Jeremy It is!! I’m 6 months pregnant and I’m convinced my baby knows their voices because I listen to them every night. She kicks every time I put them on
Pertaining to that annoying voicemail message of going "Hello? ...... Just kidding I'm not home" I did a way worse version of that on my cell phone in high school. When you called and it went to voice mail, my message would say "Hi, sorry one sec I'm in the middle of something really important. Can you hold on just one sec? Thanks..." Then I just left the phone in my pocket for as long as they let you record a message (like 1 minute or so) then finally said "Okay, I'm back, and also not available. Leave a message." Lmao so annoying.
Lmao. I did one with my ex best friend. I think back and still cringe. It was pretty bad. I remember looking around the internet for a fun 2 person answering machine/voice mail lol. It went something like, “as you can see we’re not at home *uh-huh* if not we would’ve got the phone *uh-huh* so leave your message at the beep *beep beep beep beep beep beep beep* *uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh* 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I wanna go back and slap myself. 🤷🏻♀️ I was just a kid though so I let it slide lmao.
Ha!!! I am a 411 operator actually. We are very cut and dry, that was amazingly accurate. We do give addresses, and older people confuse us with 911 and we connect them to emergency services.
i work as a switchboard operator at a hospital in my city, and a BIG part of my job is actually paging doctors! we page their beepers with an extension to another phone in the hospital, so as soon as they get to a phone, they have to call that extension to see who needed them and for what purpose. it feels really cool to conduct pages tbh, because all of my friends (we're all about 21-25) were so delightfully shocked that people still used pagers. like, they're doctors. they need immediate contacts. EDIT/ADDITION: as an operator, we aren't allowed to hold personal conversations with callers, even if they're employees of the hospital! we also aren't allowed to give out our names - we have operator numbers, actually. that 411 operator was super duper nice to you guys - it must've been real slow,. haha. i work 3rd shift only so i can sometimes hold short conversations with people, but it's hard sometimes! just thought i'd add that in case rhett or link or uh anyone sees this, lol.
That's really cool. I totally thought that like a nurse or doctor had to personally page the other person. But having someone else do it is much more time efficient. especially in big hospitals where there are so many pager numbers.
@@XDonlyone i think some of them can do it on their own! but like the operators have access to all of the information in the hospital, basically - just not patient charts or appointments. but we have all the pager numbers and phone numbers, home numbers, etc. and yeah, it's probably way more efficient for like, me to punch in the pager and extension, since i have so many of them accidentally memorised after almost a year of working at this job!
I'm a hospital switchboard operator too! They use a lot of old tech around here, as back ups. I even got to go into the phone line rooms and see the thousands of cables, and switched some of them. I think I had a point when I started writing this. Just so surprised to find a fellow operator here. Loo
JOHN JONES oh wow that’s so cool! I’ve literally never met anyone else who does switchboard operator stuff :D Our tech is also really old too, but I’ve never seen any tech THAT old - that’s so cool!
When my friends and I were at the movies or rolling rink, we'd call our parents collect and instead of saying our name, we'd say, "come get us" to avoid charges! Lol
I was born in 93 and I still remember calling 411 to get movie times and having to wait until the movie you wanted to see you would come by for the automated system and try to write it down and then maybe you'd have to call again cuz you missed it. Good times lol
I took my kiddo to an antique shop the other day and we found an old (circa 1980's) rotary phone. It was so interesting watching him try to figure it out. There is something so therapuetic about a rotary phone.
I want to be clear this is not an insult you guys have such soothing voices that it helps me get to sleep I have a severe anxiety disorder we're a lot of nights I am unable to get proper sleep but I'm pleased to find this longer video channel where I can kick back and relax or turn on the podcast and listen until I drift away into a peaceful rest
The spiral cord always got tangled up with itself. With the invention of the cordless, there was no more slamming the phone on someone. You guys really brought up memories, got me thinking of what numbers I still remember.
This makes me feel so old. Reminiscing about a time without cellphones is the equivalent of our parents remembering a time without a TV. It's amazing to think about how the level of technology has gone from life without electricity to how things are today. Thinking about everything that's been invented and created from 1879 until 2019 is really hard to get your head around.
Oh my gosh, growing up I was taught to answer the house phone by saying “[our last name] residence, Karla speaking.” I completely forgot about that being a thing until Rhett brought it up.
I have been one happy ass Ear Biscuiteer since you guys dedicated a channel to the podcast. Seriously, a wonderful idea. I love GMM and LTAT, but I’m so excited that Ear Biscuits has its own place to live on YT.
Surprised Rhett the movie connoisseur has never seen a teen horror flick where the parents put the list of contacts on the fridge for the sitter, including the restaurant number for emergencies. I feel like I've seen that in lots of show and movies.
I'm a 90's kid. I became really good and telling when someone else picked up a phone and listened to me. My buddy and I had a system where we would press a button when we thought someone was listening so we would clean up our converstation...not that a 10 year old had much dirt on him
As an adult now, I feel bad for our parents who had to just wait for us to get home with no way of contacting us when we were out. They waited at home for hours often worrying, especially if we were late getting home. Cell phones have given many parents the chance to get some peace of mind when their teens are out. Also, if you watch old horror movies, you realize if they just had a cell phone, the plot of the movie would not exist.
@@katc2040 that’s the balence it’s ok to keep up and know where they are like a simple are you ok call when it’s later is great it’s just some people can’t not take advantage of power they are given
It's fascinating to watch old movies, and they'll say something like, "I can't go with you today. I'm expecting an important call." It used to be a thing. I remember it being a thing, but it seems so long ago.
Cell service doesn't go through thicker cement and steel walls very well. So combine a older buildings like a grocery store with 25% of the building having industrial refrigerator/freezers then the signal strength is gonna weaken.
To this day, I go out of my way to make sure I have my parent's and partner's mobile numbers memorised. Call me paranoid, but I think it's just plain 'ol sensible to have at least one or two family members' numbers memorised in case something happens to your phone when you're out and about.
Yep also memorize my health card, drivers license, passport and social insurance number just in case. In Ontario a cop wasn't able to give me a ticket for forgetting my wallet because I had my license # off memory, he instead said I need to prove its me and bring that same number later in the day to the police station, saved me a 200$ ticket and 3 points on my license hahahah
This was super interesting to listen to, I've only started to listen to Ear Biscuits recently so maybe you guys have done this many times before but you guys should definitely talk about old technologies/practices like you did here.
I remember using the phone (which was in our dining room) stretching the cord all the way down the hall to my bedroom. Everyone had to duck under the cord.
I'm 61..grew up with a landline..a rotary dial phone connected to the wall in the kitchen by a 5 foot long cord. Long distance calls(outside of your area code) were more expensive and often you needed to go through the "operator" to be connected. In some old movies, they are called 'trunk calls'. If we were to contact our relative to let them know that we got home safely..and it was long distance... We would go through the operator..call 'Grandma'(or whomever) and ask for 'yourself'. She would say, "There's no one here by that name" and hang up..but knew that it was us and that we got home safely.
First thing. I watch the gmm for past maybe 4 years. But I fought up with all the videos already. And I live in New York City but right now working In Tennessee. I got a lot of painting to do. So I play ear biscuits. And it’s great. I appreciate it
This was a great episode. It’s wild that kids now don’t know how to use a regular old landline. I’m only 24 and I grew up with landline phones... interesting how much time changes things. It’s actually also crazy that most people just don’t even like phone calls anymore in general. My parents will call me about something brief and I’m like... you coulda just texted me!
We had a corded phone (rotary) with a 50ft cable from the receiver to the base and a 50ft cable from the base to the wall. We were rock stars in my neighborhood. When we got a cordless phone that reached three blocks away, we were revered. LOL!
In line with the First Federal number thing, I found out that here in Bulgaria, we still have a number for telling you the exact time (no temperature info), but what's more fascinating is that there were a bunch of other numbers to dial for all kinds of things in the past. The best one, I think, was a number for fairy tales being told! You could dial 177 at any time of day, child or adult, it doesn't matter, and you would be listening to fairy tales/bedtime stories being narrated to you in prerecorded voices. When one tale ended, another would begin. I find this so endearing, and I'm so sad that it's gone!
I have been having connective issues, and the icing on the cake was when i had to call 911 and dispatch couldnt hear me because of said issues....and there is nothing that appears to be wrong....after 20 years with my carrier i have never had these issues... 😤
I work as a Pharmacy Technician in a hospital and we still use pagers every day! Doctors, Pharmacists, Techs, we all still use them to get in contact throughout the hospital! Some of my friends/family have never seen one before.
This is somewhat related because it was when cellphones were just becoming a regular commodity among the populace. It reminded me of when people would be wearing headphones while on their cellphones having a conversation out in public, and it taking a minute for me to realize that they weren't crazy. Simply because at the time no one assumed that those crazy people talking to themselves may be wearing headphones that was connected to a cellphone, LoL. Then afterwards when I'd see those folk I'd always check to see if they were wearing headphones, before determining theyre nuts. P.S. One that is more on topic is the tone you'd hear on dial up if you picked up the home phone, and someone was on the internet.
Oh gosh, the phone conversation! I am from Australia and I swear my local grocery store is underground! I mean, I walk in there and immediately have no signal! Grrr!
Someone needs to invest in a bunch of pay phone est stop pull-offs on Rte. 118 between Alpine - Terlingua TX. That's 80+ miles with ZERO cell service and not a single rest stop for as far as the eye can see.
First time listening... This is great to listen to at night while going to bed. My official replacement for A Prairie Home Companion... btw- listening from VA by way of Little Washington, North Carolina 😉
Aw, man. This took me way back. I remember when my stepdad got his first cell phone in the mid- 90s. Much like the pager, you knew a man was important if he had a holster on his belt that contained a cell phone. He still has the same number today.
As a kid I'd get the bubble gum beepers in the early 90s. I feel this nostalgia all around. Pay phones also had free 800 number calling so they were great for Jenny craig prank calls. You can use *67 even on cell phones to come up restricted
My dad is a doctor and he used to have one of those pagers for when he was on call and delivering babies. One time at my gymnastics practice he dropped it into this giant foam pit and he had to “swim” all the way to the bottom to try and find it.
In the dial-up internet phase of my life I would call the movie theater to listen to a recording of the movie times, and wait for the movie to be listed, miss it, and call back again. XD
the cell signal is indeed killed by the building itself, not through any malice. the structure of a large big box store like a grocery store, is often comprised of more metal because of the large open space inside. a building with a big metal roof and metal in the walls basically creates a weak Faraday cage, severely limiting any radio signals trying to get into the building
#earbisquits. The good ol' days- parents handed you change for the payphone, which there was one on every street corner, in every shop, and the hallways of school. Now payphones are a thing of the past. Kids ask, "What is a payphone?" Wow! feel so old. To be honest, will not leave the house without my smartphone.
Grocery stores don’t have built in phone blocker intentionally. They’re just big metal buildings. But metal buildings act like Faraday cages. The architecture of the building is blocking your signal, not some device they put in it.
I think I remember calling 637-1234 to get either weather or exact time but they were separated and think other # was like 731-1234 but I definitely strongly remember the -1234 part of it.... Crazy going from 80's to the 2010's of today, can only imagine what it's like for people in their 90's and 100's with good head on shoulders still with all the changes that they've been through from the 20's to today is really nuts, like a different world
i remember using the landline for an actual house phone unlike today where i really just use it for the NBN (wi-fi) these days... also had an answering machine back in the day - not that i knew how to use it, vcr, tape player, all the stuff
The grocery store blocking actually got me thinking, so I looked online (ironic) and apparently there is a thing called Faraday Cage. Rhett you should look this up because I think it would interest you! Essentially Link was right; Most of those types of stores are in big metal framed buildings. An interesting property of conductors (such as metal) is that an electromagnetic charge will tend to flow along the outside of the conductor rather than penetrate into or through it. The result is that a metal box or cage can effectively block all electromagnetic signals from outside, and is often referred to as a Faraday Cage. In this case the building does not have the ability to completely block the cell signal, but probably has enough impact to degrade an already crappy signal into nothing. (I copy pasted)
My local phone company had this free service where you could phone, input a certain number and get a joke of the day, or hear weather info, and other stuff. If we were home alone, my brother would always phone this service. It was free, and we thought it was great fun.
As a sales rep, I used pay phones all day long back in the day. Had to call in to get my customers voice mail messages. Got $20 in quarters every Monday and kept alcohol swabs in my car to clean the phones.
im 30.. got my first phone in 9th grade going on to 10th around 13-14 years old.. and i would say that theres a difference between to days "Smart phones" and "cell phones/mobile phones" when i was in high school.. we only used them to text or call mostly..browsing the web was annoying at best or sometimes not even possible..when i was 18 /19 in 2007 when the first iPhone came out i would say thats when smart phones truly changes and were semi capable of what they are capable of today.. so cell phones my life was pretty much the same..but now with smart phones life is definitely different..sometimes i hate it and sometimes i love it..we have all the information of the world in the palm of our fucking hands!!! lol
I remember having to press the buttons 3 times to get a certain letter before those slide keyboards came out! Haha Oh my gosh I think it all moved too fast.. even now I have a galaxy s7, and they have like galaxy 22s now I think. I'm just moving slow as much as possible lol
I think the thickness of the masonry has something to do with having a weaker signal. I've noticed grocery stores tend to be built with concrete blocks. Office buildings usually aren't.
When I babysat, it was between 1995-1998. One job like, mom was at work, so I could call her work if there was an emergency. Never happened. Second set of kids, mom and dad were going on date night. They never told me where they were going except for the first time. Plus, the kids liked me so much, when parents were leaving and trying to say bye, they were like, yeah, bye...Carolyn! can we show you what I got! Lol
It’s funny you guys talked about corded phones this week...we literally were cleaning out our pantry to remodel and found a picture of my wife when she was 16, talking on a corded phone, at MBNA America’s mountain in Belfast ME. 😆 MBNA was a credit card/financial institution back in the 90’s that went out of business. They used to make the Sierra Club and L.L Bean credit cards lol
It is so funny this was the topic for Ear Biscuits this week. I had a similar conversation with my boss a few weeks back, when I left my phone at my desk during lunch. We joked on how I would be able to survive without my phone for another 20 minutes lol 🤣 spoiler I wasn't able to 😂 But it lead to a conversation about landlines and how as a teenager, in the mid/late 90s, my house has 6 different landlines coming into our house. Both my parents had businesses in the house, so both need a line for talking and a line for fax/internet dial up. Then we had the main house line and my personal line/internet dial up. Those are days telephone companies made bank. Lol 😂😂😂
I remember when I was growing up there was a huge time period when we had to exclusively use payphones!! Even when I was older I was too broke to have a phone for some time.Really fun when I had jury duty and had to call in every day for a month. It was funny too cause my jury# was 007. So here I would be at a payphone at gas station saying,"This is 007" to acknowledge I listened to the message and got my assignment.Oh the looks I would get 😂😂.On a sidenote I also remember the evolution of mobile phones!!!! Good times.Anyone else have a rotary phone back in the day?
My dad who runs his own business, still uses a rotary phone...one that he has been RENTING from Bell for 30+ years... He probably has given them thousands of $ to rent it...sad.
A thought on phone service and grocery stores: So many provide free wifi you can connect to. What if they want you to use their wifi so they can monitor you more? They want to see exactly what kind of recipe Rhett is trying to look up to know what the people are wanting
Ear Biscuits is sleeping magic
Every day!!!
Asmr that I don’t want to fall asleep to!
I fall asleep all the time listening to 👂 biscuits
Jeremy It is!! I’m 6 months pregnant and I’m convinced my baby knows their voices because I listen to them every night. She kicks every time I put them on
Big facts
Pertaining to that annoying voicemail message of going "Hello? ...... Just kidding I'm not home" I did a way worse version of that on my cell phone in high school. When you called and it went to voice mail, my message would say "Hi, sorry one sec I'm in the middle of something really important. Can you hold on just one sec? Thanks..." Then I just left the phone in my pocket for as long as they let you record a message (like 1 minute or so) then finally said "Okay, I'm back, and also not available. Leave a message." Lmao so annoying.
That's evil. I love it.
You are true Chaotic Evil
Lmao. I did one with my ex best friend. I think back and still cringe. It was pretty bad. I remember looking around the internet for a fun 2 person answering machine/voice mail lol. It went something like, “as you can see we’re not at home *uh-huh* if not we would’ve got the phone *uh-huh* so leave your message at the beep *beep beep beep beep beep beep beep* *uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh*
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I wanna go back and slap myself. 🤷🏻♀️ I was just a kid though so I let it slide lmao.
This is exactly what I recorded on my house phone for a voicemail hahaha
My 64 yr old dad still does that, but on accident, because he pauses for so long, thinking of what to say next. Lol!
"did it happen naturally or did you prompt it like a Youth Pastor?"
this is so specific but so accurate. i'm using that
Ha totally! Love this comment
Ha!!! I am a 411 operator actually. We are very cut and dry, that was amazingly accurate. We do give addresses, and older people confuse us with 911 and we connect them to emergency services.
i work as a switchboard operator at a hospital in my city, and a BIG part of my job is actually paging doctors! we page their beepers with an extension to another phone in the hospital, so as soon as they get to a phone, they have to call that extension to see who needed them and for what purpose. it feels really cool to conduct pages tbh, because all of my friends (we're all about 21-25) were so delightfully shocked that people still used pagers. like, they're doctors. they need immediate contacts.
EDIT/ADDITION: as an operator, we aren't allowed to hold personal conversations with callers, even if they're employees of the hospital! we also aren't allowed to give out our names - we have operator numbers, actually. that 411 operator was super duper nice to you guys - it must've been real slow,. haha. i work 3rd shift only so i can sometimes hold short conversations with people, but it's hard sometimes! just thought i'd add that in case rhett or link or uh anyone sees this, lol.
That's really cool. I totally thought that like a nurse or doctor had to personally page the other person. But having someone else do it is much more time efficient. especially in big hospitals where there are so many pager numbers.
@@XDonlyone i think some of them can do it on their own! but like the operators have access to all of the information in the hospital, basically - just not patient charts or appointments. but we have all the pager numbers and phone numbers, home numbers, etc. and yeah, it's probably way more efficient for like, me to punch in the pager and extension, since i have so many of them accidentally memorised after almost a year of working at this job!
I'm a hospital switchboard operator too! They use a lot of old tech around here, as back ups. I even got to go into the phone line rooms and see the thousands of cables, and switched some of them. I think I had a point when I started writing this. Just so surprised to find a fellow operator here. Loo
JOHN JONES oh wow that’s so cool! I’ve literally never met anyone else who does switchboard operator stuff :D Our tech is also really old too, but I’ve never seen any tech THAT old - that’s so cool!
That poor 411 Supervisor, you could hear defeat in her voice, actually legitimately felt for her
"what movies have you seen lately?"
"I have to go." lol classic Link move
The 411 lady seems like she hates her life.
That is what I was thinking , she sounded sad about her situation. 20 plus years as a 411 operator 😞
That's so funny, because my 711 lady hates her job
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Chrissie Dvorak wouldn’t you if you worked at 411 too. Can’t be too much fun. Unless they have office olympics
Well if someone interrupted your work day to ask stupid questions about movies you'd sound pretty annoyed too.
I've been scrunchied
-Link 2019
human ownership is slavery
When my friends and I were at the movies or rolling rink, we'd call our parents collect and instead of saying our name, we'd say, "come get us" to avoid charges! Lol
What was it like to just poop? Y'all KNOW your read the CRAP out of all the backs of your shampoo bottles.
Shampoo. Deodorant. Basically anything within arms reach.
I still do that. I don't sh*t with my phone in my hand. I don't even bring my phone into my bathroom
i don't understand how people spend that much time pooping.. ya'll need more fiber
@@audreymai2773 nasty
@@rutab5094 its not that you're pooping for 5 minutes it's just that you get bored and want something to do while sitting there
Ear biscuits really just gets me through the week
Mya B same same same.
Gets me through the first two hours of work if im lucky. Today its only an hour.
*67 was the prank call number. I've used it many times
Edit: oh ha they found it
I was born in 93 and I still remember calling 411 to get movie times and having to wait until the movie you wanted to see you would come by for the automated system and try to write it down and then maybe you'd have to call again cuz you missed it. Good times lol
Lol the golden days I was born the same year and remember that way too well
I always felt bad when the person reading off the movies and times sounded nervous... cringey
We just called the cinema for that. 411 calls are so expensive, my parents never let me call it. :D
When you guys do teach your older children to drive please record it!! 😁
Link, sorry buddy but you definitely ruined the 411 call for Rhett lol
No doubt
Yea lol
He can't help himself from interrupting.
Lmao he so did. He couldn't help himself 🤣🤣🤣
She was about to hang up anyway
I took my kiddo to an antique shop the other day and we found an old (circa 1980's) rotary phone. It was so interesting watching him try to figure it out. There is something so therapuetic about a rotary phone.
I know things are better with cell phones, but I honestly miss the days without them.
How are things better? Cell phones and internet ruined everything.
Next time u call 411 tape links mouth. That coulda been interesting but he had to ruin it, such a link thing to do lol
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I want to be clear this is not an insult you guys have such soothing voices that it helps me get to sleep I have a severe anxiety disorder we're a lot of nights I am unable to get proper sleep but I'm pleased to find this longer video channel where I can kick back and relax or turn on the podcast and listen until I drift away into a peaceful rest
The spiral cord always got tangled up with itself. With the invention of the cordless, there was no more slamming the phone on someone. You guys really brought up memories, got me thinking of what numbers I still remember.
Can u do more of these stories of ur past, I really enjoy them
This makes me feel so old. Reminiscing about a time without cellphones is the equivalent of our parents remembering a time without a TV. It's amazing to think about how the level of technology has gone from life without electricity to how things are today. Thinking about everything that's been invented and created from 1879 until 2019 is really hard to get your head around.
Oh my gosh, growing up I was taught to answer the house phone by saying “[our last name] residence, Karla speaking.” I completely forgot about that being a thing until Rhett brought it up.
I have been one happy ass Ear Biscuiteer since you guys dedicated a channel to the podcast. Seriously, a wonderful idea. I love GMM and LTAT, but I’m so excited that Ear Biscuits has its own place to live on YT.
Surprised Rhett the movie connoisseur has never seen a teen horror flick where the parents put the list of contacts on the fridge for the sitter, including the restaurant number for emergencies. I feel like I've seen that in lots of show and movies.
Nobody wanted to beep me
-Rhett 2019
My therapist gave me homework to sit alone for 1 hour with my emotions. No phone, no distractions. Life-changing.
I'm a 90's kid. I became really good and telling when someone else picked up a phone and listened to me. My buddy and I had a system where we would press a button when we thought someone was listening so we would clean up our converstation...not that a 10 year old had much dirt on him
As an adult now, I feel bad for our parents who had to just wait for us to get home with no way of contacting us when we were out. They waited at home for hours often worrying, especially if we were late getting home. Cell phones have given many parents the chance to get some peace of mind when their teens are out. Also, if you watch old horror movies, you realize if they just had a cell phone, the plot of the movie would not exist.
Alot of those parents also keep too close of an eye on their kids
No the plot would still exist no cell signal
@@katc2040 that’s the balence it’s ok to keep up and know where they are like a simple are you ok call when it’s later is great it’s just some people can’t not take advantage of power they are given
Having to get off the internet to make a phone call
It's funny, because now we often use our phones to access the internet, and have to leave the browser to answer calls. Kind of came full circle.
It wasn't so bad really. People are now codependent.
It's fascinating to watch old movies, and they'll say something like, "I can't go with you today. I'm expecting an important call." It used to be a thing. I remember it being a thing, but it seems so long ago.
I know you said it probably as a joke, but mythical scrunchies is a good idea!!!❤️
Cell service doesn't go through thicker cement and steel walls very well. So combine a older buildings like a grocery store with 25% of the building having industrial refrigerator/freezers then the signal strength is gonna weaken.
To this day, I go out of my way to make sure I have my parent's and partner's mobile numbers memorised. Call me paranoid, but I think it's just plain 'ol sensible to have at least one or two family members' numbers memorised in case something happens to your phone when you're out and about.
It is scary how dependent people have become!
Yep also memorize my health card, drivers license, passport and social insurance number just in case. In Ontario a cop wasn't able to give me a ticket for forgetting my wallet because I had my license # off memory, he instead said I need to prove its me and bring that same number later in the day to the police station, saved me a 200$ ticket and 3 points on my license hahahah
This was super interesting to listen to, I've only started to listen to Ear Biscuits recently so maybe you guys have done this many times before but you guys should definitely talk about old technologies/practices like you did here.
Loving the recommendations at the end. Great episode as usual~
I remember using the phone (which was in our dining room) stretching the cord all the way down the hall to my bedroom. Everyone had to duck under the cord.
I'm 61..grew up with a landline..a rotary dial phone connected to the wall in the kitchen by a 5 foot long cord. Long distance calls(outside of your area code) were more expensive and often you needed to go through the "operator" to be connected. In some old movies, they are called 'trunk calls'. If we were to contact our relative to let them know that we got home safely..and it was long distance... We would go through the operator..call 'Grandma'(or whomever) and ask for 'yourself'. She would say, "There's no one here by that name" and hang up..but knew that it was us and that we got home safely.
Thank you for helping out Smosh!!! You guys are awesome!!!
First thing. I watch the gmm for past maybe 4 years. But I fought up with all the videos already. And I live in New York City but right now working In Tennessee. I got a lot of painting to do. So I play ear biscuits. And it’s great. I appreciate it
I love that Link is so familiar with hip hop and old school rap, and mentioned ATCQ and The Low End Theory in this 😃 at 19:00
This was a great episode. It’s wild that kids now don’t know how to use a regular old landline. I’m only 24 and I grew up with landline phones... interesting how much time changes things. It’s actually also crazy that most people just don’t even like phone calls anymore in general. My parents will call me about something brief and I’m like... you coulda just texted me!
I feel so awkward when they talk on the phone with someone lmao idk why 😅
They block the signal in stores so you dont go online and check prices at other stores.
Omg
That's what I was thinking
Not all stores. Definitely not in Walmart.
Calling mom collect on a payphone to get a ride home from the pool...good times
I cant poop in the morning unless im watching gmm! You have become apart of my daily routine!
I loved how happy Rhett was that he remembered Link's old phone numbers 😂
When we got a cordless phone, we would walk down the street to see how far we could go before we lost the signal.
Yes!!😂
We had a corded phone (rotary) with a 50ft cable from the receiver to the base and a 50ft cable from the base to the wall. We were rock stars in my neighborhood. When we got a cordless phone that reached three blocks away, we were revered. LOL!
In line with the First Federal number thing, I found out that here in Bulgaria, we still have a number for telling you the exact time (no temperature info), but what's more fascinating is that there were a bunch of other numbers to dial for all kinds of things in the past.
The best one, I think, was a number for fairy tales being told! You could dial 177 at any time of day, child or adult, it doesn't matter, and you would be listening to fairy tales/bedtime stories being narrated to you in prerecorded voices. When one tale ended, another would begin. I find this so endearing, and I'm so sad that it's gone!
I have been having connective issues, and the icing on the cake was when i had to call 911 and dispatch couldnt hear me because of said issues....and there is nothing that appears to be wrong....after 20 years with my carrier i have never had these issues... 😤
*67
I work as a Pharmacy Technician in a hospital and we still use pagers every day! Doctors, Pharmacists, Techs, we all still use them to get in contact throughout the hospital! Some of my friends/family have never seen one before.
This is somewhat related because it was when cellphones were just becoming a regular commodity among the populace. It reminded me of when people would be wearing headphones while on their cellphones having a conversation out in public, and it taking a minute for me to realize that they weren't crazy. Simply because at the time no one assumed that those crazy people talking to themselves may be wearing headphones that was connected to a cellphone, LoL. Then afterwards when I'd see those folk I'd always check to see if they were wearing headphones, before determining theyre nuts.
P.S. One that is more on topic is the tone you'd hear on dial up if you picked up the home phone, and someone was on the internet.
Oh gosh, the phone conversation! I am from Australia and I swear my local grocery store is underground! I mean, I walk in there and immediately have no signal! Grrr!
Charlie Daniel's Band knows what's up. Saw him with Skynyrd this summer and he can really put on a show.
Elizabeth Dollinger --- I envy you. Would love to see both of them
Someone needs to invest in a bunch of pay phone
est stop pull-offs on Rte. 118 between Alpine - Terlingua TX. That's 80+ miles with ZERO cell service and not a single rest stop for as far as the eye can see.
First time listening... This is great to listen to at night while going to bed. My official replacement for A Prairie Home Companion... btw- listening from VA by way of Little Washington, North Carolina 😉
Aw, man. This took me way back. I remember when my stepdad got his first cell phone in the mid- 90s. Much like the pager, you knew a man was important if he had a holster on his belt that contained a cell phone. He still has the same number today.
Even though I listen to this on Spotify, I click the vids just to leave a like haha
As a kid I'd get the bubble gum beepers in the early 90s. I feel this nostalgia all around. Pay phones also had free 800 number calling so they were great for Jenny craig prank calls. You can use *67 even on cell phones to come up restricted
Mom's address book was our rolodex. Felt so grown up when I got my own in junior high.
Also, *speed dial
I forgot to listen to this podcast at work.. oops. I’ll listen to it this week. I didn’t even realize what time it was until I saw this upload lol
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Same
Except the work part,
I don't have a job
What is the day that ear biscuit uploaded as podcast?
@@xydoit2024 they upload every Sunday
being on the phone when someone tried to connect to dial up internet! AHHHH MY EAR!!!!
My dad is a doctor and he used to have one of those pagers for when he was on call and delivering babies. One time at my gymnastics practice he dropped it into this giant foam pit and he had to “swim” all the way to the bottom to try and find it.
In the dial-up internet phase of my life I would call the movie theater to listen to a recording of the movie times, and wait for the movie to be listed, miss it, and call back again. XD
Looking forward to seeing great things with Smosh!!
"How much longer are you gonna be on the phone, I need to use the internet."
the cell signal is indeed killed by the building itself, not through any malice. the structure of a large big box store like a grocery store, is often comprised of more metal because of the large open space inside. a building with a big metal roof and metal in the walls basically creates a weak Faraday cage, severely limiting any radio signals trying to get into the building
#earbisquits. The good ol' days- parents handed you change for the payphone, which there was one on every street corner, in every shop, and the hallways of school. Now payphones are a thing of the past. Kids ask, "What is a payphone?" Wow! feel so old. To be honest, will not leave the house without my smartphone.
I remember calling the movie theater to find out what movies and times they were playing! So crazy, I’ve forgotten about that.
I feel old...damn you, Nostalgia!
That Charlie Daniels song is beautiful. Thank you, Link, for introducing us to such an amazing music time after time
Grocery stores don’t have built in phone blocker intentionally. They’re just big metal buildings. But metal buildings act like Faraday cages. The architecture of the building is blocking your signal, not some device they put in it.
Whoever made the close captions are a God
I think I remember calling 637-1234 to get either weather or exact time but they were separated and think other # was like 731-1234 but I definitely strongly remember the -1234 part of it.... Crazy going from 80's to the 2010's of today, can only imagine what it's like for people in their 90's and 100's with good head on shoulders still with all the changes that they've been through from the 20's to today is really nuts, like a different world
I'm a teen, and my friends and I actually get mad at the ones who didn't set up their voicemail, and leave messages when they don't pick up.
Lmao wtf
Most voicemails require passwords and I always forget mine so I never check it
I'm in my late 50s and my folks told our sitter where they were going and usually left a number.
i remember using the landline for an actual house phone unlike today where i really just use it for the NBN (wi-fi) these days... also had an answering machine back in the day - not that i knew how to use it, vcr, tape player, all the stuff
The grocery store blocking actually got me thinking, so I looked online (ironic) and apparently there is a thing called Faraday Cage. Rhett you should look this up because I think it would interest you!
Essentially Link was right; Most of those types of stores are in big metal framed buildings. An interesting property of conductors (such as metal) is that an electromagnetic charge will tend to flow along the outside of the conductor rather than penetrate into or through it. The result is that a metal box or cage can effectively block all electromagnetic signals from outside, and is often referred to as a Faraday Cage.
In this case the building does not have the ability to completely block the cell signal, but probably has enough impact to degrade an already crappy signal into nothing.
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Thank you for this podcast 😫❤️
My local phone company had this free service where you could phone, input a certain number and get a joke of the day, or hear weather info, and other stuff. If we were home alone, my brother would always phone this service. It was free, and we thought it was great fun.
When we got internet- we had to wait for mom to go to bed so she wouldn’t need the phone line open since it was dial up
As a sales rep, I used pay phones all day long back in the day. Had to call in to get my customers voice mail messages. Got $20 in quarters every Monday and kept alcohol swabs in my car to clean the phones.
im 30.. got my first phone in 9th grade going on to 10th around 13-14 years old.. and i would say that theres a difference between to days "Smart phones" and "cell phones/mobile phones" when i was in high school.. we only used them to text or call mostly..browsing the web was annoying at best or sometimes not even possible..when i was 18 /19 in 2007 when the first iPhone came out i would say thats when smart phones truly changes and were semi capable of what they are capable of today.. so cell phones my life was pretty much the same..but now with smart phones life is definitely different..sometimes i hate it and sometimes i love it..we have all the information of the world in the palm of our fucking hands!!! lol
I remember having to press the buttons 3 times to get a certain letter before those slide keyboards came out! Haha Oh my gosh I think it all moved too fast.. even now I have a galaxy s7, and they have like galaxy 22s now I think. I'm just moving slow as much as possible lol
I think the thickness of the masonry has something to do with having a weaker signal. I've noticed grocery stores tend to be built with concrete blocks. Office buildings usually aren't.
These guys really are best friends. Great talk :)
I don't like twitter. But in the past i don't like FB. And i didn't liked Instagram.
RUclips was here to stay for me.
YT is the only social media I use.
Obsolete is a fantastic book and well worth a read. It’s actually one of my favorite books.
When I babysat, it was between 1995-1998. One job like, mom was at work, so I could call her work if there was an emergency. Never happened. Second set of kids, mom and dad were going on date night. They never told me where they were going except for the first time. Plus, the kids liked me so much, when parents were leaving and trying to say bye, they were like, yeah, bye...Carolyn! can we show you what I got! Lol
It’s funny you guys talked about corded phones this week...we literally were cleaning out our pantry to remodel and found a picture of my wife when she was 16, talking on a corded phone, at MBNA America’s mountain in Belfast ME. 😆 MBNA was a credit card/financial institution back in the 90’s that went out of business. They used to make the Sierra Club and L.L Bean credit cards lol
It is so funny this was the topic for Ear Biscuits this week. I had a similar conversation with my boss a few weeks back, when I left my phone at my desk during lunch.
We joked on how I would be able to survive without my phone for another 20 minutes lol 🤣 spoiler I wasn't able to 😂
But it lead to a conversation about landlines and how as a teenager, in the mid/late 90s, my house has 6 different landlines coming into our house. Both my parents had businesses in the house, so both need a line for talking and a line for fax/internet dial up. Then we had the main house line and my personal line/internet dial up.
Those are days telephone companies made bank. Lol 😂😂😂
YAY!!!! Podcast whilst homeworking
I remember when I was growing up there was a huge time period when we had to exclusively use payphones!! Even when I was older I was too broke to have a phone for some time.Really fun when I had jury duty and had to call in every day for a month. It was funny too cause my jury# was 007. So here I would be at a payphone at gas station saying,"This is 007" to acknowledge I listened to the message and got my assignment.Oh the looks I would get 😂😂.On a sidenote I also remember the evolution of mobile phones!!!! Good times.Anyone else have a rotary phone back in the day?
I used a rotary phone quite a bit when I was younger. How far away was the payphone from your house when you had to check in for jury duty?
@@aftrthejake6843 Not too far..probably 5 blocks away.
Loved the old rotary phones...until technology began with the press said number to reach whoever you were calling. You had to wait on the line.
@@HowDoYouLikeYourCoffee And there was no so much voice mail or on hold music....
My dad who runs his own business, still uses a rotary phone...one that he has been RENTING from Bell for 30+ years... He probably has given them thousands of $ to rent it...sad.
Nostalgeous..
A thought on phone service and grocery stores: So many provide free wifi you can connect to. What if they want you to use their wifi so they can monitor you more? They want to see exactly what kind of recipe Rhett is trying to look up to know what the people are wanting
43:10 Rhett's face definitely shows he's gone into "register information" mode
Millenials would find this boring but for me, born in 1981, loves these topics!
Ear biscuits helps me survive working midnights.