For Snoop Dogg, press 3-4-1 or something.
So then you call it.
What in the world?
You dial 3-4-1, and then it charges you two bucks or whatever.
You know, I think VA started doing that.
Like, it charges your phone bill because it's a 1-900 number.
You know I call it?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so it's a 1-900 number.
So then you'll get charged on your phone bill, and then like in the next 10 or 15 minutes,
that video will come on.
Because whatever people are paying to request, that's what they play.
That's crazy.
So it's called the Jim Fox television.
So it wasn't just rap then.
No, no, no, it was all music videos.
But the people who were requesting the most, whether I'm telling you, like, you could,
it was rock, it was country, it was rap.
But none of the rock or country ever came on, because everybody's just requesting rap
The problem, too, was just racking up the phone bills for the people who were into rap.
So I'm saying like, like, if there was a rock video on it, you'd be like, whoa.
We never requested it, because think about it, like, your phone bills go to your parents.
Yeah.
Like, how are your parents gonna feel when they get the phone bill and the jukebox
network?
Even if it was two bucks, my parents would freak out.
Paul, you out of here?
Sorry.
We weren't even allowed to watch MTV.
So like, if, you know, the last thing we're gonna do is request a song on the jukebox
that we would have gotten in trouble.
Even if it's a $2 charge, they'd be like, why are you guys on the jukebox network?
It's garbage.
Do you remember collect calls?
Do you remember 1010-321?
Oh, yeah.
1010-321.
Yeah.
For the best price.
That's like obsolete now, obviously.
Yeah.
That's it.
Best price on long distance?
1010-321.
Yep.
And then it was 1-800-COLLECT?
Yeah, 1-800-COLLECT.
Save a buck or two.
Yeah.
I remember when phones, if you're gonna call like a different area code, you have to put
one.
Yeah.
Do you remember that?
You have to put one and then the area code.
You used to have to put a one even in the same area code.
Yeah.
It was long distance.
Right, right.
Doo doo doo.
You must first dial a one.
Please hang up and try again.
I mean, I remember when phones didn't have caller ID.
You had a separate thing, a little caller ID, a little machine.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, but nobody had it.
I mean, certain people had it.
But we had it.
I guess we were like the rich people or something.
Connect to the phone.
That thought is so bizarre now that the phone would just ring and you just picked
it up having no idea who was calling.
Yeah.
A home phone.
Because like I answered it.
You're just like, if I look at my phone, if I don't recognize the number, I can't
hammer it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm just like, every once in a while I do it and I always regret it.
But back then it was just like, and in the middle of the night people could call you.
Yeah.
Right?
Because you didn't silence your phone at night.
Yeah.
You have to like unplug it.
Right.
Or leave it off the hook or something.
Yeah, but you didn't do that though.
Yeah.
People could just call you at like two in the morning and you'd be like, oh.
Yeah.
But now you just silence it.
Well, I remember when we had answering machines with a little tape.
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember that?
Cassette tapes.
You'd be like, boop, boop.
Yeah, I'm serious, right?
Like a little recorder.
And then you just press play and you're just like.
Yeah, I remember when we were being mischievous, like me and my brother before, because my
brother went through a phase where he did a lot of like prank calling.
That's what I had to do.
So I remember we'd be like, we'd be like in the middle of the night watching TV and
my brother would just like call, he'd call like a business out of the phone book.
And their answering machine would pick up and he would just talk to it for like an hour.
We'd just be like watching TV and just talking and just, it was just on the phone.
That's hilarious.
Just filling somebody's name until the tape would end.
Yeah, that's horrible.
Yeah, that's bad.
They're like, hey, how's it going?
When 9-11 happened, my brother, like, he's like, he like got out the phone book and
found the guy whose name was Ben Lawton.
Ben Lawton.
This is like Ben Layton or Ben Lawton.
Like Benjamin Layton or something.
He like called the guy, like it left a weird message.
Oh man, that's horrible.
My brother is doing some prank calling.
That's hilarious.