Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 2: Celebrity Sightings
Pull up a stool and lend an ear, because today’s episode is brimming with tales you'd expect to overhear at a secluded airport bar. Ever wonder what it's like to serve a drink to the likes of Rob Lowe or share a silent nod with James Marsden? I've got the inside scoop on these starry encounters, plus some not-so-glinting moments, like Steve Harvey's early morning demands. We'll explore the intertwining of fame and humanity—where every pour and tip reveals a narrative etched in the glitz and grit of celebrity life.
The glamor isn't confined to the silver screen; sometimes it walks right into your day job. Imagine chatting with Clark Gregg about his Marvel adventures or Patrick Warburton's distinctive voice filling the room. This episode spins a yarn about these moments and more, including a quiet exchange with SNL's Andrew Dismukes and a hearty handshake from country star Pat Green. It's not just the brush with fame that lingers but the humility and warmth these figures exude amidst their travels.
Yet the life of an airport bartender isn't always garnished with star sightings. Today, I recount a sobering tale of excess and the shadow it casts over the glitzy encounters. We discuss the pitfalls of substance use, especially in the high-flying context of post-pandemic travel, and the impact it leaves on both the famous and the fans. So, settle in with your drink of choice, as we mix a cocktail of celebrity run-ins and life lessons learned beyond the bar top.
Hey, welcome back. Episode 2. Pull up a chair, let's grab you a drink. Tell us from an airport bar, episode 2. Let's go. We're going to talk about some celebrities today and a couple interesting stories.
Speaker 2:Also, we actually have mics this week, so hopefully this sounds better, Let us know. If it doesn't, Let us know. You know quality-wise, but we'll see.
Speaker 1:I'm going to start with a couple celebrities I've bumped into at the airport over the years and some interesting things behind that. So met Rob Lowe. I said Charles Barkley was probably one of the nicest celebrities I met. I got to thinking about things. Rob Lowe was the nicest celebrity I've ever seen in my life. He was traveling with his, I believe, like maybe his brother's cousin, something, and his father, and his father was more elderly and he was just more concerned about his father than anything and just was super nice. More concerned about his father than anything and just was super nice.
Speaker 1:Uh tipped me amazing, um, I'm sure they were traveling abroad because it was the international terminal. Um, that same restaurant, a little pizza restaurant above another restaurant I used to manage and bartender, uh, I also got to sit down and uh, while Michael Cera was eating uh pizza at my restaurant one evening late, he was uh, one of the only uh people in the restaurant. He was like hey, why don't you sit down? And he's just super like, you know kind of his, like his characters, you know he's kind of awkward and yeah, but super, super nice, sit down with him. He was telling me a story. He was on his way to like argentina, chile something to film some independent film. And six months later, sure enough, I saw it. I it. I think it was on Netflix or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and.
Speaker 1:I never watched it but I saw it. Uh and um, who else have I met? Like, oh my gosh. It goes on and on and on and on. Owen Wilson was super nice. Uh, just sit at the bar. Had a beer pizza at that place, oh, really cool. Jared Leto, and he was with his brother and his, I guess, bandmates, if you will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were traveling through.
Speaker 1:They were actually downstairs at the pub. They were traveling. You know, International Terminal, Not everybody has a private jet and they took pictures with everybody. And Jared Leto was super cool, Super nice guy. Who else you know? One of my regulars was Pudge Rodriguez. When I worked at an Asian cuisine bar and grill, he would come in and drink Bud Lights like it was going out of style. But you know, super nice, excellent tipper, Steve Harvey. That guy was a dick.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you know this was super long time ago, so we're talking about 2003, 2004. It was a day when we had a bunch of cancellations and things. It was super early in the morning and we weren't even open yet. And he comes in and talks to the manager and he's got his bodyguards with him and stuff. Well, he comes up to me first because I'm at the bar and there's just his bodyguards with him and stuff. Well, he comes up to me first because I'm at the bar and just one of our gates are open because you know everything, you pull down these gates to close off these little restaurants.
Speaker 2:Everything has to be secure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, not the one we work at now.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, of course Everything's supposed to be Well anyways, you would pull down these gates and close the restaurants at night. And we had one of the gates open and I was in there opening up the bar and my manager was in the kitchen, I think, cooking himself some breakfast. And uh, steve Harvey walks in and he walks up to me and he's like hey, can we get some breakfast? And I was just like, ah, we're not open, you know, for like another 30 minutes or so. That's my manager back there cooking. He's like well, my guy's hungry. And there's this big, huge dude standing there with him. He's like my guy's hungry and you won't like him if we don't feed him. I was like, you know, let me get my manager, sir. You're like, what are you supposed to say to that? Anyways, they ended up sitting down and my manager took care of him for the most part. He was just, you know, super needy celebrity, thought he was a little better than everybody else.
Speaker 2:Definitely a little bit of entitlement there. I don't care if you're open.
Speaker 1:Same thing with you, know, okay, okay. So I worked at this little bar and you could see people walking. When I first started, I worked at this little tiny bar and, uh, it had uh two little, uh little bar tables basically built into the wall, and it had a little four top bar and next to that, towards the entrance of this little place, it it had a little walk-up counter. You know a deli case.
Speaker 2:Grab and go food, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this, at this particular bar I hired my brother and, you know, my brother-in-laws, and this is when I first started out. I was all of what, 23, 24. And so after 9-11, I got transferred to this little bar to take it over and ended up doing amazing things with that. To this little bar to take it over and ended up doing amazing things with that. But so you would have to be bussed out to this little terminal and, anyways, you're back behind this bar and it's towards the tiniest little thing and it was the only thing out there besides a little like I would call it a newsstand, and it sold magazines and candy bars and that was it, did you?
Speaker 2:guys have to get bussed out to the bar too, or did you guys walk out to it?
Speaker 1:Well, we actually our company had a private vehicle because we would have to hand deliver everything we had like sandwich prep, up at the main restaurant. And they'd prep it and then send it to you, or we would take our van and I would deliver pegs and whatever that's interesting. So anyways, I'm bartending one day and this dude walks by this little short guy and he walks by and this is a long time ago.
Speaker 1:We're talking, I don't know, 2003, 2004, maybe 2005, maybe probably 2003, 2004, somewhere in there. And um, this guy's walking by and he's got this huge gold belt buckle on of this sun right Hair all braided up. He walks by.
Speaker 2:Can't even guess who this is, and I was like was that ludicrous?
Speaker 1:And I was like no, I was like it's definitely not ludicrous. Anyways, comes back in with a little entourage of like five people and I told you there's these two little tables built in, these two little four tops built into the wall across from the bar I mean standing room, only tables. And so he comes up to the bar and we have to ID everyone, just policy. And I asked for his ID and he's like you got ID'd me, man. And I was like yeah, and there's a picture on the wall of this elderly lady and it says yes, they even ID'd me too. And anyways, he comes. He was like let me get a Bloody Mary. And gosh, I still remember this from 20 plus years ago. Uh, he's like let me get a bloody mary.
Speaker 1:I was like okay, and his little entourage is going through the deli line next to the bar right there, I mean just tiny little place, and uh, I get him his bloody mary and I look at his id and it says something. I didn't pay attention. I was like you know what, I know who you are, he goes. Oh attention. I was like you know what, I know who you are, he goes. Oh, do you? I was like yeah, you're that little pimp from Friday After Mix. And he just started laughing and he was kind of standoffish, celebrity-like, you know, and he's like, yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2:Pimp down.
Speaker 1:Paid for his Bloody Mary, set at a four top by himself and made his entourage a five top with only four chairs set separately from him and I thought that was the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1:And then he drank his Bloody Mary, got up, put a $20 bill of cash in my tip jar and bounced and I was like, isn't that cool? Yeah, so that same little bar. Put a $20 bill of cash in my tip jar and bounce and I was like cool, um. Yeah, so that same little bar I met, uh, ll Cool J. Um waited on we man there he had. I remember I'll never forget he had three Miller lights and fell off the barstool in there.
Speaker 1:Just, you know, um body weight wise, he can't drink that much alcohol, evidently. And oh, I've told you this story. Wow, what was his name? Josie Scott, from a little band called Saliva.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not to be confused with Nickelback.
Speaker 2:Both just fantastic so they come in these.
Speaker 1:This, this band called saliva comes into this little bar Right and you know the four top, they take over the four or the four bar stools and you know I've got two little four tops and they've got eight people drinking at them, all just random strangers. And then you've got four or five people standing up in there and everybody's partying. And I'm talking as big as this little studio we're in right now recording this.
Speaker 1:People don't care. So this guy comes in and he's buying shots of Midori for everybody and you know it's a little commuter. Back then it was all the little prop planes and little tiny regional jets. Now you don't even have any regional prop planes anymore. They're all larger regional jets, we actually work in that version of the terminal. Again, you would have to be bussed out to basically what was a large trailer park.
Speaker 2:It's probably kind of like at schools, where they add the classrooms outdoors, you get your little AC unit. It's not really a building, but it kind of is.
Speaker 1:So yeah, anyways, things would be so much more stringent now. But uh, where was I that recently I kind of had a situation like that you didn't actually get bussed out, but you had to walk across the tarmac and go up the plane.
Speaker 2:Uh, I know I think it was uh, cabo, yeah, yeah, I was gonna say it makes sense. I know in know, in Hawaii I had to, because you fly to the big airport to get to Hawaii and then you have to fly to whichever island you're going to, if you're not, and there are clearly small airports out there, and then boom, you walk off down the stairs yourself off the airplane, walk into the terminal.
Speaker 1:So yeah, needless to say, Cat Williams, he was a good tipper, yeah cool.
Speaker 2:They were probably on tour or something. He was probably tired of being around the same people all the time. He was like you guys get away from me for a minute, I'm going to have my bloody hair.
Speaker 1:You know, I wasn't even aware of him. Oh, but we were talking about Josie Scott. He came in and his band, saliva, and they're all partying and they're drinking shots of Midori and evidently they're celebrating what a weird thing to take shots of, by the way. And I talked to him and I was like, oh yeah, I get to talking to him. And uh, I was like, oh yeah, I get to talking to him. And I was like, yeah, didn't you? Aren't you on that uh spider-man soundtrack song with uh nickelback? He's like, yeah, I was like that song for you guys is different sound, that kind of blows. It was like a song you know, a little trendy for me, man. And he was like, oh yeah, I was like, you know, and I'm thinking whatever about him buying shots of Midori for starters. And he goes, oh yeah, he goes. I co-wrote that with so-and-so the lead singer.
Speaker 2:Mr Nickelback himself.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that dude's name is. I'm not into those guys. He goes. Yeah, I won a Grammy for that just a couple of days ago. I was like, oh wow, I'm going to go back here in the back and put my foot right in my mouth. Let me pour you a couple more Midori's. And anyways ended up being the nicest guys and they tipped very well and so, yeah, they partied, but they partied with Midori's.
Speaker 2:So anyways whatever. Different strokes, different folks.
Speaker 1:I don't judge, I just pour the drinks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did have an old manager that got me into. He was like have you ever had shots of Grand Marnier? I'm like no, because it's the same thing. It's like a liqueur, it's not the main. I went to this little burrito bar after I worked that day. I was like, hey, let me get a chilled shot. And I was like, hey, let me get a chilled shot.
Speaker 1:It was actually pretty damn good. It surprised me Not to name names, but Malcolm, who we worked with. He would always sip on a little Grand Marnier with his beer. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2:It's pretty good. Surprisingly, it's weird and it's not something I do all the time.
Speaker 1:Again, I'm not a drinker, so maybe Madora would be your style. Again, I know what, I've tasted everything. I know everything under the sun as far as flavor profiles. Master mixologist.
Speaker 2:Master mixologist.
Speaker 1:So talk to me, Blake. Tell me some celebrities you've met when we first opened.
Speaker 2:We used to see them all the time, but let's see and this is like a C or D list celebrity Even on what was it? I guess it was Saturday morning I had one of the or no. No, it wasn't Saturday morning, it was Friday morning. I had one of the or no. No, it wasn't Saturday morning, it was Friday morning. I had one of the dudes from Saturday Night Live. His name, I think his name is Andrew Dismute, something like that. I mean, he's like a. He's one in the newer SNL. He's not like super huge or anything, but that was entering. Super cool guy, Super chill.
Speaker 2:He's like a younger white guy, brown hair, just super nice guy, brown hair, just super nice guy. But he's pretty funny. On this one I'm trying to think. And then recently we had Putty Patrick. What's his name? Patrick Welbutin? I get his last name confused with.
Speaker 1:Welbutin, I would love to know if you told me I used to love Seinfeld. But he was Putty.
Speaker 2:He did the Tick. I believe he did the cartoon version. Back in the day he did one of my favorite shows growing up Rules of Engagement with David Spade. That show was awesome.
Speaker 1:What was the McFarland newer show that he was on? It was kind of a Star Trek spoof. I don't think he was in that. Yeah, I definitely thought he was one of the characters in that.
Speaker 2:He wasn't one of the main characters.
Speaker 1:He was one of the aliens that you couldn't tell who he was. He had like a big long nose.
Speaker 2:Was he Elephant no?
Speaker 1:What show was that?
Speaker 2:That was the Seth MacFarlane space show. I can't remember. I thought you were watching that one. I was a while back and then I lost the. I know it had the dude that plays Steve in American Dad in it the red-headed dude.
Speaker 1:I want to say that the dude that played Putty, like you said, maybe he was in that and I've already forgotten.
Speaker 2:Anywho, I've slept since then. But he was cool, super quiet, just got a nice tea and like a salad. You know, I noticed more and more of these celebrities. They come in with a chill vibe and they just try and like just be quiet and do their thing and not be noticed a lot of you know who was super cool and I wasn't even working.
Speaker 1:I came in to do a little inventory and comes in, he's wearing this hawaiian shirt super cool, sets at seat 10 uh, right there on the corner, or actually you would probably consider it 11, whatever. And comes in and I actually get him a drink because the bartenders were goofing off whatever, and I'm in just my civvies and I get his order and I think I pass it off to the bartender and I'm on the other side, or I'm doing some inventory, and I get to talking to him and it's Sean Gunn, james Gunn, director of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and now he's the head of dc. Um, his brother is uh, acts in all his movies. The he did. He was in the suicide squad reboot, he's. Who did he play? What was he? Uh? What was he in that uh?
Speaker 1:okay, so so so you've seen the guardians of the galaxy.
Speaker 2:Yes, um, the guy with the whistle uh, gosh the, the guy with the whistle, gosh, the older guy with the whistle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm losing my train of thought.
Speaker 1:He took in Star-Lord. Yeah, that guy, the guy that takes over for him.
Speaker 2:Okay, see, that's who I was thinking yeah, yeah, yeah, he puts the mohawk on. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:And takes over the whistle. He talks with a little kind of country. Bumpkin accent yes yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So he was in and I got to talking to him, and this was back a little while ago. I got to talking to him about his brother getting fired from the Guardians of the Galaxy project and, sure enough, right after that, he gets rehired to come back and do the last guardians of the galaxy and thank god, man he was in that third one.
Speaker 2:Uh, he took over for xan do, is that?
Speaker 1:the xan do yes, thank you I cannot remember his character's name either, um but my son could tell you but um, yeah, so he was super awesome, super, super under the radar as far as Marvel characters go James Marsden, mr Cyclops yeah, I met.
Speaker 2:Hat on sunglasses?
Speaker 1:I don't want to get this backwards. I believe it's Greg Clark. No, I think it's Clark Greg. He was Agent Coulson in all the marvel movies and then he had agents of shield. He's great, he was in. It was funny. Uh, years and years ago this is when I worked, so this is over 10 plus years ago uh, when I worked at the asian bar and grill um, he was in on a saturday I had one person sitting at the bar reading a book and, funny, he was reading a book himself and he was sitting at a little two-top out on the floor and the only two people in the restaurant.
Speaker 1:And I look over and I'm like I was just watching Agents of SHIELD this morning with my son. We were catching up on our episodes. And, sure enough, I walk over to him and I'm like aren't you Agent Coulson, greg Clark? And he's like or, clark Greg, excuse me. And he's like, yeah, I was like me and my son were just watching this morning. And he's like, oh cool, yeah, he's like you want me to sign an autograph for your son. I was like how cool would that be? I was like, I think at the time, my son was like 12, 13.
Speaker 2:And Agents of SHIELD was probably just starting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah I think it was season uh, an autograph. It says uh, from director Colson to agent Caden, and underneath that he signed an autograph as a name and it said, uh, clark, clark, greg. I believe that the two first.
Speaker 2:I always get it backwards.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it throws you off. Yeah, so uh, he was super nice guy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, most of them are pretty cool overall, most of them, oh you know another Marvel character we've seen at um at the where we're working now is uh, the Punisher, uh.
Speaker 2:John, he's badass from the show or from the movies uh, from the Marvel show, okay Uh.
Speaker 1:That marvel show, okay, uh, that was on netflix and now, and there's also shane and walking dead, which is where he got his yeah, his kind of break.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm sure he's been in stuff like he's been in.
Speaker 1:Everything it starts with wall street he was in he was, oh, he did this awesome, awesome, awesome character in um in glorious bastards.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Yep, yeah, he's been in everything. Yeah, he's. He's a great actor and I hear he's coming back as the punisher for the new daredevil series.
Speaker 2:They're getting ready to do oh badass, I loved, I loved both. Daredevil was really good and so I watched a lot of those shows. Daredevil is badass man. Some of those scenes, the way that they shoot those. There's like one epic scene where he's going down the stairwell fighting like 40 guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I believe that's season two and that is one of the most epic fight scenes I have ever seen. It's just insane.
Speaker 2:He's going down the stairwell and he's just getting the whooping act. Mind you, if you guys don't know Daredevil, he's like a blind superhero and he basically knows kung fu or some sort of martial art and he just goes down the stairwell hand-to-hand combat, blind as 50 guys to death, fights his way out of this. It's the most, one of the coolest very john wick ass.
Speaker 2:Yes yeah just the way they shoot it. I don't I can't even explain it, but it's incredible. Check that scene out. I don't know, probably on youtube oh, it is devil staircase fight scene.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's exactly what you do insane. I just sent that over to one of our other bartenders actually a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2:It's insane. Yeah, that got me hooked on that show. Who?
Speaker 1:else have we seen?
Speaker 2:I don't know but see recently I.
Speaker 1:Marvel characters I don't know about superheroes.
Speaker 2:Right Recently I did see Pat Green, old Texas country. He's been in a lot, you know, super cool.
Speaker 1:My girlfriend was telling me I waited on some badass country singer, Chris Young maybe no, is that? She was just telling me about it this morning and I couldn't tell you. And he was super nice. This was just recently. Uh, uh, her, he's playing in the Chris.
Speaker 2:Stapleton.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think, I don't know, I don't know, I think his last name was young that you saw him because I said, hey, I waited on this country singer today and she's like oh, he told you who he was or people around him?
Speaker 2:Cause, you know people always like hey, is that, will you ask, if?
Speaker 1:that's whoever across the board, oh gosh. So she was even telling me about it this morning. I slipped my mind what his name was. I don't listen to country, but he's anybody out there listening. He's playing in the Seattle area this weekend because her son's going to his concert there. You go Seattle area this weekend because her son's going to his concert.
Speaker 2:I only know Pat Green because he's iconic. I've waited on Pat Green Gosh. Double, Tito's Ice-T Chill. He was going still performing.
Speaker 2:I saw him when I was 19. I remember him Some lady in the front row. It was in Ardmore, oklahoma, probably 2,000 people there, nothing crazy. Anyways, some lady had this giant furry feather boa in the front row and he took it from her. He's hammered on stage, wraps it around himself, does the whole concert with this giant pink boa on it was hilarious. That's just Pat Green. That's Pat Green to a T, right there.
Speaker 1:I waited on Pat Green. Again, I don to a T right there. I waited on Pat Green and again, I don't know country singers, but I remember this, probably 20 some odd years ago, when he was first starting out, because people were going nuts over him.
Speaker 2:Yes, and people at the bar were like hey, Pat, where are you going, man? He's like oh yeah, I'm still performing, going down, blah, blah, blah. It's funny to watch people at the bar start to notice, because sometimes they don't, because people at the airport are doing their own thing, they're not paying attention, exactly.
Speaker 2:But, then they look up. Is that whoever over there? And then other people around. I'm like I don't know who that is, but I'm going to Google it. And then you start to notice like this energy and like this murmur around the bar when people notice it's a celebrity.
Speaker 1:Or people after that, after like five minutes of that, then people start walking up to them.
Speaker 2:Oh, hey, yes. And then once it starts, you know it doesn't stop. Most of the was. I used to love the show Honorage. I can't tell you the actor's name, but he was the lead, the guy that played Vince. I used to love that show and he came in one day. He's been in a lot of things.
Speaker 2:He's been in a lot of stuff, but that was his big cha-ching man. That show was badass, Based on Mark Wahlberg, and his honorage back in the day Couldn't look anything less like Mark Wahlberg Tall, skinny, long black hair. The complete opposite of Mark Wahlberg. But anyways, I tried to not buy that thing. I was like, hey, man, huge fan, blah, blah, blah. But you can always tell when they just want to do their own thing and be unbothered. But man, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:You remember when we were bartending that one day? Man, that was, that was pretty cool. You remember when we were bartending that one day? And uh, uh, we're like wait, who is that the curly fro? And we see him going up the escalator. We all wave and he waves back and it was a little dicky.
Speaker 2:It was a little dicky and at that time, pillow talk was his big song that I was a fan of, and there's this part, there's this whole deal, but anyways, I yelled one of the lyrics to it, which is do you fuck with the war? I yelled that up the escalator.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2:I think it was him and Gata. I didn't know who Gata was at the time. He's huge on the show now. They're going up the escalator. I yelled it. He just giggled and yelled something back. That was probably my favorite celebrity sighting. All right, music-wise, who else have I seen? I've seen Erykah Badu. She was at a table, though. Oh yeah, she's from Dallas. Dmx came to the bar and got a shot one time. Oh, just came to the bar real quick. Hey, just getting a shot from me and my buddy boom In and out Short sweet Met Little John twice.
Speaker 1:He was super cool. What.
Speaker 2:Oh God yeah. Gavin Rosdell what is Little John like when he's not being Little John, he's just like hey, he's just like a regular dude like us, you know. I don't know, reminds me of the Dave Chappelle skit Exactly, and he like, has a British accent.
Speaker 1:Exactly no, wow, he's just a regular dude. I was going to say I met Gavin Rosdale. He was a super nice guy.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Bush. Gwen Stefani is our husband. Looks like Jude Law. Okay, kind of, they're both English. Okay, kind of Nah Nah. Okay, they're both English, whatever, but no Same thing, same thing, but different. But different. Oh, waited on, met them. My ex-girlfriend used to party with them. Met them long time ago but then waited on them a couple times at two different restaurants I've worked at in the airport Pantera. Okay, Long long time ago, Dimebag Darryl rest in peace.
Speaker 2:Remember we had old Smash Mouth come in a couple of times, oh yeah, yeah. Well, that last time Again. Rip this guy man.
Speaker 1:He was on another level. Yes, yes, he was, and that was only man that was right before he passed.
Speaker 2:Yes, and the worst thing was. So he was drinking like red wine, which, okay, normally when people are drinking wine it's not that great, but they were downing it, yeah, and then they would get a shot. But then they got some nachos and stuff and you're like, okay, it's cool, but man, they were partying and they didn't get that great. Like he was drunk, that's for sure, but he didn't get that crazy there. But I think they went on a bender that night, cause the next day I'm on Reddit, you know social media, and I'm. I see this footage of him and they're playing like this, like fall festival for like some small town in new england or something like you know. They're just taking what they're performing at proms, whatever, but it's just like this small thing, like they wouldn't sign up to it unless they needed the money. But he's on stage and he is just he's wearing the same clothes that he was wearing when he was at the bar the night before.
Speaker 2:I'm like that's not good, uh, and he is just so belligerent, you can't understand he's just on, hey, just like literally drooling on himself, and I'm just like oh my did we help facilitate? I'm like they must have just stayed up all night. And, oh my god, and then I guess godly that was I was like trash mouth. I was like I hope we didn't fuel that, but this was like 16 hours later, I he must. They stayed up all night. Who knows, that was insane. We can't.
Speaker 1:We can't be responsible, uh, for over serving, but we can't be responsible for what else people do. Yes, you know, and it seems like, since since COVID has been over, that people are on one yes, and everybody's taken like I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2:I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1:Well, drinking's gone up period since COVID, right, but I'm talking to like the Xanax and whatever people do before they the gummies and everything, and then they want to come to the bar and mix it with alcohol and I'm just like that's not a good look, yo.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like you know what happens in our terminal lot. They get, like you know, we have the regional planes, so they get delayed and it might be four hours later or canceled. It might be four or five hours and they pop the Xanax like they're getting on the plane and then they're like hey never mind you're canceled for four hours or delayed for four hours, and then they're like they forget or they just don't think about it, and then they come up to them. They're sober as can be.
Speaker 2:And then, two seconds later, yeah, and you're like what happened? You're like, oh yeah, I forget Everybody's on Xanax at the airport. Yeah, it's ridiculous, it's scary. And you're like, what can I do? I gave them one drink, but and then?
Speaker 1:you know there's not much you can do. What we have to do is show the receipt to the officer when they come to Giddle. Yes, hey, we served them their legal limit and then we cut them off.
Speaker 2:Hey, once I realized, you know, but there's not much I can do.
Speaker 1:They're not going to be a responsible adult today, or that one beer that they had that, didn't put them, you know.
Speaker 2:but it's scary man, it's hard to tell. Who else have we seen? I've seen a bunch of Rangers. Mitch Moreland used to come through the airport all the time. He was drinking Shiners. Good old Texas boy drinking Shiners. Who else Prince Fielder flew through?
Speaker 1:a couple times.
Speaker 2:One of the nicest guys ever. Family guy Always tipped at least $100.
Speaker 1:Waited on Mike Madonna a couple times. Super awesome guy. I have a story about him but I don't think we should talk about that on air. Who else I told you? Numerous NBA players, A ton.
Speaker 2:Hmm, I said a ton. Yeah, one of the first days I ever worked at the airport I met Tony Allen. He used to play. Oh yeah, he went to Oklahoma State. It was like an all-defensive NBA two-guard badass player. He played for Memphis, he played for he might have even played for the Celtics at one point, badass.
Speaker 1:Weighted on Josh Heupel, who is now the head coach of Tennessee? Badass Super awesome guy. Who's now the head coach of Tennessee? Badass, Super awesome guy. And obviously you and I are both OU guys, being that I'm originally from Oklahoma and you grew up in Norman Super awesome guy. I think we talked last time on the last podcast, first episode, about Bob Stoops coming in.
Speaker 2:Cool One of the most genuine people.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, who else? So he's coming out of the airport one day, out of the Hyatt Hotel that's attached to one of the terminals, and sure enough bump into this guy's getting out of a car and I'm trying to walk across the street or whatever, and sure enough bumps right into me and says, excuse me, he's big, this guy's kind of big, but he's old man, and sure enough it was Jerry Jones. He's like you, big son of a gun. You still got it, bro. This was probably gosh. This is over 10 plus years ago.
Speaker 2:You might break him if you walk into him now. Yeah, the center for Arkansas over 10 plus years ago yeah, sheesh, you might break them if you walk into them now. Yeah, let's see the center for Arkansas with the whole Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson, and Jimmy was there too right At Arkansas and they won a national title.
Speaker 1:As a matter of fact, I believe that is Arkansas' only national title. Sounds about right? Yeah, that's about right. Yeah, sounds about right. Oh, I've waited on Keyshawn Johnson Badass, yeah, badass. He was super cool. This was while he was playing for the Cowboys, as a matter of fact, yeah.
Speaker 2:A couple solid years here at the end.
Speaker 1:Sam Bradford. Yeah, badass, a couple solid years here at the end Sam Bradford, yep Badass, one of the NFL's busts, but the boy got paid yeah. The boy got paid.
Speaker 2:I think that was the last year where he got drafted in the first round, where first-round pictures got paid crazy. He got a $60 million deal as a rookie, yeah. And then I think the next year it went into effect hey, rookies, you can't make this much. This is stupid, because things like that would happen.
Speaker 1:Well, I think that's going to conclude it for now. We've got to save some material for later.
Speaker 2:We could go all day if you let us y'all.
Speaker 1:We don't want to tire you guys out on the second episode, so thanks for joining us. We'll have plenty more to talk about and come episode three, we're going to start having other bartenders on to tell their stories and collaborate our silliness. So tune in and check it out. Peace.
