Walkman

So but then he attacks her as a bat.

She yells for her husband, but he can't hear her because he's got his Walkman on.

And all the way up because, you know, they didn't have noise canceling headphones in 1989.

No,

Yeah.

Unless, like, what's her name? On his Walkman or whatever.

Yeah.

Unless he was friends with the singer and she sent him a demo.

if you ever are made uncomfortable or think someone is into something that they shouldn't be, you should tell us, you know, it was that kind of thing.

There was a point where it was discovered that I had a bunch of, uh, I had a secret Walkman and a bunch of hip hop cassettes, cool Modi and young MC and public enemy.

And this, they were discovered.

I hid them in the coat closet.

Cause I thought no one would look in there.

I was the Walkman secret.

Yeah.

I wasn't allowed to have one.

in the future? A niche market.

It's a niche market like vinyls, like the Sony Walkman.

Yeah.

All of that stuff.

No, no,

no.

You know how much a modern-day Sony Walkman is? It's like almost $1,000.

Really? I believe so.

That's 100% right.

I mean, as you say that, it reminds me of kind of an interesting anecdote about when Sony introduced the Walkman.

And I think it was the very early 80s.

There was concern within Sony that it was going to be considered so rude to be in public with headphones on and to be listening to music privately and not have music.

It featured custom integrated circuits and a specifically designed tiny picture tube.

Yes, because, of course, the Walkman's just been introduced relatively recently.

So the idea of entertainment on the go is very much a thing, isn't it?

Yeah.

Right.

I played it absolutely religiously, yeah, on the Walkman.

I mean, that was a hefty chunk of music.

What is it, 20-odd tracks?

At 10 o'clock, just press this button, and I've got music for the next year.

Yes.

Which you did, because, yeah, the festive 50 would go into your Walkman, and you had 50 tracks.

Again, like the CSG6, you would hear those tracks, you would know what he was going to say, you'd know what was coming next.

You can sort of see how that gets extrapolated with the Industrial Revolution and planes, something similar.

But he thinks the thing that would be most surprising to them is the Walkman, where music is now something that is for individual consumption.

Where, you know, 100 years ago, maybe 150 years ago before the first gramophones and that sort of stuff started, music was a public thing.

You had to go somewhere, as Ben was saying, to go and listen to an orchestra play or even just someone performing on the piano or whatever.