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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Getting clear about the story we tell ourselves (and others)

Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.

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0:00.0	If you're a waiter in a coffee shop, you know it's going to be a good day if Jerry Seinfeld
0:06.7	comes in for a cup of coffee and a Danish. That's because Seinfeld makes a point of leaving a
0:14.0	celebrity tip, a Hollywood level tip. The kind of tip you would expect someone who has 900 million
0:21.8	dollars to leave. Okay, the check is $37. How much tip would you leave? 10.
0:26.8	You go to hell. That's not enough? No. Wait, you moved the decimals. It was a $40 check you would
0:35.8	leave $8 to be 20%. No, it might possibly help me. I'll help you. Because everyone's going to
0:44.5	ask her, oh my god, you waited on Jerry Seinfeld's hair at Jessica Parker. How much did they tip you?
0:49.2	How much did he tip you? What do you want her to say? 20 bucks. Yeah, is that what you want? 10.
0:53.9	Can you just move the decimal point? Okay, wait, you're going to leave. Wow, big shot, big shot.
1:00.0	I don't believe a boss is disgusting. Garage? Volga. Hey, it's Ajay and this is a special archive
1:09.6	episode of the Kimbo. Tipping is a fascinating practice. Primarily experienced in the United
1:20.7	States in restaurants, but it goes way back in history. Tipping the idea that after the service
1:28.4	is rendered, after the check is presented, we will unilaterally make up how much money
1:36.4	we're going to give to the person who waited on us. And as we learned from Jerry Seinfeld,
1:43.2	it's a complicated transaction. Because if Seinfeld is really worried about how people see him,
1:50.0	he's probably not going to make a video explaining that the reason he leaves big tips is because he
1:56.4	doesn't want people to think he's cheap. Do you tip as much when you're by yourself as when
2:02.9	you are with other people? Do you tip based on a percentage of the check, even though it's often
2:09.2	not at all related to the amount of effort that the person bringing you the food went through?
2:15.1	Do you, like many people, tip differently based on the gender or race of the person who's waiting
2:22.3	on you? Have you noticed that tipping is often seen as a lever for misogyny or sexism? Maybe not
2:32.1	intentional, but they are nonetheless. It turns out that restaurants are one of the biggest
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