Interview · moment 23 of 23
The Green Ford Taurus and Throwing Rocks at Cars
from White Marble with Paul Virzi | The Tim Dillon Show #314 · #314
4 min
Guest
Closing riff comparing a stoned teenage memory of dodging a friend's mom's green Ford Taurus to childhood recklessness like throwing rocks at highway traffic, tying into how different unsupervised, imagination-driven childhoods were before smartphones, before Paul closes with his tour plug.
- Tim's friend Shay's mother had a green Ford Taurus, and there was only one other green Taurus in town—driven by the Chinese delivery guy.
- When Tim and his friends were high at 15, they'd see a green Taurus coming and pray it wasn't Shay's mom's car.
- An Italian kid suggested throwing rocks at cars on the highway going 80 miles per hour, which they actually did.
- A Cadillac full of Italian guys came back after being hit with rocks, forcing Tim's group to hide in pricker bushes in the middle of the night.
- Tim contrasts growing up without smartphones to the Stranger Things era, noting the difference in childhood freedom.
- Kids used to get lost and develop deeper bonds with friends because they had to use their imaginations.
- Modern relationships are transactional and immediate, trained by technology to work differently than before.
- Now when kids sit in a treehouse, their parents have to call someone to check on them, implying they might be up to something dangerous.
- Tim jokes that kids in treehouses now are on the dark web ordering bullets instead of just hanging out.