The Climate Town Phone Line Has Arrived
🕑 Added 2024-06-13 16:11:39 +0000 UTCThe deadline to get to 5,000 Patrons is over! Did we make it? Sort of!
Our goal was 5,000 paid patrons. We got to 4300, and ... I ROUNDED UP!
So we now have a rotary dial phone in our office. I'm hooking it up with a number, and by next week the line should be open for your calls.
Haters have already declared it "a massive waste of everyone's time" but the tactile sensation of a rotary dial has already made the $25 price tag and the bicycle trip to south Brooklyn worth it.
Stay tuned for the number drop.
P.S. I think I have a way of taking voice messages and recording audio directly off the phone, so I should be able to post some of the weirder calls and voicemails I get.
As always, thank you for being a patron.
Comments
Tim Barrett
I love it so much! It's very professional. I was kind of expecting a basketball phone haha. Can we call it for climate tips like you're a grizzly, seasoned reporter?
Rob Christian
When and where is this happening?
Keith
Seems like a great way to waste time. I'm in. Probably needs blue tape since it has a mic.
Todd VanTongeren
I was curious about this.. so I looked it up.. there's devices you can buy to make it work with modern phone lines, and even as a bluetooth for your cellphone: https://youtu.be/9IaGNquXURk?si=56OiJGwpIxMV6Rp_
Jeremy Krall
In all seriousness, does it work? I remember having to get rid of all our rotary phones in the '90s because the phone company was switching over to service that only worked with touch tone devices. It was a sad day.
Jeremy Krall
Sorry can't talk, my refrigerator is running and I have to catch it.
Emily Faubert
dreams do come true <3
Alex Salimian
☎️🥵 If you get a call with heavy breathing next week, it's me, suffering from the 96° heatwave in Cleveland
kidney vendor
I can die happy knowing that anyone at anytime can call Rollie and the gang
Milomay
I was the 69th like….nice
Jon Adams
Sweet Model 500!
PORTAC
Did it come with a busy signal? I need one if those for my phone
Tim Ashworth
I hope they don't charge me excessively to call it from western australia
UltraBlake
Let the haters know I have way worse ways of wasting my time already.
dreamer
"Hey there, I'm looking for Mr Butz. Seymoure Butz?"
Ronan O'Donnachu
Do it! 😜
Ronan O'Donnachu
Awesome. Will you be painting it green? 🙂
Rob Christian
Looking forward to a chat
Mimi
Up-cycling like a boss! 🩷
Laurel Carty
That is the exact phone I had as a child! Same color and all, and I'm less than 45. It wasn't until about 1994 when the new 911 system got rid of the party line and made the phone obsolete and my parents had to replace it.
Jason Anton
Please take a pic of you on the phone paying down on your stomach,feet in the air, figetting with the cord like a teenager in the 90s
Nippleless Cage
You're my new tech support guy. I work maintenance for a very large well known convince store brand so get ready to help me troubleshoot some hotdog grills
dreamer
I'll try to restrain myself from going all Bart Simpson on you every other day.
Jeffrey Hartman
Soooo what can we call in with? What if I'm lonely and just want a chat? 😂
Elise Mae
My grandfather was one of the Telephone Pioneers of America -- a group made up of people who were working in the field as of 1920 or before. He installed some of the first physical phone lines in NJ and NYC and passed away before cell phones were a thing. He would heartily endorse this product and/or event. :)
Jason Mitchell
I think it's a cool idea
BluetoothThePirate
I know that when I bought a PCM audio recorder a few years ago it came with a splitter to put in a phone jack so you could use it for that purpose. So you shouldn't have any problem hooking up any of your existing audio recorders to an analog phone.
Charles Liggan
Good luck and Godspeed
TJ
☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Joji
RIP. I knew you when