Mind Your F&*ING Manners, They Equal Dollars EP 18 01:04:06

From the art of the deal to keeping it real. Live from the Simply Vegas studios, it's The Power Move with Jon Gafford. Back again, back again, back again, boys. Back again. Back again.

man happy october happy october mid-october indeed you know what and i i will say this we probably i think have gotten over the hump of our most cancelable episode which was uh where's the line for halloween costumes not

Not a peep. I think number two was up there. Number two was up there? The number one that never entered. Maybe it was up there. But you know what else? I got to tell you something else. My wife got on me this week. First of all, I'm going to start with this. Congrats. To my leftist. That's a good weekend right there. Both thought it. Both thought it. One of us did. Yeah, there you go. No, because she said, you know what?

You say Colt's name wrong at the entrance to the show. You always say it wrong when you introduce him. And I'm like, really? No, I don't. She goes, yes, you do. So here we go, Colt. How do you say it? No, here we go. Because I don't get off when people say my last name because there's 40 different ways to do it. I know. This is what I want to do. So at the same time, all right, we're going to say your last name at the same time on three. Ready? One, two, three. Jackass. Yeah.

Yep. She's right. I was saying it wrong. You say Amidon. I was saying Amidon. But you know what? He says Amidon. Most, honestly, 50-50, so I never even noticed that. Is this one of those things where it's like, I don't care what you call me as long as you just call me? Well, you want to know the real truth, like...

A couple generations ago, somebody came back to the United States with a fake last name. So I don't know if I'm saying it right or not. So I never fight that one. You know what? It sounds a lot more Amidon. I'm sure it is Amidon. I think to keep me on track, I think every week we'll give Colt a new nickname. So like this week it'll just be Colt the man Amidon.

You know what's funny when you said that though? Business lesson, get people's names right. Always. First off, it's not Nevada. What the hell do you people call it? Nevada. Nevada. If you're going to work in Nevada, call it Nevada. It probably really is Nevada. I think that's a Spanish word. It's Nevada. It means whale's vagina. Oh yes, it does. Scholars maintain. People call me, they'll be like, hey, Cannell.

I'm with canal or it's like, ah, you ever go to risk? You know what? I got, I got thrown out of my freshman Ian. I get my first, my freshman English class in college. I got thrown out. You can see 1101 because I go there and there's probably 600 people in this class. And the, uh, the, the teacher professor, whoever it was, was teaching is calling off role the first day. Cause it's the first day is the only day they ever call role just to see who's there for add drop, whatever. So she's ripping off the role and she gets to me and she goes, Gayford,

At which point, you know, smart 18-year-old me responds, you know, the...

you know, a consonant or a vowel when followed by two consonants receives the long sound. Ah, Gafford. That's a good way to start the. Yeah, great way to start. Yeah, you should have dropped that class right there. Well, no, it was presented to me that it would be in my best option to drop that class shortly after that. So that's how that went. Great first day of school there. That was an interesting conversation. We're talking a few years back, though, when that was something we get you made fun of and the teachers would even pile on. Oh, yeah, they'd pile on.

They'd pile on. The teachers would even pile on back then with completely things that would get them fired. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I know. For sure. My teachers, yeah, stuff they used to say to us and everything, they would have been fired. Pretty vicious. It made at least CNN. Did you ever have any Catholic nun teachers, just me? I went to Catholic school. You did? My dad had Catholic nuns that beat him. I had Catholic school, but a weird thing in Canada where I'm from, the public school was either secular or Catholic. It was a Catholic-

Public school. Really? It's a weird thing coming from you. That is weird. No, no. You can choose where you send your kids, to a Catholic school or a public school. So do they beat you? No, but a couple of them tried a few times.

Snatch them up by the habit and give them the business. One of them has since passed away and I didn't shed a tear. No, no. Dude, when I was a kid, Catholic school I went to, elementary school in my hometown, these nuns were ruthless. You had one Sister Mary in second grade that would hit you on the back of the calf with a fly swatter if you were bad. There's that. And then there was Sister Marilyn. Sister Marilyn, the sixth grade teacher, where when I was in fifth grade, they'd alternate you into a class for...

or math or whatever it was. And me being, you know, I like to feel that they were stifling my creativity. Yeah.

But I was drawing one day I was drawing sunglasses and beards on the priest in my religion book. She walked up behind me, grabbed me by my hair and slammed my head into the desk. For making people cooler. Yeah. For making people cooler. Exactly. For making people cooler. Next day, next day, six of my friends are no longer in the school because they went home and told their parents what happened. Their parents yoked them out. My dad, he deserved it.

That's how my parents were. I'm basically doing a fashion makeover for these square-ass priests. Yeah, pretty much. Sunglasses and a cool beard. Exactly. Pretty much, no. But yeah, it was ruthless to have that happen. But, you know, it was a good weekend. I didn't see really anybody this weekend. Chris and I had an interesting experience that was a little out there. Colt, what was your weekend? You went to a wedding in Utah. Salt Lake. Wedding. This is surprising to me.

That he didn't go to Chili's. No, no. Well, okay. I tried to go to Chili's. Chili's? Number one, I tried to send cold for you. But you know what's not like City Chili's? You're going to serve me six margaritas and then tow my car? You're going to tow my car? Chili's? Jesus. Throw it with you. But he didn't go. I almost went there. It was like 20 minutes away. It's city traffic. There was a... So wait, what you're saying now is...

My honor is not worth 20 minutes drive? My pain and suffering? No, because it was 20 minutes parked. That's another five minutes. And then they tow your car. So it could be an hour. 10, 12 minutes. Yeah, 10, 20 minutes I would have gone. But that's one way. Yeah, it's an hour round trip. So I went to Utah. My brother got married. Beautiful wedding. You know, John was shocked that there was gay people up in Utah. Yeah.

Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I don't mean that like, no, no, no, not, not bad, but like, I was surprised that it's as gay friendly as it is. I would think with, with, with some of the Mormon church, well, some of the moral compass that is, that is, you know, really driven out of that place. I would think it would be, not be a very friendly and according to cold, it's like top five places. Utah's great. It's great wedding. Great fun time. I mean,

They danced all night. A lot of Mariah Carey, Whitney. But no, it was a great time. Great time. My wife. Yeah. Your brother's wedding? Beautiful wedding. Yep. Your son absolutely just beside himself. Miserable. My son was so pissed off. Yeah, we're suspenders in both eyes. Three years old. But...

He had a great time, stole the wedding show. My wife punched a guy. So yeah, it was a good time. Pretty standard. What did I say? Better him than you. Pretty standard old Tuesday. I didn't want to try to crash the wedding while my wife's standing by the presents. But yeah, good time. Good times, good times. Well, me and Connell this weekend went out again with our NFT crypto mob here in,

in Las Vegas. Never a dull moment with those cats. Never a dull moment. First of all, we got this guy on the show. I'm going to have him. I think we're going to go to a new format with the show coming up where we do 30 minutes of our, you know, hilarious banter, if you will, and our knowledge dropping help. But then I want to start bringing some guests in the second half. Yeah. Just to have men. So one of the guys that I meet this weekend walks up to me. He's like, hey, bro, wanted to meet you. And I'm like, cool. What's your name? He's like, I'm Brent, man. We start talking. This guy's got like, he's ginormous.

He's got like meat hooks like the size of this. Like just looks like he's wearing boxing gloves. Did he look like that singer on the Nile cruise we went? Yes, he was. With some hands. Oh, with the man hands. Yeah, this guy was generous. And I'm like, oh, he's like, what's your Instagram? I'm like, oh, here's my Instagram. He goes, oh, I'm going to follow you. And I look, and I'm already following him. He's the slap for cash dude. He's the dude that makes a living and has turned this into a pretty good chunk of change for

smacking dudes in the face professionally. If you've never seen this, it's like it's next level ruthless. I bet his attorney hates his job, right? No, they have a solid waiver. They have a solid waiver for that. Do you have a good waiver? No, this is a back alley slapping.

This is ESPN the Ocho. Yeah, this is ESPN the Ocho slapping. This is the main deal on it. And yeah, I just would love to hear how he took something so incredibly random, and he's the king of it, and parlayed it into a decent chunk of change. So I'd love to have him on. How much would you guys...

how much would somebody have for this dude no no no no no no no no if you watch this guy's videos dude he slaps people in shadow realm yeah he puts people into the shadow yeah but if somebody like here's 10 million you're doing it yes yeah you can smack the shit out of it one million yeah getting a lot closer 80 000 no 80 000 now no

Really? Absolutely not. Under 1,000? No. Okay, see, Mr. Judgey has never seen this. Yeah. Maybe we'll have him in here. That's traumatic brain injury, by the way. Oh, dude, for sure. For sure. You know that cult? Yeah. Some of us value that. I get that, but I wonder how much people are, I mean, there's people that'll do that for 200 bucks. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. I one time met a guy in Europe cult who said to me, you know, Chris, you can tell a lot about a country by how much it costs to have somebody killed there.

He's like, in Switzerland, it's a million dollars in the bullet. He goes, some places in Ireland, it's 20 quid and a pack of cigarettes. That's all he needs. Life is relative. Life is relative to everything. But then we go to dinner. So we go to Barry's downtown, which was great. If you've never been to Barry's at Circa, I highly recommend it. Chef Barry's an awesome dude. He used to be the chef at Nine. Now has his own spot over there. They set us in the private dining room, and it was –

- Conor came for drinks, quote unquote. I'm just bringing so much food, it was crazy. My buddy Brandon who owns a company called Moby, which is up and coming, we're gonna invest in, which is a really cool, converts crypto into essentially gift cards for any retailer instantly while you're standing there. So allows you to use crypto in a retail setting. It's a really cool platform that he's built there. We are big fans of it and think it's gonna go big places.

Um, it was him. Uh, and then it was, uh, Mike J who is the NFT whisperer, if you will. There's a guy that when they launch entities, Mike, Mike handles a lot of the marketing for, uh, the pre-mint side of when they do NFTs. And then there he was in all of his glory. All right, go on man. The snack daddy.

My man, this dude, all right, you ever know, like there's some people that walk into the room that just light it up like a beacon of hope for good times to come. - And you haven't even gone on his phone yet. - No, you haven't looked at his phone. You're like, this dude is gonna be a beacon of good times. You just can tell when the second they walk in. That's his cat, right? And anyway, dude, this guy was super entertaining and super interesting at dinner.

And I love when people, it's kind of like that story we told when we were kind of like, we were kind of like met the guy in Egypt at the bar and sat talking for two hours. And then like after two hours, he's like, oh yeah, by the way, I produced all the Wu-Tang records. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Lead with that. You don't stop. It was kind of the same thing with Ari. And you can always tell when people are legit when they don't flex too hard.

you're like what do you do and he's like well you know i'm the entertainers i handle promotions and some marketing stuff for for some entertainers and uh like okay so we got like the whole night and this dude and he's also big into crypto and he's showing us this stuff that's just i can't i don't even get into it out of respect for him but some of the stuff and some of the some of the value of some of the pieces we saw was it was insane if you ever if he wants to come on and talk about it he can talk about it i'm not gonna talk about it yeah it's probably the right move probably the right move just just to leave that one out there but

you know, when we're done, I'm like, he's following me on Instagram. So I follow him and I'm looking through his Instagram and it's like him and post Malone, him and Paris Hilton, him and Dave Chappelle, him. And you're like, what, we're in the world. And you're like, you know what? And I can see how he got there because the guy really was just a beacon of hope. Right. Right. But you know, not just through that, the guy had a story of, uh,

call it redemption, I guess too. Right. So not all just easy walk through the life. I think a lot of times people get that mistaken. I think the journey is always easy. That guy had a, that guy had a real story to tell about, you know, things he went through. So yeah, very interesting. Not just, you know, him living overseas and just all this other stuff. Yeah. Really kind of, yeah. And just, and what I liked most about his story was, you know, without, again, I'll let him tell it if he wants, I'm not going to get into much of what he shared, but,

You know, a big part of it was if you never escape the circle that you're in, you never grow. You know, you never get there. And it was one of those situations where this was a guy that, you know, he's like, I'm looking at the circle I'm in. I'm looking at the guys that I'm hanging around with in high school or whatever it is. And he's like, these guys are doing things that I don't want to be doing. And I'm emulating them and I'm doing that. So he was like, he went away to Israel and served in the military. I don't think that's too personal for me to say. He decided to go to Israel and serve in the military.

And for a year. And he kept coming back. And he goes, I'd come back. And he'd be like, yep, same dude, same dude, same conversation, doing the same stuff. Look to your left, look to your right. Same thing. And then he'd go away again for another year. And he'd come back. Yep.

same guys, same thing, same this. You're coming back as a man after serving in the Israeli military. And these guys are still hanging out and having the same dumb conversations. And dude, in life, man, that's one of the hardest things to do, especially as you get better with what you do is kind of let go of some of those people from the past and let go of some of those circles. And if you're not getting where you want to go, you got to take a look at who you're hanging around, man. You got to look at that circle of what you're doing.

And one of the things that I think me and Colt were talking about today at lunch that I've gotten, maybe it's older, wiser. I don't know what it is, but I have gotten so cognizant of my time.

And not necessarily how I spend it, but who I spend it with has gotten to be so cognizant of that. And if you're having the same conversations, and this is what I told Cole today at lunch, I have zero interest in spending any time with anyone that can't do something for me. Now, keep in mind, that is not

anything monetary that is not giving me something that's not mooching off them. If I can't learn something, if somebody doesn't spark a conversation in my brain that makes me think, that makes me expand the way that I think and all this stuff, I just don't want to invest the time being around them. I don't want to spend any time with people that I have to explain what you meant to.

Yeah. Because everybody who's worth hanging out knows exactly what you mean by that. I don't want to hang out with people. It's like Cat Williams bit. If you ain't hustling, if you ain't moving up, I ain't spending time with you. If you selling marijuana last year and you ain't up to crack cocaine yet, I'm not fucking with you. Because you've got to be moving. You've got to be pushing around people that want to be better. Because if you're not, it's crabs in a bucket. You've seen that and you've heard that phrase. But if you're around the same people, they won't let you out. It's like Kenny Dillingham, who's the offensive coordinator for Florida State, who we all know

I love Morris. Was that a football team? Yeah, he's the offensive coordinator for Florida State, said this weekend. And I thought it was such a great quote from a young guy. He goes, you know, if you always refer to somebody as being full of potential, that means they've always sucked. They haven't done shit yet. That's true, too. Well, they have a lot of potential, so they've always sucked. That reminds me of what Ed Ogeron said last weekend. Which was? No, but I think it's true, and I tell people that all the time, like,

Try not to get married young. And the reason I tell that to people is because at 18, you should not be the same person at 23. Shouldn't be the same person at 27. At 30, I didn't feel like I got to be who I am really until I was 30. I feel like that's where I started. Same with – I've got friends from high school that I love.

You know, and I have all respect for, but I don't go have drinks with them. I don't go hang out with them. I've got, you change it. You, you need to adapt to who you are and the people you're screwing around with in high school or not. If they don't adapt with you, the whole birds of a feather flock together, right? If you hang out with a bunch of dumb asses, you're going, what is this? I'll show you the six. I don't mean to sound, uh, you know, whatever weird day and age to mention this, but that's why I don't have any tattoos. Yeah.

I don't have any tattoos on my arms because I've always thought to myself, am I going to be who I am today in a month? The answer to that is no. The answer is it's a great idea at the time. But, I mean, other than the other things, like, yeah, I love the band Tool, but I already know that. What do I need to tell anyone else for? The other thing is. Would you ever wear the concert T-shirt to the show? You know, I don't. Would you? I mean, I maybe would. I don't know. Don't be that guy.

I don't like when people wear... Don't be Chris. Don't be that guy. I don't like when people wear like... I went to a Korn and System of a Down on Friday. I saw that. Great show. Unreal. What's funny is he sent me a picture and he was like, look how long the handicapped line is to get in and people that aren't handicapped. And I'm like, what show are you at? He's like, System of a Down. I'm like, isn't everybody there kind of handicapped? That was also shameful, but I sent it to him. We talked about people lining up in the ADA line. Terrible. They like saw one person in a chair and started hanging around. It was really shameful. My wife's in a boot right now, so...

Which is fun. She's hopping along with big empty spaces. She's going to set the metal detector off and all that, right? That's what it's for. But wearing the concert shirt at the concert, I mean, I think it's funny when people wear...

like other not really related bands. Like if they go to a Tool concert, so they wear, not even Chevelle, they'll wear like a- - AC/DC shirt. - Or like Drowning Pool or some other band where you're like, this is not nearly as cool. - Doesn't go together. - It doesn't work. - See, for example, the Renaissance Festival was here this weekend. And I think that's the magic of the Renaissance Festival. Not the people dressed like the Renaissance. You'll see the one dude dressed like Spock out there just for no reason. Like there's a, are you a Klingon?

Where are we? We can have some meat. It happens every year. That's the advantage of going out there. It's funny. Ren Fair. Man. Wow. I don't wear jerseys. I don't wear anything. I just dress normal when I go to events. Yeah, wear jerseys to the game. No, I get it. Yeah, but I'm not a huge, again, I don't watch sports that much, except for I saw you at the Golden Knights. Man.

Well, I'm not going to say my shameful thing I did. Oh, no. Okay. All right. See, Cole, again, this is like episode 18. Let me explain to you how this works. I didn't want there to be a long, like, it's called stroking out, so I have to tell you, like, I was thinking something. Are you kidding? You stroke out live on this thing? Rings are through the roof. Let's go.

No, you know, okay. So one of the local banks invited me out, and, you know, I was running late. Monorail was kind of taking their time. I didn't take Monorail, but it is awesome.

Was this the blood bank or like a money bank? Yeah, yeah. Just checking. It was a semen bank. Like, thanks for coming so much this month. Here's your $100 and we got your tickets behind the glass. Thanks for being our number one taste tester. Your palate. Your palate is so well developed. There it goes off the rails. This is our cancellation. It's a boy, okay. Go ahead.

Seems like they're going to be smart boy. Six foot two. Go ahead, put that over in the A+. Jesus. Anyways, back to the game. It's all Golden Knights opener, right? Huge line. There was just line after line to get into the arena. I can't go on on this one. So I'm sitting there. I'm like, God, it's a long line. They're like, hey, we're at the bar. Come up real quick.

I look up. Who do I see? I'm going to go with Chris Connell. Chris Connell. There it is. And his lovely wife who took one for a team with a broken foot. And I go, hey, coming with you guys through the handicap line. Yep. I said I was with them when I wasn't.

So back to the Siemens. What's more shameful? What's more shameful? Have you ever had to go to a Siemens place? No, Colt. Yeah, I had to.

And you're just walking up and there's like four hot, like 20 year old nurses there. And they're like, here's your cup. And it's like, you know what? I'm about to go do things. So awkward. So awkward. So anyway, I think you can judge people who you hang out with, right? Like that's, Oh, that's what we're talking about. You can,

As you can see, I'm a wealth of knowledge because I hang out with Chris and John. No, no. But what we were saying at lunch was, man, it's like, I think you really, you kind of drift into two schools, right? You drift into the scorekeeping, I think, when it comes to friends. Like, you're like, oh, well, man, I always invite them to stuff. They never invite me anywhere. And you're like, kind of keep score with that. As much as you don't want to, I think you do. You do. You do.

And then you drift into the obligation side where you're like, ah, man, we have to invite them. We've been friends forever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can we just get rid of all of this? Like, like just get rid of all of this, the shame of, of, of, of not being invited places, the obligation to invite plate people, places. You,

You guys feel bad. It would just make life way more easy. You guys feel bad when there's like a group going somewhere and you didn't get invited? Like, I'm a hermit. I love it. I'm like, thank God. Yeah, it depends on what it is. It depends on what it is. Because you have different circles that do different things, right? You have people that you're going to kind of.

Some kind of people you do business with or some people you play sports with. Your sports guy doesn't have to come to your poetry reading or whatever you do. So you have to also be an adult. You have to also be an adult and realize maybe you're just not cut out for every activity. Yeah, no, no, I get it. Like there's some times when outdoors, you know, not my thing. Yeah, there's people. Let's say you've taken them outdoors before and they come wearing stupid shoes and they're just pain in the ass. Yeah.

He's a cool guy. Just don't need to go hiking with him. He'll drink with you. But here's the thing. I can say that I'm friends with somebody and never invite them to anything, and they never invite me to anything. But yet I find myself, I'm in a situation where, oh, man, I've known this person forever. I feel obligated to invite them. And then you think about it, you're like, they haven't invited me to anything in three years. Why do I feel obligated? But yet I still kind of do. It's a weird guilt sort of thing.

Thing that you have going on. It's just it's it's a it's a weird deal man When you think of the tribe though, right that tribe mentality, I don't know what that is Dunbar's number. What's we talk? Yeah, it's 150 people in your tribe. I feel like your loop is coming up Chris. We've already talked about Oh the loop is kicking in

I don't know why I'd have to go cold. I've had a hundred percent of the kids I've wanted to have. Yeah. That's why I went because we had trouble with the last three and they're like, well, we just need a check. And

I was fine. What do you mean fine? They're like, oh my gosh. You know, if it was through the roof, he would have been like, they call me exemplary. Yeah, exactly. Fine means here's the line of okay. It's just like one click above that. You saw my third child, what he came out with. It's just okay. You ever see wine bottles on the shelf and it's like Robert Parker in 93. You know those shelves a little lower down in the list? They don't have a score on them. They don't.

It's a fine wine. It's a fine wine. Yeah, it's pass-fail at some point. Pass-fail is binary. Just write to pass-fail. One-zero. No, but you know what's worse when it comes to friends? You know what's even worse than that? And don't be this person, all right? If you are invited somewhere, don't automatically assume that it's okay for you to bring other people that these other people don't.

Even if they've met them, I don't like the assumption it's okay to bring other people. You say ask? Yeah, you should absolutely ask. You should say, hey, what's going on? Because I might bring somebody. I think, again, I think we're going to jump into this. We've been 24 minutes on nonsense. But this brings me, it's like the rules of etiquette. I started thinking about being polite today earlier on Instagram.

I made a post where I said, hey, you know, elevate your game a little bit. If somebody sent you a nice thing on, you know, text or a nice Instagram, whatever, I'll actually have a nice stationery. I'll write them a letter and say thank you for the nice things. If anybody does anything, I'll try to elevate that and be nice etiquette. So what I did today was I pulled up a list that I thought was interesting of 56 things, and we're going to go pretty quick through them, of

etiquette things in business and life, whatever, because I think good manners is something that's dying. I think that's a problem that we have. And I think everybody should practice a little bit better of manners as they go along.

and not just assume that the world rotates around you, which I think unfortunately so many people do. And there's a couple of these in here I will tell you that are absolute touch points for me. So what about this? How about you have it so that you read an etiquette rule and you get a thumbs up or thumbs down? Yeah, here we go. Thumbs up, thumbs down. You ready? Here we go. All right, the first one. I like this one. Offer your seat, which means if you're on a train or whatever and you're up. Yeah, 100%. You see that? That doesn't – that's –

Not as common as you'd think. I do that. Yeah. But like anytime I go on the airport, you know, on the shuttle, going back and forth, you'd be shocked how many people got their hands full with a baby and people don't. It's just shocking. That shocks me. On the monorail? On the monorail too. Now there's only like four people and there's like 10 carts. So you get your own. Next one is avoid manspreading. So like if you sit in a seat, don't do this. Totally disagree. I think that is one of those fake rules.

rules that is horseshit because here's why. - Hold on, man spreading? - So it means like don't sit like, don't take up too much space if you're a man. - Don't be a man, yeah, don't be obnoxious. Don't suck an asshole and spread your shit all over. But you're entitled to take up a certain amount. It's not just man spreading 'cause guess what, ladies?

We have different things happening when we sit. I've never heard of that. Yeah. Next one. Let the waiter come to you. Don't wave at the waiter. Oh, 100%. Yeah, but sometimes there are bad waiters that sit there for a half hour. Sometimes you have to. If you've been sitting there for 20 minutes and nobody's come over. Because there's a lot of times and they'll come over and go, what can I get for you? And I want to say so badly, yeah, I need a flare gun and a miracle, apparently, is what I need. Can you...

Yeah, do this for me is what I need to do. I agree. They obnoxious. It better not be an instant flag because if I'm going to a restaurant with you and you're that obnoxious guy, it's embarrassing. No, it's obnoxious. Like my grandfather as a child would get up and go in the kitchen and refill his coffee. My dad would do that because he thinks he's being helpful. Yeah, same thing. Didn't want to bother you. Didn't want to bother you. I want to go get my own coffee. Know your audience. Be aware who's around before engaging in a hot topic. Of course. I think if you don't look over your shoulder before you open your mouth, you're an idiot.

Make sure to tip. I mean, is that a thing? Always, of course. That's just dumb. 20% minimum. But you know what? People don't. Say excuse me, I think. Is this a dying art? I don't think so. I'd say it. No, just because you say it. No, but I mean, for sure. Again, let's go bell curve in the middle. Let's go 80% bell curve. Oh, no. Excuse me. Is this something that enough people are doing? Are they saying excuse me? I don't think so. Use a coaster. Fuck off.

What? No, I get mad when people don't use coasters at nice places. Really? Really, Colt? Well, I can... No, I'm serious. Colt does not use a coaster right now. I hate when people join people in the ADA lines. Yeah. No, but I... Do as I say, not as I do. There are certain things, right? Like wood, when someone's got...

Of course. Yeah, yeah. You'd be shocked at how many times. Glass table tops. No, absolutely not. Yeah, I agree. Please and thank you. Always. I think people are still not. Nope. Smile at the cashier, the bank teller, your coworkers, even if they don't smile back. Okay, but you know what that is now considered? Sexual harassment. Sexual harassment. I agree. I'm not being hyperbole. I'm not being hyperbole.

ball. I totally agree with that. Sometimes you smile or you're friendly people. Then all of a sudden they're like, don't, don't be like that. He wants me. All right. Holding the door for the person behind you. Always. Always.

Always cold. All the time I do that, but then sometimes you get stuck at that rush. Yeah, but the next person is supposed to take over. But they don't, so you're sitting there and you lose your family. But let's talk about the most important part of the hold the door for somebody. It's very similar to the stopping for someone at a crosswalk. I better get the fake jog that you're trying to scooch through the door to get there. If I'm going to hold the door for you, you better be fake scooching. Or if it's for like a bank and it's a big-ass long lineup, I may hold the door for you on the inside.

Yeah. Okay, that's a move. I get that. Or if you hold the door and there's a line and they let five or six, I let the person, hey, come, you're in front of me, come back. You should always, if you're the next man in line, I'm sorry, I still go old school sometimes. Yeah, always. The next man in line and someone's held the door open for you, it's your job to hold that door for them and the next person, whatever. Right.

And they need to be relinquished of their duty. It's like fucking the Knights Guard or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Watch your post and that's what you do. All right, we're going to take a real quick break and we will be back in just a minute with more of manners you should need to help you in life and business. Be right back. Hey, it's John Gafford. If you want to catch up more and see what we're doing, you can always go to thejohngafford.com where we'll share any links that we've things we talked about on the show, as well as links to the YouTube where you can watch us live.

And if you want to catch up with me on Instagram, you can always follow me at the John Gafford. I'm here. Give me a shout. Back again, back again from the break, right in the middle in case you missed the first half of today's episode. Right now we're talking about etiquette, man. We're talking about manners. We're talking about how to be a better human being. And here's the thing. You can listen to this and think, well, I don't know how that's going to make me money. Here's the truest thing you're going to hear today.

By being a better person and nicer to others around you and more cognizant of the world as it goes around you and not just you, you will make more money. And you won't lose money. Yeah. Yeah. Because people will want to be around you because you're a decent human being. So also, like I said, you won't lose money because if you do something terribly rude, let's say you're out for dinner with somebody and they don't tip.

Mm-hmm. You gonna do business with that guy? No. Oh god tip. Yeah. No, no, no I always tell my wife I go, you know, you well, it's not something I tell her something I read somewhere But you can tell everything about people about how they treat people that can do nothing for that's right And we've talked about it before where literally I've gotten into an uber Where some people that I knew were getting out of the uber and the uber driver was like, oh god, I'm glad you're cool I'm like wow, what you know? Yeah, those people wouldn't even talk to me. I'm like, oh

So that's a mental note about those people in my head. Yeah. Yeah. Like do jerks, whatever.

So picking this back up, we left it off last time on holding the door, but here we go. Step outside to answer phone calls. Totally. Please do that. Step up and step outside. Please avoid having your presence interrupt other people's presence. Like make, be conscious of other people's space and time and hearing like kids on airplanes when their parents let them blast their phone games on full volume. I think you should be thrown out of the airplane. I think that that's a perfect sign that you're not really helping out this

plan well let's talk about you know let's talk about table because i don't know how deep this goes into table stuff but excusing yourself at a table if you have to go to the restroom the proper way to do it is to just say excuse me for a moment and go yep i mean if you were your buddies you can say yeah hey gotta hit the gotta take a wicked piss up whatever you want to do i don't care but if you're with a mixed company or you're with business you say excuse me for a moment it's easy guess what you say when you have to take a call excuse me for a moment you

You don't have to give a reason. There's no other reason about that. You just say, excuse me for a second, and you get up and go. Yeah, the call thing is, I mean, people always sit there and go, you're always outside. I'm like, well, yeah, because I share an office with my partner. We walk around. I don't want to disrupt somebody else. Yeah, I'm always outside. How many times have you seen me walk outside? John probably thinks I'm weird, but I probably walk out 50 times a day. No.

That's not why I think something's wrong. Also, you know what? You can do pro tip at the table if you don't want to bring attention to this. Like, hey, I need to go to the bathroom. You can say, I need to go wash my hands. Yeah, great one. I need to wash my hands. That way you're not like, oh my God, I really have to go have bodily functions right now. It's like, no, no, I have to go wash my hands. You know what else is a good one, especially for business dinner? If you're not going to drink...

And you think they might drink and you want to make it weird. And we've talked about it before when they offer you a cocktail, which I said in the cocktail menu, blah, blah, blah. Just say not tonight. Thanks. Not tonight. Thanks. Implies that yes, I would normally drink. Even if you don't, even if you don't drink, because if you don't drink and you're like, I'm sorry, I don't drink. And you get on your high horse, which if you don't drink, that's fine. But people that do drink, don't want you to feel that you're judging them. Yeah. Or that, uh,

you're the kind of person that you can never have fun party with this. It's a fucked up thing in our culture where they say that alcohol is the only drug that you take, that you need to explain yourself as to why you don't do it. Yeah, no, no. A hundred percent. It's the only drug ever, right? It's a, it's just the way it is. So if you're not going to drink, I like that one and I need to start using that one more often personally. Well, let me, but let me tell you, I'll tell you another one. Speaking of being, speaking of being out with people that don't drink, um,

I don't know if you were there when I did this on Friday or not. I think you might have come up after this happened. But our table wasn't ready at Barry's, and we walked up to the bar. And Barry's is a very high-end restaurant here in Las Vegas. It's a nice restaurant. It's expensive. I mean, it is expensive. Our table wasn't ready yet because they were putting us in the private dining room, but

Sitting at the bar, I mean, that's expensive real estate. What I mean by that is those bartenders make a lot of money off of those stools. They make a lot of money you sitting there. So a lot of the guys that I hang out with in that group

don't drink alcohol. They're, you know, they did 75 hard. They've made decision not to drink anymore. Some of them are Mormon. They just don't drink. Sure. Right. So we walk up to the bar because our table's not ready and we get there and I'm like, I hadn't had a drink all night. So I'm going to have one cocktail before dinner. And I'm like, we have an old fashioned, they served it. And they're like, what do you want? Everybody else is like water, water, water, water.

And I could just see the bartender melting inside. Right. I could see him. So I reached in my wallet because, and this is me seem like a weird thing for you guys that don't live in Vegas, but if you live in Vegas, you just carry cash. It's just something that you do because you just never know where you're going to wind up or you're going to have to tip a valley or you have to tip a valley or something. You just, it's not, you never run into a situation. I mean, with women never seem to have money. Women never carry cash. They don't carry cash. They always Venmo. I mean, I'm not saying they're going to stiff you, but they very rarely, like, like,

How much money you got in your pocket right now? Oh, well, right now? Well, I have 400, but shipping all weekend. I have a 20, but it's on my to-do list to go. To get money. I usually keep. How much are you walking around with you? I usually carry between 80. I don't want to be like a target for mugging. Like mugging. Yeah, yeah. But at least a couple hundred bucks.

Yeah. I, I, I, I usually walk around with 10 and ones, a 10 and then the rest 20. I don't organize it's just whatever's in there. Cause something will happen and I'll go do a thing and I'll just have some cash and I'll take the bathroom guy. I'm not giving him one rule of thumb. If you're walking around in Vegas, you got money. And so as I see the bartender cringe and die inside is, is we've got four waters in one cocktail.

I reached my pocket and I pulled a hundred bucks out because the table wasn't going to be ready for at least 45 minutes. We were pretty early. And I took the hundred and I threw it out and I said, I'm going to rent the bar top for a minute. And the guy goes, as long as you want, buddy, all you can handle. And then guess what? Everything changed. Cause I respect the fact that that dude's working for tips and like that was expensive real estate. So be cognizant of the people that work in these restaurants there. Yes. They're there to wait on you. Yes. They're there to help you. But at the end of the day, they're there to make money.

And don't camp on a spot where they're not gonna make money. If you're gonna camp on a table in a restaurant, tell the waiter, look, I know we're camping, but I'm gonna break off a little more just to make sure. Because if they could have turned that table, they'd make twice as much. It is a power move. So be cognizant of that. Be cognizant. Oh, did I tell you? You know what? I gotta load that in. Did I tell you I decided on the power move noise? No. I did. Let me see if I can. I'll find it. Let me see if I can find it real quick.

And I will vote on it while we're doing this. But I'm gonna read the next one you discuss. Look at this. The next one is give people a pass. It says, just cause somebody is having a bad day. You don't know what's going on in that person's life. You don't need to retaliate to what they do. That's for your happiness as much as anybody else's. Cause you can go around looking for reasons to be slighted in this world. You'll find them. Have you ever met people that they're just so lugubrious? They just, there's something always wrong. There's somebody that's always creating problems. John mentioned it the other day. Um,

But here, like, nobody wants to be around somebody that's always bitching. Yeah. You know, we joke around on here, whatever, but I'm generally very positive in life. Yeah. And I don't complain about stuff. Right. Because it's just not worth it. I think that, you know, but you also do have to give people passes. Like, there's times that we've all been through bad things, right? And you sit there and you don't know if they just found out they had cancer or they found out their wife's cheating on them. Yeah.

or kids sick, or you just don't know. So everybody's having a bad day. But let's see who's been paying attention at home. Who doesn't get a pass, Chris? Who doesn't get a pass? Fucking Chili's Chili's. You don't not use Salt Lake City Chili's. No pass for you. You get nothing. Six margaritas. Anyway. So, so again, this is, this is what I think we should go with. You ready? So you say like, you can bring it in, Chris. You can say that's a power move. Oh, that's a power move.

The 300? The 300 noise. I mean, it's not bad. Those guys were in such good shape. I think it's pretty strong. What's that? What's that all? John and I were on the plane back. I called my wife. I'm like, okay, we need the meal plan because I swear to God, just once in my life, I'd look like 300. Oh, because you watched 300 on the way back? Yeah. You did. No, I love it. Have you seen him recently? That's how I look now. Oh, he is now? Did you see Russell Crowe Gladiator? Oh, yeah.

I always tell people I've been prepping for my before picture for a couple months. That's what I'm working on right now. Prepping for the before picture. Ah, great. Now I lost my list because I looked up the ooh noise. Oh, that's a great noise. I think, thank you. It's so amazing. Giving people a pass is, I think, I think that takes a lot of strength of character. Yeah, okay. Look at the person who is speaking to you. Man, carrots. Teach this to your kids.

I don't know how many of my son's friends, when I'll talk to him or whatever, it's over here, it's in the phone, it's all over the place. Look at me when you talk to me. Like if you have kids, here's a great tip for that. I will stop talking if my son doesn't look at me. If I'm talking and he looks away, I'll just stop and stand there and stare at him. And then he feels the dad stare. You know what I mean? He feels that. And then he'll actually pay attention. So yeah, look at who you're talking to. That's a pretty reasonable one. I think it's completely reasonable. Let someone go in front of you in line.

I don't know. Yeah. I got shit to do. It depends. No. I got shit to do. Yeah. I mean, that's a pretty blank thing. Old lady or if someone's got one thing and I've got four shopping carts of stuff. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll give them the store. Grocery store. If you're a man and you got the same stuff as me, we're not one in front of you. First off, let's be honest. How often do you give men a pass in generally all these rules? Very rarely. Very rarely. These rules aren't for like...

in general these are man these are man rules these are man rules for how to exist as a man you know every other man should recognize this like but if you come stand next to a urinal beside me and there's open urinals i literally don't need you to be here anymore yeah wait so when i do that to you and i slap your butt and say hey chris that's not you're not like strangers cool i tell you dude i had a friend of mine that every time we went anywhere to a club or whatever now he'd walk up to the urinal next to me in the middle of busy but restroom who could be like and just go like this

Hey, great penis. At least it's a compliment. You can do that to me anytime, anybody. I'll be happy. Just make it completely weird. When people online, it shocks me.

Right when COVID hit, I was at Costco. And, you know, they had like one line. Everybody's freaking out. It had to be an hour line. And there were these two old, you know, old people. They're 90 years old. Could barely even push their cart. Sure. I go, hey, come right here. Come in front because I was towards the front line. No, like eight to nine people try to fight me. And these are 30-year-old people. Well, first off, that's your real estate. You can do what you want. Do you think so?

Absolutely. They're 90 years old. They couldn't even walk. In the drive-thru, no. I think letting people cut in general, just the concept, because that's now cutting, because it's not your time now. Now your decisions are affecting five people behind you. I don't care. They were 90-year-olds. I'm not saying not to, but I'm saying be cognizant of your desire to be like a savior isn't necessarily borne by all the people behind you. Did you know that they did a study that people, if there's somebody waiting for your parking space,

It takes people longer to pull out than it does if there's nobody there. Of course.

I run. It's instinctual territorial. How can I help you? Can you get out so I can be there? It's like, no, I'm here. Yeah. I'm going to take my time. I get out. I'll do the jog hustle. Yeah. I think that's. Yeah, I think so too. I get out of the space. Yeah. I think I'm generally a very polite person. Like I try to be. I try to be too. I agree. Others. We're all. I try to be too. Again. We're all gentlemen and scholars in this. Cough or sneeze into your elbow. I think that's, that's no brainer. It's fine. Yeah. And like you said earlier, learn people's names. Amidon.

I don't know if I said it right. To be honest, I will correct you. People call me Cole all the time, and I'll correct them. People are like, why do you get so mad? Like somebody bashed me on Facebook once because I posted a thread of somebody. They go, hey, Cole, this is Colt. How may I help you?

we don't have to be a jerk about it hey blah blah blah hey cole can you do this my name's colt how can i help you yeah oh sorry go four times i had to do and pete someone just bad mouth you you need to get a better life you worry too much about i'm like i'm trying to explain that my name's not cole what's the number one thing people like to hear their name name their name that you're going to save my someone's going to be like here's cole's number and then all sudden

Hollywood cult. Hollywood cult. Hollywood cult. That's it.

Our people's names. Next one. Handwritten thank you notes. I think we've already covered that. Yeah. That's a, that's all these things. Probably the highest effort. So I love that. Yeah. I'm a, I'm a huge fan of that because you don't get anything. You don't get anything good in the news or in the mail. Rather. Sorry. Put your smartphone away during meals. A hundred percent. Yeah. Avoid it. You know, I don't even put it on the table. A lot of people go with the face down. It says you're not even supposed to put a face down. Just put it off the table, which is good. And this one is my biggest pet peeve in the world.

Be on time. Dude, there is nothing that says fuck you to everybody than being late. And people that are like, well, I'm always late. Then you're a self-centered asshole. Yeah, it's narcissism. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, but look, there's other, but that does fit in to give people a pass. Yeah.

If people are generally, or if it's like a loose, in my parties at seven, people come at eight. I don't necessarily see that as being late. Yeah, that's, that's, that's being, that's being cool. Yeah. It's being cool. They're supposed to be sure. But if we have something at 1205 and you show up at 1220, like, oh yeah, I didn't think that to me. It's like, I think you owe a text. Hey shit, I'm running late. Well, that's, that's another thing I always tell me. Like, it's another thing. One of my rules, right? Like you were talking about parties. I show up a little bit late, but I am always the first person to leave.

Because number one, I do. No, I am. Shut up for five minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not five minutes. Last one in. No, no, no, no, no, no. First one out. He's like, this is my same investment technique. No, I mean. Last one in. First one out. I'm going to stay for a certain amount of time. John Life O'Gaffer. Dude, scarcity builds brand value. Totally. And if you're in and out, if you're, now, if you're the guy that hosts is like, hey, man, whoa, look at the time. What's going on?

Yeah, sure is tired. I'm just going to clean up a little bit. And you're like, what are we doing tonight? You're like, bro. I'll play cranium. Yeah, don't do that. No, no. I want to be one of the first people out to build brand value. Scarcity builds brand value. Don't overstay your welcome. Next one, clean up after your pet. I think that's a no-brainer. Always RSVP. Now this one is a hot button for me as well.

This is a bed art here in Nevada. This is something that is in the South where I'm from. This is a very big deal out here. An RSVP is optional. Now, let me help you out real quick. If you RSVP for something that is telling the person that is investing and making the money or spending the money to have you there, you are coming. Not optional. Yes. You're coming. That's it.

RSVP. And don't wait until the day before. When you get it, look at your calendar. If you can go, RSVP. Because if you wait until a couple days before, that tells the host, maybe I'm fishing for something better to do. If you don't want to go, just let them go. Let them know right up front. They can fill your spot or figure it out. Let them know. All right. Any thoughts on RSVP with that? Well, it's like that one time I was having John over, bought an extra snack pack. RSVP that out. No, I...

I paid you for that snack. But it's like weddings, right? Like you're a hundred, 150 a plate, you know, that's 300 bucks. What do you do? What do you do? Class question. What's that? So I have a wedding this weekend. Great friend of mine. Lovely guy. Love him to death. Okay. Wedding out in Laguna beach. Okay. Really, really cool guy. Our nanny isn't able to make it now for the weekend. Okay. So Caitlin's keeping the baby and I'm going solo, solo.

We were RSVP for two, but it's just going to be one. Okay. You'd like. Take a date.

Take a date? Chris, I don't have anything going on. Should I pull a Larry David and go to prostitutes so I can go into HOV lane? Take it to the HOV lane. No, no, no. What do you do? That's tough. I think there's always a time things happen, right? No, no, no. This is what you do. You do one of two things. This is what I'm going to say. Number one, and this is something that I have personally done before. When my good friend Kendra Todd got married, my kids got...

whatever, it was terribly sick. I don't remember what it was, but it was something, it was one of those sicknesses that had a name. I don't know what it was. - Cantavirus or something. - Yeah, it was bad. And we had our tickets to go, and we were gonna go to a wedding and everything, we were gonna do this, and we couldn't go. And I immediately hit Kendra and I said, "Please tell me what it's gonna cost." - To fill this box. - To fill that. - Like, let me know what you're paying for me to be there. I won't take no for an answer. I want to pay you back.

She didn't take any money from me, but I think the fact that I did that was enough. That was what I was thinking. And then here's step two. Step two is you just over-gift.

yeah because you're going to save money on the trip because let's see what is case what you know what's it cost to take ailing somewhere she's got to eat something you got to feed her yeah yeah she's your wife so it's just one of those things where that was what i was thinking is to be like i want to pay the replacement cost yes because yeah that's fair they won't they probably take the money and that's why you plan on the over gift that's what i do that's how you handle that situation i think it's good um ask before posting don't just post random stuff on that stupid

I think that's awesome, actually, depending on what it is. Well, you got what it is. If we're out drinking and I look a little drunk and somebody posts that picture, I'm going to be pissed off. Okay. You know, I totally agree with that. Or you don't know if somebody was not supposed to be, which that's their problem. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's a good. Okay. How is anybody stupid enough to go anywhere? They're quote unquote, not supposed to be anymore with the amount of cell phone cameras. It's your fault. Like urban Meyer. Did you think that wasn't going to happen? Getting caught crying on my car on your bar. I mean, you're, you're urban Meyer. You're in a bar called.

Urban Myers. What did you think was going to happen? What did you think was going to happen? No, I think me, I think us three all have good relationships with our wives. Sure. That we can be very open. I think there's a lot of guys that can't. So they lie and say, well, I'm staying at work and. Oh yeah. That kind of stuff. That's what I mean.

All right. Shake hands firmly. Can you still do that? COVID. Yeah. I got to go right to the fist bump with COVID. You know what? I still shake hands. How do I? I still reach for it and people have that weird look. If they reach for it, I will, but I'd rather fist bump. And don't be the guy that holds your hand too long or goes over aggressively. It's creepy. Don't shake too hard or soft because if it's too soft. Don't you love fucking with people sometimes?

This is just a weird out of nowhere, but don't bring your smelly leftovers to the office. I think we actually have a policy. We have a policy at our company here, Simply Vegas, in the employee handbook that says you may not put fish in the microwave. Oh, that's just ridiculous. Yeah, don't do that. That's because John did that once. No, I didn't do it. Yes, he did. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Here's what happened. What happened was I'm walking down the hallways here at one point and I...

this smell that was like just death hit me. - It's unreal. - Death, no, no, no. So I'm like, what is that smell? And I thought a rat had died in the ceiling. So I literally went and got a ladder and I'm poking the drop ceiling up, trying to find this dead rat in the ceiling.

And one of our agents, Chuck, it's his, his tie comes down the corner. And I go, he goes, what are you doing? I go, man, there's a dead rat in here somewhere. And he goes, Oh no, uh, that's my die Kong. I'm like, what is that? He goes, well, it's a, it's a tie delicacy. And some people say it stinks. I'm like, no, I'm like, everybody thinks it's because I'm looking for a dead rat. That's what caused the best.

smelling food. What are you okay with? I'm okay with popcorn. You know what's a weird one? I like the smell of the water from boiling pasta. Sure. That's a good smell. They should make a candle. It's nice and starchy. Make a candle. Good and starchy. Back to the list. Use your turn signal.

Oh, God. Don't not do it. Don't fucking not use your turn signal. They are there for a reason. It takes such little effort. And you'll be sitting at a stop sign with somebody. It's two seconds. It's like, I can go right, but I don't know what you're doing. If you go straight, then great. But if you take that left or whatever, you drive me nuts. And it's not safe.

wash your hands after using the bathroom. I'm not even touching that. If you don't do that, that's not a manners thing. That's just a common sense. Can we talk about the blow dryer, the dryer hands? That's disgusting. Can we stop putting that shit in there? Put paper towels in there. I don't care. Well, you know, it's proven those air dryers spread germs. Put paper towels there. Put a garbage can next to the door so when I open the door with my paper towel at the

Throw it somewhere. I don't have to throw it 10 feet. You'll notice here in our restroom the location of the paper towels and the trash can for the very first time. Right there. And we have a shoe shiner. Our bathroom is real nice. We should do a podcast from there. For the bathroom? Right from there. Park your shopping cart on the side of the aisle so people can buy you. I think that's kind of an open. Ask permission to use someone's first name. No. It depends. I think if you're a child.

I think that's where I draw the line. I think that bothers me when kids look at my wife and say, call her Gidget. It bothers me. I would never as a child say that. I think as a child we assumed it was Mrs. I didn't use adults first thing as a kid. No, no, no. So when did that become okay though? Because it seems like every kid now does. Every kid does it.

Really? Yeah, wait. I'm telling you, man. I'm telling you. I don't know. I don't think any of my daughter's friends call me, hey, Chris. Oh, really? No, I'd be weird. I would have noticed it. It would have been weird. I correct them because I think it takes a village. I'm like, no, no, no. My name is Mr. Gafford, not. Yeah. Or Miss Gidget at the very minimum. Go straight Birdman on it and put some respect on my name. That's it. Put some respect on my name.

You better. Clean up after yourself. I think that's a no-brainer. These are such weird etiquettes. That's why I said the weird list is weird. Some are like high level and some are like obviously you wash your hands after you piss. How many times don't they? Wait a day before sending a snarky text or before applying to a snarky email or text. Time is a great healer. You should wait. It heals all those things. Don't send texts in anger. No, never do that. That doesn't make sense.

Push your chair in when you leave a table. I like that one. Ignore the people who do. Put your cart away in the grocery store. See that? And that's what's wrong with America. When people say, why can't we just govern ourselves? Go to the grocery store. Look at the shopping carts in the lot. Don't tell me, oh, it's somebody's job to do that. No, it's not. They have to take the runner from the back. That's right. If you self-identify as an actual libertarian,

Look at that. Look at that on the list. Ask before bringing a guest. Right there on the list. Not enough people do that. Because here's a newsflash. We all think our friends are wonderful, right? We think our friends are wonderful. I'm going to tell you this right now. There are people that Colt is friends with that think I'm a jackass.

There are people that you're friends with that don't get me at all. And vice versa. Don't assume that your other friends automatically like your friends from other friends' house. Don't you think, though, that for the most part, though, I don't think I've had a single person that has a bad word to say about you. No, no, no. It's not that. Hold. But here's my point. Here's my point. But let me tell you. Let's be honest with it. I mean, people that listen to this podcast probably get the idea that if I have a bad habit, it's that I tend to sometimes dominate a conversation. I understand this about myself, which is why

I have the switchboard. That's why we do this. But at the same time, if your friend wants to go spend time with you, and then we go, and then I show up, you and I are going to be in Egypt land, and your friend that wanted to spend time with you is now going to be shut out. That's a good point. It's not they dislike me. It's that they just want to spend time with you. You got different, also different values. Like I got friends that are way different, but we all have maybe the same this value or that value that you put them together, they're not good.

Your gangbanger friends. I'm talking about the group that goes to the sperm bank with me every Sunday. Great people. Do they have a brunch? Early morning. Doses and mimosas. Wait till everyone has been served until eating. Okay, here's the thing. That's not actually a good edit. That actually is a weird one.

If you're eating all cold foods, then that is the rule. However, people fuck this one up all the time. The actual etiquette from the highest levels, we're talking about the highest restaurants. If people are being served hot food, they're supposed to eat it when they're hot because you as a guest at that table should not want someone to not enjoy their food as it should be eaten and served for the benefit of you eating at the same time as them. You ever find yourself being served last?

Because I don't know what it is. When I go out to lunch, and it's not like, it's like 30 seconds, 30 seconds, 30 seconds for people. And then I'm like 10 minutes behind. Oh, yeah. Oh, here we go. So is that, are we all in a consensus if it's hot? Yeah, it's hot. No, because honestly, that's why Buffalo Wild Wings is on the blacklist, is dead to me. They started a service policy there where if we all go sit at a table, we order four entrees, they bring them out one by one.

As they're done. So like, I guess they just decided it's too hard in the restaurant business to time a ticket. Oh, well that's just lazy. That's just lazy. So, so what happened, what happened was, what happened was we went to eat. My wife's food came out. She's not eating because she's waiting for the rest of us. By the time everybody else's food comes out, her food stone cold. I asked the manager, I'm like, what are you doing?

He's like, oh, that's our new policy. That's our new policy. No. So I haven't been back since. That's bad ticket management. Right. That's just bad. Wait till everyone is. Okay. We talked about that. Be a good dinner guest. If you have certain food allergies, you can mention ahead of time. But if you don't like collard greens or don't do carbs, don't announce it to everyone. Expect your host or hostess.

to make a special dish. I agree with that. Yeah. Don't expect that in any special trip. What do you do when, I hate seafood and it's like you go somewhere and that's all they have. Dude, so are you an asshole to be like, give me pretzel bread? Yeah. We went into Egypt and our lovely friend Hussein was like, I got this great special thing when we go to Alexandria. We ate it. Oh. We went to Alexandria. I thought you were talking about the duck. No, that was, John jumped on that grenade. The duck?

We go to Alexandria and I don't particularly like cooked fish. Like I don't like baked fish or whatever. It's just not something I prefer. But we go there and they were so proud because we went and got it from the market and did all this stuff. And there was other stuff and I found myself eating it. It was actually very well prepared, but I just kind of, I'm of the mindset where I just bury it and eat it and

I just tell people I'm allergic to it and they believe it. Well, you know, I think that's fine. I think, I think ahead of time, but I think, you know, just let people know. And I think if you're having a dinner party, I think it's responsible to get from the other side to ask people if they have any allergies. I think that's right. I think that's a good way to do it as well. So make sure you do that. Add that to your RSVP. So when you get it back, if you have any allergies, let me know. So we can accommodate for that. Let's go to that. Food allergies are special accommodations. Yeah. Whatever you need. Stay home when you're sick.

I'm a germaphobe. Stay at home. I throw people out of this building all the time when they sniffle. I'm like, get out because I don't know. We did that way before COVID. We had a pump bottle of hand sanitizer at the front. Yeah. I'm a little germy phobic, which is fine. Knock before you enter. I think that's a no brainer. Jesus. I don't know. Remember your table manners. Reach out to reach out to other people who are grieving.

And I think that's pretty standard thoughts and prayers. Yeah. Let people get off the elevator first before you get on. Please. Yes. Again, this list. Okay. Well, no, no, no, no, no. But let's talk about elevators again. Cause I think, I think that's a, that's a good one. So,

I think, okay, do you get off the elevator in the order which you got on or which you, when do you get off? No, no, no. That's okay. Here we go. First the door. There's two people in the elevator. Life-o. You get in. Last in, first out. Yep. Last in, first out. Last in, first out on your floor. Okay, on your floor. So the people at the front, they get out first. It's about efficiency. Get out when you can get out. That's it. Free up everyone else's space. Okay.

If I'm on the lower floor, I go to that first corner. If I'm on the upper floor, I go to the back corners. I'm tall, too, so I don't want to take up space, so I get in the back as much as I can. What do you do at concerts? Oh, we got to get on the back. It's funny you were going to bring that because two of my favorite things to do to make things weird. Top five things to make things weird for people, which, again, small joys in my life, rooting people's mystery marriage parties. You don't know practice. Here's a fun thing to do on an elevator.

So we get in an elevator and somebody gets in and you're there with your buddy. You just look, I think I did this to you in Egypt. He did it to me. He's done it to me. So you guys just get in the elevator and just go like this, go, okay, so let me get this straight. Even though it was filmed in Germany, even though they shipped it here, you have to go to prison? Oh, wow.

Just say that. No, I thought you were going to talk about this. We get on an elevator and it's this elevator that it doesn't make sense. It's not that there's floors one through 10 and the first floor is ground. G, two, three, four, five. The elevator was one, two, three, four, five to whatever. And then there was O1, O2, O3 beneath the one, two, three. So we were going to the

third or something like that and i hit one and then it was also one so the people get in the elevator and we stop at a floor that i'd pushed a button for that we weren't getting out at sir sir sir this is the floor you push you gotta get out sir that's the floor yeah i will tell you in all seriousness i will tell you something that i do do at concerts that i love all right

I'm a very tall guy. We're all tall guys. So, you know, I try to be cognizant of my tallness and I try to position myself in a place that is further enough back where I'm okay. Right. But then you're always going to have that person. It's a little taller than you kind of push up and get right in front of you. You know, like you have your established spot and then they kind of push in and create a spot in front of you. Here's what you do. Don't keep punching. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can cure this every, and I've done this every time. This is what you do. You're standing there, you're watching the concert, they're watching the concert. You just lean right next to their neck and you go,

And then jerk back really quick and just keep dancing along to the music like you don't know what's going on. And they feel it and they kind of turn around and look. But they can't prove it. They think it happened, but they can't prove it. And then wait about another minute and a half and then smell good. No, just a little breath right on the back of the neck. And I've done this probably 20 times. They always just move because they can't prove it to you. Are you single? No.

No, you don't talk to them because that would be too creepy, but you just. That'd be too creepy. I like how breathing on the next knock. Because they can't prove it. They can't prove it to you. They can't do it. Yeah, I just end up at the back of the concert. Next one, teach your kids good manners. Always. Teach them good manners. Yeah, your children are a reflection of you. Nothing drives me crazier when I get the yeah kids. Yeah. Yeah, those kids are dull. Like, dude, yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, man.

It's not going to hurt your kids to teach manners. Doesn't hurt them. Doesn't hurt them at all. They're not little adults. They're children. They should be treated that way and treat adult, more importantly, treat adults that way. Sounds your smoke phone at the movies. I mean, who wrote this? I mean, are you that stupid? You're taking a call there. Don't even open your phone in the movies. Help someone who's clearly struggling. I think that that's painfully apparent that that's it. Thank a veteran for his or her service. Um, I look, uh, unpopular opinion. I don't, uh,

I don't make presumptions about what people like and don't like. I don't go up to people. There was a whole Kerber enthusiasm episode about it. I don't know that people are supposed to give a seat up for first class or something. You're just supposed to go up to people and say, thank you for your service. And it's like, well, wait a minute. I don't, I don't know you. I don't know what you did. I don't know what your job, I don't know if you have PTSD from being shelled in Iraq and you don't want to talk about it at this party. Yeah.

It's true. I agree. You know, if you want to talk to me, you know, it's funny. I actually, I actually, I know, dude, seriously, like I did. I'm all about veterans. We give a lot of money to veterans charities here through the office.

I had a dude kind of go a little PTSD on me one time. It was a terrible situation. And I was just kind of asking him about it. Don't make presumptions about people's experiences because sometimes they're very traumatic. Yeah, they're not good. Yeah, I know. So that, yeah, I can see that. That actually happened. But I do believe like in a group setting when anywhere I'm on a game and they're like, Stan, if you gave service, I'm going to clap at you. That's cool, man. Keep us free. Absolutely. Keep us free.

Bring food when you go somewhere. Or drinks. Or drinks. Bottle of wine, whatever it is. Wipe down the exercise machine after you use it. If you sweat it all up, yeah. Yeah, I think we can agree on that one. Take your shopping cart back to the corral. I think we already addressed that.

Don't groom yourself in public. Yeah. What do you mean by that? I mean, it says don't clip your nails, brush your hair, floss. Okay. Who's going to floss? What kind of psychopath is going to floss in public? Come on. You're not doing that. Skip controversial or nosy topics at parties. Makes a lot of sense. Yep. Learn to say you're sorry. Be the bigger person. Totally agree. Okay.

When you enter... I don't believe to say sorry when you're not in the wrong. You know what's funny? Actually, I was talking to one of our guys today. I was talking to one of the guys that works for us in management, and we were trying to get something moved, and we couldn't get it moved. He had nothing to do with it. We're at the mercy of the schedule of somebody else. And...

He called me and goes, man, I talked to them. They refused to move it. They can't do it. They're very big on their logistics. It's timed out to the second. They won't move it. He goes, man, I'm really sorry. I go, why are you apologizing? You didn't do it. It's not your fault. It's a nice city. But it's not, though, because if you're somebody that just apologizes for everything, whether you have fault in it or not, when you actually do screw up, it minimizes. Oh, Jeepers, sorry there. Hey, sorry. My son apologized a lot. And I'm like, you're not apologizing. You did nothing wrong. Is this 56th?

We're close. Yeah, we're close to being done, believe it or not. We're on 54 and 57. We're a little over, so we're going to move. When you enter a room, greet everyone. I think that's nice. Return phone calls. I like that. Love it.

Never show up empty handed. I like that one as well. Same with bring food. Always take them. Be a pleasant house guest is the last one. 100%. So anyway, you know, look. Food for thought. To wrap all that stuff up, man, there's nothing wrong with having good manners. I mean, if you are kind to others, you are aware. It shows people that you are aware of the world around you. You're not just focused on yourself. The world does not rotate around you. And I think it's a good thing to do. Make your life easier. Make your life way easier. People will do stuff for you. It is.

Well, guys, I hope you learned something today. I hope you got something out of it. And yeah, man, remember, if you like what we do here, make sure that you tell a friend. If you hate it, tell two because it don't matter if they're talking good or bad about you. What is it, Colton? As long as they're talking. As long as they're talking. That's it. Hey, it's John Gafford. If you want to catch up more and see what we're doing, you can always go to thejohngafford.com where we'll share any links that we have things we talked about on the show as well as links to the YouTube where you can watch us live.

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