Michael Regilio

speaker

2,071 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 12 Jul

Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1356: Tipflation | Skeptical Sunday · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And so I will put in a little one defense of the system that a good server can make your day and a bad server can wreck it.

And it is nice to know that if you go to a restaurant very often, it's a place where they treat you really nice.

Again, if you've never been there before or you've been there and you left an OK tip, they're going to treat you nice.

And that very often can make your day.

But I was in the game for 15 years and over a bunch of years, I had a few off days.

There's still a Yelp review or two about me floating around out there.

I remember one said, I'd probably really dig this guy's vintage record collection, but I hope I never get him as a waiter again.

Oh, my God.

And the one that really got me and sticks with me, it didn't even really criticize my service, but it referred to me as Kato Kaelin.

That is interesting you should say that because we're going to get into why they do that.

But as far as me as a waiter, I tried to be the smiliest version of myself.

And I will admit it did suck being a cheesier version of yourself than you really are.

Yeah, I walked right into that.

Okay, fine.

So that said, the itching palm also argued that tipping was just a way businesses could avoid paying their employees a living wage by shifting the burden onto the customers, which is exactly something that you've already expressed in this episode.

Yeah, and finally, it actually argued that tipping was, and this one is something you don't see very often anymore, that it was un-American, that it reeked of that European aristocracy, that having workers essentially beg for an extra coin clashed with the ideals of American society.

Actually, I looked it up, of course.

It's totally still in print.

Wow.

So sadly, though, the itching palm did not turn the tide on tipping and it continued.

Showing 181–200 of 2,071 · page 10 of 104