September 4, 2024 • 34 mins
Ever wondered how someone could maintain sobriety while working in an airport bar? Liam's story might surprise you. Our guest takes us on a journey through his years at various airport bars, including some hilarious and eye-opening tales from his drinking days. Hear about the time he snuck a Grey Goose bottle in his backpack, got banned for drinking on the job, and managed to stay sober since January 2019 with a little help from marijuana. Liam's recounting of his adventures, including hopping a fence and shredding his knee, will leave you both laughing and reflecting.
We then transport you to Pittsburgh for some unforgettable bar-hopping adventures, where quirky liquor laws and the stark difference between corporate and carefree lifestyles come to life. Ever showed up to a serious business meeting still feeling the effects of last night's party? Liam has, and he's got stories to tell. From flying with just a driver’s license to navigating the colorful characters of different restaurant concepts, this part of the episode is filled with humor and unexpected moments that define the hospitality industry.
Things take a spooky turn as we discuss unsettling occurrences at the airport. Imagine a well-dressed woman repeatedly exhibiting bizarre behavior, or a chair mysteriously moving by itself late at night. Liam’s eerie stories will send chills down your spine. On a lighter note, we share some wild celebrity encounters in the hospitality world, featuring Joe Montana's down-to-earth nature, Pauly Shore's post-election antics, and a fleeting sighting of Charlie Sheen. This episode is a rollercoaster of emotions, from supporting others in their sobriety journey to recounting the unpredictable moments that make life and work so interesting.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 9.
Let's get this going.
Pull up a bar stool.
Let's grab you something offthis tap and get it going.
This week we've got our awesome, awesome guest, liam.
Thank you for coming on theshow this week.
This is our good friend, liam.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Thank you very much for having me Tell us a little
bit about your background, whereyou worked and what all
concepts have you worked at atthe airport?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, right now I work at a few different concepts
.
I work at an Asian bar inTerminal A at DFW Airport.
I also work at Applebee's,which is always exciting, and I
work at the canteen.
So three different concepts.
(00:55):
You see drastically differentpeople working in three
different parts of the airport,especially international
terminals.
You see all sorts of theairport, especially like
international terminals.
You see all sorts of differentpeople.
But yeah, I started at LingLouie's back in 2014 with Chris.
(01:17):
That's where I met Chris.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's been 10 years now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Unbelievable.
I'm still working there.
Yeah, it's just insane.
I mean, I did have to take ahiatus because I was banned for
about five years, but you knowthat's right.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It opened in 2013, and you came shortly thereafter,
yeah yeah.
I also in this particularepisode I wanted to touch on.
I've got a big question to askhow long have you been on the
sobriety train?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Sobriety train.
I stopped consuming alcohol inJanuary of 2019.
Oh wow, so it has been.
That's aspirin.
It happens, yeah, no, ithappened right.
(02:18):
You know, a good year beforeCOVID and during COVID, I was
like as an alcoholic, I was likeas an alcoholic I was like why
I was like if I could have justlived through, because you know
I was, you know, a functioning,working alcoholic.
So you know I didn't get, Ialways had to go to work just
like many of the guests that wetake care of every day exactly
Speaker 1 (02:41):
it's not like we could work from home.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, but then there was that time where you had
nothing to do and I was like man.
A year and a half ago, I wouldwake, I would have, and I sat
there and I thought I was likeman, I would have.
It would have given me anexcuse, yes, to sit there To
rest the world.
Yeah, to have a drink at 930 inthe morning instead of being,
(03:03):
you know, vilified publicly andby my family.
Well probably still.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Most importantly by the family.
Yeah, yeah, no, I was alwaysokay with it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But yeah, no, it's been a good five and a half
years and you know everybodyalways asks me.
They're like how do youmaintain your sobriety while
working as a bartender?
You know, it's just one ofthose things.
Marijuana, yeah, marijuana,that's.
You know honestly.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Like if I would have had to like straight quit
without having any type of likecushion or fallback, I don't
know if I would have beensuccessful.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's hard to not have any vices.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I'm one of those guys.
I smoke cigarettes, smoke alittle bit of the devil's
lettuce, love it.
I know a couple guys like that.
Yeah, yeah, we're going to dothem it, but, um, I, you know, I
know guys like that, yeah, yeah, but you know just something,
for I guess you want to maybe acrutch and even, but it helped
(04:13):
me get through.
Yeah, absolutely.
It was one of those thingswhere I mean, both you guys knew
me while I was drinking, bothyou guys know we.
Obviously, afterwards it's beena quite the dramatic change.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I personally liked both, uh, both versions of you
liam.
Okay.
Well, thank you drinking, andyou, you definitely had your
shenanigans while you'redrinking.
Sir, I uh recalled this oneincident, uh, at the asian
concept where you proceed at theend of the night to pour
yourself a drink and then all ofa sudden you've got your
(04:47):
backpack ready to go and, sureenough, I see a Grey Goose
bottle poking out of it.
Can you elaborate on where thatmay or may not have come from?
I don't want you to incriminateyourself.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I can't confirm or deny where that bottle came from
.
I can tell you to incriminateyourself, I can.
I don't necessarily quite.
I can't confirm or deny wherethat bottle came from.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I could tell you where it went oh it went in my
you took it to go in your bellyyes, and I drank the whole thing
.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It was delish but it may or may not have been a boss
water bottle yeah oh well, yes,um any, any other good times.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You want to elaborate that you remember?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
during your non-sobriety.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
During non-sobriety I mean.
One of the reasons why I gottemporarily banned from that
establishment was consumingalcohol on the job.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It happened to our last guest on the podcast, um it
happens um evidently all thetime.
Um, so uh.
With that being said, um also,can you there?
There was this one time theysent you on a trip to do
training to open a new vitaminstore in the airport.
(06:07):
Yes, yes, I heard that was areally good time.
Can you give me some details onthat?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, this also ties into the drunken shenanigans of
my life.
I had recently shredded my kneeand one of our good friends had
yeah, one of our hopping over afence, hopping over fence over
my parents fence probably notsober.
No, no, I'm very intoxicated,but um just shredding my knee
(06:38):
acl mcl and a pc?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
yeah, I remember, and you might as well do the hat
trick.
If you're gonna do it, ifyou're gonna go, you might as
well, do the hat trick.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
if you're going to do it, if you're going to go, you
might as well go all the way.
Go home, baby.
Walking cast for a long time,yeah, and so well, you know, I
wasn't initially planning to gointo Pittsburgh and that's where
we were going.
I had never been to Pittsburgh.
I'm from these coats, but I hadnever been to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Not really these coats, but I had never been to
pittsburgh, not really adestination, no, it wasn't a
blue collar town from what Iunderstand, never been
Speaker 2 (07:10):
there myself mining town, we're very weird liquor
laws.
So like well, you know the beerand wine is we're from oklahoma
, we know weird.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you guys know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But um, but weird liquor laws part of the.
You know you couldn't get abottle of liquor in some place
and then but so I wasn't working.
The other person that wassupposed to go with the future
GM of that establishment hadsomebody pass away in the family
, so they were like, hey, thisguy's not doing anything because
(07:39):
I couldn't walk, and so hobbledonto a flight and went to
Pittsburgh and yeah, that wastalk about the contrasting.
I mean, if anybody knows ourgood friend who I went with, we
were consuming lots of alcoholwhile working for GFC.
I don't want to incriminateanybody.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It just so happens to be my son's stepfather,
whatever, oh, but we used topartake.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean, you know, you find somebody that you used to
drink with.
You know, it is called teamdrinking, it is.
It's a team sport.
It was great showing up in themorning and you know, after me
and this guy had been hangingout all night.
Shenanigans.
Shenanigans after me and thisguy had been hanging out all
night.
Shenanigans, Shenanigans, Likewe would walk in and these guys
(08:30):
are all clean.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
cut Me and my friend, we're walking in, you're
basically on vacation?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, we're partying.
Just roll on the side of yourmouth, yeah, and only knows what
we kind of.
You know, because even if youshower in the morning, but if
you party hard a little bit thenight before, you get a little
bit of that liquor sweat, it'sgoing to seep out.
It's going to seep out, yeah.
And so you know you're in thiscrowded room with these.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Sweating it out.
You're just sweating it out,these people.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's their brand new job.
They're trying to be upstandingcitizens.
They're like oh, it's corporate.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We're trying to get ready it was it was so I mean
the looks that we got, becausewe were, we just got looked like
we were degenerates and likewho the fuck are these guys?
Yeah, exactly, but it was.
But it was so great because youhad all these people and they
were like taking this real, realserious.
They were like you know, we'regonna.
You, these guys were buildingtheir own business.
(09:22):
They had bought their own store.
I was out there because Ifucked up my knee and I was just
looking for a vacation, for agood week.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You're like this is just fun for us.
This is something different.
Yeah, so I was looking atparties and it's a free trip.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Free trip, didn't have to pay for a dime, and you
get paid to do it.
And got paid and just went outand you're with a buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And I'm with a buddy, A drinking buddy nonetheless.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
A drinking buddy is a different thing than a regular
buddy.
But no, it was great.
We just I don't know, we justpartied it up, went to learn
about some vitamins, cool, cool,cool.
But yeah, no, that wasPittsburgh in a nutshell.
Good times Sounds like goodtimes.
No, it was Pittsburgh in anutshell.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Good times?
It sounds like good times.
No, it was a great time.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It sounds like Pittsburgh in a bottle.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, it was At least three bottles, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Okay, so you worked at the Asian concept, the
Mexican food concept and theApplebee's.
Okay, can you give me some more?
Man, tell me I know you gotsomething up your sleeve what
else you got for me?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh man, well, you know, I think a lot of what we
encounter every day is obviouslya lot of guest interaction.
Oh, absolutely.
And the best part about beingable to travel and, you know,
flying, crisscrossing thiscountry is that all you need is
a driver's license.
(10:49):
You know, they don't, theydon't give any type of.
You know you can be crazy, batshit, crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
As long as you have an ID, you can get on a plane.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, and we see that every single day.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And it might be the first time they've got on a
plane.
Yeah, and a lot of them saw ita few times this week.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, Like, for instance, this is one of the
crazier stories I had.
I'm working at the Asianconcept, right Bartending had a
guest sitting over in the cornerback in the back of the
restaurant.
They had sent everybody home.
I was like you know, I'll takethis If anybody comes in,
whatever this woman comes in,Beautiful, Probably mid-40s,
(11:31):
Just beautiful woman Puttogether.
You know, smelled nice.
You know, one of those ladiesOrders a glass of wine.
I'm checking back in with her.
She's fine.
About 25 minutes she's onlydrank about half a glass of
water.
I go back.
I was like everything okay, howyou doing?
(11:52):
All of a sudden we're talkinglike a light switch flipped.
Obviously, somebody ate somecandy back there in the back.
I was going to say yep, thepill kicked in.
Yeah, the pill.
I'm sorry, the pill kicked inand she had a bowl of rice.
All right, I walk over.
I must have startled her.
She knocked the bowl of riceover.
I'm like, all right calm down.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Maybe I just startled her, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Let me go get a broom .
Nope, nope, nope, she's goingto take care of that.
Like my dog, like she gets onall fours, starts cupping the
rice, shoveling it into her face.
I'm like, okay, this is notcool, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am are
you?
okay, ma'am, can I get you awater bowl while you're there?
No, and so you know it justkind of escalated.
(12:37):
I ended up having to call thecops, which is that's like
that's last resort.
You know you don't want to have, but at a certain point there's
nothing you can do.
But you also don't want to bethe person that served, the
person that got the YouTubevideo on.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, exactly, you don't want to be that guy, but
you also didn't over-serve her.
So at the end of the day, it'sreally you know.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
There's a liability involved, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay, so anyways, police come in.
They realize she's done for.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
She's done skis.
They take her away.
Bedtime man Come with us.
Dfw is one of those.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They've got one of those, their own little security
area.
Whatever you want to call itDrunk tank or whatever We'll
tuck you in downstairs.
Come with us Exactly the nextday.
I'm working, same restaurant,same chef, lo, and behold, guess
who comes back?
They always do the same womanwearing the same clothes.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Doesn't smell as great.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, no, no, no, no, no, she did not.
She goes and sits back in thesame table.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Nice, damn.
This did not go as well lasttime.
Listen who orders the sameglass of wine.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
You're not having a little bit of deja vu, are you?
I'm having tremendous deja vu.
And guess what happens?
The exact same thing happenedJesus Christ.
The exact same thing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Did you have to call the authorities again?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Call the same.
Called the cops again.
Oh boy, the same cop from thenight before showed up and he's
like looking at me.
He's like what?
The what is going?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
on.
I was like I have no clue.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
What in the hell?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's Groundhog Day for me too, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I don't know it was unreal.
I'd never seen anything like it.
I mean, I couldn't even believeit.
And you know, once again theytake her away and I was like you
know, in my head I'm like thankGod I'm off tomorrow.
They're like I can't do this at13.
Yeah, if she came back I wouldlose my shit.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm just walking out.
If she comes back.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.
He said I'll try again tomorrow, but there was something about
that corner table.
All right, and I'm maybetaunted, yes, so I'm glad you
brought that up.
Okay, so we're back in the backof the corner restaurant.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, it's, it's, I've heard this one, but I love
it go.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's the same table.
I'm back.
I'm there by myself.
Now, this is one of those timeswhere I'm you know, it's late
at night.
You know, somehow some Tito'sfell into my cup while I'm
cleaning the bar top.
There's nobody else in there.
Oops, there's a Tito's on thespill sheet.
Sorry, guys, yep, my bad Whoops.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Shaky hands.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The MOD had disappeared.
That doesn't sound like acompany that we've worked with.
No, no, who knows where youknow.
They probably went down andtook a nap down in storage.
They might have spilled someTito's as well.
For all we know no, and if youknew this gentleman, he spilled
a lot of Tito's yes, yes.
So I'm standing back there, I'mby myself.
(15:35):
There's nobody in therestaurant.
It's 11 o'clock at night.
I was doing something with, Iwas cleaning, I was doing some
inventory, some type of you knowsomething.
Just end of the night, busy workto get out of there, absolutely
, and so there were these chairsthat were pulled out.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't know anything about that.
It's table 901.
Three kids, just to give you areference.
I can't figure that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And there's a chair that's kind of out towards the
middle, because you pulleverything out.
Oh yes, and you're sweeping andmopping and you know, making
sure the establishment is inpristine conditions, as we
expect.
Yeah, well, so ladies like hercan eat off the floor again.
Exactly, yeah, I didn't feeltoo bad about it, it's good
enough for the dogs.
This chair is probably aboutmaybe 10 feet away.
I look up and the chair slidesall the way in.
(16:26):
Excuse me, say that again.
No, the chair, there's nobodyaround.
I'm the only person in therestaurant.
Yes, the chair moved at least agood 10, 12 feet by itself and
you're just like, and I'mlooking around, I'm like,
there's no way that I just sawthat, like, was that the tea
level.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, it's time to leave.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, you know, I'm sitting there.
I'm like man, this is my firstdrink.
I can't be, you know, likemaybe I've had a long day.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Maybe I don't know.
I was like what's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You always second guess those things and
I-checking I didn't believe ithappened.
But that's one of those kind oflike.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And no one else is there to verify or deny.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Nobody else could sit there and back my story or say
he's a damn liar.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
As well as saying you really don't want to tell
people.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
No what the fuck are you talking about?
No?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But no, that's just one of the few occasions.
There's another time wherewe've got a gong, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I've hit that gong several times on Big Tips.
Yes, when I worked at thatconcept.
You hit it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Just because it's there, you hit it if it owes you
money or whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I love to hit the bong.
I mean the gong, the gong.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yes, I love the gong bong, but once again I'm sitting
there back in that restaurantby myself and turn around and
right behind me I knew itNobody's around Now.
This happened in probablyback-to-back weeks and so it was
(18:07):
right around the same timeframe and I'm sitting there
thinking I might be losing mymind or maybe I need to quit
drinking.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Maybe I need to check myself in, or I don't know
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, but we're talking sheer insanity and I
thought I was losing myself.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I thought I was losing my mind.
That would make anyone questionthemselves.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
But there have been other experiences and finally I
realize that I'm not becauseother people have told me that
they've seen weird shit happen.
That they've witnessed weirdshit.
They've witnessed chairs move.
Or you put a box of somethingdown somewhere and then it moves
somewhere else.
They witness weird shit.
They witness, you know chairsmove.
Or they put.
You know you put a box of themdown somewhere and then it moves
somewhere else.
You know just weird, weird shit.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, you know as big as the airport is.
Maybe it was built on a petcemetery?
You?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
know I potentially see some cowboys and Indians
dying out in what is the size ofManhattan Island, which was
nothing but the prairie back youknow a couple, probably just
not even a hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Wild West?
Oh yeah, no, and it was.
I mean, there was nothing.
That was part of the reason whyDFW was built, because they got
such cheap land.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It was built in 73, and there was nothing there.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And if you've been in the airport recently, it feels
like the Wild West, as we'resaying yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Wild Wild West.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Still that today.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh no, but that's the best part, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's why I show up every day with a smile.
What's going to happen?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
today, because you never know, and you never know
who you're going to run into.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
With all this being said, I do want to say that and
I think I speak for both of uswhen I say this Blake, we are
bartenders.
We do sell alcohol.
That's what we do for a living,but we also promote anyone that
wants to be sober and live asober life away from alcohol.
(20:01):
Um, wants to be sober and livea sober life away from alcohol?
Um, you know, there's a lot ofpeople that it is obviously a
disease to them and it runs intheir family and they're
alcoholics.
And we do support anybody thatwants to come to our bar.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And, like me, I don't drink and drink water now I as
you, as you said, call him outevery, goddamn, every, every.
Can I get a water at the bar,please, as Blake?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
sits here and drinks a Dos Equis responsibly.
That's Dos Dos to you, sir yes.
You can double fist in Texas.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It's not illegal.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But no, and you know, a couple weeks back I had a
regular come in.
He asked me not to say his realname, so we'll call him Quincy.
Quincy came in and he had had aturbulent flight and I hadn't
seen him in months.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Our flights in our terminal are small 50-seaters,
so they tend to be a lot moreturbulent.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, although it does have a first class and they
had upgraded him thisparticular day to first class
and he travels all the time.
So he ended up knowing theflight attendant.
It was turbulent, she didn'tknow, just as I didn't know that
particular day.
He was about, I want to say, 90days into his sobriety.
(21:23):
Uh, well, no, he was closer tofour months.
So a little over 100, some odddays.
And she ends up just giving hima jack and coke because the
flight was turbulent, notknowing that he had tried
sobriety, that he had been sober, and so he takes this drink and
he drinks it because he isnervous about the flight.
(21:44):
Then he gets off the flight, noteven you know, 45 minutes later
and he comes straight to my bar, um, orders a beer, um, and
just kind of breaks down alittle bit and was like, hey,
you know, and starts confidingin me because you know we go
(22:06):
back and I'm his, you know,weekly, every two weeks.
I'm his bartender, you know, hesees me all the time, we know
each other by name.
And so once he proceeds to tellme that he, uh, hadn't been
drinking for almost four monthsand he tells me what happened on
(22:29):
the plane and you know bumpyride, and he says, hey, you know
I messed up, and he reallystarts to break down a little
bit.
And you know he started thisnew position with his job and he
just he snapped and he lost itand he just drank the Jack and
Coke that she brought him on theplane.
(22:51):
He just happened to be human.
You know and he said well, nowthat you know I've broken it,
you know I'm going to drink thissmall beer and I am going to
relax, I've broken it, I'm goingto drink this small beer and I
am going to relax.
And I said there's nothingwrong with that as long as you
do it responsibly and don't getout of control.
But not only that.
I told him and me and myyoungest son had been watching
(23:14):
X-Men, following up to all theX-Men movies and Wolverine
movies and stuff following up toDeadpool coming out, which I
enjoyed, going to see that withyou, blake.
That was awesome.
Not that I can see that, Icouldn't see it with my
eight-year-old, but I got torelive all those movies.
Anyways, I took a little pieceout of that and I was like just
(23:35):
because you stumble off yourpath doesn't mean you have to
lose your way.
You know that is the human inus.
And I said let that just be abenchmark to you to let you know
where you stand with it and ifyou feel this much guilt and
remorse about it, all right,tomorrow, start day one over
again.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And I see, tomorrow is a new day.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And I did.
I uh that was, I'd say that wasprobably four or five weeks
back and, um, big shout out tohim.
Uh, amazing, ended up tippingBlake and I $50.
And uh went and got a gift cardfor Starbucks and a thank you
card and really thanked us for,you know, helping him through a
(24:17):
tough time.
And just saw him about a weekago and he said, yeah, you know
you're cool to put uh the storyon the podcast and again, with
all this, uh, you know, I wantto say that we do support
anybody that's going through atough time and uh, you know,
wants to be sober.
Anybody that's trying to bebetter, you know we over Anybody
(24:39):
that's trying to be better, youknow we support them and you
know, if you want to come, hangout and hit the bong with us,
you know that's cool too,whatever you want to do but we
support you as an individual andthe choices that you want to
make for your life.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
As long as there are good choices, we support them.
Let's say this be cool toeverybody, Cause you never know
what anybody's going through.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, exactly Just like you never know who's going
to sit down at the bar next toyou.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Just be cool to everybody.
That's it, liam.
Give me a little more man.
What craziness have you?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
seen go on in the Mexican food concept the cantina
.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well, I don't know, I don't think you guys were there
that one time that the ladydropped her vibrator on the
floor.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh no, I was not there that day.
I wouldn't remember that.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, no you guys weren't there.
It was a nice purple vibrator.
Oh okay, she was a little bitintoxicated.
I unfortunately I hadn't servedthat guest so I don't accept
any responsibility orculpability for her actions.
But watching somebody, you everseen somebody a little bit too
drunk and they reach down topick up something?
(25:46):
several times yes, but you know,you step forward and then you
kick it, and then you take twomore steps forward, you reach
down to pick up and then youkick it again and it's just
rolling around the floor.
Yeah, yeah, that that wasquality.
A little bit of butterfingers.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little Butterfingers, a little
soccer going on, a little soccer, it was quality dude, I've
definitely seen the videos, theviral videos, where you know
girls are traveling in a groupand they end up hiding the giant
.
And the.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
TSA guys.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And they open it and they go.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
oh, my God he whips it out and it's all flopping
around.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
They open it and they go.
Oh my god.
He whips it out and it's allflopping around.
It's not often when you seesomeone at TSA drop their jaw
and be shot and that's one ofthose moments.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
They pretty much see anything and everything.
They see everything you have,whether you want them to or not
yeah.
Whether you're trying to hideit or not, they will find out.
They're going to find it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Well, we've talked about that on the last couple
episodes and they don't look foreverything, but they will be
distracted by the four-footer orwhatever you try to pack in
your carry-on.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, that will stick out on the x-ray machine.
Man Dingo will need to bechecked.
What is that?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
thing Is that battery operated.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Does that take double D's?
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So how about the American Bar and Grill
Applebee's?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
What craziness have you seen there?
That's an international term,so that's going to be completely
different.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I wanted to ask what's the coolest celebrity?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
you've ever interacted with?
Oh well, there have beenmultiple, probably the best.
There's a difference.
I'm a huge football fan, sowhen Joe Montana sat down at my
bar, oh, badass, like that'slike when I met Charles Barkley
yeah, exactly.
I mean Montana sits at your barand then his hands are twice
the size of my grown-ass manhands.
(27:53):
It was unbelievable.
And he was drinking doublemargaritas like they were
Gatorade.
It was quality.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Work hard, play hard.
Yeah, he won his Super Bowls,he's good he's retired.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
He deserves it.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
He couldn't have been .
He's got that Skechers money.
Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He does.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Romo hanging out on the beach.
He couldn't have been more nice.
And you know he confided in me.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He seems like a nice guy, but you never know until
you meet him.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, you know, the funny thing is he comes in, he's
wearing a hat and he was like Iwas just at a restaurant, you
know, trying to have lunch, andyou know I understand being a
celebrity, but he goes.
These two women come up to him,him, and they were just
bothering him.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Just wouldn't take their time to go away.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah.
And so he throws on this hat,comes and slides at the end of
my bar and of course I recognizehim.
I mean, if you know football,you see Montana sit down and
you're like that guy's a legend.
But I'm not one of those peoplewhere I'm like, ooh, let's get
a picture.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm not going to harass you.
I'm going to say what's up andsay, hey, you're cool yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Hey, and you know, for Double Margarita Zen, like
he's like.
Hey, you know, thank you forThanks for being cool.
Thanks for being cool and fornot bringing attention.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thanks for letting me be a person.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, that was cool to not be a celebrity person and
he told me something poignantthat he was like.
He was like he goes.
You know, we're all people too.
He's like even though that I'mjust, you know, I'm, you know,
tremendously popular and famous.
He's like life sucks If you canonly eat, you know room service
If you can't actually live it.
(29:24):
They all put their pants on oneleg at a time, just like we do,
and but you know, but, but thegratitude that I received
because of that was that wasbetter than anything, yes.
That I received because of him,yeah, exactly, that was better
than anything.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yes, so the funniest guy though without a doubt was
Pauly Shore.
I've met him.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, he's great, he's great.
This was he came.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
No, we, he's so.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
He came in right after Trump got elected in 2016.
And you know, Paul, he's loudas it is, yes, but he had a
little.
Maybe he seemed like he had alittle.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I think he just seems like that all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I think that's just Paul E Schubert.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Which is cool.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Which is cool, I got no problems with that.
But he's walking around sittingthere saying there was no
collusion.
You know talking about and I'msitting there dying.
You know just some.
You know preaching there's nocollusion.
There's no russian collusion.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You know the irony of it, now, that's like when we
saw charlie sheen he's alltrying to bum cigarettes,
charlie sheen came in.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He came, so there's a giant escalator from the train
that goes to the terminals rightnext to the bar I wish I would
have have seen that.
And we see Charlie Sheen, andthis is probably five to seven
years after he got kicked off ofTwo and a Half Men for Ashton
Kutcher, so he's not he doesn'thave to be in front of a camera
(30:50):
he's not making money.
This is when he just had a.
What did he?
He had an interview saying hedrinks tiger's blood or who
knows.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And anyways, he looks strung out.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
He looked like he probably lost 100 pounds.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I think this was right before he had to tell all
these different girls he hadsome kind of STD.
He was a little crackheadlooking 80-pound girl.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
And you just see them walk by because our restaurant
doesn't have walls, which makesthe people watching even better
and we just see them go outside.
It seemed like they had beencut off somewhere and they just
decided to go outside and weleave.
Luckily we were close yeah, wefinished cleaning the bar like
two hours later and he's stilloutside on the curb just bumming
(31:32):
cigarettes from people and justbeing weird, not going anywhere
.
He, he's basically justloitering at the airport.
He's basically just loiteringat the airport.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Hanging out bumming cigarettes from people.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I'm like dude, is it that bad?
I'm like how much money wereyou getting in an episode?
But anyway, man.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
he was raking it in back in the heyday.
He was a good mill in episodessomething like that that went
all to the tiger's blood.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
But Pauly Shore must have been a character.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Pauly Shore.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Pauly Shore, I mean come on, dude, one of my
favorite Pauly Shore stories.
One of my favorite podcaststhat I watch is called Bad
Friends with Bobby Lee, acomedian, andrew Santino.
Yeah, oh yeah, it's incredible.
And anyways, pauly Shore, hisfamily.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Shout out to Patrick, one of our regulars that looks
like him.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yes, yes, who went to Andrew Santino's show looks
just like him.
Sat made him get up on stagewith them and show them to
everybody, because he looksexactly like him.
They look yeah, they could betwin brothers, he's about 15
years younger but he looksexactly like him.
But anyways, one of my favoritePauly Shore stories, just to
tell you how insane he is.
So Bobby Lee's Korean and hetook for whatever reason he
(32:47):
decided he was going to takePauly Shore to the 24-hour
Korean spa and, knowing it's aKorean spa, and knowing that
Bobby Lee and everyone thatworks there is Korean, he goes
in and he just starts grabbingthe guy that's working there and
he goes.
Chinese people are the bestpeople in the world.
(33:07):
He's just an absolute maniac.
Oh, that's hilarious.
But even Bobby, who is the mostoutrageous, insane person, is
embarrassed to be hanging outwith Pauly Shore.
I'm like, oh my God.
Anyways, that makes me giggleevery time I hear that story.
(33:29):
I don't know why.
It's just insane.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Liam, I want to say thanks for having you on the
show this week.
Man, it means the world to us.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, man, thank you for having me.
Dude, Great to sit down andchat.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, absolutely.
We will have you back on againsoon.
I know we have a million morestories to tell.
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We'll be back soon with another episode.
Thanks, guys, peace.
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 9.
Let's get this going.
Pull up a bar stool.
Let's grab you something offthis tap and get it going.
This week we've got our awesome, awesome guest, liam.
Thank you for coming on theshow this week.
This is our good friend, liam.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Thank you very much for having me Tell us a little
bit about your background, whereyou worked and what all
concepts have you worked at atthe airport?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, right now I work at a few different concepts
.
I work at an Asian bar inTerminal A at DFW Airport.
I also work at Applebee's,which is always exciting, and I
work at the canteen.
So three different concepts.
(00:55):
You see drastically differentpeople working in three
different parts of the airport,especially international
terminals.
You see all sorts of theairport, especially like
international terminals.
You see all sorts of differentpeople.
But yeah, I started at LingLouie's back in 2014 with Chris.
(01:17):
That's where I met Chris.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's been 10 years now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Unbelievable.
I'm still working there.
Yeah, it's just insane.
I mean, I did have to take ahiatus because I was banned for
about five years, but you knowthat's right.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It opened in 2013, and you came shortly thereafter,
yeah yeah.
I also in this particularepisode I wanted to touch on.
I've got a big question to askhow long have you been on the
sobriety train?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Sobriety train.
I stopped consuming alcohol inJanuary of 2019.
Oh wow, so it has been.
That's aspirin.
It happens, yeah, no, ithappened right.
(02:18):
You know, a good year beforeCOVID and during COVID, I was
like as an alcoholic, I was likeas an alcoholic I was like why
I was like if I could have justlived through, because you know
I was, you know, a functioning,working alcoholic.
So you know I didn't get, Ialways had to go to work just
like many of the guests that wetake care of every day exactly
Speaker 1 (02:41):
it's not like we could work from home.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, but then there was that time where you had
nothing to do and I was like man.
A year and a half ago, I wouldwake, I would have, and I sat
there and I thought I was likeman, I would have.
It would have given me anexcuse, yes, to sit there To
rest the world.
Yeah, to have a drink at 930 inthe morning instead of being,
(03:03):
you know, vilified publicly andby my family.
Well probably still.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Most importantly by the family.
Yeah, yeah, no, I was alwaysokay with it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But yeah, no, it's been a good five and a half
years and you know everybodyalways asks me.
They're like how do youmaintain your sobriety while
working as a bartender?
You know, it's just one ofthose things.
Marijuana, yeah, marijuana,that's.
You know honestly.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Like if I would have had to like straight quit
without having any type of likecushion or fallback, I don't
know if I would have beensuccessful.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's hard to not have any vices.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I'm one of those guys.
I smoke cigarettes, smoke alittle bit of the devil's
lettuce, love it.
I know a couple guys like that.
Yeah, yeah, we're going to dothem it, but, um, I, you know, I
know guys like that, yeah, yeah, but you know just something,
for I guess you want to maybe acrutch and even, but it helped
(04:13):
me get through.
Yeah, absolutely.
It was one of those thingswhere I mean, both you guys knew
me while I was drinking, bothyou guys know we.
Obviously, afterwards it's beena quite the dramatic change.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I personally liked both, uh, both versions of you
liam.
Okay.
Well, thank you drinking, andyou, you definitely had your
shenanigans while you'redrinking.
Sir, I uh recalled this oneincident, uh, at the asian
concept where you proceed at theend of the night to pour
yourself a drink and then all ofa sudden you've got your
(04:47):
backpack ready to go and, sureenough, I see a Grey Goose
bottle poking out of it.
Can you elaborate on where thatmay or may not have come from?
I don't want you to incriminateyourself.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I can't confirm or deny where that bottle came from
.
I can tell you to incriminateyourself, I can.
I don't necessarily quite.
I can't confirm or deny wherethat bottle came from.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I could tell you where it went oh it went in my
you took it to go in your bellyyes, and I drank the whole thing
.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It was delish but it may or may not have been a boss
water bottle yeah oh well, yes,um any, any other good times.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You want to elaborate that you remember?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
during your non-sobriety.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
During non-sobriety I mean.
One of the reasons why I gottemporarily banned from that
establishment was consumingalcohol on the job.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It happened to our last guest on the podcast, um it
happens um evidently all thetime.
Um, so uh.
With that being said, um also,can you there?
There was this one time theysent you on a trip to do
training to open a new vitaminstore in the airport.
(06:07):
Yes, yes, I heard that was areally good time.
Can you give me some details onthat?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, this also ties into the drunken shenanigans of
my life.
I had recently shredded my kneeand one of our good friends had
yeah, one of our hopping over afence, hopping over fence over
my parents fence probably notsober.
No, no, I'm very intoxicated,but um just shredding my knee
(06:38):
acl mcl and a pc?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
yeah, I remember, and you might as well do the hat
trick.
If you're gonna do it, ifyou're gonna go, you might as
well, do the hat trick.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
if you're going to do it, if you're going to go, you
might as well go all the way.
Go home, baby.
Walking cast for a long time,yeah, and so well, you know, I
wasn't initially planning to gointo Pittsburgh and that's where
we were going.
I had never been to Pittsburgh.
I'm from these coats, but I hadnever been to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Not really these coats, but I had never been to
pittsburgh, not really adestination, no, it wasn't a
blue collar town from what Iunderstand, never been
Speaker 2 (07:10):
there myself mining town, we're very weird liquor
laws.
So like well, you know the beerand wine is we're from oklahoma
, we know weird.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you guys know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But um, but weird liquor laws part of the.
You know you couldn't get abottle of liquor in some place
and then but so I wasn't working.
The other person that wassupposed to go with the future
GM of that establishment hadsomebody pass away in the family
, so they were like, hey, thisguy's not doing anything because
(07:39):
I couldn't walk, and so hobbledonto a flight and went to
Pittsburgh and yeah, that wastalk about the contrasting.
I mean, if anybody knows ourgood friend who I went with, we
were consuming lots of alcoholwhile working for GFC.
I don't want to incriminateanybody.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It just so happens to be my son's stepfather,
whatever, oh, but we used topartake.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean, you know, you find somebody that you used to
drink with.
You know, it is called teamdrinking, it is.
It's a team sport.
It was great showing up in themorning and you know, after me
and this guy had been hangingout all night.
Shenanigans.
Shenanigans after me and thisguy had been hanging out all
night.
Shenanigans, Shenanigans, Likewe would walk in and these guys
(08:30):
are all clean.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
cut Me and my friend, we're walking in, you're
basically on vacation?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, we're partying.
Just roll on the side of yourmouth, yeah, and only knows what
we kind of.
You know, because even if youshower in the morning, but if
you party hard a little bit thenight before, you get a little
bit of that liquor sweat, it'sgoing to seep out.
It's going to seep out, yeah.
And so you know you're in thiscrowded room with these.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Sweating it out.
You're just sweating it out,these people.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's their brand new job.
They're trying to be upstandingcitizens.
They're like oh, it's corporate.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We're trying to get ready it was it was so I mean
the looks that we got, becausewe were, we just got looked like
we were degenerates and likewho the fuck are these guys?
Yeah, exactly, but it was.
But it was so great because youhad all these people and they
were like taking this real, realserious.
They were like you know, we'regonna.
You, these guys were buildingtheir own business.
(09:22):
They had bought their own store.
I was out there because Ifucked up my knee and I was just
looking for a vacation, for agood week.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You're like this is just fun for us.
This is something different.
Yeah, so I was looking atparties and it's a free trip.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Free trip, didn't have to pay for a dime, and you
get paid to do it.
And got paid and just went outand you're with a buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And I'm with a buddy, A drinking buddy nonetheless.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
A drinking buddy is a different thing than a regular
buddy.
But no, it was great.
We just I don't know, we justpartied it up, went to learn
about some vitamins, cool, cool,cool.
But yeah, no, that wasPittsburgh in a nutshell.
Good times Sounds like goodtimes.
No, it was Pittsburgh in anutshell.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Good times?
It sounds like good times.
No, it was a great time.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It sounds like Pittsburgh in a bottle.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, it was At least three bottles, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Okay, so you worked at the Asian concept, the
Mexican food concept and theApplebee's.
Okay, can you give me some more?
Man, tell me I know you gotsomething up your sleeve what
else you got for me?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh man, well, you know, I think a lot of what we
encounter every day is obviouslya lot of guest interaction.
Oh, absolutely.
And the best part about beingable to travel and, you know,
flying, crisscrossing thiscountry is that all you need is
a driver's license.
(10:49):
You know, they don't, theydon't give any type of.
You know you can be crazy, batshit, crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
As long as you have an ID, you can get on a plane.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, and we see that every single day.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And it might be the first time they've got on a
plane.
Yeah, and a lot of them saw ita few times this week.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, Like, for instance, this is one of the
crazier stories I had.
I'm working at the Asianconcept, right Bartending had a
guest sitting over in the cornerback in the back of the
restaurant.
They had sent everybody home.
I was like you know, I'll takethis If anybody comes in,
whatever this woman comes in,Beautiful, Probably mid-40s,
(11:31):
Just beautiful woman Puttogether.
You know, smelled nice.
You know, one of those ladiesOrders a glass of wine.
I'm checking back in with her.
She's fine.
About 25 minutes she's onlydrank about half a glass of
water.
I go back.
I was like everything okay, howyou doing?
(11:52):
All of a sudden we're talkinglike a light switch flipped.
Obviously, somebody ate somecandy back there in the back.
I was going to say yep, thepill kicked in.
Yeah, the pill.
I'm sorry, the pill kicked inand she had a bowl of rice.
All right, I walk over.
I must have startled her.
She knocked the bowl of riceover.
I'm like, all right calm down.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Maybe I just startled her, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Let me go get a broom .
Nope, nope, nope, she's goingto take care of that.
Like my dog, like she gets onall fours, starts cupping the
rice, shoveling it into her face.
I'm like, okay, this is notcool, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am are
you?
okay, ma'am, can I get you awater bowl while you're there?
No, and so you know it justkind of escalated.
(12:37):
I ended up having to call thecops, which is that's like
that's last resort.
You know you don't want to have, but at a certain point there's
nothing you can do.
But you also don't want to bethe person that served, the
person that got the YouTubevideo on.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, exactly, you don't want to be that guy, but
you also didn't over-serve her.
So at the end of the day, it'sreally you know.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
There's a liability involved, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay, so anyways, police come in.
They realize she's done for.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
She's done skis.
They take her away.
Bedtime man Come with us.
Dfw is one of those.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They've got one of those, their own little security
area.
Whatever you want to call itDrunk tank or whatever We'll
tuck you in downstairs.
Come with us Exactly the nextday.
I'm working, same restaurant,same chef, lo, and behold, guess
who comes back?
They always do the same womanwearing the same clothes.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Doesn't smell as great.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, no, no, no, no, no, she did not.
She goes and sits back in thesame table.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Nice, damn.
This did not go as well lasttime.
Listen who orders the sameglass of wine.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
You're not having a little bit of deja vu, are you?
I'm having tremendous deja vu.
And guess what happens?
The exact same thing happenedJesus Christ.
The exact same thing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Did you have to call the authorities again?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Call the same.
Called the cops again.
Oh boy, the same cop from thenight before showed up and he's
like looking at me.
He's like what?
The what is going?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
on.
I was like I have no clue.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
What in the hell?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's Groundhog Day for me too, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I don't know it was unreal.
I'd never seen anything like it.
I mean, I couldn't even believeit.
And you know, once again theytake her away and I was like you
know, in my head I'm like thankGod I'm off tomorrow.
They're like I can't do this at13.
Yeah, if she came back I wouldlose my shit.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm just walking out.
If she comes back.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.
He said I'll try again tomorrow, but there was something about
that corner table.
All right, and I'm maybetaunted, yes, so I'm glad you
brought that up.
Okay, so we're back in the backof the corner restaurant.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, it's, it's, I've heard this one, but I love
it go.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's the same table.
I'm back.
I'm there by myself.
Now, this is one of those timeswhere I'm you know, it's late
at night.
You know, somehow some Tito'sfell into my cup while I'm
cleaning the bar top.
There's nobody else in there.
Oops, there's a Tito's on thespill sheet.
Sorry, guys, yep, my bad Whoops.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Shaky hands.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The MOD had disappeared.
That doesn't sound like acompany that we've worked with.
No, no, who knows where youknow.
They probably went down andtook a nap down in storage.
They might have spilled someTito's as well.
For all we know no, and if youknew this gentleman, he spilled
a lot of Tito's yes, yes.
So I'm standing back there, I'mby myself.
(15:35):
There's nobody in therestaurant.
It's 11 o'clock at night.
I was doing something with, Iwas cleaning, I was doing some
inventory, some type of you knowsomething.
Just end of the night, busy workto get out of there, absolutely
, and so there were these chairsthat were pulled out.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't know anything about that.
It's table 901.
Three kids, just to give you areference.
I can't figure that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And there's a chair that's kind of out towards the
middle, because you pulleverything out.
Oh yes, and you're sweeping andmopping and you know, making
sure the establishment is inpristine conditions, as we
expect.
Yeah, well, so ladies like hercan eat off the floor again.
Exactly, yeah, I didn't feeltoo bad about it, it's good
enough for the dogs.
This chair is probably aboutmaybe 10 feet away.
I look up and the chair slidesall the way in.
(16:26):
Excuse me, say that again.
No, the chair, there's nobodyaround.
I'm the only person in therestaurant.
Yes, the chair moved at least agood 10, 12 feet by itself and
you're just like, and I'mlooking around, I'm like,
there's no way that I just sawthat, like, was that the tea
level.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, it's time to leave.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, you know, I'm sitting there.
I'm like man, this is my firstdrink.
I can't be, you know, likemaybe I've had a long day.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Maybe I don't know.
I was like what's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You always second guess those things and
I-checking I didn't believe ithappened.
But that's one of those kind oflike.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And no one else is there to verify or deny.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Nobody else could sit there and back my story or say
he's a damn liar.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
As well as saying you really don't want to tell
people.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
No what the fuck are you talking about?
No?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But no, that's just one of the few occasions.
There's another time wherewe've got a gong, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I've hit that gong several times on Big Tips.
Yes, when I worked at thatconcept.
You hit it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Just because it's there, you hit it if it owes you
money or whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I love to hit the bong.
I mean the gong, the gong.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yes, I love the gong bong, but once again I'm sitting
there back in that restaurantby myself and turn around and
right behind me I knew itNobody's around Now.
This happened in probablyback-to-back weeks and so it was
(18:07):
right around the same timeframe and I'm sitting there
thinking I might be losing mymind or maybe I need to quit
drinking.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Maybe I need to check myself in, or I don't know
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, but we're talking sheer insanity and I
thought I was losing myself.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I thought I was losing my mind.
That would make anyone questionthemselves.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
But there have been other experiences and finally I
realize that I'm not becauseother people have told me that
they've seen weird shit happen.
That they've witnessed weirdshit.
They've witnessed chairs move.
Or you put a box of somethingdown somewhere and then it moves
somewhere else.
They witness weird shit.
They witness, you know chairsmove.
Or they put.
You know you put a box of themdown somewhere and then it moves
somewhere else.
You know just weird, weird shit.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, you know as big as the airport is.
Maybe it was built on a petcemetery?
You?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
know I potentially see some cowboys and Indians
dying out in what is the size ofManhattan Island, which was
nothing but the prairie back youknow a couple, probably just
not even a hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Wild West?
Oh yeah, no, and it was.
I mean, there was nothing.
That was part of the reason whyDFW was built, because they got
such cheap land.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It was built in 73, and there was nothing there.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And if you've been in the airport recently, it feels
like the Wild West, as we'resaying yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Wild Wild West.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Still that today.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh no, but that's the best part, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's why I show up every day with a smile.
What's going to happen?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
today, because you never know, and you never know
who you're going to run into.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
With all this being said, I do want to say that and
I think I speak for both of uswhen I say this Blake, we are
bartenders.
We do sell alcohol.
That's what we do for a living,but we also promote anyone that
wants to be sober and live asober life away from alcohol.
(20:01):
Um, wants to be sober and livea sober life away from alcohol?
Um, you know, there's a lot ofpeople that it is obviously a
disease to them and it runs intheir family and they're
alcoholics.
And we do support anybody thatwants to come to our bar.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And, like me, I don't drink and drink water now I as
you, as you said, call him outevery, goddamn, every, every.
Can I get a water at the bar,please, as Blake?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
sits here and drinks a Dos Equis responsibly.
That's Dos Dos to you, sir yes.
You can double fist in Texas.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It's not illegal.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But no, and you know, a couple weeks back I had a
regular come in.
He asked me not to say his realname, so we'll call him Quincy.
Quincy came in and he had had aturbulent flight and I hadn't
seen him in months.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Our flights in our terminal are small 50-seaters,
so they tend to be a lot moreturbulent.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, although it does have a first class and they
had upgraded him thisparticular day to first class
and he travels all the time.
So he ended up knowing theflight attendant.
It was turbulent, she didn'tknow, just as I didn't know that
particular day.
He was about, I want to say, 90days into his sobriety.
(21:23):
Uh, well, no, he was closer tofour months.
So a little over 100, some odddays.
And she ends up just giving hima jack and coke because the
flight was turbulent, notknowing that he had tried
sobriety, that he had been sober, and so he takes this drink and
he drinks it because he isnervous about the flight.
(21:44):
Then he gets off the flight, noteven you know, 45 minutes later
and he comes straight to my bar, um, orders a beer, um, and
just kind of breaks down alittle bit and was like, hey,
you know, and starts confidingin me because you know we go
(22:06):
back and I'm his, you know,weekly, every two weeks.
I'm his bartender, you know, hesees me all the time, we know
each other by name.
And so once he proceeds to tellme that he, uh, hadn't been
drinking for almost four monthsand he tells me what happened on
(22:29):
the plane and you know bumpyride, and he says, hey, you know
I messed up, and he reallystarts to break down a little
bit.
And you know he started thisnew position with his job and he
just he snapped and he lost itand he just drank the Jack and
Coke that she brought him on theplane.
(22:51):
He just happened to be human.
You know and he said well, nowthat you know I've broken it,
you know I'm going to drink thissmall beer and I am going to
relax, I've broken it, I'm goingto drink this small beer and I
am going to relax.
And I said there's nothingwrong with that as long as you
do it responsibly and don't getout of control.
But not only that.
I told him and me and myyoungest son had been watching
(23:14):
X-Men, following up to all theX-Men movies and Wolverine
movies and stuff following up toDeadpool coming out, which I
enjoyed, going to see that withyou, blake.
That was awesome.
Not that I can see that, Icouldn't see it with my
eight-year-old, but I got torelive all those movies.
Anyways, I took a little pieceout of that and I was like just
(23:35):
because you stumble off yourpath doesn't mean you have to
lose your way.
You know that is the human inus.
And I said let that just be abenchmark to you to let you know
where you stand with it and ifyou feel this much guilt and
remorse about it, all right,tomorrow, start day one over
again.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And I see, tomorrow is a new day.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And I did.
I uh that was, I'd say that wasprobably four or five weeks
back and, um, big shout out tohim.
Uh, amazing, ended up tippingBlake and I $50.
And uh went and got a gift cardfor Starbucks and a thank you
card and really thanked us for,you know, helping him through a
(24:17):
tough time.
And just saw him about a weekago and he said, yeah, you know
you're cool to put uh the storyon the podcast and again, with
all this, uh, you know, I wantto say that we do support
anybody that's going through atough time and uh, you know,
wants to be sober.
Anybody that's trying to bebetter, you know we over Anybody
(24:39):
that's trying to be better, youknow we support them and you
know, if you want to come, hangout and hit the bong with us,
you know that's cool too,whatever you want to do but we
support you as an individual andthe choices that you want to
make for your life.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
As long as there are good choices, we support them.
Let's say this be cool toeverybody, Cause you never know
what anybody's going through.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, exactly Just like you never know who's going
to sit down at the bar next toyou.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Just be cool to everybody.
That's it, liam.
Give me a little more man.
What craziness have you?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
seen go on in the Mexican food concept the cantina
.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well, I don't know, I don't think you guys were there
that one time that the ladydropped her vibrator on the
floor.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh no, I was not there that day.
I wouldn't remember that.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, no you guys weren't there.
It was a nice purple vibrator.
Oh okay, she was a little bitintoxicated.
I unfortunately I hadn't servedthat guest so I don't accept
any responsibility orculpability for her actions.
But watching somebody, you everseen somebody a little bit too
drunk and they reach down topick up something?
(25:46):
several times yes, but you know,you step forward and then you
kick it, and then you take twomore steps forward, you reach
down to pick up and then youkick it again and it's just
rolling around the floor.
Yeah, yeah, that that wasquality.
A little bit of butterfingers.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little Butterfingers, a little
soccer going on, a little soccer, it was quality dude, I've
definitely seen the videos, theviral videos, where you know
girls are traveling in a groupand they end up hiding the giant
.
And the.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
TSA guys.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And they open it and they go.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
oh, my God he whips it out and it's all flopping
around.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
They open it and they go.
Oh my god.
He whips it out and it's allflopping around.
It's not often when you seesomeone at TSA drop their jaw
and be shot and that's one ofthose moments.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
They pretty much see anything and everything.
They see everything you have,whether you want them to or not
yeah.
Whether you're trying to hideit or not, they will find out.
They're going to find it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Well, we've talked about that on the last couple
episodes and they don't look foreverything, but they will be
distracted by the four-footer orwhatever you try to pack in
your carry-on.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, that will stick out on the x-ray machine.
Man Dingo will need to bechecked.
What is that?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
thing Is that battery operated.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Does that take double D's?
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So how about the American Bar and Grill
Applebee's?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
What craziness have you seen there?
That's an international term,so that's going to be completely
different.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I wanted to ask what's the coolest celebrity?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
you've ever interacted with?
Oh well, there have beenmultiple, probably the best.
There's a difference.
I'm a huge football fan, sowhen Joe Montana sat down at my
bar, oh, badass, like that'slike when I met Charles Barkley
yeah, exactly.
I mean Montana sits at your barand then his hands are twice
the size of my grown-ass manhands.
(27:53):
It was unbelievable.
And he was drinking doublemargaritas like they were
Gatorade.
It was quality.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Work hard, play hard.
Yeah, he won his Super Bowls,he's good he's retired.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
He deserves it.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
He couldn't have been .
He's got that Skechers money.
Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He does.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Romo hanging out on the beach.
He couldn't have been more nice.
And you know he confided in me.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He seems like a nice guy, but you never know until
you meet him.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, you know, the funny thing is he comes in, he's
wearing a hat and he was like Iwas just at a restaurant, you
know, trying to have lunch, andyou know I understand being a
celebrity, but he goes.
These two women come up to him,him, and they were just
bothering him.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Just wouldn't take their time to go away.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah.
And so he throws on this hat,comes and slides at the end of
my bar and of course I recognizehim.
I mean, if you know football,you see Montana sit down and
you're like that guy's a legend.
But I'm not one of those peoplewhere I'm like, ooh, let's get
a picture.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm not going to harass you.
I'm going to say what's up andsay, hey, you're cool yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Hey, and you know, for Double Margarita Zen, like
he's like.
Hey, you know, thank you forThanks for being cool.
Thanks for being cool and fornot bringing attention.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thanks for letting me be a person.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, that was cool to not be a celebrity person and
he told me something poignantthat he was like.
He was like he goes.
You know, we're all people too.
He's like even though that I'mjust, you know, I'm, you know,
tremendously popular and famous.
He's like life sucks If you canonly eat, you know room service
If you can't actually live it.
(29:24):
They all put their pants on oneleg at a time, just like we do,
and but you know, but, but thegratitude that I received
because of that was that wasbetter than anything, yes.
That I received because of him,yeah, exactly, that was better
than anything.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yes, so the funniest guy though without a doubt was
Pauly Shore.
I've met him.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, he's great, he's great.
This was he came.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
No, we, he's so.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
He came in right after Trump got elected in 2016.
And you know, Paul, he's loudas it is, yes, but he had a
little.
Maybe he seemed like he had alittle.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I think he just seems like that all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I think that's just Paul E Schubert.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Which is cool.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Which is cool, I got no problems with that.
But he's walking around sittingthere saying there was no
collusion.
You know talking about and I'msitting there dying.
You know just some.
You know preaching there's nocollusion.
There's no russian collusion.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You know the irony of it, now, that's like when we
saw charlie sheen he's alltrying to bum cigarettes,
charlie sheen came in.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He came, so there's a giant escalator from the train
that goes to the terminals rightnext to the bar I wish I would
have have seen that.
And we see Charlie Sheen, andthis is probably five to seven
years after he got kicked off ofTwo and a Half Men for Ashton
Kutcher, so he's not he doesn'thave to be in front of a camera
(30:50):
he's not making money.
This is when he just had a.
What did he?
He had an interview saying hedrinks tiger's blood or who
knows.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And anyways, he looks strung out.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
He looked like he probably lost 100 pounds.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I think this was right before he had to tell all
these different girls he hadsome kind of STD.
He was a little crackheadlooking 80-pound girl.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
And you just see them walk by because our restaurant
doesn't have walls, which makesthe people watching even better
and we just see them go outside.
It seemed like they had beencut off somewhere and they just
decided to go outside and weleave.
Luckily we were close yeah, wefinished cleaning the bar like
two hours later and he's stilloutside on the curb just bumming
(31:32):
cigarettes from people and justbeing weird, not going anywhere
.
He, he's basically justloitering at the airport.
He's basically just loiteringat the airport.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Hanging out bumming cigarettes from people.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I'm like dude, is it that bad?
I'm like how much money wereyou getting in an episode?
But anyway, man.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
he was raking it in back in the heyday.
He was a good mill in episodessomething like that that went
all to the tiger's blood.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
But Pauly Shore must have been a character.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Pauly Shore.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Pauly Shore, I mean come on, dude, one of my
favorite Pauly Shore stories.
One of my favorite podcaststhat I watch is called Bad
Friends with Bobby Lee, acomedian, andrew Santino.
Yeah, oh yeah, it's incredible.
And anyways, pauly Shore, hisfamily.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Shout out to Patrick, one of our regulars that looks
like him.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yes, yes, who went to Andrew Santino's show looks
just like him.
Sat made him get up on stagewith them and show them to
everybody, because he looksexactly like him.
They look yeah, they could betwin brothers, he's about 15
years younger but he looksexactly like him.
But anyways, one of my favoritePauly Shore stories, just to
tell you how insane he is.
So Bobby Lee's Korean and hetook for whatever reason he
(32:47):
decided he was going to takePauly Shore to the 24-hour
Korean spa and, knowing it's aKorean spa, and knowing that
Bobby Lee and everyone thatworks there is Korean, he goes
in and he just starts grabbingthe guy that's working there and
he goes.
Chinese people are the bestpeople in the world.
(33:07):
He's just an absolute maniac.
Oh, that's hilarious.
But even Bobby, who is the mostoutrageous, insane person, is
embarrassed to be hanging outwith Pauly Shore.
I'm like, oh my God.
Anyways, that makes me giggleevery time I hear that story.
(33:29):
I don't know why.
It's just insane.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Liam, I want to say thanks for having you on the
show this week.
Man, it means the world to us.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, man, thank you for having me.
Dude, Great to sit down andchat.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, absolutely.
We will have you back on againsoon.
I know we have a million morestories to tell.
Yeah, exactly, Real quick.
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