Speaker 1: All right, it's Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 2: I was talking about how I'm going to this radio conference,
Speaker 2: the radio boot Camp Morning Show boot Camp. I got
Speaker 2: to ask a quick question. Do we have any bartenders
Speaker 2: that are listening to the show right now? I want
Speaker 2: to ask them this question. If we've got any of
Speaker 2: them listening, Lydia put them through right away.
Speaker 1: If they do, call So let me explain how this
Speaker 1: thing works.
Speaker 2: This place that we go to, we go to a
Speaker 2: just like you know a lot of people do you
Speaker 2: have a convention, but the conventions and a hotel like
Speaker 2: in their ballrooms and they have the meeting times all
Speaker 2: set up and stuff. But truly the different sessions and
Speaker 2: panels that they have are good. But the best things
Speaker 2: that you get at going to this thing is hanging
Speaker 2: out in the hotel bar. So hanging out in the
Speaker 2: hotel bar and getting a chance to talk to some
Speaker 2: people that are in the business, you know, like radio,
Speaker 2: other radio people, podcasters, television people have gone in the past.
Speaker 2: Uh there's been musicians like like in the last boot
Speaker 2: camp that I went to, uh, Lydia and I were
Speaker 2: so surprised we saw reality television stars because it was
Speaker 2: in La So there was a lot of reality TV
Speaker 2: stars that go there, which, by the way, I feel
Speaker 2: bad for reality TV stars because there's nothing Matt matt
Speaker 2: Ishba said something interesting one time. Matt Ishba said, you'd
Speaker 2: rather be rich than be famous because of a reality
Speaker 2: television star is just famous without being rich. And honestly,
Speaker 2: that's the truth. That the whole thing, because a reality
Speaker 2: television star doesn't necessarily make a lot of money, but.
Speaker 1: They're at Morning Show boot Camp, they're not rich.
Speaker 3: I cane you that there were a couple of the
Speaker 3: bachelors and bachelorettes that came because people come to the
Speaker 3: Morning Show boot Camp because there's potential advertisers for like
Speaker 3: their podcasts and things. Okay, the box, all right, so
Speaker 3: so let me let me talk talk why I want
Speaker 3: to talk to the about the bar thing. So, like
Speaker 3: I'm going with Lydia and Bianca. They're gonna both be
Speaker 3: there with me and we're gonna all hang out and
Speaker 3: we're gonna hang out around whatever the hotel bar is
Speaker 3: at this Hilton or whatever in Cleveland. And usually when
Speaker 3: I go to a bar, I will buy drink for myself,
Speaker 3: drink for Bianca, drink for Lydia. But I'll also buy, like,
Speaker 3: maybe a round for a few of the other radio
Speaker 3: people that are there. When you buy a round of
Speaker 3: drinks at a bar? Do bartenders hate it when you
Speaker 3: say When they say would you like to open a tab?
Speaker 3: I always say close it out. I don't like having
Speaker 3: a tab open.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you a couple of reasons why,
Speaker 2: and maybe you'll convince me that I'm doing this wrong.
Speaker 2: I always feel like when I have a tab open
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna end up spending more money. But am
Speaker 2: I spending more money by paying you out and tipping
Speaker 2: NonStop throughout the evening and doing like four or five
Speaker 2: of those? And do bartenders hate when you do the Hey?
Speaker 2: You know, just do a uh? You know, just close
Speaker 2: me out.
Speaker 4: When I go to the bar, I'm always scared to
Speaker 4: leave a tab open, So if they ask the question,
Speaker 4: I'm immediately like no, and then I start to order
Speaker 4: more after I do that. I'm not tipping crazy every
Speaker 4: time because I know I'm going to consistently order more drinks.
Speaker 4: I will tip every time, but it'll be incremental that
Speaker 4: will accumulate at the end of the night to one
Speaker 4: larger tip.
Speaker 1: If I just kept the tab open. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 5: But mine's more so also because when I'm ready to leave,
Speaker 5: I'm ready to leave next.
Speaker 3: I don't want to have to go find them wait
Speaker 3: in line, like I just want to go.
Speaker 2: Do Kevin, go back to that you're feeling uncomfortable having
Speaker 2: a tab open. Do you feel uncomfortable having a tab
Speaker 2: open because you think the bartenders going into the back
Speaker 2: and buying things online?
Speaker 4: No, I just one of the issues I guess I
Speaker 4: have or insecurities. I don't like somebody else being in
Speaker 4: possession of my card, so just to like give away
Speaker 4: the ownership of my card is like, I don't need
Speaker 4: to do all of that. Just me and we'll play
Speaker 4: this time. I definitely have a card.
Speaker 1: Didn't you lose your wallet? Shut up, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't like, honestly, them having my possession of a
Speaker 2: card too. I like, just swipe it and give me
Speaker 2: the card back, Like why do they have to have
Speaker 2: the possession of the card and they hold on to
Speaker 2: the card. It makes me feel like they're doing something
Speaker 2: wrong with it, you know, Like I'm gonna get next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna have like some lady in Indonesia
Speaker 2: that I bought something.
Speaker 1: For you know.
Speaker 6: Also, I've never thought about this yet that but like,
Speaker 6: people know who you are, and people know who you are.
Speaker 6: So if I'm at the bar and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 6: not not a good person, I could go up at
Speaker 6: the end of the night and be like, oh I
Speaker 6: want can I I need my card back? What's the
Speaker 6: name Anna Rob? And they give you They give me
Speaker 6: Anna's card? Has that ever happened?
Speaker 1: That would be crazy?
Speaker 7: How do they know that I'm not Ana Rob?
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: That would be crazy.
Speaker 2: Let's ask the bartender of this song with us, Carly
Speaker 2: here right now, Carly, I need your help, Carly.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I know all bars are different. I'm actually
Speaker 5: sitting in the parking lot. I'm about to go open
Speaker 5: the bar right now. But some bars are different. How
Speaker 5: we do it here When somebody does start a tab,
Speaker 5: I take your card long enough just to tab it
Speaker 5: and add it to the system itself, and then it
Speaker 5: gets handed right back. So I know that makes people
Speaker 5: feel a little bit more comfortable. But I will say,
Speaker 5: as a bartender, it gets a little easier if you
Speaker 5: keep the tab open and just come back and tell
Speaker 5: me the name. But we totally don't mind if you
Speaker 5: close it out and just come back more than once.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So what about the whole somebody going up
Speaker 2: to the bar in saying that they're your name and
Speaker 2: closing the tab out and then stealing your credit card
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: Did that ever happen to you at your bar?
Speaker 5: No, Like I said, we give everybody's cards right back
Speaker 5: to them. There'll be some instances where people come up
Speaker 5: and they'll try to add drinks to a tab, but
Speaker 5: we typically, unless you're the person that handed us the
Speaker 5: card physically will tell you no, like yeah, us, you
Speaker 5: need to start it to have yourself.
Speaker 1: Give me your car that too.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised that doesn't happen more like, oh, yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: on Kevin's tab.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but some well do try really hard.
Speaker 5: But I'm here enough. I've got some facial recognition, and
Speaker 5: I'm like.
Speaker 1: No, yeah.
Speaker 6: I always think about that at hotels as well, when
Speaker 6: they're like when I put something on my room, which
Speaker 6: I do all the time, and I say it loud enough,
Speaker 6: or I'm like, oh the last name or were four
Speaker 6: oh one whitlam? Yeah, the person next to me. You
Speaker 6: could just go up to the bar and be like,
Speaker 6: oh real, four oh one whitlaw?
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know what I mean that? Yeah, Carly,
Speaker 1: Carly is their bartender. Carly, how long you've been a bartender, Carly.
Speaker 5: I've been a bartender for about two and a half
Speaker 5: years now.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I don't know if that's considered tenure or whatever.
Speaker 4: But have you known other bartenders in your time to
Speaker 4: do stuff with people's cars, Like if you've ever seen
Speaker 4: somebody write down some card information or like we'll just
Speaker 4: say shop or anything like that.
Speaker 5: Not a bartender. There was one server that I worked
Speaker 5: with back in the day that she would like take
Speaker 5: people's cards and be like, I'm just gonna hold on
Speaker 5: to it since you've got a bigger group, and then
Speaker 5: she'd add a bunch of extra stuff to the cab.
Speaker 5: And I shut that down as soon as I found
Speaker 5: out she did it, because obviously, but it's very very rare.
Speaker 5: I'd say most of the people's industry kind of prefer
Speaker 5: to keep their job.
Speaker 1: Over a couple. Carly.
Speaker 2: Here's another quick question for you, because you said you're
Speaker 2: about to open up the bar, do you hate having
Speaker 2: to go in there and slice up limes?
Speaker 1: Lemons? Oranges things like that.
Speaker 5: Yes, I do. I actually have two scars directly next
Speaker 5: to each other on my first finger.
Speaker 1: Of the time.
Speaker 2: So you're the responsible one, though. The bartender that starts
Speaker 2: the day is usually the one that they trust the
Speaker 2: most because you're getting the day started for them.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Up, and I shut it down for him last night.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's a hard worker. Well to come
Speaker 2: over and see you, Carly. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I have a good day, guys.
Speaker 1: Sorry, take care of yourself. Nick. What's up? Nick? Hy Hey?
Speaker 9: I was just calling about the bars have thing about.
Speaker 9: It's funny for me because me and my friends we
Speaker 9: go out to the bars all the time, and at
Speaker 9: the end of the night, I always go to cast
Speaker 9: out and they always go up and sneak all their drinks.
Speaker 1: On my tab.
Speaker 2: Wait, these are friends of yours with friends like those. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my best friend who needs enemies?
Speaker 1: Right? That's that's great.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's great.
Speaker 9: It's amazing.
Speaker 8: At the end of the night, you think it's going
Speaker 8: to be like twenty five bucks and it ends up
Speaker 8: being like sixty.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. What bars do you hang out at? Nick?
Speaker 9: Just in Toledo at all kinds of bars ever around.
Speaker 1: Okay, I go to the spot all the time, this
Speaker 1: random places. All right, cool, thanks Beddy, appreciate it. What's up, Jam?
Speaker 1: How you doing good?
Speaker 8: I'm actually driving in a senior bus right now.
Speaker 1: It's a part time gig that I do. Wait, what
Speaker 1: is that called the senior bus? I drive a senior bus,
Speaker 1: a little smart buses.
Speaker 9: Yes, the.
Speaker 1: Pair of transit bus. Yeah, exactly. I drive people around
Speaker 1: West West Bloomfield. Are you a bus now, aficionados? Since you.
Speaker 2: Can, Cavin is Cavin is mister smart bus here Jim nice.
Speaker 9: So no.
Speaker 1: I was regarding the credit cards.
Speaker 8: I've traveled in Mexico and traveled in Canada this summer,
Speaker 8: and they don't they don't take your credit card away
Speaker 8: from the table. They'll they bring a little cash you know,
Speaker 8: electronic uh to your table.
Speaker 1: Now do you I like that? Do you like that mistake?
Speaker 1: Because then they're wanting you to tip right in front
Speaker 1: of them. You like that? Does that give you anxiety?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I'm not crazy about that part, but I do like
Speaker 8: it from the security standpoint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess the security thing is good,
Speaker 2: but I hate when they do this now at restaurants. Actually,
Speaker 2: one of the really nice restaurants in the Detroit area.
Speaker 2: Steak Place does that, and I think it's I think
Speaker 2: it is uh. I think it's cheesy or what do
Speaker 2: they call it, uh tacky? I think it's tacky. I
Speaker 2: think it's Yeah, it's very tacky.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, corny.
Speaker 1: I was like, that work, Anthony. What's up? Anthony? Hey,
Speaker 1: how you guys doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing good? We're getting ready to uh to. I
Speaker 2: don't know what we're doing? Go ahead, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna say it?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 1: So I U.
Speaker 9: I DJ at a local club where I'm from for
Speaker 9: hereon and typically sometimes I'll get kits from patroons for
Speaker 9: a song requests. And this typical night I had a
Speaker 9: uh repuest for two songs. A lady paid me eighty
Speaker 9: dollars quick pick money. I go to the group of
Speaker 9: people where my wife is and her and her friends
Speaker 9: are had in sid So, Hey who had the who
Speaker 9: bought these house?
Speaker 1: I want to thank you?
Speaker 9: She said, Oh you did with your tip? Like, oh,
Speaker 9: thanks a lot. So there goes my tips and all
Speaker 9: my money.
Speaker 1: For the night. Where do you work, Anthony.
Speaker 9: Well, I just did a local club and challenge called
Speaker 9: It's at the.
Speaker 2: Nice All right, can we come and get free drinks
Speaker 2: with his tips? I will tell you this, Our listeners
Speaker 2: are always so nice to us, like when we've gone
Speaker 2: to different places and you know, they'll go, hey, and
Speaker 2: I it can really honestly, I don't like it when
Speaker 2: somebody will go let me buy, let me buy like
Speaker 2: this round.
Speaker 7: At our own events, people will say, yeah.
Speaker 2: Can I buy you a drink or wherever the deal is? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's crazy, you know what. The one thing I want
Speaker 2: to go back one one last comment on this convention thing.
Speaker 2: The hotels make a killing off of these having a
Speaker 2: radio convention there because radio people drink like crazy. Most
Speaker 2: of us probably should not be. And the wildest is
Speaker 2: when you go to a morning show boot camp and
Speaker 2: the hotel bar closes at like nine o'clock.
Speaker 7: Why don't you take some bottles from in here and
Speaker 7: put them in your room.
Speaker 1: Well I don't need to drink that much. But I'm
Speaker 1: saying it's not.
Speaker 7: Just for you, but like you know, but everybody come
Speaker 7: to your room for shop before.
Speaker 2: I'm not bringing people to my room either. I'm not
Speaker 2: doing that, Shannon. I'm telling you I'm behaving myself. But no,
Speaker 2: but I'm saying like it's fun to drink at the
Speaker 2: hotel bar, and I'm thinking these guys are like stupid,
Speaker 2: like economically, have that bar open. You got Bianca there,
Speaker 2: You know that you're gonna get a lot of people
Speaker 2: buying stuff.