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I'm your co-host. Lou Barlow. Lewis Knox Barlow. Lewis Knox Sebastian Barlow.
Sebastian. Sebastian, you wish. That's my confirmation name. Oh, I just learned that.
Really? You didn't know that? Sebastian. Saint Sebastian.
The Saint Sebastian. The Sexiest Saint. Hot. Sexiest Saint.
Sebastian. The most- You are hot. The most- You are hot. Saint.
The Saint of Sibilance. That's the name of the little boy in the never-ending story, but I think they call him Bastion when the princess at the end is- Bastion! Also one of the greatest lead singers of all time, Sebastian Bach. I just watched an adorable video of him on Instagram singing Steely Dan.
It looked like in a hotel lobby. Just- Yeah. Sharing. We do that.
It was great. We're just looking over the counter at the McDonald's and grabbing the mic and singing into it and cracking up all the McDonald's employees. Adorbs. Yeah, hi.
Hi. Raw impressions with Lou Barlow and Adele Barlow. Here we are. I'm in Seattle.
It's another lesson. We're not. You're not Seattle. Seattle.
Does anyone name their kids Seattle? There's like Paris, Brooklyn. I hope so. I met a woman last night called Ancoanette.
Wow. Ancoanette. I wonder how that's spelled. It's like an Antoinette, but with a cue.
Oh, it kind of- That's cool. It's kind of like antique and Antoinette together. Yeah. Interesting.
Is it a family name or? No, her parents just made it up. That's so cute. I love it.
Yeah. Does she have a nickname? I didn't get that far. I mean, she was in the merch line.
Sure. I did want to make- I did want to- She did come early, so we did have a little bit more of a chat, meaning there wasn't a line behind her and we spoke a bit and she purchased a few vinyl LPs. Fault Completion, vinyl LPs. I'm on tour with the fault Completion.
Yeah. That's why you're not with me. I'm selling T-shirts and CDs for the full-com- CDs and LPs for the full Completion. I'm very many CDs.
A lot of LPs though. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well, I'm here.
I'm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, everyone. Oh, my gosh. We're on the opposite coasts. Oh, check this out.
What? Oh, my God. You're wearing it. I love it.
If you're not watching it. Do I get one or do we have to share that? We have to share it. Okay.
And you'll look at it because you and the guy who gave it to me, I don't remember his name. Thank you guys. I don't think his parents made his name. I don't think it was his parents pulled out of it either.
He was wearing his For Track Man fan. This is what I'm wearing. I'm obsessed. So, Lou is wearing a trucker cap that is embroidered with For Track Man fan.
Embroidered on it. It's not even a print. It's full on. I mean, it looks embroidered, right?
It is. It's actually really good. It's a nice paper cap. It's actually high quality.
It looks amazing. Does he do that? Does that his job? No.
He was at the mall with his 11-year-old. Stop. Yeah. One of those kiosks or something?
Yeah. Yeah. There's hats. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. They make hats. Maybe it's lids.
I never go into these. I don't give a line to talk about hats for myself personally. Well, I'm... That's adorable.
And I approve. I can't wait to share that. Here we go. Along with our Pendleton sweater.
Hmm. Support that. We share that too. Yeah.
Cannot be here. So, he was at the Seattle show. This guy. Who gave it to you?
Yeah. Kind fan. The Raw fans, you know, let us be known when they show up at things. I want to tell everyone who says that I'm going to tell Adele she'll be really excited.
But then I don't want to go. Mm-hmm. There were a pretty solid handful of Raw impressions fans at the LA show. That, you know, what's wild?
Shout out to them. Shout out to LA. We love you. Oh.
God damn, we love you, LA. I was like looking... I don't... Like, the other day at Stats or something on the pod.
And it said California is our number one state. We have the most listeners in California. Shout out, California. Damn.
The folk in Plosian shows in California were really well attended. Amazing. Thank y'all for showing up. We love you, Callie.
Yes, West Coast. Showing up for folk in Plosian and Raw impressions. Yeah, this folk in Plosian tour is going pretty well. Yeah, I've been not.
Yeah. So, what is, what's on the... Nice. What's on the docket?
What are we doing here? Like, what's happening, right? I think you had an idea. Well, I, well, I...
Do I mention the thing that inspired a thing or no? Do I not mention the thing that inspired the thing? I have no idea what you're talking about. So, you could, you could elucidate for me.
Well, it's pungent. And I saw it in a post and then it made me think about things I don't like. Yeah. We both...
We share the stance equally. Do you feel? Okay. Absolutely.
Raw onions. No. Raw. That's not a good raw.
Raw impression. Raw take is leave your raw onion out of my fucking salad. Yeah. Keep it in the kitchen and instead...
Am I talking burrito? Put it in the saute pan and cook it. I'll saute the china. I don't know.
Maybe. Or even brine it for a second. Help it. Make it, you know, make it translucent.
Yeah. Yeah. Make it easier to digest, easier. And then also it leaves your fucking mouth and it's not reminding you that you ate it.
And everyone else who wants to come near you, right? There's something really, really intense about raw onion. And I was saying this to our mutual friend Sarah who we were speaking about before the recording. I equated a kind of tool wind chimes.
You are doing this thing. Okay. So let's say you hang up some wind chimes in a residential area. You're not living off grid.
Residential. Okay. You just decide to pop some wind chimes out near your front door, back door, whatever. You have now made a decision.
You've made a choice that will affect everyone in like a pretty, like a radius, right? Around you. And whenever that wind hits it, you've decided the soundtrack of that neighborhood. And you know, two or three AM in a windy spot, really the kind of windy spot.
It adds a dimension of it's like portent. It makes it dramatic. It adds a layer of kind of drama. So if you look at that, that's true.
That's true. Anything like me, when you wake up at three or four in the morning, you're pretty much at the bottom of your soul. You feel kind of like a scared animal, kind of going through a lot of, you're going through a list of things that scare you. A list of ways the world may or may not be ending.
And then adding the wind chimes on top of that makes it especially eerie. So do you also feel that the wind chime is a bold choice in a residential area? I'll be perfectly honest. Do you mind it or are you okay with it?
I don't mind it. I don't mind it. At one point, our neighbors had a set of chimes. It sounded just like the beginning of the song Sunday morning by Velvet Underground, which is one of my favorite songs.
So I like to just have the same notes as Sunday morning by Velvet Underground. But you don't know what you're going to get when someone hangs up that wind chime. They're not all the same. Yeah, you've got some really strong opinions about wind chimes that I don't necessarily share.
My feeling is that you've made a decision that then affects a lot of people. I'm going to, right, but raw onion, I'm just going to maybe take a bite of a burger for some bizarre reason. They decide to hand you a huge round, coastersized piece of raw onion at the restaurant. God knows why.
I mean, someone explain yourself. And then you look like, oh, yeah, I'm going to bite down on that burger with this fucking huge raw onion. Then everyone you're going to come in contact with, you're deciding what that air space is going to smell like because you can't escape that shit. That is intense.
I'm more concerned about what it does to my mouth. I worry about that. Me and others. Okay.
You've made a list. Okay, I got a list. So yeah, these are things that this is not a this is a heads up. This is about mundane everyday shit.
We life collapsing. Go read the news. We all know what's happening, right? This is about the everyday shit that drives you fucking crazy.
Me, shutter, dry, heave, irritable, you make a fist. Okay. So my first my first thing you right. The sound a guy.
Any guy makes when he's gathering a huge luge in his throat to spit it specifically on the ground or or in the sink. Uh huh. Uh huh. And you're like, I always I always wash.
No, sometimes they're so intense. These long these lung cookies that come. And for some reason, I'm in a real lung cookie phase. I think it's the allergens in the air.
Like all of the pollen, the allergens are they seem especially concentrated earlier this year. So I have had a lot of and it all gathers in my upper lungs and in my throat and in my nasal and so I'm the guy I'm you're complaining about me. That's very specifically directed at me. Just saying I actually I wasn't thinking of you.
I really honest that I wasn't I was thinking of a rando on the street like when I'm walking and it's more of like again, someone has made this decision that's going to affect me where they just start going like making that sound and I'm walking by them on the street and I'm like you fucking you're going to do that right now. Aren't you? They spit and then it lands. It hits the ground and I I'm not talking about you.
This is not you. I'm simply talking about that random guy that I pass and I hate seeing the act of the spit, the sound of the spit and the the pile on the ground. The urban oyster. Did you just come up with that?
I did. That's so clever. I'm impressed. That's hilarious hashtag urban oyster.
Nasty. Oh my God. So do you how do you feel when you come upon a luge pile and urban oyster on the ground? Do you does that ever happen to you?
Do you notice these things? Yeah, I don't care. That's like you don't care. I don't care.
Do you do side step it? Literally shit on the streets in San Francisco. I've stepped in human shit. When we were in LA.
Remember when I was when I was changing the top when I got a flat tire and I changed the tire. Yeah, the whole car almost fell on me. But yeah, but then I stepped in human shit. I do remember that.
That's like that's that's that's that's. I know but this isn't this is my my my list every day should that annoys me. So then you okay then you share me you share share the one okay I'll need something that you don't like and this will be related to yours because all right farting look I am totally we've talked about farting. We had an absolutely amazing episode about farts.
I don't know why I didn't go viral. I don't know. It was like one of our least I have no idea. I thought people to shy or embarrassed it was it's such a good episode.
So farting. You know, like when you're on a plane and generally like I know myself. Take a deep breath that when I know that my intestinal gases especially foul and you do a test you do a test run, you know, okay, a test to your you're in a crowded place. You let it go and you're like, oh, that's not good.
This is a place where you can kind of crop dust without people quickly identifying it was you or yeah, yeah, right. You're like in a crowded place you let one go testing the waters and you're like, oh, oh, that's unfortunate. I mean, but you know it right and this is something like I really give people a lot of leeway. You know, I don't think they have to be like me.
I don't think they have to be conscious of the same things I'm conscious of. However, when you lay and especially stinky fart, you've got to know it, right? And then you know what you have. You know what you're capable of, correct?
So yeah, I agree. So, you know, like when I'm walking in an airport and I haven't traveling a lot, which does it is a challenge, you know, waking up in the morning and maybe too early and then going to a very crowded place, standing in a shuttle or a train or a small room. You're like, okay, you know what you have. So I mean, I can crop dust all day long when you're moving.
But if you're in one spot with the same people, the same crowd, you would be aware that I mean, pretty much you have a, there's a, what you call it, what is it like a quota? You have a quota, like you can really maybe maybe do two of these, you lay two of these eggs, maybe, but then we start laying like three, four, five to the same audience. That's to me is like, that's it's going too far. I know it's unhealthy to hold in farts.
I understand that. But when you know what you're capable of weaponizing is this weaponizing? It becomes aggressive, aggressive. It becomes aggressive and then there are definitely people in our population who I mean, look, God bless them.
They don't know. All people. I mean, after a certain age, like, you know what, you can do whatever you want. That's fine.
Whatever you want. You totally, totally. But you know, you know, when you're still, you know, when you're under, let's see, I don't know what the age ceiling would be 70 when you're under 70. Okay.
And you're just letting these things go repeatedly in the same place to the same assemble, assembled group. It's aggressive and I do that does. It gets me. It annoys me because I will.
If I know I'm in the, you know, even with you, I know what I'm doing. I know. Thank you. I'll go.
I'll walk out. You might have to live through two or three of them and I'm like, no, I'm so sorry. But, you know, okay, that's it. I would like to say you are actually one of the most like fart aware, flatulent aware men.
You really like you think about it. This is something that really means something to you. Like we really discussed the layers of like what's acceptable and when and where like on our off time or, you know, daily life or someone told me once that one of the reasons that farts really bothers them is because they saw, they saw something or some piece of like scientific information that says what any smell is actually particles of what you're smelling. Oh, God, I actually just shook like that made me physically.
So when you smell a fart, you are inhaling feces. That's just a. Oh, what is that really a fact? Sure.
It's a particulate of it. So it's there. I mean, and it's like COVID that was the big thing. Like if you share, right?
That's like it. And the plume you create can make you sick. So you it is like it is poop. It's poop.
It's shit. A fart is shit. It's a very, you know, it's a very tiny bits of it, but it's still shit. So someone told me that and ever since then I have, I'm like, you know, I don't want to put that on somebody who might be that might make them miserable.
That can ruin their day. Like that. That's so nice of you. That poor old couple that I that I that I.
You'd be annoyed. I'm not airplane. I love that. Sorry.
And if you want to hear it, you're going to have to go back and listen because it's been done and it's so good. I'm not going to be do the link in the description. I can't go find it. Go find it.
Go listen, go binge. What's next? What's the next on your? All right.
I think I wrote a few sentences about it. Okay. Well, this one next room temperature coffee. I prefer scalding.
Oh, and I know it. So but can I say a little bit more about that? Okay. Or no, or you don't.
That's what others I should say about it. I find it kind of a mundane a mundane peeve as it goes. See, oh, yeah. So you coffee has to be extremely hot.
You and Murph from the answer to me and Murph mundane. I said mundane. I wrote mundane. It's what I used Monday and every day shit.
Okay. So not all of them are supposed to be like rocket ships out of your ass. I mean, this is just mundane and whatever. So okay, then you give me a mundane one.
A mundane one? Mm hmm. You could go on about your cold coffee. No.
I mean, scalding coffee is dangerous, by the way. But here's the thing. I literally I put cold water in my coffee so I can ingest. I can actually have it.
I like I like lukewarm to actually tepid coffee. I don't like it when it starts to taste like pencil lead. That's too then it means it's been sitting around for too long. So I don't know.
Yeah, I'm not as anyway, anything else you want to add about the world not giving you a coffee hot enough. I don't know. I feel self-conscious now. I feel like you actually shamed me with my mundane irritation and you told me it was uninteresting.
So, yeah, I can't I can't share. There could have been something really fascinating I had to say about it, but you'll never know. I already know. No, you don't know.
You think you know. So this morning, this morning, I woke up at my hotel to the smell of bacon. Mm hmm. Okay.
And I was like, well, you know, sometimes it's smell of bacon. I mean, I grew up, many of us, you know, grew up with a smell of bacon, like a bacon on a Saturday morning. It's like, oh, dad's making breakfast. So he's making a huge fucking plate of bacon.
He can't really make anything. My dad could make a chocolate chip cookies in bacon. That was kind of his second toast. Yeah, really interesting.
I never told you my dad's way of making toast. He would take it out when it was, he would take me that way. First, first, popped, he'd take it out. He'd put butter on it and then he put it back into the toaster.
That's dangerous. It is, but it's so delicious. Okay. I got a rumor to tell him that.
Okay. Good job. Good job. Anyways, bacon thing.
So I wake up, I know that could start a fire, but I didn't realize that for a long time and I've done, I did it myself for a long time. You're lucky to be here. Rebuttering, retosing woke up to the smell of bacon. It's like, oh God, that smells good.
Okay. So I'm like, I guess I gotta go get breakfast. I mean, actually I actually have a fucking moment to myself is today. We've been on a fucking run for the last five days, but yeah, something could go down.
I'm like, I think I'm gonna have some bacon. Here's the thing. In every fucking hotel, the buffet bacon is garbage and the smell maybe it was like, it just compelled me to it. And I saw it and I opened it up and I'm like, okay, it looks kind of crispy.
So I filled a little, a little bowl full and I'm like, I'm gonna actually take this bacon to my room and enjoy it. I'm actually gonna like sit in bed and eat this fucking bacon. Oh, like I'm gonna really enjoy this bacon. And then also I realized that my bedroom, my room is right above the bacon.
Really it is. It is like, so it was coming directly to my bedroom. It walked it up. It rived up.
I'm only one floor above the big silver thing of bacon. Okay. So I tried one of the pieces of bacon and it was fucking shit because it's all shit fucking hotel bacon. I know.
Unless you're in Japan or something. It's garbage. You put it in and it's like, what is this? It's like, it tastes like fucking toilet paper.
It's chewy. It's not the bacon of my youth. And no, why did I, and I keep coming back hoping this pile of bacon somehow. And then I even convinced myself before I go in, I'm like, you know what, I need this protein.
I mean, you know, of course, I shouldn't, you know, I should have, I should at some point, you know, subsist on a plant based diet. Hey, I'm not there yet. And I need my protein. So again, this morning, I had a fucking mouthful of chewy ass fucking paper towel.
Chart, shitty. Ah, and I just got to say it. Like, it's been, I've never really just said it definitively because now it's definitive. It sucks.
It fucking sucks. Hotel buffet bacon specifically. This hotel is a little bit, and I'm talking about all strata's of hotels, even the good ones. It's not, you know, the Hampton Inn fuck that holiday in.
We've had so many times. And then even though like, you know, the four star kind of boutique hotels that a dinosaur junior will say in, even those if they have the buffet, even that sucks. Right. You're saying you've tapped in.
It's, it's, if it's a buffet. Yes, buffet specifically in the silver thing where you're going to lift the lid up and maybe there's a little, a little, a little greasy tongue thing. And then you grab the tongue. Maybe it's sitting next to a bunch of bogus fucking sausage.
Sausage the great, the sausage is shit too. The sausage is actually disgusting. And this be honest, you know what? And this goes like throughout the Western world.
I'm talking, you know, Europe only in Japan. The breakfast buffet is like that's the break. I will eat the breakfast buffet meat in Japan. Really?
Okay. Oh yeah. Sounds okay. I 100% agree that was not on my list, but I'm right there with you.
And can I also say the thing that you already know how I feel about eggs. It's such an intense love hate relationship leaning heavily on the hate side. What they call eggs at a hotel breakfast buffet is speaking of when you lift the silver thing. And then I, I do the same thing.
Right. I go sometimes I have to choke it down, choke it because there's really not a lot of options. But it's I will, I mean, I will say that the. The stars of a hotel, if you, if you are in a four star hotel, sometimes the eggs are actually real as opposed to some weird.
Yes. Sometimes the real and sometimes they're real rarely. I'm going to actually say that. I got an omelette station, you know, an omelette station.
Then maybe you can assume that the scrambled eggs are all passable. Typically what they call scrambled eggs, it's like powder, what is it? Constituted way in people, the hotel employees. Anyone listen.
I hate it so deeply. I don't want to say, can I say something actually about this buffet thing? Let me say something because. So since he got out, bad news keep happening.
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Well, let me tell you. My scalding hotmapping. I'm taking a sip of like very, very cold. That's fucked up by the way that you do that.
But does it hold in my mouth and I'd stay fucking teeth. That's terrible. I have something bad to say about a very nice hotel. Should I do that?
Yes. Because I think that they should improve it. I'll say that. That's why.
That's why. Okay. It's like a good relationship. It's like advice to a friend.
This is like constructive criticism. Right? I've heard that that's bullshit that there's no such thing. But they're in the customer service business.
So this is why I'm saying, especially because it's the Mayo Hilton in Rochester, Minnesota. I believe it has, when you look it up, it says it's like one of the best regarded health ins possibly in the country. It's the Mayo Clinic. Yes.
And it's the Mayo Hilton, the new one. There's two just out there, Mayo, knock knock if you're listening. And I'm always saying that because if you've seen the Mayo documentary, the director of the Mayo Clinic himself says, we welcome the criticism. I take it all in.
So I don't know if you guys have anything to do with the Mayo Hilton. Okay. So if you have a special pass and you get to go to the 17th floor to the executive lounge, which is my parents did, it has to deal with what floor they were staying on, you get to have a free breakfast in the executive lounge. I do.
I like to feel special. You know, I like to feel like I'm invited to the special room, like first class for buffet, you know, like, oh, not everyone gets to eat here, right? So I am delighted. I'm delighted by things that make me feel like I'm special.
So I'm sold. I'm totally sold on it. I'm up there. I'm like, oh, yeah, get to go to the executive lounge.
You beat. I'm welcomed in. You go there. You get a little plate.
Next thing, you know, you lift the silver tray thing up. It's the same fucking thing as at the holiday end buffet. It's probably an express. Yes.
Okay. And we stay. We, we, you guys, we're not going to stop saying at the holiday and express because they always have a pool and Izzy loves a pool. So, and she also loves that buffet.
I can't. She does. She loves a buffet. So she makes the waffle.
She makes the waffles. So oh my God, those waffles are insane. And no one knows how to use that fucking waffle machine either. The thing you have to flip and then you're going to bring your hand.
So Hilton Mayo executive lounge. I'm going to, I'm going to put it out to you. Do better. Scramble some real eggs, guys.
I want to feel special rolling into the executive lounge with my terminally ill mother. Yeah. Get to know it because let me tell you this. That is, I should not be anybody's last eggs.
That should not be the last mouthful of eggs that you, you consume. I have the exact same bacon as you described as well, by the way. The bacon is shocking. You're like, no, this is not okay.
Okay. Let me just say that though. Let me say that's about the Hilton Mayo. Something else is top notch.
Yes. Okay. Love you Hilton Mayo. Okay.
So, oh, all right. What's next on my list? Well, I don't even know if I should go into this one because this one could, this one could just be a whole episode. But so I'll think about when someone whisperer talks.
Not me. Not you. You know what that is. Yeah.
I know what, I know what you. Does anyone know what we're talking about? Okay. So for example, let's say you're at an art gallery, you're some art opening or some friends, whatever mutuals.
You're in a little group of some mutuals, right? One of your mutuals is maybe standing across from you and rel chatting, whatever. And then that one person decides to kind of, they almost like withhold their voice. They keep it close so that only the person right here, I'm pointing to my right hand side, can hear, right?
And they might even be like looking at you out of the corner of your eye because you're standing across from them. Do you, do you know what I'm saying? This is like another artist of act because it's like a thing where people are staying in groups and chatting. We're not supposed to talk loud in our gallery.
So this is my art gallery openings. Those are fun. You know, people are like thinking or people are passing around drinks and appetizers. And so I'm not an art exhibit in Brooklyn.
I'm making this up, you guys. Okay, we're backstage at a dinosaur junior show. We're backstage at a weesar show. We're backstage.
We're backstage. We're backstage at a folk and potion show. Someone could be doing this. No one's backstage.
You're the fuck. Good. Yeah, kick him out of there. So I'm just saying that I noticed this happen myself and it makes me feel bad.
So then I feel like I don't like the person who's doing that and then it makes me feel like they don't like me, but this is their way of like holding it over me that they don't like me is that they're talking to someone near me, even though it's maybe a group discussion. Am I making sense? Yes. I know all kinds of whisper talkers.
Do you feel that this is also an annoying thing? Well, there's different reasons. Some people do it to exclude you, which is a number of ordinary purposes. And then other people do it because they just have almost no self awareness.
Yeah, that's true. They're actually speaking to you in whispering and making you feel like you're fucking deaf and not, you know, making you feel like your manors disease. Your one year manors is like kicking in. Yeah, some people are really quiet talkers and it's true.
It's not always aggressive. Let's say like you're riding in a car with somebody and they're they're riding shotgun and they're just like whispering to the fucking windshield. You're like, you're whispering to the windshield. Turn your fucking head and talking to my good ear or my manorier, whatever.
My manorier faces the door anyway. If I'm driving. But yeah, don't look forward and start fucking with. I mean, speak.
But that's but sometimes, you know, that's just someone just not without that little notch of self awareness. And maybe they're like deeply secure. Maybe this is like, I don't know. I'll say that I'll say that people who whisper talk after the age of this is this is another age thing.
They do it like after because teenage boys do this. Yes, they are so guilty of the whisper talk. OK, because in my brain, there's a certain age and I don't know where we could put this age. Probably 30.
Let's just put it at 30. I was just going to say between 25 and 30. Let's be generous. I mean, although 27 is where you should really this is where you come into your.
Cut it out. Yeah, really, really. You know, mumbling and whisper. No, it's like at this point, you should understand just the basic like physics of a sound wave coming out of your fucking mouth.
But before that, you know, I give I give young people a pass. Absolutely. I'm not talking about young people. Yeah, I'm talking about adults.
Old people ever know they fucking they're they make sure they're heard. OK, but it's next on your list. Next on my list. All right, Southwest Airlines recently have you used to be able to travel on Southwest without baggage charges, which pretty much made it the only good thing about Southwest other than maybe the fact that Southwest, there is a sort of like folksy thing that they do.
Like everybody, you know, all this stuff. But I mean, but fucking Southwest did a bad, bad thing to us once. They did a terrible thing. They asked for Izzy's fucking birth certificate.
While we were trying to get on the plane at that point, I had already flown with like I had flown with a, you know, a newborn one year old like countless times with my other kids and never been asked for a birth certificate. But people in South the employees at Southwest are encouraged to be whoever they are, whether they're assholes or they're right, they're encouraged to heighten their personality, to engage people and to make it seem like this. Really, it's the airline that, you know, hey, we're going to lose, you know. But they took away the bag.
They're going to charge people people for bags now, which officially makes them the worst fucking airline. Yeah, because the way they fucking see people is the worst. Hands down. The dumbest fucking thing, the way they make you line up by group and then they give you a number.
I see the thing is the one thing when people are traveling by plane air travel, people are feeling vulnerable. Yes. They want a sense of predictability. They get their ticket and they're like, oh shit, I'm in the middle seat.
It's my least favorite thing in the world. But you're prepared for that. You're like, OK, so when you're middle seat Delta, American, United, whatever, you're like, that's where I'm at. That's my fucking lot.
And then if you're feeling like, then you can even go up to the counter and go like, can I please not have a middle seat? And then maybe even get reset, right? Southwest, it's like fucking Lord of the Flies at the end. Or these poor people who like even if they book their flight like fucking five months in advance, if they don't have if they don't have a lot of if they're just regular people traveling and can't pay the extra feed of the beef, you know, books, the group A or whatever the fuck, then it's just like, do I get an aisle?
Do I get my, you know, people are real particular about their aisles and their windows and I understand it. I love my aisles. I just love my aisles. It makes me feel better.
Yeah, you're an aye guy. Because I want to be able to get up and go go go to the potty because I have zero tolerance. It's too bad. But like when my fucking bladder is full, it's like there's a siren going off in my head.
And it makes me it undermines my my, it undermines my stability. It makes me feel and when you're flying, you know, I'm in a good spot with flying right now. I don't think I'm going to die every time I get on the plane, but sometimes there can be years, months at a time where every time I step on to a plane, I feel like I'm going to die. And I'm assuming that everybody else goes in and out of this.
Some people never maybe they never worry about it. People work in these things, these flying capsules. And they walk down the aisle during turbulence and hey, they're not going to, I focus on them on a fly. Look at them.
They're not afraid. The unpredictability that Southwest Airlines enforces. Delights in. I feel like I don't like it.
Yeah. Yeah. Who did that? Who decided that was a good idea?
Because they thought that was a great idea. I remember they were like, we're so we're so we're so fast. We don't do things like everybody else. We make you fight for your fucking seat.
I mean, like that's what's with that Lord of the flies thing. They're just like, good luck. But now, you know, I mean, not having baggage fees. That was that that was nice, but that's not there anymore, everybody.
So let's show South West Airlines how we feel about that. Too big middle fingers. Yeah, not for you. Not for you.
I have absolutely zero interest in ever just drop that thing and just fucking assign seats. It's not that hard. Just do it. Tear down those stupid fucking they build pillars up in their I know where you know pillars go.