Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 18: Holy Moley
Hey, hey, welcome back you guys. Pull up a bar stool. We're going to do episode 18 of T-Fab Tales from an Airport Bar. As usual, I'm Chris and I've got my beloved co-host with me, block A. What up y'all? Welcome back you guys. We're rolling solo without a guest this week because we don't need you guys. No, we had some hangups and we've got some guests lined up for you guys, but things do come up and that's why you guys haven't heard from us in a little bit. Blake and I have been living life.
Speaker 2:Living life baby.
Speaker 1:Living la vida loca. So we're just going to jump right into this. You guys, first I want to give a couple of special shout-outs to some regulars that come through our bar there at the airport. Jim and Judy, thank you for your donation to the show. We appreciate that so much. And then Ryan and Alan, you guys go big. Thank you so much for your large size donation, you guys. Thank you so much. Yes.
Speaker 1:Thank you we love you long time. We are right there. We are about to get the equipment. We have been dragging our feet. That's on us. So thank you, you guys, and you know. Another special shout out to my amazing girlfriend, courtney, who has pushed me to tell this, um, this next story we're going to tell. So, like I said, blake and I have just been living life and we've been really busy and have had some cancellations with guests and things. So, two months ago and um, um, as you know, blake, I quit smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2:Yes, very impressive, and uh, never thought I'd see the day after 30 years.
Speaker 1:Um, so I've been making a lot of changes, been working out and trying to eat better and cutting out the fast food and blah, blah, blah. And so I've also been making doctor's appointments it's the fun part. So, one of those being the dermatologist because I had this horn on the top of my head for lack of a better term. No, it was an ingrown hair actually that had manifested into a cyst about the size of the probably about the size of a quarter Jesus, Maybe a little quarter Jesus, Maybe a little bigger Jesus and it was protruding upwards like a horn. I'm embellishing a little bit, but to me it was huge and it had been growing without me really realizing it.
Speaker 2:That's why I was like how long until you notice it?
Speaker 1:It's been there for about a good. I say six, seven years. Jesus, yes, since my youngest has been born all right, well, he's like now let's go check. Well, yeah, it's been there for a minute anyways, and so I go to the and this is not even the best part of this story, blake I go to the dermatologist for the first time. I go in and there's.
Speaker 2:When's the last time you went to a dermatologist? Never, never, okay. Oh, literally the first time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pop in the chair yeah and yeah, and my parents have been nagging me for years. Oh, you know, your dad's had skin cancer, your, your mother's had, my mom's had skin cancer, my sister. So I go to the dermatologist needless to say, he never checks me for that shit. But so I go to the dermatologist, I go in, there's this, uh, there's this kid about my oldest son's age 23, 24, and uh, he's, you know, I guess he's the uh rn or the nurse's assistant, or I mean the doctor's assistant. And so he's like okay, so I'm here, I'm just going to get the rundown of why you're here today, and then the doctor will come in and I said, okay, so I have this skin tag behind my ear I want to have just removed. I have this skin tag behind my ear, I want to have, you know, just removed. I have this mole I need to have removed, and you know. And then obviously I have this cyst. Is the main reason that's on top of my head. He looks at me. He's like oh God.
Speaker 2:That's a reaction I'd love to hear in a medical facility reaction.
Speaker 1:No, he, he had a flinch reaction, but he didn't obviously do that. He said that in his head. Yeah, so he goes. Okay, um, he's like all right. So he's like all right. So he writes all this stuff down. It's like all right, I'm gonna go get the doctor. I'll be back in a minute we're gonna get the doctor.
Speaker 2:I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 1:We're going to get the chainsaw, we'll be with you shortly. So they come back together and the doctor's like, okay. So, uh, okay, I see this behind your ear. He's like here, and he freezes it off with his little freeze gun and then, um, he, uh, he goes. Okay, ooh, he's like he looks at this cyst on my head. He's like all right, he's like you're going to come back in two weeks and we're going to do a little incision and we're going to take that bad boy out of there. I was like all right, cool. And so he's like so where's this mole that you want removed? I was like it's by my junk doc. And he's like okay, so.
Speaker 2:I was hoping you'd say that.
Speaker 1:No, like don't do that. So he's like all right, so pull it on your pants. Let me see man. And I was like all right, here I've had a quarter, he goes okay. He's like that's a little gangly looking and I was like yeah, it's been there since I was a child.
Speaker 2:I was like, how was it an age to the head and he's like man, you know.
Speaker 1:I was like, yeah, it's gotten caught in the zipper kind of thing, and it's always just been a nuisance. And you know how'd you get the beans above the frame, jesus? But, um, so he goes. Okay, he's like, all right, hang on. And he takes out his sharpie, puts a circle around it fantastic. And he's like, hey, give me a second, I'll be right back.
Speaker 1:And I don't know, he went, got something like what's happening? And, uh, he has me. Uh, you know, obviously, pull down my pants, drape this. Uh, you know, the blue cloth looking thing over me comes back in and, uh, I don't know him and his assistant, they pull the blue thing back, zip, zip. I don't know, I think he might have carterized it or something, but I didn't hear anything. I didn't smell anything burning. He doesn't put any gauze on it, nothing. He's like all right, have a nice day. He's like check out's up front. I was like, oh, okay, I'll see you in two weeks. Get the freaking horn off my head. What just happened, yeah. And so I was like no gauze or nothing. And he's like no, you're good bro. I was like all right, man.
Speaker 2:Grab some dirt on it head home. You're good, just pay the front desk.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I go make my appointment, I leave, and so I come home, and so I get ready to take a shower or whatever you know, later that afternoon and I go to you know, I take off my pants, I go to take off my underwear and something flies across the room. That was it. I'm like what the hell is that? Sure enough, it's my mole just fell off. Yep, no, he left it. He left it in my drawers, bro. This is after I left the dermatologist. I'm going home, I'm taking a shower, I pulled my pants down and it flies across the freaking room is. Is there a bug?
Speaker 2:in my pants.
Speaker 1:I was like what was that? I look over on the bathroom floor and I'm like that's my freaking mole.
Speaker 2:Did you save it? You put it in a jar.
Speaker 1:No, I put it in a jar and flushed it, man.
Speaker 2:He's been with you since you were a baby. You're just going to cut that friendship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's like.
Speaker 2:No man, fantastic, Fantastic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he might have thought you wanted it. Yeah, what was the? It was like the thing coming out of the chest on total recall. What was this?
Speaker 2:Quasi murder.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so all right. So let's get back to some airport bar-related stories. Blake, I know you've been wanting to talk about this one, so let's just I'll let you kind of start it. Let's talk about the time I was smoking. I went out on a smoke break outside and was coming back. Well, right on, but I don't smoke anymore, get off me.
Speaker 2:So I was going out 10 years of smoke breaks. I'm like which one.
Speaker 1:Just 10 years of smoke breaks. I'm like which one? Just 10 years of smoke breaks with you. So no, the time I was going out for a smoke break. I go out to the parking lot to take a wink, wink smoke break and I'm coming back, a natural and I almost get run over at the crosswalk. Yes, where pedestrians have the right of way At the airport on federal property.
Speaker 2:Pedestrians have the right of way. Airport on federal property. We had by the freaking um.
Speaker 1:The rent-a-cop by the security guard. Not even the cop, that man, and they don't. They're not even tsa, they just man the employee portal. Yes, that's and it's.
Speaker 2:It's just a rent-a-cop, it's the dfw security I had one of them the other day when I walked through the machine. Weird, she's like dude, that's different. She looks at me like you see that I put the fear of God into them.
Speaker 1:I was like what are you talking about Again, blake? We talk about this all the time.
Speaker 2:That kind of gives you the idea of the mindset.
Speaker 1:That's the only little bit of power that they have, so have. So that's what I'm getting ready. That's their mindset. So I'm coming back from the smoke break and I'm smoking, okay, and I, coming from the parking lot, I cross the crosswalk and as I'm crossing the crosswalk, here comes this white dfw security bronco, flying. I'm talking flying not paying attention it's like 15, 20 miles an hour and he's, and there's big cones there's two of them across every crosswalk.
Speaker 1:They say stop for pedestrians, state. It says state law, stop for pedestrians, yes, anyways, and it's like neon green, there's two of them at every crosswalk he's flying through there, almost hits me, bro, as a pedestrian. He's my security guy, right. Anyways, serve and protect brother and um. So he's flying through there, almost hits me, and I'm smoking my cigarette. And so the thing is, is I'm, you know, trying to get back from the parking lot, I'm smoking a cigarette, I'm crossing the crosswalk, right, it's like, because I'm almost that he's trying to peg me.
Speaker 2:Well, he's trying to peg you because he was wrong and he needed a reason to flip it on you.
Speaker 1:So I jump back on the crosswalk as he's flying through there, because you don't want to get hit?
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, you like your legs.
Speaker 1:I throw up as he passes me. I throw up my hands like what the hell bro? What are you doing as?
Speaker 2:anyone would react, so I continue to smoke my cigarette.
Speaker 1:I walk past the crosswalk, I walk down the sidewalk to go back through the double doors to go in the main entrance of the terminal and and so obviously right there where I go into the terminal is where he goes into the terminal, because I don't know if he's on shift or whatever, or he's, but he was obviously running late something. So as I'm walking down, I go down to the trash can that he's actually parked by by the door that I'm getting ready to go into, because that's where you're heading to. I put my cigarette out as he's basically finally gets out of his car and he's like you can't smoke here. And I was like he gets out of his car and as soon as I'm putting the cigarette out, he's like you can't smoke here. And I was like I'm not smoking, bro. And I was like and I can smoke wherever I want. I've already talked to a police officer about it. He's like I'm telling you you can't smoke. And I said and who the hell are you bro? I'm not smoking bro. I can smoke anywhere I want, as long as I can pay the ticket.
Speaker 1:I've already spoke with an officer about it in the past. I've been here for a long time, buddy. He's like would you like to speak to an officer again? I said, bro, I ain't got time for this, I'm out. He's like what's your badge number? He's like I was like, bro, you can't do shit. I was like you're a security guard. He's like I sure can. He's like I'm calling the police. I was like call the police, bro. I was like I don't have time for this. I got to go. I'm going back to work and this is outside.
Speaker 2:You should do the same, sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I said, sir, I said the only reason you're trying to deflect here is because you almost ran over me in the crosswalk, speeding in a freaking 15 mile an hour zone. Yeah, where.
Speaker 1:I have the right of way. He's like that's none of your concern, it absolutely is. Because I almost got hit. So I was he's like that's none of your concern, it absolutely is. Because I almost got hit. So I was like exactly a pedestrians have the right away, sir. That said it says state law right there on that sign. Right there he's like yeah, and it also says no smoking right here on that sign. I said do you see anybody smoking? And so next thing I know here comes he's already called the police. So here come the police. I'm like I got to get back to work. I'm freaking ripped Blake's in there.
Speaker 2:Every time when Chris has been gone for 45 minutes on a smoke break, you'll never believe what happened. Every time I'm like, yeah, I was like, let's hear it.
Speaker 1:That's like Bailey Bailey's, like. I got stuck in the elevator this one time You'll never believe what happened.
Speaker 2:I know something good is coming.
Speaker 1:So here come the police. Police was like dude, were you smoking over here? I was like, yeah, bro, I was. I put my cigarette out, man, because the sign I put he's like dude smoke, he's like you know. I was like, absolutely, brother. I was like next time I'll put before I cross the street. I said, but the real deal is this guy's trying to impose his will on me, his little bit of power.
Speaker 1:He almost ran me over. He almost ran me over in the crosswalk and everybody's neglecting the fact that he's flying through. He's like get back to work. He's like get back to work. He's like I'm gonna take care of that, thank you, goes over talk, because he made that guy back up, because he's barking as the police.
Speaker 2:He's like okay, we can tell what's going on he's like let me talk to this guy first.
Speaker 1:You stay over here, buddy, he sends me inside to go back to work. Anyways, evidently handled that, dude, but yeah, I know you were wanting to chime in on that because I wasn't there for like 45 minutes an hour it's every time.
Speaker 2:I always know. I always know something good's coming. You'll never believe I'm just wait. I wait for it. You'll never believe what happened you know, it's always no, but I'll find out, you know I don't have those adventures anymore.
Speaker 1:Because I don't smoke. I don't have to go downstairs to smoke anymore. I barely even take breaks now. Now you're like the rest of us, yes.
Speaker 2:Sure, I remember being the one person that wasn't a smoker back in the day. Now it's like the opposite Now there was only one smoker, now there was only one smoker, and now there's none.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. Now there's none. Um. So story on the agenda that, uh, I've been told by, uh, a lot of people I've worked with in the past that I need to go ahead and tell the story. It's not very long.
Speaker 1:So back in 2002, I worked at this little bar. When I first started out at the airport I worked at, and, uh, a cashier, and then to the right of that, uh, connected to it, was a little four top bar and so it was this big long counter, basically, um, and so we worked behind the bar and then somebody worked behind the counter side, uh, making hot dogs, this and that, and then it had, uh, two little four top tables and it had the four seater bar and that was it. And, um, so when I first worked out there, they only had like 10 bottles of liquor and you know they had, uh, they had two beers on tap and they had no bottle beers, nothing like that. So I put in a full bar. We get this bar going and it goes from doing like $1,000 in sales a day to doing consistently $5,000 a day at the most, like $6,000 a day, which is pretty significant.
Speaker 2:That's almost $40,000 of sales a week. So, with that being said, two of the cells.
Speaker 1:We wanted to get a TV put in here. Keep them in there. So this was a remote terminal, right, this was all the way back then, over 20 years ago. So it was a remote terminal and it had no tv in it. You were being bussed out to this terminal that had, I believe, 10, 10 different gates, which is all the regional flights that we have in our terminal now. A lot more of them now. Yeah, all the little you know, they fly to baton rouge, midland, odessa, charlotte, yeah, exactly a lot of my guests recently told me that is the worst fly to Baton Rouge Midland.
Speaker 1:Odessa, charlotte, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:A lot of my guests recently told me that is the worst airport on the planet the Charlotte airport. Northwest Arkansas, what is it? The one in Illinois, amarillo.
Speaker 1:Peoria.
Speaker 2:Peoria, there you go, the big one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, We've also got what Springfield Illinois, yeah, North Dakota.
Speaker 2:We always get those Columbia.
Speaker 1:Missouri. Yeah, yeah. So anyways, I'm working in this little so, like I said they used to, you'd go from the main terminal and you would get on a bus. You'd go bus out across the tarmac to like, basically this're there, you're there this big, huge uh trailer that had 12 little commuter flight gates on it and back then they used to even have prop planes they had. It was cool because back in 2002 they were just starting to get the little regional jets.
Speaker 2:Yeah they were actually jets yeah so this is, this is american eagles little prop pains you didn't see the guy going out there regional jets and pulling the blades and making it spin.
Speaker 1:So once they got their little fleet of regional jets. That's why that terminal no longer exists. So, and now, with dfw being as huge as it is, so it didn't have a TV out there, okay, so to upsells, I put a.
Speaker 2:Well, if you're the one thing with the TV out there. That's huge. First thing we put it in the first thing.
Speaker 1:We did it and it's back in the bar, so you'd actually have to come inside?
Speaker 2:You couldn't just stand outside and watch it easily?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and, like I said, I think the capacity of that place was no, literally it had to be a max of like 15.
Speaker 2:Okay, maybe 16 max, including employees, maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, including employees, damn, okay. Yeah, no, tiny, this thing was tiny, tiny, yeah, anyways. So we put a TV out there and I, yeah which should have been no big deal yeah, and I started we'd love to. So I started back in 2001 and um, so at this point I'm trying to get this satellite dish for over a year and every bar in the airport uses satellite dishes.
Speaker 1:And they want me to have an asbestos survey and this and that, and I'm like asbestos hasn't been used. This building was built in like 2000 and asbestos hasn't been used since 1993. It's not even necessary.
Speaker 2:You're like this is pretty new, those materials.
Speaker 1:They had to sample all the materials of where we're going to drill a satellite. It was ridiculous. Anyways, I ended up continuing that process, but went ahead and put the satellite.
Speaker 2:You said okay, I'll take note of that, but we're going to go ahead and start work.
Speaker 1:I put the satellite dish up anyways, and then the airport didn't know, but they finally approved it and it was already up Anyways.
Speaker 1:Great, we're going to get that done right now, so prior to that, into October 27th of 2002, um October 27, 2002, and remember where we're at, we're in Dallas. Emmett Smith breaks Walter Payton's rushing record. We didn't have that satellite on that TV back then, and so all we got was local channels with rabbit ears, and so, as you know, in the airport are bars no-transcript. So Emmett Smith is breaking the rushing record and we get the Cowboy game on local TV with these rabbit ears. But we're inside this metal building, right? So what do I do? Do I do? I have to get up and stand on a pickle bucket and hold these rabbit ears on this, basically the garage door that we use every night to pull down.
Speaker 2:How big is this state-of-the-art tv in 2002 that you guys have?
Speaker 1:right. Yeah, that's why everybody wants me to tell the story. And so I'm standing on this pickle bucket and I'm holding the antenna to this garage door and we're getting like this badass reception. It's great, it's like freaking trying to watch freaking satellite through scramble Anyways.
Speaker 2:Chris, it's the first quarter. How long can you hold that pose?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, exactly no. And so I'm standing on this pickle bucket holding this freaking antenna and I'm telling you there must have been 40 people crammed in. And then outside of that, and so Emmett Smith breaks Walter Payton's rushing record and that whole little trailer park erupts dude, unreal, one of the coolest experiences. Unreal, one of the coolest experiences. But yeah, I'm just, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad that technology has come so far, Jeez rabbit ears.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, Blake, you know that's really all I got this week. Edit that out.
Speaker 2:Cut, cut it.
Speaker 1:Cut it right there. No, you know we are lacking in content here. What else?
Speaker 2:you got bud. I'm trying to think, man, it's been a crazy couple months at the airport. Good old American Airlines has been doing their best to cancel and delay as many flights as possible.
Speaker 1:You know, I love it because it just you know, as we always love it, because it just you know, as we always say when it rains, it rains money, yes, oh it's been fun the airport police have been on, not not on us specifically, no On the whole airport recently.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Because a lot of that. People are getting stuck in the terminal longer and longer.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just like you know. Well, it's just like we got that mass text on the bartender feed a couple weeks ago about how the TABC is out and about checking people's inebriation levels.
Speaker 2:Which is the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission.
Speaker 1:Which they're kind of just out to get you guys. Well, and that's the thing, everybody freaking bar hops, dude, and you know, as long as you're being cool, I'm allowed to give you four, it's hard to tell.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you know you're, I'm always of the mind, I'm like, hey, if you don't walk in and well, it's like yesterday drooling on yourself hey. I'll give you one and we'll go from there. But more and more, yeah, like you're talking about, people end up this lady yesterday End up spilling the beans on themselves.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, this lady yesterday. She's in there with these two dudes. This one dude, brian, who ends up hooking us up. Thank you, brian, shout out to this guy because he did. Who ends up hooking us up? Uh, thank you, brian, shout out to this guy because he did hook us up. Fat yesterday it. We have been on a non-stop roll of our regulars coming in and taking care of us. I cannot say thank you guys enough. We have been very blessed.
Speaker 2:We love you, guys at the end of the day, you guys are our bosses.
Speaker 1:Yes, here and at work everybody that's listening to this, you, the boss um, I'm just, I'm being honest. You guys are our managers yes, especially because our establishment pays us a whole two dollars and thirteen cents an hour. Yes, um, but yeah. So anyways, yeah, it's been rain of money, man. Yes, thank the lord. Yes, summer busy season, everybody's in a good mood, good time. So anyways, yeah, it's been raining money man.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank the Lord. Yes, summer busy season Everybody's in a good mood, good times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you guys for traveling. School's about to start, football's getting ready to take what else?
Speaker 2:man, I'm excited for football. Man, it's funny, we were just talking about it. 25 days to college football, maybe even quicker than that, but at least until my team starts. Yes, we're getting NFL right after that, starting in September. I think, right, it's always NFL starts. I'm so tired of putting cornhole and fucking tag and pillow fights on the tv, on the spn and then there's, you know, uh, my favorite, the log show.
Speaker 1:The log show is great. Yes, as out there where my girlfriend lives, I don't, I don't think it holds a candle to the slippery greater washington seattle area.
Speaker 2:I don't know about you, but uh, that may be my favorite. Have you seen that? What's that? Where they have it on the ocho or espPN? Just ran it. Where they have the slippery stairs race, yes, where it's literally like these tile stairs and they spray them down, watch the YouTube videos of the old Asian game shows where they would do that yeah. I put that on. I'm like that's probably better than watching Stephen A yell at people on mute in the off season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yell at people on mute in the off season.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, talk about the biggest Cowboys hater, you know okay, but that's his job.
Speaker 1:So for our listeners, I'm originally from Oklahoma. Blake, you know, was fortunate enough to move at a young age to Norman, oklahoma, and, uh, he had the privilege of going to OU. Boomer Sooner, baby Boomer Sooner, um. So we both grew up Sooner fans. Um, and don't hold it against us. Yeah, exactly, um, soon sooner bred, and when I die I'll be a sooner dead. So we watched a lot of Oklahoma football. We're here, as you guys know, now in Dallas. So obviously, cowboys, mavericks, yeah, but who cares about the Cowboys?
Speaker 2:Because we're irrelevant. No, you know. And now Jerry.
Speaker 1:I'm old. They were relevant when I was in high school.
Speaker 2:The best player on our defense, micah Parsons, many moons ago, who we should have already signed Exactly, but now he wants to be traded because Jerry has drug his name through the media. Not even just that, he's drug his name through the media. So has Steven, and Steven's become just as bad as Jerry, which is terrible. But golly, we've got the two worst GMs in sports in Dallas here. It's fantastic. Boomer, sooner, yeah exactly. There's a reason why I work Sundays, so that I don't have to watch the Cowboys.
Speaker 1:I can at least dry my tears with the I don't want to get opinionated about the Dallas Cowboys, but I'll say everything that everybody's been saying for three decades, since we haven't won a Super Bowl or really made any noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 2:All everybody's been saying for three decades.
Speaker 1:Jerry has to relinquish control and hire a.
Speaker 2:GM, it's never going to happen. And now Steven has gotten sunk in Jerry's ways. Oh yeah, and that's what's made it worse.
Speaker 1:Yes, Nothing like nepotism.
Speaker 2:You know it's just like where we work. But you know the fans every year it's the year man, it's the year baby.
Speaker 1:No, it's not no let's talk about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, then I'll tune in and I'll be like, all right, maybe we got something, but I just it hurts too much and I have to just be logical and just separate my feelings about it. Which is why we have college football, yeah, which my college football team couldn't have had a worse season last year and with injuries and all that. So I didn't have anyone. And then I was finally like, oh yeah, now I can confide in the mavericks. And finally basketball season came, and then everyone knows how that went. So I need some good season of sport to happen. Well, okay, I need any sports team to just be good.
Speaker 1:Well, we have a lot of promise next year with our Mavericks. We do. Getting the number one draft. We do. But I'm just saying last year was so terrible for sports, such a letdown as opposed to the year before we're in the final. I mean we're in the championship.
Speaker 2:And then the Rangers sucked this year too. So, just like every sports team that I've had hope in, I go all right. Well, the next one will be good. Hey, how about my?
Speaker 1:stars. The stars are amazing, but I know you don't care about hockey.
Speaker 2:Shout out to all my hockey fans Shout out to my guy, brett Hull, who comes in a Hall of Fame hockey player all the time. Yes, who.
Speaker 1:I have an autographed picture of him on my.
Speaker 2:He is one of my favorite guests that come to the bar. Of course I don't. I didn't know who he was. I just knew him as Brett because I talked to everybody it was a Saturday, oh wow, I didn't know that One of the first times I saw him it was a Saturday.
Speaker 2:He came in. I literally have all 22 just fucking rocking it and he's buying. He comes in wearing his codigo tequila hat okay, cool. And I'm like. He's like, why don't you have my tequila? I'm like I'm sorry, but I make two dollars an hour. They don't.
Speaker 1:They don't ask me about any of this stuff okay, I do remember you, I was like, I was like I love that tequila, it's great.
Speaker 2:but I was like, just let me make you a blake special and I make him like he's like man, this is amazing and he just he's very charismatic. Still, he's just personable. He's buying drinks for everybody at the bar next to him and just having a great time. So getting everybody going and man shout out to you, Brett.
Speaker 2:I didn't know who he was. I just knew him as Brett the awesome guy at the bar. And then one of the other guys across the bar comes to me and goes, hey, what was his name? I was like that was Brett. He's like you don't know who that is. He's like I think that's brett hole, my childhood hero. I was like, oh okay, I don't know. I just know him as awesome brett, just cool, treats me well, treats everybody well, gets it going. It's like, yeah, he's a hall of fame hockey player for the dallas stars.
Speaker 1:I was like shit. All right, yes, I'll see him, as always, a stars player. Uh, he also played for the Detroit Red Wings, which was our nemesis at the time.
Speaker 2:Um so, but no, yeah, uh, if he's, if he's any, any anything as good of a hockey player as his value of just being a great human being. From what I know him from, then, he's incredible. I love him. Yeah, no, uh, and I met one of his teammates the other day. Uh, his name was brent and he was canadian, but I didn't, I didn't know until, yeah, I didn't know till the end because, again, I don't know hockey players first of all, and I just don't, especially not older hockey players and he was like, yeah, I just, I, you know, I got his name is brent.
Speaker 2:He's from canada I figured that part out, and then I heard him talking about the NHL to somebody next to him. I was like, hey, nhl, brent Holt comes in here all the time. He's awesome. He's like, oh yeah, I played with him here in Dallas. I'm like, well, fuck me, I don't know anything. I'm like, great, I don't know. And I told him.
Speaker 1:I not know hockey, I don't is not.
Speaker 2:I do not really care for it, as far as I've seen, I don't know, during the playoffs. But almost any other sport, I mean I just hockey, yeah I, I love to watch it in person, but on tv I don't know whatever ghost stars I mean when I was a kid in oklahoma. I have very fond memories of going seeing the okc blazers because we had we had no professional teams growing up in oklah, oklahoma, when I was a kid, there was the minor league baseball team and there was a minor league hockey team.
Speaker 1:The 89ers yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:Which I went to a lot of their games for free and I went to their stadiums all the time because my dad was one of the head umpires in the Big 12 baseball for a long time. Oh, that's right, I got. I saw a lot of games in their stadium. Big 12 championships were played there for many, many years which is the 89ers, was the minor league.
Speaker 1:Yes, uh, triple a or double a? I think it was double a.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I was like eight, I don't know. I don't know. I saw so much baseball as a kid, which it was great, but as a kid, you know, I'm just like I want to be out playing or whatever, like I saw it in so many suites and games at Big 12 championships. I even got to go to the College World Series.
Speaker 1:My dad and I played that in 2005.
Speaker 2:That was one of the coolest experiences.
Speaker 1:I've got to go to a national title game in football, but not a baseball. I got to go to as many games as I wanted at that.
Speaker 2:It's in Omaha, nebraska Shout out Fun. Uh, it's in old omaha, nebraska shout out funniest thing about that trip. This is back in 2005. You know, not everybody has a smartphone, nobody has gps, where my dad's already there, right? So me and and my older brother and my mom, we're gonna, we're gonna load up in the van and drive there and so we so we have them. Which? How old are you? I loved it, I mean 2005 I was in high school, I was probably 17.
Speaker 2:Okay, 16. You weren't even shaving. I mean 2005,. I was in high school. I was probably 17. Okay 16. You weren't even shaving yet. And the back of the van was awesome because you know it was this Nissan and you know it was probably a four-inch by four-inch little TV with the VCR in the back. But I was like great, all right, I'll watch movies or whatever. So I love that.
Speaker 2:I fucking van man, that thing was awesome. Uh, I could just see you with your little sour patch. It is awesome. But anyway, so we print out the map quest thing and you follow that's how you used to. You know you'd either get out a map or at this point you had the internet a little bit, you know, not wearing it, but so you and you'd follow the sheets and it was all we're going from oklahoma all the way in the or from here actually texas all the way to nebr, nebraska.
Speaker 2:And you know we didn't really look through the whole thing. You know you start at the top and you just keep following the instructions and you know we're, however many double digit hours in to the drive and we're starting to get to the last page of it, and we finally get to it. And oh, my mom, god love her. The technology and again, mapquest was new. Instead of getting directions to Omaha and the stadium, she just got directions to the center of Nebraska, which was not anywhere near Omaha.
Speaker 1:And we didn't know until the very end.
Speaker 2:We were like three or four hours off, all right. And we were supposed to be there at a certain time to watch a game and meet my dad and do all this, and it was so fucking hilarious. We still joke about that to this day.
Speaker 1:Again modern technology.
Speaker 2:We get to the last page, we're like oh, the center of Nebraska. Fantastic, this is where we're supposed to be. Anyways, oh my God, like, oh, the center of nebraska, fantastic this is where we're supposed to be anyways.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. So, uh, me and my girlfriend were talking about this last week. Her uh, out there in washington where she's at. They had a in her internet company had this outage and she was out of like almost 24 hours, man, and we were talking about it's. What the hell did we do before internet.
Speaker 2:What did we do before?
Speaker 1:I remember. I'm old, I remember.
Speaker 2:She's younger than me and weather away just scrolling your phone for six hours, but she remembers too. What do I have to do? I have to be here with my own thoughts. These are scary. I don't like this. I need to hear Instagram reels.
Speaker 1:I need to hear YouTube. I need to scroll on TikTok.
Speaker 2:I need to watch the Housewives.
Speaker 1:I need something, I need some noise, I need some sound. That's what she was saying. She's like all this shit. I thought I downloaded. I didn't download anything.
Speaker 2:I was out on an island alone. I made friends with a volleyball. I was like really.
Speaker 1:Because you should have some podcasts downloaded. You got me. No, uh, no, that you know. Again, special shout out to her on this episode. She is our biggest, one of our biggest fans and probably, if not our biggest fans, and, um, god love her. She pushes us and pushes me and, you know, inadvertently like that, that helps push you, um, so, thank you. Thank you, courtney and um guys, that's really all we got man. Uh, just a nice, uh, summer episode for you guys. Uh, we will be back in two weeks with our uh guest Joe, joe's coming up. Uh, not, uh, not the Joe that has been mentioned on a couple episodes with Kevin, um, a different Joe, and we will explain that, uh, on our next episode. Guys, thank you, as always, for listening to the show, but God dang it. Download the episodes Even if you don't listen to it. Download the episode and delete it.
Speaker 2:Get us some paid ads, baby. Yeah, get us paid, we're trying to get there.
Speaker 1:We're almost there. We are about to get the equipment to start doing this as a YouTube channel.
Speaker 2:Take it to the next level, and we couldn't do it. High production, high value yes, give the people what they want.
Speaker 1:Yes, and that way you guys can see our faces, because I know you miss us and guys, thank you to everybody that supports the show. Again, we can't do it without you guys, and we'll see you in a couple weeks. Peace.
