it, spoon,fork everything.
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And we got plates, man, soplease, in the trash can by
default, we ended up being ableto do our job.
But I remember one of thewaiters coming up to me and
being like man, I'm just tryingto make a living here.
Kevin and I was just like.
I thought we were having fun.
I had a rough patch for a while, man, I had a real rough patch
(33:58):
for a long time.
So tell me, how did they get ridof the rat issue?
I don't know how one could eversolve the problems that they
were having, because somefucking moron was feeding them
and I don't know who it was.
But I guarantee you I looked atone of those rats one time and
it fucking looked at me and itwas jacked Like somebody that
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was eating 30 to 40 grams ofprotein per day like the good
shit and that was a parting giftfor a certain restaurant is.
But the chain reaction of thatwas so much more than one could
(34:42):
ever fathom because rats werefalling out of the ceiling.
Like it turns out, if you putrats on a high-protein diet for
a month, they get bigger Dude.
They multiply like by thethousands.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
It got to the point where that shit was falling out
of the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
People were afraid to go into war.
And what?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
do you do at that point?
What?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
do you?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
say to anybody what do you do?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Keep feeding them See how far you can take it.
I mean, they finally had tohave exterminators come out.
Exterminators, yeah, I don'tknow that was not my finest
moment either man.
I haven't checked in in the past, but I've kept a positive
(35:31):
attitude the whole time, jesus,and I will tell you though I'll
tell you that from a karmaticstandpoint I have paid my
fucking debt Right.
The debt has been paid.
The debt I have, like.
I do believe that everythingthat I did I mean in the grand,
(35:53):
just story of it all,carmetically it has all been
paid back in full, like full.
I don't have any credit, butit's been paid back in full,
like full.
I don't have any credit, butit's been paid back in full.
No regrets, no ragrets.
That was.
That place is awesome, dude.
There are 20 hours worth ofstories for that place.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
And you guys fucking know you could just go on, for
there's no because no dull day.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
That's the point.
You guys got content for thisOutrageous amount of content.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Every shift could be something.
Let's talk about our first 10minutes of our shift on Sunday.
We walk in, so our shift startsat 2 o'clock.
Okay, it's afternoon, it's aSunday.
We walk in the first person Igreet uh, she's got dreads.
Um, I can smell her, but I'mlike but I didn't realize she
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had been there all day, come tofind out so maybe she had slept
at the airport.
There's a lot of that going onrecently.
My favorite kind of lady.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Oh, this is me.
I had just given this lady.
I had just walked in.
I had given this lady.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I already tried to greet her and she couldn't even
speak to me.
She looked at me like I wasCasper and she looked right
through me.
So this is what happens.
I walk in before you.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
you're a couple minutes behind me.
I give her an LIT because sheasked me for one.
I didn't realize she was shit,hammered you all know, I go
there, give her an.
Lit and Tiffany's like no, no,no, we just cut her off.
She gets ready to take onedrink of this, lit and.
I just smash her in her hand anddump it down the drain.
I was like sorry, I didn'trealize you had already been cut
(37:37):
off.
You didn't inform me of that,so I'm sorry, I'm not going to
be able to let you drink thisLIT.
She's like looks at me like.
She's like I totally understand.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
She's like, damn it, she's deer in a headlight and
she had turned or sent back allthree plates of food she had
ordered as well.
Yeah, evidently I canunderstand.
I don't know because.
I've worked there canunderstand because I've worked
there which he had just come on,shit, all things, but we just
want.
And then there's another personwe had to cut off, who had been
there all day.
And then there's this otheryoung lady that came in order
(38:10):
from me.
She's on the phone being kind ofrude, dismissing whatever I'm
dealing, I get her water and Iget her and she says I just want
to do these tacos cool,whatever.
Uh, it had been five minutes.
I'm in the back, so I'mcoinciding this with this other
lady that's deer in the headlike still sitting at the bar on
another planet.
(38:30):
She's on another planet, yeah,who ends up leaving her?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
bag in the long run.
But so I go over to theregister to bring in something
for another guy after we justtold these other two that had
been there with the morningbartender.
They can't drink, they're justsitting at the bar chilling.
I go over to the register tobring somebody else in and this
(38:53):
lady goes.
Where the hell are my tacos?
I said, excuse me, she goes.
I ordered tacos when are theyand I said man, we've never met
before in our life.
You took my order.
I said you must have meconfused with my twin brother
Blake.
I said I have never met youbefore in my life.
(39:13):
I said what's your name?
She goes so-and-so.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
And I said so you ordered some tacos.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
You want to know where the hell they are.
I said let me check thecomputer and see how long it's
been.
It's been seven minutes.
I said, man, we are not TacoBell.
I will go back and check onyour order if that's what you'd
like me to do, but I don't knowwhere the hell your tacos are.
So I go back there.
Blake's like hey, it's beeneight minutes, man, Tacos are
(39:44):
coming up.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I was like I'm putting a minute to go.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Boxy, you're going to wait another eight minutes.
So I go back out there.
I said, man, it's been eightminutes.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
She goes fuck this, throws her hands up, this is
bullshit.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And she just walks out.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I'm like all right cool those.
I'm like all right cool.
Those were our first three.
Somebody put her on a plane.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
I'm going to give you guys some advice right now.
Fucking don't cut them off.
If that lady wants to come upand have another Long Island, I
will watch you puke right hereand pass out.
That's where I went with it.
That was my motto at the lastplace.
I'm not going to discuss COVID.
You can't do it.
You guys have been in troublefor over a year.
(40:24):
Of course, I've never been introuble.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
This whole damn terminal and watching them come
and trying to arrest bartendersfor giving someone two drinks.
Yeah, absolutely, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I will keep you going .
Maybe because Liggs wasn't ontheir radar, but I've watched
people.
I will keep you going.
Maybe because Liggs wasn't ontheir radar, but I've watched
people.
I will cut you off.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
A cop came in and said hey to one of these
bartenders who served.
He said either you quit or Iarrest you, right now, If at
that point I might have to.
That's why I was like okay,maybe I gotta.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Or you can be like really guy.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Maybe I gotta be on my toes here.
How about after I saw that?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
How about you arrest me, guy, forgive me, I want to
continue this sometime, guys forsure.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Thank you so much for coming on today and giving us a
little insight about youworking at the airport.
Um, that's it for episode seven, guys.
Um, kevin, we would love tohave you back on sometime very
soon.
We are working on getting uplive on YouTube here in the next
few episodes, so stay tuned forthat, guys.
Thanks again for coming in,kevin, appreciatevin, appreciate
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it.
Um, that's what we got today,guys.
Uh, tune in.
Uh, in two more weeks we'llhave another episode for you.
That was just the tip of theiceberg.
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So, thank you, guys, all foryour support.
Appreciate it.
Bye, Bye, y'all.
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 7,.
Tell Us From An Airport BarPull up a chair, let's get you a
drink.
Let's get this going.
We have a special guest today,kevin, welcome to the show.
Thanks for coming on.
It's great to be here.
Thank you, tell us how long youworked at the airport and some
(00:23):
of the places you worked.
Long you worked at the airportand you know some of the places
you worked.
I left Oklahoma.
What year was that?
I mean I got, I got tocontribute this illustrious
career this is probably about2002, 2003.
So, like that, this is after myson was born, okay, so?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
two hours oh.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I started there in a one, so I think this is about
2003.
Oh man, raise it up one.
So I don't feel like I'veworked there that long 2004.
Yeah, we'll say 2004.
Uh, you got me into the airportback when the badging process
was a month long.
Yeah, beating of just runningback and forth and having
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different people sign off, andthat was by a man named Dennis
Gordon who signed off on thatoperation.
He was a airport legend of somesorts.
Yeah, but I started at theremote terminal terminal A-1, a
hot dog stand called the art bar.
Yeah, we've talked about thisin the past a little.
(01:29):
Uh, what I had two little fourtops in there and then a four,
four bar stools and a hot dogmaker and a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Stainy yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well and a little bar with uh, I think we had two
beers on tap, something likethat two beers on tap and full
rail.
I don't even think we had wells.
I think it was just like westarted at call or for some kind
of premium.
Yeah, it's the airport.
But within a week I rememberbeing astounded by the amount of
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sales that we drew in and beinglike, okay, so this might, we
got something.
Yeah, we got something to workwith here and, uh oh, they went
from doing 1500 a day and by thetime I was done, we worked, I
worked out there.
What a little over a year and ahalf, two years and we went
(02:22):
from doing 1,000, 1,500 a day toalmost 6,000 a day With two
people.
Yeah, it was a slaughter fest.
Two people in the morning, twopeople at night.
That was probably when I had,or at least maintained, the most
money that I've had in a longtime, because we were working so
much that we couldn't spend it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You couldn't spend it .
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You just had to be back the next day and do it
again when the shifts start at 5in the morning, the odds of
spending the amount of moneythat you want to spend to have a
good time they're just gone.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You don't have the energy to do it, Even if you
wanted to.
You're just like fuck this,that was back when good reefer
first came around.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I remember it being like this defining came around I
don't have to just be involvedwith this horrible stuff.
And then we had a guy named.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Eroge.
That worked at the other.
My second, another waiter slashsports.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I knew, yeah, it was, he was quite the character.
We'll just say that.
But okay, so the art bar andthen to vintage texas.
Uh, so yeah, another restaurantwithin the same realm in the
same company which a fullservice restaurant, but it was a
world-class saloon like yeah,we've talked about it upstairs
(03:41):
and working there technicallygot me addicted to being at the
airport, like because when youwork there as long like, it's
not just the money, it'sdefinitely not the people you
work with, because you know whatI mean.
Some of them are rough, right,but it's like I don't know what
it was, but I was addicted tothe action of the airport every
(04:02):
day because you knew it was justgonna be nuts like full and
then you were going to leavewith all this money.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's never a dull day .
That's why I was like there'snever a single dull day at the
airport Ever.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Even I mean the slowest days are usually the
most interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, well, because you have time to even see all
the crazy shit that's going onaround you.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're wow, that's nuts.
There's some guy naked walkingdown the terminal right now.
So that's all over, youtube,man, like that's all over.
So I guess hms bought, boughtthe company I worked for we
worked for at the time, yeah andthen dispersed us as management
.
Well, they, they said do youwant to be a manager?
(04:41):
or bartender and and you know Iwas young and had kids and a
young family and so I wentmanagement and I believe you did
too.
I did too because it was thefalse.
It was this right thing thatyou wanted to do, because you
thought in the long run it wouldpay off.
But in retrospect probablyshould have stayed tipping
bottles upside down, yeah and.
(05:03):
But I have really no regretsabout it because I've stayed
tipping bottles upside down,yeah and uh, but I don't.
I have really no regrets aboutit because I've I've met some
insane people but we did Chili'sto get into several different
companies Irish pub at theairport and seeing how it's
worked and I have relied on itin my life for a fallback later
like go out and try somethingand you know it's not working.
(05:27):
You're like I can always goback to the airport and I can
make X amount of dollars a dayfor the rest of my life.
It works out as a good safetynet.
I mean, yeah, that's theairport, it's not going anywhere
.
No, and it's getting bigger.
I'm sure you guys have heardwhat happened at the old,
previous L-I-N-G-S, the Asianconcept.
(05:49):
That you were currently workingat.
That.
I was until 14 days ago, yougot a timer on it, dude.
It's awesome.
I don't know what it is, butyou get to a point, usually
after several years, whereyou're like, I'm coming to this
airport.
There is, but you get to apoint, usually after several
years, where you're like, if Icome into this airport, I'm
going to let it go.
There is a breaking point at acertain point.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's awesome, but when you get broke, you get
broke and you're ready to leaveand I got that chance, so I'm
happy about that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm trying to take full advantage of it.
It's more work but it's lessphone calls.
So talk to me more about whenyou worked at the full service
restaurant at 816.
We had my brother on the firstepisode as our first guest and
(06:41):
he mentioned you a few times.
I want to know who was drivingthe van that everybody smoked in
?
Oh no, who was driving the vanwhen it got wrecked?
Okay, there are two scenarios tothis van and we probably should
leave one of them vague.
(07:01):
So there's James' story,there's your story and then
there's the truth.
Okay, so I believe there wastwo versions of this van being
mishandled.
Oh, I mishandled that van acouple times.
James, I think was the actualaccident.
(07:21):
That was okay.
I think the actual accidentthat I had probably should have
been addressed at every leveland, uh, very well could have
done some damage.
That needed to be addressedimmediately.
I don't care how you put thattogether, but use your
imagination.
(07:42):
I know for a fact that I mayhave backed into a luggage cart
pretty fast and sent thatluggage cart in the general
direction of the important pieceof equipment.
Avionics, avionics, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But it was the.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
BTSA1 terminal.
Nobody cares for anybody whodies on those flights.
They're regionals.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Those flights can go down.
The world's going to keepturning TA's A1 terminal.
Nobody cares for me if it dieson those flights.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
They're regionals, those flights can go down.
The world's going to keepturning.
It wasn't Kevin's fault, it'sthe big one.
So, to avoid any conflict, Iwill accept half of the
responsibility for that.
But James Brown?
The most important part aboutJames Brown that you need to
know is that either we obtained,or we're going to obtain, a
(08:29):
flow beat because he had theworld's worst haircut.
And when I tell you it was theworld's worst haircut, it was
without a doubt.
I think maybe my dad cut it.
Was it a bowl?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
cut.
No, bro, a combo, it was justthere.
It was all different lengthsand it was, it was all different
lengths.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It was James.
That's how James rolled.
Dude, james is a one timefellow.
So there was this one time yousaved my brother.
He fell into a table at A16,the full service restaurant.
Came out of the office and fellinto a table, basically passed
(09:11):
out.
After that woke up of theoffice and fell into a table,
basically passed out.
After that Woke up in theoffice several hours later you
had talked to the table and toldhim he was a full-time student
or something.
I have pieces of this becauseLong time ago I was James was
passed out because he was havinga rough day, a bender.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
He talked about walking beers Walking beers.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like going in the walk-in.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He's like every time you went in the walk-in you
didn't have a beer, so theoffice, the walk-in the access
to the walk-in was inside theoffice.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It was all concealed, yeah, behind the bar.
It was all concealed, yeah,behind the bar.
It was awesome.
I was usually sleeping In theoffice, in the office, but I
used to do this thing to where Iwould put a quarter pan in
front of all the taps and I'dpull all the taps forward and it
would pour all the beers intothis quarter pan, all of them
mixed together like a suicide.
(10:05):
Yeah, and I think that may ormay not be what James is
referring to, because thosethings have a an effect on you.
He talked about how he fellinto the table and you apologize
to the table, said he was afull-time student.
That's why I'm, that's why I'mthe guy.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And then they leave him a hundred dollars.
He woke up with a hundreddollar tip and they thanked him.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Here's what I love, because I'm piecing that
together right, but I think ourfondness I don't remember all of
it.
I remember him falling into atable, a lot of bong rips inside
, a lot of I mean, millions.
It was A16 was kind of a placewhere stuff like that may or may
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not happen during your shift.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, and all the time when you're trying to, and
you survive it.
Well, what about?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
uh, what was the cook ?
Uh, muhammad.
Oh, my god, let's check thisout, dude.
I'm coming to work at 5, 5, 30.
This guy was from morocco, hewas probably 6, 4, yeah, and he
would say, okay, man, and he hadabout four teeth, yeah, yeah,
and they were all facingdifferent directions nicest guy
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on the planet.
Okay, man, like the kitchenwould never be nobody back there
.
We'd be getting ten $10,000worth of business, and he's just
one of the time.
Okay, man, so every night Iwould give him suicide beers, a
whole quarter pan.
He lived at the airport, go on.
Okay so, uh, suicide beers, uh,and one night I come in at five
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in the morning, dude, and assoon as I open the door, like
the door to the restaurant, Ijust hear this very, very loud
Arabic music dude, and I'm likewhat the fuck's going on, dude?
I round the corner and there'sfeet sticking out of my office
door.
Feet just face down, like noton their back, no, face down.
His toes were pointed down andI was like what the fuck's going
(12:10):
on, dude?
Did I go in the office?
He had broken in, drank like 17Heinekens, right, and just had
Arab music on full blast In theoffice.
The manager's office dudePassed out colder than a hammer,
woke him up.
Okay, man, and I want to say heeven came back to work that day
(12:33):
maybe not a couple days afterthat.
I don't remember if I was kindof like I don't know what to
fucking do.
Man, I don't know what to tellyou, but like, this is one of
those things.
It's like clean these bottlesand get to work, because then
you also think that, well, if hedoesn't come, I'm going to have
to go.
I don't want to come.
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Let's just pretend this neverhappened.
Muhammad, and get this thing.
You need a suicide beer to wakeup.
What do you need, sir?
He'd take the luggage cartsback every night, all across the
airport.
He lived there full time, justlike Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks, yeah, yeah.
He had, he had like I'm tellingyou, he had like six, seven
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jobs.
It was unreal and he wasobviously hammered at all of
them all day long.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Your brother saved me .
That's probably why he wasmoving that speed.
Okay, he did not give a fuckman, there was no.
No, it's just.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
you know what you're going to get your brother saved
my life at a 311 concert.
One time when we were young men, we were at a 311 concert.
I want to say he was like 18.
And we were up at the front andit's getting crazy.
And I turned around and I havevery much a personality and a
face that you just want to sockright when you see it.
(13:53):
That's the kind of guy I am allright, you either like me or
you just want to sock me.
Obviously, this guy who was likethat's, that's the right there,
I'm going to get him and heruns this, I see it, so I'm
ready.
This guy's running full blastand out of nowhere.
You guys are in the pit.
James Brown destroys this guy.
(14:14):
Hockey checks him Feet up inthe air, like you see on the
internet now.
I remember looking at him atthat point and being like, oh,
my god, it was one of thosethings you see in your life
where you're like, holy shit,james didn't care.
I was like, yeah, it was.
It was one of those things yousee in your life where you're
like, oh yeah, james didn't care.
Did you listen to three 11?
(14:35):
Okay, let's keep it going.
That was crazy.
No, jimmy Brown, saving oldmemories, um so back to a 16, um
, and I want to know if youremember this, there was, uh, I
think I want to say scott wasbartending yeah, scott was
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bartending, if I'm not mistaken,but this guy, this military guy
, it's trash.
He was like stand down.
Yeah, tell me about this, tellme about this.
I might get this mixed upbecause there's two very similar
situations.
There was one time a guy wastelling me to stand down, like
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yelling at me.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I think you were there, dude, he was yelling.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I just walked in from the other bar to turn in the
money.
Didn't somebody put him down orsomething?
Yeah, you I'm just trying toremember this Wrapped him up.
Wrapped him up like a cardboardbox.
Yeah, go on.
Okay, man.
So straighten this feller out.
You know what I mean.
And when you're backed into aquarter man, this guy's hammered
(15:46):
.
He's in my face with a backpackon, yeah, military, and I don't
know why.
Quarter man, this guy's hammeredand he's like in my face with a
backpack on yeah, military, andI don't know why he's well, I
also dressed like an obnoxiousprick back then, like don
johnson.
You know what I mean fullpastel out from express.
Once again, referring back topunching people, but, he just
comes right up to you, forwhatever reason well, scott heap
(16:07):
was notorious for gettingpeople just absolutely
obliterated right and thencoming to me and being like hey,
man we're having issues.
Help me with this fuck you,scott.
You know what you're having likeyeah, not weird I'm sleeping in
the office, bro, like why areyou this guy?
comes out and tells me to standdown manager log and I I'm this
(16:28):
is dude, I gotta a lot right,stand down, I got a lot right on
.
So I may it's not my finestmoment, but I may have wrapped a
guy up and we called the copsand the back's in and the cops
just used to hang outside of A16, up and down the terminal, yeah
, and we used to fuck withpeople and be like dude, you
don't want to mess with, canfully keep you from getting on
your flight and nobody wouldever believe you.
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And then Scott, he would pointout and be like and the next
thing you know, there's theirkind of like.
So when I was a manager at a 16, you know what a manager read
book is.
So yeah manager log.
So you guys can communicate.
Uh, every and none of us reallyknew what we were doing back
then about the red.
(17:09):
This is all documentation.
You put your cells in there.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yes, there's a series .
Oh, we got a leak, or you knowit's.
You come in, you read it, youcan figure out what's going on
from the day Communication law.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I know now, after the events, I'm going to explain
that those are legally bindingdocuments.
Uh, uh, documentation.
Yeah, so we're using thesemanager books and it gets to a
point to where I'm prettyintoxicated all of the time,
kind of at this point like I'mwriting it pretty solid and I
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start writing in the managerbooks.
Just I believe there was acouple other people writing.
Yeah, we were all like fuckingwith each other in these manager
books.
But it would start with like,hey man, make sure and wash
Frank's car today and Frank wasthe owner of the.
He was the GM slash proprietorof the company.
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Pretty much Frank was a very,very important and we were
writing all these horrible notesabout hey man, when you leave,
make sure you go, wash Frank'scar, man.
And like that's just the tip ofthe iceberg, right, it gets a
lot worse.
I'm sure it escalated Into thepoint of pretty questionable
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shit.
I walk in one day, dude, andFrank's standing there and he's
got like 15 manager books in hishand and he was like, oh man,
we gotta talk man, come on man.
And we went back and it wasthis complete explanation of
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that.
These things are legallybinding documents.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What is said?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
in here is admissible in court because we were saying
horrible things, man, which Iprobably I don't want to put out
there in either.
But I mean, like now, if youwere to get caught saying some
of this stuff, you know probablywe've got the cancel plane.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, and it was bad, bad dude, it was so bad so that
was he said we have to burnthese, let's start over.
Here's the new manager, mom, hewas, he was fucking mad dude.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I remember he was like red in the face.
So like once friday, like age16s, they're pumping and I'm
like I gotta get out of here.
Dude, it's like six o'clock, Igot a date or something, so I
just closed the doors at six ona friday night.
Put them all the way down, dude, and get everybody out of there
.
I'm leaving on friday like sixthirty and right when I hit the
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gate, dude frank's there thehell is this man?
You know, I go well, you know wedidn't have any cooks.
I made something up.
He's like that's what you'rehere for man.
So he made me go back in thereand open that fucking thing up,
put all the money back in andthen cook and bartend.
He worked the shift with meafter he had read these red
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books, just so.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It was just a horrible it was like I need to
keep a closer eye on this place,apparently that was one of the
most embarrassing times becauseI knew what he had his hands.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh you, the second you walked in, you do.
There's a stack of them andeverybody that worked there was
like you guys are an idiot, butthose guys that.
I worked with were incredibledudes back then Joe Wilson,
brent, archibald and myself andScott and Johnny, and the list
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goes on of world class dudes.
And that's the bottom line.
When you find a place like thatto work at, you ride the pine,
but usually then the band breaksup, always breaks up, and
that's the bottom line is wehave when you find a place like
that to work, out your eye topine, but usually then that the
band breaks up.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I always break something here, you went over to
the sports bar internally for alittle while Varsity sports bar
at e31.
Yeah, long time ago Somebodywas sitting there.
We did like $400 in sales a day, right, maybe there's this big
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backboard behind the bartender,right, it's like a basketball.
There's a basketball andthere's one guy in this
restaurant drinking a martinidude, and I have this basketball
.
I'm not maternal and I whizzedthis basketball in there, dude,
and it ricochets perfectly intothis guy's martini glass.
I was going to say it's goingright to the martini.
Blew this martini glass up outof nowhere.
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Dude, a good manager like I am,I ran.
I let the bartender deal withit.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Who did that?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What happened?
Where'd that come from?
I was bored.
I remember smoking in thatrestaurant and people getting
off the airplane gate rightbeside it and being like it
smells like cigarettes in here.
You know what people smokingcigarettes in here?
Because we used to smoke wewere like back yeah, go out the
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back door and get free Starbucksacross the terminal.
I used free Starbucks and Ididn't realize the amount of
free Starbucks that was possibleat the time.
This was a long time ago, butwe had access with the new
company to get free Starbucks asmanagers and we went wild with
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it.
Everybody gets free Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Starbucks is not cheap.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No, we just didn't realize it at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It was really odd the amount of coffee that we
receive it's kind of like whenyou go to a resort or something
you get all inclusive, you'relike well, let's just fucking
get everything.
I'll take three buckets of beerFor everybody in the restaurant
.
I'll take the porterhouse.
Okay, alright.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Everybody in here want something.
Be right back, and usuallycoffee was necessary to sober
half of a month.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You just have to have it up here.
You have to have it up here.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You have to have steady flow.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Oh, so you want to elaborate on.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I think you remember when so we had the cash room and
we had to go pick up cash onthe unsecured side of the
terminal down at the other endof the terminal, then we would
have to take it through securityand bring it into the
restaurant.
Do you remember that Rightbefore Christmas, the whole cash
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room got robbed?
I was thinking that's the onlything I really remember.
It was like Christmas Eve,somebody went in there and took
every single cash back.
It was not me, motherfuckers, Iswear on my children, I wasn't
even there.
But Frank, being the genius whohe is, and the fact that he
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made like 1% of the sales of allthe Hudson News every day.
Like he had his fingers ineverything highest grossing
chilies, he was fucking loaded.
He went through and filled themall back to the top out of his
own pocket and made it right andthere was nothing that was ever
said about him.
Wow, at least as far as I knew.
I didn't know if you knewanything different but that was
(24:16):
like uh what uh the followingyear?
remember somebody stole a 400bag uh out of the safe and brent
and all the managers cametogether and uh put the 400
together and put it back in mysafe at my restaurant when they
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all worked at differentrestaurants, so I didn't get
fired for it.
What restaurant were you?
And they put a note on there Iwas at varsity, somebody had
stole a bank bag like a 400 bankbag.
I was switching shifts.
Uh the lupe, the morning managerdidn't sign off the money I
didn't sign over the money to meand stuff and trace frank was a
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paperwork guy and it tracedback to me that there was like a
$420.
I do remember this and all themanagers started losing my job
while I was on leave overChristmas.
This happened during Christmas,so I had a free vacation during
Christmas, came back, all themanagers had put that $400, got
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together, put the $400 in therewith a note that said sorry, I
stole the money and theyprobably signed my name on it.
Motherfuckers, if I know them,all assholes and anyway, frank
would always call me the Lazarusman.
Because I came back from thedead because I should have been
fired.
Frank used to sell us.
You remember, back from thedead because I should have been
(25:41):
fired.
Frank used to tell us do youremember?
Hey, man, it's all aboutcommunication and accountability
.
Oh, don't forget to follow up,follow up.
And we used to rip his assright as I get into my 40s and
start to do.
You couldn't be more right andI couldn't have been more of a
(26:03):
young, dumb, arrogant fella thanI was at the time talking about
that guy.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So it was you're like damn it, he was right this
whole time this whole damn time.
He was right, if I played mycar right.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I probably could have pretty successful corporate
career with them, but it justwasn't in the cards for me at
all.
I just couldn't.
It got to the point where I wasdoing nothing every day and had
watched all the videos on theinternet Like it was just over
man and I was like I can't, Ican't sit here anymore, I can't
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do nothing anymore.
This won't fire, it was sofunny there's one lady that
worked there.
She'd come to work this wasduring the epidemic of pain
pills and every day she'd cometo work she'd have this fucking
giant bottle of codeine.
And I would come into work andI'd be like hi Diana, can I have
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a couple of those Sure Doorshut Breakcom Feet up on the
desk Writing horrible shit inthe Red Book.
See you guys later.
I play internet poker all thetime.
I'm not good.
You can play internet poker 10or 15 hands at a time.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Frank, will you spot me?
I would miss, I would be like.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Hey, I'm in the middle of a hand.
Frank, will you spot me?
I would be like, hey, I'm inthe middle of a hand.
I can't come help you right now, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I can't talk to this table.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, fucking jacks are better right here, dude.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
There's a grease fire , hold on.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Muhammad's on it.
Okay, that's good stuff.
So you also worked at the Irishpub to get to the Irish pub
with Chuck Flotman and you andtypical bartender guy every
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bartender has got a story thisone guy, jimmy.
He said he was the guy thatbroke Owen Wilson's nose.
That's what he told me.
You know why Owen Wilson's noseis gross.
He's from here.
I actually had him set up a barwith stuff, but you know, it's
(28:18):
like You're like okay, kind of alittle closer You're reaching
but you know the story.
It's like you're like okay, yeah, you're like alright kind of a
little closer you're reaching.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Make it a little bit more you're name dropping.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, make it a little bit more believable, if
you were to sit down at the barand you'd have been like, hey
man, I broke that dude's nose.
I'd have been like, if any anyfun stories, any shenanigans at
the Irish pub?
I, yeah, there was cashhandling issues.
(28:53):
The procedures there were allmessed up and get them
straightened out.
It was so funny, dude I was.
I was bartending with this guyand there's a point, usually
during the day, until you'relike turn it off and, uh,
(29:15):
counting everything out, dude,I'll never forget this guy walks
, he goes and he walks up and hejust sticks a $100 bill right
in my pocket and I was like Ithink we may have had some cash
handling issues all night.
You know, and it was that placewas the wild west too as well.
(29:38):
They sold the second mostGuinness in the state there.
Is that right.
At one point they were sellingsecond most Guinness in the
state there.
Is that right.
At one point they were sellingthe most Guinness in the state.
Yeah, I mean, they would haveworld records come in.
Worst food you ever had in yourlife too.
That's why you need to drinkmore Guinness, because the food
tastes the way it is.
Food from England, I'm sorry.
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I've been, I've had it.
The fish and chips are good,but beans and toast, yeah, I
don't get blood sausage, man, Ijust don't get it.
Or blood pudding or whateverit's called.
Don't understand it.
You know different strokes fordifferent folks.
Yeah, sure you still thinkyou're weird if you eat it.
Yeah, judge me all you want allday.
I just breakfast.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Come on, man and then room temperature beer, whatever
.
Isn't that what they drink?
I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I understand that if you're an alcoholic dude you
don't give a shit and most ofthe people can't do it.
Just I can't if it's not, if mybeer gets hot.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm like, give me another one.
I haven't had ice cold drinks.
I'm good, it's gotta be cold.
It's too hot here.
Do it 100 out.
Yeah, I'm not drinking alukewarm beer.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I was playing golf with Chuck Flotman from Tiggins
Good guy.
We were on like hole six in thesummer walking and he pulled a
bottle of piss warm tequila outof his golf bag and was, like
you, ready to start drinking.
I'm like no man.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No not that, absolutely Not that.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
He's a 140 degrees dude and he was like I am 140
degrees dude.
And he was like I am good luck.
I fire or I had to fire chuck,because it's one of the greatest
firings ever from the varsity.
What we were talking about?
Because on camera the shift'sover.
I remember he goes out, dude,he's got a cup in his hand and
he's got a bottle.
If I'm not mistaken, when theyzoomed in, it was john Johnny
(31:19):
Walker Black.
Yeah, he grabs his bottle andhe does like a solid one two,
three, four, five, six, six,count and then he's like you
know what?
There's nobody around dude andhe looks up and he goes, just
nods his head like oh yeah, andturns the bottle upside down,
dude.
There's nobody around.
Why am I poor and single?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
it's like you could watch him convince himself you
saw the thought process gothrough in the light bulb.
You know what fuck it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Nobody's watching.
I showed him the video.
I think we showed him the video.
I was like I don't want to tellyou.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Chuck, what can I do?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I watch you nod your head go for a second there's
nothing I can do my hands aretied, but I love you, chuck.
You're such a legend and, inthe grand scheme of things, that
goddamn double pour he pouredhimself.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
He went on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It was a microcosm in the grand schemes that were
wrong with the place.
Oh, that was the very least ofthe issues and it started at the
top.
It always is.
It always is Drake's.
The last thing I'm like myissue now.
I don't give a shit about thesnow cone, so I want you to tell
me about Throwing away theplates and feeding the rats.
(32:29):
What the fuck does that mean?
Oh, he knows exactly what thatmeans.
I don't know If that's probablythe greatest move, but I will
elaborate loosely.
During my extended tenure atthe airport, I may or may not
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have worked at a restaurant thathad issues with keeping plates
in our hands, and you got tohave plates.
Unless I have plates to do myjob right.
So my thing was is I'm justgoing to start throwing these
plates away and when we're out,sorry, we can't serve anymore.
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Well, it's going to force theirhand To buy more plates, to buy
more plates.
So I'm walking around and likethere's people with trays out
and I'd walk by and I'd just hittheir trays and fucking glass
would fly everywhere, break allover the ground, and then I take
my whole tray out there, justthrow the whole goddamn thing in
the Every plate on it, spoon,fork everything.
(33:32):
And we got plates, man, soplease, in the trash can by
default, we ended up being ableto do our job.
But I remember one of thewaiters coming up to me and
being like man, I'm just tryingto make a living here.
Kevin and I was just like.
I thought we were having fun.
I had a rough patch for a while, man, I had a real rough patch
(33:58):
for a long time.
So tell me, how did they get ridof the rat issue?
I don't know how one could eversolve the problems that they
were having, because somefucking moron was feeding them
and I don't know who it was.
But I guarantee you I looked atone of those rats one time and
it fucking looked at me and itwas jacked Like somebody that
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was eating 30 to 40 grams ofprotein per day like the good
shit and that was a parting giftfor a certain restaurant is.
But the chain reaction of thatwas so much more than one could
(34:42):
ever fathom because rats werefalling out of the ceiling.
Like it turns out, if you putrats on a high-protein diet for
a month, they get bigger Dude.
They multiply like by thethousands.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
It got to the point where that shit was falling out
of the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
People were afraid to go into war.
And what?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
do you do at that point?
What?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
do you?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
say to anybody what do you do?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Keep feeding them See how far you can take it.
I mean, they finally had tohave exterminators come out.
Exterminators, yeah, I don'tknow that was not my finest
moment either man.
I haven't checked in in the past, but I've kept a positive
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attitude the whole time, jesus,and I will tell you though I'll
tell you that from a karmaticstandpoint I have paid my
fucking debt Right.
The debt has been paid.
The debt I have, like.
I do believe that everythingthat I did I mean in the grand,
(35:53):
just story of it all,carmetically it has all been
paid back in full, like full.
I don't have any credit, butit's been paid back in full,
like full.
I don't have any credit, butit's been paid back in full.
No regrets, no ragrets.
That was.
That place is awesome, dude.
There are 20 hours worth ofstories for that place.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
And you guys fucking know you could just go on, for
there's no because no dull day.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
That's the point.
You guys got content for thisOutrageous amount of content.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Every shift could be something.
Let's talk about our first 10minutes of our shift on Sunday.
We walk in, so our shift startsat 2 o'clock.
Okay, it's afternoon, it's aSunday.
We walk in the first person Igreet uh, she's got dreads.
Um, I can smell her, but I'mlike but I didn't realize she
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had been there all day, come tofind out so maybe she had slept
at the airport.
There's a lot of that going onrecently.
My favorite kind of lady.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Oh, this is me.
I had just given this lady.
I had just walked in.
I had given this lady.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I already tried to greet her and she couldn't even
speak to me.
She looked at me like I wasCasper and she looked right
through me.
So this is what happens.
I walk in before you.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
you're a couple minutes behind me.
I give her an LIT because sheasked me for one.
I didn't realize she was shit,hammered you all know, I go
there, give her an.
Lit and Tiffany's like no, no,no, we just cut her off.
She gets ready to take onedrink of this, lit and.
I just smash her in her hand anddump it down the drain.
I was like sorry, I didn'trealize you had already been cut
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off.
You didn't inform me of that,so I'm sorry, I'm not going to
be able to let you drink thisLIT.
She's like looks at me like.
She's like I totally understand.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
She's like, damn it, she's deer in a headlight and
she had turned or sent back allthree plates of food she had
ordered as well.
Yeah, evidently I canunderstand.
I don't know because.
I've worked there canunderstand because I've worked
there which he had just come on,shit, all things, but we just
want.
And then there's another personwe had to cut off, who had been
there all day.
And then there's this otheryoung lady that came in order
(38:10):
from me.
She's on the phone being kind ofrude, dismissing whatever I'm
dealing, I get her water and Iget her and she says I just want
to do these tacos cool,whatever.
Uh, it had been five minutes.
I'm in the back, so I'mcoinciding this with this other
lady that's deer in the headlike still sitting at the bar on
another planet.
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She's on another planet, yeah,who ends up leaving her?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
bag in the long run.
But so I go over to theregister to bring in something
for another guy after we justtold these other two that had
been there with the morningbartender.
They can't drink, they're justsitting at the bar chilling.
I go over to the register tobring somebody else in and this
(38:53):
lady goes.
Where the hell are my tacos?
I said, excuse me, she goes.
I ordered tacos when are theyand I said man, we've never met
before in our life.
You took my order.
I said you must have meconfused with my twin brother
Blake.
I said I have never met youbefore in my life.
(39:13):
I said what's your name?
She goes so-and-so.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
And I said so you ordered some tacos.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
You want to know where the hell they are.
I said let me check thecomputer and see how long it's
been.
It's been seven minutes.
I said, man, we are not TacoBell.
I will go back and check onyour order if that's what you'd
like me to do, but I don't knowwhere the hell your tacos are.
So I go back there.
Blake's like hey, it's beeneight minutes, man, Tacos are
(39:44):
coming up.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I was like I'm putting a minute to go.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Boxy, you're going to wait another eight minutes.
So I go back out there.
I said, man, it's been eightminutes.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
She goes fuck this, throws her hands up, this is
bullshit.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And she just walks out.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I'm like all right cool those.
I'm like all right cool.
Those were our first three.
Somebody put her on a plane.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
I'm going to give you guys some advice right now.
Fucking don't cut them off.
If that lady wants to come upand have another Long Island, I
will watch you puke right hereand pass out.
That's where I went with it.
That was my motto at the lastplace.
I'm not going to discuss COVID.
You can't do it.
You guys have been in troublefor over a year.
(40:24):
Of course, I've never been introuble.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
This whole damn terminal and watching them come
and trying to arrest bartendersfor giving someone two drinks.
Yeah, absolutely, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I will keep you going .
Maybe because Liggs wasn't ontheir radar, but I've watched
people.
I will keep you going.
Maybe because Liggs wasn't ontheir radar, but I've watched
people.
I will cut you off.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
A cop came in and said hey to one of these
bartenders who served.
He said either you quit or Iarrest you, right now, If at
that point I might have to.
That's why I was like okay,maybe I gotta.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Or you can be like really guy.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Maybe I gotta be on my toes here.
How about after I saw that?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
How about you arrest me, guy, forgive me, I want to
continue this sometime, guys forsure.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Thank you so much for coming on today and giving us a
little insight about youworking at the airport.
Um, that's it for episode seven, guys.
Um, kevin, we would love tohave you back on sometime very
soon.
We are working on getting uplive on YouTube here in the next
few episodes, so stay tuned forthat, guys.
Thanks again for coming in,kevin, appreciatevin, appreciate
(41:41):
it.
Um, that's what we got today,guys.
Uh, tune in.
Uh, in two more weeks we'llhave another episode for you.
That was just the tip of theiceberg.
And don't forget to uh, feelfree to donate, even a dollar,
whatever it's in the showdescription.
Yes, and please make sureyou're downloading and following
and liking.
The more downloads we get, thecloser we get to our goals.
(42:04):
So, thank you, guys, all foryour support.
Appreciate it.
Bye, Bye, y'all.
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