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I can’t believe he found a way to make anything his wife wants a tax write off. It started with the couch, now if his wife wants a dress. Boom tax write off. She needs food? Tax write off the talent needs to eat. Bro turned everything into a tax write off. Ultra sound pictures in the background, boom the baby is a tax write off. Legendary
See you get it
You have won the internet today good sir.
New way to fund the channel... Nick just has people walk in the background holding whatever they want to be "tax free". And the tax shelter is also free as it is in the background lmao
@@TheFatFilesYour a historian and a businessman!! If someone asks your kids what dads job is...all they have to say is "the cool guy that you wish you knew."
Where have I seen that couch before?
The Fat Electrician is not suicidal, and does not plan to kill himself with a caffeine overdose.
Facts
@@TheFatFileshey nick can you do a video on Léo Major?
@@saltymain Don't ask the man to look for the bucket. He's busy trying to find those deleted scenes!
@@6th_Army true i guess I overlooked that part 🤣
@@saltymain And Lauri Torni, the Soldier of Three Armies
I’m officially requesting a Pinkerton episode cause not enough people talk about their strike breaking or the fact that there was a literal massacre called the Homestead Masacre in 1892 in Pennsylvania.
I second this!We need to hear about the Pinkertons stat
I would love to know the official/IRL story/lore behind the Pinkertons. I only know about them because of RDR2 and I thought they were the game's fictional version of the FBI/CIA/insert other alphabet agency here until I looked it up one day, lol.
I can't remember if it's a bonus or not but the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast did a really good episode about the Homestead strike.
The Pinkerton literally floated down the Allegheny river on a barge, snuck into the back of the still mill and the workers open fires. I think 13 people died in the shootout. 9 are buried in the cemetery on the top of the hill in homestead
@IglooGaming1775 I'm a descendant of a Pinkerton they changed the family name to pinkley at some point to "hide" I guess
"No deleted scenes for you." has got to be the classiest way I have ever heard anyone say that.
Am i the bad guy for wanting the deleted scenes? ^-^
@@jeromethiel4323a little gross but pretty typical
@@nolanbaker2360 Gross? I love deleted scenes from movies! What did YOU think i meant?!?
@@jeromethiel4323 His mind went right to the gutter...
@@Spartan1312 To be honest, my mind owns the gutter. I should start charging rent! ^-^
But i didn't lie, the deleted scenes and outtakes are some of my favorite things about owning DVD's and Bluerays.
"The Lead Standard" sounds so wrong, yet so perfect.
Make a T shirt with it!
And it's not even correct. The US dollar is given an arbitrary value by the Federal Reserve - a PRIVATE Bank which is just the US branch of the central banking system. There is absolutely NOTHING backing it.
The US is using modern day alchemy to turn lead into gold adjacent currency.
Just ordered my first shirt the quackbang duck. I totally would purchase a gold standard < or> lead standard shirt depending how you word it!
Love the ones where people who know, know; and everyone else has to guess……
Well..he's not wrong...
The whole foundation of “if I hold you money for a little longer, I make more interest” is the entire reason it takes 3-7 business days before a refund is returned to your account. Lesson is: If cash is an option, take it.
That's why I won't download any of those "rewards" apps. Yeah, I eat entirely too much McDonald's, and yeah, the deals on there may be okay, or so I've heard, but also, absolutely fucking not happening
lol That's not why refunds take longer.
@@chuckbangers2590 then please do share why
@@chuckbangers2590 then why do they take longer?
US Navy Coffee recipe:
- Folgers, as much as the machine holds
- salt on the grounds
- left over coffee from yesterday in reservoir
- water that used to be salt water
- filter that has not been changed since the ship was commissioned
- stoneware mugs with the ship's name that have not been cleaned since commissioning
- pot that has never been cleaned, if it has it was not rinsed after the scrubbing
- slight smell of fuel/lubricants
Why the salt on the grounds
Water may be substituted for jet fuel if aboard the USS Nimitz.
@@brettbaker8357 helps with bitterness
@@brettbaker8357 Navy tradition, salt in Navy coffee goes back a LONG way.
@@brettbaker8357 Makes it taste less bad? Dunno, but the marching cadence line of "looks like muddy water and tastes like turpentine" is shockingly accurate to the experience of boat coffee in the navy.
America now runs on the lead standard, not the gold standard. One of the most disturbing yet hardest comments I think I've heard
I thought that was one of the funniest things he said...and true.
Now moving to the light standard ( Lazer )
And True if you think about it
Lead….. poor man’s gold
It's worse than that. The money you put into your Starbucks account is depreciating, so Starbucks' coffee prices keep increasing, which means that they'll give you less coffee for the money you initially put in there.
Right idea but I believe you have the wrong direction. The money in the account isn’t depreciating unless there is fee taken out of any unused amount after a certain period of time like with some credit card based gift cards or reward programs.
But it does mean that previously budgeted amounts don’t go as far due to inflation.
@@FoxURA 🤓 "Umm, akshually!" Yeah I get what you mean. Technically. But it's spirit and letter... The spending power, thus value depreciates, but the numerical amount does not.
I love how every single time that Nick tries to do research for an innocent video about something he thinks is cool, it always ends up being a government conspiracy. How do you even get to this point every single time? Its insane.
i dont know its starting to scare me
@TheFatFiles you should do one on chalk and why Japanese chalk is better. It may sound random but I think that would be a video you could enjoy
Probably has something to do with everything we have been told and taught is a lie?
@@TheFatFilesIt's like that joke. comrade, every time I try to make bed, I end up with ak.
Because the difference between a conspiracy and the truth, is usually about 3 years.
I work as campus security, and that line of "they're just going to show up long enough to get a picture for instagram" is far more accurate than you think.
There was a planned "gathering" for environmental awareness or whatever that we got put on high alert for for the fears of things getting out of hand. About 40 students showed up, held up signs, then were gone within an hour. They didn't even gather somewhere where you could be seen by passer-bys. It was all theatrics.
It goes in the other side of the spectrum too. Imagine 50 MAGAites vs one stupid Mexican and a Libertarian at the Texas Capital storming after J6. Somehow the Mexican and Ron Swanson won after a one hour staredown. And I know this happened because I'm the stupid Mexican. Got pics.
I worked for a guy when I was just out of the Navy. He was PhD candidate at CalTech as a Biochemical engineer. One of the smartest people on the planet. Big Pharma got whiff of his thesis, and came calling. _"The money is nice."_ he said, but I like it here and don't want to move.
Over the course of several months they came back often and so did others. Finally he completed his thesis and was awarded his Doctorate.
Big Pharma showed up and gave him everything he wanted and built a massive facility near his house. Infrequently he has to go to the home office to meet the big boss.
If you're really good, they will accommodate you.
Never forget, this is the same company and companies employees who have been screaming about climate change for a decade.
@@ToxicNubs I am old enough to remember that _New York will be underwater by 1978._
I was a kid when I heard that. It seemed stupid to me. What about _Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Miami?
But NOPE, just New York.
I asked the teacher why the government wasn't moving the massive populations westward.
She sent me to the principal's office for being a smart ass. (That became a theme in my primary education)
That year was 1968.
I've been to New York a few times over the years, never had to swim.
I learned _very_ early on, these people are full of shit.
@nautifella I'm glad you see it. do you also see our government using our constitution as toilet paper? violating citizens rights daily? murdering American children by presidential order? giving trillions of dollars of the most advanced military equipment to terrorists who proclaim death to America? allowing a foreign army to invade our country while giving them $150k loans? if you've seen the governments bs for 70 years, why didn't you pick up arms like the 2nd amendment told you to? no offense, but your generation are the ones that allowed this slow inevitable creep towards totalitarianism. your generation is the one that started living way beyond their means expecting newer generations to live like paupers to pay for it. your generation are the ones who supported the patriotic act, arguably one of the worst, most constitutionally breaking acts ever to pass. what we are living in today is a direct reflection of the bs older generations have stockpiled onto us.
The World: >pretending to be mundane<
Nic, clutching his binoculars: _"There's some shit going on in there i don't yet know i want to know."_
Nick "Starbucks is the only business I've ever been to where I'm inside a Starbucks, and I can look out and see ANOTHER Starbucks."
The South "Have you heard the good word about Doller General?"
The Starbucks thing is true in a wider variety of places.
I guess he's also never heard of Waffle House...
It’s not the same, and he wasn’t exaggerating.
Setting aside NYC and other dense urban areas there’s places where a single intersection has more than one Starbucks. For example I know one intersection that has a Starbucks on 3 of the corners and the 4th corner has a Starbucks half a mile away. I’ve never heard of DG having density anywhere close to that.
@@thomastheisman1751I came to mention Waffle House. I know waffles are cheap to make but 7.50 for 3 fried eggs and a plain waffle with a free glass of water, that’s a hard to beat breakfast price in this economy
Dollar General avoids this being true by not putting windows in their buildings & I've never seen two DGs face each other from across the street.
Waffle house on the other hand well you can be in one & see the sign for the next one down the road for sure. But can you actually see the other building or see through its windows into the interior? Probably not, but with Starbucks you often can.
It's on a different level. You could write a rom-com about two baristas falling in love by both working the morning shift at adjacent Starbucks where they look at each other from behind their respective counters doing non-verbal communication for several years before finally speaking to each other for the first time ~halfway through the movie and no one would question if it was plausible.
Starbucks doesn't sell coffee, they sell coffee flavored sugar water. Their customers are not caffeine addicted, they are sugar addicted.
Lost a blind taste test to McDonald’s and Dunkin. They just create fake value by overpricing the coffee and not having any locations in Black neighborhoods.
Yeah, them, Dazbog, and Dutch Bros I call "liquid donut shops".
I call them coffee flavored milkshakes.
Idk man. Their nitro cold brew is pretty good damn potent
"I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe." Lewis Black
God Bless Lewis Black. I miss Lewis Black, what is he doing these days, because I haven't seen anything from him in awhile?
I thought of this when Nic mentioned it🤣
full joke
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I love Lewis and in auburn hills , Michigan back in the early 2000s, there was a huge meijer grocery store that shared a giant parking lot with a target, and for a time, both had Starbucks in the front of the stores. So you could, just like Lewis said, stand in a Starbucks, look across the parking lot, and see someone else in a Starbucks, starring at you. Yes, it is weird to go back to school shopping and find yourself living out a bit you saw on Comedy Central.
Lewis apparently never went to Seattle in the early 2000s.
At one point you could walk in downtown and find a Starbucks at all 4 corners of an intersection. Or go a block over, and find one on every corner of the block.
It was absolutely wild seeing them like that and not putting each other out of business.
Last time I was there was 2012 though, and while they're still all over the place like ants on a kicked mound, there weren't quite as many as from a few years prior.
Please do videos on the following:
-The Woobie
-Jim Corbett the Modern Dragonslayer
-The F-15 EX Eagle 2
-The F-18 Super Hornet
-The Story of John Paul Jones
-The time the US Postmaster tried to deliver mail by Missile.
-The SS Warrimoo and its incredible time hack.
-The great escape of Gene Hambleton.
-The Nutty Bet of Bill Williams.
-The standoff between Steve Anthony and Hollywood.
-The Story of the Lost Confederate Statue "Dutchy".
-The real life story of Michel Dowling from "Blizzard"
-The Xp5 seaplane
-The Romeo Spies of Germany
-The time two sisters repelled the British from MA.
-Mr. Clutty's Monopoly escape tools and the escape of LT Bowling from Stalag Luft III.
-Emma Gatewoods crossing of the Appalachian Trail.
-The University of Illinois "Penny Man".
-Colonel Ohmar's hidden factories.
-The Battle of Athens Tennessee.
-The invasion of Sealand.
-The time Wagner "Wag" Dodge revolutionizes firefighting.
-Millar's "Stork Derby".
-Adrian Carton de Wiart, the unkillable Soldier.
-The Story of SFC Leroy Petry (my friend just met him at a bar).
-Colonel Shoup's Unexpected Christmas Tradition.
-The life of Jim Thorpe, the 20th century's greatest athlete.
-Colthrop's bank sent by mail
-The Ash Street Shootout with William Foulke
The woobie!!!
You forgot
The First Soldier of France Albert Severin Róche
I'd like to add: The absolute mad lad Bob Beamon, the man who broke human limits by just being cool
Jesse Owens, the black man who dominated in track in field in Berlin in 1936 in front of literally Hitler
All of the alternative and nonviolent methods of fighting the Cold War, like in the Olympics or sports in general
How the US used Native Americans with languages that were pretty much undocumented to make their codes
Eleanor Roosevelt
The absolute insanity that is the MLK assassination
The kid who made Australia's ww2 smg in his backyard (Owen SMG)
The Troubles and just... the insanity of some of those pictures that showed people casually going about their day while people with masks and rifles stormed the streets
The Falkland War
The Suez Crisis (that one time the Soviets and the US were on the same side in the 1950s)
How the Vietnam War _actually_ ended for the US and what the scene from Saigon actually was (you talked about it in a podcast!)
The fact the first nuclear test and sustained fission was underneath the city of Chicago during WW2 without really any safety precautions (+ How some scientists were worried that the nukes would ignite the atmosphere)
The conspiracy theories that have actually been proven true, like that heart attack gun.
(I know, it's Soviets, but like, it'd awesome) the story of how Kalashnikov invented one of the most widely used weapons in the world after being wounded in a battle
How Stalingrad held, mostly by getting people to just calmly work in tractor factories producing smgs while being bombed and shelled, then testing their guns by shooting at nazis out of the windows of the factory
Bro came with a shopping list lmao respect🫡
Woobie is OP
10:00 business majors will always ruin everything they touch. The two things that will kill any project are admin and marketing.
So what you're saying is business majors are just like military officers!😂
True. But it goes much deeper than that. Pioneers for example, who created things at of passion as high school drop outs or men that didn’t finish Uni, are now ran by MBAs who care only for the bottom line, but also follows orders from their biggest investors, aka the big 3. black rock, vanguard, or shwab. It goes so much further in US.
16:00 it is, quite literally, a victimless crime. Amazingly, Starbucks is somehow not lying to the consumer. “Give me money now and you can redeem it whenever you want later” and that is indeed how it works. Now, should they be paying interest? Probably. They could even do it through the app. “Hey, you have 300 dollars just sitting here? Congrats you get 30 cents extra every month!”
That's what the rewards points are.
Why would I give away money I'm not legally required to give away? If I started giving interest on that money, then I'd have to start running like a bank and that's a lot more money spent on lawyers needed to follow banking regulations. That's less money in my pocket. If someone wants to give me their money for the promise of a product in the future, I'll let them. Especially when I can just raise the price of my products after they give me their money.
Naw that 30¢ gets you that small coffee for free at the end of the month ✓
At the very least, rewards points
My only reason for ever getting a Starbucks gift card is redeeming my coins at Coinstar and choosing this option to avoid fees. Or somebody gives me a gc because they know I drink coffee
giftcards are scrip and should be treated exactly as such, fully taxed.
all the problems with them are they get treated like they don't actually exist and are made up.
It’s always a good day when the guy with no sleeves makes an educational rant about something that will make a niche of people uncomfortable
I wouldn't necessarily call it a rant? Hes just speaking at the pace and cutting the edits to please the algorithm and ADHD minds lol
@@dmanm85 lol yeah just couldn’t come up with a better term on the spot hence educational rant
In point of fact he DOES have sleeves. They're just not connected to his shirt.
Coffee lovers are a niche, yes, but Starbucks lovers are like vegans. They're everywhere and they'll tell you.
WYM? He clearly has two wholeass sleeves LMAO!
Former Starbucks employee. Small nitpick, some of the Starbucks are actually franchised. Namely, anytime you're in a Target, Fry's, hospital, etc, and find a Starbucks, that's likely a franchised location. Every store that's not in another store though, correct, not franchised.
Similarly former Starbucks employee, I'm gonna nitpick your nitpick. They're called "Licensed" stores. And while yes, they operate independently as employees of whatever store they're in, they pay a licensing fee to Starbucks to use the brand and sell Starbucks drinks. It's legally distinct from the way franchises are handled by the government.
@@jackinthebox301 Thank you for the clarification! It's been a while since I worked for them, but that does jive with what I remember.
@@jdgarrison9913 I’ve had the pleasure (or misfortune, honestly) of working at a corporate store in suburban Chicago and then a licensed store in a small town in Indiana a few years later and then a corporate store again in that same Indiana town. They were pretty similar in a lot of ways. No tips, free drinks, or free beans, though, that sucked lol
The licensed store has a district manager that was a Starbucks corporate employee. He would pop in once or twice a month and check on things. But everything else was handled by the grocery store.
Other than the ‘legally distinct’ part, I’d imagine that it runs pretty similar to a franchise. But I have no experience with working in a franchise operation. So I could be wrong.
@@jdgarrison9913 I've had the (dis?)pleasure of working at a *relatively* small corporate owned cafe store in suburban Chicago in the early 2010's and then a licensed store a couple years later in small town Indiana. Besides benefits everything was the same. There was even a Starbucks employed District Manager who would pop in once a month or so to check up on things. Every supplier was the same, the menu was the same, etc.
I have no experience with a franchised restaurant so maybe the legal distinction is the only real difference.
Accountant here again, It is not taxed until the dollars are spent. As soon as somebody spends their gift card or app balance on a drink, it is indeed taxed as revenue. However, yes, until it’s spent, it is 100% an interest-free loan to Starbucks.
But then isn't the tax taken out of the balance on the card the customer has on file? The tax is taken out but SB will still get interest from their own bank until the balance on the prepay is used up. It might be pennies on the dollar but with the number of stores that they have and the qty of people using the convivence of prepay (and unused gift cards) turns into a very large chunk of change.
@@Lynn-kh5rsWhen the card is used, that is accounted for as revenue, which feeds into net income, which is subject to income tax. Also, any interest earned from investing the customer deposits is subject to income tax.
Was looking for other accountants to mention this in the comments. Was not disappointed! Cunningham's Law works.
This is the type of stupidity that makes accountants and tax attorneys super valuable.
I'm gonna say it loud for the people in the back.
AS SOON AS YOU ADD MONEY TO THE APP THE MONEY IS FCKING SPENT! THEY DO NOT REFUND MONEY AND THE APP CANNOT BE USED ANYWHERE ELSE FOR ANY REASON. SURE YOU CAN USE IT AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS BUT NO OTHER COMPANY. THE MONEY HAS CHANGED HANDS IN A PERMANENT WAY, YOU SPENT THE MONEY.IF THE TAX CODE MADE ANY SENSE AT ALL THEY WOULD JUST CONSIDER ALL THE MONEY ON THE APP AS REVENUE AND TAX IT LIKE ANY OTHER REVENUE. WHEN YOU ORDER SOMETHING ON AMAZON THE MONEY YOU SPENT IS NOT AN "INTEREST FREE LOAN" TO AMAZON UNTIL THE PACKAGE ARRIVES AT YOUR HOUSE. THE TIME PERIOD BETWEEN PAYMENT AND REDEMPTION IS IRRELEVANT. YOU PAID THIS COMPANY FOR A PRODUCT OR SERVICE SO YOU SPENT THE FCKING MONEY!!! REVENUE!!!
@@IanCaine4728the income made on investing those dollars is way more than they’ll ever pay in tax. Most large corporations are crooks-tax law is written by the wealthy for the wealthy & signed off on by whores in Congress -who then get their payola.
As an Italian, I want to remember you that Latte is the Italian word for Milk. Just milk, not coffee and milk
If you come here and ask for Latte, you get a hot milk.
If you ask a Cappuccino, you get the great stuff, really cheap😊👍
I can’t speak for Starbucks, as I have not been there in years. But my local favorite coffee stand when I get an unflavored latte is hot coffee and a little bit of milk and that’s it.
I think it’s the best drink known man is real coffee !!
Was outside Naples, been up all night. Told my buddy I was heading back to go to sleep. He took me to a little coffee shop. The guy behind the counter gives me a little cup of coffee. I look at it and look at him. My buddy who speaks Italian says something to the guy and I get a bigger cup with more dark liquid. My second sip is when it hit me, have loved EXPRESSO every since. And it seems only the Italians know how to make it. Starbucks never gets right.
@@awhoot1I've drank coffee twice. The first time i just wanted to see what it tasted like. It was awful. The second time i drank it it was in a blizzard and we were fishing. Didn't really taste it because i was so cold and it was warmer than i was.
yes that is what i call in portuguese a Galão. and i knew latte had nothing to do with coffee because in portuguese milk is leite. what they are doing is just take italian words and give different amounts of coffee or milk to it.
asking for "Latte" is short for Cafe Latte 😂 so yes
I Love it when Mrs. F.E. shows up! Always putting T.F.E. in his place, Sassy Mama, leading him around by his...Nose, lol😂❤💚
Yup and it actually gets much darker the more you look into it, what they push and promote.
Thanks Nic for bring a little truth in an age of lies.
Take care and God Bless...
US aircraft carriers have a coffee shop with the coffee and syrups provided by Starbucks and the Sailors go through Starbucks barista training, so you can grab a energy milkshake before providing unhealthcare, even in the middle of the Persian Gulf.
The profits go to the ship's Morale, Welfare, and Recreation fund.
Craziest thing I saw in a combat zone was command choppering in a Starbucks for a FOB. Then they choppered in a Burger King a month later.
I wouldn't be surprised if that fund spends all the money on condoms and crayons.
@@Off-HandedBarrelThe Grill Sergeant is everywhere.
I was on USS Enterprise 2010-2013. The line on deployment for Starboard Joe's was so ridiculous sometimes that they had to change the hours because it would block the way to the Ship Store & take over the Fwd Mess Deck. 🤣😂
Capitalism & caffeinated sailors! 👍🏽
Starbucks employee here:
We call Frapps milkshakes half the time. If it says "creme Frappuccino" that's *literally* a milkshake because there's not even coffee in it. It's milk, ice, and syrup in a blender.
Yeah, we definitely have our regulars that actually want a hot black coffee (and we love them), but most folks that come in aren't coffee drinkers, they're flavored drink fans who like the atmosphere, and that's literally the goal according to our corporate. We're a "third place," and that's the highest priority.
(And yes, we love our new CEO. He's fuckin' awesome.)
that might explain why when i go there, the baristas like me so much. i go there to get an actual espresso drink.
my go-to is usually an iced caffe latte: espresso with frothed milk. i like it simple and i want to actually taste the espresso.
"Stawberry Acai with light ice and no berries"
You really start to hear it in your dreams after a while.
That was some psychic recoil I just experienced because of that comment.
So whose idea was it to do that thing they tried where they pretended to be locally-owned coffee shops with different names but they were really disguised Starbucks locations? That was Schultz wasn’t it
Wife always orders a double tall skinny vanilla soy latte.
I don't understand it, but that's what I buy for her. Got it memorized. I never drink Starbuck's - it's gone way downhill.
And in my area, literally NOBODY goes into a Starbucks for said "atmosphere." They're all tiny buildings with maybe 4 tables but HUGE drive-thru setups that are constantly full.
Once you have the consumer addicted to caffeine and sugar, you don't need atmosphere.
I rarely go to a Starbucks but that is certainly true.
The one thing I did take note of is that the people behind the counter are usually awesome compared to the dunkin next door.
@@Michael-ex8lk Only ever been in one starbucks, the people behind the counter where all dye haired Hollier then thou a$$holes that in my opinion where over paid.
Dunkin all day every day. They’re like Starbucks but they don’t mind Black people.
Had an Americano at the Kuwait City Airport back in 2006. We were waiting for our R&R flight to Germany.
Yes, the Army got us to the Airport at 0300 and our flight didn't leave until 1100.
But there was a Starbucks. And it was literally the only place open at KCIA at 0300.
Yeah the military likes to get everyone to the airport early in the morning , I've flown from Will Rogers airport in Oklahoma City a few times and I've seen hundreds of soldiers from fort Sill waiting for their flight
14:37 thats where it got real for me lol
I life in the PNW, my worked for Starbucks for 7 years, and I was waiting for someone to realize everything you just said, Nic my friend...
To be fair, you probably told a ton of people, but nobody could figure out WTF you were saying.
Lol
@ron - Right? This sounds like someone who missed all twelve years of schooling. Perfect attendance record - they never went one single day.
As a current barista, I can vouch for how hard corporate tried to push for us to get orders out of drive-thru in under 30 seconds to a minute. Sounds nice on paper, but it's kinda hard to achieve that time window when people are ordering multiple items on one order (sandwiches, frapps, etc etc..). It was very ridiculous at one point.
That's insane. The car getting to the window can take that long😮
@LoneWolfPrecisionLLC Thats the point. So when they pull up their order is already ready.
Hi Nick from the UK. Thank you so much for this video I am now using it to complete my business A Level coursework and I would have been stuck without you.
0:42 come on, we all know what the deleted scenes are
Enlighten me.
@@mr.x4036
The deleted scenes are the sexy fun times 😂
When they break the only thing that didn't get broken in the assault on their house, the headboard.
Wow, that explains a lot with their "automation" era. They opened a Starbucks in my little town of 5000 recently. It doesn't even have seating. It's not a coffee shop, it's an expensive vending machine. Thanks for the deep dive Nic!
Thats wild cause they refused to open one in our town of 20k. Thankfully. Sadly thats the same excuse Sonic gave even though they're still kickin one county over in a town of 10k.
17:02 Red dead redemption 2 mentioned 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠
I have been saying this for YEARS and EVERYONE told me I was crazy...... I told them read the agreement..... THANK YOU...
“I don’t really scream climate activist…..I don’t really scream active at all.” 😂😂😂
1. Tall (12 oz): This is the smallest standard size at Starbucks (though smaller sizes like Short are also available for hot drinks). Despite the name, “Tall” is a medium-sized cup in most contexts.
2. Grande (16 oz): “Grande” is Italian for “large,” but at Starbucks, it’s the medium size.
3. Venti:
• Hot Venti (20 oz): “Venti” means “twenty” in Italian, referring to the 20-ounce size.
• Cold Venti (24 oz): Cold drinks use a slightly larger cup, at 24 ounces.
4. Trenta (31 oz): This is the largest size, available only for cold beverages. “Trenta” is Italian for “thirty,” though the size is 31 ounces.
Starbucks uses these Italian-inspired names to give their brand a more global, upscale feel. The sizes can sometimes confuse first-time visitors due to the non-standard naming.
When I was young, I worked for a gas station. In a meeting we had once, they straight up said gift cards are better because you get to double dip, so to speak. The money to buy the gift card counts once, and then, since there's no better way to do it, when they cash in the gift card, it counts as money again. I always felt that was like making your own currency, and with what you're saying here, I don't think I was too far off.
It's a 0% loan the customer is giving you. Plus, any money left on it is the company's to keep.
Two fun facts, first all ten of the Nimitz class carriers have a Starbucks onboard manned by sailors. It was thought to be a running joke by the rest of us in the fleet until all hands magazine made a video proving it. Second in the 1880's the Pinkertons actually out numbered and out gunned the U.S. army and accentually became an army for hire.
accentually? It's no wonder this country is circling the drain.
You think that’s crazy? Boston Children’s Hospital, right in the center of Dunkin Donuts country, in a city where you can see another Dunks from the one your at, that hospital has a Starbucks inside. The sheer audacity it takes to do that!
Essentially, the correct world is essentially, not accentually.
@@Princess_Celestia_ yeah apple spell check was being dumb.
I like that you mentioned the "mushy ass" paper straws. I remember when they brought that garbage to our local store in my part of ohio. Their business literally dropped by more than 50% in less than a week. They figured things would turn around and people would get used to them. Meanwhile, their business continued to decline, and at the end of week 3, plastic straws were back in the store.
I wait for your videos like a child waits for Christmas I fuckn love your content nick
Same
🎯 FACTS
Wait until you find out that airlines are also incredibly large banks. I'd wager they are much larger than Starbucks in this sense.
They do have their own credit unions as well.
In addition to being taxed on their air miles given out, Airlines are now being investigated by the feds. In January a bipartisan Senate request was sent to DOT and CFPB to look into deceptive practices.
Whether anything happens or not only time will tell, but the air mile racket might be nearing the end.
@@RussellBeattie depends on how much more money Boeing is able to shell out to deal with whistle blowers.
@@StrifeA217😂
Airlines get bailed out & helped my Gov't since they're in the publics interest. Not saying there's no problem there BUT it's a LITTLE different :/ ... there's corruption everywhere but airline companies are slightly different (as are trains- you should see how much they get bailed out)
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come to Canada. its "common" at big intersections to see a timms on each side of the street..
"It's just fraud?"
"Always has been."
I`m 66, and I`ve only been in Starbucks ONCE to get a cup of coffee. As if the sticker shock of a small coffee wasn`t enough, it tasted like burnt bullshit. Never went back.
im 23 and its the same for me. how do you fuck up a coffee
Obviously you haven't tried a pumpkin spice latte.
They just came back for the season, go treat yourself to one on your holiday!
I like their chocolate cold brew.
I also like really dark coffee because lighter coffee just tastes like murky water to me.
Went to one to meet a friend. Asked for a large iced coffee with chocolate.... the person behind the bar just blinked at me..... I said I'm not figuring out what you call it just make it.... please. Never went back cause of the price.
That's essentially all that American coffee was for ages and still kinda is
5:13 thanks for sourcing the clip... Massive editing quality right there
"Starbucks is the only business ive been inside that i can see another Starbucks from".... so youve never been in a dollar general? 😂
Bro McDogFoods was that experience for me. How do these things keep spawning? Have we not learned. Now they are so confident in their spot in the food chain that they grow... Next to each other? Its terrifying in a strange way
How about mcdonalds?
@TheBlindAndTheBeautiful not only do dollar generals apear across the street from each other, the appear in the same building... AND the litteral middle of nowhere. Ive driven for 15miles between point A and B and the ONLY business i saw was a dollar general at each end of the route lol
Dunkin Donuts anywhere in New England
Someone's never been to a Wafflehouse in Atlanta.
I love how after the taxes video, every commercial has just become "look what cool toy I get to write off on my taxes this year."
I learned about the American Hippo Bill today that was one vote away from being passed and I thought this was a fact you would love. In 1910 Congress was one vote away from releasing Hippos (other exotic animals were being talked about for the future including rhinos) into the swamps of Louisiana primarily as a food source.
The Cheers scene, RIP Harry Anderson, also of Night Court, with Brent Spiner before he was famous as Bob Wheeler (and family).
And that’s how economics work they out smarted everyone
It's not really a unique thing like the video makes it sound. Starbucks still has to pay income tax on any interest earned on the money and also when the card is used as revenue. True it is an interest free loan to Starbucks from the customers, but same could be said for any big business that offers lots of gift cards.
Casey’s is the best coffee/pizza place that sells subpar gas.
I’ll die on this hill.
Starbucks Staff: Wants better pay
Starbucks: Bring in the Pinkertons!
Slightly overkill imo😂
So the Starbucks baristas will never go to tahiti.
@@cavalierliberty6838 Not to worry. Dutch has a plan. He always does
fun fact, there's a Grand Army of the Republic cemetery near Volunteer park on Capitol hill in Seattle with a Private Starbuck buried there.
Cool 😂
And in eastern Washington, there is an actual town called Starbucks.
My favorite thing about any of these videos is when Geniuses(tm) go "All we need to do is nothing, and we'll make insane amounts of money every second of every day. Let's change everything!" and then promptly hemorrhage money and/or go bankrupt.
7:50 Canadian here, I personally know of a Tim Hortons next to a gas station that has another smaller Tim Hortons in it, and both have their drive throughs packed in the morning.
...They're franchised though, so I guess it does count differently.
Robie St. Halifax?
My great grandpa shot and killed a handful of Pinkertons during Bloody Harlan. Never even went to trial. The Pinkertons were hated in Harlan County.
Grandad was an og man góod stuff I'm sure he did us all a service
A branch of my family is from West Virginia. Pinkerton is synonymous with Nazi in reference to people.
*_"PINKERTONS! OPEN UP-"_*
*Your Grampa:*
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This makes me proud to be a Kentuckian
@@bluekoolaid2009 I am by proxy. Dad and grandparents followed Peabody coal up to Ohio, but dad was born in Harlan.
To Nic's wife: your acting keeps getting better and better and I love that. Keep rocking on, your bits on these vids are grand
LOL! I so want to see a movie where Starbucks is the CIA. "Nobody suspects us, we're everywhere, and everyone loves our coffee."
Kind of like Zoolander with models as spies. Barristas? Nope, highly trained intelligence assets.
where do you think that ryan mcbeth dude gets half his information from.
I've thought that about Coke for most of my life.
But... that's true. Starbucks is a cover for the CIA. Why do you think Gates Sr. Gave them the money? They couldn't use taxpayer dollars. They had to make it seem legitimate. Now they can spy on practically everyone without even having a real agent in sight.
Well maybe highly trained assets, but I wouldn't stress the other word.
The Coffee Independence Association.
The Delete Me ad!!! 😆 Mrs Electrician is the best… after my wife, of course. I’m brave, not stupid.
I love when I come here, I not only learn something, but I realize Nic loves referencing the Office with clips , which is also great
5:33 Starbucks 'misspelling' names was the greatest marketing scheme of the 21st century. Oh no they misspelled my name better take a photo of it post it on social media. I'll get likes, Starbucks gets free advertising.
I still laugh at Lewis Blacks "Starbucks across from a Starbucks" joke.
Fun fact Howard Shultz went to Northern Michigan University… just a bit of history not many know about but there are plaques of him at the university. Just cool to know he went to a remote university and is now managing such a successful/global company.
My favorite electricity king ranting about my least favorite coffee shop. This was too good, and shout out Mrs. Electrician for her great cameo.
I'll probably never pay for the service delete me provides but these ads are 10/10 and if I did it would be them
My son works for Chipotle, he said that CEO is really good at one thing, quickly boosting the valuation and the stocks of the company and then getting out before the house of cards falls.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in 5 yrs. I do agree though, more power to him for getting everything last dime out of that garbage a55 coffee company
Its pay day and we got a fat electrician video. About to be a great labor day weekend
Can we just stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that actually work goes into the advertisement section that makes it enjoyable to watch.
LOVE the Wife Commercial👍🏻 ( aren’t we playing Mr.&Mrs. Smith ) 🤣😂🤣😂 I thought that was hilarious😘🤣👍🏻🤷🏻♂️🥰
I will never understand people who drink coffee for the taste.
Coffee is there, so I can ingest my drug of choice in an efficient manner.
Now excuse me as I go drink my three pint beer stein full of espresso.
Goddamn my son are you digging the maginot line with a shovel or what
You must drink shit coffee then.
I spend more money making my coffee taste good than on the actual coffee.
I never have understood how people drink coffee at all. It all tastes like chalk and bitter. And yes, I have had cheap coffee and high end coffee made by people who have trained for years and their entire personality is coffee, and it all tastes the same.
I only jave coffee twice a year, but I use Community because I'm South Louisianan, then I dump 9x more milk than coffee & enough sugar to make it basically a solid.
I love your main channel and the military stuff but the cheese cave video is my favorite one so far. Ive watched multiple reactions to it. Its a fascinating story.
4:52 The bottom row is italian for “big”, “twenty”, “thirty”
There are 3 Starbucks within one mile of where I am. One is half a mile, one is a quarter mile, and one is three quarters of a mile.
Meanwhile, I don't even know where the nearest one is
The business model Starbucks uses is NUTS! My favorite RDR2 quote is "$5,000.00 for me? Can I turn myself in?"
Starbucks: "We need you to fight the weather."
"Hold my frapp." The CIA, probably.
I love how the last minute of this video is just Nick going scorched earth on everyone. I think he was just getting more and more disappointed on missing out on those "deleted scenes" and decided to choose violence.
Fun fact; Pinkertons (Now owned by Securitas) do guard some DoD contractor and DoE sites. So TECHNICALLY, they are (or were when I was employed by them) still working for the US Government, albeit indirectly.
There was a joke told in the Seattle area years ago when I lived there. That Starbucks was so numerous, that if you went into the bathroom at one, there would be one in it.
Fun Fact, some Starbucks-Suit said to my City in Germany, they won’t open here, because of the insane competition. Until this day, we don’t have Starbucks. But we did get a Dunkin lol
Also, me and a bunch of buddies worked in one of the biggest Starbucks in the US at a college campus. We relocated many things without the knowledge of management. So that may have been a part of that. I’m sure we weren’t the only store with that ethos. You’re right on the idea of “Starbucks is a bank” but before the app it was a bank in a very very different way.
"You don't want to drink a beer in a hospital room"...well I'd say you're right Nic 99.999999...% of the time...when my father was in the hospital room we knew he wasn't gonna leave, I really thought about bringing him a beer everytime I visited him. I should have. Bet that would have been the best Budweiser either of us had ever had. Thanks for the laugh as always dude. Your usual unhinged stuff always makes me laugh, and it did make the old man laugh. I'll keep rocking your shirts whenever I can.
This mf Nic singlehandedly made me interested in history! His way of teaching should replace the education system
Cant have future government drones being interested in government fuckups
Whoah? hold up now? Facts!" lol ..completely agree
Education system? Oh.... you mean the indoctrination centers.... carry on
"Use to be Backed by the gold standard now backed by the lead standard"
That's funny. Put it on a shirt lol
I love every lecture you give. Have you ever considered doing a Bit on the Siege of Malta? It is similar to the Polish Post office story, but just more epic. The Siege of Malta showed the world the the ultimate Gangster flex.
I had a manager of a Starbucks her where I live and in other states say the same thing almost word for word . "We sell the most shit coffee with all the bells(sugar) and whistles( creams). We charge a 300 percent mark up of at least 300% at the time. This was late 90's and early 00's. If you want an amazing coffee go to Montreal, QC to an Italian coffee shop or bar or restaurant.
Or a Greek-Lebanese restaurant for Arabic coffee, if you REALLY like a kick in the pants. Chicory coffee if you're in New Orleans.
Small, privately owned coffee shops or ethnic restaurants, especially African ones. I had the most amazing coffee 20ish years ago in an Ethiopian restaurant.
Bulls**t! The best part of waking up, is Folgers in my cup! No sugar or communism added.🇺🇸👍🇺🇸
Sundara Luminosa?
Community Coffee: Poudly served in finer restaurants and homes across the South since 1919.
That or "Good to the last drop" are equally good to me
That “shit in a can” used to be the best coffee on earth… but the bean counters got involved and they started replacing the arabica beans with robusto beans to lower costs. And the lower costs along with adding in 20% “other” sticks and dirt and bugs further lowering the cost but making the shit in the can almost unsinkable. And that is what allowed Starbucks to sell a bag of actual good beans in bags that you could inspect and see that zero bugs, sticks, and dirt are included in your purchase. And bang… actual coffee again made someone rich as shit.
Nic is about to make a lot of broke hipsters really mad.
I swear I've learned more new things these past 6 months watching this and Nick's main channel than I have the past 20 years. Love how informative and entertaining you are, keep up the great work.
I could not imagine taking an entire weeks worth of pay for a month's worth of coffee
Commies falling in love with coffee... who would have guessed.
"Starbucks is the only business I've been inside that I can see another Starbucks from." BUH! Dunkin Donuts are literally across the stret from each other in the northeast.
The Airline's rewards program are also banks btw. United's Rewards program is worth 2x what the airline itself is worth according to a Financial Times article in 2020.
19:33 thousand miles each way, not round trip
So, a couple of compliments and praise. I absolutely love your channel, you're a great orator, you're entertaining, you have witty banter, and most impressively your memory recall is outstanding. I am a Navy Vet, age 35 and show your channel to all of the people who enjoy history ( I was a history major myself); Additionally I show your content to all of my fellow older vets or vets my senior. I spent 8 weeks at RRTP Cheyenne (rehab), and got those guys hooked on your channel. Brilliant. Will definitely buy some of your merch now that I have some extra disposable income. Keep it going brother, will keep spreading the word.
The extra drinks is the interest. It isn't classified as interest, but it follows the same concept. They aren't required to do so, but they do give interest.
First, love MrsPhatElectrician, as always, y’all are great together 😊 second, the fact that Starbucks is a bank is somehow even better than the fact McDonalds manages real estate, love it, but also so weird. Finally, the specific “middle-class mom” call-out is hilarious because my mother used to drink Starbucks literally every morning and some afternoons. Took her daughter making coffee for her before she slowly came to see that there is better than Starbucks, and now she won’t touch it