Axel Bouchon

Have a good day.

All right.

We bought this payphone on Facebook Marketplace, and then modified it a bunch, and then changed the signage to say, call a Republican.

And then we brought the payphone to San Francisco, California, which is the most liberal city in America.

And then we installed the payphone outside of Black Serum Tattoo, of course, with their permission.

And after we installed the phone, we then got on a flight to Texas, where we bought another payphone in Dallas, and drove it two hours west to Abilene, the most conservative city in America.

And then at an Airbnb, we modified it a bunch and had it say, call a Democrat on it.

And then we installed this payphone outside of 7-in-1 books, of course, with their permission.

And when you pick up this phone in Texas, it automatically calls the other phone in San Francisco.

And when you pick up the phone in San Francisco, it automatically calls this one in Texas.

The project is called The Party Line.

And the goal is to get people from different political viewpoints to have meaningful, not hateful conversations.

Because at a biological level, humans are far more similar than we are different.

And while political discourse often causes stress, human-to-human friendly conversations reduce the stress in our brains and activate the neurotransmitters dopamine and cannabinoids, which make us happier.

Well, thanks for having me, Glenn.

Yeah, I mean...

We try to really translate neuroscience into something you can feel.

That's kind of almost like what we do actually since a very long time, to be honest.

Yeah.

Maybe I just take one step back to quickly explain what we are.