Latest / Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps / Phone Tap: Dope Tikulitis Crisis Negotiator
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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's time for your phone tap. And Jose has done
- 0:02Speaker 1: this character a few times in the past as a
- 0:04Speaker 1: normal guy who's afflicted with a serious case of dope ticulitis,
- 0:11Speaker 1: made up a medical condition where he suddenly starts beat
- 0:14Speaker 1: boxing and wrapping in the middle of any normal scenario
- 0:16Speaker 1: that we give him.
- 0:18Speaker 2: And today we got.
- 0:18Speaker 1: A request that he should apply for a new job
- 0:22Speaker 1: as a hostage negotiator. So this friend set up a
- 0:26Speaker 1: job interview for him, and I'm sure with dope ticulitis,
- 0:30Speaker 1: he's going to be the perfect fit. In your phone
- 0:32Speaker 1: tapp right now.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, good morning.
- 0:40Speaker 3: I'm supposed to be calling at this time for a
- 0:42Speaker 3: job interview. My name is Marty.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Hi Marty. How are you doing.
- 0:47Speaker 3: I'm actually feeling really good. I'm feeling confident.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Oh really, that's that's great because I would say you
- 0:56Speaker 2: need a certain amount of confidence to get this position
- 0:58Speaker 2: for a crisis siator. Mm hm. You know you're gonna
- 1:01Speaker 2: be dealing with a lot of serious situations.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Well, I've had lots of high pressure situations with other agencies.
- 1:07Speaker 3: So if you have any questions, go ahead and ask
- 1:10Speaker 3: me about my experience or whatever you like.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, well, just remember for this position, de escalation
- 1:17Speaker 2: is the key.
- 1:18Speaker 3: So oh absolutely.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Let's say there's a guy on a ledge on a rooftop.
- 1:24Speaker 2: We're talking to him. Oh my gosh, yeah, you're talking
- 1:27Speaker 2: to him, and he starts the hyperventily. Uh oh, what
- 1:30Speaker 2: do you do?
- 1:31Speaker 3: In that scenario, I would tell him that we just
- 1:33Speaker 3: need to focus on breathing, okay, and then I would
- 1:37Speaker 3: practice breathing with.
- 1:38Speaker 4: Him two three two three two three two three two.
- 1:52Speaker 2: A cricket, let's.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Breathe, and then I tell him to put down the weapon.
- 1:58Speaker 1: What was it a.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Nice No, there wasn't a knife in this scenario. There.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Oh, breathing exercises. I think they're really important in a
- 2:09Speaker 3: high tension scenario.
- 2:10Speaker 2: No, no, no, the beat box thing you were doing
- 2:14Speaker 2: this is Oh, this isn't a joke. You wouldn't do that.
- 2:18Speaker 3: I thought Pat had told you. I have a severe
- 2:20Speaker 3: case of dope ticulaitis dope particulatis. It's a condition where
- 2:25Speaker 3: I like break out into freestyle beats. I can't control it.
- 2:28Speaker 3: I just got a you know, a wreck, go go,
- 2:32Speaker 3: go with the flow, but then it stops and I'm
- 2:37Speaker 3: over it.
- 2:38Speaker 2: That's a little strange. I never heard of that.
- 2:43Speaker 3: It's a real thing. It's just really rare. I've dealt
- 2:46Speaker 3: with it my whole life.
- 2:48Speaker 2: And do you think that this condition would be good
- 2:52Speaker 2: in a crisis situation as a negotiator.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I've had lots of jaw a jaw, lots of jobs.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Aware on the beach, Okay, on the beach. You know,
- 3:12Speaker 2: I'm really sorry. You know, I really respect you and
- 3:16Speaker 2: your condition and everything like that. But I just I
- 3:19Speaker 2: think this interview is it's just over at this point. No,
- 3:22Speaker 2: I can't even consider you for this position.
- 3:25Speaker 4: No, I've been studying.
- 3:26Speaker 3: No, please, I've been studying so much. I haven't learned
- 3:28Speaker 3: how to handle disgruntled employees and hostile workplace environments.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't really matter.
- 3:35Speaker 3: For example, in a company standoff, i'd say, sir, excuse me.
- 3:39Speaker 3: I know you want to speak to upper management and
- 3:41Speaker 3: blame them for ruining your life, but this is not
- 3:44Speaker 3: the wicked, wicked, wrick a wicked way to do this.
- 3:47Speaker 3: Drop the stapler back away from the prop hand.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Hello.
- 3:52Speaker 3: Yeah, it's intense, so it's getting faster.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Yeah, Marty, No, do you just stop that man?
- 4:00Speaker 3: Dope tiiculitis it just kills me in these interviews.
- 4:06Speaker 2: I am I'm gonna be hanging up right now, and
- 4:09Speaker 2: I actually need to give Pat a call because this
- 4:11Speaker 2: isn't what I expected. So I got a talk to him.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Okay, Well, when you talk to Pat, will you tell
- 4:16Speaker 3: him the a freak of prank phone call worked at least?
- 4:21Speaker 2: What do you mean prank phone call?
- 4:24Speaker 3: Oh, because this is actually Jose from the radio show
- 4:27Speaker 3: Brica Jeffrey in the Morning. We're doing a phone tap
- 4:29Speaker 3: on you.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Man. Pat said that you're interviewing for a really serious position.
- 4:37Speaker 3: He wanted somebody not serious at all to come and
- 4:39Speaker 3: interview for it, and that's me. But don't tickulight.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Him now you no, I know.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Wow, wow. You obviously don't know how to handle these
- 4:51Speaker 3: intense situations.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Oh man, what did you think about.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Me on a ledge trying to beat box some guy
- 5:00Speaker 3: off of it?
- 5:00Speaker 2: Oh my god, I thought the guy was going to jump. Oh,
- 5:05Speaker 2: wake up.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Every morning was phone taps weekday mornings on the twenties
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