The soothing sounds of ‘Super Retro’

Will Walk, left, and Dustin Tucker are the hosts of “Super Retro” — a podcast honoring “anything dope from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.”

A soda can wrapped in aluminum foil. That’s it.

That’s the thought that had me mindlessly slowing down to 5 mph under the speed limit as I listened to a podcast called “Super Retro” during my midnight commute home, on roads that were empty but for my creeping Camry and wandering brain.

A soda can wrapped in aluminum foil.

Man, I hadn’t thought about that in decades. I had certainly never considered the feeling it represented: The freedom and glee of an elementary school Field Trip Day — which was accompanied by an inevitable brown-bag lunch weighed down by those coveted 12 liquid ounces, snug in a Reynolds Wrap jacket.

I could envision my much smaller self cracking it open, holding up a Coke Classic to cheers one of my pals at a picnic table outside of some museum that had no prayer of holding our attention that day.