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Side of yourself to heal yourself through breath deprivation. It's my great pleasure by invitation from Adele and Luke to host this week's Raw Impressions podcast. And then also introduce you to give you a taste of my plan, my holy original method. To heal yourself from inside through creative breathing, through suffocating yourself.
It's good. Ugh. OK, I didn't invite him. I was talking, I talked to Fortrach now a little bit.
Because we were talking, you know, we were kind of on the self help tip. He had Eckhart Tolle come in last time, which, you know, was mixed results, I would say. Questionable results of that one. But I did mention, he was like, well, what else are you into?
And I said, I'm into Wim Hof. And that's the last I talked to him about it. We didn't follow up or whatever. But now, Tim Hough.
Tim Hough is here, huh? Yeah. That's not it. You know, I'll see later on, I guess, as the episode progresses, what his actual method is.
OK. Yeah, I'm serious. I don't want to suffocate, though. I don't like that word.
I don't like it either. I mean, right off of that, I'm not fully. I feel like I'm doing it. I feel like I'm coming deep into my lungs and being able to release it.
I like being in control of breathing. Well, I have plenty to say about Wim Hof. But as far as Tim Hough, I don't know yet. What do you want to say about Wim Hof?
I want to talk about what we've had several weeks where we haven't really talked about what we're looking forward to, or what's going on in our lives. Checking up, checking in. Yeah, we kind of got into that bake sale thing. Yeah.
We didn't really follow up. We like to also talk about our lives. I like Chow. I think people want to know what's going on with you.
And so. Yeah, this is actually a good time to have a check in, because we just completed, we believe, five parts of a bake sale series or five episodes dedicated to bake sale. And I have to say, thank you to everyone. Those were very well received.
It's really fun. People seem to really like them. And so maybe we have some new listeners who hopefully are along for the ride today, who's listening, because they got here from bake sale. We also just talk about our lives and what's going on.
And so, yeah, it's the end of summer here. For us, Hendrix started school today. Yeah, our son Hendrix started high school. He started high school today.
That's really crazy. Yeah, I'm like. Lou's feeling a lot of feelings. Understandably.
I'm like feeling. Yeah, I'm like feeling. It's a little boy. I'll grow up.
Yeah. And it's hard not to project yourself into the bodies and minds of your children. And sort of, because I mean, that was a very high school, was a very, I mean, it's like. It's weird being brought back to it.
I've been thinking about high school a lot too. It's like a total. Blackout time for me. I just, I did not, I mean, I thrived internally and that's when I developed my love of music.
And also, I developed the routines and habits around creativity that, you know, sustained me to this day during high school, really, if I think about it. But other than that, it was like real, just a real blackout of knowledge. It was totally anti-social. I was very isolated in my own brain.
And it seemed like the longest fucking time ever. It seemed like the most just excruciating, protracted, haunted period of my life. Wow. Yeah.
The good old days when times were bad. I had to quote Dolly Parton. It's, I totally hear you at my high school. I did not also have that high school experience.
You're like, those are the best days of my life. You know, I was as soon as I could be in the rear view, mirror, the better. You know, I have one memory. I don't, I probably told you there was, I remember very little from high school, very little.
But I remember, senior year, I think the kid's name was Aaron. He sat in front of me in homeroom. Turns around, he goes like, what's up, blue? This is the best time of our lives.
And I was like, and I just remember thinking, this is not the best time of my life. The best times are coming. The best times are coming. Yeah.
Especially Aaron. I like that. It seemed like a very fun person. I hope that wasn't the best time of your life.
I'm like, whoa. I hope it's still live and well. I'm like, the class song was a Billy Joel song called I've Love These Days. Really?
I've loved these. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
So I'm feeling the winds have changed the time. The shifting of seasons or summers winding down. High school begins. Izzy's going into third grade.
You know, we just had her conference yesterday or something. And I don't know. So we're just kind of like in this transitional shift week, where we're kind of hovering, right? It's like Lou's getting ready to leave on a pretty big tour.
The Weezer, Flaming Lips, St. and his third junior tour. It's kind of biggest. I've been on it for a long time.
It is. It's over. It's over a month and a half. Six weeks, I think.
Six solid weeks at least. And yeah, and then I'm kind of gearing up for like a long time without my partner, you know, without my right hand man here. And so that's hard. And presents challenges.
And it presents a lot of pre-gaming. You know, I have to kind of think about what the fall entails, what I got to do. What's ironic about today? Yeah.
We both slept. We got a really good night's sleep last night. That was such a weird night. It was like the longest sleep.
Yeah. And but somehow when I woke up, I felt like unsettled. And I'm mad because, you know, like we, you know, we've been changing our lifestyle a bit here at the Ron Prussian's headquarters. You know, we're fine tuning.
I'm going on, you know, it's my 58th year on Earth. I'm like, you know, maybe, um, why. We're becoming healthier countries. Yeah, I'm like to drink.
Why, you know, they tell you when you don't drink wine, you know, every night that it improves your sleep and just makes everything better. And, uh, you know, we've been really good. Yeah. And, uh, but last night, you know, like waking up kind of feeling unsettled and then almost like angry during the day.
It makes me, it makes me angry. It's like, look, I'm living clean. It was a clean night last night. And I got a lot of sleep.
Why? Why do I feel irritated? Why do I feel irritated and unsettled? I know.
I, I've been feeling kind of irritable too. And I, I keep thinking mine's perimenopause because everything I read about it's like, are you feeling rage? You must be in perimenopause. And I'm like, oh, maybe that's it.
That's me. I don't know. And it is. It's like I'm, yeah, like real talk.
I am possibly going through the stages of menopause, perimenopause. I don't know. I'm definitely going through something because, you know, anyone can. I'm going to interject something stupid again.
Okay. Um, perimenopause would be an excellent punk rock name. Yeah. A lot of early punk rockers had names like, you know, Johnny Rotten is the most obvious example.
Many, many of those. Perimenopause would be a really great band. But perimenopause. Always die really.
Like lead singer for a band. Lux interior. I agree. I agree.
I'm very much living in it right now. So, uh, I'm in a cancer. I don't know. Yeah, I'm feeling kind of unsettled.
I leave depression. There's been some depression kind of waves of it coming in, coming out. It's been flirting with me a little bit. Flirting?
My depression's been flirting with me. How's it do that? You know, it's kind of like coming in and making itself known, but then going away, you know, and I'm like, what was that? It's saying like, do you really feel like doing anything today, though?
Why? Why? I guess what I mean when I say flirting is I don't mean I'm not sitting in the well of it right now. It's like flirting and flirting.
It's kind of fleeting. It's coming and going. It's like, um, lurking in the peripheral. It's lurking around.
And which is also not unusual. Again, at the end of the season going into fall, I do tend to have a dip, a mental health dip. I don't know if anyone else who, you know, has like a lifelong person living with depression and anxiety. If you have dips or you notice certain times or there's a dip.
Um, I kind of notice a pattern, like a dip, especially also before big changes and this is like a big change with like fall school, tour, you know, etc. I tend to feel it in my chest. You were telling me about how you felt this morning and my first how you felt this morning, and my first reaction was, hey, get psyched, you're going to the fair next week. And then as soon as I said that, and I looked at your response to it, you were like, duh, motherfucker, I just don't feel great today.
Yeah. But we are going to the fair. And I am really excited about that, actually. But that's not a panacea, this is not like, the things that we are looking forward to, and there are things we are looking forward to.
Yeah, sorry much. The tour is gonna be interesting. Yeah. But, oh.
He's coughing too. Tim Hough. Tim. We'll see how funny.
Tim, breathe out. No pause between inhalation and exhalation. Into the belly. Into the chest, and let go.
Make it circular. Go with the flow. Go with the breath. Is that your supposed to breathe in three nose, out three nose?
Just keep on going. Is that just to stabilize? I'm going. You know what, it seems to change a lot.
It's not just when you think it's alive. Initially with Wim Hof, and he's actually, look, Tim is like ripping off. This is like, this is Wim's app, basically. All that is exactly lifted from Wim Hof's app.
I'm just breathing out, which I followed for like, six months. Hold your breath from now on. Let the body do what the body is capable of doing. Be aware of your let the feeling spread down.
Feel. Feel like I'm gonna sci-fi with me. Swim Hof, gonna come after us. Go around and your feet are taming.
Don't worry. Relax. Purple, blues, and yellow. Cluster behind your eyelids.
It's not a black glove over your mouth. It's just you and your will to heal. One minute. Why does over my mouth?
You're inside. Deep inside yourself. He's a black glove. That makes me really uncomfortable.
Distorted faces. In periphery. Converging. It's you.
Your past. And your uncertain future. Your heart is still beating. Keep holding your breath till you understand the fragility of life.
You could pass out. Don't worry. You're simply awake later. What?
Consonged. With a terrible headache. Bring yourself to your fucking knees. Two minutes.
Is this really helping? Okay. You've given up. You're breathing again.
Good God. That's nothing like my body. Trigger warning. This is not an instructional manual.
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Get started at acast.com slash advertising. Who is exactly following him into a bad place? What you do is you take, like, for Wim Hof, it's like 30 breaths in and out quickly. Okay.
However you choose. He really leaves it open and then on your 30th... I respect that. On your 30th breath, you exhale and then you hold.
Like hold the exhale? You exhale and you're like... And then hold. Okay.
And then you hold your breath as long as you can. And on his app, he comes in and assures you like, keep going. It's going to be okay. That is a whole other fucking...
Full start. Which leads me to believe, of course, that Tim Hough is possibly a four-track man. Just fucking giving me shit again. Making fun of me for following Wim Hof.
Maybe. Because I am. I'm kind of a Wim Hof guy. I've been...
You can follow Wim Hof. Sure. It's been like two years. Yeah.
Well, it's been benefiting you. Yes, I do the breath exercises. I do the inhale exhale and then I hold for as long as I can. When I first started, I would do it for as long as I could, which was like upwards of six minutes.
I'm really proud of that. That sounds crazy. I would hold my breath for six minutes. But...
Wow, that's like an Olympic swimmer. Yeah, but I don't do that. No, I don't do that because that actually was getting... That takes a lot.
That seems weird. Six minutes. I mean, it was really... I think at the time I really needed it because it was like, you know, just post-pandemic.
Did it become like psychedelic after a while? Like that seems crazy. Not really for me. I think some people kind of lose their fucking minds.
I think people see visions and all that kind of stuff. Wim Hof has a really funny part of his when he's doing that. You... Are you the seer?
Do you see visions? But I never do that. I'm just like, well, I'm holding my breath for a long time. I'm just kind of jockey in pulse of mind.
So I stopped trying to hold my breath. I don't time my breath anymore. And I don't... I just let it go when I feel like...
I don't feel like holding my breath anymore. And it still has the same effect of calming me down and focusing me for a day. Good. Okay.
Yeah. But that... Tim Hough. He seems dangerous.
Yeah. I guess I have this should have like a warning. For track man, you naughty, naughty boy. I see little girls walking by the window behind you.
Izzy's having a play date right now. It's this like sort of weird... Again, this weird week before school begins. I think this is an important detail.
This last week is... There's no camp and there's no school. Yeah. So you're just kind of like floating around.
Izzy has just like discovered the TV, which is really funny. Like she's eight. And she never really watched that much TV a little bit. But now she's like, wait, what is this thing?
I can watch movies. She's watching migration. Boss baby. She's laughing away.
She thinks so funny. And she figures out how to use a remote. I'm going to go watch TV. She's very independent.
I kind of like it because it's actually a really good way to spend some time with your kid that it just involves just sitting on your ass. Like you just sit on the couch with your kid and you comment about the TV, whatever you're watching. And we watched this fucking abysmal fucking mermaid show the other day. It's called Mermaid Magic.
It's this European Italian animator. It's new though. I was like, when did they make this? Because it's just super low budget CGI to me, to my eyes.
To your eyes. It seemed low budget CGI, but it was just dumb. Dumb plot line. Everything about it was dumb.
And I love it. For some reason they made all the female characters have the most enormous asses too, which is really funny. And I'm all for representing like all body types. There should definitely be that.
But this is not a normal body type. It was like a tough time. It's sexualized to a degree that you don't see on anything, like on DreamWorks. It's pretty funny.
Certainly not Pixar. I mean, you rarely see CGI, that kind of stuff. Animation is so sexualized, unless it's literally like, you know, fun. I mean, it was comical.
It was like these characters have like the narrow little waist and bodacious asses. Bodacious, bodys, bodys. It's funny. But yeah, I mean.
It was nice watching with these. It's fun because it's a classic family pastime. We were just getting this. So watch some TV together.
And you can hate watching. It's real fun too. That's a trend. People like it.
Yeah, I mean, it's fun. And I just hadn't done it such a long time because the kids really stopped watching TV such a long time ago. And it's all been like computer and like YouTube and stuff like that. And mostly like an individual thing.
But this is like a shared experience. And it's pretty fun. So yeah, we watched three terrible episodes of Mermaid Magic. Mermaid Magic.
Yep. Yep. I'll be sure to tag them in the episode. But yeah, you know what?
I would like to share something I'm excited about, which like you started to say was the Minnesota State Fair. And I know that I can very much go on and on about that. And we'll see how I do. But we're going to the Minnesota State Fair on Monday.
Today's Wednesday, we're going to go this coming Monday, the last day, Labor Day. We will be at the Minnesota State Fair. If you see us there, say hi. If there's any Minnesota listeners who are also going to be the great Minnesota to get together and you see us wandering around with the hundreds of thousands of people, which that's it actually isn't as crazy as you think because you always run into someone, you know, so.
Yeah, like the time I ran into Todd trainer and Harmar superstar. Yeah. Butter Queen. Yeah.
I'm the dairy building simultaneously. I know it happens. It happens. But so I'm very excited for that.
And I just saw that Andrew Zimmerman on sub stack. I just noticed that he has a sub stack. Of course he does. But he just tried all 33 of the new food offerings at the Minnesota State Fair and he ranks them.
So I'm going to go read his post to see new food. Yeah, they always introduce new booths and nude nude nude. This is the nude booth. Wow.
Have you kind of had just like a naked, given us some food? But yeah, that would be kind of funny if there was like the over 18, like you go behind a dark curtain, like a building and then all the booths, people are serving your naked. That would be funny. 20 years from now, 20 years from now, the whole, the adult wing of the Minnesota State Fair.
Or they're just wearing like robes or not robes aprons, like strategically placed aprons. I love that look. Oh man. For men and women, all people, you know, just anyone.
That's what I don't know if I've had enough of that. Momma. Let's see when it's your birthday. That just happened.
But yeah, I'm excited to bring you guys back to the Minnesota State Fair. Izzy hasn't been there since she was, I think we figured it out. It was, she was three years old and you guys went and saw Weird Al at the VIP passes and everything. I got you guys like for throw to meet and greet Weird Al and.
So I did my, one of my most embarrassing moments. I know we talked about that like in our very first podcast episodes. Yeah. Weird Al played just quickly.
The song There to Be Stupid, which is his divo recreation, his cover. It's not a cover, but it's this incredible tribute to divo. And when we met him for like, we got to meet him for like 15 seconds and I said, I can't believe you played There to Be Surprised, which is a full compulsion song. It's a full compulsion album with my own album.
Let me just talk about me. Hi, Weird Al. Let me bring this up. I just kind of looked at me and he went, yeah, I did it just for you.
And then he was really cool. He was really cool to Hendrix. Oh my God. That's so funny.
Whatever happened to that lunchbox? Where'd that thing go? It's in his room. I know.
Not the paraphernalia went anywhere. It's like you drop like two bills on a paraphernalia and they just. I think the tickets were maybe 150 each. You know, it was like fourth row included like a meet and greet thing.
So with a poster, a lunchbox, a picture with Weird Al. Yeah. It seemed worth it to me. I was telling you it was absolutely worth it.
It did encourage me to buy even more stuff. Dare you? Because I bought even more of his stuff. Dare to buy more things.
Yeah. And then I don't know we haven't figured it out yet, but I'm scheming to try to see semi-sonic. They're playing a free concert two nights in a row. But the last night we're there at the Langi Lodge, I think, at the Langi stage.
So that's the Langi Pugles for y'all if you don't know. Oh yeah. And so I'd like to see that. I don't know.
So I'm really excited to start up on my Nike foam air foam sneakers that are really ugly. But have a lot of cushioning and some sensible socks and sunscreen, tromper on the fair. Are you looking forward to being back there? Yes.
I like the Minnesota State Fair quite a bit. Yeah. What's the baby barn? The miracle of life barn.
The miracle of life barn. Yeah. Yeah. Where you get to see like little animals being born.
Like there's usually piglets or... That's cool. Yeah. I always like to see the world's biggest pig.
I don't want to go to the Midway. Oh, okay. I fucking hate Midways. Okay.
We don't have to go to the Midway. I don't know. Whatever. You drop like a hundred dollars for tickets and then it's all those dumb games.
Oh. Well, that's not like fine. That's not like regional. That stuff is like these weird attractions that travel to every state fair in the fucking country.
I'm not sure, but Holland, my brother, might have a piece of art in there again. So we have to go see that. If he does, he might have a photograph there. Oh, and the...
Well, that's in the... In the art building. Yeah. That's not the Midway.
I mean, this is... Oh, and I'm saying if you don't want to go to the Midway, there are things that are local in there. I want to hit all the barns. I want to hit the seed art.
The seed art is amazing. I want to see some quilts. I want to see some baby animals. Yeah.
I want to eat some... Some soft surfs. Some fresh soft surfs from the dairy building. Absolutely.
And a corn dog or a prunnel pup or both. I thought that the strategy this year was to just get a bunch of stuff and just take a bite of it and throw it away. That's what we're doing. Yeah.
Yeah. And I'm excusing myself from feeling the guilt over the food waste only because it is the Minnesota State Fair. And it's just bad to say is that everyone's doing it. Like it's all going in the trash.
It's all garbage. It's all trash anyway, right? So it's like whether or not I take one bite and then put the rest in the trash. You guys going to come for me because I do that?
You know what would be really cool is if they composted all the food, that would be incredible. The big compost get together. Yeah, just like a huge compost pile. Just a massive compost pile.
They're coming up with ways to be more environmentally friendly with all of our waste and things like that in Minnesota. And so I wouldn't be surprised if the Minnesota State Fair also is on that tip. Speaking of waste, Holland used to pick up the trash there at the Minnesota State Fair. That was one of his early jobs.
The Minnesota State Fair has been a part of your life for a very long time. Since I was a baby. Yeah. Yeah.
Holland even was in the... He was one of the actors in the haunted house. So I'm hoping that you know going back to the source, hopefully you can get a little energy. I'm excited.
I'm excited for that. Yeah. Yeah. And that concludes another episode of Raw Impressions with Lou Barlow and Adele Barlow.
Adele with 2Ls. I'm Tim Hough and it's been an absolute pleasure to be the announcer for this episode of this amazing podcast. Attempting to expand people's horizons and help them heal. Congratulations Raw Impressions.
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