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Episode 18: 80s Road Trips Were Insane · Feedbag with Nat Lauzon

• nat: God. Think Mike. Think Mike. Think. He's like, I'm not getting it. How could you not get this? Put it away. I had to get a call off. I guess you could say I had a Cameron Diaz. Is it on silent? Yeah. But how can you not get it? Like unless you don't know who Cameron Diaz is. Maybe Am I gross? No, you're a pretty lady with nice colours. You look all warm and It's cold down here. I know what you look like, a warm person. I look like a warm person? Yeah. I'd like to be your friend if I wasn't already. He would? Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm this might take me a few tries. Don't make fun of me. What? This might take me a few tries. It's like body, look at it. ⁓ I want okay, here we go. Dog continuity. Shoes. Then he'll be scritching and scratching again. Nope. It's pretty good. But later. We'll see. Do I lean back? ⁓ look at you. Please sit comfortably. I am comfortable, but it looks bad on camera. You have a pillow? Aren't you fine now? Now I'm it's it's this. He's getting his you know's what? Let's go. Press play. Record. It's recording. ⁓ it is? Hi. Okay, let's go. Isn't it? I don't know. The numbers up topsy, the red it the the numbers moving? Well Yes. Yes, they're definitely moving. I saw it go from a seven to an eight. Okay. This can take me a few tries here. Sunbaked vinyl seats. Can you smell it? Sunbaked vinyl seats, hot dashboard plastic, and the smell of humid summer air coming through open windows. I just have to do that and then have to edit and do the next thing. Ready? Put appropriate pauses and inflection. I think you know what to do. Thanks. Sunbaked vinyl seats, hot dashboard plastic humid summer air coming through an open window. Okay, ready? You're gonna zoom in on yourself for this part. Yeah, this is all I'm doing. You can just fucking ⁓ but don't make noise. Okay. Can you smell it? Sunbaked vinyl plastic. I you're looking at me and I don't like that. Okay, look over there. Something smells. Is it sunbaked vinyl plastic? No, but there's like poopish. ⁓ is it your poop? My poo can't still be smelling. I think it might be. Unless he farted. He farted because I don't smell anyway. Are you getting poop vibes? I thought I smelled it, but maybe I don't. Is the door open? You shed it up this month. Okay. Well, it's like a far apart child is like Go to bed. Go to bed, shit monster. Okay. Sunbake vinyl seats. Yeah, don't look at me. ⁓ look at Hot dashboard plastic in humid summer air. Okay. Can ya smell it? Sunbaked vinyl plast seats. Can you smell it? Sunbaked vinyl seat, sir don't Can you smell it? Sunbaked vi Did you look at me again? Yeah Don't look at me. Okay, sorry. Okay. Don't look at the talent. No eye contact with the No eye contact with the talent or she can't perform. Bolt. All right, sit on my props. See how dad her okay. Can you smell it? Sunbaked vinyl seats, hot dashboard plastic, and warm humid summer air coming through an open window. I can try another one. Can you smell it? Sunbaked vinyl seats. Can you smell it? Sunbaked vinyl seats, hot dashboard plastic, and the smell of humid summer air coming through an open window. Okay, now today we're deleting GPS. Banning digital playlists and going back to a time when you had to fold a real map. Today we are deleting GPS, banning digital playlist what? Nothing. I'm trying remember it. ⁓ Deleting GPS, banning digital playlists. Is that too l clunky? Banning di digital banning smart devices? Ditching digital. Ooh. Ditching digital playlists or digital? Music. Ditching digital music. Today we are banning GPS, ditching digital music. Did you go like this? No. ⁓ And going back to a time when you had to use a real map, fold a real map or use Use. Either one is fine. That sounds clunky. Read that last sentence again. Read the whole thing. Should I should I show it? No. No. Don't yet. I want you just say the whole thing. Yeah, I know. He's like, I don't care. You know what he does in my office? He's he lies on the floor in the most inappropriate places. All my wires my wires are like on him. And I'm like putting my microf my headphone cables into my studio and they're all like on him and he's like, whatever. He doesn't shit. Okay. What? Today we're deleting GPS. Ditching digital music and going back to a time when you need to use a real map. How about ditching digital? Yeah, okay. But is GPS digital? Yeah. I think music then. Yeah. Today we are banning GPS, ditching digital music, and going back to a time when you had to fold a real map, use a real map, whatever it is. I think use. Fold is more Yeah, use. Okay. Here I go. And save paper map. Yeah? No. No. Okay. Don't look at me. I know. Today we are Today we are deleting GPS, ditching digital music, and going back to a time when you had to use a real map. Ladies and gents, it's the eighties road trip. good. Okay. I'll try it one more time and then I'll look at you. And what do you want me to see? Well then I'll stop and then we'll reset. Okay. Okay. Today we are ditching no deleting. Today we are deleting GPS, ditching digital music, and going back to a time when you had to use a real map. Ladies and gents, it is the 80s road trip. Okay. Great. Yeah. Now setting the scene. Now I'm gonna gonna go to you and we'll do our little like generalities of row trippy. Okay. Okay. ⁓ okay. Yeah. Yeah. Hi. ⁓ hey, we're recording. Hi. Hi. ⁓ Rupert and I are talk no, no no. Should I introduce ourselves? Yeah. Okay. So we ca ⁓ the eighties road trip. Okay, ready? Yeah. I can look wherever I want now. Wherever you want. Okay. Yeah, today Rupert and I are getting nostalgic for the road trips of your. Of your. Of your. And yours and mine. ⁓ I thought you meant Y R E. Yeah, that too. Road trips as a kid. Yes. So much different than they are than they are today. They feel that way. Yeah. Yes, for sure. Do you have any ⁓ memories of like nostalgic road trips or what they were like for you? Because I think that's like a core memory for Generation X. I think so too. ⁓ yeah, I have many memories, but we would do this thing. we wouldn't go on many road trips, but once a year we'd go on vacation and my dad would drive us all. We'd be like seven people in a car driving down to Maine. It was about a six, seven hour drive. And we'd always go to the same place every year. So yeah. Which was where? Bar Harbor, Maine. Bar Harbor Maine. Fantastic place. We stayed at a place called Clark's Cottages. And it was this old couple. And they had like five or six properties and we would rent one of their houses and it was on a little harbor and was right near a state park that had the best waves and the best it was just fantastic. ⁓ summer vacations as a kid. So your your Maine is awesome. It's great. Your dad figured out like a place that worked for his whole family and you just kept doing this. Yeah, 'cause were five kids and so that's pretty hard and you And you were the baby of five kids. I was I'm the baby. I still am, I guess. Fifty eight year old baby when What a child. But ⁓ yeah, so we all would go to ⁓ to Maine and this and my dad would rent like a house. It was ⁓ they call them cottages. Well they were cottages, but they were like like full full house size. And we stayed in a bunch of different ones. They were of the six. There was one we never stayed in, and that's because it was the smallest one and we were five kids. But it was always a blast. How long a trip was that for two adults and five kids? How long in the car yeah, how long in the car? Well, it's really strange. I think my dad's like a super slow poke. ⁓ because it should be like a five and a half hour drive, but it was sometimes like seven or eight. Was that because of stops? No. ⁓ okay. Well, we'd sometimes stop and have one meal, I think, on the way. Yeah. No, I just drove slow and yeah, I guess he just drove slow. Maybe lots of pea breaks, I don't know. Kudos to your mom and dad for like handling that many kids. And all mums and dads of that generation for handling so many kids in a car because Today it feels so much easier with smart devices and little T V screens and everything else. But do you remember specifics of the trip or like how it's more I remember the specifics of getting ready for the trip. Okay. Okay, because my dad you don't realize these things as a kid, but you see things and you just assume it's kind of normal. But my dad was like crazy about the trunk and putting anything in the trunk. You weren't allowed. ⁓ my dad was the same. Right? I even saw Seinfeld do a bit on this and I was in tears laughing because it was exactly my dad. It's like space aliens taught me how this goes in and nobody else can figure out how to pack everything. Yeah, no, dads always like find a way to Jenga the stuff in. That's right. But I I'm the same now as an adult. Like I'm no I'll put it in. I'll jang it this way. But you're always like, I was in a band, I know how to pack a truck. True. I know how to pack a truck. So we're yeah. And I remember I'd like want to bring this something to my dad, and it would be like it would be a Privilege. I remember being honored if he would let me put something in the trunk rather than just leave it behind the trunk and he'd be like, I'll take care of this Rupert and then he'd do it later. So when he would like let me put something in the trunk as a big boy, it was really exciting. So I remember that. I also remember that we would leave now, we're talking a normally a five, six hour drive. Yeah. We'd have to leave at like five thirty AM for some weird reason. It was I think to beat the line at the border. Right. ⁓ okay. Okay, 'cause we want to get to the borders early so there wasn't this big line line because his vacations were always at a specific period every year because his company was shut down and so everyone was on vacation at the same time. Like what they call it, what do they call it? What do they call it now? ⁓ a statutory. What do you call travailar? What is it? Statutory holiday? What do you mean? No, but what they call fet what do they call it here? What do you mean? When there's those two weeks. ⁓ construction holiday. ⁓ yeah, construction holiday, right. That was it. So he would have his vacation was always a construction holiday. So we'd all he'd always like, We gotta get there first, gotta get to the border first. And so we get up at like five or something and then like ⁓ it was just awful. And at that I remember one time like my sister Jo wasn't home at five AM and my parents were going crazy. ⁓ like she was still out from the night before. She was the eldest. No, she's the second one. ⁓ yeah, sorry, Sharon. So Joe Yeah, Joe wasn't didn't show up and my dad was losing his shit. She would have been how old then? I don't know, seventeen, eighteen. I have no clue. I don't remember what year it was. But he was fuming because she wasn't home and we were supposed to be leaving. And then they rolled up her and her boyfriend or whoever it was. And it was maybe we shouldn't be talking this. But whatever. So yeah. So I remember that. Are we cutting that out? We'll cut that out. Okay. For real? Yeah. Okay. Cut that memory. ⁓ yeah. She said, Don't talk about me, remember? That's right. ⁓ yeah, I can't mention her name or anything. Okay. So Okay, so where did it back? Trunk and dad making good time. They're construction holiday. Construction holiday. Right. So I also remember that my dad had this kind of like traveling outfit. Like and it was like a ritual. Wait, can we back up? Yeah. I want to complete the construction holiday. Okay. So I want to go back there and try it aga try it again. So my dad had a window of time off. Can you start with that maybe? Yeah. Okay. My dad had a window of time off that was like the same as everybody else because it was construction holiday, because the he worked at a aerospace company and they would close in the summer. Right. And everybody's on vacation at the same time. Right. Okay. So it was like that's why he would want to leave so early to get to the border first, get across. My dad, we did not have to get across a border, but we still had to leave at the crack of stupid every time we went on a road trip because we were coming from northern Ontario to like southern Ontario. It sounds not far, but it's super far. Because Ontario is a big ass province and ⁓ so it would take, I don't know, eleven hours or twelve or something. So we would we'd be leaving when it was dark out too. Right. And and the whole thing about dads, like we gotta make good time. Yeah, it's ⁓ already had to be timed and and he had this like outfit that he would wear too. It was his driving hat. He would only ever wear this hat to drive to Maine and to drive Back home from Maine. Not in Maine? I don't think so. And then every year the hat would kind of be draped on the hose in the garage. And then the next year he'd pick it off, put on his head, and we'd go again. And it was the same hat for probably like ten years. ⁓ my god. And it was a striped engineer's railroad hat. You know those ones like the white and blue stripes. I know exactly what you mean. I can picture. And he had a pair of aviator tortoiseshell glasses with like tortoiseshell arms and tortoiseshell frames that were brown. The whole thing was. Brown, the lenses were brown. So he these big brown aviator sunglasses and his engineer's hat. And he'd wear that just to drive to Maine and just to drive back from Maine. And you never saw him in either of those things any other time. Did you ever call him out on it? Yeah. I think as a young adult, like what the hell, Dad? Or maybe even as a like a teenager, I probably said something like that. What do you think? It's kind of it it's almost like Like I'm putting on a different outfit because now I'm vacation man. Yeah, I'm a different person. Yeah, I'm on vacation. And then he would always say we'd get to Maine. And then after he did his first ⁓ defecation bowel move bowel movement, he would always announce it. I've just done my first Maine poo, he would say. And be like, Yay, that's As in we're officially on vacation. Yeah, it was like a a rite of passage. His first poo in the different country. It's so beautiful. It's so nice. So lovely. Does your dad still have the hat and or the glasses? I don't know, but if they do, I know exactly where they'd be. On the hose in the garage. On the hose in the garage. I'll go check next time. You're going tomorrow. Look. I'm gonna look for them tomorrow. I'll let you know. I'd be surprised because it was pretty nasty. I mean, we're talking like mid eighties. Yeah. You know, or late late seventies to mid eighties. Right. And then I didn't we didn't. That's awesome that your dad had an outfit for driving. Yeah, but And it was weird. And the other thing I remember is like him being constantly stressed, and this ties in with the the maps, about the route. Even though he'd driven this every year, always going through the exact same place, he would like panic about the route. He'd get a map out, he'd highlight it the night before. A different a new map. I guess. Yeah, it was a new map. I mean, he write he had a notebook. I told you I don't know if I told you about him writing down the gas mileage and all that. Yes. He had another notebook, which would be take the route so-and-so to exit so-and-so. And then it was the directions written down one by one where to go. Wow. And my mother had the unenviable task of being responsible for the navigation. And she doesn't drive and she doesn't know anything. And if we made like the slightest wrong turn, or like the exits coming up and like Two miles away, he'd start to panic. Like, what what does it say, Maureen? When are we anyway? I mean, it would just be like that. We'd all be stressed. Like, let's not. And I remember once we missed an exit. ⁓ the vacation's over. It was the end of the world. Like, ⁓ my God. What? How did we miss it? He's like furious and ⁓ my god. And like panicking, we had to go and turn around and come back. Like it was the biggest thing in the world. Yeah. And I'm like, man, like now I would just go to Maine and I wouldn't even think about it. You wouldn't you would not even plan your route. You would just turn the GPS on and away we go. Like it's so different now. It's so different. It's so much less stressful and in other ways it's a bit like like I'm a bit piney for the me too nostalgia of the actual like analog vacation. Like your dad had to plan and he had a mileage and a map and that's really cool. ⁓ I rem on my vacations, I don't I don't Not the not the actual destinations, but the getting there. This is how we went on vacation in my family. We had one of those old wood paneled station wagons. ⁓ you had one of those. A Woody. Yeah. Okay. And the backseat, as you remember, back in the day on a station wagon, there was a backseat ⁓ well, there was backseat that could flip up and look out the rear window. ⁓ so you could get all those nice gas fumes. When you 'cause the w window rolled down. The window went down. It actually would go down. And y you could you would get the fumes and stuff in the back seat. But so but those were would like pop out of the back of the station wagon. But otherwise you could fold the seats down and it would just be like a giant football stadium in the back behind the front front two seats. So my dad would fold the seats down. So it'd be like mom, dad and flat, throw in a couple of sleeping bags. Comics, candy, pillows. Get in there, girls. So you were just like free balling it inside the car? Pinballing around in our sleeping our slippery sleeping bags. Right? In the backseat of a station wagon. No seat belts, nothing, eating our candy, trying to read our comic books. Right. My sister would get car sick a lot, like she hates reading in the car, so she probably didn't do that too much. But it was like driving Eleven hours with two children in the back seat, just like flying. ⁓ just yeah, yeah. I remember your parents didn't smoke, right? No. Both my parents smoked, especially my mother. She was like a chain smoker. Right. And I don't know, like sometimes it was cold out. There's a classic story and we say it all the time in my family now, and it's you smoke, you freeze. That's what we say to people, because it was really cold because it's five AM. Yeah we're driving a Maine And my mother was ⁓ smoking a cigarette, but it was like stinking up the whole car. Like the windows were closed. It's cold, mom. So we opened the windows. We opened the windows because like we can't breathe. And she complained that she was cold. And I just remember my sister going, You smoke, you freeze. And it my dad losing his mind, laughing at that. And so that became a thing now. You smoke you freeze. You smoke you freeze. That's how it is. So your mom was was ⁓ she made use of the ashtrays in cars then. ⁓ yeah. I even remember now that you think about it, those little like they'd kinda tilt out like a shoe, like your shoe thing. And they'd be in the middle of the back seat. ⁓ yes, those two. Bend them out and just put, boop, boop in there. ⁓ yeah, it was crazy. What a way, we didn't It's like another world, man. Like I know people with that would even ⁓ incoming. Dog continuity issues. Hello, butt dog. Hello, but I remember that wait. Okay. All right. I remember ⁓ people it was my ex-wife, she said that when she would go on road trips, you know like the ledge behind the backseat? The ⁓ yeah, yeah. There was a The one that people put beanie babies on. Yeah. Yeah. She used to sleep on that. She'd lie on that on the drive. That was the only room? She's the only place she had to go. I don't know. I guess if you wanted to lie out, if you wanted to stretch your legs a bit. Yeah, just you know, your child just freballing it in a going 120 down the highway. We all seem to make it this through. Well, except for those of us that didn't. Rip. No, I'm leaving that out. Yeah. okay. ⁓ in a f in a family of five kids, did you have your assigned seats? ⁓ did you it was always a fight, right? Yes. Yeah. I can imagine, because we were a family of four, so I always sat behind my dad and my sister. You were a family of seven. Yeah. So how did that how did it work? Well, my dad would always get big, bigger cars. Right. And so the rear seat we'd They were all big back then. Yeah, but yeah, but he would get the bigger of the bigger. And we'd be four people in the back seat. And the older cars that he had, they weren't bucket seats, right? It was a bench seat in the front. ⁓ yeah. Remember in the seventies? Most of the cars were like that. And so there'd be three in the front and four in the back. And so you'd be driving for seven hours like all these people in this time and two of them are smoking. It's awful. I'm guessing were there was there a seat belt on the bench seat for the person in the middle in the front? We didn't wear seatbelts. What are you talking about? What's a seatbelt? It's the seventies. Nobody wears seat belts. That's true, it wasn't like in front you did. Because it's starting to become law around then. I think it was the mid seventies. When I was young, I remember it. becoming law. Yeah. Yeah. My dad would wear his. But then they weren't retractable, remember? And they were static. So you'd click in and then you couldn't lean forward. They were like a racing driver's seat belt. You're just like, you remember that? Or you don't know what No, I don't remember that. But I rem I remember the belts only being like this. Yeah, yeah. They had like and not not across the body. In the back seat, yeah. And in the middle of the front seat too. Was a little c belt waist one? ⁓ yeah, no, even in the front they didn't have the shoulder ones. I didn't think so. But then when they did have the shoulder ones, they didn't have the retractable stuff. So you'd be just like You're staying in this car. Yep. You have the big like line across you when you get out. But did you did you guys rotate seats or argue about placement? I think we must have 'cause you're kids and that's why I do he's on my seat. Yeah, and then you'd want to sleep and then it's like, Can you sleep in the middle? You couldn't, you'd sleep on the side with your head on the glass and the ⁓ it was awful. I remember being awful. And then because my sisters were significantly older, at a certain point, like my older sisters weren't coming. And then my parents would be like, ⁓ you can bring a friend. I never got to bring a friend, but my sisters my older sisters did. So sometimes they'd be like friends and we'd then we'd still be seven. It was never not seven point. It was never not. No, I don't think so until maybe later years when it was just me. okay, so you brought up maps. Yeah. Look what I have. Where'd you get those? Couple of maps. Listen. We searched for these maps today. No one has maps anymore. ⁓ I thought I might have one in my glove box. No. I thought I asked my neighbor, no. we went to a gas station, no. Went to a hotel, no. Who needs frickin' roadmaps? And then we found them at like like a thrift store. They had lots of maps. The mother load of maps. They wanted to give us all of their maps. They were so excited that someone came in for maps. We have maps. We have maps. We have deluxe maps. And they went in the back and then came out with these German maps from the 30s or something. Like, which country do you need? Yeah, they had all these weird. And I'm like, I don't need specifics. I just need two. We just need a map for a prop, man. Do you want Toronto or Halifax Dartmouth? Well, I'd like Halifax Dartmouth. Yeah, you can have it. Okay. So back in the day, this is what we had to use when we're planning a road trip. So I think your audience would be familiar with this. Just the children of your audience with the you'll remember that we had to use these So open up your map all way. Okay. ⁓ Wait, I gotta drive. Hold on. Could you ⁓ right? Or even as the navigator. Hang on, honey. Across the It's re I can't see. This is a very annoying sound, I'm sure, for people just listening to the audio. Right. So we're flipping maps around. Yeah, we're th this na the maps are basically like a it's like a throw. It's the size of a throw. I feel cozy. This is like a good size baby blanket. Right? It's it's insane. Okay, now Fold Beck. Fold it up properly. Well, there is a method. Okay, do the method. I'm gonna see if I can do mine right. I bet you I can because I tried it earlier. Hold it up. Would have been lot easier to just open up Waze Or as I used to call it. Wa-Zay Strange man I thought it was called that Nat you what? ⁓ thought it was called was a. ⁓ did I almost get this? ⁓ I'm doing my map folding ⁓ I nearly tore it. ⁓ almost got it. ⁓ think mine is wrong, but it worked. Yours is so wrong. But it worked. Mine is correct. It's it's so old that it's ver Okay, you may stop now. You may halt. I almost got it. Okay. Even the dogs get You know, I'm just editing to the end. No, don't. All right, there you go. Map folding. This thus concludes the map folding really annoying audio portion of the show. I just realized something. There was also something else about maps. What? That was higher tech than a map. Before there was the internet. If you were a CAA member, you could go to the CAA, call them up, and order a trip tick. And you could phone up the CAA and say, I'm going to this place and I'm leaving from here. And they would make a map custom for you in like a flippy foldery thing where you would just go from page to the next and it was all highlighted everywhere you had to go. And you would go pick it up before you go to vacation. And while you were there, you get your traveler's checks and all that stuff. Traveler's checks, that's another thing. ⁓ yeah. Do those exist anymore? People use those? I don't know that they would really I used those like in nineteen ninety four. I remember I had those on a vacation, but that was pre internet. Yeah, there was a lot of really weird well, not weird, but it wasn't weird for the time, but there's just a lot of excess things we had to do before going on vacation. Yeah. ⁓ Yeah, they I think these were not terrible to fold because they're already been folded so many times by so many hands. Yeah. But but I really hate folding maps. Right. Well you did a really your job is not Look, this'll fit in a glove box. I know. But you know what you know it it's not right because it it kind of go it goes puffy a bit. Yeah, I know that which I mean that's I didn't hit the I would take that apart and redo it. ⁓ I wouldn't. I would just be like I see, I would fold a map I fold a map like I fold a fitted sheet and it's basically Okay, fitted sheets, I agree. Throwing it in the closet. It's true. Fit fitted sheets I don't even bother anymore. I tried, you know, like the little corner inside the corner. Never mind. So that's it's the same. Anyway, okay. Bye. So stop. I'm getting some water. Okay. Do you want your sip of juice? I'll get it for you. No, you don't have to get up. I'll take a sip of yours. Or are you gross about that? I beat in it. You made it be a toilet. Okay. why does your bottle smell nice? Smells nice? Because I wash it? No, but it smells like aromatic. Because my breath is nice. You have breath like pine trees? ⁓ It smells like pine trees. Okay, ready? Do you have your George Washington teeth then? What? Do you have like dentures made of wood like George Washington? Yes. Okay. They actually weren't made of wood. I'm ready. Okay. ⁓ Yeah. I'm gonna see how ready you are for a night. I wanna check out your style for an eighties road trip. Okay. Ready? Yep. My style. Okay. Well, what's the word then? Not fashion. I don't know. I don't what this is. My vibe. Okay. My road trip my road trip Ready. Okay, I want to check out your eighties road trip vibe. Okay. Favorite gas station snack, egg salad sandwich, Reese's pieces, big league chew, Mr. Freeze. ⁓ Big League Chew and Reese's pieces. You can you w who who do you think you are having? Reese's pieces. I would pick that too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chocolate over everything. Pretty much. ⁓ yeah, and we'll talk about this, but this was your this was your only musical entertainment. So if you had one cassette, one cassette on your eighties road trip, what would it be? It'd be a mixtape. ⁓ it can't be a mixtape. ⁓ Let me re ask it, okay? Okay, but it's eighties, right? So it has to be what I was into at the time. Yeah, so hang on, I'm backing up, okay? Yeah. Don't think about it yet. Okay. If you had one tape to bring on your eighties road trip, one cassette, what would it be? Okay, I just want to preface this by saying that I didn't buy albums on cassette ever. I only bought LPs. And then I would tape them on cassette if I wanted them to if I had to choose at that time, it probably would have been Judas Priests or Iron Maiden. Or if we're talking beyond eighty three, it would have been Metallica. Okay. But yeah, something like that. Or Led Zeppelin. That was three. I said one tape. I'm only allowed to bring one? Yeah. It's pre-1983, I'm bringing a Led Zeppelin, I guess. And if it's post nineteen eighty three, I'm bringing a Metallica tape. Okay. Mine's probably well, the first Crowded House album came out in eighty nine. So it probably would have been that. But if it was anything before, it would probably be ⁓ Whitney Houston. What? ⁓ or Tiffany or How come you get five? The California raisins. What? The California raisins? I I actually had a tape of the California raisins and I loved them. I could picture them. I remember them. Right? With their little their little gloves and their their little legs. They had little skinny legs and skinny arms with these big do they have white gloves with the like Mickey Mouse kind of? Br I feel like yes. Okay. And they're and it was like 'Cause there was a c cover of Hurt It Through the Grape Vine That was their big thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. ⁓ my god. But what happened to the California Raisins? I don't think they were a real band. I don't think they were actually raisins. I think they were people. And also if they were raisins, it means that they were withered by then. They were grapes that were like dried in the sun. Yeah. So they were old then. But when they were new. Are they old grapes or are they just a variant? Like they don't say, ⁓ my grapes are old, I'm gonna make raisins with them. That's true. ⁓ maybe it's a variant. Well, like how you take a cucumber and you make a pickle. Right. Type of thing. When does it become a pickle? Right. When you pickle it. I wanna Google the California raisins. Okay, we'll see what if they had any other albums. What? See if they had any follow up albums. Yeah. Maybe they did. I literally don't I think it was it was maybe covers on that tape, and I think probably still have that tape. Really? Okay, sorry. Yeah. ⁓ when if you were talking about music. ⁓ first of all, this. I've got this. ⁓ yeah. Remember these? ⁓ yeah. Is it live or is it? Memorex. Memorex. Do you remember what would happen if sometimes the tape would come out and how to get it back? With the pencil? You stick a pencil and then you stick a pencil. Well, because see kids today won't know that, but there's these little Pointy, sticky outty bits, and you could put a pencil in there and then spin it and you could pull the tape back ⁓ up. Yeah. What all the crap we had to go over? Right, you have to pop out those tabs. Pop out those little tabs. And then when you did sometimes when you had an album like this, well, no, this is an album, this is a blank, right? But if you got an album and then you hated the album and you just would record over it, they didn't have these tabs, they were but you would put tape over it. Yeah. And then you could record again. And you could use it. That's true, man. All the hacks we find. Lot of things. Anyway, cassettes. This is what we listen to. And sometimes eight tracks. We had a car that was so old it there was 8 tracks. ⁓ you had an 8 track. I never had it in a car, but we had ⁓ we had one of those giant stereos was like seven or eight feet long and made of wood and has this big you know, like that thing I built in the backyard. It's like but it's a stereo that you console stereos. You don't remember those? That's before your time. Yeah, I think way before. Like ⁓ I'm gonna say like seventy three to like seventy eight. Okay. Okay. Stereos Would come in this one giant piece of furniture. Like from one It was about eight from the driver's side to the that's we're talking about cars. I thought you were talking about in the car. No 'cause I said eight tracks in the car. And I said we didn't have them in the car, but we had them in our stereo at home. And I was describing the stereo. Yeah, I remember those. Those things. Yes. Okay, no, in the car the general I was like, how is a car eight feet long? I don't understand. Okay, no. We never had a car with an eight track player. Okay. We had a cassette player and that was like a big deal when we got that. Yeah. Because before we had just the click click click radio. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah, we had eight tracks and some of my it was all my dad's country songs, Merle Haggard and Conway Twitty and whatever else. And and sometimes those albums were like in two carts, like in two eight tracks. ⁓ yeah, 'cause it wouldn't all fit on one eight track. Yeah. I got a question. You guys argue about the music on the way? Or is it what dad put on and that's that's it? It was what dad put on and that was it. But also when I by the time I was doing road trips, at a certain point we had Walkmans. Right. So we would just listen to our own music. Right. Which was great. Yep. But I remember I have a hated song from a road trip because this was around Eighty eight or eighty nine or something. Okay. The song that came out around that time that was everywhere on the radio that I grew to abhor. was a song called Swing the Mood by Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers. Okay. So it was basically like a mashup of like old school songs in there. ⁓ And my dad was loved all those old school songs and couldn't believe what he was hearing with this giant mashup. I think it was like nine minutes long or something. Come on, everybody. Come on, everybody. Okay? And he played that song over and over and over on one road trip. And I was like I think I would have snapped his neck from the back seat. I just reached over the headrest. I cannot hear Jive Bunny. Yeah, but that doesn't do anything for the song still playing. I'm gonna put it in the car on the next road trip we know. No, please don't. I think I will. Please don't. Just for your reaction, just to see. You already can see what it's gonna be. Yeah, I know. I want to see it again. Yeah, so Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers hated it. And I actually looked for it on YouTube and ⁓ the other day just because I was like, ⁓ yeah, this song and it has like thirty three million hits or something. I'm not surprised. That was a huge hit. It was a massive song. It was annoying back then. ⁓ Ricky Lozon. From Sopo, Ontario. Love that shit out of it. One road trip. At least you had your dad played music that was semi contemporary, right? No, it was usually like country. Yeah, but of the day. He'd be putting on like Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich and that kind of stuff, maybe. I don't know. But not my music, but yeah. No. No, and my dad, it wasn't, but my dad didn't listen to modern music. My dad listened to classical and opera. And so most of the times I was in the car, it was C B C radio or opera. And I just was Somebody kill me now. But I don't really remember that on the rides because the stations we didn't get the reception, right? So I just remember I don't remember music. Well, maybe it was just static and the sound of your mom smoking and Yeah, just like but I do remember one time I was old enough to drive for some reason to Maine with my parents. So I must have been an adult. And my mother's like a a nervous passenger. And so whenever I would drive and my mother was in the car, she'd be in the back seat because my dad was in the front. And the whole ride, I whenever I would look in my rearview mirror, I would just see a reflection of my mother. This is a cigarette. And she'd just be like this. It's a visual. She's terrified, like looking between the seats, the headrest, like and I was just, Mom, you know, I'd look in the mirror and you just see a terrified woman. With her cigarette to her lips. Back backseat driving, but not backseat driving. Just backseating nervous face. But I get it now. Like if I was in the backseat with my son driving at nineteen, I'd be like Yeah, of course. Anyway, yeah, I just remember that. That was pretty funny. Because I couldn't look in the mirror and look at cars. All I saw was her. It was funny. Did you have games that you made up for in the car? Like how did you pass? ⁓ yeah, Bagsy Corvette. What's that? I don't know if this is British. I don't know if anybody does this. Bagsy. Bagsy Corvette. Bagsy is the thing you would say when you would see something that you wanted and you it's like you reserved it. Nobody else could have it. Okay. But we would play Bagsy Corvette. So every time we saw a Corvette, we'd say Bagsy Corvette, and then we'd count how many we got. Okay. Okay, so I remember doing that. And and people play punch buggy, but I found that too violent. Yeah, I didn't like that one. No, but we play Bagsy, Bagsy Corvette. Bagsy Corvette. Bagsy Corvette. We play that all the time. Bagsy. What But I like Bagsy as like, yeah, it's in my bag. I like that. Yeah, Bagsy. That's like you're claiming something. Yeah, dibsies. Like it's dibs. It's exactly it's British dibs. Bagsy. Bagsy. ⁓ we did ones like, you know, I spy. ⁓ yeah, we do that too. ⁓ Counting the Cows. Yeah. A lot of times I was just daydreaming out the window. I always w wished that, like I always wanted to see animals out the window. So I would always just like stare out the window and be like, I want to see an animal. see an animal and then I'd be like, ⁓ dead raccoon. Okay. Good enough. I remember that we've ta we coined the phrase too. Another thing that came out of our road trips as a child is ⁓ moo cow's poo poo or moo cow's poo. You know that smell because you drive ⁓ yeah the manure smell. Yeah. 'Cause you're driving through farmland all of a sudden, you're a big city kid, you don't know this all of a sudden, ⁓ poo and I would be like very reactive to smells as a child. Like like I'd have to have like a Kleenex to my nose with perfume on it so I wouldn't have to smell it. How precious. So bad. Such a You would think with all that smoking in the car, you would have no sense of smell It isn't though, or that's some really serious grade cow manure, man, because it was rank It cut through. And I would say Mookow. I don't know, I called them Mook Hows as a kid. So it was moo Kow's Pooh. Mookows Pooh. Mookows poo. That's whenever we smell it now, I'll still say Mook How's Pooh as I'm driving. What a strange lexicon. Mook How's Pooh. Bagsy Corvette! Bagsy Corvette, Mook How Poo. That's all I remember. And then it was like the big ritual of going across the border. And my dad being nervous. ⁓ yeah, yeah. Don't ask. Everyone's nervous. Everybody's nervous about all of a sudden you're like a n a drug dealer or something. Yeah, and it's like you feel guilty when they're asking you a question, like, what are you doing? ⁓ my dad had a great trick though for coming back across the border. And I use it and it works. I don't know if it would work now in the current climate, but it used to be you'd have to, like they say, anything to declare when you were coming back. What my dad would do was he would write it down. He had a list of everything bought we bought in the two weeks we were in Maine. Down to like the minutiae of like one t shirt, twelve dollars. He would start listing it all out from his list. Yeah. And the agent would get so annoyed that we'd just like, okay, go. So he could I mean he never took advantage of it. Yeah. But it he said they'll never ever stop me if you do this. So you a you just you just like ⁓ enumerate them. Yeah, but with the price. With the price. You don't have to give a receipt now? I don't know. What's happening here there, Bolt? He doesn't like this bit. You don't like this topic, Bolt? You want us to talk about something else? Shall we If anyone follows me on Facebook, you know that or Instagram, every now and then this dog will tantrum and he's currently tantruming. What's up? What's up, man? You wanna be part of the show? Want you come over here? Kicking feet? Got your kicking feet out? You wanna come over here? He just he just he just wants to be seen. Well he's seen. We see you. What we're talking about? The look on his face. ⁓ the at the border. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ Okay. And one last buddy, you gonna let us finish? You gonna let us finish the podcast? Why don't you come over here? Why come sit. Come. Come. Come here and be We'll pet you so you don't pet you so you don't tantrum. Okay. All right. Had to move the dog so he doesn't Okay. Yeah, there's I think there's so much that we could talk about about the about about my life. I think there's really a lot that we could talk about in regards to nostalgic eighties style road trips. Like I'm thinking about I mean there's no there's no end to the list. Like ⁓ no AC. Right. This was your AC. That's true. No power steering in some of my dad's cars. Power steering. Right. No seat belts. No no blinkers. ⁓ no brakes. No no tires even. You just go on the rims. We just Flintstoned it. Down the Yeah. Anyway. We had it rough, but I ⁓ I miss it. ⁓ do miss it. But I wouldn't do it again. No, my dad always had the crappiest cars, man. Like the crappiest cars. One time he was driving over the Mersey Bridge and he picked up exchange students from Vancouver or something. I don't know. That we had like exchange students staying at our place, and they were these gigantic teenagers that were like 300 pounds and like seven feet tall. And they got into my dad's car. And as we were driving over the Mersey Bridge, we went over a bump and the car cracked in half and the middle part was rubbing on the ground. Okay. So the car had actually framed it. It broke broken. And you know what my dad did with that car? What? He had it repaired by taking like those L brackets for like a tree tutor and had them welded. Yeah, like yeah, like tutor like a it's like a T shape, like that, right? And it's got a bunch of holes in it. Right. He took those and made those as the rails on the side of the frame and had it all welded so he could keep driving the car. Dad. So red green of him. Is your dad red green? He might be. He might be. ⁓ my god, but I can't believe it. Like and he thought that was safe. It's like, how did that even get on the wall? Yes. The hubcaps. Hubcaps. Yeah, my dad lost hubcap lost a hubcap. He lost two hubcaps. And then he had this idea he didn't want to buy new hubcaps, so he went to the dollar store and he got Mixing bowls. Okay. These rounded mixing bowls that were the size of his not the whole rim, but like the center hub of the rim. And he screwed them into the rim. On one side it was the mixing bowl hubcaps. On the other side it was regular hubcaps. I'm like, this looks crazy. He goes, it doesn't. He goes, whenever you see a car, you only see it from one side at a time. So nobody knows looking at this side what are what's on the other side and nobody knows looking at this side. And I was like He has a point though. He does have a He has a point. And it's just those mixing bowl hubcaps were really cool actually. But did they but but did they bob bob out? Yeah, there were but like did normal hubcaps pop out. No, but if you think about those cars in the thirties, it was a style or the fifties there was like a kind of a bulbous round. Okay, so it was an unusual No, it was unusual on like a nineteen eighties car. It looked really weird. But not if you're looking from one side. They're side it matched. But the other side, it matched on the other side. I think we should do a whole episode on how your dad's amazing frugalness and his like MacGyvering of things. Because he's done a lot of like really cool shit. Yeah, he has. Yeah. A lot of really builds a lot of weird stuff. Yeah. Okay. So now I'm gonna get in s now I'm gonna t to do the prize and bye bye. We didn't talk about what we did in the Carper Entertainment much. Did you want to do more? I said I Spy and all that. Okay, that's good. I guess. I that's all I had. I had the games with the l the marker. It's okay. You should have stopped me. I like that game. No, let's talk about it. Okay, we can just put us back in it. I gotta backtrack and he might not be there. I could use it for a short. Okay. Okay. Do you remember any games that you played? Okay, wait. H what's what's a good way to hook this short? Analog games. Your eighties road trips. Eighties road trips in the car, what games did you play? ⁓ well first we play like the the blah blah games, Bagsy Corvette and all that stuff. But Yeah, you can't you can't do that if it's a just a short. I'm just gonna use it as a short so there'll be no Start again. Okay. Eighties Road trips in the eighties. What games did you play in the car? Okay. We would get, and it was really exciting because you could only get this in the States. It was it would be like a little book and it came with its own special marker. And inside, when you rub this marker on it, drawings would appear. Yes. Yes. I don't know what it was called. I don't know what it was called. Magic ink. Magic ink magic ink. And it came with like a I think it was like white or yellow, the marker kind of I in my head it's yellow. Right. Yeah. And it was magic ink and you could and you didn't know what you were gonna get and you get a picture like, ⁓ my god, it's a horse or whatever, you know, it was really exciting. Those were awesome. They were awesome. They keep me quiet on the ride. I think that's plus ink to smell. Yeah, plus I'd be getting high in the back seat. Mom, I love this book. Thank you so much for stopping to buy this book. Yeah. I think that was it. I mean that I don't remember any like parents I don't think doted on their children as much. ⁓ now it's like here's your TV and here's your iPad and here's your snacks and here's your healthy snacks. We had we had like here's a bag of soft peppermints, shut up. Right. Yeah. Here's some celery. Sh quit your bitching. Bye. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't have any of that stuff. My kids did. I had like D V D players and Yeah. And it worked. And the best thing ever in a car was a D V D player for kids, let me tell you. Best thing ever. Okay, off topic. Okay. Now I'm gonna do the prize. Okay. ⁓ okay. Okay. So here's a cool thing that we're gonna be Okay. So here's a cool thing that we're gonna be doing all summer long. We have some really generous people who have donated prizes. ⁓ so we get to give away prizes on the podcast all freaking summer. All summer. ⁓ on today's podcast, I'm gonna be giving away $100. Bolt thinks it's not enough. I'm gonna start it over. Right. It's like a hundred dollars. ⁓ You're gonna have to wait, sir. ⁓ why did this ⁓ okay what's he doing? What's he want? No, no, you just wait. He wants to eat A T or something. Why is he being all happy and scary? Hey? Pomeranian face. ⁓ for fuck's sake, this dog. ⁓ Lay down. Hey. Stay. Okay. What happened? After you said stay and you turned, he got he made a bitchy face and kicked again. It was hilarious. Don't kick. Don't kick, we're almost done. We're almost done. We're almost done, Bolt. Hang on. Okay. Okay. Okay. ⁓ I don't remember the last thing we talked about, but giving away a hundred bucks. Yeah, okay. I'm gonna come off of the ⁓ other stuff. Okay. Okay, well that was fun. Little ⁓ nostalgic memory laning about our road trips as a kid. ⁓ and before we go, I wanna let you know we have a giveaway. We've got a prize. We've got a prize for you if you're in the Montreal area. We're giving away prizes all summer, which is super cool. My thanks to Robin Barre who is the ⁓ owner of Artizan ⁓ Artizan is an amazing clothing store for women. It is located in Pointe Claire Village where you can get clothes and accessories and gifts. And ⁓ she has generously Donated some prizes for us this summer. So 100 bucks for you to maybe take your own road trip to Pointe Claire Village. Right. That does feel kind of vacation in Pointe Claire Village for those who haven't been there. It feels like a small town, any town USA. It feels like. It's really lovely. And so ⁓ if you are located in the Montreal area ⁓ and you want to get in on this prize, here is how you do it. We want to know. ⁓ wait. So ⁓ should I ask where you vacationed as a kid? Should it be that or should it be your favorite mixtape or should it be what question do you want? Do you something that we talked about? Bagsy. How about your favorite road trip story? Story? No, something that we spoke about. An answer that they have to go back and look at. Yeah. Because then they have to go to the through the podcast, you know, and listen. Right. So what did what did what what stuff did we talk about? Well, I was think yeah, so I was thinking where where did Rupert go on vacation every what state did Rupert go on vacation? Okay. Or what city? Yeah, what because you mentioned you did mention Bar Harbor, Maine, yeah. Okay. So what city? Or town in Maine. What town in Maine? Did okay. this is how you win. What town in Maine did Rupert's family go to every year on summer vacation? It was in this podcast. fuck, I'm gonna muck this up. Okay, so Here's how you win. Do you want to ask the question? So I'll say here's how you win. Answer this question. Okay. And then you say what town, blah, blah, blah. Yeah? Okay. Okay. This is how you win. Answer this question. what was the name of the place or town that I visited in Maine every year with my family on vacation? Write your answer in the comments below this video. Now, if you're listening on an audio platform, not all of them support comments. So we would ask you to come to the YouTube video and write your answer in the comments below this video. And sometime next week, we'll be putting all the correct answers in a hat and selecting our winner. Now, a reminder again that it's only for Montreal residents because Artizan is in Montreal. But hopefully, you know, maybe we'll have more prizes as time goes on that are open to. ⁓ people outside of Montreal. so good luck and thank you so much for listening and we hope you enjoyed our nostalgic road trip. I enjoyed it. I did too. Leave a comment, share, you know the drill, and thank you for listening. We'll see you next time on Feedbag Feedbag Speedbags E. Don't do that. It's my thing. No, it's not your thing. Ghost. It's ghost thing. Yeah, I know. It's really annoying. We do it on purpose. Just for you. I think that was good. Okay, we'll see. Yeah. It didn't feel too it didn't feel as unhinged as most of our No, I know. 'Cause we're unhinged when we're just blah blahing. Yeah. But sometimes the unhinged we find the gold nuggets. I know. Like Marlena. But that that also had a it had a somewhat direction. We're ⁓ it didn't have a this. Right. Well, this was a whole one topic. Right. When we have three, it's kind of like we're doing this, this, and this. Yeah. And that's when it gets unhinged. We'll see how this one does. Yeah. We'll see how it looks. Yeah. ⁓ is there anything else you wanna say? No. I I wonder if there's any shorts we can create before that I could just use as shorts. Well is there anything in your thing there that we didn't talk about? Not really actually. Not really. not really. Not really. No. It's all pretty in there. Pretty much in there. But Like if there's a short, maybe we just do shorts separately from now on, instead of pulling from the actual show. Maybe sometimes. Just for safety, at least a couple. ⁓ Like I'm thinking of just doing visual like a visual the this is your GPS. This is like a pre promo for the show maybe, like ⁓ On feedback, w we're talking about eighties road trips. This is your GPS. This is your music. This is your Spotify. This is your AC. Right. Is there something We could do it together? This is your AC. But it's shorts. So it's gonna be ⁓ Yeah. So maybe ⁓ maybe it could be like this. So I could have the map and then you could have I could be like This is what what you needed for an eighties road trip. I'd be like, ⁓ this is your Spotify. This is your ⁓ this is your Spotify. No, sorry. This is your GPS. This is your Spotify. This is your AC. Is there something else we can one more thing we go back to you on? Hades road trip. Maybe you could like like something about a seatbelt and there isn't one. And this is your seatbelt. Or something. something that Is the is like the kicker, you know. Yeah, so you're like, and this is your seatbelt. ⁓ there weren't any right. What else wasn't there? Maybe the air conditioning. 'Cause it's usually three, right? This is your this, this is your this, this is your funny thing. That's how it usually is. One, two, three. So this is your We've got two. We've got three. Here's your GPS, here's your Spotify, here's your A C. Well, if you Yeah. What do you not? Well, your A C is Yeah, but it makes sense. Yeah. But but then you got a fourth thing. I know, unless Unless is this funny enough to be the third thing? This is your A C well unless we say a thing at the end. This is your A C Maybe ⁓ are you ⁓ turning pasta? Are you making pasta? Butter turn, no. Looks like I'm weird jerking off too. Looks like you're weird jerking off. Weird jerking off. This is how I jerk off. Circles. My dick bent completely to the side. It's a spiral. Be nice to just have a short. Spotify. Welcome for our trip back to the eighties. Oscar W. Join us on our trip back to the eighties. I've got my Spotify. I've got my GPS. I've got the A C And this is not too bad I didn't have cool Max Headroom glasses or something. Max Hedrums two eighties. Candy. I've got the beer. ⁓ wait. How about Popeye cigarettes? I don't know. ⁓ Can you can you Can A C be the joke? And this was your A C. ⁓ my tendonitis. Can only do one or two takes before you're You don't think it's funny enough? No, 'cause it's not natural. No. It's funny when it's natural, but then again, I don't know. It's just an experiment. How about we didn't have GPS, we had this. We didn't have Spotify, we had this. And we didn't have seat belts, we had this. Overall crashed. Are you are you the guy? We put tape on your eyes. Or ⁓ yeah, that's I am Astor. A robot. ⁓ Road trips in the eighties, we didn't we didn't have GPS and then you could be like, We had this. And then I'd be like, We didn't have music. But we had this. We didn't spot it. But we could be arguing about whether they were better. And you would be like, Well, we didn't have GPS even. Yeah, but we had these. ⁓ we didn't have yeah, but we had this. Right, okay. Yeah, but we didn't have seatbelt. Yeah, but we had this. That looks like you're being a retarded guy. How about I'm dead? Yeah, but we had this. Or maybe you could cut me with like Tape like pennies over my eyes. That's why I said the X's. Well pennies would be good too. No, it's too morbid. I don't want to talk about people dying in car crashes. No. I it'd be fine if yeah, but we had this ⁓ wait a second. S or something. What's the third thing? We can ask Chat GPT. Okay, what do you want me to ask him? Say Hey Google. I am. Okay. Hello hello, I'm about to ask you a question, just hang on a second. Does it? Yeah. So just describe it and then say give us give me ten examples of a third thing. Okay, we need wait, it's doing weird shit. What do you mean? You're Googling not chat GPTing. Does it give you the same thing? No, no, I'm Geminiing. ⁓ it's ⁓ it's it's the same, yeah, okay. Okay. Hey Google. We need a punchline for a joke. So we're talking about 80s road trips, and we're saying we didn't have GPS, but we had paper maps. We didn't have Spotify, but we had cassette tapes. And now we need a third thing. Could you give me seven options of what the third thing that didn't exist in the 70s and 80s for road trips, but that exists now? Thank you. It's not I think it's 'cause I'm unlocked. I'm locked so it won't. Hey Google. In the 70s and 80s, when you would go on road trips, you didn't have a GPS, so you'd use maps. You didn't have Spotify, so you'd listen to cassettes. Name something else. Name a bunch of other things that have a modern day equivalent that we use today that and something that we don't use anymore from the seventies and eighties. Got it? All right, get to work. It's not letting me do it. It's not doing it. The mic is mine, so wait. Hey Google. Okay, now it's gonna work because it's recording me. Okay. 70s and 80s road trips. We didn't have GPS systems, so we used maps. We didn't have fuck you. Hold on, I'm doing it again. I have to pee. This is still recording, but see. Hey Google. Okay, back in the 70s and 80s when you'd go on road trips, you didn't have a GPS, so you'd have paper maps. You didn't have Spotify or Apple Music, so you'd listen to cassettes. Name another thing that is integral to a road trip or a big part of a road trip that has changed like those things have changed. Name a few things that have changed about a road trip in modern day 2026 compared to like the mid to late 70s, all the way to the mid to late 80s. ⁓ two examples that I'm talking about would be we'd listen to music on cassette tapes instead of Spotify, and we'd do our navigation using paper maps instead of GPS. Name five other things like that that have changed. Road trip. Four months. Beyond music and maps, here are five other major things that have completely transformed about taking a road trip today in 2026 compared to forty or fifty years ago. One, booking a place to sleep. Then you drove retired, pulled off the highway at a flashing neon sign, and walked into a motel lobby to ask, do you have any vacancies? If it was a holiday weekend, you just kept driving and praying. Now you Okay, so there I asked for things that said booking a place to sleep has changed radically. Because you would you would pull off the side of the road and ask going to the hotel, do you have any vacancies? No. And then you would just keep driving. Hunting for food. Then it said then dinners were a gamble based entirely on billboard signs like Howard Johnson's or whatever diner happened to be near the exit. Now we have Yelp, Google Maps. That doesn't really help. Captured memories and photography. Okay, these about the trips. Everyone has a high definition studio camera in their phone. Well, there was a thing up there was like Like a Polaroid versus but also like games. So we didn't have iPads, we had Travel games. Comics. Archie comic book. I think we're trying too hard. Yeah. We're forcing. Okay. Maybe I'll find Schwartz in there. Okay. We tried. You happy? Yeah. Can we just do a back and forth without a punchline just in case it works somehow? Yeah. Okay. So this was a GPS, this is your Spotify. I gotta hold them and you gotta say we didn't have this, I say we had this. Or do you wanna be we had this? ⁓ I think it should go back and forth. Well, like of with things. Eighties ⁓ like this, like ⁓ on a road trip in the eighties you didn't have GPS, you had this. And then you could ⁓ And on a road trip in the eighties you didn't have Spotify, you had these. Yeah, but you wouldn't have to say the whole lead up. You say you do you didn't have Spotify, you had this. Right. And then you didn't have A C you had this. Right. That was actually pretty good. It is especially the way you delivered it. You know, A C you had this. You said it like annoyed, and that's good. He had this. It's hard to do both at the same time. Yeah, and then maybe yeah, okay, let's just try. You can be the punchline lady, I'll be the middle guy. Okay. On a road trip in the 80s, you didn't have GPS, you had this. And you didn't have Spotify, you had these. You didn't have AC, you had this. I didn't like it. ⁓ I bet it's funny though. Wanna do it again? Yeah. On a road trip in the eighties, you didn't have GPS, you had this. And you didn't have Spotify. You had one of these. You didn't have AC. No, no, no, you had this. Okay. If doesn't, it'll be funny for just for us. It didn't like us there. Try to reconnect. It's reconnected. You wanna do it again just in case it wasn't recorded? Okay. I'll join you for the I think it makes sense if I join you for the last, but it's a short, so I might not be in it. Well if I just if I do this, but Yeah, I'm saying I am. Do you find it funnier that we both do the the third one? Yeah, I think it's good. Yeah, might as well. Okay. And you can always cut me out. This also looks like making pasta though, it does. It really doesn't. ⁓ Okay, never mind. How means you stir a pot like this? No, I mean making it. ⁓ through the crank? Yeah. Yeah, but Or that grinding meat. I think more people have opened a window in a car than ground meat by hand. Yeah. Okay. Ready. Yeah. On a road trip in the eighties you d uhkay wait. On a road trip in the eighties you didn't have GPS, you had this. And you didn't have Spotify, you had one of these. And you did not have AC, you had this. ugh... I mean I like what we did. Okay. Are you ready? I mean are you we done? Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready to be done. Tantrum boy.