Phone Tap: Timid Benjamin Emcees A Charity
Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps
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4.7 • 880 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Today’s Phone Tap victim is putting on a charity auction but she isn’t going to meet her master of ceremonies until the last minute, when she gets a phone call from Timid Benjamin…
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| 0:00.0 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:02.6 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:04.0 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:09.5 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:12.9 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built. |
| 0:18.1 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there. No girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. You guys in this room know, I slay the charity auctions, right? You do, though. That's not even a joke. Don't you do one a year? |
| 0:38.3 | The charity auction circuit, Brooke, I come in there with my tucks, throw out some zingers, |
| 0:44.3 | grab somebody's toupee, toss back a martini, raise a cool seven figures, and then I'm done. |
| 0:51.3 | Add-a-boy. |
| 0:52.3 | But I'll tell you, it's not that easy for everyone. In fact, one woman who's putting one on for the very first time is freaking out right now because she hasn't spoken with her MC yet. And MCs are super vital to charity events. They run the whole show. They really do. They set the tone to the night. She's about to meet him, and it could be possibly the worst fit ever. |
| 1:12.7 | Oh, no. |
| 1:13.4 | Because his name is timid Benjamin. |
| 1:15.5 | Oh, no. |
| 1:16.6 | He's ready to go all in for charity with your phone tab right now. |
| 1:20.7 | It's another phone tab. |
| 1:22.2 | In a weekday morning's on the 20s. |
| 1:25.8 | Hello. |
| 1:31.3 | Hi. Is this Miranda Piby? Yeah, who's this? |
| 1:33.3 | My name is Benjamin from OXEVEVEVent speakers. |
| 1:37.3 | I was hired to be the MC for your charity auction this weekend. |
| 1:43.3 | Um, you're the MC? |
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