Fun with Telemarketers
Hey telemarketers? If you're going to continue to call me, I'm going to continue to record you. Last night, during the live broadcast of the Chris Pirillo Show, we had not one… but THREE telemarketers phone into the program. Ethically speaking, I shouldn't have done that – but ethically speaking, they shouldn't have called me in the first place. Telemarketers? It's huntin' season. I'm looking forward to recording more of your sales pitches… and toying with your puny little minds. Take a listen to this one (understanding that we'll be posting the other two to our site in the coming days):
I guess y'all will be listening live a lot more often now, eh?
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11 Comments
LordKaT
August 5th, 2005
at 6:38pm
Heh. Too bad my voice is so recognizable, otherwise those fine leather jackets would've been just the first for you, Chris ;)
Matt Hartley
August 5th, 2005
at 7:08pm
OMG, Chris…The Jerky Boys have nothing on ya! :o)
Dossy
August 5th, 2005
at 8:40pm
THIS IS F@#% PRICELESS!
This is the perfect use of podcasting — broadcasting telemarketing calls to be mocked at publically.
I can see it now: VoIP with automatic call recording … tag calls from telemarketers to automatically transcode the GSM or WAV of the call to MP3 and upload it somewhere. Oh, the possibilities …
Daniel C.
August 6th, 2005
at 1:09am
I think this should happen during every CPS, it can be like a random segment where you never know when it'll come. Oooh the suspence!
But those were great Chris, especially the first one where Ponzi busted out laughing when she realized it was a telemarketed after having made a related remark. Classic
DavidNI
August 6th, 2005
at 12:14pm
Sometimes it makes me glad that I live on the other side of the Pond where we don't ever get those types of calls. –
Anyway it's no longer
Sell, Sell, Sell
it's
Humiliate, Humiliate, Humiliate
DaveG
Melissa Ray
August 6th, 2005
at 3:38pm
I loved the Show! It was great.
bnaivar
August 8th, 2005
at 3:54am
I like to tell the Telemarketers to hold on while I get my credit card. Then I come back to the phone after about twenty minutes. If thery're still there I tell them I couldn't find it. That way at least thery're not bugging anybody else for that twenty minutes.
bnaivar
August 8th, 2005
at 3:54am
I like to tell the Telemarketers to hold on while I get my credit card. Then I come back to the phone after about twenty minutes. If thery're still there I tell them I couldn't find it. That way at least thery're not bugging anybody else for that twenty minutes.
Jay Fienberg
August 8th, 2005
at 3:25pm
Awesome! But, you should always make the telemarketer listen to a voice prompt that first tells them that their call may be recorded to improve your service!
AdamR
August 11th, 2005
at 12:49am
I laughed so hard when the first one came in live on the show, even more the second time. The way you handled these, Chris, was quite impressive. I wouldn't have been able to keep it up for long without laughing.
- Adam
The Computations of AdamR
http://www.adamreyher.com
Mark
August 17th, 2005
at 4:57pm
I thought these were telemarketer calls were hilarious… until it happened to us on our podcast! We have an incoming phone line with Skype, and a telemarketer for Kohl's Department Stores (not sure if it was live or a recording) left a telemarketing message on our Skype voicemail. Too funny. We are going to shift our tape nights to weekday dinner hours to get one of these buggers on live during the show…