July 16, 2026 • 33 mins
The guys go solo this week with one question: what would you cut from modern society? A conversation about the small daily frictions we've all quietly accepted - with a few detours along the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, what's up on woman about the rama?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
This is Freddie Rodriguez and you were listening to the
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Here we have a list that our producer Leo Clem compiled. Yes,
what would you cut from modern society?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Such a good question, Leo Clem, Such insightful questions here, Yes,
for our audience who are listening to us right now,
what would you cut from modern society?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Huh? So ask yourself that question. We're going to go
through a list here. What would you what would what?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What comes immediately to mind without even looking at this list?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And you go, well, I mean I guess we should
nominate some things, right that maybe life will be better
without or.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, we defend them. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, should we go to this check story, corpedo or pylon?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Like, let's so, let's figure out do you you want
to go? Okay, do you want to do the first one?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah? Self, checkout?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't know, man, it's kind of you know, when
you only have like two items or three items.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I just want to come in now. I don't want
to I don't want to deal with it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I mean I'm kind of okay with them, especially at
the airport. I like the airport. Uh, it's kind of cool.
But I haven't seen them, but I see what you mean,
Like it could be the only thing I get confused
is like when they're like, you need a bag, two bags,
three bags, I'm like, what are you charging me for
the bags?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Anyways, let's see standing up the instant the plane lands.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh my god, Okay, I do not like this. Daddy
don't like these one. You know, Daddy don't like these one.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Maybe maybe it's somebody who needs to stretch after they've
been sitting down for five hours.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Bro, It's like, no, no, you're sitting there and it's
gonna be a minimum of like eight to ten minutes
before they lock the bridge and open the door.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
What is it you don't like when somebody hovers over
you is.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
What's a hurry?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Look, if you have a connecting flight, I make space
and grace for you. Yeah yeah, But if you're not
connecting flight, you just got hold what's the hurry? And
the thing is that the people like two or three
sixs behind you the brother bags and then they'll just
like rush up to just be at the front, and
now you're like, I gotta go through you to get
my back at the headspace. Yeah, yeah, why are.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You doing this to me? Why are you doing this
to my family?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's like the kid who, like the kid who was
in school, always wanted to be at the front of
the line.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, but like but like not because like he wanted
to answer the first question.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He just wants to go home. He wants to go home. Okay,
what about you?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know what's kind of pet a pet peeve is
And this has happened to me a couple of times. Yeah, man,
I even hate to put it this way because I
don't want to sound you know, like if you're sitting
at the front of the plane, right, and someone who
is sitting in the back of the plane, they sometimes
people will like pass through the front of the plane
(03:29):
and then they'll put their bag up in the storage
compartment and then they'll keep walking to their seat all
the way to the back.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Of the plane.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, and then and then when I come to take
my seat, there's no space above because somebody in the back.
But I'm like, hey, man, I paid for this seat, right,
which means that I paid for the storage above and
now you took it because you know.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's why it's so important too.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
When they're saying they're they're gonna board soon, yeah, just
go lined up, you get to your seat before everybody.
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I agree, it's like sometimes you can't.
You don't even have a choice.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But what about those people, right, they're like line up
and everyone lines up.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Super early, and then and then and then they like
separated in the groups, like who goes in first, and
the people who are not in that first group are
like standing in the line and you're like, are you
in line?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Here's the crazy that's also kind of crazy. People get
a little like they get like all frustrated, excuse.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Me, excuse me? I was first, it's three.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I'm like, why are you here? Right? Yeah, That's the
thing that's really funny. It's like they get all like
slowly subliminally.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They're like blocking.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You start blocking you like like you walk up and
you're just trying to read the screen, and they get
just trying to see this screen, how many minutes I
have left?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Like?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Am I the right yeat? You literally walk up to
see this in the immediately see you walk up, they
like start getting really close to them.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Because they think you're gonna cut them. Yes, because they
think like I didn't see them there or something. Right.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But the craziest part is like we're all going in
the same thing. Like people be cutting though, man, Yeah,
people be going, people be cutting. People will be cutting, man,
people be cuind too.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, that's very true. Wait, wow is this true?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Turkey introduced new aviation rules in May twenty twenty five
that find passengers who unbuckle, stand, or grab overhead bins
before the plane fully stops, reportedly a seventy dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Fine, I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sit down? How do you enforce that sit down?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
There's the there's the sit down, there's the flight attendant down.
We're in the tarmac sit down hole. So does that
whole sit down?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
See? Sit down?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Okay, okay, sin Why by the way, why are you
going to the bathroom when we just were still in
the tarmact haven't even pull the plane. Why are you like, yeah,
sit down, sit down?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Sit down? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You ever had a you ever had a crazy flight
attendant story?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I have some flight attendant stories. Carry on, all right, We're.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Going to tell a few and rapid succession.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I was at a plane ones with me and uh,
you know his actor bolkeem Woodbine, fine actor, and we
were we were in first class and this flight attendant
passed by us with this really puzzled look on her
face and she did kind of a double take and
she came back and she was like, are you guys rappers?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I was like, you should end the story there.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You guys were wrapped. So anyway, we'll stop there. Go ahead.
What's yours? What's yours?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What's yours?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Mine is doing? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I mean I have a very similar story. Yeah, flight
attendant keep walking up and walking down, and then all
of a sudden, he was not just a flat attendant.
It was a flat attend in the back. Now it's
coming all the way to the front, like you. Now
they're like every flight attendant is taking a lap. And
I'm thinking like, okay, well they're going to ask for
a picture whatever and all that stuff, and I'm like ready,
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I'm excited, like yeah, whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Right. She rolls up and she's like I just.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Want to say I hope, like I don't want to
bother you because you're here and it's your personal time.
But I love your music, so you love my Yeah,
so you love my music. And I'm thinking like, yeah,
I made some funny music before and maybe they're thinking
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about that. And she's like yeah and like just really
excited for your tour. And I was like, okay, thank you.
And then the other flight attendant sees the other flight
attendant talking to me, so they go, oh, he's talking
flat ten and I'm gonna come up to So now
all the flight attendants come up. Yeah, and the horrow
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around my seat because then I feel like, oh, he's
open to talking or whatever. So he comes in because,
by the way, for some reason, some other actors are
like assholes when they're out in public and ship. But
I love people, so I'm like, yeah, come on, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah. So they all have her around and they're.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Like, yeah, we're very excited and you know we're there,
and I said, yeah, you know, when she told me
that Enrique Glacis was here, I was freaking out. Enrique Glaciers,
bro I look nothing, bro, come on, no, no, you
know what at the time, I used to.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Wear my beanie.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like we're like the hairlip, Yeah, what
did you call this? It's a hairline, but I call
it a hairlip. So I would put my my beanie
all the way back like this, and I had the
hair shoine and neither people thought I was calling Pharaoh
or I was.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And G says, that's Martin a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Did you did you play it all the way? We
all look alike, right?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Did you know? I seen more Rique than them than Riggy?
But did you Yeah? Did you?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Did you play in the Banks Banks?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He's Julio's son. Uh? Did you play it all the
way through? Yes? Where you were you? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Did I sing on a song?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Did I want to?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
K Kurt Russell told me a story that that he
went to Pink Hot Dogs and and I guess the
owner whoever worked there, was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My god, you're here. Can we just get like your autograph?
We got a photo of you and everything. And then
they gave him a photo and it was a photo
of Patrick Swayze.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And he signed it as Patrick swayzey, And he said
he puts some real cheesy stuff on there, like from
the Pea Dog.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Or something like that. He do something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
He's such a good Oh yeah, yeah, I've never met him,
but I love I'm such a I'm such a fan.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, let's see here. Okay, excessively large group group chats.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's a tough one for people.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Damn for people in a group chat. Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That's a tough one, man, because you know what, as
soon as the third or fourth person replies, yeah, I'm done, Yeah,
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I I literally cannot follow.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I can't go back, and if I have to scroll
all the way up to start the chat, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, you know what's tough for me Sometimes in the
group chats when people just like sense sense stuff, you know,
like like YouTube video memes. No no me memes are
cool because they're like fifteen seconds, right, you just watch them.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know what people send like long YouTube videos.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The link that texts you out of the text chams.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and they send multiple.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Of those, and I'm like, oh my god, I got
to sit here watch like forty five minutes worth of.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Like here's a question. Yeah, like text etiquette, Okay, yeah,
did you like one long text or like five and
six different ones?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Some people are like.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean.
You're like, you could have put all that in one
paragraph and I just read it, you know, like one long,
one big blue bubble as opposed to like six little bubbles.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like does that bother you at all? Because I've done both.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yes, that's why I asked, I don't do that to you.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Man, you've mastered out the kid it. No.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I think sometimes when when when like my brain is
just like, you know, I'll send one and then I'm like,
go ahead, and then here's the next thing, and here's
the next thing. But I normally don't. I normally don't
send them. Do you send multiple text or you just more?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I sometimes do, Man, I'm not dude.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm dude because because I'll just send a ha ha
ha and then be like that was funny. That's another one.
And like honestly to be to be honest blah blah
blah blah blah blah. That's another one. And like anyways,
talk to you later. Boom, that's another one. Yeah, And
so I can only imagine that when they're like in
their phone just goes.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Clean clean, clean, clean, clean clean clean. I don't mind it. Okay,
that's good to know. Yeah, I don't mind it. That's
good to all right, what's.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Voice notes this is a very controversial topic.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
In my office, Leo brought this thing up. Yeah, and
you know, we have our head of the WV Social House,
which is our our social media marketing company, and you know,
and and Vincent was like, I'm trying to do his acting.
He's got a fresh ante.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh he hates it. Huh y, He's like, I don't
like Uh, that's not it's just like the like it's
like these uh these voice memos that they sent to me.
Is that a gen Z thing?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The accent You guys don't have the accents of gen Z.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You guys don't like voice. Is that a gen Z thing?
What is that?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Why are you asking about?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
He's not you? You're a millennial? Man? Is a gen
X millennial? Yeah, I'm a boer.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I like them, man, I like them because because I've
gotten in trouble. In trouble, but I've gotten flag on
this in the past. Or sometimes I'll send an email
or or a text and and something gets lost in
translation and people take it the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That you know, my love voicemails to for that reason.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, where I've literally had people call me and go, hey, man,
did I read your text the right way.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Did you mean this?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And I'm like, no, I didn't mean that, and they're like,
well read that way, and I'm like, oh my god,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Like and by the person who was receiving the text,
it was so hard into like the oh you didn't
put a coma there, or you'll put a period after okay,
like what what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, No, it's it's it's more about like like the emo,
like what I meant, you know, the emotion behind it,
you know, like they I don't know. So I've I'm like, okay,
that's cool. You know, I'll send you like a little
voice message. So then that way you could hear the
tone in my voice. You know, you can hear the
emotion in my voice and know where I'm coming from,
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so that you don't get offended.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You know. Well, I love voicemamo.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I have a thread right now, a couple of partners
with mine, and we just send voice memos all day long.
And I think also for me, it's like if I'm driving, yes,
if I'm walking and I'm always in the move, a
voice memo was the easiest thing to say. Also, like
I can't just read texts all the time. Yeah, if
I'm in the car, I get dizzy. If I'm driving
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in the car, I definitely can't write, so I won't
do that. But the voice memos I can. I can
reply to somebody in the car.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And it's easier than picking because if you pick up
the phone, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
An hour, man, that's an hour, right or half an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Don't let us get on the phone.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's true. That's that's how this podcast. I don't want
us to win, man, So this podcast started. But it's
an hour, man, it's it's half an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So what about you guys at home, man, comment on
this bar. I want to hear what you guys.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, and it's okay. That was
a few more.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Screens that flip around to ask for twenty percent on
a four dollars coffee.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, this is a good one. And then what and
then they stare at you.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
It's a good one, bro, because now most coffee shops,
like you get you asked for two coffees and maybe
a croison or a cupcake or whatever. Yeah, and it's
like like forty five bucks, and then twenty percent of
forty five bucks is what ten bucks technically?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah, So You're like, you just pour my coffee and
you're handing me over a cupcake. Yeah, and I'm like,
or they're not even making your coffee, right, you get
two coconut waters and a paste or whatever, and you
send it to you and they're asking you give ten
dollars right automatically. It's like it's like nineteen twenty and
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twenty two. Some people have twenty twenty two and twenty
four percent. So like if you just get breakfast for
everybody and you're picking up at the counter right, like,
no one's taking it to your table, they're asking you
to do twenty two percent or twenty percent tip on
like one hundred and fifty bucks, that's like thirty that's
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forty bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Bro. Yeah yeah I was.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And like, look, I'm gonna just start by saying I
worked in the in the service industry.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I was a busboy once. Right. I've had restaurants in
my life.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I had tons of restaurants that i've you know, in
my in my twenties and my thirties. I currently have
a restaurant in Washington, DC, Coelagansia at La Cosecha, which
is a Mark Union Market spinoff.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Really beautiful so.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Tips are incredibly critical for the sustainability of our service,
you know, and specifically those individuals who.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Put all that work.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So don't get me wrong, I'm not saying like they
don't deserve to be tipped, right, I'm just saying, like
these screens are aggressive, right, Like, it's not like you know,
it's it's it's a lot, and nowadays to you have
to tip forty five dollars, fifty dollars, sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Sometimes, I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
That's a lot for because food is getting more expensive, right, Like,
the service is not going impressive, So it's tough, like
it's a it's a very it's a tough thing to.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Do, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But I how do you feel about the screens?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah? Yeah, I think it's a case by case basis. Right.
It's like what you said.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
If I'm just going to the to the airport little
convenience store and I'm buying a coconut water, like I
should give you twenty percent on top of that, Like,
you know, but if I'm sitting down and I'm having
a dinner and you're and you're serving me and my
wife and and my family, that's a that's a different.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Creative experience and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's different.
So the airport is so crazy too.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The airport is like you're going to end up like
like sixty five bucks eighty bucks just to get your
snacks on the plane and get the stuff or whatever.
And then they're suggesting twenty percent of you just running apart.
You just pick things up from the from the from
the shelves and from the cooler or whatever right up
to the thing. Sometimes you scan it yourself and they're
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asking you for today, and it's like, it's cool. It's
really kind of intense.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You ever you ever had that, like, you know, young
person behind the counter when they flip the screen and
they're looking at you.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I mean I had I've had some respectful people that
that flip it and they look away.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You know, you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Know you're gonna leave the tip buddy.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know, it's it's tough, tough. I mean, it's really tough.
But I also I will also say though, one of
my frustrations with it is because I know for a
fact that the restaurant keeps them keeps the tips. They
do a pool system where a percentage of the pool
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goes to the service to all our service people. That's
the whole, and then they keep a percentage of that
for So that's the other thing that frustrates me. It's
like they're getting you for all this, for this money,
and the server or the person that created that experience
for you doesn't get the money.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Wasn't get the money.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Because that's the whole purpose of tipping, right is because
they don't make a living wage, and so you're trying
to bridge the gap.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So that's like there's restaurants and there's establishments where that
tip doesn't go to your person.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Also a valet people, if you tip with your card, yeah,
a percentage of that goes to them, not the tip.
That's what you if you have a chance to tip
your valet guys, you know your valet girls, like just
give them cash because because once you put in a
credit card, they don't won't see it that day, they'll
just see a little bit of a percentage that goes
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against you know what their ecrupment is.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
For the for the companies. Do you ever feel when
you're at a restaurant?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Do you ever because right eventually people know who you
are right when we sit down.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Do you ever feel like you got to leave.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
More than the average person because the person serving you
knows who you are, and you know that when you
get up, they're gonna say. You know, the first thing
is like what how much tip?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Did he leave you?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And so you know that's gonna know it's crazy. Is
that your credit card? Also when they run your credit
card on the receipt, it says your.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Name on it, the company name. Yeah, do you ever
you ever feel that pressure to go?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
All right? I can tell they they for.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
The most part, Yeah, I'll tell you this, for the
most part, I'm pretty I'll be honest, I'm pretty generous.
I'd like to be generous because I used to be
a bus boy once, so that that comes from there.
I'll just like over tip. But then when they go
above and beyond and they're so nice to me and
they recognize me for my work and they say sweet
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things to me, and they just they go above and
beyond and they bring you like an extra little thing
for your kid or they bring you know, like they
make the experience so nice because they just like they're
giving you an exchange of gratitude. I mean that's when
I would like, I'll tip like one hundred and fifty percent,
I'll do two hundred percent. That's awesome because they just
I know what it feels like, and I try to leave.
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I never want to see them see it. I try
to pay, do the thing, drop, drop the gift, and
then just bounce because I don't want to be there
for it. But I've seen on Instagram some people have posted, like,
my god, Wilma sent me this da da da da,
and it's oh, really, it's beautiful to see that they
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know. I thought you were going to say the opposite,
you know.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Like, oh my god, only one hundred and fifty percent
cheap bastard.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
No, I had an incident what time, you know, when
I was like in my twenties, you know, when I
first like started making like a little money, you know,
And there was somebody I went to high school with
who was the server. And I went there with a
bunch of my high school buddies, you know, and I
have them twenty percent, you know what it said on
the check, you know, and then she she she told
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my buddies afterwards that I was cheap, that I didn't
that I didn't tipper enough.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I was like, that's not enough. Like, how much twenty
percent is the top? Isn't it? How much of money?
I suggested, it's fifteen twenty percent is the top?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, obviously they moved the goal post, right, but twenty
percent used to be very good?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, But but I only bring that up to say
that that it was at that moment I realized like,
oh oh, people are really paying attention to what you
leave and and have opinions about it afterwards, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Uh, And and not to.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Say that I don't want to do it out of
out of my heart, you know, because that's where it
comes from, right. But like, but then there's that extra
factor of it that that people are going to scrutinize
on what.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
You leave and are going.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
To talk about it afterwards. We're never going to win,
just understand. Yeah, QR code menus, I hate you? You do?
Why because what happens right?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Well, first of like you know, like we're grown men, right,
Like I want to have a freaking man. I want
to go to a restaurant and have the experience and
have you know, I'm like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay, I'll scan something, but I'm like.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, you know where that comes from. That's all really
multiplied after COVID.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, people are like contact less, you know, they want
to pass the menus back and forth. They want to
disinfecting the menus for every customer. So that q QR
code is like you want to look at the menu,
look at it from your sancification phone. Yeah, man, and
you do you know that sancify my menu.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Once you once you scan the QR code, if for
some reason you got to get out of that menu,
it won't bring you back to the to the menu.
You got to like re scan it again afterwards, and
then you.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Got to scroll through that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You got to like find the thing that you were
looking at, you know. So it's not it's not consistent.
I'm not a fan.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Well I don't. I don't mind it. But at the
same time, you know, I screamed for food.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So you've been to concerts, yeah, right, and nowadays when
you go to a concert you have to kind of
move your head back and forth because there's a phone
somebody filming in front of you, filming the concert. How
do you feel about.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That, HM, As somebody who's been a concert goer for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I feel like I feel like they're.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Missing out on a on a on just sort of
a journey, the visceral experience. Right. I haven't had too
many situations or somewhere where somebody's blocked my view with
the phone, so I really don't have an opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But and then the flip.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Side to that is like, for example, like jay Z
just performed at the Roots Picnic, right, and I was
able to see it because somebody had taped it and
they and they and they.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Put it on YouTube, you know. So that's that's the
that's the rough bro. And yeah, yeah, how do you
how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I'm conflicted because I went to Bruno Mars residency, yeah,
god man, and they made everyone put their phones inside
a little lock box.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah yeah, I've heard about that, and.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
For the very moment everyone listened, sang dance together at
the same time, and I hadn't seen that in a
long time. I understand the value of like taking a
piece of that concert home on your phone. I totally
understand that too, So I'm kind of indifferent about it. Yeah,
(26:34):
But if I was the artist, I guess if I
think about the artists not as the concert going, because
if I got to go and see everybody's only whatever,
at least I can control the fact that I'm going
to take in the concert. I'm going to do it
for myself, so it doesn't bother me to see people
on their phones. But if I was the artist and
I just rehearsed for three months, this is my tenth
performance in a world tour, and I'm there performing the drama,
(27:00):
the lyrics, and the graphics on the put. You know,
we paid all these money for all the graphics on
the LEDs, the smoke machines, whatever, So then the viewing
and listening experience hits all these senses. I would hate
to see people watch it through a phone, because they
end up watching the performance through the phone filming like
(27:20):
this when the show is meant to be received like this,
and and and so. If I was the artist, i'd
be I'd be a little sad about it, because you
work so hard, you invest so much money in that.
You know so, but you know, but I think to
your point, like, I'd love to revisit that, or somebody
(27:41):
posted online they're like, oh my god, yeah, JC just
did a freestyle blah blah, blah blah talks about so
and so, and like you're listening to it because you
weren't there.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And that's how people were able to see it because
the show didn't tape it. It came from people's phones.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I will say though, like however they listen to music
today is obviously changing and evolving. But when I went
to the Bruno Mars concert in Las Vegas, and I
and I and my phone was locked up. Yeah, my god.
I appreciated every step, every color change of the stage,
every instrument, every dance.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Move, every every note. You know, every song was so good.
It's beautiful. It's really really great. What was your favorite
concert you've ever been to?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I gotta say, ever been to Guns n' Roses?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, ill got Roses in Rome? Oh yeah, whole band.
I'm good friends with Duff. My friend Jordan Furramisco is
my trainer. He you know, he also trained Duff, you know,
And so I met all those guys through them and
and shout out to Duff. You know, he's a beautiful,
beautiful man, a wonderful person in an icon and he
(29:02):
he invited all of us, my family. We happened to
be shoot in a movie in Italy. So we went
to Rome and that was Nikano's first concert. Oh man,
that's so oh so so recently, I have a video
well that was More which was three years so a
couple of years ago to yeah. Yeah, but I have
a video of Nakano on stage with gonsn Roses and
Duff coming all the way to her and like playing
(29:23):
electric guitar, riding in front of her, looking at her,
and she's got her little headphones and she's like, yeah,
it's so cool. It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I saw I saw Coldplay in concert, which is one's
gonna be a good one. Amazing, amazing concerts I've ever
been to. Man, I mean, they're their whole production was incredible,
and you know we you know, we don't sit there
the whole time with our phone filming, right, but there
were certain clips that we filmed, you know, and that
was pretty awesome because then we got to bring it
(29:54):
back home and and and revisited. I also saw Prince
in concert before he passed. Oh that's just amazing Staples Center. Yeah,
but back then there were no phones or anything like that,
so I.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Just got to now this, he would have stopped his
concert and got home.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah maybe maybe, but.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It was already with their phones out. He would have
been like, nah, I'm out, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was It was awesome, man, it was such a good
you missed my eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I got what you.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Let's see here, uh, notifications and aren't from a human
The expectation of being reachable reachable twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The expectation of being reachable twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Hmm, what comes from me comes up for me when
you say that, I think, like, what like when people.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Going, man, I touched you earlier today and then you're
just like, hey, I'm sorry, man, I was I'm like,
I was having lunch busy.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's interesting, right, because your phone it's become such a
part of you that if somebody is so good of
replying yeah up, and they're like, how did you not
have time to reply? But look, it's a little tough
because you and I are constantly in the hustle.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Like we're in calls, where.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Meetings, we're in zooms, we're development meetings, were like walking,
we're doing we're working out whatever and like and like,
so there are periods of the day where like we
just can't get on the phone and we can't just
text back. So I understand that from a lot of
my friends. But then there's certain people I know they
can just you know, they live with their phone in
(31:29):
their hand and like if they saw me, you know,
on their phone, like what happened? What's up?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah? Going on, I'm busy. What's your excuse?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There are times where I just leave my phone upstairs,
you know, and I have certain family members call me
that you didn't get my thing.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I was like, no, man, I left my phone upstairs.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Like really, doesn't it doesn't computer as possible.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, No, I just leave it upstairs because otherwise I'll
be on it, I'll get distracted.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, I mean, look, I'm pretty good, but sometimes say
it'll take me a day.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Sometimes it will take me two days, you know, to just.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Go like if I go to first come, first service,
you know, it sometimes takes me a little second, you know.
But anyways, we hope that all you at home, when
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Here we have a list that our producer Leo Clem compiled. Yes,
what would you cut from modern society?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Such a good question, Leo Clem, Such insightful questions here, Yes,
for our audience who are listening to us right now,
what would you cut from modern society?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Huh? So ask yourself that question. We're going to go
through a list here. What would you what would what?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What comes immediately to mind without even looking at this list?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And you go, well, I mean I guess we should
nominate some things, right that maybe life will be better
without or.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, we defend them. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, should we go to this check story, corpedo or pylon?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Like, let's so, let's figure out do you you want
to go? Okay, do you want to do the first one?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah? Self, checkout?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't know, man, it's kind of you know, when
you only have like two items or three items.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I just want to come in now. I don't want
to I don't want to deal with it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I mean I'm kind of okay with them, especially at
the airport. I like the airport. Uh, it's kind of cool.
But I haven't seen them, but I see what you mean,
Like it could be the only thing I get confused
is like when they're like, you need a bag, two bags,
three bags, I'm like, what are you charging me for
the bags?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Anyways, let's see standing up the instant the plane lands.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh my god, Okay, I do not like this. Daddy
don't like these one. You know, Daddy don't like these one.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Maybe maybe it's somebody who needs to stretch after they've
been sitting down for five hours.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Bro, It's like, no, no, you're sitting there and it's
gonna be a minimum of like eight to ten minutes
before they lock the bridge and open the door.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
What is it you don't like when somebody hovers over
you is.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
What's a hurry?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Look, if you have a connecting flight, I make space
and grace for you. Yeah yeah, But if you're not
connecting flight, you just got hold what's the hurry? And
the thing is that the people like two or three
sixs behind you the brother bags and then they'll just
like rush up to just be at the front, and
now you're like, I gotta go through you to get
my back at the headspace. Yeah, yeah, why are.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You doing this to me? Why are you doing this
to my family?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's like the kid who, like the kid who was
in school, always wanted to be at the front of
the line.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, but like but like not because like he wanted
to answer the first question.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He just wants to go home. He wants to go home. Okay,
what about you?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know what's kind of pet a pet peeve is
And this has happened to me a couple of times. Yeah, man,
I even hate to put it this way because I
don't want to sound you know, like if you're sitting
at the front of the plane, right, and someone who
is sitting in the back of the plane, they sometimes
people will like pass through the front of the plane
(03:29):
and then they'll put their bag up in the storage
compartment and then they'll keep walking to their seat all
the way to the back.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Of the plane.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, and then and then when I come to take
my seat, there's no space above because somebody in the back.
But I'm like, hey, man, I paid for this seat, right,
which means that I paid for the storage above and
now you took it because you know.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's why it's so important too.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
When they're saying they're they're gonna board soon, yeah, just
go lined up, you get to your seat before everybody.
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I agree, it's like sometimes you can't.
You don't even have a choice.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But what about those people, right, they're like line up
and everyone lines up.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Super early, and then and then and then they like
separated in the groups, like who goes in first, and
the people who are not in that first group are
like standing in the line and you're like, are you
in line?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Here's the crazy that's also kind of crazy. People get
a little like they get like all frustrated, excuse.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Me, excuse me? I was first, it's three.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I'm like, why are you here? Right? Yeah, That's the
thing that's really funny. It's like they get all like
slowly subliminally.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They're like blocking.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You start blocking you like like you walk up and
you're just trying to read the screen, and they get
just trying to see this screen, how many minutes I
have left?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Like?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Am I the right yeat? You literally walk up to
see this in the immediately see you walk up, they
like start getting really close to them.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Because they think you're gonna cut them. Yes, because they
think like I didn't see them there or something. Right.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But the craziest part is like we're all going in
the same thing. Like people be cutting though, man, Yeah,
people be going, people be cutting. People will be cutting, man,
people be cuind too.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, that's very true. Wait, wow is this true?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Turkey introduced new aviation rules in May twenty twenty five
that find passengers who unbuckle, stand, or grab overhead bins
before the plane fully stops, reportedly a seventy dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Fine, I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sit down? How do you enforce that sit down?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
There's the there's the sit down, there's the flight attendant down.
We're in the tarmac sit down hole. So does that
whole sit down?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
See? Sit down?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Okay, okay, sin Why by the way, why are you
going to the bathroom when we just were still in
the tarmact haven't even pull the plane. Why are you like, yeah,
sit down, sit down?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Sit down? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You ever had a you ever had a crazy flight
attendant story?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I have some flight attendant stories. Carry on, all right, We're.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Going to tell a few and rapid succession.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I was at a plane ones with me and uh,
you know his actor bolkeem Woodbine, fine actor, and we
were we were in first class and this flight attendant
passed by us with this really puzzled look on her
face and she did kind of a double take and
she came back and she was like, are you guys rappers?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I was like, you should end the story there.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You guys were wrapped. So anyway, we'll stop there. Go ahead.
What's yours? What's yours?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What's yours?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Mine is doing? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I mean I have a very similar story. Yeah, flight
attendant keep walking up and walking down, and then all
of a sudden, he was not just a flat attendant.
It was a flat attend in the back. Now it's
coming all the way to the front, like you. Now
they're like every flight attendant is taking a lap. And
I'm thinking like, okay, well they're going to ask for
a picture whatever and all that stuff, and I'm like ready,
(07:31):
I'm excited, like yeah, whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Right. She rolls up and she's like I just.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Want to say I hope, like I don't want to
bother you because you're here and it's your personal time.
But I love your music, so you love my Yeah,
so you love my music. And I'm thinking like, yeah,
I made some funny music before and maybe they're thinking
(07:59):
about that. And she's like yeah and like just really
excited for your tour. And I was like, okay, thank you.
And then the other flight attendant sees the other flight
attendant talking to me, so they go, oh, he's talking
flat ten and I'm gonna come up to So now
all the flight attendants come up. Yeah, and the horrow
(08:20):
around my seat because then I feel like, oh, he's
open to talking or whatever. So he comes in because,
by the way, for some reason, some other actors are
like assholes when they're out in public and ship. But
I love people, so I'm like, yeah, come on, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah. So they all have her around and they're.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Like, yeah, we're very excited and you know we're there,
and I said, yeah, you know, when she told me
that Enrique Glacis was here, I was freaking out. Enrique Glaciers,
bro I look nothing, bro, come on, no, no, you
know what at the time, I used to.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Wear my beanie.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like we're like the hairlip, Yeah, what
did you call this? It's a hairline, but I call
it a hairlip. So I would put my my beanie
all the way back like this, and I had the
hair shoine and neither people thought I was calling Pharaoh
or I was.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And G says, that's Martin a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Did you did you play it all the way? We
all look alike, right?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Did you know? I seen more Rique than them than Riggy?
But did you Yeah? Did you?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Did you play in the Banks Banks?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He's Julio's son. Uh? Did you play it all the
way through? Yes? Where you were you? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Did I sing on a song?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Did I want to?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
K Kurt Russell told me a story that that he
went to Pink Hot Dogs and and I guess the
owner whoever worked there, was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My god, you're here. Can we just get like your autograph?
We got a photo of you and everything. And then
they gave him a photo and it was a photo
of Patrick Swayze.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And he signed it as Patrick swayzey, And he said
he puts some real cheesy stuff on there, like from
the Pea Dog.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Or something like that. He do something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
He's such a good Oh yeah, yeah, I've never met him,
but I love I'm such a I'm such a fan.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, let's see here. Okay, excessively large group group chats.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's a tough one for people.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Damn for people in a group chat. Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That's a tough one, man, because you know what, as
soon as the third or fourth person replies, yeah, I'm done, Yeah,
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I I literally cannot follow.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I can't go back, and if I have to scroll
all the way up to start the chat, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, you know what's tough for me Sometimes in the
group chats when people just like sense sense stuff, you know,
like like YouTube video memes. No no me memes are
cool because they're like fifteen seconds, right, you just watch them.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know what people send like long YouTube videos.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The link that texts you out of the text chams.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and they send multiple.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Of those, and I'm like, oh my god, I got
to sit here watch like forty five minutes worth of.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Like here's a question. Yeah, like text etiquette, Okay, yeah,
did you like one long text or like five and
six different ones?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Some people are like.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean.
You're like, you could have put all that in one
paragraph and I just read it, you know, like one long,
one big blue bubble as opposed to like six little bubbles.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like does that bother you at all? Because I've done both.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yes, that's why I asked, I don't do that to you.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Man, you've mastered out the kid it. No.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I think sometimes when when when like my brain is
just like, you know, I'll send one and then I'm like,
go ahead, and then here's the next thing, and here's
the next thing. But I normally don't. I normally don't
send them. Do you send multiple text or you just more?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I sometimes do, Man, I'm not dude.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm dude because because I'll just send a ha ha
ha and then be like that was funny. That's another one.
And like honestly to be to be honest blah blah
blah blah blah blah. That's another one. And like anyways,
talk to you later. Boom, that's another one. Yeah, And
so I can only imagine that when they're like in
their phone just goes.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Clean clean, clean, clean, clean clean clean. I don't mind it. Okay,
that's good to know. Yeah, I don't mind it. That's
good to all right, what's.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Voice notes this is a very controversial topic.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
In my office, Leo brought this thing up. Yeah, and
you know, we have our head of the WV Social House,
which is our our social media marketing company, and you know,
and and Vincent was like, I'm trying to do his acting.
He's got a fresh ante.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh he hates it. Huh y, He's like, I don't
like Uh, that's not it's just like the like it's
like these uh these voice memos that they sent to me.
Is that a gen Z thing?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The accent You guys don't have the accents of gen Z.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You guys don't like voice. Is that a gen Z thing?
What is that?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Why are you asking about?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
He's not you? You're a millennial? Man? Is a gen
X millennial? Yeah, I'm a boer.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I like them, man, I like them because because I've
gotten in trouble. In trouble, but I've gotten flag on
this in the past. Or sometimes I'll send an email
or or a text and and something gets lost in
translation and people take it the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That you know, my love voicemails to for that reason.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, where I've literally had people call me and go, hey, man,
did I read your text the right way.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Did you mean this?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And I'm like, no, I didn't mean that, and they're like,
well read that way, and I'm like, oh my god,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Like and by the person who was receiving the text,
it was so hard into like the oh you didn't
put a coma there, or you'll put a period after okay,
like what what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, No, it's it's it's more about like like the emo,
like what I meant, you know, the emotion behind it,
you know, like they I don't know. So I've I'm like, okay,
that's cool. You know, I'll send you like a little
voice message. So then that way you could hear the
tone in my voice. You know, you can hear the
emotion in my voice and know where I'm coming from,
(14:54):
so that you don't get offended.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You know. Well, I love voicemamo.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I have a thread right now, a couple of partners
with mine, and we just send voice memos all day long.
And I think also for me, it's like if I'm driving, yes,
if I'm walking and I'm always in the move, a
voice memo was the easiest thing to say. Also, like
I can't just read texts all the time. Yeah, if
I'm in the car, I get dizzy. If I'm driving
(15:20):
in the car, I definitely can't write, so I won't
do that. But the voice memos I can. I can
reply to somebody in the car.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And it's easier than picking because if you pick up
the phone, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
An hour, man, that's an hour, right or half an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Don't let us get on the phone.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's true. That's that's how this podcast. I don't want
us to win, man, So this podcast started. But it's
an hour, man, it's it's half an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So what about you guys at home, man, comment on
this bar. I want to hear what you guys.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, and it's okay. That was
a few more.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Screens that flip around to ask for twenty percent on
a four dollars coffee.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, this is a good one. And then what and
then they stare at you.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
It's a good one, bro, because now most coffee shops,
like you get you asked for two coffees and maybe
a croison or a cupcake or whatever. Yeah, and it's
like like forty five bucks, and then twenty percent of
forty five bucks is what ten bucks technically?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah, So You're like, you just pour my coffee and
you're handing me over a cupcake. Yeah, and I'm like,
or they're not even making your coffee, right, you get
two coconut waters and a paste or whatever, and you
send it to you and they're asking you give ten
dollars right automatically. It's like it's like nineteen twenty and
(16:48):
twenty two. Some people have twenty twenty two and twenty
four percent. So like if you just get breakfast for
everybody and you're picking up at the counter right, like,
no one's taking it to your table, they're asking you
to do twenty two percent or twenty percent tip on
like one hundred and fifty bucks, that's like thirty that's
(17:12):
forty bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Bro. Yeah yeah I was.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And like, look, I'm gonna just start by saying I
worked in the in the service industry.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I was a busboy once. Right. I've had restaurants in
my life.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I had tons of restaurants that i've you know, in
my in my twenties and my thirties. I currently have
a restaurant in Washington, DC, Coelagansia at La Cosecha, which
is a Mark Union Market spinoff.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Really beautiful so.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Tips are incredibly critical for the sustainability of our service,
you know, and specifically those individuals who.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Put all that work.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So don't get me wrong, I'm not saying like they
don't deserve to be tipped, right, I'm just saying, like
these screens are aggressive, right, Like, it's not like you know,
it's it's it's a lot, and nowadays to you have
to tip forty five dollars, fifty dollars, sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Sometimes, I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
That's a lot for because food is getting more expensive, right, Like,
the service is not going impressive, So it's tough, like
it's a it's a very it's a tough thing to.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Do, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But I how do you feel about the screens?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah? Yeah, I think it's a case by case basis. Right.
It's like what you said.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
If I'm just going to the to the airport little
convenience store and I'm buying a coconut water, like I
should give you twenty percent on top of that, Like,
you know, but if I'm sitting down and I'm having
a dinner and you're and you're serving me and my
wife and and my family, that's a that's a different.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Creative experience and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's different.
So the airport is so crazy too.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The airport is like you're going to end up like
like sixty five bucks eighty bucks just to get your
snacks on the plane and get the stuff or whatever.
And then they're suggesting twenty percent of you just running apart.
You just pick things up from the from the from
the shelves and from the cooler or whatever right up
to the thing. Sometimes you scan it yourself and they're
(19:10):
asking you for today, and it's like, it's cool. It's
really kind of intense.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You ever you ever had that, like, you know, young
person behind the counter when they flip the screen and
they're looking at you.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I mean I had I've had some respectful people that
that flip it and they look away.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You know, you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Know you're gonna leave the tip buddy.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know, it's it's tough, tough. I mean, it's really tough.
But I also I will also say though, one of
my frustrations with it is because I know for a
fact that the restaurant keeps them keeps the tips. They
do a pool system where a percentage of the pool
(19:59):
goes to the service to all our service people. That's
the whole, and then they keep a percentage of that
for So that's the other thing that frustrates me. It's
like they're getting you for all this, for this money,
and the server or the person that created that experience
for you doesn't get the money.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Wasn't get the money.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Because that's the whole purpose of tipping, right is because
they don't make a living wage, and so you're trying
to bridge the gap.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So that's like there's restaurants and there's establishments where that
tip doesn't go to your person.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Also a valet people, if you tip with your card, yeah,
a percentage of that goes to them, not the tip.
That's what you if you have a chance to tip
your valet guys, you know your valet girls, like just
give them cash because because once you put in a
credit card, they don't won't see it that day, they'll
just see a little bit of a percentage that goes
(20:50):
against you know what their ecrupment is.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
For the for the companies. Do you ever feel when
you're at a restaurant?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Do you ever because right eventually people know who you
are right when we sit down.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Do you ever feel like you got to leave.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
More than the average person because the person serving you
knows who you are, and you know that when you
get up, they're gonna say. You know, the first thing
is like what how much tip?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Did he leave you?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And so you know that's gonna know it's crazy. Is
that your credit card? Also when they run your credit
card on the receipt, it says your.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Name on it, the company name. Yeah, do you ever
you ever feel that pressure to go?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
All right? I can tell they they for.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
The most part, Yeah, I'll tell you this, for the
most part, I'm pretty I'll be honest, I'm pretty generous.
I'd like to be generous because I used to be
a bus boy once, so that that comes from there.
I'll just like over tip. But then when they go
above and beyond and they're so nice to me and
they recognize me for my work and they say sweet
(21:56):
things to me, and they just they go above and
beyond and they bring you like an extra little thing
for your kid or they bring you know, like they
make the experience so nice because they just like they're
giving you an exchange of gratitude. I mean that's when
I would like, I'll tip like one hundred and fifty percent,
I'll do two hundred percent. That's awesome because they just
I know what it feels like, and I try to leave.
(22:18):
I never want to see them see it. I try
to pay, do the thing, drop, drop the gift, and
then just bounce because I don't want to be there
for it. But I've seen on Instagram some people have posted, like,
my god, Wilma sent me this da da da da,
and it's oh, really, it's beautiful to see that they
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know. I thought you were going to say the opposite,
you know.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Like, oh my god, only one hundred and fifty percent
cheap bastard.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
No, I had an incident what time, you know, when
I was like in my twenties, you know, when I
first like started making like a little money, you know,
And there was somebody I went to high school with
who was the server. And I went there with a
bunch of my high school buddies, you know, and I
have them twenty percent, you know what it said on
the check, you know, and then she she she told
(23:05):
my buddies afterwards that I was cheap, that I didn't
that I didn't tipper enough.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I was like, that's not enough. Like, how much twenty
percent is the top? Isn't it? How much of money?
I suggested, it's fifteen twenty percent is the top?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, obviously they moved the goal post, right, but twenty
percent used to be very good?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, But but I only bring that up to say
that that it was at that moment I realized like,
oh oh, people are really paying attention to what you
leave and and have opinions about it afterwards, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Uh, And and not to.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Say that I don't want to do it out of
out of my heart, you know, because that's where it
comes from, right. But like, but then there's that extra
factor of it that that people are going to scrutinize
on what.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
You leave and are going.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
To talk about it afterwards. We're never going to win,
just understand. Yeah, QR code menus, I hate you? You do?
Why because what happens right?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Well, first of like you know, like we're grown men, right,
Like I want to have a freaking man. I want
to go to a restaurant and have the experience and
have you know, I'm like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay, I'll scan something, but I'm like.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, you know where that comes from. That's all really
multiplied after COVID.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, people are like contact less, you know, they want
to pass the menus back and forth. They want to
disinfecting the menus for every customer. So that q QR
code is like you want to look at the menu,
look at it from your sancification phone. Yeah, man, and
you do you know that sancify my menu.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Once you once you scan the QR code, if for
some reason you got to get out of that menu,
it won't bring you back to the to the menu.
You got to like re scan it again afterwards, and
then you.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Got to scroll through that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You got to like find the thing that you were
looking at, you know. So it's not it's not consistent.
I'm not a fan.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Well I don't. I don't mind it. But at the
same time, you know, I screamed for food.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So you've been to concerts, yeah, right, and nowadays when
you go to a concert you have to kind of
move your head back and forth because there's a phone
somebody filming in front of you, filming the concert. How
do you feel about.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That, HM, As somebody who's been a concert goer for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I feel like I feel like they're.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Missing out on a on a on just sort of
a journey, the visceral experience. Right. I haven't had too
many situations or somewhere where somebody's blocked my view with
the phone, so I really don't have an opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But and then the flip.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Side to that is like, for example, like jay Z
just performed at the Roots Picnic, right, and I was
able to see it because somebody had taped it and
they and they and they.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Put it on YouTube, you know. So that's that's the
that's the rough bro. And yeah, yeah, how do you
how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I'm conflicted because I went to Bruno Mars residency, yeah,
god man, and they made everyone put their phones inside
a little lock box.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah yeah, I've heard about that, and.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
For the very moment everyone listened, sang dance together at
the same time, and I hadn't seen that in a
long time. I understand the value of like taking a
piece of that concert home on your phone. I totally
understand that too, So I'm kind of indifferent about it. Yeah,
(26:34):
But if I was the artist, I guess if I
think about the artists not as the concert going, because
if I got to go and see everybody's only whatever,
at least I can control the fact that I'm going
to take in the concert. I'm going to do it
for myself, so it doesn't bother me to see people
on their phones. But if I was the artist and
I just rehearsed for three months, this is my tenth
performance in a world tour, and I'm there performing the drama,
(27:00):
the lyrics, and the graphics on the put. You know,
we paid all these money for all the graphics on
the LEDs, the smoke machines, whatever, So then the viewing
and listening experience hits all these senses. I would hate
to see people watch it through a phone, because they
end up watching the performance through the phone filming like
(27:20):
this when the show is meant to be received like this,
and and and so. If I was the artist, i'd
be I'd be a little sad about it, because you
work so hard, you invest so much money in that.
You know so, but you know, but I think to
your point, like, I'd love to revisit that, or somebody
(27:41):
posted online they're like, oh my god, yeah, JC just
did a freestyle blah blah, blah blah talks about so
and so, and like you're listening to it because you
weren't there.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And that's how people were able to see it because
the show didn't tape it. It came from people's phones.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I will say though, like however they listen to music
today is obviously changing and evolving. But when I went
to the Bruno Mars concert in Las Vegas, and I
and I and my phone was locked up. Yeah, my god.
I appreciated every step, every color change of the stage,
every instrument, every dance.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Move, every every note. You know, every song was so good.
It's beautiful. It's really really great. What was your favorite
concert you've ever been to?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I gotta say, ever been to Guns n' Roses?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, ill got Roses in Rome? Oh yeah, whole band.
I'm good friends with Duff. My friend Jordan Furramisco is
my trainer. He you know, he also trained Duff, you know,
And so I met all those guys through them and
and shout out to Duff. You know, he's a beautiful,
beautiful man, a wonderful person in an icon and he
(29:02):
he invited all of us, my family. We happened to
be shoot in a movie in Italy. So we went
to Rome and that was Nikano's first concert. Oh man,
that's so oh so so recently, I have a video
well that was More which was three years so a
couple of years ago to yeah. Yeah, but I have
a video of Nakano on stage with gonsn Roses and
Duff coming all the way to her and like playing
(29:23):
electric guitar, riding in front of her, looking at her,
and she's got her little headphones and she's like, yeah,
it's so cool. It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I saw I saw Coldplay in concert, which is one's
gonna be a good one. Amazing, amazing concerts I've ever
been to. Man, I mean, they're their whole production was incredible,
and you know we you know, we don't sit there
the whole time with our phone filming, right, but there
were certain clips that we filmed, you know, and that
was pretty awesome because then we got to bring it
(29:54):
back home and and and revisited. I also saw Prince
in concert before he passed. Oh that's just amazing Staples Center. Yeah,
but back then there were no phones or anything like that,
so I.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Just got to now this, he would have stopped his
concert and got home.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah maybe maybe, but.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It was already with their phones out. He would have
been like, nah, I'm out, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was It was awesome, man, it was such a good
you missed my eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I got what you.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Let's see here, uh, notifications and aren't from a human
The expectation of being reachable reachable twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The expectation of being reachable twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Hmm, what comes from me comes up for me when
you say that, I think, like, what like when people.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Going, man, I touched you earlier today and then you're
just like, hey, I'm sorry, man, I was I'm like,
I was having lunch busy.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's interesting, right, because your phone it's become such a
part of you that if somebody is so good of
replying yeah up, and they're like, how did you not
have time to reply? But look, it's a little tough
because you and I are constantly in the hustle.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Like we're in calls, where.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Meetings, we're in zooms, we're development meetings, were like walking,
we're doing we're working out whatever and like and like,
so there are periods of the day where like we
just can't get on the phone and we can't just
text back. So I understand that from a lot of
my friends. But then there's certain people I know they
can just you know, they live with their phone in
(31:29):
their hand and like if they saw me, you know,
on their phone, like what happened? What's up?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah? Going on, I'm busy. What's your excuse?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There are times where I just leave my phone upstairs,
you know, and I have certain family members call me
that you didn't get my thing.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I was like, no, man, I left my phone upstairs.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Like really, doesn't it doesn't computer as possible.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, No, I just leave it upstairs because otherwise I'll
be on it, I'll get distracted.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, I mean, look, I'm pretty good, but sometimes say
it'll take me a day.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Sometimes it will take me two days, you know, to just.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Go like if I go to first come, first service,
you know, it sometimes takes me a little second, you know.
But anyways, we hope that all you at home, when
you see the notification that a new episode of those
amigos y is available, that you all log in and
say I cannot wait to hear the Shenanigans of those two.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The Shenanigans, the Tomfoolery.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
The tom Foolery, the depend the helluity. Anyways, thank you
guys for listening. I wonder how you guys feel about
this stuff, so you know, hit us up, send us
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you who love this show and who continue to listen,
we love you so much.
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