Audio Adventurer Gifts

Frank Zappa

'What makes you think I'm not listening?'

James gets caught recording nature sounds without permission.

Hello, I'm calling to let you know about a recall of the hearing aids you recently purchased. I said, I'm calling to

Turn this music off! Please. Thumpa thump … Thank goodness. This is insane. How can they combine a talk show with house music? Allow us to explain: To attract younger audiences, we, the media conglomerates, must communicate on their terms, on their wavelength. More media, multimedia, simultaneous media, streaming screaming gleaming screeching grinding mind-bending media! I'm going to kill something! You're playing into their hands. Thumpa thumpa thumpa.

Ear Bud Hijacking

"The subwoofers really help."

'Office Woofers. For the quiet and obnoxious boss.'

Feelings towards radios #7 Man catching a radio in a net.

Edison invents the personal stereo

Harvey could have kicked himself for trying on his son's cheap mp3-player.

Recording Studio

Man dislikes noise of one man band, but goes home to his loud babies, pc and stereo.

"I didn't actually read the book. I listened to it on audio."

"Me, my eyesight is rather bad, so I prefer audio-books..."

"I never had time for picture books until I started listening to them."

"I'm curious about your dependent children, Scamp, Flop, and Spunky."

'Where would you recommend for a tech-free experience.'

Bad Timbre: the world's first Garage Philharmonic Orchestra

"I scream! You scream! I can't stop the screaming!"

Cycling with a harp case

Guitar Man.

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

'It was only 500 yds across but as he visualised the GPS blind spot the risks seemed immense.'

"Shankar, I needed someone to dot the 'I's' and cross the 'T's' but that was before there was ChatGPT."

Otto the SmartyCar!

"I'm pretty sure my self-driving car is moonlighting for Uber behind my back."

Papageno from the Magic Flute

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

The IRS emptied my pouch.

"Turn on the news." "I will not comply." "My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you will grow depressed after the lead story." "There is a 95% probability you will then gorge yourself on rocky road ice cream and then stay up all night googling elliptical machines and diet pills." "Who told you this?" "Both your refrigerator and your browser are gossipy."

"Our kids may like your giant soundbar, but the neighbors seem to have a different opinion."

Joe Henry

'And then Dmitri noticed something that would have a profound effect on the human/robot wars.'

'I shall now hand over to our guest speaker, management unit XT-56.'