diff --git a/ops/agent-phone.mjs b/ops/agent-phone.mjs
index e5c29e3..b2ab94a 100755
--- a/ops/agent-phone.mjs
+++ b/ops/agent-phone.mjs
@@ -422,6 +422,12 @@ export function noteSaid(pin, agent, text) {
 		});
 	} catch {}
 }
+/**
+ * How far back a joined leg reads the room's record as its own memory: long
+ * enough to rejoin a call it dropped out of, short enough that the last episode
+ * recorded in the same room is not mistaken for this one.
+ */
+export const ROOM_MEMORY_MS = 30 * 60_000;
 /** Where a joined leg asks the room who is on the line and what was said. */
 export function statusUrlFor(base, pin) {
 	return `${String(base).replace(/\/+$/, '')}/api/v1/agent-queue/rooms/${pin}`;
@@ -817,7 +823,18 @@ async function main() {
 		const r = await fetch(process.env.GROUPCALL_STATUS_URL, { headers: roomHeaders }).then((x) => (x.ok ? x.json() : null)).catch(() => null);
 		const all = await fetch(`${process.env.GROUPCALL_STATUS_URL}/lines?after=0&wait=0`, { headers: roomHeaders }).then((x) => (x.ok ? x.json() : null)).catch(() => null);
 		afterId = all?.lines?.at(-1)?.id || 0;
-		if (r) r.history = (all?.lines || r.history || []).slice(-80);
+		/**
+		 * Recent lines only. The room's record is our memory so that a drop, a crash
+		 * or a deploy picks the conversation up instead of starting over - and a
+		 * redial takes seconds, a restart a minute. But a room keeps its transcript
+		 * between calls, and Off The Record records every episode in the same room:
+		 * unbounded, a new episode opened with eighty lines of the LAST one, so the
+		 * hosts started the show holding things the guest had said weeks earlier.
+		 * That is also the one thing their brief forbids - never say "you mentioned"
+		 * about something that is not in this call.
+		 */
+		const since = Date.now() - ROOM_MEMORY_MS;
+		if (r) r.history = (all?.lines || r.history || []).filter((l) => Number(l?.at) >= since).slice(-80);
 		for (const l of r?.history || []) {
 			const at = new Date(l.at).toISOString();
 			if (l.kind === 'agent' && l.who === agent) transcript.push({ who: agent, text: l.text, at, history: true });
diff --git a/test/agent-phone.test.mjs b/test/agent-phone.test.mjs
index 8bcbae0..4b9b063 100644
--- a/test/agent-phone.test.mjs
+++ b/test/agent-phone.test.mjs
@@ -327,6 +327,25 @@ test('a joined leg can work out where the room status lives', () => {
   assert.equal(worker.statusUrlFor('https://group.call.pit.world/', '8625'), 'https://group.call.pit.world/api/v1/agent-queue/rooms/8625');
 });
 
+test("the room's record is memory of this call, not of the last episode", () => {
+  // A room keeps its transcript between calls and Off The Record records every
+  // episode in room 8625, so loading the last 80 lines unbounded opened a new
+  // episode with the previous one in the hosts' heads: "[memory] 80 earlier lines
+  // loaded" followed by questions about a Bitcoin loss from weeks before. Their
+  // brief forbids exactly that - never say "you mentioned" about something that
+  // is not in this call.
+  const lines = [
+    { id: 1, who: 'Anthony', kind: 'person', text: 'from the last episode', at: now - 60 * minute },
+    { id: 2, who: 'riotcoder', kind: 'agent', text: 'also last episode', at: now - 31 * minute },
+    { id: 3, who: 'Anthony', kind: 'person', text: 'this call, after a drop', at: now - 2 * minute },
+  ];
+  const since = now - worker.ROOM_MEMORY_MS;
+  const kept = lines.filter((l) => Number(l.at) >= since).slice(-80);
+  assert.deepEqual(kept.map((l) => l.id), [3]);
+  // Long enough to rejoin a call that dropped a few minutes ago.
+  assert.ok(worker.ROOM_MEMORY_MS >= 10 * minute);
+});
+
 test('a model that says PASS is saying nothing, not reading the word out', () => {
   assert.deepEqual(worker.parseTurn('SAY: PASS'), { kind: 'pass', text: '' });
   assert.deepEqual(worker.parseTurn('PASS'), { kind: 'pass', text: '' });