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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're gonna have Diane read a headline and you'll see
why this caught my eye.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You're ready, Yeah, Oh, how to win radio contests.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Caught my eye. I was like, I better read. You
ever win a radio contest when I was a kid?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Did you really? Were you like a prize pig? No,
prize pig is an industry term. Well, it is the
you want what did you win? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know, it's funny. I can recall too that I
won Where We Go? I won an actual album from
a station which one god was it PGC back in
the day when it was still top forty I was
I was a kid, so yeah, it must have been.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And the other.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
One I won like a summer fun basket from.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Watch I think about it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I totally forgot.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I was in college and I think I was, Oh
my god, I was home for the summer wash and listen,
I was home for the summer. I was working one
of like three jobs at night, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Would you like to win back? That's what was summer fun.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Bag, That's what was on the radio in the office
at the time. Oh okay, And it was literally like
doing data entry at like ten o'clock at night. And
I was bored and I called in and damn if
I didn't win, So I trotted on over with my ID.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Were you call her? One four eight twelve, sixteen twenty three?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But yeah, it was like a basket with like, you know,
a towel and like suntan lotion in it and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That, flakes of Toby, the fun.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It was my summer of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Did you did you ever win?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Did you really? Were you a prize pig?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I won twice from you well your station, your station?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Right?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, I won take us to Snowasis, right, which we
just mentioned last week at Urn Valley, Great Gorge. And
then I won a CD of RIM's Monster and qualified
to see them in concert live in Australia.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Did you really you didn't win that trip though.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I think my age disqualified me from the actual grand
prize drawing, gotcha? And then I've I've mentioned this pretty
recently too. I also took home Eddie Trunk's box of junk.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's right, w n W. The never did.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You were also like working at a radio station by
the time you were a teenager, so, but even before then,
you'd never called in and tried to win it.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
He never never you tried the No, you know what,
maybe you read this article and learn a thing or two.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
The only station I ever remember trying to win from
was X Rock eighty in Houston. No, no, this one.
I lived in Old PA. So now, little did I
know that that would have been an international mail ang
because the station was in Mexico.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Thanks Scott the.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But the that I think that's the only station I
ever tried to win anything from was that these Egeriega Zeta. Yeah,
I may be off on what the ID was, but anyway,
and listen, there are some there are some people who
get furious about prize pigs, right, well, yeah, the I.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Don't like promotions people or are you talking about on
air disc jockeys.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Both listeners promotion people disc jockeys like, I don't love
it because I would like it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I want to you want more people to.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I would like.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Everybody to be here. Right, But then there are people
who just like to win stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
But these tips that you're about to share with us
may create I'll tell you that I pigs the say again,
if they're good, if it's good advice, it may create
what you hate.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So it's as my cousin. Jared is a family legend
for all kinds of reasons, the main one being is
you can't listen to FM radio in the Greater Toronto
area without hearing him win a contest. The man regularly
wins three to four prizes a week.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Everyone in my family has a story where they were
listening to the radio only they hear Jared winning some
prize or another. Usually while also like having a conversation
with the host.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Now cousin call him a disc jockey.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
There's a familiarity. Some of the disc jockeys will even
ask how his daughter is doing, or joke that they've
heard his voice somewhere else. Yea, and they hate him,
Well you really, you really hate a prize pick.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
But this guy's winning how many times a week?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Every station, for every station has had to put in
rules to try to prevent that, and some people still
get around it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
A lot of these prizes aren't huge. It could be
a gift card, it could be to qualify to win
a trip, but some of them are are big. He
went to the Grammys in twenty twelve. He also won
twelve hundred dollars. At one point, you might be thinking
Canada is a series of small towns where radio stations
in question only have a few thousand listeners. That's not
(05:22):
the case where Jared lives. It's home to over fourteen
million people. I asked him what advice he had and
that he would give someone hoping to win. Now, Jared,
I guarantee you there's nobody listening that does what this
(05:43):
guy Jared does. I've never met I've met prize pigs.
I guarantee you I've never met anybody. I would bet
there's nobody listening who does what Jared does. It says
you might think the best way to radio contests is
to listen to a single radio station all day and
call in when the prompt happens. Jared doesn't do that.
(06:07):
This part annoys me. You want to listen all day,
you want to listen to the whole show and call
in and try to win. That's fine, but don't start
cheating on me because you're a little prize piggy.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
But some prizes these days are supposedly tied to the
time spent listening.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The oh, I know they do that. Then there's the
the all of the collective, like the national contesting. I
hate I hate it. I sometimes hope that people don't
think giving away the cash that we give away is
tied to all of the collective contesting.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I hope that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And I fight with the state with the company, and
they'll go, people play the lottery. I'm like, yeah, no,
dud dumbhead, Oh, dumbheads, but people play in the lottery. No,
they're playing the lottery. But all the stations try to
make it sound like it's just that station money. It's not.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It's as if Elliott is worried as he pulls back
this curtain about the FCC listening, and he instead and
as I'm saying, but whole or a, he went with
dumb head.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know what, I should have gone with pancreas head.
But what does this guy do? Jared? I go to
each radio station's website and I see what the contests
they're doing this week are. He then compiles all of
the contests for the coming week into a spreadsheet WHOA
noting what time the contest will happen, the name of
(07:37):
the station, and what he needs to do when the
time comes generally call in, text in, fill out a
form online something like that. This spreadsheet, which is meticulously
crafted allows him to block out his week of listening
and calling Jesus.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
There's like a job for him.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
There's nobody listening that does that. Well, people know on
the dot seven thirty and nine o'clock. Yep, you're going
to get one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Die in like a fine Swiss watch. Also, Jared will
tell you put the put the by the way. This
I would believe anybody would do. Put the put the
telephone number in your in your phone so you just
have to hit a button and you don't have to.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, seeing that plenty of why wouldn't you do that?
Hold on though, as you just explained with that spreadsheet, though,
it's not just one station's phone number.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh, he has every phone number for most of the
Toronto area.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, that's lame.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I agree, Okay, I agree.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
If somebody wants to have us on speed dial, whether
it's for contesting or for communicating, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I'm fine with that's great.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeh.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Don't cheat on me though, you really need to call Delilah.
Remember Salami Rose is kicking her ass. What about Blaine Breed, Oh,
he's kicking the crap out of Bobby Bone right dead
people could be Bobby Bone anyway. The so then it'll
say like, oh, you have to be X number caller.
(09:14):
So his Jared's whole thing is call call early call
often drives me nuts.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
So he's calling before this.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I listen, Yes, yeah, yes, always always, And he's not
even listening. No, he's just a spreadsheet. Yeah, so he
just knows Elie gives away cash at nine am. Start dialing,
start dialing at a fifty seven and just keep dialing.
But then he has people doing it with him, like
(09:45):
he recruits friends and people to do it on his behalf.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
So he's got a little network.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yes, they like the fun and competition of it. And listen,
I get people like winning money. I'd like to win money.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Wait, do the prize pigs hate each e other?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Not them?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
They they claim there's some friendliness. But if a prize pig,
that's a great question voice starts to become well known,
does that make fellow pigs upset?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I bet it would.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, yeah, you're getting my you're getting my my loot.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And some airtime. Well they should collaborate. Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh, so you think it's about the airtime, not about
the prize.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Probably more so about the prize, but I bet more
people are also like getting jazzed about being on the air.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Dand's right though, because it sounds like from this spreadsheet
the prize itself doesn't really matter. It's just well they
want a stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, listen free as me. I love free, So I
get that. I would be happy to win a movie
pass or one thousand dollars given my choice, I'd rather
win a thousand dollars. Hell, Jared went to the Grammys.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
WHOA, so he's winning grand prize.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The people who win trips, if they are winning multiple trips,
people hate them.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Why because when waever we I love giving away.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But if it's if it's a prize pig who is
winning multiple.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'll be giving away a trip soon.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's the day that really pisses people off.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Why because it's now no one did anything is nice
and is free. But maybe I am the one one
of those people who does try all the time, and
I keep hearing that person still wins all the all
the trips.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So if you want a trip, you would never try
to win anything else. I would. I'd be like, oh
my god, I'm on a lucky stroke.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You got thirty days, right, or is that one of
the ones where they want a longer separation.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
No, I think they. I think most places got rid
of that. I think it's like every five minutes you
could win. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I don't to be honest, I don't know what the
rules are. Why do I need to know the rules?
I'm not playing.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
What did you say Jared does for a living calls
radio stations. Did you say his job?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't know what his job is. I mean maybe
maybe it maybe it says like late in the article,
which I don't care about. This seems like you have
to have free time at work sometimes, he says, he
feels like it's a full time job when he's not working.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, we just heard his excel plans. It's nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's a lot. That's a lot. But I don't care.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
When all you want Britain has a great comparison.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's the dude with all the home run balls, Zach Campbell.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Oh yes, yes, yes see there's tone there the no.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
No, but I'll tell you the difference. I'll tell you
the difference if you want to be a prize pig
on this show. I don't care because that that that's
all you listen to. But don't just start calling me
trying to win something, because, uh the it's five minutes
after Wash did something. In five minutes after blood Reed
did something. Blame blood. What's his name, Blaine.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Breed Blood that's his brother.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
He's in a small market that I don't like.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Well a credit in the diary for that. Do people
know that's me?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So yeah? Like that that bothers me. That bothers me.
I can't say it bothers me. It's just it's bochee.
It's bochee.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
When I worked at the front desk in promotions in college,
you did have people here picking up for multiple stations.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh see, and that's that's crappy. That's crappy.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
There was one person that would be listening to their
headset while they were picking up prizes in order to win,
in order to win whatever was being.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Can I just go?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Can I just go in the studio and ask it?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Am I the right?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Winter?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
God?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You haven't even processed that.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
They never stopped tuning in for.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Maybe when I retired, that's going to be my thing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Where am I going? Line eight?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And then when they're they're asking you like, oh, where
are you calling from? What's your name? You're just going
to try to start a bit and.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hi Elliott in the morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Who's that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Derek?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Are you hey?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Good? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Dude? I was just listening, and I was just like,
this is crazy because y'all are one of my favorites
in my phone book and probably my number one called number.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
In my.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Like if I looked at my phone bill.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, but I've never won, so like, I just like,
how does this guy manage to win all the time,
Like even if you're not listening, like it's just the
the chance of being the one day.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, no, I hear you. I hear you.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
It's wild.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But I do like that guy has to be born
under like a son or something like that, where like
what kind of luck is that it has to be?
It has to be because there are people and and
I'll hear that all the time. I've never won anything.
I call and I call, and I call, and I
call and I call. I want to win the cash.
I want to win the cash. I get that. I
want people to win the money.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Crazy now. And the other thing is people probably can't
stand them around is around his own tone like the
people who don't work.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean that could be, that could be. I also
a lot of times don't recognize who prize pigs are. Yeah,
both by either one. But you know what, you know
what I think that is. And this isn't me being
braggy about this show, which I'm very proud of.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
The being braggy, the I'm very proud of my braggedocius nature.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
The no no, no, But think about it. Most radio stations,
the only time the disc jockey ever talks to somebody
is when they give something away. We talked to people
all day, five six hours a day. I can't remember
every voice.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Hell, you forget John is blind every time he calls.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And I have to remind myself what blind and death
is that? Too? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I always mix those up?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Line six, Hi Elliott the morning? Hey, who's this bron
I'll tell you what. The only thing that I would
change in radio like, I'm sorry, there's one thing that's it. No,
I would change perfect No, I would change a lot.
I would change a lot. By the way, there's a lot.
There's a lot changing in radio at the upper programming
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end of iHeart Get ready the No. You know what
I would you know what I would change. I would
like whoever please the I would like whoever invented the
phone system to make that ding really loud, because I'll
tell you this, and I'm and I feel badly. I
would like to stop doing the one, two, three, four,
five six. It's my own fault. I would like to
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stop doing that. But if somebody doesn't know it's them,
I don't want it. But I don't want to, you
know what I mean? Like I want him to know
it's them, So I feel compelled to answer. I don't
like the counting thing, but I want to. I want,
I want to. I want to be I'm a very
kind person, so I want to do that for that.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It reminds me of a gentleman who thought he could
drop from a barrel atop the astrodome.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
His own invention killed him. Anyway, absolutely anyway, I'm sorry, yes, sir, yes, sir.
I set my alarm to y'all every morning. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
As you ask people by the way, you have no
you have no idea.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Because you don't listen born without yours. I'm sorry, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I put on ieart radio, says, I outen my eyes
and listen to y'all, and it's usually about six thirty
sot all in.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Two things Number one. Number one, I can't thank you enough.
The fact that somebody, The fact that somebody likes this
thing enough to listen to it, whether it's every day,
four times a day, shouldn't be less than that I
love it. It means the world to me that that
somebody would set their phone so that we're what they
hear when they wake up. That means the world to me.
(18:02):
What was my second point there? I have a second
hold on?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
What was the phone system?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What was this?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Is it conceded?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
No? No, no, no? I was I mean that I
love everybody that listens. I was going to make another point.
Maybe it's just I'm throwing out so many love bombs.
That's your language, love as a whole and oral from Matthew.
Oh here we go. You know, Okay, go ahead?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I know the method.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No you don't.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
But I wanted to win Manchester Orchestra tickets more than
any tics. But unfortunately picking a random callar after you
were jamming in the contesting randomly was very very tricky.
Oh so wait, so do prize pigs hate me that
we're doing like jam them in? So is that the
probably to someone like Jared failing if if a station
(18:56):
really grew tired of cousin Jared? Right, you just all
the contesting is just jammed in.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Well, hell, there are people that will tell you that's
that's what hundreds of day has become. Like we get there?
What the no, because I'm not always at seven thirty
and nine nine the not always the oh they must
so do prize pigs hate me?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Maybe this is jamming in. They don't like it all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, they are so down on me, f and Elliott,
they're gonna get you in the talk back the oh please,
that's another thing I'd fix, get.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Rid of that.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
You had one wish and it was to get rid
of your own invention. Listen, we've survived.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'd get rid of. I would get rid of. I
would get rid of collective contesting, which I hate. No
one asked for this list the oh I hate the
talkback thing. I hate all of my wishes for infinite wishes. No. Also,
and to end you know, I always like to end hunger.
I'm hungry right now. Hi, Elliott the morning and dunkin
Donuts is helping me out.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, what Hey, hey, Elliott, what's up?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Dude? Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Uh So it's been over the course of about twenty
eight years, but I have won over sixty things from
you guys. Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, awk awk awk talk.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That's code.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I listen, listen every day and just call in whenever,
whenever I can, and then I win a couple.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, listen, yeah, I own Yeah. If you won three
times a year, who cares less than that? Yeah? And
by the way, let me say this, is it just
me or do you have like a whole spreadsheet down
where it's like, listen, I hate, but I'm gonna win.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
No, I'm up early every day and then I listen
to you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Until and again, you have no idea how much that
means to me. I appreciate that, I really really do.
It's the well I gotta win from you don't even
know what you're well, you can't even understand what they're saying.
I mean some of you can who are bilingual, but
you don't know. M Have I ditched you over with
the just jam them in somewhere. No, you don't care.
(21:14):
You're listening, ex I don't care exactly. Very good very good.
All right, very good, Thank you very much, thank you,
thank you. What are you saying here?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah, did you get another hot tip the uh it
on the talk back Diane?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Diane, jeezus, why why would you trigger me
You're gonna have Diane read a headline and you'll see
why this caught my eye.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You're ready, Yeah, Oh, how to win radio contests.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Caught my eye. I was like, I better read. You
ever win a radio contest when I was a kid?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Did you really? Were you like a prize pig? No,
prize pig is an industry term. Well, it is the
you want what did you win? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know, it's funny. I can recall too that I
won Where We Go? I won an actual album from
a station which one god was it PGC back in
the day when it was still top forty I was
I was a kid, so yeah, it must have been.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And the other.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
One I won like a summer fun basket from.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Watch I think about it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I totally forgot.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I was in college and I think I was, Oh
my god, I was home for the summer wash and listen,
I was home for the summer. I was working one
of like three jobs at night, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Would you like to win back? That's what was summer fun.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Bag, That's what was on the radio in the office
at the time. Oh okay, And it was literally like
doing data entry at like ten o'clock at night. And
I was bored and I called in and damn if
I didn't win, So I trotted on over with my ID.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Were you call her? One four eight twelve, sixteen twenty three?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But yeah, it was like a basket with like, you know,
a towel and like suntan lotion in it and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That, flakes of Toby, the fun.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It was my summer of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Did you did you ever win?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Did you really? Were you a prize pig?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I won twice from you well your station, your station?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Right?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, I won take us to Snowasis, right, which we
just mentioned last week at Urn Valley, Great Gorge. And
then I won a CD of RIM's Monster and qualified
to see them in concert live in Australia.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Did you really you didn't win that trip though.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I think my age disqualified me from the actual grand
prize drawing, gotcha? And then I've I've mentioned this pretty
recently too. I also took home Eddie Trunk's box of junk.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's right, w n W. The never did.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You were also like working at a radio station by
the time you were a teenager, so, but even before then,
you'd never called in and tried to win it.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
He never never you tried the No, you know what,
maybe you read this article and learn a thing or two.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
The only station I ever remember trying to win from
was X Rock eighty in Houston. No, no, this one.
I lived in Old PA. So now, little did I
know that that would have been an international mail ang
because the station was in Mexico.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Thanks Scott the.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But the that I think that's the only station I
ever tried to win anything from was that these Egeriega Zeta. Yeah,
I may be off on what the ID was, but anyway,
and listen, there are some there are some people who
get furious about prize pigs, right, well, yeah, the I.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Don't like promotions people or are you talking about on
air disc jockeys.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Both listeners promotion people disc jockeys like, I don't love
it because I would like it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I want to you want more people to.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I would like.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Everybody to be here. Right, But then there are people
who just like to win stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
But these tips that you're about to share with us
may create I'll tell you that I pigs the say again,
if they're good, if it's good advice, it may create
what you hate.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So it's as my cousin. Jared is a family legend
for all kinds of reasons, the main one being is
you can't listen to FM radio in the Greater Toronto
area without hearing him win a contest. The man regularly
wins three to four prizes a week.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Everyone in my family has a story where they were
listening to the radio only they hear Jared winning some
prize or another. Usually while also like having a conversation
with the host.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Now cousin call him a disc jockey.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
There's a familiarity. Some of the disc jockeys will even
ask how his daughter is doing, or joke that they've
heard his voice somewhere else. Yea, and they hate him,
Well you really, you really hate a prize pick.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
But this guy's winning how many times a week?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Every station, for every station has had to put in
rules to try to prevent that, and some people still
get around it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
A lot of these prizes aren't huge. It could be
a gift card, it could be to qualify to win
a trip, but some of them are are big. He
went to the Grammys in twenty twelve. He also won
twelve hundred dollars. At one point, you might be thinking
Canada is a series of small towns where radio stations
in question only have a few thousand listeners. That's not
(05:22):
the case where Jared lives. It's home to over fourteen
million people. I asked him what advice he had and
that he would give someone hoping to win. Now, Jared,
I guarantee you there's nobody listening that does what this
(05:43):
guy Jared does. I've never met I've met prize pigs.
I guarantee you I've never met anybody. I would bet
there's nobody listening who does what Jared does. It says
you might think the best way to radio contests is
to listen to a single radio station all day and
call in when the prompt happens. Jared doesn't do that.
(06:07):
This part annoys me. You want to listen all day,
you want to listen to the whole show and call
in and try to win. That's fine, but don't start
cheating on me because you're a little prize piggy.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
But some prizes these days are supposedly tied to the
time spent listening.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The oh, I know they do that. Then there's the
the all of the collective, like the national contesting. I
hate I hate it. I sometimes hope that people don't
think giving away the cash that we give away is
tied to all of the collective contesting.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I hope that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And I fight with the state with the company, and
they'll go, people play the lottery. I'm like, yeah, no,
dud dumbhead, Oh, dumbheads, but people play in the lottery. No,
they're playing the lottery. But all the stations try to
make it sound like it's just that station money. It's not.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It's as if Elliott is worried as he pulls back
this curtain about the FCC listening, and he instead and
as I'm saying, but whole or a, he went with
dumb head.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know what, I should have gone with pancreas head.
But what does this guy do? Jared? I go to
each radio station's website and I see what the contests
they're doing this week are. He then compiles all of
the contests for the coming week into a spreadsheet WHOA
noting what time the contest will happen, the name of
(07:37):
the station, and what he needs to do when the
time comes generally call in, text in, fill out a
form online something like that. This spreadsheet, which is meticulously
crafted allows him to block out his week of listening
and calling Jesus.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
There's like a job for him.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
There's nobody listening that does that. Well, people know on
the dot seven thirty and nine o'clock. Yep, you're going
to get one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Die in like a fine Swiss watch. Also, Jared will
tell you put the put the by the way. This
I would believe anybody would do. Put the put the
telephone number in your in your phone so you just
have to hit a button and you don't have to.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, seeing that plenty of why wouldn't you do that?
Hold on though, as you just explained with that spreadsheet, though,
it's not just one station's phone number.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh, he has every phone number for most of the
Toronto area.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, that's lame.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I agree, Okay, I agree.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
If somebody wants to have us on speed dial, whether
it's for contesting or for communicating, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I'm fine with that's great.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeh.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Don't cheat on me though, you really need to call Delilah.
Remember Salami Rose is kicking her ass. What about Blaine Breed, Oh,
he's kicking the crap out of Bobby Bone right dead
people could be Bobby Bone anyway. The so then it'll
say like, oh, you have to be X number caller.
(09:14):
So his Jared's whole thing is call call early call
often drives me nuts.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
So he's calling before this.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I listen, Yes, yeah, yes, always always, And he's not
even listening. No, he's just a spreadsheet. Yeah, so he
just knows Elie gives away cash at nine am. Start dialing,
start dialing at a fifty seven and just keep dialing.
But then he has people doing it with him, like
(09:45):
he recruits friends and people to do it on his behalf.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
So he's got a little network.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yes, they like the fun and competition of it. And listen,
I get people like winning money. I'd like to win money.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Wait, do the prize pigs hate each e other?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Not them?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
They they claim there's some friendliness. But if a prize pig,
that's a great question voice starts to become well known,
does that make fellow pigs upset?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I bet it would.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, yeah, you're getting my you're getting my my loot.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And some airtime. Well they should collaborate. Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh, so you think it's about the airtime, not about
the prize.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Probably more so about the prize, but I bet more
people are also like getting jazzed about being on the air.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Dand's right though, because it sounds like from this spreadsheet
the prize itself doesn't really matter. It's just well they
want a stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, listen free as me. I love free, So I
get that. I would be happy to win a movie
pass or one thousand dollars given my choice, I'd rather
win a thousand dollars. Hell, Jared went to the Grammys.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
WHOA, so he's winning grand prize.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The people who win trips, if they are winning multiple trips,
people hate them.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Why because when waever we I love giving away.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But if it's if it's a prize pig who is
winning multiple.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'll be giving away a trip soon.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's the day that really pisses people off.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Why because it's now no one did anything is nice
and is free. But maybe I am the one one
of those people who does try all the time, and
I keep hearing that person still wins all the all
the trips.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So if you want a trip, you would never try
to win anything else. I would. I'd be like, oh
my god, I'm on a lucky stroke.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You got thirty days, right, or is that one of
the ones where they want a longer separation.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
No, I think they. I think most places got rid
of that. I think it's like every five minutes you
could win. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I don't to be honest, I don't know what the
rules are. Why do I need to know the rules?
I'm not playing.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
What did you say Jared does for a living calls
radio stations. Did you say his job?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't know what his job is. I mean maybe
maybe it maybe it says like late in the article,
which I don't care about. This seems like you have
to have free time at work sometimes, he says, he
feels like it's a full time job when he's not working.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, we just heard his excel plans. It's nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's a lot. That's a lot. But I don't care.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
When all you want Britain has a great comparison.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's the dude with all the home run balls, Zach Campbell.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Oh yes, yes, yes see there's tone there the no.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
No, but I'll tell you the difference. I'll tell you
the difference if you want to be a prize pig
on this show. I don't care because that that that's
all you listen to. But don't just start calling me
trying to win something, because, uh the it's five minutes
after Wash did something. In five minutes after blood Reed
did something. Blame blood. What's his name, Blaine.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Breed Blood that's his brother.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
He's in a small market that I don't like.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Well a credit in the diary for that. Do people
know that's me?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So yeah? Like that that bothers me. That bothers me.
I can't say it bothers me. It's just it's bochee.
It's bochee.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
When I worked at the front desk in promotions in college,
you did have people here picking up for multiple stations.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh see, and that's that's crappy. That's crappy.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
There was one person that would be listening to their
headset while they were picking up prizes in order to win,
in order to win whatever was being.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Can I just go?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Can I just go in the studio and ask it?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Am I the right?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Winter?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
God?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You haven't even processed that.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
They never stopped tuning in for.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Maybe when I retired, that's going to be my thing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Where am I going? Line eight?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And then when they're they're asking you like, oh, where
are you calling from? What's your name? You're just going
to try to start a bit and.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hi Elliott in the morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Who's that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Derek?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Are you hey?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Good? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Dude? I was just listening, and I was just like,
this is crazy because y'all are one of my favorites
in my phone book and probably my number one called number.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
In my.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Like if I looked at my phone bill.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, but I've never won, so like, I just like,
how does this guy manage to win all the time,
Like even if you're not listening, like it's just the
the chance of being the one day.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, no, I hear you. I hear you.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
It's wild.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But I do like that guy has to be born
under like a son or something like that, where like
what kind of luck is that it has to be?
It has to be because there are people and and
I'll hear that all the time. I've never won anything.
I call and I call, and I call, and I
call and I call. I want to win the cash.
I want to win the cash. I get that. I
want people to win the money.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Crazy now. And the other thing is people probably can't
stand them around is around his own tone like the
people who don't work.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean that could be, that could be. I also
a lot of times don't recognize who prize pigs are. Yeah,
both by either one. But you know what, you know
what I think that is. And this isn't me being
braggy about this show, which I'm very proud of.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
The being braggy, the I'm very proud of my braggedocius nature.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
The no no, no, But think about it. Most radio stations,
the only time the disc jockey ever talks to somebody
is when they give something away. We talked to people
all day, five six hours a day. I can't remember
every voice.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Hell, you forget John is blind every time he calls.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And I have to remind myself what blind and death
is that? Too? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I always mix those up?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Line six, Hi Elliott the morning? Hey, who's this bron
I'll tell you what. The only thing that I would
change in radio like, I'm sorry, there's one thing that's it. No,
I would change perfect No, I would change a lot.
I would change a lot. By the way, there's a lot.
There's a lot changing in radio at the upper programming
(16:24):
end of iHeart Get ready the No. You know what
I would you know what I would change. I would
like whoever please the I would like whoever invented the
phone system to make that ding really loud, because I'll
tell you this, and I'm and I feel badly. I
would like to stop doing the one, two, three, four,
five six. It's my own fault. I would like to
(16:45):
stop doing that. But if somebody doesn't know it's them,
I don't want it. But I don't want to, you
know what I mean? Like I want him to know
it's them, So I feel compelled to answer. I don't
like the counting thing, but I want to. I want,
I want to. I want to be I'm a very
kind person, so I want to do that for that.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It reminds me of a gentleman who thought he could
drop from a barrel atop the astrodome.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
His own invention killed him. Anyway, absolutely anyway, I'm sorry, yes, sir, yes, sir.
I set my alarm to y'all every morning. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
As you ask people by the way, you have no
you have no idea.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Because you don't listen born without yours. I'm sorry, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I put on ieart radio, says, I outen my eyes
and listen to y'all, and it's usually about six thirty
sot all in.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Two things Number one. Number one, I can't thank you enough.
The fact that somebody, The fact that somebody likes this
thing enough to listen to it, whether it's every day,
four times a day, shouldn't be less than that I
love it. It means the world to me that that
somebody would set their phone so that we're what they
hear when they wake up. That means the world to me.
(18:02):
What was my second point there? I have a second
hold on?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
What was the phone system?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What was this?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Is it conceded?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
No? No, no, no? I was I mean that I
love everybody that listens. I was going to make another point.
Maybe it's just I'm throwing out so many love bombs.
That's your language, love as a whole and oral from Matthew.
Oh here we go. You know, Okay, go ahead?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I know the method.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No you don't.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
But I wanted to win Manchester Orchestra tickets more than
any tics. But unfortunately picking a random callar after you
were jamming in the contesting randomly was very very tricky.
Oh so wait, so do prize pigs hate me that
we're doing like jam them in? So is that the
probably to someone like Jared failing if if a station
(18:56):
really grew tired of cousin Jared? Right, you just all
the contesting is just jammed in.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Well, hell, there are people that will tell you that's
that's what hundreds of day has become. Like we get there?
What the no, because I'm not always at seven thirty
and nine nine the not always the oh they must
so do prize pigs hate me?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Maybe this is jamming in. They don't like it all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, they are so down on me, f and Elliott,
they're gonna get you in the talk back the oh please,
that's another thing I'd fix, get.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Rid of that.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
You had one wish and it was to get rid
of your own invention. Listen, we've survived.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'd get rid of. I would get rid of. I
would get rid of collective contesting, which I hate. No
one asked for this list the oh I hate the
talkback thing. I hate all of my wishes for infinite wishes. No. Also,
and to end you know, I always like to end hunger.
I'm hungry right now. Hi, Elliott the morning and dunkin
Donuts is helping me out.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, what Hey, hey, Elliott, what's up?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Dude? Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Uh So it's been over the course of about twenty
eight years, but I have won over sixty things from
you guys. Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, awk awk awk talk.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That's code.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I listen, listen every day and just call in whenever,
whenever I can, and then I win a couple.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, listen, yeah, I own Yeah. If you won three
times a year, who cares less than that? Yeah? And
by the way, let me say this, is it just
me or do you have like a whole spreadsheet down
where it's like, listen, I hate, but I'm gonna win.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
No, I'm up early every day and then I listen
to you guys.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Until and again, you have no idea how much that
means to me. I appreciate that, I really really do.
It's the well I gotta win from you don't even
know what you're well, you can't even understand what they're saying.
I mean some of you can who are bilingual, but
you don't know. M Have I ditched you over with
the just jam them in somewhere. No, you don't care.
(21:14):
You're listening, ex I don't care exactly. Very good very good.
All right, very good, Thank you very much, thank you,
thank you. What are you saying here?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah, did you get another hot tip the uh it
on the talk back Diane?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Diane, jeezus, why why would you trigger me
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