Then & Now: The Generations Show | Podcast Guru

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Sorry, There's No Marjorie Here

The wrong number started as a slip of the finger and a stranger's voice in your kitchen, and it's turned into a scam opener, a fight at the family table and a message meant for someone who had your number before you.

5 MIN

Listed Under the Kitchen Phone

Once a year a fat paper book landed on every doorstep with the whole town's names, streets and numbers inside, and for decades nobody thought that was strange.

5 MIN

Everyone You Hadn't Met Yet

Before contacts lists and caller ID, every household got a free book on the porch that printed your name, number and address for the whole town, and it shaped how people reached each other for decades.

5 MIN

Love, Grandma: Signed in Public

Why the older relative signs every Facebook comment like a letter, what happened when the young people left them there, and who ended up keeping the family's memories.

5 MIN

FW: FW: Thought of You

A poem about a dog, four forwards deep, sent at dawn by an aunt, and the quiet bargain hidden in every message we politely ignore.

5 MIN