Audio ephemera collector Bob Purse returns to talk about more radio ads, this time from a source that remains a mystery. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Audio ephemera collector Bob Purse returns to talk about more radio ads, this time from a source that remains a mystery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Audio ephemera collector Bob Purse returns to talk about more radio ads, this time from a source that remains a mystery.&nbsp;See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="noopener noreferrer">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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The best source on our cultural identity is not the official, historical record — ask any anthropologist, it’s the town dump. Ephemera — those things that were just barely saved, and in some cases not saved at all — emanate with secrets we can only glimpse and mysteries we can never completely answer. The stories may be unfamiliar, but the themes are universal; this is a looking glass, a window into our own fragile, material existence that begs the question, “How will I be remembered?”

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