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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Fresh Show. This is what's trending. So the
US Surgeon General calls loneliness a public health crisis if
you feel like you're missing up bond with people, that
you're not alone, because they've released an advisory calling attention
to isolation and the lack of connection that they're seeing
in America. He says that even before the COVID nineteen pandemic,
about half of all adults, so they were experiencing loneliness
(00:22):
every single day. He says that the Surgeon General says
that loneliness can raise the risk of premature death by
twenty six percent and social isolation by twenty nine percent.
These conditions have also been linked to increased risk of stroke,
heart disease, dementia, anxiety, depression, and self harm. America has
spent about twenty minutes a day in person with friends
in twenty twenty, which is down from about sixty minutes
(00:44):
today nearly two decades earlier. So that's a serious thing.
And I guess I don't really know what is the
what is the solution if you feel lonely? I mean,
they don't have those those party lines anymore. I saw
one on TikTok the other day. It was like from
the eighties. It was one of the commercials about it,
and this is this is before my time even, but
(01:05):
I guess, and if you, if you're old enough to
have ever done this, I would love to hear about it.
Eight five five five night one one oh three five.
But I guess back in the day, like in the eighties,
you would call a number and I guess pay and
then you'd have access to it was like a chat
room on the phone. Oh my god, and there'd be
a bunch of other people on the phone and then
you'd be like, hey, what's up. And then you try
(01:25):
and like get I guess, get one of the people
like talk to you offline and then you you know,
because a party line, Yeah, that kind that kind of thing. Yeah,
you did.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It was free though. Yeah, and we work on the
party line talking to people we had no business talking to.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Absolutely reallynger than me. So what what on earth? I
never did this? You did it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It was Yeah, it was called the party line.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Rofia.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Did you know about it?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah? Party line? Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Well,
they had various versions of it. Okay, so you call the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Number, call the number, you dial in and you would
be in a room. You can go in different rooms too,
like you mentioned, and you would talk to different people
from around the world or wherever they were. And like
some of my friends met up with these guys or
girls or yeah, it was the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I did that in my aim chat rooms, Like I
had no business to be in there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
My friends and I would be I did it, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
There were real creeps in there today.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, baby, absolutely, yeah, no, I that I did do.
But I never called any of these numbers. But just
every now and I get on TikTok, there's a feed
that will show like really old commercials or those old
like I guess you used to be able to subscribe
or go to a business and watch video like video
profiles of men and women for dating, and then like
(02:37):
so they would be like a dude being filmed in
nineteen eighty two or something in front of it like
a blue like literally not a blue screen, like a
blue background, and he would be like, hey, ladies, you know,
and they would come up with like clever like little
stuff to say to try and catch people's attention. And
I guess you'd be like that video and that video
and then they set you up with those people. But
every now and again they'll put those up on TikTok
and it's hilarious because they got like you know, eighties
(02:59):
hey air and they're trying to be all suave and stuff.
I'll have to find some audio. They're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I do remember also seeing like the phone sex commercials
late at m now for hot girls.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Call to hang up. You would I wanted to hear it,
so I like call it and then they'd be like, hi,
enter your credit card, Like you should have explained a
lot of things. Then you know that reaction. You would
try to come up with like seven digit words that
(03:33):
you could like like I would like try to like
make the ones up just to see if they existed.
So I can't think any of them, but God got it.
Try to spell it out. Well this is this will
age all of us too. But I think everybody in
this room can relate to a collect call. Like when
you when you were four mobile phones, you know, and
you didn't have a quarter or something, and there are
these things called payphones and now you can like they're
(03:55):
a big hole. Like if you go to old hair
now there's just like faded paint where there used to
be or little bays. Yeah in the building, yeah, right
right right, And and the other thing we have in
the building. They've covered up her ass trays. Have you
seen that they put like they've tried to like put
stone in, but they used to just have ass trays
in the wall where you just what, yeah, what was
(04:18):
going on? But collect? Yeah? Yeah, you would call one
hundred collect and then the moment in a little space
where you say your name, you just say the whole message,
Hey mom, come pick me up? Yes, oh yeah, so
I would. I would?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You would.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I'd be at the mall and I dial one Collect
and be like at the tone, please say your name Mom,
it's it's come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm ready to be picked up.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And then and then they would call your home, your
parents and they'd be like, you have a Collect call
from Mom, It's time to pick me up. And then
you'd be like, do you want to accept? Then they'd
be like, no, because my mom knows to come pick me.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Up, because you know you won't have to pay for
the call that was yes, says your name.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It would be like, you have a Collect call from Christopher.
If you'd like to accept, press one and then it
gets built to whoever picks the phone, but instead you'd
be like pick me up mom, and the moment and
then yeah, you go a message receipt.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And you just like wait outside, yeah, with friends to
come pick you up. That's a lot of trust, like
in the system.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know, so have you every time you left your
home in your life, Camelin, did you have a mobile phone? No?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But I definitely like I missed the payphones. But I
think there was like times that the movies maybe where
like we would pick a time when it was.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Over and my mom would pick me up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But I don't think I.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Ever used a payphone, but sounds lit. I think it
was college before it was like here's a mobile phone. Yeah. No,
I didn't like and here you go, like take this
with you, and it was big. It wasn't like brick big,
but it was still like not going in your pocket.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Really.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
The first one was a star Tech motor Star Tech phone. Yeah,
those were kind of fans. My first one, ye, lewis
good morning, Lewis still good morning?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You used the party line?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh man, we all see it. When I was young,
I remember a buddy of mine show, It's mean. It
was funny because for guys it wasn't free. You got
a couple of minutes, but if you called in and
said you were a girl, it was unlimited.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
For girls, it was I guess just like everywhere every club.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, well, free you means some dude from Kansas City.
He thinks he's gonna get hooked up and buying all
your drinks. That's what That's what free to you means
in Vegas. It's not free. The excuse me. I'm smarter
than that. I don't fall for that. Okay, so you'd
collin say you were a girl, and then you'd get
on there and not be a girl, And what was
(06:36):
the end game like? To try and get someone's number
and go out with them.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
It's for fun, But the best part would be when
you you'd find somebody that you know on there. I
remember I showed up at work and this girl was like,
did I talk to you on the party line? I
was like, yeah, we were bored and drunk or being
a stupid old call. Sometimes. My buddy used to meet
girls on it all the time, take them out, and
then you know, I'd be like they always ghost them.
(07:03):
He would ever call them back, and I'm like, oh
it kind of could you lie on the party?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You said your name was Louisa, Louisa. There you go,
Hey man, have a great day. Thanks for listening. I
appreciate you. Yeah, those were the days. I guess a
lot of that predated even me. But but every now
and again on TikTok you'll see these old commercials and
be like, whoa
It's the Fresh Show. This is what's trending. So the
US Surgeon General calls loneliness a public health crisis if
you feel like you're missing up bond with people, that
you're not alone, because they've released an advisory calling attention
to isolation and the lack of connection that they're seeing
in America. He says that even before the COVID nineteen pandemic,
about half of all adults, so they were experiencing loneliness
(00:22):
every single day. He says that the Surgeon General says
that loneliness can raise the risk of premature death by
twenty six percent and social isolation by twenty nine percent.
These conditions have also been linked to increased risk of stroke,
heart disease, dementia, anxiety, depression, and self harm. America has
spent about twenty minutes a day in person with friends
in twenty twenty, which is down from about sixty minutes
(00:44):
today nearly two decades earlier. So that's a serious thing.
And I guess I don't really know what is the
what is the solution if you feel lonely? I mean,
they don't have those those party lines anymore. I saw
one on TikTok the other day. It was like from
the eighties. It was one of the commercials about it,
and this is this is before my time even, but
(01:05):
I guess, and if you, if you're old enough to
have ever done this, I would love to hear about it.
Eight five five five night one one oh three five.
But I guess back in the day, like in the eighties,
you would call a number and I guess pay and
then you'd have access to it was like a chat
room on the phone. Oh my god, and there'd be
a bunch of other people on the phone and then
you'd be like, hey, what's up. And then you try
(01:25):
and like get I guess, get one of the people
like talk to you offline and then you you know,
because a party line, Yeah, that kind that kind of thing. Yeah,
you did.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It was free though. Yeah, and we work on the
party line talking to people we had no business talking to.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Absolutely reallynger than me. So what what on earth? I
never did this? You did it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It was Yeah, it was called the party line.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Rofia.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Did you know about it?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah? Party line? Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Well,
they had various versions of it. Okay, so you call the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Number, call the number, you dial in and you would
be in a room. You can go in different rooms too,
like you mentioned, and you would talk to different people
from around the world or wherever they were. And like
some of my friends met up with these guys or
girls or yeah, it was the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I did that in my aim chat rooms, Like I
had no business to be in there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
My friends and I would be I did it, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
There were real creeps in there today.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, baby, absolutely, yeah, no, I that I did do.
But I never called any of these numbers. But just
every now and I get on TikTok, there's a feed
that will show like really old commercials or those old
like I guess you used to be able to subscribe
or go to a business and watch video like video
profiles of men and women for dating, and then like
(02:37):
so they would be like a dude being filmed in
nineteen eighty two or something in front of it like
a blue like literally not a blue screen, like a
blue background, and he would be like, hey, ladies, you know,
and they would come up with like clever like little
stuff to say to try and catch people's attention. And
I guess you'd be like that video and that video
and then they set you up with those people. But
every now and again they'll put those up on TikTok
and it's hilarious because they got like you know, eighties
(02:59):
hey air and they're trying to be all suave and stuff.
I'll have to find some audio. They're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I do remember also seeing like the phone sex commercials
late at m now for hot girls.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Call to hang up. You would I wanted to hear it,
so I like call it and then they'd be like, hi,
enter your credit card, Like you should have explained a
lot of things. Then you know that reaction. You would
try to come up with like seven digit words that
(03:33):
you could like like I would like try to like
make the ones up just to see if they existed.
So I can't think any of them, but God got it.
Try to spell it out. Well this is this will
age all of us too. But I think everybody in
this room can relate to a collect call. Like when
you when you were four mobile phones, you know, and
you didn't have a quarter or something, and there are
these things called payphones and now you can like they're
(03:55):
a big hole. Like if you go to old hair
now there's just like faded paint where there used to
be or little bays. Yeah in the building, yeah, right
right right, And and the other thing we have in
the building. They've covered up her ass trays. Have you
seen that they put like they've tried to like put
stone in, but they used to just have ass trays
in the wall where you just what, yeah, what was
(04:18):
going on? But collect? Yeah? Yeah, you would call one
hundred collect and then the moment in a little space
where you say your name, you just say the whole message,
Hey mom, come pick me up? Yes, oh yeah, so
I would. I would?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You would.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I'd be at the mall and I dial one Collect
and be like at the tone, please say your name Mom,
it's it's come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm ready to be picked up.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And then and then they would call your home, your
parents and they'd be like, you have a Collect call
from Mom, It's time to pick me up. And then
you'd be like, do you want to accept? Then they'd
be like, no, because my mom knows to come pick me.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Up, because you know you won't have to pay for
the call that was yes, says your name.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It would be like, you have a Collect call from Christopher.
If you'd like to accept, press one and then it
gets built to whoever picks the phone, but instead you'd
be like pick me up mom, and the moment and
then yeah, you go a message receipt.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And you just like wait outside, yeah, with friends to
come pick you up. That's a lot of trust, like
in the system.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know, so have you every time you left your
home in your life, Camelin, did you have a mobile phone? No?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But I definitely like I missed the payphones. But I
think there was like times that the movies maybe where
like we would pick a time when it was.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Over and my mom would pick me up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But I don't think I.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Ever used a payphone, but sounds lit. I think it
was college before it was like here's a mobile phone. Yeah. No,
I didn't like and here you go, like take this
with you, and it was big. It wasn't like brick big,
but it was still like not going in your pocket.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Really.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
The first one was a star Tech motor Star Tech phone. Yeah,
those were kind of fans. My first one, ye, lewis
good morning, Lewis still good morning?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You used the party line?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh man, we all see it. When I was young,
I remember a buddy of mine show, It's mean. It
was funny because for guys it wasn't free. You got
a couple of minutes, but if you called in and
said you were a girl, it was unlimited.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
For girls, it was I guess just like everywhere every club.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, well, free you means some dude from Kansas City.
He thinks he's gonna get hooked up and buying all
your drinks. That's what That's what free to you means
in Vegas. It's not free. The excuse me. I'm smarter
than that. I don't fall for that. Okay, so you'd
collin say you were a girl, and then you'd get
on there and not be a girl, And what was
(06:36):
the end game like? To try and get someone's number
and go out with them.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
It's for fun, But the best part would be when
you you'd find somebody that you know on there. I
remember I showed up at work and this girl was like,
did I talk to you on the party line? I
was like, yeah, we were bored and drunk or being
a stupid old call. Sometimes. My buddy used to meet
girls on it all the time, take them out, and
then you know, I'd be like they always ghost them.
(07:03):
He would ever call them back, and I'm like, oh
it kind of could you lie on the party?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You said your name was Louisa, Louisa. There you go,
Hey man, have a great day. Thanks for listening. I
appreciate you. Yeah, those were the days. I guess a
lot of that predated even me. But but every now
and again on TikTok you'll see these old commercials and
be like, whoa
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