Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.

I'm Sam Sanders and today we're gonna share an episode from our friends at another NPR show,

through line. But first some setup. So I'm an elder millennial, 37 to be exact.

And the thing that I keep noticing right now is how much stuff that used to feel old and outdated.

It is now new again. Wide leg jeans, middle parts, disco, you know, do Alipa and such.

It seems as if a lot of us are yearning for simpler times, better days, days past.

A lot of us are experiencing collective nostalgia. But fun fact, when the actual word nostalgia

first entered our lexicon back in the late 17th century, it was not considered a feeling.

It was a strange disease. I will let my colleagues from through line take it from here. Enjoy.

When I was younger, probably about 10 or 11 years old, my grandmother actually gifted me

a cassette player for my birthday. At that age, I didn't own CDEs or MP3 player or something.

I definitely didn't own any cassette tapes.

My mom decided to drive me to this store that's called Media Play. It doesn't exist anymore.

And I knew that I wanted Daff Punk's 2001 album called Discovery. And so we bought it.

This was around September, going into October. And I just listened to it all the time, religiously, constantly.

So it was this really crucial moment in my life where a few things converged, like my introduction

into music that I really loved and enjoying a change of season and being a young person and having

that freedom. And to this day, I still listened to that record. It's in my car. My car, I have an

older car and has a tape deck. And so I can pop it in and kind of transports me back to that time period.

It gives me this sort of lump in my throat kind of feeling, but it's not sadness.

It's not something that I necessarily mourn. Like I don't want to go back to being 10 years old.

I like being an adult, but it's almost just like a visceral feeling that lump in my throat and

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