Speaker 1: All right, let's get it started. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 1: in to Kentucky. And it's morning news here on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: That is me. The full crew is here.
Speaker 1: We've got Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden, John Shannon, the crew
Speaker 1: has assembled and fellas, I see no reason why this
Speaker 1: can't be a phenomenal Thursday.
Speaker 2: Thursday's the new And who says this can't be our day?
Speaker 1: Scott, it is our day. It's John day. John, tell
Speaker 1: me why we can't own this day.
Speaker 3: We absolutely will own this Thursday. I love how Also,
Speaker 3: whenever you announce this, you let us know that we're here,
Speaker 3: you kind of make us selling the Avengers. Whenever you
Speaker 3: letus know the whole crew is here.
Speaker 1: Well, of course, I mean, I believe it's my look,
Speaker 1: it is my duty to make sure people know not
Speaker 1: only who is here, in the significance of your presence.
Speaker 2: That is, that's my job.
Speaker 1: In fact, I feel like if I this is not
Speaker 1: a career that I'll ever see myself in, but I
Speaker 1: would be like I'm a good hype man. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have the personality for it, but like
Speaker 1: I will. And John you know this one. I would
Speaker 1: bring on guests. Sometimes I would just get slap happy
Speaker 1: and be obnoxious, and I would introduce a guest and
Speaker 1: I could tell they felt like, Wow, he's right. I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: They feel good when you bring him on.
Speaker 4: That is a big deal in this business, is introducing
Speaker 4: guests that will set your tone for your interview. I
Speaker 4: can't tell you how many legends I listened to in
Speaker 4: radio that do it that exact same.
Speaker 1: Thing, and not only that, and I do that too,
Speaker 1: So I'm a legend, Thank you, Scott. But there's certain
Speaker 1: interviews that you do that you're one of, maybe five
Speaker 1: to six in a day, sometimes depending upon the day.
Speaker 1: If we bring on someone to discuss a national news story,
Speaker 1: like Rory O'Neil, I mean, Rory has let me know
Speaker 1: we're not exclusive. Like you know, he's seeing other people.
Speaker 1: He's doing radio hits across the country and I don't
Speaker 1: take it. It's just part of his gig. But when
Speaker 1: you give him a question that might be a little
Speaker 1: bit more I guess down the path of him sharing
Speaker 1: some personality, it lights him up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Rory it's just a people because
Speaker 1: it just becomes very routine. And I think, whenever you can,
Speaker 1: and that's one of the things that I worried about
Speaker 1: whenever I shouldn't say worried about, because I mean, it
Speaker 1: wasn't as if I thought this would be such a
Speaker 1: change that I couldn't be myself. But in general news
Speaker 1: and I guess it really depends upon the format. Like
Speaker 1: let me give you an example. I'm watching WLK wise
Speaker 1: newscast right right behind Scott here on television. It's on
Speaker 1: every morning. There are there are news partners, and think
Speaker 1: about how little time they have to really put any
Speaker 1: of their own flavor on anything. It's not opinion based
Speaker 1: really at all. And that's just what the gig is.
Speaker 1: And with radio, we of course do news, talk sports,
Speaker 1: we talk about anything, and that's what gives us sort
Speaker 1: of free rein to where we are a rare medium
Speaker 1: when it comes to a lot of I guess, just
Speaker 1: mediums where in which you get your news. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not as much opportunity to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: put your own put your own twist on it, or.
Speaker 3: Well it's the theater of the mind.
Speaker 4: That's why I love baseball announcers so much because you
Speaker 4: get somebody like Sean math at U of L he
Speaker 4: can sit there and wax poetic by.
Speaker 3: Himself for almost three hours straight.
Speaker 4: And for what radio does, to your point, it forces
Speaker 4: listeners to create image in their mind and then they
Speaker 4: kind of to me, you have more of an intimate
Speaker 4: relationship with the host with the people because you're not
Speaker 4: staring at a television, you're not looking at what they're wearing.
Speaker 3: You're not jumping around from image to image.
Speaker 4: And for folks that may be listening in their car
Speaker 4: and the way to work or to your point, Nick
Speaker 4: and I had some email me a couple of years
Speaker 4: ago that said the same thing. You know, they lay
Speaker 4: in bed until we're done with a wrap session and
Speaker 4: then that's when they're that's their cue to get up.
Speaker 4: But they're probably laying there listening right now and you're.
Speaker 2: Just kind of morning if that's you, right.
Speaker 4: You're just kind of in that presence, and I think
Speaker 4: you're spot out with your take there, and that is
Speaker 4: you know, we just have free rein to kind of
Speaker 4: entertain you and and also inform you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I you know, this is one thing that
Speaker 1: took a while for me to really get is that
Speaker 1: there'll be people that listen just because that's what they do,
Speaker 1: and they may not have any strong opinion one where.
Speaker 2: Or the other.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what we get to do is pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: And it's five ten am, which is very early, but again,
Speaker 1: this can be our day. We're we're probably up. We're
Speaker 1: one of probably not very few people. But I'd say
Speaker 1: a lot more people around here are sleeping right now
Speaker 1: than they are awake. But if you're with us, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a good Thursday too.
Speaker 4: You can get your when I find out, you get
Speaker 4: your good folks like out at Ford, you get your
Speaker 4: folks at eups that.
Speaker 2: Are on their way into the third shifters ending work,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: I know so many people through this five o'clock session
Speaker 4: that I'm still friends with some twenty years later, because
Speaker 4: they listen at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: And you can just feel that it's a different it's
Speaker 1: a different audience than what we get at eight o'clock
Speaker 1: and seven o'clock and Whatnotly, so let's have a day, fellas.
Speaker 2: Shall we.
Speaker 3: Absolutely let's do it all right.
Speaker 2: We've got an update on trafficking weather coming your way
Speaker 2: here in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Also, what I want to get to in about five
Speaker 1: minutes is we'll let you know what iHeart is doing
Speaker 1: to help you help those that are in need in
Speaker 1: Kerr County, Texas with the flood relief. So we'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a lot more. It is Kentucky and
Speaker 1: his Morning News here on news Radio wait forty whas.
Speaker 1: It is five point fifteen Here Kentucky and His Morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Don't forget take us with you wherever you go. You
Speaker 1: can listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen live
Speaker 1: at whas dot com. And obviously, something that we've been
Speaker 1: talking about throughout the week is the tragic situation in
Speaker 1: Kerr County, Texas, as they are still looking for many
Speaker 1: people who I think a lot of folks assume at
Speaker 1: this point did not make it, did not survive when
Speaker 1: it comes to the just devastating floods that really I know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately a lot of the talk has been about what
Speaker 1: could have been done to prevent it, and those conversations
Speaker 1: I think, in certain contexts make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1: But some of the conversations as far as just wanting
Speaker 1: to play the blame game here is just I mean,
Speaker 1: it kind of leaves me speechless that even comes to mind.
Speaker 1: But maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. Maybe I was
Speaker 1: naive to the world prior to making the move here, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, not to get sidetracked. But as much
Speaker 1: as I don't like the fact that that's been as
Speaker 1: big of a talking point, meaning you know, is somebody
Speaker 1: to blame here, is this Trump's fault for removing real
Speaker 1: sources that could have helped and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: There is a certain way to go about it and
Speaker 1: addressing that specific thing. And man, the Governor of Texas,
Speaker 1: I don't know how I missed this yesterday, but I
Speaker 1: want to play for you in an analogy he made
Speaker 1: that I thought was I thought was AI generated. I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: AI has come a long way already, because there's no
Speaker 1: way the Governor of Texas said this, but man, it
Speaker 1: looks real. It turns out it was real. But anyways,
Speaker 1: back to what I was getting at. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the Kerr County area and really just that community,
Speaker 1: they need help. They need help in a big way.
Speaker 1: We're talking about countless residents that have been impacted, some
Speaker 1: losing their life or losing loved ones. People have lost
Speaker 1: their homes. I mean some communities have been completely changed forever.
Speaker 1: Children are still missing. So again, the need is urgent,
Speaker 1: and right now the communication found the Community Foundation of
Speaker 1: the Texas Hill Country. They've launched the Kerr County Flood
Speaker 1: Relief to support this response, relief and long term recovery
Speaker 1: efforts for that area. So what we're doing here at
Speaker 1: iHeart is making sure you know where to give money
Speaker 1: if you want to give money, if you're able to
Speaker 1: help out and support right now that community. They want
Speaker 1: all donations to go directly towards local organizations to provide
Speaker 1: what's needed right now.
Speaker 2: Food, shelter, healthcare, and hope.
Speaker 1: So join us today here at iHeart and donate to
Speaker 1: the Kerr County Flood REALLYEF Fund at Communityfoundation dot net.
Speaker 1: So again that is the website. Community Foundation dot net
Speaker 1: will take you directly where you need to go in
Speaker 1: order to make sure that what you're donating goes directly
Speaker 1: to those that actually need it and not scumbag scammers
Speaker 1: who are trying to put up a fake site that
Speaker 1: just makes it look as if you're donating to something
Speaker 1: legit and you're not. You're just maybe making that scumbag wealthy.
Speaker 1: So probably shouldn't give I don't know, it's double. Probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't give those people the attention. But then again, maybe
Speaker 1: they need the attention. So people don't just think, well,
Speaker 1: surely nobody out there would try to profit off of
Speaker 1: this tragic situation, will they? Well, they do. Unfortunately there's
Speaker 1: a segment, I hope it's a very small segment of
Speaker 1: society that does things like that. So again, Community Foundation
Speaker 1: dot net. We'll talk to Rory O'Neil coming up at
Speaker 1: five forty five of NBC News and see if you
Speaker 1: can give us the latest as far as just to
Speaker 1: guess where they are, as far as not necessarily getting
Speaker 1: their lives back together, but accounting for everybody that is missing.
Speaker 2: As we discussed yesterday with.
Speaker 1: Rory, they're learning of more missing people sort of as
Speaker 1: this as this moves on. So again, just a tragic
Speaker 1: situation all the way around. All right, We've got sports
Speaker 1: coming your way here soon. And I won't be a
Speaker 1: liar and a phony and tell you that I'm a
Speaker 1: big golf fan because I'm not. But the ISCO Championship
Speaker 1: gets under way today here at the Hirstboyne Country Club
Speaker 1: in Louisville. Of course, it is a PGA Tour event,
Speaker 1: and you can just feel that there's there's some big
Speaker 1: event energy here in Louisville. Maybe that's why I'm just
Speaker 1: feeling so good to get the Thursday started. But I
Speaker 1: know a lot of folks are going to make their
Speaker 1: way out there today or at some point this weekend,
Speaker 1: and I'm hopeful that the weather cooperates because we do
Speaker 1: a lot of things well here in Louisville. I'm biased,
Speaker 1: but I believe it. But man, we are a big
Speaker 1: time sports event city, and I know some people will
Speaker 1: bring up, well, then you know, why are there empty
Speaker 1: seats at the UMP Center? Sometimes, well that's just society.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty convenient not to go to certain games.
Speaker 1: But when there's a big event and you can feel
Speaker 1: that there's something that you know is not just a
Speaker 1: random one off event. But we're talking something like this
Speaker 1: a PGA event here here in Louisville, I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a really big crowd on hand. So we'll
Speaker 1: keep you updated as best we can on that and
Speaker 1: keep this thing rolling along again. Scott's got an update
Speaker 1: on sports coming your way, But first we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at traffic with Bobby Ella's, get an update on
Speaker 1: the forecasts from Matt Melosovitch of WLKY, and keep this
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Speaker 2: What's the name of my show? What's the name of it?
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Speaker 1: eight forty whas Rory O and' neil set to join
Speaker 1: us coming up in about ten minutes and I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure where we're going to go. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that could throw at Rory, and I know
Speaker 1: he's going to be ready. But one thing that I
Speaker 1: probably won't but I certainly think it's worth mentioning, is
Speaker 1: the news that we got yesterday that there have been
Speaker 1: six Secret Service agents that have been suspended because of
Speaker 1: their I guess, lack of doing their job when someone
Speaker 1: attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last summer. So yeah, nearly
Speaker 1: a year after the attempted assassination of Trump that was
Speaker 1: in Butler, Pennsylvania, by the way, the Secret Service has
Speaker 1: finally taken some disciplinary action.
Speaker 2: And I guess.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a process that took this amount of
Speaker 1: time to end up getting to this decision to suspend
Speaker 1: six Secret Servance agents, six Secret Service agents without pay.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: To me, it seems like it's again I don't know
Speaker 1: the process that goes into investigating this internally and then
Speaker 1: determining if you're going to have a punishment or not.
Speaker 1: But the suspensions are going to range from ten to
Speaker 1: forty two days, and again it's following an internal review
Speaker 1: into major security failures. So these suspensions are personnel that
Speaker 1: include supervisors and agents from counter snipers, and then just
Speaker 1: I guess a team that they call the Site Advanced Team.
Speaker 1: So the Homeland Security report from the end of last
Speaker 1: year painted the picture is this the shooter was apparently
Speaker 1: spotted twenty minutes before firing, and no local police were warned.
Speaker 1: There was no evacuation or stage lockdown that was initiated,
Speaker 1: and obviously that's an issue. So the victims families, they've
Speaker 1: been on record saying that I get that this punishment
Speaker 1: is a step forward, but they're requesting more of a
Speaker 1: culture shift and overhaul essentially within the agency. Now, one
Speaker 1: thing I didn't realize, but I'm not totally surprised that
Speaker 1: the names of these suspended agents are going to remain classified,
Speaker 1: and that's just protocol that's for security reasons within the
Speaker 1: Secret Service. But I don't know if is that something
Speaker 1: that it's a balancing act here, because I think there
Speaker 1: are certain things that you just regardless if it's for
Speaker 1: any reason, when it comes to the Secret Service, I
Speaker 1: think discretion is certainly important, and also it's just something
Speaker 1: that you just assume in a way, because again it's
Speaker 1: the Secret Service. Quite literally, the name Secret is in
Speaker 1: the Secret Service, therefore keeping things secret if it's part
Speaker 1: of it. However, I also think the Secret Service is
Speaker 1: an agency that transparency is certainly appreciated by those that
Speaker 1: you know, realize what.
Speaker 2: The Secret Service actually is and what it is that
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that these agents should be outed
Speaker 1: and we need all their information. It's just when this
Speaker 1: day and age, it's hard for anything to remain private,
Speaker 1: even if that's protocol. Now, maybe the Secret Service is
Speaker 1: the kind of agency that could keep something private this
Speaker 1: day and age.
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be shocked at all if we find out.
Speaker 1: In the next maybe it's even out there now. I
Speaker 1: just haven't seen it that, like somebody has has leaked
Speaker 1: who these people are in some form or fashion. And
Speaker 1: that's where it does get risky, because I mean, this
Speaker 1: is in no way a political opinion, because there are
Speaker 1: lunatics on.
Speaker 2: All sides of politics.
Speaker 1: But if you like, again, nothing should shock us this
Speaker 1: day and age really with anything, right, I mean, just
Speaker 1: think about where we are here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that to sound so negative as
Speaker 1: if like the world has gone to hell, but there've
Speaker 1: just been things that have taken place in the last
Speaker 1: I don't know decade, that just almost don't seem real.
Speaker 1: But anyhow, if someone is just that obsessed with Trump,
Speaker 1: and clearly there are a lot of people that are,
Speaker 1: they make it their personality, and they knew the name
Speaker 1: of somebody that they believe was not doing their job
Speaker 1: and it nearly cost Donald Trump his life, Like that
Speaker 1: person may do anything, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's true.
Speaker 1: So again I don't you know, so again, I'm not
Speaker 1: advocating that back the more I think about it, I
Speaker 1: understand why names should be private. But there are certain
Speaker 1: jobs though that I feel like, if you knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be more of a public thing, you
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't want to do. And maybe that is maybe
Speaker 1: this is one of those this is one of those jobs.
Speaker 1: So anyhow, I'm not gonna be shocked really with anything.
Speaker 1: But if somebody finds out who these people are and
Speaker 1: and out some that's just that's just society today. But
Speaker 1: he gets six suspensions have come down a little over
Speaker 1: a year since it happened. But I guess that's that's
Speaker 1: some type of accountability, which, by the way, the shooter
Speaker 1: I mean that, I mean, have we heard anything else
Speaker 1: about this guy, like his story is background, like he's
Speaker 1: one of the every now and then I'll see somebody
Speaker 1: post a picture on Twitter or Facebook, or somebody will
Speaker 1: post a TikTok video just asking questions like, hey, we know,
Speaker 1: the only picture we have of this guy is the
Speaker 1: one that was that was showed to everybody right after
Speaker 1: we realized he was the one who, of course tried
Speaker 1: to assassinate Trump.
Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not insinuating anything. It's just this day.
Speaker 1: And I mean, look the guy who I mean, the
Speaker 1: people who commit heinous crimes the Internet. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of sluice out there that within twenty four hours we'll
Speaker 1: know everything. We'll know, we'll know the dating history of
Speaker 1: some of these people, and this person like we know
Speaker 1: nothing about, at least that I've seen. All Right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick time out and get you caught up
Speaker 1: on traffic with Bobby Ellis. We'll get a weather update
Speaker 1: from Matt Melosovich, and we'll bring in the one and
Speaker 1: only Rory o'eal of NBC News right here on news
Speaker 1: RADIOA forty WSAs. Good Morning, Kentucky, Anda. It is Kentuckyanah's
Speaker 1: morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas Nick
Speaker 1: coffee with you, and we've got Rory O'Neil of NBC
Speaker 1: News joining us. And Rory, it's been something we've discussed
Speaker 1: throughout the week, and I guess we'll start with another
Speaker 1: update here as far as the situation in Texas, obviously,
Speaker 1: still many unaccounted for, and it sounds as if maybe
Speaker 1: there's more in which they realize are missing as the
Speaker 1: days move on here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the numbers keep going in the wrong direction, the
Speaker 5: depth toll topping one hundred and twenty. The search continues
Speaker 5: now for about one hundred and sixty. You know, thankfully
Speaker 5: the weather has improved, but this really is a recovery
Speaker 5: operation now. The sheriff told us the other day they
Speaker 5: haven't found anyone alive since Friday, and sadly now it
Speaker 5: looks like they won't find any more survivors here. But
Speaker 5: the governor has committed to finding all the bodies and
Speaker 5: recovering all the remains of the missing and making it
Speaker 5: a twenty four to seven operation. You know, the destruction
Speaker 5: spans six different states and a lot of it involves
Speaker 5: an awful lot of debris that now they're asking people, look,
Speaker 5: don't clear off large parts of debris until police can
Speaker 5: get there, until the search can be done to make
Speaker 5: sure human remains aren't trapped underneath.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's probably not something a lot of folks think
Speaker 1: of when it comes to clean up efforts for a
Speaker 1: devastating flood.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the situation. Just tragic overall.
Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to the warnings as far as
Speaker 1: emergency alerts that could have been sent out, not playing
Speaker 1: the blame game by any means, but as far as
Speaker 1: the information you've obtained, Rory, is there anything that you've
Speaker 1: seen that does stand out as okay that should have
Speaker 1: maybe been sent out earlier, or maybe they should have
Speaker 1: done this and they did. Not blaming anyone, but that
Speaker 1: continues to be a talking point.
Speaker 5: Well, and also it's not necessarily blame. You're also saying, well,
Speaker 5: how do we do better next time?
Speaker 3: Right? Is really the focus?
Speaker 5: And you can say it does seem that the Weather
Speaker 5: Service did what it typically does.
Speaker 3: Nothing out of the ordinary from them.
Speaker 5: I know there have been criticisms about the staff was
Speaker 5: cut and the coordinator was gone and all that stuff,
Speaker 5: but it seems that their normal warnings went out as
Speaker 5: they normally do, as the information came in. There may
Speaker 5: have been a drop here, a break in the chain
Speaker 5: when it comes to the local awareness of the situation.
Speaker 5: Even the mayor said he was not on a call
Speaker 5: that it was not asked to be on a call
Speaker 5: in Curveville about the potential for flash flooding even though
Speaker 5: it is relatively calm there. So you know, the action
Speaker 5: that followed the warning may not have been taken, you know.
Speaker 5: So all the warnings may have been there, but if
Speaker 5: you don't take some sort of action on it doesn't
Speaker 5: really matter, right.
Speaker 1: Well said, And it's it's to your point. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily blame. It's more so learning from experiences like this,
Speaker 1: And you don't want to go through an experience like
Speaker 1: this by any means, but when you do, you can
Speaker 1: take a lot from it to where moving forward you
Speaker 1: maybe know how to handle it a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But it's certainly been the continued talking point. Rody and
Speaker 1: Neil is our guest joining us here on eight p.
Speaker 2: Forty.
Speaker 1: Whas so the Big Beautiful Bill has mostly taken taxes
Speaker 1: away from gratuity. Do we expect this to lead to
Speaker 1: folks maybe not being as generous when it comes to gratuity.
Speaker 5: So this was a great online discussion that the Food
Speaker 5: Critic over at the Washington Post started saying, well, look,
Speaker 5: if they get to deduct their tips now up to
Speaker 5: twenty five thousand dollars, do we have do we get
Speaker 5: to tip less? Because that server is keeping more of
Speaker 5: their money. So it really is just an online debate.
Speaker 5: This was the first, you know, the food Critic was
Speaker 5: the first, I think, to raise the idea of like,
Speaker 5: oh wait.
Speaker 3: A minute now.
Speaker 5: So most of the feedback though online has been oh,
Speaker 5: they worked too hard, they're underpaid anyway, and you know,
Speaker 5: and many people won't even take advantage of that deduction
Speaker 5: if they don't itemize their taxes, so it's uh. And
Speaker 5: then others will say they never claimed that money anyway,
Speaker 5: it went straight into their pockets. So it really is
Speaker 5: sort of an underground economy. But it did start an
Speaker 5: online discussion which I thought was pretty interesting. What do
Speaker 5: you think should we tip the same or can we
Speaker 5: maybe fifteen percent rather than the twenty.
Speaker 1: I would never have even thought about tipping less, just
Speaker 1: because I mean, it just it's not something that would
Speaker 1: have been on my mind. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you've noticed this over your many years
Speaker 1: in the business.
Speaker 2: Tipping getuity.
Speaker 1: Tipping and gratuity is something that regardless of someone's opinion,
Speaker 1: people seem to always have a strong opinion on it
Speaker 1: one way or the other.
Speaker 5: Well, right, well, especially too, because we got to the screen.
Speaker 5: We're in that screen life. Now we have to tip
Speaker 5: ranted thing. We're like, wait a minute, I took the
Speaker 5: bottle of water out of the counter and I put
Speaker 5: it on the thing, and all you do is ring
Speaker 5: me up, and I'm supposed to tip your ten fifteen
Speaker 5: percent with the screen you know. So yeah, we're already
Speaker 5: over sensitive to all those tips that were being asked
Speaker 5: to give. But now for these primary tipped workers, it's
Speaker 5: an interesting discussion. I know, I'm still going to be
Speaker 5: pretty generous to my local barkeep, but yeah, I thought
Speaker 5: it was an interesting topic.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 1: Rory, you're the best. Is always appreciate your time. Have
Speaker 1: a great day, my friend.
Speaker 3: Hey thanks Nick?
Speaker 1: All right, that's Rory and Neialed NBC News always appreciate
Speaker 1: his time. Yeah, when it comes to gratuity, I mean again,
Speaker 1: everybody's got a strong opinion on it, and I always
Speaker 1: try to tip well and certainly if I've got exceptional
Speaker 1: service that then that'll be considered when when a tip
Speaker 1: is added. But he mentioned just the option to tip.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not insulting, but I bet there's some
Speaker 1: that work in the industry that are uncomfortable noing that
Speaker 1: when they hand someone like the digital pad to check out,
Speaker 1: that it gives them an option to tip, because this
Speaker 1: is an awkward exchange.
Speaker 2: It's not even exchange. It's just like, why would I
Speaker 2: wait a second, no, why would I tip?
Speaker 1: Am I supposed to tip? Because it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: if one day we show up to a place where
Speaker 1: everything you do, the entire business transaction is all digital,
Speaker 1: you don't even see a human, and yet if they
Speaker 1: ask you to tip, like that wouldn't shock me at all.
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