Hater from the Future
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I called the Dennis Miller Show for free using Skype from my apartment on a tiny fishing island in Japan just to see if I could do it. It worked! I just wanted to goof on the guys a little bit and see if I could get a rise out of them - the truth is that I really enjoy the fly by the seat-of-your-pants kind of casual style that the show has. It’s incredibly entertaining to me - a mixture of news, politics, sports, and behind-the-scenes showbiz stuff. Also, it really helps maintain my vocabulary. Talking to students in purposefully dumbed-down English all the time can have a deleterious impact on your ability to hold a normal conversation with other native speakers. It’s embarrassing. Ha ha. Anyway, if you’re bored and curious - here’s the call. Dennis (of SNL, HBO, ESPN, and general ranting fame) and his sidekick “Sal” crack me up - and I’m glad they can take a joke. Ah, refreshing self-reflexive humor. Gotta love it.
So, as you can see, this hater from the future living in Shogun-land / “Jimmy” Clavell-ville successfully called into a radio show 14 hours out of sync. I might continue to do this in the future, now that I know it can be done. But only when I’m really bored and happen to be up late. And I won’t bother posting them, so no worries there. Ha ha. Lastly, I’ll clarify on one point that might weird people out, and head it off at the pass. The phrase “let’s touch Indians” is adapted from a line said by the character played by Albert Brooks in the film Lost in America. It is his character’s concept of what it means to “get real” or “be in touch with reality,” so in this case it just means that the show is accepting calls from regular folks out there. Like the character, the show kind of “finds itself” in the people it comes into contact with, outside of the studio bubble. No need to get uppity over it. 
You just gotta know the cultural allusions.