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February 10, 2025 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is it touch tunes that looks like a bar jukebox thing?
Hold on, where's the guy touch tunes here?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It is?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yeah, connect through music.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Like yes, yes, yes, yes yes, touch tunes tuch.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Where did I get tap tunes?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Oh? I wonder if I'm just thinking of on tap anyway,
it doesn't matter touch tunes tuch t U n e s.
They talk about this guy who works for this company
when he got the idea from other fans tontrol Buckeye's
faithful ahead of the two teams matchup. Within minutes, Rocky

(00:38):
Top was playing at five or six spots in Columbus,
and then that grew into more. It was done very
very easily through touch tunes, which let people pick their
favorite songs in more than sixty five thousand bars and
restaurants all over.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Why isn't there geo fencing?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't know why. Well that I have no idea.
I have no clue.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I understand the touchdunes just wants to make money fine, right,
and but.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
If I want to, I can see what's on queue.
So like for example, if Tyler, if Tyler put in
a bunch of songs, well, they say a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
The reason it's not geo fence.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Is people will I'm assuming you can also access it
from a home computer. Is that people will go online
before they go out and set up a playlist of
what they want to hear when they're at a bar,
a restaurant.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'd step inside and then get access to my jukebox.
If I'm a business owner, I don't want my place
constantly being trolled by rival fans.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
No one's it to come if they're gonna have to
sit and listen to either fight songs or songs related
to teams all night. Because these opposing fans are willing
to pay more to have of the troll job done.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I was.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
One person said they limit their touch tunes account to
two hundred dollars a month.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
God, people are paying a lot of money to do this.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
They said once, once you get going, it becomes very addictive.
I'm sure, No, I want my song, my song next.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, move me up.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
If you were to walk in and say, forget somebody
trying to hack from afar, If I'm just buying one
song on touch tunes, or maybe you have to buy
in a small block two or three songs, how much
does that cost? And then how much more are these
other fans paying.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Search locations they have to have the touch Tunes jukebox available.
This guy works in Chicago, but he goes after people
in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I that would make me get rid of the machine.
You know that the bars aren't making a ton off
of touchdo Tunes. Their cut has to be pretty minimal.
Why have it if that people will come in there? No,
this would if I had to go to a Georgetown
bar and listen to Syracuse songs, I wouldn't go to

(03:14):
that bar.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, but you would go to this bar because I
just paid extra to have three Creed songs played back
to back to back, and they said, yeah, I'll see
somebody's song that's coming up that I don't like, so
I just pay to get on top of it.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Deezy says, I'm an Asian bartender and someone while I'm
at work always plays William Hung. But you're telling me
that could be someone there or someone from Afar.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
It could be yeah, it could be one of his
friends who lives on the other side of the country. Tyler,
I don't see, I don't see.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Some prices are set by the venue and the operator.
In some locations, one song can cost about two credits,
and users can stack up for a night out with friends,
including twelve credits for seven dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's not bad.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
That sounds pretty reasonable.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
How about sixty five credits for thirty dollars? Watch me work?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I hope you all like Pitbull.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Chris says, I troll the apples Applebee's in Martinsburg by
playing Walker Hayes from my house. It doesn't even have
to leave.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, they said that that is for a lot of
people that have the fun is just scurry with people. Yeah,
is just they'll never hear it, like they're not hearing fancy.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Like Hugh used to always do Baby Shark, but it
has been removed from touch Tunes.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh has it really? Like just because it was overdone.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
We're people using that a lot to mess with different venues.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Maybe maybe I got to figure out there's a b
rubs blocks from me get ready, But I don't know
what I would troll him with.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Could be Cody does Will Smith songs on repeat with
Tom Jones. What's New pussy Cats? That's probably John mulaney reference,
and then he goes and it's right back to wild
Wild West End.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Daddy loves you, Daddy loves you Easy.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm the swears hi elliot in the morning.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Hello, Hello, Yeah, Hi, use it, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh Hi, I'm Ricky.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
By the way, everybody uses touch tunes. Tap tunes was
very quiet. Touch tunes people are all over h Yes,
I'm sorry, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Go ahead, I was gonna.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Call it in.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
I use touchhooths all the time. I spend way too
much money.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
How much are you spending depends?

Speaker 5 (05:51):
Probably one hundred dollars a month?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Are you really hey? But let me ask you this.
Are you trolling with it? Or do you use it
like legit?

Speaker 5 (06:01):
I use it like legit?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
But like so you'll be out somewhere and be like,
I want to hear, I want to hear. I want
to hear this song. Will you pay to will you
pay to jump over somebody?

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (06:12):
The thing is the fast pass, that'll that's what gets
you fast pass, and then no one can cut in
front of you. So I'll buy like fifty credits for
how many you know whatever, how much money, and then
I just skip over everybody.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
But wait, what is the fast pass? How much does
that cost extra.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
They'll get up to like seven eight credits if they
know that you're really going.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, it'll get up there.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
When you say they know that you're going. Are you
talking about other people?

Speaker 5 (06:36):
I feel like the app No, I feel like the
Touch Tunes. They just know. They're like, oh, she already
played two songs, which she's drunk enough, we can get
her with more.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh I got you.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I was gonna ask does this turn into like like
public bidding of like I am gonna play whatever, I'm
gonna play single ladies like here we go and now
I'm pushing and pushing.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
One time I was at one bar and uh, I
actually had it set for another bar and I was
at Spanky's. I kept playing Sudden the Bucket by Sarah
Evans like five times, kept fast passing it, and I
was like, why isn't it playing? It was at a
completely different bar.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
They're right, you're drunk, all right, very good?

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Deleted multiple times.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, but you'll you'll download it and use it again.
Mack line two, Hi Elliott the morning, Hey Elliott, we've
uh and this Ryan you see at the rat, Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
A lot of restaurants I've.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Used to run, We've we've used the touch tunes.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
But the one thing it sucks is when you go
out and you spent money to put your song in
and then you're there all night and you don't hear
it once because somebody else.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Has been rit rolling you all night long.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
We're gonna give you that's the one you gotta use.
Elliott that will that or wagon Wheel but drave people.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, but people, that's a good single along. That's a
good sing along. All right, very good? Wait do I hear?
I hear a young one back there?

Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Hey, hey, Lily, you want to say butthole on the
radio at four years old?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yell butthole?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Come on, yell it? Do it? Say butthole?

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Quick, quick, say butthole.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Come on, she's not gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh come on, she got quiet kid.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
All right, very good, Thank you sir, Thank Tyler.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
What do you got over there? My god?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's just people spend money to troll. Is anyone using
this to actually enjoy an evening out?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Actually?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yes, I know a girl that loaded up for spankys,
but she didn't hear it because she was on another bar.
So I would bet yes, there are people who use
it for real.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
ABC blast Tiny Tim randomly from his home. You have
everyone's doing from their house. You have David does metal music. Michael,
I sit at my house and play horrible music one
after another from the or at the bar down the
street from me. Warren says, I did it to the

(09:06):
Moose Lodge. Oh no, had someone there to report on
the chaos? Because I did ten minutes of Cardi B
and Megan thee Stallion. They pulled the plug in the machine,
did they really?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
I was just gonna say, like, if you went into
like like a known like country bar and did go Jira, like,
would they be like, what in the f what's going
on here?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well, David said for the metal music, they also had
the unplugged. They had the machine unplugged. Nicholas, are the
songs explicit or no?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Nicholas knows that Tubular Bells is twenty eight minutes long
and we'll play it right as he's leaving the bar,
just to ruin the vibe.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh what is what is the song that they always
say ruins every party? Oh damn it, No, no, no,
it is it is the party stopper.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I got bean Bean, bean Bean, mister Baxter, No, no, no, Baxter,
Jane Baxter, come on, come on, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh that bean. Yes, he loves that song.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's Gordon Lightfunt.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, that's the that's the artist.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, that's the They always say that's the party Ruiner.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Zucchini.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Somebody has been playing tiny tim continuously for three years
at the Tap House in Saverna Park.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
It is so frustrating, and we have no idea who's
doing it.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I think we heard from the person.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I want to say, Zucchini. If you're trying to find
i'd look up ABC. Also on X line eight, Hi
Elliott the Morning.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Hello, Hello, Yes, yeah, I got you, Yes, sir, Hey.

Speaker 8 (11:00):
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (11:00):
Elliott? This is Jackson. I've been a long time listener.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Hi Diane, Love you Diane.

Speaker 9 (11:08):
But I go to my bar, my local bar, every day,
and I play.

Speaker 8 (11:12):
I spend just about maybe twenty five dollars on touch tune,
and I'll be putting just about it, just about anything
that comes up. Or if if I see some people
are sometime to be skipping my song, I'll put something
something that has like maybe like ten ten minutes.

Speaker 9 (11:31):
Song like a tool song, or I'll put I'll put
some Slayer, or I'll just keep putting like super heavy
music until someone I guess someone skips it.

Speaker 10 (11:42):
But it's that's how it normally is at our local
bar people, it's it becomes like a few so people
start skipping other people's songs and putting you.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
It's like an it's like a public bidding war. Hey,
what is the how far deep?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Like?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Can you see how many songs are in you?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (12:02):
It depends how depends if you've been depends how long.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
You've been spending, how long you've had the app, if
he's been spending. Uh, depends if how much you spend monthly.
I'm an international icon supposedly, so I spend like almost
by thirty one my thirty like maybe like thirty one
hundred songs probably oh wow.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
So uh yeah, so it's kind of crazy. I mean,
you can put.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
Whatever you want, and it's just it depends how well
you hate money.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
People like your song or not?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Right, I hear you, I hear you, thank you, sir,
thank you my friend? Can you like can can people?
Can people be like great song and like thumbs up?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
It I'm seeing the bar can skip a song?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, are you serious?

Speaker 3 (12:52):
And they have a right to choose if they offer
censored or uncensored music.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh, uncensored, it's art, hey, can you I'm just trying
to think if you're a bar, because Tyler you were
asking why have this? Are you like if I if
I own B dubs, right, or or I just own
a bar and I want to have music in there?
Do I have to pay any kind of like music
rights or anything to be able to have music in there.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
I'm sure that you're paying into that via your contract
with touch Tunes.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
So is that why? So I don't have to pay
as much?

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I bet touch tunes At first, before it became just
a vehicle toatrol.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's not just a vehicle.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
ConTroll bars are like awesome, a jukebox with unlimited choices
compared to an old fashioned jukebox. This is great. And
then it turned into a disaster, and.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Then it turned into Rocky Top.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
In Columbus, Lava says that they would just unplug the
machine when they would walk in. Okay, because Lava was
known for playing stuff the bar hated.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Okay, but that's unfair.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
But that's unfair to the other the other customers, So
now we all have to sit.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Here in silence.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Maybe they just put in house music, dance music, but
just like just something overhead.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Huh, remind me next show trip Loading up, Matt writes.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
A friend of mine used to queue up a bunch
of top forty songs at a bar from his apartment,
and then when people really were vibing, he'd play Hurt
by Johnny Cash. That's funny.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Hi Elliott the morning, Hi, good morning. Hey, who's this?
This is Sarah fort Royal. Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Or ma'am? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Hey, you know what.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
Sorry. I've been a Touch to You subscriber for a
long time, And yes I do troll. My best friend
hangs out in a bar called The Naughty Time, and
she hates the song Toto by Our Africa by Toto.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Because she hears it everywhere.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, So I'll troll my living her a.

Speaker 7 (14:54):
Couch and then I'll get a textments from her that
says that was at you. It's up Michelle because she lists,
but he that bartender has remote that if he doesn't
like the song, he'll just skip it.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Regardless, right, well, that's what Tyler was saying. I guess
the the bartenders can do that. I do have another question, though,
thank you, ma'am. Do you does it say who? So
let's say, let's everybody's vibing, right, everybody's vibing, and here
comes hurt by Johnny Cash?

Speaker 11 (15:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Does it say on the on the on the menu,
who is playing it? Like you think?

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Obviously you could see the cue, but can you see
who the request is done by?

Speaker 3 (15:42):
And then once you be able to essentially ban them
for a certain amount of time from the machine.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well, I don't know if you could ban them, but
at least you would notice skip them.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Noah, do you want to hire someone to just monitor
touch tunes?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I don't know. You want Rocky Top playing all weekend?

Speaker 3 (15:57):
By the way, Zucchini has confronted ABC.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh here it is, this is all over? Wait which
tiny tim?

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yes, Zucchini writes, are you the one trolling my local
tap house? And ABC says, now it's Quincy's and Gaithersburg.
So we still have a mystery in Saverna Park.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Line one, Hi Elliott in the morning.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Hey is this yeah? Hi?

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Who's this?

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's Marvin? Yes, Marvin What can I do for you?

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Uh? Two things. One, I troll a lot and do
stack up on it when I go out. My wife
hates it when she's with me, and I use I
used two of them. I used touch tunes.

Speaker 11 (16:44):
And Ami music, so I load up, especially on the
Spanish bars when they playing the sad music. Oh man,
I go in there and just flash rock music and
story thirty minutes.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
What is the space mix ninety eight by Modern Talking,
So I'd go with it. I'm the last they just
walking out when they Spanish music going sad.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm not in the mood to.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Be sad drinking. Let's go man, another thing, Elliott.

Speaker 11 (17:17):
I'm the guy that got fired on the Friday, ended
up getting another job, just to.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Let you know.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Oh dude, good for you, Good for you. Congratulations. I
hope it's a better job.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Oh yeah, better pay too, man.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Everybody win, win, win, win, Thank you for thank you.
My friend Line six, hi Elliott in the morning.

Speaker 12 (17:38):
Pays me, Yeah, Hi, who are you Kyle from College Park?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yes, sir, What can I do for you? So?

Speaker 12 (17:45):
My brother used to bartend at Bentley's in College Park
and me and my other brother would hang out at
cornerstone right next door.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
We would uh.

Speaker 12 (17:52):
One day he was bartending. I played Carly ray Jepson's
Friday About Things twenty times in a row on Centley's
and my brother texts me.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
He's like, is this you? I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 12 (18:08):
I'm pretty sure you unplugged the machine.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
By the way, I may want I may want a
thank you. I may want the machine just for the
just for the trolling. Like now I see the beauty
of it.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Jay says that you know my friends are out at
a certain bar if you hear relentlessly playing Baha men.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
I love this. I gotta get an account.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Is it free just to sign up?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
I have no idea. No, there's no way.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Although you're paying for the song, people are paying so much,
not only just for the songs, but then just now,
I want to fast pass listen. If someone's willing to
go there and and mess with the vibe, at least
they're patrons. I don't get why you're allowed to access
something from afar.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Why would a bar be okay with that? Do it
from home exactly?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I don't. There has to be something in it for
the bar, or does the bar just go? Who cares?
We'll just skip it.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well, yeah, they're gonna get us, which they did.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Not do in Columbus, but not enough. No, it played
all weekend.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Sometimes our bar plays awful songs on a rival bar
just to do it.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
That that makes a ton of So that's business v business. Yeah,
that that's corporate corporate espionage.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Espionage.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hi Elliott the Morning.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Hey Elliott, I like down.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
I live down in southern Maryland, so I like to
go to the super heavy redneck bars and when they're vibeing,
switch it over to I c P.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
It's the best. You just watch them just lose their
their marbles.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Very good. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yes, Tyler Zucchini Week ABC. Shucks. I thought I was
onto something. But the good news is, I guarantee you
are frustrating the hell out of those good people in Gaithersburg.
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