Epic Road Trip Reunites Friends from 1970s: Is Nostalgia a Friendly Force or Fuzzy Fraud?

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Bill Whittle's "getting the band back together" for an epic, no-devices, road trip to the U.S. Air Force Museum. The entire purpose of packing four old friends in a car together, who haven't been together since the 1970s, comes down to one word: Nostalgia. Do we imagine a glorious past to denigrate the disappointing present — or to diss the new generation — or were things really better back in the day? Is your best day ever in the past, or has nostalgia clouded your mind with fuzzy fiction? Bill Whittle and Zo Rachel create two new episodes of The Virtue Signal each week thanks to our Members, who fund this enterprise and enjoy comments, forums and the Member-written blog at https://BillWhittle.com

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0:00.0	This is how things used to work, and I think we were happier.
0:17.5	Hi, everybody, welcome to the Virtue Signal. I'm Bill Little here with my friend Alfonso Rachel and a little happy, upbeat, change of pace for a change here. We spent so many of our Virtue Signal shows talking about vices. I thought maybe we'd talk about something. It was a little less visey. So, my topic for today is nostalgia, of all things.
0:44.8	I have not been able to go on vacation since January of 2019.
0:49.3	A lot of that's been the pandemic and stuff, but I've just been locked in the work here.
0:56.2	So on Thursday, I'm taking a week off, and I'm going to fly to Orlando.
0:59.7	We're going to meet my friend Steve Stipp, who I've known since 1970.
1:05.0	We're driving up from Orlando to Georgia to meet my friend Fritz since I've known since 1970.
1:09.6	And then we're going to head over and pick up my friend Phil in North Carolina who have known since 1973.
1:11.6	And the four of us,
1:17.1	who have not been together in the same place since 1973, are going to do an old-fashioned road trip. We're going to go to the Air Force Museum in Dayton. We'll be there Saturday and be looking
1:21.0	forward to anybody who can make it there. A lot of people on the live shows that said they'd like to make
1:25.4	it there. So I'll put a post up about that.
1:27.7	But in any event, the reason I wanted to do it was because I haven't seen these guys
1:32.9	individually in a long time.
1:34.9	I haven't seen them all together in, you know, 40 years or more.
1:39.5	And what I said I wanted to do when I talked about this trip was I said I wanted to do an old-fashioned road trip, which is what we all grew up on.
1:48.0	You know, long drives, no devices, just talking about the old times and stuff.
1:53.0	So I wanted to talk a little bit about nostalgia because I can see kind of a good side and a bad side to this.
1:57.0	So I'll start with a bad side because I think it's mostly good.
2:00.0	I have known people who've been prisoners of the past. side to this, so I'll start with the bad side because I think it's mostly good.
2:01.4	I have known people who've been prisoners of the past who at some point in their lives
2:07.5	decide everything in the present is terrible, the future is going to be worse, and they just
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