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Welcome to Wrong Impressions. Almost live from Kuji Beach in Sydney, Australia and... Going to again, yet again from Greenfield, Massachusetts, Western Mass. Oh, I discovered a really good way now.
I've been on a few flights in the last week and during the flights, even the short flight from Melbourne to Sydney, they gave out sandwiches. One hour flight and they gave out sandwiches. A whole sandwich? A whole sandwich.
What was a sandwich? It was like a cheese and ham sandwich. Oh no, it was a chicken sandwich. It was a chicken sandwich.
But it was cold. It was a cold sandwich. And I made a breakthrough sort of a discovery on my flight from LA to Australia. I did the cold sandwich.
I take the sandwich and tuck it under my bottom and I warm it up that way. Does anyone see you do this? Are you an exospeitmate and you're like, excuse me, I'm just going to put the sandwich and tuck it underneath my ass. Possibly.
But then do you... And then retrieve it once you feel like it's been sufficiently warm. I had the few... Grab it from under your ass and then unwrap it in your neighbours like, hey, because I've been on a few flights.
Let me tell you, those seatmates are right next to you. Yes, this was the mother of two, three children. They appear to have definitely gone to the Taylor Swift concert. And I kind of had the feeling she might have seen me do it because I did it twice.
Because I did it the first time I tucked the sandwich under there for the purpose of warming it up. And then I thought, you know what would be really cool is if I was to capture this, if I was to video this with my phone. So I did it again. And while I was doing that, I had the feeling.
And I'm learning that as I get older, I'm learning that these feelings are often true. It wasn't my energy field. And I do think sensing that she saw me doing this was probably correct. I had the feeling.
I had the sense. I had the extra sensory like that she had turned and saw me talking to the sandwich. And then saw me removing the sandwich from my crotch. But I don't care.
I don't care anymore. I'm a guy that's freedom. Yeah, that's freedom. I'm a guy that can go to see...
Over 50 and 40. Exactly. I can go to CVS now. I can purchase Astroglide.
I can purchase hemorrhoid medication, wart medication. What else? I almost go into CVS now with the purpose. And some toothpicks.
With the purpose of buying the most embarrassing array. Well, don't forget you always need to buy a sling. You always have something that needs to be slung. You're like, oh, I've got an aching arm or oh, my knees, Jack.
I need an adult sling or some sort of... Yeah, you're always coming on wheat. You guys, we are like a graveyard of slings in this house. If something is aching, we have it for you.
A knee, wrap, an ace, like a shoulder. I'm ready to throw them out. Don't you dare. Don't you dare.
They're just taking up space. So is everything. They're not bringing me joy. That's medical equipment.
You can't just start throwing out medical equipment. Well, and Nilly, there's plenty of other things in the house that can be thrown away. I threw away a box this week and I felt really kind of like, whoa. When I say box, I don't mean like a cardboard box, like a package that came in the mail.
It's a box that I bought many years ago when I worked at Paper Source and Pasadena. So this box is like 20 years old. It's kind of like a photo album box or something that you keep pictures or you store things in. But so I'm going through this studio purge and I just was like, box, I'm done with you.
I don't want to move you to another room in this house. I don't want to see you anymore. We're going to have to say goodbye. I could have also donated it, but then I had the honest thought where I was like, this box is actually just, it's too sad.
It's not quite, I don't want someone to have to take on this box. So I sent it to the inferno, the Greenfield Transfer Station and the dump. And it will be burned, I'm guessing. It will be taken to Springfield and burned.
Okay. Springfield is approximately 40 minutes out. 45 minutes. 45 minutes south of us on the I-91 highway, Freeway.
Yep. And yes, I, because I asked once at the transfer station in Greenfield. Hey. That's called, that's the dump.
We call it the transfer station here. Right. Andrix was with me, he was about 10, 10, 9 or 10 at the time and I thought, hey, let's do kind of a Mr. Rogers thing and go, hey, where does this stuff go?
And the guy kind of looked at me and he's like, well, take a Springfield and they burn it. Well, I hope they do something with the energy that comes from the burning of the trash, right? Because isn't that what they're doing at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport?
Their trash can say, it's okay. Like throw your trash in me because it's going to fuel something. Like it's going to create energy to, they've done something great there with trash at the Minneapolis-St. Well, by the looks of the place in Springfield.
Thank God. By the looks of the place in Springfield where they burn it, which is actually next to the savers, right next to the savers. Lovely. That's a thrift store.
It's right on the banks of the mighty Connecticut River. And it's also lovely. Let's just have the inferno just burning next to the river. The dead river.
The used clothing store. The river is literally, it has been a dead river. It might be a little more alive now, but it hasn't in the past been totally dead. It's the dead river.
What do you mean by dead? There's nothing really in it. Nothing really lives in it. Like you're not, you can't do a whole lot of like- That's a bold statement.
Are you talking about the Connecticut River? Yes. Yes. But you mean specifically near- In the night?
Near spring. Yes. Because up here, don't people go fishing in it? I don't know.
Yeah, they do. They do. Well, it was dead. In the 1980s, it was dead.
It even made the cover of like Newsweek or time. It did. It did. And we took that little cruise down the Connecticut.
I know. It didn't look very alive. People were happily submerged in the water like in chairs. They were sitting in there.
They were sitting in the water. They were sitting in the water. With their American flags flying. Yeah.
Well, that's in case you forget where we are, honey. Enough about this. Enough about the dead river. I'm just saying that I got rid of the box.
It's gone out. For you to get rid of a box, that's actually that's something. It is. It is.
It was probably looked nice, I assume. Like it maybe had some flowers on it. No. It was black.
It was a black box. Yeah. I'm proud of you. I think that's a really good that's a really good way because we are there will be a purge when I come home When I come home the big black garbage bags are coming out.
I'm going into the quote-unquote our office quote-unquote because There's no office thing going on in there. It's a it's just piles and piles of plastic and paper It's the I'll deal with this later room. Yeah, you know, like you put something in there Oh, I'll deal with that you just throw some you literally I mean I of course not you you wouldn't do this But I throw things in there and then I close the door. I know I don't love that because I still actually use that room because I make all of our t-shirts for the Barlow fan Oh, sorry I do use that space but it gets smaller and smaller as the shit gets piled and piled in there and Yeah, I don't I don't know like what to do with that room.
I think it's like partly I feel like I Just don't know. Oh dear. I feel sneeze coming on. I feel sneeze.
I'm just giving you a heads up. I don't know if it's I'm ready. Oh Okay, maybe it's gonna go away Okay, hmm. Wow.
I think I think it I think it's gone Wow wait a minute It's coming I just realized we came very very far from your sandwich. We were we were having a conversation about your You're saying I was going to say to you that you were treating your ass Like a room temperature panini press Yeah Hey, you literally pressed it down and you're like it's a body. Oh, I felt like this was important information I love a panini sandwich, but this this is a hack. It's a hack, right?
What this is this is actually not a hack people aren't talking about hacks quite as much as they used to but hey life That's a real trend for the whale. Yeah, hey life hack. I feel like those were always really delivered with a small goodness too So I appreciate it when it's done with like a Wink wink or something because man the whole like just so you know Here's a life hack and then you're like well, I hate you now So I can't even read your life hack because you're such an asshole so they usually deliver the so much for the life hack back in the day back Back in the day of life hacks that were just being tossed at us willy nilly they were usually delivered in rapid succession So you couldn't remember them anyway You know and now that they're doing ones now that are like but orange juice orange juice and and cell through water together can clean your silver But they don't use the word life hack. I think that that's off trend, you know I'm saying someone figured out that that's like that's a no now So you don't say life hack anymore you say just did you know when you blah blah blah or something like that?
Hey, so did you know that when you get a cold sandwich delivered to you on an Australian flight you can any flight any flight? You know it's Australia because the u.s. Definitely won't be getting you sound not on a domestic flight. You're absolutely right We get nothing on domestic flights anymore and that happened a long it's pretty rough.
I have to say a long time ago But but yes the cold sandwich that's delivered to you right in there right right under I mean for me Of course my ballsack can I actually just say that I think it's interesting that you keep saying cold sandwich because to me I would just say the sandwich because to me a sandwich is almost always cold unless for You know what I mean? Like if you say like a hot sandwich, that's like you definitely want to say that because most sandwiches are they are cold I hate that you hate a cold sandwich. Oh Okay, I don't like cold You like warm things. I like room temperature things Yeah, I kind of dream like when I walk into the I'm sure that many of my travel mates don't like this and I'm getting hints that they don't I'll walk into the backstage The and I will or you taking things out of the front I'm leaving Pineapple out of the fridge because eating I can't taste it.
It's too cold When you just like teeth kind of hurts like what the fucking pineapple I mean look don't put it back why are you putting it back in the fridge because you think it's going you think it's gonna like decompose In the eight and the eight hour and the eight the mere eight hours that you are spending backstage during the you know How long pineapple sits out at like a family party all day in the Sun getting more and more delicious But more doctors by the way just you you eat at your own risk in life everyone You might want to put the cover on it to just keep the insects off of the pie. I will say this I had For my like lunch snack thing today. I was having some carrots broccoli French onion dip hummus and then I was also having Grape leaves with rice, you know like the the fuck those things are always those were always too those roles too damn cold for me That's always just a panic. Well Same so what I did is about an hour before I wanted to eat one.
I brought it out of the front. I'm really proud of you now Because you well that's typical. I like doing that. Do you I don't like those cold.
Yeah. Oh, I thought I thought do you think I'm like a I felt like the whole I feel like the whole have we ever met I Have sort of persecution complex about this. I feel like the whole world the whole world everybody in my world is resisting my urge To make everything room temperature and tasty. I think we're married you're like have we I mean you never noticed that I put things out before We've ate them.
Okay. I think what I'm thinking of is that when I say we have like I let steaks come to room temperature before I cook Well, you're right. Well, that's because a lot of people told you to do that. I think you're impulse This is what I'm saying.
Well, you're giving me literally no credit. Okay, listen I am sure I have a blind spot here. I'm not really I'm not really trying to defend myself But I will say I just let me say one thing Okay, I think that when something is frozen and you want to use it just put it on the counter Don't put it in the refrigerator because it will not fully defrost by the time you need it And that's true and many times you're like well gee I took the chicken out of the fridge after I oh you're talking about me with the frozen Like salmon yes chicken because I'm just like hey We woke up put the fucking salmon on the counter so you can make it for dinner and just leave it there But I'll often put it on the counter and you'll be like no and then you'll put it in the fridge because you think oh, it's gonna slowly defrost And I'm like it's not it is not going to be ready to cook in eight hours It is going to be still partially frozen. I think when it comes to frozen steak chicken Yes, there is something that maybe I read somewhere whatever that said it was like unsafe To leave those things out Like to defrost on the counter that the safe way to defrost meat or fish was in the refrigerator.
Yeah, so like two days Okay for two days you put it in the refrigerator two days before you want it. Mm-hmm. We just want to also again full disclosure You eat and you defrost things to your own risk with dear listeners. We were not experts I think we've made that pretty clear on a few few episodes here, but Just stumbling through life trying to eat some salmon at five five o'clock That's been frozen that morning, but yeah, that's true I do do I don't know I'm kind of like all over the place of that cuz like sometimes I think you're coming around in my way of thinking I think you're coming around.
I think I'm slowly absolutely wearing you down My bad my co-workers down perhaps my coworkers are disturbed by the roast beef just sitting in our space Well, I think that could be also because it's a shared beef, you know, like maybe other people don't you could ask Is anyone else hoping to partake in this roast beef today? Would you mind if I let it sit out all day? I was anyone else hoping for a slice of this delicious roast beef, you know, I probably should have a wrapped a piece of the pineapple in the roast beef I've done that. Oh my god.
Oh, that's I was just I had that realization. I was like boy, but that'd be yummy Oh absolutely in pineapple room temperature juicy pineapple because when I get through temperature it gets juicier of course and then yes Yes, yes a wrap that you wrap the that's that's that's like a delicate. That's like dessert That I kind of forget to do it often because I just am so hungry by that if I know that there's a writer in my future I will often go and the writer is food. That's a backstage at the show rock and roll talk here rock and roll Yeah, I'm a rock and roll insider rocker.
I'm rocker. I'm a rocker. Yep The writer is the food that the club presents you with on the counter which you have you have specified your your wants, right? Actually, they don't just randomly put what you asked.
We've got the same array The same I think I've used the word array several times in the last 26 minutes Yeah, I love it. You guys have the same thing because you've asked for it's on our writer, right? It's dinosaur juniors writer, which is like your wishes for the these backs. These are wishes snacks Right and sometimes they can't always be fulfilled.
That's just from depending on location where the club is proximity access to go To a whole foods when we are in the right or some sort of like co-op. Yeah, yeah Maybe I should you know sometime at when everyone's in the backstage I should just sort of stand up and address them all and say everyone I want to make I think it would be Prudent and sensitive of me to address this By show of hands who is annoyed by what I do hands go up immediately It was annoyed by what I do immediately upon entering the dressing room which is take out all of all of the What do you call spoilable materials all of the and just put them all out I cover every available Inch of space in the dressing room with food There's cheese and roast beef cheese definitely with the purpose of all of these things coming to room temperature Maybe you need to leave a little post a note on them So they know what you're doing Maybe they think that you're actually like really absent-minded and they go Oh, Lou just like pulls all this shit out of the fridge and then dumps it all over the backstage and then forgets about it Maybe they think you're forgetful They could be like they could actually be harboring some serious resentment towards me about this Yeah, they could be like great another two weeks with Lou or he's like rotting all of our food They might even you know what I'm probably talking behind my back about it right now. Hmm. That makes that makes me feel sad and Shamed, but you know what well, I think that I think there's a way to amend it, you know, which I I Love you, but I don't think the way that you phrased it as your example is the way to go I would instead just say hey guys.
We're all here. Yeah, so would anyone be okay if I took this roast beef the pineapple and the cheese Out and let it come to room temperature today would that be okay? Or does anyone have an issue with that or should I pull what I'm hoping to be my allotment of said roast beef cheese and pineapple and maybe put it in a plate Put it on a plate and then I let my plate come to room temperature is anyone interested in the roast beef? Because I don't fuck it.
I'm gonna shit about the turkey. You know, okay the turkey's yours. It stays in the fridge Turkey is so mid so deeply mid so deeply mid even at room temperature. It tastes like nothing Well, no, it tastes like paper Rose to Turkey I think you should try out the permission I think you should try out the ask next time in the in the dressing room Well, this is nothing that I've been thinking about you know You could really be yucking their young as I'm growing Spiritually as I am becoming more spiritually enlightened becoming more mindful Uh-huh tell me more I do I am slowly uncovering vestiges of my Assholeness and I'm like oh it always hurts a little bit and I always like oh, you know Want it to trigger some sort of backslide into into self-esteem issues and begin you know Let it sort of you know sort of snowball into like me really feeling terrible about myself and really indulging in some real hardcore self-pity But what I'm doing now is when I when I uncover these vestiges vestiges of my self-involvement My obliviousness or even my I would hate to say it my entitlement Because in some way in some way I feel entitled To fucking throw that meat on the counter and put the cheese on the counter because I'm in the band oh Ouch right you asshole.
You just you dick. Wow. Oh, what a dick. I mean, what do I have to do these guys these other guys who maybe Absolutely prefer refrigerated food Because Richard this is really interesting Is a cornerstone of civilization a cornerstone of our civilization refrigeration?
This is something that has changed our lives and made living longer possible refrigeration I am like trying to throw everybody back into the paleo stone ages by throwing all this shit out there because you're in the Band when it comes to the writer and hopefully only the writer hopefully in other ways I'm not this way and not but when it comes to the writer I am definitely skewing towards and since insensitivity Mmm, and maybe once I get that sorted I will be perfect. I will be all done. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not lifting anything I'm not gonna go that far.
I'm not gonna lift me. Well, yeah, you can't you're you're too young. Yeah, no, we'll let our 68 year old sound man do that no Poor no, well, no, that's just right because you won't be able to perform for the people It's every part in the everything matters in the chain, you know, it's just that's hey, you know You want to see me dance tonight? I mean, I know I know that I want to see me dance tonight I want to feel me dance tonight, but hey, it's gonna take a little bit of room temperature food Okay, well, I'm just saying maybe you you separate your needed allotment and then you put it on a big plate and then you Then you write like a little Sharpie on it lose food Yeah, and then you can even go so far to say don't worry the rest is in the fridge where y'all like it if I do we haven't even discussed this Well, maybe you need to sit down and have a little honest chat about refrigeration and and I and I encourage you to do it without Shaming like you know, hey, if you don't like flavorless food I could honest a fucking god.
I could talk about this for another hour. I know we should you know dear. Let's break this I can't I have to go make it's taco Tuesday and I gotta go make tacos for me This is I'm making the meatless crumbles, which we like I wanna see if she notices It's really good. It's nice to know that those little rubber bandish brown things are not coming from an animal Yeah, I don't know what they come from but I eat a lot of animal, but yeah It's good to take a break animals and like and just sort of almost tasteless little ball rubber band balls.
That's that's depressing. I Hear you I prefer the meatless crumbles for tacos. I'm a fan. Yeah, I gotta get going play me out, baby Can you sing to me sing the song are impressions