I'm so sunburned. Is that what's happening? Sunburn face of the man. Mm-hmm.
It is pretty pink. It looks so pink. So sunburned down. I'm looking at myself in this video chat, and I look...
Baked. A lot of people in Copenhagen are walking around sunburn. I have to say that. Yeah.
So I can't write it. Yeah. Just a crispy white guy. Mm-hmm.
I haven't watched my hair in days. Oh my god. It's looking... I don't know.
It's not your finest hair, dude. I feel rad-ed out, baby doll. You know, clean yourself up. You're in your hotel room after some days on the bus.
Get yourself all pretty. I know. I was just... I was just set to chill and clean myself up.
And here I am on a video chat. Well, after Ron Prussians, you can go have your little spa day at home. I'm anxious to also talk about my news. What's your news?
Besides all the other news? All the newsy news that I know of, I know a lot of news. What's the news you want to share with the world? Well, just that we've made a decision that we're going to become a cat family again.
Yes, Adele and I are considering getting a cat's. Not just one, two, on top of it all. Because I decided I can't believe you. I can't believe you.
You changed your tune. Because your tune horrible. Well, once you said we could put the litter box in the basement, that was it. Because I hate litter boxes with a raging passion.
So it's truly one of my least favorite things in the world. And... You didn't want to just put them in the litter box in the kitchen? I hate them so much.
The litter box in the bathroom. Don't you want to step on the litter every day? I never... I mean, I would be okay with never seeing litter, smelling litter, scooping litter, ever again.
But I do love cats. And I think it would be really nice to have something again. But we are potentially becoming a cat family. We don't know for sure.
We're thinking about it. We have to come up with kind of all the pros and cons. It's been a few years since we've had a pet. Bob died, I think, when Izzy was about three and Izzy's eight now.
So we've been family pet-free for a while. And Izzy and I have talked about how it wouldn't be right away if we were to get cats. She understands that we have to kind of do some home-proofing, getting some things sort of thought out, whatnot. And she came up with a really cute list of cat names that I wanted to read off to you.
And I'll just kind of show it really quick if this goes to YouTube. She did a drawing and we... Can I first? I just want to say the list to you before you make any commentary and explain it.
Okay. Sorry, I should just give my mouth a shot. So just listen, basically, is what I'm saying. So what she and I decided is we were...
It's gonna be hard. Just try. First, also just listen. You finished the sentence.
Let me just not say anything after each. Okay, you're already interrupting me. Hold on. Right now.
What I'm trying to say is let me finish the sentence. I'm trying to tell you to not interrupt. Okay. Okay.
We're going to have a running list of names, ideas. Okay. And ones that we like will put little check marks and then eventually we'll kind of like get the list narrowed down to like maybe the top 10, top 5 over the next few months or something. So I don't want to know your favorites from this list until I'm done saying all of them.
And then I would like to hear your top two and then I will tell you my top two from the list. And then on top of it all I want to tell you about the cat name I came up with today while I was in the shower. Okay. Okay.
So first, hear all the names and then tell me your two favorite top two. Okay. Okay. Potential cat names, everyone.
Brown Pressions listeners as well. You feel free to weigh in in in the comments. Okay. Because this is going to be ongoing list potentially if we get cats again, which it would be to possibly, but we don't know.
Okay. All right. So, okay. So here's the list so far.
And these are all names that Izzy has come up with. Kitty Luna Princess Daisy Rose Lilac Misty April. Stop making faces. Okay.
April. I can't see me make my hair from her face. I can just feel your face of April. Noe.
Lolly. Lilly. Stormy. Rainy.
Honey Bear. Little mushroom. Fall. As in the season.
Kitten Kitty. That's one name. Kitten Kitty. Bumble and sweetie.
Can I talk now? And when you, okay. Now when you tell me your top two, then I'll tell you our top two out of that list. Okay.
Well, do you have it? Okay. Can I preface this by saying my theory behind cat names? Not just my theory.
A lot of people fell away. Okay. Can you get the cat and then you figure out the name when you get the cat? Well, oh, that was my other disclaimer was that we were going to have this list of kind of like our top five or ten or whatever, but then we weren't going to decide till we meet the kitties, till we go to the shelter and we're looking at them and then we're like, oh, this one is actually this one.
And then if it doesn't fit any of the names, then yeah, we'd have to think about it. Me named Izzy Long before she was born. And she's totally Izzy. But she's an Izzy.
Yeah. She's. I mean, she came out Izzy. You know, our thing or vibe here?
What are you top to Luna and Misty? And I'm not, you know what, I'm going to be brutally honest and eight year old is nowhere within your shot of this. I'm not super crazy about a lot of those names. It's a little repetitive.
I'm not saying either. This is just a beginning of just a beginning list. Can I tell you what were my two top favorite from this list? Nothing.
You and Izzy's top two. Yeah. Actually, we both have these two is our favorite, but these were my favorite for sure number one little mushroom. Hey, that reminds me of a penis.
I picture a naked large naked. Unengorged. Unengorged. I'm seeing some sort of strange German sort of adult film, sort of shadowy men with a weird wristbands on.
And I'm seeing a little more. Possibly a harness. Okay. A little harness and a little shaved patch underneath his paw.
So you just went to... And his little mushroom. I just thought that mushroom was adorable. I didn't think of a penis at all.
In fact, I thought of a mushroom. That would be more suited to your nickname for my flaccid penis. Little mushroom. Also, a little mushroom.
Or mushy would be a really cute nickname for a little mushroom. Okay, so anyway, and then my second favorite was Bumble. Bumble. Okay.
Bumble is cute. Okay. I'm also okay with Misty, myself. That would be my runner up.
But okay, so can I tell you now my... Oh, okay. Go ahead. I was gonna say can I tell you my name that I came up with in the shower today?
Okay. The full name would be... The full name would be... Please.
Oh, I didn't even think of that. I should start thinking of celebrity names. I didn't. Okay.
This is... I came up with cool breeze. And we would call the cat breeze or breezy. Cool breeze.
That sounds like... Cool breeze, Barlow. A soft drink or a deodorant. Or maybe even a gum flavor.
It's super cute little cat. A gum flavor. Cool breeze. Can we call it breezy or breezy?
I'm underwhelmed by all of these names. Okay. And I'm actually appalled by Little mushroom. Full on.
Alright, Ron Presham's listening to me. He's way in. Little mushroom. Thumbs up.
Thumbs down for these hypothetical potential... Definitely down. Definitely down. Well, it's definitely not erect.
Down. Dangly. That one. Well, now you got me thinking about celebrity names.
Okay, I'll have to think about that. We'll come up with a whole other list. Jennifer Annan. I guess that this is a running thing.
Well, we do love Jennifer Annanston. Yeah. If the cat looked like Jennifer Annanston, I named a cat Elliot once because we thought he looked like Elliot Smith. Myself and my co-pet owner at the time.
We thought it looked like Elliot Smith. So we named him Elliot. Hmm. You know.
So I don't know if we got this cute cat with like maybe kind of a cool black hairdo. We could name it like John Brannan. I loved me. I love that cat John Brannan.
Oh my God. Because there is something feline about him. I don't know what it is exactly. He's kind of like a really cool little little little Tomcat.
JB. I love it. JB. John Brannan.
Well, Johnny. I love that. Oh my God. I told Izzy if again these cats have one, she could be in charge of one of the cat names.
So that would leave us with another one. You're going to make... She can name one of the cat. Okay.
We're going to get two. See, this is surprising everyone. It's not between just Adona. She's involving everybody now in this naming process.
But getting one cat, you agreeing to get one cat was pretty impressive. It's kind of a moment in the Barlow family. I can't go the rest of my life without having another pet. The children are a lot.
The children are like pets magnified. I was perfectly fine with accepting Izzy as our very complicated, very... Our pet. I've often tried to...
I wanted to come up with some sort of like mathematics. Some kind of equation. Like, this is how many cats equal one child. Do you know what I mean?
How many cats equal one child? Twelve? Twelve cats? No.
Twelve cats equal one child. What it takes, the amount of care, the attention, what's the ratio? What is the ratio of cats to human child? I don't know.
I've never thought about comparing the two. I have many, many times. Oh, okay. I mean, I just see them as so different.
They're not really comparable to me. But you know, it's like, I just meant like I'm busy with human raising right now. That's all. And I just couldn't feel that I could take on.
You know what I mean? Like a pet. No, you're not just for one pet. You're ready for two.
You're ready for two cats? Well, I don't know if I'm ready for two, but I feel like I want my cat to have a buddy beyond just the family. And I don't know. Two cats actually sounds really adorable.
Like maybe siblings from a shelter or something that, you know, need to be adopted. You have to name them like Corley to each other. Like cookies and cream. No.
Salt and pepper. Do whatever the fuck you want. I mean, you've got them. And you can just...
They're yours. They're your things to just do what you want. I am thinking about all of the work then. You know, that's the thing is that it is a lot because you don't know what they're going to be like and you don't know if it's going to become some little terror.
I don't really want like a loud cat, you know, that's meowing all the time that wakes me up at four in the morning by my chest doing the, you know, the like whatever. You don't want to make any biscuits in my chest and meowing in my face and then breathing in my mouth. I don't, I mean, maybe I say I don't want that now. Maybe a little mushroom will show up and I'll be like, oh, I just love the way a little mushroom lays on my chest and makes biscuits.
But I think I was just, I was just tired at the end of like having Bob Bob live a long time and I was kind of ready for some, you know, cat-free times. Yeah, I've been feeling, I've been feeling the need. I've been feeling lonely for years. But I've been feeling a little bit, you know, yeah, a little...
And it's hard because you're gone, you're on tour a lot, you know, and so it's kind of like pandemics over, you back on the road and it'd be kind of fun to have a little something around the house more. And you know, here's my con list, the hair everywhere, getting in my eyes, getting in my mouth, swirling in the air, getting in my food, landing in the kitchen, you know, next thing you know, it's like, what is that? What's a hair? Ugh, I don't know.
Well, I think, you know, I do think what's an order to wrap this up for now, just for now because this is an ongoing, this is an ongoing conversation that we're going to have and I'm glad we're having it because I do love cats. I do love cats and as I've been saying a lot lately, as my mortality is creeping up on me, as it does sometimes on tour, when I go back to places and realize how many times I've been somewhere and I look at the people that I know and realize that we're all getting older, I want to live longer. I want to get a few more years out of it. Apparently, if you get a pet, it adds a couple of years to your life.
So, you know, in a very self-serving way, I do want a pet around to sort of, because there is sort of nothing like a pet, you know, having like a little, I know, this little companion, your wing, creature, your little, you know, I always like that, you know, just like where they're there with you, they're looking, you know, but yeah, cats make a lot, they can make a lot of fucking noise. That's right, they can stand in the middle of the house and just go, woo! In the middle of the night. One of my favorite pastimes is profiling cats and, you know, just lumping them all into certain personality traits based on their appearance.
I was thinking of, you know, doing some like YouTube videos, like learning about different, you know, things to know, because I'm pretty out of practice, to be honest. The basic thing, if we're going to go to a shelter and get these cats, the basic thing that I would say is I just go for a, you just go for a tabby. You go for your orange tabby, your gray tabby. They're just tabby cats and they have the, because when you start to mess around with cats that like have really distinct, like if they're black cats and calico cats and they can kind of have reoccurring traits among them.
In neurotic, they can be loud. There's really almost no point of making a pro on conless because you just have to accept it. You have to go like, you know, it's not like you have a baby and you go, I'm never going to, they don't shit and they don't have to grow up and they don't, they do. You have to do all of the hard stuff too.
It's just what you do. You know, you just have to take it all. You're going to have to, you're going to have to deal with whatever they bring. You just deal with it.
Everything brings with it. Yeah. So, you know, you can theorize all day long before you have the habit. You can make all kinds of rules that you're going to make and talk about what you're going to do and it all goes out the fucking window.
Well, let's continue this conversation in private and, uh, absolutely. But so, uh, but wow, you made it public. This is a big step for you, though. Well, yeah, we can, well, I was going to say we can always change your mind, but I kind of feel like, you know, we can't, right?
We have to sort of. We can't because he told Izzy. He told Izzy already. Well, she, I mean, you were like, we're not going to tell Izzy.
You're like, we're not going to say anything to Izzy. And then, and I was like, well, that's cool. She's like, yeah, we're just going to be between me and you and we're even going to go to the pet shelter just to. Well, you and I are going to go to the shelter alone because I don't want to bring her for the first visit.
That is for sure because then I will be persuaded and I don't want to. I want to have, I want to have like our eyes set on what we, you know, somebody, somebody's here. Let me see. Okay, move your finger.
Oh, yeah, looks like you got a little bug there. I can put some stuff on it. Okay. All righty.
Well, did you want to wrap it up? Give me all your cat impressions. Well, good for the day. We're good for the day.
Okay. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Bye, cat. Bye.
Bye.