Huey Lewis and Phone Phreaking with Phil Lapsley

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jesse talks to Huey Lewis about his pub rock beginnings, his multi-platinum success with the album Sports, and how he wrote songs for movies like Back to the Future and Pineapple Express. He also talks about the time he snuck onto an airplane bound for London. Then, from free flights to free phone calls. Find out how "phreakers" were able to use computerized tones to unlock an entire phone network. Heck, one guy did it just by whistling the right way. Phil Lapsley will talk about his book "Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of The Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell".

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Lee from Dublin, Ireland.
0:01.8	I'm Nick, Showtime Ballata from Rhode Island.
0:03.8	I'm Blake from Oakland, California.
0:05.6	Both I would Jesse Thorn has produced independently
0:07.9	and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:09.7	You should support the show like I did.
0:11.2	This visit maximumfund.org-donate.
0:15.5	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.9	There was a moment when the rock and roll star Huey Lewis
0:20.0	realized that music could be more than a hobby.
0:22.8	It could be a career.
0:24.5	It actually happened overseas.
0:26.8	He was a young guy just out of high school,
0:29.6	hanging out with other travelers in Marrakesh, Morocco.
0:33.0	You know, I'd play in the square and make four dirums.
0:35.8	And the youths are the Mukda's home
0:38.1	for wayward boys and girls where we were staying.
0:40.6	Which is what we called the little opium den.
0:43.2	We were staying in, frankly, was a dirumonite.
0:47.4	And all you could eat was another dirum.
0:49.4	And I'd made two dirums.
0:51.2	And it sounds silly, but a little light went off.
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