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Carts and Cue Burn

Do you remember how radio used to be, when we handled actual physical objects?

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Rob Archer
Nov 09, 2025
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Videos of urban explorers wandering through abandoned radio stations crack me up.

“Looks like some kind of video machine,” he says, pointing at a CD player.

“Here are some weird tiny records — guess they didn’t hold many songs,” she says, holding up 45s.

“No idea what this is, maybe a cassette player?” he adds, staring at a cart machine. “No, wait, are the…

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