Escaping the Drift with John Gafford - Mind Your F&*ING Manners, They Equal Dollars EP 18

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

Mind Your Manors They Equal Dollars -The Power Move Episode 18Learn and burn Entrepreneurship from serial entrepreneur John Gafford and his band of mayhem makers. From stripper poles to the oval office, business lessons are everywhere. This Week:Do you have god manors and how that translates to successHow Much would it take Colt t get slapped by Slapped for Cash?Dinner with the Snack DaddyWith Chris Connell and Colt Amidan

from the art of the deal to keeping it real live from the simply vegas studios it's the power move with john gafford back again back again back again boys 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 a peep i think number two was up there number two was up there number one that never entered maybe maybe it was up maybe it was up there but you know what else i gotta tell you something else my wife got on me this week first of all i'm gonna start with this to my left as well that's a good weekend right there

both thought it one of us yeah there you go no but no because she said you know what you're 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 how do you say here we go because i don't get off when people say my last name. This is 40 different ways. 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. 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, you know, I don't care what you call me as long as you just call me. Well, you want to know the realon. 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 of 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 Amadon. I'm sure it is Amadon. 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. Is that right? 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? No, Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada.

Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada.

Nevada. If you're going to work in Nevada, call it Nevada. Nevada. It probably really is Nevada. It's probably. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. Nevada. If you're going to work in Nevada, call it Nevada. Nevada. It probably really is Nevada. It's probably, I think that's a Spanish word. It's Nevada. Nevada. Nevada.

It means whale's vagina. It means whale. Oh, yes, it does. Agree to disagree. Scholars maintain. Agree to disagree. People call me, they'll be like, hey, Canal. Canal?

I'm with Canal. It's like, ah. Do they ever go tris? You know what? I got thrown out of my freshman ian's i got my first my freshman english class in college i got thrown out inc 1101 because i go there and there's probably 600 people in this class and the uh the teacher professor whoever was was teaching is calling off roll the first day because it's the first

day is the only day they ever call roll just to see who's there for that drop whatever so she's ripping off the roll 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 of the vowel ah gafford that's a good way to at which point at the end of the start yeah a great way to start the – Yeah, a 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 talked about it a few years back, though, when that would be something we'd 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 up. Oh, yeah.

I know. For sure. My teachers, stuff they used to say to us and everything, they'd 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 and 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 where I'm from, yeah. That is weird.

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 so it happened? One of them has since passed away and I didn't shed a tear. But 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 math or whatever it was. And me being, you know, I like to feel that they were stifling my creativity. 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 cool 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 him out my dad he deserved it yeah that's all my god i'm basically doing a fashion makeover for these square-ass priests. Yeah, pretty much. Make them 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 salt lake wedding this is surprising to me that he didn't go to chili's no no well okay i try to go chili's number one i try to send cold for you but you know what's not like city chili's you're gonna serve me six margaritas and then tow my car you're tow my car chili's jesus throw it with you but i almost went was like 20 minutes away. City traffic.

So wait, what you're saying now is my honor is not worth a 20-minute drive? My pain and suffering? No, because it was a 20-minute park that's under five minutes. And then they tow your car. So it could be an hour. 10, 12 minutes. Yeah, 10, 12 minutes. 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. A beautiful wedding. You know, John was shocked that there was gay people up in Utah. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

And I don't mean that like, no, not bad, but like. I was surprised that it's as gay friendly as it is. I would think with some of the. Mormon church. I'll say it. With some of the moral compass that is, compass that is really driven out of that place, I would think it would not be very friendly. And according to Colt, it's like top five places.

Yeah, no. Utah's great. It was a 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 were suspenders in both eyes. He's 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 Tuesday. What did I say? Better him than you. Pretty standard old Tuesday. I don't want to try to crash the wedding while my wife's standing by the presence,

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 Rick, 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, he was just a man. Yeah. This guy's generous. And I'm like, Oh, he's like,

what? He's like, what's your Instagram? I'm like, Oh, here's my Instagram. He goes, I'm going to follow you.

And I look and I'm already, he's already, 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. 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 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 to pay you? For this dude to slap? No. The answer is zero dollars. No, no, no, no, no, no.

If you watch this guy's videos, dude, he slaps people. Shadow Realm. Yeah. He puts people into the Shadow Realm. Yeah, but if somebody, like, here's 10 million, you're doing it. Yes. Yeah, you can smack the shit out of him. You can smack the shit out of him.

One million? Yeah. Getting a lot closer. 80,000? No. 80,000, no. No. Really?

Absolutely not. 100,000? Okay. No. Okay, see, Mr. No, no, really? No, no. A hundred thousand. Okay. No. Okay. See, Mr.

Judgy has never seen this. Yeah. Maybe we'll have them in here. That's traumatic brain injury, by the way. Oh dude, for sure. For sure.

That call you like, yeah, no, 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 went, I met a guy in Europe, Colt, 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 you know 20 quid in a pack of cigarettes that's all he needs life is relative life life is relative to everything but then we go to dinner so we go to barry's uh downtown which was great. If you've

never been to Barry's at Circa, 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, Connell came for drink, well 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 going to 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're we are big fans of it and think it's going to go big places it was him and then it was Mike J who is the NFT whisperer, if you will.

This is the guy that when they launch NFTs, Mike handles a lot of the marketing for the pre-mint side of when they do NFTs. And then there he was in all of his glory. All right, go on. My 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, 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 this one this you're like this dude is going to be a beacon of good times

you just can tell when the second they walk in that's his cat right and uh 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. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, lead with that, you know, 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 you know i'm in the entertainment business i handle promotions and some marketing stuff for for some entertainers and uh you're 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 talk about it. I'm not going to talk about it. Yeah. That'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 then 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 the, 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. They think the journey is always easy. That guy had a real story to tell. Yeah, he did. About, you know, things he went through. So very interesting. Not just, you know, him living overseas and all very interesting not just you know him living overseas 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 the 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 it'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 for 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 is gotten to be so cognizant of that. And if you're having the same conversations, and this is what I told Colt 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 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 got to be moving. You got to be pushing around people that want to be better. Because if you're selling marijuana last year and you ain't up to crack cocaine yet i'm not fucking with you yeah because you know you got to be moving you got to be pushing around people that want to be better because if you're not it's crabs in a bucket yeah you've seen that and you've heard that phrase yeah but if you're around the same people they won't let you out well it's like

kenny kenny dillingham who's the offensive coordinator for florida state who you know we all know i love more than a baby is that a football 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? Ed Ogeron. No, but I think it's true. and I tell people that all the time. Try not to get married young. The reason I tell that to people is because at 18, you should not be the same person at 23. You 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 but 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 are 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 dumbasses, you're going, what is this? I'll show you the six. I don't mean to sound, you know, whatever weird day and age to mention this,

but that's why I don't have any tattoos. 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 you know 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 would you i mean i maybe would i don't know don't be that guy i don't like don't be chris i don't. Would you, would you, I mean, I maybe would, I don't know. I don't like,

don't be Chris. I don't like people where like, I went to a corn and system of a down on Friday. I saw that great show. What's funny is, what's funny is he sent me a, he sent me a picture and he was like, look how long the handicap 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? That was also shameful, but I sent it to him. He 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. Which is fun. She's hobbing along. She's digging 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 a not even chevelle they'll wear like a acdc or like a drowning pool or some other band where you're like this is not nearly as cool it doesn't work but see like well for example the renaissance festival was here this weekend and i think that's the magic of the renaissance vessel not the people dressed like the renaissance

you'll see the one dude dressed like Spock out there just for no reason are you a Klingon where are we you're gonna have some meat it happens every year that's that's the advantage of going out there it's funny Ren Faire man I don't wear jerseys I don't wear anything I've just dressed normal when I go to events yeah Yeah, or jerseys. 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. 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. And 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. Me hiking. 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 palate It's amazing

It's so well developed There it goes off the rails This is our cancellation It's a boy Okay Put this in the boy Go ahead Seems like it's going to be

Smart boy Six foot two Go ahead Put that over in the A plus 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 um into the arena i can't i can't go on on this one no keep going 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 gonna go 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. And, yep, I said I was with them when I wasn't.

So back to the Seamans. What's more shameful? What's more shameful? Yeah. Have you ever had to go to a semen place? No. Yeah, I had to. And you're just walking up and there's like four hot 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. I'm going to stroke out uh i think you can judge people who you hang out with right like that's oh that's a moral story oh yeah that's right as you can see i'm a wealth of knowledge because i hang out with chris and john that's that's it no no but 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 you don't want to i think 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 been friends forever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can we just get rid of all of this? Like just get rid of all of this, the shame of not being invited places, the obligation to invite people places.

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, thanks. Yeah, it depends on what it is like it depends because you have different circles that do different things right you have people that you're gonna kind of some kind of people you do

business with or some people you play sports with your sports guy doesn't have to always come to your uh poetry reading or whatever you do um 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, they wear, they come wearing a stupid shoes and they're just paying the ass. Like he's a cool guy.

Just don't need to go hiking with him. You'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 that you have going on it's just it's it's a it's a weird deal man i wish we just let go when you think of the tribe though right the tribe mentality i don't know what that is dunbar's number or what's we talk yeah we've got it's 150 people in your tribe i feel like your loop is coming up chris we've

already talked about this the loop is kicking in and now we're going to go, what is Dunning-Kruger? That's not perfect. Seaman Bank. Squid Games. Squid Games. So are you guys a group that would go to Seaman Bank? I don't know why I'd have to go, Colt. I've had 100% 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 to check. And I was fine. What do you mean fine? It didn't sound... They're like, oh just need to check and i was fine you know fine they're like oh my gosh you know if it was through the roof he would have been like they called me exemplary yeah exactly fine fine means here's the line of okay it's just like one click above that oh you saw my you saw my third child what he came out with it it's just okay

you saw you ever see wine bottles on the shelf and it's like robert parker 93 you know those uh shelves a little lower down in the list they don't have a score on it it's a fine line it's a fine it's yeah it's pass fail at some point just right to pass like to pass mail one zero no but you know what you know what's worse when it comes to friends you know it's even worse than that and 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 just 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 you know bring

somebody i think you know again we're i think we're gonna we're gonna jump into this we've been 24 minutes on nonsense but this brings me it's like the rules of etiqu, you know, again, I think we're going to, 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. You know, I started thinking about being polite today earlier on Instagram. I made a post where I said, Hey, um, you know, elevate your game a little bit. If somebody sent you, send you a nice thing on, uh, you know, text or a nice Instagram, whatever I'll actually, I have nice stationery. I'll write them a letter and say, thank you for the nice things. Or it doesn't think 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 that's 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, you know, 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 from the, 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're up yeah yeah 100 but you see that it doesn't that does that's not as common as you'd think i got reeves i do that yeah but like anytime i go on the airport

you know on the shuttle it's going back and forth you'd be shocked how many people got their hands full with a baby and and people don't it's just shocked that doesn't make sense i mean on the monorail 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 that is horseshit. Because here's why. Manspreading? So it means like don't sit like a – 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 because 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 they're bad waiters. I sit there for a half hour yeah sometimes you have to if you've 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 that's what i need can you uh 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. No, it's obnoxious. Like my great, 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. I'm going 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? Of course. It dumb 20 percent minimum you know what people don't they don't say excuse me i think is is this is this a dying art i don't yes i don't think so i'd say it no i just because you say it i'm saying but i mean again let's let's go bell curve in the middle

it's 80 percent 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't.

No, I'm serious. That's Colt does not use a coaster right now. I hate when people join people in the ADA lines. Yeah. He hates that. No, but I, no. Do as I say. 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. Glass table. No, absolutely not. Yeah, I agree. 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. No, absolutely not. Yeah, I agree. Please and thank you.

Always. I think people are still not. Nope. Smile. Smile. Yes, you're the bank teller, your coworkers, even if they don't smile back. Okay, but you know what? That is not considered sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment. Yep, I agree. And I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm not being hyperbolic. So be careful you smile. I totally agree with that. Sometimes you smile or you're friendly people polite 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 cold but how all the time i do that but then sometimes you get stuck at that rush yeah but then like 40 people but they don't so you're sitting there and you missed 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 to 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. Oh, 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, you were in front of me, come back. You should always, if you're the next man in line, and I'm sorry, I still go old school sometimes.

Yeah, I always fail. If you're 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 night's guard or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Nice watch.

You watch your post and that's what you do. All we're gonna 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 thejohngafford. 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 i'm talking about manners we're talking about how to be a better human being

and 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 it goes around you and not just you you will make more money and you won't lose money if you're 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 you're gonna do business with that guy no oh god no tip yeah no no i always tell my wife i go

you know you well it's not 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's like oh god i'm glad you're cool i'm like wow what i go yeah those people wouldn't even talk to me. I'm like, so that's a mental note about those people in my head. Yeah, like, dude, jerks, whatever. So anyway, 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. Just step up and step outside. Please avoid having your presence interrupt other people's presence. Like, 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'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. I mean, if you were your buddies, you can say, yeah, Hey, got to hit the, got to take a wicked piss up and 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.

Guess what you say when you have to take a call, excuse me for a moment. 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. Like, I don't want to disrupt somebody else. Yeah, like I'm always outside.

How many times do you see me walk outside? John probably thinks I'm weird, but I probably walk out 50 times a day. That's not why, Colt. It's not because you don 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 go 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, no. I have to go wash my hands. You know what else is a good one, especially for business dinner dinner if you're not going to drink and you think they might drink and you want to make it weird i know we've talked about it before when they offer you a cocktail we'll take some of the cocktail menu 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 um you're the kind of person that you can never have fun party with this it's a fucked up thing in our culture yeah 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 100 it's the only drug ever right it's 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 nothing you took 60 speaking of being speaking being out with people that don't drink i don't know if you saw you 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 berries 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're putting us in the private dining room, but sitting at the bar, I mean, that's, that's, that's expensive real estate. What I mean by that is those bartenders make a lot of money off of those stools and make a lot of money. You sitting there.

So a lot of the guys that I hang out with in that, in that group don't drink alcohol there. You know, they did 75 hard. They've made decision not to drink anymore. Some of them are Mormon. They just don't drink. Right. So we walk up to the bar because our table's not ready. And we'd 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, let me 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, it may 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 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, how much money do you got in your pocket right now? Oh, well, right now? Well, I have 400, but tipping 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, I don't want to be like a target like mugging yeah but at least a couple hundred bucks yeah i at least 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 because something will happen and i'll go do a thing yeah and i'll just have some cash and i'll take a couple hundred bucks the bathroom guy i'm not giving him the can. I'll give 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,

we've got four waters and one cocktail. I reached in my pocket and I pulled $100 out because our table wasn't going to be ready for at least 45 minutes. We were pretty early. And I took the $100 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. They're 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, don't camp on a spot where they're not going make money if you 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 to make sure because if they're gonna turn that table they'd make twice as much power there's a power move there is so be cognizant of that be cognizant oh did i tell you i you know i gotta load that in i decided did i tell you i decided on the power move noise? No. I did. Let me see if I can. Did you play it? I'll find it. Let me see if I can find it real quick.

And we'll vote on it while we're doing this. But I'm going to read the next one while you discuss it. Look at this. The next one is give people a pass. It says just because somebody's 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.

Because 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? There's something always wrong. There's somebody that's always creating problems. John mentioned it the other day out here. Nobody wants to be around somebody that's always bitching. We joke around on here or whatever, but I'm generally very positive in life.

And I don't complain about stuff 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 they found out their wife's cheating on them they their kids sick or you just don't know so everybody's maybe just having a bad. 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. Not you Salt Lake City Chili's. No pass for you. You get nothing. Six margaritas. So, again, 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 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. 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. Have you seen him recently? That's how I look now.

Did you see Russell Crowe Gladiator? Oh, yeah. on the way back? Yeah. He did. Have you seen him recently? That's how I look now. He is now. Did you see Russell Crowe in 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. 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, parents, 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. Oh, no.

Yeah. I got shit to do. It depends. 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,

then I'll go in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. I'll give them that. Grocery store. If you're a man and you got the same stuff as me, we're not going to fight. First off, let's be honest. How often do you give men a pass in generally all these rules?

Very rarely. These rules aren't for like in general. These are man rules. These are man rules. These are man rules. These are man rules. For how to exist as a man. Every other man should recognize this.

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 a much stranger's 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 the busy restroom who could be like and just go like this hey great penis you can do that to me anytime anybody i'll be completely weird guy that goes to the urinal and people online it shocks 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. I go, hey, come right here. Come in front because that's 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-through, 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 if there's somebody waiting for your parking space, it takes people longer to pull out than it, 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 mean, I run.

It's instinctual and 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 quickly. Yeah. I think I'm generally a very polite person. I try to be. I try to be too. I agree. I think we're all. I try to be too. I get out of the space quickly. I think I'm generally a very polite person. I try to be a commoner of others. I try to be too. I think we're all gentlemen and scholars in this. Cough or sneeze into your elbow, I think that's

no-brainer. It's fine. Like you said earlier, learn people's names. Amadam. To be honest, I will correct you. People call me Cole all the time. I'll correct them. People are 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? Oh, good to meet you. Hey, blah, blah, blah. Hey, Cole. Can you do this? My name's Colt.

How can I help you? Oh, sorry. Four times I help you? Yeah. Oh, sorry. Four times I had to do it. And Pete, someone just badmouthed. You need to get a better life. You worry too much about shit. 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. Their name. Their name. Not even that. You're going to save my, someone's going to be like, here's Cole's number. And then all of a sudden. Hollywood Cole. Hollywood Cole. Hollywood Cole. That's it. Our people's names. Next one, here's Cole's number. And then all of a sudden, he's a deal-maker. Hollywood Cole. Hollywood Cole.

That's it. Our people's names. Next one. Handwritten thank you notes. I think we've already covered that. Yeah, that's a... I love that. All these things, probably the highest effort.

I love that. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of that because you don't get anything good in the news. Or in the mail, rather. Sorry. Put your smartphone away during meals. 100%. For the most part. Yeah.

Avoid it. You know, 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 it 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 not what you are. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. Yeah.

Sometimes, but look, there's, there's other, but that does fit into 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 short, but if we have something at 1205 and you show up at 12.20 and be like, oh, yeah, I didn't. Like, that to me, it's like, I think you owe a text. Hey, shit, I'm running late. Well, that's another thing I always tell people. 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. Always. Because number one, I do. No, I am. You show up for five minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not five minutes. Not five minutes. Not the last one i do no i am for five minutes no no no no no no no first one he's like this is my same investment technique no i'm gonna i'm gonna stay i'm gonna stay for a certain amount of time john life oh god dude scarcity builds brand value and if you're in and out if you're if you're now if you're the guy that hosts is like hey man uh whoa look at the time what's going yeah sure it's tired i'm just gonna clean up a

little bit 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 i want to be i want to be one of the first people out to build you know build brand value scarcity builds brand value don't overstay welcome next one clean up after your pet i think that's a no-brainer always rs. Now this one, this is a hot button for me as well. This is a dead 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 spending 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 till the day before. When you get it, look at your calendar. If you can go, RSVP. Yep. Because if you wait

till a couple of 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 any thoughts on rsvp with that well it's like that one time i i uh i was having john over had bought an extra snack pack yeah rsvp yeah no i i uh i paid you for that snack but it's like weddings right like you're 100 150 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 guide love 50 a plate. Yeah. You know, that's 300 bucks for two people. 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.

Okay. For the weekend. Okay. So Caitlin's keeping the baby and I'm going. Solo. Solo. We were RSVP for two baby and I'm going. Solo. Solo. We were RSVP for two, but it's just going to be one. Okay.

Take a date. Take a date? Take a date. Chris, I don't have anything going on. Should I pull a Larry David and go to prostitutes like going to HOV lane? Take it to the HOV lane. No, no, no. What are you doing? That's tough.

I think there's always a time things happen, right? This is what you do. You do one of two things. This is what I'm going to say. Give them better. Number one, and this is something that I have personally done before. 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. Tantavirus or something. Yeah, it was bad. And we had our tickets to go and we were going to go to a wedding

and everything. We were going to do this and we couldn't go. And I immediately hit Kendra and I said, please tell me what it's going to cost to fill this box. 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 does it cost to take Ailyn somewhere? She's got to eat something. You've 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. That's fair. They probably won't 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. Ask before posting. Don't just post random stuff 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. Ask before posting. Don't just post random stuff. I think that's stupid. I think that's awesome, actually, depending on what it is. Well, you know 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.

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. Look which that's their problem. Oh, yeah. Look, 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 in my car in your bar. I mean, you're Urban Meyer. You're in a bar called Urban Meyers. What did you think was going to happen 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. We can be very open. I think there's a lot of guys I can't. So they lie and say, oh, I'm staying at work and I don't have a drink. 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 All right. Shake hands firmly. Can you still do that? COVID. Yeah. Cause I got to go right to the fist bump with COVID. I still shake hands. So do I. So I still reach for it and people have that weird. They reach for it.

I will, but I'd rather fist bump. And don't be the guy that holds your hand too long. Don't shake too hard. Don't go over aggressively. That's creepy. Don't shake too hard or soft. Cause 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 I have, we actually have a policy. We have a policy at our company here simply vegas in the in the in the employee handbook that says you may not put fish in the microwave oh that's just ridiculous yeah 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 what happened here's what happened what happened was i'm walking i'm walking down the hallways here at one point and i the smell that was like just death hit me 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 the drop ceiling up trying to find this dead rat in the ceiling and one of our agents chuckets who's 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 he goes oh no uh that's my daikon i'm like what is that he goes well it's a it's a thai delicacy and some people say it stinks i'm like the dirty no i'm like everybody thinks it's because i'm looking for a dead rat is what is that's what is 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. 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.

Two seconds. It's like, I can go right, but I don't know what you're doing. Yeah, it's too straight. If you go straight, then great. But if you take that left or whatever, you drive me nuts. Yeah. And it's not safe. Sure.

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 drive me nuts. Yeah. 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 thing. 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. They're disgusting. Put paper towels there. Put a garbage can next to the door so when I open the door with my paper towel, I don't have to throw it. 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 reason. Right there. And we have a shoe shiner. Our bathroom's 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. Of course. 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 name 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 think any of my daughter's friends call me, hey, Chris. Oh, really? No, I love it.

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. That's why I said the list is weird. Some are like high level and some are just stupid.

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. I think a lot of people 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 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 a runner from the back. If you self-identify as an actual libertarian, go to the grocery store.

Look at that on the list. Ask before bringing a guest. Right there on the list. Not enough people do that because here's it here's it here's a newsflash we all think our friends are wonderful right we think i'm going to tell you 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 don't you think though that for the most part though i i wouldn't i don't think i've had a single person 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. Well, no, no, but 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. 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, 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 this, your friend that wanted to spend time with you is now going to be shut That's a good point. So that, that,

that would be my, 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, that value that you put them together, they're not getting. You're gangbanger friends. I'm talking, no, I'm talking about the group

that goes to the sperm bank with me every Sunday. Great people. And now it's every Sunday. Is there, do they have a brunch? Early morning. Doses and mimosas.

That's a great one. Oh, here's, you know, wait till everyone has been served until eating. Okay, here's the thing. That's not actually a good, 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,

right? For the benefit of you eating at the same time as them. You ever find yourself being served last? enjoy their food as it should be eaten and served, right, 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 I guess they just decided it's too hard in the restaurant business to time a ticket.

Oh, well, that's poor ticket management. That's just lazy that's just lazy so management 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's 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've been back since that's just that's bad ticket management right that's just 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.

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 and in 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're talking about the duck no that was duck john jumped on that grenade we go to alexandria and i don't particularly like cooked fish like i don't like yeah uh baked fish or whatever it's just not something i prefer but we go there and he had like they were so proud because 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 yeah i just tell people i'm allergic to it and they believe it. I think that's fine. I think ahead of time that's fine. And in Rome. But I think 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 do that. Food allergies are a special accommodation. Yeah, whatever you need. Stay home when you're sick. I'm a germaphobe. Stay home when you're sick. I throw people out of this building all the time when they sniffle. I'm like, get out because I don't have germs. We did that way before COVID. We had

a pump bottle of hand sanitizer at the front. I'm a little germaphobe-y. Which is fine. Knock before you enter. I think that's a no-brainer. I don't know. Remember 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. But let's talk about elevators again. Cause I think, I think that's, that's a good one. So I Again, this list has some bangers. Well, hang on. No, no, no, no. But let's talk about elevators again because I think that's a good one. So I think, okay, do you get off the elevator in the order which you got on or when do you get off? No, no, no, no. That's okay. Here we go.

First the door. There's two people in the elevator. LIFO. 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 up everyone else's space okay yeah i'm that if i'm on the lower floor i go to that first corner 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 well what do you do at concerts well okay that's not my car that's funny you're gonna bring that because two of my favorite things to do to make things weird top five things to make things weird for people,

which, you know, again, small joys in my life, rooting people's mystery murder parties. But here's a funny thing. Here's a fun thing to do on an elevator. So we get on 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 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? 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 01, 02, 03 five the elevator was one two three four five to whatever and then there was oh one oh two oh three 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 push the button for that we weren't getting out at oh god sir

sir this is the floor you push. You got to get out. Sir, that's the floor you get out. I will tell you, in all seriousness, I will tell you something that I do do at concerts that I love, all right? 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 that'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. Donkey punch. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can cure this. 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. Yeah. Out of the back of their neck. 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're kind of, they feel it and they kind of turn

around and look and, 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. Right? 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, 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 night. Because they can't prove it. They can't prove it's you. They can't do it. Yeah, I just end up at the back of the concert.

Next one. Teach kids. 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 like, dude. Yes, sir. No, sir.

Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. That's what I'm looking for. I mean, it's not going to hurt your kids to teach manners. Doesn't hurt them.

Doesn't hurt. 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 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 um i don't make presumptions about what people like and don't like. I don't go up to people. There was a whole curb or enthusiasm episode about it. I don't know that people are supposed to give a seat up for first class or something. No, 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. I agree with you. If you want to talk to me about it, I'm happy to talk to you. You know what's funny? I actually, I know, dude, seriously, like, dude, 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, they're like, Stan, if you gave service,

I'm going to clap at you. That's cool, man. Or somebody's in their uniform. 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 with 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 gonna floss what kind of psychopath is gonna floss in public come on you're not doing that uh 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 56 i don't believe to say sorry when you're not in the wrong if you're not gonna say sorry you know it'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. It's a sketch. 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, they're very big on their logistics. It's, 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.

I said, it's a nice, nice city, but it's not, 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's very canadian minimizes oh jeepers sorry there hey sorry sorry about that apologize a lot and i'm like do not apologize you do nothing is this 56 we're close yeah we're close to being done believe it or not we're on 54 57 we're a little over so we're gonna move uh when, 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, look, to wrap all that stuff up, man, there's nothing wrong with having good manners. I mean, if you are kind to others, 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. Life 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 hate it tell two because it don't matter if they're talking good or bad about you what what is it colton as long as they're talking as long as 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,

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