Phone Tap: Phone Spanish Translation

Today’s Phone Tap victim works tech support for a huge retailer and we’ve got one of the most unique and unbelievable issues with our new phone for him to try and solve!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In today's phone Tap, we call a guy who works
in the electronics department of a very popular store. So
he's used to dealing with confused customers who have questions
about the products they just bought with all the new
technology on them. Well, now he's about to be pushed
to the limit when I tell him I accidentally activated
the translator feature on my cell phone and I have

(00:22):
no idea how to turn it off. It's your phone
tap right now.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thank you for calling your local appreciate your business and
look forward to the opportunity to serve you in our stores.
For pharmacy Press one, for electronics Press three.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
This is Drew and Electronics. Hi.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
My name is John.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Hey, my name is Juan.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yeah, sorry, I bought a phone.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
I bought a phone from your store last week, from you,
like a week ago, and I.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Don't know what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I don't know what happened after I activated it the
feature that auto translated, that translated into Spanish.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'm having issues.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
We loco man. Now everything's in Spanish when I talk.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I'm sorry, what's happening here? I'm confused. You said you
you bought a phone from us, and there's something wrong
with it.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah, so I accidentally hit the auto translation.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hit the auto translation or whatever it's called.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
So that voice isn't me.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
This is not me, man, I'm a white boy.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
You're telling me like every time you speak, that comes
through your phone it's like a Spanish translation or something.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Apparently. I don't I don't know how it works. I
was helping you.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
You want some answers?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Are you joking about this? Are you serious enough?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
I don't even know how it happened.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Oh, I don't even know how it happened. It wasn't me, Holmes,
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Do Yeah, and the auto translate's really offensive.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
And translate can be kind of offensive on dins Man, Like,
I'm not even swearing.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I don't understand how this is happening.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Well, I didn't even want to upgrade my phone, but
they said want to. My phone got the auto translates,
so it gets so annoying.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Really, what what kind of phone do you have?

Speaker 4 (02:18):
The new iPhone?

Speaker 5 (02:19):
No, it's not the new one. He's kind of cheap.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
What is this like the new like AI that's been
built into, all the new technology.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Built in because they're like robots watching me.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't even know what to say. It's just how
to control trust me.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Like, imagine how frustrating it is for me.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Imagine how frustrating it is for me.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Man, I'm trying to a nap, like I'm trying to
like call girl, trying to do stuff.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
And monies and do stuff and look up really weird
videos online.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I'm not trying to up weird videos.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Sometimes he does look at videos.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
The auto translate features really messed up on this thing.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
The leading cookies. He makes me to lead all the
browser history.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Man, there's almost like two different people.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
No, I agree, But that's why I agree, Man, I
need to turn it off.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
That's why I need to turn it off on Bray.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I just I've never been in a situation like this. Okay,
this is a weird one.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, So if I like restart the phone, restart the phone, like,
is there a factory setting?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
Is the factory setting or I do I just like
throw it against the wall or whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I wouldn't throw the phone against the wall.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Okay, Well I didn't say that.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
That was that was the white boy talking over there.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
There's a Spanish one, yeah, yeah, Spanol.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's really like super annoying to me. To even try
and follow this right now, so I can only imagine
how you see, I'm sorry, see.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's translating my it's translating my sea.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm gonna actually have to ask my supervisor about this one.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Seriously, you can't fix this all for real homes. I mean,
this should be easy. It should just be like a button.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
That it should be like easy piec lemon squeeze where
the lemons?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Your translator is so obnoxious right now?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Man, I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I was trying to do ab interview over the phone,
a job interview recently on a phone, Like you can
imagine how poorly that Imagine how crazy you went.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
No way, there's no way you could do a job
interview with this thing going on with your exactly.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's why I need your help.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, exactly, Bro, That's why I need you to save me.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Okay, listen, I can't deal with this anymore. You're just
gonna have to bring the phone in so that we
can take a look at me.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
That hey, really quick before you get your supervisor. I
kind of may have a warrant so if we could
avoid that situation.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Was absolutely out of control.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
How this phone is out of control? How the big
delim it's a phone tab.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
What's happening here.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
What's happening is you're on a radio show.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
What's happening is you're on a radio show right now.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Show is called Brook and Jaffery Brook.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
I should stop.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's Jose that's been repeating after me.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I'm jeff This is a phone tab, dude. Your friend
Kelly is the one who set you up for this.
She told us that you've had some strange customers coming
in recently, so she thought we could mess with you.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh, this is the strangest thing ever.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
You did not believe it.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I was like, what you said, Ai? I was like,
maybe it's true.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah, well, hey, I welcome to the future of technology homes.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Wake Up every morning was phone taps weekday mornings on
the twenties, Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning