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Fade to Black - The Story of Drive-In Movie Theaters · Dirt Nap City - History's Most Interesting Dead People

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: Hey Kelly.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: What's up, Alex?
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: You want to do a dead end?
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I love those.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_02: I love those.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_01: So, um, one of the great things about being R-H, we were born in the late 60s, early 70s.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: One of the great things about being R-Age is we kind of were present for some of the stuff from like post-World War II.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Ends of that stuff.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: But then we still get to, you know, exist in this time where we get to see all the cutting edge technology.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, man.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: I I think there's nothing better than Gen X.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's it's underrated because we kind of got to experience the old timey world, but we're not so old that we can't hang with the the the young bucks today.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's us.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um in the club.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I want to talk about a thing that existed just at the tail end of when we were kids.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: It was just going away then.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: And um probably if you lived in more rural areas, you experienced it more.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but that's uh the drive-in movies.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, drive-in movies.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Did you ever go to the drive-in?
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: I think one time.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe, maybe one time.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it wasn't a regular thing for me.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: And I always found it kind of an odd deal.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like that whole car culture thing of you know, Sonic and eating in your car, and then the the drive-in movie, watching the movie in your car.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, kind of weird.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: You get a big car though.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: You could have hosted a lot of people in your car.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: And I think if they charged by the car, I probably could have like made a killing on that.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like charge everybody two bucks in the car, get 20 people in it, so that's 40 bucks, and then it's 10 bucks for the car to get in, profit of$30.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Should have done that.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: And your numbers are way off because they actually used to do that sometimes.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, when I was growing up, we had a drive-in in our town, and on I think Wednesday nights, they had uh they had a special where it was five dollars per car.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: And we would fit four or five people in the car.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is back when you know you first had friends that were driving.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: I was probably 13, and I had friends that were 16, and you put four or five people in the car, and then another two or three in the trunk.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: That were you a trunk guy?
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: I was always a trunk guy, I was always pretty small.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: I was always in the trunk.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_02: And by the way, we said trunk, guys, for everyone, he's not trunk of the car.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, man, we'd get in there and for five bucks, we could get like eight or nine of us, maybe ten of us in the movie theater.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the drive-in.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't a movie theater.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's a drive-in.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so you know the layout of a drive-in, right?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: You've got your big, big giant screen.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: And you've got a concession stand.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that was always a big thing at the drive.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: You could walk around.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: You walk around.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: There's usually a playground for kids.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then you've got a right next to the car is like the stand, and it had a speaker that you had with a wire, uh like a cord on it.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: You took that speaker and you would attach it to the window, you'd roll down your window like a quarterway, you'd attach the speaker to your car, and it would have like a little uh volume dial on it, and the sound would come out of that that speaker.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: So basically the driver is hearing everything really loud, and in the backseat they can barely hear.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, it was it, it it pumped out a lot of sound.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was tinny, you know, it wasn't stereo or anything.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, later on, they would do things like they would do those micro broadcasts where you turn your radio to like 87.9 or something, and they would broadcast it and roll your windows up.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: But no, the real deal was to get that tinny speaker to to clip onto your window, and it would have this real tinny sound, but it would it would come in, you'd get to listen to the movie.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_01: So drive-in started in 1915.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, it wasn't they didn't have to worry about the sound then because these were silent movies, right?
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: And they were all horses and buggies.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, this is when cars started.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: The first first drive-in was in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was kind of a partial drive-thru.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, a drive-in, they had uh it was an amphitheater that they had like 700 seats in it, and they would show movies outside, and then behind the amphitheater, they had room for like 40 cars.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: So if you just pulled up with your car, and cars, not a lot of people had cars, but you pull up and you could watch the movie behind the amphitheater.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: I like that setup, I think that sounds really fresh.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it sounds like yeah, kind of and then there was a mosh pit down in the very front, right?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, sure.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: 1915.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh in do you know have you ever been to Comanche, Texas?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: No, never have.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's on my way when I drive to Lubbock.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's on my way to Lubbock, and they used to show silent movies there in 1921.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there were definitely drive-in, some drive-in movies back then, but 1932 it was actually patented in New Jersey by this guy, Richard Hollingshead, who's the kind of the father of the drive-in movie.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: All right, he actually did some tests in his driveway where he would nail screens uh to trees in his backyard, and he would set a projector on the hood of his car, and he put a radio behind the screen, and he was tinkering with this thing and finally perfected it and put it out there.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: And this was his slogan.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a great slogan, he wasn't a great slogan guy, he was a patent guy.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: Slogan was the whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like they could punch that up a little.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you a patent guy or a slogan guy?
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: I definitely of the two, I would be a slogan guy.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think maybe a patent guy, yeah.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, I'm an idea guy.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: And then somebody else goes run with that.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so he would have the he had this drive-in in Camden, New Jersey, but after three years it didn't make a profit.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: He sold the theater, and then after that, it started catching on.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like he just was a little too early, a little too bleeding edge, yeah.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you think about 1932, he was like the Google Glass of his time.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh 1932 is just a little early.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: That was pre-World War II.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: That was, I mean, cars really started getting popular after World War II, right?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone came home.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: So he was just about 10 or 15 years too early with this stuff.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, one of the first drive-ins was actually in Galveston, Texas.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: They had one in 1934.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: They had a drive-in.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the sound was really a problem.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody, you know, they usually they'd have try to put these big speakers in the front of the uh under the screen, and you'd have to uh if you were parked far away, you couldn't hear it very well.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: They and RCA actually built those speakers in 1941.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: And probably the ones that I was uh using in the 80s was probably the same ones from the 40s that were built.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, after World War II, two things happened.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody started driving cars, and everybody started having babies.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So the baby boom came, and if you wanted to go out to a movie, you had to get a babysitter, all right?
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: That costs money.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're really loud and noisy.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: But wait, where could I take my noisy, loud children?
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't even have to dress them up, you could take them in the pajamas, you could just get in the car, go down to the movie.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: The kids could you could get food from the concession stand, um, they could play on the playground.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: It was really a pretty genius idea.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and perfect for the time.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like cars were big, literally, they were popular and they were big.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so you could fit a lot of people in them.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: It probably was pretty roomy to have your whole family in the car.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was they said it was ideal for a first date.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about that.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of stuck in the car with somebody.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't like them, it seems like a terrible.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but they would promote it as ideal for the first date.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Ideal for the first date.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, they really capitalized on these uh this whole for the whole family thing.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, right, some of these drive-ins would have bottle warmers at the concession stand, they had diaper vending machines.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: And that was they were really leaning into the family thing.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: Some of them had miniature golf, they had pools, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the movie was just kind of in the background.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_02: It was sounds like a minor league baseball game.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, there was even one where it was a motel uh next to it, and they had it situated where you could open your your the blinds and you could watch the movie from bed.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: So how did they do the sound on that one?
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: I wonder.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh probably they had one of those RCA things in the room.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_02: Part of the deal.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: They were also, though, if you've seen the movie Grease or uh or anything from the 50s, they were also kind of known as passion pits, where people go and make out, neck.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: Ah is that what passion pit means?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, in this case it does.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, okay, like the backseat of a Buick.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Heavy petting, necking, uh, all the happy days kind of stuff.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: They'd be able to drive in, make out.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of these places would it uh would have church on Sundays, you know.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: They had these big areas, so they would not in the using the theater, but just they had all this land.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_02: So, like a drive-in church, would you pull in in your car and hear the hear the preacher through the speaker?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sure.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, yeah.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they were really big, they were getting really big in the in the 50s and 60s.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: One of the biggest ones was uh the Johnny All Weather Drive-In in uh Kopeg, New York.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever heard of Copeg, New York?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: No, never been there.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: It uh it had 25 room for 2,500 cars.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: It had a restaurant with a rooftop seating and 2,500.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that must have been like multiple screens.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there was one in in Massachusetts for 5,000 cars, the Lowe's open-air theater.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Dang.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you know what was the downfall of uh of drive-ins?
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: Global warming.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: No, could have been.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh gas prices.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: That's one of them.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: Energy crisis.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_02: There was the energy crisis.
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  SPEAKER_02: Environmentalism, tree huggers.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: The big thing was home entertainment got better.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: VCRs.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_02: VCRs.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: The advent of the VCR made it where why are we going out?
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: We can watch it, we can rent a movie and watch it at home.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Laser discs.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_02: These other dead ends killed that other dead end.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: Some some dead ends killed another dead end.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: One of the other things that people are saying that killed the drive-in, though, was along with the energy crisis came daylight savings.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so you could only watch these movies when it got in the dark.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: And so now it was getting dark an hour later.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: So you'd had to do that.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: So who wants to go to a movie at like 9 30?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it doesn't start till 9 30.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: You market it for the family, right?
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: So because movies were starting later and because families stopped going, now these drive-ins that had all this land, now they had to switch to porn, right?
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: They had to start so that so did they really do that?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: Was that a real thing?
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a real thing.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: So they started showing our porn and and on more adult-oriented R-rated movies.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_02: How do you even do that though when everyone can see it?
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: That's the part I don't get.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_02: Is is all you had to do was just stand there by the side of the road and look, and you might see Dick Clark.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Some people aren't trying to come up with uh all these uh you know illegitimate ways to watch Born, Kelly.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well, okay, hold on.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: You you mentioned you mentioned the downfall.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: There is one dead end that I'm really looking forward to.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: And I hope you are too.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm serious.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: Daylight savings times.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: I cannot wait until we have a dead end about daylight savings times.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: Careful what you wish for.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Careful what you wish for, man.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: But that's gonna make drive-in movies popular again.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I I don't I don't love the idea of getting rid of it as much as you might like it.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: I think when you really think it through, it's it's fine the way it is.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: It's stupid the way it is.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: I've thought it through.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um one of one of my favorite things though, you may you mention you mentioned being able to watch it from afar.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite things would be when we would be on a road trip, you know, and somewhere in like in the middle of the country or you know, like you know, Missouri or Oklahoma, and you'd you'd see these drive-ins from far away.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: You'd be in a car trip and you could see like look, you could see just way off in the distance.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: You'd see, and as you get closer, you could you could see what movie it was, even.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and yeah, I think when a lot of them turned to porn, they just had to make bigger fences, higher fences.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Is that what it was?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Or maybe the ones that were off the road didn't do that.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: Did that but I mean how many did how many actually turned to porn?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I don't have a figure on that.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean that was a thing?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of them?
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a lot of them.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: I never really heard of that.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you don't hang in the same place as I do.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_02: So you would just pull up in your car and probably by yourself.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm not gonna judge which how you spend your time.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: You weren't you weren't bringing the family with you anymore.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: No, you it was just you and and uh yeah, okay.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: And and they just had a Kleenex dispenser.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, man.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: I think at its peak, there were 4,000 drive-ins in the U.S.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, that's a lot.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: And um by the 1980s, there only was like 200.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: 200.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you know what happened?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of them, once they became dilapidated, they turned into flea markets, right?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: That makes sense.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of them are flea markets, a lot of them became industrial parks.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: But I'll tell you what you can find.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you can just Google this stuff.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of them got hit by tornadoes because of where they were, and because they're just out in the open.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: And the real popular thing to do after your driving got hit by a tornado was to write something on the marquee.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what that thing would be?
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody came up with the same thing.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Now playing Twister, close.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Now playing Gone with the Wind.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: Get it gone, gone with the wind.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: That was a big thing.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: So, like everything else that we talk about, or a lot of things that we talk about in Dead Ends, everything that comes out tries to come back, right?
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so drive-ins have tried to come back a few times.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: They for a while they were having these ideas of gorilla drive-ins where or like gonzo drive-ins where people would they only showed Planet of the Apes.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: No, not that kind of gorilla.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, where they would get to they they would uh have these um groups that would meet up and decide to watch a movie like on the side of a building or on the side of a warehouse or something, or yeah, or like on the side of a a container, you know, yeah, like a shipping container or something.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody would bring a projector and they'd watch a movie like in some gonzo place, you know, and it would be like some internet rumor that if you show up here, we're showing, you know, um and Moby's gonna do a set afterward.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and these would be look real, these would be really like obscure movies or art house movies or those kind of things.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, then more vintage uh drive-ins became popular, like everything that's old, it's like, oh, we're gonna rehabilitate this drive-in, and then now we're gonna make it like a boutique would only let 50 cars in.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: So by 2006 there were actually 500.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: So in the 80s there were 200, they were starting to come back.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: You don't even need a projector if you want to start your own drive-in now, you don't even need a projector anymore.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can have those jumbotrons.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, you don't even need that to be at night anymore, right?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Because the technology's still good.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: They should just let us pull into DKR.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you're and you're that's right.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: And you remember during COVID, like a lot of comedians were playing open-air shows where you'd bring your you'd just bring your car and they'd show up, people would honk and stuff.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: So drive-in's kind of got a resurgence during COVID.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um they're they're making a little bit of a comeback.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: I know there's one in Austin, it's I think it's um I think it's called Moontower Drive In or something like that.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's not related to the comedy festival, but it's I think it's called Moontower.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's like one of these uh vintage ones that is trying to make a comeback.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I think I sent you a thing about they're they're um they're coupling silent movies now with uh rock albums.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're kind of trying to be like the dark side of the moon.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, there's a Buster Keaton movie that's coupled with an REM record that's gonna be one of the first ones, and they're gonna show these at drive-ins, and they're gonna, you know, you can be able to put it on your car radio, or probably probably that would be better than streaming it.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Because when you stream it, everybody's like on synced up differently, right?
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: That wouldn't work so well.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: Car radio has no no um not as much lag.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: If you were if you had an app and you said, oh yeah, you gotta start it now, everybody's would would as soon as you see as soon as you see the lion roar for the third time, you push play on Dark Side of the Moon, and and then you go.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: You ever done that?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's actually there's a lot of stuff to it, yeah.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: But it really has more to do with what you've ingested than the movie itself.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, sure.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: But um, but that's how that's how some of these are gonna make it by doing quirky things like that.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're probably in in terms of uh an alternative to a movie theater, we're probably those days are over.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: But for for special things like like that, it might be a fun night out.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe we should do our first uh live podcast from a drive-in.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Ask uh Moontower if they want to.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: You want us to you want us to we'll do we'll we'll recreate the dead end about drive-ins.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: We'll just lip sync it.
• 19:08
  unknown: We'll take it.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: And we'll just lip sync it.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: We'll act it out.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: We'll be on two chairs at the front of the stage.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: We don't even really have to lip sync it because nobody'll everyone will be so far away they can't see our lips.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: We'll just sit there acting like we're having a conversation.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_02: We'll actually be talking because there won't be any mics, it'll just be the pre-recorded audio.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it'll come through.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: But I insist on the RCA tinny speaker.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that makes me sound better for sure.
• 19:33
  unknown: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: All right, man.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: Drive-ins, thank you.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Support your local drive-in.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and hit that passion pit by yourself or with somebody else.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: All right, good one.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Popcorn crunch beneath the stars, exhaust fumes drifting from park cars, kids running wild, can't keep still.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Summer nights have their own drill.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Driving screen flickers so ripe.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Sneakers crackle all through the eye.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: In the back, he loves to try.
• 20:22
  unknown: Couples take and kisses sweet in the shadows where he's being home.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Steady to underneath the still against the quiet sound joy all around.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Speaker all through the sky.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: In the back we love to drive.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: Old film seed, faint memories, cars lined up like swaying trees.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hand in hand we ride the way in our own little hideaway cave.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Smell of nostalgia fills the air.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: Candy rappers toss without a care.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Couples sneak in, kisses sweet in the shadows where hearts before.