October 13, 2025 • 11 mins
We played the Homophonic Spelling Bee—a chaotic spelling game where listeners guessed which version of a homophone we were thinking of. No one could lose... but some definitely did.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, Diamond, just give me someone fun. Can you get
me someone fun? You call Diamond, but only call if
your fun. I have a contest that cannot be lost.
You cannot lose. That's nice. I'll try it out on Danielle.
It's the homophonic spelling bee. Do you know what a
(00:27):
homophone is?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I must say it right. Words that sound the same
but have different meanings.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Ah and quite often different spellings.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You cannot lose. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna give you, but
you have to focus.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, you have to focus, and you have to get
into my mind because I'm going to say a word
that has different meanings and it could be spelled differently
depending on the meaning. Okay, the word need need spell
the need I'm thinking of n E D no.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I was thinking need is a bread k n E
A D. I thought you said I can't lose. I
thought we had a fire winner. I think, what's that scary?
I like this homophone game. Oh, you're making fun because
(01:25):
I called it a homophone hob phone. That's more fun
when you say homopun.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The homophone homophone is but it's right here in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's Apple. My my phone is a homophone homophone?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh god, uh I.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hit the emergency button. Hold on?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Do you ever hit the button? Like so many times?
Emergency call and it starts counting down. They're going to
call it, and it starts going.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
On what happened?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Do they call you?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
They call you back if you don't answer, or if
you just let it keep going, because I've done that
a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Nine to one one literally calls you back and says,
are you okay?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Wow? My mom's wearing a heart monitor right now for
some test. Right, so she has to have a phone
near her because that's what monitors did. Since she puts
it in her back pocket and sits on it, and
so it's like, are you having an episode? Would you
like to track it? Because she sat on the buttons?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm like, what are you doing? She's a but diling? Yeah,
she is right, But we have someone who have someone fun? Oh,
we have someone fun security of music for this I
do number one. Okay, it's now time for homophonic fun. Oh,
let's go talk to Nicole.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Hei Nicole, Hello, wouldn't you love to play a game
where you're guaranteed to win.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I would absolutely love to play a game where I'm
guaranteed to win.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, welcome to homophonic fun. I just don't know if
I'm saying it correctly. I think you're fine.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah again, the homophone is my cell phone.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But this is fun. This is full of homo fun.
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So I'm gonna give you a word, homophonic word, and
you got to tell me how to spell it.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Okay, ready ready to t O Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That's what I was thinking of. It could have been
t O or t w o o h. This she
got it, she said, I'm sorry, I'm not in right.
Here's another one made made.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
M A T E.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
That's what I was thinking right now, here's a tricky
one there.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
O t h E r E.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No. I was taking t h e y apostrophe r E. Yeah,
nobody thinks that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
All right, I get the next one I did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They're they're in there all right, right, focus, focus, focus,
get into my brain and spell great the I'm spelling
it the word great?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Okay, great, like I'm doing really great at this game?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Are a T yes?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Great?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Really?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
See?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Knowing you, I thought you would have been talking about
the cheese one.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, great, g R A T E or the great
that's all like over a whole.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's another one.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, so you have two correct and one and
three three correct?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Game.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I okay, this is the trickiest one you've given me yet, but.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes, that's great. Hey, Nicole, by the way, isn't a
car full of teachers?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah? You know that's on speakerphone because I know that
that could sometimes make it hard for you guys to hear.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But you can free to turn around and ask for help.
Because now the new word is.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Meat meat okay, which okay, hold on, think.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
About it closely. Which meat is the gay radio host
thinking of?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Okay, so what do you think he's thinking of? We
say m E A T.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh my gosh, you're sweeping. You're sweeping. It could have
been m E E T. But it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
P E N I s no.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Danielle, Danielle, what's the E T for some E A T?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Let's move on here we go focus now, because this
could be spelled different ways.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I want you to spell it the way I'm thinking of.
So the word is so.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So Okay, I'm going to go with s O W.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So that's oh, that's SOW. Were you thinking of s
You were thinking of s e W?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh my gosh, do not tell my students.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well hold on, okay, hold on everyone, hold on? Can
s O W B?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
So?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, like I think it's like so your oats sewing? Well,
that would be s e W, wouldn't it. I don't know.
I will look it up. It up?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, No, Gandhi is on.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
She's always right, there's three. She's always the student that
sits at the front of the classroom.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And we always make fun of press.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
If s O W could have been correct, it wasn't there.
But thinking of it, Okay, we have two more to go.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
All right. That's just shows how domestic I am.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't Okay, here we go night.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Night Okay, I'm gonna go with m I g.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
H T No, No, sorry, I was thinking night isn't
shining armor?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
All right, I'm gonna Oh but he doesn't tell me that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
The teachers are yelling at her.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
This is the dumbest game, this game. You use it
in a sentence. I'm gonna give you one more.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, what is she up to?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well? It's around forty dollars. It's it's been back and forth.
All right, one more word, okay as we play homophonic
spelling Bee Rain, Rain, Okay, be careful.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I know this is this is tough because I'm thinking
of who I'm talking to, and I'm like, okay, Rain
be like Queen.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So very good, very good, You're on the right track.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Thank Okay, Rain, Lady Gaga, rain on me. But okay,
we'll go with Rain like the royalty. He gonna help
me out here.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Can you spell rain is a royalty?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
R e I gee e n.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Whoa hell.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
An?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That is correct? Rain like you said.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It could be like rain is in Queen, or it
could be rain on me as in Gaga.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I know, I know my audience here.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
All right, So Nate is in for me that you
just won fifty dollars. Thanks for playing homophonic spelling Bee.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Let's do again. We're never going to do that ever again.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Hey, So, how many teachers? How many teachers are in
the car with you, Nicole?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Three other teachers? I mean, listening to everything the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I love that you. Please give them our best. We
love our we love our educators, we love our teachers.
Thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I will and we love to have You don't teach spelling,
do you? By chance?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Maybe I'll do a spelling be today.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
On the radio.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All right, thank you, Nicole, thank you. What's that, scary, Elvis?
Your homophone is ringing? Okay? Should I get that?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Hello? Hello, thanks for calling the homophone.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Listening to us on delay? There's a delayed homophone.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Hello Hello. This is what we call a failure of
a call. Hold on Hello, thanks for calling the homophone.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hello, My Hi? Is this uh Elvis? It is it
really is? Who's this?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is actually Jonathan? Hi, Jonathan, I just picked up
your phone at random. It's like it's happenstance as they
call it, really scary spell happenstance hap in instance H
A P P E N S T A n c
E sounds good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So Jonathan, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I have to do my shift. I do like part
time with lift.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So oh good.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You sound very hesitant being on the phone with this
because you don't know what it's about to happen. It's
about to play another round of homophonic spelling. Spell flower
but spelled flower in the way I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Of flower.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Fl l w e R.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It could have been flower, but you spelled flower flower
all U are?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh, yeah, that would know. You get the right one. Okay,
I'm gonna give you one more. The word is wood.
W O d oh I was spelling. I was spelling it.
W O U l G. Okay, okay, one more, one
more by b oh wow, b y e b y e.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Absolutely as in, please hold how much money did Jonathan
just win?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Hey, whenever you want to give him melvios?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
All right, all right, money on the way, Thanks for listening,
Thanks for playing a homophonic spelling bee.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That was just a barrel of monkeys, wasn't it all right? Well, okay,
I think I enjoyed that.
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, Diamond, just give me someone fun. Can you get
me someone fun? You call Diamond, but only call if
your fun. I have a contest that cannot be lost.
You cannot lose. That's nice. I'll try it out on Danielle.
It's the homophonic spelling bee. Do you know what a
(00:27):
homophone is?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I must say it right. Words that sound the same
but have different meanings.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Ah and quite often different spellings.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You cannot lose. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna give you, but
you have to focus.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, you have to focus, and you have to get
into my mind because I'm going to say a word
that has different meanings and it could be spelled differently
depending on the meaning. Okay, the word need need spell
the need I'm thinking of n E D no.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I was thinking need is a bread k n E
A D. I thought you said I can't lose. I
thought we had a fire winner. I think, what's that scary?
I like this homophone game. Oh, you're making fun because
(01:25):
I called it a homophone hob phone. That's more fun
when you say homopun.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The homophone homophone is but it's right here in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's Apple. My my phone is a homophone homophone?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh god, uh I.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hit the emergency button. Hold on?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Do you ever hit the button? Like so many times?
Emergency call and it starts counting down. They're going to
call it, and it starts going.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
On what happened?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Do they call you?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
They call you back if you don't answer, or if
you just let it keep going, because I've done that
a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Nine to one one literally calls you back and says,
are you okay?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Wow? My mom's wearing a heart monitor right now for
some test. Right, so she has to have a phone
near her because that's what monitors did. Since she puts
it in her back pocket and sits on it, and
so it's like, are you having an episode? Would you
like to track it? Because she sat on the buttons?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm like, what are you doing? She's a but diling? Yeah,
she is right, But we have someone who have someone fun? Oh,
we have someone fun security of music for this I
do number one. Okay, it's now time for homophonic fun. Oh,
let's go talk to Nicole.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Hei Nicole, Hello, wouldn't you love to play a game
where you're guaranteed to win.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I would absolutely love to play a game where I'm
guaranteed to win.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, welcome to homophonic fun. I just don't know if
I'm saying it correctly. I think you're fine.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah again, the homophone is my cell phone.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But this is fun. This is full of homo fun.
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So I'm gonna give you a word, homophonic word, and
you got to tell me how to spell it.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Okay, ready ready to t O Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That's what I was thinking of. It could have been
t O or t w o o h. This she
got it, she said, I'm sorry, I'm not in right.
Here's another one made made.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
M A T E.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
That's what I was thinking right now, here's a tricky
one there.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
O t h E r E.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No. I was taking t h e y apostrophe r E. Yeah,
nobody thinks that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
All right, I get the next one I did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They're they're in there all right, right, focus, focus, focus,
get into my brain and spell great the I'm spelling
it the word great?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Okay, great, like I'm doing really great at this game?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Are a T yes?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Great?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Really?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
See?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Knowing you, I thought you would have been talking about
the cheese one.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, great, g R A T E or the great
that's all like over a whole.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's another one.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, so you have two correct and one and
three three correct?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Game.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I okay, this is the trickiest one you've given me yet, but.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes, that's great. Hey, Nicole, by the way, isn't a
car full of teachers?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah? You know that's on speakerphone because I know that
that could sometimes make it hard for you guys to hear.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But you can free to turn around and ask for help.
Because now the new word is.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Meat meat okay, which okay, hold on, think.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
About it closely. Which meat is the gay radio host
thinking of?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Okay, so what do you think he's thinking of? We
say m E A T.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh my gosh, you're sweeping. You're sweeping. It could have
been m E E T. But it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
P E N I s no.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Danielle, Danielle, what's the E T for some E A T?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Let's move on here we go focus now, because this
could be spelled different ways.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I want you to spell it the way I'm thinking of.
So the word is so.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So Okay, I'm going to go with s O W.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So that's oh, that's SOW. Were you thinking of s
You were thinking of s e W?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh my gosh, do not tell my students.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well hold on, okay, hold on everyone, hold on? Can
s O W B?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
So?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, like I think it's like so your oats sewing? Well,
that would be s e W, wouldn't it. I don't know.
I will look it up. It up?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, No, Gandhi is on.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
She's always right, there's three. She's always the student that
sits at the front of the classroom.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And we always make fun of press.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
If s O W could have been correct, it wasn't there.
But thinking of it, Okay, we have two more to go.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
All right. That's just shows how domestic I am.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't Okay, here we go night.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Night Okay, I'm gonna go with m I g.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
H T No, No, sorry, I was thinking night isn't
shining armor?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
All right, I'm gonna Oh but he doesn't tell me that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
The teachers are yelling at her.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
This is the dumbest game, this game. You use it
in a sentence. I'm gonna give you one more.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, what is she up to?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well? It's around forty dollars. It's it's been back and forth.
All right, one more word, okay as we play homophonic
spelling Bee Rain, Rain, Okay, be careful.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I know this is this is tough because I'm thinking
of who I'm talking to, and I'm like, okay, Rain
be like Queen.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So very good, very good, You're on the right track.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Thank Okay, Rain, Lady Gaga, rain on me. But okay,
we'll go with Rain like the royalty. He gonna help
me out here.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Can you spell rain is a royalty?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
R e I gee e n.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Whoa hell.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
An?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That is correct? Rain like you said.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It could be like rain is in Queen, or it
could be rain on me as in Gaga.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I know, I know my audience here.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
All right, So Nate is in for me that you
just won fifty dollars. Thanks for playing homophonic spelling Bee.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Let's do again. We're never going to do that ever again.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Hey, So, how many teachers? How many teachers are in
the car with you, Nicole?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Three other teachers? I mean, listening to everything the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I love that you. Please give them our best. We
love our we love our educators, we love our teachers.
Thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I will and we love to have You don't teach spelling,
do you? By chance?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Maybe I'll do a spelling be today.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
On the radio.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All right, thank you, Nicole, thank you. What's that, scary, Elvis?
Your homophone is ringing? Okay? Should I get that?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Hello? Hello, thanks for calling the homophone.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Listening to us on delay? There's a delayed homophone.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Hello Hello. This is what we call a failure of
a call. Hold on Hello, thanks for calling the homophone.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hello, My Hi? Is this uh Elvis? It is it
really is? Who's this?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is actually Jonathan? Hi, Jonathan, I just picked up
your phone at random. It's like it's happenstance as they
call it, really scary spell happenstance hap in instance H
A P P E N S T A n c
E sounds good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So Jonathan, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I have to do my shift. I do like part
time with lift.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So oh good.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You sound very hesitant being on the phone with this
because you don't know what it's about to happen. It's
about to play another round of homophonic spelling. Spell flower
but spelled flower in the way I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Of flower.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Fl l w e R.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It could have been flower, but you spelled flower flower
all U are?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh, yeah, that would know. You get the right one. Okay,
I'm gonna give you one more. The word is wood.
W O d oh I was spelling. I was spelling it.
W O U l G. Okay, okay, one more, one
more by b oh wow, b y e b y e.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Absolutely as in, please hold how much money did Jonathan
just win?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Hey, whenever you want to give him melvios?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
All right, all right, money on the way, Thanks for listening,
Thanks for playing a homophonic spelling bee.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That was just a barrel of monkeys, wasn't it all right? Well, okay,
I think I enjoyed that.
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