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Hi, Lou. We are entering a new frontier. We are. Yeah, it's like we decided to take on a grand adventure.
An expedition, if you will. Yeah. And you will. And we will.
And it's sort of like going on an expedition with a map that's maybe missing some things or it's in another language. Maybe the language, maybe it's a map. We don't read a lot. It's another language.
We don't know how to read maps. What? This stuff feels very... It's fine.
That feels very poetic. Yeah, that's just a little bit of my, uh, my ineptitude. Or just, I'm a little rough around the edges. But I have, um, I, you know, I'm going to let this little collage that I made.
Scramble trends activate. I thought Substack was for real writers. Why can't we be real writers too, honey buns? Because I don't know how to make a real sentence.
Shit, neither. I don't know how we got here. Why? But I think we're in another world.
We do a lot of dot dot dot. But we're in general, so we can't take the lowercase iron and shoot me a capital iron. Where does the apostrophe go? What happened?
Well, I think it must have happened when we were the wonderful. Remember how it never seemed to be just like it seemed to pull for a whole unspake. I don't think I'm smoking for Substack. I keep thinking about that smart enough, but then they keep helping me.
Voila, famigene, rose up, say... Yes. Just the beginning. Everyone, we have started a journey, an expedition, to start a Substack.
Mm-hmm. Yep. Are you scratching your head and saying, the hell is a Substack? Are you scratching your balls?
I could be scratching your balls. I could be. But I wasn't. What is this supposed to be about our wonderful newsletter that we are going to do on Substack and we're talking about your balls and whether or not they are...
Well, maybe that's going to be behind the paywall. True. The balls are behind the paywall. The balls are behind the paywall.
The balls are behind the wall. If you'd like more Ball Chat. That's my comment. Ball Chat with Lou.
That's going to be one of his little segments behind the ball. Man, man, escaping tips with Lou. We're really excited about our Substack because... We are.
I'm going to put music up there. Yeah, I'm going to talk about cooking. Yep, but right now we have no idea how to do that. We've spent about two weeks now of us just staring blankly at the Substack website.
Scramble twins activate. And making really incorrect, deeply incorrect decisions. And I've created what, like, three different profiles. Seven.
Seven. Different profiles. Some of which have publications which are called Lou Substack. So as I was becoming very frustrated and going, I need...
I don't want my own Substack. I want my Substack. Yeah, we want to share mine. The Barla Family General Substack.
I want my own but every time I saw my... It's like, Lou Substack, Substack, Substack, Substack, Substack. Sleece, Stacks, Sleece, Stacks. And then I had this crazy realization that we were in the Land of the Lost.
We are. We really, really are. To be clear, this is not Substack's fault. They're wonderful.
No, they've actually been helping us. This is all user error. We are the user. We had a meeting with the guy who knew everything about it.
He was very reassuring. We left that Zoom and I immediately did like a ton of incorrect things and made the most convoluted profile publication. Oh yeah. And that's my first attempt.
I mean, we left the support, sub-stack support group, kind of flat out scratching her head. They're like, can you please? I'm just so embarrassed. I kind of, it's hard for me not to just want to just slink away and go back to my old primitive life.
I kind of did too. I'm trying to gear up to reply again. I'm like, OK, OK, we're going to do a reply email. And this email is going to sound smarter this time and better.
And yeah, we're listening to you guys on the sub-stack and also shout out to our dear friend Casey, who is like, so incredibly helpful. She was like, you should do a sub-stack. And I'm like, hell yeah, we should do a sub-stack. I went and looked at Jeff Tweety's sub-stack.
And I'm like, that guy's stacking. I mean, it's fun. Yeah, he's got tons of music up there. It's easy.
It's fun, Casey and Busy's sub-stack. I think I'm subscribing to 10 sub-stacks. Now, I don't even know how that happened, but I just kept entering emails, just kept being entered. And again, if you don't know what the heck we're talking about, go get yourself on sub-stack and just put your email address into a whole bunch of other accounts too.
And you just join the chaos with us. We may never get back, just like Marshall, Will, and Holly trying to get back. I got to play you, which I listen. We are currently blindly walking through the jungle of sub-stack.
And yeah. Perfect. Here it comes, everyone. It's hard to describe the sense of satisfaction that overcomes me when I listen to a finished version of either these commercials that I work on.
And I conquer these small, these corners of my childhood, these little bits. And then when we listen to them and we sit here like we are right now and we listen to them together, my sense of accomplishment, my sense of pride swells inside me. I love that show. I needed to address what that show has brought to my life, the trauma that it caused.
It was a very traumatic show, a lot of screaming. It's not fair. He won't help us get out of here. Throughout the show.
And like, very just rot with peril and dinosaurs and snake creatures called sleestacks, terrifying, live action. I won't go too far into it because people probably don't have before. This is in Marty Croft. This was a brother duo that are still functioning.
They're still alive. Yeah, they have that cute puppy show, right? They have a cute puppy show now, but they were merchants of terror throughout the 60s and into the early 70s. And I loved all of it, but it's really weird television.
It's kind of like poking a wound, right? You can't stop yourself or like you know. Well, there really was nothing else to poke on a Saturday morning. Yeah.
So they left you just forced it to poke your wound to paint your scalp. Oh, yeah. I mean, there was no question that you were going to watch Land of the Lost. You're going to just jump down.
And be shoved back into their very scary world. It's so scary. 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?
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I need to talk about this a little bit. I've said it before. Talk about it. OK.
It has banjo and synthesizer as kind of the main instruments. These early synthesizers, leaps and bloops, really space, like science fiction, 70s, synthesizers. But then with this sort of folky banjo-y theme, it also runs through the show. And that combination, I realized when I found my first synthesizer that I bought, I bought this synthesizer.
It's called a Corg Basin. I bought it for $100 in Cementville, Indiana. Because I was hanging out with all of the guys, and the cool bands in Louisville, were getting vintage synthesizers from this one music shop in Cementville. It was about a 30-minute drive from Louisville.
I went there and got this $100 since. I've used it on absolutely everything that I've done. Oh, what a work course. Since 1996.
Geez, really? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that was that old. It's that old.
But it's not only that old, because actually, when I got it, it's from the 70s. It was already old. This thing is from the 70s. Yeah.
And when I got that, when I found this instrument, I had such an immediate connection to it, like an emotional connection to it. And I love the combination of acoustic guitars in particular. And my ukulele is my forstering arrangements that I do. Combined with that synthesizer, it's a huge part of my musical life.
When I watched these old Land of the Losts again, I realized that the soundtrack for the show had been a really profound influence on me. So it was a joy to play that theme, to recreate that theme. And how happy was I to realize that there was an intersection between this desperation that we feel to understand, sub-stack? I love energy and roses, dad.
I think we're making room for all of us. Sub-stack is here to save us, Luke. They're going to help us. They're helping us, even stupid people like us.
I love energy and roses. I love that. I love that. I'm going to do that.
I'm going to talk about three stacks. I don't want to know what we're going to do. I thought we were going to do that. I'm not.
You want to know what I wrote in a song? Do you know what I want to have for dinner? Do you know what's for dinner? You know who's making dinner?
A bell's making dinner. And she'll tell you all about it on sub-stack, sleestack. Coming soon to sub-stack, the Barlow Family General. If there's a way in here, there's got to be way out of here.
Just like pick up the world to find it. I'm just unexisting, and I'm working on it. It's a pay-ball-sump, you triple. It's a pay-ball-sump, you triple.
Barlow Family General, sleestack. Thank you, sub-stack. Get people excited about the Barlow Family General. Sub-stack.
Sleestack. Just like to be clear, it doesn't exist yet. But it will. OK, very well.
So long. I'm going to Boise. Oh. I'm out of here.
Oh, Lou's leaving. Right in the middle of us trying to work the shit out. So I want to say, if I told you, I can't imagine that I haven't. I do tend to repeat myself.
I told you what my favorite t-shirt is I've ever seen. Does it have something to do with Texas? No, it has something to do with Idaho. Oh, OK, what is it?
It's a shirt. These were the vintage-style shirts. Look very comfortable. I had the outline of the state of Ohio on it.
Ohio or Idaho. Idaho, god geez. Sorry. See, this is why we can't even do a sub-stack, guys.
I know. But no, now the outline of the state of Idaho. And it says, on it, Idaho, no, you-de-ho. Yeah.
Lovely. Where do I find one? Wow, that's the probably. That's the eBay.
Grail. Idaho, no, you-de-ho. Sure, I will be. You can be too.
We'll be hosed together. You should get that t-shirt. I don't like t-shirts anymore. I don't like t-shirts.
Say that. I like t-shirts anymore. I don't like t-shirts anymore. I don't like t-shirts anymore.
Say things. You absolutely like t-shirts. I like blank t-shirts. Or I can get a t-shirt.
I can have a pocket on my shirt. I don't want anything ironic. Nothing. No logo.
Yeah. No logo bar low. Yeah. No logo bar low.
Yeah, those days are done. Don't send them a shirt. Don't gift him a t-shirt. No band t-shirts.
Mm-mm. I don't want to, you know, no band shirts. I'm not the pre-vander. I'm not the pre-vander.
But other than that, you- The last, my band shirt was my Cinderella shirt. You know, I mean, I love black flag. Am I going to wear a black flag shirt? I want to bring that kind of energy into the room.
I don't even want to bring the rimones into the room. Yeah. That's nice. You just like, no, no thank you.
I don't really wear too many slogan-y shirts either. But I've been, I feel like I have to now sort of take over wearing some of the band shirts that we've been gifted that you don't wear. So I have like- You look pretty cute in that permanent records shirt. Oh yeah.
We were gifted. I actually look really good. Thanks. I dig you with logo bar low.
I have one of my favorite band t-shirts is my Bloody Valentine t-shirt. I love that one so much. I think that you were given that from- It came from the source? It came from the source, yeah.
Hot, fresh. Wow. I'm BV. I'm blanking right now.
Our best friend. Kevin Shields. Kevin, Doy. Well, he's not listening, but if he was.
Sorry, Kevin. He's speaking of generous to us. That would surprise me if among the many interests that Kevin Shields has, which is a lot. And he knows a lot about a lot of things.
He sure does. He can tell you how to put up drywall in the house. I love talking to Kevin. Yes.
But I'm having an affinity for podcasts or an extensive knowledge of podcasts. He has no time for this. He is so busy. I'm sure I can't even.
But anyway, thank you, Kevin, for the t-shirt. I love it. That one's so great because I also love my bloody Valentine. So that one feels good.
You can bring that energy into the room. You believe it? I stand by it. So, yeah, I stand by it.
Well, I stand by Barlow Family General at Substack.com. No, I don't know how that works. We're going to get there. It's not there yet.
Dear God, please let everything all become aligned and let this all happen and that we figure out what all the little buttons and profiles and things mean. Let's fill it a prayer. Let's end the sand on a prayer for our Barlow Family General Substack. Go ahead.
Dear future sub stack of ours, we appreciate your patience with us. You have already shown us so much grace. And we go forth in your loving arms and trust in the body, in the spirit and in the wafer of the sub stack. It's just making sense.
I'll drink the wine of the sub stack and I will trust. Now I'm taking communion. I'm just waiting to earn a smoking urn. I think I just saved communion.
A large peaked hat. I just have a sign of the cross on my forehead. This is amazing. Yeah, I just transported.
So please, wrap your loving arms around us as we navigate the land of the lost, aka the Barlow Family General Substack. Amen. I think you have to say amen as well. Otherwise, the witch doesn't come true.
I'm trying to think of some affirmation. The land of the lost based affirmation. We trust we will. This way!
It's over here! Well, oh, that was terrible. You're on your own now, baby. She's like a blood dripping downer.
I've actually brought blood out of her ears with that one. That was terrible. Again. Until next time.
Thank you very much everyone. We went over the waterfall. Remember how it never seemed like it seemed a fall through a whole space. Russian.
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