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Welcome to Raw Impressions with Adele Barlow and Lou Barlow. The Freeform Podcast. Your favorite Freeform Podcast? Handmade in Western Mass.
Greenfield MA to be specific. 100% organic podcasting. No GMOs were used in the making of this podcast. And we're also fermented, by the way.
This is a completely fermented podcast. It's pickled and fermented. And it's organic and local. So shove that up your reusable bag.
Shove it in your reusable bag. Carry it around and put a button on it too. And then put your blood stones on and then grab your flannel. I'd like to say that I've been feeling a little pickled lately.
I'm feeling older. I feel like the whole theme of this last month has been like, my autumn has done come. I've never got to play you this Lee Hazelwood song. This is sounding, what is this?
Is this the... That's the instrumental track from when I did the cover of Time. I'll say that's Time, right? Yeah.
That's just the instrumental. I heard that today. I was like, I should add this. So you're reminding me to tell you what you just said is my trigger to say, aging is a gift.
Aging is a gift. So we're meant to stop and observe these changes in our body and then feel some gratitude for it. It hurts. That's what I have to tell myself, guys.
It's moist. It hurts. I know, but you're lucky to grow old and to be in pain. That's true.
Yeah. So it's a reframer. We're gonna reframe it. Always wanted to be old.
Yeah, well, don't get there so fast. Enjoy the now. Oh, I'm enjoying the now. Okay.
A little too much. I saw this woman who's 104 and they were interviewing, because I always love reading these interviews with people who are over 100. Like, how do you live so long? And she said that you have to drink one Guinness a day.
That that's what has kept her healthy. One Guinness a day? And I thought, wow. Well, she's anglicer.
What if you're recovering alcoholic? What are these people gonna do who can't have a Guinness a day? Where is she? Maybe don't like Guinness.
Where is she from? I didn't get that far, but I just kind of... I got distracted. I read the headline and I was like, noted, okay, one Guinness a day.
But then I was like, okay, if you can drink or you want to drink or whatever, I don't think I'm gonna drink Guinness a day. But I will say this, I know that there's things in Guinness. Iron. Iron, right?
There's like minerals, vitamins and minerals. It's actually a pretty low alcohol content too. Is it? It is.
I do like, you know, if I have a Guinness, I'm like, you know, this is good. But actually, I never want more than one of them. So I could really, I could understand like, just have her one. I, thankfully, I have the mind to go, that was good.
You're done. You had your one Guinness, but... I don't have that. Would you have more than one Guinness?
Absolutely. I mean, I can't... Next up... No.
..will be covering a dinosaur junior song entitled, Not the Same, From the Where You Been Record, released 30 years ago. As I walk with you, it chills me south. Here you say it's gone the worst. I know it's so dead.
Here in Dremel, it's top to you. You seem fine again, my sweet. Feels alright to me. Is it right for you?
I've been out, tried to call you, till you come to me. Tell me what to do. And I know it's not the same, there's no thing. Still that part for you.
And you say it's not your deal, it's mine for you. Follow through. Come alive and know it's in with me, but I won't sing to you. It's not a thing I do.
Has it been a different feel for you? Well, some mess was going on. Is that something new? And I know it's not the same, there's no thing.
Still that part for you. And you say it's not your deal, it's mine for you. We've both covered it. Anyway, you know it's the same, it's the same.
Follow through. It's a lingering that comes to me. Does it come to you? Play through.
And the guy would do this thing for me. It's not much. Ask. Why can't you?
And I'm going to say I've had my way. And you should solve it. What else can I do? You promise so much, but I'm not there to touch.
Follow through. It makes me feel like crying. That was a beautiful cover, hun. Wow.
What a song. Yeah, I spent all day playing that. I was going to do a four track version. I was like, I had all these fancy ideas.
And then I just ended up playing it straight, just live to myself for a while. You know, we had our big show yesterday. We had like the, our first show attempting to recreate that record, you know, where you play the record from the beginning to the end. And that's one of the songs on the record.
It is acoustic based on the album, which has a lot of, it has timpenny in it. It's a pretty grand, I remember liking it quite a bit back in the day. Like, okay, that's, I could really hear Jay's ghost in that song and love the texture. And so now that we are playing it and I just, I felt like I wanted to crawl inside the song and understand it, you know, because we're playing it very bare live.
It's a little awkward at this point. So I thought it might help, it would help me to just, you know, really immerse in the song. It also really reminds me of a song that I would do. I don't know.
It really did to me too. Because it has kind of down-stricken, it's like it's got the, it has that kind of insistence that characterized a lot of my stuff in the early 90s too. And the melody. The melody, yeah, it's like it really, it reminds me of how we are like musical brothers.
Like we really do actually come from kind of an interesting, common source, you know. And he's influenced me so much to be honest. I mean, like since we were kids, he was, you know, the most, his talent and his drive, his creative ambition was really inspiring to me. So.
I was hearing bits of your song. I think I was telling you this the other day when you were practicing it, imagined life. It sort of reminded me of that feeling in it. I think that's on email, right?
Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Just sort of this melancholy feel to me. Yeah, I really, that vocal melody just, it makes a whole lot of sense to me. I agree. I was very familiar.
I was like, oh, this sounds like Lewis, right in your pocket. I lowered the pitch of the song. I lowered the key of the song a lot. I lowered it probably five or six steps.
So I could sing it. Because Jay on his version on the, on the dino record, he's got, he kind of does that falsetto thing that he does. It's a nice counter to all the sounds. Do you know what I mean?
It's like an interesting like, oh, use of his voice. And I love Jay's voice. And last night I got to go to the show. That was cool because I don't really know how many of these I'll get to see the where you'll then shows.
Lou heads out and goes to London for the kind of the first of the anniversary shows. And then you'll be back in Brooklyn for quite a few, like seven or eight shows. I don't know. So I'm hoping to try to maybe come down on the train and hit like two at the end.
That's my thinking. But last night was not a disaster. I didn't think it was, I mean, listen, I thought you guys, you've practiced so much and you've really put in the time. And I think that you guys, you're working really hard on it to do a really good show for people.
And it's showing it's paying off. It's really, it's evident. I fucked up a lot last night. But that's okay.
You're going to get better as you do it. I mean, that was your first time doing it live. It's like the first time. The whole full run.
Yeah. I didn't get too confused. Although I was up way past my bedtime last night. Yeah, we like hit the stage at nine o'clock.
Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was late. Usually we're in bed at that time. Oh my God.
I've been home more or less for the month of October. You know, I kind of got a little routine down where I get up. Do 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.
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You're lying down. You're relaxing. You're drifting into sleep. At nines when we kind of stick to the round things.
It's when the Barlow family shuts down. It's when we round things up. It doesn't really shut down. Cause we have a lot of active, active minds in the show.
I'm shut down. They might not be. I'm done. This is often not done.
Her little brain wind and. Oh man. Hendricks and I are in bed watching prices right. Me runs.
Like from the seventies. So cute. Oh my God. The prices right.
Everyone. What a show. What a show. Oh my gosh.
Can you please recreate that that intro like, come on down. I did it. When they first started the show not to go too much on. Oh, damn it.
God that was. Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're leaving that in. You're leaving that in. That's like, that's you.
That's all you baby. I thought you meant I was going to leave the clot of mucus that got into my mouth. You're like, you're leaving that in your mouth. I'm like, no, I'm not swallowing it.
Oh God. I almost just gagged in my mouth right now. It's going down. Back down the pipe that it just came up.
That's absolutely disgusting. People's saliva makes me feel insane. Okay. Yes.
The guys name the announcer John. I mean, oh, yeah. Oh God. Oh God.
What was the announcer on the words? I got it. Frank, but for the first seasons, he said like, you know, he'd be like, Brad Davis, please stand up. Yeah.
He told him to stand up at first. Oh, where they come running down before they come running down, they would actually just stand there. They were supposed to just stand up until you think they would. They always look so like, huh?
Whoa. He's going to stand up like, and then they would all come down at once. Oh, I don't know when I really I'm ready. I'm the one that shift happened where they do the individual sprint to the front.
I want I maybe Adam Sandler already did this. But this could be part of his life, his tribute to the prices. Right. Adam Sandler devoted quite a bit of his time to the preservation.
He has. He owns the prices. Right. He does.
He's the fun executive producer of the price is right. Adam Sandler loves prices. Right. And he had no idea that that scene that scene in Happy Gilmore, like when he hits.
I can't see that because that's like a golf movie. Yeah. It's a golf movie about a very like someone who like an abuser, basically a violence. You know, it's funny.
But it's funny. Happy Gary. Hey, can you enjoy his humor? He just hit somebody.
He just hit Bob Barker with a golf club. He's volatile. He's dangerous. But it's happy Gilmore.
It's a funny Adam Sandler film. Raw impressions. Backtrack. Retraction time.
Adam Sandler, the actor is not affiliated with the prices. Right. He is not the executive producer. A man named Adam Sandler is.
But it is not the actor. So Adam Sandler loves the prices. Right. He loves it.
Interesting. And oral history of the prices, right? Oral history. It's not 30, honey.
It's an oral history. It would be like, so what the book, like where people's anecdotes are just all lined up, be like, you know, so and so. You know, like here's someone, so three paragraphs from so and so, it was a Barker's Beauty during between 1974 and 1980. You know, you've been really taunting me lately with tales of you guys are watching it at night.
And then the next morning you're like, well, guess what was on the prices right again? And I got a jeez what? And you're like, it was a whole locker set set for only $300. That's just mean telling me about that.
That's just mean. I would love to have a gorgeous locker set set of yellow and brown orange. There's one item that throughout the years remain consistently expensive. What?
Sewing machines. Oh, well, yeah. Sewing machines. You know, there's a sewing machine and it's like, wow, the tiny sewing machine must be like a hundred bucks.
Those things are about $100 bucks. They were $500 bucks in 1972. They were $500 bucks now. They're like, you buy one, you have it for the rest of your life.
I mean, you can have a sewing machine for generations, really, truly. sewing machine is a wonderful investment. You know, a two door hatchback. 1975.
$3,000. $3,000. Yeah. I know, I know.
$5,000. Yeah. That Lincoln Continental on kind of recently. And that was $10,000.
I always wanted to like, you know, this is this ties into my like sort of weird camping fantasy. Maybe we should talk about that another time, but you know, when they would have sort of like a mobile home camper thing on there and then they would have like a sort of staged look as if you're going to, Hey, and you're going to take your family camp. And this new mobile home show, okay, show down like the goodies. And I just be like, yeah, and they're going to sit in my little chair.
And then that little like 10 things going to pop up next to my mobile home thing. And I'm going to, I don't know why. What is this? What is this camping fantasy I have?
But yet I don't actually want to camp. You know, I want to have the product. Like they some genius was like, this woman needs to buy camping gear, but with no desire to camp. With no desire to camp.
I'm really, because I, when I think about camping, I go, okay, so I'm going to put myself in an environment voluntarily and make myself uncomfortable. Why? To be close to nature. But I'm scared of bears.
Nature's complicated. Yeah. I'm legitimately really scared of the wildlife part of it, you know, and so that doesn't feel relaxing to me. Although Abby and Kathy go camping in P town and maybe there's no bears there.
So why don't I hope there's no bears? I hate thinking about them. No, what you just said, you hope there's no bears in P town. What bears bears.
Oh, there's definitely bears in P town. If you know, you know, look it up. Look it up, folks. But yeah.
And then we have other friends that, you know, I know they really want to take us like camping and maybe I'll leave them name most right now. So we don't feel embarrassed. I feel like I should camp. I know.
I feel like you need to, we need to like maybe I need to actually do it so that maybe I'll become like, oh, actually I love this and I feel okay with it. And I want to cook my dinner over a little fire. My connection to nature is very tenuous right now. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm spending a lot of time not in nature, not outside. Yeah, you've been really indoors. Yeah. Yesterday I walked, I walked downstairs to the kitchen at three o'clock in the afternoon and I was like, whoa, it's really beautiful outside.
I had no idea. No idea. Yeah. I had to walk home from the Y is he had her first gymnastics class and Lou had the car as he was down at Jay's house doing band practice.
So I walked home from the Y which we live in walking distance, which is fucking great. And I was like, wow, it's a beautiful day. And so I texted my friend and I was like, hey, guess what? It's a beautiful day out.
She's like, okay. And she's so really outside and I'm like, no, I mean I walked home and then I went inside. And she was like, oh, that sounds more like you. So I was like, I just, because what am I going to do out there?
Outside? Yeah. I think there's an idea that being outside and around nature connects you to nature. I do really like birds and it connects your spirit.
It connects your spirit. I spent a lot of time outdoors when I was a kid. Yeah. And I love that I love the forest, love the smell, love looking under logs and stones just got turned stuff over and see what was crawling around underneath it.
You love that. I love that you love that. Yeah. I haven't done that in like a really long time.
I will say I do like certain types of nature. I love it when we go to Wisconsin and we're visiting my folks in Turtle Lake. Because they have a beautiful property where their land like goes out into a point in the lake and it has trees on either side just like framing the land. And it's so pretty and I do find that incredibly relaxing.
I'll sit in the Adirondack chair and I'll listen to the water like gently lapping on the shore. I think you like that too because there's almost a security to them because you're on a peninsula. Exactly. So it's like a classic thing.
This is what the tribes did. They wanted to find places that they could defend from one point. So you feel safe because you're actually surrounded by water on three sides. And I can see the both ends of the lake.
Yeah. It makes me feel better. Yeah. I think it's a lot of reasons for that.
I think a lot of personal reasons. I just thought. So I do like that nature. I just want to be clear everyone.
I like that a lot. You know why? It's beautiful. You know why I don't go into nature very much these days?
Why? It reminds me of the pandemic. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
You did a lot of nature time doing that. Pandemic was like outside now. Like we want so many walks. We live on the edge of this cool forest and like and there's a pond.
There's a pond. There's a pond. Yeah. Lewis feeding the turtle this ancient turtle.
Yeah. We would go feed a turtle every these really huge snapping turtles that just covered in green moss. Yeah. We would feed them oranges.
We put oranges on a stick and feed them. Anyway, we had a whole route that we went and we walked all the time and it was really great. Mm hmm. You know, it was um, it kind of really saved me.
It was a real it was a real salvation and so many other people feel the same way about that period. But now it's like, sometimes when I'm reminded of the pandemic and the level of paranoia that I lift with at that point, it's it's a it's hard. Yeah. I don't want to be reminded of that.
I hear you. You're camping and not think about a bear. That's what I want to do. And I maybe I want a mattress that's like a memory foam.
Do they have that for camping? Of course. Yeah. Think of it all.
I think I want to clamp. Yeah, I do. I want to be able to charge my phone. I feel like I need to like pay somebody like pay like some X Marine or Navy seal.
I know you have like grand fantasies. I just like drag me into the woods. You're going to re we are going to reconnect with nature now. Thank you for listening to another episode of the long-running podcast, Raw Impressions, featuring Adele Barlow and Blue Barlow.
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