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Wake Up Calls - In Bed With Strangers · Dirt Nap City - History's Most Interesting Dead People

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_02: Hey Alex, how you doing, man?
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: Hey Kelly, what's up, man?
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I was just reminiscing about the days when things were different.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: Back in the days when we did some weird stuff back there.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_02: What it would you remember any things that you used to do that kids don't understand today?
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Talking about dead ends?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm talking about dead ends, but just, you know, some particularly strange ones.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, when you say things were different, things were different just a few months ago.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like things are changing a lot by the month.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: But you're talking about like when we were kids?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about probably up until about 10 years ago.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_02: About 10 years ago, you would you would go um on a business trip.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: You just took a business trip, didn't you?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_02: I did, yeah.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: What what time did your um meeting start in the morning typically at these business trips?
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it was at a conference.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_02: So those things you start at eight in the morning.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: Eight in the morning.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: So you have the like a general session that you go to or breakout rooms or something like that?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, yeah.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: Eight to five.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: You might have stayed out a little late the night before, maybe sometimes.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: On the rec.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: You're bonding with your co-workers and all that sort of thing.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, how how do you wake up in time to get to the conference?
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: Well, now I set my phone.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: How did you used to?
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, an alarm clock?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Did you ever call down to the lobby and ask for a wake-up call?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dude.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: You're right.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: That is what you did.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: Called called down to the lobby and asked for the wake-up call.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: You just trusted that they would do it.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes they didn't do it.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Those hotel employees have to go through training on that.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: Do they still do those?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: They have to go through training, and you know, one of the things they have to do is say your name.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_02: So, yes, Mr.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: Milam, or yes, Mr.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: Sir in 426.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um, your wake-up call, and then they have to repeat back the time you want the wake-up call for.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: 4 a.m.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, we can certainly do that.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_02: Room 426?
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_02: 4 a.m.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_02: wake-up call.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: We've got it in the books.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Have a good night, sir.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: I do remember there was nothing like a super loud telephone in your the biggest alarm, and then you have to answer it.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember later on it was like an automated thing.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: But back in the day, it was like the person downstairs calling you.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: It was a real person calling you at a specific time.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: Now, these wake up calls, they're kind of a thing of the past because now you have you don't even use an alarm clock anymore, right?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: You've got your phone sitting next to the bed.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_02: You you tell Siri or Google or whoever to set a set an alarm for you to go off at a certain time.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: Do you ever set your alarm for P.M.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_02: instead of AM?
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I I did that just a couple weeks ago, actually.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_02: So set the alarm and you you think you're getting up at 6 a.m.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: and you set it for 6 p.m.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_02: I did happen.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what what happened a couple of weeks ago?
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: Did you still have a job?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_02: Still married?
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was just it was just a city doctor or wherever you had to be.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: It was a new it's a it's a new phone.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I didn't have all the you know, in the old one I had a lot of presets, you know, because it saves all your old ones, and I had to make a new one, and I didn't press, I didn't toggle the PM.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean I didn't toggle the AM or whatever, and uh it never went off.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: And and then it turns out Yeah, it's said for PM.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: No, those things are never wrong.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: If you do something wrong, it's your fault.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, pretty much.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: What you can't do with the wake-up call is snooze it.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: You can't tell the guy, can be coming back in seven minutes.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: You're not gonna do that.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think that'd be stressful to have to do the wake-up call.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: In in the UK they call it an alarm call, and in Asia it's called a morning call.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny that even though wake-up calls don't really happen anymore, otherwise they wouldn't be a dead end, um the term is still in our vernacular.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like if somebody says, Oh man, that was a real wake-up call, you know.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_02: You had a close call, it could have been a lot worse, maybe I should change my behavior.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: But people really don't know what that means.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: I was kids today, they probably use that just like when they say something's a broken, like a broken I don't mean to be a broken record.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, yeah, when somebody under 30 years old says that, I think, I wonder what if they even know what they're saying.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we even still call the thing in our pocket a phone, right?
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's not a phone, it's a it's a little pocket computer that you use for a million things more than use it to make phone calls.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: And if you make a phone call, you're gonna dial a number, but there's no dialing anymore.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the the amka omka debora is a swahili phrase, and this is why they call it that in Africa.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's from the Bible, the book of Judge Judges, um, and it is calling upon Deborah to rise and sing.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: And so it has something to do with rising and singing, and to say uh Amka Amka means um Swahili means rise and sing.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: So that's why they call it that down there.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_02: Now that's beautiful.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: There's a thing in the military um called Revely.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: You heard of that one?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then if you ever go to Disney, you can actually set yourself up for uh if you're on a Disney property, they'll give you a free wake-up call, and it'll sound like this.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_03: Hiya, pal.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_03: Mickey Mouse here, and you know what time it is?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_03: Why?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_03: It's time to wake up.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: Big doings going on today.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: So rise and shine, and we'll see you real soon.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh gosh.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Big doings going on today.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, the original wake-up call, we know what that is.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the rooster.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's right.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_02: The rooster was what would wake up to everybody back in the day.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_02: You couldn't really set the time, though.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: It kind of was automatic.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: It was set, it was preset.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever the sun comes up, right?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: Don't roosters crow whenever the sun comes up.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's actually a really cool thing about nature.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like that you will always, if you're on a farm, you don't need a wake-up call as long as you got a rooster around.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_02: You you're you'll be up at the crack of dawn.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if the bird flu.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, you heard about this blue bird flu, right?
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh current?
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Current one?
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a dead end.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's the one we got now.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_02: I heard about the measles going on, but no.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_02: What about bird flu?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know about the bird flu.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_02: That's why the eggs are so expensive.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, oh the birds are dying.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think the flu is killing the birds.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: I think I keep reading about how people are destroying the birds because they have the flu.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think the flu is killing them.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_02: But that's why eggs are expensive.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: If if that's not true, just uh email us at uh not at Dirdom City.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure somebody out there that if I've I've just messed that up, I don't think the flu is killing the birds.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think that we're killing the birds because they have the flu, which um is a little harsh.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a flu.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: What does that have to do with wake-up calls?
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: But you can't give them chicken soup because they're already never mind.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: They need cannibals.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, so you can't recover from the flu because they can't have the chicken soup.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_02: That that Disney thing was actually um something that they still do.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: It's a free, it's a free service.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_02: So if you go there, there's a button that says wake up call, and you can pick which character you want.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: But if you're really um if you're really into wake up calls, you can visit a website.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_02: It's called Snoouster, S-N-O-O-Z-E, S T R.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_02: Snoozedr.com.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_02: And here's what they say in snoozeter.com.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's super reliable.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: They've delivered 10 million calls since 2005.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: It works with any phone on a landline or a mobile device.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's easy to use, set it and forget it, nothing to download or install.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: And here's the part that uh you might really like is it's great for heavy sleepers.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_02: So you choose secure awake when you schedule your call, and they will call you every few minutes until you answer the phone.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's automated, I assume.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's different tiers.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_02: So you can actually have an automated version that's a little less expensive, or you can have a real person if you want to pay a little more.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_02: Snoozer.
• 9:08
  unknown: Wow.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: So there's actually a company where there's real people that will call you and wake you up.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, they have they have both options.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: And it starts at a dollar a week for an annual plan and 14-day free trial.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: So Alex and I are sponsored by Snooster.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_02: If you use our uh code here, you'll get a discount for the first uh year, 50 cents a week, and you'll be sure to wake up on time.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: I don't believe you.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_02: So I do think we should offer one lucky caller, or one lucky listener.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_02: If there is somebody listening right now, if you want us to give you a wake-up call, email us your phone number and the time you want to be woken up.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: Just one time.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not doing that.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_02: Email us your phone number.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: The time you want to be woken up.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm not doing that.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_02: What time zone you're in, because we have lots of cities around the world that listen to this show.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: I just told you I mess up an AMP.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even wake myself up.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, all right.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'll I'll tell you what.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna send out Alex's phone number is I'm gonna I'm gonna put it in the lighter notes.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_02: I want you to wake up call Alex the next time uh it's early and he needs to wake up.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_02: How about that?
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: How about this?
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you ever have to wake up, if you ever want to wake up, but you don't have to wake up at a certain time, let us know and we'll call you around that time.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: Plus or minus three hours.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: Plus or minus 12 hours.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get into any of that liability.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, can you imagine having a company like this and they're like, I was late to a job interview.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_02: And and the reason the person didn't give you the wake-up call is because they overslept.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: That's their wake-up call.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Those people would have to use a form of wake-up call as well.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: It's sort of a big circle.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_02: That stresses me out.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh in 1992, there was an album by a guy named John Mayall and the blues breakers called Wake U Call.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: In 1993, there was an album by a band called Petra uh called Wake Up Call.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: In 2003, Phil Collins had a song called Wake Up Call.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: In 2007, Maroon 5 had a song called Wake Up Call.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: In 2014, there was a TV series called Wake Ull.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_02: In 2017, there was a studio album by Theory of a Dead Man called Wake Up Call.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_02: And then finally, probably along the same lines as Boney M, uh Trippy Red and KSI had a song called Wake Up Call in 2020.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing that none of those songs had actually anything to do with calling the fret desk and being asked to wake up.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_02: You never know.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_02: You never know.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_02: Well, if you've uh if you've traveled or if you're going to be traveling soon and you've never experienced it, I highly recommend you dial zero on your uh on your room phone, if there is one, because some rooms don't have them, and uh ask for a wake-up call.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think they still offer that?
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_02: I there's only one way to find out.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because if it is, then the dead end is null and void.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I guarantee you, if you ask your kid or if I ask my kid what a wake-up call is, they're not gonna know what we mean in that context.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: If you if you go and try a wake-up call, let us know how it went.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let us know if they dropped the ball, if it was completely automated, how it was.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: I I like the Mickey Mouse one a lot.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: If there was a real person with a with a with a nice soothing voice.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: So I was just in Chicago and uh got in kind of late, and we went and checked in.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: This was a fairly nice hotel.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: It was a Hyatt Regency, and I normally don't drink the bottles of water, you know, the$5 bottle of water that they leave there, but I didn't want tap water, uh, you know, and I was pretty thirsty.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: I like to have a glass of water next to the bed.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: So I go ahead and open it and take a sip.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Somebody had already opened it, drank from it, and refilled it with tap water, because I could tell.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: And so I drank part of it, and then uh and then I refilled it with tap water and put the label back on it.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like I did to the next person what was done to me, but I wasn't gonna pay five dollars for somebody else's tap water.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: Is that the golden rule?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Is that what you did?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: You just uh it was more like it was more like the um uh lump of coal rule.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: And then I called for a wake-up call.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: That's almost like uh vinegar valentine.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: It is, it is.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: It it happened to me and I passed it along.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, wake-up calls, they're a thing of the past, uh, but we want to keep them alive because I think that's a I think that's a dead end that should stay.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: I was staying in the hotel alive for my interview.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: I told a man behind the desk I need a 7.30 wake up call.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: He said five.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: I said thanks, I said 7:30, not 735.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: Cause this interview is important to the future of my life.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: He said yeah, yeah, whatever, whatever.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: The next morning I woke up and looked at the clock and I said, Oh shit, it was 9.15.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: I was supposed to be in my interview and I tried to call the office to explain.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: I got voiced out, so I said, Oh hell.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: I jumped in the show, I was so mad and stressed out.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: The guy behind the desktop, that's a good use.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: I had a great excuse to lie to late.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: That wasn't my fucking wake me up.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I was late for my interview.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: I showed up at my interview, I was so embarrassed and ashamed.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: I walked in and I said, I'm so sorry.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: The guy at the front desk at the hotel, he was so drunk.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: I asked him for a wake-up call, he never called me.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm late.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: And the man who was interviewing me, that's funny.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Last night I was at the hotel door, and there was a guy there, he was just there, it was a guy that cut it, that was the guy.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: The car was just too far to wait to stop.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: But he said, 'Do he had to go back to work because there wasn't a ball to wake up call that he had to make And he said, don't worry, I know, I know.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: He said, I'm gonna give this guy a call.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, 'Yeah, this guy was so happy that you gave him the call,' you're going to be a good one.