Latest / Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps / Phone Tap: College Admission Chaos
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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. And for a family,
- 0:02Speaker 1: one of the biggest moments is when your kid applies
- 0:06Speaker 1: to college and you find out if they got accepted
- 0:09Speaker 1: into their dream school.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Those videos always they're like, yeah, just like we got
- 0:15Speaker 2: into Harvard.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Well that's happening to one mom and her daughter, and
- 0:20Speaker 1: the good news is the daughter knows how vulnerable her
- 0:22Speaker 1: mom is, so she wanted to set her up with
- 0:26Speaker 1: a prank call from a Brook and Jeffrey college admissions
- 0:30Speaker 1: person just to mess with her. In your phone tap
- 0:33Speaker 1: right now. Hello, Hi, is this missus Nicole?
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yes, call it Hi.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I'm calling from UC Days. My name is mister Moop.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm from the admissions office. Hi.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Ah my god. Oh I'm good. I hope Well.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Yeah, no, sorry to interrupt your day, but your daughter
- 1:00Speaker 1: Cali applied here. Yeah, and I was just going over
- 1:03Speaker 1: her file right now and she's in strong consideration for admission.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, oh my god. That is such great news.
- 1:11Speaker 2: This is really good for dream school. You have no
- 1:14Speaker 2: idea she's been working so so hard for this.
- 1:16Speaker 1: You're the tenth parent to say that to me today.
- 1:18Speaker 1: So oh, just so you know you don't have to
- 1:21Speaker 1: sweet talk me or do anything like that. That's not
- 1:24Speaker 1: going to help.
- 1:24Speaker 2: But oh oh, I know I wasn't trying to do it.
- 1:27Speaker 2: I just I want to let you know how excited she.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Is, so like, I hope it's okay that I'm calling
- 1:32Speaker 1: because your number was listed as a reference. And of
- 1:35Speaker 1: course we don't just look at GPA and SAT scores
- 1:39Speaker 1: anymore like some universities. Okay, actually, our latest focus has
- 1:43Speaker 1: been on the families.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Oh oh, well what does that mean exactly?
- 1:48Speaker 1: So in order for her to get in, I need
- 1:50Speaker 1: to do a quick impromptu interview with you over.
- 1:53Speaker 2: The phone with me right now.
- 1:56Speaker 1: So let me just ask you, what is the craziest
- 1:59Speaker 1: thing that you do.
- 2:00Speaker 2: In college that I did?
- 2:03Speaker 1: Knowledge you did go to college, correct, yes, okay, that's
- 2:08Speaker 1: a good start.
- 2:10Speaker 2: I was a pretty good student. I didn't really do
- 2:13Speaker 2: anything crazy.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I know what you think about the parties and were
- 2:18Speaker 1: you in a sorority?
- 2:19Speaker 2: Perhaps I did?
- 2:22Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. Tell me more about that.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Well, honestly, our sorority was very focused on community service.
- 2:31Speaker 1: No, let's let's talk about you know, the pajama parties
- 2:33Speaker 1: and uh, some of the date night exchanges. It got
- 2:37Speaker 1: really wild. It's gonna give me a good idea. Who
- 2:39Speaker 1: Cali's going to be right.
- 2:41Speaker 2: I'm sorry, there's nothing crazy, I.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Promise, I see what's going on. You want to know
- 2:47Speaker 1: about the crazy stuff that I did when I was
- 2:50Speaker 1: in college. Wait, no, wait, maybe that'll help jog your
- 2:54Speaker 1: memory from some of the stuff that you did, because
- 2:56Speaker 1: I will say I went to can Kun back in
- 2:59Speaker 1: oh two. Yeah, I got a little bit drunk and
- 3:05Speaker 1: uh fell off the balcony into the dolphin tank. Oh
- 3:08Speaker 1: and that was before I took off my shorts. So
- 3:12Speaker 1: back to you. Go ahead, craziest college story doesn't have
- 3:15Speaker 1: to be from Cancun. Whatever you get.
- 3:18Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm just I'm a little unsure. Okay, this
- 3:23Speaker 2: seems highly unusual.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Let's just move on. I'm gonna mark down not fun.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Let's go on to the next question. No, no, no, no, no,
- 3:31Speaker 1: it's okay.
- 3:32Speaker 2: My daughter does a lot of fun things. In fact,
- 3:34Speaker 2: she even was one of the sponsors for the dance
- 3:37Speaker 2: that they're doing at the school.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Talking like a competition dance. No decent kids, can not
- 3:44Speaker 1: quite sure you understand the meaning of the word fun.
- 3:47Speaker 1: But again, you know that's what this interviews for okay.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm happy to do anything that you want
- 3:53Speaker 2: us to do. I'm just I'm just struggling to follow.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Let's do this. Let's have you make up and impromp
- 4:00Speaker 1: do poem right now using my last name.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Moop a poem, right, That's what I said.
- 4:06Speaker 1: This is going to help me understand how your family thinks,
- 4:10Speaker 1: how creative you are. Can you be fun but not inappropriate?
- 4:16Speaker 1: Remember you must rhyme with moop my name loop.
- 4:21Speaker 2: There once was a man named Moop. Okay, cliche who Okay.
- 4:33Speaker 1: You know what I'm getting confused because you're just using
- 4:35Speaker 1: a lot of words. Maybe just start over, but it's
- 4:39Speaker 1: not appropriate. Okay, you know what I think. We're done here?
- 4:44Speaker 2: Oh gosh, no, no, please, okay.
- 4:46Speaker 1: I have enough information to make a decision.
- 4:48Speaker 2: No, I promise I could come up with something. I
- 4:50Speaker 2: just need a moment.
- 4:51Speaker 1: I will let Callie know our choice in a very
- 4:54Speaker 1: very light envelope.
- 4:55Speaker 2: That should be Oh my god, please, you're not.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Let you go? Oh I should tell you. This entire
- 5:01Speaker 1: interview was sponsored by Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning There,
- 5:05Speaker 1: the radio show Who does prank phone calls like this one?
- 5:10Speaker 1: No way, yeah way? Because my name is actually jeff
- 5:15Speaker 1: I'm not mister moop. Oh my god. I'm a radio
- 5:19Speaker 1: host and your daughter CALLI. She set you up for
- 5:21Speaker 1: a phone tab. I'm like literally sweating. Oh my god,
- 5:27Speaker 1: she said. She said, you've been more stressed about the
- 5:29Speaker 1: college applications than she has.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Yes, probably, Oh my god, Oh my god.
- 5:36Speaker 1: So wait, you're telling me you really didn't do anything
- 5:38Speaker 1: crazy and wild in college.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Well, of course I'm not gonna tellious purses of my
- 5:45Speaker 2: daughter's are you O my god.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Every morning phone taps weekday mornings on the twenties, Brook
- 5:53Speaker 1: and Jeffrey in the morning