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Speaker 1: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. And you've heard

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Speaker 1: of private detectives or investigators trying to track people down

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Speaker 1: from an incident that happened decades ago. Yeah, and in

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Speaker 1: some cases the reason why people are looking for them

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Speaker 1: is that they could owe a lot of money. But

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Speaker 1: in today's call, it's actually the opposite. We've spent years

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Speaker 1: trying to track down a guy so we could pay

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Speaker 1: him money. Well, wouldn't that be a nice surprise? And

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Speaker 1: not a lot of money either, it's all thanks to

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Speaker 1: a purchase he probably doesn't even remember. We'll hear how

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Speaker 1: he reacts in your phone tap right.

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Speaker 2: Now, Brook and Jeffrey's phone tap on the twenties.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, my name is Richard Selsby. I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: Ethan Martin regarding no, no way, you're Ethan Martin. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you called me the same Ethan Martin from thirty five

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Speaker 1: ninety two later.

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Speaker 2: I used to live there like a decade ago.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, boys, Hey boys.

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Speaker 2: I got him.

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Speaker 1: Guse me some.

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Speaker 2: What's going on, dude?

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Speaker 1: I have been looking for you for a long long time.

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Speaker 1: This is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Who are you?

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Speaker 1: Sorry? Yeah, I'm with Blowco.

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Speaker 2: Lowco. What's that it's.

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Speaker 1: A power tool company. We're based in the Midwest, and

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Speaker 1: your name was flagged for a pending rebate claim from

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five for a leaf blower.

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Speaker 3: You're calling me decades later about a leaf blower I

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Speaker 3: bought in two thousand and five.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I I apologize that. I know it's a

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Speaker 1: little bit behind, but I've been working on your case

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Speaker 1: trying to get the money back to you since I

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Speaker 1: don't know twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 2: I have a case number you do.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, you're a hard guy to

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Speaker 1: track down. Looks like you moved.

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Speaker 2: I've lived.

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Speaker 3: I've lived like a dozen different places since then.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I see that. It looks like

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Speaker 1: you're at Missouri at one point. Then you went to

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Speaker 1: Colorado and uh, that's where the trail went cold. I

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Speaker 1: kind of lost track of you.

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Speaker 2: My god. Yeah, I'm kidding me.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not. But I was able to talk to

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Speaker 1: a guy who worked with you at his family insurance,

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Speaker 1: guy named Scott. You talked to Scott, right, He gave

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Speaker 1: me your email. What anyway, it's a long story. I'm

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Speaker 1: just thankful I got you.

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Speaker 3: That is a lot of effort for a rebate from

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Speaker 3: a leaf blower. Oh yeah, how much money could we

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Speaker 3: possibly be talking about?

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Speaker 1: Eleven dollars and thirty eight cents?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: But with interest, it's now twelve dollars and six cents.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's money right into your pocket.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get me twelve dollars and three cents for

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Speaker 3: something about twenty years ago.

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Speaker 1: Twelve dollars and six cents, right, I know, I know

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Speaker 1: it's a lot, so it's probably hard to like wrap

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Speaker 1: your mind around.

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Speaker 2: It's big bucks. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do with it.

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Speaker 1: Good. I'm happy to be the bearer of good news.

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Speaker 1: So let's just get you verified here. First of all,

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Speaker 1: do you still have the original box and receipt?

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Speaker 2: No? Okay, I can't even picture this leaf floor or

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Speaker 2: whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: Can you just like maybe look around? Maybe look around,

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Speaker 1: because we prefer that they be mailed in laminated.

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Speaker 3: You want me to laminate the box that my leaf

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Speaker 3: flour came in in two thousand and five, in the

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Speaker 3: receipt patrol, in the receipt control dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand. It's not ideal.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not ideal. It's impossible. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 2: have that. I wouldn't even book.

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Speaker 3: That's a cup of coffee, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I've worked so hard just trying to track you down

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Speaker 1: over the last like ten years I've worked here. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna check you off and say it's okay, Oh

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Speaker 1: we're fine.

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Speaker 2: Great, Well that's yeah, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no problem. That stuff is done. But do you

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Speaker 1: know if the leaf blower was primarily used for leaves

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Speaker 1: or maybe some recreational airflow?

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Speaker 2: Recreational airflow, what would that be?

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe some of the things people use this

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Speaker 1: device for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm trying to picture it.

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Speaker 1: I could send you picks of what people I will

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Speaker 1: pass on that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, are we done? Are we? Are we there? Well?

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Speaker 1: Almost almost there. I just need to ask you if

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Speaker 1: you agree to accept the rebate in store credit from

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Speaker 1: radio Shack, then we'll double it. Would you be.

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Speaker 2: Interested store credit from radio Shack? Does? Does that store exist?

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Speaker 1: Not on this continent? I don't believe, But okay, well

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Speaker 1: you could get some value down in South America.

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Speaker 2: I will not be traveling there anytime soon, so now

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Speaker 2: I'll take cash.

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Speaker 1: Okay, got it? Final step? Can you make the sound

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Speaker 1: of a leaf blower for our quality assurance check.

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Speaker 2: No, I can't do I won't be doing that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the last thing I need so I

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Speaker 1: can approve you. Oh god, that was just terrible.

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Speaker 2: Why are you asked me think you would actually do it?

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Speaker 1: Because I gotta tell you, I don't work for like

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Speaker 1: a leaf blower warranty company. I'm a radio host and

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Speaker 1: we're doing a prank call on you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now this is all starting to make sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my real name is jeff from the radio show

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Speaker 1: Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning. And your brother Ken

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Speaker 1: set you up for a phone tap?

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Speaker 2: Why did he? Why would he?

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Speaker 1: He said that you've moved all over the country and

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Speaker 1: you're planning to move again soon, so he wanted us

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Speaker 1: to have some fun and play a prank on you.

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Speaker 2: I should have known that there was a guy working

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Speaker 2: on my leaf blower case for ten years.

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Speaker 3: You can't even get a hold of the anybody at

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Speaker 3: any company now, let alone a private detective working on

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Speaker 3: my flip and warranty.

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Speaker 1: Because at Blowco we take our rebates very seriously.

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Speaker 2: Blow COO. Yeah, I love Blowco.

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Speaker 1: Not for recreational use, Yeah, No, we won't be doing

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Speaker 2: That, okay, brook In Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties