Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 19: Ball Is Life
Welcome back, everybody. Episode 19, TFA, Tales from an Airport Bar. I hope everybody's doing well. As usual, I'm Chris, and I've got my amazing, beautiful man of a co-host, Blake.
SPEAKER_01:You know, mediocre best, but I'm here. Let's go.
SPEAKER_02:You know. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Um, I want to start real quick with um following up on the last episode, Holy Moly, where the mole flies across the bathroom, and I'm like, oh my God. He left.
SPEAKER_01:I haven't mentioned that yet. Check it out.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's greatness. Um, I highly recommend it before you check this episode out, evidently. Um, so the best part I left out because Blake, as usual, you know, he hands me some kind of you know, live resin, something, something. I don't know. I anyways, I was ripped out of my mind. Shout out to Coldfire. Yes, yes, we would love you as a sponsor, Coldfire. Um, Clubhouse, whatever. Um, so yes. Um, last week on the episode on the last episode, I left out the best part. So the uh dermatologist, he lops off the mole, right? And doesn't put any gauze on there or anything. He's like, oh no, you're fine, man. And I do, I live right across the street, and there's you know, the grocery store. I stopped at the grocery store to get some groceries. It was in the afternoon on my way home before all this other stuff transpired. So I go to the grocery store, and you know, I'm there for about 30 minutes. I'm checking out my groceries, and um, you know, I look down as I'm bagging my groceries, my whole entire like khaki colored shorts is covered in blood. Like what? Like heavy flow day. Looking around, luckily nobody notices.
SPEAKER_01:But like if you've seen super bad, imagine, imagine Jonah Hill at the party. It's Merlove. It's Merlot. Is that period blood on your pants?
SPEAKER_02:It's Merlove. Um man, anybody saw me at the grocery store? I luckily I don't think anybody did, but I was probably air properly. I was mortified anyways.
SPEAKER_01:Nobody's even noticing it. But you're thinking everybody is, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02:I quickly go to my car, go home. That's when I strip down to take a shower, and the mole flies across the room, and I'm like, what in the hell? Tag it, tag it. Anyways, um, you know, that would have came off a lot funnier in the last episode, but you know, again, shout out to Coalfire. Um, so Blake, Blake's got some interesting things for us this week. Um, I do want, uh I know you wanted to give out a special shout out.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, I gotta give a shout out to one of our regulars who's listened to all the episodes, my girl Nikki from Arkansas. Let's go. Okay. Shout out. We appreciate you.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely. And I did want to give a special shout-out, uh, belated birthday to Parnell, uh, who had a birthday at the end of last month. And uh yeah. I think thank you for always supporting the show and coming in and taking care of us, man. We love you guys. We love you. Um yeah. So uh Blake, you were wanting me to talk about this uh this last week uh at the bar.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you know, there's always uh, you know, we we work Sunday nights together. If you're in DFW on Sunday night, come see us, please. It's a good time. Yeah, always. Football's back on, so it's a really good time. Everybody's getting it going. Uh last call, you know, we always do last call. And inevitably, after we're done, there's at least 10 people that come in. And you know, we always try and get them one. We're like, hey, okay, we've called, but we'll grab you one. If you get one, you know, if it's 30 minutes later, okay. Sorry. We've already done the drawer, we can't. But hey, if you come in five, ten minutes after and there's still people there, we'll get you one.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, absolutely. We're not trying to run anybody off.
SPEAKER_01:And uh, this young lady came in. I I'm cleaning because it's probably five, ten minutes after, but we're still gonna try and get her one.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. This young lady.
SPEAKER_01:She was the very last one. And we were still it, we were like, hey, let's try. And I know she came in, and uh, I think I was sweeping or putting away the liquor bottles or whatever. And uh Chris is in front of the register, probably just closed the last person out before her. And I could tell, I mean, she was pretty small, she was probably 5'2, maybe 90 pounds. Don't you know? Not a not a big person. And you know, when you work the night shift, especially on Sunday, with football on, especially, whether they they've flown or not, people have been drinking, among other things. Who knows? She and it's the end of the night, too, so you never know.
SPEAKER_02:Just for the record, she was a Cajun lady. She uh did she did give her own shout-out to Louisiana. There you go. Um, remember uh so she comes in and uh I'm like, yeah, it's last call. And then as soon I said we've already called last call, we're all closed up, but I'll grab you one quick one. And she look, and then that's when I make eye contact. When you see her, I see that she's gone. You can tell. And uh she goes, uh, I'll take a double something, something. And uh I said, uh you had one or two before you got here, didn't you? And she goes, Oh yeah, I have bloody Mary. I said, Well, I can't serve you anything. She's like, Well, I've only had one here. Or she goes, Oh yeah, she goes, Oh, well, I had one, and then I had one here. I said, No, you haven't had in any. I said, No, ma'am, you have not had any here, and that's when you walked around the corner.
SPEAKER_01:Because we had never seen this girl before, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And sure enough, uh, she starts ranting and right, but what do you mean I can't have a drink? And that's exactly why you can't have a drink. And I said, ma'am, at this point, you're just gonna have to go. And uh, she's like, Well, this would never happen in Louisiana. I said, Well, you know, I you know, got welcome to federal property. Bless your heart. She went on her merry way, and I do believe you said you saw her when you were coming back from the bathroom. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:The other wine mark at the wine mark. Yeah, no, yeah. I was like, poor guy.
SPEAKER_02:Sorry, man. Yeah. Um, good luck getting on your plane, lady.
SPEAKER_01:But again, you know, those Louisiana flights, they're probably those poor flight attendants. God, God love them. Shout out to the flight attendants.
SPEAKER_02:And then uh, so this last Monday I was working with AT, and uh we had this guy. Well, we had this lady come in, and uh I believe her, for lack of a better term, I believe her name was Crystal. I remember the guy's name. She comes in and she's, you know, boo-hooing at the bar saying how she uh is coming back from her flight from Louisiana, flying somewhere to I think uh Arkansas, if I'm not mistaken. And uh she gets to Louisiana and she explains to AT and I that she gets to Louisiana and that uh some lady comes by the house and she realizes that her boyfriend is not, you know, faithful, and that um it's time for her to go ahead and just turn around and get back on the plane. Go home. And she's kind of, you know, she's upset at the bar, but she's being cool. Whatever. I think she's drinking a glass of wine. And this guy comes in, comes in, and he's cool, whatever, at the moment.
SPEAKER_01:I always tend to start crazy.
SPEAKER_02:Comes in, a lot of cash in his wallet, but a hundred dollar bill in his hand, throws a hundred dollar bill on the bar, sits down, and I said, Hey man, what's going on? What can I get started for you? He goes, He said, see that right there? That's you. I said, Okay, he goes, I know you. I said, Okay, uh, refresh my memory. What's your name? He goes, Shane. I said, Okay, Shane. Cool, welcome back, Shane.
SPEAKER_01:I said, you know, and welcome, welcome Benjamin Franklin back to you I said, Shane, let's get you what you need.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I said, what can we get for you? And he's like, let me get a glass of Joel Gott. I said, okay, perfect. Grab you a minion. No, I'm good right now. Okay. Perfect. Get him a Joel Gott. He's sitting next to her, drinks a glass. You know, he's there probably a good 45 minutes, drinks that glass. He's sipping on it slowly. He's being cool. We're doing the name game. He's getting involved, you know. Glass of wine number two. He goes to the bathroom, whatever, comes back. He's a little cockeyed. Right?
SPEAKER_00:Like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And then I just poured him glass number two. I'm like, okay. He's starting to get a little loud. Then he starts being weird to the lady next to him, saying some very vulgar things that probably shouldn't repeat on the podcast.
SPEAKER_01:And that's when we have to get involved. He's like, start bothering other people, especially young ladies.
SPEAKER_02:Basically, without being vulgar, he's like, we're gonna go smash in the family bathroom. That's what he keeps saying to her. And um I'm like, dude, hey, Shane, come on, man. It's all good. I was like, let's just chill. And he chills out for a little bit, anyways, and he's kind of quiet. He gets up and leaves again. That's when he comes back and he's just on one, right? I'm like, Shane, let's go ahead and get you done for the day. And uh he's like, all right, I'm done. He's like, I already gave you money, whatever, and walks out. Okay, so we take the hundred, cover the towel. So that's fine. All right, cool. He only had two glasses of wine, it was like 30 bucks. Whoopti-boo-boo. All right, cool. And the lady I have a feeling it's not over. Then the lady finishes her wine and goes to the gate. Um he's down at the gate, sits down next to her, starts uh saying the same thing to her. Hey, come on, let's go to the family bathroom. We're gonna smash. Let's do this.
SPEAKER_01:What a pickup one.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it just, and he's not, yeah, he's just being super vulgar about it.
SPEAKER_01:He just and he just has to be like, he's dropping out bombs right now.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. And so uh she gets up and goes to the gate agent and goes, put me on the next flight. This dude is on one. And she goes, absolutely, I'll get you on the next flight. Comes back to the bar, and evidently they called the police on him. And uh she comes back to the wall bar and explains what he's you know, what's transpired. And we didn't know that she had nobody, she didn't know they called the police, I guess. Yeah, she just wanted to get away. Yeah, she just wanted to get on the next flight. I need to not be at the gate. She thought he would get on that one and she would get on the next one, and everything would be cool. And the next one was only like an hour later, 45 minutes, an hour later.
SPEAKER_01:I'll go back to a safe space.
SPEAKER_02:So many flights to like northwest Arkansas. Yeah. And so, um, anyways, she's drinking her glass of wine. We're sitting there, ten minutes later, police are hauling him off in freaking handcuffs. I was like, bye-bye, Shay.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure when she left, she probably found somebody else to bother.
SPEAKER_02:Dude, he was just like, but just two glasses of wine. Yeah. Two glasses of wine. And then obviously, like they always talk about there was medication, something going on there because it transpires quickly once you put that alcohol in your system. And like, man, if that second glass is already poured, you're like, God dang it, man. Well, if you gotta go to the restroom twice in between two glasses of wine, there's probably something else going on. Yeah, exactly. So I don't know, man. Um there was that. That was interesting, guys. You do not want to go to jail at the airport.
SPEAKER_01:You do not want to be on. I know we say this a lot. You do not want to go to jail at the airport.
SPEAKER_02:You don't want to be on our podcast. Not from that vantage point. Um, yeah. So there's that. Um, so uh we had a special shout out last week to my beautiful girlfriend Courtney up in Seattle. Um and she wanted me to convey to you and to everybody on the podcast that uh Blake is the most eligible bachelor in the airport uh as of recent, and uh that she did set you up a new grinder, excuse me, I mean new Tinder account.
SPEAKER_01:Fantastic.
SPEAKER_02:Um and that she is managing it for you. She's sweating right a lot at now. Yes. Um she's got your back. So anybody you know how to get in touch with us uh through the email, please. Um we've had some great emails come in.
SPEAKER_01:Guys, I am single, I got Pringles, and I'm ready to mingle.
SPEAKER_02:That's right. And um soon he will have a jingle.
SPEAKER_01:In the worst in his spurs. Yeah. What is what is one of the funniest lines of one of Drake's new songs? I got drinks, sex, jokes, and cash. I have oh, well, that line cracks me up. Um, well, as we mentioned earlier, Sundays are fun again. Well, weekends are fun at the bar.
SPEAKER_02:Sunday fun day.
SPEAKER_01:I'm there Saturday mornings during college football. Let's go. It's freaking back. Sunday. NFL football's back all day. We come in at 2 o'clock and it's just it's going all day, man. Uh I'm excited about football, period. I'm a lot more excited about uh college football because we know the Cowboys who barely beat the Giants this week. Uh a team that had nine penalties in the first half. I believe they had one penalty in the first half where they had four flags thrown on them. Fantastic. Yet we still let them hang around uh at home. Great home opener. But hey, Cowboys won, you know. Shout out to Brandon Aubrey. Yeah. I know there's probably not a lot of Cowboys fans listening here, but um, you know special teams is everything. That's it. Um big shout out to my Oklahoma Sooners.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, as Boomer, Boomer, Boomer, my million spells. Matear is the real deal, friends.
SPEAKER_01:Um Johnny Paycheck, as we call him around here. Uh, big game this weekend. I know we've got a lot of people from Alabama that fly through. Yes, and um, and Chris is in the family of the War Game Eagles.
SPEAKER_02:My my grandfather actually played uh, well, he was a bit of a basketball star, but had a falling out and didn't play like his junior and senior year basketball, but also played offense and defense for a little school in Alabama that they sent all the uh naval cadets to after uh World War II that wanted to go to college. So he went to a little school in Alabama called API, Alabama Polytechnical Institute. Um he graduated in 1947, they changed the name to Auburn in 1957, War Eagle, uh rest in peace, Richard O'Kane. Richard O'Kane, shout out what a guy. Yeah, what a stud.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely, yeah, what a stud.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, um, you know, and obviously athletics don't run in my branch of the tree because that was my adoptive grandfather. Uh, you know, again, rest in peace. Uh, but an amazing man nonetheless. And uh we he so he resided in Stillwater, Oklahoma. As you know, I'm from Oklahoma City originally, and um well, but I grew up here. Um, my parents moved to Texas when I was like two months old. But back and forth, mom and dad were divorced, Oklahoma City and Dallas all my life, and or Fort Worth, excuse me, prop Fort Worth proper.
SPEAKER_01:Um Fort TC or the Sooners, you're the Sooners.
SPEAKER_02:I had a half-brother with his mom that lived very close to my mom in Oklahoma City, and my sister up in Oklahoma City. I would go visit my brother all the time, and the first time uh I was there visiting my mom and my sister for Christmas um what in 1985, as a matter of fact. Uh, and my brother uh lived not too far away, and I was visiting my brother uh for New Year's. It was like New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and uh, you know, right across the street from where his mother lived was his grandfather's, or we went to his grandfather's house and they were watching the national championship Oklahoma versus Penn State in the national championship uh around New Year's time, and it was just a bunch of Sooner fans, obviously crowded around you know, TV back then. And um, I watched the Sooners probably not for the first time in my life, but really just as a little kid. I was like, first time you're really eight years old. Eight years old. You know, you do what my nine-year-old does right now and follow Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. But I was from Oklahoma originally, I had a lot of ties to Oklahoma, and I've always grown up a Sooners fan. I actually lived on campus for a while, enrolled in school, but I was on academic probation and had to wait, and then I didn't end up going to school and just dick around, but like a lot of college kids do. And yeah, you know, look at me now.
SPEAKER_01:Here we go, baby. Spread your wings. Yeah, uh so I grew up in Norman. I don't, I'm sure I probably said I grew up in Norman, Oklahoma. Yeah. From two years old after being born in uh spent a lot of time. And I did live back in Oklahoma for a while. But going after being born in Florence, South Carolina. And we had to get back to uh Oklahoma after my brother was smarter than his uh second grade teacher. And then the real catalyst was going into the town hall and seeing the KKK collecting money and hoods on the corner. My dad was like, we should probably get back to Oklahoma, we should probably get out of here. Yeah. Anyways, so we moved to Norman, grew up in Norman. Love it, you know, grew up as a Cowboys fan. Yeah. Boo-hoo. I know. We suck. I'm logical about it. It's fine.
SPEAKER_02:I think you mentioned that your dad was a Big 12 official as well.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, my dad was uh well, yeah, Big 12 official for baseball. I went to a lot of baseball games. Yeah, he did the College World Series in 05, freaking awesome. Gotta meet Drew Brees, a ton of people, you know. Everybody goes to that. Omaha, Nebraska. I'm not sure there's a lot much other excitement going on there, but at least for the College World Series, man, it's a tradition. It's freaking awesome. Just a million baseball games, just yeah, everybody's excited, all the schools there.
SPEAKER_02:I've been to a national championship in football for Oklahoma, uh, Oklahoma USC uh 2004 before Texas won the year before Texas won the championship. The only national championship that is actually stricken from the record books. Yep. And which Auburn went undefeated that year and did not get a piece of the national title. Yep. Cam Newton, Gene Chiswick dominated. Uh and I do I don't believe they have given that title back to USC. Uh they gave the trophy, the Heisman, back to Reggie, but I don't know. I was watching, uh I want to say I was watching But they beat our ass 53 to 19.
SPEAKER_01:One of the SEC ESPN morning shows, and they had Gene Chiswick on, who was the coach of that team. And it one of the things was hey, I think what was that, 2010 or something? I don't know. It said uh 2010 BCS champion. So I know they at least No, they did win that year. That with Cam Newton, they did win that year, Auburn did. Oh, okay. That was later. Yeah, that was a lot later. I don't think that was the same one, but yeah, they did win that year.
SPEAKER_02:But uh who was the I wonder who the quarterback was that year. Anyways.
SPEAKER_01:I know it was at least Cameroon moons ago, over two decades ago. But yeah, so I'm a huge center fan, obviously. And uh Boomer. That's the SEC, probably college football game of the week this weekend. Auburn, you know, Jackson Arnold, OU's quarterback. Uh I do believe Matthew. Or so running back.
SPEAKER_02:I do believe Mateo was the SEC player of the week last week.
SPEAKER_01:I can't remember. I know Tori Blaylock with 100 was the SEC freshman of the week. We finally have a run game. But uh, anyways, really excited about that game this weekend. I know we've got a lot of SEC fans. I always see all my Arkansas peeps excited, all my Ole Miss peeps excited. Yeah, we've got a lot of Spain. We got a lot of LSU this year.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, they have. LSU fans are about.
SPEAKER_01:A ton of LSU fans. I've been kicking it with a bunch of them on Saturdays, man. I'm just so excited that I don't have to put cornhole on on Saturdays anymore, man.
SPEAKER_02:I tell you, the uh Big 12 fans are quiet too. Uh you know, we do get a little baler. Yeah. Uh what else do we get as far as Big 12? A little Oklahoma State. We do have the Stillwater.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but they're quiet right now.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they are. But they were talking about terrible. They were talking about that with the portal action going on now. If Boone Pickens was alive, Oklahoma State would be a solid football team.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, what did they lose to Oregon? Like 68 to nothing? Yeah, I know. They are they don't they can't pay their players evidently. They had their well, they can't coach them either. I think it's uh That's not fair.
SPEAKER_02:All my family, shout out. I love it. All my family lives in still weather, but it's fair.
SPEAKER_01:I have no love or empathy for their uh I don't hate them or anything, you know. We always rivalry, but the literature is not very good right now.
SPEAKER_02:And I do believe we have that rivalry renewed here in a couple years.
SPEAKER_01:I hope so. I do I do like having the LSU game uh during Thanksgiving. Uh now that's the game that we have, which they're coming to us this year, so that'll be fun. Hopefully, we're still playing well.
SPEAKER_02:We just, you know, injuries injuries got us last year. Let's just knock on wood. Don't even say that. What are you doing? You just shut your mouth.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I anyways, big test this week. We're gonna beat Michigan. Sorry, all my Michigan peeps that I saw this last week. You know, I think you guys are a good team. It's just gonna take a minute to get it going. But uh, anyways, I don't know that everybody's a sports fan here, but we had to we had to give a shout out to our sooners, all of our SEC peeps, because we we fly all those flights in our terminal. I know everybody's excited. I am.
SPEAKER_02:I did want to ask you. So we do play Auburn this weekend, and then the following weekend. Kent State. At home. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Uh just another why the why the conference game then the non-conference.
SPEAKER_01:They do that in SEC all the time. Oh, okay. That's what they do in SEC all the time. All right. I just found that interesting. Uh because I mean, again, there were SEC, there were SEC teams that played in the first week. And then they go back to their past like Alabama played Florida State. They had a big game the first week, and then they had a smaller game the next week. That kind of happens in the first quarter of the season in SEC. You'll see a lot of that going on. Um, and then we have Texas and then all SEC Gauntlet after that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:We uh have the what, the toughest or second toughest.
SPEAKER_01:The toughest for the second year. Yeah, at least as the way it looks right now with the ranking. We'll see how these teams go. Everything will pan out in the end. But yeah, we have the gauntlet in the SEC because we play Aubur. We already played Michigan, which wasn't SEC, but that was a big game. We play Tennessee at Tennessee. We play Ole Miss at home. Obviously, Texas. We play LSU at home. We play Texas in the greatest game in college sports. Really the greatest game in sports.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, you're in the middle of the freaking Michigan, Ohio State fans would beg to differ, but I wouldn't.
SPEAKER_01:Again, there's nothing. I mean, you're in the middle of the state fair. Right in the fairs, wheel.
SPEAKER_02:And I love that it's neutral field. Getting a corndog. I would love to go to Florida, Georgia game. Yes. On neutral field as well. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:There's a lot of those in the SEC that play like that, and it's awesome, man. Anyways, uh we'll get there. We'll get there. We're excited. We'll see, we'll see where we are after next week. I think our team will show up again. We did what we had to do in a weird game this weekend at the Eagles Stadium against Temple. That's a that's a garbage game as far as like atmosphere and stuff.
SPEAKER_02:Venable's defenses get better as the season goes on. Every single time. I have a lot of faith in that guy.
SPEAKER_01:Again, just have an average offense.
SPEAKER_02:It's so intense, man. I love it.
SPEAKER_01:And Johnny's leading the Heisman race right now. So uh, anyways, I love it. We'll see how it keeps going. A lot of football left to be played. Absolutely. A lot of SATC teams fighting for it. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02:We're almost to hockey and basketball season.
SPEAKER_01:I'm ready for basketball.
SPEAKER_02:Baseball's wrapping up.
SPEAKER_01:I am going to see the Thunder play at the Mavs in the Coca-Cola suite. Let's go, baby. I'm excited. Shout out to our Coca-Cola rep.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, well, and you know, if you have an extra ticket, you let me know good.
SPEAKER_01:I I barely got mine. I just, you know, I just squeezed in and I get a guy say, hey, guess what? Let's go. That's my favorite team. Let's go. So uh, and Dirk is back speaking with the Mavs and he met Cooper flag for the first time this last week, so that was cool.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I elaborate on that.
SPEAKER_01:I wasn't uh aware what well Dirk kind of separated himself after the Luca rate, as a lot of people did, because like what the hell? Because what the hell I mean, anyways, I don't I don't even want to think about it anymore. Me neither. I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from that dream and Luca's on the mats again. It's just not happening. No, never. Uh but he's still my favorite player in the NBA. I love Luca. I mean what's not the love, man? He's just I mean, he's a he's just a big kid playing, playing basketball. He always gives back, he's still giving back to the city of Dallas. He still has a home here. I mean, yeah. Great person, even better basketball player, just fun to watch. Yeah. Um we'll get out, we'll get off our sports soapbox for all you people who are tuned in for this.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, I okay. Well, then I we will segue into this, Blake. Uh here come some shots fired from me to you. Um, I want to know. So I worked with Bailey yesterday. And yeah, I'm naming names. Um so last last week uh I was working with Bailey. Last week was fun.
SPEAKER_01:First of all, man, I have had great shifts all last week. First of all, everything in the bar is broken. To give you an idea, so we have two point of sale machines in the bar. Yes. One of them has been broken for about a year. That's definitely a POS, yeah. Yeah. One of them has been broken for a year, so we only have one, which is annoying when two people are trying to do things. You know, it's just hard to do. Um, and so one of those is broken. The one that does work, the chip reader doesn't work, the slider doesn't work, only tap to pay on it works. So that's that's a whole obstacle. But we get over, we know how to deal with that. Yes, we can handle that. That's the worst thing that happens. We saw the cold beer class glass cooler is broken. It's been broken for about two months now. The bottled beer and wine cooler was broken for about a month. So again, all these things that you need to do your job to sell bottled beers, to sell wine.
SPEAKER_02:Coca-Cola uh uh soda gun holster.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So like you have to go on and on and on and on.
SPEAKER_01:You have a soda gun on the well, okay, which you need because we sell a lot of mixed drinks that aren't margaritas. Just, I mean, just a simple jack and coke or a Cheetos and soda. You need the Coke gun to do that. Gotta have the ice. Now we have a new Coke gun, but our maintenance guy, or whatever you want to call him, the guy that comes in and fixes things, he's supposed to install. Now, this Coke gun was installed maybe six to eight months ago. They've never installed the actual host holster that you put it in, so the gun doesn't hang down in the ice, doesn't hang down on the floor, something to put it in so it has a place to stay for health code and just for ease of use and other things. It needs the holster. We haven't had that, so that's annoying too.
SPEAKER_02:It slaps around and it breaks all the little keys on the soda gun.
SPEAKER_01:And then you just have to know by muscle memory which button is which, which I do, and that's it.
SPEAKER_02:Or the buttons fall out, and then Coca-Cola has to come out, and you just have nothing but bottled sodas.
SPEAKER_01:And then there was a day where the where the soda gun wasn't working at all either. That was fun on Labor Day when I worked by myself. I didn't have a beer cooler, I didn't have a glass cooler, I didn't have a soda gun, and I sold like four thousand.
SPEAKER_02:I want you I want you to explain to our listeners what the best part of all this was last week.
SPEAKER_01:And so then, all that being said, then you know, in the airport, we share pipes and drains and vents with everybody. Because we're all in this huge place. We're all in the same Together that's bigger than the island of Manhattan. We're all sharing all that stuff. And so, anyways, we're working on Thursday. It's busy, but it's fine in the morning. Uh, and all of a sudden, all of the drains at once, we're not running water or anything, we're not running the dishwasher. All three of like the main drains that water runs down from sinks and stuff, they all just randomly fill up with water and start overflowing. And then also one drain in the middle, which is literally just an exit drain, which nothing should ever be coming out of, only things should be going into it. That started bubbling up as well. So we had a flood in the middle of our lunch rush at probably 11:30. We have a full bar, we have two high tops that are full.
SPEAKER_02:What do you know about water displacement, Indiana Jones?
SPEAKER_01:Uh, it wasn't happening, that's what I know. And there's nowhere to push all this water that's now flowing out of the bar under the guest seats, all over, but there's nowhere to put it because all the drains are full from who knows what. Yeah, you couldn't squeeze it. No, so luckily, shout out to our manager, he got the the maintenance guys and the the guys that deal with the pipes and the plumbing and all that stuff. They came within 15 minutes. Now, again, we had to figure out what to do with this water in the meat.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, this all transpired over several hours, though.
SPEAKER_01:So this started, so they were there by noon, okay, and they have to put a big snake down the drain, which the drain that they're working on is right in front of our only well where we make drinks. Literally at the foot of it. So you can't even get to the well, you can't get to the bottles, you can't get to the ice, you can't get to the soda gun, the beer cooler's already broken, the wine cooler's broken, the glass cooler's broken, so literally we can't do anything, and we have a full bottle.
SPEAKER_02:Stepping over these two, what I would say, at least 200 pound men.
SPEAKER_01:And the bar is about four feet wide. Yeah. And there's four of us back there. Scoozie. It's hard enough with two people, but when you work with some, you know how to move around them and do all this. Yeah. Again, all the muscle memory is gone, all your ability to do anything's gone. So they get there at noon.
SPEAKER_02:You have to reach over these two guys that are kneeling on the ground to get over to the ice wall to get a scoop of ice, glasses, the soda guns, all the liquor to make any do anything. From four feet from the well. And I come in at two o'clock. They're still there. And it's shit show.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they're still there because we can't do anything. And we've had a full bar for two hours. We're just like working around it, doing the best we can.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so yeah, it was it sucked. And then you guys leave. Okay. This is where I want to explain something. So you guys leave. We're doing our thing. It's probably what about 4 30 in the afternoon. They've been there for six hours now.
SPEAKER_01:They've been there for six hours now working on this.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Um, and so they they periodically leave for like 15 minutes and then come back because they're going underneath downstairs to look at the drainage and the pipes downstairs and see exactly where the buildup is.
SPEAKER_01:Because clearly it's the pipe below us.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So, like I said, it's probably around 4:35. Uh, we're popping. We're popping.
SPEAKER_01:It's Thursday, busiest day of the week at the airport.
SPEAKER_02:The at this moment, the dudes aren't there. Those guys aren't there.
SPEAKER_01:But they've left the snake there, I assume.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, oh yeah. And the drains are open, blah, blah, blah. I'm making a drink for one of the guests out in the restaurant. Uh, Bailey's behind me pouring a beer. So, and I do, uh, you know, I'm shenanigans trained, I'm yeah, old school. I throw glasses around every once in a blue moon, and I'm scorned for being a jackass, but I rarely, rarely, ever break one from flipping them. I break glasses all the time, but not from flipping them around.
SPEAKER_01:Now, I have worked two shifts with you where you have broken ice in the well. Over the last 10 years, I think that's a pretty good record. But it's always when there's a line out the door and we've got 30 people yelling at you.
SPEAKER_02:And it happens at the the most worst times. That's the only way it can happen, as far as so to set the record straight on this particular F and one, um, so I'm making uh I'm making a Blake special, as a matter of fact, with salt on it. And so I'm pouring it up. When I go to grab the Herdura Reposado to pour it in the tin, I'm pouring it, one, two, three, four, five, six. Boom, I go to slam it back down on the well. Bailey comes up underneath me with a big large beer underneath the ice. Boom, I I crack his beer as I'm coming over to set the freaking bottle of her dura down, which does nothing to the bottle of her dura, which is fool, but shatters this thin ass, tall beer glass all in the ice well at the most pivotal point, which you told me on Sunday that Bailey said that I was flipping bottles around. I was not the survivor. I I I confronted Bailey about that.
SPEAKER_01:And that's the Chris Brown that I know.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, well, normally, yes, this particular instance, I did not flip a bottle. That was I I will take incidental contact for me, aka not paying attention. I was in the well making a drink. He came up underneath me almost. Um it was it was clearly an accident, and I apologize.
SPEAKER_01:But moving forward, Chris is also notorious for not hearing the chatter that you say behind him, though, too. Exactly. Behind the zone, yes. Yes. There's many times where Chris is walking backwards doing the name game, and I have to give him a forearm shiver because I'm like behind, behind, and I know you don't hear me, so I just think.
SPEAKER_02:AT and Bailey will just like kind of brace themselves and push me at the time.
SPEAKER_01:I have to, because I know I'm gonna get stepped on.
SPEAKER_02:I know it's yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And it's probably gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me if you fall backwards, walking backwards. So I always like try and embrace you, like, hey.
SPEAKER_02:Anyways, much love for my guy Bailey, one of the one of the better people on this planet, man. Um Bailey. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I broke ice or broke glass of a well.
SPEAKER_01:Well, the worst part of it is too, it was you can't use the drain, so you can't burn the well.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah. Those guys are there, and we have two buckets, blue buckets of ice that we're you know, we got an ice scoop and we're just getting after it. And this, oh dude, and uh we're no no no. So what I do is I I do I start dumping hot water down.
SPEAKER_01:You can't because we can't use the drains. Okay, well, they start backing up. Um because we can't use the water.
SPEAKER_02:Well, the drainage just for the record, they were clear at the time. I start dumping water, but the biggest immediately come upstairs. No, no, no, no, blah, blah, blah. We have the drain open. You're getting water all over us, you can't use the drains. It's like, okay, my bad. So then they go back down and we just dump another one more hot bucket down there before they get down there on the elevator, and so we're good. And so then we get the ice cleaned out. I mean the glass cleaned out of the ice well, we clean the ice well up, get going again, and it was just a shit show.
SPEAKER_01:Uh it's always intense again. The odds are stacked against it.
SPEAKER_02:It's always intense when that happens at just the worst time when it's just busy as dog piss.
SPEAKER_01:So and you're already jumping over eight other hurdles just to be able to work, and then those two guys come back, bro.
SPEAKER_02:They come back and they're kneeling on the floor again, and you're just trying to literally hurdle them.
SPEAKER_01:There's literally nowhere for you to go because they're taking up the whole four feet because they're both on their knees on the ground messing with the drain. Oh, you know, always. It's fun. Um, so we just know, especially when we're giving you great service, just know all the hurdles that we have to jump over just to be able to do that. And we will do it every time because we love you guys. Exactly. As I always say, you guys are our bosses, you pay our bills because they don't pay us a dollar to be there.
SPEAKER_02:It just so happens, you know, we're both a little athletic and agile, and you know, I'm not in my youth anymore, but I still get around.
SPEAKER_01:I am, but that's okay. Yeah. You know, I'm so fast that I make guys that are fast look not fast. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I handle business. So moving right along, um you also wanted to wanted to go ahead and wrap things up. Uh I think we you we've been long-winded enough for this episode, Blake. Yeah, um we have more content for later. Um all right, guys. So thanks for tuning into this one. Um, I'm glad we got to follow up on holy moly, and um, I got the second the record straight with Bailey and Blake. Um, I will be better about breaking shit.
SPEAKER_01:I was just giggling through the whole thing because I'm just imagining it in my head as I hear it, and I'm just like, I know Thursday night is never slow, just like Thursday morning is never slow.
SPEAKER_02:And we had like delays this particular. It was just it was nuts. It was nuts. There's just always a lot going on.
SPEAKER_01:There's again, never a dull day.
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SPEAKER_02:Hey, thanks a lot, guys. And uh look for oh, real quick, um, we do have a guest, and I am gonna call him out by name. Joe Luna is coming up uh real quick, an old friend of mine, and I wanted to go ahead and put his name out there on this episode because I'm gonna make him listen to it and call his ass out. We should have him on the next episode or two.
SPEAKER_01:Clocks ticking, Joe.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no. He uh I look forward to hearing from that guy this week. So, guys, thanks again for tuning in, and we'll be back with you soon.
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