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Hello and welcome to your weekly better offline monologue.

I have course, I'm Ed Zittron.

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And this week I'm going to be talking about something completely analog, vinyl.

Okay, it's not completely analog.

There's some electricity.

Anyway, now, some of you might have paid attention to how I've been talking the last few months about my mental health journey and all that shit.

And a big part of feeling better about myself has been finding ways to relax.

I'm not like a lot of

people. So I've had to, I have to teach myself things. I really have to sit down and say, like,

look, Ed, you're going to try and work out what relaxing feels like. And I've literally had to

teach myself. And I'm getting close. And a lot of this has been about returning to older music

and letting things just kind of play

instead of pecking around. So the older music in questions like Joe Cocker, Charles Mingus,

Lee Morgan, Durondo, Van Morrison. And as part of this, I decided to get into vinyl because I was

walking around with my dear friend Tori Elliott wired and she said, we're going to go on a field trip. and I said, I don't like change. Where are we going? She took me to Music City in in New York City and it was just full of vinyl and I thought, you know what? This looks like fun. I want to get one of these every week. I'm in New York. So I have been doing so. And it's been great. Genuinely genuinely it's been wonderful for me and I want to

kind of walk you through why and how vinyl works because surprisingly enough there's not been a ton

about it there's been a lot of audio pervert stuff and there's been people saying oh vinyl's having a

resurgent fuck all that I just want to talk about listening to it. So if you don't know how it

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