September 24, 2025 • 8 mins
Gandhi faces the tough choice of “decapitating” her money tree, Nate has endless trips to the hardware store, Sam’s 90-second wedding speech challenge, and Skeery’s awkward Home Depot run-in. Plus, Danielle’s obsession with The Sphere apples and Tommy DiDario’s Christmas tree nostalgia!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time to go around the room with Elvis Duran
in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just go around the room. Now, around the room.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
You've you've been here during around the Room segment, right, Tommy,
I think so you're gonna go last. So by the
time we all go, you'll understand how it works. Okay,
everyone in the room a moment to say something's on
their mind, something they've noticed in life, something that they're
laughing at, some show they love. Whatever. It's a kind
of a free for all. You throw it at the
wall say if it sticks, I'll start with you at Froggy.
What's on your mind today?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So I've got it.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
As you guys know, we're doing a party at my
house soon. You would not believe the list of things
that I have to do before you come to my house.
But this is for your party. It's your birthday, so
I have to work for my party. But here's what
I need you to do when you come to my house.
I need you to point out all the things that
look good so that I feel better about all the
work that I'm putting.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now, okay, we wait.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
This is supposed to be a surprise party for you,
and you're doing all the work to put it together.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Whatever one funny, there is no surprise. I know exactly
what's going on. However, yes, I have a list of
things among I mean, I need to take a week
off of work to get it. You would think we
live in in like despair and shambles that we don't.
But it's got up. That's got to be. It's got
to be like really yeah, So I just need you
to point it out when you come. That's what happens
(01:10):
when you turn a big number at big age. You
have to you have to throw your own party.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What with you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Can you come back to me? I just had a
brain fart.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Thanks, Oh brain fart? Okay, gandhi, what's up?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
You guys know, I have a money tree that is massive.
He's so big that I actually moved apartments so that
he could continue to grow with a higher ceiling. Well,
he has reached the top of the ceiling and now
is bending. It's like an arch of a money tree.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's very cool to thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I love it so much. But I went to a
plant store the other day and I was like, you know,
what what should I do with this amazing tree? And
she was like, you know, there's only one answer, and
it was so violent that I don't think I can
do it. She said, I need to decapitate him.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Now, can you give that piece to someone else to go?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
She told me how to propagate and how I can
do it. So I think I'm gonna do it. Because
he's lucky. If you have seven leaves on one of
the like the little ranches, apparently it's lucky, and every
single one of his is seven. So I guess I
have to decapitate the love of my life, which is
gonna be tough, but I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
She guaranteed me it would not kill him. Okay, she promised,
and I told her if it does, I'm coming back.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Plants and people are different. I guess, God, maybe this
we can. I'll decapitate the love of my life. I'm
not saying. I'm not saying anymore. Hey, Nate, what's up
with you today?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, I'm here, we go.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I don't think any person fixing something at their house
has only made one trip to the hardware store. Froggy,
I think you probably know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was trying to fix a faucet yesterday.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I went back not once not twice, but thrice did
I go back to that hardware store until I finally
had the right thing, and it just got to the
point where I knew the person's name at the checkout.
So if you're doing something a little DIY fix it
yourself at home, just know you're gonna make more than
one trip to the hardware store.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
In Okay, it do any No, That's why I don't
do anything in my house. Nothing. Hey, producer, Sam, which
up with you today?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
So I mentioned earlier in the week my little sister
she's getting married. I'm very excited. I don't generally mind
public speaking. I know being made a honor comes with
a speech, but she gave us a ninety second cutoff,
which at first she seems like.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The music perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I get it's gonna be so short, but now they're like,
it's hard.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
I didn't realize how hard it was gonna be to
write something meaningful in ninety seconds, Like this is a
this is a challenge. So I'm gonna let you guys
know how it goes. But I feel like it's just
gonna be a toast of a wish, you know what
I mean. You can't like there's no beginning, middle, an
end to that.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
What is she gonna do?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Pull you off the stage?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
You met her?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, oh yes she will.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
And I respect that. It's her day, it's her rule.
So I'm gonna do ninety seconds. I just hope I
can make it like good.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Okay. By the way, this around the room segment from
you was under ninety seconds. Congratulations, So scary, what's up
with you?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
So we always say if you, if you see something,
say something, and that goes especially when you see us
in person. Right, somebody saw me at home depot shopping
for lamps and they took a picture of me and
posted and said, oh, it's scary Jones. And I was
in like, I was in an awkward position. I was
looking down at my phone, so I had like a
(04:08):
double triple chin and I'm like, what are you guys doing?
Take take that down?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's great. It was an awful thing. They took it down.
But I wanted to say hi to Kala.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
She saw me at home depot shopping for lamps, but
didn't come over and say hello. Had I known, had
I known it was you that was there and said
alone and shook your hands, it would have been a better.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Situation for all of us, and don't take these candid
photos unless you used it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You used used the point five.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And make it hit me with the point Yes said
that hit him with.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Hit And who shops for lamps at home depot? Anyway? Uh, Danielle,
what's with you? Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So you guys know, I'm obsessed with the sphere and
going to see the Wizard of Oz even though I
haven't been there. I'm so obsessed with it and I
watch everything about it and I can't wait. So they
have those apples that fall from the sky and I
know exactly where to sit. But apparently you can buy
the apples now or people are selling them. Am I
an idiot to want an apple even though.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I haven't been there yet? Not at all?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, I'm dying to have an apple in my collection.
I think Deanna has one because she went to it.
I just want a damn stupid apple.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
I don't even know what it's.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Made of, but I won't. What you going on, you'll find.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
The thing is that apple should signify that memory of
you being there to get there, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You'll get the apple, take me to the apple.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So that's our around the room. That's how it works.
So what do you want to say, Tony Sario.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Well, I decided that it's time to get a new
Christmas tree. So I ordered one last week, and very
very big. I decided to make the switch from white
lights to color lights. Yes, you know, well to be there.
The tree has both options, but I need a color
tree because I feel like it reminds me of nostalgia
and I think we're all craving what makes us feel
safe and comfortable and from you know, way back when, right,
(05:49):
and like life's so crazy. So anyway, this is the
first year I feel like in a decade that I'm
going to have color lights on my Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I like that. I never really thought about the difference
between just the white lights color. Like the white lights
are very pleasing, they're very pleasant, they're very calming. But yeah,
the different colored lights do bring back your childhood, They
really do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I think I'm the only one in here that has
the colored lights.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You do too, Yeah, okay, yeah, I love them.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So it's like, there's nothing like coming down my staircase
in the morning and getting ready for work and seeing
that tree with the colors. I'm like this is the best.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm so ready see you know, being the old guy here,
I have an advantage.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We grew up with those those lights that you screw in.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I mean they were Oh if you took that ball
out and put your finger in there, it would shock you.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
It sounds fun.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Are about one hundred and fifty degrees. And but set
the tree on fire. Oh absolutely, I missed the day's
reason everyone swall.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
My mom would say, can you run in the living
room just sniff the tree, make sure it's not on fire.
We would, we would, we would do fire checks every
once in a while.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I missed those.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Maybe they should have a new LED version of those,
like the screwing lights.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So that's the thought.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Well, that's the thing with the colored lights now that
you have to be careful of. So they have the
LED colored lights, which are different than the soft ones.
The soft ones are the nostalgia.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Yes you got to We called them like the Harry
Potter lights because it looks like whimsical and fine and yeah. Anyway,
I'm really excited for it, and I might.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Put it up next week until June. She's the fruitcake
in the building. If you look up in the sky
and the skyscrapers in Jersey City. You'll see one Christmas
tree that's Gandhi's. But I never understood the ones that
you know, they warm up and then you start bubbling.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
There's oil in them or something. What's up with that?
What is that? You've seen those come out from under
your rock? Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Lights?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
They were?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You would put that, you screw them in and they
would warm up and they would start bubbling.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm not the only one who've seen this, I swear.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Is it like a fire hazard?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Sounds like I don't know, maybe from the prehistoric days.
Look it up and you can go, oh my god.
He's absolutely right. Let's get into the three things we
need to know. Did you enjoy being a part of
our around the room?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I loved it. I feel so fulfilled. Thank you.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Okay, okay, you can't wait to leave. I had another
good one, but I'll save it for later.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, please do it Tommy to Darry of course, if
you want to catch I've never said this before his
award winning podcast, check it out on the iHeartRadio app
wherever you get your podcast
It's time to go around the room with Elvis Duran
in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just go around the room. Now, around the room.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
You've you've been here during around the Room segment, right, Tommy,
I think so you're gonna go last. So by the
time we all go, you'll understand how it works. Okay,
everyone in the room a moment to say something's on
their mind, something they've noticed in life, something that they're
laughing at, some show they love. Whatever. It's a kind
of a free for all. You throw it at the
wall say if it sticks, I'll start with you at Froggy.
What's on your mind today?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So I've got it.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
As you guys know, we're doing a party at my
house soon. You would not believe the list of things
that I have to do before you come to my house.
But this is for your party. It's your birthday, so
I have to work for my party. But here's what
I need you to do when you come to my house.
I need you to point out all the things that
look good so that I feel better about all the
work that I'm putting.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now, okay, we wait.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
This is supposed to be a surprise party for you,
and you're doing all the work to put it together.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Whatever one funny, there is no surprise. I know exactly
what's going on. However, yes, I have a list of
things among I mean, I need to take a week
off of work to get it. You would think we
live in in like despair and shambles that we don't.
But it's got up. That's got to be. It's got
to be like really yeah, So I just need you
to point it out when you come. That's what happens
(01:10):
when you turn a big number at big age. You
have to you have to throw your own party.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What with you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Can you come back to me? I just had a
brain fart.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Thanks, Oh brain fart? Okay, gandhi, what's up?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
You guys know, I have a money tree that is massive.
He's so big that I actually moved apartments so that
he could continue to grow with a higher ceiling. Well,
he has reached the top of the ceiling and now
is bending. It's like an arch of a money tree.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's very cool to thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I love it so much. But I went to a
plant store the other day and I was like, you know,
what what should I do with this amazing tree? And
she was like, you know, there's only one answer, and
it was so violent that I don't think I can
do it. She said, I need to decapitate him.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Now, can you give that piece to someone else to go?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
She told me how to propagate and how I can
do it. So I think I'm gonna do it. Because
he's lucky. If you have seven leaves on one of
the like the little ranches, apparently it's lucky, and every
single one of his is seven. So I guess I
have to decapitate the love of my life, which is
gonna be tough, but I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
She guaranteed me it would not kill him. Okay, she promised,
and I told her if it does, I'm coming back.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Plants and people are different. I guess, God, maybe this
we can. I'll decapitate the love of my life. I'm
not saying. I'm not saying anymore. Hey, Nate, what's up
with you today?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, I'm here, we go.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I don't think any person fixing something at their house
has only made one trip to the hardware store. Froggy,
I think you probably know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was trying to fix a faucet yesterday.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I went back not once not twice, but thrice did
I go back to that hardware store until I finally
had the right thing, and it just got to the
point where I knew the person's name at the checkout.
So if you're doing something a little DIY fix it
yourself at home, just know you're gonna make more than
one trip to the hardware store.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
In Okay, it do any No, That's why I don't
do anything in my house. Nothing. Hey, producer, Sam, which
up with you today?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
So I mentioned earlier in the week my little sister
she's getting married. I'm very excited. I don't generally mind
public speaking. I know being made a honor comes with
a speech, but she gave us a ninety second cutoff,
which at first she seems like.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The music perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I get it's gonna be so short, but now they're like,
it's hard.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
I didn't realize how hard it was gonna be to
write something meaningful in ninety seconds, Like this is a
this is a challenge. So I'm gonna let you guys
know how it goes. But I feel like it's just
gonna be a toast of a wish, you know what
I mean. You can't like there's no beginning, middle, an
end to that.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
What is she gonna do?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Pull you off the stage?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
You met her?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, oh yes she will.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
And I respect that. It's her day, it's her rule.
So I'm gonna do ninety seconds. I just hope I
can make it like good.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Okay. By the way, this around the room segment from
you was under ninety seconds. Congratulations, So scary, what's up
with you?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
So we always say if you, if you see something,
say something, and that goes especially when you see us
in person. Right, somebody saw me at home depot shopping
for lamps and they took a picture of me and
posted and said, oh, it's scary Jones. And I was
in like, I was in an awkward position. I was
looking down at my phone, so I had like a
(04:08):
double triple chin and I'm like, what are you guys doing?
Take take that down?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's great. It was an awful thing. They took it down.
But I wanted to say hi to Kala.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
She saw me at home depot shopping for lamps, but
didn't come over and say hello. Had I known, had
I known it was you that was there and said
alone and shook your hands, it would have been a better.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Situation for all of us, and don't take these candid
photos unless you used it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You used used the point five.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And make it hit me with the point Yes said
that hit him with.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Hit And who shops for lamps at home depot? Anyway? Uh, Danielle,
what's with you? Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So you guys know, I'm obsessed with the sphere and
going to see the Wizard of Oz even though I
haven't been there. I'm so obsessed with it and I
watch everything about it and I can't wait. So they
have those apples that fall from the sky and I
know exactly where to sit. But apparently you can buy
the apples now or people are selling them. Am I
an idiot to want an apple even though.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I haven't been there yet? Not at all?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, I'm dying to have an apple in my collection.
I think Deanna has one because she went to it.
I just want a damn stupid apple.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
I don't even know what it's.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Made of, but I won't. What you going on, you'll find.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
The thing is that apple should signify that memory of
you being there to get there, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You'll get the apple, take me to the apple.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So that's our around the room. That's how it works.
So what do you want to say, Tony Sario.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Well, I decided that it's time to get a new
Christmas tree. So I ordered one last week, and very
very big. I decided to make the switch from white
lights to color lights. Yes, you know, well to be there.
The tree has both options, but I need a color
tree because I feel like it reminds me of nostalgia
and I think we're all craving what makes us feel
safe and comfortable and from you know, way back when, right,
(05:49):
and like life's so crazy. So anyway, this is the
first year I feel like in a decade that I'm
going to have color lights on my Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I like that. I never really thought about the difference
between just the white lights color. Like the white lights
are very pleasing, they're very pleasant, they're very calming. But yeah,
the different colored lights do bring back your childhood, They
really do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I think I'm the only one in here that has
the colored lights.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You do too, Yeah, okay, yeah, I love them.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So it's like, there's nothing like coming down my staircase
in the morning and getting ready for work and seeing
that tree with the colors. I'm like this is the best.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm so ready see you know, being the old guy here,
I have an advantage.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We grew up with those those lights that you screw in.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I mean they were Oh if you took that ball
out and put your finger in there, it would shock you.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
It sounds fun.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Are about one hundred and fifty degrees. And but set
the tree on fire. Oh absolutely, I missed the day's
reason everyone swall.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
My mom would say, can you run in the living
room just sniff the tree, make sure it's not on fire.
We would, we would, we would do fire checks every
once in a while.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I missed those.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Maybe they should have a new LED version of those,
like the screwing lights.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So that's the thought.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Well, that's the thing with the colored lights now that
you have to be careful of. So they have the
LED colored lights, which are different than the soft ones.
The soft ones are the nostalgia.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Yes you got to We called them like the Harry
Potter lights because it looks like whimsical and fine and yeah. Anyway,
I'm really excited for it, and I might.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Put it up next week until June. She's the fruitcake
in the building. If you look up in the sky
and the skyscrapers in Jersey City. You'll see one Christmas
tree that's Gandhi's. But I never understood the ones that
you know, they warm up and then you start bubbling.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
There's oil in them or something. What's up with that?
What is that? You've seen those come out from under
your rock? Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Lights?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
They were?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You would put that, you screw them in and they
would warm up and they would start bubbling.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm not the only one who've seen this, I swear.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Is it like a fire hazard?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Sounds like I don't know, maybe from the prehistoric days.
Look it up and you can go, oh my god.
He's absolutely right. Let's get into the three things we
need to know. Did you enjoy being a part of
our around the room?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I loved it. I feel so fulfilled. Thank you.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Okay, okay, you can't wait to leave. I had another
good one, but I'll save it for later.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, please do it Tommy to Darry of course, if
you want to catch I've never said this before his
award winning podcast, check it out on the iHeartRadio app
wherever you get your podcast
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