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I like knowing that I can only have panic attacks when I do it myself. When I do the work to really undermine my sanity. When I'm the one doing it. I don't like it coming in when I'm just like sitting on a couch.
Live in the healthy life. Live in the healthy life. Drinking some mango, lassi. Needing some avocado toast.
That sounds like a really nice breakfast. A beautiful hotel room in Bram Spank, a new part of Austin, Texas. On my tour. It's just, I mean, there's black.
I had black out curtains that you press a button and the black out curtains come down. Amazing. Yeah. So I had plenty of darkness to sleep, but I slept for like six hours, maybe five woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.
I wake up and then I know that I'm awake, awake, because my brain will not go into, my brain is just focused as opposed to sometimes I wake up and then my thoughts will drift and I'll go back to sleep. But if my thoughts don't drift, then I know I'm up. Today when I woke up and my thoughts were not drifting, they were focused and then I was like, well, so I did some, you know, some breathing, thinking, meditating, you can call it. Yeah.
So there's no reason I should have kind of went off the, I don't know if I didn't go off the rails, but I had a moment. It was a little jiggly there. Yeah. This is, I know this because we talked before we recorded and yeah, I didn't sleep well.
Well, I slept okay. I just, I kept, I wasn't a dream that I kept wanting to go back into because I wanted to see how what was happening. And so I kept pressing my alarm and I normally get up at six and it gets up at six 30, but I stayed in bed till six 30 and I will say it's fucking hard. No, that's dark.
It's so dark in the mornings. Yeah, I could, you know, I've got feelings about that. We got to check it out. Check this out.
Okay. Hey, I got something to say. A story to tell. I'm not feeling great.
You don't have to fix it. You don't have to fuss. I'm explaining, not complaining, explaining, not complaining. Yes, that's our new exclusive.
We decided to just, we're going to own that here at Ron Prussians and that's some segment. Maybe I'll just come and go. Who knows? But it certainly happened in our life.
We often say to each other, look, I'm explaining and not complaining. Yes. You know, so I do think we really should pursue this and we are now introducing other, our listeners. To our world of the, yeah, yeah.
And because I'm sure maybe other people might, it's kind of like a venting session, right? Sometimes you just need to let it out. And this isn't a full grump episode. Any of our loyal listeners know.
I thought of the grump episode. Back in the day. I had an episode dedicated to just me being grumpy and complaining. I don't know.
But you know, like look, you told me, you're like, look, we need a whole episode where I just kind of complain. We're going to call it the grump episode and we did it. That was a long time ago. You know.
So anyway. So this is sort of a, I don't know. Is there something you'd like to explain? And not complaining.
Yeah, not complaining. Just explaining. Yeah. You're sort of going somewhere before I interrupted you with the theme song for the second.
Oh, it's okay. Well, one of the things that I would like to share, and okay, so if we're going to go into this with the freedom that we both have the freedom to just say what we want to say, right, without the judgment, okay? Freedom from judgment. Freedom from shame and guilt.
So one of my, I can't believe I'm saying this, but one of my explaining, not complaining, is gratitude. I sometimes, trying to remember to just be grateful can make me feel really stressed. You know, because I feel like being reminded of how lucky you are all the time, like you just need to constantly remember that someone will always have something worse than you. That sometimes it does a number on my mental health and then I'm not feeling like that's right.
I'm sitting in my gratitude and I look around me and I'm naming all the things I have to be grateful for, which there are plenty. I mean, so many more than I could ever possibly name, but for some reason, not always, and I can get to the place of gratitude. I really can quite frequently, but then there are also moments where I feel the weight of the recognition of gratitude. Am I making any sense?
Yes. Okay. So much, so much sense. You're pushing back and you're going to get a little bit.
Yeah, I can relate, you know, because there's a lot of things you're supposed to tell yourself before you get up, which was a lot of what I did this morning. I spent a lot of time, like, although I did forget to tell myself to have a good day. Apparently that's work. That works.
That's a fool proof. Okay. I'm going to have a good day today. Then you do.
Then you just do. I forgot to do that. So maybe- Setting an intention. That's setting your intention.
Yeah. But yeah, as far as the gratitude thing goes. Yeah. I mean, sometimes you can start to think about things that you want to be grateful for.
And hey, something pops into your head and I'm going to let you hit a little roadblock. Maybe just a block like our can't go any further with this gratitude train. Yeah. I'd like to just occasionally have permission then to just not worry about whether or not I'm feeling enough gratitude.
Okay. So that's that. And because again, I have so much stuff. I have so much to be grateful for.
Like, if I'm going to complain about something or explain something, like, for example, I'm overwhelmed right now with the seasonal shift of having to change, do the change over of the shit in your house. Okay. And I'm realizing maybe this is an adult problem because I grew up in Minnesota. I'm from Minnesota.
Granted, I did leave there pretty young in my early early 20s. But I have like no recollection of like, okay, I've got to do the seasonal wardrobe shifting, whatever. I mean, when you're young and fancy free, you know, you're wearing like a t-shirt in the winter. It doesn't matter, right?
You're barely like you're working in coffee shops. I'm just people are in flip flops in Minnesota, like in November. I'm just getting by. I'm paying like $400 a month in rent on a tiny little studio apartment.
I mean, whatever. Now that I'm a full fledged adult, I'm middle aged. I have family. I have a home.
I have a mortgage. I have an entryway. I live in a place that has seasons and as a result, okay. Can I interject something real quick?
Yes. Your mother, she literally changes like the paintings on the wall with the seasons. Correct. Your mother is like the mistress of the season.
She changes it all. It's all switched out. You know, she's got your father moving. They both are moving like, bam, it's it's autumn.
Upgo the brown and orange paintings. Outcome like maybe even like different tablecloths. Oh, 100%. Bam.
Here's the yellow flowers. Whole new artwork on the walls, folks. Yeah. Let's rearrange the whole book show.
My mother like she will do that for the season. So maybe, you know, that's it. You've you've been handed this, I mean, I think it completely unreasonable. A list of duties for the season.
So it inevitably must cause you some sort of stress when the seasons do hit. Besides having, and I do think you also are very legitimately affected by the lighting. Right. And the seasons themselves, and I think we both have lived in Los Angeles for a long time.
So basically there were the seasons were very different. There was a windy season. There was a season where everything smelled great. There was a season where everything was too hot.
There was a season where it was just absolutely perfect. You know, it's different. But now and we still live in the kind of climate that you grew up in, which is fairly extreme, to be honest. You know, as far as worldwide, most people don't live.
In a kind of extreme climate that we even in Massachusetts, which is relatively temperate, most of the world is living like they do here in Austin. I mean, it's just like, well, it's hot. Oh, now it's really hot. You know, occasionally something crazy happens like a nice storm or something like that.
But I mean, I mean, I just right now did the whole we swept from. We went down South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Texas. It's hot here. It's different.
There's birds that make different sounds. There's lizards. There's so point being that look, if we as humans are not necessarily maybe not used to living in such extreme climates, wherever our little cave people, ancestors, we're like escaping into hills and escaping into colder climates and creating settlements and communities, it's not necessarily natural to live with the kind of seasons that we live with, in my opinion. There we go.
I think shoot my mouth off. Yeah, let it out. I do this is just a rhetorical question, but feel free to weigh in in the comments, folks. Anyone else, an adult living in a place with seasons, do you switch over your whole wardrobe?
Am I the only person doing this besides me and my family, my parents? Or does all your shit just live where it needs to live? Because I'll say this, we live in a house that has very small closets. They're tiny little closets.
And so they can't hold. And so then you're going to say, you have too much clothes. Okay, fine. People have less clothes than, but this is just why I live in this year now.
I live in 2024. I do. I have a lot of clothes. So screw up.
I think actually what I have. Your impulse to do it is actually very well earned. And it's probably in your brain. It's in your ancestry because hell yeah, people had to change for the seasons in Wisconsin.
Yes, absolutely. You know, 100 years ago, they're like, no, it's like, yeah, we got to clear the shit out. We got to prepare for this. We have to make room for this.
We have to. My family goes back to like a small village in Russia and Ireland. Exactly. Yeah, it's like.
No, I think there is a lot of reason for that. You know, I think in our minds, we want to go to we want to be in California. We want to be where this place. We got very accustomed.
You and I both together and separately got very accustomed to the climate Los Angeles. Myles. Which is mild, other than the super hot stuff. Right.
But and the fiery stuff and the, you know, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I think that I think it's all is a reasonable, but it just depends on how much anxiety it's causing you. You know, I mean, but that's the thing too. That it comes down to time management. It's like, you know, you're really good at all that stuff.
I'm lucky. I kind of I like how you switch out the stuff. And I rarely help, to be honest. I'm rarely, you know, I'm a little challenged when it comes like, what?
We got to take the boots. We got to put the boots in the attic or we got to we're changing out the company. I just, you know, I was not raised. Really?
So did your family then not do a seasonal switch? How did you do that? You, you, you, I mean, so did it all just exist in the home year round? All the stuff like available.
Kind of. Okay. Okay. Kind of.
You know, you've just moved one pile over. You put something on top of something else. You put the heavy coat. A little pile.
Okay. You know, heavy coat comes from the back of the hook onto the front of the hook. I mean, it doesn't, you know, it all it's the even the snow shovels are still more or less in the same place throughout the summer. Yeah.
It's not. That's the that's me. That was my, you know, my, my parents. Whatever reason weren't up on that.
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I like it. I like things being put to bed in a place I can't see for a while. You know, I'm like, I don't need to have my, in my, in our bedroom right now, I have a lot of like sundresses and stuff that I'm like, these don't, these are not really, this isn't going to make sense. Like, now I'm in a transitional piece, right?
It's orange, but it's autumnal. But it's like, but not too. The closet is not big enough. The closet is not big enough.
And that's true. It is. It's not exaggerating. Yeah.
We do not have walk-in closets. We don't have our closets. They are quite small and not real. I had apartments in Minneapolis with bigger closets.
I mean, they're just little closets in a house. And so legitimate, this is all legitimate. You can't just, and you are not, I mean, you're not, if you take, and see, here's the thing is I grew up with like closets that were just stuffed full of clothes. So tight that you couldn't see them.
I mean, you're like, just because like, here you go. Now the sweaters are just moving to backwards on the, on the rack and the other shit. I mean, it's just, or it's just a pile. I've just lived with piles.
My whole life is about just piles of things. You know, I didn't have my parents did not model what your parents model in right now. You're dealing with what your parents modeled. You want to do the right thing.
But then there's something inside of you that's also like, like, I think it's really winter already. You're like, really? Is it, you know, because you, you, you, you have this kind of season, your seasonal anxiety started in late July. You were like, yes.
This is it. Yeah. I don't know if you saw that little, like the Instagram thing I sent you about that. Of course I did.
Oh, really? That's so good. It was, it was perfect. It was definitely.
We don't give you a while on Instagram. We send you things on Instagram. I don't see until like a month later. I'm like, okay.
It's because you don't check her messages. FYI folks, he doesn't check his messages on there. So that's not a good way to hold up. I'm not a snob.
I just don't see what if you're messaging me through Instagram. I'm not saying it. Don't do it. Unless like just by chance somehow I end up on Instagram messages, which I still don't even know where that is.
I know. I'll say it real quick. You can email us folks. We have an email.
You're welcome to reach out to us. Will we respond? Maybe. Does it mean we haven't read it?
We've read it. We just, I will say we're not the best at always responding. Do we appreciate the emails? Yes.
So don't be afraid to send them. You're not bugging us. It's not creepy. It's the email to reach us.
Raw Impressions podcast at gmail.com. Okay. So that's one of my things is, okay, wait, I feel like I'm still, there's the missing part though that I'm trying to articulate, which is, okay, I like it once the changeover has happened. But yes, I sort of live with like a cloudy dread that's about the change, that it's sort of like the management of change.
And then I feel like I don't relate to it with my parents because they don't seem to live with this, this dread doom over them. They almost seem like they enjoy, maybe they're wrong, but like they seem to enjoy the changeover this season. They kind of hop to it. And I, it's really an opportunity.
And it's where they really, as a couple, it's really where they shine as they work really well together. Yeah, they do. And they like projects. And maybe they're like, Because I'm on my own having to do this then, because you're not helping me.
Well, yes. Yes, your father again. So I feel overwhelmed by the amount of shit that needs to be transitioned from summer to winter to, your father, a role model, by the way, a role model as far as the stuff goes. He, yeah, he's working behind the scenes.
He takes, he takes direction. He does things on his own. He is self-motivated and then also motivated by your mother. It's a really nice thing that they go on.
And I'll say this as older people, who've had probably compared to us quietly to malnuous lives, where they've been through a lot of, they still are of a generation where they don't sit around and talk about the real traumas that they've had. We tend to talk a lot about things. We're working through things. I think for people that age, I think staying busy or keeping yourself occupied by tasks is sort of a coping mechanism.
It's a generational thing. It's a coping mechanism. So those kind of those, when those transitions happen and when you're like, well, at least they know that they're doing the right thing. It's their nest.
They're keeping the nest clear. They're like, it's kind of a more vigilant way to live. And it's totally attached to kind of their survival, maybe, whereas we, you know, it's, we've lived a lot of our, a lot of gray area in our lives because we haven't had such, I don't think that we have quite, at least, I have to stop talking. Now I'm wandering into the mud.
I'm just losing track. I'm losing my, anyway. So, um, anything else? I, well, okay.
So this was just me, this was just my turn right to say the things that are stressing me out right now. So basically that's just what's stressing me out and also feeding myself because it's very, very hard to feed myself when you're on tour. I don't know what the fuck to do. And I find it puzzling and weird.
And anyway, so I've done, I bought my box. I want you to have your turn now. What's, what's explain, not complain to me, dear, what's happening? Hey, I got something to say.
It's what's going on. It's the news of the day. Something that happened. I'm keeping in touch by explaining, not complaining.
It's explaining, not complaining. Um, I'm here for you. Okay. So, um, the bus.
Yeah. The bus, the big purple bus that we're traveling in. Um, we have a really good driver. Yeah.
You know, he's steady. He's slow. Honestly, I just like the slow thing. I mean, slow.
Yeah. I've talked about this before. I don't like waking up feeling like I'm on a train on fire. A bullet just flying down.
Yeah. I don't like hearing the rumbles strip. I don't, you know, and that happens. I've spent a lot of time on buses in my life.
So the other night, um, we loaded out of the club, Tiptonas in Louisiana, and we got in the bus. It's one o'clock in the morning. I, uh, I fell asleep around 130 and I woke up at 510. Feeling really weird.
And the reason that I felt weird, and I know I don't want to get into like reciting my dreams, because it really is the one of the least interesting things in the world is a dream. It's important to you and then important to the people that might be in your dream. If you tell them, otherwise it's like, who cares? But this is what I woke up.
This is what woke me up. I had a dream that you and I were watching the, like the taping or the capturing of like a Netflix series or something, but we were in it. And it was weird because we were in the show, but watching the show. And it was this climactic scene where four brothers gathered on a corner in Los Angeles.
Much of my dreams are based in Los Angeles. They gathered a corner in Los Angeles and just start, um, projectile vomiting and projectile diarrhea, like spraying diarrhea and vomit all over each other. And this is apparently something that they do every year at the same time at the same corner in Los Angeles. So I wake up like, and I look at my phone.
It's, it's 510 and then I'm like, well, where are we? I'm thinking, we're probably in Texas by now. We must be getting close to Austin. We're like, we're not even out of Louisiana.
And also, God bless Louisiana. And actually, a lot of the roads in the United States are getting smoother. I mean, there's, I've experienced like in Alabama, the roads are a little smooth. I don't know.
They're pretty rough down there, like in the bayou. We're talking right on the, so the highway is like, like it's the buses kind of like, doesn't matter how slow the drivers are. And it is like bumpy as fuck. And it's like, yeah, it's just the reality of the road, right?
I sleep on the bottom bunk, which means I'm closer to the road. So it's a bit of a rougher ride. So I kind of wander into the bathroom and oh my God, the fucking, we have a toilet and it's a toilet that you can only pee into. Right.
Thank God. Only pee. Oh my God. But it, the smell emanating from this toilet was particularly intense.
These buses, these older buses, they just really weren't, they have design flaws that make it so the toilets, the tanks that contain the urine are not properly vented. So when you're on the road and you're rolling and especially on a bumpy road, it's being, it's just a gurgle of fucking urine. Oh, I feel like I'm like, I'm like, I'm actually like, oh, so I woke up from this awful dream and the smell is so intense. That was the smell getting into your dream.
It was, it certainly was. And then I want to describe this smell. I have many ways to describe it, but this, I'll just go with this. I did work in a nursing home for a bit, you know, when I was making the transition between my, you know, like 1921, I worked a real job before I became a guy with a weird job.
But I used to empty catheter bags. And so these were these big pla, they are, you know, like it's where the urine goes for the old men. And so this, and it's always like this golden, it was always golden dark urine. And when you emptied it, it was just like, whoo, what a whiff.
So this smell of the toilet on the bus is fucking catheter bag with catheter level. Just like, whoa. So, so I climb back into my, and then by then it's actually so bad that my eyes are burning. Oh my God.
My eyes are burning from the smell. You know that's bad. I'm just like, and I put the covers over myself, like just so I can, I mean, I'm like just lying in the, I'm like, you know what? Fuck this.
I'm like, ah, we're not even, we're not even, we're like, we're not even over the border in Texas. There's still like four hours left in this journey. Because I can, you know, that's, you know, you can sort of, I can figure it out from Google Maps. I'm like, oh no.
So I did something that happened doing a lot lately. I took half a Xanax and I fell back asleep. And I woke up two hours before we were in Austin. Still, still I only got like, I managed to only attack another two hours onto that and woke up in Austin.
And then I came to this wonderful hotel room that I'm at right now. So I just, it's hard because the, it's not hard. The life that like being on tour, being on a cool tour, being in a cool band, it's great. But there are parts of this that are just truth.
That it really, you know, I still, you're just, I don't know. It's just a, I know what you're saying. And if anyone has any common sense at all, the understanding of what you're saying to who is listening, I mean, I'm explaining this. I don't, right, not complaining, not complaining, right, you know, but, um, yeah, I just want to, I want to, I want to, that's all I wanted to say.
You both had to kind of let some things offer just today, I think, right? Yeah. Yeah. And, um, I know, you know, but you know, we're back, back on the Weezer tour.
There was a, there was a week long break on the Weezer tour. We're not a week, but like five days and, um, we went off and there. We ended up now for the, the last. Yeah.
That's what Junior, we did our own shows with that. So Junior, we played the, we played Bourbon and Beyond and Louisville, Kentucky, and then we went down. It was, we actually, we've done a pretty intense zigzag of the United States in the last five days while we did shows on our own. But now we're back in the, in the warmth of the, the bosom.
Weezer's bosom. Weezer's bosom. Thank God. Give me all your impressions.
Oh, your impressions. I'm ending on a major. Thanks. Looking forward.
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