Party line
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Party line".
Oct 5, 2026
Your Brain Changes Gears (Airdate 10/5/2026)
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40:37LamarPANELIST
... because there's very few of us, I, I don't know if, uh, 'cause Max, they lived out in, in, in the other side of the world from me, and his dad worked for AT&T, so I'm sure everything went great for them.
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40:49LamarPANELIST
But we lived out in the country, and we had eight different people on our party line, and the party line meant that eight people all had the same phone line.
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40:58LamarPANELIST
Uh, they figured out how to make our phone ring when it was our number.
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41:02LamarPANELIST
Uh, another county down the road, they had to have their own ring, like two longs and a short or that kind of thing, and that would be for them.
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42:50LamarPANELIST
[laughs]
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42:50Sheri LynchHOST
"It's Doris.
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42:51Sheri LynchHOST
They're focusing on Doris tonight." Um, you know, what you're describing, this party line situation, this driving, banging on doors, "Is the phone off the hook?"
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43:00LamarPANELIST
Yeah.
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5:27Delanie WalkerPANELIST
Before you had all the internet stuff, it was called Party Line.
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5:30Delanie WalkerPANELIST
You call this number, and you'll get, and it'll be people from all over the world on the phone, and you, and if, and say if it was a girl you wanna talk to, be like, "Hey, go to line three." You hit line three, we can go and we can chat, and talk it up.
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5:41Delanie WalkerPANELIST
Y'all never heard of Party Lines?
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5:42Clay MatthewsPANELIST
Jesus, you got catfished?
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5:43Taylor LewanHOST
That seems dangerous.
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5:01Chris CoxHOST
Yeah.
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5:01Chris CoxHOST
And he finds out about PartyLine.
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5:03Chris CoxHOST
Yeah, he's literally randomly dialing numbers hoping people will just talk to him on the phone.
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5:07RayPANELIST
Mm-hmm.
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5:07Chris CoxHOST
Like, out of sheer loneliness, and somebody who's being an asshole to him, he's basically like, "Would you call PartyLine?" He calls the guy back, "Look, I'm sorry.
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5:13Chris CoxHOST
I know you're mad at me, but, like, what is a PartyLine?" [laughs]
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5:16RayPANELIST
It's like, "Jesus Christ, just fucking look it up." And it's like, "No, I know, but I don't know exactly how to do that 'cause I'm blind." He's like, "Okay, you call."
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5:22Chris CoxHOST
[laughs] And, uh, I'll be honest, I had never heard of a PartyLine.