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In an era of scams, phishing alerts and viral hoaxes, it's understandable that some have been skeptical about the existence of a 24-hour telephone hotline that does nothing but play Hall & Oates songs. Trivia-loving Facebook page I'm a Useless Info Junkie posted this meme in January 2018: It's all true. You can try it for yourself (depending on your phone plan, you might get charged) or just watch the video that we recorded. An automated female voice intones: Naturally, we pressed 4. Callin' Oates is the creation of San Francisco-based friends Reid Butler — a product manager at Cisco — and Michael Selvidge, who was given the assignment of creating an app as part of his employment at the cloud communications company Twilio. The hotline was launched in December 2011. Technology news site The Verge reported at the time: According to Selvidge, the Colorado Springs-area phone number was receiving an average of around 2,000 calls each day as of November 2017.
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