The Big Red Phone

@ShaggyChu: damn it they said "hang on a second" and then "bababooey" and hung up! How is that my fault?

@Branthog said:

@manthorp said:

@Branthog 1 you should use wheat. 2 it's live so that we can hear all phone calls and also see the visual passwords. I am hitting new lows watching this phone when I know no one will answer. NOREGRETS!

So am I supposed to be seeing something on that video? All I see is a blackness.

Update: Oh, nevermind. The lights are off in the office. DUH. They should put a little nightlight on it for retards like us at night.

Haha yeah they say 24-7 but it only really will get answered between office hours (although Dave was in WAY late last night), so a god 6 or 7 hours until its starts getting picked up again.

@slowbird: *shrugs* not being born with better luck?

IT'S ON

Love it how the second the lights turned on, the phone started ringing.

8:53am San Francisco time. When do they come into the office?

@Bib said:

8:53am San Francisco time. When do they come into the office?

Well considering the lights are on there is probably at least one person there right now.

@Huey2k2 said:

Love it how the second the lights turned on, the phone started ringing.

It did? I've been watching it since it was dark. The lights are on. Nothing has been ringing.

Is it too late to claim the first rick-roll? Because that would be awesome.

@Branthog said:

@Huey2k2 said:

Love it how the second the lights turned on, the phone started ringing.

It did? I've been watching it since it was dark. The lights are on. Nothing has been ringing.

The phone definitely rang once as soon as the lights popped on.

It's going!

Was that Coonce?

That is the dumbest thing ever. This is why I love Whiskey Media!!!! It's probably not possible, but if they could hook it up to a skype account and have it ring when people call that, it would be amazing.

There needs to be a big WM party and this needs to be rolled out there. I want to call and get Dave's sister on the line after some drinks. That would be fucking EPIC.

As awesome as this is, I can imagine it'll quickly become irritating for the guys.

@ds8k said:

As awesome as this is, I can imagine it'll quickly become irritating for the guys.

I wouldn't be surprised if it is already pretty irritating for them.

This is ridiculous, in the best way possible!

I wonder how long it takes until Tested does a "How to destroy a Big Red Phone that won't stop ringing while people are trying to do stuff, and by stuff I mean ridiculous videos" video...

I don't know why they would do this to themselves, but I love 'em for it!

I can see someone spinning in the chair right by the phone...

VINNYYYYYYYYYYYY

Vinny! Woohoo!

Oh Vinny....

How could anyone not love Vinny?

V-Pain!

I love the idea, but I can barely hear what they're saying with that awful sound quality D:

This is weird... I didn't have my headphones on, and I was quite far away from them, yet I could still somehow hear that it was Vinny talking...

Also, yay Vinny!

@Huey2k2 said:

How could anyone not love Vinny?

I don't know that it's possible to not love Vinny.

Love Vinny long time.

Damnit, I was making noodles... I hope they archive these calls.

I was insipred to make an ad for the @thebigredphone

plus I don't get to use my image that often.http://bit.ly/r1tj3d

@TimmyChaw said:

Damnit, I was making noodles... I hope they archive these calls.

It does say on the stream that archives will be posted occasionally, so I imagine at some point they will make a video archive of all the best calls or something. Just wouldn't expect one anytime soon.

People are truly obsessed with this site.

I guess they're playing MK.

@theplatypus said:

I guess they're playing MK.

That or it's lunch time... or both.

oh my god it's ringing.  I can't believe I didn't subscribe before.  i can't believe this is the event that pushed me over the edge.

@mfpantst said:

oh my god it's ringing. I can't believe I didn't subscribe before. i can't believe this is the event that pushed me over the edge.

Yeah the phone is pretty awesome, last night Vinny and Drew were in the office until around 11PST, they were taking calls for most of it.

YES DAVE

You should get achievements based on who's picked up the phone for you. That way we can joke about things like "Man the Jeff one is the rarest, he's only picked up the phone twice in giantbomb's 15 year history." It will also be amusing to find out who the phone whores of the office are too lol.

Has anyone hooked up a vocoder on either end yet?  That'd be cool.

dude just tried to talk himself out of the conversation but Dave kept going... damn.

Dave is cool like that, I called last night with a dumb joke and 1 question, and he talked to me for a while. I feel oddly closer to the site now, lol...

Dude this is nuts.

This is why Whiskey Media is the best website.

Apparently someone really wants to get through.

Alexis answering! Yay!

And here I thought there was a fragment of my life that didn't involve this site. Now I need an app that launches the phone stream with my operating system and every other device I might use...

This is not the Zelda hint hotline, guys!

@hoffa55 said:

I was insipred to make an ad for the @thebigredphone

plus I don't get to use my image that often.http://bit.ly/r1tj3d

I like it!

WHO IS THIS WHO IS THIS.  WHO IS THIS.  SPEAK!!!!

Jeff! :D

edit: This is the greatest stupid thing.