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November 26, 2025 10 mins

From fake “sold out” promos to mystery ginger ale and the truth about retail stock rooms, the Morning Show spills all the little lies every industry tells. Plus—bartender tricks, decaf conspiracies, and why your “request song” was never actually your request.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thanksgiving Elvis Duran in the Morning Show. So one day,
we're sitting on an airplane and the guy comes on
and says, you know, there's the flight attendant.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Okay, we're now, you know, buckle up to this and that.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
And then he says, all right, as we've asked you,
please turn off all cell phones, you must go to
airplane mode. Now I see on my meter here that
four of you have not done it yet. We now
know that four of you have not turned on your
airplane mode.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I'm thinking to myself, this guy is a liar. Yeah,
he is full of.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
But you know, as as soon as he said that,
all the dummies on the plane started looking at the oh,
oh god, hope he's not on his meter.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
I can see Elvis at that moment taking flight mode
off his phone and being like, let's see if he
says phone, yeah, oh, did.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
You just get a next one on your meter? I
love that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
So the question is, and I'm going to give you
an example in a moment of how we lie to you,
or how radio has been lying to.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You all these years.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're not supposed to give this next.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
So, uh, you know, how do you lie to people
in your business? We have this thing and it really
isn't happening as much now as it was in the past.
We say, hey, if you want to hear a song,
call us. Now, well you wouldn't call us, but go, oh,
I need to play that. I go, and I'm putting
the computer and play it. Was John from from Babylon

(01:27):
called and wanted to.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hear it right.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, but we what we do do sometimes a lot
of times is we'll tabulate. So if we get one
hundred calls for Ariana Grande today, we know that song
is very popular.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
We need to play it more.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
But when you call and request it, I'm not playing
it just for you, and that's a radio lie. But
you think it's just for you.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
When it comes on, you get so excited.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
And go, oh my gosh, it's my request.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I was definitely the person who used to be like, oh,
call with a request, I'm calling right now, and then
I would call and nobody would ever play what I
wanted them to play, but the DJ would always say,
I'm gonna play it and we'll get right on that
because we were Thanks guys all.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Right, I need to know more lies anyone from any
other any other industries.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Trying to think when I worked in fast food, what
we used to sell people?

Speaker 5 (02:10):
I think, Well, so one thing I know we used
to do when I worked in a restaurant was we
would make pretty much almost always decaf coffee because we
didn't want to accidentally mix it up because you know,
servers will go back and forth not necessarily pay attention,
so we never wanted to give people caffeine that weren't
supposed to have caffeine. So it's just de crack decaf
across the board.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, but what if I needed that to keep awake
in my car and I wound up having a car a.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Home because I was a sleep Go to a restaurant
so they can focus. Go to a coffee place. We
were good at salad bars. Wait, Gandi is another one.
I have another one.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
When I was a bartender and we used to make
drinks for people. Sometimes they would come back and be like,
there's not enough alcohol in here.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
What's going on with this drink?

Speaker 5 (02:49):
So we would put just a little bit of alcohol
in the straw, so when they took the sip, it
hit like a ton of bricks.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I hate you.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I think a lot of pill ices do that, GA,
and then a lot of places do that.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
L live, I'm putting alcohol.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
No, they just do that to begin with. They put
alcohol in the straw. So you think there's more in
the drink than there really is.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Hits you like train bam, and I'm like, how do
you like that drink?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
No, it's the same drink.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
We used to tell people of fast food restaurants. No,
that didn't fall on the floor before I served.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It was that story that was about the guy that
put his scroted him in someone's salad. O, it was
a salsa.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
It was a salsa. He put his it was scrolled
him salsa.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Why did he do that? Because he's an idiot.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Because he could.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Was he mad at someone?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, he was upset.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
It was a delivery thing, like one of the delivery services.
And he dipped his boys in the salsa and he recorded.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
It and then yeah, I don't need you tea bag
in my salsa.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wait, didn't somebody do that to you either your salad
or scary sala? Didn't he great tea crammed scary salad
and then he ate it and we took video.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
We lied about it, all right. We got liars calling
all our listeners.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Let's go talk to Betty Line eighteen, Hey Betty, how
are your So we were lying about Betty. Let's go
talk to Mark on fifteen high Mark, how are you alright?

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Hello lady, Hello lady?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
What do you do for a living?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Are you the liar or do you know of a
lying industry?

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Well? I am the liar. I'm a college student. But
on the weekends I work from a production company and
I worked the photo booth and all the time, you know,
people come up to the photo booth and they want
to take a picture, but only two strips of the
pictures come out, so they're always asked me, oh, can
you please, you know, print out more. I'm like, listen,
I have to shut down the system. I can't just
come back at the end of the night. I promise

(04:39):
I will print out more. Oh, thank you so much, okay,
And by the end of the night they just forget.
And you know, it's a funny line. I don't have
to do anything.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh they all get drunk and don't come back. All right.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
See, but you just want to You just want to preserve,
you want to preserve your sanity, and you just don't
want to wait on them all day.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
What's the funny part.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
The funny thing is that you would think that the
old people are forgetting. It's the old people that always
remember to come back at the end of the night.
All the young people, they're all too drunk to remember.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yep, that's us. I mean that's I'm old but drunk,
so I'm both. Yeah, thank you very much, Mark, I
appreciate it. I love you too. Oh my god. All
of these people texting in these are the funny ones.
My favorite was she was a therapist and she says,
every time I tell someone, oh, it's all gonna be
all right.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm lying. Oh my god, she says, I don't know.
I don't know the outcome that's right, going to be okay.
But you have to say that.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
You can't say, oh, your life's semester, there's no hope
for you. I mean, you can't say that.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
And what about if you're a lawyer, you're supposed to lie. Yeah, no,
maybe bend the truth.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know. Let's go talk to UH line eight.
It's John. Oh, he works in sales. There you go, Hey, John,
how are you.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
Hey, I'm good. How are you guys doing?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Okay, So you're in sales and so you have to
bend the truth from time to time.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
I do pretty much on a daily basis. It's not
too much of a you know, extended live but I basically,
you know, we have quarterly promotions, and I basically tell
all my clients, you know, this promotion's ending at the
end of the day. Sometimes they'll create my own promotions.
You have to be back today, that kind of thing.
It's it's not too much, but I pretty much get

(06:15):
my way and I exceed myself colder recorders.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
So there you go. You know, is that the same
as when you see those commercials selling hand cream and
says you only have thirty seconds to call this number now.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
And when you're online and you go to buy something
on like Amazon or something that says only four left,
that's bs because then I go check it again and
it says only six left.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Thank thank you. John.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Hold on, hold on second, let's go talk to Maddie
online twenty four.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Uh you're work in retail, Maddie.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Maddie.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Hi, guys, yeah, yeah, okay, were you selling what clothing?

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Or uh?

Speaker 8 (06:54):
I used to work at That's and Bodywork, So okay,
so we give.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
This to the place, right, So and what was the
permissible lie at bath and Bodyworks?

Speaker 8 (07:06):
Well, it's not just a Bath and body Works. I
know for a fact that it happens at other stores too,
just for my friends. But anytime that someone asked us
to go check in the back, nine times out of
ten we would just kind of go back and eat
food or check our phone.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Rude, because what you always knew, you always knew there
was nothing in the back.

Speaker 8 (07:30):
Well, they always sent us really weird amounts of products,
so we would have eight thousand types of one product,
and the one that they were looking for that everyone
was looking for, we never had.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Enough, uh see. And I want to thank the people
in Target, because the other day I was looking for
something specific and the lady said, oh, I think a
box just arrived, and she actually went in the back,
opened the box and.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Brought it out. Maddie, Look, someone has something in the back. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (07:58):
I always felt too bad to not do that, So
I was the only person who would ever go back
and actually look for something. But I know that my
coworkers never did.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Always wonder I always wonder like what's in the back,
Like you already have like a warehouse back there, philled
with all the stuff that's not in the front.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, I think they do.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
I think when they tell you, oh, we only have
what's out, I think it's bs they've got stuff in
the back, all right.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
My other favorite one.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
And every time I go to every time I go
to buy a car or something like that, Maddie, they'll
always say, well, let me go check with the manager.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, they're not going to check with the manager.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, they may they go in there and just talk
for a minute. Well, listen, MADDI, thank you for calling.
Let's go finally talk to a mic online.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Now, Hey Mike, Hey guys, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
What exactly is the big ginger ale scam? The ginger
ale scam?

Speaker 6 (08:50):
Okay, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
So hold on, guys, this is going to blow your mind.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
You can work in the restaurants and diners, and ginger
is not a big ticket items, so a lot of
restaurants don't carry it. So when you order it, they
pour a glass of sprite with a splash of coke
just to give it the color, and there goes your
ginger ale.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Really, oh, see so I don't get that crispy ginger flavor.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, you're getting the lemon flavor with a little bit
of coke.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Wow, all the lies we've learned about today, this is
the most frightening.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Frightening.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
I had one customer who saw me doing this and
he goes to pull more coke in there for me.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Busted, Mike, excellent. Now, nice to know.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Next time I order a ginger ale, I'm gonna say,
and don't make it a spry.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Let them know.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
All these luck I can't.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, what are you gonna do? You should see some
of these going by. I can't even Yeah a nurse,
I'm a nurse. My lie is, oh no, this won't
hurt a bit.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, we all know that.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I've experienced that.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
I think I know her.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
This will pinch just a little bit, right.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
It feels like this hurts you more than it's gonna
hurt me.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah no, My mom and dad told me that lie
all the time.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Hi, this is Harry Styles, This is McCray.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Was that is a Nick Jonas wishing you a happy
Thanksgiving

Speaker 4 (10:16):
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