Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: The bill handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: Handle here Morning Crew, except for Neil, who's sick, except
Speaker 2: for kno who's sick. And I'm here and I'm sick.
Speaker 2: But that's questionable as to how sick I am? And yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and that is correct? What part is sick? Interesting negotiation
Speaker 2: going on right now between La County first Responders and
Speaker 2: the county because contracts are rep so the union is
Speaker 2: representing the deputies and firefighters and lifeguards made a public
Speaker 2: pitch yesterday for more support in their contract negotiations, which
Speaker 2: are not going particularly well. And they released a half
Speaker 2: hour documentary highlighting first responders harrowing tales from the very
Speaker 2: first day of the fires. And it is footage showing
Speaker 2: these firefighters and cops really going all out. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was dangerous, dangerous stuff, and they came to the
Speaker 2: table for sure. And what this foot It's a piece
Speaker 2: of propaganda. I mean, there's no issue about that. And
Speaker 2: it's being used to pitch more money for first responders.
Speaker 1: And they're all little incidents.
Speaker 2: One is a sheriff's deputy talking about as she was
Speaker 2: in the middle of the inferno. She was driving her car.
Speaker 2: The tires melted on her car. A lifeguard talks about
Speaker 2: from his body camera. There's video of him driving through
Speaker 2: black smoke and spotting a beam from the flashlight and
Speaker 2: finding a man whose house was about to be consumed
Speaker 2: by flames. And firefighters sharing double working, double shifts without
Speaker 2: food or sleep. And the union rep said, my members
Speaker 2: don't whind. They don't complain, but they did a good job.
Speaker 2: Well they're whinding. They're complaining. And has to do with
Speaker 2: them getting more money.
Speaker 1: Fair enough now.
Speaker 2: A month ago, La County Chief Executive Fescia Devenport told
Speaker 2: the unions no raises because of unprecedented financial pressures. First
Speaker 2: of all, the county has a four billion dollar sex
Speaker 2: abuse settlement on his hands, two billion dollars in wildfire costs,
Speaker 2: and the White House. It looks like are you going
Speaker 2: to cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public
Speaker 2: health grants? So put all that together, no money, And
Speaker 2: so the chief executive did his bit of propaganda. Los
Speaker 2: Angeles County appreciates the essential contributions of our workforce, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 2: but no rasis because we are facing serious budgetary challenges.
Speaker 1: Now the county.
Speaker 2: The county actually balanced its forty eight billion dollar budget
Speaker 2: for the upcoming fiscal year. The City of Los Angeles
Speaker 2: not so much. It's a billion dollars short. The officials
Speaker 2: of the county are going to be able to balance
Speaker 2: the budget even with the settlement, which can be paid
Speaker 2: with bonds, and they have a rainy day fund which
Speaker 2: is very rarely touched. It will be this time. That's
Speaker 2: worth a billion dollars now. The City of La recently
Speaker 2: gave its first responder significant pay raises, now a major
Speaker 2: factor in the nearly billion dollar budget.
Speaker 1: The budget deficit.
Speaker 2: Unions are saying, you've got money left over for raises
Speaker 2: and we want it now. I have a question about that.
Speaker 2: Do they deserve raises? Well, everybody deserves a race. But
Speaker 2: let me ask you something. Didn't they sign up for this?
Speaker 2: Am I missing something here? You know, a cop saves someone, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's their job. You know, firefighters go in and the
Speaker 2: fire is worse than they anticipated. Therefore they should get
Speaker 2: a raise.
Speaker 1: Hold on a minute, you sign up for.
Speaker 2: It, that's your job, and if it's tougher, it's tougher,
Speaker 2: then don't then do something else. And I have no
Speaker 2: problem asking for raises because that's the job of the
Speaker 2: unions and using everything they can to document how much
Speaker 2: work they have to justify extra money.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 2: I get that, you know, I don't hold them negatively
Speaker 2: for doing everything they can. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: do you cave on that one? I mean, it's oh,
Speaker 2: you know, you sign up for it, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: what did we sign up for? We signed up for
Speaker 2: sitting on our asses screaming into a microphone. However, threats
Speaker 2: come down the pike, you know when you know, we
Speaker 2: get fed free food when they come in. Sometimes we
Speaker 2: don't get it as fresh as we would like it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there's sacrifices that we make. But
Speaker 2: in reality, well that is reality actually, And for those
Speaker 2: people who want to pitch from restaurants, which restaurants, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm going to promote that right now.
Speaker 2: If you have a restaurant, you want a free pitch,
Speaker 2: you give us free food, and we're fine with that.
Speaker 2: That doesn't have much to do with this topic, but
Speaker 2: just a good reason just to go out there and
Speaker 2: put it on the table.
Speaker 1: So you know, hey, we don't have money, we don't
Speaker 1: have the money.
Speaker 2: Now depends on how much money you're talking about. One
Speaker 2: of the things that the shriff's deputies, the unions are
Speaker 2: saying is other agencies, other departments are paying more money
Speaker 2: than La County is, and we are losing deputies because
Speaker 2: they're leaving LA and they're going over there in LA
Speaker 2: trained them at no small expense, and the attrition rate
Speaker 2: is going down. Okay, that's a different story, got it.
Speaker 2: But short of that, I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 2: think so, because the philosophy is you signed up for
Speaker 2: this deal and just because it became harder. I mean,
Speaker 2: a lifeguard wants more money because a lifeguard was driving
Speaker 2: down the street and was able to pull someone out
Speaker 2: of a fire. Okay, you know now, And right coming up, oh,
Speaker 2: the terroriffs. We have to talk about the tariffs, don't we.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of bad news coming down the pike
Speaker 2: with the tariffs. And let's talk about corporate America and
Speaker 2: what's going going on and how it's responding. Now, keep
Speaker 2: in mind, corporate America loves Donald Trump. Loves Donald Trump
Speaker 2: because under Donald Trump's philosophy, corporate America does just rate.
Speaker 2: Except so I'll talk about accept when we come up
Speaker 2: and come back.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 3: six forty.
Speaker 1: So guess who comes in?
Speaker 2: Amy comes into the broadcast our room and leaves her
Speaker 2: little booth and is talking to Anne. And do you
Speaker 2: know what we were talking about, which is general conversation
Speaker 2: during the course of the breaks. Is the discussion is
Speaker 2: what a dick I am? And that's basically our general conversation. Amy,
Speaker 2: Is that not true? It is true? Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Now I want to talk about what's going on with
Speaker 2: corporate America. Corporate America is basically hand in hand with
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Donald Trump's basic philosophy is corporate America is good,
Speaker 2: very good, and let's help corporate America. And there's a reason,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can be on one side or the
Speaker 2: other of that argument. However, corporate America is going wait
Speaker 2: a minute, sounding the alarm big time.
Speaker 1: Why because of tariffs?
Speaker 2: I mean, the world is reeling because of Donald Trump's
Speaker 2: tariff position, and not just his philosophy on tariffs, Because
Speaker 2: if his tariff position were consistent or was consistent, the
Speaker 2: world could deal with that.
Speaker 1: Business can deal with consistency.
Speaker 2: What it can't deal with economies, markets, business. What can't
Speaker 2: be dealt with is inconsistency and not knowing what the
Speaker 2: hell is going to happen. And that's exactly what's going
Speaker 2: on is I don't even think so much. It is
Speaker 2: the implication and implementation implementation of the tariffs.
Speaker 1: It's the fact that they're going all over the places.
Speaker 1: Every day. It's different every day, it's different.
Speaker 2: Right, And we're talking about the largest companies in America. PepsiCo,
Speaker 2: American Airlines, Chipotle, IBM, Proctoring, Gamble, a bunch of others
Speaker 2: announced quarterly earning this week, and earnings not only are down,
Speaker 2: but the forecast because what the companies do is not
Speaker 2: only here are earnings, but here is what we anticipate.
Speaker 1: Here, here are our projections. And then the market comes
Speaker 1: back with here is our projections. And this is what
Speaker 1: a stock does well is, for example, when stock does better,
Speaker 1: a company does better than projections. Stock goes up worse
Speaker 1: than projections, even if they're making a lot of money,
Speaker 1: the stock goes down. And so the markets are.
Speaker 2: Very very sensitive to what is happening. Now, think of
Speaker 2: what's going on with this because forecasting is so important
Speaker 2: to any company, and how how do you forecast when
Speaker 2: you have one hundred and forty five percent tariff coming
Speaker 2: in on Chinese goods and the next day, well, we're
Speaker 2: not going to have one hundred and forty five percent terroriffts,
Speaker 2: but we're going to have some tariffs. We don't know
Speaker 2: how much we're going to play in tariffs and when
Speaker 2: they're going to go down or up.
Speaker 1: No one has any idea. But I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: is going on.
Speaker 2: And it's not the major technological companies. They're fine. Apple
Speaker 2: is fine. You've got the manufacturers of the iPhone, the
Speaker 2: importers of the iPhone, those distributors, they're fine because those
Speaker 2: were exempt from any tariff.
Speaker 1: Now, originally it was going to be one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five percent.
Speaker 2: Trump turned around and said, okay, we're going to exempt
Speaker 2: or I'm going to exempt those companies because you know
Speaker 2: it's a one hundred percent importation from China. Well, then you
Speaker 2: have these small companies like mine and as you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a partner, my partner Savil, we have a small
Speaker 2: company that inputs, imports, cookwear from China one hundred percent
Speaker 2: made in China.
Speaker 1: We have stopped everything everything.
Speaker 2: We have a container at the Port of China ready
Speaker 2: to go, and we stopped it done. We don't know
Speaker 2: what the hell is going on. China, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: doesn't know what's going on. So you know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Even if we wanted to release that container, because we
Speaker 2: have already paid the deposit on it, if we wanted
Speaker 2: to release it, China isn't allowing it to leave. They
Speaker 2: have stopped all exportation. We have stopped all importation. That's
Speaker 2: what's called the tariff war because nobody knows what the
Speaker 2: tariff is going to be. Trump calls one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five percent tariff on Chinese goods coming in with
Speaker 2: certain exemptions. China goes to all one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five percent. That's an embargo. That's not a tariff, that's
Speaker 2: a straight out embargo. No products are coming in, no
Speaker 2: products leaving the United the United States going there, no
Speaker 2: products coming here from China, and that is an embargo,
Speaker 2: and that is a trade war. Especially now that the
Speaker 2: world economy is predicated on exports and imports. You can't
Speaker 2: you can't run your country without that happening. So the
Speaker 2: companies are running scared. They are running scared, as they
Speaker 2: should because you can't do that, Jerome Powell.
Speaker 1: We're gonna I'm gonna fire Jerome Powell. I'm going to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to.
Speaker 2: Fire him legally, even though it is very difficult, it's
Speaker 2: a little complicated. The only way that a fed share
Speaker 2: can be fired is for cause. And Trump was looking
Speaker 2: and this administration was actually exploring, let's figure out how
Speaker 2: to fire him, and let's figure out cause. He makes
Speaker 2: that announcement, and the stock market tanks a thousand points.
Speaker 1: The world market reacts.
Speaker 2: The IMF, the International Monetary Fund, comes out and says.
Speaker 1: The world global growth is going.
Speaker 2: To slow dramatically because of these announcements. Next day, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to fire Jerome Powell. No, I don't have
Speaker 2: no intention of firing Jerome Powell. But yesterday said you were,
Speaker 2: I have no intention of firing Jerome Powell. Well, how
Speaker 2: about one hundred and forty five percent tariff on China? Well,
Speaker 2: China and I, she and I are talking and we're
Speaker 2: negotiating it. The Chinese government says, no, we're not. No
Speaker 2: one's sitting down with the administration. Nobody now from China.
Speaker 2: What are you saying, Well, we're in talks, We're in
Speaker 2: good talks.
Speaker 1: No, well you have to believe someone. I don't know
Speaker 1: who to believe.
Speaker 2: Is she making this up? Is Trump making this up?
Speaker 2: At this point, I don't know. One hundred countries have
Speaker 2: come to the table with Washington, and eighteen have proposals
Speaker 2: on the table, which ones, well, we're not saying what
Speaker 2: are the terms. Well, we're not saying, how about the proposal?
Speaker 2: What does the proposal look like?
Speaker 1: Well, we're not saying. You know, I don't know who
Speaker 1: or what to believe at this point.
Speaker 2: More importantly, all I know is that my company is
Speaker 2: at a dead stop.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, we are stopped and we're just waiting to
Speaker 2: see what happens. And we're not alone because there are
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of companies in the same position. That's
Speaker 2: why you had the leaders of Walmart, CEOs of Walmart
Speaker 2: and Home Depot went to the White House and said,
Speaker 2: you know what, we all the stuff that's on our
Speaker 2: shells comes from China. We're a huge majority of it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have empty shells.
Speaker 1: In three weeks.
Speaker 2: And Trump comes back and says, Okay, it won't be
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five percent, it'll be it'll be less.
Speaker 2: It won't be zero, but it'll be less. How much
Speaker 2: will it be? Well, I can't tell you when is
Speaker 2: right now? With one hundred and forty five percent. At
Speaker 2: this moment, it's one hundred and forty five percent. I
Speaker 2: bring in one hundred dollars worth of goods, I am
Speaker 2: writing the government a check. By the way, with accumulative taxes,
Speaker 2: ours is one hundred and eighty seven percent. So if
Speaker 2: I bring in one hundred dollars worth of goods, I
Speaker 2: have to write the government one hundred and eighty seven
Speaker 2: dollars more for that hundred dollars worth of goods.
Speaker 1: It's untenable. I mean, you can't do it.
Speaker 2: Business is over, and so everybody is waiting, and Corporate
Speaker 2: America is just reeling.
Speaker 1: As we're all reeling.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I can understand that you want to
Speaker 2: level playing field. I get that that's fair. Is it
Speaker 2: true that we are being ripped off? I don't know
Speaker 2: if by the I don't know if it's ripped off.
Speaker 2: Certainly there's no level playing field. You know, China charges
Speaker 2: a lot more in tariffs and on American goods than
Speaker 2: we do on Chinese goods by a long shot.
Speaker 1: But do you do it this way? Okay?
Speaker 2: Coming up playing incidents, have you noticed that there are
Speaker 2: just a lot more of these crashes and near crashes
Speaker 2: and these incidents of airlines you know we're about to
Speaker 2: hit each other. I'll give you some real stats on that.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of interesting stuff.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
Speaker 3: Am six forty.
Speaker 2: It's not Foody Friday because Neil is sick this morning.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna hold off Foody Friday until next Friday.
Speaker 2: And we're still going to do ask Handle anything, which
Speaker 2: we do on a Friday. And it's always great, great
Speaker 2: fun when people ask me questions, personal questions, and generally
Speaker 2: I'm a well first of all, I answer them. You know,
Speaker 2: my life's an open book. I don't keep much I hidden,
Speaker 2: and they're generally humiliating and it's just fun.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So now let me move over to why we don't
Speaker 2: fly on airplanes or why you are concerned about flying
Speaker 2: on airplanes.
Speaker 1: Because you're gonna die.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at videos planes crashing.
Speaker 1: It's gotten to the point.
Speaker 2: Now where even small planes crashing somewhere out and you know,
Speaker 2: buffalo breath wyoming.
Speaker 1: It becomes national news. Well, there's a.
Speaker 2: Plane with a single pilot and it crashed into a
Speaker 2: parking lot and the pilot was killed. Okay, I mean
Speaker 2: that's rough for the pilot and his family. I get that,
Speaker 2: but okay, that's national news. The point is that we're
Speaker 2: seeing videos because everybody as a video of everything, and
Speaker 2: so if there is a fire on a jet, right
Speaker 2: on an airliner, and an airliner lands safely, okay, that's
Speaker 2: all you would get. Oh no, no, you have the
Speaker 2: video now of that fire and people screaming in the
Speaker 2: cabin and the panic which you never had before, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know.
Speaker 1: That's become news.
Speaker 2: There is nothing that happens in the air, on the ground,
Speaker 2: in a store, in your house that can't and won't
Speaker 2: be covered by a video. So now we have some
Speaker 2: stats that crash between the helicopter and the plane in Washington,
Speaker 2: DC was the first of those fatalities with big airlines
Speaker 2: in twenty years in the United States, when you used
Speaker 2: to hear the stat that flying on an airliner in
Speaker 2: the United States or anywhere around the world is the
Speaker 2: safest form of transportation that exists, far safer than you're
Speaker 2: getting in the car and driving far safer than you're
Speaker 2: getting on a motorcycle or getting on a bicycle or
Speaker 2: taking a train, because trains do have head ons and
Speaker 2: you do have derailments more often than you can imagine.
Speaker 1: Far safer.
Speaker 2: And when we used to say far safer, it is
Speaker 2: now far safer than far safer, it's actually far safer
Speaker 2: than that. That is that is the actual truth and
Speaker 2: the stats, and that's according to the NTSB National Transportation
Speaker 2: Safety Board NTSSE. NTSB data shows that last year, for example,
Speaker 2: was the lowest number of helicopter fatalities in the US
Speaker 2: since two thousand and seven, and that's with fifteen people
Speaker 2: since two thousand and seven last year.
Speaker 1: Now, most of the incidents are with small planes.
Speaker 2: That because there are a lot more and many more
Speaker 2: small planes out there. Again, we go to the Bureau
Speaker 2: of Transportation Statistics, five hundred and.
Speaker 1: Seventy two commercial aircraft in the air.
Speaker 2: This is in twenty twenty three, general aviation civilian owned
Speaker 2: small airplanes two hundred and ten thousand. So just by
Speaker 2: sheer numbers, you're going to see more crashes and incidents
Speaker 2: with small airplanes.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not going to get on a small airplane.
Speaker 2: You know, what's gotten to the point where small airplane
Speaker 2: pilots general license are almost the equivalent of having commercial
Speaker 2: license that the airline pilots have. Now, airline pilots have
Speaker 2: a lot of thousands of hours in the air before
Speaker 2: they're even made captain. But at the same time, it
Speaker 2: is tough as nails to take that test. Example, in
Speaker 2: order to get the test, you need a specific number
Speaker 2: of flight hours, and you have to pass a written test,
Speaker 2: and then you have to go through a check ride,
Speaker 2: and that check ride is no fund by the way,
Speaker 2: and at the end of that, here's your private pilot license.
Speaker 2: And every two years got to take another check ride
Speaker 2: with a certified flight inspector and or instructor. And you
Speaker 2: have to have a physical every two years to make
Speaker 2: sure you're not going to croak on an airplane, because
Speaker 2: occasionally you have a pilot have a heart attack and
Speaker 2: you know, someone brings down the plane. You know, you've
Speaker 2: seen those where the tower goes and now you move
Speaker 2: this switch over here, by the way, that's a crop.
Speaker 2: That's that's movies. When the pilot dies, you die. It's
Speaker 2: not that it's it's pretty simple. Every year, every airplane
Speaker 2: has to go through a very extensive annual inspection. A
Speaker 2: maintenance suspection has to be done by a certified airframe
Speaker 2: and power plant mechanic.
Speaker 1: You don't do that with your car. So on, people die.
Speaker 2: How many people die in car accidents every year? What
Speaker 2: thirty thousand something like that? Amy was the figure on
Speaker 2: that one. You know, all right, you don't have to
Speaker 2: look that up panel look it up. I'll look it up, hey, siri.
Speaker 2: How many Americans die in car crashes every year? Thirty
Speaker 2: eight thousand Americans die in car crashes every year, all right?
Speaker 2: And we're talking how many people died in plane crashes
Speaker 2: this year? I don't know, you know, a few dozen,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 1: But ours is one hundred, over one hundred a day.
Speaker 2: It averages out to you're talking what the thirty eight thousand, yeah,
Speaker 2: is over one hundred?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't There aren't a hundred crash.
Speaker 2: There aren't one hundred fatalities a year, not even close
Speaker 2: in the United States the airline fatalities in the air
Speaker 2: So it really is safe.
Speaker 1: It's much safer, although it is still scary. Do you
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 2: George Norri, who of course does coast to coast over
Speaker 2: night here on CAI. It's nationally syndicated show. I've run
Speaker 2: into him three times on my way to Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: and so we grab each other, sit each other on
Speaker 2: the plane next to each other. Do you know what
Speaker 2: the conversation is every single time? Who gets top billing
Speaker 2: if the plane goes down? Is it George?
Speaker 1: Isn't me?
Speaker 2: That's our argument who It depends on the day. George says,
Speaker 2: I do. I say, George does?
Speaker 1: All right? Coming up?
Speaker 2: Ooh, tipping, tipping, tipping, tipping. Oh, I had an incident
Speaker 2: yesterday that I want to share with you about tipping
Speaker 2: and this we're all suffering from this.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 3: six forty.
Speaker 2: All right now, Oh, yesterday, So I'm taking my vacation.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go in September, and yesterday I was
Speaker 2: on the phone with one of these travel agent kind
Speaker 2: of people that you know, find great deals for you.
Speaker 1: And it took about an hour and a half and
Speaker 1: the guy was terrific.
Speaker 2: We were going through all the different flights and how
Speaker 2: much I am going. Can't go direct to where I'm going,
Speaker 2: so I had to take connecting flights. So you know
Speaker 2: how much time layovers and which flight, and it took,
Speaker 2: it took a long time, took an.
Speaker 1: Hour and a half. And this is what he does.
Speaker 2: And we found one and it was fantastic, and so
Speaker 2: he did a great job. And so took the credit
Speaker 2: card and they confirmed and then popped up in the
Speaker 2: confirmation tip starting at one hundred dollars because it was
Speaker 2: an expensive flight. A tip for somebody who is helping
Speaker 2: me put together a flight because he works for the company.
Speaker 2: I go, what is that about?
Speaker 1: Last night? Went to a restaurant right there? Tip starting
Speaker 1: at eighteen percent.
Speaker 2: Now I go to a restaurants sometimes and it starts
Speaker 2: at twenty percent and they put it right on the
Speaker 2: check and it's sort of embarrassing. Or how about the
Speaker 2: tip jar? Oh, that was another one. So I went
Speaker 2: to a bagel shop yesterday, my favorite bagel shop, Western Bagels,
Speaker 2: and there is and I paid with a credit card.
Speaker 2: So I asked for onion bagels, Western bagels, of course,
Speaker 2: real jew bagels West. So I asked for onion bagels,
Speaker 2: and I asked for playing bagels, and the guy bends over.
Speaker 2: Just so happens those bins that where the bagels were
Speaker 2: the two types of bagels were closest to the cash register.
Speaker 1: He literally reached over, picked.
Speaker 2: Up bagels, put him in a bag, put him on
Speaker 2: the counter. I gave him a credit card tip on
Speaker 2: the credit card starting at eighteen percent for someone reaching
Speaker 2: three feet to pick up bagels and put him in
Speaker 2: a bag, And it took thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Go here's the sip.
Speaker 2: People are getting really upset about that as I am,
Speaker 2: and diners are pushing back big time. And now it's
Speaker 2: turning out where he used to be that tips went
Speaker 2: up dramatically because of the way they presented, you know,
Speaker 2: the tip jars. I don't know if a Starbucks still
Speaker 2: does tip jars. I have no idea. I mean, and
Speaker 2: if you don't put it in, they give you a
Speaker 2: weird look. Come on, really, and then you put it
Speaker 2: with a credit card and you sort of feel bad
Speaker 2: if you don't. So it used to be that those
Speaker 2: suggestions that would help you tip are actually backfiring. Now
Speaker 2: tips are going down and people are eating less. So
Speaker 2: I went to BJ's restaurant, which I really like.
Speaker 1: Last night.
Speaker 2: I took my daughter and we had three appetizers. I
Speaker 2: had my diet coke and she had two of their
Speaker 2: drinky things. Don't know what they call them, those fruity
Speaker 2: alcoholic things. It was one hundred and ten dollars. It's
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten dollars. And the tip starts at
Speaker 2: eighteen percent. Twenty percent would be twenty what is it?
Speaker 2: Twenty two dollars, twenty four dollars. I don't know something
Speaker 2: like that. What is that about? So I'm going to
Speaker 2: have three appetizers and a couple of drinks plus the
Speaker 2: die coke, and I'm going to spend one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty two one hundred and twenty five dollars. I did
Speaker 2: I pay tips in cash? Telling the server I'm giving cash,
Speaker 2: but you have to promise me. You're going to declare
Speaker 2: this to the irs. Give me your word and I
Speaker 2: will give you in cash. Okay, I promise you. The
Speaker 2: point is the backfiring is going on big time, and
Speaker 2: it's hurting.
Speaker 1: It's hurting. You know where it works. You know what
Speaker 1: works in Europe? They don't.
Speaker 2: You don't tip in Europe. If you have phenomenal service,
Speaker 2: you give five percent. Nobody tips. Why Because it's a
Speaker 2: career to be a server. It is a career. You
Speaker 2: sit down at a restaurant. Here server comes up and goes,
Speaker 2: would you like to read my screenplay? That does not
Speaker 2: happen in Europe? All right, enough of that, What are
Speaker 2: we talking about? Coming up at eight o'clock? Ooh, fiasco
Speaker 2: at the National Security Council, Let's talk about that inside
Speaker 2: the administration. And then at eight thirty ask Candle anything
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