Mistaken Identity

There was a very confusing case of mistaken identity...

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I meant to tell you this the other day Monday,
I had a meeting. You know, I'm working on this project. Oh,
you always are, but this is different. Is the project
I told you that I filmed a member of the
project non Disclosure Agreement project. Okay, So I'm working on
this project and potential person involved in the project came

(00:26):
into town for something unrelated and wanted to meet up
and talk about the project and could not find the
time in this three day span to do this. He
had to turn in his rental car and catch a
flight at seven pm on Monday, so the only window
of time he had was to meet at five o'clock

(00:50):
five pm on the way to the airport. So I'm like, okay,
we could meet at the Fox two Jay towers in
the morning studio because you're right next to the south
Field Freeway. You'll be able to jump right on. And
You're like, as long as there's no accidents, right anything,
You're like twenty five minutes to the airport. It made sense.

(01:12):
So I did whatever that day, like I had a
normal day. Never went home. In other words, I went
to the iHeart Building, like just had a long day,
had a long day and stayed all day worked on
stuff here. But you know, we get here like at
three thirty in the morning, so like it's a long day,
a long came back here, lefting, came back here, did
other stuff, so come back here. So it's very tough,

(01:33):
as you both know. Security at Fox two is really tight,
as it should be. It should be tight anywhere. You know,
it's a television station's news, it's opinions, it's all that stuff.
So you have to really have your stuff together when
you have a guest to come in. So I said,
I have a guest coming in. I let the guard
check know. I'm like, here's his name, it'll match his license,
and just send him to door too. There's a big

(01:53):
problem in this building with door two. Ye, it is
not marked the door find the door to sign is
on the building and it is the size of the sidephone,
so like no one can ever see door too.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's literally like on the size of a post. It no, like,
who's ever going to see that?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I might ask Greg if we can put up a
sign outside. It's a brick wall. Let us put up
a sign. We'll do it ourselves. But anyway, so door
two and then the other thing is the phone in
here doesn't ring because it's a studio. So I basically
pace around when it's time for Chelsea does too. When's
time for a guest to get here, we have to
hope security will somehow get ahold of us, let us know.
We have to hope the person finds the right door. Right. So,

(02:29):
long story short, I get a phone call for some
weird reason. I'm in the studio and that phone over
there is blinking and I've never seen it blink, but
it was. It was ringing. Even that worked, So I
picked up. I'm like, yes, He's like, hello, guest for
Jay Towers. I'm like, oh, great, send them to door two.
And he's like okay, And then like ten minutes went

(02:51):
by and I'm standing there, like no guest, right. So
then I went back over and I called the security desk.
I'm like hi, I'm like it's Jay. I said, did
you tell him door too? He's like, oh, he's looking
for you. I said, okay, he goes, I'll bring him
to you. I said, okay. So now I'm out in
the hallway and I walk down the hallway and I
don't see anybody. And I walked down to the second hallway,

(03:13):
and I don't see anybody.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now, time is very limited with versah right, and.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now I'm walking towards the newsroom where you guys know
that's the other end of this building. Yeah, yeah, and
I was there. I see the security guard. He goes, hey, Hey.
I'm like hey, I said, where did he go? He goes,
I'll take you to him? Oh my god, where did
he put him? That? He's going to take me to
the security guard. So I said, okay, So here comes
the security guard. He goes, he's usually in two different places.

(03:37):
I'm like, has he ever been here before? He goes,
he's in two spots. I'm like, okay, So he's like
one pots. Okay. So he walks me down the hallway
to like where Dina and Ryan and Lee Thomas sit
and he's like, no, he's not in there.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm like, you are with the security guard at this
point looking for your gud Yes.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
My five o'clock guest at five fifteen. Okay is this
junior security No, he's a great guy. Oh okay. So
then he starts walking I'll take you to him. I'll
take you to him, okay, okay. So he takes me
to this studio, our our studio, and I look in
here and well he's not in here. He's like, no, no, no,
he'll be back. I'm like he came and he left.

(04:16):
He's like, no, no, no, Jay works here. I'm like,
I'm Jay, I'm Jay. He's been looking for you. This
is a security guard, I know. Oh my god. He
never quite looked up all the way. And you know
what he said. He go and I love it, you
know he said, he goes, oh, you got a hat on.
So this whole time he thinks he's walking the guest

(04:38):
around looking for you, right, and he's with you and
I had a hat on. So he's so used to
seeing me in a suit. And you guys know, the
last thing on Earth I ever want to do is
wear a suit. So I'm out of a suit the
minute I'm done. This guy didn't know was me.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I guess I can understand the outfit change. Sometimes it's
a little jarring, you know, when you see someone outside
of work.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Did you see your teacher in shorts?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like I didn't even know that you owned a pair
of shorts. But the voice, I think would be a
dead giveaway that like, clearly it's you. Your voice is
very distinctive face.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, you still have the same face. You walk out
the door and there's the guest out there. It's like
where the door too was. I'm like, oh my god,
but he was right outside at that point. Did probably
walking around the whole building. Was there no time for
a meeting? Now? Okay, four minutes. I'm assuming he made
his flight. I don't know anyway, steak an identity