- Absolutely not. I mean, it's no worse than a component stereo. The only thing is that Tandy, in their infinite wisdom, used the same five-pin DIN connector for power, video, and I think cassette, so they were all identical, and if you plugged them in wrong, you'd blow it up. So I read the label and got it working and wound up playing with it and not knowing anything about computers, so I'm typing English commands into it and, you know, PRINT 2+2 works perfectly,
not CDs, not USBs, but cassettes. And I was listening to Jeffrey Gidomer's cassettes in my car which was sales messages coming out driving from one town of Cyprus to the next promoting Carlile food service products and all the other products that we had at
I threw all the vinyl away. Cassettes are back. This was a Cassette Store Day 2013. And Punk is a beer.
I think you can't dig your head in the sand and just sort of continually look at putting VHS cassettes into your machine. You got to kind of evolve.
maidens and Highgate Woods a fantastic example you've got Oak standards and you've got hornbeam casses and they're really fun to spot I went out with my nephew who's five and we wandered around the Woodland and wewandered around looking for 3ers and fours which are coopes and wners which are oak
want every change in tonality. I want every, uh, uh, every interruption, every background noise. I want any, everything. So I got, you know, twenty thousand plus pages of all these cassettes. And by the way, these two months turned into like two years . So and it turned, I looked for these little moments of authenticity. And, and, that's kind of what we'll talk about today. Which is my kind of goal as a writer, when I go and do in an interview, especially for like Rolling Stone and the New York Times,
systems my kids go to a school system they're always trying to figure out how to deal with this waste do you have this cassette bin uh system ready to put on school campuses yet yes in a way yes um the actual you know terracycle supply in those physical bins will happen in about six months we don't
On le fait fondre. On casse les molécules. Donc on le chauffe sans oxygène.
with no floppy, and so I had a cassette deck, which was the best you could do at the time, and so I was writing small things, and I had a machine language monitor that you could load from cassette. It didn't have an assembler built in, but it had a disassembler, so you could enter the op codes in 6502 in hex, and if you were careful about planning, you'd be able to write some basic programs. So that's kind of how I learned.
Yes, cassettes. A cassette is a small plastic device that housed-- --cellulose tape. And it rewinds when you put your pen in one of the holes.
tree hug it um with oak trees that are free growing free standing so they haven't been cassed or anything like that um bearing in mind that your arm span is about the same as your height So based on being 1 and a half met tall two hugs of an oak tree 130 years old it's not
at home when I was like 14 years old and this documentary was on and the Sun Thunder old came on and it just I had a tape cassette and put it in the machine we just got our first VCR player so all these moments are fortunate I was looked back on as weird because if I hadn't had a tape if I didn't hadn't switched the TV channel at that point and saw the
Donc on peut changer chaque partie. Si jamais l'écran casse , on le change. C'est un système juste de pièces qui s'emboîtent et donc on peut upgrader son téléphone, mettre un processeur plus rapide, etc.
Then in the early 1960s, they wanted to create a more secure ID card for CIA officials, and to do that, they brought in IBM engineer Forrest Parry. Parry knew that audio cassettes stored their information on magnetic tape, and he wondered if he could use the same tape to store data on the ID cards. He managed that part easily enough, but no matter what he tried, he couldn't get the tape to stick to the cards.
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions no Cretaceous cassette tape that we can find in the fossil record and plug in, and hear what these things were sounding like. But sometimes we do get clues from the fossils themselves. And in
Je me suis dit, mais c'est marrant, Qui lui a parlé comme cela, parce que ce n'est pas une expression qu'on va inventer. "Tu me casses les oreilles". C'est forcément quelqu'un qui le lui a dit.
And back then, they didn't really have CDs. They had cassette tapes. So later on, when they did have CDs, a sort of interesting thing happened here.
to this new indie label that started in Tel Aviv, the third year and they decided to release it as a cassette. And the cassette was doing really well very, very quickly because it was very different from other things that were being released in Israel at the time. It was so very freeform and outspoken, and probably because it wasn't meant to be released.
Customer loyalty is priceless. I even bought his cassettes, not DVDs, not CDs, not USBs, but cassettes. And I was listening to Jeffrey Gidomer's
I call it "From Cassettes." And the very last song that I'll end up doing is probably a song that's streaming, I think,
and-- we call it "cassette tape to streaming rates," is what we've been calling the whole marketing piece from "Carnival 1 20th Anniversary"
Something like finding a cassette tape that you made when you were a teenager, and reveling in that nostalgia of like, oh, listen to how cute I was, little teenage me!
Record and Tape Club cassette collection, featuring Journey, Styx, Asia, and REO Speedwagon.
Like a green bean casserole, but healthy?
They chose cassette over 8 tracks.
You attach a little cassette tape to it.
And then the cassette tape, by spinning this around, will put a different Morse code on the tape.
will make you a casserole at the drop of a hat.
They would've been cassettes, or had the cassette.
And then the cassettes of my tapes--.
Just record on cassette and just send everything.
more of a casserole than it is, you know, the thin crust sort of slices I grew up eating.
supply them yet however let's let's say that you're a school teacher and you're hearing this and you want to have a cassette type in with a whole strip of waste you go to terracycle.net you sign up for your five favorite waste streams and you we will send you if you want either the bit you know individual little bins you
friendship over tuna casserole or lasagna or whatever it was and I think
But I have a little cassette tape player with the music and I do a Y-splitter so I can add the music and the...
I'm going to go with a cassette player.
So that-- and I tried to explain cassette tapes to a teenager recently at a talk, because cassette tapes were
un batte dans les mains pour pouvoir casser la gueule à d'autres cités.
You probably don't have a cassette player at home Inside, there is a random photo card of one of the members Can we see whose photo card you got?
So my uncle give me a cassette of Michael Jackson also, the album "Invincible." And after I started to follow the music from US.
And so I had these tape cassettes sitting around forever.
I'll give you that cassette, that recording, or that LP, or that-- or we would hide and record sometimes, with that small tape recorder.
But then at the end of that cassette tape, you die.
um like a PIR stand or of casserole of the I like the marinara I love marinar
And here's a little video cassette recorder.
Because I figured you have like one cassette tape and it's all you listen to for 20 years, it's going to become part of you.
I did a rip on broccoli cheddar casserole with the mac and cheese.
Then we try to do casserole, like French food, and we do a horrible job at it, so it's not in the book.
But let's fix your tuna noodle casserole, because that's all she wants.
But it all started with a cassette.