Phone Tap: Mr. Stylish and the Vanity Plate

Today’s Phone Tap victim has been hoping to get a specific vanity license plate for his business, but he’s about to become acquainted with a whole new type of DMV screwup!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I know the entrepreneurs of the world will appreciate our
next prank phone call. It's brooking Jeffrey in the morning.
Because when you run your own personal business and it
gets super successful, you eventually reach the level of you
know what I'm going to do. I'm going to get
me a personalized license plate branding myself on my vehicles. Yes,

(00:22):
that's what you do. That is until the DMB screws
it up for you. That's what happens today in your phone.
Tap right now another.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hi, my name is axel Rin Dawn. I'm calling from
the State Department of Licensing.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh what a name, and you work for the state?
I do.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Hi, I'm looking for Jacob Him.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, this is him. How you doing.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. I hope you're
doing okay today?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Doing great? Yeah? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? So the reason for my call is is I
work in the vanity license plate division. Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Apparently you filled out a submission form a little while
ago with us requesting a personalized plate.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yes I did.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, so I don't know if you know this, but
your request was approved. Yes, you should have received an
email on it.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, I've gotten that.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Great, So the plate was made and it will be
mailed to the address that you provided.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That's perfect. What else do you need from me?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, I don't need anything from you. I just am
supposed to inform you that your license maybe just a
little bit different than your specifications.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Wait wait my license or the license plate?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
The license plate? Okay, what the wording that you requested?
So what did you want yours to say?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Mister stylish? Mr dash sy lish? Is what I do? Okay?
I cut hair and I had spas and all that
good stuff. So yes, hm, what what does a hummy?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
So I'm just I'm processing what you're saying mentally, so
I think this still works? What?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
What is the plate? What did you what did you do?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's exactly what you requested. It's just the first S
is over by the R and then there's a space.
What hold on, sir? Just reading it out loud? I
think people might read it as missus tylish?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
How the did that happen? How did how did I
get past all the people that needed to see this.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
You're treating this like it's horrible news, like we made
some kind of mistake. It's not.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's literally not what I requested.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, just humor me and say it out loud really fast.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, do you not get it? Man? This is like
what I do. Okay, people know me as mister stylish,
not missus tilish you would have said it's sir.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It still is, mister stylist. Just with the space after.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
You're not gonna convince me. Man, you stop, and now
you've got to fix it.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Dude, sir, I do have a solution, and I think
you're gonna like it.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I can't believe it. What is it? Okay, we got
a solution.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
You know the space in between?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I know the space right?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, what if we just add an extra tea there?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
So well, dude, mister that's.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Not the name I well, people will get it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, this is not a solution. You're going to redo
the plate as I requested. No more bullsh from you.
Just do it.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, all right, I got you. We can redo the
license plate, thank you. It will cost another one hundred
and forty nine dollars, no.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Excluding TAXA and you not interested?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay? Is it because you're broke? You can't afford one hundred.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
And forty nine Okay, you gotta watch yourself buddy, you're
in customer service. Do you understand what that means? Right?
You don't say like that to customers?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Man, you stop, I'm not whoa Okay, you're right, I mean,
how could I ever think that a man who goes
by mister Stylish would be low on funds? I'm sorry?
That was my best. What's wrong with me? Is I
assumed you would take this news better? What I guess? Instead?
I could see I've made you a little angry.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
A little a little man. You're infuriating.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, I'm detecting that. I'm detecting some emotions coming from
your detective work.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Buddy, Thank you detective work.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Listen. So if I were you, I would just stick
with missus Tylish like we no, I need you.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I want your manager Mann.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hear me out. Maybe you put a bumper sticker underneath
it that points up and says, actually, mister Stylish your nut.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I don't want to talk to you anymore, don't you dare? No? No, no, no, no, no, please, okay.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, Just one thing. Robin, your friend, Robin, she sets
you up for a phone tap. That's all I gonna say.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
What.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, Robin is the one who sets you up for
this prank call because you're on the radio right now.
No boy, yeah, dude, Robin told us about your idea
for your vanity license plate because you guys work together,
so she thought it was a good opportunity to mess
with you.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, you're laughing, My god, Miss.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
You don't like the bumper sticker idea. We can have
a few of them pointing at the license plates. Are
really clear enough? Oh okay, terrible idea weeke up. Every
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