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Classic Moment: Mikey's Time Share Scam · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed that I didn't think of it myself. We
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  Speaker 1: are going in one in April. We were at a
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  Speaker 1: hiat last year. They were actually walking around selling a
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  Speaker 1: four day, four night, five day vacation for three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars and you have to do the hot times here.
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  Speaker 1: You have a year to use it. So we're going
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  Speaker 1: in April. But this idea is even better because now
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  Speaker 1: I can have more vacation and it's not cheap, it's smart.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: We call this travel hacking any ways to do it
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  Speaker 2: as points system says, you know, I love that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm looking at all the talk packers and
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  Speaker 3: I see that the phones. This is a popular thing
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  Speaker 3: that people are doing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're the.
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  Speaker 3: Same hack, like the same kind of similar thing. But
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  Speaker 3: sometimes they given him by it though. You gotta be
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  Speaker 3: careful with that, Mike.
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  Speaker 5: You got to say no, hey guys, it's Meghan from Middleborough.
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  Speaker 5: I did this exact same thing that I didn't get
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  Speaker 5: the free hotel. I just signed up because I wanted
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  Speaker 5: a free free tickets to Orlando for my kids, went
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  Speaker 5: to the seminar, ends up getting roped into buying the timeshare,
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  Speaker 5: never use it and never went to our wind, though,
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  Speaker 5: I am one of those suckers, so don't fall for it.
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  Speaker 6: Great idea that you gotta say no, I really I
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  Speaker 6: might have to become with a checkbook that has no
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  Speaker 6: account attached.
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  Speaker 2: To bounce checking one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well they're really good. Apparently they're really good salespeople.
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  Speaker 7: See, I would be the sucker. I would buy in
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  Speaker 7: when I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they might make it sound so great they do,
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  Speaker 4: to be honest.
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  Speaker 7: Now I'm warmed, and they make it sound so cheap.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Well Karen's and Hall apparently she's done
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  Speaker 3: the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right, Karen?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I've done it. But I got a call from
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  Speaker 8: them for promotion for one ninety nine for four nights,
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  Speaker 8: and so I went and I had to do the
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  Speaker 8: ninety minute. I didn't buy, but they are very pushy
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  Speaker 8: and they really try to get you to buy. But
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  Speaker 8: they call me all the time and offered me one
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  Speaker 8: ninety nine for four nights. They even offered me a
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  Speaker 8: cruise for seven nights for one ninety nine.
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  Speaker 6: To give me some advice, what is the best way
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  Speaker 6: for me to say no?
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  Speaker 4: At the end of this ninety minute.
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  Speaker 8: Seminar, you really just have to like kind of get
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  Speaker 8: out and walk away run.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, Karen, is it one a night or one ninety
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  Speaker 2: nine for the whole trip?
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  Speaker 7: For the whole trip? Yeah, that's you can't be that's insane.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you have to pay for your host airfare, but
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  Speaker 8: the hotel day was one ninety nine.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, thank you for joining the show, Karen.
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  Speaker 3: We have a great weekend. Let's go to Kim and
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  Speaker 3: Weymouth who also did did the timeshare thing?
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  Speaker 4: Is that right, Kim?
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  Speaker 7: I did?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I did the timeshare thing in Mexico.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, did you did the timeshare thing to get a
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  Speaker 6: discounted on your hotel?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 8: So I actually wasn't even at grade of a prize.
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  Speaker 8: It was I just got one hundred dollars to like.
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  Speaker 1: My husband and I got one hundred dollars like a
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  Speaker 1: nice dinner or the spa. It was literally for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 8: But I did it.
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  Speaker 2: See that's see to see Kim's they do these anyways,
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  Speaker 2: But Kim, because she was probably already there, they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, come sit here and we'll give you
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  Speaker 2: a hundred dollars to the resort. Whereas Mikey pre planned
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  Speaker 2: and said, hey, I'm thinking about coming down, and they're.
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  Speaker 4: Like, well, come on down, smart movie. Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 3: And how long is the the timeshare pitch thing, Mikey
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  Speaker 3: hollongh ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, just you know, Mikey, be prepared. It will
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  Speaker 1: be a nineteen minute meeting.
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  Speaker 8: They will drag it out.
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  Speaker 2: And it will take about four hours. They tried to
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  Speaker 2: take up a half a day and try and save.
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  Speaker 1: You the time check.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm getting more and more nervous the more we.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about this.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, this is going to cut into your fun time,
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  Speaker 7: which which is.
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  Speaker 6: Fine for a discounting guy got like, yeah, it's worth
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  Speaker 6: take a couple of hours of my day.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't want to get roped in and say yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so funny that every time you come on
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  Speaker 3: the show, or even like around the building we have meetings,
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  Speaker 3: when he is all over you, She's.
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  Speaker 4: All over everybody, but in this case, she is loving you.
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  Speaker 6: She is loving I said earlier, my dream had a
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  Speaker 6: dream last night that when you.
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  Speaker 4: Was nice to me. It's coming true now. Yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So the Heather's.
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  Speaker 3: In Rhode Island and apparently her husband was not strong.
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  Speaker 9: Enough to say no, yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Is that what happened? Did your husband say yes? Or no?
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  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh. Yes, we went to one. We've been
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  Speaker 9: to others. In this one, he just he wouldn't leave
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  Speaker 9: all his sister. Five hours we were there and he
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  Speaker 9: ended up we have no idea how we ended up
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  Speaker 9: with a three bedroom in like I know, in like
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  Speaker 9: the Pasca. I forget where it was. And you have
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  Speaker 9: to pay. Keep in mind that it's not just the
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  Speaker 9: same when there's damn it. You also have to pay
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  Speaker 9: that if somebody else damages the room with it on
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  Speaker 9: their turn, you also have to pay for the wreckage.
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  Speaker 9: What And you're not saying all the yes, all the
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  Speaker 9: belongings in there, if they've broken or anything, a split
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  Speaker 9: between Look the fifty two people that brought a week, they.
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  Speaker 6: Must have been really convincing for you to get a
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  Speaker 6: time share in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell you, I don't think I think it was.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if it was in Nebraska, it was,
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  Speaker 9: it was not near here. And and every single other
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  Speaker 9: time I wanted to buy one, and I sat there
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  Speaker 9: and said, John, what are you doing? And he just
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  Speaker 9: signed away, And I'm like okay, because I had to
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  Speaker 9: sign too, so I just signed. Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe maybe that's your point that my wife has to
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  Speaker 6: sign to make her the bad guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, one of you has to be the bad guy. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: have her just not.
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  Speaker 7: Come to the meeting. And then you say, you know what,
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  Speaker 7: I have to talk to my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Or you could do like he said, good caught, bad
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  Speaker 2: copre You're like, babe, we really should get and she's
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  Speaker 2: like I'm not. We're not doing this, and that way
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  Speaker 2: you really did want it.
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  Speaker 6: No, at least it's interesting in the email that make
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  Speaker 6: it very clear if you're married, your.
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  Speaker 4: Wife has to come. See I want Yeah, they want
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  Speaker 4: to work one of you more. Yeah, yeah, they want to.
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  Speaker 7: They think the wife is going to be We got
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  Speaker 7: sucked in on it. We have a time share in
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  Speaker 7: Cabo that we can't get out of. Wait, what we
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  Speaker 7: have a week we have We've had a week for
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  Speaker 7: thirty years that we have that we pay on like
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  Speaker 7: like one thousand dollars or something. My family, like my
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  Speaker 7: if my dad did it and no one ever uses it.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 9: You can use it