Weird Childhood Snacks & Pickleball Biohacks | Brian Bradley w/ Egoscue Institute (Pt.1)

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Chapters

• 0:55 Sponsor Ad
• 1:41 Kitchen Talk - Hot takes, weird news, and what’s on our minds this week
• 10:09 Just The Tip - Pickleball Wisdom
• 11:20 Pickle Pals - Deep Dive with a Pickleball Court, Club or Influencer
• 24:53 Dink or Destroy- This-or-that debate: Love it or trash it?
• 34:04 News You Can Use
• 36:26 Wrap-Up & CTA - Final thoughts, shoutouts, and how to engage with us

Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00.672)
I had a lot of fun. I was with your wife, correct?

Yeah, absolutely. There's been many men with my wife.

So let me change that. As soon as I said that, Wayne, that's how you get in the state of Texas.

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So in our kitchen talk segment here, what I wanted to talk about, what's your guilty or weird food you ate as a child or maybe even currently as an adult? And for the ladies in the room and on the listening airwaves, if this was something pregnancy related, that's all right as well. But what was the guilty or weird food you ate as a kid or maybe the food you ate that people would think was weird? Let's go.

Are you asking me first? Okay. Well, I don't know that mine is weird. I thought it was normal, but now that I look back, I think we were just poor. Yes. So I have a couple that we used to do. a whole nother podcast. think we have a couple that we used to do and it's like, I thought I was at high T, but apparently again, we just didn't have a whole lot of money. Yes. So like cinnamon toast, not cinnamon rolls.

Yes. Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:25.07)
So toast with cinnamon and sugar on it.

Excuse me, if we start talking about toes, paddle princess is coming.

It's like the last time I had toast was in but it was like my mom tried to make it like cinnamon rolls, think graham crackers and

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

Speaker 4 (02:43.01)
Well, no, she wasn't like that fancy, but I think she tried to play it off like, here's something sweet, when it's like, damn, I wanted a Cinnabon.

Yeah, we used to do that too. would mix like in a bowl the cinnamon and sugar. And then just sprinkle it all over your toast.

Yeah.

But I mean, so graham crackers and milk. instead of cookies, because they were a lot cheaper.

You cannot put graham crackers in milk.

Speaker 4 (03:05.486)
Like I I don't think we had Oreos ever growing up. Hydrox? Those didn't even exist. And then like like butter on saltine.

I love that.

Yeah, yeah, No, that's not weird.

just like rice and butter, like it's all just starch with butter. Cause it just like filled you up and kind of shut you up.

Is there any starch?

Speaker 2 (03:27.758)
Can get this potato with rice on it?

still eat rice with butter and salt and pepper. Oh heck yeah.

But I wonder if like not poor people And pores yes, I wonder if the unpoor has ever had that but I mean I passed it down to my kids like my kids toast and Cinnamon and sugar and yeah butter on saltines like you want a snack go have some me show you go ahead and grip So, how about you paddle princess?

The un-pours?

Speaker 2 (03:49.063)
something about you PP

This is what

Speaker 3 (03:54.826)
So one of the things that we still eat to this day, my dad's father kind of invented it, guess. that be? But I only, that's how works. I I only knew him for a couple of months of my life. He made this dish that as a family, we call it goop. And basically what it is, it's ground beef. It's just fried up in the pan. And then you saute zucchini, squash that's cut up.

Your grandfather? Yes.

Speaker 3 (04:24.446)
and you kinda let it simmer and then you add in cans of ranch style beans.

What are ranch style beans? They're like... Pinto... okay.

Though you would eat them on ranch.

I don't really know what bean it is, but it's in a black can and you just dump it all in, the sauce and everything. And I like the ones with the jalapenos in it, but my family doesn't, so I don't make them eat that. And then you just put the lid on it and let it simmer for hours. And then you come back and you just get yourself a tortilla, put it in there, put some mayonnaise on top of it, roll it up and eat it like a burrito.

Until the mayonnaise it sounded like chill It sounded like chili up until the mayonnaise no wait mayonnaise on a tortilla.

Speaker 2 (04:56.482)
Pan-A's.

Speaker 3 (05:02.306)
You just put it on top with some ranch dressing on it? Ugh,

Manny's and beans?

It's really good and it's a lot like I understand sounds like chilly, but it's a lot

No, chili doesn't have beans.

doesn't have mayonnaise.

Speaker 3 (05:14.734)
It's delicious. That's why it's not chili. But I guess one of the weird things that I ate not growing up, but when I was pregnant, I would eat toast with peanut butter on it, jalapenos, and Tabasco sauce. And I ate that multiple times a day.

That's nasty.

For any toast companies out there you want to sponsor us. Toast on every episode pretty much.

my god,

I didn't realize I ate toast that much.

Speaker 2 (05:40.276)
I guess not. Okay, so this came up for me because we had pancakes and I remember back to a time as a youngster and I got this from my grandfather of all people was ketchup on pancakes.

Yeah, that is the most disgusting thing ever. not. Now, we would put sugar on our pancakes instead of syrup, and I still do that to this day.

But honey, like if we ran out of syrup.

pancakes, buttermilk pancakes, butter, and then... Why?

Why the dad?

Speaker 3 (06:08.622)
I'm not even a fan of ketchup though. I don't like ketchup mixed with mayonnaise but not mm-mm. Especially not on pancakes. Yeah.

Go

Speaker 4 (06:12.238)
big fan of Ketchy.

Speaker 2 (06:18.274)
What did you?

What is the reasoning? I know people say chicken and waffle. I've never had chicken and waffles.

Yeah, yeah, it's a sweet and savory. it's delicious. Well, being that we're all talking about pours, did you all ever have to put water in your ketchup bottles to make it last longer?

I don't know that I did that.

No.

Speaker 2 (06:37.89)
Yeah, but you had to know, like the ketchup bottle had to be marked and nine times out of 10, 10 times out of 10, it was not marked. So you would squeeze it and you would get way more than you wanted and it's all water. So another thing I was, yes, poor, poor. But I didn't know it, you know?

Yeah.

You were more poorer than I was.

Speaker 4 (06:56.308)
Right. think our poor, my poor was just middle class in California.

Yeah, yeah, you guys, you were not poor. You didn't have ketchup on pancakes. How about mayo and hot sauce on just bread?

I don't like hot sauce anyway. But your son made a mayonnaise sandwich the other day and I have lunch.

Nothing wrong with a mayonnaise sandwich, like some good-

And cheese and all the accruediments or croutements or whatever those things are called all the accessories and you're just gonna put mayonnaise

Speaker 2 (07:20.042)
Accessories.

Speaker 3 (07:23.896)
Well, my dad used to do this and I think it stemmed from being in the army and he'd go out to the field and he passed on his horrible allergies and congestion to me, but he would do just a piece of bread, mayonnaise and jalapenos and he would eat as many jalapenos as he could to just clear his nasal congestion. And he still does it to this day.

My dad, my dad did that with cherry coke and chocolate syrup. He did that growing up my whole life. Absolutely not.

What about chocolate syrup and pep-

Speaker 3 (07:51.374)
I've never even heard of that.

about milk in Pepsi? Haha, yeah, did that too.

What about peanuts and Coke? Yeah.

I've seen that. haven't. I've not. I've no, I did try it. like boiled peanuts? No, it's a little salty, sweetie.

I

Speaker 4 (08:06.734)
You and your salty sweet like I

Remember the fireball candies? We used to take those and put them in sprite bottles and then let all of like the coating come off of it and make it Joel just not have shit to do? No. We had a lot to do.

I'm salty, sweetie.

Speaker 4 (08:22.211)
Do?

But I mean you're a kid you try things yeah, no catch ketchup on eggs. Yeah

No, your son does that still to this day too. Salt on eggs is fine, so why not ketchup?

I'm a first.

I don't know

Speaker 2 (08:36.585)
Why not ketchup? I don't know.

I know a lot of people who do it, but I don't even like eggs, so...

Maybe it was like, cause we didn't, I know we didn't have name brand ketchup for sure, but I think I use a lot of things as a vehicle to get ketchup in my body.

I see that, but you don't eat a lot of ketchup now.

no, not a lot now. Just on my pizza and on my cereal. Just joking. And one last one I had that really stuck out to me, Oreos in cold water.

Speaker 4 (09:03.606)
Yeah, that now too.

I've heard of that.

gosh, it's like a menthol cookie. It's like a menthol cookie. Then you're like, why not just buy thin mints? Yeah, exactly.

I'd rather not. I'm like, why not just use graham crackers?

save some money and use some graham crackers.

Speaker 2 (09:16.258)
So tell us what you think, what's your weird food, what the thing you maybe ate as a kid or you're still eating now. Show us a picture, send us all the things on all the socials. Let us know over on bdepodcast.com and the Instagram, big dink energy podcast on Instagram. We do have a fan mail shout out. We actually have a couple of shout outs.

Stillson said, I recently started to play pickleball and found your guys podcast and had to just tell you that I love it. Well, Ashley, we love you too. Thank you. So hit us up and keep commenting out there. Also, I saw Harmony. Harmony listens to us in her car. I'm just gonna imagine Harmony though, that you're listening in the car while you may be eating some cookie dough. There's a story there. I'm not 100 % sure Harmony, but shout out to you for listening to us in the car as well.

We love you Harmony.

Speaker 4 (10:08.11)
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So this tip called stacking. This is a clever and somewhat quirky strategy used in doubles pickleball to maximize a team's strengths and create confusion for opponents. It's especially popular among advanced players, but even beginners can try it out for fun. And I saw this first time when we went to the MLP tournament. In traditional doubles play, each player stays on their designated side, left or right of the court, based on the score and serving order. Stacking now allows both teammates to start on the same side of the court.

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Speaker 2 (11:20.103)
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Speaker 2 (11:25.944)
We're talking today with Brian Bradley, global posture expert, Tony Robbins' personal body guru and vice president of all thing, Egoscue. Yeah, I said Egoscue. You're gonna learn what that is today if you don't know what that is, especially for you people in the back slouching. Sit up tall right now. He's been helping pro athletes, Navy SEALs, and even pickleball players stand tall, move better, and ditch their pain without popping pills or getting all carved up on the operating table. Brian's gonna bring the heat and we're gonna give you all the things you need to know.

to be better in life. So if you're playing five hours of pickleball but can't touch your toes, yeah, this episode's for you. So let's get into it with the man who's been realigning spines and lives for over 25 years, Brian Bradley. Welcome to Big Dink Energy.

Listen, I really appreciate the opportunity here. I had a lot of fun. I was with your wife, correct?

Yeah, absolutely. There's been many men with my wife.

As soon as I said it, went, that's how you get killed in the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (12:19.648)
No, you were, you guys were going for your duper scores or something like that, right?

I got, um, I was in one a week before that. then somehow, you know, everybody has a duper and doesn't have a duper. And I'm like, look, I don't play in enough tournaments to do this, but you know, I play in enough four or five, five, Oh plus, uh, chronic groups out here in San Diego, Southern California, a couple of pro players up in Newport beach, things like that. Went down to Florida, played with the, uh, the Boca surge and they were like, look, these are three things I would work on before you come back for next year. And so I said, you know what? I got to get a duper rating, floating taxes.

and said, well, I'm down here for this Dave Asprey event, speaking on biohacking, how to give the unfair advantage back to the human body. I might as well go ahead and have these two guys do it. So one was a guy that just turned pro and the other guy was the seasoned guy there. And so they gave me a realistic rating, which I really liked. I just happened to be there with your wife and her friend and somebody's daughter was there. And, you know, it was kind of fun because I went into a little bit of teaching mode and kind of calmed them down mentally. Like just relax, relax. Cause your wife at certain points was like,

Look, we're not that good. We're not that good. I hear another. We're not that good. I'm not that good. I'm sorry. Why are you even doing this?

yeah thank you for that thank you for speaking and and

Speaker 1 (13:32.438)
Listen, quit apologizing. It's my set. What you focus on expands. I went there and said, in my mind, you're lucky to have me.

That's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so much of life is spent that way in apology mode or unoffending mode. you know, in some of the jobs that I do, obviously I show up and I'm a big presence in a lot of people's lives on the police side. So I can't show up and say, I'm sorry for being here. No, I got to show up with the S on my chest and say, hey, I'm here to solve your problem and get everything solved right now. Let's go.

that's honestly what I do with chronic pain stuff. And we'll get into that. just shot a, with Jordan Bryant Films, he's doing a comedy on pickleball, which is coming out August 8th for, you know, a pickleball comedy, you know, things that he's doing with a bunch of people. And he had me in there as the referee. I wear a rainbow umbrella hat.

I saw that in your Insta.

That's kind of funny because it gets people to go, well, are you going wear that hat when we play? And I said, yeah. He's like, well, it's kind of distracting. And I said, well, the hat's the least of your worries. The bigger worry is how you're going to explain to your friends you lost to an almost 60-year-old guy who wears a rainbow umbrella hat. And then I put a beat on it because mentally, I've already got him just with the hat. know the rest of the stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:46.798)
That's it. That's why they tell you, you know, if someone had a bad point on the other side of the net and it's your turn to serve, serve right to that person. Cause they're already in their head about that bad energy they just did, you know, the bad play they had. So you're sending it right to them. They are only thinking I'm going to screw up. Right? So yeah, that's, I like the psychological side of things like that.

Yeah, you have to and it's in pickleball. There's two things I think in the long run that are going to be amazing for that. One of them is give me a chance to put your body back in this alignment so that I don't care what paddle you're using, you're driving, dinking with your body. So that was my job this weekend. That was how to play pain free pickleball. Well, prime time pickleball taught how to play efficient pickleball. I'm giving her the body that she can instruct. And then I'm saying,

Get on the power plate for 10 minutes, bend your knees, allow your Achilles to load up with all that stress, which now puts it in a position where it can handle the conditioning that pickleball, you know, is so used to hurting people right now doing that stuff. my job is to get people to realize pickleball never hurt anybody. It's the body you took to it.

That's right. Yeah. yeah. That's such a great call out right there. Cause people show up from all walks of life and they show up, you know, they're coming from all different positions in their mind and their mental game and their physicality too, when they come to it. You know, number one, I'm great that they're coming to it, right? It's a great way to move your body and it's a great sport. And then you've got the community aspect, which is just another amplifier of it. But yeah, I think that people, don't understand. We're in an age right now,

of biohacking that we've never been in. mean, guys like you, guys like me, who've been doing this stuff for a while, it goes back a long ways. But right now, there's so much information out there on it and people aren't picking it up. It's almost like you're choosing to be foolish or ignorant, I guess maybe is a better word, about what outcomes your body could be having, but you're just choosing not to.

Speaker 1 (16:44.992)
if I can title this as, Quit Stretching, It's a Waste of Your Time. And they're gonna go, God, thank God. Yeah, cause that's light stretching. But you do it every day and then you wonder why those muscles are just as tight the next day. How do you start going after the cause versus the effects?

yeah the three hundred dollar paddle is not going to overcome your lack of three minutes of stretching

a $3,000 chair is not going to overcome a $2 ass. Everybody who comes in to see my I ask him if they're on a medication called

Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:14.253)
No assets at all. Exactly.

They're on no acetal because they have no ass at all. And I joke with like that, but once your pelvis doesn't become the mover, then you cannot dink softly enough. You cannot speed up with enough spin because you're swinging with your shoulder instead of your whole body. And you sure as heck can't drive at the speed and accuracy like you'd like to unless your hip creates the turn.

Yeah, you're not going to be as light as you think you are or want to be or should be because you're using so much of your frame to carry your body in awkward ways, you know? yeah.

No, after our podcast today, I'll go to the gym to do, for example, just bench press and tricep bicep day. Okay, great. Right after that, I'm going to play two hours of five-oh level pickleball. Now that is not because I'm so good guy at pickleball. I'm not a five-oh. Now I'm good, but a lot of people are good. The masses aren't good. The masses of people aren't good. But if they want to get an unfair advantage on how to up their game 0.5 to one whole

score from a 2-0 to a 3-0, you give them to me for an hour and I'm not going to teach you how to play pickleball. I'm going to teach you how to move so your body can play pickleball. Because if you can't move laterally, you start lunging with your arms, your shoulders and your back. Yeah, you may get the shot, but now your weight has taken you, momentum's taken you away from the court. Now that leaves divorce alley wide open. And all I did was speed up down the middle because your partner didn't know enough to move over. You don't see these when you look at Ben and you look at Anna Lee.

Speaker 2 (18:43.054)
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (18:46.974)
And Lee Waters play and even Anna Bright have had the privilege of playing with all these guys except Ben. When you look at them, they don't make mistakes because they're saying my body has to create the shot. And there's too many people teaching technique and they're not looking at the body going to it. My table tennis coach was Stellan Bengston and he had, and I was swinging so hard at the ball. He goes, Brian, come here. And he put a ping pong ball in his hand. Picture that a ping pong ball. Right. And he blew it out of his hand. Super easy. He said,

Why are you swinging so hard when that's all it takes to move the ball?

That's right, that's a great analogy.

Makes total sense. Let the paddle do the work. So I started moving that into pickleball going, let the paddle connect with the ball so that more of the ball slides across the surface rather than catching it at the bottom of the paddle and just flicking it once. I'm catching it at the top, allowing the whole body and the surface to create the spin. Now it has more dwell time. That's one of the reasons why I use the 19 millimeter allows me to dwell in that paddle a little bit longer. Now I'm gonna use the 16 millimeter to go.

I wonder how I'm hitting those since I've been using a 19. I'm going to experiment a little bit. Sure. I don't expect it to be any different because I'm taking the right body to any paddle. I'm not taking the right paddle to a shitty aligned body.

Speaker 2 (20:00.566)
Yeah, no, no, no. You know, in our world now, you know, with the TikTok world, all the social media, we've got the standing desk, the walking pads, all the TikTok chiropractors. So, you know, kind of help us or the listeners go, you know, what's BS and what's real? What do they need to know? Ask better.

questions and then do not fill the elevator silence with an answer. Let the person feel uncomfortable on the other side and if they can't answer, find somebody else's number one. For example, if I said to you, Guy, how young are you? You're 54, so I've got you by four years. I'm 58 and I've done multiple things to blow out my body in sports and all that stuff. Okay, real quick. So you say that your right knee is osteoarthritic and you're going to need a knee replacement by 60. Yes, Brian, that's true. Just a quick question for you, Guy. How old is the other knee?

54.

Speaker 2 (20:48.494)
same age.

So stop blaming the age and maybe the alignment that you're putting it in and get people to understand this. If you have an ankle injury, a foot injury, a toe injury, an overused plantar fasciitis injury, a knee injury, the hip on the same side automatically neurologically says, I need to quote, shut off to protect the extremity injury below to allow it to heal. That's what the body does. That's why the foot turns out. That's why you don't push off your toes anymore. And that's why, you you can't just rest.

ice, compression and heat because the whole rice principle has been upended. Now it's get moving on it. So one of the protocols that I use is fill a bucket with ice, fill it with water and stand on the injured leg. So you close packet at 90 degrees like a boot would and then get up and move around and do our exercises to make sure that your hip on the same side doesn't shut down. Now the cool part about this guy is I can see anybody from anywhere in the world. So I'll tell your listeners this, if you're serious, I'm going to repeat that.

If you're serious about taking care of you and not just buying a new paddle, new shoes, and all this other BS, then I will put it out there to your listeners that they can get a hold of me. You can put the contact information up there at the end. They can send me on Instagram. They can email me whatever they need to do. Tell me where they came from. Cause I love your wife and her friend so much, I'll take 15 minutes of my day and say, let's get on zoom. Let me take a look and I'll give you a whole BS response to say, that's how much I love the sport.

That's huge. Brother, that is so huge. I sure appreciate that. We'll definitely put that up there and we'll make sure people aren't wasting your time either. you your love for it is what comes through. That's what my wife brought home after she met you. She goes, this guy loves what he does because you know, so much of what I do, what she does in her life, we put love in front of everything we do. We love what we do. when you do that, then you're almost guaranteed success because you're going to put

Speaker 2 (22:41.29)
a different level into everything you do when you start loving it. It's like your kids, right? My ceiling is where my kids start. That's their floor because I love them. I want them to achieve more. And so that's so phenomenal that you're gonna do that. So let me ask you, so let's go back in your past. What's one thing that you held maybe as a belief in the past and maybe even some of our listeners still hold as far as health that you've come almost 180 on?

The harder that you work, the better you're going to be. And I think that's the complete misnomer in all of this fitness stuff today. You look at Instagram and I'm on there studying it now just to see where people's mindsets are. When we're the company, when we look at this, whether it's a GOSQ or the Posture RX stuff that we're looking at doing a rebranded, I look at this stuff and go, I can get you to lay down on your back and put your legs up over a couch at 90 degrees after playing. While you lay down on the ground, legs up at 90 degrees, you just lay there and let your body kind of de-rotate.

But Brian, I don't feel like I'm doing anything. That's cause you're not paying attention because I know you feel like you're unbalanced while you're down there. And then you give it five, 10, 15 minutes. starts to rebalance. Now it sets you up for a next day, able to play. I get people now in my circle to go, dude, I can't play more than two days. I'm done. And I'm like, I could play seven and I have you by 10 years. Come on. My pickleball partner, who's a five Oh plus, you know, uh, we play in a higher level tournaments and stuff. If we did it and he, he just had STEM cells done and he's going.

Dude, my body. Bro, you're 41.

Yeah, if 41 is bothering you, just wait.

Speaker 1 (24:14.286)
And remember, they're his kids now, or even worse off, because they were born with a cell phone in their hand.

gosh, yeah. Yeah, the hunching, not to mention all the stuff it's doing to the brain is just, we are so poor stewarding this next generation. Yeah. That's it for part one of our conversation with Brian Bradley. And trust me, we're just getting started. You can catch part two on episode 23. And here's an amazing bonus. Brian's offering our listeners a free 15 minute console. DM him on Instagram, at TheBrianBradley, and say, Big Dink Energy sent me

and he'll hook you up.

Speaker 3 (24:57.486)
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So Dink or Destroy, this is a thumbs up or a thumbs down. We send it over the net, dink it, or we destroy it. Not for us, send it out of the court. So I wanted to bring up something I think everybody in society is fed up with, and that is tipping culture. Tipping, tipping, tipping. So is it time for us to ditch tip jars and tips in general, or is it only certain circumstances? What is y'all's take or the Dink or Destroy on tipping?

I just think if I literally have to walk up to the counter, get my food, go sit down, do everything, then why am I tipping you?

If all you did was punch my stuff into a screen, there's no tip involved with that. What were you there to do to begin with?

Like bellhops and what are the other people called? Take your car.

Speaker 2 (26:02.67)
No

take a car l a s l a s

Absolutely. Have you seen those? They, I mean, they're running, they're hustling there. They have your air conditioning still on. Like they do so much. But I mean, at these like, I don't know, like the food trucks and I'm like, what? Why am I tipping you? Like, what did you do?

Thieves also take your car.

Speaker 2 (26:24.354)
Yeah, and one of the things we've always said, if you own a business and you're charging me, whatever you're charging me should be at a rate that you accept. If you're the business owner, I'm not tipping you.

Yeah. I don't tip owners. You know what also bothers me? Say it. As a business owner, my job is to pay wages. Yeah. But if you're in the restaurant or whatever industry, your customers are helping pay your wages. Yeah. Because the company gets to pay a lower wage to, say, a waitress. Right. Right. Because the customers are making up. I don't like that. Why? I don't like the fact that

They're filling in.

Speaker 4 (27:04.982)
their business doesn't have to pay full wages. that's not. Like if I, if I did that in my business and I was like, okay, well the coaches only make $2 and 45 cents, but if they're good, they can get tips. And, and the thing is, is my coaches would definitely get tips. the point is, is I'm the business owner. I take the risk. I have, you know, the profit and loss I have.

Yeah, what if you ran that in your business?

Speaker 2 (27:17.706)
The parents can tip him.

Speaker 4 (27:29.614)
the income coming in. It's not like they're charging. AC, Yeah, they're not charging me less for their sizzler platter. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not like, only pay our waitresses $2.15. That's why we can keep your, you know, two for 20, you know, only $5. Yeah. But they're charging.

Yeah, I think if they have you know, because I look at the sky waitresses The ladies that work on the airlines sort us. Yeah

Quite attendant, I'm sorry.

waitress. You have some specialty training, but I mean, why are you getting a salary? Why? Wait, you- Oh, no, no, no, no, no. But what if, what if we flipped it around and we tip them if they did a good job? Will we get better service on the airplane? Cause I think they just go through the motions. Here's your, here's your half a can of soda. It's a bother if I had to pour the full can for you.

You tip those people?

Speaker 4 (28:17.002)
Just give me the whole damn coke. Yeah, I usually say that I'm like I'll take the whole cranberry apple right whatever

But everything's a bother and I get it. You got 300 people in a metal tube going, you know, 30,000 feet, but you're a sky waitress. why, why aren't you? Yeah. Why aren't you being tipped?

your whole job like make it fun yeah I just I go ahead

I just, think it's gone too far. And I think it's gone too far with the industries that now expect tips. I mean, of course you're going to tip your waitress, the bellhop occasionally, if they're kind, things like that. But when every single business then turns the iPad around and it's the, you know, 15, 20, 25%. Do you want to add it? I'm at the counter. You're doing nothing but ringing me up and somebody else is cooking the food. Yeah.

It's not even the cook's back.

Speaker 2 (29:02.912)
This is how it goes. It's going to ask you a question.

I'm like, you know what question it is.

You know what question it is. I like-

I was just saying, if I order to go and I go into the business and I pick it up, I do tip the hostesses. Hostesses? Hostess.

Post-I.

Speaker 2 (29:19.694)
Hahaha!

because they put everything together, they put it in the bag, you know, they give you the silverware and all of that. So they do do extra work rather than if you were there. So I do give that extra tip, but I feel like every single industry is now expecting you to tip them. And I'm going, you aren't doing anything above and beyond in your job to.

That's what I thought tipping used to be, was like, you paid them if they did above and beyond. Gave great service, but now we're getting mediocre service. I still didn't get utensils in my bag. And that's the other thing, like on some of the apps, like when we were talking the other day about the, what is that? DoorDash. And I was like, I have to tip them ahead of time? I don't want to do that. Cause then where did he leave my food? Outside the door at the gym. Outside.

Right, they gave great service.

Speaker 4 (30:06.798)
One of the employees went out there and was like, this your food? And I was like, are you serious?

We'll be sitting out there for 20 minutes.

Speaker 2 (30:13.774)
I'm canceling that. I'm canceling and leaving a bad review and...

That's why I'm saying I didn't have time for all that.

See, I do, I always tip DoorDash because that's basically how they make their money. But I do agree that you should tip after. Because they can pick and choose too. So I don't know like...

I want to see how many fries I have by the time it gets to me. know what I mean?

But in my job, I go above and beyond and provide, not to toot my own horn, but a lot of times I provide excellent customer service. Excellent. Above and beyond what anybody would get in our industry. I would never, like if somebody tried to tip me, I'd be like, no, like I don't even think we're allowed to. I think it's in our employee handbook that we can't. But it's just, that should be what you do.

Speaker 2 (30:46.894)
Yeah, we know. We know.

Speaker 3 (30:58.03)
In your job, you should always want to go above and beyond in. If you're in customer service, if you're in the service industry, if you're dealing with people in the public or private, you should always just want to provide the best service that you can without the expectation of getting paid more. That is what your salary is.

the thing it's like Starbucks is paying their employees a fair wage, a full wage, but an Applebee's is paying theirs $3.50. Like, because you're supposed to make it up. I'm not getting the money from that. Like, I don't know. I just don't like how that works.

Well, and the other side of that is though, think, yeah, I think if you go into those locations where reasonable people should know tips are part of the salary or the paycheck of a person, you better be prepared to tip at the rate that is expected. A hundred percent. And then you can go down from

No, I will always tip a waitress. I will always tip those that I know that it makes up the other part of their income. I just don't feel like I should have to. I feel like you're the business owner. Pay your people what they're worth. And I have gone to one restaurant. was you and I, we went to a restaurant and they don't accept tips because they make full wage. And I was like, that's why this place is like top tier because they gave amazing service because

We above and beyond in this

Speaker 3 (32:02.807)
I agree with

Speaker 4 (32:18.412)
their company expected that from them and they paid them a reasonable wage.

And with paying them a reasonable wage, they also probably had better working conditions. 100%. You know, a lot of these waitresses are just like, they're barely making enough to get by and the company that they're working for isn't helping them at all and giving them amazing working conditions to make them want to go above and beyond.

of times you have shared tips when you're in

Yeah, but I mean I on the other

So if I'm outgoing and gregarious and great at my job and Sally isn't, you know, we're doing a preponderance of the tips. Well, I should have got more tips.

Speaker 4 (32:53.144)
But that's how it's kind of always been because my mom was a waitress and she used to split it with the bus boys But she didn't have to at the time but she would because the faster they clean the tables, you know, they didn't you know make that so I don't know if it's like a thing now that they have to but

Probably because everybody gets a trophy everybody gets a medal. We're all fair for everybody now

But I believe, I think it's Italy. I could be wrong, don't hold me to that country, but I think it's Italy where they don't. And it's almost considered disrespectful to try to tip a waitress or a waiter. I think America has just gotten way too out of control with everything needs a tip.

for destroy on tipping.

I'm gonna start using it in my job. I'm gonna bring it up to the window after I've written you a ticket. See what kind of tip I get on those things. destroyer.

Speaker 4 (33:40.696)
I am not a fan.

I'm gonna destroy outside of like waitressing. Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, mandatory tipping or tipping just because you did your job. I'm a destroy on that. Tell us what you think. Go to BDEpodcast.com. Let us know what you think or go to the Big Dink Energy podcast over on the Instagram. Let us know what you think about the tipping culture. Share your stories.

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They're so cute. I really like They're so cute. Okay, so in news you can use, I was scrolling the internet the other day and I found this really cool article. There is a New Jersey man named Sam and he's known as Mr. Cash Drop. So he has sparked like this whole viral trend and he is going around hiding cash in public.

Awesome.

Speaker 2 (34:56.366)
Mmm.

Speaker 3 (35:03.406)
places and posting clues on social media. I love it. So he's like creating his own little scavenger hunt. Everyday people find money and he's out there trying to ease financial trouble.

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Someone did that at the MLP. really? Thing I saw on the Instagram on the Austin Pickle Roll.

Why don't you tell me that? would have to stop putting ketchup on my pancakes if you had told me.

Yeah, this lady Cassie found $500. What? Yeah. It's in New Jersey. That's really cool. Yeah, I that was really neat. It's good to hear, you know, people doing good things for others.

Speaker 2 (35:27.148)
And this is in New Jersey.

Cool.

Speaker 4 (35:35.522)
Yeah, I love that.

Yeah, there definitely needs to be more good put out into...

And they're just called like he's just Sam. Nobody knows who he actually is. he's like a mystery man out there not doing it for the clout and all of that. He's just known as a man named Sam and they call him Mr.

so that's even better.

Speaker 4 (35:52.814)
He's not giving to homeless and having somebody videotape him and going, look at me giving to the homeless.

Nope, he's just out there being anonymous hiding cash.

I like to think of Sam in a trench coat and a hat, just creeping around. That's my vision of Sam anyhow. Good job, Sam. If you want to be on the podcast, let us know. I think that's a great story to have on the podcast. And then we'll see if you play pickleball, I guess. We'll tie it in somehow. You're a good person, Sam, so I know you play pickleball.

around the city.

Dick Tracy? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:10.478)
Way to go, Sam.

Speaker 3 (36:20.206)
Maybe he does.

Speaker 4 (36:24.11)
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