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Speaker 1: Have you ever waited tables? I did notice? Awful? How
Speaker 1: long did you do it? I did it often on
Speaker 1: for many years, but man, I was Yeah, I waited
Speaker 1: tables for many years as well, in many uh several
Speaker 1: different states, in different many different kinds of restaurants. So
Speaker 1: I have a pretty wide range of experience with being tipped.
Speaker 1: How are you doing? It's great? Now? Are you? Are
Speaker 1: you trying to hurry this along? Here's a tip for
Speaker 1: for for me to you steer clear that O J?
Speaker 1: Guy pal, oh J. Simpson. Yeah, there's from a Dave
Speaker 1: Letterman top ten from the nineties something about tipping, and
Speaker 1: one of them was like, here's a tips, steer clear
Speaker 1: of that, o J. Fellow Pal, I'm glad we're staying
Speaker 1: relevant as always. I'm not trying to move it on.
Speaker 1: I just thought, since you said he didn't have an intro,
Speaker 1: I would document a little bit of my history as
Speaker 1: a waiter, and he did great man. Remember what's his name,
Speaker 1: the guy from Scrubs and Gardens State. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I always think he was perfect at being that waiter.
Speaker 1: For some reason, it was just like whenever I think
Speaker 1: of waiters and then I think of l A, I
Speaker 1: think of that character. Yeah, the scene at the beginning
Speaker 1: and the end of it. I think that was really
Speaker 1: based on his experience as a waiter. He wore a
Speaker 1: lot of eyeliner in the early two thousand. Guyliner. So
Speaker 1: what that's called? You never heard that phrase? No? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh so tipping, Josh, this was You've been pushing this
Speaker 1: one for a while and it never got done for
Speaker 1: various reason. And I'm glad we got around to it
Speaker 1: because I will be one that people it's ubiquitous and
Speaker 1: we'll get tons and tons of email about this, I
Speaker 1: guarantee it. Yeah, and it's gonna be helpful because in
Speaker 1: several points we tell you to go to trip Advisor
Speaker 1: to look up tipping customs. So yeah, that's helpful. Well,
Speaker 1: it's hard to cover tipping customs because they're different everywhere
Speaker 1: and for each job, and it's gets so overwhelming you
Speaker 1: just have to end up saying hey, if you're going
Speaker 1: to this country, look it up, or apparently you need
Speaker 1: to go through life like Jimmy Conway and Goodfellas and
Speaker 1: tip absolutely every single person you see your mechanic. Did
Speaker 1: you see that? Did you know you're supposed to tip
Speaker 1: your mechanic bucks or more for jobs like, Hey, thanks
Speaker 1: for overcharging me and exploiting my ignorance of my car
Speaker 1: and how it functions. Here's an extra twenty bucks your mechanic. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know what since you brought that up. Uh, there
Speaker 1: was a saw on ad you see questionnaire is tipping
Speaker 1: out of control? And of people say it is. I disagree,
Speaker 1: you don't think it's out of control. After reading this,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm way cheaper than I realized. Um,
Speaker 1: and this is just a question I thought was interesting.
Speaker 1: What services bother you the most that you were obliged
Speaker 1: to tip? Of people said bathroom attendance. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: tip them. That's at the top of my list. I
Speaker 1: don't want a bathroom attendance. Well, yeah, I can get
Speaker 1: my own. Well it makes me want to not watch
Speaker 1: my hands. It makes me just want to get out
Speaker 1: of there. Uh. Take out food tipping it irks people
Speaker 1: to pay for like when you get a takeout order,
Speaker 1: like when you go there and they just turn around
Speaker 1: and get your food and handed to you in a
Speaker 1: bag you like when you call it in, I do?
Speaker 1: Do you really? Yeah? Okay? What else? Salons? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: of people don't like tipping the salon because women say
Speaker 1: it's just endless because you gotta tip your colors and
Speaker 1: the people who I can see that. And then the
Speaker 1: tip jars at coffee houses. I rarely patronize those as well,
Speaker 1: coffee houses or tip jars, And the reason being is, um,
Speaker 1: I I'm sure I will be taken to task for this.
Speaker 1: I don't think people in coffee houses are paid the
Speaker 1: tipped wage. They're not, so I looked at it. I
Speaker 1: might as well walk around with the tip jar and
Speaker 1: ask people to give me their change. I'll even wear
Speaker 1: a change belt. How about that. Don't make it easier
Speaker 1: on you? Well, why would you even have a tip
Speaker 1: jar there if you're not getting paid the tipped wage.
Speaker 1: That brings up a big point because that is a
Speaker 1: big controversy. People at Starbucks start out about eight fifty
Speaker 1: to nine bucks an hour. Is that that's a minimum
Speaker 1: wage that's above the minimum wage just I think is
Speaker 1: a minimum wage. Now the tipped the Fair Standards and
Speaker 1: Labor Act, the minimum federal hourly wage for tipped employees
Speaker 1: is yes, yes, those people although usually getting tipped. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't know not necessarily. No. Well, most states have
Speaker 1: their own and it's more than two thirteen. I didn't
Speaker 1: get that most states too. I know. The pinnacle is
Speaker 1: Colorado and they have like a minimum tipped wage of
Speaker 1: four thirteen an hour, and that's what everybody's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: Colorado is really killing it. UM. I know here in
Speaker 1: Georgia it's the it's the federal minimum. And there's a
Speaker 1: group called fairy eats dot org that's dedicated to UM
Speaker 1: shaming restaurants that that just adhere to that by celebrating
Speaker 1: restaurants that pay their employees more than the minimum federal
Speaker 1: minimum tipped wage. Well, you're supposed to make up the
Speaker 1: difference as a restaurant from what employees claim to the
Speaker 1: I r S and their tipped money. If that doesn't
Speaker 1: equal minimum wage, then the restaurateur is supposed to make
Speaker 1: up that difference in wages. I would I would wager
Speaker 1: that that does not happen. Well, I would wager that
Speaker 1: not many tipped employees are reporting all of their tips either.
Speaker 1: It's true too, so it's kind of like you have to,
Speaker 1: you have to, and then both just kind of storm
Speaker 1: away disgruntled. But you don't tip McDonald's and for the
Speaker 1: same reason I don't tip people at coffee houses because
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. You are putting your my order
Speaker 1: in right into a cash register or cash register computing machine, um,
Speaker 1: and you're turning around and grabbing my coffee or my
Speaker 1: my fries or whatever, right, And I'm not demeaning or
Speaker 1: diminishing that job whatsoever, Like I'm very happy that you're
Speaker 1: doing that because I really want that. And you're standing
Speaker 1: between me and the fries, right, so hand him over.
Speaker 1: I'll give you this money. But you make like maybe
Speaker 1: you got health benefits. Sucks. So in my opinion, we
Speaker 1: can either entirely do away with tipping by raising everybody
Speaker 1: to at least the minimum wage, and while we're at it,
Speaker 1: let's also maybe double the minimum wage because it's laughable.
Speaker 1: Will still right, um, and just do away with tipping,
Speaker 1: just go totally Japan, or or we need to really
Speaker 1: make it clear who's depending on tips and who's not,
Speaker 1: And these jokers at coffee houses need to get rid
Speaker 1: of the tip jar and they need to stop calling
Speaker 1: it karma, which I think we went over in the
Speaker 1: Karma karmajar or whatever. Yeah, that's kind of that's that's
Speaker 1: so aggressive guilty, you think. All right, So that was
Speaker 1: our intro tipping. So let's talk about where this often
Speaker 1: vilely exploited act came from. Chuck, go ahead, Well, I
Speaker 1: feel like I was on a rant. I was too.
Speaker 1: I'm just joking, okay. Um, Well, let's see. Tipping they
Speaker 1: think has its origins in about the sixteenth century in Europe,
Speaker 1: where if you went and visited a friend, a relative
Speaker 1: of colleague, you went to their house. Uh, you would
Speaker 1: often tip their servants, especially if you got really drunk
Speaker 1: and soiled yourself and they cleaned you up. You might
Speaker 1: be like, here's a couple of pieces of gold, let's
Speaker 1: just keep this between you and me, okay, and they would,
Speaker 1: and over time it became much less of a way
Speaker 1: to um show your appreciation as something that was expected
Speaker 1: and depended on. Right. Once you start kind of giving
Speaker 1: money in a customary manner, people start to include that
Speaker 1: in their budgets, right, Um, So they think that that's
Speaker 1: possibly where the custom came from, Right Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: even think that this acronym thing is even valid at all. No,
Speaker 1: and it's not. There's a guy named Steve Doblonica who's
Speaker 1: written books on tipping, and he's got some pretty good
Speaker 1: research down. And you want to say the acronym uh
Speaker 1: t I P two in ensure with an eye promptness,
Speaker 1: but that's just there's no no, because number one acronyms
Speaker 1: didn't really come into use until the nineteen twenties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they weren't using acronyms in the sixteenth century. And the
Speaker 1: word tip itself has been around for long before that.
Speaker 1: And like you said, it should be it shouldn't be
Speaker 1: tipped ensure with an eye, it should be ensure with
Speaker 1: an E. So there's a lot wrong with that. What
Speaker 1: they think is that tipping um originally came from the
Speaker 1: uh this kind of word among thieves, which is how
Speaker 1: we use it today, like you tip somebody off, that
Speaker 1: it basically to give something right, and it was just
Speaker 1: basically common thieves slang um. But then the act of
Speaker 1: tipping itself also came from either the servants from tipping servants,
Speaker 1: or it also was it grew out of giving money
Speaker 1: to somebody who worked at the bar to buy their
Speaker 1: own drink as well. Get a drink for yourself on me.
Speaker 1: And in fact, the word tip in Slavic languages translates
Speaker 1: roughly to drinking money. I like that one. The word
Speaker 1: for tip in French is poor beer pour boi, which
Speaker 1: means for drinking and um. Basically everywhere else except in English,
Speaker 1: the word tip means drinking money. So that's probably where
Speaker 1: tipping came from. I like that origin. Here, I'm having
Speaker 1: a good time, I had a few drinks. Go by
Speaker 1: yourself one exactly, it's just spreading the joy. Or I'm
Speaker 1: at my buddy's house and I've drank until I soiled myself.
Speaker 1: Here's some money for cleaning me up last night. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I don't know about the train spotting the
Speaker 1: origin of tipping. Yeah, so this is this is probably
Speaker 1: where tipping came from. And uh, a little more history
Speaker 1: if you don't mind chuckers um, you can pretty much
Speaker 1: pinpoint how tipping became accustomed in the United States because
Speaker 1: it was all a raged In Europe, it was not
Speaker 1: caught on here in the US. Even though a lot
Speaker 1: of wealthy Americans were traveling to Europe and coming back
Speaker 1: and tipping, people were like, what are you doing? Like, sure,
Speaker 1: give me your money, but I'm not gonna do the
Speaker 1: same thing until the Pullman Company, the Pullman rail car company,
Speaker 1: figured out that they could grossly underpay their porters by
Speaker 1: publicizing that they relied on tips to survive. And basically
Speaker 1: the Pullman Company cut almost three million dollars in the
Speaker 1: in the like late nineteenth century, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of money from their payroll by basically relying on their
Speaker 1: customers good hearts to take care of their porters for him.
Speaker 1: It is when you think about it in those terms,
Speaker 1: it is sort of a dirty business. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't want to pay our employees. They're serving you,
Speaker 1: so you pay them. But like you're the one reaping
Speaker 1: all the reward of the five dollar cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, And a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants, or a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the on the restaurant side of this debate, say, well,
Speaker 1: if we start raising their wages to like the minimum wager,
Speaker 1: even like double the tip wage, Um, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: wonder And apparently some studies have found that that's actually
Speaker 1: not the case that they can come out on top
Speaker 1: because restaurant owners spend so much money on training through
Speaker 1: turnover because the wages are so low that people just
Speaker 1: hop from job the job wherever they can get the
Speaker 1: most tips. If you can offer a higher stable wage,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have much less turnover and ultimately in the
Speaker 1: long run, you may come out on top as a
Speaker 1: restaurant owner. It's so interesting. Possibly that's one sign. You know,
Speaker 1: who pays the customer? Yeah? Us, because middle class you
Speaker 1: pay the five bucks for a cup of coffee, which
Speaker 1: the company gets they don't have to pay. Well, they
Speaker 1: do pay their employee minimum wage, but that ain't much
Speaker 1: and then they get the little tip on top of
Speaker 1: that and you end up paying six for your cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. And you know what now that you're you're
Speaker 1: bringing this up, you mean I were at Caribou and um,
Speaker 1: they have I love Caribou coffee, right, But they had
Speaker 1: this promo where it was like beans for the Troops
Speaker 1: or something like that, and it was like, hey, go
Speaker 1: ahead and uh and buy this this fifteen dollar pound
Speaker 1: of coffee and we'll send them to the troops. And um,
Speaker 1: we asked if they were selling them at a discount,
Speaker 1: like if the Caribou was doing anything. They were like, no,
Speaker 1: this is a regular price. And we're like, so wait
Speaker 1: a minute, you're exploiting Americans affinity and affection for the
Speaker 1: troops as a way to you know, beef up your
Speaker 1: on ground bean sales. That was disgusting. If you ask me,
Speaker 1: it happens. That's gross. At that board meeting is the
Speaker 1: gross part where that's decided, you know, where we can
Speaker 1: really reckon right, all right, I knew this would be
Speaker 1: a lightning rod. This is just us are going to get. Ohoy, Well,
Speaker 1: since you brought it up, it is a lightning rod. Period.
Speaker 1: If you go on the internet and you start looking
Speaker 1: about tipping, you will find two camps. People that work
Speaker 1: for tips that are outraged that people don't want to
Speaker 1: tip or the under tip, and then people that say
Speaker 1: it is out of control. Every you know, you go
Speaker 1: on a vacation, you staying in a hotel and need
Speaker 1: a restaurants, you're Jimmy Conway. I again, like I was
Speaker 1: reading this, I'm like, oh man, dude, do other people
Speaker 1: tip all these people because I feel like a real
Speaker 1: jerk in some of these cases I do, and I
Speaker 1: end up feeling like a sucker. And then you know
Speaker 1: what I thought. I was like, well, I never carry cash,
Speaker 1: it's all plastic, so surely plastic leading to a decline
Speaker 1: in tipping. I did a search for that. No, No,
Speaker 1: All I could find was that most people carry plastic
Speaker 1: and a little bit of currency for tips. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I really have to get on the ball here.
Speaker 1: All right. They've actually done a lot of studying about tips. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why do we do this? That's the psychology tipping, as
Speaker 1: it were, Well, um, one is out of guilt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wasn't that one of the reasons. Uh well yeah not supposedly.
Speaker 1: If you think about tipping, the whole idea is that
Speaker 1: you're doing it out of gratitude, like you did a
Speaker 1: really good job, and I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you have, um, this extra little bit go buy yourself
Speaker 1: something nice on me, or I want to ensure because
Speaker 1: I come back to you that I will get same
Speaker 1: service when I come back. Right, So really it's um
Speaker 1: what they're finding is that it's guilt and fear, Like
Speaker 1: you know that people rely on these tips, and part
Speaker 1: of your role as customer in some circumstances is to
Speaker 1: pay these people their salary that they're depending on the tips.
Speaker 1: Or you're afraid that they're gonna pe in your soup
Speaker 1: and you're basically saying, here's some money, um, please don't
Speaker 1: pe in my soup, and they say, all right, that
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. That that that takes care of
Speaker 1: the no pea soup levy. Yeah, but the tip comes
Speaker 1: after the soup. Yeah, but you may be back there again, okay, right, Yes.
Speaker 1: The Center pro Hospitality at Cornell University, UH, they've done
Speaker 1: some research there and I thought this was fairly interesting.
Speaker 1: They found the US leads the world in uh being
Speaker 1: neurotic and being extroverted, and those are two traits that
Speaker 1: lead to big tips because you're neurotic, so you feel like,
Speaker 1: of course I have to leave. You know. Any and
Speaker 1: has ever seen the Curb Your Enthusiasm tip episode? That's
Speaker 1: like tipping neuroticism and its finest portrayed. You want to
Speaker 1: tip as much as your friend. You don't want to undertip.
Speaker 1: You want to tip just you don't want to overtip.
Speaker 1: You want to tip just the right amount. I don't
Speaker 1: mind over tipping, especially when it's like it's really good service,
Speaker 1: Like I'm happy to overtip, and I prefer to air
Speaker 1: on the side of overtipping. For sure. Extroverts are outgoing
Speaker 1: social folks, and they see it as an incentive to
Speaker 1: get a little extra attention, like make a big show
Speaker 1: about me, party of Benjamin, party of four, Benjamin Franklin,
Speaker 1: party of four. I never heard that. Yeah, Uman's got
Speaker 1: a story about this one. Dude, Wow, you won't tell it. Well,
Speaker 1: that was pretty much it. They were she and her
Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time and his friend were at this
Speaker 1: restaurant and um, the guy actually said uh Franklin party
Speaker 1: of four, and she said it worked. She couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: She was like, I felt bad about the guy we
Speaker 1: were with and the guy who took the money, but
Speaker 1: it was a good, interesting, good meal. I've never agreased
Speaker 1: to palm for like a table. I haven't either. That's
Speaker 1: a good move, though I wish I'd like to do that.
Speaker 1: It is, but really it's kind of like, man, you
Speaker 1: you give up a lot of any claim to the
Speaker 1: even if you don't make that much money. If you're
Speaker 1: walking around doing stuff like that. You know, speaking of
Speaker 1: did you see the internet meme going around about the tipper, yes,
Speaker 1: which apparently is totally unfounded. Now I don't. I think
Speaker 1: it's sort of unfounded. I thought he was a tipper.
Speaker 1: He's a one percent temper because he is part of
Speaker 1: the one percent. And from what I understood was the
Speaker 1: tip was real, but what he wrote on there was fabricated. Well,
Speaker 1: or that they didn't even know for sure he was
Speaker 1: a banker, then the whole thing is fabricated. I did
Speaker 1: see that though. By the way I mean this, this
Speaker 1: is breaking news, is like yesterday for four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So can we go back some some of the interesting
Speaker 1: studies about how you get good tips. This is Josh
Speaker 1: and Chucks. If you're a waiter or a waitron, here
Speaker 1: are our tips for you to increase your tips and restaurant.
Speaker 1: This isn't just us in our observations. This is again
Speaker 1: Cornell has put a lot of thought and energy into it.
Speaker 1: I believe in real research. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: studies about how and why we tip. One of them
Speaker 1: is touching, Like if you are a server and you
Speaker 1: touch the your customer, you will increase your tip and
Speaker 1: it's not just lonely horny men. Um Men and women
Speaker 1: of all ages um will increase their tip with just
Speaker 1: a brief touch on the shoulder from eleven point eight
Speaker 1: percent to fourteen point eight percent. I, however, do not
Speaker 1: like to be touched. I don't either. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: said that the other day and I was just like, like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? It didn't freak me out, like
Speaker 1: it's not something I don't know. You you don't know me.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep our hands theirselves, okay, and then we'll
Speaker 1: see where your tip goes. Did his tip go down? No,
Speaker 1: of course not. You should have punished him severely. How
Speaker 1: god do you so much? Former waiter guilt tip on
Speaker 1: bad service as long I do. As long as you
Speaker 1: have the right attitude, that makes the biggest difference. If
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, really sorry and it was bad service
Speaker 1: and you said I'm sorry, guys, I you know I
Speaker 1: let you down the night, unless you're being manipulative by
Speaker 1: doing that, and you really just couldn't have cared less
Speaker 1: you phoned it in and then you said, oh really sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't too. Yeah, intentions go a long way with me,
Speaker 1: all right. Squatting and This was my big move when
Speaker 1: I was a waiter because at my at my at
Speaker 1: the nice restaurant I worked at, it was my big move.
Speaker 1: I would kneel down next to the table A lot
Speaker 1: of times. You get that eye contact going on, and
Speaker 1: your tips are gonna go up from fourteen point nine
Speaker 1: percent to seventeen point five. Okay. I would also like
Speaker 1: to add a caveat to this. However, if you actually
Speaker 1: get into the booth or take a seat at the table,
Speaker 1: you've crossed the line. Well I I used to do
Speaker 1: that at Mexicali, though, but that was a college atmosphere
Speaker 1: and that that would be acceptable at certain times. You've
Speaker 1: been in college at Mexicali. No, no, no, that was
Speaker 1: over the line. No no, no, no. It was fun
Speaker 1: girls drinking margharita's. I would sit down and flirt and
Speaker 1: would your tip go up? Yeah, and occasionally would get
Speaker 1: a phone number out of it. Oh and free margarita
Speaker 1: that that well I had. I worked there. I got
Speaker 1: all the free margarities I want them. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: they gave free margarita to employees at MEXICALI. Well they
Speaker 1: didn't officially anywhere supposed to have them. While you're working
Speaker 1: either those were the old days. Giving candy to uh
Speaker 1: to your customer will jump your tip up from fifteen
Speaker 1: point one to seventeen point eight. Giving two pieces of candy,
Speaker 1: one initially and one spontaneously like here have another jumped
Speaker 1: it from nineteen percent to twenty one point six percent.
Speaker 1: So long as you didn't end it with chumps. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that jumped it when it was the spontaneous secondaries
Speaker 1: chumps by being like, oh, well, you know what here
Speaker 1: take two and we're talking like the starlight peppermints here, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not like good dive at chocolate. Yes, thank you
Speaker 1: for rescuing me, because I almost said snickers. I'd be
Speaker 1: nice too. I had a waitress recently give Emily and
Speaker 1: I the pen that she gave us to sign the
Speaker 1: bill with because I'm a big pen guy, so as
Speaker 1: Emily and as far as having like the perfect pen,
Speaker 1: and I signed things like, oh my god, feel this
Speaker 1: pin and it was a combination of the pin on
Speaker 1: that that slimy paper that they give you and it
Speaker 1: was amazing. And Emily said something that she was like,
Speaker 1: I agree. I keep them in my car so much.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and keep that one and how much of
Speaker 1: a tip you leave her? I left her my pen.
Speaker 1: No I'm kidding. Oh yeah, sure I tipped her. No,
Speaker 1: it's always like, so the highest you goes twenty five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I I go, I go twenty, and I
Speaker 1: round up. No matter what I noticed, especially before the
Speaker 1: um uh well, no, I guess it would have been
Speaker 1: even after the economic collapse, the global catastrophe that we're
Speaker 1: in the midst of. Still um that it was moving
Speaker 1: very clearly towards across the board was the new percent,
Speaker 1: and then the economic meltdown happened, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now it's back to fifteen percent and percent if you're
Speaker 1: doing good. It seems like, am I wrong? Am I
Speaker 1: just fantasizing here? No? I think it used to be ten,
Speaker 1: that it was like twelve and fifteen and then twenty
Speaker 1: and then Yeah, you're right, with the economic crisis. I
Speaker 1: did read articles that people said, our tips are going down.
Speaker 1: But it's a collective movement, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: you can be the nice guy in tip twenty all
Speaker 1: the time or whatever, but you're also kind of pushing
Speaker 1: everybody else forward by doing that. Yeah. I also did
Speaker 1: the deal to you where you know you go out
Speaker 1: with certain people and you wh whoa, whoa? What does
Speaker 1: that mean? I've got like eight different homes. I don't
Speaker 1: want I don't want to call out any any person
Speaker 1: or even are you talking about a specific buddy of yours? No,
Speaker 1: not buddy, just you know, could be family members, could
Speaker 1: be certain friends, just you know, when someone picks up
Speaker 1: the tab, I always do the thing where I look
Speaker 1: to make sure that they were properly compensated. Then on
Speaker 1: the way and I was like, oh, I gotta use
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I'm gonna put more money in there. Oh
Speaker 1: you're an underminer. Huh yeah. Because certain people. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I wish I could say who. I had a friend
Speaker 1: whose father was in a very rich dude, and he
Speaker 1: was a bad tipper and embarrassed the crud out of
Speaker 1: me when we would go to these nice places and
Speaker 1: he would pick up the tab and leave like a
Speaker 1: eight to tip. And so I always need to bring
Speaker 1: cash to leave in the thing. Jared Hess's dad. No, No, uh,
Speaker 1: all right, so that's it. How to increase your tips? Oh?
Speaker 1: Tell him it's sunny outside. Yeah. The psychology of weather
Speaker 1: strikes again, where the study was conducted where if m
Speaker 1: a in a windowless room, right, yeah, uh, if the
Speaker 1: waiter described it as being rainy out, the tips were
Speaker 1: something like nineteent. This isn't too bad. But if the
Speaker 1: waiters like, oh, it's so sunny and beautiful out, then
Speaker 1: tips average. So squat at the table, touch him on
Speaker 1: the shoulder, give him candy, Give him candy, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you've got two pieces of candy,
Speaker 1: and uh, give good service, and then tell them it's
Speaker 1: sunny outside and you will be rolling in the dead
Speaker 1: makes like a million dollars table, thank us later, and
Speaker 1: tip on the original amount. By the way, that's a
Speaker 1: waiter thing. It's a big one. If you if you
Speaker 1: got coupons or you do the scout mob thing, be
Speaker 1: aware that you're you should tip on the original amount.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to. It's not the waiter's fault.
Speaker 1: You had a coupon. Yeah, I mean that is really
Speaker 1: bad if you don't know that at this point, especially
Speaker 1: with how ubiquitous those those deals are getting these days.
Speaker 1: You know, um, but chuck. On the other hand, you
Speaker 1: can make a pretty strong argument that, um, if you
Speaker 1: order a hundred dollar bottle of wine. Do you that? So? Why? Why? Yeah? Why?
Speaker 1: I like some nice wine, and that is a bone
Speaker 1: of contention that I swallow, and I just still tip
Speaker 1: on the total amount. But yeah, you're right if you
Speaker 1: let's say you just order a bottle of wine, like meaningmly,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go have a bottle of wine one
Speaker 1: night because we ate dinner somewhere else, or maybe we
Speaker 1: gotta have dessert somewhere and we get a nice bottle
Speaker 1: of port and it's like eighty bucks. You guys drink
Speaker 1: a whole bottle of port, And no, of course not.
Speaker 1: Let's say with a group or whatever, we drink a
Speaker 1: whole bottle of port, a group of what like twenty
Speaker 1: you're drinking a whole bottle of drinking glass of port,
Speaker 1: and there's like five glass like that small, it's like
Speaker 1: a regular wine glass. What do you drink brandy like that? No,
Speaker 1: because that's liquor poored is wine? No, brandy is a
Speaker 1: type of wine anyway, do you you're like Homer Simpson
Speaker 1: when he was baby sending Mr Burns house when he
Speaker 1: like pours himself like a whole sniffer brandy and drinks
Speaker 1: the whole thing and when when gulp and then just
Speaker 1: falls right over. My friend Timmy's wife one time asked
Speaker 1: for a bourbon on the rocks at her house, and
Speaker 1: she bought me like seven ounces of bourbon on the rocks,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what are you trying to do
Speaker 1: to me? That's awesome? No, but porchs not. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be a little It's not like sambuca. I
Speaker 1: mean ports like a regular glass of wine. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: mistaken then, because every place I go they pour your regular,
Speaker 1: regular glass. No it's a little tiny like it's like
Speaker 1: a cordial wine glass. No, no, no, no, no, I promise,
Speaker 1: all right, you're gonna be wrong regardless. You drink expensive
Speaker 1: wine and how how much do you tip? Well, But
Speaker 1: it does cross my mind, like, man, I'm giving this
Speaker 1: guy like fourteen dollars for bringing me a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1: It's a good point, and I think even the average
Speaker 1: server would grudgingly agree. Okay, all right, maybe maybe not
Speaker 1: this one. But it's not just the waiter that you
Speaker 1: want to tip in the restaurant, surprise, surprise. Depending on
Speaker 1: where you go, you need to be prepared to tip
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Yeah, that the person who see
Speaker 1: it's a really nice place the matri d. If the
Speaker 1: matri d goes out of his way, um to get
Speaker 1: you a very nice table, or you feel like he's
Speaker 1: he or she is doing something um very just kind
Speaker 1: of above and beyond, you might want to slip from
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty bucks. There's a lot also if the
Speaker 1: Somalia comes over to your table and tells you a
Speaker 1: bit about the wines, especially if you solicited this advice. Yea.
Speaker 1: In reading this article, I realized that I have stiffed
Speaker 1: at least one Somalia in my life, and now I
Speaker 1: understand why he's looking at me weird when he finished.
Speaker 1: Um uh, you you want to give them anywhere from
Speaker 1: ten to twenty bucks, depending on how in depth the
Speaker 1: recommendation is. And usually when you're talking tips at least
Speaker 1: in this article that we're working from from how stuff
Speaker 1: Works dot com, um, there's a eyeing a low yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's basically the discrepancy is based on just how
Speaker 1: much effort this person is putting into it, how much enthusiasm, um,
Speaker 1: but and just how much out of their out of
Speaker 1: the way of their normal duties are they going. See
Speaker 1: here's my deal, dude, I don't want a big show.
Speaker 1: I want genuine good service and and to be left
Speaker 1: alone because you you can. The tip won't go down
Speaker 1: because I just have the guilt. But you can go
Speaker 1: down in my mind if you're just too like, just
Speaker 1: too much, don't work too hard, don't give me a
Speaker 1: big show. Apparently they can do whatever they want to
Speaker 1: and they're still gonna get the same amount of money.
Speaker 1: Do you know what, chuck? You know where you would
Speaker 1: do well, then buffet's. At a buffet, you serve yourself
Speaker 1: and you just leave your plate and it mysteriously vanishes.
Speaker 1: But that's a person behind the kidnapping of that plate,
Speaker 1: and you want to leave them about ten percent as
Speaker 1: the recommendation, So you want to leave them thirty five
Speaker 1: cents at your buffet. I don't go to buffet's, but yeah,
Speaker 1: if you don't go to buffet, No, I don't understand
Speaker 1: the existence of cafeterias. Since there's buffets, it's the same
Speaker 1: exact thing, except buffets are all you can eat, and
Speaker 1: cafeterias like, here's a little ramikin of the same thing
Speaker 1: you can have ten helpings of if you want for
Speaker 1: the same price. Well, you don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: cafeterias anymore, you do, you do? Yeah, there's at least
Speaker 1: as many cafeterias as there are buffets. Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Chinese food restaurants have made that a
Speaker 1: null and void comment. The Chinese food Okay, alright, so
Speaker 1: though they exist outside of this realm, I'm talking more
Speaker 1: like country cook and buffets. Yeah, yeah, there's almost one
Speaker 1: for one all right. Uh. And by the way, most
Speaker 1: most nicer restaurants pulled their tips. Um like in Mexicality
Speaker 1: was every man for himself. You know, the bus boy
Speaker 1: didn't get tips or actually we kind of bust our
Speaker 1: own tables. But most restaurants will pull their tips in
Speaker 1: the the that's usually not a matre d at that point.
Speaker 1: It's just the host or hostess they'll get a cut,
Speaker 1: and like the bartender and the bus boy, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: get dishwasher. They'll all get a cut. So just remember that.
Speaker 1: But some places it's every man for himself too. Uh.
Speaker 1: If speaking of bartenders, you are at a bar, I
Speaker 1: usually tip a buck of drink for the first few drinks.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Unless it's a very if it's
Speaker 1: like a complex, complicated drink, which I tend to prefer um.
Speaker 1: It will be like a percentage to the bill. If
Speaker 1: there's really muddling going on. Yes, once you start muddling,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, here's some extra money. I don't
Speaker 1: tip on the bill because I will usually just say
Speaker 1: give us six BBRs for my friends and I and
Speaker 1: we then tip a bucket. Even if the beer is
Speaker 1: a dollar, I'll give a dollar. It's very nice of you,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's like, what am I gonna like
Speaker 1: fish around for fifteen cents? That's just ridiculous. But you
Speaker 1: know we're rich, we're high rollers. You're tipping a buck
Speaker 1: a buck for a dollar? Beer chuck wow? Podcasting business Uh.
Speaker 1: Cafes and coffee houses. I think we kind of covered that.
Speaker 1: I tend to tip out of guilt there. But I
Speaker 1: don't go to a lot of coffee shops because I
Speaker 1: don't drink a lot of coffees. Do you really see
Speaker 1: look those guys in the eyes while I'm not tipping them.
Speaker 1: Do you what the worst is? Checking out the grocery store,
Speaker 1: they're like, would you like to give a dollar to
Speaker 1: the you know whatever foundation? That's fifty fifty for me?
Speaker 1: Depending on my mood. Really yeah, I mean like I
Speaker 1: should do it every time, but um yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: sad that helping out kids with muscular distrophe is equated
Speaker 1: to tipping. Well it's not, but yeah, I know what
Speaker 1: you mean, um holiday tipping, which was a big part
Speaker 1: of that Curb Your Enthusiasm Enthusiasm episode when you do
Speaker 1: this when you were have money. I think it's generally
Speaker 1: for people that have a little more money and they
Speaker 1: live in places where they know the service people helping. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they got the country club and the guy you
Speaker 1: know this and that. But you can deliver your newspaper
Speaker 1: or your garbage collector your newspaper delivery person. You can
Speaker 1: tip your mailman. My brother used to when he worked
Speaker 1: at uh the movie theaters would give every holidays he
Speaker 1: would give out movie tickets, yeah to like the mailman
Speaker 1: into the garbage person and stuff like that. Um, fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty five bucks they say for your garbage collector,
Speaker 1: your dog walker, your nanny, your cleaning service, they say
Speaker 1: one week's pay. I save a lot of money every
Speaker 1: year by not having those people set up to tip them.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, manicurist, you have manicurist supposed took them ten
Speaker 1: to fifty. I do. And you know the way around this,
Speaker 1: go to different manicurists every time, so that you're not
Speaker 1: you're not you're not a common enough customer that you
Speaker 1: feel like you need to tip them at the holidays.
Speaker 1: Hairdressers women obviously the ones who are probably been in
Speaker 1: the big bucks at the hairdresser, they say hundred and
Speaker 1: this is for the holidays. You understand, it's not each visit.
Speaker 1: This is hey, it's Christmas. You also have to tip
Speaker 1: them each visit. I get a fourteen dollar haircut, I
Speaker 1: tip six bucks? What well? Because what am I gonna
Speaker 1: give them? Nineteen dollars? Wow? Or two dollars? Okay? That
Speaker 1: just seems really cheap to me to say, like, thanks
Speaker 1: for the great haircut that's gonna last me three months.
Speaker 1: Here's eight quarters. Huh. I tipped my haircut lady all
Speaker 1: over the place. What I kisses and hugs stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You may cut your hair um hotels. Uh, you're This
Speaker 1: is something that I have just recently learned. I didn't
Speaker 1: know you're supposed to tip the maid service. I knew that,
Speaker 1: but I thought that was something from maybe the fifties.
Speaker 1: And that's how I like, um, comforted myself by not
Speaker 1: kipping the maids. But yeah, apparently we're supposed to be
Speaker 1: doing that a lot. One to ten dollars per night,
Speaker 1: depending on the mess you make. I am extremely clean
Speaker 1: and I clean up before I leave. It depends on
Speaker 1: if they change you, if you soiled yourself the night before.
Speaker 1: Bell hoops a dollar per bag if it's bull key
Speaker 1: and large or heavy and awkward, maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: more of that. Yeah, more than a buck That one
Speaker 1: I totally get. Still don't do it because I frequently
Speaker 1: don't use bell hoops to do it myself. But um,
Speaker 1: I hate that when they force you to like walk
Speaker 1: you into the room and show you around and stuff.
Speaker 1: I would much rather just carry my own bag, just
Speaker 1: give me my key card again with a big show.
Speaker 1: I don't want a big show, right Well apparently though,
Speaker 1: Remember that one study found that bell hops who do
Speaker 1: make a big show of things by showing people how
Speaker 1: to how to operate the thermostat on the TV and
Speaker 1: opening the drapes and offering to fill the ice bucket,
Speaker 1: they almost doubled their average tip. But I wonder if
Speaker 1: it was people who are like, here's some money, just
Speaker 1: please go away, which is one of the words is
Speaker 1: a tipping to remember, throwing money for uh concierge five
Speaker 1: to ten dollars depending on how helpful. Remember when we
Speaker 1: were at the Pittsburgh Fairmont and our buddy Chad give
Speaker 1: the concierge like ten bucks for a wreck and it
Speaker 1: turned out to be a bad recommendation and he was
Speaker 1: on man, he wanted his money back. What was the recommendation?
Speaker 1: I didn't go. I was eating Indian food by myself
Speaker 1: in my room. The whole thing. It was for a
Speaker 1: restaurant that was either closed or it was like it
Speaker 1: was just a bad tip. And he was like, did
Speaker 1: he get his money back? No, of course not. I'll
Speaker 1: bet he did not stop complaining about it. That he
Speaker 1: kept going and going. Uh. And I didn't know until recently,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to tip the concierge. I'm a dummy. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Well, I mean they help you out,
Speaker 1: and depending they were, how much help they are? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean like they concierge. And I've never had one
Speaker 1: do this for me. I've never really needed the services
Speaker 1: of concerts, but concierges can like really go to town.
Speaker 1: I'm making your life easy. They can get you tickets
Speaker 1: to a show, like all sorts of things. They can
Speaker 1: buy your kid a toy. If you're staying at a
Speaker 1: nice enough place, oh and you're busy or whatever shopping,
Speaker 1: the least they can find your shopper. This is, you
Speaker 1: know what, in the in the spirit of keeping the
Speaker 1: tradition of facts alive. I made that last part up,
Speaker 1: but it seems like a say that's something. Oh sure
Speaker 1: they would, okay, uh doorman, tip your doorman if they
Speaker 1: if they hell a taxi, tip them a buck. A
Speaker 1: lot of them aren't allowed to accept tips, so don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if they hand it back. Really all right,
Speaker 1: deliveries this is a big one for me. I get
Speaker 1: Chinese food delivery. It's about the only delivery I get.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe the occasional pizza where you order from.
Speaker 1: I order from a place indicator of Chinese food place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good, but they take forever. Yeah. See, that'll cut
Speaker 1: down on a tip with me. Well, especially if I'm
Speaker 1: really hungry when I order. Yeah, we've learned to order
Speaker 1: before we're hungry from this place. It's smart like Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, they say to tip two to five bucks
Speaker 1: on your on your food delivery to your home, depending
Speaker 1: on the weather, m the amount of danger depending on
Speaker 1: the neighborhood you live in. Yeah, my neighborhood's dangerous. I
Speaker 1: was not talking about your neighborhood. It's really not that been.
Speaker 1: Flower deliveries one to ten bucks, depending on the arrangement.
Speaker 1: I spent a little time as a flower delivery person,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you that most people don't tip
Speaker 1: their flower delivery guy, even though they're bringing this bit
Speaker 1: of sunshine into your life. Assume that goes for fruit
Speaker 1: delivery too, with those silly fruit displays, unless ironically, you're
Speaker 1: dressed like a piece of fruit while you're delivering it.
Speaker 1: Then the tips to start pouring out. Furniture delivery like
Speaker 1: large things. I can tell you I did that as well,
Speaker 1: Very large furniture among the heaviest arm wars you can
Speaker 1: possibly conceive of our fabrics. If you delivered to the
Speaker 1: home of like someone aged sixty five or older, there
Speaker 1: was about a sixty percent chance they were gonna tip you.
Speaker 1: Anybody below that was like, hey, thanks, thanks for coming.
Speaker 1: Don't don't get hit by a car on your way out.
Speaker 1: See my history with tipping with the elderly as they
Speaker 1: don't tip as much. It depends, It depends, It depends
Speaker 1: on the industry. You're in restaurant because tipping, I think,
Speaker 1: and it used to be a lot more ubiquitous than
Speaker 1: it is now. Right. So yeah, so like furniture delivery,
Speaker 1: like that's why the older generation I would get a
Speaker 1: tip from him more frequently, because there was a time
Speaker 1: when you tipped everybody like that. Our generation wasn't raised
Speaker 1: like that, right, I mean, do you tip the furniture
Speaker 1: delivery guy. I pick up my own furniture buddy, Okay,
Speaker 1: but you probably wouldn't like the mover, Let's say, like
Speaker 1: the people who help you move. I think it's expected
Speaker 1: you pay the big, huge moving costs and you tip
Speaker 1: the guys on top of that. Man, I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of self reflection. Sky Cap. I
Speaker 1: took five bucks a bag for sky Cap. I must
Speaker 1: be a sucker because it saysn't here two dollars a bag?
Speaker 1: Very good? What's next? Um? Shuttle drivers at the airport?
Speaker 1: I didn't know you're supposed to tip them. You're not.
Speaker 1: This is all made up, Cabby. In New York, they
Speaker 1: make it very easy on you know. You just put
Speaker 1: in the percentage you want in the little computer and
Speaker 1: it'll add it to your to your credit card, which
Speaker 1: is great valet. If I like you, which is frequent,
Speaker 1: you get two bucks. If I don't like you, you
Speaker 1: can get as little as zero dollars. I try to
Speaker 1: get to UM. I feel bad though when I don't
Speaker 1: have it, and I'm just like a man, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll say, can I go get my own car? Dude,
Speaker 1: I don't have any cash. Yeah, I'll say that too,
Speaker 1: and they say, no, we'll go get it. There was
Speaker 1: an I'll fart in it, you know they will? Oh
Speaker 1: they will, Yeah, I'll soil myself in your car. Uh, mechanic,
Speaker 1: I had no idea. That's this is why it's made up.
Speaker 1: You don't tip your mechanic. Who what are they talking about?
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I think this is from like
Speaker 1: the Gentleman's Guide to Life edition. Tip your mechanic ten
Speaker 1: to twenty dollars for any job over five. I had
Speaker 1: no idea. Gas station attendance like they exist anymore or
Speaker 1: Oregon or wherever. If you if if they voluntarily check
Speaker 1: your luids, meaning the ones in your car, uh, you
Speaker 1: should tip them one to two dollars? Is it Oregon?
Speaker 1: You do? You have to get your gas pumping. I
Speaker 1: remember in New Jersey. I think I've even told you this.
Speaker 1: My girlfriend had never pumped her gas. She was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, Well our friend Van Nostrian, he lives
Speaker 1: in Washington, which is nearby Oregon, so he probably knows
Speaker 1: about that. We should ask him. Um so international tipping,
Speaker 1: it's way way too much to go over and we
Speaker 1: hate to cop out, but you really do need to
Speaker 1: go online because there's tons of information. When you go
Speaker 1: to visit a country, it's all different. Look it up
Speaker 1: before you go so you don't look like a schmuck. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of rules of thumb. You should,
Speaker 1: like you said, familiarize yourself. You know, not knowing the
Speaker 1: value of the currency is not an excuse. Um, and um,
Speaker 1: don't use US currency. Yeah, that's a here's a couple
Speaker 1: of American dollars for you, Mr Costaagan. Don't just red
Speaker 1: your g d P. Yeah, that's that's cop out. That's
Speaker 1: bs to convert it and give them their currents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they have to go to an exchange place, and
Speaker 1: you know, everybody has a cameo in their in their
Speaker 1: neighborhood or and you know, I guess some countries I think,
Speaker 1: like like Puerto Rico and stuff like, they can use
Speaker 1: American dollars because it's in American territory well now, and
Speaker 1: I think even like Jamaica, in a lot of these
Speaker 1: places close to the US in the Caribbean, I think, well,
Speaker 1: they can use American dollars as well, so it's not
Speaker 1: so obnoxious. Can we go over some people who you
Speaker 1: don't have to tip? Which I was very relieved to
Speaker 1: hear some of these are are there? Is there anyone
Speaker 1: that you don't have to tip? Restaurant owners you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to tip. Salon owners, and basically any owner of
Speaker 1: an establishment you don't tip unless they're the ones providing
Speaker 1: the service to you. Um food deliveries under thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. That doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense to me. Here's my favorite. I was so glad
Speaker 1: to know that I don't. I can go ahead and
Speaker 1: stop tipping. Flight attendants. You don't have to tip flight attendants.
Speaker 1: Did you know that? I did not know anyone would
Speaker 1: do that. Bus drivers, theater rushers, you have to tip,
Speaker 1: shuttle drivers, but you're not supposed to tip bus drivers.
Speaker 1: This place is crazy, that's I'm saying. The rules are
Speaker 1: so like you you don't tip McDonald's, but you do
Speaker 1: tip the coffee person even though you can get a
Speaker 1: coffee at McDonald's. Salespeople you don't tip them. And employees
Speaker 1: at fast frid restaurants, air airline flight attendants. I can't
Speaker 1: believe someone actually wrote down that you don't have to
Speaker 1: tip them. So, Um, there's a lot of federal stuff
Speaker 1: going on right now, my friends. Uh, there's something up.
Speaker 1: So the the federal tipped minimum wage has been the
Speaker 1: same since it's a two hour because of inflation. That
Speaker 1: whole concept was created in nineteen sixty six because of inflation.
Speaker 1: It's never been less valuable than it is right now
Speaker 1: relative to the cost of living. So it's a big
Speaker 1: deal for people who make their living, you know, in
Speaker 1: service industries. Um, before Congress right now, there's Hr. Thirty one,
Speaker 1: the Working for Adequate Gains for Employment and Services or
Speaker 1: the Wages Act. Congress is so clever. Um, but basically
Speaker 1: it would tie the federal tip minimum wage to six
Speaker 1: of the federal minimum wage. So every time there's a
Speaker 1: hike it would also be a hike in the federal
Speaker 1: tip minimum wage, and that act would raise it right
Speaker 1: now to four thirty five an hour, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: double what they're making, but still way below just over
Speaker 1: half of you know, the federal minimum wage. And if
Speaker 1: you want to go join a group that lobbies on
Speaker 1: behalf of people who should make a decent wage in
Speaker 1: the service industry, you can check out fair eats dot org,
Speaker 1: I F A I R e A t s dot org.
Speaker 1: And that Buddy is a local group there. Atlanta based
Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants here. I have a list, Josh
Speaker 1: of best and worst celebrity tippers. Oh nice. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is very TMZ, although it wasn't from TMZ. And I
Speaker 1: hesitate to even read these because take it with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. A lot of these stories I don't
Speaker 1: know for true, and I'm not gonna get into the stories.
Speaker 1: But you'll be pleased to know that our ghostbusters Dan
Speaker 1: Ackroyd and Bill Murray are legendary good tippers. Awesome, you
Speaker 1: would think Drew barrymore great tipper. Russell Crowe kind of
Speaker 1: surprised me tipper. Apparently he's a really good tipper. I
Speaker 1: would not have guessed that, and the whole smashing your
Speaker 1: face with a phone incident was out of character for him. Wait,
Speaker 1: I thought he like in fights all the time. I
Speaker 1: don't know, huh. Drew Carey good tipper, Hulk Hogan, Charlie
Speaker 1: sheen I'll bet Charlie sheen Ley's more than just money
Speaker 1: as tips. David Beckham, Johnny Depp apparently really really good tipper.
Speaker 1: And then I cross reference the list of worst tippers
Speaker 1: on because there's all sorts of sites where people where
Speaker 1: you can go as a waitre on and say so
Speaker 1: until came in my restaurant last night and they did X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z, so I did cross reference some of these.
Speaker 1: Mick Jagger, the rock Bill Cosby Is was on every list.
Speaker 1: I'm sad to say I am not the least bit surprised.
Speaker 1: Kirsten dunst Weird Madonna Tiger Woods was on every list. Usher,
Speaker 1: Britney Spears and Jeremy Piven was on every list. Sean
Speaker 1: Penn really yeah, David Burne, Dude, this is so disappointing
Speaker 1: if it's true. David Byrne of The Talking Heads is
Speaker 1: considered one of the worst tippers ever because apparently he
Speaker 1: does not tip period, Like, oh yeah, I don't tip.
Speaker 1: That is two episodes in a row that future rose
Speaker 1: Board dogs Michael Moore supposedly. What wait a minute. If
Speaker 1: this is true, Michael Moore, and you are a friend
Speaker 1: of Michael Morris who listens and stuff, you know, please
Speaker 1: play this for him, you should be ashamed of yourself,
Speaker 1: Sir ashamed. It said once less left than left left
Speaker 1: less than twenty dollars on a four fifty dollar bill.
Speaker 1: And see all these though. I say take with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt, though, because because I could just be
Speaker 1: the ones and the ones not had any money. Maybe
Speaker 1: the maybe the server was a big Republican jerk that
Speaker 1: he didn't like because it is Michael Moore. Remember that
Speaker 1: part did you see Capitalism a Love Story? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I'm looking for some some advice. And
Speaker 1: one of the traders was like, stop making movies. It
Speaker 1: was ame alright, So I'm not gonna embarrass any more
Speaker 1: of these people like Molly Ringwald and Ricky Lake being
Speaker 1: really worried about like her her finances, and Rachel Ray
Speaker 1: she was on a bunch of the sites too. They
Speaker 1: said she's cheap. I could see her being cheap too.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not surprised by all them. Don't
Speaker 1: be cheap people. I mean, you make tons of money,
Speaker 1: spread it around and I'm no socialists, but come on,
Speaker 1: just bring a little joy in someone's life like Bill
Speaker 1: Murray does. Yeah, but not Bill Cosby. Be more like
Speaker 1: Bill Murray, not like Bill Cosby. Okay, yes, all right,
Speaker 1: what's our big takeaway? That's it for our list of
Speaker 1: most hated celebrities. If you want to learn more about that,
Speaker 1: you can type tipping into the search bar at how
Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Right, that's right, that's t I
Speaker 1: P P I n G, which is what That's like
Speaker 1: a palin drum or something. Almost didn't it close? Uh?
Speaker 1: Let's see, I said search bar how stuff works dot Com,
Speaker 1: which means it's time for listening. Mail Josh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call this one dueling Vikings. Call it that though from
Speaker 1: a dude from Viking Land. He says, Hi, guys, just
Speaker 1: finished listening to the Dueling podcast. I thought i'd share
Speaker 1: a bit on how they were handled in Nordic countries
Speaker 1: back when they were pillaging the rest of Europe and
Speaker 1: ber jerking at every opportunity Despite the outward appearance of
Speaker 1: being crazy ax wielding pirates. The Vikings prefer to keep
Speaker 1: things civil on the home front. Thus the concept of
Speaker 1: home aang was created. A home is a small island
Speaker 1: and gang means to go. So when two parties or
Speaker 1: odds over an insult a woman or property, they would
Speaker 1: go to a tiny island or the tip of a peninsula,
Speaker 1: or some similar isolated area to duke get out. Viking style.
Speaker 1: They would take a three by three meter square of
Speaker 1: ox hide, spread it on the ground, and stake each
Speaker 1: corner uh and rope between them, much like a modern
Speaker 1: boxing ring. Each home gunger typically wielded an axe or
Speaker 1: a heavy sword and had with him three wooden shields.
Speaker 1: The challenging party I'm sorry. The challenged party would have
Speaker 1: first strike, and they would then proceed taking turns to
Speaker 1: hammer away at each other's shield broken shields being replaced
Speaker 1: with the two spares along the way, and the first
Speaker 1: man struck bodily to typically be considered the loser. Huh,
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Speaker 1: biking land uh yoh? Nick Johnick, the k is that Minnesota.
Speaker 1: J A n An, I K no, I don't think Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, Yannick. I think it is, yea, and
Speaker 1: then I K Yawnick. We'll go with that. Okay, thanks
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