Thread by @nickmmark

I was alone on an elevator today when I began hearing a voice.

It asked me if I “still support President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda?”

I look around. No one here.

Hmm that’s weird
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Then the voice asked me if I’d like to “make a donation to support President Trump and the America first agenda he enacted?”

Pause

Umm no. This is an elevator.

Pause

The voice said “Aha.”

Then it continued “I’m sorry. Thank you bye bye.”

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So either:
A. I’m having a pro-Trump command auditory verbal hallucination or
B. His campaign robocalled the elevator’s emergency phone

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I’m pretty sure it’s B because I got a video of the second half.

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Apparently modern elevators all have telephones ☎️ not intercoms.

There is even sub-discipline of phreaking called elevator phone phreaking. @WIRED had a good story on it:
wired.com/story/elevator…

If you look closely, you can see that the red “call placed indicator” is on.
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Anyway you can be sure I’ll always be checking the panel to see if that little red “don’t worry you aren’t crazy Nick” LED is on.

So bottom line: this could have been a elevator phone phreaking prank but more likely just a hilarious wrong robodial.
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Alternatively, this could be the most hyper-targeted campaign call ever. I imagine a meeting at Mar-a-Lago:
“We NEED to target college educated 30-something HCWs in the Seattle area who never vote Republican”

“But *HOW* can we reach them?”

“The Elevator”

“Great idea Jared!”
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