Our Rotary Phone Interview on Fox 32 Chicago.
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Who would of thought from a simple Christmas challenge of having all the cousins try and dial a rotary phone that it would go viral and we would be interviewed on Fox 32.
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what a great dad, he has an awesome family
I saw the original and now this. These are good kids, you can tell. Kudos to a great family! Need more of this in our world!
I keep the original in my "Watch later list"! Just shared it to a comedy group on MeWe, then found this!
They ARE great kids, and good sports about it!
Good job raising,Dad!👍🏿🥂
Give them a VCR and see if they can set the Clock on it. Remember that challenge back in the day??
Yes! I remember setting the clock for my parents when I was about 6 years old.
that was easy back in the day, just ask a kid to do it
The date on my car's clock got reset to January 1 2003 when I had to replace the battery back in October of 2017, so now it says it's March 2004. My brother thinks it shouldn't bother me.
Heck, I’m old and I couldn’t set the clock on a vcr
Add to setting the clock, setting the record start and stop times. Especially if you wanted to record more than one show!
Once I heard 708 I knew you guys were around my area.
Plus, Them picking up & hanging up after each mistake is priceless.
dang, I have no idea how to do that! I am 31
Yes!!! 😆
Likewise
So Kevin are you going to give them a cassette tape and a pencil ? love to see that lol
We know how to use a rotary phone because we were taught, or learned by watching our parents use it. If we had never seen one before, we too would be stumped for awhile.
Guys you need to be proud! And don't let anybody make you feel bad you're a close family. In today's world that's more important than anything that you know or don't know. If you two can work together. God bless you and your family! And no matter what anybody says who laughs at you I live through it with the phones .. I don't think you missed much
OMGosh, now they have to have their tender feelings stroked so they'll not feel "bad", "hurt", "injured"....fill in all the adjectives. They'd never survive one week with a tough sergeant!
I think this went viral because those of us who are a bit old - or very old - are constantly facing technological challenges that the young whippersnappers can handle in seconds. It's a turning of the tables!
I laughed so hard I could barely control my bladder!!!!!😂😂😂😂👍❤️
Want an Adult Diaper? Our wonderful government sent me 3,600. (I’m 67.)
Makes me even more aware of how fast things have changed. On top of that I finally started reading the series of Foxfire Books from the 1970s describing the remembrances of living old people in Appalachia, basically my grandparents that I knew, born in the late 1800s. So I am aware of how life was way back then, how it changed during my 70 years and now how it's changing ever more rapidly. Somebody needs to do a Foxfire-like book documenting the Boomer generation for the Millennials and their children before such things as rotary telephones are lost forever.
I think this is wonderful. The good old days is a myth. It's better today than yesterday and tomorrow will be even better. The dad is so good. The kids are the best. Keep moving FORWARD young people. Please.
I remember when you picked up the phone and the operator said...."number please". Then (in the post office lobby) she PLUGGED you in to your number or to another operator for long distance. Hey, at least we didn't have to turn a crank to get things started!!!!!
and we knew that even though we'd never used it.
Years ago my young adult son lent my father, who was in his early 70's, his cell phone while he was traveling as he had been having intermittent car problems. He went to make a call and couldn't figure out how to get a dial tone before he dialed the number! 🤣
Loved the challenge. I also have a couple of rotary phones in my house, just because.
I loved the fact that the two young men worked "together" to figure out the problem. That is what is so important in this generational exercise. It was funny though. Mark, 57 yrs. young.
Too funny. 😂😂I had to learn that to at My Aunt's house many years ago😂
I remember when these phones were it!! Great idea!! 😀👍 thanks for sharing this!!!!
These guys are great! Kids have a great attitude and I can tell it comes from the family.
What's weird about this is I wasn't alive when the phone was invented, but knew the way to use pre-rotary phones by seeing them in movies.
I used to make phone calls out of the school on rotary phones that had their dial locked. You just had the pulse the interrupter that the handset set on.
Next challenge: Drive a three-on-the-tree car. I mentioned that to my 50 year-old neighbor and she looked at me like I was from Mars. Clueless.
But to give these guys a break, when dial phones were first introduced, the phone company produced movies about how to dial. Presumably they were shown in movie theaters when dial systems came to town. No more clicking on the hook waiting for the operator to respond "Number, please."
I love the guy’s idea to have them program a VCR!
Damn old technology thrown at us...
What would have been funny to do in this interview, would have been to have a 90 year old man bring in a wooden crank telephone. One that was hooked up through a small, but functional, mini switchboard, to a rotary phone. And challenge the dad to figure out "his grandparents" crank phone in four minutes.
That would have been hilarious! I'm 51, and I would personally have very little idea of how to make a call through one of those things, and I've had it explained to me before by grandparents (who had a nonfunctional one hanging on the wall), and I've read about it online, and seen them used in movies. But it would most likely stump me.
That would be funny. Someone should do that. Set up an old crank telephone and have an "operator" in the room to place the call, or whatever, through to the teens with their rotary phone.
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@@feet1215 Yeah, his phone technique consisted of, "Hello...Sarah? Patch me through to my house, I want to speak with Aunt Bee for a minute. What do you mean she's not at home? The hairdresser?? Well, just put me through to the hairdresser then, thank you Sarah....She just left the hairdresser?.....On her way to the butcher shop?? Well just put the call through to there then and I'll wait a few minutes till she walks in....Oh Sarah, nevermind, the butcher is just down the street, I'll just walk down there and talk to her directly." 😁
That was hilarious! Can’t wait for the next one!
Anyone remember party lines
@@TeresaWilson-mu5cx Sure do.
@@TeresaWilson-mu5cx
I do I lived in the Bronx NYC
I remember when phone numbers were an exchange and 5 digits....
I thought they did very well for a first time. It was obviously all in good fun with a loving family. Honestly, anyone who makes fun of it is only showing their insecurity and issues with perfectionism. They're also showing their ignorance in the area of metacognition. There isn't a single person who wouldn't be flummoxed by some piece of technology, from the Stone Age to some future invention of the Tech Age.
The touch tone is much easier than a rotary dial ... but kids who have never seen one don't get it because it still has mechanical features -- instead of pushing a "Talk" button, they have to pick up the hand set. It's funny because they all want to use the one in the classroom at school to call home for flimsy excuses, just because it's a novelty, and they feel sophisticated when they learn how to use it.
I remember the very first rotary phones, in 1960ish phone numbers began the alpha characters - BA3-2977
How funny, when I used to ask my Grandma for a phone number she'd always say "TF4, oh wait, I mean 834..." :-)
I grew up when digital buttons were already in use, but some people kept rotary phones for years, even when the others were available.
Have them try to drive a stick shift car, or write a letter, long hand in cursive. Lol
The cursive hand writing thing is so true. My daughter had to teach herself.
You 3 are plain idiots, done simple.
I work in dentistry, and we use a material called articulating paper to check the bite on new fillings, crowns, etc. One day I was working on a younger patient and I explained that it was just like carbon paper. "What's carbon paper?" Ouch!
It was i the early 1990s that one of my daughters friends came to the door asking of she could use the phone. In my entry way I had an antique Brass Rotary dial phone. I directed her to it and she stood there vancantlty asking if my daughter was around so I went to get her and realized that this kid had no idea how to dial a rotary phone and this was early 1990s . She wanted my daughter to show her how to dial! If society ever had a reset where all tech must start from zero again these kids would want to build a calculator so they can add up numbers. They have NO idea how to do things with traditional methods and really this is a fine example . I hope society never has to rely on people like that to be rebuilt, because if it does all will be lost.
I suspect my expectations are too great for these 17 yr olds. When asked what else they learned from the experience other than using a rotary phone. They had no answer. There are many lessons that they can get from this, I would hope the father will in future 'tests' include life lessons that can be learned from these experiences!
It is actually a design failure. There is no instruction on the phone showing the direction of rotary. All kids (other videos) tried to bring the 0 hole to the number. All kids did the same thing. The should have been simple instructions with icons showing the steps.
I wonder how long will it take for them to figure out that you stick a pen in the dial to rotate it rather than wear out your fingers.
Tell the kids it is a good way to identify vampires. If someone looks to be in their teens or twenties, but knows straight away how to operate it, then that person has been that age for at least several decades.
Or they have a parent that collects antique phones!
It's real simple, if people learn by watching and they'd never seen people constantly using a rotary dial telephone, how would they know? I just bought a VOIP adapter form my classic black deskphone set up for pulse dialing. I'll have to get a DTMF app form my tablet to use touch tone functions. Best of both worlds and no annoying SMS.
which voip adapter did you get?
I need one for my 1930 rotary dial phone.
I think they're pulse to tone converters, but hearing mixed reviews on them.
Good job, kids! My nieces and nephews and their kids can all dial our old phone, but I think we "cheated" by showing them how. Some of them get such a kick out of it that they have to call everybody they know whenever they come over. But before dialing they have to break out a cell phone to check the number because they don`t have anybody's numbers burned in to their own hard drives!
Give them a bidet with a hidden cam.....
I thought they were for "feminine hygiene" until I moved to Buenos Aires. After having lived there, the idea of just using toilet paper is disgusting. Why don't we have bidets, I wonder?
I wonder how many people who have used it long ago would still even remember!😂
Had a rotary phone until the mid-1990s when the phone company began phasing out rotary service and made touch tone mandatory.
Hahaha what will happening to them if we need to go Back in time? Never let the pass die we never know what we will need it.
would have, or would've
A crow can figure out that by bringing a hard shelled nut to a certain area, cars will run it over leaving the desired seed inside to eat. Just sayin.
What will they do when they get a busy signal ???????
What would really confuse them back in the day, party lines. Had to know what your ring was to know if it was for you or not!
mine it rang 1/2 a ring like a thump thump then you picked it up and the party was on the other end
I’m not even that old and I know how to make a rotary ☎️ call!
Um younger clone of shark tank lady newscaster??? '.' Lol
And before computerized switching, this is what happened at the central office for each number dialed, ua-cam.com/video/xZePwin92cI/v-deo.html
Five-digit dialing usually only happened within the same community or switching region -- you needed seven digits to call another town, or ten to call interstate.
Lol it was funny !
When we grow up: our kids: HOW DO TOU USE A CELL PHONE!? You can’t even teleport to them!? Sad
Laserdiscs 8tracks three on the tree truck lol
Like legit i learned how to dial with a rotary phone when i was 9
8 tracks
Bumstead explains a lot. They must be related to Dagwood.
I have a rotary phone in my house.
Can they read an analog clock?
Great question!
My teenage son can read an analog clock. We have had an analog clock in our lounge all his life so yes he can read it!!
I wonder how two teenage Amish boys would have done. P.S. What does a rebellious Amish teenage boy shout at his parents when he's angry at them? " If I had a radio, I'd listen to rap!" 🤣
ever give a nasty phone call to the operator. i read an obituary of a miss march who worked at the phone company. her name was how she answered when u dialed operator. the same name as the operator whom i gave a crank call to years before
Writing a letter and licking a stamp is a thing of the past. When walking to school before there were a yellow bus was a thing. I remember when we would say "yes sir" and "after you ma'am" Not any more.... Its "get out of my way old man! Can't you see I'm in a hurry! Move over for generation me....
On a piece of paper write down a telephone number dated back to the fifties and sixties that the first two numbers start out with letters. For example : 1 (313) SL4-5226. The SL is prounced Slocume. Or if there is SA it would be prounced Samuel Adam. So on and so fourth. Lol 😆
My home phone, in Long Beach, Ca., was HArrison 9-9846. HA9-9846! And we'd dial HE(nderson)7-0211 for the time.
So this is how the younger generations are affected by the Kardashian’s legacy.
Still dumb. As a retired bell emp...Dial tone was fake to make people feel good and tell them they have a connection
my childhood phone is MUrdock 3-3711
Mine was HIlltop 5-0448
This would funny on Conan and jimmy kimmel!
This is sad
This is our future yikes
Scares me
Please these phones haven't been in use for a long time these kids were born in 2002 just like you might have a problem with items that where used in the decades before you were born and was not in use anymore.
@@tilaman3
Ok like I said our future sad
What if are they in a 3 Rd world country that technology is not up to par...
They are in trouble....
@@ralphabreu5022 Generations before have said the same about the new generation of the time and world has flourished. And look what is happening with global warming for example it's not the new generation that are not listening it is tone death politicians and greedy companies.
@@tilaman3
The issue is people knock old technology.
But I wish we still used old technology..
Our appliances lasted 30 years
Today's technology we are lucky if they last 3 years
We stopped building full size body on frame vehicles like the Lincoln Town Car
For SUV'S that suck more gas than the Town Car ever did...
We truly live in disposable society
Ok. I won't make fun of you anymore. La di da di da....not.
someones really struggling for news coverage lol.
Manual typewriter please😃❗️
Edit: and that includes putting the paper in😃❗️
Edit: and that includes putting in the paper!
I have never used a typewriter, I am 31
AND change the typewriter ribbon + carbon copy. They would have NO CLUE what those are, much less how to use them.
@@cf8959 And then ask them to disassemble the typewriter and reassemble it!