# The Friendly Plumber

An episode of [Kiss 95-7's War of the Roses](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1601657807), 12 Aug 2025, 7:19.

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Allison from Portland thinks her husband is cheating on her. She received a random phone call stating that her husband was at another woman's house all day on Saturdays. She drove by, and his car was there. She wants to know if he's cheating.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: We're going to Portland this morning, and we have got
[0:02] Speaker 1: Allison on the line. She's having a problem with her
[0:04] Speaker 1: husband Tom. She thinks he's cheating. She wants answers, and
[0:08] Speaker 1: so it's were the Roses time.
[0:10] Speaker 2: Let's do it all right? Good morning Alison, Hi, good morning, Hey.
[0:15] Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for reaching out to us.
[0:17] Speaker 1: I certainly hope that we can help you get some
[0:19] Speaker 1: answers about your husband's behavior.
[0:22] Speaker 3: Absolutely, I hope so.
[0:24] Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, tell us what's going on? Why do
[0:27] Speaker 1: you want to be on more of the Roses.
[0:30] Speaker 3: Well, I think my husband is cheating on me. And
[0:35] Speaker 3: the reason is because for the last several months, my
[0:40] Speaker 3: husband has been leaving super early on Saturday mornings and
[0:43] Speaker 3: then he doesn't come back until early evening. Okay, okay,
[0:47] Speaker 3: And he says, oh, I was running errands.
[0:51] Speaker 1: Okay, But his excuse for being gone all day every
[0:55] Speaker 1: Saturday is he's running errands.
[0:58] Speaker 3: Yes. So, not too long ago, I received a call
[1:03] Speaker 3: from a man who wouldn't tell me his his name,
[1:07] Speaker 3: but he's the ex husband of a woman named Wendy. Okay,
[1:13] Speaker 3: and he told me that on Saturday I should drivee
[1:17] Speaker 3: by Wendy's house and he gave me her address, and
[1:21] Speaker 3: so I drove by Wendy's house last Saturday and my
[1:27] Speaker 3: husband cars was in the driveway.
[1:29] Speaker 2: Oh my god, no, okay, so what did you do?
[1:34] Speaker 2: What did you do? I?
[1:36] Speaker 3: I rang the bell and there was no answer. So
[1:43] Speaker 3: I came home that night and I asked my husband
[1:48] Speaker 3: about it, and he told me that friend's sister needed
[1:57] Speaker 3: her pipes to be fixed, and that's all what he
[2:01] Speaker 3: was doing.
[2:02] Speaker 2: But he didn't he had a broken pipe, but he
[2:05] Speaker 2: didn't answer.
[2:06] Speaker 3: The door because it was in the basement and he
[2:11] Speaker 3: was fixing it.
[2:13] Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure he was.
[2:14] Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I know the answer.
[2:18] Speaker 2: So can we just get to it.
[2:19] Speaker 1: I do have a bad feeling about it, but you
[2:21] Speaker 1: never know. So do you know the drill for War
[2:23] Speaker 1: of the Roses. We are just gonna call up Tom
[2:26] Speaker 1: Allison and we're gonna, you know, off Hm Roses.
[2:29] Speaker 2: The florist is.
[2:30] Speaker 1: Going to try to get, if you know, get some
[2:33] Speaker 1: information out of him if you can, and you're gonna
[2:36] Speaker 1: be listening in at any point if you want to
[2:37] Speaker 1: confront your husband, you can. If you don't feel comfortable,
[2:39] Speaker 1: don't feel you have to, Okay, okay, okay.
[2:43] Speaker 2: Thanks, You're welcome. Hold on, I just feel sick about this.
[2:50] Speaker 2: I like can't believe the whole setup, Like someone literally
[2:55] Speaker 2: set her up to find out.
[2:58] Speaker 4: Hello, Hi, Yes, I'm looking for a Tom.
[3:01] Speaker 2: Is Tom there?
[3:02] Speaker 1: Yes?
[3:03] Speaker 2: This is hi Tom.
[3:04] Speaker 4: This is Katie giving you a call from Flowers Express
[3:06] Speaker 4: over in Portland.
[3:07] Speaker 2: How are you doing this morning?
[3:08] Speaker 5: Hey? Good? How are you good? Good?
[3:10] Speaker 4: Thank you so much for asking, just giving you a
[3:12] Speaker 4: quick courtesy call this morning to let you know that
[3:15] Speaker 4: you are the winner of our online weekly contest.
[3:17] Speaker 2: Congratulations.
[3:18] Speaker 5: Oh great, thanks, yeah, of course.
[3:21] Speaker 4: So if you are, if you aren't aware, you just
[3:24] Speaker 4: want a dozen free roses courtesy of Flowers Express if
[3:27] Speaker 4: you are willing to accept the prize. The only catch,
[3:29] Speaker 4: I'll just be very upfront with you. We don't send
[3:32] Speaker 4: them directly to you, but we will send them to
[3:35] Speaker 4: someone on your behalf. So this way you look great.
[3:37] Speaker 4: And then you know, the person gets the flowers and
[3:39] Speaker 4: they're like, oh, these are beautiful flowers. Next time, I'll
[3:41] Speaker 4: definitely use Flowers Express. And the next time you got
[3:43] Speaker 4: to send flowers, you're gonna be like, oh, that person
[3:45] Speaker 4: was really happy. I'm gonna use Flowers Express again. So
[3:48] Speaker 4: just kind of.
[3:48] Speaker 2: Works for everybody.
[3:49] Speaker 5: You know, okay, okay, cool?
[3:52] Speaker 4: So are you down to accept them?
[3:55] Speaker 3: Yes?
[3:55] Speaker 2: Okay, awesome, fabulous.
[3:57] Speaker 4: Part of the prize is you do get a really
[3:59] Speaker 4: pretty card. So I have a penrot here and I
[4:01] Speaker 4: can take down a message for.
[4:03] Speaker 2: You if you would like.
[4:06] Speaker 5: Sure, Uh, just put on it. Let's lay low for
[4:14] Speaker 5: a while.
[4:15] Speaker 2: Is that it is? Do you want to put anything
[4:16] Speaker 2: else in the card?
[4:19] Speaker 5: To Wendy? Oh?
[4:20] Speaker 2: To Wendy. Ye okay, Wendy.
[4:23] Speaker 3: Uh really, Tom, Wendy, Wendy Blue Tom, I have to
[4:29] Speaker 3: jump in.
[4:29] Speaker 2: This is Cordy from Kiss in the Morning. The florist
[4:31] Speaker 2: is Savannah Walmer.
[4:32] Speaker 1: Jeff is here. You're on the radio. You're on War
[4:34] Speaker 1: of the Roses, and that is your wife, Allison. Allison.
[4:36] Speaker 2: He sent the roses to Wendy.
[4:39] Speaker 5: Tom.
[4:40] Speaker 3: Why couldn't you tell me the freaking truth?
[4:42] Speaker 1: Uh?
[4:43] Speaker 3: I asked you on Saturday. I went there, you were there.
[4:47] Speaker 1: I knew it.
[4:48] Speaker 5: I knew it. Why couldn't you tell me the truth?
[4:50] Speaker 2: Huh?
[4:52] Speaker 3: Because obviously you've been kidding on me every Saturday.
[4:58] Speaker 5: Oh my god, because you couldn't handle what the truth is? Okay,
[5:02] Speaker 5: because obviously, as you can tell from right now, you're fragile, okay,
[5:06] Speaker 5: and you would not have been able to handle me
[5:08] Speaker 5: going to someone's house to help them with their plumbing. Okay,
[5:12] Speaker 5: that's all I was doing. Why can't you just tell
[5:16] Speaker 5: the truth. Why can't you just tell the truth You've.
[5:19] Speaker 1: Been coming out?
[5:20] Speaker 5: Why can't you just tell me the truth?
[5:22] Speaker 2: I'm with you, Allison on this one time.
[5:24] Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense to write in the card, sorry,
[5:27] Speaker 1: I have to lay low because you're fixing her plumbing.
[5:30] Speaker 4: I mean, he might have been fixing someone's fuming, but
[5:32] Speaker 4: not in the sense that you know.
[5:34] Speaker 3: You can't even tell the truth when you're caught. Hu,
[5:38] Speaker 3: who is this person? Who is Wendy?
[5:43] Speaker 5: Nothing personal? It's just a friend. It's something that a
[5:46] Speaker 5: friend whilay low?
[5:48] Speaker 3: Why are you laying low?
[5:49] Speaker 2: Why are you sending her flowers?
[5:52] Speaker 5: Because I can tell you were getting close to me
[5:54] Speaker 5: finding out ahead a friend and you can't handle that.
[5:56] Speaker 5: You can't handle the fact that I have friends, and
[5:58] Speaker 5: then I have female friends that that my needs as
[6:01] Speaker 5: friends because you and I haven't been friends for a
[6:03] Speaker 5: really long time. Well you can't handle that.
[6:05] Speaker 2: Well, what needs.
[6:08] Speaker 5: Companionship? Friendship? Doing? Doing helping somebody without you know, something
[6:13] Speaker 5: nagging or bickering at you the entire time that you're
[6:15] Speaker 5: not doing it.
[6:16] Speaker 2: White.
[6:16] Speaker 1: You know what, I don't even want to continue this anymore.
[6:18] Speaker 1: I can tell how distraught you are, Alison. Tom, You're
[6:21] Speaker 1: just gonna stick with your story that you're fixing her
[6:24] Speaker 1: pipes or her plumbing and it's just a friend. But I, Alison,
[6:29] Speaker 1: I think I think you've heard enough. I think we've
[6:31] Speaker 1: heard enough. I'm going to just put leave you on
[6:34] Speaker 1: hold for a second, Alison, because we do offer couples counseling,
[6:37] Speaker 1: and we pay for it. So if it turns out
[6:39] Speaker 1: that you want counseling or you guys want to go together,
[6:42] Speaker 1: we're going to pay for it. But I think you
[6:43] Speaker 1: have your I think you have enough answers, Allison.
[6:46] Speaker 2: What do you think?
[6:48] Speaker 5: I think that he needs to leave my house.
[6:51] Speaker 3: You need to get out of my house.
[6:54] Speaker 5: Tom, Okay, and you get.
[6:56] Speaker 3: Your stuff and you and you leave my house or
[6:59] Speaker 3: I'm going to have your arrested. Okay, that's it. I
[7:03] Speaker 3: need your stuff out by the lawn by noon, and
[7:06] Speaker 3: that's it. I don't want anything to do with you.
[7:10] Speaker 2: I'm done, she's done.
[7:11] Speaker 1: I'm putting here I, Allison. I want you to hold
[7:14] Speaker 1: on okay because I want to help you out. We'll
[7:15] Speaker 1: talk off the air. Alison hold On

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