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Welcome to Ron Prescience. With Lou Barlow and Adele Barlow, we are your hosts. This is the theme song. Theme tune.
Melt? Melted. What did you say? Theme riff.
Melted. Give me a... Oh! Christmas vacation.
That's a four-track man. Sixteen made. The fuel relationship. You counted.
I counted. No. Me. Time.
See. Time. Me. Time.
Me. Me. We time. The grand we.
Ah, hello. This very well may be the wrong impressions. This is the 2004 episode. This is it.
Right? I don't know. Is it? I don't know.
Things in this episode, Lou. Lou has written his very, very first Christmas bean song. This is it. His Christmas song.
I know it's been away for a few days. Leaving Lou alone with you. Lou, you know he had designs all coming here and communing with me. You songs have been doing some sort of ambitious things, but I didn't see.
He would open up the studio doors and the one who has a few was going to come in. We're on the line. I didn't know that. I was recuperating.
I was recuperating. Recuperating. Yes. I did.
Did you do something? Christmas everyone. Give me a... Christmas vacation.
Sixteen day. Sixteen day. Sixteen day. Sixteen day.
Sixteen day. No stop it. That's enough. You know they have the second and third off.
Sell up. Great kids. Yeah, of course. Don't you have to go back to school?
You're putting your hand in front of your eye again. Stop that. Oh. Man.
Is that like a stress reaction? I don't know what it is. I don't know why I did that. I don't know why.
Well of course they do because I'm assuming New Year's Eve is in the middle of the week and they're not going to pop them back to school on a Thursday or Friday. They get two full weeks off of school buns. Well good for them. What a nice long vacation for them.
Good for them. No, it's their first Christmas song. Oh, no. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, that was like a wip.
It was like being whipped. Okay. Do you want me to turn the mic toward you? A horse whip with jingle bells on it.
Yes. Turn your mic towards me. We're going to do this right. All right.
Do I'm going to play the jingle bells? Have you gentle with them? Come on. Oh, no.
Oh, oh. Do you want jingle bells? I'm going to be gentle with them. That's too loud.
They're very loud. I'm the engineer. All right. Give me a little beat.
You know. We got them in October from... Okay. We got them in October from Deakin Shelter Fresh.
Chosen for their dispositions and looks they were the best. Two mischievous brothers, raring for a holiday spree. If I could go back in time, I'd say no kittens near the Christmas tree. My mom knew her surname, but daddy didn't pay her no mind.
We're not putting those kittens in prison when everything will be just fine. Well, daddy, find ain't good. They can't run free. Kittens don't mix with the Christmas tree.
December brought more worries. Mommy said it's out of control. And is he an a queasy feeling watching ornaments have fallen on the floor? And then that sense of danger and there that daddy will.
He'll wave away the facts and say he's only in it for the kittens' thrill. Mommy knew for certain, but daddy didn't pay her no mind. We're not putting those kittens in prison when everything will be just fine. Well, daddy, find ain't good.
They can't run free. Kittens don't mix with the Christmas tree. We were in the kitchen when we heard that awful noise. Rushed into the living room and then we saw one of our boys.
I don't want to go no further or put that picture in your mind. But kittens in the Christmas tree will never, never, never be fine. Mommy knew for certain, but daddy wouldn't listen at all. She said leave them in the bedroom.
They are better off climbing the walls. Because daddy, find ain't good. They can't run free. I'll kitten got stuck to the Christmas tree.
I was wrong. It's all on me. A kitten got stuck on the Christmas tree. What do you think?
That was great. I'm so, I'm impressed. That's like a fully developed lyrics. Good job.
Well, I was recuperating. Well, you were recuperating. You wrote this song? I went, was doing it in my head.
And then on the day before you came back, maybe before yesterday, I sat with my guitar and it came really quick. Mmm. And then I went. It's like your Christmas version of Soul and Fire came in like 20 minutes, right?
You just had a spark of inspiration and you wrote it. I kind of worked on it. I kind of let it ruminate while I was recuperating. He's recuperating from his ear in case you haven't caught up yet.
Well, I also was on, I was on like a real spree of touring and shows. And Prednisones. Oh, I was raging on Prednisone for too long. I felt like two weeks.
Yeah, I'm done with my antibiotics now too. Why was I on that? Because you got a bit like... Oh, God, you guys.
Remember the song we just heard? Kitten sent me to the ER. Yeah, I really... The kitten got stuck to the Christmas tree.
I don't know if anyone... And it bit me. Anyone listened to our last epic episode where we explained the whole thing. Spoiler alert.
A pumpkin. A pumpkin. A pumpkin. A pumpkin.
A pumpkin. A pumpkin. A pumpkin. A pumpkin.
A pumpkin. A pumpkin. A pumpkin. A pumpkin pie.
A pumpkin pie. A pumpkin pie. A pumpkin. And while we were trying to extract him from the tree he sunk his teeth into Adele's forearm.
Yeah, that was intense. And we got it right to the hospital and right out of course a brutal course of antibiotics. It was antibiotics, really. Whoa, two a day for seven days and maybe quite nauseous.
Yikes. But I'm done though yesterday was my last day. Just yesterday. I'm feeling good too.
I mean I was sort of thinking I should probably up some probiotics though because I just finished around a antibiotics and when they kill your little good bacteria's right so you've got to... Might I suggest some of the cow's milk yogurt? Yeah that delicious yogurt. Super delicious yogurt.
Tarte, sugar for yogurt. We got real yogurt. We got at the farm's stand store. Yeah.
I love your Christmas song. Like I said one song closer to having your own. I mean because it can be a mix a great Christmas album has a mix of originals and wonderful covers. That's kind of where our whole idea for a podcast began.
Gosh yeah. Let's just hit me now. I was like well we we did we did the video for glittery and then we did our holiday holiday special 2021. No 2020.
Oh yeah. Was that 2020? I believe so. Yes.
Yes. It was that was like the hard core pandemic. Pandemic. Christmas.
Yikes. We have the scene in the special where we're throwing presents at my parents. That's right. You guys remember when we were like afraid to cross like a street to be in the same airspace as people?
We have like lived through some cray cray times. That was the beginning of... That's where Adele and I worked on the special and then that kind of gave us the idea to do the podcast later on. Yeah.
Because it's so awesome. Yeah. Our unscripted holiday special with like their skits in it. Their skits in it and they're beautiful covers.
I covered the the burl eyes. Silver and gold. Silver and gold. They're just the best version of that song.
It's the best. Yeah. Other than burls version of course. Obviously.
Nothing. You know, that's a... But now what is this song called? Kittens in the Christmas tree?
Kittens in the Christmas tree. Amazing. Amazing. Gosh.
I love it so much. We should do a little video for it. You should do just the song and then we'll do a little video. I actually have video of them in the Christmas tree before things all went real bad.
So or we could be like send us your videos of your kittens in your Christmas tree and then we could do like a mix. We got five more days. I know. Five more days.
Five days till Christmas. Anyone else out there way behind this year? Raise your hand. How much Christmas shopping have you done, Lou?
Me? Enough? Ooh. I mean yesterday Adele told me that you said...
What did I say? Like, if you do any Christmas shopping and then you said the Christmas... They don't buy themselves or you know. These gifts don't buy themselves.
The magic doesn't just magically appear. A pointed statement to make it clear that you generally do all the Christmas buying. I'd like to... I'm saying I'd like to load...
release some of that load from now until the end of time because I don't want to do it all. I don't want to be totally in charge of the Christmas magic. Oh but honey you're so good at it. Okay.
Just because someone's good at something doesn't mean they have to keep doing it forever. Wanna make you write the Christmas songs? Okay. No.
I'm not. Cuz I write songs. So... What's your point?
No point. At all. No point other than I'm ready. This last five days for sure.
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This last five days, yeah. We're gonna go in at the end of the... Oh, it's on Christmas. We're gonna go screeching in towards the tree to finish this up.
I'm gonna finish the Christmas lights on the house. I'm gonna do that and hopefully not fall off the... You did a... we did work together doing the Christmas cards yesterday.
We did and I'm down with continuing that today. Good. Who ordered them? You did.
Exactly. To make sure they got here and goddamn time for the magic to be spread. I know. The USPS.
I think that you've done a great job so far. So it's surprising to me to hear you say that you think you're behind. I'm like, really? I don't think so.
Because if I were to actually... You put up the Christmas tree like a month ago. Because all of the many things that come with it, if I were to actually sit down and type out everything left to be done, you'd be like, oh shit. Right now it's all just floating around in my body.
But because it's not just Christmas, we have family coming for... You know, the barlows are coming and the barlow easlers and we have to be prepared for family arriving and the gifts and the mini get-togethers and the things and the food in the house. There has to be food in the house and snacks and things available and canned waters and cheese and crackers and we don't have that shit. Okay.
And so there's a grocery list also floating in there. And then we have holiday parties to go to where we have to come with handmade food. Homemade food. So that's all floating around in my head too.
I've been recuperating. And we have to go to a party where we have to bring gifts for like a white elephant exchange. Okay. Now I'm bummed.
Oh god. See? Welcome to my world. The magic is draining.
The magic is draining from Lou and it's literally draining to create the magic. So oh my god, I see the cats just running around behind you. Yeah, they're... Did you hear that something?
So we figured out how to keep the kittens away from the Christmas tree, but they can still be in the house. We have these big-ass pocket doors for our living room and I drew the pocket doors together. It's so much nicer to have them get to you know, roam in a bigger space in this house because these little guys, they already... They take up space.
They like to... They're doing the things. They're getting on my dresser and they're looking at me and they're getting ready to knock shit off. You know, I'm like, damn, already?
You know, babies aren't even six months old and they're already giving me the look where they look at me and then they swat it and then they... They really want to take down for a while your Easter bunnies that are taking a selfie. You have a ceramic sculpture of Easter bunnies that are taking a selfie. Just really funny.
I love it. And it's on our dresser and the cats have like, man, they're all... They feel threatened by it. It's like, what is this?
It's an amazing statue and they better... Hopefully they won't touch it. Respect, respect that statue. I mean, I can't get mad at the kittens.
They're just kittens. I know we can't get mad at them, ever. No. No.
Can you imagine getting mad at them? Mad at those kittens. No, I can't. Yeah.
So you were gone for a couple days and I was here recuperating but then also hanging out with Izzy. Yeah, you were daddy in charge. I want to mention that I ate... I made...
I made seven tuna melts in two days. God. I was like, I hadn't had a tuna melt in a long time and I thought, I'm going to take this opportunity to go tuna melt. Did the older kids...
Did they... Did they like them? They did. Yeah.
Yeah. I was wondering if they were into them or not. I made... I did this kind of like a tuna melt roulette thing where I made four different permutations of tuna salad.
To be put on these tuna melts. Nice. So I got some corn because I really love corn too. Yeah, well we were four different types.
Well there was corn. Okay, corn and tuna. Did they all have mayo? Yes.
They all had mayo. That's kind of required right for tuna melt. I was going to do the mustard, which is also quite good. Yes.
Yeah. But I didn't do that because I thought the kids... They're not as into the mustard. Yeah.
I don't think that they would have been into the mustard. So okay, they all had mayonnaise. I did get the two types of tuna. I got white albacore and then also skipjack chunklite.
And then I also added potato chips. And did you do the wild planet brand? Yes. Okay, yeah, that's the only one I think.
Yes. And but I ate so many tuna melts. And then I cut them all in half and then just put them on a plate. And then you used delicious sourdough from Alice Farm Ray.
So good. I don't think they make it, right? No, there's no label on it. It's just like a...
They do make it. No, I don't know. It's just in a plastic bag. Yeah.
There's no... We do not know what the origin of the sourdough is, but it's quite good. Mm-hmm. I love sourdough bread.
It's the only bread that I really eat anymore. Mm-hmm. It is, it's true. Yeah.
Like a real good homemade one. Oh man, so good. Yeah. So, so yeah, I was like tuna melt, I was tuna melt crazy.
And at one point I was like- It sounds sweet. And we have so much cheese too. Cheddar cheese for the melting on top. So much cheddar cheese.
And thinly sliced. Yeah. Wonderful, thinly sliced. I know.
On the second night I cut tomatoes because the 19 year old daughter had suggested that I used tomatoes the next time. So I used tomatoes and sprouts. I got sprouts. Uh-huh.
Sprouts. Sounds great. I really like like like warm just when sprouts, you just bite in and they're just this warm wilted sprouts. Did you do a bee steak size tomato like a bigger one or?
I got the biggest bit tomato I could find, which was not that big. Yeah. It's kind of hard at this time of year to find like a nice big one. And I didn't want to go to the big fucking supermarket.
Yeah. Because I didn't, I don't know. It's depressing. It's depressing.
But the big beef steak, if you're doing a tuna melt like in the summer, when you get those really nice big tomatoes and you could thinly slice it and then put some mold on it and some freshly cracked pepper. Oh god. Delicious. I used what I had.
Yeah. Fair enough. Which we do have fine salt and pepper. I ate so much tuna that I think I might have locked jaw.
Uh-oh. That's like that's mostly- You're only supposed to get tuna, what, twice a week or something? So I guess you did your quota. But maybe you ate more than you.
Oh, I ate so much tuna melt. Mm. One of my favorite stories about James Aschis. It wasn't when I was with him.
It wasn't when our lives were intertwined. This was when we were split up. But I heard. Okay.
This is a rumor. This is a rumor. Although I'm going to ask him. Okay.
If there is ever sort of a time where we're hanging out and- That'll be coming up. Yep. Mm-hmm. Not talking and I'm going to be like, is it true that you ate so many tuna salad sandwiches that you got locked jaw?
Mm. I know they loved tuna salad a long time ago. Yeah. But I knew they'd left tuna salad because he loved it when we were in the band together in the late 80s.
So there was a- I did hear that he ate so much tuna that he got locked jaw. Oh. Which is a reaction to the mercury. Scary.
Mercury. Didn't that also happen to like that actor Jeremy Piven? Remember him from Entraj? I think he ate too much sushi or something and then he- Yeah, he got the same thing or similar thing.
I don't know, but consumed tuna at your own risk. Oh, I did. Yeah. That sounds nice.
Sounds good. I would like a really good pickle with that because I love pickles so much. I didn't go there nor did I put celery in it. Oh, I like celery with it.
I know. I do. I didn't venture into like putting vegetables in there. Mm-hmm.
Um. A small celery. A lot of people also do raw onion in that but I- No one. Yeah.
That's a big no for me. Yeah, loo and raw onion. They're not buds. No.
Stay away. Cook it. That's like farting in an elevator. No.
No. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It just ruins the party.
Farting in an elevator. I don't know. They're so mean. Yeah, it's like, I mean, unless you're obviously in pain and you can't help it and- or it slips out and you don't know, but- oh my gosh.
An accidental elevator slip fart slip. I'd be mortified. Yeah. So.
Wow. No. Well, I- I don't know. I guess we'll see if we can squeeze in another raw pod before the big day.
I just- I'm laughing because I keep seeing the kittens running back and forth behind loo and the hallways. Oh my god. They're like bounding. They're so cute.
Um. I loved your song so much. That's really cool that you did that while you were gone. Should play again.
Yeah, play- play us out with it. It's so cute. Oh, no. Oh, oh.
Never mind. Maybe play another version and put it on the stack or something. You know, like a- something. I kind of want to go back to recuperating.
Okay, never mind. He's so excited for the holiday break guys. Can you tell? Yes.
Enjoying the magic. It's under 27. It's under 28. It's under 29.
Is there any- is this me in the school calendar this morning? You poor thing. It's birthday. That was birthday.
Have his birthday's coming out. January 1st. January 2nd. January 4th.
January 5th. Then back to school on January 6th. God willing. Back to school on January 6th.
6th. 6th. January 6th. Oh.
It's gonna go by. And then we're gonna leave on the 7th. It's like a brie. Give me all!
Christmas vacation. 16 days. Poor first-back man. He's really feeling those 16 days coming up.
He doesn't care. He's driving. He's kind of, you know, putting the screws to me. I know.
That's what he does. Have those kids off Christmas feet. Yeah. Kids off Christmas feet.
I will. Kids off Christmas feet. Yes, sir. Bressions.
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