Tales From An Airport Bar
Tales From An Airport Bar
Ep 21: Fun With Dick And Jane
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Welcome back, boys and girls. Tales from an airport bar, episode 21.
SPEAKER_03:21, can you do something for me?
SPEAKER_01:Um, as always, I'm Christopher, and I have uh my amazing man of a co-host, Block A, aka Blake.
SPEAKER_00:21, 21, 21.
SPEAKER_01:Let's do this. And um I don't even remember 21.
unknown:Shh.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, no one does. But it's because of fireball, like we talk about at the bar all the time. Um, and I'm gonna go ahead, guys. Uh, we have an amazing guest this week for you. Um, my good friend, and got me through my divorce. Um if you don't remember, uh, this is uh our guest of the week, Dick Ritchie. Um, welcome to the show, buddy. Hello. Um, thank you so much for coming on this week. Um I want to start off by uh asking you where did you start and um why did you start out at the airport? All right, well, uh my name is Richie, and I'll be your nihilistic missing throat bartender for this evening. Yes, we are coming to you live from um his place of null adult supervision land. My good friend Liz and her brother Josh worked at IFH Mondays, you know? Yeah, and there's a lot of those in the airport. Yes, we all have I started out at Bravo. I started on the way. Yes, I remember. Uh it was almost like uh the name of our show, TF. So right when I get there, right? Us this is these are very humble beginnings. I'm starting off as a bus boy, right? Yeah, yeah, not a lot of people start out as a bus boy. I think they all should. Some people go straight to serving and yeah, don't know how to do it. You don't see it all, yeah. Yeah. All right, so uh I get there. Cool. Airport's a bit confusing place, you know. Uh I get there and I'm maybe there about a month or so, and my boss tells me, hey, uh, we're doing away with busers, so you got about two weeks to look for another job. And I'm like, fuck. Fuck me, right? Right on. I just got here. You know how hard it was to get in here? Oh, also on my first day, and you all know Bernie Bernadette, right? We both got hurt on it the same day. Uh oddly enough. Super cool trick. Uh, and uh, so uh I'm like, and then he comes back and he's like, oh, well, we're gonna send you to C30. And do any of you know about dirty C30? Uh Dirty 30, yes. Yes, I hadn't been there. That's where you get your wings at the airport. That is the belly of the beast of the airport. Yeah, I'm aware. It probably still is if it's yeah. I used to date a young lady that bartended there uh many, many, many moons ago. So, yeah, I was a bus boy there, right? And I'm gonna be making better money too, because it's way busier. Yeah, like cool. More sales to get, yeah. So uh we had this crappy server. We'll call him Eric. I don't remember his last name. He wore glasses, tall skinny dude. He never bothered me, but he was a shitty server that were out there. Anyway, uh he was so bad. Uh he wasn't bald, was he? No. Okay, he was younger. Uh different shit. And I didn't see him uh much later after this incident. And so uh there was his family, right? Uh nice looking, you know, well-to-do family flying through the airport. And uh upper middle class. Yeah, and uh uh they left something on the table when they left. They left a dirty diaper on the table. Oh, I thought maybe they left their cell phone. No, this is before all, you know, the yeah, they left a fucking diaper on the table. I'm like, wow, this is my intro to the airport, uh you know and I had to do away with it because I was the bus volume. Yeah, not the shitty server that pissed him off, me, you know. Yeah, it ended up making it pressure. So for for a good while, for a good while, I wore one glove, you know, like I was Michael. Exactly, like I was, you know, of the bus boys, you know, Michael Jackson, you know. And uh for a long time, uh I was a bus boy, and and I was got tired of it eventually, and I got into to-go learning the POS system again, you know, ground up homo beginnings, piece of shit. Yeah, before you go into serving and all that. And man, that to-go line was insane, never-ending, non-stop line of people that just not stop, not made good fucking money too. Back in uh military check days, yeah, they would just get a sandwich and something else and rest of money. Uh well, your uh yes, the military features that would come through. And they didn't care where it went, and they were like, Yeah, how about it? And I'm like, fuck yeah. I can't spend an hour time, I'm just trying to get all the time. Yeah, I was making pretty good money. And then uh they pissed me off, you know. They uh I did about two years there with the IFH Mondays, you know. Yes. And uh shenanigans. One really cool memory though was when all the IFH Mondays uh terminals they'd uh get together here and there, different terminals, different people. They have big fucking parties. One big hell's party. I'm sure there's a lot of people there, but uh and if they hear this, they'll probably remember the party and what happened. Uh I roll this fucking about a two-paper joint, right? Okay. It was okay, buff. About a two more paper joint. It was about yeah, about that thick. It burned for about half an hour or more.
SPEAKER_03:It went around to me like about five or six times, and everybody's like, Wow, it's still going, it's amazing, it won't stop. It just kept going around.
SPEAKER_01:It was epic, dude. It was like some getting this marvelous science. And I know there's people out there. And medicine, yeah, that still remember that. Good times at those parties with all those people, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had a lot of people that I still uh you know, um, and they're still there, a lot of those people. How how many airport gigs have you had? Because I I also want to welcome you. I've had a lot. I wanted to welcome you back to the DFW. Right. Uh you just moved back. Yeah. Um thank you, Jesus. Um it's great to have you back in the DFW, sir. Um you know, uh you've left Austin, which I don't get that. Los Angeles. Austin thing. No, what? It's you're gonna have to elaborate. Yeah. I've never had a bad time in Austin, but I've been never lived. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying it's more away than it is Austin nowadays. Oh, well, yeah. You know, or a good percentage of it. Everybody's gotta keep up with the Joneses.
SPEAKER_02:Hi, man, it's cheap to live down here. Let's fuck up the house market and move to Austin.
SPEAKER_03:Five hundred dollar crap shacks you go for a million dollars, man.
SPEAKER_01:Well, yeah, it's all sorts of everybody's got a lipstick. It's not the same. Yeah, one of Oklahoma. Let's go populate Oklahoma. I you know, I from Oklahoma originally, sir. Um I'm not going back. Um, so I left there, and uh I did construction for about five or six months, and I said, Fuck this, I want to go back to the service industry, and that's when I came to the Irish place and met you. Oh, yes, the Irishman. Yes, the Tajin. Funny story about that place. I lied my way to get in. Uh yeah, I've been a server before. Oh, definitely, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It pretty much is a monkey see monkey do operation, bro. Yes, dude, as the others do. Yeah, you know, I'll figure it out. And Javier, he was my trainer. And uh love Javier, dude. Yes, yes. He's man. And I told him straight up, like when he right before he trained me, I was like, hey bro, look, I'm gonna level with you. I'll have my way to get in here. I've never done this before. Cool? It's like, yeah, cool. And we were harming it. We'll figure it out. And we've been harming this ever since then. Um you had some really, really good times at that Irish pub. Several. Too many. I was dude, I was bad. Give me some of the give me some of the good stuff. Give me some of the give me some of the juicy juice. Well, I mean, we're well, it's the time. I know you could. When you party that hard, the time alarm becomes a blur. I think you can give me some hilariousness about um there'd be days where I'd be at home, you'd jerk a Red Bull, smoke a bowl, fucking eat a painkiller, go to work, taste the beer, you know. You know, you worked with Ranger. You worked with some great bartenders, uh Jimmy and Josh. Uh, above all, Jimmy Shepard. Yes, rest in peace. He was the man, dude. We have he was my roommate twice. Yeah, I was my I loved him and looked up to him like he was my own father. We talked about him on an episode with Justin. Yeah. The episode Justin time. I will totally mention that, dude. He's the man.
SPEAKER_00:He's more interesting than the the Dosecis man ever was.
SPEAKER_01:He's that man. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00:Bro, he got away with hitting a dude in the fucking airport.
SPEAKER_01:What year was this? I don't know. I wasn't there. I heard about it. Uh uh. Yeah, I do. I've heard this. Ask somebody else to come on your show and bring it up. I'm going to. There's somebody out there that's a person that was there, they can bring that story up. But like the police agreed that guy needed to punch him. Oh, yeah. From my understanding, the dude hit his wife, and Jamie hit that dude. I could be like, Yeah, you're good. Jamie's that dude. He's a he was a class act. Yeah. You know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But there's a line. Yeah, dude. Uh God bless him. Uh yeah. Uh I miss him like crazy. And he was so fun to work with. Oh my god. I wanted to be like him. He was hilarious. I made, I modeled my service styles after that dude for sure.
SPEAKER_00:It's an art form. When you can talk shit to people, maybe help you for it, jerk them around.
SPEAKER_01:Like, I know a guy like that. Yeah. Usually the best difference. When you can jerk people around and treat them like shit and make you make them love you for it. Yeah, it's an art form. Um I I know uh a great story about how you exited the Irish pub. Um you want to elaborate on this one? No, I don't want to steal your thunder here. No, I'll avoid you. So I'm managing one night, uh-huh, and uh John is uh John team, who we've had on the show. Um he is actually the one that had to come to you and bring down the chopping. But so I'm managing the restaurant one night. And what does Richie do? We have uh, I believe it was a secret shopper sitting at a table right next to the soulless secret shopper. Okay, but nonetheless, uh nonetheless. You have to have no soul to be a secret shopper, honestly. You know, somebody's gotta do it. So always on my ship, they gotta do it, yeah. Oh, yeah. At my table, and yeah, just behave yourself, Richard. Um so this is gonna make you laugh. Look so uh the where the table's at, their back is facing to the bathroom across the hall.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:And the we have these big, huge double doors to the pub wide open, and they're sitting right on the edge of those with the with windows behind them. You can see out into the terminal. Okay. And so Richie's coming around the corner in front of that particular table. Excuse me, sir, where's the bathroom? He does not say a word, he just goes, he looks at them, gives them the freaking uh gives them the meme mug, you know, just the stank eye, and points to the bathroom, does not say one word, just goes and walks off. They write a bad review of uh because I because no words were head, and they weren't even in the screen, and they were even. And pointed to the bathroom, and that's uh that's what I remember as well.
SPEAKER_00:Because I don't remember pissing that one person off. You know how many people are pissed off, dude?
SPEAKER_01:Uh oh, not to be where pissing people off could be fun, and it is fun. Okay, so let uh I do want to talk about another incident. Hold on, hold on, hold on. There's a reason we call you Dick Ritchie, based on the Quentin Tarantino character from the Oliver Stone movie uh True Romance, which is one of my favorite movies ever. Okay. I actually had a dude that worked with me. Early 90s. Right on. So Dick Richie. Um, you've also you you mentioned you piss off a lot of people. Do you remember this one night? And I'll let you elaborate on this when uh a certain not a big celebrity, uh his nephew was a bigger celebrity, but uh when Michael Winslow came in, he was bigger than me, man. And I think he had some Popeyes or something with him, and they were like, get the fuck out of here. Yeah, I don't remember. And then you uh had to put your foot in your mouth and apologize. I did. He was cool about it. Yeah, he was super cool, super nice guy. Uh does all the That was the time you had the father-son talk with me down on the tarmat? Yeah, I've never been down there before it's like, oh, this must be pretty serious. You're taking me down. I gotta go have a cigarette. Gonna tell me about the birds of beats. He's like, you're probably on the cusp of getting fired, but what's new? Anyway, you pissed off the wrong person today, and he tells me who it is, and it's Michael Winslow, and I'm like, no, I love him. Fuck. I didn't know. Kellen Winslow Jr. was his nephew. But Michael Winslow is the guy that did all the sound effects. He's the comedian. He's the comedian. The more important guy that did all the sound effects and police academy movies. Jimi Hendrix impersonation is probably my favorite thing that he does. It's hilarious. He's great. Michael Winslow, and I um fuck that up. So he comes in with his own food. He did say he was gonna give us take us to the show and shoot, but uh I never pursued it. You never followed up. No one ever does. Um, what other celebrities have you met in the airport? Yeah, I have a list. Uh just spell some off. Good, give me some interaction. I should have brought it out. I wish you man. Uh I know you met the one kid from the Adam Sandler movies. Um Nick Storson? Yes, yes. He's awesome. He used to fucking shit. He's on the IFH Mondays YouTube video. If you've never seen that, have you ever seen that like? Oh, dude. Let that be the next thing you watch. IFH Mondays. Everybody has seen it back in the day. You've probably seen it. With uh David Spade, Nick Swords, and no, no, I missed that. I must have missed this one. Maybe I've seen it. Holy shit, dude. Yeah. Anyway, he comes in. He actually used to work in the service industry, Nick Swords. Yeah. And uh he comes through my to-go line while I'm at C30s. I think he wrote grandma's for him when he was like 17. My favorite thing he ever did was Bucky Larson. Oh, dude, that movie is it is pretty funny. You've seen it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I'm an old lady and I want soup.
SPEAKER_01:Fucking anyway. He comes through my to-go line, right? And he gets a sandwich and chips or whatever the fuck. And I'm right now, holy shit, dude. And fucking uh we get to talk and so the dude recognizes him with me and that works with me and shit. And I wish I could remember his name. He's a cool shit kid. He's younger than me, slightly. And uh, and uh he goes, he might he's like, Did anybody make you sing happy birthday today? You know, making jokes and shit. And I was like treating him like he was royalty, like, man, you need this or that. Can I eat your sandwich up? Which I don't do for anybody, you know, all that shit. And he's like, No, man, I don't need none of that fucking shit. And he gave me like ten dollars on ten and shit. He was so cool. There you go. Yeah, I wish I would have had more time to hang out with that dude. Who uh who have you waited on at the tables, man? Who have you interacted with? Has anybody been an asshole to you or anything? Oh yeah. Um, Pat Mellitech, that uh UFC dude, he fucking stiffed me a bit. Were you a jerk? No, I didn't know who he was at first, and people were coming up to him and shit. Uh I just thought it was some big badass dude that I didn't want to piss off. Yeah, like I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, stiff, I mean stiff me like he didn't completely pay for his. I think he did it accidentally, and I didn't say shit about it.
SPEAKER_01:It was like might change very little. And I was like, whatever, I'm not gonna say a fucking word. No, I'm just gonna let it slide. Oh, he doesn't want to yeah, he doesn't he doesn't want to tip me, doesn't want to pay full price. Yeah, so you get the couple cent discount. That's fine. Were you thank you for looking at what he wouldn't have dick? I just think he's just a fucking meathead, and he had too many hits to the fucking head and just didn't know any better. Or he simply just didn't give a fark or a combination. I don't know. But uh and I waited on Antonio Negero. Remember that dude? Uh uh the UFC dude. This was this was at the pub. This was at the pub. Yes, I remember. And uh Javier's wife, Marinella, recognized him. I didn't know who the fuck he was. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And and she had recognized him. I was like, you know what, girl, you can wait on him. And I let her wait on him, dude. That was so cool, dude. She was like, oh my god. And she took his orders on, and she I let her take over, you know, and have the table and shit. Were you were you at the club the time that Pantera came in? Oh well, no, no, no, I wish I would have been. One of the cool times, Devil Driver came in. That was a cool time. Uh I I didn't recognize him at first, and I saw the dude's shirt, and he had like a Randy Rhodes fucking shirt on. I was like, dude, that's a fucking badass shirt. And then it's looking at him and shit, and then uh talking to him or whatever. And I think I saw Dez wasn't the singer, and I was like, oh fuck. You guys are devil drivers. Yeah, yeah. I think Chuck was waiting on him at the time. Ah, nice. Uh well, we had uh 30 seconds to Mars coming the project.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's a good story. I'm glad you. brought that up. Oh nice.
SPEAKER_01:So uh Jared Leto and the band, right? Yeah, yeah. They're out super nice. Oh, this is a good story. Super nice. So they're out in the terminal. I took the pictures. I took the pictures. I wasn't so they're out in the terminal, right? Yeah. Sitting out in the seats and shit, right? And uh and I'm waiting and I'm the only dude with all chick serve uh servers right let's say uh what year this is by the way I can't fucking remember when I still work there this was geez nine through eleven or some yeah right and uh so I I get all the girls right and I gather I walk around and I'm like hey come here hey come here come here and I gather them all around right and I'm like got my back face to the fucking uh DOS system I got the girls all hanging out with me and shit and I'm looking at Jared letter and shit to make sure he notices me and shit from across the terminal and he looks at me and he smiles and he sees what I'm doing like I'm like hey Jared where's all you girls you know what's up and he sees what I'm doing like I'm fucking with him you know we smile and have a moment and shit it was hilarious dude it's like this guy they all came in with everybody they were awesome yeah they were really really it's like this guy is totally fucking with me right now Jimmy I do remember yeah yeah yeah we did and they came in and took pictures and it was cool as shit yeah I was like what's up Jared what are talking your fucking shit this was the international terms dude fucking with people fucking with people to know yeah I'm gonna miss the money dude it's it's been I've been average for two years were you there when uh Gavin Rosdale came in Charles Barkley Charles Barkley I've actually partied with in the WU Hotel in Dallas before okay well he came to one time and made me have breakfast with Moose and he's the best person I've ever met it was actually too loud to party with him but he was there at the party that I was at nice but yeah okay that was a funny story not airport uh were you there when we had Christopher Lloyd sitting at the bar reading the paper I would have remembered that yeah he was cool or uh the time we're from 88 no bro from the short time I was there at that club there we had a blast I was I was bad I think you were there I was like everybody had fun there I was rebellious dude I was rebellious every I was like real rebellious and then we had an upstairs we had an upstairs pizza place above it it was the thing and you had to walk up three flights of stairs to get to it or go to the other side of the terminal and take an escalator I felt bad when it came down to the firing and when John had to fire me he's like man I really hate to do this man I don't want to fire you but uh I was like bro I've got all these write-ups I'm kind of on my way out and I saw it coming dude it's cool I'm not mad at you Brighton's on the wall I'm like yeah it's cool I mean I'm like I'm not mad at you John it's all good no I love John though yeah oh John's the best John's the best we had him on a double episode actually I uh one of my favorite people I listened to this pod where I was listening to it I really knew it was good to hear his voice guy yeah yeah um what else you got for me Richie Take me down I got a lot of time in the world man you gotta jog my memory I guess here and there well I asked me questions prompting I got shenanigans yeah uh then you went from there to the pub wait oh you call that place shenanigans I call it IFH Mondays Totchkees whatever yeah and then the pub and then after the pub after the pub was uh it is Fred um same thing same saying same thing but totally different um so you went from okay so you went from that City Levins yeah to the the uh one of the top two super evils in the airport will say oh went from a big conglomerate concessions company to another one yeah one of the top two super evils in the airport will say that yeah the evil empires yes the Death Star and they love and they actually have concepts together you know 49 51% concepts with each other and you know all that one hand turks the other off or whatever they do with each other I don't know understand but yeah whatever um so you went from but I'm not talking about company I'm talking about concepts what concept did you go to I can what concept did you go to after that first one we talked about was it the Dallas Cowboy Sports bar that's no longer around that's correct bro I fucking love that place dude you want to talk about being even more of a rebel it dude I was a one man crime wave at that fucking place bro those balls to the whole wall that got remodeled I had yeah I had a bar a cocktail another cocktail and a section of tables you saw how fucking big this place was one motherfucking person me and a cook manager was never around if I had to split it if I had to split a ticket or do I could not split tickets couldn't do anything no I had to start everything out separate fucking checks tell me now if you want yep yeah and if I had to split a check I had to call them on my cell phone and have them pull it up in another fucking terminal and another fucking wait for them to do it instead of you just been able to remotely nice a nightmare dude this is nuts. So you went from Cowboys to well with them they kind of slowly phased us out and we worked at other various concepts under their you know yeah uh Empire or whatever and till they uh eventually got rid of me but um man one of the craziest nights though I was working at C24 another Dow the other Dallas Cowboys uh sports bar oh there you go but they just had hot dogs and cold shit and I don't know how I made tips off that shit dude cold pre-made food and I was like I'm getting a tips off this people like whatever there you go well you're you know most about cocktails and beer like I really just wanted to drink the hot dogs right right right this one night dude 35 plus fucking people show up at once dude and um and I knew they were all together and I just start shouting at them like look you're all gonna be on the same fucking check that's it we're I'm not we're not playing around yeah dude we're not we're not nothing you know y'all show up and mobbing me like this figure it out yeah and they were cool with it you know their boss space repair towards the end of the night you know it was it all went well you know all smoothly like by the way all you guys have an awesome boss and yeah that was a insane fucking imagine being in the airport and turn around and shoot 35 people or just yeah that's cold every day of my life right yeah but except it's 23 people it's time for takeoff yeah 35 fucking people one server you gotta get in there and get it no one else can come in I'm taking care of hell there was a time at the pub I had an accumulating fucking 19 top I was like dude it would not so I was like you went from the pub to where again the you know in the Dallas cowboys okay so from okay from that and then after those concepts and then those con the time of those concepts I was man dude I've had so many jobs it's hard to keep them all together what I what you've worked at the cantina with us yeah I uh trained I trained and opened that place from the ground up uh and then on the first day of it opening and being opened the official opening day I quit uh one of those corporate trainer motherfuckers uh just pissed me he pissed me the fuck off dude to the point where I was gonna fucking hit him dude and I had to leave yeah and it was funny because I stayed for you just hover yeah you do have to leave and I know that yes I know you know and Mandy Mandy she was like no please don't leave please don't leave like Mandy I'm gonna fuck him up dude you understand I need to leave right next to you okay okay we gotta go and old Marcus dude's like dude stay out of it I have no the way out of the airport this is the management team he's talking about yeah yeah yeah so um so I and at the time it was 2015 and if you live through 2015 it was probably a pretty bad fucking year for you if you remember no one of the best years of my life um I'm glad it worked for you not that was when I left Texas and went to go live in Las Vegas and it's a remember why it's a choice yeah I live I went to go live in New Mexico and then Las Vegas and then I was like fuck I'm coming back to Texas viva Las Vegas away from Texas for a year that was bad so how did you how did you exit the cans here? Oh that time yes I know there was three times you did that time I just yeah I just told Mandy I was like I gotta leave I'm gonna fuck this dude up and she took me back after that of course you know okay who wouldn't take you back dude I'll everybody take you back I loved her as a manager she was so like ruthless dude yeah she was when she shout out to Mandy yeah um yeah for sure um but you did want to come on and talk about um the exit your exit strategy uh for Ling and Louis the aging concept that we used to work at oh you know what uh yeah that place that was a really stressful place for a server I will say um the fucking side work bro like dude I'm not a culinary motherfucking cookass you know right on um and they had me chopping up parsley and all sorts of fucked up shit I'm like bro I'm not kitchen staff dude I don't not only that I don't want to be having a big knife that's close to my fingers that I play guitar with you don't like it TGI Fridays down there exactly dude I'm like bro I'll cut lemons and I'll make tea and shit yeah the garnishes and stuff for the drinks the food is not yeah bro I'm like this isn't no maybe you're more apple beas material I don't know Richie bro I'm gonna need 36 more pieces of flare either fucking way dude it was a little fucking much for zero dollars an hour you know uh so and you know it sucks because I liked the dude that was running the place but I don't know shit just flipped between us somehow and he was talking to me like he was my dad dude and I had had enough of it and I was on my way out anyway I was gonna I had a mother a foot in another door anyway so I take it you and your dad have a great relationship a bastard is is a bastard you know it does whatever uh I like being a bastard you know less responsibility but uh anyway so yeah and and uh I was like getting my eyes handed to me because it was a busy fucking place I had like ten damn tables and uh that's all is that all you can handle and you know and here's another thing and you might agree with me on this uh to me one of the ultimate sins in this industry is just sit somebody at a dirty table. Oh absolutely but that's the only place they want to sit anyway no no it's when the person that you're paying tipping out is too stupid and another stupid or just selfish and just keeps doing it all day long. Yes to the point where you're fed up about that you're fed up about the sidework you know that's everybody that works in a restaurant. It's you know anyway it was a little that what I'm getting at is that place got to be a little much so uh and uh I'd have my hands I'd have my hands full to be a little much coming I'd have my hands full coming through the door and I had to kick the door because it's a door you kick because in restaurants you kick doors and I went and and he yelled at me because he got startled you know I'm like Richie I'm sure and I was just like Richie did you pick the door aggressively man like I said it's a rock star kick or was it or was it a topic you worked there but you worked there before how how hard it's more like his have you worked there too before it was more like his blue belt from taekwondo kicked in well after this I want you to go there and kick the fucking door for me. It's gone RIP there more of the Asian players R.I.P. No well it's going to become a uh gone or whatever the fuck uh Chimmy Chang so so anyway anyway anyway anyway and so yeah yeah yeah all this is going on and uh he's yelling at me or some shit and I'm just cool about it you know I don't go off on back I'll just shut down I'm like all right you know what right on so I go to mall my tables I'm cashing them out making sure they pay with cards because at that place you can do your own checkout or whatever the fuck I made sure I took no cash right I go to my last table I'm like hey I need y'all to cash out with me I'm quitting my job right now can you pay me out please and they're like yeah cool and they're like that's uh okay you know and so uh that happens and shit and I'm getting all these tables set as this is happening right my section's filling up and the dumb little hostess bitch she's like eh are you gonna talk to these tables you know and I'm just like your tables no I didn't say that you know and I'm just letting it fill up you know letting the flames get higher and shit and I'm gashing out my last table and shit you know and I go run my check out do it all ninja like you know and fucking roll it up all nice and neat put it on the desk where it goes you know don't say a fucking word to nobody except Gia I love Gia and I hated to do this to her because she was there out to Gia we'd love to have you on the show Gia God I love her dude she's and I and I went up to her and I was like hey baby girl you're gonna be on a one man floor I'm sorry to do this to you know and I talked to her I talked to her before I left so let her one server in the whole restaurant yeah yeah nice well I was gonna let management and whoever else do it the fucking fire you know or whatever you know the fucking tin tables looking around like idiots you know whatever or whatever yeah or whatever happened after I left I don't fucking know it was fine and Liam was on that shift too and I didn't say a fucking word to him either. Shout out Liam he just had a birthday and he has been on the show before love that guy I I love Liam yes but uh I didn't say nothing to him because he was a management and he probably would have made a big deal about it. And he probably wouldn't have let me leave that way. So that was in the past yeah you're gonna stay yeah he would have anyway I was like nah I wanted to hit the gong but again that would have alerted everybody to my you know stealth yes there was there was a gong that you would hit like like you ring the bell at some bars when you get a big tip we had a gong I do I do regret not hitting the fucking gong before I left I should have gone and took it in the back in the camp it would have been a mic drop moment but you missed over and over you know fucking just crashed the fuck out of it and then left but nah I uh it'd have been a lot of work I just left you know but I did tell Gia I'm like girl you're the last person I want to do this to but uh sorry I don't even let my dad talk to me this way the way management's talk to me right now so it sucked you you're cool fuck you I'm out it sucked because up until that moment I liked management dude I would he's I still consider him a cool guy after that but that was he caught dude yeah which you're gonna have to live with those demons yeah I don't let people talk to me like that dude and I was on my way out anyway well oh you know the thing about the airport there's enormous places to work a lot of them and they all need help yes I've worked at a shit ton of them yes yes yes it's been fun uh yeah some better than others it's the people that's what keeps you somewhere even if that's what keeps you alive you know what makes it the worst and you'll probably agree with me this is your attitude no the fucking management dude always the shit management dude the fucking man you know just be better managers you know it's not gonna happen or to you have you worked out there put yourself in a or quit hiring managers that have never done our job before how about that you know I remember a time that you worked at an Irish pub and you even worked upstairs at the pizza place a little bit yeah I did yeah you did when I was at Firewhile no before all that before I I was didn't turn to that concept till after I left so no I I didn't not work up there until oh no no okay well none of my business I was straight up pub but um I remember a time that uh you worked at the pub anywho yeah yeah uh where you had two excellent managers oh yeah yeah I love my managers at that time I do and I still do yeah but they're not my managers anymore and they can't tell me what to do so yeah there's that I was alluding to myself and uh Mr. Jump teams that we talked about earlier we were the management team for the Irish pub um and then uh left I left that job went down the hall to the Benegins and started bartending and now there were so many badass people that worked there dude oh yeah yeah very fucking people long long time ago Richie people are still like family you the one you called Billy on earlier you know episode the one you called Billy on an earlier episode oh yes has he been on yet or no uh Mr. Tyler yeah yeah uh no not yet um it's very elusive when you get him on there well he uh he's not in the DFW area right now but yes I have reached out to further down south I got to hang out with him when I was there we had some good timing too it was fun I've never had a bad time at all I just don't know that I could live there no never again you know or not like it is not with that traffic maybe and it's not even the traffic man I'm just bullshit um Richie that is uh all we have time for for this episode because we want you to come back and join Us again soon. Oh, yeah. Um, thank you so much for coming on this week. Um, you have been absolutely amazing. Um and you know, to all our listeners, thank you again.
SPEAKER_00:I miss working with you guys and I want to do it again, but not with chips and salses. Right.
SPEAKER_02:You know, uh never again. Just break the fucking machine. No more chips and salsa.
SPEAKER_01:This isn't this isn't like well, we're out of them half the time.
SPEAKER_02:Break it like you break a fucking blender, dude. Problem solved. Yes, no more.
SPEAKER_01:I had no guaca or steak yesterday.
SPEAKER_02:I bet everybody that works there that's listening to this right now is like, yeah, sabotage the motherfucker.
SPEAKER_01:They'll have to come fix it or they won't. Everybody wants chips and salsa. Everybody. And it gets ridiculous, friend. You just you gotta give it to you gotta give the people what they want. You gotta give them what they want, man.
SPEAKER_03:Just gotta get past the cycle though. It's hard.
SPEAKER_02:I just finished my chips and salsa. Can I get a water? I just finished my water. Can I get some chips and salsa?
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:I just finished uh and then just the salsa bowl in the hand at all times. That one guy who needs like 80. Exactly. Oh, one of my no real quick, one of my favorite ones was this chick that comes in, or she came in one time, shades, uh, like uh, she's a little thick, you know, uh very stylish, you know, the nails and the fucking match the fucking spandex outfit that she was kind of kind of getting away with, you know. She's like, um, I need you to heat up my sauce or whatever. I was like, uh we uh don't really do that here. She's like, you're gonna eat up my sauce. And I'm like, oh, right on. And I went and heated it up for her. I know you better have. I was like, I like this chick, she's cool, bro. I don't think I ever saw her again. But she was all wearing chains and shit. Like, she watched, she knew she was cool, and I was like, All right, I'm gonna go eat your salsa. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, and it was probably the best damn salsa she ever had. I don't know. She didn't bitch about, so that was cool. And see, that's the thing, Richie. We want to save more of these stories for another episode because we are doing our best to turn this into a YouTube channel as quickly as possible. And I would love to come back to your setup you have here. Um, again, you called No Adult Supervision Land. Okay, yes. I wanted to make sure you got a plug-in on that. Took Chris about 10 minutes to try to memorize that before. Yes, no adult supervision land, yes. Okay, guys, thank you so much for joining us for episode 21. Um, I promise you uh we will be back at it again soon. And um, thank you guys for all the love and support. Um peace.
