I've Had It - Brunch is a Drag

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

Special guest Mara Davis joins the ladies to take a swing at Sunday Funday and Jennifer has a beef with Pump's phone etiquette. Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IveHadItPodcast Follow Us: I've Had It Podcast: @Ivehaditpodcast Jennifer Welch: @mizzwelch Angie "Pumps" Sullivan: @pumpspumpspump

Oh, look at that. Take it. Good job. That was really the strongest. I'm getting better at it all the time. Um, we're at a funeral again. No. We're both in black again.

I don't even notice. The producers always sniff it out. Jen Morton's coming to the funeral. Yes, you're in black too. One of the producers has joined in. It is the funeral of, I've had it, the podcast. I want to air a grievance that I have with you personally. Oh, great.

Okay. I've had it with you in the sense that when we're talking on the phone, yeah, and we hang up, you always put the burden of the hang up on me. You never hang up the phone, ever. Maybe I'm just waiting for something really near about to say.

Typically, I call you on my way to Pickleball. And so right when I pull up in the parking lot, put my car in park, I say, okay, I got it going. I got to go in for pickle ball. And then I'm putting the car in park. I'm looking for my pickle ball bag. And then all of a sudden, I look down like 10 seconds at pass.

And the call still live. And I've noticed it more and more and more that you unfairly place the hang at burden on me. Basically, I'm carrying 100% of the load on the hang-up, terminating the call. And I've noticed it, and I put it on my little list of things to bring up with you that I'm carrying the load of this, and I want you to know number one, I've had it.

Okay. Number two, you're welcome. Okay, I just wanna say in response, I don't give a fuck. But thank you for bringing it to my attention. Fair enough. Fair enough, what have you had it with this week? Okay, I've had it with what I see as a nutrient of everyone wanting to be tipped all the time.

It's true. It used to be car hops and servers. That's it. Now you go order your food, you pay for your food while standing at the register. And then you're going to go pick up your food by the time they have it made for you. And it says, do you want a tip? So you're looking straight up at the person that you're tipping. So if you hit no tip, you're just a total fucking twod. That's right. But it, it just seems ridiculous. If I'm ordering it, if I'm

standing up to pay for it, and I have to pick it up, there's the tip question should never be asked. I went to a bakery to get some cookies the other day. And you know, they have the little glass display. And I see the cookies with the icing and the sprinkles. And I'm like, I'll take six of those. It's her job to put the six cookies in a box, ring me up. She spins the little checkout thing around and there's a tip on it. It's outrageous.

It's a Botox clinic. There's a tip place at everywhere you go. It's all built in this tip. And then you feel like this asshole because I'm a huge believer in tipping. We were both servers. So we are huge tippers. Yes. Great tip. Even if the service is shitty. I'm going to tip big. Right. I'm going to tip big. Yes. Despite bad service. That's what I'm going to do. But there's some skirting of the system. And let me tell you what I think

is going on. I don't think the minimum wage is high enough. Agreed. Okay. So you've got people living below the poverty line and then these corporations that make all these billions of dollars that also skirt taxes because of all the laws that favor corporations and not individuals are putting the burden back on us, where if they would just pay a livable wage, we wouldn't have to tip out the wazoo all the time. Agree with all that. It sounds too complicated for me to really care about too much. But I do think the bottom line is, if you're not providing a service, you don't get tipped. So would you say you're a high information voter or low information voter?

High information voter, but like I'm not going to break it down and like comparing it to tipping. I agree. You're poo-pooing. I'm not poo-pooing it. I'm just like you're poo-pooing. That's bullshit. That is bullshit right there. I'm not poo-pooing anyone except like the boss.

Let's say for example, our favorite restaurant we get to every day, pretty much. Yes, yes, yes. You stand there, you order. They give you your food. On occasion, they'll bring it to you. You have to get your own drink. Yes, all that.

You're not agreed. So that corporation should pay them more. Agreed. And not ask for tip. Tipping everywhere. It's out of control. I went to a concession stand at a basketball game. It was a tip jar.

I worked at a concession stand. Nobody tipped you? At Brink Jr. High School in Morro, Oklahoma. And I worked the little students, the store was a little concession stand. I never got a fucking tip. Back in the day, it would have been unheard of to tip, to even ask or expect a tip at that.

I feel like this is the last five or 10 years deal. I think you tip your nail lady. You tip her hair. No, I'm fine with all those. I'm just like, if the only service you're doing is entering what I'm getting ready to buy in the computer that's pre-programmed, all you have to do is find spinach salad. I don't computer that's pre-programmed. All you have to do is find

spinach salad. I don't think that's a typical action. Let me ask you this when it comes to restaurants and you're dining out and there's a booth, a four-top booth, right? And you see a couple, a couple meaning two, right? Sitting at a four-top booth on the same side. How do you feel about that? I'm immediately fucking hate their guts. Think that they're ridiculous. Same. There's no reason for a couple to sit on the same side of the

bed. And let's break it down. Let me ask you a percentage. You guys go out to eat and out of 100% of the time that you're seated at a four-top booth, what is the percentage that y'all would sit on the same side of the booth? Is it just the... Just two people at a four-top. What's the percentage that y'all are gonna sit... 50? Yeah. Maybe more? I mean, 100% for the picture to send you guys. But we like to sit next to each other. It's fun

I always think in my mind you're just sitting on the same side to torture us But then you go back to being a normal people normal people. No, we stay we stay there times You can hold hands while you eat you guys should try it sometimes you'd love it. No You hold hands when you eat No, no, I would love to though. I probably would hands when you eat. No, Jen would love to though. I probably would. No, it's just going to ride on her. So in the vein of all of this, you know, just gratuitous tipping nonstop, we are going to have a guest on today, Mara Davis, and she has a podcast called Vote Her out of Atlanta, and she has a

lot of very strong opinions, one in particular about the mill that people eat on Sundays. She weighs in on the news like weekly entertainment. She's a mover and shaker in hot-lanted Georgia. Welcome to I've had it podcast. Hi, Moira. Thank you so much. So Mary, you know what, Pumps and I were just talking about and I know a little bird's told me that you've got to be up your bonnet on this. And it is the restaurant culture of you got to tip everybody, everybody going out to lunch on Sundays, which I hear really gets up your crawl. So why don't you tell us a little bit about that? gets up your crawl. So why don't you tell us a little bit about that?

Okay, Jennifer and Pumps, I've had it with brunch. Bottomless mimosa is like, who made that up? It's so gross. I just think of someone without pants on and like, crotch, that how do you feel about couples that sit on the same side of the booth? So you've got two people sitting on the same side of the booth. So you've got two people sitting on the same side of a four top. Are you four against? Oh, no, no, I don't do it. Thompson, I feel homicide a rage when raised. But neither one of us are romantic at all. No, not at all. I like if I went on a first date with someone and he wanted to sit on the same side of the booth, I would immediately say, peace out. If Josh and I went to dinner and he moved over and sat on the same side,

I was like, what the fuck are you doing over there? Yeah. Here's what I want to talk about. And I think you're going to have some good feedback on this. There's been a lot of shit in the news about famous Hollywood types that are shitty to waiters, which I think is the worst. So tell us what you know about James Corden, and we've also heard that Ellen DeGeneres is a terrible tipper, Rachel Ray. Johnny Depp and George Clooney are rooming to be some of the nicest. And also, of course, Harry Styles and the most darling man on the planet, Barack Obama is rumored to be the nicest customer and the best tipper,

but that's no surprise to anyone. But let's talk about the misbehaving, bad James Corden. So he got a lot of shit because he was eating at Balthazar in New York City and you ladies have probably been to Balthazar, right? It's like it's in it's downtown and it's super chic. The tables are very close together. I've been there many times and the service is always excellent, but he was very particular about his omelet and kept sending it back and kind of terrorized the staff. And then the owner of the restaurant went public with it and put it on Instagram. And basically said, you've terrorized my staff.

Don't come back. And I thought this was really great. He has a reputation. He definitely does. And it's always the people who are like the nice, known as the nice people. And so he had a reputation now. He apologized. They let him back in But I think that's gonna haunt him forever. It's kind of great. Yeah, okay. I have two questions on that I love the fact that the owner came out and shamed him publicly. I do too. I love that

I do too, but how do you send back an omelette multiple times? I mean, even I can make an omelette. It's not that hard. There's a lot of do you know who I am? Situation. Let me tell you what a particular psycho I'm married to in restaurants. So, you know, you'll know Josh. And we go to a Mexican restaurant and you know the text and next time where they immediately bring you chips and salsa. Right. It's a media put down. Josh was like, um, can I get some salsa with no onions?

What? Yes. This is like where I just completely glaze over immediately. And I just look at the waitress and I'm like, don't do that. It's not even possible. It's not possible. But wherever, whenever we go anywhere and we place an order, I'm just, I literally have to inhale count to three, exhale count to four. It is like literally like, I'm in labor because he is

such a fucking psycho special order custom order. It's so bad that like we'll be in line to order something. He's like, okay, I want the number four, but remove the avocado, remove the onions, remove this, remove that and the guys like, okay, so you want a number two. Like he can't mirror. Let me ask you this. What do you think about the term Sunday, Sunday? Oh my God, it's the worst ever like fuck Sunday. Like I hate it. I hate the hashtag. I hate what it mean. First of all, what is it?

That is the most basic bitch term. That and foodie, I don't like foodie either. I'm not a foodie at all. Food for me is something that I have to do twice a day to be able to function. I'm like, not this, I'm, you're never going to see me take a photograph of food. Post pictures of food on my Instagram. Josh and I both like to go to dinner early. We like to eat with the blue hairs around five, five, 30 and we dine and dash and dash immediately. We are so, we want to get in

and get out. My oldest son, Dylan, when he went off to college, we want to get in and get out. My oldest son, Dylan, when he went off to college, he went to dinner with friends. And like right after the food, he was ready to go. He's like getting stuff. So when he came home, he said, you know, I realized going to dinner with other people, like they sit and stay at the table and have a conversation.

Jennifer, you have got to get pumps and snacks in your office. Thank you, Mira. Thank you. Is it unbelievable? Like, I mean, I, that is like amazing to me that you don't have like a cracker, a peanut, a fruit bowl, a notch. I don't know if it's that. She has a strict no snacking call. I'm not a fruit bowl. I don't know. She does a snack. She has a strict

no snacking call. I'm not a snacker. I don't snack and I don't want it around because I would eat it. So I just so if I'm gonna suffer every mother fecker that enters Jennifer Welsh designs is gonna suffer. Just as much. Gluten free bread. Stop. Unless you're not silly necksy. So like if you have that, that's different. But like for the nine times out of 10, you don't have a line. The regular bread.

Bad tippers. What is worst? Road testers at drag branches had it. People want to dress and drag, go to brunch, let them do it. Don't even get me. Why do you care? I pause there for a second because this is something that really f**king pisses me off because you all of a sudden, Fox or somebody, you know, one of these nut job news organizations

does something about drag queens. And now everybody's going bananas that drag queens are going to huge threat to society. And I'm not, I don't know everything, but I'll tell you what I do know. I do know that the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts need I go on are far more dangerous places for children than a fucking drag show. Like, this is in the record, the criminal record that this, these are not safe places for children. It is infuriating because I love drag queens. I love drag queens.

I think I will drag queens. I love it too. And so if you don't want your kids to be around drag queens, don't take a drag queens. I love it too. And so if you don't want it, your kids to be around drag queens, don't take your drag show. It's well within your control whether your child gets to a drag show or not. Yes. Here's another one. Smoothies had it. I like a smoothie. I like a smoothie. I'm kind of, I could never have a smoothie as my meal supplement. I could. But like you also have an office with no snacks.

So it does not surprise me that that is your game. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. One mirror zero J Welch. That was fantastic. Right. Let me just let me just tell you this.

Because of all the shit I'm getting about the snacks, I will never purchase snacks for this office. And if I happen to have a soft feeling towards my employees that are here full time, and then pumps is supposed to come here to do a podcast, I will secretly remove and hide the snacks because she will never walk into this office. And just on principle, because you just been, I mean, this is like you're calling me out on this non-stop. I thought that a lot of people would support it,

but apparently I'm just alone on asshole Island Mother's Day brunch. And here's why. Yeah. Okay. I've given birth. Yep. My whole innards have come out to deliver a child. And now my reward is scrambled eggs. my whole innards have come out to deliver a child. And now my reward is scrambled eggs.

Like what? Right. And that doesn't even go into the fact that you've got to dress the kid, you've got to dress yourself. You've got to go make them act appropriately during the lunch. They can't screen, they can't yell. Everybody wants to talk about,

oh, we're so happy you're the mother. Yeah, yeah I'm like do me a favor for Mother's Day take these little fuckers Somewhere where I'm not yeah for the whole day and if you really want to celebrate for an overnight This is the best Mother's Day gift that you can give a mother Leaver the fuck alone right And lever the fuck alone letter watch Netflix. Yeah, let her do whatever the fuck she. Right. Let her be friends. And Lever the fuck alone. Let her watch Netflix. Let her do whatever the fuck she wants to get the children.

Remove them from the house and go entertain them. Mother's Day, get the fuck away from her. Right. That's the best gift you could give a mother. 100% So listen up to all of these men. And why? Why?

Why? You'll see it every single year. When all the marketing arrives for Mother's Day, it's all, let's take Mom to brunch. And it's just like, why? Like, what is this? Like, who decided that this is what moms want? So this is something what we touch on almost with every episode

where you said, who decided this about brunch? Something we're talking about all the time is there is very little oversight on all of the shit that goes down. Somebody somewhere decided brunch was going to be a thing. Bottomless mimosa's were going to be a thing. They were going to start trotting them out, cramming them down. Everybody's throat, mother's day brunch was going to be a thing.

If you don't take your mom to brunch, you're a fucking asshole. I was, where's the oversight? Where did we get to vote? All this shit is happening around us all the time. And there's zero oversight on any of it. Right. Just nobody ever. I'm crazy.

That's our Sunday, Sunday. Everybody's running around on Sunday, Sunday. Let me, I want to, I want to pull, pull everybody in this room. Mara's had it with Sunday funny pumps. You use the word Sunday, Monday? No, not necessarily. I've had it with the phrase

Sunday, Sunday. Probably had it. Okay. Jen and Neely, how do you all feel about the phrase Sunday, fun day? I love Sunday, fun day.

You do. We love brunch. We love bottomless mimosas. We love drag brunch. The only brunch that I can really get behind is the drag brunch. The drag brunch. So you all like to do everything that everyone else. So obviously we're the majority three to one, three to two. You're the minority. I'd say I don't use the term Sunday, but I enjoy a fun Sunday.

Oh, right. And a fun Sunday is having a long, long brunch. Like we'll do like dinners with friends for like three or four hours. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's my worst nightmare. Where would you go to dinner with friends for three to four hours? Yes, I would.

Yeah, Barra. I think I have to say I think that's more civilized. I think it's more normal. If somebody invites me to dinner and the start time is around 730 p.m. I'm an immediate now. Last time our producers were in town, our friend Bogey that owns all of these restaurants in Oklahoma City, he was like, Hey, I'm here. There's this new Mexican restaurant open by you all. Let's go there. So we go at like he said you have to get there early. You have to get there at like 5 5 30 to get a table and I'm like, I'm Down with the blue hair. No, dinner. That's perfect. So we go it's full. There's an hour long wait and you if you look two doors down There's a place and it says pizza bar. So I

immediately adjust. Right. And I say, okay, this place is an hour weight. I'm not if I can do in that. This place is open and has tables. Let's go eat there. Josh Welch was immediately in agreement with me immediately. We go down, we sit down, we have menus. Well, genuinely and Brian Bogart and Tanner are like, no, we want to go to the Mexican restaurant. Josh Welch says, here's the deal. Y'all can go do that. You can change it from a six top to a four top, but we're not waiting. This place is open. We're eating here.

So we eat there. They go down there. They wait. They get their table. And the next day, I was like, Brian, was it good? Did you like it? And he said, yeah, I think they said like if you have to get a table You need to get there by four and I said perfect That's one more guy. I'm fucking perfect 4 p.m. Dinner one thing I love like about this daylight savings thing I Don't feel like such a fucking loser put in my pajamas on it 5 30 p.m. It's dark. It is not fun

It'd be starting to take dark at 430. I mean, it's just stupid. I'll tell you who suffers the most on daylight savings time. Are mothers of young children? I totally agree. I remember that. Remember when our kids were little and we were, oh, it was horrible. We established an episode one. Our toddlers were total fucking assholes. So it was at two. Well, and also you established that like, I love that because you also established as mothers, like we did listening to that. We didn't feel alone counting down the minutes to your toddler going to bed. And it's like, it's starting at five o'clock. I remember the clock started going backwards. You know, it was like taking so much longer because I was like, okay, I've got three hours.

I can do it three more hours, three more hours. But also I had it with babies and restaurants. I remember that. If you're not prepared and you let that kid run wild, well, you can fuck off, then get that kid out of the restaurant. You're a baby on a plane, you have no choice. That baby is on that plane. There's nothing you can do.

It's awful. A restaurant, I have a really huge fucking problem with because I can't tell you how many times we'd load up, go to dinner. One of our kids was start screaming. Josh would immediately pick the child up, leave the restaurant, he'd say, get out, would convert to boxes, and then we ate the meal at home because we had an awareness about how annoying it was to the other people that were out. Here are my two big pet peeves about the baby. Obviously you're in Georgia.

So football is a big deal for you. We're in a coma. A big deal for us going to the first game of the season that is 110 degrees in the shade. of the season that is 110 degrees in the shade. And people have these teeny tiny babies, like less than three months. And I'm like, you think that baby wanted to get up and come to a hundred and 10 degree heat with people screaming. And then they've got the big headphones on the baby. And it's like, you're making that baby miserable. Sit your ass at home or get a baby sitter. It ain't hard.

Like, there's even so much being issue. You know, with you pops, it's the, it's, it's, I feel sorry. People, people have gotten really weird with that. I think like when we were babies, like, parents just didn't give a shit. They smoke cigarettes around you. They didn't like, see ghosts on you. It was just like, they just threw you down in the basement and now people are like so hypersensitive

that they wanna bring their babies everywhere. And it's just, I agree. I've seen these kids at sporting events and concerts. You know, it's even closer, a baby at a music festival. A great, That's horrible. Okay, my other thing that I'm hugely have a problem with people and their kids, like I'm very sensitive because I've had three kids, they act shitty in a target.

You know, if you see a mom and she's got a baby screaming crying, whatever. But it's when they have both parents at like the store shopping and the two kids are out of control. I'm like, there's two adults. Somebody should have stayed home with the kid. Yeah. Like the family grocery shop to me with toddlers is fucking ridiculous. Yeah.

We never took our kids to the grocery store. That's ever. That's a complete lie. We, you and I would, that's a total fucking lie. We would take the whole crew. Yeah, we were, yeah, we would load up and we would take those kids to the gym toddler gymnastics. Right.

And your petri dish, the white suburb. Right. And then we went to the Masio's pizza buffet because it was immediate gratification. Right. And then we'd go to target. We would with the fucking kids. I've done that before in a target Right. And then we'd go to Target. We would with the fucking kids.

I've done that before in a target where my son was little and screaming and I pretended I didn't know I don't know who is that somebody left their kid. Well, I want all of our listeners to know that there is a war on brunch. of our listeners to know that there is a war on brunch. That is great. And headquartered in hot Atlanta, Georgia, by Mara, you can listen to her podcast, vote her and find her on social media. What are your socials, Mara? So I'm at Mara Davis on Twitter. If Twitter still exists for the time of Instagram out. And then on Instagram,

I'm Meredith Davis 2000. Well, ladies, when you come to Atlanta, we will not go for brunch. I will get a reservation for dinner at 530. And we will be done by seven o'clock. I have a little better. Five's a little bit, a little bit more optimal. Oh, yeah, it was great to talk to you. Thank you so much. Thank you. You bring a joy. Lots of joy to a lot of cranky bitches. Thank you, thanks, man. Bye. I love Frankie bitches. That's what we should have named this podcast. If you've listened and endured all of these podcasts that we've done and we're wearing black today for the funeral of our podcast, but if you don't want it to be dead, subscribe.

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