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AYE JAYE: In my book, "The Golden Rule of Schmoozing," the one thing that I found when
I was trying to make it into the world, and especially coming into a corporation, was
the ability to schmooze my way in, to show a friendly side. And one of the things that
I learned first was to come bearing tchotch. Tchotch is a Yiddish word for tchotchkes and
it's a toy. It can be something as small as the bubbles to a car; it depends who you're
trying to impress. However, I have a tchotch crash kit in my car. It's loaded with everything.
It's got bubbles for kids. This comes from the Oriental Trader magazine. They're fortune-telling
fish. I think for about 12 bucks, you get a gross of these. You want to have fun, anywhere
you go, and there's someone behind the desk, say, "I got this fortune-telling fish here
and let's find out what your fortune is." Young man, can I use your hand? Would you
step over here? Now all you gotta do is take this fish and put it into his hand like this,
and the heat from his hand will make it--ah, look, it's starting to do it. It is rolling
over, ah, doing a little jerking thing, head over--oh, wait. This is--that's tail over
head, that was head over head. Alright, let's find out what that means, and, by the way,
they'll put it back in the bag, okay? So if the head is moving, it's jealousy, in love,
fickle, and there's even one that says, "If it doesn't move, dead." That never happens
so you don't have to worry about it. But again, it's a chance to come bearing tchotch and
they all do the same thing. They put it back in their little bag, and as soon as they go
home, they say to their wife, "Okay, Holly. Here you go." And they pull another one, but
don't go anywhere without bearing tchotch. One last thing: Indian tribes in America never
ever visit in another tribe without bringing a kill, pottery, jewelry. My mother wasn't
an Indian but she did that, too.