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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your hands together and we're gonna start to party
and start.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm ready to party.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
The Elvis Duran After Party, all.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Right, So here we are. It's the After Party Podcast.
Missing Danielle. She is in flight today.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Hopefully she's flying you to New York.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
No, she'll be in flight, she just won't land stay in.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
What are we all squabbling about these days?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Edward's got something to bitch and moan about. Why are
you mad, Scottie b You're always mad at something?
Speaker 6 (00:36):
Why are you mad? Well? I was a little perturbed.
I was invited to a birthday dinner over the weekend.
And at the end of said birthday dinner, the check came,
and you know, the guy that organized it set everything
up and said, okay, uh, two hundred and thirty seven
dollars a couple. I'm like, the fuck you invited me
to your party. I'm not gonna pay.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That sounds pretty normal today, I thought, exactly how that got.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
A four invitation to a wedding? Are you paying? No,
it's a party that you're being invited to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So you expected a free ride, like they were going
to pay for your dinner.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
It was a party, It's not just like, hey, come
along for dinner. How many people? Uh, there were seven couples.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
That's a lot.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Okay, So what do you mean by a party?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Is it just people around a table eating dinner where
everything is written down.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
On a check. I mean, I guess it was an invite.
It was an invite though.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Okay, hold on, you said a party when I your party,
I see you got to pay for a band.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
It was a balloon. Balloon. If there was a balloon,
that makes it a party.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But it was a dinner. It was a dinner party.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And also, when you go to a wedding, you are
kind of paying for the wedding because you bring a
gift that hopefully covers I.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Brought a gift I had to bring you. I brought
a gift too.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, but I think that's just standard for a birthday
dinner that everybody splits the cost, and you split the
cost of the birthday person or potentially birthday color.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Well.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
I mean, I you know, I invited a bunch of
kids over for Cooper's party for this week. I should
I invoice him at the end for the food, You'll be.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
A different thing.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
That's a different kind of party. Yeah, Age shouldn't make
a difference question.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Had they told you with the invitation, oh, by the way,
at the end of the evening, I'll let you know
what your your percentage will be to pay?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Would you have not gone?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
I have had something else to do, because I know
that the places that they go to are always expensive
food food places that I don't eat at home.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I just assume, I Bill Burr right there. I just
assumed it was a complimentary dinner because I was invited to.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Him, that is, so why not I assume that? And
also like, hold on, we can stop yelling. Sure, okay,
go ahead, content.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, it would be very weird if you invoice people
for coming to a party at your home. Had you
gone to this person's house and at the end of
that dinner they said, hey, it's two hundred and forty
seven dollars a couple or whatever, Yeah, that'd be weird.
But if you're going to a place that specifically this
is a birthday dinner, I would never expect anybody but
myself to be paid.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
In my defense, this group of friends that we all
go out with frequently, I've been invited to other birthdays
for other people in this group and they've paid. So
I just assumed that that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So let me ask you this though. Was there an
invite that came to your inbox? So is it a
formal invite in the mail? Like how fancy was it?
Because I want to see if this like hat reeked
of the word party or was it just a Hey,
we're all getting together for someone Joe's birthday and we're
going to this restaurant.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
He knows there was a group text who is available?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
And that's just a regular dinner, my man.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Yeah, sorry, I think you're the only one on Scottie
Island today.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I oh, my bad. For next time, I will know that.
I just don't go when it's a fan. And plus
there's the one guy that always goes. I get seventeen whiskies,
the really old one that's expensive, and then we all
have to pay for that. Then why don't you order
expensive stuff? Because I don't want expensive stuff. I don't
eat expensive stuff. Elvis is very silent.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's like I'm the guy that owners a seventeen whiskey,
but that goes.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
That guy goes to these things because he knows, oh,
other people are gonna pay for it.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Well, I want if there are those people, you know,
absolutely tonight I'm gonna make sure Scotty Bee pays my
whiskey bill.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, people do that.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Other people really who are so cheap they love over
ordering so they can take advantage of the system.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Same guy every time.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I think, this just boils down to the type of
person you are.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Right.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
So, my best friends were in town last week. They
brought their families, their wives, their kids. We all sat
down at Elvis and we love and the kids got food,
the wives got food. The check came, I put down
my credit card. My friend goes, dude, no, no, no, no, no,
we got you. No, we got our families. I'm like,
it's fine. I was here, right, I didn't care.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Well, okay, So here's another instance. Then, So this past
weekend I invited a couple of people out for my
daughter's birthday a dinner at an Italian restaurant. And when
the check came, I threw my card into the thing
it closed it and put it on the table. Other
people there started putting their cards in. I didn't ask
for it.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Right, do you accept it?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Turned it out a stare play No I said no, no,
I said, I said no, no, no, I got it, and
they were thrust upon me, so I took it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I will say though, the more people that are at
a party, the more people can hide in plain sight
ordering the expensive stuff. I went to a retirement dinner
for a cop and it was like forty five people
in the room, and there was a segment of people that,
unbeknownst to us, that were in the corner, five guys
sitting in the corner that were running up the score
(05:31):
on the most expensive liquor in the house. And we
didn't know until the bill came because they figured, Hey,
nobody's gonna know, you know who wanted this stuff. And
it jacked up everyone else's individual share significantly. But you
know what they figured, Oh, if it's distributed amongst forty
five people, we can get away with it.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
So yeah, beware.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well I always beware when I go to any party,
because I'm always the one that ends up paying for everything. Yeah,
I've been I've been doing better with that.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
By the way, good you've been.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Weaseled out of so much cash along the way, Elvis,
by you.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yes, the whole left of the menul This is.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
By on the table, the table, everybody brings a sharpie
marker and just opens the menu and circles it.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
He hands it back, He hands the menu back and
just goes everything.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
There's times, Elvis, where you and I have lunch and
I say I got this, and you're like, no, no, no,
you're a terrible tipper.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Oh yeah, I've got He's like you tip like ship.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I'm like, I don't take more.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Correct are shitty tippers.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But that's that's a smart party.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I'm talking about, like the major big like ten people
at the table, eight people.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Look. I love taking my kids out.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I love having lunch with you guys or dinner, and
I love paying I I have no problem with it.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I love to be at your level one day where
I could just.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Know what does that mean? Well?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
High wise, it's like can throw the card down and
it's like you know what I got? You guys, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That's some Sometimes we remember the Melos lunch. The other
day there is four of us we go to lunch
and even you, Elvis, did this at the bell.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
You're like, oh my god, who want.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
That?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
You know what I did is good? Though?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That was an excellent lunch.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Oh my god, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So my question, I'm going to ask this to Elvis
because I feel like when it comes to etiquette, he has.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
All of this on lock.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
With some things go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I think most things. But let's say you're a person
like Scotty who does not want to pay for everybody
else's stuff, or you don't want the person who like
is you paying for everybody? How tacky is it to
ask for your own check at the beginning, like, hey,
can you just let me pay my.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Own I wouldn't even do that, don't.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I don't know. I think you have to go to
further than that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
If you know that you are that type of person,
or you know that maybe you're in a financial situation
where you don't want to be paying for other people.
You have that conversation with whoever's hosting a river's inviting you, Hey,
look your times a little tough. Can you tell me
what the split's going to be like at the end
of the evening so I can prepare for that and
let them know ahead of time. That way, you should
never be embarrassed. Ask that question every I think that's
(08:16):
one way to handle.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It, Okay, trying to troublesheet for Scott for the next party,
whatever happens, You'll still.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Complain no matter what. Well, you know, look it's Scotty.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, you be you and we love you.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
No matter how frugal you are. It's all good. I
just mean, two hundred and thirty seven bucks is a
lot for you know. I had pasta with mushrooms at
a beer See.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Had you known you would have in advance, you would
have probably wanted a lot more.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
You know, I just wouldn't have gone.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Here's the issue when you have when you have seventy couples,
you know, you don't want to ask the server to
break every single plate down. It's easier for them to
to just divide it evenly.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Guy's got those giant veal chops. It look like the Tomahawks.
Oh those are the best man.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Those are expensive, yes, but that's the thing, you know.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And if you're a server, you don't want to sit
there and split seven credit cards.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
A lot of restaurants have a limit.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I don't know how many people you can split. It
depends on where you are, I guess, but there you go.
It's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But like I said, I still enjoy taking my kids
out because I'm not a parent. In fact, Elvis is
going taking my family out. You were incredibly generous.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Elvis invited me to his table at Carbone Beach and
with my girlfriend. So you know, you've always been that guy,
and you know what more people should be that way.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I pay it forward any chance I.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Get, just so you know, Wait a second, have you
guys not witnessed a few times in the last couple
of weeks that Elvis has been here, I've tried to
pay for things and he's wadding up money and throwing
it at me.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Why no, but that was like for an eight dollar burrito.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Still let me pay for it. Let me every now
and then, let one of us do it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I just like wadding up money and throwing it.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
That's a sport.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's a good sport.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
All right, Well, we're done.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Feel free to squabble when the bill arrives. Get back
to us on that. Have a beautiful day or night
or whatever.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
This is Bye bye.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
The Elvis DA ran after party