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Sometimes when I'm driving around my hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut, shout out.

Shout out. Yes, I find myself thinking back to a time where I, when I first got my driver's license and I drove much differently.

Now I stop at every stop sign. I look around. I signal. I'm, you know, I'm a, you may say, overly responsible driver.

I shake my fists at kids who don't drive that way. And as they speed along and blast their music, I think, well, I can't be too mad because I was like them.

I car maybe wasn't as good. I drove a, my first car was a Nissan 200 SX in 1981 to 200 SX. It remind I called it the Delorean because I looked a little bit like the Delorean.

But I thought I had a, I had a tape player and that's all you needed. That's all I needed was four wheels and a tape player because it meant that I got to, I had freedom. I got to drive around.

I, I didn't have to, I wasn't relying on my parents for to drop me off. And I could play my own music. And sometimes we just drive around blasting music playing music.

Like I thought it was cool. I thought it was, I thought it would be cool. If I drove by somebody and, and they heard me blast to click on his morocet or the cranberries or any, any 90s era music.

So it's fair to say that back in the day you were rocking the suburbs. I tried. I was trying to rock the suburbs. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

Let's rock the show now. Let's do it. We're rocking the podcast. Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream.

Oh, you're listening to life is short. I am your now grown up host Justin Long.

Life could be a dream sweetheart. Do do do.

And with me is always is my also grown up brother, co-host Christian. I rock the suburbs too. You know both have to rock the suburbs and fairfield Connecticut.

What? What? I thought it was so cool to drive around blasting music. We'd listen to Weezer and I'm trying to remember what else was cool. Weezer, R&M.

You know what my my go to album that I wanted people to hear me listen to was it was. It's because that's what it is. Retrospect.

You want people. Yeah, I think so. You want specifically girls to notice you.

The listening to cool music while driving. You know, I think I think that's that was the motivation. My go to album. It strangely was R&M's automatic for the people, which is there are some more upbeat songs on the album.

But there's also some very melancholy songs, which didn't really translate to like rock and I and having people listen to it. But the other album.

The other album that came out a few years after this era, this like when I was 16, 17. So a few years after that, I think I was my late teens early 20s was an album called Rock in the Stubbers.

And it was written and performed by our guests today.

That's so funny. I was just talking about rock. We were both talking about rock in the suburbs. Isn't that a strange coincidence?

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