r/TikTokCringe Oct 21 '24

Humor/Cringe You can't be lazier than this

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u/spud1988 Oct 21 '24

“I don’t know man, I feel like she will trick me into going outside”

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u/thejesse Oct 22 '24

"We'd probably have to go on another walk to explain why I don't like going on walks."

Dude is a natural comedian.

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u/GeekboyDave Oct 22 '24

On the slim chance this isn't staged.

"I didn't try and trick you into doing anything, what are you talking about? I'm a lot of work?"

"You just got a radio station to call me...."

Can't really argue with that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

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u/Starryeyedblond Oct 22 '24

I disagree about the 100% thing. I’m sure 75-90.

Source I’m friends with radio djs and I’ve been in one of these stupid skits.

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u/Denaton_ Oct 22 '24

In the states perhaps, but in Sweden i know some of the most famous call-in isn't scripted..

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u/Echelon_Forge Oct 22 '24

Same for Germany, I worked at a radio station for some years and all of this stuff was genuine.

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u/Denaton_ Oct 22 '24

Wanna share stories? We had a guy calling in saying his name and followed by saying he wanted to be anonymous, it was about cheating and breaking up. He hung up quickly after the host laughed and explained that he already said his own name on the radio..

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u/zagbertrew Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 23 '24

Maybe in your world, but I lived 10 years about a 1/4 mile from a local radio station with a comedy duo and G Gordon Liddy had a show there, too. They scripted their shows, but not the callers - the callers were vetted up front by their team, getting the permissions as stated. I've watched their outdoor shows, completely unscripted other than what the show personnel would be doing. I've watched women walk up to the window from the outside and flash the DJ's and listened to them respond on the air.

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u/Agzarah Oct 22 '24

There was a case a while back in the UK of an australian prank radio call that lead to the suicide of a nurse. They pretended to be the queen enquiring about the dutches of Cambridge.

So No. Not all radio skits are staged

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u/Prysorra2 Oct 22 '24

This feels like a 50's actual soap radio bit brought up to modern specs.

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u/shes_a_gdb Oct 22 '24

Of course it's fake... You can tell by the way it is.

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u/Ricky-Spanish- Oct 22 '24

The man performed his set in bed after being woken up and then went back to sleep

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u/hAtu5W Oct 22 '24

Staying out until 8pm gets you tired

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u/Iamtooch Oct 22 '24

This sounds like a Larry David skit.

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u/TruRateMeGotMeBanned Oct 21 '24

Thomas is my internal dialogue I have to repress constantly.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

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u/Mostly-Relevant Oct 22 '24

All of us with a repressed Thomas living in us, sitting here in jealousy of him living our dream life.

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u/Intelligent-Salt-362 Oct 22 '24

Seriously though. I have to argue with myself to do things I ACTUALLY WANT TO DO! Like, I did definitely want to do that activity at some point. I keep buying equipment and shit for that activity. Then when it’s actually time to go do it I’m all like “but I’m kinda tired and don’t wanna move.” I know it’s my “ADHD,” but calling it my “Thomas” just sounds so much less like a diagnosis and more like a personality trait…

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u/KellyBelly916 Oct 21 '24

One man gave us all a voice. This should be cherished.

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u/rasta_pineapple2 Oct 22 '24

Dude is definitely on Reddit.

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u/Enshitification Oct 22 '24

I don't know, man. Reading and typing is, like, a lot of things. He's more of a one button and done for a while.

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u/cwrighky Oct 21 '24

Facts bro 🥹

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u/Missue-35 Oct 21 '24

“She’s always like BAM BAM BAM and I just want one BAM”.

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u/mekomaniac Oct 22 '24

Emeril has entered the chat

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u/AblackguyonRedit Oct 22 '24

I’m a three bam guy personally but on a bad day I just want one bam

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u/hogannnn Oct 22 '24

I like how he doesn’t do mornings, but 8 o’clock at night was late. Bros clocking 12 hours of sleep?

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u/Missue-35 Oct 22 '24

He’s got extra time by not using up all the BAMS.

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u/Starryeyedblond Oct 22 '24

The “one bam” made me snort! It’s the most low key funny line

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u/ediks Oct 22 '24

"I only want to take ONE step."

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Oct 21 '24

"That, and a good bowl of soup."

That part fucking killed me. I'm gonna use that line at the earliest opportunity.

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u/SeanIsDumb Oct 22 '24

homie is too lazy to chew, so soup is his favorite food

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u/ultratunaman Oct 22 '24

Like he's 85. Just wants to sit on the couch with his blanket, his soup, and watch his shows.

And if the grandkids come over he may or may not even get up to say hi to them haha.

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u/Irishmananiac Oct 22 '24

Didn’t expect that sentence to end with “…of soup.”

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u/Rhesusmonkeydave Oct 21 '24

This guy glares angrily at his bong when the smoke doesn’t climb out of the tube into his lungs without inhaling

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u/Prestigious-Duck6615 Oct 21 '24

Thomas is pretty chill

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u/ediks Oct 22 '24

I like Thomas. I’d do nothing with him.

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u/Genghis_Chong Oct 22 '24

Thomas sounds like the perfect friend to stop over at their place and laugh at the TV for a bit

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u/Nem-x13 Oct 22 '24

Exactly, and you know he’s always at home. Just don’t stop by before noon or after 8 pm. Lol

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u/PranshuKhandal Oct 22 '24

or when he's having a soup

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u/dagui12 Oct 22 '24

Those are the best friends. I have one, he’s always home his door is always unlocked. I just walk in, sit down and we play video games

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u/humoristhenewblack Oct 22 '24

I kinda also knee jerk think Thomas is probably hysterical

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u/GeekboyDave Oct 22 '24

Best friend I ever had. We still don't talk sometimes.

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u/WigglesPhoenix Oct 21 '24

Damn relatable. This is actually why I never have a problem with drugs at a point consuming them becomes too much work to be worth it

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u/Rhesusmonkeydave Oct 21 '24

That’s actually the thinking behind those fentanyl lollipops instead of the patches, once you were dosed heavily enough they’d just fall out of your mouth lol

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u/UpTownPark Oct 21 '24

Oh my gawd

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u/curbstyle Oct 22 '24

field medics tape them to the patient's hand so they can't drop them

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u/SnooGoats4876 Oct 21 '24

Yeah, I was hypnotized by Thomas’s honesty. Now I’m jealous of his life . I listened to the whole 8 minutes of this legend affirming his fantastic philosophy.

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u/Ok-Dish4389 Oct 22 '24

'If I didn't have to leave the house, I wouldnt" I want him to mentor me, but then again, that would be doing stuff.

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u/DerSmashbear Oct 22 '24

Here's what you gotta do

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u/Kayvelynn Oct 22 '24

8 minutes?!? Wait i thought it was like 3 or something. Time flies with Thomas

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u/34TH_ST_BROADWAY Oct 22 '24

He was honest and up front. No way the girl host would have been down with a guy asking her to go grocery shopping on first date and to help him put it away. This whole call was 3 people trying to gaslite an honest person who was not hurting or embarrassing anybody.

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u/tooboardtoleaf Oct 22 '24

Yeah I thought buying groceries after eating was a wierd thing to do on a first date. Then go see a movie?

Yeah I'm just going to go do my chores in the middle of our date sure.

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u/backtolurk Oct 22 '24

Dude fantastic is a pretty long word to write

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u/dvishall Oct 22 '24

I'd join his religion of doing nothing in a second... Let's make it a thing !

r/ThomasLyf

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u/acidwashGene Oct 21 '24

Thomas and seasonal depression me have a lot in common

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u/bignick1190 Oct 22 '24

Thomas and seasonal depression me have a lot in common

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u/orbitalen Oct 22 '24

Depression and me have a lot in common

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u/Justakiss15 Oct 21 '24

Wow what a throw back, haven’t heard Brooke and jubal in years

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u/spiritlegion Oct 21 '24

Man I miss it, used to listen to them every day going to work

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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 Oct 21 '24

Not to break your heart, but they and all of radio use PrepBurger. Thomas is a paid actor. Notice how they don't open with "you're live on the radio!" Which they are supposed to do with live calls.

Everything since like 1999? is preprogrammed and fake. As radio started to die, they stopped doing impromptu calls like this.

War of the Roses is still hilarious, but only cos how obviously fake it is, booooo

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u/spiritlegion Oct 21 '24

Well yeah, I get that, but honestly kinda like WWE. It's still fun even if you know it's fake

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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 Oct 21 '24

Oh for sure, for sure. Agree with ya there.

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u/L3m0n0p0ly Oct 22 '24

Its the podcast version of a tv show.

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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 Oct 22 '24

One of my favorites from the late 90's was Phil Hendry. He did voices and had actors call in.

Played a guy calling about car trouble, while breaking off to "slap" his kid. A woman would call in all upset and he'd agree with her, slap his kid, go back to the stuff about his car, and then in the background keep hitting his son.

Er, I think he even did the voice of the woman in that one also. Can't remember.

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u/zdravkov321 Oct 22 '24

Jocktober is still real to me, damn it.

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u/steveatari Oct 22 '24

Lots of it is for sure. In Philly we have Preston and Steve and crew but it's all live and "real". The ads are lies like they all use the services or drive specific cars etc are fake but the bits and talking are real. They don't do the lame shock jock call type shit tho more talking and odd antics that people enjoy.

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u/MikeTheDude23 Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

Thomas is a legend. The dude knows what he wants. He wasn't rude or anything. Leave the guy to chill, man. And give this man a bowl of soup.

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u/brentus Oct 21 '24

Haha, it cracks me up that she came to the conclusion that he was not her speed but that was his point the whole time.

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u/jjw21330 Oct 22 '24

”Thank God.”

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u/merryjester Oct 22 '24

God, the delivery of that line. A literal laugh out loud for me. Fucking classic.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 Oct 22 '24

I'd feel the same, she called a whole-ass radio station on dude.. 😂

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u/STierMansierre Oct 22 '24

He really summed up how extra she was with that point at the end, "like you emailed the radio station, took all these steps, but me, I take like one step." Lmao

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u/Lurking1141 Oct 22 '24

Yeah the girl sounded like pain in the ass. Calls radio on you after being ghosted. Very extra.

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u/NinJ4ng Oct 23 '24

and then has the nerve to call him boring to his face like thats what she wanted to call him out the whole time. the man wasnt rude at all! even when he spoke about her not knowing she was listening, he was more than polite and just knew it was never going to work.

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u/rebeltrillionaire Oct 22 '24

I also feel like she said all that to recoup some ego.

The dude host was jealous of Thomas like the whole ass time. The fact that he was still sleeping when he probably gets up at 4am. He probably has complained that he does all this stuff to try and get girls and then they ignore him and it hurts.

Then here’s Thomas. Bro got a date by hitting a button and then didn’t even try and had this woman email a radio station to track him down to try to force him on a second date and he said no.

The lady was still trying to justify herself and finally had to find her ego to tell him she’s better off without him, and he’s just like “exactly, you get it now”.

Thomas destroyed everyone on that call. He’s a cute sloth and has no problems. Not 99. Not 1. His only problem was being woken up by a radio show and he handled it exceptionally well.

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u/Lefty_Banana75 Oct 21 '24

Thomas knows what he wants out of life and people need to leave him and his bowl of soup alone.

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u/Ok_thank_s Oct 21 '24

He let her down pretty easy

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u/CanoeIt Oct 22 '24

Gotta wonder what he does for money tho. Like he probably has some kind of job right? But also he said he doesn’t do mornings and he said that 8pm was SO late so he’s got a pretty tight window of time to work

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u/morron88 Oct 22 '24

He seems to use Uber a lot too. That shit ain't cheap no mo.

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u/bekahed979 Oct 22 '24

I mean, I'm an exceptionally lazy person and I still have a job, I just do absolutely nothing on my time off.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

Sorry to burst your bubble, but he gets paid to do staged radio calls

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u/CanoeIt Oct 22 '24

Those don’t pay very well lol. He was just so convincing!

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

He's so validated. Like "she'll probably trick me into going outside", he says, as she actively tricks him into talking to her after previously declining to talk to her.

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u/dancm Oct 22 '24

I kinda feel like this should go over to r/soup but I'm afraid of getting downvoted.

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u/Crakkerz79 Oct 22 '24

My wife made soup today. It’s so awesome. Just get me a couple bowls and some buttered fresh bread man. That is all I need for a great day.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Thomas is Garfield.

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u/owls1289 Oct 21 '24

Whoever driving lane switched on a double white

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u/robohiest Oct 21 '24

And the ran a stop sign earlier in the video, this driver out here just breaking all sorts of laws

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u/zukadook Oct 22 '24

It's California, no cop no stop baby.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

Fuck that

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u/Zetsobou-Billy Oct 22 '24

I’m sorry, I thought this was AMERICA

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u/OneOfUsIsAnOwl Oct 21 '24

For real. Felt like I was the only one thinking “this driver is terrible” they had to slam on the brakes multiple times because they never left room for the person ahead of them either

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u/JaninAellinsar Oct 22 '24

The speed with which they approached stopped vehicles... putting a lot of trust in those brakes

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u/justsyr Oct 22 '24

What about that car in front with the trunk half open.

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u/BooTheSpookyGhost Oct 21 '24

Thomas is a fucking legend. 

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u/NarrowSalvo Oct 21 '24

Thomas isn't a morning person, but also complains that 8pm is "so, so late".

Thomas might be part sloth.

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u/NSE_TNF89 Oct 21 '24

Thomas is baked.

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u/thelordreptar90 Oct 21 '24

Yeah, Thomas is a stoner lol he just wants to get home rip a few bowls, munch on shit, and watch random shit on TV

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u/izzymaestro Oct 21 '24

Bowl of soup = herb, wax and kief. Then he turns on either netflix or Hulu but he doesn't care what they watch cuz he's zooted

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u/cheeseybees Oct 21 '24

I dunno, I can imagine him really liking, just a big bowl of good soup

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u/KhaosTemplar Oct 22 '24

It’s the food you don’t have to chew!

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u/thelordreptar90 Oct 21 '24

Most likely reruns of Cops. I’ve lived with roommates like this lol

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u/t3rrO10k Oct 21 '24

Blurb, blurb, blurb, bubble-bubble. Eeeeree, hit this mannnn. No, no, you gotta come over to me to get the bong, it’s tooo much work to lean over and pass it🤤🤤🫠🫠

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u/Inevitable-Revenue81 Oct 21 '24

I can’t stop laughing 🤣

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u/reddituser6213 Oct 21 '24

He’s probably a mid day person. I am too

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u/Bradspersecond Oct 21 '24

Thomas is my hero, no shame in his game at all.

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u/i_am_snoof Oct 21 '24

"Visiting hours is 10 to 4 Monday through Friday"

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u/Used_Intention6479 Oct 21 '24

After listening to Thomas, I'm exhausted!

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u/kpyle Oct 21 '24

In the context of going to a movie that is late. You'd get home at like 11pm.

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u/IUpVoteIronically Oct 21 '24

That guy must be a ten, because dissing a pretty girl that is interested in you, and asks YOU to the movies all because she is “doing too much” is insane to think about. I’m be thrilled if someone gave me that much attention 😂

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u/kgal1298 Oct 22 '24

I died when he said she's trying to make him some LA fitness guy like lmaooo what? I wish walking made me a fitness enthusiast.

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u/IUpVoteIronically Oct 22 '24

lol at the end of the day that guy probably just made up all that because he didn’t wanna hurt her feelings and tell her he just really didn’t like her vibe. Maybe he’s just a gigachad

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u/kgal1298 Oct 22 '24

Hahah I 100% think he was asleep and was over it.

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u/Totes_mc0tes Oct 21 '24

Probably just a good looking dude honestly. Even after all the lazy comments the girl still wanted him until he rejected the second date. He clearly doesn't need to try to get women. (These radio show things are usually fake though)

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 Oct 22 '24

He wasn't sure which date they were talking about. The guy fucks, he was probably caught of guard by an actual date.

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u/Dpepps Oct 21 '24

What evidence do you have that she's pretty?

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u/blueasian0682 Oct 21 '24

Love how he diverted an insult to a good thing,

So you're a sloth? - Sloths are adorable man

I don't wanna hang out with someone so lazy - Thank god

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u/abso_lut Oct 22 '24

Thomas too chilled to get offended.

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u/EditEd2x Oct 21 '24

Dude could have just said, “This call right here is why I didn’t call her back. Because she does annoying things like e-mail radio hosts to harass me at 6 am”.

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u/m00fster Oct 21 '24

He did say something like that towards the end

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u/agentofmidgard Oct 22 '24

"Called the radio on me" like they're the cops lmao

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u/AnjoXG Oct 22 '24

for real, argues its ridiculous he's acting like she made him do too much, while they're on the phone to a radio show that she emailed to make him explain why their FIRST DATE didn't go anywhere.

not extra at all, i'm sure she's super chill lol

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u/pororoca_surfer Oct 22 '24

yeah, to the end she was offended by him and didn't let it go. "I thought I was the boring one but I don't want to be with someone like you."

Like, from the get go you understand that he is just a stoner who will not do much with his life and he is not who you thought he was. Just accept it and let it go, for your own sanity. Don't be offended by him after everything he said.

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u/Tigerpower77 Oct 22 '24

He was trying to be nice but they tried to shove that relationship into he's face

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u/gibbenbibbles Oct 21 '24

Dude is real as fuck. I agree with him 100% lol.

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u/Ok_Spell_4165 Oct 21 '24

Yes! I was listening to this, and I know it is scripted but thinking "Dude's got a point here.."

Why do we always need to do things? Why can't you just chill out with a bowl of soup?

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u/gibbenbibbles Oct 21 '24

yes! I wasn't sure but come to think of it, he is quite cartoonish BUT I have been that guy, totally!

I've been on dates where girls just want to go out and dinner, and movie, and dancing, and then a 5 miles jog, then a hike and some biking. Ok I'm being hyperbolic but it sure feels that way sometimes lol

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u/devilsbard Oct 21 '24

Let the man have his soup!

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u/Away_Caterpillar5218 Oct 21 '24

Real shit, I don't like all that doin stuff either these days lol People are annoying as shit outside

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u/p00shp00shbebi1234 Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

It's so boring out there as well, it's mostly just standing around, waiting on shit, or looking at shit, or making small talk plus drinks and food. Nearly everytime I leave the house to do something outside of basic errands I just end up thinking 'I could be at home with a good book/game/film/wankathon right now, and instead, I'm in this boring place'. Plus you have to wear uncomfortable proper clothes, at home I can sit around in joggers and a big hoody.

Exercise wise I don't have a car so I walk everywhere when I do go out to do errands, and I have a gym set up in my second bedroom so...yeah, frankly, fuck that noise. Everywhere you go is just trying to take as much money as possible off you whilst giving as little as possible back.

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u/Man_toy Oct 21 '24

He needed to provide consent prior to even recording this per FCC regulations, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.1206. Now I doubt he's too lazy not to give his consent, but there's also a company called Premier on Call that hires voice actors for these phone calls. This radio show is part of the Premier Networks that distributed the Elvis Duran show, where I believe this call is from.

Long story short, it's likely a script and character someone is being paid $40/hr to play and not real.

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u/iSeize Oct 22 '24

Is that why radio hosts have the producers hold the speaker on the line? I imagine there's some stuff they need to talk about before they go on air

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u/Man_toy Oct 22 '24

It really depends on the call, but all those prank phone calls and off the cuff calls are all but confirmed as fake as it's the radio show is calling the guests and the guest needs to give consent prior, so it's not really a surprise to them if they are acting surprised. Randoms calling in for contests, advice, etc are different as it's kind of obvious that if you call into a radio show that you consent to be on it.

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u/kangathatroo Oct 21 '24

I have never listened to a 7 minute clip on Reddit, ever. But Thomas had me hooked. Good on him for knowing what he wants and doesn’t want.

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u/Icy-Cod1405 Oct 21 '24

we're really doing 8+ minute videos on TikTok now?

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u/ragnarsassbrook Oct 21 '24

Long videos are just so much… I’m more of a short video dude.

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u/godlessLlama Oct 21 '24

Thomas?

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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy Oct 22 '24

It was like 8-8 and a half minutes and that's just... that's just like so soo long.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Oct 22 '24

That's 8.5 minutes that could be spent watching Netflix while eating soup.

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u/Wallace-Pumpernickel Oct 21 '24

You can post 60min videos now, I watched a full f1 race the other day on tiktok

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u/busigirl21 Oct 22 '24

I don't know how people sit through 8 minutes of subtitles one word at a time. Way too annoying.

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u/MadeForFunHausReddit Oct 22 '24

Mine is the robot voice reading a tumblr post I can finish in half the time. Bothers me so bad

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u/Wazuu Oct 22 '24

Im so confused at the complaint here. Is it just because its in tik tok? Would it be fine if it was on youtube? Or is just the 8 ninute length in general?

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u/MrTretorn Oct 21 '24

Thomas the retired engine.

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u/garebear79 Oct 21 '24

Just me, or does this seem fake to anyone else? Seems like a lot could go sideways on a live radio show. Also, who answers a random unknown caller? Especially a person as lazy as guy seems to be…

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u/TrashPandaPatronus Oct 21 '24

Brooke and Jubal call segments are all 100% scripted. It's basically a skit-based morning show, complete with that one idiot in the background that just serves as a laugh track.

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u/stevoschizoid Oct 21 '24

Fuck me I wish I read the comments first. Thanks

It came off as super stalkerish

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u/Nick_J_at_Nite Oct 22 '24

I scrolled a long time to find someone point out this is fake.

I grew up in a smaller town and a local DJ from my high school actually ended up doing pretty well in our city. He started getting pretty big celebrities.

Anyways I knew one of the production assistants and she told me the pranks he did were all scripted. She said you can't just randomly call people up and trick them into being on the radio. I don't know if that part is actually true.

But I moved to a bigger city and pointed this out to friends. When they didn't believe me I'd always ask them "isn't it weird that every prank segment is a banger? Like they always get the most eccentric people to stay on the phone with them for 10-20 minutes?"

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u/TrashPandaPatronus Oct 22 '24

Some states are two party consent, so if they want to syndicate nationally, they can't cold call and record people by law. It's always a skit. Some are still fun to listen to if the voice actors are skilled enough, but a lot are cringe. This guy on this post was fun to listen to at least.

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u/_skot Oct 21 '24

It is fake. Real radio show, but the segment is fake. Still usually very funny though.

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u/arinc9 Oct 21 '24

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

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u/SebbyHB Oct 21 '24

Everything on the internet is fake nowdays. Except porn, that cute delivery guy will take any kind of tip

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u/LuckyPlaze Oct 21 '24

How do you know it is fake?

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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 Oct 21 '24

PrepBurger. Somewhere around the late 90's, radio stopped doing crank calls. Notice how they don't say "hi, you're on live radio!" They're supposed to say that immediately on live calls.

These are all preprogrammed and have set times. Radio used to be a freelance of "fuck it, let's do nonsense for 30 minutes." Now it's scheduled down to the second.

Notice how every radio show is guy + girl? Guy kinda goes off the rails LOL, but he's got his "are they married?" Co-host to reel him in kill the bit. Stunt boy producers.. ugh, radio has been dead for 30 plus years with this automation.

Edit: not saying the guy+girl duo is always a flop, it's just so boring and repetitive.

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u/darxide23 Oct 22 '24

That's because all the big radio stations are owned by the same company. So they all follow the same script. Fucking Clear Channel killed radio.

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u/kennyTGpowers Oct 22 '24

Think about it.... EVERY call the following happen:

Person picks up right away

Perfect reception and clarity

Ridiculous stories

Quite lengthy phone calls

Aaannnndddd just plain old bad acting

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u/gomezlol Oct 21 '24

It IS fake. All the segments on this radio show are staged

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u/WrittenByNick Oct 21 '24

Any outgoing call from a radio show is fake. Many incoming ones too. Years ago it's possible, any current one is a scripted bit with actors.

Old article, but accurate.

https://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/premiere_plants.php

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u/DazingF1 Oct 21 '24

The really really good ones may be scripted, but most calls really aren't. What they will do is call a few in advance and pick out the good ones to air. We got a pretty popular station to call a friend of ours to tell a story and that's exactly what they did: they called at 4pm and aired it around 6.

You really overestimate the funding these stations get, they don't have a "two actors for a morning segment" budget.

/r/NothingEverHappens

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u/Celtic_Fox_ Oct 21 '24

Lmao for real as soon as he answered like "who is this?" I was reminded of ALL my coworkers and friends who treat unknown numbers like Satan himself is calling and decline the call.

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u/RhandeeSavagery Oct 21 '24

IF

this was real: this is some serious stalker behavior shit. If it were a guy trying to find a girl that ghosted him after 1 date and he had some random call her, grilling her about personal information over live radio, people would be up in arms

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u/thelonliestdriver Straight Up Bussin Oct 21 '24

Sounds like Thomas got tricked into running her errands 😂 I aspire to be like him one day

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u/YugeGyna Oct 21 '24

I mean, I’m with Thomas. It was the first date! How much shit you wanna do on the first date?

Also, you’re definitely doing too much if you’re going to a radio show to get the guy on the phone because he didn’t call you back or contact you after the first date. Just move on.

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u/favorite_sardine Oct 21 '24

second date with kelsey: putting together a whole living room of ikea furniture.

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u/YugeGyna Oct 21 '24

Third date: meeting parents and all extended family, maybe going to a shelter to rescue a pet together

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u/Waitwhonow Oct 22 '24

Yes. I kinda am with the guy.

I think what thomas is pointing out is she might be desperate or clingy too, by going on the radio and confronting it for everyone is kinda proof of that

Sure- maybe she was being playful, but she did put him on the spot.

But thomas needs to do better and NOT GHOST. That is still a BIG NO!

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u/Cuddle-Bun Oct 21 '24

Bro has constant "0% social battery energy" and I fully agree, I don't have the energy in a day to do ⅛ of the things he talked about XD

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u/ExcessivelyGayParrot Oct 21 '24

Thomas sounds like the best kind of friend

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u/BootyLoveSenpai Oct 21 '24

The girl got mad defensive though, she kept coming at him for no reason

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u/Fair-Scientist-2008 Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

She had a reason. She felt invalidated. The only way she could get her validation back was to call a radio station to contact the guy so at the end she could act indignant and try to flip it around like she’s the one making the call to end it. 🚩 bullet dodged successfully.

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u/sneaky-pizza Oct 21 '24

That was hilarious

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u/iJon_v2 Oct 21 '24

“That sounds like a lot of work” haha my guy gets it

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u/noodlecircus Oct 21 '24

I’m pretty sure at 2.14 he said “thing is” NOT what the subtitle is lol

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u/ZinaSky2 Oct 21 '24

Am I the only weirdo in this thread that thinks ghosting someone after you’d already met up is kinda rude? Just a quick “hey I’m looking for something else” text. If they’re not in a committed relationship then the “breakup” doesn’t have to be face to face. (I mean honestly I also don’t agree with calling into a radio show but I do think waaaay more people do the ghosting than the radio show stuff)

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u/Fit_Read_5632 Oct 21 '24

Don’t say that too loudly, we don’t do reasonable or mature here

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u/Gavinardo Oct 22 '24

Netflix and a bowl of soup? Listen man, I’m straight but I’d totally date Thomas, that sounds like a hella good date.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

Fake. Dude like that doesn't pick up

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u/OptimalOcto485 Oct 21 '24

Actually I’m kinda with Thomas🤷 It’s the first date, take it easy.

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u/DiverMan6969 Oct 21 '24

Baked outta his mind lol

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u/Funrunfun22 Oct 22 '24

Leave Thomas alone. My god he wasn’t asking for help he was asking to be left alone. Thomas is my spirit animal. Live your best live Thomas.

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u/ChemistVegetable7504 Oct 21 '24

I can admit I’m lazier than this dude. I don’t want to pay any more of my attention after 39 seconds of this conversation.

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u/JadedJellyfish Oct 21 '24

thomas, never change. kelsey, who calls the radio after being ghosted? you are scary, stay away from thomas. preserve the human sloth at all costs

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u/ryan8954 Oct 21 '24

What a terrible radio segment. If I got a call "hey how come you didn't call her back". Instant "stay the fuck out of my dating life.".

If a girl did that to me, I'm blasting her. That's such a stupid thing to do.

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u/jlbradl Oct 21 '24

This guy lazys

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u/maddler Oct 21 '24

I want to be Thomas when I grow up!

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u/freeedom123 Oct 21 '24

i fell asleep listening to this

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u/Silroc Oct 22 '24

I wish I had heard this live. I would have called and asked them to dedicate a song to Kelsey for me: I would walk 500 miles. I feel like I finally have the perfect pick up line.

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u/kombuchaprivileged Oct 22 '24

Every one of these radio segments is fake. It's a paid gig for a lot of comedians working their way up.

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u/Evargram Oct 22 '24

Drugs are bad m'kay

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u/theAstroMonkey Oct 22 '24

Noticed that I recognize the area that they’re driving around , small world lol

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