Oh, do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man? Or do you know the muffin man, the lips and jewelry lainry? Yes, we've seen them up in man, the muffin man, the muffin man. Oh, yes, we've seen them up in man, the lips and jewelry lainry.
Oh! Oh, come on now. How did you know? Is this your way of welcoming me back?
Welcome back, four-track man. It's gone a while. Don't know how long. I love this song.
This is a great version too. It is. Ha! Why did you get this?
This is fantastic. Yes, we've seen them up in man, the muffin man, the muffin man. Yes, we've seen them up in man, the lips and jewelry. Oh my God, the muffin man.
Such a banger. Such a banger. Such a good song. I remember this isn't even that.
Thank you very much. Lou and Adele, Adele and Lou. I'm back. Yeah, yeah.
I missed you guys. It's been a while. Like I said, I didn't know how long it's actually been. Thank you.
Thank you so much for allowing my nephew, four-track guy. You are an ounces show or two. I don't know how many. I wasn't keeping track.
I wasn't listening. I wasn't listening. That's the fatigue. What?
Oh. Dick. Dick. Hey.
It's another episode of Ron Preshins with Adele and Lou Barlow. I'm four-track man. I'm doing great. Don't worry about me if you were.
I wasn't. I forgot about you. I never went back to the West Coast with my sister. With my sister back in Santa Barbara.
He's there. Nosedly. He lived up. He wasn't a very good answer.
Anyway, carry on, you guys. What a nice surprise. I fucking love the muffin man. Who doesn't?
I wasn't really familiar with the muffin man. I don't remember singing it when I was... I do. Yeah, I don't.
I do. I think I said it saying it a lot. You know, like over and over again, I have a kind of a primal memory of doing that in circles. Kind of like how Izzy would do it.
Do you remember Izzy singing it when she was little? I don't know. I seem to have some blackout on muffin man. When I heard that on these old records that I procured.
Oh, is that the first time Pro-Cure has made a... The news on Ron Prashan's made it stavio? It's a good word to say, procured. Pro-cure, that means like acquired?
Acquired. I acquired a stack of children's records from the antique store. Which one? The new location on Roots 5 and 10 in your field, Massachusetts.
You're the auction house. Which we still haven't done. Oh man. Yeah.
Going to the auction house before the auction. We can just walk around and look at all the stuff. It's pretty cool. I'd like to do that.
I've never been to an auction and I don't plan on going to an auction unless I was to see something. Oh. You suppose. You suppose, you know.
You can do that when we get older. Walk going to the auction house every week. I don't know. Why not?
Sure. It's like a thing we do. Yeah, we come and then we come back on Friday or Saturday. Maybe we have a little pamphlet and we circle things that we're interested in.
We're interested in. Right down the numbers. That's what you do. Keep track of things.
My dad took me to the auction house. We were like, where are we going? They just pulled in and we got out and we walked into the auction house and it was just big and open and all of this. It was obviously like an estate sale of some kind.
Someone died. Someone's. The sum total of someone's belongings all cleaned up and set out on tables with little numbers next to them. It was like fascinating.
Yeah. But I'm not much of an antique guy or boy. I'm obsessed with getting old children's records now. Particularly from the Peter Pan record label.
Mm-hmm. Because I grew up with them. I didn't know. Yeah.
And they have a particular sound. And when I was a kid, the turntable I had had four speeds on it. So we got 16, 33, 45, and 78. So I would spend a lot of time going between all the speeds on the children's records.
And since I've just set up a turntable here in the Ron Prussian studio, I was when you were gone. When was I gone? Which trip? Oh, LA.
Yeah. I pulled out the records. Fine. Yes.
Are you killing me with these? Why did you get a guy in such long days? Why did he shoot Suppose Paul asleep. Then the prisoner key.
Listen, I kind of canmit. Markhell night. Markhell night. Yeah.
The dog. Markhell night. I love this. What if the dog should fall asleep.
Oh, then the prisoner key. Wild. What does that mean about? Well, this is former prisoner Don.
This is former prisoner Don. This is former prisoner Don. The master Don. This is former prisoner Don.
He stole them off of Red they say. I love a man. That's what they say. I'm good.
That's what they say. It's really good to be back. This is making me really happy back. 100 pounds, that's a lot.
100 pounds, he has not got. Weird. Who knew? Who knew that?
So many verses. So many verses, right? Yeah. You know, so many verses to London Bridge.
That sound is one of my favorite favorite sounds. The little, the slight beautiful crackling of vinyl when it's going. It's such a... It's like a fire.
I love it, but it's soft. It's like this little gentle like... So cool. I love that sound.
It really brings me back to being little and then putting on records and listening to records. And I, you know, I enjoy doing that and knowing how to do that when I was little and, oh, it just kind of brought me back. That was fun. Yeah.
That was fun. I got me thinking too about prison and... Well, in that, you know, how something like that can kind of jog a long sort of forgotten thing. And I don't know if other people experienced this or if there was like a time when this sort of play died off or if it's still active.
But I remember when I was little, throwing people in jail was kind of a theme. You know, when you were playing with your friends or something, it's like, you're behind bars or you're going to jail. And then someone would pretend to be in jail, you know, and... Which is...
What? I know people like to point out that Gen X is like this feral. We're just as wild and like, and damn, was this... Are kids doing this now too?
It's so... I'm just kind of scratching my head like what? Maybe that's true as America becomes... Oh yeah, yeah.
America becomes greater again. More people will be going to jail and jail will be more of a familiar place for all of us. Well, you know, I do remember, like, kids adjacent in my... Not like close friends, I don't think, but I had kids like adjacent to me whose parents, you know, were serving time.
This is when I was growing up, you know, and that's... Yeah, and then one of my good friends, I shouldn't name her name, but she lived down the street for me and her dad was in and out of prison. He was like a... He was a drug dealer and they lived on the top floor of this house and it was, I think I told you about them.
They had like two rooms in a bathroom. So, and her mom worked at Sabaro Pizza. And so all three of them kind of like slapped on the floor, these mattresses on the floor in the like living room area. And then there was like the small janky kitchen where, you know, they hung out, you know, but I remember the dad had also like this jar of like kind of money that was up on the refrigerator, that was up on top of the refrigerator, then he'd like bring it down, you know, it's kind of weird.
I don't know why, but yeah, so it's just... Yeah, but these records, I mean, I'm kind of pursuing these records because they do, they just trigger stuff. I put them on and it does, it triggers memories. Yeah.
There's a couple that I'm, there's some particular ones I'm kind of looking for. I don't know if I'll ever find them. There was one called What's in the Elephants Trunk. Oh, interesting.
I don't know if I'm familiar with what's in the other... There was this, there was a record label, it was a New Jersey called Peter Pan, and they just shit out records for like three or four decades. Wow. And it was a subsidiary of a plastics company.
So, it's kind of like, what do we do with all this extra plastic? I mean, I don't know the story. I'd love to know the story. The Wikipedia was very skimpy.
For what Peter Pan records has offered the culture and how much how familiar people of my vintage might be of these records. There's very little information about it that I could immediately find. Gosh, who worked for Peter Pan records? Who were the musicians?
I mean, I kind of... Yeah, were these just like hired studio? Like, someone out there, there's people out there who maybe that was their full-time job was just going into the studio a few days a week and recording these children songs for Peter Pan records. And for sure, they spent like no time before they just recorded the video.
Yes, one take. When we knew it today, like, bam! One take, bam! What a wild thing to think about.
What a great documentary that would make, right? This one's not so good. This one's not so good. I'm not rocking out with this one.
Don't know. Click and correct. Don't know where to find him. Don't know.
I don't know. She thought she doesn't know where to find him. That would be the correct way of saying it. She doesn't know where.
That's awkward. They made the right choice. So yeah, it was just a songwriter. Okay, there you go.
That sucked. Oh, keep. Not for me. Sour.
Really, really sour. I thought it was bad enough with you and your ear thing. This reminds me of that. Remember when you thought everything was ruined because of that?
Because of my ear. Christmas. You were like, my ear's ruined! Remember?
Boy, your shirt can be dramatic. Well, I still have a... What happened to your ear? I still fucked up.
I have a low end hearing loss on my left ear. I can demonstrate it by doing a finger snap in each ear. When I do it in my left ear, it sounds like a snap. It sounds fine.
But then when I do it in my right ear, it sounds really full body. I hear the... when I do it in my left ear, I don't hear the booth. I just hear the...
So, it's still there. But I have... there's plenty of other things to worry about. Other physical things that have occurred.
I've had the A-Fib. You're now going to try to get an ablation. He's going to get an ablation surgery. Yeah.
So we can find an armpit and schedule. I'm moving on to these ailments. I might have some nerve endings zapped in my heart so my heart beats regularly. Although it's been beating pretty regularly since I stopped drinking caffeine and alcohol.
Funny how that... Over a month ago. Which is also what I was supposed to do for the ear thing. So right now I'm doing what I'm supposed to do for both of my...
Oh. Any improvement in the ear or just the heart? The ear is... I have to say the ear is less obtrusive.
And whether that's just because I'm used to it. Maybe you're... yeah. I hear less overtones.
The overtones are still there. Like when I'm jamming with my rock band dinosaur junior. Jay's leads kind of do trigger other tones in my left ear. Because it's a lot of wha...
wha... wha... wha... wha...
wha... wha... wha... wha...
wha... wha... wha... wha...
wha... wha... wha... wha...
I'm literally diggling up on the high registers. And it does trigger the ghost off notes in my left. But not to an infuriating or debilitating degree. Thank God.
Yeah. That's positive. It is kind of positive. I'm kind of living with this.
This is kind of like my lo-fi ear. My left ear is a little lo-fi. My heart's a little wobbly. But like I said...
Did you see the Bob Mould posted a link to an interview I believe with him on Instagram about his ears? I kind of bookmarked it to go back and read it. He has super-duper fucked up ears. I wonder.
I mean, just... I wonder if it's just tonight's or whether he's got the... Just tonight's... I don't know.
I mean... Well, I mean, that was... Tonight's was people spoke a lot about tonight's when they spoke of Husker due back in the day because they were excruciatingly loud. And abrasive.
They had a very abrasive high end when they played live. There was a particular amplifier that Bob used, a Yamaha, I believe, amplifier. When I first saw Husker due, he had that and we literally stood right in front of him. And we was like, Jay and myself and on the hardcore buddies.
We're here in Massachusetts. And he's tamped in. He's tamped in. Your kid, seeing his dude?
Yep. It was good dude kind of ambled in. They were looking very tired. Grand Art was beached in the back.
Tired old men already. They were older than us. Their vendor was open in the back of the parking lot. And like, Grand Art was beached in the back of the...
I'm just like, with his shirt up around his belly just like passed out in the back of the memory. Wow, the glamorous touring life. I mean, when they came around it was like they brought this kind of... There wasn't underlying sense of misery about them.
They didn't really check. It was like, whoa, they did not seem... But it didn't matter because they knew their music reflected that. Their music was real to us.
So we weren't expecting to be uplifted by Husker due. We were bands that did that. They called the big boys that certainly did that. But Husker due, no.
They were going to... What they were, we got. And we loved it because they were themselves. But yeah, this one particular amplifier that was insanely abrasive.
And that's the first amplifier that Jay Mouse could then got when we started DICER Junior. Really? He went and found the same damn amp. I didn't know my amp.
I didn't fucking deafened Murph and I with it. Because Jay would sit in the back of the amp anyway. Old story. Can I just say, to just admire for one second, you know how I love Bob Mould so much?
I do. I just want to say, is he not just aging so beautifully? Oh my God. Look so gorgeous.
Okay. I just admire him. He's a beauty. He really?
He literally has a twinkle in his eye now. He does. His skin looks good. It has good coloring.
I mean, obviously his diet and things are much improved. Like, I know, I know, I know, I love to admire him. But my God. Yeah.
Every time he posts himself and he posted a picture himself the other day, like with his face tilted to the sun and his eyes closed, just getting a little sweet dose of vitamin D and I'm like, Dear me. 1983 or four as it may have been. He's hitting a crush on an old gay man. And he's tapping us.
They were not the picture of health. Although Greg Norton, he looked good. He looks great. He looks the same to this day.
So he's been the same. He's an adorable mustache. He's adorable too. But Bob, I don't know what to do.
I didn't know what to do. Who's going to do? Who's going to do? Who do you remember?
Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no. Oh, God. This is not what you're going to do.
Okay. Who won? I don't know what to do. KTSD.
Oh, wow. Here we are. Okay. Great.
Roosevelt Elementary School. Blacktop. Recess. Well, I like this.
It's not great. I like this one a lot. I like this one more than I can't admit. But let's be real.
I've been clear about my feelings for Adele. I won't go on. I've been into this. But that's not Adele.
Adele, it's Farmer in the Dell. My bangs are... Oh, God, you guys. Please, somebody come cut my bangs.
I hate that. I can only hear. A Farmer in Adele? Yeah.
You're perverse. Oh, my God. I don't know if I've ever had sex with a farmer. I would love to have my turn.
I would. I've got a guy... And he says, okay. Yeah.
Now my turn is through. Oh, okay. The one I choose is you. Wow.
All I hear is the Farmer in Adele, myself. Dirty. So dirty. I...
All I hear. Well, I don't believe there's ever been a Farmer in this Adele. TMI. And that song...
I didn't think you were going to play that. But I was just thinking about that song recently. Because I was thinking about my name and how my name was very unusual where I grew up. You know, in the 80s on the West Side of St.
Paul. There was a lot of Nicky, Tammy, Tanya, like Jennifer. Adele. It still is not a common name, although I'm seeing more variations on it now.
And I believe it was second and third grade. I went to Rose Develt Elementary School. I don't even know if it exists anymore in St. Paul.
And during recess, the kids used to make a circle around me, like ring around the rosy. And they would sing that song though, but like taunting me as if it was a really bad name and say things like, who has the name Adele. And I was just burning, burning with embarrassment. You know, and just felt like I have this fucking weird name.
People are making fun of me. And so that song would just make me want to like curl up and die. I just felt like so profoundly embarrassed by it. And you know, when they were like kind of doing the thing, making fun of me, they go, yeah, you know, just sort of...
And I think, you know, I didn't dislike my name. I just disliked that it was unusual to other people and that they made fun of me for it. And I wasn't really until I was in high school and I started dating this guy who became my boyfriend. And he mentioned how he thought my name was so pretty.
And he really liked my name and he liked saying my name. And I was really like, relieved. I remember thinking, that's nice. Thank you.
That was really nice to hear someone say something nice about my name. And anyway, that song is like, I'd love to have a new relationship to it. I was Louie for a long time and I hated it. Did people make fun of you with your name?
There was a song called Louie, Louie the Song. Yeah. Two Louie Louis actually. Yeah, right.
Louie Louie Louie. That was a big hit when I was a kid. Yeah. Bit of sweet.
Once again. And when I moved to Massachusetts. What's the other Louis? What's the other Louis?
Louie Louie. Oh yeah. Louie Louie Louie. Yeah.
Face to face. There's no face here. Only magnetic tape. That's all I am.
Talk about dramatic. All I am. Decaying. Decaying.
Strip of tape. I feel like I really covered a lot of territory in this episode. I'm not long from this world. Oh.
Oh. Oh. Fortrach is kind of an rough shit. Oh my sister.
Letting him have a message to come back out. What did I do? What did I do? What did I do?
He was good. Not a very good announcer. Fortrach guy. He went on and on.
He's concludes another wrong question. Well, maybe it's genetic. This one, right? What was it even about?
I know. Seriously. Oh. Randall.
Well, thank you for listening everyone. And maybe I'll be back. Or maybe I'll just disappear. I do have one thing.
On the subject of names. As my microphone is getting lower. What the hell is going on? You're really crouching over your microphone.
I'm doing a lot of hunching lately. Yeah. Hunching over base and not a stool. When I moved to Massachusetts.
I decided to go from Louie to Lou. Because it was a clean slate. Yeah. I moved from Michigan to Massachusetts.
And I said, I want everyone to call me Lou from now on. Your family. So they knew the deal. Mm.
Did they do that? Yeah. Yeah. And I'm now known.
That's Lou. Raw impressions.