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EPISODE · Jan 30, 2026 · 52 MIN

Hour 3: Flying Doritos Over Area 51 | 01-30-26

from The Other Side of Midnight with Lionel · host 77 WABC

Join Lionel for a wild ride through the eccentric and the unexplained. The night kicks off with a diagnosis of "Atwood’s Disease"—the compulsion to yell out punchlines or state the painfully obvious—and a look at which rock stars are aging gracefully versus those who might need a welfare check. Things get gritty with a listener’s "dead serious" tale of inadvertently delivering a truckload of rats to a Buffalo food processing plant, sparking Lionel’s own traumatic memories of glue traps.The hour shifts gears to the extraterrestrial, fueled by reports of a mysterious "Dorito-shaped aircraft" over Area 51. Lionel opens the lines to eyewitnesses who describe everything from "bouncing white balls" in Nevada to "cigar-shaped" craft and silent, floating "subway trains" over Staten Island. The episode culminates in a heated debate with a skeptic who insists UFOs are just weather balloons, leading Lionel to question why aliens would ever want to talk to us anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Lionel for a wild ride through the eccentric and the unexplained. The night kicks off with a diagnosis of "Atwood’s Disease"—the compulsion to yell out punchlines or state the painfully obvious—and a look at which rock stars are aging gracefully versus those who might need a welfare check. Things get gritty with a listener’s "dead serious" tale of inadvertently delivering a truckload of rats to a Buffalo food processing plant, sparking Lionel’s own traumatic memories of glue traps.The hour shifts gears to the extraterrestrial, fueled by reports of a mysterious "Dorito-shaped aircraft" over Area 51. Lionel opens the lines to eyewitnesses who describe everything from "bouncing white balls" in Nevada to "cigar-shaped" craft and silent, floating "subway trains" over Staten Island. The episode culminates in a heated debate with a skeptic who insists UFOs are just weather balloons, leading Lionel to question why aliens would ever want to talk to us anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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