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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. Surprise, and not a lot of money either.

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Speaker 1: It's all thanks to a purchase. He probably doesn't even remember.

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Speaker 1: We'll hear how he reacts in your phone. Tap right now. Hello, Hi,

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Speaker 1: my name is Richard Selsby, looking for Ethan Marketing. No,

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Speaker 1: no way, you're Mars. Yes, you called me the same

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Speaker 1: Ethan Markets from thirty five to ninety two.

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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.

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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: Blowco. What's that?

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Speaker 1: It's a power tool company. We're based in the Midwest,

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

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Speaker 1: from 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, right, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I I apologize that. I know it's a little bit behind,

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Speaker 1: but I've been working on your case trying to get

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Speaker 1: the money back to you. Since I don't know thirteen,

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Speaker 1: I have a case number you do, And I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you are a hard guy to track down. It

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Speaker 1: looks like you moved.

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Speaker 2: I lived in 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 Colorado,

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

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Speaker 1: of lost track of.

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Speaker 2: You, my god, yeah kidding me, No, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: But I was able to talk to a guy who

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Speaker 1: worked with you at his family insurance. Got him Scott.

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Speaker 2: You talked to Scott, right, he gave me your email.

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Speaker 1: What anyway, it's a long story. I'm just thankful I

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Speaker 1: 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 really 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: flower came in in two thousand and five, in the receipt.

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Speaker 2: Patrol, in the receipt patrol dollars.

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Speaker 1: Ye, Look, I understand it's not ideal.

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

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even got a cup of coffee.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I've worked so hard just

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Speaker 1: trying to track you down over the last like ten

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Speaker 1: years I've worked here. I'm just gonna check you off

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Speaker 1: and say it's okay. Oh we're fine.

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Speaker 3: 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 flower 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 bel leave some of the things people use

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Speaker 1: this device for a leaf?

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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 using.

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Speaker 2: I will pass on that. Okay, Are we done? Are we?

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Speaker 2: Are we there?

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Store credit from radio Shack?

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Speaker 1: Does?

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Speaker 2: 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 3: I will not be traveling there anytime soon, so now

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Speaker 3: 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?

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Speaker 1: I didn't think you would actually do it, because I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you I don't work for like a leaf

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Speaker 1: blower warranty company. I'm a radio host and we're doing

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Speaker 1: 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: Brooke 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.

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Speaker 3: There was a guy working on my leaf blower case

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Speaker 3: for ten years. You can't even get a hold of

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Speaker 3: it anybody at any company now, a private detective working

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Speaker 3: on 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.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we won't be doing that.

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Speaker 1: Week up every morning was phone taps weekday mornings on

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Speaker 1: the twenties Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning