06 18 2024 Is there a wedding invitation +1 rule called "no ring, no bring"?

Episode Transcript

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Hello, Keilly Nash, Good morning. It is tomorrow show today, hump
Day on the Morning Rush, thenineteenth of June. Going quick this week.
It has been a fast week.Yeah, I like that all right,
So, and I don't know,I know it's gonna be nice and
hot today, maybe hot again tomorrow. Maybe ice cream is what everybody's thinking
about. I bet ice cream isreally a hot cellar right now, no

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pun intended. Yeah, I wouldthink so. And we got a Morning
Russia regular who's got a little battlegoing out at the house after his wife
brought home the Neapolitan ice cream.And I think most people know what that
is. It's the chocolate vanilla andthen usually strawberry or it could be some
other type of pink maybe like acherry flavored or whatever. He just likes
the chocolate. So when he wentto work on it, he went to

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work on just scooping out the chocolate, and then she came in and said,
you're ruining it. It's supposed togo across all three that's the way
the prop. You get all threeflavors. But he doesn't want all three
flavors, just wants the chocolate flavor. I think anybody who' said kids knows
that you get the Neapolitan, theyget usually the ones who always left over

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at my house only had strawberry init. And I'm not opposed to strawberry
ice cream. I'll eat it.I mean, if I want ice cream,
I'll take that. But do theyhave Spamoni down here? No,
I haven't had Spamoni since I wasa kid, and I liked that one
better than the Neapolitan. That's cherryice cream, pistachio ice cream, and

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chocolate ice cream. But it lookslike Neapolitan. I never saw that.
That's a big Italian thing, butso is Neapolitans. I guess maybe Neapolitan
somehow got the national bump and Spamonijust stayed where the Italians lived, which
was the Northeast. But I dolike the I'll say it's weird. On

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the Spamoni, I like the cross, I like all three at the same
time. On the Neapolitan, Iam probably going to go chocolate and I
might it in some strawberry. Nota fan of vanilla. I remember asking
my mom, I think, whydon't they make this in different combinations?
Because ooh yeah, I mean JonathanRush could be onto something because our family

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like vanilla, and then my momalways liked butter pecan, and then I
guess chocolate was you know, vanillachocolate would be like the two odds own
favorite. So they probably have thatalready, right, just vanilla chocolate half
and half. I've never seen itthough, I haven't looked. I bet
that's out there somewhere. But whatso you would say butter pecan for the

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third flavor? Uh no, shelike butter pecan, but yeah, yeah,
butter pecan. What about you ifI chose okay, is there a
watermelon flavored ice cream that you wouldlike? You know? I bet there
is? What was the thing tumbleweedwas into a couple of years ago.
I was like, peach something.He was going nuts for it. Yeah,
and it was I've forgotten the nameof the company. I think it

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was Bluebail. But he had hehad me go to the store and buy
it, and he's he was right. It was really good. And then
I couldn't find it. Oh,so then you went crazy for it.
The only people buying it. Nobodyelse was buying it. They took it
off the shelf. They didn't marketit right. But so when you have
the multi flavored ice creams. Yeah, like the Neapolitan? Is that a

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cross? You're supposed to scoop allthree? Are you allowed to just go
with your favorite flavor? What's theroue? What's the policy for the house?
You have to get all three ifyou got and that's the only container
of ice cream in there, soyou got to even if you don't like
the strawberry, you gotta get thestrawberry. That's what I'm you know what,
I'm gonna go with what you justsaid. I've never had it in

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a house where I've had multiple people, meaning I think I've had it as
a bachelor. Yeah, but Idon't even know why I would have had
it as a bachelor. But ifI did, I would on my own,
I would just go with the chocolate, possibly the strawberry, but as
a household member, I will goall three if we ever get it.
I remember going into the the othertypically the drink refrigerator, because you've gotta

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have a refrigerator for all the drinks, and in my case, you gotta
have one just for the condiments.So you get to the drinks and condimate
refrigerator, and in that freezer compartment, I do know, I've thrown out
neapolitan ice cream where the only thingleft in there was the strawberry, and
it was like frostpitting all across thetop. Nobody's gonna eat it. Nobody's

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gonna eat it. You got throwit out now because it's already a root.
I mean, that's bizarre that there'ssomething else like I mean, even
the worst flavored ice creams I thinkI'd prefer to eat as a snack over
I don't know, a fruit orsomething that's healthy or whatever. If there
was like strawberry ice cream, I'mtrying to think of like an ice cream

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that I would like even less thanstrawberry or vanilla. If there's vanilla ice
cream sitting there in the fridge andthere's that's the only sweet thing I got,
or I could have an orange.I wonder what peppermint and chocolate would
taste like. You ever had peppermintice cream? My mom used to make
it, love it my hand.It was I think she just put like

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peppermint candy in there and kind ofground it up or something. But she
used to make homemade ice cream,which was awesome. Yeah, I don't
think I've ever had peppermint ice creamunless it was homemade. Good point,
do they I don't think they do. They haven't figured out a way how
to get that just right. Ithink I got all kinds of crazy combinations.
If you go to the store andyou're like, just like my wife
will say, just get the chocolate, and I'm like, well, what

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about the double fudge chocolate. Idon't want double fudge chok do you want
chocolate? But what about the chocolateChristmas and cream or whatever? Yeah,
I got to get Briar for Sally's. You got to get Briars all natural,
not the vanilla, I mean,not the French vanilla. You got
to get the all natural vanilla.It's got little chunks of vanilla beans in
it, which you can see youon the container, but you never see

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it in the ice cream. Isthat part of shrink flation? I don't
know. Maybe that'll be at thenext State of the Union address. This
is an ice cream kind of month. I got it. I want to
go back to this. Handle's iceCream is new in Forest Acres, Okay,
And first and foremost, you can'tfind a parking space. Everybody's going
to Handles, but only at theplace it says made fresh daily. I

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want to see that process. Howdo you make all of those flavors fresh
daily? Well, I will tellyou that I was fortunate enough to go
to a taste test of a newice cream place which is owned by i'll
say their names, Bill McDaniels andSuzanne Pucci. Oh cool, and it's

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going to be called Scoop of Heavenamazingly, going to be out in the
northeast near me, which is perfect, even better, so we don't have
to come downtown. Yeah, Butthe the machine that they got is some
It was I can't even It waslike a ferrari cost for this machine to
make the ice cream. And Billwas explaining to me how the more air

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and the ice cream the duller ittastes. Is basically the way I took
that away. So and I look, if you're an ice cream expert,
these figures are not. These arejust my remembrances of the figures. But
it was something like, if youbuy a cheap ice cream at the grocery
store, it's gonna be thirty eightpercent air and when you open it up,

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if you let it melt and youput it back in the freezer,
you can it's you can see thedifference a more importantly, when you put
it in your mouth, you willnot get a pungent taste of chocolate,
vanilla, whatever it is that youlike. If you go to a better
one, like a Hagendas or somethinglike that, it would be like in
the mid twenties with the air.His is the lowest in the world,

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and it's like seven percent air.Wow. So when you take a eight
of that thing, when you takethat bite, it's like, oh my
gosh, like I've I've imagined thatit would. It's probably the way a
kid, like a baby, feelswhen they first taste ice cream. You
see that look on their face wherethey like they lick their first cone and

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then they grab it and like you'renot getting this back. That's the way
I felt about that cup of icecream. So I can't wait for them
to open. Oh I want togo there. Yeah, it's it's going
to be out on what's the roadnorth of Clemson Road. I'm trying to
remember that it's north of it's SpearsCreek, Spears Creek. They'll be opening

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that up soon, I guess becausethey say that they're hiring. That's worth
the trip. But I love icecream. Gosh, I could. I
could eat ice cream literally every meal, not even just in the summer.
I'll eat ice cream when I'm freezing. If I was out ice fishing and
somebody offered me ice cream, I'dtake it. Well, I often wonder
why, like we used to havea Basket Robin as it closed because the

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owner's retired. Oh okay, ButI've often wondered why Baskin Robbins didn't have
Like why wasn't it like an icecream and coffee shop? Oh well,
Duncan don't. Well, I don'tknow. Dunkin Donuts was doing something with
Baskt Robbins for a while. Idon't know if they still are, Yeah,
I don't. I don't know.But that would have been perfect because

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Sally likes to drink coffee later inthe day. I'd rather just have an
ice cream. Okay, So wego to one shop, we get ice
cream and coffee. Oh so doyou currently go to two different shops?
Oh yeah, so oh really sheallows you to go get ice cream if
she's going to get a coffee,I'm like, I'm not. I don't
want the calories in the coffee.I'd rather have an ice cream, but

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it's so much healthier. Coffee isa healthy And why does an ice cream
have caffeine in it? Is therea caffeinated ice cream? Does mocha flavored
coffee or a mocha flavored ice creamhave That's a great question. Is that
decaf made with coffee? It's justa flavor that's good. Interesting note here,
I didn't know this until this weekend. I don't know. Maybe other

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people knew because they might have watchedthe bill excuse me, the Tom Brady
roast. I didn't watch it becausethe clips I saw were so graphic that
I was I just saw the Newsworthyclips, not the graphic clips Comedy Central.
It was apparently very crazy, brutal, and apparently one of the jokes
that was made because you know,when you're at a roast, they're not

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just roasting that dude, they're roastingeverybody up there. And one of the
people that got roasted was Bill Belichick, and Bill Belichick the guy I saw
one of the jokes that I thinkJulian Edelman said with something along the lines
of, you know, Coach wasalways yelling at us, do your fin
job, do your fin job.The kids at Foxborough High School are better

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at doing their jobs than you are. And his joke was, well,
and now who knew that that's theonly the only team that wants to hire
you as their head coach these days. Woo. So that was a good
little burn, sure, But apparentlyone that I hadn't seen was from what's
the tight end's name? You know, A gronk. Gronk used a very
similar joke, apparently talking about hewas always talking about Foxborough High School blah

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blah blah. Who knew that's wherehe was recruiting his next girlfriend from?
Ooh? Well, apparently it's beenrevealed that Bill Belichick, seventy two years
old, has been dating a twentyfour year old former cheerleader for the last
six months. Did she go toFoxboro? I don't know, but it
says that they first met on aflight from Boston to Florida in twenty twenty

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one. So in twenty twenty one, that's three years ago, she would
have been twenty one years old.Bill Belichick would have been sixty nine,
and he was in a relationship atthe time. He was taking his girlfriend
to Florida. His girlfriend at thetime was about sixty. I think they
say that the two bonded over aphilosophy prize she was working on, and

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they remained friendly and then discussed hercheerleading routines. You know, I ain't
been a cheerleaders in philosophy conversations.She was a cheerleader for Bridgewater State,
which I've never heard of. Andin twenty twenty one she went on and
competed and I believe one the NationalCheerleaders Association Championship in Daytona. Now they

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say that Bill Belichick has been attendingcheerleading competitions since February March this year and
just cheering her on. He's cheeringon the cheerleader. Yes, And I
remember at one point he did takea Some people took a shot at him
because they thought he should be attendingsomething else, but he was attending a

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cheerleading competition, like they thought hewas supposed to be at like the combines
or something, and instead he waslike, no, I'm going to the
cheerleading competition to watch the Are theypro cheerleaders? I guess she doesn't.
She's not on a like she doesn'tcheer for a football team. She's a
cheerleader that they cheer, that's whatthey do. That's the now competitions.

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Yeah, so, boy, whatdo you think about that age difference?
Seventy two year old football coach witha twenty four year old cheerleader. Wow,
I'm just going to leave that there, so pondering. Do you think
that he was that he was hestimulated by the philosophy discussion? Is he

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the only one not in on themotivation here? Does he not get it?
Does he really think that he hasthat much charisma? Is it?
Is it that he's such an Doyou think that if he was making eighty
five well, let's give him fourhundred thousand dollars a year job, he
was making four hundred thousand dollars ayear? Is this cheerleader talking to him?

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No? If you don't know,she might be, she might be,
really, she might be. She'son a flight. I don't even
know how he ends up on acommercial air flight. I'm surprised he didn't
take Robert Kraft's private jet down thereto Florida. But he's obviously in first
class. I would think, Idon't know how she gets bumped up to
first class, but she's in firstclass going to Daytona for the Cheerleading Championships,

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and she's seated in a position whereshe's next to a guy who has
six Super Bowl rings, and hesomehow he takes an interest in her,
surprise, surprise, and then shereturns the favor. And it's how weird
is it when the guy asks foryour phone number and his girlfriend's on the

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plane, or does he ask foran email address? Or how does that
play out? And what does thesixty year old girlfriend think of her sixty
eight sixty nine year old boyfriend talkingto a twenty one year old How does
she not put the cabats on this. Well, I'm sure that they has
changed email addresses only so they couldcontinue to share deep philosophical questions and ponder

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the meaning of life. Apparently themeaning of life did not include his longtime
girlfriend. That wy to me,that's one of the craziest And like you
said, he has no charisma,none, he is none, He's just

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he's robotic. Just go ahead ifyou're going to do that, that's cool,
But let's not act like this islove. Let's just know, you
know, yeah, I get abig fat chat book and with that,
you get a trophy. You geta trophy cheerleader. She would jump up
on the little shelf there and doher a little thing on a trophy pedestal.
Apparently she had. Linda Holliday washis girlfriend of sixteen years and they

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called it quits right around the beginningof this year. But she had been
a television They call her a presenter. I don't know why they're calling her
presenter. We're not in England.She was a television presenter. Maybe she
was European. Maybe she was aEuropean person who just happened show up in
Boston. Yes, all right,yeah, we all see this happen,

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and we know why one of theguys they're in that position, just go
ahead and take credit for it.I mean, yeah, all right,
And maybe Bill will end up marryingthe young lady, and when he does,
if he does, there's a discussionbeing played out now across America about
the plus one for the wedding inviteis getting too expensive. I know I've

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gotten this conversation recently, have you. Yes, the plus one was a
big issue. So like, ifyou're not in a committed relationship, and
I don't even know what that meansanymore. Does a committed. When you
read the old Emily postbooks, whichwe love to refer back to, the
rule was no ring, no bring. You're not allowed to bring a guest

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that you're dating. Was that theold rule? That was the old rule,
no ring, no bring. Thensometime in the seventies, when things
started opening up and people were livingtogether, then it became a well,
if they're living together, how you'renot going to invite her or him?
Yeah, you guy, they're livingtogether. It's almost like they're married.

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And then it became it's just beenwatered down and watered down, and yeah,
the most recent one I heard aboutwas if you've been dating for six
months, then you're in. Butthen it became even, well, you
know, Michelle is flying in forthis wedding. Sure, she don't even
know anybody here. Why can't shebring a guest? She could even just

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bring a friend just so she hassomebody to pal around with when the bride,
who is one of her best friends, is too busy to entertain Michelle.
So should Michelle not be afforded aguest because you not bring another girlfriend
with her to the wedding? Andthen then like what about, like,
you know, if it's the guys, and the guy's like, my best

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man is coming, but you knowmy best man. He broke up with
his wife two years ago, andabout four months ago he got seriously involved
with short. Yeah he's two monthsshort, but he's four months into it.
I mean, here we are.We're getting married in July. He's
been dating her since, you know. Because the problem is, once you

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get the rule, you can't breakthe rule because for you because exactly,
and it gets very expensive. It'svery sticky, very quick. Inflation.
Inflation is killing this plus one idea, Yes, a plus one. That's
another one hundred bucks. By theway, I was at a board meeting

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last night. I hadn't even heardthis. I need to go back and
look at my notes again. Butit said something about if you have a
full time job, that's the rightone. So it can't be just your
working forty hours a week. Itmust mean you have a contract type of
ocasion. Okay, the federal governmentpassed some new laws. So it's currently

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the minimum you can pay somebody isthirty eight thousand dollars to have them in
a full time position. Okay,we're raising it in the next couple of
months. To like forty six,and then it's going to go to fifty
eight thousand January first, So it'sa twenty thousand dollars legal pay raise,

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and like, these people are allscrambling, like, we've got a bunch
of people making forty sure, howare we going to go from fire?
We're going to get fifty eight.You know, there's a lot of jobs
here on full time status. AndI'm like, that's probably not going to
affect inflation in the least. No, no, not at all. It's
going to affect the employment numbers.Oh my gosh, how did that happen?

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Oh, please stay out of it, Please God, government find something.
You can stay out of anything.Why don't we just make it a
million dollars for everybody? Wouldn't lifebe great? You know, that's a
great eye if we all just hada million dollars. I heard that floated
again on a three day weekend.We haven't had a minimum wage increase,

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I was lectured to over the weekendsince nine Now we know that's not true.
Maybe it wasn't a federal minimum wageincrease, but you've had states that
have increased jobs have increased on theirown. The private sector was taken care

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of that, but the government's gotto get back in. When they get
got to get back in, theygot to make a statement like that.
I didn't realize that was the statement. Well, and you know, when
you're talking about minimum wage, ofcourse it should be maybe even a county
thing, because if you're looking atlike states, there's a big difference between
living in Long Island and living inupstate New York, especially if you're living

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in New York City, if you'reliving in Manhattan County. Talking to a
friend about who's living in Los Angeles, yeah, he said to have the
lifestyle that he was comparing it tohis cousin here. To have his lifestyle
in Los Angeles, you have tomake four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
year. Well, I mean,there was an interview in the Wall Street

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Journal, or I shouldn't say aninterview, was a profile piece showing how
people who make one hundred thousand dollarsa year are. This is amazing to
me. Homeless in Los Angeles County. Now that's homeless. They can't afford
the rent. The rents are nowsomething like nine thousand a month forge bedroom
or something. I just read aboutthis last week too. I'm fascinated by
this concept. There are now thisis a title. This is a government

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recognized title. There are now vanlords, not landlords, van lords in
Los Angeles County. So if youhave like a broken down van or an
RV or RV would be like apalace, you park it on the side
of the street, nobody's going totow it, and you rent it.
You rent like a nineteen seventy threeforty Conleline van for like one thousand dollars

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a month. Av It can't evencrank and move. It's just a structure,
a mobile home kind of, butit's kind of mobile. It's not
mobile because it doesn't move. Avan lord. Just in case anybody wants
to read more about what I wasjust talking about, the DOI dot gov

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is where you'd find it, andit says the Biden Harris Administration today announced
the final rule that expands overtime protectionsfor millions of the nation's lowest paid salaried
workers by increasing the salary thresholds requiredto exempt a salaried bonafide executive, administrative,
or professional employee. Effective January orJuly first, twenty twenty four,
the salary threshold increases from forty threethousand, eight hundred and eighty eight dollars

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to fifty eight thousand, six hundredand fifty six dollars on January first,
twenty twenty five, so it's currentlyat thirty five thousand, five hundred and
sixty eight dollars. And they're identifyingthis as typically. What they're saying that
this is a way that companies havetried to get out of paying people over
time. Yes, so like youand I, we don't get paid overtime.

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We get a salary. That iswhat it is. When the boss
says, hey, I need youguys to do something this weekend, we
have to show up because we're schmuckswith a contract. That's right, So
we go. So we could endup working sixty hours a week, eighty
hours a week. We don't getany extra money. And apparently what they're
claiming is that some companies have usedthat thirty five thousand, five hundred sixty

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eight dollars was the minimum you couldhave to get a contracted employee. So
now it's starting to come crystal clear. Yeah, you've got to administrative assistant
who's not working fifty sixty hours aweek. Remember about a month ago when
the federal government outlawed non compete clauses. This is why they did it,

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because you would create it's going tocreate a nightmare in the workforce. It'd
be even more of a nightmare ifyou had a non compete clause. So
they're going to cut you loose.You go to work for the competition right
across the street if you want to. But if you want to pay them
as a salaried employee, then theyhave to make beginning January first of this

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coming year, was that six monthsfrom now, you have to up that
from thirty eight or excuse me,from thirty five thousand, five hundred and
sixty eight dollars. It has togo all the way up to fifty eight
thousand. So it's said, wow, thirteen thousand, one hundred dollars pay
increase, wow, for every employeeyou have. And then it says beginning
July first, twenty twenty seven.The government will then update these thresholds every

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three years. So we're gon we'regoing to keep up with the cost of
living for salaried employees by jacking theprices by whatever inflation is. So there's
the government looking out for you.Yet again we're from the government and we're
here to help. Wow. Soin six months, what do you think
a carton of Neapolitan ice cream isgoing to cost? I don't know,

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but like I said, you know, the FCA board was trying to figure
that out last night because we've gotdozens, I would guess, of assistants
and people that are making forty toforty five thousand dollars a year that are
going to need to go up tofifty eight thousand by federal law, or
or you can move them to anhourly employee. You can in that.

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That's when you reshuffle the deck.Yeah, and then then you lose benefits
your your healthcare right and they wantto get you off the benefits anyway,
so you can sign up for thegovernment of healthcare. Okay, Yeah,
we're not going to get into anyof that tomorrow on this program. I
don't even know how we got intoit in a podcast. I'm sure I
did it, and I apologize.That's okay. Let's talk about ice cream,

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bringing ice cream tomorrow and all that'sforgiven. Hey, what's going on
in your neighborhood. We should betalking about what's happening in your freezer?
Is there a flavor of the Neapolitanthat just sits there and sits there,
and sits there until it's frosted over? You know how to reach out to
us on social media? You canalso email us. I'm Rush at ninety
seven five WCS dot com and Nashat ninety seven to five WUS dot com.

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We start talking tomorrow. You starttalking to ninety seven eight nine two
sixty seven. You got a breakfastice cream? Brag about that. I
don't want to know. Yeah,nine seven eight w COS