I'm gonna light it right now. It's the first time you've ever noticed that. Rock impressions number 23. I let the podcast candle.
Who comes very close to losing its fucking mind, doing a commercial recreation? This is the sound of my brain. I know. I...
Yup. With a little bit of Taylor Swift in there. A lot of Taylor Swift. One melting commercial.
You really went to an interesting place this week. You didn't really leave your soft pants? I really felt... I felt kind of crazy.
I talked to myself last night. I had a pretty good conversation with myself about this kind of recent craziness. I think we've agreed that today... I'm changing things a little bit up today and I'm moving forward.
And with this podcast, I did finally finish my commercial recreation. It took a lot of time. A lot of time. It did.
I took a one-minute Burger King commercial and I wanted to recreate everything including the dialogue. I wanted to be able to sync it almost perfectly to the original video. Yup. That process, you were gone.
It was like my husband, Lou, had left. Who was replaced? You were... A person was in the studio.
There was a man in the studio in the last few days that you looked like Doc from back to the future. You know, when you were like, I'm so close to finding the luxe capacitor or whatever it's called. It's like you were driven mad. And I kind of knew that I needed to keep a distance.
There was just a real intense energy flowing around you. Thank you. You're welcome. I also didn't want to come that close to you.
I know. It wasn't a really welcoming presence. I'm not going to lie. I wasn't my best and I didn't film nice.
Yeah. I usually feel kind of nice. You actually... You look like I recognize you again today.
Oh, really? You look like yourself again. I'm not going to lie, people. He did not look like the man I know this week.
You know what? Really? I'm not going to fucking lie. That's been a little hard.
This Burger King commercial took you down hard. You know what really helped? What? What helped?
What I finished it. Thank God. Why I stepped away. I don't know.
I mean, there better be like an Academy Award for this fucking thing because... I do know one thing. You earned it. It's going to...
It's going to... When I sync the audio to the video, it's going directly to our sub stack behind the paywall. This is true. This is what this work needs to be paid for.
This is insane. What happened? No, I'm not just going to stick it on Instagram so everybody in the world can enjoy it. This thing is a blood covered mess and it's going where my special stuff lives.
Yeah, fair enough. I mean, this will certainly work that it's... Yeah, someone's got to pay. Someone's got to pay.
But I have to say I'm very relieved to be doing the podcast today and thank you dear listeners for kind of meeting... How many missed a day? How many missed a day? How goofy?
That's insane. After 22 solid weeks, every Wednesday. Yeah, even when we've been traveling, we've been on tour. Oh yeah.
But the Burger King commercial totally derailed. Yeah, it was like the train was off the fucking tracks and you were going straight toward this crazy wall and I'm like, oh God. Well, how was it? Well, can you point out that to the listeners that I didn't do anything?
I didn't do too many really crazy things. You know what I mean? I wasn't running around the house and turning the lights on at 3 o'clock in the morning or stumbling around. No.
You were not sleeping well though. Yeah, like you were... You were not sleeping well. You were in your pajamas for days on end with this kind of strange lopsided side pony that just lived in your hair and you...
Yeah, you had me remove my side pony yesterday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. What's this interruption? I'm going to put the commercials coming up. Ah.
Finally, it will be revealed. Yup. I'm going to cross the nations. Blue, please do more commercial recreation.
Keep your eyes up to another one. Finally. I like the way this guitar sounded when I was playing it. I do too.
Have a joy. Have a joy. Have a joy. Have a joy.
Hey, help you, sir. Two operas, two upper juniors, and four-click-click-click. I have to wait long if you need one wobber, no pickle and no letters. No, sir.
I'm going to pick a hunger ladder, special loaders, own upsetters. How he has to let you get a certain joke. Oh, well, in my case, can I have the other one with extra ketchup? Sure.
We can serve your broken plop of refreshment, everything on top of it. I mean, when you pick his plop, you have to kill me. That doesn't mean he thinks all the way. Have a joy.
Have a joy. Have a joy. Have a joy. That ended far too soon for how much time went into that piece.
I was ready to just sit here for like a half an hour listening to something, that song, a record. I feel like a record should have been accomplished during that time. I was a lot of work for not a lot of content. Oh, my God.
Well, the grand reveal. You did smile though. That was cool. I saw your smile.
It made it all worth it. I did smile because it is nice to see like that you'll get to go back to the future. It worked. You know, it's like a capacitor or whatever, it worked.
It worked. The mad scientist found the form. I can make you smile. I can make you smile.
I can smile without spending three days trying to... Yes, you can certainly find other ways to make it smile. I did not have to do that. I mean, that's the thing that I made it all worth it.
I still. I still. I still. He's available.
Okay, he's so available. If you are like, I really want to have, you know, my, I've got some cool little restaurant and I want to have the best, most retro sounding, loving commercial for my. And abrasive. And abrasive.
And abrasive. Don't do that. They're all kind of abrasive. I put them, there's a lot of offending frequencies bouncing around in each one.
And when you listen to them over and over and over again for a few days on end, it does, it does kind of like scrub your brain with a little piece of sandpaper. Oh, shit. Sandpaper on the brain. That's why you were sort of grimacing for three days.
Well, I've been better about not just outright destroying my, my ears during my sessions. I have gotten better at that. But there is that potential every time that Lou Barla puts on some headphones. I feel like you had some sort of like breakthrough because you're actually dressed today.
You have jeans on, you have your cashmere sweater on, your lovely cashmere. You just. This actually goes to the side pony's gone. Well, this, this actually supports my theory, my superstition, my developing superstition that if I'm not.
That's just what you need. I'm not wearing cashmere if something is wrong or something will go wrong. And I was not wearing my cashmere during that three day stretch. I've actually spent almost a week since I worn my cashmere and it's been a, it's been a bit of a crazy ride this week.
It keeps you grounded. This fiber is like your grounding fiber. It helps keep you, you know, steady and not from swinging too wildly around. This is a nice looking one.
It's the Herringbone J. Crew men's cashmere sweater, classic crew cut if anyone cares. We can link to that in the description. It's probably on sale.
It's always on sale. Thank you for tolerating my trip to Burger King dementia. You're welcome. I'm just really relieved to see your face again.
It's nice. That's nice. There you are. You went away.
I did. Me and Bang Bang were here by our lonesome. Holding down the fort. I, Izzy and I spent three days alone together in this house, which has never occurred.
Never. We've never even had an overnight. Not once. Not seven years.
Daddy and Izzy overnight. So we had a funeral and you were out attending a funeral in Wisconsin. I was. My great aunt passed away.
It required a visit. I needed to go to this funeral. It was a pretty big one. I met up with my parents.
The funeral took place in Sock City, Wisconsin, which is about half an hour north of Madison. It was many things. I felt on the one hand thrilled because I'm like, oh, this is thrilling. I'm alone.
Not because I'm going to a funeral, but because of just the fact that it was my first time traveling alone. The fun fact here is that you stayed alone in a hotel room for the first time ever. Yeah, I think I. In your life.
It's true. I've obviously stayed in hundreds of hotel rooms, but never by myself. Ever. That's wild.
I know. I know. It was wild. It really was.
Can I tell you what I enjoyed about it? Yes. Okay. I got to be as neat as I wanted to be.
That's like the opposite of what I do in hotel rooms. I know what you do to hotel rooms is pretty shocking. So you were neat in your hotel room? I wasn't.
It was so satisfying. I lined up all these things in order. All of my toiletries. I laid out everything perfectly neatly by section.
This is the makeup section and everything in a little row. This is the mouth, the toothpaste section. This is for my eyes. This is an aspect of your personality that you don't get to indulge anymore, especially after children, but also just our, I did kind of like blow into your life a bit.
And thankfully, thankfully, you allowed the mess to happen because we mostly spent time just being together and talking. So we didn't have time to clean and you allowed, sometimes people will, that kind of personal control is so important. Yeah, they can't let go of that. They can't let go.
And I'm really grateful that you let go of that, because it's a strong little voicey. Your little organizing elf is like, he is turbo. I know. She is turbo.
They are turbo. Yeah, exactly. Well, you know, honestly, I had actually forgotten quite how satisfying and strong that was in me until I got there and I was like, wait a minute, nobody can mess this room up. Nobody.
I told my laundry and put it back into my suitcase and put the dirty laundry and the little dirty pile on this and it was like, it was nice. So it really scratched this itch that hasn't been scratched in years. So that was really satisfying. Things that were not as satisfying as it's kind of lonely because, you know, you're my best friend.
And I just want to talk to you about everything all the time. And so it was kind of like, here I am in this room by myself. People really love like, it's good to be alone, love being by yourself and alone is good. I think that you should do what feels best for you and your life and if you really lean into being alone and good for you.
I kind of like both. I like being alone with you, if that makes sense. Like, because we both are at home all day and I like the fact that I can have my alone time in the house, but like know that you're present and know that you're here somewhere. We don't have to be interacting all the time.
It's true. I live kind of like a bachelor in my own house. Yeah, you do. That's not entirely correct.
I don't want to paint myself as someone making this huge mess and creating chaos in the household. That's not me, but I do have a lot of time to do things like spend an inordinate amount of time on recording and I'm allowed to have a really rich internal and personal creative life with you and my midst. Because we do give each other hours during a day. Yeah, I guess that's what I mean.
I feel like I do get a lot of alone time where I get to move about my space and stuff, but then if I want to dip in and out of like, hey, hun, what are you doing? Whatever, it's nice that you're there. So yeah, I missed you. And obviously going there for an event as a funeral is a...
You had so many stories that you could never retell to our general. I'm a general audience. Adele telling a story, just about a funeral and the way everybody was interacting. If you go to dinner with me sometime, I'll tell you about it.
I tell you, that was a pretty... That was entertainment for hours. Thank you. Speaking of dinner.
Really, that was great. I was just sipping wine and listening to you. Listen to me retell the tales. Oh my God.
And you just kept coming up with new stories for about two or three days out. Yeah, I kept remembering things that happened and I love remembering all the details. Well, I did speaking of dinners. I did have a fantastic dinner with my parents the night before I left.
And it was at a real true supper club. And the supper club is sort of this Wisconsin. Yeah. Is it just in Minnesota as well?
Some people, I said on Instagram, does anyone know if this is just Wisconsin thing, the supper club? And some people said they're in rural Minnesota. I grew up in the city in St. Paul.
There was no supper club to my knowledge. But it is kind of a rural thing. If you go outside of the city generally, that's where they exist. And if you don't know what a supper club is, you got to look it up.
It's not exactly like a restaurant. It's sort of like a restaurant. But it is a restaurant. Do you have to be a member to any of them?
Or do they give you temporary membership? No, no, you have to be a member. You have to fill out any forms when you go to a supper club. You don't.
But it's like, I feel like I actually, I'm not a supper club historian, everybody. But let's just say that ever since my delicious meal at Green Acre's Supper Club in Prairie, a sock prairie, which is, it was called sock prairie. I know it's sock city. Anyway, sock city, sock prairie, maybe they're the same thing.
But it was delightful. And I love retro restaurants. What makes a supper club different from a restaurant from your point of view when you walked in? I mean, is it honestly different than a restaurant?
I don't even know how to describe it. I'll say this. There's a jovial in this that's usually if you go to a restaurant and you just get your table and whatever, it's sort of like going into a restaurant where everyone's like very sparkling and very loud and jovial. And there's kind of this almost.
So it's because the clientele know each other? This is why? I think a lot of people do know each other. So you're stepping into this environment, this sort of local environment.
So all these people, that's what you're saying, that that's what... It's definitely a community thing. But it's still a restaurant. You still eat your food, you pay for it.
And you get a bill. Yeah. And it comes in the same thing. Sure.
Okay. Yeah. I don't know. But Lou and I are going to be going...
Lou is going to be playing solo this summer and we are planning a pretty extensive tour. Yep. And I'm hoping to head to the upper clubs. That would be insane.
Do they have young people, upper clubs? I don't know, but I'd love to find out. Quick. Out of your way, out of your way, out of your key.
You're a fucking sir! Two uppers, two upper juniors and four coca cola. And what I have to wait for if you made one wobber with no pickle and no lettuce... No sir!
Come on, please don't upset us, always. Thank you, mad as sir, that you win. Oh, well, in my case, could I have the other wobber with? Extra ketchup?
Sure. It can take you a broken wobber with... Now that's the way to do things. Ira- What?
I just remembered something I forgot to do on the commercial. What? Oh god. What?
There's one, there's a harmony at the end. It goes, like, it goes, have it, show away, have it, show away. And then the voice goes, add boogoo king. And then it sort of lingers over the...
Oh no. Yep. I'm gonna go back to the mines. I'm gonna change it.
No, I don't. I'm gonna change it. Don't change it, baby. Maybe I did it.
Maybe I don't know. I don't remember that I did it. Sounded... You know, that one line, something on topper.
Yeah. On top is one of the notice that. It just sounds like sex. Yeah.
Who's getting on topper? Anyone? She's a topper. He's a topper.
Well, you gotta watch the... I'm gonna link the video on here. Do you wanna pickle on top? I don't know.
Yes. You wanna pickle? Well, the lattice. Oh, I mean.
I'll hold the pickle. Mmm. It's relaxing. Yeah.
Good. That's good. It's nice to see you relaxed. Well, thank you everyone for joining us for Raw Impressions 23.
Yeah. Do you like pickles on your burgers? Do I? Mm-hmm.
I don't know. They are... Pickles are a very intense taste. Yeah, you don't love them like I do.
I mean, they kind of, you know, like the pickle show, wherever they show up. Oh, that's like raw onions. Like if it's in a... They're just like, hello, I'm here.
Yeah. and egg salad, honestly, they're an enormous bummer for me. Oh, I love them in egg salad. Oh, no.
Because I don't like eggs, so I'm like, oh, feel something in here I can eat. Here's a hard gelatin that is now taking over the taste of this entire thing. And it's a slightly different texture. It's harder than the rest.
So it's kind of like there's a pebble in your salad. No, it's not. It's a tangy crunch. It's a privilege.
I'm glad you like them. Pickles and eggs salad save eggs salad from being the most disgusting thing. Wow, we are really, we totally disagree. And you need to like, but almost like salt like an egg salad, or I'm just, I have no interest.
It's like, is this is really happening? Yuck. Lots of mayo, lots of mustard, heavy on the salt, heavy on the pepper, put those pickles in there. And then I guess I'll consider it.
Compressions. The family general's upset.