It is Ventilation Friday on The Other Side of Midnight with Lionel! Prepare for an entertaining and informative session of rapid-fire takes, bouncing from topic to topic. Lionel ventilates on serious questions (Is imitating Barry White racist?) and modern frustrations, including co-workers who vanish, the epidemic of phone and email scams, and the absurd need for Wi-Fi passwords in public places. He critiques modern retail antics and customer service styles. Lionel demands we stop talking about certain exhausted news cycles, like Epstein, and rants about pronunciation pet peeves. Plus, listen in for deeply personal stories about overcoming a debilitating stutter, the challenges of being paralyzed by words, and calls covering the history of the show and the disappearing New York accent. Finally, Lionel dives into vintage tech nostalgia, covering everything from party lines and rotary phones to person-to-person calls and pre-coordinated international calls from the 1950s.

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