Stupid Novelty Telephones

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[@notbigboi3568]

The fact that James just has a landline power supply from the 70’s lying around doesn’t surprise me for some reason

[@Calvin_Coolage]

The man brought a Tiger Electronics knockoff back as The 2 AUD Nugget, nothing he could have would surprise me.

[@AB0BA_69]

@@Calvin_Coolage Wait, what? Was this on a stream or something? I wanna see!

[@AB0BA_69]

@@Calvin_Coolage Ahh, I remember that episode. It just didn't click in my head that the "Game Child" is a clone of Tiger games (which it is). Thanks for the link though!!

[@Calvin_Coolage]

@@AB0BA_69 No prob

[@oqocraft2661]

@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

I love how ol' mate James has become a mythical figure on this channel. An enigmatic techno wizard who occasionally comes down from his tower to lend us mortals an obscure piece of electrical equipment so we can try to understand a fraction of his power.

[@Bane_Amesta]

James the nugget wizard 😂 He's really gracing us peasants with his infinite knowledge

[@-Shinoray-]

Have you seen how he made the portable SNES? His magic is literally: I cut something here, I am older something there and put a little bit of duct tape around it. And et voilà it works absolutely fine. I'm impressed. I look at my motherboard the wrong way and the whole pc dies... I cannot imagine what deal with the devil James made...

[@orchid9]

Yeah, we saw him on the video the other day and that techowizard actually hits stuff with the hammer until it works. But unlike our cringy boy, James knows how to properly hit stuff with the hammer so it magically comes together instead of come apart.

[@joaogomes9405]

And then if you displease him he'll fill your diffs with banana peels

[@paulcarmi8130]

🤦‍♂️ trash comment

[@-_YuvrajSingh_-]

Fun fact : The ISP's in India still allow you to use the telephones if you want to, but the call is routed through the fibre line only. So its basically VoIP on telephones. Its kinda neat for old people who are more accustomed to a telephones' simplicity and the fact that you won't be yelling HELLO HELLOOO everytime you call someone

Similar in Germany.

[@mr.bobcyndaquil4214]

Similar here in the US, especially if your service isn't with the ILEC

[@BattTube]

It is VoIP, ISP's here in canada offer the same.

[@Kruton1122]

Same in the US.

[@leerman22]

I still have 6 Mbps DSL and regular telephone copper and electricity... all I get...

[@smbvms]

That old telecom brought back so many memories of trying to talk to my mates about all the shit we were going to get up to that weekend, but in code so my parents wouldn't understand, because you had to stand in the kitchen to talk them. The idea that you could take the phone into another room and have a private conversation was an absolute pipe dream in those days

[@meatlemonade3338]

maybe it's just my anxiety talking, but when i see novelty phones all i can think about is trying to call an emergency number on a silly phone or getting terrible news on one. imagine picking up a hamburger and being told granddad has had a stroke and we're not sure if he's going to make it.

[@-Shinoray-]

I would guess this would either delight the situation a little but or make you hate the burgerphone...

[@outsider344]

You get a call from the clinic and they say your routine HIV test has come back positive. After explaining the next medical steps they also advise that you call any recent partners so they can get checked. In the break between hanging up with the clinic, and beginning your calls, you stare at your burger phone and weep...

[@TekuTaurus]

You then unplug it and plug the regular phone back in, as granddad was the one that bought you your prized burgerphone. He ran to the neighbors right after you hooked it up to help you test it out, so it's only fitting the last call on it is on his last day

[@matytoonist]

@@TekuTaurus Rest in peace, Grandpa & Burgerphone. May he call you from heaven with it

[@totempolejoe1]

Picking up your Kawasaki Ninja motorbike telephone to find out your weird uncle just had a fatal accident on his Kawasaki Ninja motorbike

[@thepiratepilot1507]

I bet you the reason the coke phone was broken then glued back together was because someone thought it was an actual coke bottle and tried to use a bottle opener on it

[@NIRDIAN1]

That makes SO MUCH SENSE and I hate it.

[@xXVibrantSnowXx]

That makes absolutely no sense lol How would the bottle broke from bottom when the opening is at the top? & it's perfectly cut in half? no way that was the reason

[@goldkitty12]

​@@xXVibrantSnowXx it was broken at the top. And it's perfectly broken because those were two separate pieces originally.

[@blakksheep736]

Or they knew it wasn't a real bottle and they tried the bottle opener anyway just to see what would happen.

[@Alphoric]

@@xXVibrantSnowXx I think it makes no sense as normal coke bottles the liquid moves and doesn’t have a wire coming from it

[@sralismazgalis]

4:37 "imagine smashing out a T9 text on this thing" *nokia 3650 noises*

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Didn't have one of those, but I still remember the power of fast typing on my 3410. But then, I preferred cycling through letters, faster and less error prone.

[@billnorthup7405]

absolutely love how Wade pushes James' channel harder than he pushes any of his own

[@OrangeDied]

This channel has gone from just iPods to every flavor of nuggets, it's fascinating.

[@alexgamer3659]

yes he said that in a past vid

[@andrewduong2740]

It's gone from DankPods to DankThings

[@bigdingus9333]

If it runs on electricity, he’ll yell at it

[@Zomonitan]

Dankpods has turned into Aussie Ashens, and I love it. We just need to get him to eat some expired food now

[@NcWcN1]

@@Zomonitan that's LA Beast's territory too

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

The funny thing about a novelty house phone is knowing that someone once had to call the local council to apply for a tax rebate on a burger or coke bottle

[@peytonmac1131]

"Please speak up, I'm talking into a burger" is a phrase that must have been said, and I'm happier about the world now.

[@pashillianne1462]

You're a hero man. I work at a daycare and had the hamburger phone as the toy. I bought it at a vendors mall and thought I couldn't get another one when it disappeared. The kids are gonna be so happy when the new one comes in from Amazon.

[@ahniandfriends123]

9:03 Giant Pod flashbacks

[@72mardy]

I was seeing a girl back in 1989 who had one of those piano phones in her bedroom. I remember it vividly. Hope you are doing well, Colleen. You were a beautiful person.

[@LVega_]

Did you fuck her

[@Golden_pikachu]

What ring did it make?

[@72mardy]

@@Golden_pikachu just a digital ring noise, sadly. Would have been cooler if it played something musical.

[@TheDogsbarkcatsmeow]

Rip colleen

[@tammydeetz7927]

Martin wow yeah would've been cooler if they had like music box classical sounds my aunt had one too I wrote the name of a piano on it-- think Baby Grand or something lol

[@sktajwar1513]

It was because of you that I came across George Benson, now I just cannot live without his music. Thank you Dankpods for the wisdom.

[@John-Doe-Yo]

Got any recommendations?

[@plomors]

same with me but for Gorillaz

[@Blazbaros]

Turn Your Love Around is pretty great, that’s the first one I heard. Also Shiver, Love x Love, and Give Me the Night.

[@samholdsworth420]

Bleed

[@Blankult]

@@Blazbaros His instrumental songs are great too

[@Snicketbar]

Novelty phones were kind of a thing in the eighties and nineties. Before, cell phones became more affordable. There were even a few celebrity-endorsed ones. Most were cheaply made and usually it was just a fancy shell over standard hardware. Save for a few that would actually play music. Which was a big thing at the time. Also, I'm not sure if they ever cleaned up completely. But there have been garfield phones washing up on the shores of France for the last thirty years. Due to a crash container, they ship off the coast.

[@torches6131]

6:34 Have you heard that Nokia is still making the 6110

[@echolessowl]

the fact that the button that came with the power supply is also an arcade cabinet button is the most James thing i've ever heard

[@snesguy9176]

Eh if you happen to need a momentary switch like that they're handy when you have them laying around. I replaced someone's PC power button with a 1 player arcade button once 😂

[@smugly6793]

Definitely style points

[@GabrielFrFr]

@@snesguy9176 what a legend

[@TheLadderman]

As an early Zoomer, I also relate with that feeling of knowing both ends of the coin. Both being super dependant on the internet, and completely independent of it. I cant quite remember when my parents didnt have cell phones, but I very much relate to having a house phone. Always had to use the house phone to call my friends and stuff. I remember when my family only had one computer in the house, and internet much too slow to stream video. And I wasn't even really allowed to use the internet anyways. I remember when people would use google maps on the computer, and then print out the directions in order to have them while driving, because there were no smartphones. The 2000s were a wild time.

[@supersmilyface1]

I was born in the early 2000's and had a similar experience. I used to spend hours talking with friends on the home phone (it was wireless, but still "old" by today's standards). Sometimes it would get concerningly warm if I spent too long on it. My family also had one computer for the longest time. Heck, we still have an old Windows 7 in a spare room, and I remember a time when we had an XP (not sure if I ever used a 2000 though). It took a long time before my family switched to wifi. We used an "internet box," as we called it, to allow for more internet cables. It also took until middle school for me and my brother to get our own cellphones, which were smartphones by this time. My parents had Nokia flip phones when I was younger (which I now own). I miss the look and feel of old flip phones. I have a newer one, but it feels too light and flimsy. Also, my parents still print out Google Maps directions when we go to new places. I've told one of my friends, who finds it a bit odd, but oh well.

[@blakksheep736]

Did you also have that one obscure movie that your parents just happened to have that you watched a bunch of but that no one else has ever seen?

[@wolfetteplays8894]

I really wish society was still like that

[@blakksheep736]

@@wolfetteplays8894 idk I kinda like my internet enabled smartphone. > Sent from my internet enabled smartphone.

[@methos4866]

I was born in 93 but i didn't get a mobile phone till 08-09 and it was a shitty Sony Ericsson that i would always forget to bring with me. Didn't get a smartphone till 2016. I miss the time when there was no expectation to be able to call you at any and all times.

[@Ricky-CC]

Same gen as you dank mate, hearing that ringer brought in a flood of memories.

[@vetreas366]

Wow first frame and I'm already smacked in the face with memories of the first digital landline I had because it was literally just that first one you showed. First ever phone was a rotisserie phone that taught me that my pointer finger doesn't really need blood flow to work, it just needs to fit in a hole. So thank you for the memories! I had hoped they were buried deeper than this. I know it's called a rotary phone. And now so do you.

[@heyitsjeremby]

Of COURSE James casually has a landline power supply just laying around 😂

[@-Shinoray-]

Don't you have one lying around just to spare?! You should have ;)

[@catfish552]

I can just imagine Wade mentioning he wants to do a video with telephones but doesn't have a way to make them ring, and James going "No worries, I think I have something for that"

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Of course, both "A Current Affairs" in the States & Oz, will be notified!! 😳😂

[@thatguyalex2835]

Now, if only DankPods could build an intercom in his home where someone in the basement can call the upstairs or something on the hamburger phone. :) The intercom doesn't have to be connected to the landline, but could be a local area network.

[@Artenesama]

6:56 I hope all Australians answer a phone like this

[@chutas]

Same

[@dingusboi7045]

im brazilian, but i want EVERYONE answers like this

[@Sa7urnz_channel_123]

U just posted this 2 days later of my birthday! I enjoy ur vids,buckaroo!

[@TheGreatMcPain]

I was born in 98 and definitely remember not using the internet until the late 2000s. We did mainly use a landline, but my dad was the only one with a cell phone for a while. Since my dad was an old school computer geek we had multiple computers, but we did have a main family computer. One thing I remember us having is, I think, an intercom which allowed us to talk to who ever was in the basement from the kitchen.

[@nikkihendrix1234]

I remember talking to girls in late middle school, early high school on the house phone and I had to worry about my parents picking up one of the other handsets to listen to what I was saying. If they heard some of my conversations I would have been in so much trouble.

[@packe93]

Scariest part was calling their house and then either their dad or older brother answered, and you felt so small asking "hey, is X home yet?".

[@yocapo32]

Dude, I remember when I was like four and my parents bought a _cordless_ phone, and it blew my freaking mind that you could answer calls OUTSIDE the house, like wooooooooooaaaaaaahhhh, it's the FUTURE, man!

[@nickwallette6201]

They were serious in the early 90s. I had one that I could use _all the way down the street_ from our house. hahaha In retrospect, it was the prelude to dark times, where I could be reached anywhere.

[@bfbunny]

1:32 I am honestly worried about that iPad.

[@RichHutchinson]

This is just amazing thank you for this

[@AB0BA_69]

I want to reassure everyone that James' channel is absolutely worth a sub. That man just has a charm about him that's quintessentially Auzzie

[@retractingblinds]

Remember when you went to a radioshack or even a wal-mart or something and they'd have an entire aisle that was just phones you could check out? Novelty garfield phones, the most high tech touch tone $799 phones.

[@VulpesHilarianus]

I loved that. Back before Tandy went bust they had little miniature Tandy Color Computer phones where the base was the fake keyboard. Just a little plastic piece on a hinge with a sticker that made it look like a monitor. Flip it up to dial, flip it down to hang up.

[@DoctorNemmo]

I'd say at most $30 bucks.

[@theodorgiosan2570]

Walmart where I live still has a whole aisle of landline phones. Everyone still has one. I don't know a single person that doesn't have a landline phone. But I guess in some parts of the country it must be like that.

[@Wandrng_drifter]

2:30 you should make a song with that thing lmao

[@gamer-jm6my]

man i miss this guy i dont remember when i stopped watching, i just remember getting super busy but im glad to see what else he has created ever sense his content is just cool and he can be funny at times love your channel man! keep up the good work

[@AutisticGameGuy]

Well, if you didn't toss the piano phone onto the floor twice, I'd say "Ask James to make the ringer work again", but he's gonna need to do a loooot more than that now.

[@sadmac356]

My first thought was "idk try taking the battery out?" But also it's a landline, that really shouldn't matter. So yeah

[@N33k5]

I'm wondering if the line in contacts were corroded/dirty or the ringer was switched off...

[@slightlyevolved]

It would help if he was using the right kind of cord. That coiled cord is for handsets, and are different from line cords. Slightly more narrow plug than a line cord, so it was pretty strange that the first phone even worked. Wade must have JUST happened to get the pins lined up.

[@dwderp]

I think he was trying to plug the line cord into the handset socket, wasn’t he? I think the line cord goes underneath, while the headset cord plugged into the back.

[@N33k5]

@@dwderp we may never know

[@LordOfReb3ls]

Once upon a time, there was a telecom company called southwestern bell (which was bought out by Att) that did my moms landline. Every month we’d go to their store and I would play with ALL the novelty land lines. I used to have one that was a train engine

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah me and my roommate got old fashioned Candlestick phone. Had a little separate mouthpiece and was made to look like a rotary phone although I think at that point it was just stealing the aesthetic and was using touch tone. Although I do recall back in the '90s there was a little switch on your phone and you could switch from Touch Tone to Rotary

[@-Shinoray-]

You good sir/ dear lady were loving the dream without knowing it... I tapy hat for you.

[@drangusbadger1976]

Fun fact, AT&T used to be Bell Corporation. They were split into four smaller Bell companies due to a federal antitrust/monopoly lawsuit. Over time, they all merged back together again to form AT&T.

[@LordOfReb3ls]

@@drangusbadger1976 I think I remember that! I was a kid at the time so the only real attention I paid was the annoyance it wasn’t cartoons 😅 still though, that’s very interesting. Especially how over time they’ve managed to claw back most of their control

[@Agnoryz]

I used to have 2 landlines up until 2018-ish... That's what it is like to live with a 60 year old dad. Also, 4:02 BRITISH HONG KONG PRIDE WOOO!

[@rydenhaze10]

He always makes his videos high quality, good understanding and funny as shit 💀

[@driverjayne]

There was nothing that compares to just SLAMMING down your reciever in anger. You can't hang up properly in people any more. You can just angrily jab your finger into the end call button. Slamming the phone down made a statement. It echoed into the other person's reciever.

[@LightTheUnicorn]

I'm pretty sure this is the reason we fondly remember flip phones so much too. "Closing" a call physically was just so satisfying.

[@MyFedora]

Yes, and then miss the end call button several times, and the phone screen goes blank before you click the button. So annoying. I hate it.

[@thexgamer8240]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the endurance of the iPad case when Wade put the power supply unit on it?

[@memediatek]

There's a real ipad under it

[@sleepy_sleeby]

​@@memediatekit even works!

[@calebm7181]

I can agree with that

[@gorose9899]

The poor iPad 😭

[@hvideos6864]

c bc e

[@Deftones445]

Jame is a mystical chaotic mate, he is as important to the channel as the one grit, love it.

[@Lachlant1984]

I also remember those Telecom Touchfones, we had a few of them, that ringtone it produces is so recognisable.

[@Goodmanperson55]

Those beeps you hear when dialling a number are called DTMF tones, and they're actually a combination of two frequencies being sounded together. That is how the landline system knows which button is being pressed.

[@hanakoisbestgirl4752]

That's why you sometimes see in I think typically spy movies someone is able to make a call that was previously made in. Phone booth or whatever by recording and playing back the tones into the phone. The fact that's that was, and maybe still is, actually possible is really cool

[@HuMan-bEing132]

this just feels like a normal aftershow. for the people who aren’t subscribed to the patreon (do it now) this is basically what the average episode is like.

[@Chroma3D]

this combined with the empty Batman nugget as the best advertisements for the aftershow there could be. That and the lucky dips I must be missing.

[@rechtrecht]

I grew up with a Landline and regularly used it till 2013. Still use it to call offices and stuff because for some reason they accept calls from our Landline more often

[@LiamShannon88]

I had that Kawasaki in my room as a kid! What a trip! I think the switch below the keypad changes the ringtone if I recall correctly.

[@NoblePineapples]

James is an absolute treasure of a person. Seriously. I also have [and thoroughly used] a wallet that was a cheeseburger from back in middle school.

[@YokiDokiPanic]

Hearing Dank sing "banana phone" for the burger was not something I was expecting to hear today.

[@koduflower2000]

DankPods, you make my day! Thanks! 😁

[@crowblunt536]

2:12 this was used from a music video Telephone Call by Kraftwerk which is black.

[@channelmachinebroke9638]

5:07 ah yes UVB-76 my favorite ring tone

[@pi8049]

Ah the good old days - calling your parents from a telephone box using a reverse charger

[@driverjayne]

Calling collect, "i'mreadytobepickedupatthemall" hang up. 😂

[@Sakkeru96]

I reverse called my parents once pre-10 (got first mobile around 08 but I was lucky and often ran out of credit) and got a right telling off - because I accidentally called my mum's mobile instead of the landline and gave her a huge bill. Never tried reverse call again, ever since... Lmao

[@ianholmes3761]

I once did it and they wouldn't except the call😢

[@Furko08]

6:22 I think James might be able to help you out there.

[@StickShiftStudios]

Growing up, I had a Porsche 928 phone. The shape of the car ment it was actually comfortable to use and hold with the round hatch back area. It was lime green. The key pad was on the bottom of the chassis. Nice video. The ninja looks like a scale model.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I feel that "we relate to too many generations!" part so much. It's like being bilingual, but for... time? Bitemporal? Having the biggest telecoms revolution in a century (and a half?) take place during your teen-ish years is a whole deal. Because the world you grew up in was just normal, of seeking out people by landline, missing calls because you were on a call/dialled-up to the internet, and mobile phones being for big businessmen.... but by the time you were in high school it was basically the world Gen Z and Alpha grew up with. We were still young enough to adapt rather than struggling.

[@Jay-st6sl]

My dad had a pager when I was 5 and by the time I was 20 you could get a galaxy *note with a 7 inch screen. Time flys.

[@blakksheep736]

Bitemporal is a great word.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@Jay-st6sl yep, my big brother had a pager until 01 or 02 or so. But then he kept it for a while even after he got his first Nokia. I think maybe his weed guy kept using the pager to say when he was available to meet…

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@blakksheep736 thanks!

[@JamienautMark2]

My mom still has a landline phone and its ringtone straight up sounds like the first level of Sonic Spinball for the Genesis. Drives me crazy.

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

That first landline is bringing back nostalgic memories.. it looks exactly like the phone i would hold to my ear..

[@spacecadet2663]

In 1st grade (about 6 years old for non americans) I was at a friend's birthday party and she had a hamburger phone and it was the funniest thing we had seen. Thank you for bringing back the memories.

[@dreamyatonement4931]

6:56 I couldn’t stop giggling; please wade, never change, I love you and your channel so so much

[@WisconsinAdventures]

James is a literal god send. He has done so much for this channel, and he just does it so casually. I love that

[@atiredprsn]

OK BUT HIS LAUGHS- HE HAS SCARY ONES THEN ONES THAT SOUND MENTAL

[@Pokefan-xj3be]

I love James and his ingenuity with taking a telephone power supply from 1975 and a button, then making it JUST ring the manky old phones

[@WillCooperBagpipes]

I now want nothing more than to see Dank play a song on the pianophone

[@sike_ologist3744]

5:02 bro it sounds like a freakin fire alarm!

[@MatthewKeys]

Wade spit out the first three notes of the AT&T chime when he was playing with the piano phone which is all sorts of fun.

[@otherssingpuree1779]

I have a landline with caller ID from mid 2000's, it feels great to have long conversations. Cheap and decent voice quality.

[@cooperlee-clay9134]

Reminds me about that time my telephone caught fire once. Edit: Just so you know the telephone line has 40v when idling and the ringing voltage is over 100v. It blew up as my friend called. Anyways, Can we go to cashies now?

[@lickablestinkage7783]

thats suprising it caught on fire, although its 100v its very low current

[@lorenzostransportvlogs]

My grandma still has one of those phones shown at the start. Was going strong before NBN. Shows how well old stuff was built

[@Zackary_05]

5:53 he speaks gibberish. QUICK GIVE THIS TO POOF

[@frylerthefrygod]

Holy shit it happened! this is an acc I’m not subbed to dankpods on, and when I searched up dank your channel came up before dank meme’s! You did it!

[@CAJfur]

I had one of those hamburger phones as a kid. I grew up with house phones, so I still feel like every house needs one. But my house doesn't even have one anymore. Feels weird that they're obsolete now.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

I remember we bought one of one of those phones that were designed to look like the old Candlestick phones from the '50s. It had a separate mouthpiece and was made to look like a rotary phone

[@CantankerousDave]

My aunt and uncle had one of those, but it was a big wall-mounted box.

[@shelbysplayday6284]

Loved the “Yaba daba doo mate what can I do for you.” And all his fake scenarios.

[@evilgamer6382]

1:58 .... that ring .. that damn ringing gave a flood of emotion

[@hashbrown777]

The piano phone probably just needed a flathead to go in and scratch up the contacts, they gunk up with dust and copper oxide all the time Seeing that telecom phone again was neato, they were *everywhere* (which makes sense for the national phone company..). Seeing those old logos like Ansett or the three-strike optus, metlink (for melbourne) and the old tv channel ones, and diners club (which were always on shop windows) are always a trip

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

Yup, I can totally relate to your intro. I’m 34 and my childhood was mostly pre-internet/cell phones. Our family got its first desktop with dial up internet (aol) when I was 12/13 in 2001. Even with internet, it was nothing like the modern web of today. No video streaming and audio took AGES for horribly compressed garbage (anywhere from 15-30min per SONG). The average website took anywhere from 1-2min to load, pictures loaded line-by-line at a crawl. And not only will no incoming calls come through to your home phone while surfing the web but your connection would immediately end if anyone else in the house picked up another phone to make a call. This was by far the BIGGEST source of fights and arguments with my family back then. Imagine everyone in your household having to share one cellphone that couldn’t leave the premises with the slowest internet connection you can imagine and you get a rough idea of what it was like. Don’t wanna sound like an old curmudgeon but kids nowadays have no idea how good they have it. Not their fault obviously. It’s just wild how much technology has advanced just in my own lifetime.

[@carloslaguardia2190]

9:40 are you going to be a office worker now😂😂

[@cathreensalas822]

The lil roleplay of the child and the dad after the first ring took me back a good more-then-a decade ago

[@Vernafveik]

James is like a character in a video game who can and will make literally anything just on the off chance you'll need it later

[@xargos]

Yeah, most novelty phones were cheaply made. I saw too many where people could barely hear each other when using them. The one exception was a duck phone my grandparents had. It worked pretty well and has a nice stimulated quack for a ringer.

[@bennich123]

Jersey shore vibes

[@station428]

I had me one of those burger phones. Got a lot of nostalgia for it when I watched Juno recently

[@umbrellacorp.]

I remember when I was a kid in 1994 my parents had a Rotary Telephone. ☎️ My kids flip out when they saw it. Old tech is Awesome. 😎👍💯

[@rockfan243]

I nearly whipped my head around and jumped out of my chair when I heard that old ring 😂

[@darklessgaming6402]

I love your old tech stuff, it's inspired me to tinker with everything I have. I've been here since you created the channel, love your vids ❤

[@martin_drive34]

You are the guy who i watch when i am sad or depressed thanks for making my mood feel better

[@lunameriweather7693]

I just stumbled across this and I love it 😅😅

[@SpaceGangster45]

Wade! You gotta get yourself an XLink Bluetooth gateway! You can make and receive your cell phone calls with any home phone you plug in. I got one a while back and it's heaps of fun.

[@thenarstar]

1:55 As a fellow child of 1990. This was soooo sweet to hear

[@Stanfordscienceman]

I love that ol mate James is like a helpful spirit letting dankpods use ancient technology from a time long passed

[@warre1]

In my childhood in the 1970s Finland pretty much all telephones got rotary dials. In the 1980s keypad phones started become more popular. First with pulse dialing and later tone dialing.

[@hughjass138]

I received an R2D2 landline for my birthday one year (yes, how depressing) and dear god it was both fun and annoying. It would randomly beep and whistle throughout the day, and often in the middle of the night.

[@jacobemerson8015]

I used to love going to the phone company when my mom went to pay the home phone bill in person. They sold novelty phones, and they had them out all out on display, cars, motorcycles, animals and of course the classic Mickey Mouse, never could talk her into buying one though 😅

[@antoineabiaad6908]

I never knew how rare landlines were in other countries (not THAT common here in Lebanon but not so rare) you can find 'em in someone's house or in a hospital. I watch your videos from time to time and i must say they're great! (have a good day)

[@SunnyD1865]

The best novelty phone has got to be the garfield phone with eyes that open when you pick it up. So good they kept washing up on a french beach as they mystically arose from the sea to spread cool vibes* *may have actually been from a lost shipping container found 35 years later

[@HeisenbergFam]

Wade and "if it runs on electricity there's a chance I will yell at it" attitude go well together like peanut butter and jelly

[@kip_c]

Stop like botting every video dude jeez

[@s6edge7]

Man knows what to say , leave the guy beeee

[@thejay8963]

Yo Mr. White...

[@jojobod]

3:34 Kelly hasnt been the same since the accident

[@bacoose]

There's a neat frog phone that makes froggy chirps when it rings, and I've never stopped thinking about it.

[@WhiteFoux]

wow... i didn't expect a blast of nostalgia from someone just going 'ring ring ring' in a specific tune like that XD. an almost immediate recognition of banana phone

[@OzRetrocomp]

Fun fact: Early Telecom TF200 phones with the flat keypad (instead of the later ZX Spectrum style one Wade showed off at the start of this video) had a bad habit of disconnecting data calls after 15 minutes. Very frustrating in the days when it'd take 2 hours of repeat dialling to get onto a popular single line BBS.

[@James76767]

That and the keypads were somewhat prone to randomly dying. I believe it was due to moisture getting in.

[@rambbler]

I demand this as a series, there's so many, lets say, "unique" novelty phones. You could even start reviewing those fake flip phones from the 2000s.

[@millionzepf]

This is dankpods at its best!

[@oh_emiko]

As a comms tech is actually surprising how many of those old telecom phones are still in the Telstra exchanges, especially in Brisbane city and Toowoomba and still in use and the amount of new Telstra branded house phones that are just piled up everywhere just slowly turning into ewaste & yellowing just sitting there.