Explaining The Past To The Younger Generation. Monique Marvez

If you try explaining the past to the younger generation, you're going to end up with some very confused looks, or at least thats how Monique Marvez feels in this clip from her first ever Dry Bar Comedy special. In this clip Monique describes to her nieces how people used to make mix tapes an find music that they liked. Whether you're someone who grew up in the 80's or you're just someone looking for a good laugh, this clip from Monique Marvez is sure to have you laughing from start to finish.
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[@Ron-is5td]

And pushing play and record activated the microphone. So mid way thru the song, when your sis opened the door to ask you something, and you yelled, "SHHH!" That will be in the song on that tape. Forever.

[@joelbedulla4]

As a guy in his 20s this is just hilarious to me 😂😂😂

[@claudiamendoza2211]

👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏿🤣❤

[@RictusHolloweye]

My neighbour was a truck driver and my tape deck would pick up his CB radio when it was recording. Sometimes I'd have to record the same song from the radio four or five times to get an uninterrupted version!

[@BradJames878]

One important thing she left out was when trying to record a song on cassette from the radio, the DJ would always talk over the beginning of the song. This was so you would make a lousy recording, and have to go buy the song. I actually think this is true. But I know that I recorded a lot off the radio, and many of the songs had the DJ talking at the beginning. After a few years of listening to that over and over, I thought that the DJ talking was actually part of the song.

[@droylajarhirthefelinethief81]

This reminded me of something. I was recording Hello Zepp from Saw to my mp4 (Those were very recent back then) and some twat from outside blasted his car horn and it landed perfectly on one of the notes, and I was too bored to redo it, so I kept it. To this day I hear a car horn on that particular note whenever I heard this song.

[@jennifermiller3301]

Love her!!!!! Relate to every single thing she explained so perfectly and hilariously! Those were the days!!

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

Раньше были времена, А теперь мгновения. Раньше поднимался хрен, А теперь давление (с.)

[@econecoff1725]

I still have my boxes of mix-tapes made via these techniques. There's an episode of Married with Children showing them trying to adjust the TV antenna to get good reception (same for FM radio), and it's soooo true.

[@davidfink821]

Very refreshing to see/hear a comedian talk about her generation compared to younger generations and not spend the whole time joking how "soft", "dumb", etc the younger generations are.

[@xzonia1]

No, she just spent the whole time talking about how ungrateful and impatient they are. Lol

[@davidfink821]

@xzonia1 But she as a simple joke, not as condeeming and making fun of them. She was actually making fun of her own generation a lot more

[@xzonia1]

@@davidfink821 I know. I was just joking around. :)

[@nenaelliott8058]

Monique Marvez is hilarious. Great timing, fresh material and very likeable. ❤

[@sparkyfister]

You can think she is funny, nothing about this bit is fresh.

[@janelliot5643]

​@sparkyfister sure it is! Telling history in her special funny way. Don't be envious, you'll find your thing someday

[@sparkyfister]

@@janelliot5643 I'm envious of nothing. I said it wasn't fresh. You felt the need to comment but couldn't be bothered to tell me WTF was fresh about it. 🤔

[@binsarm9026]

​@@sparkyfisterif you're Gen-X it's probly nothing new, but it's still refreshing to hear and she is hitting home with the generational differences. deferred gratitude indeed !

[@ibeetellingya5683]

I'm 63, and I love you, lady. 👍😂

[@larryw.c.4544]

I'm 84, and I do too.

[@binsarm9026]

I'm 57, I've got the better chance, move aside guys !! 😜

[@Just1Nora]

I'm a bit younger, and the worst thing about mix tapes was when the dj would talk over the last 15 seconds of the song! Ugh! So you waited until Saturday when the weekly top 40 would run all day as a countdown playlist from 40 to 1 of the previous week's most popular songs, and they were less likely to play ads or talk over the songs. That was the moment when you would strike! 😂 If you were feeling bold, you'd call the radio station on Friday night and ask the DJ to play a certain song, and you'd dedicate it to your crush, boyfriend/girlfriend, or best friend. By middle to high school everything was on cd, and you'd carry a huge folio case with all of your cds in it, because the original cases were clunky, shattered like glass, and lord help you if the disc scratched! I'd carry my Walkman and folio to school and my bff and I would sit next to each other on the bus, and by then headphones were becoming separate ear speakers connected by wires. Mine had a short cord between the two to go around the back of the head while many had separate cords for each side, so to share we each used one on the ear closest to the other. Just don't whip your head around when someone calls your name from the back of the bus, or that headphone clipped to your ear would practically rip one of y'all's ears off! Hurt so bad! 😂 My friend across the street from me and I would write little Zines for each other as preteens. We'd use plain printer paper folded in half and stapled, write little goofy articles with pictures from actual magazines, spray perfume on a page like one of those sammplers, tape in a piece of candy for the other to try. Decorate the cover with markers, stickers, and glitter, then put it in the other's mailbox. If they didn't notice soon enough we'd call each other's home phones, which hung on the wall, with a 3ft cord so you could tuck around the doorway for privacy, and say, "Hey, go check your mailbox." Then you'd sit inside and peek through the curtains to watch them read it, trying to see if they liked it. Things were just different. I've gotten so used to instant gratification and media advertisement oversaturation that it feels like an eternity to sit through a 15 second ad on a streaming service, so much so that I will pay extra fees for ad-free viewing or listening. It's wild!

[@dorothyjenkins6762]

In

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

It just depends on the ads

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

Когда мне было 12, были телефоны с инфракрасным портом, а не Bluetooth, как после. Мы прикладывали телефоны один к одному, чтобы скачать картинки, игры и midi музыку. А музыку со словами записывали через диктофон.

[@cu4wur6023]

@@Just1Nora 😂 oh God yes, I can remember someone getting a Walkman and we were all fascinated and wowed and I still have zip file cases full of cd’s of music and dvd’s of films because as you say the cases were too bulky. My friend lived across the other side of the road, when I was around 8 years old, and we could just see each others bedroom window so we would flash the light on and off a certain amount of times for yes or no if we were allowed to have a sleep over or come for tea 😂 ah, memories eh!

[@lindajay13]

You are a good writer.

[@remyllebeau77]

Not bad. I remember the struggle of trying to record radio songs. :D

[@Angel_Silver]

@@remyllebeau77 Me, too. On my RadioShack small cassette player and radio! I really miss that place! They had the best stuff back then and it was reasonable. All I had to do was hit a couple of buttons, and I could record the song 🎵 on tape. It was all one compact little unit. I loved it. 😍

[@MadScientist267]

Forget the tape recorder up against the speaker tho... boom box with direct record for the win 🤣 Edit: Edith - they were actually required to do that as a type of audio watermark to provide traceability in some cases... but not like a song recorded from the radio even with high end equipment could compete with a real recording. The required compression was obvious and would have been to anyone listening to it looking for indication of source. Just no ID for the station by itself.

[@FlourishingLove]

@@edithdlp8045 Yep, the dj talked before the song was over. LOL. "And she's buying a Stairway, to, (and now the weather.....)"

[@canislatrans8285]

The wait with 2 fingers hovering above the play and record buttons. The DJs usually talked at the beginning or end of the songs in my area.

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

Мои родители ставили магнитофон возле телевизора и записывали песни из передачи по заявкам "Примите поздравления". О, эти песни Руки Вверх и Сергей Жуков "Крошка моя", Наталья Королёва "Маленькая страна", Алла Пугачёва "Позови меня с собой" и другие

[@shwmehvn]

OMG the waiting with the two fingers. I remember!!!

[@WyldPinky]

OMG My hubby, who is 8 years younger than me, said I gave him direction on making mixed tapes. Apparently I was talking in my sleep! HaHa 😂

[@WhiteTiger333]

And the frustration when you realize, partway through the song, that the record button did not engage.

[@Elketjeable]

Me too!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Elketjeable]

​​@@WhiteTiger333or the song stopping half way because the radio people wanted to chat through the song the entire last minute.. 🙄 So annoying!! Even worse; the signal declining and having some snow through the recording because you have to readjust the antenna..🤦‍♀️

[@donnawalker3910]

'72 graduate here. 8 track players and tapes were game changers, we thought we were living the Jetson life! And then cassette players and tapes came along. We were mesmerized and HOOKED! Good times.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

I graduated high school in 1974. My parents gave me a boom box. It could record right off the air, and yes I still have some of the tapes. I can still remember the first time I heard "Layla". I wonder if I still have that tape?

[@lauralake7430]

See if you can spot this one…

[@madtownangler]

I don't think I had a boom box until the mid 80's. My dad was still using 8 track players in 1974

[@barbrice721]

Its probably somewhere. Lol.

[@olivewoo522]

I asked my neighbor to help me assemble a frame platform bed. He arrived with a drink cooler. I asked why did he bring a picnic? He said it's tools!!! 😂🤣🤣

[@bbb462cid]

Best neighbor ever

[@susanlisson7066]

That’s a top tier neighbour!

[@susanlisson7066]

Well this woman is a breath of fresh air. Best random thing to pop up on my home screen today. G’day from Western Australia 👋🏽✌🏽

[@Australian_Made]

🇦🇺

[@lizdestefano4905]

😅😂 Lay away 😅😂 thats was rough times for middle class, for Christmas! I was born in 91, so I understand most of this but in less than 20/30 years we now have Amazon, Alexa, the Samsung 24, CDs boomboxes ! I love her!

[@Lavenderrose73]

Oh, those Kmart memories!

[@jeffweed3947]

Banks had Christmas Clubs. The bank gave you a small booklet with 11 pages for your monthly deposits., January-November. December 1 you withdrew one lump sum and went Christmas shopping.

[@monicaluketich6913]

Layaway was great for our parents. All your gifts could be kept at the store until they were paid off - less time to snoop around trying to find them.

[@CrankyBeach]

It all resonates, except my mixtapes were more like 1971 to 1975. I might even still have them stashed somewhere in storage.... My radio was an AM-only clock radio, and the tape recorder my mother was able to by redeeming Blue Chip stamps. It was my 16th birthday present, and it came with a very short blank tape that only had room for 3 or 4 songs. Oh, the humanity!

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

Послушайте песню группы "Отпетые мошенники" - "Люби меня люби". Это моя молодость. "Руки Вверх и Сергей Жуков - Крошка моя" А ещё 1999 - Децл Le Truk - Вечеринка у Децла дома. Гуляет весь район, гуляет вся школа ... А эти песни молодости моих родителей : 1. Верасы - Малиновка 2. Юрий Антонов - На крыше дома (Yuri - Look at their faces) 3. Группа Кино и Виктор Цой - Звезда по имени Солнце, Группа Крови 4. Юрий Лоза - Плот 5. Вячеслав Бутусов и Наутилус Помпилиус - Я хочу быть с тобой 6. Юрий Шатунов и Ласковый Май - Седая ночь 7. Комбинация - Бухгалтер, American boy, Russian girl 8. - Наташа Королёва и Юрий Николаев - Синие лебеди, Дельфин и Русалка. 9. Алексей Глызин - Зимний сад, Ты не ангел 10. Ирина Аллегрова - Младший лейтенант, Бабы стервы

[@TheOcean777]

So refreshing. First time I’ve heard her. Great material and performance

[@CarlDalach-px4cj]

Always loved Monique, and I still do! So real and funny

[@aaronsnell9383]

I had a Union 76 antenna topper on my '74 Oldsmobile! LOL!

[@lewisaveryfiler7087]

I loves those. I have one on my 1981 F-150 that I still drive daily. Got a couple extras stashed away in my garage toolbox.

[@JohnSmith-ti2kp]

Monique you are great, thanks.

[@MidnightBlueMetallic]

The layaway joke was funny. As was the one about hovering over the play and record buttons with the claw like a hawk.

[@MenelionFR]

I even don't know what to do, either to laugh or to cry. Nostalgia! I wasn't born in the USA and unfortunately haven't even been there yet, but everything you say, Monique, resonates so hard in me! Thank you so much!

[@sunchildgaia]

Neat and clean witty comedy without a single slang! My kind of comedy.

[@Emmanuel_Rivera1]

I remember and miss the old days of recording radio music with my cassette tapes, hitting rewind and fast forward, flipping the tape over for more music 🎶😀 those were the days!

[@Mike-zw7fq]

Great set Monique! The layaway joke caught me off guard. Very Funny! Best Wishes from Montana! M.H.

[@thetruth7046]

Thank you for this. Been a tough week. Great to go back to my childhood on YT!!

[@3wire42]

I recently discovered Monique thanks to Dry Bar. I love her stories!

[@pollynicklas5220]

All through the eighties my sister and I would make different mixtapes - for road trips, for going to concerts, etc!

[@bnp2bnp]

Grew up in the 90s/2000s. My parents bought my sibling and I a karaoke and showed us one if their mixtapes of the past. So excited with the idea of customization, we recorded live concerts with our karaoke and dolls and even added commercials ("Don't go anywhere, folks, because next up is famous So and so after the break!" And then a stream of upcoming baseball games and fairs kids shouldn't miss.) We would record these things down, getting really into character. We didn't have to wait for the DJ on the radio to play the song, we just recorded from the multiple CDs we collected. Sometimes we made "soundtracks" to add to the movies we filmed in our minds, our dolls as the main stars, so much action and adventure! It built an imagination within us today that I don't see many kids with. Though I grew up in the age of CDs, but when I see a cassette, man... Those were awesome.

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

У меня был CD плейер и однажды, когда я слушал музыку в школе на уроке трудового обучения, он расплавился. Аккумуляторы батарейки сварились и стали похожи на горячую жевательную резинку.

[@cu4wur6023]

@@bnp2bnp You had imagination then and it was fun creating mixed tapes and doing what you did. Fond memories 😊

[@cu4wur6023]

Excellent comedy, I’m 62 this year so can relate to everything she is talking about. I was in stitches thinking back to making mix tapes and getting ready with the play and record buttons…and sometimes your finger would slip off one and it didn’t record 😂wow, how things have changed. Now I make play lists on Spotify and, yes Shazam too! Nothing worse than your favourite mix tape getting tangled in the cassette player 😮 Thanks for the laughs and the memories 🤣😂❤🇬🇧

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

Послушайте, пожалуйста, песню группы "Отпетые мошенники" - "Люби меня люби". Это моя молодость. "Руки Вверх и Сергей Жуков - Крошка моя" А ещё 1999 - Децл Le Truk - Вечеринка у Децла дома. Гуляет весь район, гуляет вся школа ... А эти песни молодости моих родителей : 1. Верасы - Малиновка 2. Юрий Антонов - На крыше дома (Yuri - Look at their faces) 3. Группа Кино и Виктор Цой - Звезда по имени Солнце, Группа Крови 4. Юрий Лоза - Плот 5. Вячеслав Бутусов и Наутилус Помпилиус - Я хочу быть с тобой 6. Юрий Шатунов и Ласковый Май - Седая ночь 7. Комбинация - Бухгалтер, American boy, Russian girl 8. - Наташа Королёва и Юрий Николаев - Синие лебеди, Дельфин и Русалка. 9. Алексей Глызин - Зимний сад, Ты не ангел 10. Ирина Аллегрова - Младший лейтенант, Бабы стервы 11. Игорь Тальков - Чистые пруды 12. Михаил Муромов - Яблоки на снегу 13. Валентина Легкоступова - Ягода малина 14. Виктор Салтыков - Белая ночь 15. Татьяна Буланова - Ясный мой свет

[@WhiteTiger333]

Haha, yes. It also made me think of the frustration of realizing, halfway through the song, that the record button did not engage.

[@cu4wur6023]

@@WhiteTiger333 😂🤣🤭 Oh God yes! I now create playlists on Spotify but I have fond memories of making those mixed tapes. The effort that was put into making them made it more special somehow 🤔 I wouldn’t have the energy, will power or patience to do that now! 😤🙃

[@brittish1587]

You might be my new hero! I'm showing this to my daughter ASAP!!!

[@Tom-_-Hanks]

Thanks, thumbs up, 🙂

[@paulmoore7064]

In snow country, antenna toppers are an early warning signal at intersections.

[@comfortouch]

"get your 2 fingers ready" ROFL It's funny 'cause it's true! Wish she would have mentioned the melt down if your sibling interrupted you with noise; or when the F-ing DJ would talk over the last 30 seconds of the song as an intro to the commercial that they started playing before the final chorus line.

[@samsilverhawk4435]

Oh WOW Ms Monique, you're so RIGHT ON, and just hilarious!! In my little circle, almost no one's old enough to still remember how we got it done back in the day, except me... YOU are a joy, and a treasure, for sure, and oh how I wish my name was Larry.

[@Lady.Luthien]

Love Monique Marvez!

[@WhiteTiger333]

I remember making mix tapes from my LPs on my Pioneer stereo set-up, then copying the master mix tape for playing in the car...because the car tape player in summer was very good at eating tapes - yum, yum. 😂

[@crystalfulton7684]

Memories.

[@donnapsisk2992]

She is great.

[@leoscheibelhut940]

So happy to hear more from the great Monique Marvez! Hope to hear her whole set from Provo.

[@suen5006]

So true!! I remember sitting there with the cassette recorder waiting for the song to start so I could record it.

[@davel4708]

I liked Heavy Metal. The only time you could hear Metal on the radio was for one hour at midnight on a Tuesday on student radio. I used to record the whole show. Then you'd meet up with the one or two metal fans you knew at school the next day and compare notes. It was like something out of Fight Club.

[@user-cn6by8cw5x]

Мы любим группу Ария (Кипелов) - песня "Я свободен"

[@cdbmoore22]

Oh this completely reminded me of being a punk-rock/death-rock teenager in the 80s and waiting until Sunday at midnight for Alternative videos to come on MTV and recording them on VHS. Parents would fuss about staying up too late on a school night…Pretty sure my mom recorded over my favorites too. 😡 How could she!!!

[@Maireadmoss]

In Australia it was a two hour radio show on a Monday night if you didn't want to hear Top 40 endlessly repeated. Now we have Nightwish!

[@Mariola-gv3nd]

I was a Triple J Goth girl. I was the only person in my whole school who listened. Most were Triple M or 2SM listeners. I still have all of my cassettes. My favourite is Standing on The Beach by The Cure that I bought from K-Mart.

[@terfalicious]

She is FUNNY!!! Would love a full set - caught another part about men/women differences that brought down the house!

[@sparkyfister]

are you a woman in your 40's?

[@denisefarmer366]

Yep. The rest of her show was sooo good. Love her comedy. Really incredible❤

[@kcl060]

Missed you on here, Monique! Hilarious! Amazing how she can still be so hilarious even when clean.

[@SjaakSchulteis]

I still have many recordings from the eighties... from all over the world. In my country the Netherlands, I really had to be fast to record without too much talk of the dj. But I loved the radio in Los Angeles and San Francisco where you had music non-stop without interruption. I still have many recordings from that time. Don't have the tapes anymore, but all digitized some 15 to 20 years ago and carry that music wherever I go on my phone!!! Hardly listen to modern music, because there is too much from the past...

[@gardenjoy5223]

Oh yeah! At the end of the song the DJ would start to talk, to make sure you would have to buy the record to get the whole thing. Well, I didn't have the money, so I just taped it back and forth, back and forth, till I was at the EXACT millisecond of where I knew now that the DJ would start to talk, then cut it off there and wait for the next song you wanted. Had a LOT of fun and some anger with that :)

[@SjaakSchulteis]

@@gardenjoy5223 Same here. But nowadays I enjoy the seconds of the dj as well. Brings back memories of that time.

[@gardenjoy5223]

@@SjaakSchulteis I had such tapes. Nice music, nice music and then the DJ loudly: "Ja, en dan gaan we nu..." (Yes, and now we go to...). I hated it then, but indeed it's nostalgia now.

[@gardenjoy5223]

@@SjaakSchulteis Did you know what I just came across? "Friends for live" "Vrienden voor het leven". Just watched the first three episodes. Nostalgia indeed.

[@SjaakSchulteis]

@@gardenjoy5223 That's great. One of my favourite programs was from the eighties. Walhalla Symhony with Teo Stokking. Every sunday night at Hilversum 3. Had nearly all episodes. About ten years ago I found somehow a guy on the internet who also had a lot. Turned out that each of us had the missing broadcasts and we sent them to eachother. So both of us have the complete Walhalla series. They are pricelless.

[@whorn9295]

Would love to hear more from her. ❤️❤️❤️

[@cestusfr]

Again thanks dry bar to get us to know comedians with such great and original contents!

[@Counterpoint1951]

I didn't record songs from the radio, but I remember popping in a VHS tape and waiting with my finger hovering over the record button whenever I was watching music videos on VH1 so I could catch the ones I liked.

[@Angel_Silver]

I used to put clothes on layaway and pay them off a few bucks at a time. It was the only way that I could afford any nice clothes. It took me 3 or 4 months to pay off this red dress in ⬅️ the photo. 😅

[@freebirdrox7330]

Also, when I was a young single mommy, I'd go put Christmas presents on layaway, and that's the way I could get lots of cool gifts for the kiddies.

[@Angel_Silver]

@@freebirdrox7330 That’s awesome! ❤️

[@andrewvelonis5940]

In 1972 I bought a comic book on layaway for $60. My mother didn't see the sense in it. I sold it in 2022 for $9,500.

[@mhtammi]

Back in the day, I paid for a pink angora sweater dress on lay away. I wore it for years before it fell apart.

[@Angel_Silver]

@@andrewvelonis5940 Wow!!! 🤩

[@paulspringer3303]

I was Hi-tech, and had a cassette recorder WITH the radio, so I could get direct record from the radio !!!! But, the Columbia House record Club supplied a lot of my albums and cassettes!

[@BrendaAnderson]

Can picture myself now ... licking all those tiny "album cover" stamps for the albums I wanted and then taping the penny on the order form just in the right place. My entire music collection was made up of Columbia House 8-tracks and then cassettes.

[@jennycadot3635]

😂🤣😂🤣😂😂 Wonderful memories! I still have my mixtapes too and I still can listen to them on my radio/tape/cd player! 🤩

[@sadefoy]

💕 Love you Monique! I’m so glad that you have new material! I’ve missed you.

[@chrisnichols4962]

My favorite mix tapes are made of recordings from David Lettermans' musical guests. I found if you started the tape as the show came back from commercial, and then ended after Dave finished thanking the musicians, the tape became one long live concert. Still have them and play them on occasion. ❤

[@AScrapOfKindness]

"Move in faith, move in gratitude" I like it.

[@philmickey7247]

Very interesting! Thanks!😁👍

[@davidmartin1015]

Brings it back, I used to record that way back as far as the 60’s ; big old radio,lots of bass onto reel to reel tape , R&B mainly. Love your work honey. Dave from Oz.

[@charitylboisseau7526]

This was FANTASTIC! Thank you, Monique!

[@gymrat4800]

Monique, I am watching your videos all afternoon on a difficult emotional day and you cracked me up so many times..hope you get a gig at Red Rocks!

[@jengentry06]

I was literally just explaining this very process of acquiring recordings of our favorite songs to my 18-year-old son. Man, this seems like an age ago. Good memories, though. Good memories. My kids love that app that gives them the song/artist's information. No need to call the radio station to request your song, either, with all the different streaming platforms you can subscribe to. Imagine all the time they save not having to wait hours for the DJ to play the song they've requested. 😆

[@ibleebinU]

Love Monique and she is spot on with this form of observational humor.

[@octaviatheappalled912]

I remember trying to hum "Light My Fire" to the DJ at the dance. NObody could tell what I was trying to hum lol! Hahaha

[@nomadpi1]

First time I've ever heard of her and heard her delivery. She's fabulous!

[@katiedrew4708]

So true about the wisdom of NOT yelling SHOT GUN!

[@xzonia1]

I think they yell Front Seat now. Lol

[@heatherlowe7330]

Man pants 😂😂😂😂

[@MamaJLW]

I have a sister who is my personal google for music and movies. I can call her and hum a few bars of whatever song I’m looking for. She always comes through with whatever song I’ve dredged up from my memory. It works with movies too. She’s awesome that way.

[@starchick5815]

So many memories! I did every one of the things you mentioned. You had to be real nimble to manage hitting the play & record buttons simultaneously

[@lupe6229]

Thank God for you and your talent and may he bless you the rest of your life “ love ❤️ from Lupe Loca

[@lor3999]

“The radio didn’t even work in every room in your house.” 😂 Yup, I remember, but you could take it to the beach. And, if the batteries were dead. You sat near people who liked the same station you did.😅

[@gordiebrooks]

Oh so very true !! The youth of today have NO IDEA what life is really about.

[@HBgirl99]

While you're not wrong, every generation says that including the one before us ;)

[@denisefarmer366]

Except that face to face conversations are hardly happening with gen Z. That wasn't the case with any previous generation.

[@maryperry1773]

I made so many cassettes recorded from the radio. Then listened to them in the car, or on my Walkman. Music was Everything!

[@gowmitch069]

This lady is brilliant 😂😂

[@ladyvincenza]

In all fairness, I never hummed to the person working at a music store to ID a song. I do remember singing it to my friends to help ID it. What a difference a generation makes!

[@deanc685]

She is amazing.

[@alismyers432]

😂❤LOL about layaway!!!!! LOL so true about the lists. LOL I feel like I'm so time warped. Monique you are awesome!!!😂❤

[@namelia4439]

Omg, I totally forgot about the car antennas!!! As an adult in my 50s, I really do love that Shazam…it really is like magic.

[@henrikfalkner6619]

So true everything she said. I loved mix tapes.

[@user-oe6bp9nf1j]

Brilliant!

[@madtownangler]

I can remember taping songs off the radio and being ticked that the DJ was talking too long into the song...one of my friends had an uncle that worked at a radio station and would give him tapes with new songs on them to play at dances at school

[@JamesPonder-s2e]

Always great

[@RIGGIDRICH]

At 58 years old i remember every last thing she talks about, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Ps Monique is still smokin hot❤.

[@jdmarr2259]

AM transister radio & a portable reel to reel tape recorder. The transister radio was also what you listened to at night when the house was asleep. We used to walk everywhere, my friends & I, and I'd carry that transister radio with me so there'd be music en route.

[@denisefarmer366]

I had a small reel to reel and used small tapes. 1964, had to hold the mic up to the speaker. How I loved that thing!

[@chantalsimonetto668]

Brilliant, Beautiful, and Funny!🥰

[@marysisak2359]

I remember sitting in my bedroom for hours waiting for Richard Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare)'s only hit to play on the radio.

[@Field_Marshal_Emu]

Never felt older than when our eldest found some of our old VHS tapes and was absolutely perplexed over what it was and how it worked.

[@evanss6141]

This was a great set. Loved it!

[@lynnpardo]

Really enjoyed her. Very savvy. I go back to 50’s but relate. Have my own mix tapes

[@dawnmaestascowell6930]

Absolutely connect

[@nancysherry9088]

sure do wish I could hear her whole set. Brilliant stuff.

[@IggyStardust1967]

Not a single untrue word was spoken in this entire bit.

[@sparkyfister]

maybe, my problem is the lack of funny words

[@CitizenMio]

​@@sparkyfister I can tell. But don't give up, it'll get better!🤗

[@iTammy]

When I was little, like 4 years old or something me and my friends spend hours with our walkmans while practicing the Record, Play, Forward and Replay buttons and made our own recordings 😄🎧 After that we ran outside to play with our other friends, we explored the world and were cool happy kids 😎🥳 place

[@mikamikalson7393]

She's pretty good, nice find!

[@Clearlight201]

Haha I was literally just thinking about having to use a pencil to fix the cassette tape when she said it! She really took me down memory lane.

[@JamesPonder-s2e]

To the best ❤❤❤🎉

[@lisayerace6117]

LOL! She’s SPOT ON! 😂

[@anndipietro1868]

Remember trying to get words to songs? We had to keep rewinding the tape.

[@jotan0306]

I love her. She’s awesome !!!!!

[@Wazhadnin-wj5te]

I think one of the things that I miss with records was the Album Art which is completely lost now with music. Some of the best album covers to me were Pink Floyds "Wish you were here", Led Zep's "in through the outdoor" which was in a brown wrapper and had different prints, Triumph's "Just a game" actually had a game board inside. ELP had the famous "Brain Salad Surgery" cover.

[@gangapoornima]

Lady, i love your look, and i laughed, thank you.

[@axiomist4488]

That was great, I was expecting it to go on .

[@michaelgautreaux3168]

🌹x12! Still incredible Monique. Much ❤️ 👍👍

[@shariwitt1977]

Reality! So fun!

[@midwestmatthew9752]

My parents eventually got a fancy tape deck where you could press the play button by itself, but if you pressed the record button by itself it would take the play button with it so you didn't have to use both fingers anymore. 😅