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(00:03):
Kathy has seen and felt better days. Oh what happened? Kathy? My
husband has a gambling problem and theagreement was he wouldn't gamble so he could
stay together. And I got thistext, and I've just been so upset
about it. So is he gettinghelp for it? Or you know,
they had to talk. They hadto talk about him giving up gambling.
(00:27):
He bought it, okay, Andthen she gets a mistext It says,
all good. My wife thinks I'mplaying softball with the guys. I am
free for tonight. Right, sothat text, now you didn't answer it
back? Is that correct? No? I been so upset about it.
I don't know what to say.And that just happened. This just happened
(00:48):
yesterday. He hasn't brought it up, so he didn't bring it up.
She didn't bring it up. Mustbe incredibly awkward. This could be a
woman, This could be about gambling. This we don't know what this is
about anything. I'm thinking when hesays he's free for tonight, is he
meeting up with another woman? Well? What does your gut tell you?
Kathy? Speaking of guts, youknow this fat bastard. I mean I
(01:11):
could never see him with another woman. What okay, wow, okay,
don't hold back there. Call himup and find out. Is he cheating
on me? Is he back togambling? Did he break his commitment to
me? Give me a call.I shouldn't call him fat bastard? Should
we refer to him as fat bastard? Cathy? Is that a nickname that
(01:34):
sounds good to me? Okay?Okay, all right, right, all
right? His name is Donald.Okay, so we do have a real
right Hello, Hey Donald, howare you good? Are you good?
(01:57):
My name is Marie and I'm callingfrom red Roses dot com. You have
a dozen long stem roses headed yourway, and I just needed to ask
you a couple of quick questions.What you have? A dozen long stem
roses come in your direction? Anduh, I just need to ask you
a couple quick questions for me.Yeah, they're they're for you, And
(02:22):
I'll explain. We're a new companyin the Tri state area. We came
up with a promotional vehicle where weget a list of names, we pick
one randomly, and we give thema dozen long stem roses free of charge,
And the only thing we ask inreturn for these free flowers is that
you talk about us on your socialmedia, you word of mouth, friends,
(02:45):
family, co workers, that kindof thing. They're beautiful flowers,
long stem ros free, totally free, and they come in a beautiful crystal
vase. The value of the crystalis about three fifty that's oh wow,
yeah, really gorgeous. So thething is, though I can't send the
roses directly to you personally, youhave to send these free roses out to
(03:10):
someone special in your life and wewill attach a note for you. So
it says, if you wanted tosend someone flowers, but this time it's
free, she'll be totally cool withjust the flowers, would be totally cool.
And I would like the crystal begreat, you know, I can
kind of keep it with me.And how much did you say it was
worth? About three fifty four fiftydepending on you know, I would like
(03:35):
that. That would be cool.Yeah, I have you know, it
was really beautiful. But I betyour wife would really like it too.
So how about we just send itboth together and you you can have the
flowers, you know, that wouldbe awesome. But yeah, so there's
no way, I mean, theycould send, you know, just the
crystal to me and then the flowersto her I don't understand why you're very
(03:55):
adamant about separating the really nice areally nice piece. It is. It's
beautiful, and I think your wifeprobably would love to see the whole package.
And she don't. She don't appreciatebeauty like the way I do.
And uh, I would definitely appreciatethat, I think more than my wife
(04:17):
would. So, Kathy, areyou there? I'm here? Yeah,
So it would appear that Donald isstill gambling. Okay, Donald Donald.
Uh, my name is Hollywood Hamilton. I'm with kt Radio, iHeartRadio here
(04:40):
in New York City, and Marie'snot you know, we're not with a
rose company or anything. Marie helpsme along with this very popular feature we
do called War of the Roses.And your wife's spent on the phone the
entire time. Yeah, the wholetime. So what do you what do
you mean by the whole time?The entire of the call? Right?
(05:02):
You know, you accidentally sent thetext to your wife, and you're pretending
as if you didn't send it.Let's be honest, Kathy, Yes,
you want to talk to him?Hey, honey, the game begins in
three two, don't hey, Yanime, I thought we agreed you wouldn't
be gambling anymore. Well, no, I would. I just I just
(05:27):
wanted to. I just they offeredme to send you roses, so I
thought it would be really cool tosend you roses. What's with the text?
You're playing softball with the guys,I'm free for tonight. Well,
we were gonna play softball. Butthen, so you're not cheating on your
(05:48):
wife. That was supposed to beto Bill. He's been having trouble and
he wanted to sit down and talkwith me, so I told him,
Wow, Wow, amazing story.Donald. Nobody's buying your story. Donald.
(06:09):
And you know what you did.You did lie to your wife.
Maybe you're not cheating with another woman, okay, but you are not being
honest with your wife. You toldyour wife you were getting help for your
addiction to gambling. You did notdo it. You did not even remotely
begin to do it. No,you're not. You're not, and you
(06:30):
know you're not. I had abed run. She knows that. And
if I can just get a littlebit of help with a few extra bucks,
then I know I can get backto where I was. Once I
get back to where I was,then I can go and get the help
that I need and go, Okay, Kathy, How does that make you
(06:55):
feel, Kathy? Is that thedeal? The deal is he's not going
to be gambling, and he reallyis because he wanted to use that crystal
oz in his gambling game. Right. He can't help himself. You're out
of control. Donald. You weregoing to take a oz that was going
to be given to your wife.You were gonna give her the flowers.
You were going to take that crystalVaz. Donald, you lost my father's
(07:18):
watch. You've lost our microwave oven. What kind of game a microwave oven
on the table? You must bebacking up trucks to this game. You
need help, Donald, You needhelp. Look is gambling more important than
(07:39):
your wife? Because I think yourwife is ready to check out? This
is it? Donald, I've hadit. You're you're gonna lose your wife,
your family, everything, Yes,you are. Every appliance you own
in that house is going to begone by the end of the month.
Company. You're you're going to destroyeverything. What are you going to do?
(08:01):
Sean and I have people that wecan get you and your wife to
meet, and you're not going tobe able to get away with doing it.
On your own taking your word forit, that ship is sailed.
I can't. I can't hang upwithout knowing you're going to give it a
chance. With your wife, Kathy, yeah, think about the length that
she had to go through an Arnicaradio station. I know she obviously loves
(08:22):
you and she loves your relationships.To call us to go to this extreme,
what are you going to do?I'll go and legitimately try and go
and get some help. No,the two of you are going to go
together. I'm going to connect youwith somebody who deals with this all the
time. I'm willing to go ifDonald is okay, very nice, Donald,
(08:43):
are you going to do it?Yeah, I'll go. Fine,
let's go. Yeah, thank you. Go to your car and get the
blender out of the car and turnit. No blender, there's no blender.
Kathy has seen and felt better days. Oh what happened? Kathy? My
husband has a gambling problem and theagreement was he wouldn't gamble so he could
stay together. And I got thistext, and I've just been so upset
about it. So is he gettinghelp for it? Or you know,
they had to talk. They hadto talk about him giving up gambling.
(00:27):
He bought it, okay, Andthen she gets a mistext It says,
all good. My wife thinks I'mplaying softball with the guys. I am
free for tonight. Right, sothat text, now you didn't answer it
back? Is that correct? No? I been so upset about it.
I don't know what to say.And that just happened. This just happened
(00:48):
yesterday. He hasn't brought it up, so he didn't bring it up.
She didn't bring it up. Mustbe incredibly awkward. This could be a
woman, This could be about gambling. This we don't know what this is
about anything. I'm thinking when hesays he's free for tonight, is he
meeting up with another woman? Well? What does your gut tell you?
Kathy? Speaking of guts, youknow this fat bastard. I mean I
(01:11):
could never see him with another woman. What okay, wow, okay,
don't hold back there. Call himup and find out. Is he cheating
on me? Is he back togambling? Did he break his commitment to
me? Give me a call.I shouldn't call him fat bastard? Should
we refer to him as fat bastard? Cathy? Is that a nickname that
(01:34):
sounds good to me? Okay?Okay, all right, right, all
right? His name is Donald.Okay, so we do have a real
right Hello, Hey Donald, howare you good? Are you good?
(01:57):
My name is Marie and I'm callingfrom red Roses dot com. You have
a dozen long stem roses headed yourway, and I just needed to ask
you a couple of quick questions.What you have? A dozen long stem
roses come in your direction? Anduh, I just need to ask you
a couple quick questions for me.Yeah, they're they're for you, And
(02:22):
I'll explain. We're a new companyin the Tri state area. We came
up with a promotional vehicle where weget a list of names, we pick
one randomly, and we give thema dozen long stem roses free of charge,
And the only thing we ask inreturn for these free flowers is that
you talk about us on your socialmedia, you word of mouth, friends,
(02:45):
family, co workers, that kindof thing. They're beautiful flowers,
long stem ros free, totally free, and they come in a beautiful crystal
vase. The value of the crystalis about three fifty that's oh wow,
yeah, really gorgeous. So thething is, though I can't send the
roses directly to you personally, youhave to send these free roses out to
(03:10):
someone special in your life and wewill attach a note for you. So
it says, if you wanted tosend someone flowers, but this time it's
free, she'll be totally cool withjust the flowers, would be totally cool.
And I would like the crystal begreat, you know, I can
kind of keep it with me.And how much did you say it was
worth? About three fifty four fiftydepending on you know, I would like
(03:35):
that. That would be cool.Yeah, I have you know, it
was really beautiful. But I betyour wife would really like it too.
So how about we just send itboth together and you you can have the
flowers, you know, that wouldbe awesome. But yeah, so there's
no way, I mean, theycould send, you know, just the
crystal to me and then the flowersto her I don't understand why you're very
(03:55):
adamant about separating the really nice areally nice piece. It is. It's
beautiful, and I think your wifeprobably would love to see the whole package.
And she don't. She don't appreciatebeauty like the way I do.
And uh, I would definitely appreciatethat, I think more than my wife
(04:17):
would. So, Kathy, areyou there? I'm here? Yeah,
So it would appear that Donald isstill gambling. Okay, Donald Donald.
Uh, my name is Hollywood Hamilton. I'm with kt Radio, iHeartRadio here
(04:40):
in New York City, and Marie'snot you know, we're not with a
rose company or anything. Marie helpsme along with this very popular feature we
do called War of the Roses.And your wife's spent on the phone the
entire time. Yeah, the wholetime. So what do you what do
you mean by the whole time?The entire of the call? Right?
(05:02):
You know, you accidentally sent thetext to your wife, and you're pretending
as if you didn't send it.Let's be honest, Kathy, Yes,
you want to talk to him?Hey, honey, the game begins in
three two, don't hey, Yanime, I thought we agreed you wouldn't
be gambling anymore. Well, no, I would. I just I just
(05:27):
wanted to. I just they offeredme to send you roses, so I
thought it would be really cool tosend you roses. What's with the text?
You're playing softball with the guys,I'm free for tonight. Well,
we were gonna play softball. Butthen, so you're not cheating on your
(05:48):
wife. That was supposed to beto Bill. He's been having trouble and
he wanted to sit down and talkwith me, so I told him,
Wow, Wow, amazing story.Donald. Nobody's buying your story. Donald.
(06:09):
And you know what you did.You did lie to your wife.
Maybe you're not cheating with another woman, okay, but you are not being
honest with your wife. You toldyour wife you were getting help for your
addiction to gambling. You did notdo it. You did not even remotely
begin to do it. No,you're not. You're not, and you
(06:30):
know you're not. I had abed run. She knows that. And
if I can just get a littlebit of help with a few extra bucks,
then I know I can get backto where I was. Once I
get back to where I was,then I can go and get the help
that I need and go, Okay, Kathy, How does that make you
(06:55):
feel, Kathy? Is that thedeal? The deal is he's not going
to be gambling, and he reallyis because he wanted to use that crystal
oz in his gambling game. Right. He can't help himself. You're out
of control. Donald. You weregoing to take a oz that was going
to be given to your wife.You were gonna give her the flowers.
You were going to take that crystalVaz. Donald, you lost my father's
(07:18):
watch. You've lost our microwave oven. What kind of game a microwave oven
on the table? You must bebacking up trucks to this game. You
need help, Donald, You needhelp. Look is gambling more important than
(07:39):
your wife? Because I think yourwife is ready to check out? This
is it? Donald, I've hadit. You're you're gonna lose your wife,
your family, everything, Yes,you are. Every appliance you own
in that house is going to begone by the end of the month.
Company. You're you're going to destroyeverything. What are you going to do?
(08:01):
Sean and I have people that wecan get you and your wife to
meet, and you're not going tobe able to get away with doing it.
On your own taking your word forit, that ship is sailed.
I can't. I can't hang upwithout knowing you're going to give it a
chance. With your wife, Kathy, yeah, think about the length that
she had to go through an Arnicaradio station. I know she obviously loves
(08:22):
you and she loves your relationships.To call us to go to this extreme,
what are you going to do?I'll go and legitimately try and go
and get some help. No,the two of you are going to go
together. I'm going to connect youwith somebody who deals with this all the
time. I'm willing to go ifDonald is okay, very nice, Donald,
(08:43):
are you going to do it?Yeah, I'll go. Fine,
let's go. Yeah, thank you. Go to your car and get the
blender out of the car and turnit. No blender, there's no blender.
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