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Speaker 1: I'm Bradley Johnson with one eight hundred duy away. Not

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Speaker 1: getting behind the wheel after drinking is the best choice.

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Speaker 1: But if you're pulled over, the next best choice it's

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Speaker 1: to call one eight hundred duy away the twenty. Hello.

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Speaker 1: Hi there. My name is Seth McElroy and I'm with publishing.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for Clifton. That's that's hey, Clifton. You sent

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Speaker 1: us a copy of a children's book called The Puppy

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Speaker 1: and and a lot of us here at the publishing

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Speaker 1: company fell in love with it. Are you serious? I am? Congratulations, man,

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Speaker 1: I think we want to publish it. Oh. Man, you

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Speaker 1: know I've been waiting. I've been waiting for this forever. Well,

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Speaker 1: we think it could be a big hit. There is

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Speaker 1: one thing I wanted to talk with you about, though.

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Speaker 1: What's that? Well, if there is any way to put

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Speaker 1: a little more death into it, that would be great.

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Speaker 1: Did you say gap No? I said death? D E

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Speaker 1: A t H death like death? Like are you talking

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Speaker 1: about like as as him being killed? Yeah, that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. We do a lot of customer

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Speaker 1: tracking here at our company, and the thought of literary

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Speaker 1: death has been trending up big time with children ages

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Speaker 1: four to seven. So if we could get some more

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Speaker 1: death in your story, I think it'd be golden. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. And I mean, this is this

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Speaker 1: is a fairy tale children's book. You want me to

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Speaker 1: put death here. I'll give you an example. You have

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Speaker 1: a puppy in your story, right, yes, Well at the

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Speaker 1: end when you show him rolling around in the grass,

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Speaker 1: embarking and stuff, yeah, well, we would have him do

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Speaker 1: the same thing, just dangerously close to an edge of

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Speaker 1: a cliff. No way am I gonna make that. This

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Speaker 1: is a I mean a children's book. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: just no way I want to make a puppy roll

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Speaker 1: off a cliff. Are you crazy? I understand, I nderstand

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Speaker 1: your concern, but we wouldn't show anything graphic. It just

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Speaker 1: puts the thought in your head like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: is this puppy gonna die or will he live? And

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Speaker 1: that's powerful stuff. You can't deny that. What kind of

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Speaker 1: sick thing is this? I mean, you're twisting the whole tale.

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Speaker 1: This is supposed to be a We don't want to

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Speaker 1: change the essence of your book. We just want to

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Speaker 1: add a little bit of death. To it. This is

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Speaker 1: a children's book. Well, we're willing to work with you

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Speaker 1: on this. Now. You know there's that one part of

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Speaker 1: your book where the puppy meets a bear on a path. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know that part, but you know I don't want

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Speaker 1: him to die. Well, I've got a few ideas. Let

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Speaker 1: me just brainstorm with you for a second. Let's just say,

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Speaker 1: in the background, you see like a runaway bus coming

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Speaker 1: at them. What the fuck are you talking about? You know,

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Speaker 1: I do not want any animals dying. This is the

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Speaker 1: children's book, for God's sake. Well, you won't actually see

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Speaker 1: the animals dying, but it just puts the thought in

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Speaker 1: your head. It's mysterious and intrigue. It's a crazy man.

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Speaker 1: I you know I did this for the right reasons,

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Speaker 1: and you guys are twisted. I mean, what if I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry to stop you again, but I'm just thinking here,

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Speaker 1: what if the bear and the puppy meet on that

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Speaker 1: path and then there's one picture of the bear just

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Speaker 1: about to maul the puppy. That's it, man, I'm done.

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Speaker 1: I'm not working with you. Well, sir, but we really

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Speaker 1: liked your story. Why I want you want to work

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Speaker 1: with us? We are a large publisher because you want

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Speaker 1: all the animals and my story to die. That's why

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Speaker 1: they don't have to die? Can they? Maybe they can

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Speaker 1: just get seriously injured? Oh my god, Oh could have morbid?

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Speaker 1: You know. I want out, man, I'm up done, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm not working with you. You can't be done because

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Speaker 1: this is actually a prank phone call? Are you what?

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Speaker 1: This is actually Jewel from Brook and Jewel in the

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Speaker 1: morning doing a phone tap on you. Oh my lord,

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Speaker 1: your wife Patrese set you up. Oh god, she said

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Speaker 1: you submitted a kid's book to a bunch of publishers

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Speaker 1: and want to me a mess with you. Did Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I actually read your whole book in order to get

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Speaker 1: ready to hear this phone call. Did a Do you

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Speaker 1: like my book? I liked it a lot. I just

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Speaker 1: think it needs like a little bit more death, just

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Speaker 1: like a scouch, a little punch of death. Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Wake up every morning with jubal phone taps weekday mornings

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Speaker 1: on the twenties ninety two point five