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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. Pl... more
FAQs about Phone Messages:How many episodes does Phone Messages have?The podcast currently has 201 episodes available.
September 13, 2023Special Sikay EpisodeThis episode contains all the messages and interviews with Sikay Tang....more1h 1minPlay
November 27, 2022200 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....more9minPlay
November 20, 2022199 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....more10minPlay
November 13, 2022198 Gainesville (Julia 7)In the summer of 1990, a series of murders spread fear across Gainesville Florida. Nearly eighty years earlier, the collapse of a small bank led to tragedy on the lower east side of Manhattan....more10minPlay
November 06, 2022197 Thank You For Your Attention (Ben 15)In the mid 1990s, a Destroy All Music Festival held at the Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center in Wicker Park featured bands like Carnival de Carnitas, Scissor Girls, Blowhole and DragKing....more10minPlay
October 30, 2022196 Santa Claus (Chris 31)Batteries Not Included in Lincoln Park, had a brief life in the 1980s showcasing scrappy young bands ready to surprise. The 1980s club Gaspars in Lakeview, became Schubas and continues to host live music several days a week....more10minPlay
October 23, 2022195 Not Ready for Marriage (Chris 30)In the 1920s, JR Stewart was one of many companies that manufactured banjo ukuleles during the first uke boom. Ukes became popular again in recent decades thanks in part thanks to Israel Kamakawiwoʻole....more10minPlay
October 16, 2022194 You Know My Number is Changed (Grandma 8)The life of a pastor's wife in mid twentieth century midwest involved missionary work and potlucks but also social clubs to discuss books and hear lectures about graphonalysis....more8minPlay
October 12, 2022193 Piano Man (Chris 29)Billy Joel's Piano Man was inspired by playing at a bar in Los Angeles. Two classic piano bars from that era, Nye's Polonaise Room in Minneapolis and The Red Fox Room in San Diego continue to thrive after more than fifty years in business....more10minPlay
October 02, 2022192 Red 34 (mystery Ben)In the 1990s, Chicago indy label bands like Dragking would sell their discs on consignment at Ajax Records, Dr. Wax, Wax Trax, Tower, and Reckless Records. The last of these is the only one still in business....more10minPlay
FAQs about Phone Messages:How many episodes does Phone Messages have?The podcast currently has 201 episodes available.