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Episode #3952 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive October 200 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 2: It's Phil Hendry, and welcome to the Phil Hendry Radio
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame show and our Radio Archive featured hour
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Speaker 2: for the day. And this is from, of course, our
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Speaker 2: wonderful website there, philhendryshow.com. Get a backstage pass, as we
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Speaker 2: have mentioned so often on the program. Today we go
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Speaker 2: to the month of October in 2004, and our good
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Speaker 2: friend Dave Oliva, a young man from Montebello, California, whose
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Speaker 2: aspiration is to become a member of the greatest police
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Speaker 2: department in the world, as he puts it, LAPD. And
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Speaker 2: here's Dave working as a food server.
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Speaker 1: you know, as.
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Speaker 2: He's climbing his way up the ladder of life, and
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Speaker 2: he decides to get an extra tip, which he thinks
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Speaker 2: should be 25%, he loads up the drinks of the
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Speaker 2: senior citizens that come in to see him, that come
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Speaker 2: into the restaurant. So if they ask for a single shot,
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Speaker 2: he gives them a double, doesn't tell them. Next thing
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Speaker 2: you know, they're staggering out to the car. They've laid 25%
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Speaker 2: on him, and what does he care?
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Speaker 1: Here's Dave. Dave, how you doing?
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Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 1: Dave, how you doing?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm doing good, Phil. How are you?
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 3: Should I... Yeah, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: What did you call in for, sir?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: I'm currently attending L.A. Canyon College, working toward a degree
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Speaker 3: in criminal justice. And I also work at a Pasadena
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Speaker 3: area restaurant as a waiter. And I wanted to... I'm
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Speaker 3: kind of nervous, so... No, you're doing fine. Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to basically just say that waiters, your food
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Speaker 3: servers do depend on tips. our R is minimum, and
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Speaker 3: the tip is what provides the majority of our income. And,
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Speaker 3: of course, if you're attending school, it's all the more important.
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Speaker 3: And specifically, I wanted to say to our senior citizens,
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Speaker 3: I know that many of you are on fixed incomes,
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Speaker 3: and it's difficult to live on those fixed incomes, but
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Speaker 3: if you would please remember you're a food server when
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Speaker 3: you eat out.
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Speaker 1: Now, why do you say specifically senior citizens?
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Speaker 3: Well, because traditionally senior citizens are not the most apt to...
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Speaker 3: What is recommended is 20%, which is the bottom line.
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Speaker 3: I personally do recommend 25%, but our seniors do, unfortunately.
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Speaker 3: It is the senior citizen who is technically in violation
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Speaker 3: of that, and that's why.
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Speaker 1: When you say in violation, they don't leave?
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Speaker 3: Senior citizens hardly ever tip good, you know. It's the
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Speaker 3: seniors who is in violation, like I said, and that's
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Speaker 3: why if they... If they're having a cocktail, if they're
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Speaker 3: having a martini or a scotch or whatever, it is
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Speaker 3: a lot of times we are forced to pour more
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Speaker 3: than a legal pour.
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Speaker 1: When you say, you mean like add more alcohol to
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Speaker 1: the drink?
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, sir, that's correct.
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 3: First of all, in the state of California, and also
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Speaker 3: like in Utah and other places, a legal pour is
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Speaker 3: one fluid ounce of any spirit, and that's the law.
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Speaker 3: But in order to facilitate an acceptable tip, you do
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Speaker 3: have to push beyond the legal pour limit. with a
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Speaker 3: lot of these people.
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Speaker 2: What are we talking about here? When you say you
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Speaker 2: have to give them more than a legal pour, are
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Speaker 2: you trying to get them inebriated?
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Speaker 3: No, no, sir. I'm not going to do that.
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Speaker 1: You said that the senior citizens and others don't tip enough.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 1: So you give them more alcohol.
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Speaker 3: Why? Well, look, first of all, I want to be
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Speaker 3: very clear. I would never try to get them inebriated
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Speaker 3: because many of these people who are driving on our
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Speaker 3: clientele is probably on weeknights. Like on weeknights, probably 70%
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Speaker 3: of our clientele is senior citizens on account of where
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Speaker 3: we're located.
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Speaker 1: What's the name of your restaurant, by the way?
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Speaker 3: I'd rather not say, you know, only because I know
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Speaker 3: my words are going to be taken out of the context.
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Speaker 3: But many of these seniors need to be urged to
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Speaker 3: leave an acceptable tip. Otherwise, we don't have any choice
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Speaker 3: than to pour more than a legal pour to facilitate that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's by getting them drunk.
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Speaker 3: No, sir, not by getting them drunk.
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Speaker 1: Well, you want to add more alcohol. If a senior
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Speaker 1: citizen comes and says, I'll take a martini, and a
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Speaker 1: legal pour is a fluid ounce of spirit or whatever
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Speaker 1: it is, and you're adding more.
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Speaker 3: No, but it's not by getting them drunk.
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Speaker 1: Then what is it?
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Speaker 3: It's just simply giving them enough extra in their drink
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Speaker 3: to help them not to feel so cheap, I guess,
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Speaker 3: because you've got to understand, 90% of all food servers
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Speaker 3: in America, whether they're male or female, have no college education.
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Speaker 3: I'm working my way toward it. a degree in criminal justice,
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Speaker 3: which I'm hoping will help me in a career with
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Speaker 3: LAPD as a police officer.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's admirable, but as a man who wants to
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Speaker 2: become a police officer, you've got to realize that by
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Speaker 2: mixing a drink that's above a legal pour limit, the
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Speaker 2: state's going to see that as a violation that's going
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Speaker 2: to affect your employer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, but you've got to understand, to be a
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Speaker 3: police officer, I've learned one thing. You have to temper
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Speaker 3: justice with mercy. Being a police officer is not all
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Speaker 3: about the law. It's about people and how you treat
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Speaker 3: them individually, and that's what I'm trying to get across
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Speaker 3: to these old folks because... they have to have some
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Speaker 3: mercy on me and other food servers and not be
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Speaker 3: so cheap. And if influencing them in that direction by,
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Speaker 3: you know, dosing up their drink, then that's where the
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Speaker 3: mercy part comes in.
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 3: Because it's getting bad. You know, I didn't want to
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Speaker 3: call up, you know, I've got some friends of mine,
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Speaker 3: said you should call that show. It's getting really bad.
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Speaker 3: We get a lot of seniors in here. We also
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Speaker 3: get a lot of, like, just regular people from the neighborhood.
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Speaker 3: And the cheapness... It's bad.
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Speaker 2: So you feel that you have no choice but to
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Speaker 2: pour more alcohol into their drink to get them a
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Speaker 2: little loose?
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say to get them loose.
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Speaker 1: Well, you say to facilitate the tip.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: That's to facilitate a tip, yeah. Because it's bad. You
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Speaker 3: ask any food server, and everybody's getting cheaper and cheaper
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Speaker 3: as the days go by. Pretty soon, it will be
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Speaker 3: down to no tip at all. I recommend 25%. And
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Speaker 3: a lot of these seniors, if they do tip, they
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Speaker 3: tip you 15%, 20%. And you want to say to them, oh,
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Speaker 3: my God, you know, are you some old bitch? I mean,
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Speaker 3: excuse my language. All right, hold on.
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Speaker 2: I've got to get my phone number out here, David, okay,
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Speaker 2: because what you're telling me is kind of interesting, and
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Speaker 2: I certainly wouldn't want to say the B word to
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Speaker 2: a senior.
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Speaker 3: No, I know, but it's just like you just want
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Speaker 3: to go, God, you know.
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Speaker 1: All right, hold on. 1-800-449-8686. Am I here? Are you
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Speaker 1: in Los Alamitos, Chris was telling me?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is that the quarter horses?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. I just have a relax, you know, coming
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Speaker 3: down to the horse races.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686 is the number here on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 2: You know, tipping is one of those things, Dave. Everybody
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Speaker 2: has a philosophy about it.
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Speaker 1: Everybody has.
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Speaker 2: And if I talk to one person, I talk to
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Speaker 2: a million who say the same thing. I only tip
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Speaker 2: on service.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes, sir. And people should only tip on service.
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Speaker 3: But if I could just say, when you get me
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Speaker 3: as your food, sir, it's your lucky day. You know, Dave,
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Speaker 3: all of our which is my name, I go out
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Speaker 3: of the way, man, to make everybody feel good, okay?
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Speaker 3: But there's a flip side to that. If after I
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Speaker 3: go out of my way and I try to do
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Speaker 3: everything that I can to make your experience a most
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Speaker 3: memorable one at our restaurant, and then you cheap out
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Speaker 3: on me, then I have to go, okay, you know,
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Speaker 3: I got to go, I got to take it into
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Speaker 3: another arena.
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Speaker 1: And Are the seniors the only ones that are likely tipping?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the seniors and the family.
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Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's a lot of people. The worst
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Speaker 3: tippers are women. Like, if women come in or just
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Speaker 3: have a glass of wine or a Caesar salad or
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Speaker 3: something like that, when they're together with each other, women
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Speaker 3: are very not good about tipping. Senior citizens are also
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Speaker 3: pretty cheap. And if you get kids in there, like,
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Speaker 3: you know, some teenagers, they're coming to have coffee. They're
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Speaker 3: the cheapest. But those people are easier to deal with,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 1: What do you say to them?
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Speaker 3: Well, you just tell them. You go, hey, you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm not here for my good looks. You know, I'm
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Speaker 3: expecting 25% on a tip. Otherwise, you can go down
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Speaker 3: to Denny's. Go stiff somebody down at Bennigan's, you know.
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Speaker 3: Don't stiff me. You stiff Dave Oliva. Okay, now we've
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Speaker 3: got a situation that's developed, you know. That's where the
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Speaker 3: problem comes into play, you know.
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Speaker 1: Where the problem comes into play, huh?
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Speaker 2: You see, David, what I'm trying to say to you is, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: tipping is voluntary, and there is no way to enforce
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Speaker 2: that you're going to get a good tip. I know
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Speaker 2: many food servers feel unjustly treated when they give their
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Speaker 2: very best. I tip well, but I talk to my
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Speaker 2: friends about it, and most people are in agreement with me.
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Speaker 2: A good service is worth a good tip.
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Speaker 3: Could I ask you a question, Mr. Henry? Yeah. How
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Speaker 3: much do you tip?
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Speaker 1: I tip 20%.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's not what I recommend.
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Speaker 1: I know, you recommend 25%. And if you get.
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Speaker 3: A restaurant full of people who have just come back
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Speaker 3: from a TV taping, like, probably the worst time, and
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Speaker 3: I can feel my heart go into, just, my heart sinks,
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Speaker 3: and it feels like it's breaking. When I see a
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Speaker 3: busload come in, and they've just been down for a
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Speaker 3: taping with, like, Grounded for Life, or they went down,
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Speaker 3: and they saw a taping for, like, The Daily Show,
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Speaker 3: because they get all these old people to go to
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Speaker 3: those shows, you know? Yeah. And then they come in
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Speaker 3: and go, oh, you know, we went to cigarette it
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Speaker 3: for life. And I go, that's really cool, you know.
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Speaker 3: And then I do everything I can. And then they
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Speaker 3: stick me with their cheapness. And I go, what's up
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Speaker 3: with that? So that's when you have to facilitate, you know,
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Speaker 3: you've got to take matters into your own hands.
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, if you're dosing up the alcoholic
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Speaker 2: drinks of people to get them a little tipsy so
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Speaker 2: they'll tip you more, if... the alcohol and beverage commission
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Speaker 2: finds out about that they could find your employer well
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Speaker 2: that i'm.
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Speaker 3: Not you know that's not me what do you mean.
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Speaker 2: I'm not the employer okay but you see what i'm
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Speaker 2: saying man your employer gets in trouble you just screwed
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Speaker 2: him i gotta look out for number one.
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Speaker 3: And that's the one one rule of every food server
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Speaker 3: you may work for Bennigan's, even if you think you're
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Speaker 3: the best. Let's say you work for some place that's
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Speaker 3: really good, like Sizzler, because they get good tips. Or
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Speaker 3: if you're really lucky, like you're working at Chili's or
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Speaker 3: a place like that. Still and all, you're not going
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Speaker 3: to go, oh, well, Chili's, I'm so loyal to them. No, man,
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Speaker 3: I'm there for me and for me alone.
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Speaker 2: All right, I'll tell you what, hang on, we'll get
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Speaker 2: some phone calls to talk about this idea of tipping,
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Speaker 2: but I am troubled by any food server that would
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Speaker 2: purposefully increase the alcoholic content of a drink, especially when
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Speaker 2: it's going to a senior citizen, just so you can
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Speaker 2: get a better tip, because that may facilitate them getting
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Speaker 2: drunk and loosening up the old purse string, so to speak.
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Speaker 2: David is a young waiter, he's working his way through L.A.
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Speaker 2: Canyon College. He's on our program saying that they get
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Speaker 2: stiffed a lot on tips. What he calls getting stiffed, though,
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Speaker 2: if I'm not correct, if I'm wrong, Please correct me.
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Speaker 2: If he gets 20%, he figures he's getting stiff. He
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Speaker 2: recommends 25%.
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Speaker 1: Phil Hendry Show. The Phil Hendry Show. The Phil Hendry
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Speaker 1: Show is back. Now, David Oliva is with me. He's
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Speaker 1: a waiter at a restaurant in Pasadena. He is also
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Speaker 1: attending college. He has told us that– is this something that–
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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you, Dave, but don't answer yet–
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Speaker 1: He has told us that he sometimes will dose up
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Speaker 1: the drink, the alcoholic drink of a patron, especially a
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Speaker 1: senior citizen, so that they'll feel a little more, shall
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Speaker 1: we say, ebullient and want to tip more. Is this
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Speaker 1: something other food servers do?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, they probably wouldn't admit it on account
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Speaker 3: of I'm very an honest person. But, yeah, I know
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Speaker 3: food servers, especially around senior citizens, the senior citizen will
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Speaker 3: come in and they will say, Yes, I'd like a martini,
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Speaker 3: you know. And we'll go, okay. And, like, in the
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Speaker 3: state of California, a legal pour is one fluid ounce,
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Speaker 3: and you can give them two ounces of alcohol, like vodka,
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Speaker 3: in their, like, martini, or in a vodka martini. And then,
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Speaker 3: you know, and they don't even notice it because they're
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Speaker 3: so old or whatever. And the next thing you know, they're,
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Speaker 3: you know, pretty happy, and they're leaving you more money. Now,
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Speaker 3: what about when these old people get into the car
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Speaker 3: to drive home? Well, I mean.
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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying? They figure, I know how
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Speaker 1: much I can drink.
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Speaker 2: You give these old folks, who their body chemistry and
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Speaker 2: metabolism may be different, what if.
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Speaker 1: They get in the car?
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Speaker 3: Look, you know, see, here's the thing. They made the
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Speaker 3: choice to come into this restaurant. I didn't say to
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Speaker 3: them to come in. It's their responsibility to not drink
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Speaker 3: and drive.
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Speaker 2: Well, they're drinking and driving, but they're drinking more than
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Speaker 2: they thought they were drinking.
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Speaker 3: That's not the point. The point is.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it is, sir. I think it is
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Speaker 2: the point. I order a drink, and I'm getting two drinks?
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Speaker 3: Well, you can't tell if there's extra alcohol in your drink?
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Speaker 3: Come on, man.
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Speaker 1: Well, so what if they say, hey, man, you put
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Speaker 1: too much booze in my drink?
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Speaker 3: Then I just go, oh, wow, you know, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'll pour it out, and I'll bring back
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Speaker 3: exactly the same drink, and then the old The fool
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Speaker 3: looks at you and goes, oh, yeah, that's much better.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, you've got to be kidding me. I'm
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Speaker 3: going to pee myself half the time. All right, 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: Here is Jim. Jim, go ahead. You're on the Phil
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Speaker 1: Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: What makes you think that you're entitled to anything?
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Speaker 3: Who's this guy talking to? You.
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Speaker 4: I'm talking to you.
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Speaker 3: You're talking to me?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm talking to you.
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Speaker 3: I'm entitled to a tip because when Dave Oliver... You're
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Speaker 3: entitled to nothing.
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Speaker 4: You're entitled to nothing. And you tell me you want
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Speaker 4: to be a police officer?
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Speaker 3: I can be the best waiter you ever had.
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Speaker 4: You're a bum. That's what you are. You want to
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Speaker 4: be a police officer? If you come into the restaurant
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Speaker 4: that I happen to.
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Speaker 3: Be working at, you better leave me 25%. Or you're
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Speaker 3: going to get a special surprise in your food. That's
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Speaker 3: all I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what I'm saying is you want to be a
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Speaker 4: police officer? What kind of gratuity do you think you're
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Speaker 4: going to get on that job?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. How much do you use to pay?
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Speaker 4: You're going to get nothing because I'm a police officer.
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Speaker 3: Well, what do you get?
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Speaker 4: I get the satisfaction of helping people.
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Speaker 3: So in other words, you don't have your handout.
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Speaker 4: I'm not looking for an extra buck.
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Speaker 3: You don't have your handout.
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Speaker 4: You're a clown.
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Speaker 3: Come on, you have your handout.
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Speaker 4: You are a clown.
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Speaker 3: Hey, look, just because you're some kind of cop, let
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Speaker 3: me tell you something, Paul. If I found out that
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Speaker 3: you were giving people liquor like that, I'd lock you up.
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Speaker 3: You know it's against the law what you're doing? You know,
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Speaker 3: you're about as much a cop as I am, man.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Do you know it's against the law what
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Speaker 4: you're doing, you jerk?
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Speaker 3: Go talk to your neighbors.
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Speaker 4: About your fantasies, man, you know? You ought to get
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Speaker 4: a life, you clown.
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Speaker 3: This guy's got a fantasy.
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Speaker 4: You ought to get a life.
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Speaker 3: Hey, dude, I saw you in training day, man.
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Speaker 4: It's illegal what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I've seen training day, man.
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Speaker 4: I don't care what you do in training day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you've seen that? You guys take drugs and stuff.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, look, hold on.
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Speaker 4: You're right.
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Speaker 3: Did you ever pull over a hottie and get a
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Speaker 3: boob shot?
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you one thing. If I ever caught you,
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Speaker 4: you'd be in jail.
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Speaker 3: Really?
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Speaker 4: You're damn right you would.
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Speaker 3: I bet you'd use your handcuffs and everything.
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Speaker 1: Hey, look, Dave, you came on this program very conciliatory,
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Speaker 1: and now you're being a little provocative.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. This guy's coming on trying to choose me off.
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Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 4: You're a clown.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that's great, man. I heard that one already.
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Speaker 3: You got anything else, man?
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Speaker 4: Especially doing it to old people. I wouldn't have you
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Speaker 4: as a police officer.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask him. If I showed you my driver's
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Speaker 3: license and a $ 50 bill, man, I bet you'd get
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Speaker 3: me on anything.
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Speaker 4: You wouldn't have a job as a dog catcher, as
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Speaker 4: far as I'm concerned.
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Speaker 3: How many times have you seen a $ 50 bill in
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Speaker 3: the course of the week?
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Speaker 4: You know, you really are something.
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Speaker 3: And then how many times did you take it? Probably
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Speaker 3: every time, right?
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Speaker 4: Is that what you want to do? Is that the
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Speaker 4: kind of cop you're going to be?
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Speaker 3: When I get to be LAPD, I will be way
15:43
Speaker 3: better than any one of you guys.
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Speaker 4: Like hell you will.
15:46
Speaker 3: You let Charles Manson get away. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. We're not talking about.
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Speaker 3: These guys let Manson get away, man.
15:54
Speaker 1: Manson's in prison.
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Speaker 3: LAPD almost let the guy run if it wasn't for
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Speaker 3: the sheriff.
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Speaker 2: I thought you said the LAPD is the best.
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Speaker 1: You like the LAPD.
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Speaker 3: I do, but these old guys, they let Manson run, man.
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Speaker 4: Old guys?
16:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, you almost let Manson run.
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Speaker 4: This old guy would run your ass into the ground.
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Speaker 1: All right, Jim, thanks for your call. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Well, you took calls from these old LAPD cops. Those
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Speaker 3: guys let Manson run.
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Speaker 1: Manson's in prison, you jackball. Prison.
16:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, but LAPD almost botched it all up.
16:24
Speaker 1: Let me go over here to Joanne. Go ahead, Joanne.
16:26
Speaker 1: You're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 5: See, I'd like to give this message to David. Number one, David,
16:31
Speaker 5: if you worked for my company, I would fire your butt.
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Speaker 5: Number two, what you're doing is illegal. You're going to, quote,
16:39
Speaker 5: law school to learn the law?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Do you know what the clamshell law is? What is
16:43
Speaker 5: the clamshell law?
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Speaker 3: The clamshell law? Cram, clamshell law.
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Speaker 6: Third party law, you'll sue the owner of your company.
16:51
Speaker 3: The clamshell law. Sounds like it's got something to do
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Speaker 3: with crabs, you know. All I'm saying is.
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Speaker 6: Well, obviously, you've never gone to any culinary classes. You
16:59
Speaker 6: don't have any NRA certificates from restaurant management, from the
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Speaker 6: state of how the system works. And the other one is,
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Speaker 6: I had to say to you, obviously you don't know
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Speaker 6: that senior citizens happen to be on fixed incomes.
17:12
Speaker 3: No, I know that. That's what I said when I
17:14
Speaker 3: first started. I said I know they're on fixed incomes.
17:17
Speaker 3: But I've got to live to... Okay, but let me
17:19
Speaker 3: just say this, you know. You know, you've got some
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Speaker 3: nerve being in management, talking down to food servers the
17:27
Speaker 3: way you do, you know? You sound like every person
17:30
Speaker 3: working a night shift. You know something, man? Yeah, good
17:36
Speaker 3: for you, man. Is your husband deaf? I mean, God,
17:40
Speaker 3: she's so deaf. Yeah, you know, do you scream at
17:42
Speaker 3: your husband? You know, all I'm trying to.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Dave, you know what? You're not on here to
17:47
Speaker 2: do shtick. You're on here to talk about something that
17:50
Speaker 2: you found very serious.
17:51
Speaker 3: And I do. When somebody from management calls up and says,
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Speaker 3: you know, do you know the big boy crapshaw law
17:57
Speaker 3: or whatever it is? I say to her, you don't
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Speaker 3: know what it's like to be on a, you know,
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Speaker 3: to like try to get through school to be LAPD.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know what?
18:07
Speaker 5: If you apply for LAPD, I know several people over there.
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Speaker 3: You know what?
18:10
Speaker 6: I'll call and tell them not to hire you because
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Speaker 6: you couldn't pass the psych board situation.
18:14
Speaker 3: You know people over there. You pour coffee for a
18:17
Speaker 3: couple of motor cops. Big deal.
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't even live down there. It's people
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Speaker 5: like you with your attitude that suck off the system
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Speaker 5: and don't put anything back into it.
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Speaker 3: I work for a living, man.
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Speaker 6: You literally battered the citizens who are out there busting
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Speaker 6: their butts.
18:30
Speaker 3: You know what she's saying? She's saying it's people like
18:32
Speaker 3: you that take money and you don't give it to
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Speaker 3: the company to take. Yeah, just because I don't give Denny's,
18:36
Speaker 3: it's cut. You know, Joanne? You know what?
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Speaker 5: Your life is what you make it. You earn what
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Speaker 5: you get. What you put into life is what you're
18:43
Speaker 5: going to get out of life. What you're getting out
18:45
Speaker 5: of life is wrong.
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Speaker 3: I ain't doing nothing other than giving the old people
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Speaker 3: a good time. Give them a two-ounce pour, which, by
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Speaker 3: the way, my restaurant, if it wasn't so cheap, I'd
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Speaker 3: give it to them anyway.
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Speaker 1: But you said it's a legal pour. There's a legal pour.
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Speaker 3: It's a legal pour. It's not a legal pour.
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Speaker 5: A legal pour is one shot.
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Speaker 3: Not a shot and a half, not two. That's what
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Speaker 3: I said. And that's so cheap. I'm just trying to
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Speaker 3: give some old lady a thrill, man. You know, gay.
19:07
Speaker 3: Have a couple of drinks.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, when she gets in a.
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Speaker 5: Car accident and her kids are killed or somebody else's
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Speaker 5: innocent kids are killed because you decided to give her
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Speaker 5: a free thrill so you could get an extra ticket...
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Speaker 5: For extra tips?
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Speaker 6: No, that's not right.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean her kids? She's like an old lady.
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Speaker 3: Her kids are probably like 50. It's like they're in
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Speaker 3: a car seat.
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Speaker 1: You think they're in a.
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Speaker 3: Car seat or something?
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Speaker 4: I'm sure some old.
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Speaker 3: Lady gets into her car with a 50-year-old guy in
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Speaker 3: a car seat.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Dave. Thank you, Joanne.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: Dave, we'll have a waiter. He pours extra alcohol into
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Speaker 1: the drinks of the seniors so they'll tip him better.
19:38
Speaker 1: It's the Phil Henry Show. The Phil Henry Show. Talk
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Speaker 1: radio speed track.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: The Phil Henry Show is back. Coming up tomorrow night,
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Speaker 1: we have Ted Bell on the line. line with me
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Speaker 1: as Dave Oliver, who is a food server. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're at the horse races tonight, Dave, and you're worried
19:56
Speaker 1: about getting your 25% tip. You know, what about it?
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Speaker 1: What about it? You're pouring extra alcohol into the drinks
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Speaker 1: of senior citizens to, as you say, facilitate a higher tip,
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Speaker 1: which in my mind means get them drunk. And what
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Speaker 1: do you do with the tip money?
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Speaker 3: Hey, Mr. Henry, you know, what I would do with
20:12
Speaker 3: the tip money is my business. You know, I come
20:14
Speaker 3: down to, like, the quarter horses at Las Alamitos or
20:17
Speaker 3: a lot of times, you know, Oak Tree. I used
20:19
Speaker 3: to go to Oak Tree, but they don't have Oak
20:22
Speaker 3: Tree no more at Santa Anita, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
20:24
Speaker 3: No, they don't. They don't? Not that I know of.
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Speaker 3: Not that I know of, no. But that's not the point.
20:30
Speaker 3: The point is, I get stiff. I'm doing all kinds of,
20:34
Speaker 3: you know... good stuff and everything. And then the senior
20:38
Speaker 3: citizens come in, they go, yeah, can I get a
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Speaker 3: bowl of soup and a piece of bread? I go, yeah,
20:43
Speaker 3: but it's still going to be a 25% dip. And
20:46
Speaker 3: they go, okay, give me a, like, you know, a martini.
20:51
Speaker 3: I go, okay. Now, that's when I see my opening,
20:53
Speaker 3: you know. And I'll go over to the bar, and
20:55
Speaker 3: I'll just ask, like, our bartender's a guy by the
20:57
Speaker 3: name of Victor. I'll say, Victor, give me the, give
21:02
Speaker 3: me the well hose, you know, which is where we
21:03
Speaker 3: pour our tequila from it and i'll just like dose.
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Speaker 1: It up you know and and the next thing you
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Speaker 1: got is some senior citizen staggering out of there having
21:11
Speaker 1: you gotten your 25 tip and they're wrapped around a
21:14
Speaker 1: telephone pole.
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Speaker 3: What no wrapped around no telephone pole well.
21:18
Speaker 2: That's what that's possible here is uh jerry on the
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Speaker 2: phil henry show go ahead jerry uh yeah my thought here.
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Speaker 1: Is what hello here is cory go ahead cory.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, how many accidents do you think you've been involved in?
21:36
Speaker 3: Who, me? Yeah, you. My driving record's clear, man. No, no.
21:41
Speaker 3: I've never been in an accident.
21:42
Speaker 7: You are involved in more accidents than you think.
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Speaker 3: Two years ago.
21:46
Speaker 7: Hey, why don't you be quiet and let me talk?
21:48
Speaker 3: Hey, man.
21:48
Speaker 7: You've been in more accidents than you think because people
21:51
Speaker 7: sit down and they have a drink.
21:53
Speaker 3: It's okay to go.
21:54
Speaker 7: You know, you sit down and you have a drink.
21:55
Speaker 7: It's okay to drive after one drink. But when you're
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Speaker 7: putting double in there, it's not okay. People are getting
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Speaker 7: in their car. They're driving. They're going to have an
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Speaker 7: accident because they don't know how much they drink.
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me, man?
22:05
Speaker 7: They think it's one drink, but it's more than one drink.
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Speaker 3: Oh, wait a second. Two shots of liquor is going
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Speaker 3: to make you wrap your car up around a pole?
22:11
Speaker 3: Get out of here.
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Speaker 7: For a senior citizen?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. They can't drive very well as it is. Hey,
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Speaker 3: number one, those old birds have been drinking for more
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Speaker 3: times than you and me have been alive, man. Oh,
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Speaker 3: get out of here.
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Speaker 7: Get out of here. That doesn't matter. They're still more
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Speaker 7: vulnerable than we are because.
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Speaker 1: They're older and their biochemistry has changed. Their metabolism has changed.
22:33
Speaker 3: Half of these dudes that come in are these old
22:36
Speaker 3: Navy guys that got anchors and stuff on their arm.
22:38
Speaker 3: They could drink bottles of liquor. It would not do nothing. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: So you only give them to those people then?
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Speaker 3: Look, all I'm saying is if you, you know... I'm
22:51
Speaker 3: trying to get through college to be LAPD, okay? No, no.
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Speaker 7: Answer my question. You only give them to those people
22:57
Speaker 7: that come in that look like they can handle it?
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Speaker 3: About what? The alcohol.
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Speaker 7: You only give it to the people that you think
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Speaker 7: can handle it? So you can make that decision now?
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Speaker 3: Dude, let me ask you something. Are you even old
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Speaker 3: enough to drink, man? I mean, what are you talking
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Speaker 3: to me about?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm old enough to drink.
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Speaker 3: Well, you sound like you're like 15 or something. Well,
23:15
Speaker 3: I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Whatever, man. The guy's of age, okay? All right, but.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so what did you say?
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Speaker 1: I mean, he asked you, how do you know that
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Speaker 1: every one of.
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Speaker 2: So you only serve alcohol to guys with freaking Popeye
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Speaker 2: anchors on their arms?
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Speaker 7: So you can make these decisions, huh?
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Speaker 3: Look, so he gets to make a decision for me?
23:33
Speaker 3: Would I recommend 25%? Well, you know what?
23:35
Speaker 7: Someone needs to make a decision for you because you're
23:37
Speaker 7: not making the right decision.
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Speaker 3: I make the decisions in my life for me. And
23:41
Speaker 3: when I say 25%... Exactly, and they're not the right decision.
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Speaker 7: You're making decisions for other people, too, because they don't
23:46
Speaker 7: even know what they're doing. They don't know how much
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Speaker 7: they're drinking.
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Speaker 3: Dude, dude, I'm going to school to try to be LAPD.
23:55
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to.
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Speaker 1: We got that, man, but you can't pour extra.
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Speaker 3: Dude, I'm trying to... You know what, man? If the
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Speaker 3: two of you was a food server, you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: Look it, man, I've had all kinds of gigs. I
24:09
Speaker 1: was a freaking bartender, and I've had all kinds of jobs.
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Speaker 1: Look it, if a guy asks for a drink, and
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Speaker 1: he wants a drink, he gets a drink.
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Speaker 3: Look, most of these old people, when you, you know,
24:19
Speaker 3: first of all, the lady says to me, could I
24:20
Speaker 3: get a piece of bread with my soup? I go, well,
24:23
Speaker 3: it's 10 cents, or, you know, 50 cents actually. She goes, no,
24:26
Speaker 3: I don't want to pay that, right? So now I
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Speaker 3: give them free booze, and you guys are jumping on me. No,
24:31
Speaker 3: because it's illegal.
24:32
Speaker 7: What you're doing is illegal.
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Speaker 3: What, man? The dude's like 80, dude. He's been drinking
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Speaker 3: Cuddy Sock at 9 o'clock in the morning since he
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Speaker 3: was 15, man. How do you know? How do you
24:41
Speaker 3: know how much you drink? Are you kidding me? Look
24:42
Speaker 3: at all these old-timers, man. All these old people. That's
24:45
Speaker 3: all they ever did is drink. No, it's not.
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Speaker 1: You don't know.
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Speaker 7: You have a bunch of people around in their life,
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Speaker 7: and you don't know if they've ever drank at all.
24:54
Speaker 3: Like now, we have weed or whatever. I don't know
24:57
Speaker 3: what you do, but we've got way more stuff. Back
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Speaker 3: when they were kids, all they did was drink like moonshine.
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Speaker 3: They could drink battery acid, man.
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Speaker 1: You don't know that, man. A lot of these old
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Speaker 1: folks have gotten their whole lives without drinking.
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Speaker 7: And if they drink, they drink responsibly. So they think, well,
25:12
Speaker 7: I can sit down and have one drink. Well, they're
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Speaker 7: having two drinks because you're putting double what they're supposed
25:17
Speaker 7: to be having in there.
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Speaker 3: Dude, dude, dude, the guy that started AA, man, you know,
25:21
Speaker 3: he started AA like 1930 something. They've been drinking that long, man.
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Speaker 3: It don't matter.
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Speaker 7: Are you serving it to him?
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Speaker 3: What?
25:30
Speaker 7: Are you serving it to him?
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Speaker 3: These old guys drink scotch before their bocce ball tournaments.
25:34
Speaker 3: They go down there for a bocce ball tournament. They're
25:36
Speaker 3: drinking Cuddy Sark straight out of a glass. How do
25:38
Speaker 3: you know this? Oh, drive by the bocce ball court
25:41
Speaker 3: at Arcadia, California. You know for.
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Speaker 7: Certain that the people you serve drink.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: Well, let me clear something up. They've ordered a drink, right, Dave?
25:51
Speaker 3: Yes, they've ordered a drink.
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Speaker 1: And he's just adding booze to their drink. But that's
25:56
Speaker 1: still not legal. The guy wants a one-ounce drink.
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Speaker 3: No, see, now I got you guys because now you're
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Speaker 3: thinking about it. See, you didn't listen to me, man.
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Speaker 3: If you'd listened to me, then you'd agree with me
26:05
Speaker 3: that I deserve it.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: You would have had a bocce ball tournament, man. Those
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Speaker 3: old guys are sucking straight up.
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Speaker 7: You didn't have to go to jail.
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Speaker 3: These old guys, they suck straight out of a Cuddy
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Speaker 3: Sart bottle at like 6 a.m. You don't know.
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Speaker 1: Alcoholics do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do, man.
26:20
Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Hey, man, when you get old enough to drink, you
26:23
Speaker 3: come in, man. I'll buy you a drink. Whatever. Not
26:26
Speaker 3: for you. Yeah? Not for me? Like you don't want
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Speaker 3: an extra pour? Jesus, man, what's up with you? No,
26:31
Speaker 3: because I'm.
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Speaker 7: Responsible and you're not.
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Speaker 1: All right, okay, thanks a lot.
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Speaker 2: Dave, good luck to you in your endeavors, but I
26:37
Speaker 2: think you're going to get your employer more than anybody
26:39
Speaker 2: else in trouble because they're going to.
26:40
Speaker 3: Well, I'll just move on to Bennigan's or I'll move on,
26:43
Speaker 3: you know, that guy that I just talked to, what
26:45
Speaker 3: was that guy's name? Corey. Hey, Corey, man, take off
26:47
Speaker 3: your dress, man, and come on in. I'll pour you
26:49
Speaker 3: like a two-ounce drink. Damn it, man. What? My horse lost.
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