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Speaker 1: March on this Saturday Selects episode to tell you how

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Speaker 1: to tip, then this episode we'll kind of explain that

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Speaker 1: to you. It is from twelve. So I hope you

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Speaker 1: did the right thing. I know we talked about tipping well,

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Speaker 1: in our recent situation during the lockdown, when so many

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Speaker 1: people in the industries that rely on tips have not

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Speaker 1: been able to work for tips and they have been

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Speaker 1: hit hard. So I gotta tell you I'm throwing down

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Speaker 1: as much money their way as I can afford, as

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Speaker 1: should you. So do the right thing. Everyone, tip big

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Speaker 1: if you can, and listen to this episode on how

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Speaker 1: tipping works. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W Chuck Bryant, and uh,

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Speaker 1: this is Stuff you Should Know the podcast. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever waited tables? I did? Know, it's awful. How long

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Speaker 1: did you do it? I did it often on for

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Speaker 1: many years. Didn't but man, I was bad. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: waited tables for many years as well, and many, uh

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Speaker 1: several different states and different many different kinds of restaurants,

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Speaker 1: So I have a pretty wide range of experience with

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Speaker 1: being tipped. How are you doing great? How are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you trying to hurry this along? Here's a tip

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Speaker 1: for for for me to you steer clearer, that O

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Speaker 1: J guy pal, O J. Simpson. Yeah, there's from a

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Speaker 1: Dave Letterman top ten from the nineties something about tipping,

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Speaker 1: and one of them was like, here's a tip, steer

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Speaker 1: clearer that O J. Fellow pal. I'm glad we're staying

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Speaker 1: relevant as always. I'm not trying to move it along.

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Speaker 1: I just thought, since you said he didn't have an intro,

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Speaker 1: I would document a litt bit of my history as

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Speaker 1: a waiter. You did, great man. Remember what's his name,

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Speaker 1: the guy from Scrubs and Gardens State. For some reason,

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Speaker 1: I always think he was perfect at being that waiter,

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Speaker 1: Zach Breth. Yeah, for some reason. It was just like

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Speaker 1: that was really based on his experience as a waiter. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he wore a lot of eyeliner in the early two

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Speaker 1: thousand guyliner, So that's called you never heard that phrase,

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Speaker 1: no guyliner? Yeah, uh so tipping, Josh, this was You've

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Speaker 1: got done for various reasons. And I'm glad we got

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Speaker 1: around to it because I will be one that people.

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Speaker 1: It's ubiquitous and we'll get tons and tons of email

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Speaker 1: be helpful because in several points we tell you to

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Speaker 1: go to trip advisor to look up tipping customs, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's helpful. Well, it's hard to cover tipping customs because

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Speaker 1: they're print everywhere and for each job, and it's gets

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Speaker 1: so overwhelming you just have to end up saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: if you're going to this country, look it up. Or

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Speaker 1: apparently you need to go through life like Jimmy Conway

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Speaker 1: and Goodfellas and tip absolutely every single person you see

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Speaker 1: your mechanic. Did you see that? Did you know you're

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Speaker 1: know what, since you brought that up. Uh. There was

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Speaker 1: just a question I thought was interesting. What services bother

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Speaker 1: that doesn't make it easier on you? Well, why would

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Speaker 1: getting paid the tipped wage. That brings up a big point,

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Speaker 1: pay their employees more than the minimum federal minimum tipped wage. Well,

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Speaker 1: we can either entirely do away with tipping by raising

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Speaker 1: it's laughable still, right, um, and just do away with tipping,

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Speaker 1: it karma, which I think we went over in them

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, that's kind of that's passive aggressive guilty,

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Speaker 1: you think. All right, So that was our intro tipping.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about where this often vilely exploited act

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Speaker 1: came from. Chuck, go ahead, Well I feel like I

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Speaker 1: let's see tipping they think has its origins in about

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Speaker 1: the sixteenth century in Europe, where if you went and

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Speaker 1: became much less of a way to um show your

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Speaker 1: so they think that that's possibly where the custom came from.

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Speaker 1: There's a guy named Steve Doblonica who's written books on tipping.

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Speaker 1: He's got some pretty good research down And you want

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Speaker 1: know about the train spotting the origin of tipping. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And uh, a little more history if you don't mind

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Speaker 1: chuckers um, you can pretty much pinpoint how tipping became

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Speaker 1: neuroticism at its finest portraye. You want to tip as

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Speaker 1: Extroverts are outgoing social folks, and they see it as

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin, party of four. I never heard that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yaman's got a story about this one. Dude, Wow, you

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Speaker 1: won'ta tell it. Well, it was pretty much it. They

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Speaker 1: I've never agreas to palm for like a table. I

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Speaker 1: how you get good tips. This is Josh and Chucks.

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Speaker 1: If you're a waiter or a waitron, here are our

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Speaker 1: this isn't just us in our observations. Again, Cornell has

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Speaker 1: about how and why we tip. One of them is touching.

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Speaker 1: collective movement, you know what I'm saying, Like, you can

424
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: be the nice guy in tip twenty all the time

425
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: or whatever, but you're also kind of pushing everybody else

426
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: forward by doing that. Yeah. I also do the deal

427
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: to where you know, you go out with certain people

428
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: and you whoa, whoa, whoa. What does that mean? I've

429
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: got like eight different homes. I don't want. I don't

430
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,199
Speaker 1: want to call out any any person or even are

431
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: you talking about a specific buddy of yours? No, not buddy,

432
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: just you know, could be family members, could be certain friends.

433
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: Just you know, when someone picks up the tab, I

434
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: always do the thing where I look to make sure

435
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: that they were properly compensated. Then on the way and

436
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I got to use a bathroom, I'll

437
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: go put more money in there. Oh you're an underminer.

438
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, because certain people, Oh man, I wish I

439
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: could say who. I had a friend whose father was

440
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: in a very rich dude, and he was a bad

441
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: tipper and it embarrassed the crud out of me when

442
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: we would go to these nice places and he would

443
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: pick up the tab and leave like a eight to

444
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: ten tip. And so I always need to bring cash

445
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: to leave in the thing. Jared Hess's dad. No, No,

446
00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: just like start so much. All right, So that's it.

447
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: How to increase your tips? Oh, tell him it's sunny outside. Yeah.

448
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: The psychology of weather strikes again where the study was conducted.

449
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: Where if um a in a windowless room, right yeah, uh,

450
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: if the waiter describes it as being rainy out, the

451
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: tips were something like nineteen. This isn't too bad. But

452
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: if the waiter was like, oh, it's so sunny and

453
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: beautiful out, then tips average. So squat at the table,

454
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: touch him on the shoulder, give him candy, Give him candy,

455
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you've got two pieces

456
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,719
Speaker 1: of candy, and uh, give good service, and then tell

457
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: them it's sunny outside and you will be rolling in

458
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 1: the dead makes like a million dollars table. Thank you

459
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: s later, and tip on the original amount. By the way,

460
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: that's a waiter thing. It's a big one. If you

461
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 1: if you got coupons or you do the scalp mob thing,

462
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: be aware that you're you should tip on the original amount.

463
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: You kind of have to. It's not the waiter's fault.

464
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: You had a coupon. Yeah, I mean that is really

465
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: bad if you don't know that at this point, especially

466
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: with how ubiquitous those those deals are getting these days.

467
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: You know, um, but chuck. On the other hand, you

468
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: can make a pretty strong argument that, um, if you

469
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: order a hundred dollar bottle of wine, do you tip that? So? Why? Why? Yeah? Why,

470
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: I'd like some nice wine. And that is a bone

471
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: of contention that I swallow and I just still tip

472
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: on the total amount. But yeah, you're right if you

473
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: Let's say you just order a bottle of wine, like mean, Emily,

474
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: We're just gonna go have a bottle of wine one

475
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: night because we ate dinner somewhere else, or maybe we

476
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: gotta have dessert somewhere, and we get a nice bottle

477
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: of port and it's like eighty bucks. You guys drink

478
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: a whole bottle of port and no, of course not.

479
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: Let's say with a group or whatever, we drink a

480
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: whole bottle of port, a group of what like twenty

481
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: you're drinking a whole bottle of drinking glass of port,

482
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: and there's like five glasses and a bottle. It's like,

483
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: that's small. It's like a regular wine glass. What do

484
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: you drink brandy like that? No, because that's liquor poored

485
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: is wine? No, brandy is a type of wine. Okay, anyway,

486
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: do you you're like Homer Simpson when he was baby

487
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: sending Mr. Burne's house when he like pours himself like

488
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: a whole sniffer brandy and drinks the whole thing and

489
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,239
Speaker 1: when when gulp and then just falls right over my

490
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: friend Timmy's wife one time asked for a bourbon on

491
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: the rocks at her house, and she bought me like

492
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: seven ounces of bourbon on the rocks, and I was like,

493
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: what are you trying to do to me? That's awesome. No,

494
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: but port's not You're not supposed to have be a

495
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: little it's not like sambuca. I mean ports, like a

496
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 1: regular glass of wine. Right. I'm mistaken then, because every

497
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: place I go they pour your regular, regular glass. Know

498
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: it's a little tiny, like it's like a cordial wine glass. No, no, no, no, no,

499
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: I promise. All right, well you're gonna be wrong regardless.

500
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: You drink expensive wine and how how much do you tip? Well,

501
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: but it does cross my mind, like, man, I'm giving

502
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: this guy like fourteen dollars for bringing me the bottle

503
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: of wine. It's a good point, and I think even

504
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: the average server would grudgingly agree. Okay, all right, maybe

505
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: maybe not on this one. But it's not just the

506
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: waiter that you want to tip in the restaurant, surprise, surprise.

507
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 1: Depending on where you go, you need to be prepared

508
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: to tip a lot of people. Yeah, the the person

509
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: who see to you. Maybe if it's a really nice place.

510
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: The matri d if the matri d goes out of

511
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: his way, um to get you a very nice table,

512
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: or you feel like he's he or she is doing

513
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: something um very just kind of above and beyond, you

514
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: might want to slip from fifteen to twenty bucks. There's

515
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: a lot also if the Somalia comes over to your

516
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: table and tells you a bit about the wines, especially

517
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: if you solicited this advice. Yeah. In reading this article,

518
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: I realized that I have stiffed at least one Somalia

519
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: in my life, and now I understand why he was

520
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: looking at me weird when he finished. Um uh, you

521
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: you want to give them anywhere from ten to twenty bucks,

522
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: depending on how in depth the recommendation is. And usually

523
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: when you're talking tips at least in this article that

524
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: we're working from from how stuff Works dot com. Um,

525
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: there's a high and a low. Yeah, And it's basically

526
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: the discrepancy is based on just how much effort this

527
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: person is putting into it, how much enthusiasm, um, but

528
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: and just how much out of their out of the

529
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: way of their normal duties are they going. See here's

530
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: my deal, dude, I don't want a big show. I

531
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: want genuine good service. And and to be left alone

532
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: because you you can. The tip won't go down because

533
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: I just have the guilt. But you can go down

534
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: in my mind if you're just too like just too much,

535
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: don't work too hard, don't give me a big show.

536
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: Apparently they can do whatever they want to and they're

537
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: still gonna get same amount of money. You know what, chuck.

538
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,239
Speaker 1: You know where you would do well, then buffets. At

539
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: a buffet, you serve yourself and you just leave your

540
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: plate and it mysteriously vanishes. But that's a person behind

541
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: the kidnapping of that plate, and you want to leave

542
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: them about ten percent as a recommendation, So you want

543
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: to leave them thirty five cents at your buffet. I

544
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: don't go to buffet's. But yeah, you don't go to buffet's. No,

545
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: I don't understand the existence of cafeterias, since there's buffets.

546
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: It's the same exact thing, except buffets are all you

547
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: can eat, and cafeterias like, here's a little ramikin of

548
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: the same thing you can have ten helpings of if

549
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: you want for the same price. Well, you don't see

550
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: a lot of cafeterias anymore, you do, you do? Yeah,

551
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: there's at least as many cafeterias as there are buffets.

552
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, I think the Chinese food restaurants have

553
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: made that a null and void comment the Chinese food Okay, alright,

554
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: so though they exist outside of this realm, I'm talking

555
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: more like country cook and buffets. Yeah, there's almost one

556
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: for one all right. Uh. And by the way, most

557
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: most nicer restaurants pulled their tips, um like it mexicality

558
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: was every man for himself. You know, the bus boy

559
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: didn't get tips. Right. Actually, we kind of bust our

560
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: own tables. But most restaurants will pull their tips in

561
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: the the that's usually not a matre d at that point,

562
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: it's just the hoster, hostess. They'll get a cut, and

563
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: like the bartender and the bus boy they'll they'll get dishwasher.

564
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: They'll all get a cut. So just remember that. But

565
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: some places it's every man for himself too. Uh. If

566
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: speaking of bartenders, you are at a bar, I usually

567
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: tip a bucket drink for the first few drinks. That's

568
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: what I do. Um, unless it's a very If it's

569
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: like a complex, complicated drink, which I tend to prefer, um,

570
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: it will be like a percentage of the bill if

571
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: there's really muddling going on. Yes, Once you start muddling,

572
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, here's some extra money. Yeah. I

573
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: don't tip on the bill because we'll usually just say,

574
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: give us six PBRs for my friends and I and O,

575
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: then tip a bucket. Even if the beer is a dollar.

576
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: I'll give a dollar. That's very nice of you, you know,

577
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: because it's like, what am I gonna like fish around

578
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: for fifteen cents? That's just ridiculous. But you know, we're rich,

579
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: we're high rollers. You're tipping a buck a buck for

580
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: a dollar beer chuckow podcasting business. Uh. Cafes and coffee houses.

581
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: I think we've kind of covered that. I tend to

582
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: tip out of guilt there. But I don't go to

583
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: a lot of coffee shops because I don't drink a

584
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: lot of coffee. Do you really see those guys in

585
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: the eyes while I'm not tipping them? Do you want?

586
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: The worst is we're checking out the grocery store and

587
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: they're like, would you like to give a dollar to

588
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: the you know whatever foundation? That's fifty fifty for me

589
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: depending on my mood. Really, yeah, I mean like I

590
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: should do it every time. But um, yeah, and that's

591
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: sad that helping out kids with muscular distrophy is equated

592
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: to tipping. Well it's not, but yeah, I know what

593
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: you mean, um holiday tipping, which was a big part

594
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: of that Curb Your Enthusiasm Enthusiasm episode when you do

595
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: this when you were have money. I think it's generally

596
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: for people that have a little more money and they

597
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: live in places where they know the service people helping. Yeah,

598
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: like the guy at the country club and the guy

599
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: you know this and that. But you can deliver your

600
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: newspaper or your garbage collector your newspaper delivery person. You

601
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: can tip your mailman. My brother used to when he

602
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: worked at uh the movie theaters would give every holidays,

603
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: he would give out movie tickets that yeah, to like

604
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: the mailman and to the garbage person and stuff like that. Um,

605
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks they say for your garbage collector, your dog walker,

606
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: your nanny, your cleaning service, they say one week's pay.

607
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: I save a lot of money every year by not

608
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: having those people set up to tip them. Uh yes, manicurist,

609
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: you have manicurists supposed to tip them ten to fifty

610
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: I do. And you know the way around this, go

611
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: to different manicurists every time, so that you're not you're

612
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: not a you're not a common enough customer that you

613
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: feel like you need to tip them at the holidays.

614
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: Hairdressers women obviously the ones who are probably been in

615
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: the big bucks at the hairdresser, they say undred and

616
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: this is for the holidays. You understand, it's not each visit.

617
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: This is hey, it's Christmas. You also have to tip

618
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: them each visit. I get a fourteen dollar haircut, I

619
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: tipped six bucks? What well? Because what am I gonna

620
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: give them nineteen dollars? Wow? Or two dollars? Okay? That

621
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: just seems really cheap to me to say, like, thanks

622
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: for the great haircut that's gonna last me three months.

623
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: Here's eight quarters. Huh. I tipped my haircut lady all

624
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: over the place. What are you tipper? I kisses and

625
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: hugs and stuff like that. You may cut your hair

626
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: um hotels. Uh, you're This is something that I have

627
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: just recently learned. I didn't know you're supposed to tip

628
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: them the maid service. I knew that, but I thought

629
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: that was something from maybe the fifties. And that's how

630
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: I like, um comforted myself by not tipping the maids.

631
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, apparently we're supposed to be doing that a lot.

632
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: One to ten dollars per night, depending on the mess

633
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: you make. I am extremely clean and I clean up

634
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: before I leave the hotel. It depends on if they

635
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: change you, if you soiled yourself the night before. Bell

636
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: hoops a dollar per bag if it's bulky and large

637
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 1: or heavy and awkward, maybe a little bit more of that. Yeah,

638
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: more than a buck. That one I totally get. Still

639
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: don't do it because I frequently don't use bell hops.

640
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: I do it myself. But um, I hate that when

641
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: they force you to like walk you into the room

642
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: and show you around and stuff. I would much rather

643
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: just carry my own bag, just give me my key

644
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: card again with a big show. I don't want a

645
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: big show. Right, Well, apparently they remember that. One study

646
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,479
Speaker 1: found that bell hoops who do make a big show

647
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: of things by showing people how to how to operate

648
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: the thermostat in the TV and opening the drapes and

649
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: offering to fill the ice bucket, they almost doubled their

650
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: average tip. But I wonder if there was people who

651
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: are like, here's some money, just please go away. Which

652
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: is one of the ords, is a tipping to remember

653
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: throwing money for uh concierge five to ten dollars depending

654
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: on how helpful. Remember when we were at the Pittsburgh

655
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: Fairmont and our buddy Chad gave the concierge like ten

656
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: bucks for a wreck and it turned out to be

657
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: a bad recommendation and he was on man, he wanted

658
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: his money back. What was the recommendation? I didn't go.

659
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: I was eating Indian food by myself in my room

660
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It was for a restaurant that was

661
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: either closed or it was like it was just a

662
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: bad tip. And he was like, didn't get his money back? No,

663
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: of course not. I'll bet he did not stop complaining

664
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: about it. That he kept going and going. Uh. And

665
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: I didn't know until recently, you're supposed to tip the concierge.

666
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: I'm a dummy. I didn't know that. Well, I mean

667
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: they helped you out, and depending I thought they were

668
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: much help they are, yeah, I mean like they concierge,

669
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: and I've never had one do this for me. I've

670
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: never really needed the services of concierge, but seas can

671
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: like really go to town. I'm making your life easy.

672
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: They can make yours. They can get you tickets to

673
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: a show, like yeah, sure, all sorts of things. They

674
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: can buy your kid a toy. If you're staying at

675
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: a nice enough place, oh and you're busy or whatever

676
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: shopping that you can find your shopper. This is, you

677
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: know what, in the in the spirit of keeping the

678
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: tradition of facts alive. I made that last part up,

679
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: but it seems like a safe assumption. Oh sure they would, okay,

680
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: uh doorman, tip your doorman if they If they hail

681
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: a taxi, tip them a buck. A lot of them

682
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: aren't allowed to accept tips, so don't be surprised if

683
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: they hand it back. All right. Deliveries this is a

684
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: big one for me. I get Chinese food delivery. It's

685
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: about the only delivery I get. Oh yeah, maybe the

686
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: occasional pizza where you order from. I order from a

687
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: place indicator of Chinese food place. Yeah, it's good, but

688
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: they take forever. Yeah. Yeah, see that'll cut down on

689
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: a tip with me. Well, especially if I'm really hungry

690
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: when I order. We've learned to order before we're hungry

691
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: from this place. It's smart like Tuesday, Yeah exactly, they

692
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: say to tip two to five bucks on your on

693
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: your food delivery to your home, depending on the weather,

694
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: m the amount of danger depending on the neighborhood you

695
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: live in. Yeah, my neighborhoods dangerous. I was not talking

696
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 1: about your neighborhood. It's really not that man. Um Flower

697
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: deliveries one to ten bucks, depending on the arrangement. I

698
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: spent a little time as a flower delivery person, and

699
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: I can tell you that most people don't tip their

700
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: flower delivery guy, even though they're bringing this bit of

701
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: sunshine into your life. I assume that goes for fruit

702
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 1: delivery too, with those silly fruit displays, unless ironically, you're

703
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: dressed like a piece of fruit while you're delivering it.

704
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: Then the tips to start pouring out. Furniture delivery like

705
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: large things. I can tell you I did that as well,

706
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: Very large furniture among the heaviest arm wars you can

707
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: possibly conceive of our fabric. If you delivered to the

708
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: home of like someone age sixty five or older, there

709
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: was about a sixty percent chance they were going to

710
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: tip you. Anybody below that was like, hey, thanks, thanks

711
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: for coming. Don't don't get hit by a car on

712
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: your way out. See my history with tipping with the

713
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: elderly is they don't tip as much. It depends, It depends.

714
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: It depends on the industry. You're in restaurant because tipping,

715
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: I think, and it used to be a lot more

716
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: ubiquitous than it is now. Right, So yeah, So like

717
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: a furniture delivery like, that's why the older generation I

718
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: would get a tip from him more frequently, because there

719
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: was a time when you tipped everybody like that. Our

720
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: generation wasn't raised like that. I mean, do you tip

721
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: the furniture delivery guy. I pick up my own furniture buddy, Okay,

722
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: but you probably wouldn't like the mover, let's say, like

723
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: the people who help you move. I think it's expected

724
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: you pay the big, huge moving costs and you tip

725
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: the guys on top of that. Man, I've got a

726
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: lot of at to self reflection. Sky Cap. I took

727
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: five bucks a bag for sky Cap. I must be

728
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: a sucker because it says in here two dollars a bag.

729
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: Very good. What's next? Um shuttle drivers at the airport.

730
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know you're supposed to tip them. You're not.

731
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: This is all made up Cabby in New York. They

732
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 1: make it very easy on. You know. You just put

733
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: in the percentage you want in the little computer and

734
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: it'll add it to your to your credit card, which

735
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: is great valet. If I like you, which is frequent,

736
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: you get two bucks. If I don't like you, you

737
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: can get as little as zero dollars. I try to

738
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: give to UM. I feel bad though when I don't

739
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: have it, and I'm just like a man, and sometimes

740
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: I'll say, can I go get my own car? Dude,

741
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: I don't have any cash. Yeah, I'll say that too,

742
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: and they say, no, we'll go get it. There was

743
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: an I'll fart in it, you know they will, Oh

744
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: they will, Yeah, I'll soil myself in your car. Uh, mechanic.

745
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: I had no idea that this is why it's made up.

746
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: You don't tip your mechanic. Who what are they talking about?

747
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I think this is from like

748
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 1: the Gentleman's Guide to Life edition to tip your mechanic

749
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: ten to twenty dollars for any of your job over.

750
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Gas station attendance like they exist

751
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: anymore or Oregon or wherever. If you if if they

752
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: voluntarily check your fluids, meaning the ones in your car, uh,

753
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: you should tip them one to two dollars? Is it Oregon?

754
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: You do? You have to get your gas pumping. I

755
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: remember in New Jersey. I think I've even told you this.

756
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: My girlfriend had never pumped her gas. She was like, oh, yeah,

757
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: you did tell me that. Yeah, we are friend Van Nostri.

758
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: He lives in Washington, which is nearby Oregon, so he

759
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: probably knows about that. We should ask him. Yeah. Um,

760
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: so international tipping, it's way way too much to go

761
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: over and we hate to cop out, but you really

762
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: do need to go online because there's tons of information.

763
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: When go to visit a country, it's all different. Look

764
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: it up before you go so you don't look like

765
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: a schmuck. Yeah. Um, there are a couple of rules

766
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: of thumb. You should, like you said, familiarize yourself. You know.

767
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 1: Not knowing the value of the currency is not an excuse. Um,

768
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: and um, don't use US currency. Yeah, that's a here's

769
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: a couple of American dollars for you, Mr Costa Rican.

770
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: Don't disrupt your g d P. Yeah that's that's uh

771
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: cop out, that's b S. Convert it and give them

772
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 1: their currents. Yeah, because they have to go to an

773
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: exchange place, and you know, everybody has a cameo in

774
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: their in their neighborhood or and you know, I guess

775
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: some countries I think, like like Puerto Rico and stuff like,

776
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: they can use American dollars like place because it's an

777
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: American territory. Well now, and I think even like Jamaica

778
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: in a lot of these places close to the US

779
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: in the Caribbean, I think, well, they can use American

780
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: dollars as well, so it's not so obnoxious. Can we

781
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: go over some people who you don't have to tip?

782
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: Which I was very relieved to hear some of these

783
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: are Are there? Is there anyone that you don't have

784
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: to tip? Restaurant owners? You're not supposed to tip, salon owners,

785
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: basically any owner of an establishment, you don't tip unless

786
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: they're the ones providing the service to you. Um food

787
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: deliveries under thirty bucks. I don't know what that is.

788
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense to me. Here's my favorite.

789
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: I was so glad to know that I don't I

790
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: can go ahead and stop tipping flight attendants. You don't

791
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: have to tip flight attendants. Did you know that? I

792
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: did not know anyone would do that? Bus drivers, theater rushers.

793
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: You have to tip shuttle drivers, but you're not supposed

794
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: to tip bus drivers. This place is crazy, that's what

795
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The rules are so like you you don't

796
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: tip McDonald's, but you do tip the coffee person even

797
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: though you can get a coffee at McDonald's. Salespeople you

798
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: don't tip them. And employees at fast food restaurants, air

799
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 1: airline flight attendants. I can't believe some and actually wrote

800
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: down that you don't have to tip them. So, Um,

801
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of federal stuff going on right now,

802
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: my friend, Uh, there's something up. So the the federal

803
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: tipped minimum wage has been the same since it's at

804
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: two an hour because of inflation. That whole concept was

805
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: created in nineteen sixty six. Because of inflation. It's never

806
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: been less valuable than it is right now relative to

807
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: the cost of living. So it's a big deal for

808
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: people who make their living, you know, in service industries. Um.

809
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: Before Congress right now, there's Hr thirty one, the Working

810
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: for Adequate Gains for Employment and Services or the Wages Act.

811
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: Congress is so clever. Um, but basically it would tie

812
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: the federal tip minimum wage to sixty of the federal

813
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: minimum wage. So every time there's a hike, there would

814
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: also be a hike in the federal TIPMU minimum wage.

815
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: And that act would raise it right now to four

816
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: thirty five an hour, which is, you know, double what

817
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: they're making, but still way below just over half of

818
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, the federal minimum wage. And if you want

819
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: to go join a group that lobbies on behalf of

820
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: people who should make a decent wage in the service industry,

821
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: you can check out fair eats dot org, f A

822
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: I R e A t s dot org. And that

823
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: buddy is a local group. Really there, Atlanta based a

824
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: lot of restaurants here. I have a list, Josh of

825
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: best and worst celebrity tippers. Oh nice, Yeah, this is

826
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: very TMZ, although it wasn't from TMZ. And I hesitate

827
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: to even read these because take it with a grain

828
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: of salt. A lot of these stories I don't know

829
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 1: for true, and I'm not going to get into the stories,

830
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: but you'll be pleased to know that our ghostbusters Dan

831
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: Ackroyd and Bill Murray are legendary good tippers. Awesome, you

832
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: would think Drew barrymore great tipper. I could see that

833
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: Russell Crowe kind of surprised me. Apparently Tipper. Apparently he's

834
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: a really good tipper. I would not have guessed that.

835
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 1: And the whole smashing your face with the phone incident

836
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: was out of character for him. Wait, I thought he

837
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: like got in fights all the time. I don't know.

838
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: Drew Carey, good tipper, hul Cogan, Charlie Sheen. I'll bet

839
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: Charlie Sheen leaves more than just money as tips. David Beckham,

840
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: Johnny Depp apparently really really good tipper. And then I

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Speaker 1: cross reference the list of worst tippers on because there's

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Speaker 1: all sorts of sites where people where you can go

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Speaker 1: as a wait tron and say so until came in

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Speaker 1: my restaurant last night and they did X, Y and Z,

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Speaker 1: So I did cross reference some of these. Mick Jagger,

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Speaker 1: the rock Bill Cosby Is was on every list. I'm

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Speaker 1: sad to say I am not the least bit surprised.

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Speaker 1: Kirsten dunst weird, Madonna, Tiger Woods was on every list, Usher,

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Speaker 1: Britney Spears, and Jeremy Piven was on every list. Sean

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Speaker 1: Penn really yeah, David Byrne, Dude, this is so disappointing

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Speaker 1: if it's true. David Byrne of The Talking Heads is

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Speaker 1: considered one of the worst tippers ever because apparently he

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Speaker 1: does not tip periods like, oh yeah, I don't tip.

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Speaker 1: That is two episodes in a row that feature reser

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Speaker 1: boar dogs. Michael Moore supposedly, what wait a minute. If

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Speaker 1: this is true, Michael Moore, and you are a friend

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Speaker 1: of Michael Morris who listens to stuff, you should know,

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Speaker 1: please play this for him. You should be ashamed of yourself,

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Speaker 1: sir ashamed. It said once less left than left, left

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Speaker 1: less than twenty dollars on a four fifty dollar bill

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Speaker 1: and see all these though. I say take with a

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Speaker 1: grain of salt though, because because it could just be

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Speaker 1: the ones and the ones who's not had any money.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the server was a big Republican jerk that

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Speaker 1: he didn't like. Because it is Michael Moore. You remember

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Speaker 1: that part, does you see Capitalism a love Story? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, I'm looking for some some advice.

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Speaker 1: And one of the traders was like, stop making movies.

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Speaker 1: It was awest alright, So I'm not gonna embarrass anymore

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Speaker 1: of these bowl like Molly Ringwald and Ricky Lake like

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Speaker 1: being really worried about like her her finances and Rachel

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Speaker 1: Ray she was on a bunch of the sites too.

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Speaker 1: They said she's cheap. I could see her being cheap too.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not surprised by all them. Don't

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Speaker 1: be cheap people. I mean, you make tons of money,

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Speaker 1: spread it around, and I'm those socialists. But come on,

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Speaker 1: just bring a little joy into someone's life like Bill

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Speaker 1: Murray does. Yeah, but not Bill Cosby. Be more like

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Speaker 1: Bill Murray, not like Bill Cosby. Okay, yes, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's our big takeaway. That's it for our list of

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Speaker 1: most hated celebrities. If you want to learn more about that,

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Speaker 1: you can type tipping into the search bar at how

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Speaker 1: P P I n G, which is what That's like

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Speaker 1: a palindrome or something. Almost didn't it? Uh, let's see,

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Speaker 1: I said search bar how stuff works dot com, which

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Speaker 1: means it's time for listener mail. Josh, I'm gonna call

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Speaker 1: this one Dueling Vikings. Call it that though from a

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Speaker 1: dude from Viking Land. He says, Hi, guys, just finished

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Speaker 1: listening to the Dueling podcast. I thought i'd share a

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Speaker 1: bit on how they were handled in Nordic countries back

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Speaker 1: when they were pillaging the rest of Europe and berserking

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Speaker 1: at every opportunity. Despite the outward appearance of being crazy

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Speaker 1: axe wielding pirates, the Vikings prefer to keep things civil

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Speaker 1: on the home front. Thus the concept of home gang

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Speaker 1: was created. A home is a small island and gang

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Speaker 1: means to go. So when two parties where odds over

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Speaker 1: an insult a woman or property, they would go to

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Speaker 1: a tiny island or the tip of a peninsula where

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Speaker 1: some similar isolated area to duke get out Viking style.

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Speaker 1: They would take a three by three meter square of

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Speaker 1: ox hide, spread it on the ground, and stake each

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Speaker 1: corner and rope between them, much like a modern boxing ring.

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Speaker 1: Each home gunger typically wielded an axe or a heavy

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Speaker 1: sword and had with him three wooden shields. The challenging

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Speaker 1: party I'm sorry, the channel lunch party would have first strike,

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Speaker 1: and they would then proceed taking turns to hammer away

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Speaker 1: at each other, shield broken shields being replaced with the

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Speaker 1: two spares along the way, and the first man struck

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Speaker 1: bodily would typically be considered the loser. Huh. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the hundreds of hours of entertaining knowledge and keep being

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Speaker 1: the awesome dudes. You are your friend in biking land. Uh, Yannick, Johnick,

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Speaker 1: the K is that Minnesota? J A n N, I

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Speaker 1: K no, I don't think it's from Minnesota. That's pretty cool, Yannick.

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Speaker 1: I think it is Kay and then I k Yawnick.

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Speaker 1: We'll go with that. Okay, thanks a lot, Yannick from Minnesota. Um,

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Speaker 1: and uh, if you want to know about vikings and

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Speaker 1: you haven't heard it already, go listen to our How

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Speaker 1: Vikings Were podcast. Oh that was a good one, very neat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: talk about berserkers. Um, let's see. Oh, if you have

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