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Why did I say you're welcome? Hello, I'm the doctor. I didn't intend that at all. I just came out of mouth.
Welcome. Welcome. I'm going to touch it. I'm going to work it.
Oh my God. Work it. Give your face. It's for track, man.
Hello. Nothing between you and me except for a thin band. A thin ribbon of magnetic tape. Hey, welcome.
Adele and you take it away. I'm ready. Oh, were you going to do like a clap or what? No, I could do that.
Oh, oh. Schmack. Slappin' right into a new episode. Can I say something?
Definitely. That sound, like clap, that action. I think there's a part of me as a kid who wanted to be an actor on a set simply to experience being on the other side of that clapping thing. The board.
Yeah. What do they call that? I don't like that so much. Why?
It just felt so cool. I'm like, oh, I want to be behind the clap. We were into you. I mean, as young television viewers and movie viewers, we were introduced to that little board.
Whatever they call it, whatever the official term is. Clap or what? Don't know. Make a movie clap board thing that means a scene starting.
Yeah. Nowadays, people just clap in the digital age. They don't need to have them. They don't use the board anymore?
I haven't seen a board in a long time. Did they use it when you made Laurel Canyon? Probably. Don't remember.
God, that was a long time ago. Wow. I know I saw you trying to pull into your brain there. That's one of our better episodes, by the way.
People want to go back and listen to a really good episode of Ron Preshans, the Laurel Canyon, one where I describe being an Hollywood movie. I love it so much. I love it. I could live inside of that episode.
That's when Kate Beckinsale smelled my fart. God, that was not nice of you. She walked into it. It was a nervous fart.
It was a very nervous, being in a movie made me nervous. I had a poor diet and I was perpetually hungover. That's a lot of... I was eating a lot of extremely spicy pizza from Pizza Bueno.
Oh, Pizza Bueno. Wait, which one is that? It's right on Sunset as you're heading into Echo Park. Oh, okay.
Kind of near the... Oh, wait. Oh, hey. Lucy's is there anymore, but it's that big intersection.
Is that the one that's like a sit-down restaurant too? No, that's a different thing. I only ordered in. Ordered in.
Ordered in. Did they deliver? They totally delivered. Right to my very sensitive gut.
Pepperoni, hot pepper. Punishing. Punishing hot pepper. This is before Adele and I started living together.
I like those things too, but yeah, I can't do that. We're also old now. We're aged. It's not doing that.
The diet, you know. You have to actually start to do things that I really didn't think were real, which is like, haha, that's youth for you. I was like, I'm never going to need to put thick lotion on my face. My skin's never going to be dry.
That's just bullshit. I'm never going to stop eating five slices of pepperoni and jalapeno pizza. Well, before you get too carried away, happy birthdays. Oh shit.
There's some very belated happy birthday. What happened? I don't have the sheets. Oh.
There's a belated happy birthday. Did you print them? Yeah, printed them. Oh shit.
Fuck. What? It's not the birthday song. Should I play the real birthday song?
Yes, please. Alright. Every fucking year there is a day. Oh, that's wrong.
Oh, wait. Every fucking year there is a day. The day that you were born and people say, you should get everything that you want, but no one really knows what you want. I know what you want.
I know what you want. I know what you want. Oh, Ron, precious bird day. A shout out for your bird day.
Happy fucking birthday, you. You're the fine one. Shine it like a diamond. Take a day to celebrate you.
You should have a good time too. You should have a good time too. You should have a good time too. No.
This kind doesn't work. I got to hate that. That doesn't work? Yeah.
Oh, look. Do you have another pen? I rearranged the studio, everyone. Oh, I found another pen.
Yeah, I find another one. I do have a thing, a receptacle that's designated for pens, picks and pennies. Oh, P.P. Pens, picks and pennies, but more than pennies.
I have a Hertz pen in my hand. Hertz. Okay. Okay.
So we got one happy birthday shout out. We actually got two, but I included that one back in January. This is the- No, actually it was back in early February when we did the January shout outs. Yeah.
I did include one February. I don't- It was Ryan, I believe. Anyways, this is- Well, these are February birthday shout outs. Now, officially, if anyone's wondering.
So let's do this one for Nate Dodd really quick. Okay, you do it. You want me to do the whole thing? Mm-hmm.
Okay. Hi, I'm a longtime Sabado Centrado or Centrado, Dinosaur and Dinosaur Junior, full-complosion fan and my birthday was February 13th, if you guys want to give me a shout out. Or shout me out. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Nate Dodd. Yep. I've seen Sabado several times since the 1990s and dinosaurs once. I just saw my band The Healthy Home in Nashville, Tennessee at a house show in the early 2000s.
Hey, that was a really good house show. I think I was- That was kind of mid- to- No, early- yeah, 2004 when I was recording in Nashville with Mark Nevers. He of Lamb Chop fame. He of producer fame.
Okay. He produced a really great- Or he recorded a really great record by Will Oldham called Master and Everyone. And I was like, I want to go to that guy's house. And sound like Will Oldham.
And I totally did not sound like- Will Oldham. Mm-hmm. But he went to the guy's house. Will Oldham's got fucking charisma.
Lou Barlow is thin as shit. Shite. I found out that Mark Nevers is Beach House recordings. Anyway, yeah.
We went to a really cool house show. Mm, great. I remember almost nothing about it other than it did occur. Okay.
Okay. His, Nate's band Healthy Home in Nashville, Tennessee at a house show in the early 2000s and complimented me on it, which meant a lot to me. So I enjoyed the show and complimented Nate. Good job, Oldu.
He did a nice thing. I love it. I love finding out that I was not a fucking prick. Every time.
Yeah, I'm like, oh, wow. Oh, that time I was nice, yay. How good. Mm-hmm.
Feel free to check out the Healthy Home and shout that out if you want. So Healthy Home is still going. Wow, it's still rockin'. I'm so happy to read weed inspired me to start playing music when I was young and you can hear it in a few songs.
Nice. Free weed is a crazy home recorded record. Be hard to pigeonhole what the actual sound of that record is. A lot of just ramshackle and not so ramshackle, acoustic recordings by myself and Eric Gaffney.
Mm-hmm. More on that later. Anyway, my wife Jill and I love the podcast. Thank you, Jill.
Shout, Jill. Yeah. Nate and Jill. Yes.
Happy birthday. We're living in Nashville. Nate, I hope you enjoyed it. Well, February.
There's a lot of family born that month. Yeah. Truly. February.
What a birthday month. So many birthdays in the family. So we were trying to figure out when this, like when did people procreate? You know, I think it's spring, spring fever, right?
So then they gave birth and... You're doing the count back? You're doing the count back to penetration? Loosely.
I don't know. I just... Two. Two.
Just trying to figure it out. I'm like, huh, because there's a lot of February. So I guess... Because all of our family.
It's all family. It's all family. This is family extension. Look, it's fine.
It's just life. It's okay. You know, honey, woo. But are we just going to say who's who's...
Now let's talk a little bit about both of our mothers. We're born in February. Yes. My mom, Valerie, was born February 4th.
And so she turned 81 this past February. And I had sent a bouquet of flowers to their home. It was like a... Just all purple, because that was my mom's favorite color.
And, you know, that was really hard. Because as you all know, or maybe you don't know, but I'm guessing you know, she died then really shortly after... Birthday. Yeah.
And so it's funny because I had this feeling that she didn't really want to be turning 81. That was a really strange birthday. Ugh, it sucked. It was February was probably the hardest month of my life, guys.
That was so hard. One of the hardest ones. Maybe the hardest. I don't know.
It doesn't matter. I don't need to rank them. I'm just saying it was fucking hard, all right? Ugh.
It hasn't even been a month since she passed away. And I'm just... Yeah, if anyone's wondering how I'm doing... I don't know.
So that's that. So yes. And... How am I doing?
I don't fucking know. Yeah, that's all I do know. And you. Okay, so...
And my mom, my mom... What? Louise Barlow. 26th.
I am so... I am so... I am so self-involved that I cannot remember any birthday outside of my wife and my children and my sisters. Because I was in competition with them.
I wasn't in competition with my sisters. I was not in competition. But they were the only ones who had competing birthdays in my family. And I guess not because I wonder what am I going to get for my birthday?
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Yeah. Shocking. Sorry, I'm just looking at cameras. That was shocking.
I'm like, what the fuck? That got me what I wanted. That sounds nice. Yeah.
But in general, I never really got what I wanted for my birthday. Okay. Well, that sounds from... I...
So, yeah, this is... I've got... It's not trauma for sure. You know, this is not...
I was a privileged child. Did you know that my birthday is coming up? Yeah, I do. I'm scared.
I'm scared to fucking death. It's not just your birthday. Big tests for Lou. Yep.
Lou is me. I am a terrible, notoriously terrible gift giver. You were it. I was.
Right. Not anymore. I'm way better now because I'm telling myself that I'm way better now. Well, we're working on it.
So, we gave your mom, actually, before she went to Florida for their little snowbird trip. Your parents, we gave her a big Lego set because it was like a... Was it a flower one or something? Were you make flowers?
I noticed what she was telling me. Exactly. I made a mental note of my mom enjoying interesting Lego sets. Yes, she remarked on that and how there's really cool Lego sets right now that are kind of like for maybe adults or advanced children, I don't know.
But more of that same vein of adult coloring book kind of thing, things to do that are not on your fucking phone so it's like you can color, you could do some complicated Lego sets are doing really cool floral ones are doing bone-side ones. Keep that brain busy. Yes. Keep that brain going.
Yeah. It's a really great activity. So, you noticed we made a note of it right away. And then we actually, I think, ordered it right away.
So you even were able to give it to her before she left for Florida. So good job. That was your first big birthday of the year, right? Yeah.
Yeah. So you needed well. With your help, of course. Yes.
Oh, well, and then also the oldest child and we got her a really specific thing for her birthday too. We did. Yeah. I got her an appointment with a psychic.
Yeah. Yeah. So you're doing better this year already? Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Oh. This is a... We're going to actually do this.
This is going to be... Yeah. What we're hearing right now is an excerpt from a tape that someone sent me in the very early 90s. I love that.
Because we had an address that people could send, you know, fan mail to, I guess. You know, really. And people sent me a lot of concepts back in the early 90s. So cool.
A lot of people really influenced by the very early sub-it-out records, like the Freedman, like the Home Recorded Records. So I got all of these really awesome, really funny home recordings from people. Oh. And I come out.
So I thought I missed about the 90s. I love that. The time I actually took the time. Mm-hmm.
I can't believe this. I took the time. You know the phone then. And you never smart phone.
And I came a lot quicker when I masturbated. So I'd say it's kind of time. Sure. So anyway, I made a compilation of all the stuff people sent me.
And I'm going to play bits and pieces of it. I love that. Yeah. So this is one.
This is from Perry from Connecticut. It's kind of an intro on this one. Long intro. See, this strumming is like my early stomach.
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They're very talented. The riff is actually similar to a song too. It's a song called Sacred Attention. Mm-hmm.
She's going to get the Drowned Stroke. The Drowned Stroke. The Drowned Stroke. That's the worst swimming stroke.
The Drowned Stroke. Don't do the Drowned Stroke. That's terrible. Oh, I love that.
Yeah. That was the first song on the... There's a ton of songs on it. That's so cool.
And I'm really excited to share it as we go along. Who knows? I don't know who these...I don't have any information other than maybe the name of the person. Many of the things on the tape...I don't know.
Even where the camperin', the tapes were not even titled. Because we used to just when we played shows, when you got home from a tour, you'd find cassettes that people have thrown into drum cases. Wait, do we have drum cases back then? I don't remember.
But they just throw... You can end up with your stuff. Yeah. And maybe at the bottom of the T-shirt box.
Yeah. So I...and then people literally... It's not a whole set. Oh.
Oh. So the whole set. Yeah. Yeah.
For Track Man's working. You're not done yet for Track Man. You're not done with that theme song. You gotta really push that.
What's that? Flushed that out a little bit. Aww. But yeah, I don't know exactly when it was.
I know that one of the songs actually has the date on it. But they say like, it's March, whatever, 1991. I'll play that one later. That's so cool.
Like that's episode. Maybe next episode. Yeah. Maybe next episode.
Maybe. Maybe we'll never forget about it. Maybe. I mean, we'll never forget about it.
Maybe. I'm much like everything else. And this animal's here. Oh, god.
You're a deer. We're all drifting here. Our style of podcasting. Maybe we will or will not follow up on this.
Well, I wanted to say going back to birthday shout outs, your mom. So it was her birthday this month and she shares a birthday with her baby sister Peggy. Oh, yeah? Who was born on her birthday?
Her 16th birthday. That was her sweet 16th birthday present was like a newborn. Yeah. Her sister.
She then pretty much raised because that's what you did back then. Mm-hm. You know, in tiny houses. Mm-hm.
You know, with like- Actually, I think that happens now still. There's a lot of influencers and stuff that have like 500 kids and then their kids didn't raise any way. And then Peggy's daughter Katie's daughter Lily also had a birthday in February. I think February 2nd.
Yeah. Lot of family birthdays. Family February. Family February.
And then your sister Mandy's son Jackson also had a birthday. He turned 25. 25. That feels crazy.
Whoa. Take it easy. 25. Yeah, Jackson named after the town, the city in Michigan that we kind of grew up in.
Oh, I didn't know that. That was that Jackson. I love that name. And they have the dog Jasper, my sister.
Mm-hm. Jasper is the name of the street that we lived on in Jackson, Michigan. Really? Yeah.
Wow, how sentimental. I know, I'm like, my sister is sentimental about Jackson, Michigan. I mean, I thought I made her life so purely unenjoyable. I actually dedicated myself to making my sister's life intolerable.
So to me, it surprises me when she has something resembling sentimental or nostalgic feelings about Michigan. I thought for sure I ruined the entire experience of her. Well, that just shows you how self-involved you are because, you know, you were probably just a blip on her radar. She was like, ugh, it's my knowing brother again.
Anyway, here's my big involved life. My rich life here in Jackson, Michigan. Meanwhile, Lou thinks he's a center of my world. He's not.
He's not. Surprise. I love Jackson, Michigan. And I love Jasper Street.
And there you go. It was a dirt road. I mean, that was a little dirt or Jasper road. I should say it was dirt road that led to the railroad tracks.
We had a railroad track that ran straight to the tracks. Right in the backyard there. Rumbling, rumbling past the house. Did you hear it?
Oh, God. Yeah. Was it like, was it like, was it like, was it like, oh, no, the whole house shook. I mean, it wasn't right.
It was like, it was maybe 20 yards behind the house. We have a field. Oh. A train track running close to our house where we live here.
And that's a distant rumble compared to what? Yeah. Jackson, growing up, I often, there would be times that I thought it was coming straight through my fucking bedroom. Wow.
Yeah. It was really loud. And the trains ran all the time, of course. It was the 1970s.
And that railroad track was long, long, long ago, they stopped using it long ago, dormant. And I think they've even put it have much like many train tracks. They've made it into a bike trail. Uh-huh.
I think now it's a bike trail. You know, that's cool though, that they're at least reusing it. And I think that's a great use of it as a bike path. And then I've seen another thing that's really interesting that have you seen those like, almost like pedal bikes that you can do on train tracks?
Or like you can pedal, you sit on these little like seats. It's like an open car. Oh, yeah. And you pedal up and down these tracks and they're like, they had those anyway.
They had those anyway. Oh. Back in the day. They had hand crank ones.
Okay. The workers on the railroad would, yeah. You can see, I can almost see like the car tune out where they're cranking it. Exactly.
But there was like, you know, individual, and they also like modded trucks with special wheels that could also ride on the railroad tracks. Why was they doing trucks? It'd be fun. Sometimes you maybe do that with Izzy, like take her to one of those tracks where you pedal it and you do like a scenic thing.
They do them in like the Hudson Valley of New York and stuff. So they look, they look fun. I want to try it. I'd be afraid a train would come.
I know. Yeah. My relationship to train tracks is pretty, I saw a dog go right underneath the train once and just cut to ribbons in front of my eyes. Shit.
To ribbons. Yeah, when we were kids. This is making me have a, I don't know if Deja Vu's them, right? But like, oh my God.
It's reminding me of how huge train stuff felt in the 80s too. Like, remember Stand By Me and the movie? It's like they're going to find a kid. I think it was like, wasn't he hit by a train or something like that?
And he's dead. So they're following the tracks and stand by me. The movie is like train tracks were a really big part of the 80s. They're a really big part of my life.
Yeah. A child from the late 60s through the 70s. Uh huh. Big part.
Yeah. And when I was little, my family, we would do an annual drive from St. Paul to Red Wing, Minnesota. And it's just because it's a really pretty drive in the fall.
And you go down along the Mississippi River to a part that widens and they call it Lake Pepin. And then we would go down to the Minnesota side and we circle around to the Wisconsin side, make our way back. And you know, you stop halfway through or whatever at Red Wing, Minnesota. Red Wing boots, everyone, show you from Elm.
Anyway, so we would always stop at the same place along the river and have a picnic, like family picnic, my mom would pack. And we would then always with my dad walk down to the train tracks. And we would like look for like the nails, like the train track nails and things like that. Spikes.
Yeah. And then there was a little soft kind of like stone ledge that then people had carved their initials in and we would always go and carve our initials in it. And I'm just remembering that now as a fun memory. Also, you had to do it each time you went.
Yeah. Yeah. Nice. I even took my high school boyfriend, George there one time when we kind of were recreating the thing, but you know what really sucked?
What? I had an enormous zit on my chin, like huge, you know, like painfully just huge. And he had beautiful clear skin. I never saw a zit on his face ever.
He was just one of those people and I was not so lucky. And so we were like on this picnic. And I just the whole time I could not feel relaxed because I was just so self conscious and so mortified by my zit. Yeah.
But I mean, it was probably even like not to be gross, but like oozing or something. So I probably tried to poke it, you know, just mingle it. You know, the way you, you know, the way you, you know, you just do terrible things to sit on your faces. We don't know.
Cause you know, no zits here. I was like, I was like, I'm going to lucky once we're four minutes. Or 30 minutes. Oh, oopsies.
Well, wait, wait, I still haven't said four more. Two more. Two more. Two more little shout outs.
Yeah. Or nice Elena turned 18 in February. That's awesome. Oh, yeah.
It's so awesome. Yes, we love we love her so much. And then also it was my, my mom's parents, both were in February. Don't remember the dates, but Grandma Fried and Grandpa Tom.
Yeah. So February, man. So busy. Hey, I had this crazy idea.
Yes. And I haven't rehearsed it really. And because you gave me chips or you didn't give me chips. I took some of your chips and had them.
Yeah. You just try to blame it on me. You're doing that. It's like your default.
That's so weird. But I did have a chip right before we started podcasting. You did. And I should never, I should never eat chips before I podcast because I don't chew my food.
And you know, I think it's like eating peanuts before podcasting. It's terrible. Rock carrots, peanuts. Rock carrots, peanuts.
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But I thought maybe I should just play one of the songs I recorded recently. Sure. Should I? Yeah.
Oh gosh, do it. Okay, I'm gonna probably fuck up the lyrics. But I'm gonna do this because I don't care. This is my baby.
Don't don't fake me. Don't you know. No one's ready for your war. What's it for?
In two hundred world of fire. What am I tired? I keep it one. Cause I got a lot to do here.
Conquering on my fear. No one's ready for your war. What's it for? Now we'll wait the whistles and the cry.
What am I doing? That was fun and crazy. Why am I doing this? Because you were being fun and fancy free.
I was trying to be fun and foot loose and fancy free. Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this?
Because you were being fun and fancy free. I was trying to be fun and foot loose and fancy free. You are. And it was very timely.
The song Goodness. I'm dumb. I do. All around you the piece is tiny.
How on you the piece that found you? A lot to do here. Conquering on your fear. No one's ready for your war.
What's it for? A lot to do here. Conquering on my fears. No one's ready for your war.
on my fears no one's ready for your war what's it for good question what's it fucking for that was before this war I've finished that song before this one now there's another one yeah I was like oh now there's a couple of we got a couple of words going on at home and abroad no shit oh my goodness I thank you for playing it being raw that sound is really cool Lou did a huge full like rearranging of his studio and it's just opened so much up and I just love how when you play that to it also fell more open yeah we're no longer videotaping videotaping it's not cutie tape involved no tape videotape do you even call it video anymore video video I literally don't know let it out well yeah we're not capturing it we're not visually capturing this I'm capturing it I'm looking at you and I'm like so glad no one can see me right now why okay I don't know glad I see you there's nothing between us there's no like table between I love this I love this free space oh he's grabbing my toe even right now I can hold your foot oh that's nice well that's it for this week's episode of round questions thank you so much kimia impressions you keep hearing podcast ads like this one for example but always wonder how you actually get involved with them for your own brand or organization well it's easier than you think we're Acast and we give you the platform to do it all yourself browse thousands of popular podcasts choose the shows that match your perfect audience set your budget and launch and if you want to hand our podcast specialists are there to help you launch with confidence this is podcast advertising without barriers get started at acast.com slash advertising