Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 7: Little Red Ledger Featuring Kevin
Ever wonder what it’s like to work in the fast-paced world of airport establishments? This episode, we sit down with Kevin, who takes us on a wild ride through his career, starting from a small hot dog stand called the Art Bar to his time at Vintage Texas, a full-service restaurant. Kevin opens up about the heady mix of excitement and chaos that defines airport life, sharing his journey from humble beginnings to management roles after HMS took over. He talks candidly about the unique experiences, unpredictable events, and the steady income that makes airport work a reliable fallback. Plus, you'll hear about his latest venture at an Asian concept restaurant and why he decided to move on.
But that’s just part of the adventure. Kevin also shares some unforgettable moments from his youth, like the time James Brown became an unexpected hero at a 311 concert. You’ll laugh, gasp, and maybe even get a little nostalgic as we recount tales of camaraderie, heroism, and the unpredictable nature of youthful adventures. Whether it's dealing with a drunken military man or reconnecting with old friends, Kevin’s stories are sure to keep you entertained and reflective. So grab your headphones and join us for a rollercoaster of emotions and experiences that you won't want to miss!
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 7,. Tell Us From An Airport Bar Pull up a chair, let's get you a drink. Let's get this going. We have a special guest today, kevin, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming on. It's great to be here. Thank you, tell us how long you worked at the airport and some of the places you worked. Long you worked at the airport and you know some of the places you worked. I left Oklahoma. What year was that? I mean I got, I got to contribute this illustrious career this is probably about 2002, 2003.
Speaker 1:So, like that, this is after my son was born, okay, so?
Speaker 2:two hours oh.
Speaker 1:I started there in a one, so I think this is about 2003. Oh man, raise it up one. So I don't feel like I've worked there that long 2004. Yeah, we'll say 2004. Uh, you got me into the airport back when the badging process was a month long. Yeah, beating of just running back and forth and having different people sign off, and that was by a man named Dennis Gordon who signed off on that operation. He was a airport legend of some sorts. Yeah, but I started at the remote terminal terminal A-1, a hot dog stand called the art bar. Yeah, we've talked about this in the past a little. Uh, what I had two little four tops in there and then a four, four bar stools and a hot dog maker and a hot dog.
Speaker 2:Stainy yeah.
Speaker 1:Well and a little bar with uh, I think we had two beers on tap, something like that two beers on tap and full rail. I don't even think we had wells. I think it was just like we started at call or for some kind of premium. Yeah, it's the airport. But within a week I remember being astounded by the amount of sales that we drew in and being like, okay, so this might, we got something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got something to work with here and, uh oh, they went from doing 1500 a day and by the time I was done, we worked, I worked out there. What a little over a year and a half, two years and we went from doing 1,000, 1,500 a day to almost 6,000 a day With two people. Yeah, it was a slaughter fest.
Speaker 1:Two people in the morning, two people at night. That was probably when I had, or at least maintained, the most money that I've had in a long time, because we were working so much that we couldn't spend it.
Speaker 2:You couldn't spend it.
Speaker 1:You just had to be back the next day and do it again when the shifts start at 5 in the morning, the odds of spending the amount of money that you want to spend to have a good time they're just gone.
Speaker 2:You don't have the energy to do it, Even if you wanted to. You're just like fuck this, that was back when good reefer first came around.
Speaker 1:I remember it being like this defining came around I don't have to just be involved with this horrible stuff. And then we had a guy named.
Speaker 2:Eroge. That worked at the other. My second, another waiter slash sports.
Speaker 1:I knew, yeah, it was, he was quite the character. We'll just say that. But okay, so the art bar and then to vintage texas.
Speaker 1:Uh, so yeah, another restaurant within the same realm in the same company which a full service restaurant, but it was a world-class saloon like yeah, we've talked about it upstairs and working there technically got me addicted to being at the airport, like because when you work there as long like, it's not just the money, it's definitely not the people you work with, because you know what I mean. Some of them are rough, right, but it's like I don't know what it was, but I was addicted to the action of the airport every day because you knew it was just gonna be nuts like full and then you were going to leave with all this money.
Speaker 2:It's never a dull day. That's why I was like there's never a single dull day at the airport Ever.
Speaker 1:Even I mean the slowest days are usually the most interesting.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, because you have time to even see all the crazy shit that's going on around you.
Speaker 1:You're wow, that's nuts. There's some guy naked walking down the terminal right now. So that's all over, youtube, man, like that's all over. So I guess hms bought, bought the company I worked for we worked for at the time, yeah and then dispersed us as management. Well, they, they said do you want to be a manager?
Speaker 1:or bartender and and you know I was young and had kids and a young family and so I went management and I believe you did too. I did too because it was the false. It was this right thing that you wanted to do, because you thought in the long run it would pay off. But in retrospect probably should have stayed tipping bottles upside down, yeah and. But I have really no regrets about it because I've stayed tipping bottles upside down, yeah and uh, but I don't.
Speaker 1:I have really no regrets about it because I've I've met some insane people but we did Chili's to get into several different companies Irish pub at the airport and seeing how it's worked and I have relied on it in my life for a fallback later like go out and try something and you know it's not working. You're like I can always go back to the airport and I can make X amount of dollars a day for the rest of my life. It works out as a good safety net. I mean, yeah, that's the airport, it's not going anywhere. No, and it's getting bigger. I'm sure you guys have heard what happened at the old, previous L-I-N-G-S, the Asian concept.
Speaker 1:That you were currently working at. That. I was until 14 days ago, you got a timer on it, dude. It's awesome. I don't know what it is, but you get to a point, usually after several years, where you're like, I'm coming to this airport. There is, but you get to a point, usually after several years, where you're like, if I come into this airport, I'm going to let it go. There is a breaking point at a certain point.
Speaker 2:It's awesome, but when you get broke, you get broke and you're ready to leave and I got that chance, so I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to take full advantage of it. It's more work but it's less phone calls. So talk to me more about when you worked at the full service restaurant at 816. We had my brother on the first episode as our first guest and he mentioned you a few times. I want to know who was driving the van that everybody smoked in? Oh no, who was driving the van when it got wrecked?
Speaker 1:Okay, there are two scenarios to this van and we probably should leave one of them vague. So there's James' story, there's your story and then there's the truth. Okay, so I believe there was two versions of this van being mishandled. Oh, I mishandled that van a couple times. James, I think was the actual accident. That was okay. I think the actual accident that I had probably should have been addressed at every level and, uh, very well could have done some damage. That needed to be addressed immediately. I don't care how you put that together, but use your imagination. I know for a fact that I may have backed into a luggage cart pretty fast and sent that luggage cart in the general direction of the important piece of equipment. Avionics, avionics, yeah.
Speaker 2:But it was the.
Speaker 1:BTSA1 terminal. Nobody cares for anybody who dies on those flights. They're regionals.
Speaker 2:Those flights can go down. The world's going to keep turning TA's A1 terminal. Nobody cares for me if it dies on those flights.
Speaker 1:They're regionals, those flights can go down. The world's going to keep turning. It wasn't Kevin's fault, it's the big one. So, to avoid any conflict, I will accept half of the responsibility for that. But James Brown? The most important part about James Brown that you need to know is that either we obtained, or we're going to obtain, a flow beat because he had the world's worst haircut. And when I tell you it was the world's worst haircut, it was without a doubt. I think maybe my dad cut it. Was it a bowl?
Speaker 2:cut. No, bro, a combo, it was just there. It was all different lengths and it was, it was all different lengths.
Speaker 1:It was James. That's how James rolled. Dude, james is a one time fellow.
Speaker 1:So there was this one time you saved my brother. He fell into a table at A16, the full service restaurant. Came out of the office and fell into a table, basically passed out. After that woke up of the office and fell into a table, basically passed out. After that Woke up in the office several hours later you had talked to the table and told him he was a full-time student or something. I have pieces of this because Long time ago I was James was passed out because he was having a rough day, a bender.
Speaker 2:He talked about walking beers Walking beers.
Speaker 1:Like going in the walk-in.
Speaker 2:He's like every time you went in the walk-in you didn't have a beer, so the office, the walk-in the access to the walk-in was inside the office.
Speaker 1:It was all concealed, yeah, behind the bar. It was all concealed, yeah, behind the bar. It was awesome. I was usually sleeping In the office, in the office, but I used to do this thing to where I would put a quarter pan in front of all the taps and I'd pull all the taps forward and it would pour all the beers into this quarter pan, all of them mixed together like a suicide. Yeah, and I think that may or may not be what James is referring to, because those things have a an effect on you. He talked about how he fell into the table and you apologize to the table, said he was a full-time student. That's why I'm, that's why I'm the guy.
Speaker 2:And then they leave him a hundred dollars. He woke up with a hundred dollar tip and they thanked him.
Speaker 1:Here's what I love, because I'm piecing that together right, but I think our fondness I don't remember all of it. I remember him falling into a table, a lot of bong rips inside, a lot of I mean, millions. It was A16 was kind of a place where stuff like that may or may not happen during your shift.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and all the time when you're trying to, and you survive it. Well, what about?
Speaker 1:uh, what was the cook? Uh, muhammad. Oh, my god, let's check this out, dude. I'm coming to work at 5, 5, 30. This guy was from morocco, he was probably 6, 4, yeah, and he would say, okay, man, and he had about four teeth, yeah, yeah, and they were all facing different directions nicest guy on the planet.
Speaker 1:Okay, man, like the kitchen would never be nobody back there. We'd be getting ten $10,000 worth of business, and he's just one of the time. Okay, man, so every night I would give him suicide beers, a whole quarter pan. He lived at the airport, go on. Okay so, uh, suicide beers, uh, and one night I come in at five in the morning, dude, and as soon as I open the door, like the door to the restaurant, I just hear this very, very loud Arabic music dude, and I'm like what the fuck's going on, dude? I round the corner and there's feet sticking out of my office door. Feet just face down, like not on their back, no, face down. His toes were pointed down and I was like what the fuck's going on, dude? Did I go in the office?
Speaker 1:He had broken in, drank like 17 Heinekens, right, and just had Arab music on full blast In the office. The manager's office dude Passed out colder than a hammer, woke him up. Okay, man, and I want to say he even came back to work that day maybe not a couple days after that. I don't remember if I was kind of like I don't know what to fucking do. Man, I don't know what to tell you, but like, this is one of those things.
Speaker 1:It's like clean these bottles and get to work, because then you also think that, well, if he doesn't come, I'm going to have to go. I don't want to come. Let's just pretend this never happened. Muhammad, and get this thing. You need a suicide beer to wake up. What do you need, sir? He'd take the luggage carts back every night, all across the airport. He lived there full time, just like Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks, yeah, yeah. He had, he had like I'm telling you, he had like six, seven jobs. It was unreal and he was obviously hammered at all of them all day long.
Speaker 2:Your brother saved me. That's probably why he was moving that speed. Okay, he did not give a fuck man, there was no. No, it's just.
Speaker 1:you know what you're going to get your brother saved my life at a 311 concert. One time when we were young men, we were at a 311 concert. I want to say he was like 18. And we were up at the front and it's getting crazy. And I turned around and I have very much a personality and a face that you just want to sock right when you see it. That's the kind of guy I am all right, you either like me or you just want to sock me.
Speaker 1:Obviously, this guy who was like that's, that's the right there, I'm going to get him and he runs this, I see it, so I'm ready. This guy's running full blast and out of nowhere. You guys are in the pit. James Brown destroys this guy. Hockey checks him Feet up in the air, like you see on the internet now. I remember looking at him at that point and being like, oh, my god, it was one of those things you see in your life where you're like, holy shit, james didn't care. I was like, yeah, it was. It was one of those things you see in your life where you're like, oh yeah, james didn't care. Did you listen to three 11? Okay, let's keep it going. That was crazy. No, jimmy Brown, saving old memories, um so back to a 16, um, and I want to know if you remember this, there was, uh, I think I want to say scott was bartending yeah, scott was bartending, if I'm not mistaken, but this guy, this military guy, it's trash.
Speaker 1:He was like stand down. Yeah, tell me about this, tell me about this. I might get this mixed up because there's two very similar situations. There was one time a guy was telling me to stand down, like yelling at me.
Speaker 2:I think you were there, dude, he was yelling.
Speaker 1:I just walked in from the other bar to turn in the money. Didn't somebody put him down or something? Yeah, you I'm just trying to remember this Wrapped him up. Wrapped him up like a cardboard box. Yeah, go on. Okay, man. So straighten this feller out. You know what I mean. And when you're backed into a quarter man, this guy's hammered. He's in my face with a backpack on, yeah, military, and I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Quarter man, this guy's hammered and he's like in my face with a backpack on yeah, military, and I don't know why he's well, I also dressed like an obnoxious prick back then, like don johnson. You know what I mean full pastel out from express. Once again, referring back to punching people, but, he just comes right up to you, for whatever reason well, scott heap was notorious for getting people just absolutely obliterated right and then coming to me and being like hey, man we're having issues. Help me with this fuck you, scott.
Speaker 1:You know what you're having like yeah, not weird I'm sleeping in the office, bro, like why are you this guy?
Speaker 1:comes out and tells me to stand down manager log and I I'm this is dude, I gotta a lot right, stand down, I got a lot right on. So I may it's not my finest moment, but I may have wrapped a guy up and we called the cops and the back's in and the cops just used to hang outside of A16, up and down the terminal, yeah, and we used to fuck with people and be like dude, you don't want to mess with, can fully keep you from getting on your flight and nobody would ever believe you. And then Scott, he would point out and be like and the next thing you know, there's their kind of like. So when I was a manager at a 16, you know what a manager read book is. So yeah manager log.
Speaker 1:So you guys can communicate. Uh, every and none of us really knew what we were doing back then about the red. This is all documentation. You put your cells in there.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's a series. Oh, we got a leak, or you know it's. You come in, you read it, you can figure out what's going on from the day Communication law.
Speaker 1:I know now, after the events, I'm going to explain that those are legally binding documents. Uh, uh, documentation. Yeah, so we're using these manager books and it gets to a point to where I'm pretty intoxicated all of the time, kind of at this point like I'm writing it pretty solid and I start writing in the manager books. Just I believe there was a couple other people writing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were all like fucking with each other in these manager books. But it would start with like, hey man, make sure and wash Frank's car today and Frank was the owner of the. He was the GM slash proprietor of the company. Pretty much Frank was a very, very important and we were writing all these horrible notes about hey man, when you leave, make sure you go, wash Frank's car, man. And like that's just the tip of the iceberg, right, it gets a lot worse. I'm sure it escalated Into the point of pretty questionable shit. I walk in one day, dude, and Frank's standing there and he's got like 15 manager books in his hand and he was like, oh man, we gotta talk man, come on man. And we went back and it was this complete explanation of that. These things are legally binding documents.
Speaker 2:What is said?
Speaker 1:in here is admissible in court because we were saying horrible things, man, which I probably I don't want to put out there in either. But I mean, like now, if you were to get caught saying some of this stuff, you know probably we've got the cancel plane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was bad, bad dude, it was so bad so that was he said we have to burn these, let's start over. Here's the new manager, mom, he was, he was fucking mad dude.
Speaker 1:I remember he was like red in the face. So like once friday, like age 16s, they're pumping and I'm like I gotta get out of here. Dude, it's like six o'clock, I got a date or something, so I just closed the doors at six on a friday night. Put them all the way down, dude, and get everybody out of there. I'm leaving on friday like six thirty and right when I hit the gate, dude frank's there the hell is this man?
Speaker 1:You know, I go well, you know we didn't have any cooks. I made something up. He's like that's what you're here for man. So he made me go back in there and open that fucking thing up, put all the money back in and then cook and bartend. He worked the shift with me after he had read these red books, just so.
Speaker 2:It was just a horrible it was like I need to keep a closer eye on this place, apparently that was one of the most embarrassing times because I knew what he had his hands.
Speaker 1:Oh you, the second you walked in, you do. There's a stack of them and everybody that worked there was like you guys are an idiot, but those guys that.
Speaker 1:I worked with were incredible dudes back then Joe Wilson, brent, archibald and myself and Scott and Johnny, and the list goes on of world class dudes. And that's the bottom line. When you find a place like that to work at, you ride the pine, but usually then the band breaks up, always breaks up, and that's the bottom line is we have when you find a place like that to work, out your eye to pine, but usually then that the band breaks up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I always break something here, you went over to the sports bar internally for a little while Varsity sports bar at e31. Yeah, long time ago Somebody was sitting there. We did like $400 in sales a day, right, maybe there's this big backboard behind the bartender, right, it's like a basketball. There's a basketball and there's one guy in this restaurant drinking a martini dude, and I have this basketball. I'm not maternal and I whizzed this basketball in there, dude, and it ricochets perfectly into this guy's martini glass.
Speaker 1:I was going to say it's going right to the martini. Blew this martini glass up out of nowhere. Dude, a good manager like I am, I ran. I let the bartender deal with it.
Speaker 2:Who did that?
Speaker 1:What happened? Where'd that come from? I was bored. I remember smoking in that restaurant and people getting off the airplane gate right beside it and being like it smells like cigarettes in here. You know what people smoking cigarettes in here? Because we used to smoke we were like back yeah, go out the back door and get free Starbucks across the terminal.
Speaker 1:I used free Starbucks and I didn't realize the amount of free Starbucks that was possible at the time. This was a long time ago, but we had access with the new company to get free Starbucks as managers and we went wild with it. Everybody gets free Starbucks.
Speaker 2:Starbucks is not cheap.
Speaker 1:No, we just didn't realize it at the time.
Speaker 2:It was really odd the amount of coffee that we receive it's kind of like when you go to a resort or something you get all inclusive, you're like well, let's just fucking get everything. I'll take three buckets of beer For everybody in the restaurant. I'll take the porterhouse. Okay, alright.
Speaker 1:Everybody in here want something. Be right back, and usually coffee was necessary to sober half of a month.
Speaker 2:You just have to have it up here. You have to have it up here.
Speaker 1:You have to have steady flow.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you want to elaborate on.
Speaker 1:I think you remember when so we had the cash room and we had to go pick up cash on the unsecured side of the terminal down at the other end of the terminal, then we would have to take it through security and bring it into the restaurant.
Speaker 1:Do you remember that Right before Christmas, the whole cash room got robbed? I was thinking that's the only thing I really remember. It was like Christmas Eve, somebody went in there and took every single cash back. It was not me, motherfuckers, I swear on my children, I wasn't even there. But Frank, being the genius who he is, and the fact that he made like 1% of the sales of all the Hudson News every day. Like he had his fingers in everything highest grossing chilies, he was fucking loaded. He went through and filled them all back to the top out of his own pocket and made it right and there was nothing that was ever said about him. Wow, at least as far as I knew. I didn't know if you knew anything different but that was like uh what uh the following year?
Speaker 1:remember somebody stole a 400 bag uh out of the safe and brent and all the managers came together and uh put the 400 together and put it back in my safe at my restaurant when they all worked at different restaurants, so I didn't get fired for it. What restaurant were you? And they put a note on there I was at varsity, somebody had stole a bank bag like a 400 bank bag. I was switching shifts.
Speaker 1:Uh the lupe, the morning manager didn't sign off the money I didn't sign over the money to me and stuff and trace frank was a paperwork guy and it traced back to me that there was like a $420. I do remember this and all the managers started losing my job while I was on leave over Christmas. This happened during Christmas, so I had a free vacation during Christmas, came back, all the managers had put that $400, got together, put the $400 in there with a note that said sorry, I stole the money and they probably signed my name on it. Motherfuckers, if I know them, all assholes and anyway, frank would always call me the Lazarus man. Because I came back from the dead because I should have been fired.
Speaker 1:Frank used to sell us. You remember, back from the dead because I should have been fired. Frank used to tell us do you remember? Hey, man, it's all about communication and accountability. Oh, don't forget to follow up, follow up. And we used to rip his ass right as I get into my 40s and start to do. You couldn't be more right and I couldn't have been more of a young, dumb, arrogant fella than I was at the time talking about that guy.
Speaker 2:So it was you're like damn it, he was right this whole time this whole damn time. He was right, if I played my car right.
Speaker 1:I probably could have pretty successful corporate career with them, but it just wasn't in the cards for me at all. I just couldn't. It got to the point where I was doing nothing every day and had watched all the videos on the internet Like it was just over man and I was like I can't, I can't sit here anymore, I can't do nothing anymore. This won't fire, it was so funny there's one lady that worked there.
Speaker 1:She'd come to work this was during the epidemic of pain pills and every day she'd come to work she'd have this fucking giant bottle of codeine. And I would come into work and I'd be like hi Diana, can I have a couple of those Sure Door shut Breakcom Feet up on the desk Writing horrible shit in the Red Book. See you guys later. I play internet poker all the time. I'm not good. You can play internet poker 10 or 15 hands at a time.
Speaker 2:Frank, will you spot me? I would miss, I would be like.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm in the middle of a hand. Frank, will you spot me? I would be like, hey, I'm in the middle of a hand. I can't come help you right now, Sorry.
Speaker 2:I can't talk to this table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fucking jacks are better right here, dude.
Speaker 2:There's a grease fire, hold on.
Speaker 1:Muhammad's on it. Okay, that's good stuff. So you also worked at the Irish pub to get to the Irish pub with Chuck Flotman and you and typical bartender guy every bartender has got a story this one guy, jimmy. He said he was the guy that broke Owen Wilson's nose. That's what he told me. You know why Owen Wilson's nose is gross. He's from here. I actually had him set up a bar with stuff, but you know, it's like You're like okay, kind of a little closer You're reaching but you know the story.
Speaker 1:It's like you're like okay, yeah, you're like alright kind of a little closer you're reaching.
Speaker 2:Make it a little bit more you're name dropping.
Speaker 1:Yeah, make it a little bit more believable, if you were to sit down at the bar and you'd have been like, hey man, I broke that dude's nose. I'd have been like, if any any fun stories, any shenanigans at the Irish pub? I, yeah, there was cash handling issues. The procedures there were all messed up and get them straightened out. It was so funny, dude I was. I was bartending with this guy and there's a point, usually during the day, until you're like turn it off and, uh, counting everything out, dude, I'll never forget this guy walks, he goes and he walks up and he just sticks a $100 bill right in my pocket and I was like I think we may have had some cash handling issues all night. You know, and it was that place was the wild west too as well. They sold the second most Guinness in the state there. Is that right. At one point they were selling second most Guinness in the state there. Is that right. At one point they were selling the most Guinness in the state. Yeah, I mean, they would have world records come in.
Speaker 1:Worst food you ever had in your life too. That's why you need to drink more Guinness, because the food tastes the way it is. Food from England, I'm sorry. I've been, I've had it. The fish and chips are good, but beans and toast, yeah, I don't get blood sausage, man, I just don't get it. Or blood pudding or whatever it's called. Don't understand it. You know different strokes for different folks. Yeah, sure you still think you're weird if you eat it. Yeah, judge me all you want all day. I just breakfast.
Speaker 2:Come on, man and then room temperature beer, whatever. Isn't that what they drink? I can't.
Speaker 1:I understand that if you're an alcoholic dude you don't give a shit and most of the people can't do it. Just I can't if it's not, if my beer gets hot.
Speaker 2:I'm like, give me another one. I haven't had ice cold drinks. I'm good, it's gotta be cold. It's too hot here. Do it 100 out. Yeah, I'm not drinking a lukewarm beer.
Speaker 1:I was playing golf with Chuck Flotman from Tiggins Good guy. We were on like hole six in the summer walking and he pulled a bottle of piss warm tequila out of his golf bag and was, like you, ready to start drinking. I'm like no man.
Speaker 2:No not that, absolutely Not that.
Speaker 1:He's a 140 degrees dude and he was like I am 140 degrees dude. And he was like I am good luck.
Speaker 1:I fire or I had to fire chuck, because it's one of the greatest firings ever from the varsity. What we were talking about? Because on camera the shift's over. I remember he goes out, dude, he's got a cup in his hand and he's got a bottle. If I'm not mistaken, when they zoomed in, it was john Johnny Walker Black. Yeah, he grabs his bottle and he does like a solid one two, three, four, five, six, six, count and then he's like you know what?
Speaker 1:There's nobody around dude and he looks up and he goes, just nods his head like oh yeah, and turns the bottle upside down, dude. There's nobody around. Why am I poor and single?
Speaker 2:it's like you could watch him convince himself you saw the thought process go through in the light bulb. You know what fuck it.
Speaker 1:Nobody's watching. I showed him the video. I think we showed him the video. I was like I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 2:Chuck, what can I do?
Speaker 1:I watch you nod your head go for a second there's nothing I can do my hands are tied, but I love you, chuck. You're such a legend and, in the grand scheme of things, that goddamn double pour he poured himself.
Speaker 2:He went on to the next one.
Speaker 1:It was a microcosm in the grand schemes that were wrong with the place. Oh, that was the very least of the issues and it started at the top. It always is. It always is Drake's. The last thing I'm like my issue now. I don't give a shit about the snow cone, so I want you to tell me about Throwing away the plates and feeding the rats. What the fuck does that mean? Oh, he knows exactly what that means. I don't know If that's probably the greatest move, but I will elaborate loosely. During my extended tenure at the airport, I may or may not have worked at a restaurant that had issues with keeping plates in our hands, and you got to have plates.
Speaker 1:Unless I have plates to do my job right. So my thing was is I'm just going to start throwing these plates away and when we're out, sorry, we can't serve anymore.
Speaker 1:Well, it's going to force their hand To buy more plates, to buy more plates. So I'm walking around and like there's people with trays out and I'd walk by and I'd just hit their trays and fucking glass would fly everywhere, break all over the ground, and then I take my whole tray out there, just throw the whole goddamn thing in the Every plate on it, spoon, fork everything. And we got plates, man, so please, in the trash can by default, we ended up being able to do our job. But I remember one of the waiters coming up to me and being like man, I'm just trying to make a living here. Kevin and I was just like. I thought we were having fun. I had a rough patch for a while, man, I had a real rough patch for a long time.
Speaker 1:So tell me, how did they get rid of the rat issue? I don't know how one could ever solve the problems that they were having, because some fucking moron was feeding them and I don't know who it was. But I guarantee you I looked at one of those rats one time and it fucking looked at me and it was jacked Like somebody that was eating 30 to 40 grams of protein per day like the good shit and that was a parting gift for a certain restaurant is.
Speaker 1:But the chain reaction of that was so much more than one could ever fathom because rats were falling out of the ceiling. Like it turns out, if you put rats on a high-protein diet for a month, they get bigger Dude. They multiply like by the thousands.
Speaker 2:It got to the point where that shit was falling out of the ceiling.
Speaker 1:People were afraid to go into war. And what?
Speaker 2:do you do at that point? What?
Speaker 1:do you?
Speaker 2:say to anybody what do you do?
Speaker 1:Keep feeding them See how far you can take it. I mean, they finally had to have exterminators come out. Exterminators, yeah, I don't know that was not my finest moment either man.
Speaker 1:I haven't checked in in the past, but I've kept a positive attitude the whole time, jesus, and I will tell you though I'll tell you that from a karmatic standpoint I have paid my fucking debt Right. The debt has been paid. The debt I have, like. I do believe that everything that I did I mean in the grand, just story of it all, carmetically it has all been paid back in full, like full. I don't have any credit, but it's been paid back in full, like full. I don't have any credit, but it's been paid back in full. No regrets, no ragrets. That was. That place is awesome, dude. There are 20 hours worth of stories for that place.
Speaker 2:And you guys fucking know you could just go on, for there's no because no dull day.
Speaker 1:That's the point. You guys got content for this Outrageous amount of content.
Speaker 2:Every shift could be something. Let's talk about our first 10 minutes of our shift on Sunday. We walk in, so our shift starts at 2 o'clock. Okay, it's afternoon, it's a Sunday. We walk in the first person I greet uh, she's got dreads. Um, I can smell her, but I'm like but I didn't realize she had been there all day, come to find out so maybe she had slept at the airport. There's a lot of that going on recently. My favorite kind of lady.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is me. I had just given this lady. I had just walked in. I had given this lady.
Speaker 2:I already tried to greet her and she couldn't even speak to me. She looked at me like I was Casper and she looked right through me. So this is what happens. I walk in before you.
Speaker 1:you're a couple minutes behind me. I give her an LIT because she asked me for one. I didn't realize she was shit, hammered you all know, I go there, give her an. Lit and Tiffany's like no, no, no, we just cut her off. She gets ready to take one drink of this, lit and.
Speaker 1:I just smash her in her hand and dump it down the drain. I was like sorry, I didn't realize you had already been cut off. You didn't inform me of that, so I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able to let you drink this LIT. She's like looks at me like. She's like I totally understand.
Speaker 2:She's like, damn it, she's deer in a headlight and she had turned or sent back all three plates of food she had ordered as well. Yeah, evidently I can understand. I don't know because. I've worked there can understand because I've worked there which he had just come on, shit, all things, but we just want. And then there's another person we had to cut off, who had been there all day. And then there's this other young lady that came in order from me.
Speaker 2:She's on the phone being kind of rude, dismissing whatever I'm dealing, I get her water and I get her and she says I just want to do these tacos cool, whatever. Uh, it had been five minutes. I'm in the back, so I'm coinciding this with this other lady that's deer in the head like still sitting at the bar on another planet. She's on another planet, yeah, who ends up leaving her?
Speaker 1:bag in the long run. But so I go over to the register to bring in something for another guy after we just told these other two that had been there with the morning bartender. They can't drink, they're just sitting at the bar chilling. I go over to the register to bring somebody else in and this lady goes. Where the hell are my tacos? I said, excuse me, she goes.
Speaker 1:I ordered tacos when are they and I said man, we've never met before in our life. You took my order. I said you must have me confused with my twin brother Blake. I said I have never met you before in my life. I said what's your name? She goes so-and-so.
Speaker 2:And I said so you ordered some tacos.
Speaker 1:You want to know where the hell they are. I said let me check the computer and see how long it's been. It's been seven minutes. I said, man, we are not Taco Bell. I will go back and check on your order if that's what you'd like me to do, but I don't know where the hell your tacos are. So I go back there. Blake's like hey, it's been eight minutes, man, Tacos are coming up.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm putting a minute to go.
Speaker 1:Boxy, you're going to wait another eight minutes. So I go back out there. I said, man, it's been eight minutes.
Speaker 2:She goes fuck this, throws her hands up, this is bullshit.
Speaker 1:And she just walks out.
Speaker 2:I'm like all right cool those. I'm like all right cool. Those were our first three. Somebody put her on a plane.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give you guys some advice right now. Fucking don't cut them off. If that lady wants to come up and have another Long Island, I will watch you puke right here and pass out. That's where I went with it. That was my motto at the last place. I'm not going to discuss COVID. You can't do it. You guys have been in trouble for over a year. Of course, I've never been in trouble.
Speaker 2:This whole damn terminal and watching them come and trying to arrest bartenders for giving someone two drinks. Yeah, absolutely, I'm good.
Speaker 1:I will keep you going. Maybe because Liggs wasn't on their radar, but I've watched people. I will keep you going. Maybe because Liggs wasn't on their radar, but I've watched people. I will cut you off.
Speaker 2:A cop came in and said hey to one of these bartenders who served. He said either you quit or I arrest you, right now, If at that point I might have to. That's why I was like okay, maybe I gotta.
Speaker 1:Or you can be like really guy.
Speaker 2:Maybe I gotta be on my toes here. How about after I saw that?
Speaker 1:How about you arrest me, guy, forgive me, I want to continue this sometime, guys for sure.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for coming on today and giving us a little insight about you working at the airport. Um, that's it for episode seven, guys. Um, kevin, we would love to have you back on sometime very soon. We are working on getting up live on YouTube here in the next few episodes, so stay tuned for that, guys. Thanks again for coming in, kevin, appreciatevin, appreciate it. Um, that's what we got today, guys. Uh, tune in. Uh, in two more weeks we'll have another episode for you. That was just the tip of the iceberg. And don't forget to uh, feel free to donate, even a dollar, whatever it's in the show description. Yes, and please make sure you're downloading and following and liking. The more downloads we get, the closer we get to our goals. So, thank you, guys, all for your support. Appreciate it. Bye, Bye, y'all.
