Pagers

Lucy and Corbett are talking about the telecommunications miracle that is the pager.  Obviously, everyone has one and knows what they are, so no further discussion is needed... or it is a weird box that allows you to sell drugs?  Yeah, this is one of those weird episodes where is all just runs off the rails, but we talk about stuff just the same.  Enjoy!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Welcome to what you missed when you didn't exist. And oh, that's right. My name's Corbett. And I'm 55. No. I'm gonna go with 55.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

You're not 55 because I'm 25 and your birthday hasn't happened yet, you ding a ling.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

It's close enough.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Oh, I'm Lucy, by the way. But I am 25.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

But your birthday hasn't happened yet.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Will that make me 26? Durr.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Only if you count this year as last year.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Oh my gosh, that's too deep of a topic right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

But congratulations to you because you got all married and stuff. So that's uh something.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Now I'm like old and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

I don't know if that counts, but sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

No, it's like in Friends when Monica's like, oh, I'm not a bride anymore. Now I'm just somebody's wife. I feel like that makes you sound very old and sophisticated.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

You're a Mrs. instead of a miss.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Well, now you know how I feel every day. I feel exactly like a missus.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

A missus. Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Uh what this show is about is talking about what Lucy missed when she did not exist, because I was alive from 1970 to the year 2000, more or less. And she missed all that. So I get to talk to her about stuff that happened in my lifetime. And much like Sam Beckett jumping from life to life, I'm waiting for the jump home.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

I don't know what that reference is.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

I know you don't get that reference, and one day we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Man. What's the topic today, Dad?

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Today, at your mother's request, we have to talk about pagers. Pagers. That thing you would probably call texting in a box.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Isn't texting already in a box?

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Yeah, but this was back when it was just in a box.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

But it's still in a box. Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_00 2:19

Let's start with what pagers are. Actually, pagers came out long before I was born. They actually were invented back in or conceptualized back in the late 40s. It was a way to get quick messages to and from one place to another. I think they were calling it telegraph or telemachine or telescomet or other. Wikipedia, you'll be glad to dump a bunch of long-term information into it. But yeah, they actually were invented a long time before the 1970. However, they started becoming popularized and used by emergency transmission type things.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

To get to and from one place or another. That's our Motorola kind of made its thing. In fact, they show a picture of one on the Wikipedia page I looked it up because I was kind of curious about the history. And the Page Boy, which came out, the Page Boy 2 came out in 1970. And it's a pretty big, well, for compared to what pagers would become, it's a pretty big stick with a teeny tiny little display. But it was cool. You know, it gives you a quick bit of information. For the most part, pagers in my time were a quick way to get somebody else's number on a box so you would know, oh, I need to call this person. And I think my first oh, and I should probably describe they looked like little oh, they're about the size of a deck of cards. Okay. By description, with like a little clip so you can put it in your pocket and holds. And there's like a little, usually a graphic display on the top where the deck of cards would be, like you would look down at the the cards itself. I think later versions had full like two and three line displays along the side of it. But yeah, that that was what a pager was as far as like it would give you quick numbered information because all people could do is punch in well, and originally you could you had to rotary dial. I don't think we've talked about rotary dials very much.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

So I don't think we have.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

We have that's a fun one. Just the same, you would punch in a number, and then the number would go to whoever you sent it to, and they would know to call you as soon as they got to a phone because nobody had cell phones. It's the reason why you needed these things.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

And there were people who had cell phones, because I know you've seen every 80s movie with somebody holding a giant like the landline, or are you talking about the brick with the antenna? I'm talking about the brick, the brick with the antenna, the giant, like vanilla colored brick.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

It was like, I'm cool, I can talk as if I were waving hands through the air. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

You weren't connected to a cord, it was exciting.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Yeah, so powerful. And before that, it was like in a briefcase and yeah, cell phones. But pagers are kind of in a different category. They were a way to quickly relay information, and they were most commonly given to doctors because they were like, hey, you need to call this number to get information about what you need to go do, emergency surgeries, emergency calls, basically. And then I think probably more commonly by the time the 90s rolled around, drug dealers.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

What?

unknown 5:08

How?

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Because you could buy one. I had a pager. I don't know why I had one.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

Drug deals?

SPEAKER_00 5:13

I should have. I felt like I needed one. I think I would have been doing a lot better if I was doing like selling drugs, because then I would be making much better money than I'm making working on computers, which does not do well. But that's beside the point. Don't do drugs, kids.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

It's fine. But you need a pager to do drugs, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Yeah, you'd get the notice of like where to go and where to drop, and you know, they'd use coding systems to do this. And I did get a couple looks when I had a pager. It's like, what are you what are you doing, man? But it became sort of a sign of it was like almost a piece of jewelry people would wear. Like, look, I got a pager. I'm important. Because in the 80s it was way more common to be a doctor or a lawyer or somebody who you have to get an emergency call and you have to go call somebody right away. So only important people had pagers, which probably because of previous decades where they were only used by emergency personnel. They were immediately getting calls and calling back in. Yeah. But they were big blocky things, and they basically died off right around 2000 or so because cell phones came into play right around that time, and nobody needed them anymore.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

It was just kind of a like, why would I page you when I can just text you? Because texting came in uh probably like a year or two right after that.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

That's quick.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

So you never had a life where you had to worry about getting a page to do your drug deal.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Uh-huh. So pages initially started out, you would just get the message of the number to call back, and then it moved into like written messages.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

Uh it slowly became like the person's name and what the phone number it was calling from and what they typed in if it was a code or something. Because you would typically type in like you know, your phone number and 911 right after, so they know it's very important. Which is kind of dumb.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

How many characters would you have? Uh, I think about 14. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Maybe a little more, but it it's not a very big display, so it can only fit so much on it. I think the bigger displays, the ones that are like three lines. Yeah. Like two or three lines, they would scroll. But the original one was like basically as much as a calculator would hold, I think.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

So it wasn't a lot.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

But I think I got in trouble. Oh no, I got in trouble a little bit. I didn't get in big trouble, but I felt really bad about it afterwards. I found a pager number by accident. Like, yeah, I just accidentally fumbled into it dialing one time. Uh-huh. And it's like, enter number now. And I was like, what happened? Did I just get into NORAD? I don't know. So I just started pushing random numbers and seeing what would happen. And eventually, one of the time I'd call it back and I'd call it back and I'd call it back. And eventually I I typed in my home number. And of course, I immediately got a call from a very angry man and said, Who is this? Have you been paging me? Oh, geez. And as an honest young man, I said, Nope, and hung up.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Nice. Classic.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

And then I just stopped calling. Because I'm like, okay, that's not NORAD. It's not cool. It's a mad guy.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Wow. When what how old are you?

SPEAKER_00 8:17

I was probably like uh nine or ten. It was when I was curious enough and didn't realize you could get in trouble doing something dumb. Who was who would have thought?

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Man, that's ridiculousness.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Oh, like nobody's ever made a funny call or done something.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

No, I am an upstanding citizen, father.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Of course you are.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

I was just always curious about pagers because I saw them in Grays and I saw them in Friends, and they were like, oh, the sparkly pager. It's so fancy. And I'm like, dude, you have a phone. Use your phone.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Yeah. I kind of wonder because I've still seen, I mean, there's certain ones like you go to restaurants and they have like a pager version where they're like, here, take this and come back when it goes off. You know, you get a buzzy sound or whatever. You know, like, oh, our table's ready. That's a pager too. I presume hospitals still do it so you can know which room to go to, but they could just as easily text you, but maybe they're not allowed to have their phones.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

I think they've got new light systems. If a call if someone's pressing a call button, there's a little room a light outside of their room that'll light up and it'll blow up.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Well, yeah, but not every doctor's staring at the hall.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Well, it'll make a sound too.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Yeah, but no, it's more like when you get a because you could be anywhere and hospitals are giant.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

So you you get a page and like, oh, I gotta go to this room and check out so-and-so. Yeah. That sort of thing. I don't I've seen them like you like you said, I've seen them in Grays and I've seen them in scrubs. So that's why I think they may still be in use to a certain degree and in emergency services. But I really bet nowadays it's probably straight to your phone.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Probably. I guess now it's different for you because you don't have phone and pager anymore, and now you just have two phones because you have work phone and you have personal phone.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Well, that's because I'm stupid.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

How does that make you stupid?

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Because I couldn't just put them together and just have phone. But I've got to I feel like I have to keep them separate, and also because I have an Android and an iPhone. Dealing with the computer world, I get a lot of questions from people like, Well, I have an iPhone and it does this, I have an Android and it does this. Like, well, let me see what mine's doing, and I can compare and contrast, even though I don't work on phones. But anything with a computer in it, everybody feels like I work on. So why not? And it's somewhat helpful to have two phones for that sense, but otherwise, it's dumb to have two phones. Just have one phone, you'll be happier. In fact, if you could have no phones, that'd be the best.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

What you just want an implant in your eye?

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Uh no, just zero phones.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

I'd rather no communication whatsoever.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

I think the the natural progression for anybody in IT is to work for years in IT and then go own a chicken farm. It's the next thing to do. Or in your case, llamas. Raise, yeah, raise llamas, raise alpacas, sheep, and have no technology. No technology, zero technology.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

You wouldn't even want light bulbs.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

I'm I'm very tempted. Amish would be a way to go. And you know, you get that cool straw hat. Oh my gosh. So that's gotta be cool. Terrible.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

What? Terrible.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

It's a nice quiet life, and you know they got some great blankets, so there you go.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Because of the llamas?

SPEAKER_00 11:25

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

That's ridiculous. I don't know. I feel like it's different now because so many people have their preferred methods of communicating. Because I have some friends that will only talk to me on Snapchat, or I'll have friends that'll only talk to me if they call or they'll text, or I have some friends that just FaceTime.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

What? Yeah, they use your phone like a phone? Yeah. Barbarians.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

I mean, I have a preference too. I mean, I prefer to FaceTime the people that I want to talk to. If I don't really want to talk to you, or if I know you're busy, I'll probably text.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

You almost always text, though.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

I text you because I know you're busy all the time. I can't call you.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

It's only irksome when people call me on my work line, because then I'm usually agitated immediately. Like, what? What? Are you on fire? No, I just want to say hi. There's just no sense of calm for me. And see, that's why I text. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

And see, I can talk to mom for hours and hours because she'll be bored and we'll just be doing our errands together. So I FaceTime so that I can see what she's doing and she can see what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Yeah, FaceTime's kind of a silly one to me, it seems like. But I always thought that was funny in the old 1970s shows. You'd see like, oh, it's the future, and we can see each other on this teletube thing. Like, cool, but what's the point? Like, you know what they look like. So yeah, but I can see them, but you know what they look like. Why what what's the benefit of the future where you see their face?

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Well, you can know if someone's tired or if someone's actually busy doing something or I hope people would be honest enough and say, you know what, I'm really tired.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

I should go to bed, so I'll talk to you later. Like, oh, okay, thanks. That's how that works. I don't know. Communication is a two-way street.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

I've been tempted to go back because they brought the flip phone back, and I've been tempted to get a flip phone, but the only thing that's keeping me from doing it is I love FaceTime so much.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Well you'd have to go to Android to do the flip phone.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

I know, but I'd be fine without the games or anything else. Like I just I need FaceTime. I need it. I need it.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

You have to live by people's faces.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

I like seeing people's faces.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Uh-huh. Pretty sure Google has a like uh hangouts or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

But then I'd have to tell everyone to get that, and it's so much effort.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Oh, technology's such a chore.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

It is. It's why it's evolving so fast.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

You can enjoy your time with me on the alpaca farm.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Yes. But then we can't do this podcast anymore.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

I could probably figure out a way to do it on a ham radio or something.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Oh my gosh, that's embarrassing. That's terrible.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

We do have uh we have we have fan mail. And I we found this out like about about a year ago, we got our first one. And I didn't mention anything at the time because it's sort of weird. Because we didn't get it like normal. We actually have a mailbox, uh an email. Uh it's on it's mail at what you missedpodcast.com. Yes. Yeah, so we do have a fan.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

Well, two.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

At least one.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

If you're counting family. If not, if we're not counting family and we're just counting random people, that means we have one fan.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

I don't know. One person for sure who has hunted us down and told us we were wrong. Or well, well, yeah, you kind of are the history guy.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

I can't really be told I'm wrong because I'm just opinion.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

See, to be fair, I'm going I am going off opinion because I was there. And half the time you're the one who corrects me because you do the research and then come back and say, wait a minute, doesn't this happen this way? Like, well, yeah, I guess it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

It's a healthy blend. We're scientists.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Not historians.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

I don't know if we're scientists either.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

We're comedians, not historians.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

We laugh a lot, which is terrible. There's so many sad, sad stories we have to tell. I I'm surprised we get through as many laughs as we get when these terrible because the problem is history is never fun.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yeah. I think that's just part of part of dealing with trauma. That's our coping mechanism.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

I mean, pagers pagers is almost tragic. Like, what's the point of pagers? They they like existed and then they were gone.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Well, pagers probably paved the way for texting.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

Yeah. Well, anyway, this is I really don't have a name. It's somebody in Pennsylvania. Yes. And the last number is 13. Or B with a special break in it. Or it's 13.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

I think it's because their phone is connected and it's the last four decades. Yeah, most likely.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

And they just reply to it and it comes straight to BuzzSprout, which we is where we feed in the the podcast to when it goes out. For those who want to know the details about what we do and how we do it, BuzzSprout just handles the the handoff and it goes out. I I made a email for us, which is mail at what you missed when you didn't exist.com, or I think I think the easier one is what you missed. Mail at what you missedpodcast.com, which is probably easier to type and put together. But 13 texted us oh a long time ago. Fantastic. Uh the podcast fantastic might be overselling it.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Well, you said it like it was in all caps and exclamation point. This was all lowercase.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

It's all lowercase. So this pot this podcast is fantastic. Is that pretty close to what I should be saying? Okay. That's probably more accurate then. Uh binge listening, dad 57, daughter 30. Oh my god. How tired am I gonna be at 57? And this was a year ago, so he's 58 now. And I already know I'm 55. I'm gonna be so tired. Uh keep up the fun and intelligence discussion. Well, the fun part for sure.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

I yeah, I don't know about intelligent. We try our best.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

We definitely try. We we throw our hats at it, and sometimes we almost get an idea. Although I will admit the second one threw me for a loop, and you had to correct me on this one. The W Y-M-W-Y-D-E exclamation, exclamation. And I was like, Woma, Woma Wadi? Woma witty? What is it? Is this some kind of trendy thing I missed? But what you what you missed when you didn't explain is the letters. Is the letters. So Woma Witty.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

Writing in the back seat, sand seat belt with three smokers and driver saying, Well, I have the window cracked. But talking about, I'm sure this was the smoking episode.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

And yeah, yeah, I've been there. My dad was a pretty chronic smoker, and my grandparents and just about everybody when I was a kid. So don't know why I don't smoke. I should. So much cooler. I look way cooler when I'm smoking. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

I'm sure your lungs thank you for that.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Uh probably so. I really enjoy your program. Great memories, thank you. Um I don't know what episode that would have been referenced to.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

It's the same day as the when we were talking about the computers or not computers, the the calculator, the TRS-80.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Oh, right, because he follows up with The Are Wrong! No, he actually says something like, So I too had a TRS-80 color computer, Coco, and have to say it was not made by Texas Instruments. TI made the TI99 slash four, which he totally right. Well, I'm saying he could be his daughter. 13. 13 said this, which you could order in parts and build it yourself. The TRS-80 was made by Tandy Radio Shack, which is a show we need to talk about because you don't even know what a Radio Shack is, though I think there was a Radio Shack. I think Radio Shack existed. Yeah, there was Radio Shack in town up until probably like 10 years ago. Oh, probably eight years ago.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

Still, it is quite the memory of going to a Radio Shack and buying your transistors and microchips and building little fun things.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

So nerdy, dude.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Oh, shut up. What do you know? You and your stupid future where they just hand you a slab and text you whenever you want.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah, it's a brick. A titanium brick.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

And the most recent was just listen to the space shuttle episode. I hesitated because it was so depressing to see live, which, yeah, it kind of sucked. Uh, both times. Really, because it's kind of sad that it happened twice at all. Hard to believe. Yeah. But it does show like it's not absolutely nothing's absolutely safe. It's another episode where like, I don't know. Every time we record it and I go back and listen, like, how do we laugh so much at this terrible thing? Again, it's not yeah, we're broken. Uh you mixed up the cause of the challenger and the endeavor explosion. Challenger was caused by a failing seal in one rocket booster that let hot gas burn into the shuttle. I have boycotted Morton Salt ever since, as it was the Morton Thiocol company who didn't prevent the problem. Huh. Now that I didn't know.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

That's cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Knowledge being dropped there. I love your show, and the conversation about this was great to hear. Cool. I just I was glad to throw it out there for Lucy because she didn't know what I was talking about. You know, I think I think inspiration-wise for the show, not to pat myself on the back, but no, no, when we started doing the John Lithgow Palooza book thing when you were a kid, because I was baffled how you were you were probably six, I think, when we started doing that. And I was I was absolutely astonished you didn't know who Robin Hood was.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

I knew who Robin Hood was.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

Not at the time. You had no idea.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

Well that we watched Robin Hood, the Disney one?

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Yeah, but you still didn't realize like I grew I grew up with Errol Flynn Robin Hood. Well, it's a mythical story, I guess, but it's still a story that has like relevance and importance, and everybody wants to rob from the rich. But but still, it's something that like, how did you miss that? How did I miss that? How did I not do the thing I was supposed to do? So I'm just catching up on all that stuff I need to tell you about. You know, all that stuff when you didn't exist. But still, it's it that's probably more the inspiration for the show than anything, I think. Maybe maybe we're just bored.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Maybe a mix of both.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

Could be.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

You like telling stories? I like listening.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Yeah, but now you're a teacher and you have to tell stories.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

Oh, I know, and I have to tell these kids what they missed when they didn't exist.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

I know. And you gotta see, you all you have to do is is watch eighties teacher movies, and you realize if you can just rap to them, then it will get into Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

That's a different episode. Different episode.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

We so Gotta talk about 1980s teaching movies, but that's a whole thing. There's probably whole episodes we could talk about each one individually.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Probably. Probably.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

But thank you, number 13.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Dad from Fort Wash, Pennsylvania. Shout out. Or daughter, we don't know. It's dad with daughter.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

You did say dad first. Yes. Yeah, dad with the bigger. And then it's daughter, so it's probably the dude.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Telling the memories about the calculator and then seeing it live. The daughter wouldn't have seen it live. Come on, dad.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Okay, your your detective skills have proven helpful there. But it's always exciting to see new stuff and feel free to comment any time you want. Um definitely my memory's not a hundred percent, and I do rely on it a lot, which is scary.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

True. It is a mix of facts plus opinions.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Well, facts and it's stuff that happened. It's really stuff that happened. It's hard to believe it happened sometimes. Sometimes I look back and like, wait a minute, we did that? That was in that was in my lifetime? Holy crap.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Man, you just didn't even live in the world, dude.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Well, it's just something you kind of presume we talk. I mean, there's so many things to talk about, so many more things to talk about. I keep thinking every time like we hit on a major one, like the challenger was a big deal. I'm like, okay, now there's probably nothing else to talk about, like so many things. I I just like we I think we listed like six things when we were at the wedding. Just talking about this, that, and the other. And like, oh yeah, there's that, there's that, there's that. Your mom was the one who's like, it's pagers, pagers are the thing.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Like, wow, we had a dog on mom, dude.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

No, it's just that like pagers aren't exactly a robust subject. It's just more like, hey, you remember when dial was the thing you had to use to do the phone thing? It's like that's probably a 10-minute conversation, which granted most of our podcasts are 10-minute conversations, but we stretch it.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Beef it up a bit.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

We try to try to make it at least a little bit fun for just a few minutes more. But I I hate to drag on something. I could never do this for like an hour.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

That'd be crazy.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

I mean, yeah, I'm sure if I had full-blown historians on, because every time we've had a historian on, it's great, and it's really, really helpful to get the exact information put in.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Man, they just unload well, it's all the facts and all the things.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Yeah, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

We're not real historians, we can't really we can tell the history from what we know.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah, from perspective. And that's probably a good point of it too, is your perspective adds the the insight of what were you thinking? Oh, we were just doing what we do.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

That's that's true. Yeah, we're doing a thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

But just like normal, we're always doing a thing.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

But shout out to dad from Fort Wash, Pennsylvania. And if you want to give us more messages and more fan mail from anybody, mail at what you misspodcast.com.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Yeah, or however he's doing it, it's gotta be true. Or he's just texting, maybe he's just shouting at somebody and they're just like, okay, I'll tell them.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

That's terrible.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

I I wonder because I don't even know how it works. Like, okay, great. We got information. I I just put the podcast in and it does all that automated stuff for me, so I don't have to think about it. We do the recording and I edit it so it's not like us sounding as stupid as we kind of do sometimes. But yeah, that's fine. And it's good to hear from it's good to hear from you on it. Really, it really is. I hope you and your daughter are having fun with it. And to be quite honest, I can say this. Uh one time I was listening to the show with my other I have two sons also, and I was driving home and he started complaining to me in the podcast on the radio in the car. Like, you know, I'm the guy who's in that thing, right? Yeah, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. You know it's me. So it's really just a conversation starter, if anything. Because he was, I think it was he was complaining about the oh, the soda, the the cola war was like one of the first ones. Like, that's not right. It's this, this, and this.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Like, I don't know what you want to do. Sorry, I missed it. Uh you should do a show with them, it'll be fun.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

I will, I will probably I was tempted to this time around just because if we're cutting it close. We can't we're really cutting it close. This is probably the closest to a live show they're cutting. I know.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

Dun dun dun anyway.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

But uh thanks for thanks for writing in. Feel free to write anytime you want to, and anybody else feel free as well. If you have a subject idea you'd love to have us cover, I will try my best. I can't promise I can't not laugh at stuff because honestly, it's embarrassing sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

That's true, and that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:36

But for what you missed when you didn't exist, thanks for the memories.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

Thanks for the memories, even though they weren't so great. I can't say any more it's copyrighted.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Oh, it's a song. Okay, I thought she was bringing stuff up.