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Welcome to hey Real Quick. Welcome to hey Real Quick. So it's mid-January and we lived through that snow day. Friday January 10th was our big snow day here in Nashville.
Speaker 2Yeah, and there's still snow on the ground.
Speaker 1A little bit Right and it's January 18th.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Still, there Still got some.
Speaker 1I still had some ice yesterday. Yeah, the ice is lingering, yeah, and it was, I think, 61 showing on my car yesterday, which I kind of believe, but but the snow's not melting, it's packed in, I don't know what's happening?
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, shout out to Nashville, whatever Middle Tennessee, because somebody got us some new salt trucks. Because I felt a little bit like I was talking about this with somebody. They were like it's kind of weird, like going to school and work and stuff and like there's snow piled up on the edges. It's like I live in you know Ohio or something Like. Oh yeah, they just move it to the edges. It's like it's like I live in you know Ohio or something like.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, they just move it to the side, like we got some equipment. Somebody upgraded yeah Parking lots were like yeah, we don't. We went somewhere last night and there was like I guess I don't know what you call that pile of snow, whatever, yeah, in the parking lot and they're like eight, ten feet high.
Speaker 1Right, yeah, so somebody did some work, so like the salt, the whatever we could get around, because three years ago, ten years ago, nobody would have been going anywhere.
Speaker 2Well, the last time it snowed, it was it rained like a few days before, so they couldn't do the put the brine on the road because it was just washed away. So yeah, the roads were fantastic which. I will say we built a snowman.
Speaker 1What's up we?
Speaker 2checked that one off.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 2I did not go sledding. Our boys went solo. I was like, yeah, y'all want to go. They got all bundled up, walked a neighborhood over. It was about a 20, 30-minute walk.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2So they walked 20 minutes or so, met up with their buddies, went sledding for three straight hours.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, You're in a new era.
Speaker 2Came in soaking, like everybody's hands were soaking wet.
Speaker 1Oh, bless them.
Speaker 2And then they were done.
Speaker 1They didn't go back, they didn't play in it again. Yeah, they're like we're going to this is a marathon and then, yeah, we're hanging.
Speaker 2We're going all out and I'm going to wait for it to melt.
Speaker 1Yeah, so it's not going to. It's raining today, in case you want to know. But we have a I think they're calling it polar vortex, which I don't know why we got a name. Every front that's coming in, so I kind of want to airbrush that on the back of a sweatshirt or something Polar Vortex 25.
Speaker 225.
Speaker 1Because I think the low Sunday nights can be nine.
Speaker 2Yeah, eight or nine.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean back to the old person, talk I got to check my pipes, you know what I'm saying. Okay, yeah, I wrap them outside with a little, you know, covers, whatever. Yeah, because we did have one freeze but it didn't bust or burst, which I know. I got a bursted, I don't know Anyway. So we don't want that to happen again but be dripping faucets and opening cabinet doors again cabinet doors, again, again, buckle up, it's just that monitor and I'm going to say it's hard to get your faucet to a drip.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I did it, it's either a tiny stream or it's closed and you're like you're trying to get it just right.
Speaker 2I don't know, I have time, I just, yeah, do I just wide open, yeah.
Speaker 1Just let it go. Company's gonna be like they fell for it.
Speaker 2Everybody dripping faucets, yeah metro water's like. Get ready to send out the bales um so when it snows started like friday morning last friday morning so the roads were well done, because it snowed all day it did and then saturday we had uh, I'm all about free tickets. There's nothing better in this world than free tickets.
Speaker 1Where'd you go last Saturday?
Speaker 2So we have free tickets to the Preds game ice hockey so it's perfect.
Speaker 1You know snowing outside? Did you sled over there?
Speaker 2Yeah, do something icy, be cold again, yeah, inside. So we went to the Preds game. They lost, of course, because we went. But the kicker there is, which I loved at Bridgestone Arena.
Speaker 1They have tons of places to eat.
Speaker 2It's a good setup.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a nice place, it's a nice arena, However.
Speaker 2so we get there, and then me and Braxton are like you know, we kind of break up. Robin and Carter go get what they want to eat. She's going to grab some popcorn.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, yeah I forgot what he got.
Speaker 2Pretzel, maybe an Icy, some other stuff, me and Braxton are like where's the chicken, fingers and fries?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And the Coca-Cola's. So we go. They're all different. That's what drives me bonkers.
Speaker 1Yeah, it. Yeah, it's kind of like the food court, but for an arena right, like the little stores or restaurants.
Speaker 2Used to back in the day, every place just had popcorn, hot dogs, a couple candy bars and Cokes.
Speaker 1It was a concessions and it was the same all the way around thing.
Speaker 2Now you're like oh, you want chicken, Just keep walking.
Speaker 1Yeah. Past the barbecue.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, go past the gas station in the arena, whatever.
Speaker 2It's kind of like the airport a little bit, yeah yeah. So we get up there and I said I want two chicken finger baskets and two Cokes. Lady was super nice. She was like okay, Types it in.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And then turns the screen around. Do you want a tip? 20, 25 or 30 percent? Um?
Speaker 1I just told you chicken fingers and two cokes yeah, mcdonald's don't do that, I guess, typed it in so anyway so then so then I'm at the tip screen. Oh man, there's all the pressure.
Speaker 2She was really nice Normally, I know. And the kicker is it's real easy to hit 20, 25 or 30.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2But down there kind of small.
Speaker 1Other amount. It says custom, so I'm like I'm going to go custom.
Speaker 2I go custom and then usually I do like I don't know. A buck, two bucks, three bucks, I don't know. I went zero. I went no tip Felt like garbage.
Speaker 1I know.
Speaker 2I'm like I'm a horrible person. Get back to the seats. I asked Robin. I was like I guess they got a whatever, a couple of things. I was like hey, what did you do? Did you tip?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2She goes. I did two bucks and I was like, oh man, I did nothing. Well, she gave a buck and you gave a buck, yeah, but like when we go, if we go to that, or sometimes we'll go to four separate places- yeah. Like Braxton will be like oh, I want my oldest. He'll be like oh, I want tacos.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Or whatever, or quesadilla, so he'll get something here. So if you're going to multiple places and you're tipping 20 percent. Yeah, every time, yeah, which I think the total See if I can get this right Two chicken finger baskets and two Cokes. I think it was forty five dollars. Oh, it was about 50 bucks, so I'm like if I hit the first button, 20%. I'm giving you $10 to hit two buttons I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1So here's my question.
Speaker 2I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1So here's my question, and I don't know the answer, and maybe somebody that listens to this may reply A what are those people getting paid? Because my daughter and actually all my kids have worked in food service.
Speaker 2Yeah, I've worked in food service.
Speaker 1Yeah, you've worked in it. So if you're a waiter or food or server, let me say that, right, whatever. If you're a server, right, I think it's two dollars and something.
Speaker 2That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1OK, yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2You should get minimum wage.
Speaker 1Yeah, at least if you're serving people Robots maybe less, but people but like, like when you go to France or something, like I haven't gone, but like our daughter went over there for a little bit and she was like, yeah, they just pay their servers, there's no tipping you, just they're already getting paid. So that my question is the people that are basically doing fast food at the arena when you go to the soccer?
Speaker 2How much are they getting paid?
Speaker 1Yeah, they're not getting the $2 something like A percentage tip for, basically like if you were going to Burger King outside of the arena.
Speaker 2Also, if everybody just don't call it minimum wage if other people get less than minimum wage.
Speaker 1There's obviously no minimum.
Speaker 2Well, if minimum wage is whatever, 15 or 12, or 10 or whatever it is.
Speaker 1Oh, it's low.
Speaker 2But I'm saying, if some people are getting $2 to be a waiter or waitress, yeah. Then technically I guess that would be. I don't enjoy doing math.
Speaker 1No, when I'm going out to.
Speaker 2You know you're going to for entertainment you're going to eat you're doing this Like I don't want to do math.
Speaker 1Yeah, minimum wage in Tennessee, by the way, is $7.25.
Speaker 2Okay, I knew it was low, but Nobody should get lower than that. Awesome, but if you're handing me yeah.
Speaker 1Like they'll do it. Two baskets of food and two Cokes.
Speaker 2I'll do that in a sea game, the soccer club yeah. I used to. I'd go get whatever like a non-alcoholic Heineken. Yeah, Sometimes I guess they give me the big one or whatever, I don't know. It'd be $11. So they hand me the can.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2They go hand me the can. Oh man Turn the screen around. Do you want a tip 20%? There's one there.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And I'm not tipping you to hand me a. Can I tip people if it's like a lot of work?
Speaker 1waiter or waitress, whatever right you're assuming you're bringing me food, you're clearing my table you're back and forth. Yeah, there's a lot of effort, right, and you're and you know that person's not getting paid like. Our daughter for a while worked at a restaurant, so if she doesn't make tips, she's making less than three dollars an hour see, that's not. I know it's not right, but we all know, like everybody but not every restaurant's like that.
Speaker 2Some restaurants they don't do that right like the.
Speaker 1What did they call it? Fast, casual, like a Chipotle or like somewhere where you're going through the line or, and then you get into coffee shops.
Speaker 2So it's basically we have to pay. Sorry.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's basically we have to. The tip makes those people's, makes those people's paychecks.
Speaker 2But it's weird, it's like oh, you're the customer, you pay our staff.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2How about you just pay your own staff and make the chicken two dollars more? And and the whole pressure off me.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's based like if somebody's like well, they did a really good job, I'm going to give them a really good tip. Well, you assume that the restaurant is monitoring their job performance? Anyway. I just I wish it was kind of like France or England or wherever which, like, you know what, you know if you want, if you want to tip somebody there, like because you go to like a nice like go for it.
Speaker 1It's a big occasion, yeah right, and you're just, and they'll still look at you crazy. But you know, anyway, I don't like it though, because it's like you're saying, if that's the case, like at the ice hockey game, ice hockey, just one kind sand hockey, then that's assuming, if which I ain't been to Burger King since the early 90s. But if I went into Burger King and I got a combo meal or Chick-fil-A or whatever, they're going to turn the screen around and go, would you like to tip? It ain't that kind of restaurant. And I'm not dogging people that work in fast food restaurants. I mean, everybody should get paid. But we assumed for the last whatever 20, 30 years, if you walk in somewhere you sit down, they bring your drink order. If you walk in somewhere you sit down, they bring your drink order, like you're getting your food from somebody else.
Speaker 2Well, here's the here's.
Speaker 1And I'm a good tipper.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Because, like you know, and I y'all are, because, especially when you've either worked in food service, we don't tip enough.
Speaker 2No, I'm just kidding your kids work in food service.
Speaker 1You're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2You know Well here's. I guess this is the main issue with it. Everybody assumes, and it's always been implied, that tipping is optional.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You know it's always like oh, tipping is optional, Tipping is optional. Well, it's not optional if you're going to pay your worker two dollars an hour, Exactly, and like now, it's on me. But, what if my service wasn't good?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And what if they were? I mean, I've gone to a fast food restaurant and they've been crazy nice.
Speaker 1Yeah, and.
Speaker 2I don't tip them because they don't do that. And I've been to a nice restaurant where, like that dude was kind of a jerk. Yeah, exactly, but I'm supposed to give him 20 percent, or whatever.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And then the fast food person you're just supposed to be like. Well, you don't tip them.
Speaker 1But I'll say this why not? Our daughter said this there were plenty of times and she's a great, she was a great server, but she's like oh, plenty of times and no tip.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So not everybody's operating on the same ground rules, that's true. I mean, if we're leaving this stuff up to the public, I just still. It's 2025. The fact that you can go get a server job in the United States of America and go give people their food at a nice-ish chain restaurant, or even nicer, and get $2. And you're relying on the public's tipping.
Speaker 2That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1That's the biggest it's like a joke.
Speaker 2It's like you made it up. It's an excuse to not pay your workers.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's all that is.
Speaker 2So we feel strongly about that, but I will say a long time ago, before we had kids, I went to Scotland with a buddy to play golf because we're like, we're horrible at this sport board. Let's go halfway across the world and do it at the most and be bad there. Yeah, um, and we went to a pub or whatever. Uh, first of all, we were all excited to hear scottish accents.
The Tipping Culture Dilemma
Speaker 2We're like oh man, we're in scotland, we're gonna have the scottish whatever bartender, you know, and just yeah and so, or maybe anyway, maybe I've told this before, I don't know. But it's a great story, yeah he comes up and so we're ready to order and we're like you're not from here, he's from Memphis, but anyway so we asked him. We're like hey dude, what's the tipping situation like over here? He's like. He's like man, I just handed you a drink, he's like that's not hard, you don't tip that. He's like now if you were sitting down for a meal.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I was coming back and forth, I was bringing you food he's like that's when you tip. Yeah, he's like you don't tip somebody for handing you a drink.
Speaker 1Yeah, but in.
Speaker 2America. People will be like oh, let me get two of these yeah. And somebody hands them to them, they're like, yeah, keep the change.
Speaker 1And can I say this too, sorry, with the invention of, like the iPad or Shopify or Square, where they flip the screen around to you. I don't like that. So I think that's where tipping just tipped the scales a bit and went a little la la because they figured they could do that. I'm not saying it's not warranted in some places, even coffee shops I know not everybody always tips at a coffee shop but say, for instance, you go to a coffee shop a lot and you have meetings there or whatever you know that's nice, put a tip on it, but when they flipped it around and it used to not be 20, 30, 35.
Speaker 2Oh, it used to be like 10, 12, 15.
Speaker 1And then it was 15. I know it sounds like we're complaining, but it's gone crazy and people are tired of tipping and they're tip-weary. Well, they've done studies.
Speaker 2People are burnt and I get during COVID, like you know, people ordering all their meals.
Speaker 1Stuff is delivered and people are struggling. Yeah, people were tipping, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, you tip the mess out of people. Yeah, but they have it now at NSC games. You know, sometimes people hand you chicken fingers.
Speaker 1Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2Tip, don't tip.
Speaker 1There's a little Mapco like little which is a gas station in Tennessee here yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah. So there's like a little Mapco like, which is a gas station in Tennessee here, yeah, yeah. So there's like a little place. There's heat lamps, there's little coolers yeah and then there's four self-checkout things. So we've been through there. Grab a hot dog under the heat lamp, grab a Coke out of the cooler, grab a little bag of M&M's yeah and then we walk over to self M&Ms.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then we walk over to self.
Speaker 2Self, yeah, self checkout. Scan three things. There's a person there if you need them, like if you accidentally scan something twice.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Something like that. At the end of it it says tip 20, 25, 25, 30, and you're not tipping yourself.
Speaker 1Yeah, do I hit 30 and I get that back. It like shoots out like an atm. Yeah, I picked up the hot dog.
Speaker 2That's nutso. Yeah, I grabbed the coke, I scanned it yeah, who am I tipping?
Speaker 1it's almost like they accidentally said OK, are we going to put tipping options on all these little machines and self checkouts? Yeah, everything but like the self serve. And then somebody made a mistake and just left it on. You're making them mad so they don't want to tip their server when they go to Applebee's or something like that and those people. They need your tips because we're crazy here and we don't pay them.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1Not even $3. Think about, okay, if my neighbor's kid is 10. Right, okay, say I'm going to get them to pick my mail up for a week. You think I'm going to get them to pick my mail up for a week. You think I'm going to give them three dollars.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1You know, it's crazy. It's the. I mean these people are grown. Some people that's their extra job. They got to have two, three jobs. Yeah, it blows my mind Anyway.
Speaker 2And I get like when we were at the hockey game. By the way, there's like a Coke.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2The large Coke. It is refillable.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Still $11.
Speaker 1Yeah For a Coke. We're at movie level here, yeah, so my thing is just make the Coke $11.50 or $12. I don't care If you're going to pay $11, you're going to pay $12.
Speaker 2Yeah, Take that extra dollar from every Coke that's sold, pay your workers more and take it out of my hands.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I don't want to walk away with my chicken fingers feeling like a bad person.
Speaker 1That's what happened.
Speaker 2I walked away with two baskets of chicken fingers being like. Well, I guess they won't be able to fill up their car with gas Even though you've paid almost 50 bucks.
Speaker 1And here's the thing too Everybody knows which one you're tapping, because they know your fingers the farthest to the left.
Speaker 2People are behind you.
Speaker 1People are behind you. It's like if you are at a nice dinner and when you get ready to pay and you know if it's not a machine and they bring you the actual ticket and you're tipping. If people in front of you are looking over to see what you're writing and people in the booth behind you or the table over can like see what you're tipping are you trying to set that pin down? Yeah, it's weird it is weird.
Speaker 2I think one of my rules is kind of like if I can be trained to do the job in 30 minutes or less, like you could show me how to, if they order a Coke or chicken fingers, you hit this button, yeah, and you turn the screen around. Yeah, that's not a typical, that's not a skill. That's not a typical skill. Yeah To me, that's not a typical skill. That's not a typical skill. Yeah To me. Now, I don't know the menu at a restaurant, I don't know.
Speaker 1You know walking back to the cook and like making sure the salad's on the right.
Speaker 2I don't know all that. That takes a lot of learn. That's some effort you get in there. Or like some things are an art.
Speaker 1Like, if you cut hair. Yes, whatever you do, like you're like you getting tipped because I can't do that, right, yeah, yeah, somebody details your car, or something like that. Yeah, there's some effort into it.
Speaker 2You went to a school or like there's some elbow grease involved, yeah, but you don't tip Like if somebody comes to cut your yard. You just pay them what they charge, and they say hey, I charge you 40 bucks, but Pay them what they charge you.
Speaker 1And they say hey, I charge you 40 bucks, you don't tip on top of that, but you look out the door and you're like man.
Speaker 2That was impeccable work. It looks better than it's ever looked. You don't be like hey, I know you charged me 40, but there's some extra.
Speaker 1The tip there is you just hire him again or her again. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Like you're like, that's my yard person now, yeah, it's crazy that that is not typical work, but now watching me scan my own hot dog and coke is.
Speaker 1Yeah, we've gone too far, sorry, yeah, anyway it's too much tipping it's too much shipping yeah yeah, oh man, um. So yeah, it's not going to snow again, but it is going to be cold.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Like dangerously cold, or at least for us down here.
Speaker 2I would tip the weatherman. If he was right, I'll say that.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't think you're going to be tipping.
Speaker 2They get the temp right. That's it.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2It's going to be eight degrees.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Nine degrees.
Speaker 1Yeah, I degrees. Yeah, nine degrees. Yeah, I don't know, oh my gosh, my thing is just don't, I don't want my power to go off right, because then it's like I guess the whole family gets on the sectional couch with all the blankets.
Speaker 2And then because we have, what are we doing?
Speaker 1I don't know. At that point you're not doing a puzzle or watching anything for you know, because your power's out and I guess you're just reading a book.
Speaker 2I remember being little and wanting the power to go out. Yeah, when you're like seven or eight like ooh power's out, and we had to actually like light candles.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, like real candles. Oh yeah, real candles. Yeah, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2Like burning candles, Like this is awesome and then you go to like every time you'd walk into a room.
Speaker 1Try to turn the light on in the bathroom.
Speaker 2Yeah, Then you're in the bathroom with a candle Like yeah. You want to watch cartoons and you can't Like. Okay, yeah, this was fun.
Speaker 1Yeah, so anyway, I'm not looking forward to it.
Winter Tips for Service Workers
Speaker 2I'm not either. But, the good news is, if the power goes out, they can't turn that screen around. If you go somewhere, I'm just kidding, sorry.
Speaker 1You might be the only person there, because it's going to be 12 degrees 20%, 30%. Yeah.
Speaker 2Chance of snow. I ain't tipping nothing.
Speaker 1No, 0% yeah.
Speaker 2Anyway, so stay warm.
Speaker 1Yeah, tip your server.
Speaker 2Tip your server well.
Speaker 1And your hairstylist, I guess.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, or your nail lady, I don't get my nails done.
Speaker 2Oh, I don't get my nails done, but yeah you should, they should get tipped right, they get tipped good right.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah. They should they, they should they should, yeah. Or like a masseuse sorry, yeah, massage therapists, they're gonna get tipped they probably get tipped.
Speaker 2Amazing cause.
Speaker 1Like you, feel good, I know you're a little light headed when you come out of there that's amazing yeah get yourself something nice, get some candles when the power goes out. I'm saying, oh gosh.
Speaker 2Anyway, all right, y'all have a good one.
Speaker 1Stay warm.
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