Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty show. Hey where did we go
Speaker 1: days when the rains came? Here's another one. There will
Speaker 1: be a national shutdown. That is a rumor as well.
Speaker 1: I think the probability of that is so low. We
Speaker 1: are already making massive changes everybody. These curves, these mathematical
Speaker 1: models that are flying around those are based on no
Speaker 1: changes in our behavior. We have changed our behavior massively.
Speaker 1: It's going to affect the curves. We're gonna have improvement.
Speaker 1: You gotta admit I've not changed my behavior massively, or
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure a little. But that's because I
Speaker 1: don't ever do anything. Um, if you do things, maybe
Speaker 1: you're doing less stuff. And then stuff like McDonald's just
Speaker 1: closed their lunch room. Just drive through Starbucks has that's
Speaker 1: a ton of people just But if that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that happened, I'd be a pretty major change in
Speaker 1: the number of people that bump into each other on
Speaker 1: a given day in a Starbucks and McDonald's. And we
Speaker 1: were talking last week when they were thrown around the
Speaker 1: idea of closing bars and restaurants and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: would you close or not? Last week I was a
Speaker 1: I'm not closing unless you arrest me Monday, I would
Speaker 1: have been Uh, I might, but probably not now I might.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what it depends on
Speaker 1: my financial situation. Probably Nick Jameson is wrestling with that
Speaker 1: very decision, that very pressure. He's the owner of a
Speaker 1: club in Fair Oaks, California, and is, as of you know, yesterday,
Speaker 1: decided to stay open. Nick joins us. Now, Nick, how
Speaker 1: are you, sir? Very good? Thank you. It's stressful times. Huh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can say that. How many folks do you have
Speaker 1: working there at your place, the San Juan Club? I
Speaker 1: have I have five, okay five employees and so you're
Speaker 1: a small bar. Then, so did you did you hear
Speaker 1: the same way we all heard? You just kind of
Speaker 1: heard on the news that you're supposed to close yes Saturday.
Speaker 1: Our sister useby Sunday when after the governor's press conference, Uh,
Speaker 1: everybody's lit up that hey, you know you gotta close,
Speaker 1: and uh we were saying, well, the true that we
Speaker 1: have to or is the ordering has And then a
Speaker 1: couple of bar owners in the area here talked and
Speaker 1: found out that he'd asked us to close, and so
Speaker 1: that's what I decided, Well, if he's asking, and he thought,
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask him to mind his own business. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask, how does this politeness say no? Right, So,
Speaker 1: as of now, you're gonna stay open, right? Yes? Are
Speaker 1: you doing anything you're asking people to you know, every
Speaker 1: other bar stool or anything like that. I haven't been
Speaker 1: to your club. I don't know the layout, but I'll
Speaker 1: certainly stop buying my way home. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: I can picture it, having been in about eight thousand
Speaker 1: places like yours in my life. It's a small bar
Speaker 1: that basically neighborhood and uh yeah, we cleaned daily and
Speaker 1: we do uh we people come in and there's not
Speaker 1: a problem. Everybody knows everybody. They asked if I would
Speaker 1: stay open to my employees wanted me to stay open,
Speaker 1: and we had shut down about four years ago due
Speaker 1: to a plumbing problem here that we had to have
Speaker 1: fixed and it was hard on everybody. So as long
Speaker 1: as I'm not ordered to do anything like that, there's
Speaker 1: a little risk area. It's not like Costco, Rayley's and
Speaker 1: all the other places that have sort of the supermarkets
Speaker 1: that are packed. Uh, there's a liquor store opened right here,
Speaker 1: there's cleaners, open and they get more foot traffic than
Speaker 1: I do. Um, have you got any pushback from anybody?
Speaker 1: Has anybody from the county or anything called here, threatened
Speaker 1: he or anything. No, they have not, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they won't know they have not. Most I've had
Speaker 1: about the people that have called me or text me
Speaker 1: or Facebook had basically been on my side. There is
Speaker 1: out there that thinks I'm selfish, self centered idiot. Welcome
Speaker 1: to social media. Yeah, yeah, we get we get that too, Nick.
Speaker 1: He's the kind of bar or if I went in there,
Speaker 1: I could sit there at the at the bar and
Speaker 1: have a drink and stare straight ahead quietly and be
Speaker 1: left alone, because that's the kind of bar. I like, yes, yeah, perfect, Yes,
Speaker 1: none of these complaints though, you know, as anybody said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm an owner of business and I think
Speaker 1: you should close. Yeah, Jack, I was gonna say, once
Speaker 1: you're done with your little inquiry, I've got some complex
Speaker 1: socio economic manners I'd like to deal with. Uh. Nick,
Speaker 1: who's on the line is the owner of a bar
Speaker 1: in Ferroks, California that's being requested to close and said no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to. Uh. What would happen if you
Speaker 1: had to close for two weeks, how would that affect
Speaker 1: your employees in your business? Could you bounce back personally?
Speaker 1: It would take a while to bounce back personally, I'd uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it'd be hard because my landlord doesn't wave
Speaker 1: my rent, the bills are paid, and a lot of
Speaker 1: my employees would be uh staff pretty well, because like
Speaker 1: I said, we went through it before for thirty days,
Speaker 1: and it was it took a while to get everything
Speaker 1: back together. It was really hard on him. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was talking to a business owner last night, he said,
Speaker 1: And we were walking the streets of a local town
Speaker 1: and and uh and looking at all the businesses where
Speaker 1: they had there were signs on the door saying we're
Speaker 1: shut uh fro to to further notice. And he was
Speaker 1: talking about, as a guy runs a business, how thin
Speaker 1: the margin is of staying afloat. I mean, it's pretty tight.
Speaker 1: And you talk days weeks, you get it to a month,
Speaker 1: you might be out of business. Well for the thirty days,
Speaker 1: it took me about four months to get back to flush. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: So if you're if you're talking now, you know, so
Speaker 1: August or July or August, that's it. That's it. Firstly,
Speaker 1: puts us in a position where we can go out
Speaker 1: of business. Is there a jar of pickled eggs anywhere
Speaker 1: in that place? Yeah, yeah, old man, I haven't had
Speaker 1: a drink in many years, but back in the day
Speaker 1: I liked the pickled egg Now and then yeah, oh boy, Nick, Well,
Speaker 1: if you're coming in, I'll make sure it happens. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Nicho. Listen, you need to um. You need
Speaker 1: to develop a novelty drink for these difficult times. The
Speaker 1: quarantine ee is popular online. Design your own up. Over
Speaker 1: charge the good folks. We're actually saying, if we have
Speaker 1: the quarantine e of any type of makes you want
Speaker 1: and uh you know, if you spend, will give you
Speaker 1: a throw a toilet paper. We'll get that going. There
Speaker 1: you go, folks. That's the American candy stare right there,
Speaker 1: Nick Jameson. We're out of toilet paper here. Alright, Nick,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Good luck, brother, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. You got it. These are not
Speaker 1: simple decisions. If you're a business that okay, it would
Speaker 1: be good for the public health. If I were to
Speaker 1: close down, I also will go out of business, and
Speaker 1: my five waiters, waitresses, bartenders, whatever, who are living paycheck
Speaker 1: to paycheck are begging me to stay open. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not simple, No, it is not. Now Congress is working
Speaker 1: on that near one trillion dollar emergency stimulus plan um.
Speaker 1: But on a practical level, if I am that bartender,
Speaker 1: for instance, I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I got a
Speaker 1: kid or two whatever, I make the rent, but barely
Speaker 1: every month. How long is it gonna take till Congress
Speaker 1: or the state legislature, or my county or whatever get
Speaker 1: me out of the hole. I'm gonna be early fall. Well, right,
Speaker 1: and there there are various laws being proposed in various
Speaker 1: immunis well various parts of the country that you can't
Speaker 1: evict anybody, etcetera, etcetera. But this is complex stuff and
Speaker 1: it's going to take a while to grind out. I
Speaker 1: guarantee it's not as crowded in that bar as I
Speaker 1: know those kind of bars, as it was my grocery
Speaker 1: stores that yesterday. We were packed in like sardines of
Speaker 1: the grocery store. Yes or as he said, the dry
Speaker 1: cleaner next door, as more foot traffic than we do.
Speaker 1: Maybe ought to, you know, get an ironing board in
Speaker 1: there and press people's pants while they drink. Has it
Speaker 1: been so long since I drank that pickled eggs are
Speaker 1: no longer behind the cash registered my favorite bars A
Speaker 1: little joky there, old timer. Wow, it's just sad, part strong,