The Armstrong and Getty show. Hey where did we go days when the rains came? Here's another one. There will be a national shutdown. That is a rumor as well. I think the probability of that is so low. We are already making massive changes everybody. These curves, these mathematical models that are flying around those are based on no changes in our behavior. We have changed our behavior massively. It's going to affect the curves. We're gonna have improvement.
You gotta admit I've not changed my behavior massively, or I'm not even sure a little. But that's because I don't ever do anything. Um, if you do things, maybe you're doing less stuff. And then stuff like McDonald's just closed their lunch room. Just drive through Starbucks has that's a ton of people just But if that's the only thing that happened, I'd be a pretty major change in the number of people that bump into each other on
a given day in a Starbucks and McDonald's. And we were talking last week when they were thrown around the idea of closing bars and restaurants and stuff like that, would you close or not? Last week I was a I'm not closing unless you arrest me Monday, I would have been Uh, I might, but probably not now I might. I don't know. I don't know what it depends on my financial situation. Probably Nick Jameson is wrestling with that
very decision, that very pressure. He's the owner of a club in Fair Oaks, California, and is, as of you know, yesterday, decided to stay open. Nick joins us. Now, Nick, how are you, sir? Very good? Thank you. It's stressful times. Huh, yeah, you can say that. How many folks do you have working there at your place, the San Juan Club? I have I have five, okay five employees and so you're a small bar. Then, so did you did you hear
the same way we all heard? You just kind of heard on the news that you're supposed to close yes Saturday. Our sister useby Sunday when after the governor's press conference, Uh, everybody's lit up that hey, you know you gotta close, and uh we were saying, well, the true that we have to or is the ordering has And then a couple of bar owners in the area here talked and found out that he'd asked us to close, and so that's what I decided, Well, if he's asking, and he thought,
I'm going to ask him to mind his own business. Well, I'm gonna ask, how does this politeness say no? Right, So, as of now, you're gonna stay open, right? Yes? Are you doing anything you're asking people to you know, every other bar stool or anything like that. I haven't been to your club. I don't know the layout, but I'll certainly stop buying my way home. I have a feeling I can picture it, having been in about eight thousand
places like yours in my life. It's a small bar that basically neighborhood and uh yeah, we cleaned daily and we do uh we people come in and there's not a problem. Everybody knows everybody. They asked if I would stay open to my employees wanted me to stay open, and we had shut down about four years ago due to a plumbing problem here that we had to have fixed and it was hard on everybody. So as long as I'm not ordered to do anything like that, there's
a little risk area. It's not like Costco, Rayley's and all the other places that have sort of the supermarkets that are packed. Uh, there's a liquor store opened right here, there's cleaners, open and they get more foot traffic than I do. Um, have you got any pushback from anybody? Has anybody from the county or anything called here, threatened he or anything. No, they have not, but that doesn't mean they won't know they have not. Most I've had about the people that have called me or text me
or Facebook had basically been on my side. There is out there that thinks I'm selfish, self centered idiot. Welcome to social media. Yeah, yeah, we get we get that too, Nick. He's the kind of bar or if I went in there, I could sit there at the at the bar and have a drink and stare straight ahead quietly and be left alone, because that's the kind of bar. I like, yes, yeah, perfect, Yes, none of these complaints though, you know, as anybody said, you know, I'm an owner of business and I think
you should close. Yeah, Jack, I was gonna say, once you're done with your little inquiry, I've got some complex socio economic manners I'd like to deal with. Uh. Nick, who's on the line is the owner of a bar in Ferroks, California that's being requested to close and said no, we're not going to. Uh. What would happen if you had to close for two weeks, how would that affect your employees in your business? Could you bounce back personally?
It would take a while to bounce back personally, I'd uh, you know, it'd be hard because my landlord doesn't wave my rent, the bills are paid, and a lot of my employees would be uh staff pretty well, because like I said, we went through it before for thirty days, and it was it took a while to get everything
back together. It was really hard on him. Yeah. I was talking to a business owner last night, he said, And we were walking the streets of a local town and and uh and looking at all the businesses where they had there were signs on the door saying we're shut uh fro to to further notice. And he was talking about, as a guy runs a business, how thin the margin is of staying afloat. I mean, it's pretty tight. And you talk days weeks, you get it to a month,
you might be out of business. Well for the thirty days, it took me about four months to get back to flush. Wow. Wow. So if you're if you're talking now, you know, so August or July or August, that's it. That's it. Firstly, puts us in a position where we can go out of business. Is there a jar of pickled eggs anywhere in that place? Yeah, yeah, old man, I haven't had a drink in many years, but back in the day I liked the pickled egg Now and then yeah, oh boy, Nick, Well,
if you're coming in, I'll make sure it happens. Okay, thank you, Nicho. Listen, you need to um. You need to develop a novelty drink for these difficult times. The quarantine ee is popular online. Design your own up. Over charge the good folks. We're actually saying, if we have the quarantine e of any type of makes you want and uh you know, if you spend, will give you a throw a toilet paper. We'll get that going. There you go, folks. That's the American candy stare right there,
Nick Jameson. We're out of toilet paper here. Alright, Nick, good to talk to you. Good luck, brother, all right, thank you very much. You got it. These are not simple decisions. If you're a business that okay, it would be good for the public health. If I were to close down, I also will go out of business, and my five waiters, waitresses, bartenders, whatever, who are living paycheck to paycheck are begging me to stay open. Yeah, it's
not simple, No, it is not. Now Congress is working on that near one trillion dollar emergency stimulus plan um. But on a practical level, if I am that bartender, for instance, I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I got a kid or two whatever, I make the rent, but barely every month. How long is it gonna take till Congress or the state legislature, or my county or whatever get
me out of the hole. I'm gonna be early fall. Well, right, and there there are various laws being proposed in various immunis well various parts of the country that you can't evict anybody, etcetera, etcetera. But this is complex stuff and it's going to take a while to grind out. I guarantee it's not as crowded in that bar as I know those kind of bars, as it was my grocery stores that yesterday. We were packed in like sardines of
the grocery store. Yes or as he said, the dry cleaner next door, as more foot traffic than we do. Maybe ought to, you know, get an ironing board in there and press people's pants while they drink. Has it been so long since I drank that pickled eggs are no longer behind the cash registered my favorite bars A little joky there, old timer. Wow, it's just sad, part strong,