Join Lionel for "Ventilation Friday" on The Other Side of Midnight. Skipping the usual news, this entertaining and informative hour focuses on convivial telephonic intercourse and listener confabulation. We dive into wild stories, from explicating the notion of the devil to AM radio hosts talking to the dead. Callers reminisce about the days of phone operators, cheating the phone company, battling long-distance carriers, and pulling outrageous pranks, including the legendary "Help!" call to the public library. Plus, hear shocking tales of radio legends, $70 landlines with copper wire, and the mysterious origins of the word kayfabe. It's a trip down memory lane, where we discover exactly "what the heck is going on here".

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