September 8, 2025 • 29 mins
This week's show brings another round of complaining about terrible vacations and Nikki shares the story of how her friend's unauthorized thermostat adjustment tore a family apart.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's Jack and Nicky and you guys on the studio
and textual lines as we do vacation disasters too. Electric boogleoo.
It's another round of SOB stories where the vacation went
terribly terribly wrong. Call or text your story eight eight
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eight seven seven seven sixty six forty. You can call
that number, you can text it. You can also text
us at three five six five one. And what I
want to know is how'd your vacation go this summer?
I mean, summer's winding down. As far as vacation opportunities go.
Most people have done their vacationing by now. Yes, I
think most people generally have good vacations. Things generally go well.
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But when things don't go well, sometimes they don't just
go poorly, they are disastrous and in an hilarious way.
Now here's something I will tell you. Nikki Drake, Jessica
and I went to the beach in June and that
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was kind of the big vacation. And then this time
around last week we had a little mini vacation. We
just went for a few days into Virginia over around
Richmond and did a few things there, and we rented
a house from Airbnb. Now, in the past we've had
quite a bit of success with Airbnb when it comes
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to going to the beach things like that. However, most
recently this summer we've not had great luck. So we
went through Airbnb for that beach house and ended up
South Carolina, ended up with no ac So there's that.
This time around, we showed up at this place in
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Richmond and check in was at four o'clock. We got
there around five thirty. Okay, we walk in and discover
there's been no maid service at all. Oh no. We
go in and you know, there are empty plates and
cans stuff sitting around on the coffee table and the
end tables. No, the beds haven't been made, there's no
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toilet paper, and most disturbing, dirty towels strewn all over
in the bathroom floors.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Right, So Jessica calls the guy we rented the place
from and says, hey, there's been no maid service here,
and he says, let me see if I can get
a hold of her and i'll call you back. Okay, Now,
what are we supposed to sit there and watch this
woman come in and clean the place up? I mean,
it's weird. He calls back and says, she's not answering
her phone. How about if I just move you over
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to one of my other properties, and we say okay, fine,
So he puts us in this apartment building, which is
in kind of a seedy part of town. I mean,
it's a nice apartment building, but.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's not it's not where you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's in the graffitied warehouse district. Okay, So we go
over there and here's the thing. Now, it's a nice place,
but it's on the first floor. It is between the
swimming pool and the fitness center and beside the stairwell.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh no, oh.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
My gosh, you're in the Bermuda Triangle right now.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's just you know, people out there swimming and cannon
ball music, people running around like idiots. And then you
hear people in the fitness center over there coming and going,
doors closing, people coming up and down the stairs talking,
banging doors, banging doors, and then first thing in the morning,
the people upstairs. This is an apartment complex, this is
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not uh, this is not hotel. People live there, so
you hear people getting ready for work, people running around upstairs.
I mean, it was it was just it was awful.
It was pretty bad. And the funny thing was, I
didn't realize that the pool was right there until I
pulled the drapes open. Then there were literally like three
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people laying there in swimming trunks and just looked up
at me closer than you and Hi areed each other
right now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And we're pretty close.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah wow, yeah, that's right. And I went close the
drapes back like the swimming pool anyway. So basically that
that's how it worked out. And then you know, the
guy was like, oh, I give you a.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Refund you think please tell me refund.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well we got it worked out. Yeah, we got it
all worked out. We reached a deal that everybody was
happy with. And you can't blame the guy that his
made service didn't show up. I mean, that's not right. Yeah,
so we're understanding with that, you know, and he he
corrected it. He stepped in and immediately moved us to
another place. If he'd said well, I don't know what
to tell you, you know, pick up the towels off
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the floor and try to find a clean spot and
use that. I mean, if he'd said something like that,
you know, I'm sure they didn't wash their butt with
the entire towel. Oh what are you? What are you
a Rockefeller? You can't use a towel that's got a
skid mark on it. I mean, what is it with you?
So that didn't happen, thank god, But it was. It
was kind of unpleasant and there was some trouble. So
that's uh, that's vacation number two. Oh gosh, disaster number two.
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What say you? Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty
six forty callers or textas you can text us at
three five sixty five to one. Really, all I want
to hear is something that's going to make me feel
better about my own miserable, stinking life, which, let's be honest,
is the only reason I do the show every day anyway.
It's Jack and Nikki talking about you and your secrets
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that will now be made public. Vacation Disaster Stories two
Electric Boogleloo.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We did this early in the summer after I came
back from my first disastrous vacation, and now I've returned
from my second disastrous vacation. So let's talk to you
about how things went for you. You've had time to go
out and try to enjoy yourself, and let's see how
that went. Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six
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forty is the studio line, and it is lighting up.
Lots of calls coming in on this one, and not
so much heavy on the text line, but heavy on
the studio line, which is always good news when you're
looking for stories.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I want to hear the stories.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Although I'm sad that people had bad times, I'm still
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Don't act like you're sad about stuff. You're fine. Am
I missing any text or anything before we get to
the call? Now we're going to go all right, very good.
You were on the Jack Nikki Show. What you got?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You're asking about disasters?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah, Well mine cost me five hundred and something.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh what happened?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I rented a house, yeah, from zebro and it was
supposed to be out in the cons Well, it was
out in the country. I guess I never found the
house hour nobody ever heard of. The street kept stopping
people asking them if they had any idea where the
street was.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
So after looking for for and we couldn't get a
hold of anybody because there was no service.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
That's how far out it was.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Where is this? What state?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
West Virginia?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh, you were vacation in West Virginia? What county down
around Beckley? Okay? And you never did find the place?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Never did So when we got back home, I mean,
there was no use st worry about it. I had
to rent a motel.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So still we got back home, I called. They wouldn't
replace the money. They said, we're sorry you didn't find it. Hmm,
but we thought you were there.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Were you ever to clean up? Were you ever able
to confirm that the place actually exists?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ah, that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Wow the claim it does.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I'm sure they do. Yeah wow. Okay, Well that
is not.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Good to deal with them again.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm sure you will not. But on the upside, if
you spent a couple of nights in a motel in Beckley,
that's really kind of the best vacation anyone could ask for.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Right, Well, we were going down for the couse of con.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh okay, all right, Well, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
We were fine.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's the very definition of a vacation disaster story. And
we appreciate the phone call. Thanks so much, A good one,
you too. Bus s having a little trouble hearing her
at the beginning of that called did she says she
rented that place from Joe bro What she said? All, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Don't think so, all right, I think it was verbal.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
All verbo, not yeah, Oh I got you? Okay, yo,
all right, back to the studio lines. You were on
the Jack and Nikki show. What's your story?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
So this was a few years ago, but my dad
forgot he was old and decided we were at the beach.
He decided he was going to try to body surf
like my brothers were, which ended up with him being
rolled by a wave and faith planted directly into the
bottom of the ocean's floor. But then my dad's a
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little dramatic, so of course he comes up to the
surface of the water, which at this point is waste
seat he can stand, and he starts flailing around like
he doesn't know how to stand or swim, and he
has to be rescued by some guy and his teenage daughter.
He makes it to the shore he's crawling, he's bleeding.
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He's like, this is a disaster. We're on an island.
So the lifeguards see that and say he needs medical attention,
which means he has to be helicoptered off the island,
which was obviously not cheap. We make it to the hospital,
all for them to say, yeah, there's nothing wrong with him.
He doesn't have a concussion or even a broken nose.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh that is fantastic. I feel so much better, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Take him on vacation anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What island were you on?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Ok Coke?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Over off the Hi?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, I've been to Okra Coke.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's why I asked.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I thought that sounds like Ochra Coke. Yeah, how about that?
Very good? Wow, Well that is a fantastic story. And
I hope you guys have spent years just rubbing that
in your dad's face.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Oh absolutely, yeah, not.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Unlike the sand at the ocean floor. All right, Well,
thank you so much for that call.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thanks bye bye.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I love the total lack of compassion for dad. He's
in the ocean, he goes face first into the bottom
of the ocean. By her own admission, he stumbles out, disoriented,
covered in blood. Right, and their reaction is old, Dad,
stop being so dramatic. Stop taking it all right, one
more and we're out. You are on the Jack and
(10:52):
Nikki Show. What's your story?
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Good morning? So, first off, vacation this year is great.
This is way back in nineteen ninety three. W football
was playing in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana,
and my dad scheduled at a hotel in the French Quarter.
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You remember, back then, the internet was fresh, so I
dial up and all that. So here's some kind of
site that was kind of like Travelocity or something, and
scheduled what he thought was a four star hotel. And
the first night I slept on this bed and my
back was killing me. I was rolling off the bed.
(11:39):
So I looked the next morning and it was being
held up by cinder blocks, not even a bed, frames
of cinder block.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Okay, Well, later.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
In the trip, we were going to go to meet
the alumni association, listen to the band, hear the team
for the Pepper rally, all that good stuff, and we
got sequestered in the lobby because there was a drive
by shooting in front of the hotel.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Oh my god, wow.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Yeah, that's uh, that was the worst vacation I ever
had in my life with New Orleans Louisian. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, fortunately he had a pile of bricks you could
hide behind during the drive by shooting. So that's good.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know that sounds a whole lot like the time
we spent in Memphis, Tennessee. It sounds very similar to
what you're talking about there.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah. I don't I don't think I want to go
to Memphis.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, if you haven't been, go ahead and skip it.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I will do.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That would be my advice. Do you all right? Buddy
appreciates folk call, Thanks so much. Ye, no, go quite
a story. And you know, it's hard to believe that
I was fired by the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. I
thought I was doing good. Drabs lived gig. It was
very short lived.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yes, The Jack and Nicky Show one two w v
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Speaker 2 (12:58):
Jack and Nikki and a situation that needs to be
addressed because it's a four hour show and we need
the material. Niki Drake's little friend has committed a massive
fox pass, as we call it in Randolph County. Oh sure,
some say faux Paul because they're fancy, but we say
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Fox Pass. What did she do? Let's find out together
and then go to your judgmental calls and texts. Nikki Drake,
what is going on with your little friend?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Okay, my friend, we're gonna call her Anne.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
She and I'm trying to at least change her name, right,
you know, that's the least I can do.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, the least you could do is mind you're own
business and not pointing out on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But we're gonna I'm gonna do the most.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You'd go one step beyond that yet.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And in her husband, we're visiting his parents because they
got a new house and the house is really nice.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But his parents, who always are like very warm, they
run on the hot side.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
They have the thermostat set at like sixty in the house,
which to me is like frigid.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's pretty cold. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cold.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So during the day it wasn't too bad because it's.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Been really hot, right yeah, But at night it's freezing
and my friend Anne couldn't get warm. So she asked
her husband, hey, can we turn up the thermostat and
he never did, so one night she just got up
and bumped it up sixty eight because she was cold.
That to me, that's fine. That's a good temperature. Sixty
eight at night. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The next day his
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dad realized that it was up to sixty eight and
was so mad and he put it back down to
sixty and told Anne that if she's ever cold in
the house again, wear a warmer sweater or a sweatshirt.
And my friend apologized, but let's be honest, she doesn't
really care.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
She was freezing.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Doesn't care she was freezing.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
So uh.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Anyway, Anne's husband is mad at her and told her
that he would never have done such a thing at
her parents' house and it was incredibly rude and she embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Tom So, now my friend.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, it seems overly dramatic.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I thought, So, now my friend is like, am I
wrong for touching the thermostat?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I see, Well, first of all, has and never seen
a stand up comedian. You just don't touch a man's thermostat. Okay,
everybody has a bit on this, so and you got
to pay more attention, right. I think it's interesting that
her so, her father in law then said, don't ever
touch the thermostat. If you're cold, put on a sweater. And
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then he added and would you mind putting on this
wig in these glasses and joining me in the den.
But she left that part of the story out. I
don't know why. What do you guys think? Studio and
text lines are open eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty. Always call text that number. You can
text us at three five sixty five one. Let's see
we can get figured out here. Where do you come
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in on this, Niaky.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Drake, Sixty is too cold? I think that is you
have guests over. They're not their family or not, they
are guests in your house.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Make them feel comfortable.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Okay, all right, that's a courtesy, would say the hosts
should say unto and an are you comfortable with good
with this?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, before they just set it at sixty and go, hey,
fan wants to be in here. Ane's going to have
to live by our rules, right right.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I mean I think there should at least have been
like a hey, are you comfortable with it? Like, I
don't know that's how my family does it, so.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm just thinking about the rare instance when somebody
stays at our house, I do ask them if they
are comfortable, especially at bedtime, and they're comfortable, you good?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
People sleep differently.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Some people need a fan, some people need extra blankets, like,
it just depends. So just make sure they're at minimal comfort,
you know, that's all you need.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, I do. I do concern myself with somebody
in there curled up in a ball freezing mm hmm.
So yeah, I get that. I get that. But if
you don't do that, then does the person staying there
have the right to, in the middle of the night,
get up and make their way through the house secretly
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and go to your thermostat and make the adjustment, because yeah, yeah,
they walk. They walk in the living room in the
middle of the night, and there's and hanging by wires
off the ceiling, all in black, reaching for the thermostat.
What are you doing? And okay, we do have some
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looks like some calls starting to light up, some texts
coming in, so you know, let's let's see where you
guys go with this, and then, of course, as always,
we will offer our expert analysis. So keep the phones'
ring here, I'm coming to you, guys. Let's get back
to it. The studio and textual lines on far this
morning talking about whether or not you should be touching
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somebody's thermostat when you're saying at their house. Nicky's little
friend did just that. Was at her in law's house
with her husband and got up in the middle of
the night and turned the thermostat up eight degrees because
she was on the chili side. The next day, the
in laws found out what she did, and they flipped out,
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and so she collapsed in Nicki's tiny arms in a
fit of tears. She was in consolable, little shivering. She said,
that's right, covered in goosebumps, and she said, this is
the worst most humiliating thing that's ever happened to me.
I hope no one ever finds out about this. And
Nicki smiled and said, no one will ever know.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
No one will ever know.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So let's get to your calls. In your text, Nicki,
what are you seeing on the sex line?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's clear that Anne shouldn't have married a vampire.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Anyone that keeps the ac that low is clearly a bloodsucker.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Sixties pretty cold, sixties, very cool. Yeah, that's really really cold.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, let's see. Not your house, not your thermostat, never
should have touched it. If you don't pay the election bill,
you don't touch the thermostat.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, sure, solid argument.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Again, solid arguments.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I had to live with my mother in law for
a month after I got married, while waiting for my
house to close. It was November, and she kept the
thermostat on fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I turned it up to sixty five for just.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
A few minutes to warm the house up in the
middle of the night, and got the same reaction.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Your friend is not wrong. She's just trying to survive.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
She's just trying to survive.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Survive.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, she can't survive in sixty degrees. That's cool.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
If you don't have enough, like layers at night, like
you are not sleeping.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well well, okay, so yeah, let's take a look at that.
You there are some other solutions here, okay, one of
which is having plenty of covers. Okay, so you could
you could do that. You can offset the cold temperature
in the house with extra.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Covers buried under a mountain of blanket.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Some people will, inside a fully air conditioned home, place
a space heater in one of those rooms. Is that person, Jessica,
I don't know, Okay, I'm just saying that that's something
that I've heard of happening. Okay, So that's another solution.
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But I don't want to get bogged down too much
in the in the temperature debate, what's called what's too warm?
The issue is touching somebody else's thermostat in their house.
Whether or not you have the right to do that. Yeah,
that's really the question. Let's go to the studio lines
and see if we can find an answer. You were
on the Jack and Nikki Show. What's your take on it?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
So, yeah, I'm a very gracious and accommodating hosts, except
when it comes to the thermostat.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Oh that's your line.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You know, that's my line. I will make a different
meal for you. I will clean your bathroom for you.
I will do whatever you want, but I will not
touch the thermostat.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You'll do anything for a guest, but you won't do that. No, no, no,
you won't do that.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Hey, you know you can. I'll give you a jacket.
Here you gom h cold, Here you go. Okay, But
I need to feel comfortable. Sure, the temperature is one
thing that regulates my personality.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
His personality is regulated that because when you get hot,
you get cranky. If I'm too cold, I get very whiny.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Yeah, really you're so you're cold all the time? Nikki?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh h, sir?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Do you regulate your temperature by sometimes wandering out of
your house and stretching out on a big flat rock
on a sunny day?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah, yes, exactly, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Ye, he's one of those lizard people. All right, appreciate
its phone call.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I've seen a lot of things over the years broadcasting,
but I've never been in a situation where a person
has been insulted by a salamander calling in on the
studio life. Yeah, all right, phone, you are off the
Jack and Nikki show. What do you think here?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Okay? I kind of agree with Nikki. Your guests that
come to your home should be comfortable. But what I
had to do there was one guess that came to
the home when I wasn't looking adjusted to thermostat, so
it was comfortable in the room. But what I had
to do was put a plastic cover over the thermostat.
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When guests come now, I'll ask them are you comfortable?
Too cloud or too warm? But they're not the one
paying the fuel bill or electric bill. And the guest
that would come over I put a plastic cover over
the thermostat. It couldn't be changed.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Are you running a bed and breakfast by any chances?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, So you went through all this asshole just because
of one person. Did you put a plastic locked container
around your thermostat instead of just saying, hey, you can't
touch the thermostat, just.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Ask me if you need it.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Yeah, but that didn't stop him.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
So you don't want your guests to adjust thermostat, but
you'll adjust it if need be for them.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Correct, Okay, I'll ask them are you comfortable? Too hot
or too cold? And I'll adjust it. But they turned
down the thermostat to fifty degrees and I knew I
got a heck of an electric bill. So I bit
that this is an ongoing problem with other people in
the listing audience.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, it probably is. I'm confused why you would allow
someone back into your house after they adjusted your thermostat
and you know that you can't trust them and they
won't listen, and you get to the point where you
have to build you have to install a plastic lock
box on your thermostat. Wouldn't it be easier to just
tell this person, hey, don't come back to my house.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Well, they've done me a lot of favors in life.
I'm currently moving to West Virginia and they're helping me
with the moves, and they've been a good friend and
they've done me favors and things of sort. So it's
a tough situation. I don't want to lose their friendship.
On the other hand, I don't want to be socked
with a really high electric fiel.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Can't you just buy your own pickup truck and move
some mattresses yourself.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
I'm the one out and looking for a truck today.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
There you go, and then you can kick this jackass
out of your house and all your problems they're solved.
Thanks for the call man. Just wrapping up this talk
of touching the thermostat at someone else's house, and you
know it, just it. Look, I get it. This woman
is freezing. I understand. But to me it seems very simple.
(24:30):
A lot of people are texting and saying, you just
don't touch the thermostat at somebody else's house. First of all,
it's their house. They have a right to regulate whatever
temperature they want it to their house. Number one, number two,
they're the ones paying the bills.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, so they want to keep it at sixty, they're
going to keep.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It a sixty. Or conversely, if you know you have
a situation like this text from earlier saying that dead
of winter and this woman's keeping her house at fifty
eight degrees because she doesn't want to pay the heating bills. Well,
she's the one paying the heating bill. That's where she
wants to keep it. I mean, that's a to her.
So you know, it's one of his conversations where you
kind of have to focus on the principle of the
thing and not keep going back to the actual temperature
(25:06):
and what's a reasonable temperature. So yeah, I tend to
agree you have to hands off somebody else's thermostat. I
mean you really just kind of have to do that.
You should talk to.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The conversation and not fear like, you know, retaliation or right.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You should be able to just say, hey, I'm I'm
a little chilly. Can we do this? Can we do that?
I'm here one night, can you help me out?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You know, I think my friend did the right thing
by going to her husband and not just directly to
her in laws because I don't want like i'd like
to have that middleman, not my family, his family.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So I agree. Yeah, Yeah, she started at the right point.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, but he just didn't follow through. He didn't follow up,
He did nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know what, let's pause to analyze that. Yeah, what's
going on with him? Shouldn't he be showing some concern
for his wife?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
If I'm with Jessica and she has some issue, believe me,
I'm gonna try to solve it.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, and fib And if.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That means that I have to punch my brother in
the face and burn his house to the ground, well
then so be it. The question is to be done.
Is Jessica happy? That's all that matters. So if she's
standing in the yard warming herself by the fire with marshmallows,
making s'mores as his house goes up in flames, fine, Okay,
did she get what she wanted? Fine? Okay? And I
(26:24):
think all reasonable people would agree yes. All right, what
else do you see on the text line here?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh gosh, sorry I lost the text line. Well, I
don't think I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's I don't think that pretty much it. Yeah, Okay,
I'm debating on whether or not I want to reveal
my hypocrisy to you guys, you're the devil. Look. I
talk a big game when it comes to hands off
(26:54):
the thermostat, but I don't really live that way. You
don't know. I sneak and great. I adjust the thermistat
at my mother in law's house once in a while.
I've done it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's just is it for your sake, for Jessica's sake, mostly.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
For me, if I'm being honest. But the worst thing
that I did, and I this is not something that
should be admitted on the radio. But let me just
say this before you judge me. I okay, you have
no control over you know, your your thoughts, your personality,
who you are as a person at your core. Number one.
(27:36):
Number two, Jessica knows that I'm a lot like Larry David. Okay,
I'm very quirky, I'm very peculiar, and I'm very specific.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, okay, all of these things true.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All right, With that in mind, I once got caught
adjusting the thermostat at a funeral home during a funeral.
I know, I know, I don't believe me, I know,
but I was hot. It was it was a summer day,
(28:11):
and I'm like, look, you know, they're not going to
be bothered. They're you know, they're not going to crawl
up out of the casket and go it's a bit
chilly in here. I mean, they're not bothered. So what
we're doing, I don't know. I can't remember. It was
too it was just too warm. I went in and
was yeah, I was adjusting the thermostat.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I was expecting the opposite because it's a funeral home.
I expected it to be too cold.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And then like you got in trouble because you know,
the makeup started melting off off of the bodies.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, that's well at
least that's the argument that I gave When they caught
me adjusting the thermostat. I was like, you people spent
hours on that corpse. Don't you care? They're like, why
don't you get out?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Don't you dan?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
You mm hm
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's Jack and Nicky and you guys on the studio
and textual lines as we do vacation disasters too. Electric boogleoo.
It's another round of SOB stories where the vacation went
terribly terribly wrong. Call or text your story eight eight
(00:38):
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty. You can call
that number, you can text it. You can also text
us at three five six five one. And what I
want to know is how'd your vacation go this summer?
I mean, summer's winding down. As far as vacation opportunities go.
Most people have done their vacationing by now. Yes, I
think most people generally have good vacations. Things generally go well.
(01:00):
But when things don't go well, sometimes they don't just
go poorly, they are disastrous and in an hilarious way.
Now here's something I will tell you. Nikki Drake, Jessica
and I went to the beach in June and that
(01:21):
was kind of the big vacation. And then this time
around last week we had a little mini vacation. We
just went for a few days into Virginia over around
Richmond and did a few things there, and we rented
a house from Airbnb. Now, in the past we've had
quite a bit of success with Airbnb when it comes
(01:41):
to going to the beach things like that. However, most
recently this summer we've not had great luck. So we
went through Airbnb for that beach house and ended up
South Carolina, ended up with no ac So there's that.
This time around, we showed up at this place in
(02:03):
Richmond and check in was at four o'clock. We got
there around five thirty. Okay, we walk in and discover
there's been no maid service at all. Oh no. We
go in and you know, there are empty plates and
cans stuff sitting around on the coffee table and the
end tables. No, the beds haven't been made, there's no
(02:24):
toilet paper, and most disturbing, dirty towels strewn all over
in the bathroom floors.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Right, So Jessica calls the guy we rented the place
from and says, hey, there's been no maid service here,
and he says, let me see if I can get
a hold of her and i'll call you back. Okay, Now,
what are we supposed to sit there and watch this
woman come in and clean the place up? I mean,
it's weird. He calls back and says, she's not answering
her phone. How about if I just move you over
(02:54):
to one of my other properties, and we say okay, fine,
So he puts us in this apartment building, which is
in kind of a seedy part of town. I mean,
it's a nice apartment building, but.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's not it's not where you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's in the graffitied warehouse district. Okay, So we go
over there and here's the thing. Now, it's a nice place,
but it's on the first floor. It is between the
swimming pool and the fitness center and beside the stairwell.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh no, oh.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
My gosh, you're in the Bermuda Triangle right now.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's just you know, people out there swimming and cannon
ball music, people running around like idiots. And then you
hear people in the fitness center over there coming and going,
doors closing, people coming up and down the stairs talking,
banging doors, banging doors, and then first thing in the morning,
the people upstairs. This is an apartment complex, this is
(03:48):
not uh, this is not hotel. People live there, so
you hear people getting ready for work, people running around upstairs.
I mean, it was it was just it was awful.
It was pretty bad. And the funny thing was, I
didn't realize that the pool was right there until I
pulled the drapes open. Then there were literally like three
(04:09):
people laying there in swimming trunks and just looked up
at me closer than you and Hi areed each other
right now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And we're pretty close.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah wow, yeah, that's right. And I went close the
drapes back like the swimming pool anyway. So basically that
that's how it worked out. And then you know, the
guy was like, oh, I give you a.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Refund you think please tell me refund.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well we got it worked out. Yeah, we got it
all worked out. We reached a deal that everybody was
happy with. And you can't blame the guy that his
made service didn't show up. I mean, that's not right. Yeah,
so we're understanding with that, you know, and he he
corrected it. He stepped in and immediately moved us to
another place. If he'd said well, I don't know what
to tell you, you know, pick up the towels off
(04:56):
the floor and try to find a clean spot and
use that. I mean, if he'd said something like that,
you know, I'm sure they didn't wash their butt with
the entire towel. Oh what are you? What are you
a Rockefeller? You can't use a towel that's got a
skid mark on it. I mean, what is it with you?
So that didn't happen, thank god, But it was. It
was kind of unpleasant and there was some trouble. So
that's uh, that's vacation number two. Oh gosh, disaster number two.
(05:22):
What say you? Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty
six forty callers or textas you can text us at
three five sixty five to one. Really, all I want
to hear is something that's going to make me feel
better about my own miserable, stinking life, which, let's be honest,
is the only reason I do the show every day anyway.
It's Jack and Nikki talking about you and your secrets
(05:44):
that will now be made public. Vacation Disaster Stories two
Electric Boogleloo.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We did this early in the summer after I came
back from my first disastrous vacation, and now I've returned
from my second disastrous vacation. So let's talk to you
about how things went for you. You've had time to go
out and try to enjoy yourself, and let's see how
that went. Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six
(06:11):
forty is the studio line, and it is lighting up.
Lots of calls coming in on this one, and not
so much heavy on the text line, but heavy on
the studio line, which is always good news when you're
looking for stories.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I want to hear the stories.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Although I'm sad that people had bad times, I'm still
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Don't act like you're sad about stuff. You're fine. Am
I missing any text or anything before we get to
the call? Now we're going to go all right, very good.
You were on the Jack Nikki Show. What you got?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You're asking about disasters?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah, Well mine cost me five hundred and something.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh what happened?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I rented a house, yeah, from zebro and it was
supposed to be out in the cons Well, it was
out in the country. I guess I never found the
house hour nobody ever heard of. The street kept stopping
people asking them if they had any idea where the
street was.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
So after looking for for and we couldn't get a
hold of anybody because there was no service.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
That's how far out it was.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Where is this? What state?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
West Virginia?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh, you were vacation in West Virginia? What county down
around Beckley? Okay? And you never did find the place?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Never did So when we got back home, I mean,
there was no use st worry about it. I had
to rent a motel.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So still we got back home, I called. They wouldn't
replace the money. They said, we're sorry you didn't find it. Hmm,
but we thought you were there.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Were you ever to clean up? Were you ever able
to confirm that the place actually exists?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ah, that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Wow the claim it does.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I'm sure they do. Yeah wow. Okay, Well that
is not.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Good to deal with them again.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm sure you will not. But on the upside, if
you spent a couple of nights in a motel in Beckley,
that's really kind of the best vacation anyone could ask for.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Right, Well, we were going down for the couse of con.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh okay, all right, Well, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
We were fine.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's the very definition of a vacation disaster story. And
we appreciate the phone call. Thanks so much, A good one,
you too. Bus s having a little trouble hearing her
at the beginning of that called did she says she
rented that place from Joe bro What she said? All, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Don't think so, all right, I think it was verbal.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
All verbo, not yeah, Oh I got you? Okay, yo,
all right, back to the studio lines. You were on
the Jack and Nikki show. What's your story?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
So this was a few years ago, but my dad
forgot he was old and decided we were at the beach.
He decided he was going to try to body surf
like my brothers were, which ended up with him being
rolled by a wave and faith planted directly into the
bottom of the ocean's floor. But then my dad's a
(09:04):
little dramatic, so of course he comes up to the
surface of the water, which at this point is waste
seat he can stand, and he starts flailing around like
he doesn't know how to stand or swim, and he
has to be rescued by some guy and his teenage daughter.
He makes it to the shore he's crawling, he's bleeding.
(09:24):
He's like, this is a disaster. We're on an island.
So the lifeguards see that and say he needs medical attention,
which means he has to be helicoptered off the island,
which was obviously not cheap. We make it to the hospital,
all for them to say, yeah, there's nothing wrong with him.
He doesn't have a concussion or even a broken nose.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh that is fantastic. I feel so much better, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Take him on vacation anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What island were you on?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Ok Coke?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Over off the Hi?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, I've been to Okra Coke.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's why I asked.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I thought that sounds like Ochra Coke. Yeah, how about that?
Very good? Wow, Well that is a fantastic story. And
I hope you guys have spent years just rubbing that
in your dad's face.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Oh absolutely, yeah, not.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Unlike the sand at the ocean floor. All right, Well,
thank you so much for that call.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thanks bye bye.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I love the total lack of compassion for dad. He's
in the ocean, he goes face first into the bottom
of the ocean. By her own admission, he stumbles out, disoriented,
covered in blood. Right, and their reaction is old, Dad,
stop being so dramatic. Stop taking it all right, one
more and we're out. You are on the Jack and
(10:52):
Nikki Show. What's your story?
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Good morning? So, first off, vacation this year is great.
This is way back in nineteen ninety three. W football
was playing in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana,
and my dad scheduled at a hotel in the French Quarter.
(11:17):
You remember, back then, the internet was fresh, so I
dial up and all that. So here's some kind of
site that was kind of like Travelocity or something, and
scheduled what he thought was a four star hotel. And
the first night I slept on this bed and my
back was killing me. I was rolling off the bed.
(11:39):
So I looked the next morning and it was being
held up by cinder blocks, not even a bed, frames
of cinder block.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Okay, Well, later.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
In the trip, we were going to go to meet
the alumni association, listen to the band, hear the team
for the Pepper rally, all that good stuff, and we
got sequestered in the lobby because there was a drive
by shooting in front of the hotel.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Oh my god, wow.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Yeah, that's uh, that was the worst vacation I ever
had in my life with New Orleans Louisian. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, fortunately he had a pile of bricks you could
hide behind during the drive by shooting. So that's good.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know that sounds a whole lot like the time
we spent in Memphis, Tennessee. It sounds very similar to
what you're talking about there.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah. I don't I don't think I want to go
to Memphis.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, if you haven't been, go ahead and skip it.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I will do.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That would be my advice. Do you all right? Buddy
appreciates folk call, Thanks so much. Ye, no, go quite
a story. And you know, it's hard to believe that
I was fired by the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. I
thought I was doing good. Drabs lived gig. It was
very short lived.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yes, The Jack and Nicky Show one two w v
a Q.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Jack and Nikki and a situation that needs to be
addressed because it's a four hour show and we need
the material. Niki Drake's little friend has committed a massive
fox pass, as we call it in Randolph County. Oh sure,
some say faux Paul because they're fancy, but we say
(13:19):
Fox Pass. What did she do? Let's find out together
and then go to your judgmental calls and texts. Nikki Drake,
what is going on with your little friend?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Okay, my friend, we're gonna call her Anne.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
She and I'm trying to at least change her name, right,
you know, that's the least I can do.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, the least you could do is mind you're own
business and not pointing out on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But we're gonna I'm gonna do the most.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You'd go one step beyond that yet.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And in her husband, we're visiting his parents because they
got a new house and the house is really nice.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But his parents, who always are like very warm, they
run on the hot side.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
They have the thermostat set at like sixty in the house,
which to me is like frigid.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's pretty cold. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cold.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So during the day it wasn't too bad because it's.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Been really hot, right yeah, But at night it's freezing
and my friend Anne couldn't get warm. So she asked
her husband, hey, can we turn up the thermostat and
he never did, so one night she just got up
and bumped it up sixty eight because she was cold.
That to me, that's fine. That's a good temperature. Sixty
eight at night. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The next day his
(14:30):
dad realized that it was up to sixty eight and
was so mad and he put it back down to
sixty and told Anne that if she's ever cold in
the house again, wear a warmer sweater or a sweatshirt.
And my friend apologized, but let's be honest, she doesn't
really care.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
She was freezing.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Doesn't care she was freezing.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
So uh.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Anyway, Anne's husband is mad at her and told her
that he would never have done such a thing at
her parents' house and it was incredibly rude and she embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Tom So, now my friend.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, it seems overly dramatic.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I thought, So, now my friend is like, am I
wrong for touching the thermostat?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I see, Well, first of all, has and never seen
a stand up comedian. You just don't touch a man's thermostat. Okay,
everybody has a bit on this, so and you got
to pay more attention, right. I think it's interesting that
her so, her father in law then said, don't ever
touch the thermostat. If you're cold, put on a sweater. And
(15:32):
then he added and would you mind putting on this
wig in these glasses and joining me in the den.
But she left that part of the story out. I
don't know why. What do you guys think? Studio and
text lines are open eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty. Always call text that number. You can
text us at three five sixty five one. Let's see
we can get figured out here. Where do you come
(15:54):
in on this, Niaky.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Drake, Sixty is too cold? I think that is you
have guests over. They're not their family or not, they
are guests in your house.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Make them feel comfortable.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Okay, all right, that's a courtesy, would say the hosts
should say unto and an are you comfortable with good
with this?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, before they just set it at sixty and go, hey,
fan wants to be in here. Ane's going to have
to live by our rules, right right.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I mean I think there should at least have been
like a hey, are you comfortable with it? Like, I
don't know that's how my family does it, so.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm just thinking about the rare instance when somebody
stays at our house, I do ask them if they
are comfortable, especially at bedtime, and they're comfortable, you good?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
People sleep differently.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Some people need a fan, some people need extra blankets, like,
it just depends. So just make sure they're at minimal comfort,
you know, that's all you need.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, I do. I do concern myself with somebody
in there curled up in a ball freezing mm hmm.
So yeah, I get that. I get that. But if
you don't do that, then does the person staying there
have the right to, in the middle of the night,
get up and make their way through the house secretly
(17:10):
and go to your thermostat and make the adjustment, because yeah, yeah,
they walk. They walk in the living room in the
middle of the night, and there's and hanging by wires
off the ceiling, all in black, reaching for the thermostat.
What are you doing? And okay, we do have some
(17:32):
looks like some calls starting to light up, some texts
coming in, so you know, let's let's see where you
guys go with this, and then, of course, as always,
we will offer our expert analysis. So keep the phones'
ring here, I'm coming to you, guys. Let's get back
to it. The studio and textual lines on far this
morning talking about whether or not you should be touching
(17:54):
somebody's thermostat when you're saying at their house. Nicky's little
friend did just that. Was at her in law's house
with her husband and got up in the middle of
the night and turned the thermostat up eight degrees because
she was on the chili side. The next day, the
in laws found out what she did, and they flipped out,
(18:17):
and so she collapsed in Nicki's tiny arms in a
fit of tears. She was in consolable, little shivering. She said,
that's right, covered in goosebumps, and she said, this is
the worst most humiliating thing that's ever happened to me.
I hope no one ever finds out about this. And
Nicki smiled and said, no one will ever know.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
No one will ever know.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So let's get to your calls. In your text, Nicki,
what are you seeing on the sex line?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's clear that Anne shouldn't have married a vampire.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Anyone that keeps the ac that low is clearly a bloodsucker.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Sixties pretty cold, sixties, very cool. Yeah, that's really really cold.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, let's see. Not your house, not your thermostat, never
should have touched it. If you don't pay the election bill,
you don't touch the thermostat.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, sure, solid argument.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Again, solid arguments.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I had to live with my mother in law for
a month after I got married, while waiting for my
house to close. It was November, and she kept the
thermostat on fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I turned it up to sixty five for just.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
A few minutes to warm the house up in the
middle of the night, and got the same reaction.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Your friend is not wrong. She's just trying to survive.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
She's just trying to survive.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Survive.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, she can't survive in sixty degrees. That's cool.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
If you don't have enough, like layers at night, like
you are not sleeping.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well well, okay, so yeah, let's take a look at that.
You there are some other solutions here, okay, one of
which is having plenty of covers. Okay, so you could
you could do that. You can offset the cold temperature
in the house with extra.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Covers buried under a mountain of blanket.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Some people will, inside a fully air conditioned home, place
a space heater in one of those rooms. Is that person, Jessica,
I don't know, Okay, I'm just saying that that's something
that I've heard of happening. Okay, So that's another solution.
(20:11):
But I don't want to get bogged down too much
in the in the temperature debate, what's called what's too warm?
The issue is touching somebody else's thermostat in their house.
Whether or not you have the right to do that. Yeah,
that's really the question. Let's go to the studio lines
and see if we can find an answer. You were
on the Jack and Nikki Show. What's your take on it?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
So, yeah, I'm a very gracious and accommodating hosts, except
when it comes to the thermostat.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Oh that's your line.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You know, that's my line. I will make a different
meal for you. I will clean your bathroom for you.
I will do whatever you want, but I will not
touch the thermostat.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You'll do anything for a guest, but you won't do that. No, no, no,
you won't do that.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Hey, you know you can. I'll give you a jacket.
Here you gom h cold, Here you go. Okay, But
I need to feel comfortable. Sure, the temperature is one
thing that regulates my personality.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
His personality is regulated that because when you get hot,
you get cranky. If I'm too cold, I get very whiny.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Yeah, really you're so you're cold all the time? Nikki?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh h, sir?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Do you regulate your temperature by sometimes wandering out of
your house and stretching out on a big flat rock
on a sunny day?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah, yes, exactly, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Ye, he's one of those lizard people. All right, appreciate
its phone call.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I've seen a lot of things over the years broadcasting,
but I've never been in a situation where a person
has been insulted by a salamander calling in on the
studio life. Yeah, all right, phone, you are off the
Jack and Nikki show. What do you think here?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Okay? I kind of agree with Nikki. Your guests that
come to your home should be comfortable. But what I
had to do there was one guess that came to
the home when I wasn't looking adjusted to thermostat, so
it was comfortable in the room. But what I had
to do was put a plastic cover over the thermostat.
(22:24):
When guests come now, I'll ask them are you comfortable?
Too cloud or too warm? But they're not the one
paying the fuel bill or electric bill. And the guest
that would come over I put a plastic cover over
the thermostat. It couldn't be changed.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Are you running a bed and breakfast by any chances?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, So you went through all this asshole just because
of one person. Did you put a plastic locked container
around your thermostat instead of just saying, hey, you can't
touch the thermostat, just.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Ask me if you need it.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Yeah, but that didn't stop him.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
So you don't want your guests to adjust thermostat, but
you'll adjust it if need be for them.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Correct, Okay, I'll ask them are you comfortable? Too hot
or too cold? And I'll adjust it. But they turned
down the thermostat to fifty degrees and I knew I
got a heck of an electric bill. So I bit
that this is an ongoing problem with other people in
the listing audience.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, it probably is. I'm confused why you would allow
someone back into your house after they adjusted your thermostat
and you know that you can't trust them and they
won't listen, and you get to the point where you
have to build you have to install a plastic lock
box on your thermostat. Wouldn't it be easier to just
tell this person, hey, don't come back to my house.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Well, they've done me a lot of favors in life.
I'm currently moving to West Virginia and they're helping me
with the moves, and they've been a good friend and
they've done me favors and things of sort. So it's
a tough situation. I don't want to lose their friendship.
On the other hand, I don't want to be socked
with a really high electric fiel.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Can't you just buy your own pickup truck and move
some mattresses yourself.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
I'm the one out and looking for a truck today.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
There you go, and then you can kick this jackass
out of your house and all your problems they're solved.
Thanks for the call man. Just wrapping up this talk
of touching the thermostat at someone else's house, and you
know it, just it. Look, I get it. This woman
is freezing. I understand. But to me it seems very simple.
(24:30):
A lot of people are texting and saying, you just
don't touch the thermostat at somebody else's house. First of all,
it's their house. They have a right to regulate whatever
temperature they want it to their house. Number one, number two,
they're the ones paying the bills.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, so they want to keep it at sixty, they're
going to keep.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It a sixty. Or conversely, if you know you have
a situation like this text from earlier saying that dead
of winter and this woman's keeping her house at fifty
eight degrees because she doesn't want to pay the heating bills. Well,
she's the one paying the heating bill. That's where she
wants to keep it. I mean, that's a to her.
So you know, it's one of his conversations where you
kind of have to focus on the principle of the
thing and not keep going back to the actual temperature
(25:06):
and what's a reasonable temperature. So yeah, I tend to
agree you have to hands off somebody else's thermostat. I
mean you really just kind of have to do that.
You should talk to.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The conversation and not fear like, you know, retaliation or right.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You should be able to just say, hey, I'm I'm
a little chilly. Can we do this? Can we do that?
I'm here one night, can you help me out?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You know, I think my friend did the right thing
by going to her husband and not just directly to
her in laws because I don't want like i'd like
to have that middleman, not my family, his family.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So I agree. Yeah, Yeah, she started at the right point.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, but he just didn't follow through. He didn't follow up,
He did nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know what, let's pause to analyze that. Yeah, what's
going on with him? Shouldn't he be showing some concern
for his wife?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
If I'm with Jessica and she has some issue, believe me,
I'm gonna try to solve it.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, and fib And if.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That means that I have to punch my brother in
the face and burn his house to the ground, well
then so be it. The question is to be done.
Is Jessica happy? That's all that matters. So if she's
standing in the yard warming herself by the fire with marshmallows,
making s'mores as his house goes up in flames, fine, Okay,
did she get what she wanted? Fine? Okay? And I
(26:24):
think all reasonable people would agree yes. All right, what
else do you see on the text line here?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh gosh, sorry I lost the text line. Well, I
don't think I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's I don't think that pretty much it. Yeah, Okay,
I'm debating on whether or not I want to reveal
my hypocrisy to you guys, you're the devil. Look. I
talk a big game when it comes to hands off
(26:54):
the thermostat, but I don't really live that way. You
don't know. I sneak and great. I adjust the thermistat
at my mother in law's house once in a while.
I've done it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's just is it for your sake, for Jessica's sake, mostly.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
For me, if I'm being honest. But the worst thing
that I did, and I this is not something that
should be admitted on the radio. But let me just
say this before you judge me. I okay, you have
no control over you know, your your thoughts, your personality,
who you are as a person at your core. Number one.
(27:36):
Number two, Jessica knows that I'm a lot like Larry David. Okay,
I'm very quirky, I'm very peculiar, and I'm very specific.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, okay, all of these things true.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All right, With that in mind, I once got caught
adjusting the thermostat at a funeral home during a funeral.
I know, I know, I don't believe me, I know,
but I was hot. It was it was a summer day,
(28:11):
and I'm like, look, you know, they're not going to
be bothered. They're you know, they're not going to crawl
up out of the casket and go it's a bit
chilly in here. I mean, they're not bothered. So what
we're doing, I don't know. I can't remember. It was
too it was just too warm. I went in and
was yeah, I was adjusting the thermostat.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I was expecting the opposite because it's a funeral home.
I expected it to be too cold.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And then like you got in trouble because you know,
the makeup started melting off off of the bodies.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, that's well at
least that's the argument that I gave When they caught
me adjusting the thermostat. I was like, you people spent
hours on that corpse. Don't you care? They're like, why
don't you get out?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Don't you dan?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
You mm hm
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