Taping (candid) conversations with grandparents

[Higgins]

I've been in the habit recently of taping candid phone calls with my grandpa. He's 90 and he's got all his marbles - moreso than most people - and I wanna preserve how he talks, sometimes he'll tell a story in the midst of the conversation. I figure, if I ever have kids I can show them how their great grandpa spoke, his stories to a degree, etc. No other purpose. I feel like - God forbid - when he passes, that history, those stories, who he was passes with him beyond memories. This is a way of kinda keeping him "alive" after he's gone - how he spoke, his vocal mannerisms, etc. Giving future generations a piece of who he was as a person.

Am I wrong or weird for doing this?

[Mr. Smith]

I've been in the habit recently of taping candid phone calls with my grandpa. He's 90 and he's got all his marbles - moreso than most people - and I wanna preserve how he talks, sometimes he'll tell a story in the midst of the conversation. I figure, if I ever have kids I can show them how their great grandpa spoke, his stories to a degree, etc. No other purpose. I feel like - God forbid - when he passes, that history, those stories, who he was passes with him beyond memories. This is a way of kinda keeping him "alive" after he's gone - how he spoke, his vocal mannerisms, etc. Giving future generations a piece of who he was as a person.

Am I wrong or weird for doing this?

No.

My parents did that for my Italian Nana just a few years before she passed on, she apparently seriously embellished the tapes.

[HillGoose]

i dont have a family brah if i was doing this it would be because i would need whatever they said recorded in case i needed to use it in court.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

I don't think this is weird or wrong at all; I've contemplated doing the same with my elderly aunts. I'm tempted to say that you should ask him first, but would that change the way he talked? Tough to say.

[dead0man]

I've been tossing around the idea of interviewing all my older relatives, like a family podcast type thing.  I would love to have an audio file of my great grandpa interviewing his grandpa or whatever and I'm sure my great grand kids would love to have something like from me at some point in the distant future.