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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh. There's Chuck. Ring, ring. There's Jerry. And this is stuff you should know.

That's right. This is a Kyle joint. So a little British factor too in here because Kyle

likes to throw those in because that's where he lives. Yeah. He keeps mentioning fish and chips

every like a few paragraphs. Yeah. What's a chippy? That's right.

We are going to be talking about telephone switchboards, some overlap with a couple of other episodes we've done.

But this is all about the, you know, the advancement of the telephone system in the United States and abroad,

and how the telephone switchboard was a crucial, crucial part of that.

Yeah. First, I want to give a shout out. If you ever find yourself in the town of Maitland, Florida, go to the Maitland, I think, well, it's the telephone museum.

There's probably not more than one telephone museum in Maitland, even though I can't remember

the name of it. Just ask somebody for directions there and they will tell you or ask your app. Regardless,

it's really cute. It's not the biggest museum you'll ever find, but it's a very dedicated museum.

I love old telephones. I would like to check that out. Oh, you'd love this.

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