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Heather McMahan is convinced you can learn a lot about society at any Chili’s airport location.

It’s peak people watching and there happens to also be mozzarella sticks, lava cake, margaritas and the salsa trio with chips. For McMahan, it’s the perks of touring around the country and her love of travel. More than that, it feeds McMahan’s love for observing everyday humans who “are funny and ridiculous and unhinged and unfiltered and a mess and wrong and right.”

“Yes, you’re on the road, you’re writing material, you’re performing all the time, you’re honing your craft, but you also have to, like, go sit at a Chili’s sometimes and just have a mozzarella stick and a margarita and be l

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