Nearly Impossible Question: 65% of households still have one of THESE

Here is today's "Nearly Impossible Question": 65% of households still have one of THESE. Litsen for the answer.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the nearly impossible question. Call eight hundred two two
two one oh six seven.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, happy Monday, Christine. What do you have for us
on this Monday?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Could be? Sixty five percent of households still have one
of these?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, first correct caller one one hundred two two
two one oh sixty seven, and we're gonna hook you
up with a pair of tickets for Cindy Lauper coming
to Northwell at Jones Beach Theater July nineteenth. Tickets are
on sale right now at ticketmaster dot com. Good luck.
But again, here's your question.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Sixty five percent of households still have one of these,
Line twenty two.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Answer, that's right, right.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Day.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Can we get your name, Mary, Mary, You're off to
Cindy Lauper July nineteenth. That would be this weekend, I believe.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Northwell at Jones Beach Theater. Congratulations from Light FM.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
All right, hold on one second. Answering machine. Do you
have one in the house, Christine?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, I do you do?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Is it functioning?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It is really so How many people call it?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It seems like only uh doctors, Okay, doctor's offices.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Will you feel the need to check on it though,
like every time you walk in like I did in
the nineties and early two thousands.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, if it looks like there's a message there, yes, of.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Course, right, but is it like do you run to it? No?
Do you forget about it? Sometimes?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, we forget about it until it's like, wait, what
what because we don't even hear the phone ring. We
just hear the voice coming out of the answering machine, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Produce a Christian youngest person in the room. Do you
know what an answering machine is?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Of course I know what an answering machine is.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, do you have one in the house. No, we don't,
but my parents still have theirs okay, yes, and they
use it too.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
A lot of it's more like, you know, like the
sales calls and so yeah, yeah, yeah, really.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
That's what it is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Can I play you a commercial that I used to
see on TV and I begged my mom to buy
it for me, and she bought it for me. It
was an answering machine tape. It was you would buy
the cassette, and the cassette you could play onto your
answer machine, so when people called, they would hear that
particular thing, and this I found this on YouTube. This
was the actual commercial. This like nineteen eighty three, I think,

(02:07):
and my mom bought it for me, and I had
to make sure I updated the answer machine weekly. You
know we had when you called our house, you had
to be entertained, and this is what you got. Check
this out.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Hey, Sorry, crazy calls a tape of seven different songs
and funny recordings for answering machines. Sorry, I'm not to
take your call.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
And wait for the rap one coming up.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
You have to gad for their answering machine, a little friend.
What you've actually done is but one way ticket to
the answering machine zone.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Nobody's good one, nobody's.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm playing but I'm not home, but I'm not fall
till god.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Crazy calls a tape of seven different songs?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Is that what we heard when you called your house.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
In nineteen eighty four? If you called the Bryant residents,
you would hear one of those and I had, Oh,
I was on it. I would update it every week,
you know, rotate them, properly, rotate them.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
He was working as a DJ already, Yes, exactly,