Jordan Harbinger

And then sometime during the 90s, my dad went, can you believe the phone company made my mom, my grandma, get rid of the party line and they just gave her her own landline for the exact same price because they were like, holy crap, these old people in Detroit are still using party lines.

And it's a billing nightmare, right?

Because you got to split the bill, but then someone's like, yeah, my neighbor's using the phone constantly and I never do and I'm not paying.

So it's just caused all kinds of annoying things.

And I would imagine also it's tough for the government to like wiretap two people when one of them might be a criminal and the other person is totally innocent.

It's like, how do you handle that?

So it's probably much easier for them technically, administratively, for all kinds of reasons to just give everybody their own phone line.

So then she was like, I got my own phone line for $15 a month because it was literally like 15 bucks a month to share a phone.

Wow.

Really old Detroit neighborhood, right?

Detroit West Side, you know, the street that has three 85 year old white people left on it and the rest of them are young families from wherever.

And we're like, basically, it's Mexican town area now.

And it was just like, you know, old, old, super old white people.

And they weren't going to, I don't need my own phone line, she would say.

I don't make that many calls.

Nobody calls me, which is kind of sad but true when you're an 85-year-old woman who knits all day.

Like, you probably really don't need your own phone line necessarily.

Anyway, yeah, this whole communication by telephone should not be considered private, constant surveillance.

I mean, this, it kind of all sounds like any TED Talk you listened to a decade ago about modern technology.

He was close.