Love Letters to Forgotten Things
Brian Easterling
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About This Podcast
Love Letters to Forgotten Things is a series of lyrical reflections, strange monologues, and tender tributes to the lost and nearly-lost moments of our shared past. It's for the things we remember quietly, in car rides and in grocery store aisles. The moments we thought no one else had held onto—but did.
We write to the scuffed plastic of Trapper Keepers. To the last golden hour of summer vacation. To the sound of a local DJ’s voice echoing through a putt-putt golf course at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday. To the feeling of being known—completely—and then, one day… not.
These aren’t love letters in the traditional sense. They’re love letters to smells, to sounds, to textures. To weird rituals, awkward moments, and the small sacredness of being a child in a world that hadn’t yet forgotten how to feel big.
They are not eulogies. They are reminders. Tiny, flickering reminders.
Because the past isn’t gone—it’s just quieter now.
We’re not here to mourn what’s lost. We’re here to marvel at what once was— and how lucky we were to have been there at all.
There’s no proof. No pictures. Just this: a love letter.
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S1E114 Unraveling - The Friendships That End Without Closure
Some friendships don’t explode—they just dissolve. No betrayal. No fight. Just a slow fade into silence. This is for the ones who left quietly, and the memories that still speak loud.
S1E60 First Action Movie - The Double Feature Was the Film and My Father
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S1E58 Time Capsule - Holding On to What Time Won’t Let Us Keep
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S1E37 Coffee Houses - Jazz, Notebooks, and the Corner Booth That Changed Everything
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S1E38 Those Who Forgot - When You Remember Them, but They Don’t Remember You
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S1E41 Spin the Bottle - A Circle of Kids, a Soda Bottle, and a First Kiss You Never Forget
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Before we had bikes, we had vehicles of chaos—plastic beasts and wobbly wonders that squeaked, skidded, and sometimes bounced us straight into the gravel. In this episode, Bunny salutes the tricycle,…
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S1E71 Throwing Things - The Reckless Games That Could Have Killed Us
Walnut wars. Cornfield spear fights. Childhood games that flirted with concussion and worse. This episode is a love letter to the wild afternoons when pain was proof you were alive – and survival was…
S1E42 Man Behind the Media - For Everyone Who’s Felt Themselves Fade Into the Signal
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S1E51 Scratch-n-Sniff - The Stickers That Made Childhood Smell Like Magic
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S1E75 Holding On - Letting Go - When Letting Go Feels Like Disappearing
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S1E36 Forbidden VHS - The Movie We Weren’t Supposed to Watch, But Did Anyway
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S1E35 Ambulance in the Night - The First Time I Learned Night Could Break
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S2E34 Arcade Tom-boy - A Missed Chance Lit by Neon and Nerves
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S1E33 Band Shell Dance Club - Dancing Under Floodlights When the World Slept
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Love Letters to Forgotten Things has published 53 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Personal Journals.
Love Letters to Forgotten Things is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 2m.
