The Dreyer Drive Podcast

I was thinking about this the other day, like, actually thinking about it, not just scrolling past a thought and moving on, but when was the last time someone made a horror movie specifically designed to traumatize children in a socially acceptable way? I don’t mean like “spooky but with a lesson about feelings” or “scary but the kid is actually the chosen one who saves everyone.” I mean a movie w...

I don’t know why I thought this would be a good episode topic, but here we are: talking about a British farming family who sold everything to sail around the world in 1971 and ended up spending 38 days in a dinghy after killer whales sank their boat. Which, honestly, is kind of the most on-brand thing for this podcast. We’re basically just committed to telling you stories about people who made ext...

The 50th Episode: A Monument to Mediocrity and Sibling Chaos I don’t know if you’re aware, like, actually aware, but we just hit episode 50. Which, for the record, took us two full years to accomplish. I’ve seen people on the podcasting subreddit hit 50 episodes in, like, three weeks. First of all, calm down, no one is that interesting. But also, wait, are we just… extremely slow? Is this an us pr...

Sooooo I need to tell you about something that happened yesterday at the gym, and I swear this is going somewhere, just, hold on. I’m standing at the entrance, right? There’s these acrylic gates, wait, is acrylic the right word? Like, see-through plastic gates that swing open when you scan your pass. And I’m holding my gym card up to this metal post, just waving it around like I’m trying to summon...

So, I don’t know how to start this, so I’m just going to say it: I recently climbed a mountain that made me question every life choice I’ve ever made, and then I came home and watched Ernest Goes to Camp and cried during a song about rain. This is the quality content you subscribe to. --- Wait, Hold On. Let’s Back Up So, first of all, Mount Nebo. For the record, I didn’t think I was climbing the h...

When Your Brother Becomes the Biggest Star on Earth (And You’re Just Jermaine) I was sitting in a movie theater three weeks ago, wait, hold on, it was actually four weeks ago because I forgot the movie came out and then remembered and had to scramble to find tickets, watching Michael , and I had this thought that I couldn’t shake for like six straight days afterwards. Like, it just lived in my bra...

Okay, so I’ve been seeing this thing going around online where parents are like, “We’re giving our kids a 90s summer!” and they post these very aesthetic TikToks of their children catching fireflies in Mason jars while wearing carefully curated vintage Gap Kids overalls, and I’m like—wait, hold on. Is this actually happening or am I in a fever dream? Because that is not what a 90s summer was. That...

You clicked on this expecting another episode recap where we wax nostalgic about Saturday morning cartoons or the correct way to organize your CD collection. But today? Today we’re going deep— inappropriately deep —into what might genuinely be one of the most influential pop culture moments of the late 90s/early 2000s. I’m talking about “Thong Song.” Yes, that “Thong Song.” The one your mom immedi...

Howwwwww did we let 90s pop magazines raise an entire generation of women??? And I’m saying this as someone who spent actual money, like real dollars , on magazines that told me I was simultaneously too fat and too thin. Welcome back to another episode where I force my brother Ryan to understand what it was like to be a teenage girl in the ‘90s. Spoiler alert: it was weird, it was inappropriate, a...

Something has been deeply bothering Jacqueline for approximately 2,000 years (give or take). Everyone knows Cleopatra. She’s literally one of the most famous women in history, mostly made famous by Tal Bachman’s “She’s So High” . But here’s the thing nobody talks about: Cleopatra had a little sister who was an absolute menace. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...

Three’s something that’s been on my mind since like, I dunno, 1986, and I’m pretty sure it’s been camping out in yours too. Flight of the Navigator . You know the one, right? Chrome spaceship that looks like a fancy peach pit, a kid who time-travels by accident, and Pee-wee Herman voicing an alien who just wants to go home. Classic stuff. But first, let’s set the scene for where this episode came...

I need to tell you about something that’s been keeping me up at night lately, and no, it’s not another existential crisis about whether I peaked in elementary school (spoiler: I absolutely did). It’s about two guys named Jim who lived 40 miles apart, never met until they were 39, and somehow managed to live almost exactly the same life . I’m talking same wives’ names. Same kids’ names. Same dog’s...

Can we have some space to discuss something important? Every millennial has a box. You know the one. It’s shoved in the back of your parents’ garage or buried in your childhood closet, and inside it lives the physical evidence of who you were between the ages of 8 and 18. Beanie Babies. Choker necklaces. The CRINGIEST love letters. That *NSYNC poster you definitely weren’t obsessed with. And, if y...

When Fairy Tales Were Actually Terrifying (And Other Stories We Were Fed As Kids) [From Ryan:] I need to start this off with a confession: I spent the first 15 minutes of recording this week’s episode thinking my sister wanted to do a deep dive on Wallace and Gromit. You know, the claymation duo? The cheese-loving inventor and his loyal dog? She did not. She wanted to talk about the Brothers Grimm...

We Fed Our Entire Podcast to AI and The Results Were... Unhinged What happens when you give artificial intelligence 45 hours of sibling chaos to analyze? This episode. That’s what. Ryan (my brother, currently living his best overthinking life in Okinawa) decided to take every single transcript from our podcast—all 37 episodes, 524,829 words of pure, unfiltered sibling energy—and feed it to Claude....

We need to talk about something important. Something that speaks to the very core of who we are as a generation raised on VHS tapes, Tang, and the wild belief that wearing a Kangol hat made you cool. This week’s episode started innocently enough—like most disasters do—with a casual mention of a Kangol hat. And before we knew it, Ryan and I were spiraling down a rabbit hole about early 2000s fashio...

Or what should be titled: When Christmas Movies Raised Us Better Than Our Siblings Did Or: How We Learned Everything About the Holidays from VHS Tapes and Nothing from Each Other It’s the most wonderful time of the year. December hits different when you’re an elder millennial who was raised by a combination of questionable parenting decisions, red food coloring, and whatever was playing on the CBC...

We need to tell you something about your morning cereal that might make Frosted Flakes taste a little, hmmm… conflicted. You know how sometimes you have a really good idea, and then your sibling steals it, patents it, sues you over it, and then you both spend the next several decades pretending the other person doesn’t exist while living in the exact same town? No? Just us? Well, buckle up, becaus...

Can we talk about something? Between the two of us: Ryan currently overthinking everything from his apartment in Okinawa while Jacqueline’s nestled in her log house in Utah—we’ve accumulated roughly 80+ combined years of memories. And here’s the thing: a disturbing number of them involve either genuinely creepy experiences or absolutely unhinged things we did to our younger siblings in the name of...

DREYER DRIVE PODCAST - EPISODE 033: THE PAPIN SISTERS EPISODE DESCRIPTION: This week on Dreyer Drive, Ryan and Jacqueline reunite after a month apart to catch up on summer vacations, colonoscopies, and the weirdest things they did as kids to seem "different and interesting." Then we dive into our first spooky season episode about the Papin sisters—two French housemaids who committed one of the mos...

### MAIN SEGMENTS ### RYAN'S JAPANESE IMMIGRATION SAGA [00:02:31 - 00:06:16] - The Pension System Panic - Ryan's three-year visa renewal process in Japan - Discovering he never enrolled in Japan's national pension system - Panic about potential deportation: "They're going to put me on one of those cargo airplanes" - Government-mandated apology letters and bureaucratic absurdity [00:06:16 - 00:08:5...

From Entrepreneurial Disasters to Grocery Store Glory Welcome to another episode where we prove that terrible teenage jobs actually shape you into a functioning adult. This week: Jacqueline's running disaster, Ryan's travel chaos, and a comprehensive ranking of every Ajax teenager's employment nightmare from 1998-2002. 00:00 - 03:30: Fake Smile Science & Our Ideal Audience Ryan discovers that fake...

Show Notes: When Conspiracy Theories Meet Sibling Chaos Welcome to another episode where we prove that our research standards are both impeccable and completely unhinged. This week: time-traveling brothers, beauty vinegar addiction, and why contractors should come with checklists. 00:00 - 04:00: Empty Nest Syndrome Hits Different Jacqueline's having the worst mental health week of her life because...

The Dreyer Drive Podcast #029 - Willow (1988) "A podcast all about siblings and the people, places and pop culture that raised us" Episode Highlights & Timestamps 00:00:05 - Show Opening The classic Dreyer Drive intro with Ryan's signature apology to first-time listeners 00:02:32 - Jacqueline's Dream Funeral Plans Because nothing says "dreamer" like planning your own McDonald's-catered funeral com...

Look, we're not saying that a Canadian children's television network from the 1990s shaped our entire worldview, but... actually, no, that's exactly what we're saying. This week, after Ryan's air purifier literally rejected his presence (more on that disaster below), we dove deep into the nostalgia rabbit hole that is YTV - the unapologetically Canadian kids' network that taught us everything we k...