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Hey, this is Serious. I'm Chad Davis. And if you like clean comedy with the side of poo jokes, you're in the right place, my friend. Hey, come along inside with us and laugh and flash late if you like. We won't smell it. Um we're having a good time, and you will too, I promise. And we are the creators of Nashville Nonsense, the the sketch comedy show uh that's family-friendly, uh, that you know you never needed. It's amazing. Uh, it's out there right now on the YouTubes on our channel. Go check it out now after this episode. Uh, it's great. And joining me today is West Powell, Jared Chamlis. He's a comedic actor, writer, uh, man of many talents. It makes me laugh. I love him so much. He's a good dude, he's a good father of many. FG is what we call him. And that's enough. Thank you. And my lovely, beautiful wife, Amber Davis. Her matching blue coat and her matching blue eyes. Uh, she's a beauty. Uh, and she's amazing. She's a comedic actor herself. She is a writer, she is a producer, she is a director, she is a uh a speaker, a facilitator of awesomeness. Uh Amber Davis, how are you doing, Amber?
SPEAKER_04I'm doing great. How are you doing?
SPEAKER_08I'm great. Doing good. Uh good day.
SPEAKER_07Jared, how was your day? Um my day was fantastic, Chad. Thank you for asking. Get my podcast voice ready. All right. Uh so Amber Dad, check all the boxes.
SPEAKER_04You did. You did great. That was awesome. Natural nonsense. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Where's your like button? That's right. Subscribe.
SPEAKER_04That's right.
SPEAKER_08Oh, you're supporting the Yankees, I see.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, this is an old jersey.
SPEAKER_071929. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04It's looking pretty good for 1929.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah. The old babe roof. That's whose jersey. It says number three on the back.
SPEAKER_05So steal it out of the shadow box of like a museum or something?
SPEAKER_07No, I purchased this straight up. That's nice. Wow.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, if um if if I was still uh I mean, I still am a baseball fan, but I just haven't been watching as much as I used to. But I used to be a hardcore Texas Ranger fan. I still like the Texas Rangers, but it'd be hard to set the table, but now I've kind of calmed down, so I can set at the table with you and your body.
SPEAKER_07So the Yankees are who is who you that's who you chose to hate? Because most people hate a team. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Rangers do not like the Yankees for sure. Is that their I wouldn't say their nemesis of blue blue jays or their nemesis, I would say the uh Houston Astros. Well, Astros, uh yes, a hundred.
SPEAKER_08You've got a lot of enemies there.
SPEAKER_04No, I'd say Astros and Blue Jays are the big ones.
SPEAKER_07I can see the Astros because they're in the same state.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, blue Jays.
SPEAKER_07But I mean the Blue Jays are the Blue Jays are not in the same state. That's completely out of the country. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. It's just the same league. But the thing is, is that the Yankees, like, it just, I don't know. Most people don't like the they either hate them or they love them.
SPEAKER_08Why is it that Toronto is the only baseball team outside the U.S. that gets to compete in the MLB? You know, I don't know. But there's not any other countries that compete.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I don't know.
SPEAKER_08Inquiring minds want to know. I just thought about it.
SPEAKER_07It's because uh because North America Canada's touching us. We're like, we're we're like well that they need to stop. That's inappropriate. No, it's it's fine. It's it's it's okay. Okay. Um we're like Mexico to Canada. So you know, we're like we're partners a little bit, so they can have a baseball team.
SPEAKER_08Are they gonna make us build a wall and pay for it?
SPEAKER_07Nah, man, not Canada. Okay. No, not that.
SPEAKER_04Okay, I wouldn't think. Let's see. It said added to uh satisfy legal requirements after the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee. Oh so it was kind of one of those things where you had to have so many teams, and so in order for the American League to expand, that's the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee and Okay, it's still in America. Yeah, but it said um It makes zero sense right now.
SPEAKER_07I don't I've never been to Milwaukee, but maybe if it's out of country, it's probably why I haven't been.
SPEAKER_08The first thing I think of is the Vernon Shirley, and I got that theme song in my head right now.
SPEAKER_04Shameagle, Shamagle.
SPEAKER_08Something something incorporated.
SPEAKER_04We're gonna do it.
SPEAKER_07I like the blue jays too. I like their symbol, I like the colors. There's not a lot I don't like. I like the I like that Canadian team. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I just blue jays are annoying birds.
SPEAKER_07Give me a making me a blue jays hat. I like them.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, blue jays are a bad bird. They're not good. They steal other birds' nests. So, you know.
SPEAKER_07Sounds like a G movie.
SPEAKER_04It's a whole nother thing about being a blue jay.
SPEAKER_07It's that you're blue jays goes, I ain't making my own nest. I'm taking somebody else. It's the devo of the birds.
SPEAKER_08How'd you how'd you change? And he goes, It's blue jay.
SPEAKER_04Texas Rangers are risking their lives to save other people and protect the state of Texas.
SPEAKER_07Is that what the Rangers are?
SPEAKER_08No, right. Texas Rangers. Rangers, I thought they went to go hunt down bad criminals.
SPEAKER_04Texas Rangers? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they they hunt down fugitives that are in Texas and they also protect the state of Texas.
SPEAKER_07Think about Walker, Texas Rangers. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I mean, come on, Chuck Norris. What?
SPEAKER_07Come on.
SPEAKER_04Like Texas Rangers. We aren't getting all hyped up.
SPEAKER_08Why aren't you talking to me like what? Come on. Like I've said something bad about the Rangers.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you do like that.
SPEAKER_06What's an Astro?
SPEAKER_04Exactly. It's because it's Houston and NASA and Astro. And Astro was the dog on Jetson. Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER_07You wouldn't win in World Series. Exactly. Wow.
SPEAKER_04Well, now they are winning World Series, man. Yeah, before you that was the the bad part, is that the Rangers like anyway, still a Rangers fan, true and true.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'm still a Bay Bruce fan. I love baseball altogether. I'd wear any any uh team. I'm not one of those that go. I mean, there are teams I hate too. I'm like, I hate the Lakers when I was a basketball fan. I just like the Lakers, but I would still wear a Magic Johnson jersey. Okay.
SPEAKER_08Did you have a favorite baseball team?
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah, the Braves.
SPEAKER_08Braves, yes. Thank you very much. Bravo.
SPEAKER_07America's team. For Tennessee, it's our team. Yeah. Any Tennessee, if you're you know, Braves is in our backyard.
SPEAKER_08Or North Carolina. We didn't have a major league baseball team. Yeah. So Braves is it. My grandfather was a huge Braves fan. It made me a Braves fan. And I remember watching games and early on, my favorite player growing up was Del Murphy, and then it was Chipper Jones. Chip.
SPEAKER_07And they also had David Justice. David Justice. Oh my god. The Braves had some players. Yeah. Didn't he play for the Braves? Yeah, he's kind of famous.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, a little famous.
SPEAKER_07He was a home runner, too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04When I worked for Krispy Kreme, he uh years ago bought like three different Krispy Kreme franchises. Or he bought a franchise and built like three.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yep. It was a pretty big deal. But yeah, I love I like baseball. But my favorite.
SPEAKER_07Did you ever meet him when he was buying these franchises? No, I didn't meet him.
SPEAKER_04But um he um or not him, but my favorite player is Pudge Rodriguez. He was a catcher for the Texas Rangers. And then he went to the Mariners. No, the Marlins. Did he play for Detroit? The Marlins. What's that?
SPEAKER_07Did he play for Detroit? He did. He played for the Tigers.
SPEAKER_04Then he came to the Rangers and he played for a long time. Like he was a really good catcher.
SPEAKER_07He was a good catcher.
SPEAKER_04Like beyond good.
SPEAKER_07Like I don't know if he was Johnny Bench, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04He's up there. A lot of people say that he like they compare him to now.
SPEAKER_07I think Johnny Bench is supposedly, I mean, arguably the best catcher, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and he'll say, like, you know, Johnny Bench, you know. But a lot of people compare him.
SPEAKER_08Right. What I like about that that type of athlete is not tooting his own horn saying, I'm the goat, like some athletes that play in the NBA. Excuse me. You know who the goat is. You don't you don't have to say say who it is.
SPEAKER_07Everybody knows it's hard in baseball to say who the goat is because I tell me I think Dave Ruth is looked at as it, but like there's been better players probably since then, but who would you say?
SPEAKER_08But there's different, there's different, way different aspects to the game of baseball than it is. I guess basketball, there's defensive, yeah, different positions. But like, yeah, it's just it's hard.
SPEAKER_04It's too many, it's too many specific skill sets. That's like one of the reasons why I love baseball.
SPEAKER_08It's like me a bunch of Liam Nelson's out there.
SPEAKER_04Right. That's right. The the reason why I really like baseball is because it's it's strategic, so much strategy to it, and it's like people are in different positions almost like they're in a job skill set, and you put people in different positions and different skill sets, whereas like basketball, people got like amazing skills, yeah, but they're intertwined. The skills are intertwined, so intertwined.
SPEAKER_08I will say that when it comes to baseball, I prefer watching it live than on TV. Better perception. That's just me personally. Um I like the game, and even when I was a kid, love playing it. But um watching it, I mean I can watch it on TV, don't get me wrong, but I enjoy it better being there with a hot dog and being with the crowd, um, peanuts.
SPEAKER_04But I can fold some laundry to a baseball game for sure. I can do some website design and like work um, you know, with client work.
SPEAKER_07So with either the Major League Baseball or Little House on the Prairie, you can fold laundry to it. Yeah, or your taxes. I don't know if you're I haven't watched baseball in such a long time. I enjoy baseball. I think they have a face to it, right? Which I do like that about there's not just one, like the NBA has got like, you know, Michael Jordan was the face of the NBA. I don't know who the face is. Maybe I don't watch it, but maybe I think maybe there's just so many Yeah, it's tough. I mean it's yeah, I couldn't pick an individual.
SPEAKER_04It's so hard to keep up on it. That's the thing, is that I mean, there's so many games that it's it's difficult for me to have a life and do other things like podcasting, writing, directing, producing all the things to watch.
SPEAKER_08I think the face of MLB is Wild thing from hot uh for Major League.
SPEAKER_05Charlie Sheen is the face of a lot of things.
SPEAKER_08I don't know who Derek Jr. probably was several years back.
SPEAKER_07What's it? Derek Jr. probably was several years back. Oh, Bo Jackson was yeah, he was probably a f one of the faces of uh but I don't feel like the Major League ever had one particular I like that.
SPEAKER_04You know, it's uh Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I mean it's true.
SPEAKER_04So it's so it's so relaxing, but it is true to watch like to be there live and watch a game. I made the mistake of the the very first game that I took our kids to go see the Texas Rangers play. I was so excited to take them to Hornswagon Park. Oh, we went to the ballpark at Arlington, this is before the new stadium. Um and we went and we went and watched them play, and they played the Red Sox, and it was the worst game I have ever seen or heard about that the Texas Rangers play. I mean, it was like oh man, there was like 11 home runs and like the seventh inning. And zero zero for the Rangers. It was horrible. My kids were like, Why do you like this team? They're horrible. And then the next year they end up going to the World Series.
SPEAKER_08What made it bad was that when we were there at the game, we had really good seats, and then by the end of the game, all the Ranger fans were leaving, and the Boston fans were ascending down to the better seats, and they were sitting with us cheering for the It was bad. It was bad. But anyway, what else you got here? What are we going?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so we uh are going to talk about some news, some stuff that's been in the news lately in the last couple weeks. We call it Is It News. So you decide, guys, is this news or not? And if you're watching or listening, uh please uh send us a comment. If you're watching on YouTube, we would love to hear about news stories that you want us to talk about, or maybe your favorite episode of This Is Serious. Uh let us know if there was something from last week's episode or something from a recent episode that you saw or something from this episode here that you want us to talk about. Uh drop us a comment and don't forget to like and subscribe. None of it is lost on us. We really appreciate you sharing and ringing that notification bell so you don't miss any of the shenanigans on the show. And uh get it out there, get the word out there if you love uh listening or watching, just enjoyable, funny, what we think is funny, um family friendly stuff, uh you know, let us know. And uh we appreciate you following. You can also email us right at this is serious at dadchavisproductions.com. That's this is serious at dadchavisproductions.com. And if you are listening on Spotify, you can text us right from the show notes. So that'd be great.
SPEAKER_08So participate, leave some comments. Uh we're we are right now in an echo chamber, us three. Uh, and not so much. We we disagree on some things, but we want to hear your agreements or disagreements as well. Uh tell us uh, you know, uh what you hate most about the show. That's what we're looking for. So we can get better. At least just give us something.
SPEAKER_04Yeah Oh, and go hop on over to Instagram too. You can follow us over on Instagram at this is serious underscore podcast, and you can see some behind the scenes stuff. We shoot some stuff right here on my on my phone. We shoot some stuff here and pop it on over to Instagram after we cut here. Uh we shoot some fun stuff behind the scenes, and you can see it over there on Instagram. It'd be fun too. All right, so I've got some news. Uh, here's uh just some interesting news.
SPEAKER_08I'm gonna go change the light real fast. Oh, great.
SPEAKER_05Yes, that's good. So just a little serious.
SPEAKER_07This is a three-man crew with only one man doing the work here. Yeah. So we've got uh we've got to get this light situation fixed so you guys can see our pretty faces.
SPEAKER_04Oh, there it is. Woohoo! Let there be light, says the Lord. All right, so You're welcome. We have got uh AOJ's answering you. Okay You're welcome. AOJ vending international mishap. Or not AOJ. OJ. OJ Vending International Mishap. So um OJ, have you all seen these? Did me pass away? No. Oh, yeah. Have y'all seen these? Have you seen these machines, these vending machines? Have you seen these machines?
SPEAKER_08Whoa.
SPEAKER_04That's kind of loud. Have you seen? I just had the video here so you can see reference. Have you seen these vending machines that you can get fresh orange juice out of?
SPEAKER_08Interesting. No. Negative, no.
SPEAKER_04I haven't seen these, but apparently. Do you trust that?
SPEAKER_08Do you trust that's just it's just fresh orange juice? Do you trust it?
SPEAKER_04I guess you're watching it like it being squeezed.
SPEAKER_08That could be a b-roll.
unknownI think.
SPEAKER_07No, I'd trust that probably as much as as I'd uh Fauci. Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_05It's kind of interesting about that. They um these vending machines uh it looks like a lot of oriental riding, is what it looks like.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, a lot of these are Asian, but apparently in Singapore, a French teen was charged at a vending machine. She was licking the straws, apparently, and shoving them back in the machine.
SPEAKER_09Oh.
SPEAKER_04But you don't do that in Singapore. French people.
SPEAKER_08Hey, you remember that in Singapore where the kid spit on the sidewalk and they kinged him? Yeah. So what happened to this girl? They cut her tongue off.
SPEAKER_04So this person is um getting like uh arrested, obviously, um, and put in jail. And I think the fine it says the fine carries a penalty of up to two years in prison.
SPEAKER_08Um, you know what? That's how that kid got out of prison because it was he could take prison or being publicly caned.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_07It says that the uh that the French student was uh studying business school in Singapore. I guess he missed that class about licking the straws for your business.
SPEAKER_08I like I like how they do business over there like this. Singapore? Yeah, because that automatically teaches you to respect and have honor for something.
SPEAKER_07And the else that was thinking, like, hey, I'm gonna do something of these straws, deface these straws, would think, remember that kid that got caned in the middle of yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_08If I went to Singapore, I would be on my P's and Q's.
SPEAKER_07Man, I wouldn't even go. Wow. I mean I don't think I can be on my P's and Q's well enough to be in Singapore. Do you know how many straw places I've gone by and like wanted to lick all of them? Oh, it's true. It's tempting.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Here's a little update. That guy, Michael Fay, he was the American teenager that was caned in 1994 for vandalism. Yeah. Um it's because he was spitting on the sidewalk. And President Clinton got involved and intervened, uh, reducing That's why they beat him. That instead of beating him, right? Instead of beating him, like, what was it? The original was he was gonna get beaten six times, but he received only four times.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I've uh four strokes? I don't think so. I think it was like they came in and they were like, You called slick Willie, that's it. And then they they increased it. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_06It went from four to six, it went to four to six.
SPEAKER_07He was gonna get four, and then when Bill Clinton called, they were like, Nope, we're making it six now. You're making it worse. Yeah, and he was like, I'm gonna get Hillary. Yeah. It wouldn't be prudent.
SPEAKER_04Well, later he was arrested for Bill? No.
SPEAKER_06For what?
SPEAKER_05I don't want to get into this kid.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, please do. Yeah, it was arrested. Rabbit trail down of dirtiness.
SPEAKER_04So, yeah, so you they I mean, here's the thing, you go to these other countries, you you gotta be aware of that you're not in America anymore and you can't do everything that you think that you want to do.
SPEAKER_08We have some friends that um getting married and they're going on uh um honeymoon to Japan, and they are wise beyond their weir years because they looked up the culture in Japan and got tips and tricks of what to do and what not to do while you're there in Japan. Like things that be socially acceptable here would not be there.
SPEAKER_07So they get like eye tape to like hold your eyes out of the room.
SPEAKER_04No, you would never do that. That's totally unacceptable.
SPEAKER_08Just to fit in. But here's an example is that you when you're walking down the street on the sidewalk or whatever in public, it's culturally unacceptable to eat and drink while you're out walking around, or if you're on a public transit, like a subway or something, it's culturally unacceptable to eat on there.
SPEAKER_04And there's no trash can, so you have to have like carry like a little trash bag with you, and that's what you put all your trash in.
SPEAKER_08Granted, this is what we're I haven't done the research, this is just hearsay, but I mean it makes sense, and that's why they're very clean streets and very honorable people, and I think we can learn something from that culture.
SPEAKER_04I mean, when I went overseas, uh the we had like a debriefing of it.
SPEAKER_07They are definitely honorable.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we had a debriefing of like these are the things that you do, and here's what you don't do, and here's the words that you can use, and here's what you don't use.
SPEAKER_07And you say do do?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, interesting.
SPEAKER_07A Chinese a Japanese person wouldn't have made that joke. No.
SPEAKER_04They would not.
SPEAKER_07They are honorable people. I know if they mess up, they fix their problems.
SPEAKER_04That's true. All right, so here's another one. Applebee's manager saves people from a tornado.
SPEAKER_08Wow.
SPEAKER_04So this is an interesting story.
SPEAKER_08And it's a story about your past.
SPEAKER_04This is pretty, it's pretty interesting. So uh because I used to work for Applebee's Um International and open up stores, so I saw this, I was like, hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar to me. Uh, but Applebee's worker was praised for sheltering 50 people as a tornado barreled down towards them in Michigan.
SPEAKER_07It's a big, big worker then, huh?
SPEAKER_04Um it says when we got the tornado warning, we were like, There's no way.
SPEAKER_08Shelter 50 people. All he eats is Applebee's. Right, yeah. And this people are scared because they're they think that he's gonna eat them. Yeah. I'm trying to protect you.
SPEAKER_05It's like be quiet.
SPEAKER_07You don't look tempting. I'm helping.
SPEAKER_05Some butter on him.
SPEAKER_07Get my big work here, dummy. Good, go, good, go, go, go.
SPEAKER_05Oh, so it said uh it was very quick. Um, it hit so hard and it was unexpected. That's the person that landed on.
SPEAKER_04I'm glad that everybody was able to get um somewhere safe and uh walk away from the situation. So apparently, you know, I came back in and I heard everyone's phone going off, and every guest, every bartender, everybody was like freaking out because the tornado was happening, and this person sheltered them. Um she uh she led all the guests and staff into a prep kitchen where there was no windows. It was a tight squeeze, but it was their best chance of shelter. I'm gonna put a pin in that because I got some information about that. After everyone was inside, she peeked her head out one last time and saw that a man and his dog were sitting in a pickup truck outside the restaurant, as well as the boy on his phone who seemed like he was waiting for someone, and she told the man and the boy to come inside.
SPEAKER_08Okay, before before you get into it, before you get into it, just ask yourself this question before you put your commentary. How many people have you saved in a her in a hurricane or tornado?
SPEAKER_04Well, um that's more than 50? Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_07There was like So you're saying you're bigger than she is.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no, I'm not saying I'm bigger than she is.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_05Jared, I'm about to come across the sale.
SPEAKER_06Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_05Oh my goodness, that filter, where is it, Jared?
SPEAKER_07I mean, you know what I mean. I'm a big better. I'm a better one. Is that what you meant? Yeah, I'm a bigger than she is. The way you worded it when you said she sheltered 50. People. And you said you've sheltered more. Yeah, I did not say sheltered.
SPEAKER_04I did not say sheltered. So I was I used to open up restaurants. I used to open up Applebee's and I would travel around and open them up at like um the new restaurants and I would supervise them. And we were in Weatherford, Texas, and we were opening a restaurant. And what you do anytime that you're opening these Trinity American restaurants, that you have a VIP or a friends and family night before the restaurant goes live and opens. A solid opener. So you'll have like on a Friday night, everybody can invite like so many friends and family, and then they come in and they eat and you kind of practice on them. And you'll have like 150, anywhere from 80 to 150 employees. I've been there. Okay. Soft openings. Yeah, they're soft openings. And you can have anywhere from 80 to 150 employees in the building at the time when this is going on. Well, this was a night that was this was happening, and it started like it was towards the end of the night. So it wasn't a packed restaurant, but it was like three foot, maybe a third full in in the seating area. And one of the guests came and found me and said, Are you in charge right now of what's going on? I was like, Yeah, I'm in charge of and he said, Well, I am an an executive um uh storm chaser, and uh my team is out, and they are they are that at that time they had beepers and they're they're messaging me that there is um tornadic activity in the area and this was a long time ago.
SPEAKER_07This was in the 70s, but it was not the 70s. Beepers.
SPEAKER_04This was in the late 90s.
SPEAKER_07So yeah, you're talking about early 80s.
SPEAKER_04Like no, I'm talking about late 90s.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Oh, okay. So they were they just weren't up to technology. Maybe not, yeah. They were still using beepers.
SPEAKER_04He said that there was a tornado that there's bad tornadic activity, a supercell that's coming into the area. Bill Paxton. And we need to, yeah, it was Bill Paxton.
SPEAKER_08Okay. It's chasing that storm. You can trust him.
SPEAKER_04And Helen Hunt came around the corner and said, you need to put have a plan.
SPEAKER_08Get a belt, a wrap around some. That's right.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that belt. That belt that wrapped around that pipe.
SPEAKER_08Okay, yeah, put Dorothy out. When'd you put Dorothy out?
SPEAKER_04No, stop talking. Okay, so uh so he said you need to have a plan. So I got all of the employees together, and the plan is not to be in the prep kitchen like this, but to be in the walk-in coolers. The walk-in coolers at a restaurant, whether it be a Wendy's or an Applebee's or any kind of like fast food, any kind of restaurant that you're at. If you are ever near like a tornado and you are near like a fast food restaurant or like a chain restaurant, go in there and just go into their walk-in cooler or say, hey, I'm going to let's all go to the walk-in cooler.
SPEAKER_07Folks, you heard it here first. If you are ever in a danger and there is a restaurant around, go inside their walk-in cooler. Don't even stop and ask them. No problem. Just go inside, you know, and you'll you'll be able to, you'll be, you'll be greeted with nothing but love.
SPEAKER_04So you go because the walk-in coolers are um they're stainless steel and they're concreted with like bolts into the concrete, into the foundation. So they're not going anywhere. And there's multiple stories of where like tornadoes have hit restaurants, and the only thing standing is the walk-in cooler. And so I had everybody get in the walk-in cooler, or also you have so many people, so you've got walk-in coolers, you also got the bathrooms. So we that was the plan. And it came to where uh the the executive storm chaser said, take action right now. There's a tornado on the ground and it's coming. And the target, and he showed me the target was Applebee's, it was headed towards the tornado had told him, like, our target.
SPEAKER_07Apparently, the tornado told him for you.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and so we all got into our office, and I shut the door of the walk-in cooler because you have to like shut it from the outside of like shutting them in, and the ceiling started coming off.
SPEAKER_07You stayed out?
SPEAKER_04I was out because I was making sure of the colour.
SPEAKER_08So you couldn't say like you locked them in there. She was still like running tables, like drinks and I had to make some money. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So you locked a bunch of people in a cooler.
SPEAKER_04So I put the people in the cooler, put people in um the bathrooms. I had to make sure the people in the bathroom.
SPEAKER_07Because you had so many people.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, because there was like 80 to 90 people that I was taking care of. And so I'm running around and the ceiling's coming off, and it's like the tornado's happening, and Table 26 is low on T.
SPEAKER_07So this this story ain't nothing.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so I mean it was it was crazy. This isn't news. Your story's news. That's interesting.
SPEAKER_07I like yours from 50 years ago, by the way.
SPEAKER_08What's next? What's next in the news too?
SPEAKER_07They had just learned to call them tornadoes.
SPEAKER_08There's a thing in the sky that's coming down the ground.
SPEAKER_04Well, there's another there's an an another like horrible, horrible, one of the biggest recorded tornadoes like like storms of all time is in Moore, Oklahoma. And I wasn't at that opening. I thought you were talking about opening right before this, the Applebee's opening right before this. Um my like colleagues were at that opening, and that was even more severe than what I'm describing.
SPEAKER_07Is that how y'all would open Applebee's wherever storms were going? Like, this is where we go to the next one.
SPEAKER_08We're opening in the spring, and it's gonna be in Tornado Alley.
SPEAKER_04It was horrible.
SPEAKER_08We're the target. So yeah. And then we're the sky's angry, we're gonna put firm food.
SPEAKER_04I was in a tornado, like in opening Applebee's there, and the same thing kind of happened. So this is like, I don't know if the tornadoes are following the Applebee's.
SPEAKER_07Well, you said that was the target. So it was interesting. These tornadoes are getting together and saying, listen, we've almost wiped the Applebee's out, we gotta move on to another restaurant. Plus, Amber quit. You know, the tornadoes are just like, well, what's even the use then? So I'm glad that all these people are safe, and I'm glad that the person like I am too, but I'm glad we're here with you though, Amber, because if we if we wanted someone to save, I I believe you would shelter us better than whatever those people do. 50 people you'd get us to the closest restaurant freezer you could.
SPEAKER_04The kids and I were in a car one time and we're driving, and a hell storm happened. I mean, like chunks of hell, and we pull over and we go into a Wendy's, and my kids were little, and the manager, like all the alarms were going off, like on people's phones and everything. And the manager was just I went to the manager and I said, Listen, I said, if the She's taking a good trial. I told her, I told the manager because I've got my little kid, we've got our babies. It's just like if the tornado, if if it says that there is a tornado on the ground, I'm taking my kids into your walk-in cooler, and anybody that wants to come with me can come with me. She's like, Well, you're not gonna be able to do that, ma'am. And I was like, Well, you try to stop me because you need to and all the time.
SPEAKER_07I have no idea you were a gangster, Amber. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'm like, you bomb the back.
SPEAKER_07And then you grab the fries right out of the out of the oil or something.
SPEAKER_04And I need three frost. And a biggie fry, and I'm getting in that walk-in cooler.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah. You think that'd be enough?
SPEAKER_04I don't care. I went full mama bear.
SPEAKER_07Did you have to go in there?
SPEAKER_04No.
SPEAKER_07You're like, no, they they arrested me right there. I went downtown because they don't actually come through, but uh, did have to get my mug shot. Yeah, took my kids away and put bracelets on me. That's pretty nice, they were matching. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay, did y'all hear about this? Okay, we live near Mount Juliet in Tennessee here. It's right outside of Nashville.
SPEAKER_08Did y'all hear about this emu attack that happened in that Liberty commercial went wrong?
SPEAKER_07I never heard of it. Is it like a kid that wears all black? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Here it is.
SPEAKER_07Okay, here we go. Emo. Okay, my bad.
SPEAKER_02911, what's the location of your emergency?
SPEAKER_03Ann Edwards says she isn't able to use her left arm after suffering bruising across her left side. All from what started as a simple walk with her dog Thursday morning towards the house and that emo is behind you guys.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. When I saw him barking and looking behind me, my dog, I turned around and I saw that thing. And I thought, what in the world am I gonna do?
SPEAKER_02Compare spray, but he can't he kept chasing me and I failed. He got hurt.
SPEAKER_01She said, construction workers rushed to help over and had a big board and was shooing him away and helped me up. And it was still after me. He had to f they had to follow me home.
SPEAKER_03She wasn't the only one who spotted this bird. Come out of the woods and walk across to a house within like their front yard. And I saw it, and I thought that was very odd. Katie Patterson says she also called for help. I don't know where that is.
SPEAKER_09Why are they calling for help?
SPEAKER_07Why aren't they just helping?
SPEAKER_09Hey, listen, there's a angry duck out here and it's large.
SPEAKER_07I'm like, everyone's on the phone, apparently. These people helped a giant bird. They got people on the phone going, hey, Lennon. You should see this. This lady's out here wrestling this doggone bird. There's a miniature ostrich out here. These people are bruising their minds. We should probably call help.
SPEAKER_05Another one there's a lady that's like 20 feet from me, and she's getting attacked by a giant bird. What should I do?
SPEAKER_07What kind of bird is it? It's an emu. Looks like he's tearing her flesh right now. I don't know what. He's definitely bruised her up. He's bruised her up a good bit. He's eating her face. It does not look comfortable, I'll tell you that. People are just interviewing. Yeah, I saw it. I was washed in right there. Where were you? It happened right here.
SPEAKER_08We got our lawn chairs, some popcorn, and we watched the whole thing. Where were you when this happened?
SPEAKER_07Right right here. Where did it happen? Right here. Did you do anything? I watched. I watched it. I did call Henry. I found it. I got a little called. I'm gonna come outside. Tell him to bring the boys. It's free entertainment.
SPEAKER_05Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_07Goodness crazy.
SPEAKER_05I did not hear about this until I saw this.
SPEAKER_07What did they do with the emu?
SPEAKER_08Okay, so this begs the question because I mean, emu, I think I'd have enough courage to go off and try to shoe away emu from old lake. But let's just say there's some exotic animals. Let's say it's Tiger King in the area, and he won't financially recover from this. That's my favorite line. And there's a tiger loose. I'll never financially recover. And there's a tiger loose out in the the tiger different than an emu. That's what I'm saying. So I don't know if I'd have that much courage trying to shoe away a tiger, but emu, yeah, I'm out there. I'm like, hey, emu.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'm out there with like if she said something with a two by four. I think emu, I'd even go, I'd go, you know, naked, as they say. Yeah. Meaning I wouldn't wear any clothes. Yeah. Oh. Wow. You and the emu, yeah. Then we walk off into the sunset together. No, I mean, like, you know, I would go with no no weapons. I think I could shoe him out of there with nothing. Yeah. If I have a two by four, I don't want to get away. Dumb chucks or butterfly knife.
SPEAKER_04How do you protect yourself? You make yourself big, you know, like all the the like what you're supposed to do on a bear attacks? Like what are you supposed to do in an emu?
SPEAKER_07Like, intimidation's not really a big factor that I have. I have to just go for you know, just experience. And once he gets in that water with me, the swimming. I just I take him out to that deep water and I go, Oh, where are you? It's just like it's water figuratively speaking. Oh the fight is the water. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because I was thinking a bird and water, that's already gonna be like bad for the bird.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. But let us he know I can't swim either, so we're both in trouble, big dog. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04That sounds like a good plan, Jared.
SPEAKER_07Go down a window. What else you have?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so, anyways, I was wondering if y'all heard it all day.
SPEAKER_07No, we hadn't heard about a bird attacking some lady in Mount Juan.
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, have you heard about Bigfoot the musical?
SPEAKER_07I wish I hadn't. Inform me of it.
SPEAKER_08Oh man.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_05I think the lady is like a ice combination.
SPEAKER_07Does that say Bigfoot a new musical? As opposed to the old one?
SPEAKER_04This is a musical.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, apparently.
SPEAKER_07It's called Harry and Henderson's. Hey, that was a good show. It was. I really like that show. Yeah. I did not know this was out. No, it is not news. And I'm actually a little upset that you've informed me about it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I just thought everybody needed to know that Bigfoot the Musical has come out.
SPEAKER_08And it says there a wave of alleged Bigfoot sightings in Northeast Ohio.
SPEAKER_04Northeast Ohio.
SPEAKER_08That's what it says. I don't know. He gets around Bigfoot.
SPEAKER_04Apparently so. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08That picture is taken in the Pacific uh Pacific Northwest ocean.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, somewhere in the Wash Washington or that's where they're real popular. Okay.
SPEAKER_08A big community, big Bigfoot community.
SPEAKER_07No, I will not be attending the Bigfoot musical. My daughters are going to a musical this year.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah?
SPEAKER_07Yep. To a local here at T Tac. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04What musical's that?
SPEAKER_07Yeah. My oldest daughter bought for her sister for her birthday, got her them tickets to go see Hamilton. Oh, that's nice that she did that.
SPEAKER_04How about that? She's so thoughtful. She's gonna be in a musical, so she's pretty amazing.
SPEAKER_07Wow. She's gonna see her. She's ready.
SPEAKER_04Very talented. So yeah, that's all the news. I thought, you know, Bigfoot news.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I've got through that. Yeah. Jeez.
SPEAKER_04Attacking emos and uh Bigfoot's singing dance numbers. Yeah, there you go. Interesting news going on right now.
SPEAKER_08Time for what's the punchline? We're gonna show you some funny clips. It's gonna be amazing. Uh Amber's already got him queued up. Sometimes you have to let it warm up. It's like letting your old uh 1970 truck warm up. Uh but we'll go with the first one here.
SPEAKER_07It's like getting ice cream. You gotta sit it out for a little bit. Yeah, before you cut into it.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Uh slushy. See, like I'm saying, it's got a warm up. You mentioned this. Yeah, but it's gonna be great, I promise. So getting the soft sweet.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Okay. Okay. We have uh an Asian man uh dropping some of the thing you got of the Vinny machine. Yeah, two little oranges. Look like oranges.
SPEAKER_08Look like oranges, maybe that have been depeeled. I think this is inside that vinny machine that you don't see. This is how it's getting done.
SPEAKER_07I think you may be on the show.
SPEAKER_05There's just a little man in there that's mixing up your orange juice.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and then and he gets he's like, doo! Oh, you have to do both of them now. And then he got Mac of the straws.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so I'm I'm guessing he's gonna drink it and something's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_04That's what I'm guessing. All right, nah. Let's see. So we'll see what happens.
SPEAKER_07I think he's gonna keep keep mixing stuff to it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Did he go? Meeple!
SPEAKER_07Dingo.
SPEAKER_05He's gonna be very happy.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, well, look what he's making. You wouldn't be.
SPEAKER_09Now we know what happened to the straws.
SPEAKER_07He's not good. Please don't suck.
SPEAKER_04Oh no.
SPEAKER_07You know that was very citrusy.
SPEAKER_04If you were watching, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_07Guy just snorted orange juice.
SPEAKER_04If you're listening, yeah, the guy just snorted orange juice.
SPEAKER_07Only on his left nostril, though. That right one didn't get up the straw.
SPEAKER_04He didn't use the neti pot on that.
SPEAKER_07That left one definitely was clogged. It was clogged up. Yep. Allergies.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this is what's happening. This is why that kid got flogged and why he's getting arrested.
SPEAKER_07He wanted to lick those straws. Man. I genuinely say, like, I honestly believe like most Asians are more intelligent than most Americans. But it's videos like this that will have me wondering sometimes. Like, am I right though?
SPEAKER_04That's wild.
SPEAKER_07That's wild. Because that's just not a smart thing to do. I see some white trash could do that maybe. Yeah. I usually am not used to seeing like an Asian guy go, let's snort some orange juice. Like Rhonda in the back of a trailer park. Yeah. Yeah, you know, like they have the frozen orange juice, maybe, that they got on with their food stamps or whatever. They're concentrated, and they're like looking at it. Yeah, they're like, why don't we snort this? Yeah, I can see that.
SPEAKER_08But that guy looked like he just got out of school. Second one, llama road rage. It's good stuff. Llama Road Rage.
SPEAKER_07Somebody's throwing stuff. Oh.
SPEAKER_09His face.
SPEAKER_08It looks like it's trying to eat what's in that. That's exactly right. He got busted trying to eat those berries or small potatoes, whatever it is.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he's trying to eat. He looks very like mad.
SPEAKER_07He looks like he was gonna get those berries, but since they honked, he's now changed his mind.
SPEAKER_04I know exactly what's gonna happen. I haven't seen this, but I know it's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah?
SPEAKER_04He's gonna spit on that guy's windshield.
SPEAKER_07Is he?
SPEAKER_04Because that's what llamas do. Careful, they spit. They spit. So that's what I think. What do you think?
SPEAKER_07I mean, I like the way you say it. I don't know if llama, I think he's definitely gonna get retaliation for that dude honking at it. What if he pulls out a glide? The llama?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, right there in this little side. Oh, the heater. Hey, hey!
SPEAKER_07Amber knew it. Amber's pissed off a llama or two.
SPEAKER_05I have been spit at by a llama.
SPEAKER_07She's like, they'll spit at you. They will. Look at the accuracy.
SPEAKER_05That's gross.
SPEAKER_08I mean, if that window wasn't there, that dude's getting.
SPEAKER_07No, I mean that llama looks like he's. Yeah. I mean, he looks I mean he spit he spit as well as a Dominican baseball player. It looks like he's got another one in the chamber. Oh, he does. Yeah, he's locked and loaded. That's not a that's not a once and done thing.
SPEAKER_04That is true, because they will spit multiple times.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, he's got a banana clip on that one. He's ready to go.
SPEAKER_08All right. This is uh taking gramps to Starbucks. Okay. All right. Okay.
SPEAKER_07Want to say what you got, Chad?
SPEAKER_00What do you guys want?
SPEAKER_07That's it. Very short. All right. Let me. What do you guys want? Let me do an amber look at it. Well, he is driving a Tesla. Yeah. So their order's probably going to be a long order, and he's not going to want to have to say all the he's going to tell them to shut up and take their coffee black or something.
SPEAKER_04I agree. I think that that's it.
SPEAKER_07I say that because I see the steering wheels of Tesla.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I think he is going old school on them.
SPEAKER_08But he's not he's old school, but he's fancy old school. Apparently driving a Tesla. Somebody bought it for him. Oh, okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Alright, let's see what happens.
SPEAKER_00What do you guys want? Uh let me get a frate mutate. And then uh let me get a Trenta pinkity drinkity. Trenta? Trinkity pinkity dinkity and uh prate mate. What this? Propte mate and a sprinkity pinkity. Prate mate. Latte mate. I don't think we got one of those. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. My first time. Pinkity dinkity. Pinkity dinky.
SPEAKER_08What? They're just having fun with him. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I wish he would have gone old school on them, though.
SPEAKER_08Order a pinkity dinkity.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_04He's being super nice.
SPEAKER_07Right.
SPEAKER_04Because most guys his age, I don't think.
SPEAKER_07Would not turn to somebody else and go, I'd like to order a pinkity dinkity. Right.
SPEAKER_04If I asked my dad to order me a pinkity dinkity, he would be like, I'm not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_07You know what my dad would do? I'd be like, give me a pinkity dinkity. He'd look at me go, just coffee black. Yeah. Like, whatever I just said, it went right here. Like, I'm not, no, I'm not saying that. He'd be like, no, he says he's not thirsty. He says he's not thirsty. Yeah. He'd be like, Well, what do you want? I go, tell me to get me a pinkity dinkity. I'll have a coffee. And he said, He's not thirsty. Yes.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. I think, yeah, this guy's a um uh just a little naive, I think.
SPEAKER_07He said it was his first time.
SPEAKER_04Lori's so nice. He's just a nice guy.
SPEAKER_08I'm not saying naive about his uh grandchildren, that they are uh just naive to the drinks. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. All right. So moving on, we're gonna go through some serious takes here. Yeah, this is where uh we get into a heated debate about life issues, serious life issues. The first one is um when isn't when was the last time you were you were startled?
SPEAKER_04You were like startled.
SPEAKER_08Like something happened to you, and you just like it could have been just like you know, jumped out of the closet like a kid, like ah boo. Oh, I know for me. I know exactly for you. Um I thought about that too after I wrote that down, but like, I don't know. Last time you were like kind of like, whoa, what was that? You gotta go back in Rodex?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, man, I don't get startled super easy. Eden called me once, really panicked, because uh she was in the car with my mom and they had hit a deer. And it was like the first car wreck, and I go directly like, you know, we gotta stop the car, we can't drive home. I had to go pick them up. That's scary. And it was like uh I was working at the time, you had to be at work at like three, and this is like at you know, eleven o'clock at night, you know, I'm already asleep, and they've called like grandmomas hit a deer. And that startled me because I wouldn't I didn't get any information. I just like I was like, Where are you? And you're coming out of sleep. I've been waking up and then calling to the get the keys, and now I'm like on the or like where where am I going? Like, I don't know what's happened other than there's been a wreck. I didn't know it's a deer. I just know I'm on my way. So maybe that's the Last time I was startled. So I'd say maybe you know a year.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Year and a half ago.
SPEAKER_04That is startling.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_04That's scary.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_04When your daughter and your mom are getting erect. Yeah, I was worried about my daughter.
SPEAKER_07Very scary.
SPEAKER_04Stop it.
SPEAKER_08She'll love that. So I could tell you the last time that Amber and I was startled together. And it was just kind of, whoa, it's you know, we're at our fire pit and we're hanging out. We have the dogs out there, and it's every bit probably close to 9:30, 10 o'clock at night. We've been out there for a couple hours burning some wood, talking and just hanging out, chilling. And we have the all the lights off, mainly because we don't like a lot of light pollution while we're just hanging outside because we can see the stars, whatever, enjoy the fire pit. So it's it is pretty dark out there. And so um all of a sudden, near us, like right behind us, the sound uh came out of the woods right behind us, and it almost sounded like you know, at the Predators game or some hockey games, they had the siren that they have to crank up. You know how it starts off slow and and goes higher and higher. Well, it was a high pitch, and it started off very low in volume, and it's got higher and higher. It was like very high, and that lasted for maybe 10 seconds, and then it ended with a real deep little um like a I thought was a hoot. Um, Amber immediately thought it was a coyote, and but we were both, it's not a sign you hear every day, and it came out of nowhere, and we're in the dark in the backyard, so it's like, what in the world? Right behind us, right behind us. So do we have coyotes? Uh yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. Yep.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I've seen them like I've seen one walk through our yard.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. And so that's we I later found out that's what she thought. But we mainly stood up and looked around, and we got to the dogs inside, and we're like, well, what in the world? And kind of investigated some things. And it was already late, so we're just like, I already was packing our bags up and just head inside. So we just went inside. Um, but uh doing some investigation, I later found out I think it was a barn owl. Amber thought it was a coyote.
SPEAKER_04I initially thought it was a coyote because this is the season that coyotes can like come out and uh they're mating, so they're more aggressive. And they so I with our dogs being out there and us being out, I was like, we gotta get inside.
SPEAKER_07Do we have many wild coyotes? I didn't realize that.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you had asked you can hear packs of them yipping when when we're sitting out in the fire pit, you can hear them.
SPEAKER_08If you hear if you had asked anybody else, you would have thought that it was a tryout for the musical because some people think that was a Bigfoot.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_04It was loud though. It was like a it was so loud and it was right behind us.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_04All right. Yeah, it was creepy. So why'd you bring that up? I don't know.
SPEAKER_08I'm gonna see if you, you know, get scared.
SPEAKER_07Anybody else startled easily or um Yeah, like but you mean like scared, like if somebody were to jump out. I'm not uh fight or flight guy? I don't know if that means I'm not trying to be in a braggadocious way, so I don't know if it makes me look great or not. No, I understand what you're saying. But like I because I think it probably could be a negative, but I could see where people be like, oh, but like no, like if something you know jerks in front of me or something like that, that doesn't uh I don't I don't jerk back a lot. I'm not really like, oh, I don't pee myself. Right. Yeah. I I'm the same way. I'm cool under pressure, which is could be good or bad, because a really bad situation could be going on, and I'm right. No, it's all right. I'm a commentator. It's a lot of blood, but you'll be all right. Right.
SPEAKER_04I commentate. So when somebody like jumps out, I'm like, oh, you startle me. Or like if somebody tries to scare me, you scare me. Like I just say what I'm feeling out loud, and I don't know if that's the best thing to do.
SPEAKER_07Right. Yeah, boring. No, you shouldn't do that. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04But I do that like when I when I go and see like comedians or something, I'll I'll laugh, but I'll be like, that's I'll just say, that's funny. That's really, really funny. That's funny. Yeah, like that accommodate my feelings.
SPEAKER_08Mm-hmm. All the time. That's interesting. Yeah. So uh just just interesting. Okay, all right. Here's here's a uh more of a debatable thing here. Uh should the tipping culture end? Tipping, should it end? Meaning that should waiters and waitresses just get a a standard raising raising their salaries and the tipping ends, or even if because listen, as we live and breathe, wherever you go, everyone's got the automatic pay and they're asking you for the tip. No matter what it is.
SPEAKER_04I think those are two different things because what warrants a tip, I believe should get a tip. And what does not warrant a tip, we need to let go of. And I think we've gotten into a uh area now in today's society that almost everything is asking for a tip.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_04But there are things that I do think people should tip. So I think it's two different categories.
SPEAKER_08So here when I go to a restaurant and you order a food, and your food is gonna be um you have to pick it up yourself. You order from the counter and then you then you have to go pick it up yourself, or sometimes they'll bring it out to you, but they're not coming and refilling your drinks and and bringing you more napkins, or they're just not checking on your table constantly. That's different. But when you go to a counter, order something, and you pick it up the counter again, or they bring it out to you, I I don't know. I don't think they should be tipping because I almost feel obligated to tip because if I don't tip, I I think if I don't tip, are they gonna not do something to my food but be not as honorable with my food or care about my food? Because I haven't got it yet.
SPEAKER_07I'll say like as I used to be a waiter, I've never understood why that industry is the only industry that that does that, where like the the company isn't really responsible for paying their employee. Like you're the employee is responsible for getting the customers that they're bringing in to give extra money. I've never understood, and I'll say that as a waiter, like you know, or I'm not now, but once was. I never understood why it was like that. Because if you go to Circuit City, which was a store back in the day, and you were gonna go buy a home entertainment system, there was a guy that you spoke to in the home entertainment system that would show you the difference or let you go into a room and try these speakers or do this, why would you not tip that guy? But you tip the guy that brought your water. So I always feel like it was that the owner of that restaurant. It's your responsibility to pay the employees to come in here. And if people I I think the ability to tip is great, and you can have it everywhere. I don't like you asking me, but I think if you have the ability, if the I mean, when you ask me on the screen, that's fine. But for you to physically that, do you want to donate to the if you want to have something up there where I can easily just go no or yes if I do want to give to it, I'm okay with that. But I think the restaurant should be paying these people. And if you want to get a good waiter, then you'll pay. And they're like, well, the you know, the how good well then you pay for it, pay for a good waiter, then pay for someone who's gonna do a good job and pay them an amount of money that's worth it.
SPEAKER_08So we went to this um the venue to go see Jerry Seinfeld. We were talking about the other episode. I went to get a couple of uh seltzers, like uh the sparkling water things, um, not the hard seltzer because we don't drink alcohol, but just sparkling water and just need two of them, and the refrigerator was directly behind this lady. She just had to do this, that's it. And I paid for it, and then on the screen it says, Would you like to tip? And then it had it started off with 25%, then 18, and then whatever, whatever. All these big tips. Zero wasn't one of them, was it? Well, at the very bottom it said no, it was at the smallest button, and I I looked for it and I clicked no. But I had I had zero guilt about that because like you didn't really do anything, right? You just stood there. I had to pay. You didn't take my card, I had to pay. Right.
SPEAKER_07And I'm okay with that though, because it's all a qu it's not an interaction where I have to look at you and go, no, I'm not giving you money for turning around.
SPEAKER_04I have some takes on this just from being in the restaurant industry. So one thing is that tip, the word tip means to ensure proper service. So it used to be years and years and years ago, it's that you tip people ahead of time so that they would take care of you. And so that's how it used to be. So it's interesting that we've gotten to a point where you're tipping after everything. So it used to be where you tip ahead of time, and then you could tip more at the end, but you're tipping so that they're going to give you proper service.
SPEAKER_07That would make sense. Like if you're like running behind, you're like, hey, I need my food quick, here's an extra ten bucks.
SPEAKER_04And so the thing about like the restaurants pay my take on the thing about the restaurants paying like their servers enough and then they don't get tipped is that they're just like with the the office depot guy or the whoever guy giving service, is that you're giving just the minimum service of an exchange of goods and services. You're giving exchange. The guy showing you where your computer is and they can go like at an office depot, that's just a simple exchange of services. So you're not tipping that guy, and the company's paying for that. The restaurant is paying for a simple exchange of goods and services, of you bring their food, you deliver their food, you fill up their glasses, that's it. But a server should go above and beyond those simple services in order for them to be tipped. So they should be like, like, what do you think is the best thing on the menu? Okay, I'm giving you my take on that. Well, how do I get from here to you know the the movie theater? Or I well, what do you think about um like we want to order this or that, and they're giving their their advice, or they're coming up and they're like giving them like you know, hey, there's some uh really cool thing that we just added to the menu, and let me tell you you're getting all the like the inside information and some personality, and it's personality and it's super extra service than what just the goods and services, and that's what you're tipping for.
SPEAKER_07I think you should hire that, is what I'm saying. Yeah, instead of having people that are working and doing all that song and dance for a tip, why don't you just pay somebody that you know is a good because the server is gonna wait make way more money, way more money.
SPEAKER_04If if the if the restaurant is required to pay the server X amount of money in their margins, they're not gonna be able to afford that. But if the server is able to figure out tips, they can figure it out.
SPEAKER_07Like if if if you like you get a percentage of whatever you whatever you sell to the Yeah, you could.
SPEAKER_04No server, no good.
SPEAKER_07You can work that you can figure out the mathematically if they order a $40 meal, then the server gets $10 and the restaurant gets $30.
SPEAKER_04I understand what you're saying, but no good server or no good bartender would be on board with that. Because, number one, they don't have to pay taxes on their tips.
SPEAKER_07Now.
SPEAKER_04Now, and it used to be where you only had to pay taxes.
SPEAKER_07But you're also saying if you're not an honest person, and I'm not saying that well, yes, I am saying anybody that like because when when I when I reported my tips, I reported all of it. I didn't lie online. Yeah, well I do know that uh some of the people that I worked with got upset with me too, but like I reported whatever I got.
SPEAKER_04Well, you're you're only legally required back then to record legally, but I'm talking about in here.
SPEAKER_07Like if I made $80, I'm not gonna put on here, I only made $20 because I didn't make $20, I made $80.
SPEAKER_04Right, but the but the the government only required you to claim 8% of your tips. And so but now you don't have to claim any of it because President Trump passed all that. But the thing is, is that if you get if you ask any server or bartender, they would tell you, I don't want the restaurant to pay me X amount of money. I want to work for tips because they will make a way, way more money. In fact, the the servers and the bartenders, specifically that bartenders at these like Trinity American restaurants, but servers also make more money than the managers do.
SPEAKER_07Because they're making it sound like the manager's in the wrong business to me.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I mean, but they get the benefits. So this is like a I don't know.
SPEAKER_08They get the benefit of sitting back in the office and watching sitcoms.
SPEAKER_04But I'm with you, Chad. I'm with you on if somebody's just turning around and giving you a drink and giving you a drink, the tip like what service are you providing you're just that has to end.
SPEAKER_08The whole kiosk asking when you're just face to face and they're turnaround or they're taking your order and then someone's gonna bring your order to the counter and you pick it up. That tipping service has got to stop. Yes. It's ridiculous. And I I say no every time.
SPEAKER_07I like them asked like if you go to the gas station and you're like, you fill up and you're like get some gum and you're like, you want to tip, and you're like, what?
SPEAKER_04Well, you know who you know who should be mad about that? Are the employees that work in the drive-thru. Because they do more than that person you're describing does, and they don't get tips.
SPEAKER_08Well, I don't know if that's shared. I mean, it could be where it's rolled out and shared, maybe because it's all electronic, but it's just crazy.
SPEAKER_04Now, I have worked in it, I have worked in a fundraiser like at Bridgestone, that they all of their concessions um are done by charity organizations that come in, like every single one of the concession stands is a charity organization that comes in and you are working, and any tips that you give to them go to their charity organization. So if you are buying a $15 Coke at Bridgestone and you want to tip a dollar, that dollar is not going to Bridgestone or it's not going to that Coke like concession. It's actually going to the charity, and I've worked for them, but you tell the people. You uh what I tell when I worked the registers there on like different charity organizations, like I would say.
SPEAKER_07But it better not go to charity.
SPEAKER_04Well, no, but I would say because you don't like charity.
SPEAKER_07I don't tip to charity, right?
SPEAKER_04Um, but you know, I would tell them, I was like, you know, and it's gonna ask for a tip, but it goes to our organization, and they'll be like, oh, what organization is it? And then I'll explain. And they're like, Oh, I'll tip because I like that organization, or you know, no, I'm not gonna tip. And I'm like, that's fine. But I think they shouldn't.
SPEAKER_07But if you don't like the organization, can you get a few dollars off?
SPEAKER_04Nah, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's weird how it works that way, huh?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, it's only a one-way street. Uh all right, here's another question. Uh, should schools maybe back down some of their advanced classes that they're offering, like advanced math, advanced chemistry, stuff like that, and offer more life skill classes, more trade-oriented, or more life skill, like hey, how to balance your checkbook, or hey, how to, you know, um, I don't know, take care, fix your dishwasher, or something like that. Uh here's how to um something basic like electricity, how to install like an um an outlet or a light switch or something. Something that can be used. Yeah, you're gonna be using those things more often in your life than advanced math.
SPEAKER_07Advanced trigonometry or how to load your front car.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I mean you'll you'll use that advanced math class to help you with the ACT question to get you to a really good school to take more advanced math to get you a nice job where you won't use that advanced math technically because you'll have tools to do that for you, but your problem solving skills. That's what I'm saying. You're learning more life skills and how to solve things around your leave a you know, vehicle or like hey, how to change a tire or how to change your oil or things of that nature.
SPEAKER_04So Yeah. I think like well, it's it could be both. I mean, they can they can um that you can are you saying that it's a requirement? I think that it should be a requirement for every high school student to learn how to balance their their checkbook or not necessarily a checkbook anymore because you don't really use that, but how to know how to balance your budget, how to do budgeting, how to do like how to not necessarily have to do their taxes, but what they need to keep for their taxes. So if they have somebody else do them, they have all those things. Or how to invest money, or how to invest money, you know, things like that.
SPEAKER_08Just finance like um uh finan financial things, you know.
SPEAKER_04How to pick an insurance provider, yeah.
SPEAKER_08How to wait in line at the DMV.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah, yeah. How to talk to a hobo who's asking you for money, how to talk to how to talk to that grocery store clerk who's asking you to round up. That's right, and know that hobos are people too.
SPEAKER_07Right.
SPEAKER_05That's true, yeah.
SPEAKER_07How to kick a cat.
SPEAKER_05There is a life skill.
SPEAKER_07I'd teach that class.
SPEAKER_05I'd teach that class.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. I mean, life skills, yes, I think they're underrated because I think schools should definitely do that. Yeah, I think so too. But I think that it does depend on like you're talking about like how to like like rewire something or plumbing or something, but that should be a specialty.
SPEAKER_08Well, no, no, no. Not like I mean, because elect like doing some plumbing or or electricity, uh, that can get kind of tricky because it can get really nuanced. But like I would say basic stuff, yeah, like for a toilet, how to replace one of the things in the toilet, like or like how to you know, like, hey, there's a bad switch, a light switch on the wall, how to how to do that properly. How to change your air filter. Right.
SPEAKER_04Right, and how to like what is it, the like spark plug in your car or like uh something simple. No, I can't do it. Something you're going to do.
SPEAKER_08I mean, it's not at some point, it's not simple, but it in the grand scheme of things, it it how to change your wiper blades. How to change headlights. Headlights, stuff like that. That's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_04I'll change the light bulb.
SPEAKER_07You saw Jerry Seinfeld the other week when me and my brother left. Both of his headlights. He was like, Man, both of mine are out. He goes, I've never seen them both go out at the same time like that. And I'm like, And so I got out, I was like, Yeah, both your headlights are out. He's like, huh. I go, were they working last night? He goes, I haven't driven this car at night in months. And I go, okay. This is on the way home? Yeah. We drove home with like with brights on. Oh, okay. You have something. Okay. We turned the brights on, yeah, but but we kept them off for a while, and like so many people who drove like lights! And he's like blinded on the key. I don't want to turn them on right now. Yeah, that's a change your headlights or something like that. Right.
SPEAKER_04How to home light? How to clean like certain things because a lot of people don't know hygiene, but also like how to clean your shower curtain. Put a little baking soda and vinegar in your wash machine. So, really, what we're describing is every YouTube video.
SPEAKER_07We want our schools to be a parent.
SPEAKER_08That's what we're putting. That's what we're supposed to teach. Yeah. I want more time to watch what I want to watch instead of parent my kid.
SPEAKER_05So we want our kids to take YouTube channel, like YouTube channel school, like how to do all this stuff. So, really, should they even need to go to school because you got YouTube?
SPEAKER_08Well, yeah, we're just saying a project. Here's a project for this, how to change up the thing in the toilet, and then you can cut the grass. Yeah, you can like learn how to do this by different YouTube links. And here's your materials, and you pass or fail based on how that toilet works. How do you think that's the same thing?
SPEAKER_04And you intern for you intern for other parents. So you like your your teenager goes to another thing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, my my toilet's clogged. Tell Timmy to get over here. Yeah, he's got tiny hands.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and I'll and I'll and I'll check off his little box that he took this class.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_05It's like, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Cleared my number two for me. Thanks. Timmy, you're number one.
SPEAKER_08Taking care of my number two.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, there you go. There you go.
SPEAKER_08Hey, this seriously.