May 1, 2025 • 9 mins
Ted keeps jumping at texts from "James" who he claims is a friend from work but Marie has never heard of James.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think we really offer you free flowers.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In this economy. It's time for War of the Roses
on JDWB. I think you're going to relate to this
War of the Roses because you probably have either done
this yourself or you know somebody who has, or you've
heard of this problem. Marie, tell us what's going on
and why you are on Katie WB today. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah? So, uh well, I've listened to you guys for
a while, and I have listened to War of the
Roses before, and I swore that I would never ever
e hear to this.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But why did you say Because why did you sway?
Because you listened to it. You're like, these people are stupid.
Why did you swear you would never ever do War
of the Roses?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You know?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I was like, oh, I would just like confront my
partner because we've been together for a couple of years now,
so it's a little different, you know what I mean.
It's like, we're pretty comfortable with each other, and I
thought before now that we had good communication. But you know,
but here you are and.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You're on War of the Roses and you have confronted him.
But now you're worried whether he's telling the truth. Tell
me what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, so I've only Tad for a couple of years now,
like I said, and can nuns will be like, you know,
out to dinner or like driving, and you know how
if you have your phone connected to Apple car Play,
it'll like show when you get a text. Yeah, and
you can't even have like Siri read it out or whatever.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So he started getting these texts from someone and his
phone named James.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And mind you, no one in our friend group is
named James. And like I said, after a couple years together, you.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Know everybody, even like people that he's still friends with
in his hometown.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Sure whatever. Yeah, So I'm like, oh, like who's who's James?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And he said that it was just a friend from work,
like a new guy at work that he had met
okay and like become yeah, like become buddy buddy with.
And so I was like, oh, like whatever, didn't think
anything about it, But it's harded being a lot of texts,
and I noticed that he would.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Never open them around me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, yeah, all right, so you think that James might
be somebody else put into his phone as James instead
of like I don't know Larissa or Aubrey or Aubrey.
It could be Aubrey's cute. She does sound cute. Yeah,
so you're worried that. So, so here you are on
(02:19):
War of the Roses after all these years of saying
you will never do this. But I think that we're
gonna need a little bit of a different plan here
because I think I'm working something up where instead of
asking him he's who he wants to send roses to,
we can ask him. I got an idea. Okay, Jenny
and I are going to work on this during the break. Yeah,
and we'll do something a little bit, is it?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
If we do something different of a trap besides sending
the roses.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, whatever, you guys think we'll get him to admit
you know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay, I think I got a little something, but it's
gonna take Jenny, how's your acting skills today?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Hold on, let me check to do a little Shakespeare.
What the hell is that? That's an accent that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Was supposed to be a British person in a pirate
mix together they had a baby, and this is what.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Happens in Trouble Bailey. Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I know it's serious because we have fun on War
of the Roses sometimes, but when it comes down to it,
you want to find out whether he has seen somebody
else because it's you live together. Yeah yeah, okay, so
if you lived together, you want to make sure you
know it's pretty serious. It's not somebody you're just casually dating.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna call this
guy and find out who James is. I think we
(03:38):
got a little plan kind of worked out here. Hold on,
we'll get to that next on part two of War
of the Roses on Katie WB.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Are they cheating?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I find out?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Part two of War of the Roses starts right now
on kt w B.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay for War of the Roses this week. You know
how we do this. We do this way calling somebody
in saying hi, we're from your you usually say your
phone company, your prone Parriet, your bank or whatever, and
we're gonna give you a little customer satisfaction survey and
if you will do this, we'll send roses to whoever
you want anyone, okay, And then nine times out of ten,
the doehead guy on the phone sends them to his
(04:16):
side piece that's the way it usually works, but this
one's a little bit different. We want to find out
whether the name in his phone James, is really his
new buddy down at work that seems to text him
all the time, or whether it's a pseudonym.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, like a fake name and a.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Fake name for somebody else. So Jenny and I have
worked out a little plan and will hope it works.
Cross your fingers on more of the roses. Let's make
the phone call.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Hello, Hi, can I talk to Ted?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You have?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
My Name's Kelly. I work with O'Brien research company.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
We're calling some people today, just needs some information about
people's usage with their phone in regards to their relationships.
So I was wondering, do you have a few minutes
to take a quick survey with me? And I do
have one hundred dollars Target gift card to give you
if you are able to do that with me today.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I mean, it's it's a quick it's quick survey.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, just gonna take a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
As soon as we finish, I can digitally transfer you
that Target gift card.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
How much was it?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
One hundred dollars one hundred bukarooneyes.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yeah, all right, yeah, okay, well, let's.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Jump right in.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
The First question is how often would you say you
text your partner during the day?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Maybe like a few times an hour?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Next question is how often would you say you text
I love you to them during the day?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh, I don't know, maybe once or twice?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And have you ever sent explicit pictures to your partner?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Whoa, that's one of the questions.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, I know it's a little invasive, but we're just
we're asking.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
If you don't want to answer, you don't have to.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
And I mean it's not like my name's not on
an area.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, this is all anonymous.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Okay, yeah, yes, yes, okay, awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
And last question is have you ever used a different
name in your phone than what the person's name is?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah? Sure, of course.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Wow are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Who?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Who is jameson? Who is James in your phone? Then?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I was gonna let him just try to figure this
whole thing out. But should I let him on the news? Now?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I would like to watch him flounder a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, it's painful. Let me tell you what's going on.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Ted.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We set a little trap for you. There's no survey.
There's no such thing as O'Brien Research company. I don't
know where the hell Jenny came up with that, but
but that whole thing was fake, and we were put up.
This is Katie WB the radio station, and we were
put up to this to see if you were up
to something weird with the name James and your phone.
Guess who put us up to this. It's your girlfriend, Marie.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, a literal idiot the fact, thinking the spell it
out for him, James. I need to know who he is, okay,
or who she is? Obviously I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I mean, you're jumping to conclusions here. As far as
I'm concerned, this is like you're kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Being the conclusion being that you won't open those texts
around me, and you dodged the question already multiple times.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I don't have to tell anything to O'Brien. Whatever her
name was, well my name was, that's the company name,
get it right, I thought the company is whatever. It
doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. You're twisted, you ever, you
know how like wrong it is to just like catfish people,
I'm twisted.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You're the one cheating behind my back.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I'm jumping to conclusion.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You're dodging accountability.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You sent a fake survey, and that's.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Somehow worse than cheating because you lied to me first
and cheated.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
On me first.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
You you don't know, you didn't know anything before you
set up this whole like ruse.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Uh incorrect.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I knew that you were texting someone who's text you
would not open around me, and who you kept dodging
questions about.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm so over this.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Did he actually say you didn't know anything until you
caught me? I mean, in so many words, he said,
you didn't know anything until you set up this ruse,
which is like, you didn't know I was cheating until
you caught me.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
That's like, wait a second, what are you a spy
or something? Right?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Doe Head of the Month goes, all right, war the
I love how he turned it all back on her.
I think some people are just the best at that.
Like if you catch them stealing, they'll be like, what
are you watching me for? Are you spying on me?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Why are you being such a creep?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like, well, okay, yeah you might have stole, but you
have way too much money. So's war of roses? Is
it a gas lighting or a narcissist or a manipulator.
Is it a gas lighting, manipulating narcissist, yes, okay,
I think we really offer you free flowers.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In this economy. It's time for War of the Roses
on JDWB. I think you're going to relate to this
War of the Roses because you probably have either done
this yourself or you know somebody who has, or you've
heard of this problem. Marie, tell us what's going on
and why you are on Katie WB today. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah? So, uh well, I've listened to you guys for
a while, and I have listened to War of the
Roses before, and I swore that I would never ever
e hear to this.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But why did you say Because why did you sway?
Because you listened to it. You're like, these people are stupid.
Why did you swear you would never ever do War
of the Roses?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You know?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I was like, oh, I would just like confront my
partner because we've been together for a couple of years now,
so it's a little different, you know what I mean.
It's like, we're pretty comfortable with each other, and I
thought before now that we had good communication. But you know,
but here you are and.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You're on War of the Roses and you have confronted him.
But now you're worried whether he's telling the truth. Tell
me what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, so I've only Tad for a couple of years now,
like I said, and can nuns will be like, you know,
out to dinner or like driving, and you know how
if you have your phone connected to Apple car Play,
it'll like show when you get a text. Yeah, and
you can't even have like Siri read it out or whatever.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So he started getting these texts from someone and his
phone named James.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And mind you, no one in our friend group is
named James. And like I said, after a couple years together, you.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Know everybody, even like people that he's still friends with
in his hometown.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Sure whatever. Yeah, So I'm like, oh, like who's who's James?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And he said that it was just a friend from work,
like a new guy at work that he had met
okay and like become yeah, like become buddy buddy with.
And so I was like, oh, like whatever, didn't think
anything about it, But it's harded being a lot of texts,
and I noticed that he would.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Never open them around me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, yeah, all right, so you think that James might
be somebody else put into his phone as James instead
of like I don't know Larissa or Aubrey or Aubrey.
It could be Aubrey's cute. She does sound cute. Yeah,
so you're worried that. So, so here you are on
(02:19):
War of the Roses after all these years of saying
you will never do this. But I think that we're
gonna need a little bit of a different plan here
because I think I'm working something up where instead of
asking him he's who he wants to send roses to,
we can ask him. I got an idea. Okay, Jenny
and I are going to work on this during the break. Yeah,
and we'll do something a little bit, is it?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
If we do something different of a trap besides sending
the roses.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, whatever, you guys think we'll get him to admit
you know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay, I think I got a little something, but it's
gonna take Jenny, how's your acting skills today?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Hold on, let me check to do a little Shakespeare.
What the hell is that? That's an accent that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Was supposed to be a British person in a pirate
mix together they had a baby, and this is what.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Happens in Trouble Bailey. Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I know it's serious because we have fun on War
of the Roses sometimes, but when it comes down to it,
you want to find out whether he has seen somebody
else because it's you live together. Yeah yeah, okay, so
if you lived together, you want to make sure you
know it's pretty serious. It's not somebody you're just casually dating.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna call this
guy and find out who James is. I think we
(03:38):
got a little plan kind of worked out here. Hold on,
we'll get to that next on part two of War
of the Roses on Katie WB.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Are they cheating?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I find out?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Part two of War of the Roses starts right now
on kt w B.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay for War of the Roses this week. You know
how we do this. We do this way calling somebody
in saying hi, we're from your you usually say your
phone company, your prone Parriet, your bank or whatever, and
we're gonna give you a little customer satisfaction survey and
if you will do this, we'll send roses to whoever
you want anyone, okay, And then nine times out of ten,
the doehead guy on the phone sends them to his
(04:16):
side piece that's the way it usually works, but this
one's a little bit different. We want to find out
whether the name in his phone James, is really his
new buddy down at work that seems to text him
all the time, or whether it's a pseudonym.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, like a fake name and a.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Fake name for somebody else. So Jenny and I have
worked out a little plan and will hope it works.
Cross your fingers on more of the roses. Let's make
the phone call.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Hello, Hi, can I talk to Ted?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You have?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
My Name's Kelly. I work with O'Brien research company.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
We're calling some people today, just needs some information about
people's usage with their phone in regards to their relationships.
So I was wondering, do you have a few minutes
to take a quick survey with me? And I do
have one hundred dollars Target gift card to give you
if you are able to do that with me today.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I mean, it's it's a quick it's quick survey.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, just gonna take a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
As soon as we finish, I can digitally transfer you
that Target gift card.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
How much was it?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
One hundred dollars one hundred bukarooneyes.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yeah, all right, yeah, okay, well, let's.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Jump right in.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
The First question is how often would you say you
text your partner during the day?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Maybe like a few times an hour?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Next question is how often would you say you text
I love you to them during the day?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh, I don't know, maybe once or twice?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And have you ever sent explicit pictures to your partner?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Whoa, that's one of the questions.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, I know it's a little invasive, but we're just
we're asking.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
If you don't want to answer, you don't have to.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
And I mean it's not like my name's not on
an area.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, this is all anonymous.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Okay, yeah, yes, yes, okay, awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
And last question is have you ever used a different
name in your phone than what the person's name is?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah? Sure, of course.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Wow are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Who?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Who is jameson? Who is James in your phone? Then?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I was gonna let him just try to figure this
whole thing out. But should I let him on the news? Now?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I would like to watch him flounder a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, it's painful. Let me tell you what's going on.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Ted.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We set a little trap for you. There's no survey.
There's no such thing as O'Brien Research company. I don't
know where the hell Jenny came up with that, but
but that whole thing was fake, and we were put up.
This is Katie WB the radio station, and we were
put up to this to see if you were up
to something weird with the name James and your phone.
Guess who put us up to this. It's your girlfriend, Marie.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, a literal idiot the fact, thinking the spell it
out for him, James. I need to know who he is, okay,
or who she is? Obviously I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I mean, you're jumping to conclusions here. As far as
I'm concerned, this is like you're kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Being the conclusion being that you won't open those texts
around me, and you dodged the question already multiple times.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I don't have to tell anything to O'Brien. Whatever her
name was, well my name was, that's the company name,
get it right, I thought the company is whatever. It
doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. You're twisted, you ever, you
know how like wrong it is to just like catfish people,
I'm twisted.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You're the one cheating behind my back.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I'm jumping to conclusion.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You're dodging accountability.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You sent a fake survey, and that's.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Somehow worse than cheating because you lied to me first
and cheated.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
On me first.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
You you don't know, you didn't know anything before you
set up this whole like ruse.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Uh incorrect.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I knew that you were texting someone who's text you
would not open around me, and who you kept dodging
questions about.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm so over this.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Did he actually say you didn't know anything until you
caught me? I mean, in so many words, he said,
you didn't know anything until you set up this ruse,
which is like, you didn't know I was cheating until
you caught me.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
That's like, wait a second, what are you a spy
or something? Right?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Doe Head of the Month goes, all right, war the
I love how he turned it all back on her.
I think some people are just the best at that.
Like if you catch them stealing, they'll be like, what
are you watching me for? Are you spying on me?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Why are you being such a creep?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like, well, okay, yeah you might have stole, but you
have way too much money. So's war of roses? Is
it a gas lighting or a narcissist or a manipulator.
Is it a gas lighting, manipulating narcissist, yes, okay,
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