Part 1 of my conversation with guest Eric Green as we pay tribute to the cassette tape.

Show notes:

• Recorded via Zoom

• Eric's first time on the show since '15

• R.I.P. to Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape

• Eric: Got into music via cassettes in the '80s

• You could make your own mixes

• Jay: Would tape songs off the radio in late '70s/early '80s

• Jay: Currently have hundreds of tapes but nothing to play them on

• Tapes were cheaper than vinyl or CDs

• Fun memories of browsing in record stores

• Tapes were big for bootlegs

• Huge in the early days of hip hop (The Get Down is on Netflix)

• Home taping didn't ruin the music industry, MP3s did

• Guardians of the Galaxy helped popularize cassettes

• CDs were initially marketed as indestructible and perfect sounding

• Jay: Spent hours listening to tapes in the car or on a Walkman

• To be continued

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.