Text by the Letter Phone Plan

Joyce is the last person on earth to get a texting plan, so Garrett calls with a huge surprise over-charge!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't answer the phone. Elvis Duran, the Elvis Duran phone tapp.
All right, Garrett, it's all you today.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Well, our listener, Tina is playing a phone tap on
her mother Joyce. Now, Joyce just got a cell phone
and is the last person on earth to get into
the text messaging world.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, welcome Joyce.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, Tina thought it would be funny to mess with
her mom Joyce about text messaging. So I call as
a representative from the cell phone company explaining about text messaging.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good idea, because when it comes to moms who are
a little late to the text messaging party, they don't
know what they're talking.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Very simple, we'll mess with him. Today's phone tap. Let's
listen in. Hello, Hi, I'm looking for Joyce Reillo. Please.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
This is she, Hi Joyce. My name is Alex Graham.
I'm calling from Nazarravat.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I see that you signed up with us not even
two days ago. So first off, welcome to the family.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I know you signed up for the two hundred and
fifty text messages a month. You're about to exceed that
by a lot, so I don't think that's possible.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I did too, many.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, yeah, I'm not sure if you're you're aware of
how it works. We go by the letter.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I've only sent four text messages.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
You send a text message to guess here, gus.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yep, that's my daughter Tina.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, you sent the text message. Did this text message
go through? So every letter on that counts towards your
text message a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Why would you do it per letter?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's how we work, That's how we make so much money. Usually.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's what it's about. Money right now, that's the problem.
Everybody wants to find a way to make more and
more money and just to get all of.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Us well, they're trying to do That's why people sign
up for the unlimited plan, because you could send as
many letters as you want.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know what that's called. That's called a bait and switch.
You're trying to sort a little bait out there and say, oh,
it only costs this much, it's not that much at all,
and then really what you're doing is screwing us because
in the end, you want me, how much is this
on limited all? I bet it's twenty five dollars extra month.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Did you or did you not just send a text
message ten minutes ago yes, okay, And you.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Said, did you watch Glee?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Why are you reading my text messages? It's just not private?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, it is private, but just for your own knowledge,
that text message right there puts you over the limit.
And with that, for every letter you go over the limit,
that's an extra dollar fifty charge.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
So what should I have written? Did you watch Glee?
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Every letter you send now is going to cost you,
just so you're aware, so I would be careful going forward.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Now for the reason, I'm done, I just told this
thing out the windows. My god, I can't believe you.
So for it, I.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hold one second and we will call it right back.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
All right, Hello, mom, we're a bottom here. Well, what's
up the phone company? They called me about the text
messaging thing you set me up for. They told me
that I can only do two hundred and something letters
come month, and so I don't know. I send Daddy

(03:08):
a message, I sent you a message, and I don't
know Annie Helen. And then all of a sudden, now
they're telling me you're over. Didn't I say, I don't
need the degravation. I thought you you figured that out
when we sign up for the plan, and you cannot
send more than two and fifty. Why do you think
I only respond with like okay and like roll when
you when you were busy. I didn't know that. I

(03:30):
just thought you heard a lot going on, and it
isn't assimize I'm talking with letters. I don't know how
to talk like this. I guess I'm not a new age.
I can't take it. It's ridiculous. A lot do it.
You should give another shot because you know my friends
and I do it. I'm like, it's so will be
so cool if we could talk all day, you know,
man't give it another shot. I'm over now? Are you
even listening to me? Didn't hear a word? I just said,

(03:53):
I read every word and I'm gonna go have a
piece of carecake because that they'll trust out. I am Oh,
you said, just send me a stem a text message?
What does it say? Phone tapped? Why is she sending
this to me?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
There's a little bit more to that text message.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Who is this? Who's that the phone with you? No?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Actually, uh, my name is Garrett from Elvis Duran in
the Morning Show, and you just got phone tapped by
your daughter?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
You?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Mom?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
The Elvis Duran phone tap.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
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Speaker 3 (04:29):
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