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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Phone Presents Morning Show. And here we go in the room.
It's Bethany. Hello, welcome back, yellow yellow, yellow, welcome back,
thank you, thank you. Scary's here, there's Brodie. There's great
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to the front boy bringing positivity into the room. I am,
And there's there's Gartello yellow, and there's Danielle and there's
a straight name. We're talking about different ways people answer
the phone. We used to call this lady in our
town and we'd listen to her say hello, and then
we'd hang out because she go yellow, like, oh my gosh,
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she says yellow, yellow, yellow. All right, let's start the
show out with a letter someone actually sent us to
us from and written note from the Bronx. They wrote
a letter which I find so I like it. I
like it to prison. But then you got to read
the letter because it's from the Bronx. You gotta say prison. Yeah, yeah,
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you know what. He's right. We get a ton of
inmate letters. Elvis, you blew it. One and a half
months ago. They waited one and a half months to
write this letter. One and a half months ago, you
did a segment on your show about a woman who
caught her boyfriend watching porn and she called it cheating.
Your whole staff's comments missed two major points. Number one, first,
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no woman ever gives her boyfriend husband enough sex as
he would like. Okay, speak for yourself. Number two, women
masturbate as well. It's normal, different, and can prevent people
from cheating. Neither of these two major points were mentioned
from anyone's comments. That's the letter. There's no salutation at
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the end. Didn't you put a name on it? Oh,
you didn't sign your letter. Your opinion doesn't matter. That's
my view. If you don't sign your letter, your opinion
doesn't matter. I kind of agree with that, even though
I but I welcome all opinions. Just understand stand it
doesn't have as much weight if you don't put your
name on it. If you stand behind your comments. What's
the return address? There is a return address. She had
to be so piste off to go. You know what,
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I'm going to take the time to get out paper,
get a pen, and then put these thoughts down on paper,
then go to the post office and send it. Yeah,
exactly who does that? Is a dude? I don't we
don't know. They didn't it whoever it is, watches a
lot of porn. If they wanted those opinions discussed on
the show, perhaps texting or calling would have been a
better way to go than writing, Okay, well so, but
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I don't. I don't want to over analyze it and say,
you know, they're not it's not a valid point or
two because they mailed it a valid point. But when
you don't put your name on it, I'm like, really,
have some guts and put your name on something. I
hold that in the same opinion as people who go
I of you, But yeah, I discount everything you say
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after that, because it's you try it's you not being
willing to stand behind your opinion fully. It's you trying
to buffer it by saying I love you, and that
doesn't That doesn't count for me. What's up? I recently
called my local paper to make a complaint about something
that was going on in the community. So the woman said,
I need your name and your address. So I said
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it's Greg, and she goes, that doesn't help me. Your
last name in your address, and I said I can't
give it to you. She said why, and I said,
because it's gonna become a political thing. You're gonna You're
gonna put my name in the paper. Then the then
the mayor's gonna see it, and then I'm gonna have
like police driving past my house all the time. And
I'm like, you know how that works. I'm like, so,
I'm just gonna is this your conspiracy theory? Well? I so,
I said to her, said, I just want to give
you the complaint. Now you run on it, run on
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the story. And She's like, sir, if you're not gonna
put your name on this, on this complaint, then it
doesn't go any further that I have a meeting to
go to. I have no more time for this conversation.
Actually hung up on it. So do we sort of
agree with her? I do? I do too? Yeah, but
what about the people that do If you do put
your name out there, then you do get you know, political,
you know, craziness in front of your house the police
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alli pulled over by a cop in the middle of nowhere.
You won't know you want. I think you're I think
break my headlights headlight here. Listen. There are some you
like too many movies you're talking. It just means that
you have to be willing to give an opinion that
you're willing to stand behind. Like, there's a lot of
things that I feel strongly about, but I don't talk
about them on Twitter or Facebook or anything because I don't.
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I don't want to be held accountable from for those views.
I don't want to have to defend them. I don't
want to have to deal with it, and so I
just don't put out that. Well, you gave you by
the way, Greg, you gave your name and identity here,
So what what's your complaint? It's valid? Oh no, I
mean not about that. No, are you calling for the
lady who you were speaking without? The newspaper could be
listening to this and go, oh it was Greg T
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from Elvis. Right. Well, another reason why I be careful,
like like a plaint. Yeah, oh be cool. You even
want to hear back? Interesting, someone was on your lawn?
What's the year they allow us to do something called
bulk pick up? You know, like you throw off a
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keep going, keep going couches and everything, and then for
the whole weekend, random people drive through neighborhoods and they
go rummage through your garbage. Even how I have gone
through my neighbor's garbage and took a shelf out. I
thought it was worthy, you know. Okay, So then after that,
like come Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, it should end because we
have children that go to the bus stop in the morning.
But there's these random vans that are still driving through
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the neighborhood like on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Do you think
it's getting a little creepy. Yeah, which as a parent
that drus. What did you want to say to the
newspaper and they have them print well, I wanted to
know they should do the research a does crime go
up during bulk pick up time once a year in
our town? Wait a minute, what why is there a
problem putting your name on this? This is probably something
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that a lot of people in your community are thinking
as well well, because then the mayor would know that
I put my name on it. They haven't said anything offensive,
you know, I don't want to cause a problem. The
police break your headlights over that. Well, you've seen in
the movies where that happens. They go, you know what
are you talking to loud around? You're describing is like
the vintage shopping version of the Purge, Like once a
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year you get like these really great It is you're
all going to your town. Also, Shaden l around the
bus out of the bus stop, and this like white
van drove by, and the lady told me, well, sir,
you know you're gonna be that's profiling. And I said, well,
if I have to protect my kids, then I'm not
scared of the word I'll profile. That got to be
a white van. I'm just I'm just like, why is
the van driving me? Sorry, next time I'll announce myself
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while driving pile for you guys, Because guys were missing
a point that he said, draw a red flag instead
of razor red flag. He should have been raising. But
what I'm saying here is, you know, it is good
to take a stand and make your voice be heard,
but your voice isn't going to be heard if you're
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you're anonymous people, you know what. That's why all these
people who send us awful things on social media, they
never put their picture up and their accounts are always locks.
You can't see because because they're well now, they're not
exit or not the shadow. Because there the people like
the people on Instagram who have called me fat, who've
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called me ugly, who've called me stupid, you can't see
them their Instagram pictures that's never them as a profile
picture and their account is always private, so I can't
see like whatever, Bethany, how great was Katie Perry on
the show which she was She was talking about social media.
She admits she says, I have a hundred million people
following me and it's not real. Yeah. I feel like
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Scary needs to know that because he thinks all of
his friends on Facebook are his real friends. I don't
think he thinks that. No, I don't think that, but
but I I do. I do take into you know,
account when somebody, you know, I get offended easily on Instagram.
If somebody comments on the thread and they're they're just
saying things, I'm like, this is my home and you
people and they hide behind and being anonymous. So you
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shouldn't be anonymous. If you have a problem with you know,
trash days or whatever the hell it's called in your town,
you should say Greg Tea and I don't like it.
It's a really valid concerns. It is, like, yeah, but
then I have be a civic leader. Systems. You gotta
be careful the kids too. Human teachers will fail them.
You haven't done anything. What you're talking about it is
not that it's not that heavy of an issue that
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everybody will be on the his side side of the
ones that driver on my neighborhood looked like mad Max
flatbed trucks. Like these guys were like spikes on their
head and they like I put a grill out, They
took the copper top off the grill because it was
worth something. They just rummage through your stuff. Like you
hear them, don't put stuff out. Well, I gotta get
there's there's answer. Don't stuff out next time next year?
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Will you let me know when it's both pick up,
because I really want to go and get We should
have listeners all show up at his block and just
like like a call of one hundred, you can go
to the purge one. We got one of our bureaus
from one of these things and my husband it was
now it was in Connecticut and we found it on
the side of the road at my husband and I
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carried it all the way to the house up. It
wasn't great ship. One man's garbage is happening because I've
never I've never heard of this. I picked up a
piece of artwork off the side of the in Tribeca
and it's one of my favorite pieces, and it was
worth a million dollars. My friend Jeremy was drunk walking
home in Brooklyn one night and he saw this vintage
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card catalog from a library, which like, I, oh, my god,
stem and standing there's like the middle of the night
looking at it, trying to decide if they wanted it.
And he was just drunk enough to be brave, and
so as they're trying to decide, he walks past him,
picks it up and keeps walking. It is so beautiful.
I thought of you, Bethany. In the news today, there
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was a lady who bought some costume jewelry at a
rummage sale and it turns out it's where four hundred
thousand dollars she paid nothing for you saw spent like
fifteen dollars for it in California, and now Southern Bees
is auctioning it off. They said it could go as
almost to a million. There you go. So, you know,
so we've learned several things. Don't be anonymous. If you
want to say something and change something, and you know what,
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go to pick up trash off the side of the
freaking street. Also, don't be anonymous, then do a podcast
We're not anonymous. Yeah, you're not making much sense. It
was great light is on you. I walked through the
living room and you were sitting in the corner with
a look on your face like you were very upset.
What what is wrong my I? I there's a little
drama going on. It's not for this podcast. And um
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I needed I needed like, um I need a fresh air.
So I walked away from my desk. I get some
fresh air. Is this the argument you have with me?
At the argument you have with Scary, with the one
about your podcast, it's like all of those. Really we
had beef in the other studio about what so I had,
but that was just one of the things. That's just
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give us some beef. Is fun. So I went out
to a very expensive dinner from Mother's Day the Saturday
before Mother's Day and this five of us and my
kids both had steaks. My vegetarian daughter had chautaki mushrooms,
and my wife and I split as you would do.
And apparently the bus boy was new and he packed
the steak on top of my daughter's vegetarian mushrooms. He
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packed the gallic shrimp on top of the calumari, which
ruined the calumari, and he threw out one of the steaks,
and so he ruined our leftovers. And so I called
and I wanted to credit from my food because they
ruined my leftovers. My daughter's three quarters of a steak
was missing. That the dinner was very expensive, and my
the excuse I got was, oh, well we have a
new bus boy. You shouldn't have done that. I was
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terribly sorry. So I called back and I spoke to
the manager, and he credited me for the things he ruined.
And Gregg he says, well, I ate the food. I
shouldn't be getting a credit. So I said, if you
had half a sandwich for breakfast, and I walked over
to your table and I threw it in the garbage,
you had half of it. What's the problem, he said,
I'd be piste. I said, exactly, that's my point. He
thinks I shouldn't be upset. This man ruined like fifty
dollars worth of food. David Brody, Larry, why shouldn't I
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get the food? That's definitely this is so, this is
why you're in a bad mood. That's just the beginning
that Paul Okay Garrett, you've been very quiet. Tell us
why great Tea's in a bad mood. Outsider looking in
I mean Greg T just he likes to put himself
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in other people's situations. So he was telling Brodie that
he was wrong, even though Brody felt like he was right.
So Greg T does this all the time. So he
asked me, uh, my opinion on Katie Perry No, Kelly
Clarkson joining the voice over American Idol, And I said,
it's great for Kelly Clarkson to be on the voice
because she breaks away from the title of Kelly Clarkson
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from American idolos to be Kelly Clarkson. I was wrong.
This is what Gregg goes with you. Greg asked the
question for your opinion. You give your opinion and it's wrong, right,
always wrong, So why do not say it? Kelly Clarkson
needs to be with American I don't know what this is.
This isn't you wondering what we feel about anything else.
This is you wanting validation for what you feel already.
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But do you everyone to agree with you at all times? Well,
we all do. Wouldn't be a better world if everyone
agree with us. If you clearly see that there's water
in that water bottle, then you have to say there's
water in the bottle, not that factual. You make opinions
and then you make them facts. But the fact is
your opinion, and say it's fact. I think she'd she'd
be on idol, it's a fact. Kelly Clarkson is the
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most iconic, next to Carry Underwood, iconic celebrity to come
out of American Idol. How you can't go to the voice.
It's impossible. Baseball players trade teams, yes, Bethany, it's it's
I don't know, totally possible. Can Actually she really can?
She can, Babe, Ruth was a socket. Voice shouldn't have
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done me at this point. She is Kelly Clarkson the arts, Yes,
so why can't she do anything she wants to do?
But the voice should never have mettled. The voice should
never have come to see But look, you get upset
about this stuff. Look at look how mad you can.
It's like McDonald going to Burger King like it doesn't work.
You can't do that, that doesn't happen. I would love
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to see Ronald McDonald over Burger King. Hear me, Now,
aren't we allowed? Aren't we allowed to listen to other
radio stations where we don't work. No, you can't have
like Cramer from Seinfeld all of a sudden being like
like on The Brady Pond. I love a crossover episode.
That's what makes life interesting. To my point is this
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is what made you mad. You're really weird.