Previous Me

A man in his 40s unearths micro-cassette tapes of his 18-year-old self—hopeful, awkward, alone—wandering Uptown and narrating a life just beginning. With humor and tenderness, he confronts who he was, what he missed, and how we all become ourselves. Worth your time? If you care about memory, identity, and the strange, beautiful gap between who we were and who we are.

A man in his 40s opens a box of micro-cassettes he recorded as a teenager and starts listening. The tapes capture chaotic road trips, bathroom stops, traffic rants, strange philosophies, and unfiltered teenage thoughts. Funny, cringy, and unexpectedly moving, the podcast becomes a time-capsule journey as he confronts "previous me."

A restless teen on the edge—broke, burned out, and searching—stumbles through dead-end jobs, small hustles, and big dreams, while his older self reflects with humor and compassion. What emerges is a tender, chaotic portrait of becoming. Worth it? Absolutely—raw, funny, and unexpectedly moving.

A man opens a cigar box of micro-cassette tapes recorded by his teenage self—39 hours of raw thoughts he’s afraid to hear. As he listens, he sets strange rules: no judgment, no analysis, only compassion. Previous Me is a haunting, intimate experiment about memory, identity, and what we owe the person we used to be.

A man in his 40s opens a cigar box of microcassette tapes he recorded as a teenager in 2002 and listens to the voice of his younger self—earnest, sleepy, sometimes ridiculous—wrestling with big ideas about the universe, dreams, success, and life. What begins as curiosity becomes a funny, tender conversation across twenty years, revealing a simple message that endured all along: you’re okay.

A man revisits the micro-cassette tapes he recorded as a teenager in 2002. How do you treat the evidence of who you used to be?