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Phone Tap: Kinky Kids Books · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: Today, we call a third grade teacher who's preparing to
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  Speaker 1: host her first ever career day with parents from her class.
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  Speaker 2: Cute but probably.
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  Speaker 1: Stressful, And with her husband's help, we convinced her that
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  Speaker 1: one of the dads coming in is a children's book author.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: But I think she's going to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: hesitant once she hears about some of the quote kids
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  Speaker 1: books that he's written. That's in your phone tap right now.
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  Speaker 3: Working Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties.
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  Speaker 4: Fellow.
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  Speaker 2: Hi is this missus Julia?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is she? Who is it? Hi?
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  Speaker 2: This is Connor's dad. He's in your third grade class. Hi. Hi, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Hi doing good? Yeah, I know, I know. He even exchanging
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  Speaker 2: emails about career day coming up with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I know. I've got a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: coming in. But if memory serves me right, you're the
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  Speaker 3: children's author, right.
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  Speaker 2: Guilty as charged?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I know. We're so looking for I try
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  Speaker 3: looking you up, but I think your name that I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't find any other work.
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  Speaker 1: But oh well, yeah, I understand it because it's right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's all self published. Oh I see, but it is
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  Speaker 1: getting pretty popular. There's been actually some social media buzz
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  Speaker 1: about it lately. It's pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Oh great, well, congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And I was, you know, I was hoping that while
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  Speaker 1: I'm in there, I could maybe bring a few of
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  Speaker 1: my books in and pass out a few autograph copies
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  Speaker 1: for the class.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Yeah, tell me a little bit about him. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure the kids would be really excited.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure. No, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: I do have one that's kind of popular. It's about
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  Speaker 1: a sweet grandfather who goes out collecting lumber to build
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  Speaker 1: a treehouse for his grandkids.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sweet, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a heartwarming story. I call it Grandpa's Got Wood.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh, it's really good. And that's that's the title
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Grandpa's got wood. And then at one point
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  Speaker 1: he isn't sure if he remembers how to hand his
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  Speaker 1: wood tools, so he plays around with it and then
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  Speaker 1: finally gets it going so the tree house can be built.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the story sounds okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's just one of the titles that's blown up on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: And there's actually a podcaster who wants to interview me
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm excited for that one. I can also
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  Speaker 1: bring in another book in that same series. This one's
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  Speaker 1: about a mischievous little puppy who keeps running away from
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  Speaker 1: his owner and getting himself into trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Called Where's My ding Dong? I'm sorry, what Where's my
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  Speaker 1: ding Dong? Because the puppy's name is ding Dong.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's really becoming.
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  Speaker 1: Popular, especially with the preteens. Yeah, probably sure, why but
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  Speaker 1: they love it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, I don't know if we should bring
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  Speaker 3: that particular book in.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you're probably thinking. You're thinking, look and
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  Speaker 1: you please read all these to the class.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if off time, but I you know, sir,
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I have to narrow it down to the best ones,
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  Speaker 1: and I would say the one that the kids love
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  Speaker 1: the most is one that I did about a depressed
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  Speaker 1: donkey who finally he finds his purpose when he comes
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  Speaker 1: across an abandoned the litter of kittens.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, sir, I don't even know if I
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  Speaker 3: want to know? The title is this one?
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  Speaker 2: It's called and Kitties.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know, because the donkey and then the cats,
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  Speaker 1: so that it was actually a pop up book, so
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  Speaker 1: it's perfect for young kids in the class. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: my little Connor. He begs me to read it to
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  Speaker 1: him every single night. He's always like, oh, Dad, I
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  Speaker 1: want more kitties.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like you can't get enough of it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm the content of your stories. Sounds perfect.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just I am concerned about the titles and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not understanding what what do you mean.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure your intentions are good, I think, of course,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think they're appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: What's in approp No one has ever said that to
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  Speaker 2: me before.
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  Speaker 4: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 3: Because I think that might be the reason that your
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  Speaker 3: popular on TikTok and being asked to do podcasts like.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the content for it's the title.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, excuse me, miss miss Julie. Are you saying
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  Speaker 1: that I can't come to career day and read these books.
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  Speaker 2: To the kids?
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  Speaker 3: No, maybe that would be for the best. Wow, I
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  Speaker 3: just I'm sorry. I don't know what to say.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably for the best since I'm not really Connor's dad,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually jeff from the radio show Broke and Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning, and this is a prank phone call
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  Speaker 1: that we're doing on you.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh, what Julie, don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a children's author. I'm not a parent of
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  Speaker 2: any of your kids. I'm just a dumb radio Your husband,
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  Speaker 2: Mark set you up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He said that you were having your first career day
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  Speaker 1: with the parents at your school and you were a
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  Speaker 1: little bit nervous, so he wanted us to have some
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  Speaker 1: fun with you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I totally believed you.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even tell you about the squirrel book that
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  Speaker 1: I'm writing. Where'd my nuts go?
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  Speaker 2: Struck in Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties,