Bonus: The Greatest Analog Media

The hosts share their favorite forms and pieces of analog media.

Episode Notes

Dana, Julia, and Dan Kois tackle a listener question from Amy in Chicago whose ten-year old has recently gone gaga over analog culture: what are your favorite pieces of culture from cassettes, CDs, DVDs, and vinyl? And what memories do each of these bygone formats bring up?

They get into the LPs from Broadway musicals that were always on in their childhood homes, the delight of respooling cassette tapes, the madding annoyance CD joule cases, the bygone art of DVD menus, that scene in Postcards from the Edge when Meryl Streep sings “I’m Checkin’ Out,” and why Roger Ebert’s commentary to Casablanca is the greatest DVD commentary of all time.

About the Show

New York Times critic Dwight Garner says, “The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the highlights of my week.” The award-winning Culturefest features Slate culture critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner debating the week in culture, from highbrow to pop.

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Dan Kois is the author of five books: Hampton Heights, Vintage Contemporaries, How to Be a Family, The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), and Facing Future.
Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.
Julia Turner, former editor in chief of Slate, is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and a regular on Slate’s Culture Gabfest podcast.