🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Do You Remember Your Answering Machine? (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Everybody, It's time for Jonesy and Amanda's cutting.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
The floor.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Man's job.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
On the cutting room floor Today.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm going to talk about ancient history today.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh good, Egyptian.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Egyptian. Maybe we might talk about the Spartans, we might
talk about thucidities.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
What about the Peloponnesian Wars.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm going to talk about all of that, Brendan, Actually no,
but I am going to talk about the days before
the modern phone. When I first moved into a flat
with a girlfriend, there was no such thing as an
answering machine. It's hard to believe that. I mean now,
no one leaves answering messages anyway. But if I remember,
I wanted a boy to call me. He was going
to call me, and I had to dash out to

(01:05):
the shop, and I didn't want him to call and
never call back if I wasn't home, So I left
the phone off the hook so he'd think I was
just making a call. Give it five minutes and try again,
because I just downstairs to the shop.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Right, I see the method in the matter. You think
he's thinking, this chick's hot.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
She's hot, she's on the phone. I'll just give it
ten minutes and I'll call again. Instead, I forgot to
put the phone back on the hook, and a day
later walked past the went, oh my god, I hate myself.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So if you had an answering machine, there would have
been six missed calls from mister hanky pants?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Would there have been? And then we got an answering machine,
and that was the most incredible thing. You had to
set it before you left the house. There's nothing automatic
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I remember you press the play and record. But yeah,
oh hi, it's Jones. You can't come to the phone
right now leave a message after the beef.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Or you could do a quirky one. We had one
that said, oh, hello, how I hang on to say,
I'll just get my panel, just drop my pants around
here with yeah. But my mother, who didn't quite understand
how these things worked, even if it was just a
plain one, Hello, leave a message. Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I remember years ago I had an answering machine and
it was an audio line answering machine, and I bought
it from the local tandy shop and it was broken.
It never worked, so I took it back to the
Tandy shop and they said, no worries, I will send
it off to get repaired.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Six to eight weeks later, it comes back. I plug
it in, still not working.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
What about all the guys that were trying to call you?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
So then I've written a strongly worded letter, not an email,
because that didn't exist, about how I'm a very important
businessman and I need my head, I need my business.
And so the audio line people sent me a brand
new answering machine. Sure result, And the first the first
call on my answering machine was from my brother and

(02:58):
it was literally, hey, bound and then this is rustling,
and then you just said this big.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It start up far into the phone. That was as
an important businessman, That's what I was waiting.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I love is it Despite the fact that technology has changed,
your brother would still do that?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Now?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
It would?

Speaker 1 (03:17):
What about this? This is an ad I saw for
crazy calls. This is where there were seven original recordings
for all answering machines. You could make your answering machine
sound like this.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Hey Hi, I'm sorry that I'm not at home. I
get the message. One phone.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Crazy calls a tape of seven different songs and funny
recordings for answering machines.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Him very sorry that I'm not at hong to take
your call. Fourteen when I will get your.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Message the talk give someone the gift of gad for
their answering machine and a friend.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
What you've actually done is but onely ticket to the
answering machine.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So nobody, but I'm not home. Got crazy calls.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
A tape of set different songs and funny recordings were
only fourteen ninety five.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
You can.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Call one eight hundred five five four nine thousand, called
one a hundred five five four nine thousand.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Honoring that number, and just leave a big fat and
I'll say hello Jonesy.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
The cato for okay kids. That's it for today. Come
back tomorrow for more of Jonesy than a man is
cutting for the cotton f