December 21, 2025 • 7 mins
From happy moments to times of reflection, here are a few of the biggest moments from Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And now another gray moment from twenty twenty five Alvis
Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
If you look closely, no matter where you go in
this world, you'll see the influencers dotting the mall or
the sidewalks around the city, dancing to some rhythm they
hear in their head and or going out to a
restaurant and you know, recording themselves on their phone while
they're eating a waffle. And sometimes they just they're in
(00:32):
the way. I mean, I know there's there's an importance
to influencing. I guess I don't know. I guess we
need them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But sometimes there's just I saw a video the other day.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This woman was sitting there at a restaurant and they
brought her a bill at the end of her lunch,
and she was recording, of course, the whole time on
her phone. She's like, no, no, no, no, I'm an influencer.
I shouldn't pay for this. I'm doing you a favor.
But they're like, we don't know who you are. You
should know who I am, and should know that I'm
a vegetarian. You serve me meat and whatever. And I'm
(01:06):
looking at this self. The self importance in this dumb
woman's mind was just gross. Weren't you at a party
not too long ago? Gandhi were a bunch of influencers
and it was just like a night of living Hell.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, I have been to I feel like a few
of them lately, and a ton of influencers show up.
And to your point, I know why they're there. You
want to spread the word, you want to tell everyone
you're here. There was no joy among the majority of
the people who were there. Nobody was interacting with each
other or trying to talk to new people or really
just having a moment with a really cool event. It
was just all about how many times do I take
(01:40):
this one picture which was one hundred and fifty and
how can I make it look great? And it just
went back. It took me back to the thing we
talked about all the time, which is people are so
much more concerned, it seems, with what things look like
versus what things feel like. And I'm like, Okay, these
pictures and everything, they're going to look great online. But
I was here and I know what this was actually like.
And I felt like the weirdo because I was cracking
(02:02):
up with my friends and I felt like that noxious
a hole. Who's the only person laughing there? Like we're
allowed to still do that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Right of course?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes you No, I encourage it. I mean they're sucking
the joy out of your night. So there's this guy
we follow. I love this guy is his name is Dottie.
I think D A A D I Dottie Dad Dotty snacks. Yes,
he's the best.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You've seen him? Right? No, he goes he mocks these influencers.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh my god, guys, we had to go down and
get the Macha flavored waffles.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Oh yeah, the Indian guy, right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I actually sent him a message and we want you
on our show because he makes fun of influencers and
they and they get mad at him and they're threatening
to sue him all the time. He is gold amazing,
this guy, and he's spot on with his views. I mean,
I mean I could play him. It's not edited, he
may curse. I'm afraid to play it live.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What is it for people to follow?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
And D A A D.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I snacks snak his family U has they have some
South Asian popcorn? The family recipe handground to Indian resipices
is whatever. It sounds great, And I said, come on
our show we'll talk about your popcorn and by boy
talk about how you love to call out these influencers,
and he said he wants to wait until until they
(03:19):
have more product to give away or something.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't know, I just I like him. He he's great.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
He really hammers it home, you know, because we all
think and feel the same way about some of the influencers,
and this guy just nails it and he goes right in.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I just want authenticity. That's it. Just be authentic. If
you go somewhere, have a really good time, cool show
the good time that you're having. I don't just want
to see these like stoic faces, not smiling and just
standing getting in the wave of everything.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Don't you think they would a lot of times they
just come and get their picture and leave.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes, you know the list and look he's posting.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
A New York City influencer posts their to do list
and it's like the most asinine things the life they're living,
these these influencers.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No offense but events, okay, total offense.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yes, n well, you know, not to defend influencers, but
I will. I mean that's kind of what we do.
But that the thing that's different about your mouth The
thing that's different about I'm about to pay you a
couple of the thing that's different about us is we're
very selective about what we actually do talk about, right, Yeah,
So like Danielle and Gandhi, some of us are so
Danielle and Gandhi just went on a vacation and I
(04:28):
could tell that they were actually having a good time.
It was amazing the entire time they were quote unquote influencing,
right because we're we actually have integrity.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I just hate when they run into these mom and
pop small businesses and then shake them down for free
product or to be paid, and then if you don't,
then they go ahead and do the opposite and they
will crush you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
How we not even had an experience.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
People are trying to make a living and sell their
products and make some money, Like you know what I mean, Like,
don't go in and ask for free crap.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I tell you what if you want to be an influence.
And I know that Dottie has I hope I'm saying
his name correctly. I don't want to, because he's he
deserves it to be pronounced right.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But he actually found a guy, an influencer who went
to a restaurant and said, oh my god, you've got
to come try this. This food is from It's a
world flavor restaurant with cuisine from another culture and you know,
stuff you would never really get in other restaurants in town.
You've got to try. He highlighted this guy. He actually
(05:29):
gave him a good report. And I want to see
more influencers doing that. Yeah, if they go into go
into a place and give it a lot of hell,
then it's like, okay, well all right, it sounded.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'd rather you give me good reasons to go someplace.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
For sure. Our friend Dino with the pin Care, she
deals with this a lot because she has a makeup
line and a lot of people will reach out to
her asking for free product, or they'll try to tell
her I got your products and I loved it. If
you want me to review it, give me more for free,
and she can see if people have actually purchased, and
a lot of times they haven't. And it's like, Dina
is a small business. So when you come and you
say I just need product for my entire bridal party,
(06:05):
that's crazy. You can't do that to small biz.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's crazy to them.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
All right, So influencers. I do love following influencers in
the wild. Yes, on Instagram. Do you have like a
fly on the wall view of people out in public,
you know, trying to get the right shot on their
camera and they look like idiots? Like we were actually
at a resort in the Caribbean not too long ago,
(06:30):
and we were at by the pool, you know, and
have some cocktails, and there was a guy with his
camera phone and a girl who was posing in these
provocative poses I guess, and he was trying to get
it just right, and they did it. It was like
an hour of them trying just to show her, you know,
(06:51):
being sexy. I guess at the pool at this right resort.
I mean, they look so they looked so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
If it takes you that long to pose in a
sexy way, you're probably not sexy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Be easy. I just in a snap, look at this
sexy turn right around?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Sure, bam, wh what up?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Nate.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You'll see them in New York City a lot, the
Instagram boyfriend or the Instagram husband. Yeah, And I just
my heart goes out to these poor guys because they're
trying to get this shot.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And then they get yelled at no higher zero point five.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I feel so bad for these poor guys and they're
they're just becoming a photographer, trying to do this photo
shoot for their girl.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And I get it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
If it pays for stuff, I understand you want to
go and you know, live your life that way and
not have like a job job and capitalize on what
you can.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But it's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and you're gonna have There's a respect factor too,
you know, just get up, influencer, be cool.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Would you
And now another gray moment from twenty twenty five Alvis
Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
If you look closely, no matter where you go in
this world, you'll see the influencers dotting the mall or
the sidewalks around the city, dancing to some rhythm they
hear in their head and or going out to a
restaurant and you know, recording themselves on their phone while
they're eating a waffle. And sometimes they just they're in
(00:32):
the way. I mean, I know there's there's an importance
to influencing. I guess I don't know. I guess we
need them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But sometimes there's just I saw a video the other day.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This woman was sitting there at a restaurant and they
brought her a bill at the end of her lunch,
and she was recording, of course, the whole time on
her phone. She's like, no, no, no, no, I'm an influencer.
I shouldn't pay for this. I'm doing you a favor.
But they're like, we don't know who you are. You
should know who I am, and should know that I'm
a vegetarian. You serve me meat and whatever. And I'm
(01:06):
looking at this self. The self importance in this dumb
woman's mind was just gross. Weren't you at a party
not too long ago? Gandhi were a bunch of influencers
and it was just like a night of living Hell.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, I have been to I feel like a few
of them lately, and a ton of influencers show up.
And to your point, I know why they're there. You
want to spread the word, you want to tell everyone
you're here. There was no joy among the majority of
the people who were there. Nobody was interacting with each
other or trying to talk to new people or really
just having a moment with a really cool event. It
was just all about how many times do I take
(01:40):
this one picture which was one hundred and fifty and
how can I make it look great? And it just
went back. It took me back to the thing we
talked about all the time, which is people are so
much more concerned, it seems, with what things look like
versus what things feel like. And I'm like, Okay, these
pictures and everything, they're going to look great online. But
I was here and I know what this was actually like.
And I felt like the weirdo because I was cracking
(02:02):
up with my friends and I felt like that noxious
a hole. Who's the only person laughing there? Like we're
allowed to still do that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Right of course?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes you No, I encourage it. I mean they're sucking
the joy out of your night. So there's this guy
we follow. I love this guy is his name is Dottie.
I think D A A D I Dottie Dad Dotty snacks. Yes,
he's the best.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You've seen him? Right? No, he goes he mocks these influencers.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh my god, guys, we had to go down and
get the Macha flavored waffles.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Oh yeah, the Indian guy, right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I actually sent him a message and we want you
on our show because he makes fun of influencers and
they and they get mad at him and they're threatening
to sue him all the time. He is gold amazing,
this guy, and he's spot on with his views. I mean,
I mean I could play him. It's not edited, he
may curse. I'm afraid to play it live.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What is it for people to follow?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
And D A A D.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I snacks snak his family U has they have some
South Asian popcorn? The family recipe handground to Indian resipices
is whatever. It sounds great, And I said, come on
our show we'll talk about your popcorn and by boy
talk about how you love to call out these influencers,
and he said he wants to wait until until they
(03:19):
have more product to give away or something.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't know, I just I like him. He he's great.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
He really hammers it home, you know, because we all
think and feel the same way about some of the influencers,
and this guy just nails it and he goes right in.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I just want authenticity. That's it. Just be authentic. If
you go somewhere, have a really good time, cool show
the good time that you're having. I don't just want
to see these like stoic faces, not smiling and just
standing getting in the wave of everything.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Don't you think they would a lot of times they
just come and get their picture and leave.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes, you know the list and look he's posting.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
A New York City influencer posts their to do list
and it's like the most asinine things the life they're living,
these these influencers.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No offense but events, okay, total offense.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yes, n well, you know, not to defend influencers, but
I will. I mean that's kind of what we do.
But that the thing that's different about your mouth The
thing that's different about I'm about to pay you a
couple of the thing that's different about us is we're
very selective about what we actually do talk about, right, Yeah,
So like Danielle and Gandhi, some of us are so
Danielle and Gandhi just went on a vacation and I
(04:28):
could tell that they were actually having a good time.
It was amazing the entire time they were quote unquote influencing,
right because we're we actually have integrity.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I just hate when they run into these mom and
pop small businesses and then shake them down for free
product or to be paid, and then if you don't,
then they go ahead and do the opposite and they
will crush you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
How we not even had an experience.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
People are trying to make a living and sell their
products and make some money, Like you know what I mean, Like,
don't go in and ask for free crap.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I tell you what if you want to be an influence.
And I know that Dottie has I hope I'm saying
his name correctly. I don't want to, because he's he
deserves it to be pronounced right.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But he actually found a guy, an influencer who went
to a restaurant and said, oh my god, you've got
to come try this. This food is from It's a
world flavor restaurant with cuisine from another culture and you know,
stuff you would never really get in other restaurants in town.
You've got to try. He highlighted this guy. He actually
(05:29):
gave him a good report. And I want to see
more influencers doing that. Yeah, if they go into go
into a place and give it a lot of hell,
then it's like, okay, well all right, it sounded.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'd rather you give me good reasons to go someplace.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
For sure. Our friend Dino with the pin Care, she
deals with this a lot because she has a makeup
line and a lot of people will reach out to
her asking for free product, or they'll try to tell
her I got your products and I loved it. If
you want me to review it, give me more for free,
and she can see if people have actually purchased, and
a lot of times they haven't. And it's like, Dina
is a small business. So when you come and you
say I just need product for my entire bridal party,
(06:05):
that's crazy. You can't do that to small biz.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's crazy to them.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
All right, So influencers. I do love following influencers in
the wild. Yes, on Instagram. Do you have like a
fly on the wall view of people out in public,
you know, trying to get the right shot on their
camera and they look like idiots? Like we were actually
at a resort in the Caribbean not too long ago,
(06:30):
and we were at by the pool, you know, and
have some cocktails, and there was a guy with his
camera phone and a girl who was posing in these
provocative poses I guess, and he was trying to get
it just right, and they did it. It was like
an hour of them trying just to show her, you know,
(06:51):
being sexy. I guess at the pool at this right resort.
I mean, they look so they looked so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
If it takes you that long to pose in a
sexy way, you're probably not sexy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Be easy. I just in a snap, look at this
sexy turn right around?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Sure, bam, wh what up?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Nate.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You'll see them in New York City a lot, the
Instagram boyfriend or the Instagram husband. Yeah, And I just
my heart goes out to these poor guys because they're
trying to get this shot.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And then they get yelled at no higher zero point five.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I feel so bad for these poor guys and they're
they're just becoming a photographer, trying to do this photo
shoot for their girl.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And I get it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
If it pays for stuff, I understand you want to
go and you know, live your life that way and
not have like a job job and capitalize on what
you can.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But it's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and you're gonna have There's a respect factor too,
you know, just get up, influencer, be cool.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Would you
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