Latest / Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps / Phone Tap: Live Weather Updates
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know when you book a trip on a travel
- 0:01Speaker 1: website and they give you lots of options at the
- 0:04Speaker 1: end when you're checking out, Oh.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Yeah, like if you want to do add ons or insurance?
- 0:09Speaker 1: Would you like to book a car too while you
- 0:11Speaker 1: we can look you up, or would you like to
- 0:13Speaker 1: have a bike tour while you're in town? And then
- 0:17Speaker 1: there's my favorite, would you like to sign up for
- 0:20Speaker 1: weather updates? What do you check that box?
- 0:23Speaker 2: I don't. I checked none of the boxes.
- 0:26Speaker 1: One woman did, and now she's about to get much
- 0:29Speaker 1: more than she planned for in your phone.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Tap right now.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Another Mornings on the twenties. Hello, Hi is this Rachel?
- 0:40Speaker 2: Yes? This is she?
- 0:42Speaker 1: Oh great? Hold on the weather in Toronto is currently
- 0:48Speaker 1: forty five degrees and cloudy, twenty percent chance of rain
- 0:51Speaker 1: later tonight. Is that helpful?
- 0:59Speaker 2: I don't know what this is?
- 1:01Speaker 1: What you signed up for weather notifications for Toronto? When
- 1:05Speaker 1: you booked a trip on Expedia, you click the button
- 1:08Speaker 1: for weather updates? You're going there? You're going to Toronto
- 1:13Speaker 1: in three months? Right, this is Rachel.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going in three months, but I don't need
- 1:19Speaker 2: them for today.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Well, that's what the service is. It's live updates. And
- 1:25Speaker 1: you know it's more personal if you have a real
- 1:27Speaker 1: person calling to tell you them. Oh so if you
- 1:30Speaker 1: missed it. Currently the weather is forty five degrees in cloudy,
- 1:35Speaker 1: twenty percent chance of rain later tonight in Toronto.
- 1:39Speaker 2: All right, I thought it was just going to be
- 1:41Speaker 2: like a text like the day of my trip. I
- 1:43Speaker 2: didn't know it was going to be like a live
- 1:45Speaker 2: person calling me every day for three months. Yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Well, we like to go the extra mile here, So.
- 1:52Speaker 2: I don't want this, Like, please don't call me anymore.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Oh that was rude. Hello, the current temperature in Toronto
- 2:11Speaker 1: is still forty five degrees.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Oh my god, I stop calling me. I don't care.
- 2:17Speaker 2: I don't want to know what the weather hold.
- 2:19Speaker 1: I remember I talked to you a little while ago.
- 2:21Speaker 1: You sign up for the weather updates, so I'm dis
- 2:23Speaker 1: updating you.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I don't want them. I don't want
- 2:27Speaker 2: them anymore. But stop calling me.
- 2:29Speaker 1: But it's changed from the last time.
- 2:32Speaker 2: No, it didn't.
- 2:33Speaker 1: You did. You didn't let me finish before because there
- 2:36Speaker 1: was a twenty percent chance of rain later tonight when
- 2:38Speaker 1: I first called. Now it's been bumped up to twenty
- 2:40Speaker 1: five percent chance.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I'd be careful, care I don't mean to be rude,
- 2:46Speaker 2: but I already told you I don't want this. Like,
- 2:49Speaker 2: what do I need to do to be taken off
- 2:51Speaker 2: the list?
- 2:51Speaker 1: Yeah? Sorry, I can't really help you so much with that.
- 2:54Speaker 1: What That's not my job. I'm bound by the agreement
- 2:57Speaker 1: that you signed when you click the box to accept
- 2:59Speaker 1: the weather alerts.
- 3:00Speaker 2: So well, then transfer me to someone who can help me.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I work independently, so you probably have to
- 3:08Speaker 1: go into the website and put in a request there.
- 3:11Speaker 1: But I have to keep doing this.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to block your call.
- 3:17Speaker 1: I'll call from a different number.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Okay, so now you're basically stocking me.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Now I'm updating you on the weather in Toronto, which,
- 3:25Speaker 1: by the way, is still forty five degrees and cloudy.
- 3:28Speaker 2: I'm not even going to answer my phone. I'm going
- 3:30Speaker 2: to Expedia and I'm going to complain about you. What's
- 3:33Speaker 2: your name, It's Hank, Hank. You don't need to hit
- 3:38Speaker 2: the dumb chime sound effect every time I ask you
- 3:41Speaker 2: a question.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Oh, I don't hit it. It just naturally goes when it
- 3:43Speaker 1: knows I'm delivering new information. Oh, apparently the clouds are
- 3:48Speaker 1: Nimbo stratus. You're an Apple, no correction, your boyfriend Teddy
- 3:57Speaker 1: is what that's new? And animation?
- 4:00Speaker 2: Did you know that are what are you talking about?
- 4:03Speaker 1: It turns out there's one hundred percent chance your boyfriend
- 4:05Speaker 1: Teddy set you up for this prank phone call.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Oh oh my god, that was so annoys.
- 4:16Speaker 1: You're going on a trip with him in three months
- 4:18Speaker 1: to Toronto, right, yeah, so he wanted to tell you
- 4:21Speaker 1: that he's really excited to go. Oh, I'm sorry. It
- 4:28Speaker 1: was his idea to do this.
- 4:30Speaker 2: I was thinking, what is this. I'm seeing live updates
- 4:33Speaker 2: for a trip ninety days from now.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Say it's called great customer service and you're free to
- 4:40Speaker 1: leave a positive review about me on the website. Okay,
- 4:43Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, look I just wrote the review for you.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Five stars for Hank
- 4:53Speaker 2: The week up every morning was phone taps weekday mornings
- 4:55Speaker 2: on the twenties Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning