Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 9: From Booze To Balance Featuring Liam
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.
Hey guys, welcome back Episode 9. Let's get this going. Pull up a bar stool. Let's grab you something off this tap and get it going. This week we've got our awesome, awesome guest, liam. Thank you for coming on the show this week. This is our good friend, liam. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much for having me Tell us a little bit about your background, where you worked and what all concepts have you worked at at the airport?
Speaker 2:Well, right now I work at a few different concepts. I work at an Asian bar in Terminal A at DFW Airport. I also work at Applebee's, which is always exciting, and I work at the canteen. So three different concepts. You see drastically different people working in three different parts of the airport, especially international terminals. You see all sorts of the airport, especially like international terminals. You see all sorts of different people. But yeah, I started at Ling Louie's back in 2014 with Chris. That's where I met Chris.
Speaker 3:It's been 10 years now.
Speaker 2:Unbelievable. I'm still working there. Yeah, it's just insane. I mean, I did have to take a hiatus because I was banned for about five years, but you know that's right.
Speaker 1:It opened in 2013, and you came shortly thereafter, yeah yeah. I also in this particular episode I wanted to touch on. I've got a big question to ask how long have you been on the sobriety train?
Speaker 2:Sobriety train. I stopped consuming alcohol in January of 2019. Oh wow, so it has been. That's aspirin. It happens, yeah, no, it happened right. You know, a good year before COVID and during COVID, I was like as an alcoholic, I was like as an alcoholic I was like why I was like if I could have just lived through, because you know I was, you know, a functioning, working alcoholic. So you know I didn't get, I always had to go to work just like many of the guests that we take care of every day exactly
Speaker 1:it's not like we could work from home.
Speaker 2: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 would wake, I would have, and I sat there and I thought I was like man, I would have. It would have given me an excuse, yes, to sit there To rest the world. Yeah, to have a drink at 930 in the morning instead of being, you know, vilified publicly and by my family. Well probably still.
Speaker 3:Most importantly by the family. Yeah, yeah, no, I was always okay with it.
Speaker 2:But yeah, no, it's been a good five and a half years and you know everybody always asks me. They're like how do you maintain your sobriety while working as a bartender? You know, it's just one of those things. Marijuana, yeah, marijuana, that's. You know honestly.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Like if I would have had to like straight quit without having any type of like cushion or fallback, I don't know if I would have been successful.
Speaker 3:It's hard to not have any vices.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, absolutely. I'm one of those guys. I smoke cigarettes, smoke a little bit of the devil's lettuce, love it. I know a couple guys like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we're going to do them 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 a crutch and even, but it helped me get through. Yeah, absolutely. It was one of those things where I mean, both you guys knew me while I was drinking, both you guys know we. Obviously, afterwards it's been a quite the dramatic change.
Speaker 1:I personally liked both, uh, both versions of you liam. Okay. Well, thank you drinking, and you, you definitely had your shenanigans while you're drinking. Sir, I uh recalled this one incident, uh, at the asian concept where you proceed at the end of the night to pour yourself a drink and then all of a sudden you've got your backpack ready to go and, sure enough, I see a Grey Goose bottle poking out of it. Can you elaborate on where that may or may not have come from? I don't want you to incriminate yourself.
Speaker 2:I can't confirm or deny where that bottle came from. I can tell you to incriminate yourself, I can. I don't necessarily quite. I can't confirm or deny where that bottle came from.
Speaker 1:I could tell you where it went oh it went in my you took it to go in your belly yes, and I drank the whole thing.
Speaker 3: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:You want to elaborate that you remember?
Speaker 3:during your non-sobriety.
Speaker 2:During non-sobriety I mean. One of the reasons why I got temporarily banned from that establishment was consuming alcohol on the job.
Speaker 1:It happened to our last guest on the podcast, um it happens um evidently all the time. Um, so uh. With that being said, um also, can you there? There was this one time they sent you on a trip to do training to open a new vitamin store in the airport. Yes, yes, I heard that was a really good time. Can you give me some details on that?
Speaker 2:Well, this also ties into the drunken shenanigans of my life. I had recently shredded my knee and one of our good friends had yeah, one of our hopping over a fence, hopping over fence over my parents fence probably not sober. No, no, I'm very intoxicated, but um just shredding my knee acl mcl and a pc?
Speaker 3:yeah, I remember, and you might as well do the hat trick. If you're gonna do it, if you're gonna go, you might as well, do the hat trick.
Speaker 2: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 go into Pittsburgh and that's where we were going. I had never been to Pittsburgh. I'm from these coats, but I had never been to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1:Not really these coats, but I had never been to pittsburgh, not really a destination, no, it wasn't a blue collar town from what I understand, never been
Speaker 2:there myself mining town, we're very weird liquor laws. So like well, you know the beer and wine is we're from oklahoma, we know weird.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah, you guys know.
Speaker 2:But um, but weird liquor laws part of the. You know you couldn't get a bottle of liquor in some place and then but so I wasn't working. The other person that was supposed to go with the future GM of that establishment had somebody pass away in the family, so they were like, hey, this guy's not doing anything because I couldn't walk, and so hobbled onto a flight and went to Pittsburgh and yeah, that was talk about the contrasting. I mean, if anybody knows our good friend who I went with, we were consuming lots of alcohol while working for GFC. I don't want to incriminate anybody.
Speaker 1:It just so happens to be my son's stepfather, whatever, oh, but we used to partake.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, you find somebody that you used to drink with. You know, it is called team drinking, it is. It's a team sport. It was great showing up in the morning and you know, after me and this guy had been hanging out all night. Shenanigans. Shenanigans after me and this guy had been hanging out all night. Shenanigans, Shenanigans, Like we would walk in and these guys are all clean.
Speaker 3:cut Me and my friend, we're walking in, you're basically on vacation?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're partying. Just roll on the side of your mouth, yeah, and only knows what we kind of. You know, because even if you shower in the morning, but if you party hard a little bit the night before, you get a little bit of that liquor sweat, it's going to seep out. It's going to seep out, yeah. And so you know you're in this crowded room with these.
Speaker 1:Sweating it out. You're just sweating it out, these people.
Speaker 3:It's their brand new job. They're trying to be upstanding citizens. They're like oh, it's corporate.
Speaker 2:We're trying to get ready it was it was so I mean the looks that we got, because we were, we just got looked like we were degenerates and like who the fuck are these guys? Yeah, exactly, but it was. But it was so great because you had all these people and they were like taking this real, real serious. They were like you know, we're gonna. You, these guys were building their own business. They had bought their own store. I was out there because I fucked up my knee and I was just looking for a vacation, for a good week.
Speaker 3:You're like this is just fun for us. This is something different. Yeah, so I was looking at parties and it's a free trip.
Speaker 2:Free trip, didn't have to pay for a dime, and you get paid to do it. And got paid and just went out and you're with a buddy.
Speaker 1:And I'm with a buddy, A drinking buddy nonetheless.
Speaker 2:A drinking buddy is a different thing than a regular buddy. But no, it was great. We just I don't know, we just partied it up, went to learn about some vitamins, cool, cool, cool. But yeah, no, that was Pittsburgh in a nutshell. Good times Sounds like good times. No, it was Pittsburgh in a nutshell.
Speaker 1:Good times? It sounds like good times. No, it was a great time.
Speaker 3:It sounds like Pittsburgh in a bottle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was At least three bottles, I think.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you worked at the Asian concept, the Mexican food concept and the Applebee's. Okay, can you give me some more? Man, tell me I know you got something up your sleeve what else you got for me?
Speaker 2:Oh man, well, you know, I think a lot of what we encounter every day is obviously a lot of guest interaction. Oh, absolutely. And the best part about being able to travel and, you know, flying, crisscrossing this country is that all you need is a driver's license. You know, they don't, they don't give any type of. You know you can be crazy, bat shit, crazy.
Speaker 3:As long as you have an ID, you can get on a plane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we see that every single day.
Speaker 3:And it might be the first time they've got on a plane. Yeah, and a lot of them saw it a few times this week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like, for instance, this is one of the crazier stories I had. I'm working at the Asian concept, right Bartending had a guest sitting over in the corner back in the back of the restaurant. They had sent everybody home. I was like you know, I'll take this If anybody comes in, whatever this woman comes in, Beautiful, Probably mid-40s, Just beautiful woman Put together. You know, smelled nice. You know, one of those ladies Orders a glass of wine. I'm checking back in with her. She's fine. About 25 minutes she's only drank about half a glass of water. I go back. I was like everything okay, how you doing? All of a sudden we're talking like a light switch flipped. Obviously, somebody ate some candy back there in the back. I was going to say yep, the pill kicked in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the pill. I'm sorry, the pill kicked in and she had a bowl of rice. All right, I walk over. I must have startled her. She knocked the bowl of rice over. I'm like, all right calm down.
Speaker 3:Maybe I just startled her, okay.
Speaker 2:Let me go get a broom. Nope, nope, nope, she's going to take care of that. Like my dog, like she gets on all fours, starts cupping the rice, shoveling it into her face. I'm like, okay, this is not cool, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am are you?
Speaker 2:okay, ma'am, can I get you a water bowl while you're there? No, and so you know it just kind of escalated. I ended up having to call the cops, 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 be the person that served, the person that got the YouTube video on.
Speaker 3: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's really you know.
Speaker 1:There's a liability involved, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Okay, so anyways, police come in. They realize she's done for.
Speaker 3:She's done skis. They take her away. Bedtime man Come with us. Dfw is one of those.
Speaker 2:They've got one of those, their own little security area. Whatever you want to call it Drunk tank or whatever We'll tuck you in downstairs. Come with us Exactly the next day. I'm working, same restaurant, same chef, lo, and behold, guess who comes back? They always do the same woman wearing the same clothes.
Speaker 3:Doesn't smell as great.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, she did not. She goes and sits back in the same table.
Speaker 3:Nice, damn. This did not go as well last time. Listen who orders the same glass of wine.
Speaker 2: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 happened Jesus Christ. The exact same thing.
Speaker 1:Did you have to call the authorities again?
Speaker 2:Call the same. Called the cops again. Oh boy, the same cop from the night before showed up and he's like looking at me. He's like what? The what is going?
Speaker 3:on. I was like I have no clue.
Speaker 2:What in the hell?
Speaker 3:It's Groundhog Day for me too, sir.
Speaker 2:I don't know it was unreal. I'd never seen anything like it. I mean, I couldn't even believe it. And you know, once again they take her away and I was like you know, in my head I'm like thank God I'm off tomorrow. They're like I can't do this at 13. Yeah, if she came back I would lose my shit.
Speaker 3:I'm just walking out. If she comes back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. He said I'll try again tomorrow, but there was something about that corner table. All right, and I'm maybe taunted, yes, so I'm glad you brought that up. Okay, so we're back in the back of the corner restaurant.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's, it's, I've heard this one, but I love it go.
Speaker 2:It's the same table. I'm back. I'm there by myself. Now, this is one of those times where I'm you know, it's late at night. You know, somehow some Tito's fell into my cup while I'm cleaning the bar top. There's nobody else in there. Oops, there's a Tito's on the spill sheet. Sorry, guys, yep, my bad Whoops.
Speaker 1:Shaky hands.
Speaker 2:The MOD had disappeared. That doesn't sound like a company that we've worked with. No, no, who knows where you know. They probably went down and took a nap down in storage. They might have spilled some Tito's as well. For all we know no, and if you knew this gentleman, he spilled a lot of Tito's yes, yes. So I'm standing back there, I'm by myself. There's nobody in the restaurant. It's 11 o'clock at night. I was doing something with, I was cleaning, I was doing some inventory, some type of you know something.
Speaker 2:Just end of the night, busy work to get out of there, absolutely, and so there were these chairs that were pulled out.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything about that. It's table 901. Three kids, just to give you a reference. I can't figure that.
Speaker 2:And there's a chair that's kind of out towards the middle, because you pull everything out. Oh yes, and you're sweeping and mopping and you know, making sure the establishment is in pristine conditions, as we expect. Yeah, well, so ladies like her can eat off the floor again. Exactly, yeah, I didn't feel too bad about it, it's good enough for the dogs.
Speaker 2:This chair is probably about maybe 10 feet away. I look up and the chair slides all the way in. Excuse me, say that again. No, the chair, there's nobody around. I'm the only person in the restaurant. Yes, the chair moved at least a good 10, 12 feet by itself and you're just like, and I'm looking around, I'm like, there's no way that I just saw that, like, was that the tea level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's time to leave.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I'm sitting there. I'm like man, this is my first drink. I can't be, you know, like maybe I've had a long day.
Speaker 3:Maybe I don't know. I was like what's going on?
Speaker 2:You always second guess those things and I-checking I didn't believe it happened. But that's one of those kind of like.
Speaker 3:And no one else is there to verify or deny.
Speaker 2:Nobody else could sit there and back my story or say he's a damn liar.
Speaker 3:As well as saying you really don't want to tell people.
Speaker 1:No what the fuck are you talking about? No?
Speaker 2:But no, that's just one of the few occasions. There's another time where we've got a gong, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I've hit that gong several times on Big Tips. Yes, when I worked at that concept. You hit it.
Speaker 3:Just because it's there, you hit it if it owes you money or whatever reason.
Speaker 1:I love to hit the bong. I mean the gong, the gong.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love the gong bong, but once again I'm sitting there back in that restaurant by myself and turn around and right behind me I knew it Nobody's around Now. This happened in probably back-to-back weeks and so it was right around the same time frame and I'm sitting there thinking I might be losing my mind or maybe I need to quit drinking.
Speaker 3:Maybe I need to check myself in, or I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but we're talking sheer insanity and I thought I was losing myself.
Speaker 3:I thought I was losing my mind. That would make anyone question themselves.
Speaker 2:But there have been other experiences and finally I realize that I'm not because other people have told me that they've seen weird shit happen. That they've witnessed weird shit. They've witnessed chairs move. Or you put a box of something down somewhere and then it moves somewhere else. They witness weird shit. They witness, you know chairs move. Or they put. You know you put a box of them down somewhere and then it moves somewhere else. You know just weird, weird shit.
Speaker 3:Well, you know as big as the airport is. Maybe it was built on a pet cemetery? You?
Speaker 1:know I potentially see some cowboys and Indians dying out in what is the size of Manhattan Island, which was nothing but the prairie back you know a couple, probably just not even a hundred years ago.
Speaker 2:Wild West? Oh yeah, no, and it was. I mean, there was nothing. That was part of the reason why DFW was built, because they got such cheap land.
Speaker 1:It was built in 73, and there was nothing there.
Speaker 3:And if you've been in the airport recently, it feels like the Wild West, as we're saying yeah.
Speaker 1:The Wild Wild West.
Speaker 3:Still that today.
Speaker 2:Oh no, but that's the best part, exactly.
Speaker 1:That's why I show up every day with a smile. What's going to happen?
Speaker 2:today, because you never know, and you never know who you're going to run into.
Speaker 1:With all this being said, I do want to say that and I think I speak for both of us when 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 a sober life away from alcohol. Um, wants to be sober and live a sober life away from alcohol? Um, you know, there's a lot of people that it is obviously a disease to them and it runs in their family and they're alcoholics. And we do support anybody that wants to come to our bar.
Speaker 3:And, like me, I don't drink and drink water now I as you, as you said, call him out every, goddamn, every, every. Can I get a water at the bar, please, as Blake?
Speaker 1:sits here and drinks a Dos Equis responsibly. That's Dos Dos to you, sir yes. You can double fist in Texas.
Speaker 3:It's not illegal.
Speaker 1:But no, and you know, a couple weeks back I had a regular come in. He asked me not to say his real name, so we'll call him Quincy. Quincy came in and he had had a turbulent flight and I hadn't seen him in months.
Speaker 3:Our flights in our terminal are small 50-seaters, so they tend to be a lot more turbulent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, although it does have a first class and they had upgraded him this particular day to first class and he travels all the time. So he ended up knowing the flight attendant. It was turbulent, she didn't know, just as I didn't know that particular day. He was about, I want to say, 90 days into his sobriety. Uh, well, no, he was closer to four months. So a little over 100, some odd days.
Speaker 1:And she ends up just giving him a jack and coke because the flight was turbulent, not knowing that he had tried sobriety, that he had been sober, and so he takes this drink and he drinks it because he is nervous about the flight.
Speaker 1:Then he gets off the flight, not even you know, 45 minutes later and he comes straight to my bar, um, orders a beer, um, and just kind of breaks down a little bit and was like, hey, you know, and starts confiding in me because you know we go back and I'm his, you know, weekly, every two weeks. I'm his bartender, you know, he sees me all the time, we know each other by name. And so once he proceeds to tell me that he, uh, hadn't been drinking for almost four months and he tells me what happened on the plane and you know bumpy ride, and he says, hey, you know I messed up, and he really starts to break down a little bit. And you know he started this new position with his job and he just he snapped and he lost it and he just drank the Jack and Coke that she brought him on the plane. He just happened to be human.
Speaker 1:You know and he said well, now that you know I've broken it, you know I'm going to drink this small beer and I am going to relax, I've broken it, I'm going to drink this small beer and I am going to relax. And I said there's nothing wrong with that as long as you do it responsibly and don't get out of control. But not only that. I told him and me and my youngest son had been watching X-Men, following up to all the X-Men movies and Wolverine movies and stuff following up to Deadpool coming out, which I enjoyed, going to see that with you, blake. That was awesome.
Speaker 1:Not that I can see that, I couldn't see it with my eight-year-old, but I got to relive all those movies. Anyways, I took a little piece out of that and I was like just because you stumble off your path doesn't mean you have to lose your way. You know that is the human in us. And I said let that just be a benchmark to you to let you know where you stand with it and if you feel this much guilt and remorse about it, all right, tomorrow, start day one over again.
Speaker 3:And I see, tomorrow is a new day.
Speaker 1:And I did. I uh that was, I'd say that was probably four or five weeks back and, um, big shout out to him. Uh, amazing, ended up tipping Blake and I $50. And uh went and got a gift card for Starbucks and a thank you card and really thanked us for, you know, helping him through a tough time. And just saw him about a week ago and he said, yeah, you know you're cool to put uh the story on the podcast and again, with all this, uh, you know, I want to say that we do support anybody that's going through a tough time and uh, you know, wants to be sober.
Speaker 1:Anybody that's trying to be better, you know we over Anybody that's trying to be better, you know we support them and you know, if you want to come, hang out and hit the bong with us, you know that's cool too, whatever you want to do but we support you as an individual and the choices that you want to make for your life.
Speaker 3:As long as there are good choices, we support them. Let's say this be cool to everybody, Cause you never know what anybody's going through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly Just like you never know who's going to sit down at the bar next to you.
Speaker 2:Just be cool to everybody. That's it, liam. Give me a little more man. What craziness have you?
Speaker 1:seen go on in the Mexican food concept the cantina.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know, I don't think you guys were there that one time that the lady dropped her vibrator on the floor.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I was not there that day. I wouldn't remember that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no you guys weren't there. It was a nice purple vibrator. Oh okay, she was a little bit intoxicated. I unfortunately I hadn't served that guest so I don't accept any responsibility or culpability for her actions. But watching somebody, you ever seen somebody a little bit too drunk and they reach down to pick up something?
Speaker 2:several times yes, but you know, you step forward and then you kick it, and then you take two more steps forward, you reach down to pick up and then you kick it again and it's just rolling around the floor. Yeah, yeah, that that was quality. A little bit of butterfingers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little Butterfingers, a little soccer going on, a little soccer, it was quality dude, I've definitely seen the videos, the viral videos, where you know girls are traveling in a group and they end up hiding the giant. And the.
Speaker 1:TSA guys.
Speaker 3:And they open it and they go.
Speaker 2:oh, my God he whips it out and it's all flopping around.
Speaker 3:They open it and they go. Oh my god. He whips it out and it's all flopping around. It's not often when you see someone at TSA drop their jaw and be shot and that's one of those moments.
Speaker 2: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 hide it or not, they will find out. They're going to find it.
Speaker 1:Well, we've talked about that on the last couple episodes and they don't look for everything, but they will be distracted by the four-footer or whatever you try to pack in your carry-on.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that will stick out on the x-ray machine. Man Dingo will need to be checked. What is that?
Speaker 3:thing Is that battery operated.
Speaker 2:Does that take double D's? Oh man.
Speaker 1:So how about the American Bar and Grill Applebee's?
Speaker 3:What craziness have you seen there? That's an international term, so that's going to be completely different.
Speaker 1:I wanted to ask what's the coolest celebrity?
Speaker 2:you've ever interacted with? Oh well, there have been multiple, probably the best. There's a difference. I'm a huge football fan, so when Joe Montana sat down at my bar, oh, badass, like that's like when I met Charles Barkley yeah, exactly. I mean Montana sits at your bar and then his hands are twice the size of my grown-ass man hands. It was unbelievable. And he was drinking double margaritas like they were Gatorade. It was quality.
Speaker 3:Work hard, play hard. Yeah, he won his Super Bowls, he's good he's retired.
Speaker 1:He deserves it.
Speaker 3:He couldn't have been. He's got that Skechers money. Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2:He does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man.
Speaker 2:Romo hanging out on the beach. He couldn't have been more nice. And you know he confided in me.
Speaker 3:He seems like a nice guy, but you never know until you meet him.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, the funny thing is he comes in, he's wearing a hat and he was like I was just at a restaurant, you know, trying to have lunch, and you 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:Just wouldn't take their time to go away.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And so he throws on this hat, comes and slides at the end of my bar and of course I recognize him. 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 people where I'm like, ooh, let's get a picture.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to harass you. I'm going to say what's up and say, hey, you're cool yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, and you know, for Double Margarita Zen, like he's like. Hey, you know, thank you for Thanks for being cool. Thanks for being cool and for not bringing attention.
Speaker 3:Thanks for letting me be a person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was cool to not be a celebrity person and he told me something poignant that he was like. He was like he goes. You know, we're all people too. He's like even though that I'm just, you know, I'm, you know, tremendously popular and famous. He's like life sucks If you can only eat, you know room service If you can't actually live it.
Speaker 2:They all put their pants on one leg at a time, just like we do, and but you know, but, but the gratitude that I received because of that was that was better than anything, yes. That I received because of him, yeah, exactly, that was better than anything.
Speaker 1:Yes, so the funniest guy though without a doubt was Pauly Shore. I've met him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's great, he's great. This was he came.
Speaker 3:No, we, he's so.
Speaker 2:He came in right after Trump got elected in 2016. And you know, Paul, he's loud as it is, yes, but he had a little. Maybe he seemed like he had a little.
Speaker 3:I think he just seems like that all the time.
Speaker 2:I think that's just Paul E Schubert.
Speaker 3:Which is cool.
Speaker 2:Which is cool, I got no problems with that. But he's walking around sitting there saying there was no collusion. You know talking about and I'm sitting there dying. You know just some. You know preaching there's no collusion. There's no russian collusion.
Speaker 1:You know the irony of it, now, that's like when we saw charlie sheen he's all trying to bum cigarettes, charlie sheen came in.
Speaker 3:He came, so there's a giant escalator from the train that goes to the terminals right next to the bar I wish I would have have seen that. And we see Charlie Sheen, and this is probably five to seven years after he got kicked off of Two and a Half Men for Ashton Kutcher, so he's not he doesn't have to be in front of a camera he's not making money. This is when he just had a. What did he? He had an interview saying he drinks tiger's blood or who knows.
Speaker 1:And anyways, he looks strung out.
Speaker 3:He looked like he probably lost 100 pounds.
Speaker 1:I think this was right before he had to tell all these different girls he had some kind of STD. He was a little crackhead looking 80-pound girl.
Speaker 3:And you just see them walk by because our restaurant doesn't have walls, which makes the people watching even better and we just see them go outside. It seemed like they had been cut off somewhere and they just decided to go outside and we leave. Luckily we were close yeah, we finished cleaning the bar like two hours later and he's still outside on the curb just bumming cigarettes from people and just being weird, not going anywhere. He, he's basically just loitering at the airport. He's basically just loitering at the airport.
Speaker 1:Hanging out bumming cigarettes from people.
Speaker 3:I'm like dude, is it that bad? I'm like how much money were you getting in an episode? But anyway, man.
Speaker 2:he was raking it in back in the heyday. He was a good mill in episodes something like that that went all to the tiger's blood.
Speaker 3:But Pauly Shore must have been a character.
Speaker 2:Pauly Shore.
Speaker 3:Pauly Shore, I mean come on, dude, one of my favorite Pauly Shore stories. One of my favorite podcasts that I watch is called Bad Friends with Bobby Lee, a comedian, andrew Santino. Yeah, oh yeah, it's incredible. And anyways, pauly Shore, his family.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Patrick, one of our regulars that looks like him.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, who went to Andrew Santino's show looks just like him. Sat made him get up on stage with them and show them to everybody, because he looks exactly like him.
Speaker 3:They look yeah, they could be twin brothers, he's about 15 years younger but he looks exactly like him. But anyways, one of my favorite Pauly Shore stories, just to tell you how insane he is. So Bobby Lee's Korean and he took for whatever reason he decided he was going to take Pauly Shore to the 24-hour Korean spa and, knowing it's a Korean spa, and knowing that Bobby Lee and everyone that works there is Korean, he goes in and he just starts grabbing the guy that's working there and he goes. Chinese people are the best people in the world. He's just an absolute maniac. Oh, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3:But even Bobby, who is the most outrageous, insane person, is embarrassed to be hanging out with Pauly Shore. I'm like, oh my God. Anyways, that makes me giggle every time I hear that story. I don't know why. It's just insane.
Speaker 1:Liam, I want to say thanks for having you on the show this week. Man, it means the world to us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, thank you for having me. Dude, Great to sit down and chat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. We will have you back on again soon. I know we have a million more stories to tell. Yeah, exactly, Real quick. I want to plug our sponsors again this week. Shout out to the patio where we're sitting right now at the Big Apple Best Pizza and Pasta this side of the airport, and to the Bedford Snowball, which is correction from the last couple podcasts it's not the Bedford Snow, it's the Bedford Snowball. You did it right. Yeah, please. And shout out to Kevin, who was on an episode. He is doing amazing things over there and now, with the snow cones, I heard they're doing some barbecue which I'm excited to go check out. So if you are in the local area, go out the Bedford snow snowball the Bedford snowball right
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Speaker 1:We'll be back soon with another episode. Thanks, guys, peace.
