Phone Tap: What Can I Steal?

In your Phone Tap, we’re calling the front desk of a hotel and getting straight to the point: Tell us what we can steal from our room or there’s gonna be trouble.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real quick, Brook. Last thing you stole from a hotel?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh okay, Alex, I don't want stuff from there, real see.
I hear about people doing this all the time, and
they think that it's okay.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
What stealing from hotels? Oh I stole the desk. That's impressive.
I don't know how you snuff that out. You're the
reason that they nail a nice lotion.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Now that you say that, I wanted to get some
clarity once and for all on this. That's why I
call a woman who works the front desk at a hotel.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Man.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
You know what I should have done is asked her
to package all the stuff up for me in a
bag and just have it ready. But I didn't do that.
I tried to do it the more respectable way. And
you're gonna hear how that went down in your phone
tap right now.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Thank you for calling Sweets Hotel. This Isina. How man
I help you? Hi, Dina.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm going to be staying with you about a week
from today, and I'm wondering what I'm allowed to steal? What? Yeah,
in terms of me like taking something without asking, like
what won't you press charges for? Uh? No?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Or not? You like the hotel. I'm sorry, is that
a real question?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh? It is?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Are you really asking me that? That's why I'm calling.
I just want to know what's okay for me to take.
I mean, I don't think anything's okay for you to take.
I mean, like, right right now, I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, nothing should be okay for me to take, but
everybody does. So can I just go down the list
here and you just say yay or nay?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think maybe you should speak with my manager about this. Yeah, no, thanks,
So towels yeay or nay. No, No, you're not allowed
to take the towels. And like I said before, you're
not allowed to take anything.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Sorry, I need you to say yay or nay. Those
are the rules that I've kind of set up here.
Let's just to the remote control though, Like you guys
are gonna call the cops over that, right, Okay, I'm
just gonna put that down as a ya.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't quite understand what's happening right now. You're just
going down a checklist of things you're gonna take from us.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's a yay or nay list? And so what about
the small sculpture in the lobby? Now, notice I didn't
say the big one, just the small one that no
one's gonna miss. Did you case the place? I mean seriously,
I mean have stayed there before, that's what you're asking.
And I gotta say I love the linens. They're so soft.
I'm actually in one of your bathrobes right now. Good
quality stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, so you really should talk to my manager about this,
and he's gonna say the same thing I am, which
is this is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, I mean, I'm paying for the room, so I
should be allowed to take whatever I want now to
at least agree with me on that. Nay, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Why aren't you so open about this? Do people not
have any decency anymore? Wow?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay, well this is obviously different than the look in
I just stayed at because the employees there do not
give a rip.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
They'll let me tape whatever. Yeah, yeah, we are different.
We just all ve people to just come in and
take our property. Like something has got to stop, like
this is too much.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
You're all high and mighty, like you're acting with the
You're the four Seasons or something.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
But okay, okay, well, sister's going to be staying with us.
What's the name on the reservation. You want my name,
the full name, Yes, yeah, I need to know who's
going to steal from us.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh okay, Uh, the name is Zuckerberg.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
First name Mark. Okay, so you realize I know who
Mark Zuckerberg is, Like, I don't believe you're Mark Zuckerberg.
That it's been a rough year at my company.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
So you know, I know I mentioned the remote control
I think earlier, but what about just the batteries from it?
Your name nay nay to that too. Oh yeah, well,
in that case, you probably need to tell your boss
that Mark Zuckerberg is extremely upset with the rude customer
service that he's been receiving from the front desk.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Can you let him know?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh wow, okay, I'll just go let my boss know
that Mark Zuckerberg is upset with me because I'm not
letting him steal from us. Yes, that's going to go
over real well, yes, thank you for doing that for me.
And let him know that I'm about to post a
negative review on socials.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah. Yeah, my boss is really really gonna be excited
to see what you have to say. David is going
to be happy about that.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
And you can tell your supervisor David that the prank
call that he requested also was going really well, oh
my god.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Are you getting that it's a prank now? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Turns out shocker. I'm not Mark Zuckerberg. My real name
is jeff from a radio show called Brook and Jeffrey
in the Morning, and your boss David set you up
for a phone tap.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh okay, I mean, like we get weird of that's
what David was saying.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
He said that the hotel has been dealing with a
lot of people lately who've just been taking stuff, and
so he wanted to mess with you. Yeah apparently, I mean,
well everybody's doing it all and so I really wasn't
surprised and you called with your checklist. Yeah, and that
brings me to my next thing, the hotel shuttle. I
don't want to take it. Can I just like borrow
it for a week or two? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sure, why not? Oh okay, I'm gonna put a four
star review.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Thank you, Mark zacher Brook. Just make sure to include
my name.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
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