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Speaker 1: It's the Fresh Show. This is what's trending. So the

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Speaker 1: US Surgeon General calls loneliness a public health crisis if

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Speaker 1: you feel like you're missing up bond with people, that

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Speaker 1: you're not alone, because they've released an advisory calling attention

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Speaker 1: to isolation and the lack of connection that they're seeing

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Speaker 1: in America. He says that even before the COVID nineteen pandemic,

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Speaker 1: about half of all adults, so they were experiencing loneliness

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Speaker 1: every single day. He says that the Surgeon General says

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Speaker 1: that loneliness can raise the risk of premature death by

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Speaker 1: twenty six percent and social isolation by twenty nine percent.

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Speaker 1: These conditions have also been linked to increased risk of stroke,

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Speaker 1: heart disease, dementia, anxiety, depression, and self harm. America has

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Speaker 1: spent about twenty minutes a day in person with friends

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, which is down from about sixty minutes

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Speaker 1: today nearly two decades earlier. So that's a serious thing.

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Speaker 1: And I guess I don't really know what is the

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Speaker 1: what is the solution if you feel lonely? I mean,

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Speaker 1: they don't have those those party lines anymore. I saw

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Speaker 1: one on TikTok the other day. It was like from

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Speaker 1: the eighties. It was one of the commercials about it,

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Speaker 1: and this is this is before my time even, but

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Speaker 1: I guess, and if you, if you're old enough to

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Speaker 1: have ever done this, I would love to hear about it.

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five night one one oh three five.

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Speaker 1: But I guess back in the day, like in the eighties,

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Speaker 1: you would call a number and I guess pay and

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Speaker 1: then you'd have access to it was like a chat

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Speaker 1: room on the phone. Oh my god, and there'd be

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Speaker 1: a bunch of other people on the phone and then

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Speaker 1: you'd be like, hey, what's up. And then you try

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Speaker 1: and like get I guess, get one of the people

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Speaker 1: like talk to you offline and then you you know,

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Speaker 1: because a party line, Yeah, that kind that kind of thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you did.

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Speaker 2: It was free though. Yeah, and we work on the

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Speaker 2: party line talking to people we had no business talking to.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely reallynger than me. So what what on earth? I

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Speaker 1: never did this? You did it?

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Speaker 2: It was Yeah, it was called the party line.

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Speaker 1: Rofia.

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Speaker 2: Did you know about it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Party line? Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Well,

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Speaker 1: they had various versions of it. Okay, so you call the.

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Speaker 2: Number, call the number, you dial in and you would

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Speaker 2: be in a room. You can go in different rooms too,

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Speaker 2: like you mentioned, and you would talk to different people

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Speaker 2: from around the world or wherever they were. And like

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Speaker 2: some of my friends met up with these guys or

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Speaker 2: girls or yeah, it was the thing.

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Speaker 3: I did that in my aim chat rooms, Like I

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Speaker 3: had no business to be in there.

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Speaker 1: My friends and I would be I did it, yeah, and.

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Speaker 3: There were real creeps in there today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, absolutely, yeah, no, I that I did do.

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Speaker 1: But I never called any of these numbers. But just

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Speaker 1: every now and I get on TikTok, there's a feed

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Speaker 1: that will show like really old commercials or those old

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Speaker 1: like I guess you used to be able to subscribe

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Speaker 1: or go to a business and watch video like video

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Speaker 1: profiles of men and women for dating, and then like

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Speaker 1: so they would be like a dude being filmed in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two or something in front of it like

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Speaker 1: a blue like literally not a blue screen, like a

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Speaker 1: blue background, and he would be like, hey, ladies, you know,

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Speaker 1: and they would come up with like clever like little

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Speaker 1: stuff to say to try and catch people's attention. And

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Speaker 1: I guess you'd be like that video and that video

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Speaker 1: and then they set you up with those people. But

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Speaker 1: every now and again they'll put those up on TikTok

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Speaker 1: and it's hilarious because they got like you know, eighties

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Speaker 1: hey air and they're trying to be all suave and stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'll have to find some audio. They're pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I do remember also seeing like the phone sex commercials

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Speaker 3: late at m now for hot girls.

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Speaker 1: Call to hang up. You would I wanted to hear it,

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Speaker 1: so I like call it and then they'd be like, hi,

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Speaker 1: enter your credit card, Like you should have explained a

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Speaker 1: lot of things. Then you know that reaction. You would

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Speaker 1: try to come up with like seven digit words that

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Speaker 1: you could like like I would like try to like

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Speaker 1: make the ones up just to see if they existed.

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Speaker 1: So I can't think any of them, but God got it.

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Speaker 1: Try to spell it out. Well this is this will

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Speaker 1: age all of us too. But I think everybody in

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Speaker 1: this room can relate to a collect call. Like when

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Speaker 1: you when you were four mobile phones, you know, and

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Speaker 1: you didn't have a quarter or something, and there are

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Speaker 1: these things called payphones and now you can like they're

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Speaker 1: a big hole. Like if you go to old hair

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Speaker 1: now there's just like faded paint where there used to

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Speaker 1: be or little bays. Yeah in the building, yeah, right

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Speaker 1: right right, And and the other thing we have in

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Speaker 1: the building. They've covered up her ass trays. Have you

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Speaker 1: seen that they put like they've tried to like put

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Speaker 1: stone in, but they used to just have ass trays

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Speaker 1: in the wall where you just what, yeah, what was

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Speaker 1: going on? But collect? Yeah? Yeah, you would call one

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Speaker 1: hundred collect and then the moment in a little space

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Speaker 1: where you say your name, you just say the whole message,

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Speaker 1: Hey mom, come pick me up? Yes, oh yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I would. I would?

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Speaker 4: You would.

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Speaker 5: I'd be at the mall and I dial one Collect

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Speaker 5: and be like at the tone, please say your name Mom,

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Speaker 5: it's it's come pick me up.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to be picked up.

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Speaker 5: And then and then they would call your home, your

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Speaker 5: parents and they'd be like, you have a Collect call

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Speaker 5: from Mom, It's time to pick me up. And then

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Speaker 5: you'd be like, do you want to accept? Then they'd

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Speaker 5: be like, no, because my mom knows to come pick me.

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Speaker 1: Up, because you know you won't have to pay for

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Speaker 1: the call that was yes, says your name.

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Speaker 6: Yes.

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Speaker 1: It would be like, you have a Collect call from Christopher.

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to accept, press one and then it

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Speaker 1: gets built to whoever picks the phone, but instead you'd

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Speaker 1: be like pick me up mom, and the moment and

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Speaker 1: then yeah, you go a message receipt.

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Speaker 3: And you just like wait outside, yeah, with friends to

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Speaker 3: come pick you up. That's a lot of trust, like

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Speaker 3: in the system.

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Speaker 1: You know, so have you every time you left your

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Speaker 1: home in your life, Camelin, did you have a mobile phone? No?

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Speaker 3: But I definitely like I missed the payphones. But I

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Speaker 3: think there was like times that the movies maybe where

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Speaker 3: like we would pick a time when it was.

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Speaker 1: Over and my mom would pick me up.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think I.

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Speaker 1: Ever used a payphone, but sounds lit. I think it

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Speaker 1: was college before it was like here's a mobile phone. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: I didn't like and here you go, like take this

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Speaker 1: with you, and it was big. It wasn't like brick big,

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Speaker 1: but it was still like not going in your pocket.

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Speaker 6: Really.

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Speaker 4: The first one was a star Tech motor Star Tech phone. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: those were kind of fans. My first one, ye, lewis

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Speaker 4: good morning, Lewis still good morning?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 1: You used the party line?

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Speaker 6: Oh man, we all see it. When I was young,

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Speaker 6: I remember a buddy of mine show, It's mean. It

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Speaker 6: was funny because for guys it wasn't free. You got

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Speaker 6: a couple of minutes, but if you called in and

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Speaker 6: said you were a girl, it was unlimited.

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Speaker 5: For girls, it was I guess just like everywhere every club.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, free you means some dude from Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: He thinks he's gonna get hooked up and buying all

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Speaker 1: your drinks. That's what That's what free to you means

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Speaker 1: in Vegas. It's not free. The excuse me. I'm smarter

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Speaker 1: than that. I don't fall for that. Okay, so you'd

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Speaker 1: collin say you were a girl, and then you'd get

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Speaker 1: on there and not be a girl, And what was

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Speaker 1: the end game like? To try and get someone's number

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Speaker 1: and go out with them.

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Speaker 6: It's for fun, But the best part would be when

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Speaker 6: you you'd find somebody that you know on there. I

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Speaker 6: remember I showed up at work and this girl was like,

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Speaker 6: did I talk to you on the party line? I

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Speaker 6: was like, yeah, we were bored and drunk or being

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Speaker 6: a stupid old call. Sometimes. My buddy used to meet

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Speaker 6: girls on it all the time, take them out, and

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Speaker 6: then you know, I'd be like they always ghost them.

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Speaker 6: He would ever call them back, and I'm like, oh

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Speaker 6: it kind of could you lie on the party?

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Speaker 1: You said your name was Louisa, Louisa. There you go,

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Speaker 1: Hey man, have a great day. Thanks for listening. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. Yeah, those were the days. I guess a

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Speaker 1: lot of that predated even me. But but every now

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Speaker 1: and again on TikTok you'll see these old commercials and

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Speaker 1: be like, whoa