Phone Messages

By Paul Mason Fotsch

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

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Phone Messages episodes:

September 01, 2019 31 Emile Westergaard (Chris 3)
Emile was my college dorm neighbor and a decent musician. He also inspired a song by Chris Pearson.
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10min
August 25, 2019 30 Albert Died Today (outgoing 10)
My pet rat Albert died in fall of 1988. He was buried in an empty lot behind Bret Harte Elementary School.
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5min
August 18, 2019 29 Guitar Riff (James 3)
In the 1990s, Chicago became the center of a so called "post-rock" scene. Did my record collection, passed on to James Warden, play a role in this?
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5min
August 11, 2019 28 Brian's First Message (Brian 1)
Brian Omelia hails from the Quad Cities, where my father's parents also have roots, specifically in Davenport's Germantown.
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8min
August 04, 2019 27 Madison (Jason 2)
Madison Wisconsin, known for its hippie lifestyle and radical politics, also had great dance clubs.
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5min
July 28, 2019 26 Doing Bad (Chris 2)
Chris Pearson describes his life in 1988 Chicago and how he entered his career as a decorative painter.
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9min
July 19, 2019 25 Albert Ayler (outgoing 9)
Albert Ayler lived a brief high intensity musical life in search of spiritual unity. John Coltrane and a few other supporters saw him as visionary, but he was largely underappreciated in his time.
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7min
July 13, 2019 24 Durenberger (mom 4)
David Durenberger served as Minnesota Senator from 1978 to 1995. He fell in the moderate middle of the Minnesota Republican Party,
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7min
July 07, 2019 23 The Anne Question (Anne)
Was it Anne that left this message in Fall of 1988? If it was Anne, which Anne was it? And where was I that night? Did we go up north as planned? This and other mysteries are explored.
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6min
June 30, 2019 22 Up North (James 2)
While living in Hyde Park, the north side of Chicago provided a space to escape our neighborhood joints and dance in nightclubs like Club Berlin and the Smart Bar.
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4min

FAQs about Phone Messages:

How many episodes does Phone Messages have?

The podcast currently has 201 episodes available.