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Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty show. Hey where did we go

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Speaker 1: days when the rains came? Here's another one. There will

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Speaker 1: be a national shutdown. That is a rumor as well.

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Speaker 1: I think the probability of that is so low. We

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Speaker 1: are already making massive changes everybody. These curves, these mathematical

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Speaker 1: models that are flying around those are based on no

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Speaker 1: changes in our behavior. We have changed our behavior massively.

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Speaker 1: It's going to affect the curves. We're gonna have improvement.

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Speaker 1: You gotta admit I've not changed my behavior massively, or

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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure a little. But that's because I

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Speaker 1: don't ever do anything. Um, if you do things, maybe

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Speaker 1: you're doing less stuff. And then stuff like McDonald's just

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Speaker 1: closed their lunch room. Just drive through Starbucks has that's

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Speaker 1: a ton of people just But if that's the only

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Speaker 1: thing that happened, I'd be a pretty major change in

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Speaker 1: the number of people that bump into each other on

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Speaker 1: a given day in a Starbucks and McDonald's. And we

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Speaker 1: were talking last week when they were thrown around the

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Speaker 1: idea of closing bars and restaurants and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: would you close or not? Last week I was a

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Speaker 1: I'm not closing unless you arrest me Monday, I would

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Speaker 1: have been Uh, I might, but probably not now I might.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what it depends on

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Speaker 1: my financial situation. Probably Nick Jameson is wrestling with that

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Speaker 1: very decision, that very pressure. He's the owner of a

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Speaker 1: club in Fair Oaks, California, and is, as of you know, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: decided to stay open. Nick joins us. Now, Nick, how

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Speaker 1: are you, sir? Very good? Thank you. It's stressful times. Huh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can say that. How many folks do you have

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Speaker 1: have I have five, okay five employees and so you're

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Speaker 1: a small bar. Then, so did you did you hear

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Speaker 1: the same way we all heard? You just kind of

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Speaker 1: heard on the news that you're supposed to close yes Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Our sister useby Sunday when after the governor's press conference, Uh,

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Speaker 1: everybody's lit up that hey, you know you gotta close,

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Speaker 1: and uh we were saying, well, the true that we

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Speaker 1: found out that he'd asked us to close, and so

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Speaker 1: that's what I decided, Well, if he's asking, and he thought,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask him to mind his own business. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask, how does this politeness say no? Right, So,

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Speaker 1: as of now, you're gonna stay open, right? Yes? Are

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Speaker 1: you doing anything you're asking people to you know, every

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Speaker 1: other bar stool or anything like that. I haven't been

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Speaker 1: to your club. I don't know the layout, but I'll

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Speaker 1: certainly stop buying my way home. I have a feeling

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Speaker 1: I can picture it, having been in about eight thousand

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Speaker 1: places like yours in my life. It's a small bar

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Speaker 1: that basically neighborhood and uh yeah, we cleaned daily and

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Speaker 1: we do uh we people come in and there's not

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Speaker 1: a problem. Everybody knows everybody. They asked if I would

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Speaker 1: stay open to my employees wanted me to stay open,

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Speaker 1: and we had shut down about four years ago due

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Speaker 1: to a plumbing problem here that we had to have

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Speaker 1: fixed and it was hard on everybody. So as long

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Speaker 1: as I'm not ordered to do anything like that, there's

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Speaker 1: a little risk area. It's not like Costco, Rayley's and

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Speaker 1: there's cleaners, open and they get more foot traffic than

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Speaker 1: I do. Um, have you got any pushback from anybody?

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Speaker 1: Has anybody from the county or anything called here, threatened

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Speaker 1: he or anything. No, they have not, but that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean they won't know they have not. Most I've had

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Speaker 1: to social media. Yeah, yeah, we get we get that too, Nick.

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Speaker 1: left alone, because that's the kind of bar. I like, yes, yeah, perfect, Yes,

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Speaker 1: none of these complaints though, you know, as anybody said,

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Speaker 1: in Ferroks, California that's being requested to close and said no,

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Speaker 1: had to close for two weeks, how would that affect

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Speaker 1: you know, it'd be hard because my landlord doesn't wave

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Speaker 1: I said, we went through it before for thirty days,

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Speaker 1: you might be out of business. Well for the thirty days,

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Speaker 1: it took me about four months to get back to flush. Wow. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So if you're if you're talking now, you know, so

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Speaker 1: August or July or August, that's it. That's it. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: puts us in a position where we can go out

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Speaker 1: of business. Is there a jar of pickled eggs anywhere

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Speaker 1: in that place? Yeah, yeah, old man, I haven't had

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Speaker 1: a drink in many years, but back in the day

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Speaker 1: I liked the pickled egg Now and then yeah, oh boy, Nick, Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're coming in, I'll make sure it happens. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Nicho. Listen, you need to um. You need

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Speaker 1: to develop a novelty drink for these difficult times. The

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Speaker 1: quarantine ee is popular online. Design your own up. Over

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Speaker 1: charge the good folks. We're actually saying, if we have

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Speaker 1: and uh you know, if you spend, will give you

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Speaker 1: a throw a toilet paper. We'll get that going. There

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Speaker 1: you go, folks. That's the American candy stare right there,

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Speaker 1: Nick Jameson. We're out of toilet paper here. Alright, Nick,

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Good luck, brother, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. You got it. These are not

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Speaker 1: simple decisions. If you're a business that okay, it would

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Speaker 1: be good for the public health. If I were to

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Speaker 1: my five waiters, waitresses, bartenders, whatever, who are living paycheck

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Speaker 1: to paycheck are begging me to stay open. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: not simple, No, it is not. Now Congress is working

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Speaker 1: for instance, I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I got a

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Speaker 1: kid or two whatever, I make the rent, but barely

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Speaker 1: every month. How long is it gonna take till Congress

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Speaker 1: or the state legislature, or my county or whatever get

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Speaker 1: me out of the hole. I'm gonna be early fall. Well, right,

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Speaker 1: and there there are various laws being proposed in various

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Speaker 1: evict anybody, etcetera, etcetera. But this is complex stuff and

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Speaker 1: it's going to take a while to grind out. I

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Speaker 1: guarantee it's not as crowded in that bar as I

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Speaker 1: know those kind of bars, as it was my grocery

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Speaker 1: stores that yesterday. We were packed in like sardines of

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Speaker 1: the grocery store. Yes or as he said, the dry

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Speaker 1: cleaner next door, as more foot traffic than we do.

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Speaker 1: Maybe ought to, you know, get an ironing board in

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Speaker 1: there and press people's pants while they drink. Has it

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Speaker 1: been so long since I drank that pickled eggs are

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Speaker 1: no longer behind the cash registered my favorite bars A

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Speaker 1: little joky there, old timer. Wow, it's just sad, part strong,