in 1988, Pam, my mom's next door neighbor, developed a crush on my mom, and there was some dispute over a cooking pot. Pam called and left these messages on mom's machine. the audio is slightly fragmented due to the propensity of answering machines to overwrite messages, and mom was unaware that standard cassettes have an unrecordable leader section, plus the little tape had to be flipped over where the blank part is (near 3:30). lo-fi, slightly confusing, but full of laughs... here it is: The Pam Tape.
mom recorded this onto standard audiocassettes from microcassette via the time tested method of holding the answering machine up to the mic, so you can clearly hear mom's bird, Otis, in the background throughout. the opening words were unrecorded due to the unrecordable audiocassette leader section, but what she says at opening is "what a special recording..." (referring to my brother's outgoing message heard at 3:45 after mom flipped the tape over). one day i will clean it up. in the meantime, enjoy this blast from the past.
at approx 2:40, she references "Lou", mom's husband at the time. at 3:45. that is my irl brother on the outgoing message, and near the end... shine on you crazy diamond. the soft background laughter at 1:27, shortly after her hearty cackle, is the late, great Charlie (Charlotte) Parr, who is also referred to at 4:20. rest in peace doll.
this is the complete version. in 1997 or so, i uploaded a redacted version to Usenet.
[update]: my brother died on January 6, 2012.
[update]: Pam died on December 2, 2012

Pam tape

From Wikinews. Fair use claimed, but it's from a Wikipedia project anyway so it's probably free anyway:
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/File:Wikimania2012-Opening2.ogg
https://archive.is/gYHDj (An archive of the source page, in case they delete it)

Wikimania 2012 - Opening2

Wikimania 2012
Opening ceremony Greetings
Opening keynote Mary Gardiner, Co-founder, Ada Initiative "Fostering diversity: not a boring chore, a critical opportunity"
Opening plenary Plenary by Jimmy Wales: The State of the Wiki
(Lisner Auditorium)

Part 2 has the juicy shit but may as well upload part 1 for posterity.
Fair use claimed, but it came from a Wikipedia project so it's probably free anyway:
https://archive.is/WTDi4

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