Phone Messages

About Phone Messages

This podcast will play and discuss old phone answering machine messages. In the late 1980s, while living in Chicago, I selected certain messages to be duplicated using a double cassette recorder. Playing them back leads me to explore the intersection of personal history and the larger social and cultural context through the lens of an outdated technology. New episodes will be posted Sundays.

Publisher

Paul Mason Fotsch

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Feb 2019

Latest episode

13 Sept 2023

Latest episodes

201 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Sept 2023

   Special Sikay Episode

   This episode contains all the messages and interviews with Sikay Tang.

2. 

   27 Nov 2022

   200 The Last Message (unknown)

   In 1977, the Fonz jumped over a shark on the TV show Happy Days. Although the show went on to have six more successful seasons, it became a symbol of decline and something that everything from baseball teams to podcasts should avoid.

3. 

   20 Nov 2022

   199 We're On For Thursday (Chris 32)

   In the initial years of Television, Game shows were a popular part of networks' prime time schedule until a 1959 investigation revealed they were often scripted. During the 1970s and 80s, daytime TV broadcast shows like Password and 25,000 dollar Pyramid. In 1999, Who Wants to be a Millionaire brought the genre back to network Prime Time.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

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