Phone Tap: Brain Booster Side Effect

The guy Jeff's pranking today has been taking one of those “mind-sharpening” vitamin products and he told his wife he swears they’re working. She emailed us and now he’s the latest victim of our Phone Tap!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You've seen those ads for mind sharpening vitamins. Oh yeah,
and I'm supposed to help you think like three hundred
percent better. Yeah, I'm well, I think it's Yeah. I'm
not taking him, so I'm not good at the thinking stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah. Well.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
A woman emailed us saying her husband has been taking
them for the past month and he feels like they're working.
He's getting smarter by the day. She thinks it's just
a waste of money. Yeah, and that's why she wanted
us to call him from the brain boost company to
let him know, you keep taking these, there's good things
that will happen to you, and also maybe some weird

(00:40):
stuff in your phone's app right now. Hello, Hi, I'm
looking for Tom. I'm calling from the brain Booster supplement
customer support line. My name's Clay Oven.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, Hi, Hi Tom.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
We received a message that said you didn't receive your
latest order from us, and just wanted to check up
on that real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah. I put in that request, but it's actually all
worked out. My next door neighbor accidentally got the supplements.
Oh so I got it all good.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Wait he didn't take them, did he? No, No, he's
not going to be smarter than you. Yeah right, okay, well, hey,
that's great news that you're able to recover it. But
while I have you on the phone, I just want
to see if the brain boost is working for you.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, no, I am. I really like just how they
make me feel a little more, a little sharper.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh that's surprising. So you're not experiencing any cognitive side effects.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
What do you mean I didn't know that that was
like a possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, it's nothing, really, Like a few people have reported
that they can smell color now, and I'm not just
talking food. I'm talking like inanimate objects like, uh, I
don't know, I can't think name name something yellow that's
not a food.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Like a pencil.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh wow, yes, thank you. Oh my god. That brain
boost is really working for you.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah. I mean I told you I'm feeling sharper.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now it shows anyway, So back to what I was saying.
Some people are reporting smelling colors as a side effect.
Others tend to experience having a random British accent in
the morning. You're not getting that.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
People are saying that, and yeah, it's only happening in
the morning, like they're.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're at ten am. The accent cuts off.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh my god, that's that's weird.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, but I have a small price to pay for
cognitive boost, right.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Also, I will say a few others find themselves starting
tasks that they didn't mean to start, like folding a
neighbor's laundry.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
People are folding their neighbor's laundry because of that I'm taking.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, that's correct. I don't know if it's linked. But
these are just some of the things I'm hearing on
the customer service line. So uh uh, can I ask
how long have you been taking it?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So far? Only a month?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
This is really concerning, Okay, okay, maybe that's why because
at the two month mark, that's when you start to
remember things that never happened. Oh my, so are you
remembering things from the eighteen hundreds?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No? What from the eighteen hundreds? No, I'm right, not sorry,
remembering anything.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Because it hasn't kicked in for you yet.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's right, It's okay, this is unbelievable. I don't think
I want this.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, no, you will, because around the three month mark,
your brain boost supplement will be so powerful you're gonna
start remembering other people's dreams.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
What how will that even work.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, let's say they tell them to you, then you're
gonna remember them.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, yeah, someone tells me something like that, I would
remember it, but but I thought it was like something weird.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I see what's happening, mister, I'm smarter than you. Thinks
he knows everything. Now, why listen, I just flawning Your
big supplement enhanced brain make me feel bad about my normal,
non supplement brain.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
How I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
It means once you hit the six month mark, you're
gonna be smarter than ninety nine percent of the public.
So you need to harness this gift and educate all
of the dummies out there. What no fact check them
when they say stupid stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I'm not gonna go around just correcting strangers. Why would
I do that.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, with great power comes great responsibility.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I didn't sign up for any of this. I don't
want any.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Of this, and neither did Captain America. But now everybody
looks up to him.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's a movie, that's a superhero, that's like a comic book.
That's not real. That's the difference, right.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
And this isn't a real call. It's a prank on
the Radio Wall, So it's kind of the same. What. Yeah,
because you're on Brook and Jeffrey in the morning, your wife,
Deanres set you up for her phones out dude, Oh
my god? What is She emailed us. She says that
she thinks you you are kind of wasting your money

(05:01):
on this brain boost supplement thing, and she wanted us
to mess with you.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
God, I was freaking out. I was worried I was
gonna be doing all this like weird stuff if I
kept taking this thing.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I was freaking out too. When you said pencil, I
don't know how you thought that quickly.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, you really made me feel smarter, you
mean more smarter? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Week up every morning was fun tabs weekday mornings on
the twenties Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning