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They want to do the birthday shout out, but they obviously don't have the well with all the key. It's happening. Good job, you guys. Thank you.
It's still me. Can you do our first? I can't. Very first.
I think so. May. Birthday shout out. I hope so.
I hope so. I hope so. Have some fun with this one. Oh, God.
Getting my readers on. Have fun. Have fun. Okay, oh my gosh.
This is going to be super fun. I like that little thingy you're playing with over there. That's so cute. It's my Casio guitar.
D'Orbs. Okay. This is going to be a super fun birthday shout out for Anthony. No.
Born on May 27th, 2002. He just turned 23. Who is Anthony? Let me tell you.
Anthony is G. Hi Shin's boyfriend's cutie little brother. That's who he is. So is her boyfriend's little brother.
Even though G. Hi Shin only has an older brother, Anthony is like her little baby brother. Where she sees him she can tell that he is a warm, hearted and hardworking person. She is his biggest supporter.
Thank you for sending us this message, G. Hi Shin, for your boyfriend's little brother, Anthony. Happy birthday, Anthony. How did I do?
Was that fun? Was that fun? That's good. I needed my readers for that one, guys.
Here we are in our second birthday shout out episode. Ooh, I know. Getting in under the wire for May to make sure this happens. Yeah, still here.
It's still May. It's still people's birthday month. It's not over. There's a couple days left.
Yeah, it's true. It's still happening. Where did you get that little instrument? Is that something you always have around?
Yeah, I've had it for decades. Does it live in this room? Yeah. Like I've ever noticed it before.
Anthony, I know it's awkward to say, but me and Kev adore you a lot. Don't doubt yourself because you are the most pure and beautiful human being in this world. Trust me. We love you and happy birthday, Anthony.
That's wrong. Tony, it's your birthday. It was your birthday. Can I call you Tony?
Can we? Who knows? Sorry if it don't say. If you don't like it, you can blame me.
Good plan. I bet he doesn't want to be calm. I'm sure. We don't know.
We don't know. Are you Tony? Okay, Lou. Maybe he's Aunt.
Yeah. Aunt. Maybe he's Aunt. You're number two, Lou.
You're number two, Lou. You can do number two. Yeah, you can. Oh, my God.
I thought wearing the four track man would keep him off my back for this episode. Okay. So number two is from Lucinda to her new fiancee Drew. Drew is in Tacoma.
Okay. Drew is in Tacoma. I know he listens to your podcast and loves it, but the four track man's weirdness and the fun husband, wife, banter. He also thinks your cats are adorable.
Wow, Drew. So that's for Drew from Lucinda. Thanks for listening and thanks for enjoying our bientur and our cats. They are adorable.
Sorry. Yeah. Happy 42nd, Drew. Yeah.
You like my weirdness? Oh, weirdness. One of these andrews or Drew. Everything I say makes perfect sense.
Right. Yeah. It's your birthday. Welcome to a new year, Drew.
Lucinda, you're the fine one shining like a diamond. He's lucky to be living with you. Mm. So loving together.
Okay. Yeah, we don't know that. Maybe not. That's a presumptuous.
Blame blue. Blame blue. Oh, I love getting Lucinda. I love getting Lucinda.
I'm going to be with Lucinda Williams. Okay. Ooh, number three. All right.
You wrote, this is a sweet one for your sweetie to read. So is that me? Yeah. Thank you, calling me sweetie.
That's sweet. Oh my goodness. This isn't about me though. These are about Mayburthey people.
Okay. This is from Evie Highland to her dad, Joe Highland. I'm a daughter of Joe Highland. He has been a longtime fan of your podcast and lose music for decades.
You're an old man, Lou. I heard you were doing Mayburthey shoutouts on the podcast and my dad would love if you could mention his birthday, which is May 10th, which was May 10th. He did. He did her birthday for our first or April shoutout.
I'm a maimie. Remember? No. We were wondering if our name was Evie or Evie.
Oh. I don't know. Evie. Evie.
Evie slash Evie. Shoutout. That's right. Now it's all coming back to me now.
May 10th. I feel like years ago. It's been a long month guys. Alright, Joe.
I hope you enjoyed this shoutout. Happy birthday, Joe. Joe's birthday was a big 10th everybody. Nice.
Joe, you deserve better than a belated birthday wish. We like people who like us. We like you too. A lot.
Hey, it's your birthday. Happy birthday. Welcome to New Year. Glad you like the poncho.
Who is an asshole? What? Sometimes. I'm a little talking.
Oh my gosh. Who is next? I'm excited about this next one. Oh, okay.
Hello. Hello. Mitchell. What's up, Mitchell?
What's up, Mitchell? What up? I'm turning 49. It's almost 50 on May 12th.
I'm hoping that my family will surprise me with the homemade birthday cake. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Not no. Tony Hawk also celebrates his birthday on May 12th.
Oh, shoutout to Tony as well. That's a mini music Monday guy. Oh my gosh. Coming through with Mitchell.
Mitchell, you got to be mini music Monday guy. And Tony Hawk shares his birthday. Happy birthday, Tony Hawk. Thanks for the big heart.
Thank you. Just a good birthday. Happy birthday, happy birthday, too. You're still a skater.
I found another hater. The teacher. The teacher. I will.
Seven hours to see Lou. Oh, no, Mitchell, we know him. We love him. He's a great, great guy.
I'm driving seven hours to see you play Lou. Oh, surely no. I should give him a gas card. No.
No, Mitchell, no. Yes, Mitchell. Yes. Yes, Mitchell.
Yes. Number five. Number five is for you, Adele. Five for you.
Well, okay. Sorry, Mitchell. I guess we got to move on. I hope you had a wonderful birthday, buddy.
All right. Number five is from Barayan. Okay. Hi, Lou, Adele.
I'm a huge fan of broadcast. Barayan. I'm a huge fan of the podcast and Lou, you may remember me, Lou. Okay.
As a person with a record label, totally real records who a couple of years ago did the 50 track sebado tribute. Whoa. Okay. I don't, but I did look that up.
And then I kind of remembered, but 50 bands, but that's how it would be 50 bands. What? I listened to Ron Prations in the car all the time, including with my daughter Rayra. Don't interrupt me.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Rayla Ray fully loves chatpot on. Understandably. Rayla really loves chatpot on.
Everybody loves chatpot on. If you don't, then you are the maid out of stone. I like that. Now the birthday Rayla.
Happy birthday Rayla. Yeah. Tomorrow could be her birthday for all she knows. Oh, no, she% sure.
Turned the birthday every day. Birthday coming right up. Yes, it's your birthday tomorrow. This was for Brian Bruckman's little daughter, Rayla.
Rayla? Hi, sweetie. Yes, and she is so excited. Oh, okay.
We are gathered here today. Oh my gosh. It's this thing called life. It had to happen.
It had to happen. Is that it? Did it go? It stopped?
Oh, you know who you are. If you know who you are, you get through this thing called life. Does she know what she's listening? She's going to listen.
It's a raw life. You can tell her she's on it. I'm going to tell you, I'm telling you to tell you something else. Oh, yeah?
Is that something you'd like to say? This one is for our friend, our friend Casey, the Saint-Onge. I like to call her. She's in my phone that way.
Yeah. Her birthday is May 30th. She loves Prince. She's Prince's biggest fan.
I'll just say it right here. That's at number one fan. Really? Yeah, Casey.
That's fact right there. Maybe Matt, her husband's a stalker. She never stalked him. Well, do you have to be a stalker to be someone's number one fan?
I think you the number one fan is doing a lot of things. It seems like it makes you, well, I don't know if she makes it. It puts it the next level. Casey, it's your birthday.
You're actual birthday. The only one they got right. The only one they got right. Happy birthday, girl.
Casey, you're a fine one. Shine it like a diamond. Love it when you wear a white. She looks good in a white suit.
Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's a picture. Either I saw it in a picture or someone in real life or in a white.
I can't remember. You were like, damn. She's looking better white. I'm like, Saint-Oly.
There we go. Casey, the Saint-Onge. She's a great friend of ours. Big supporter from the beginning.
Well, happy birthday, gal. We like that. Happy advice. Advice.
Advice. She gives us a lot of good advice. She has hot tips, man. She does.
Hot tips. So many hot tips. Right here. Here's to space.
What? Oh, is this for me too? Well, this is for both of us. It's for your father.
Yeah. Your father. It's your father's birthday. It was on May 13th.
David Atkinson. Yeah. You always say that he's kind of one of your inspirations. He is.
You always say, what would David do? It's true. I mean, he's a smart man. Reads books.
Reads The New York Times every day. But he can grill a mean brought. He can build a deck. He can fix stuff.
I can't fix anything. But I do think of Dave whenever I'm faced with something. And how's it going? How do I do this?
How do I get from... How do I'm the guy for this? How do I put on my dad hat and figure stuff out? And he has been an inspiration for me.
And I've actually done things that I wouldn't have been able to do previously. Because I didn't have him on my show. David's all around, sir. Happy birthday to dad.
Happy birthday to dad. Happy birthday to dad. He said they were way too loud. And he saw legs up under the turdies.
He's right. He's right. He's right. He was there.
He was there. And he drove a road to the start all the way to Greece. Like in this... 60.
It's crazy. He drove a VW bug. He drove a VW bug and broke down in East Durham. Well, no man was there.
Yes. Wow. Yeah. He drove a VW bug all the way to Greece from time to time.
Is it too late for eight? I mean, it's too late. We know that. Mmm.
Oh, this was May 18th. Okay. Time for shout outs. All raw impressions.
Do you want to read it, hon? Yes. Well, this is a... Oh.
It was the last one. Uh-huh. And this... Cavalcate of Confusion that has been our May birthday shoutout episode.
No thanks for your track, man. It's just fun and crazy, hon. We're cooking. Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey.
Hey, hey. Hey, hey. You know, we were shot out. Darryl.
Happy birthday. Yup. Happy birthday, to Darryl. Darryl Bork.
Okay, you got to read it, happy birthday. Okay, hopefully I can read it. Go. Go.
Go. Chaos happening around me from gene Albright. That's number eight. Jean sent us a shoutout to his buddy, Darryl, who's a bass player extraordinaire and Branden forobic approven zbullonceown west chest.
Turning A. Wivesand 49, Expontuslett on May 18th. Adorable. Happy birthday, Darryl.
I just want to I just want to you know, so for the little girl that is listening to me listening. She's coming back to Rayla. Four track men bulldozed over back. It was terrible.
What happened? Oh, I should finish reading the little thing about it, right? It says from Brian, okay, we're gonna swing back to Rayla because you know what? If there's a three-year-old who's sitting through round-pressions, she deserves all the time in the world.
So I listen to Ron Prussions in the car all the time, including with my daughter, Rayla, when she doesn't request Chapel Rowne or the Frozen soundtrack, also good choices. Girl who will be turning three on May 23rd. So she turned three and she is so excited for her birthday and will probably be very excited to get him mentioned. Thanks for being awesome.
We hope you are excited and we're excited for you turning three. That's actually one of my favorite ages. I love three. Kids are so cool at three.
There's so funny. Yeah. Yeah, three is kind of where they really start to become like little people, less like blobby and you know, yeah, it's fun. They're more entertaining.
They are. I really enjoyed three. Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed your shout-outs and wrapping up the month of May. Wow, so remember to email us at rawimpressionspodcast at gmail.com for June birthday shout-out.
Yeah, we might get to them before June if we don't do. I mean before July. July before July. Maybe we'll do that when we run our little artistic getaway.
Maybe we'll record a really fun June shout-out from the woods. We're going to be in the woods. Oh, we're so excited guys. We'll tell you more about it later.
But you know, I never told you my story. What's that? It's a good one from Berlin. Okay.
Oh, tell me. Okay. All right. What's your story?
It's like the dumbest thing ever. Okay. This is so stupid. Okay.
Well, that's big. I mean, there's a lot of stupid things in the world. So, okay. So we flew into Berlin the day before we played a heavy metal festival.
Lou just returned from a little brief UK and then one show in Berlin tour. So when we flew in, I told our tour manager that I wanted some pot. Okay. And he got me some.
Okay. And I was excited to. Maybe you want to turn off this episode for Rayla now. I really won't understand.
Okay. It's fine. So I got the pot and then I went out to get a lighter. And Berlin.
I needed a lighter and I needed some super much. Did you have like a joint or something? Is that what happened? Well, I need it.
Oh, man. I like Prince interjecting this. That feels good. Should I continue with the story?
I want to hear it. But now he's going to sing the birthday song again. Oh, just still pause it. Well, pause it.
I'm like anticipating a great story now. I can't pause it. It's just no, I mean, this is not pause your story. Yeah, the story's on.
Which I know what you want. No one really knows. That's what you. You're a fine one.
I'm like a diamond. That's my birthstone. And sometimes I do wonder. I'm like, I am really, I do really dumb things.
Okay. So let's go back to circling back to your dumb story. This is a dumb story. Okay.
So I got my weed, got a little bit of weed, a little bit of homegrown. Some East German home ground, they're not quality. It's Germany anymore. It's obviously all Germany.
Every time being. But so I got it. And I needed a lighter. And some supplies.
I needed food. I was like, you know what this is going to be? This is going to be one of my deep dive hotel days. And this is where I like, I settle in and I don't go out.
But I got to get supplies first. So I got to go. Do you have to go on the street to smoke the joint? No, that's part of the story.
Okay. Hold on. How does one do that? So I went, luckily we were very close to a lot of markets.
So I went to a little market LIDL. It's one of these. And so wait, Bob was delivered to you. Yes, it was delivered to me via our beautific tour manager, Alish Maduna.
Mm-hmm. Lovely guy. Great attitude. Shout out, Alish.
Possibly the best attitude if anyone would I have ever met. It's his birthday. I don't know. But I'm going to celebrate it.
So I'm going to make it into a hardcore song for him. He loves hardcore. Amazing. I look forward to it.
So I went to the supermarket. I got myself some tinned fish. This is why I'm going deep. When I get to tinned fish.
I get to tinned fish. Wow. This is major. My wife is not around time because tins fish, weed, like some kind of oily, stinky, fishy finger.
I am living. Bachelorette life. Like a real dirt bag. I'm like, I'm going full dirt bag for this day in Germany.
So I get my tinned fish, a little bit of water. I should really embrace the time alone when I have it more. You really embrace your time alone. And then I'm like, I've got plans.
And I'm like, a registered, it's a big line at the register. And I say, do you have lighters? And the guy says, he motions to the back of the store like there's a lighter 30 meters away. And I'm like, I don't want to, I can't leave the line and go running to the back of the store while I'm in line with all these people during rush.
I just didn't want to be them. I'm like, oh, that's fine. So I get, so I check out and I'm like, I'll just go next door to the bodega. I've never used that word in my life, but you know, like a little, it's a little tobacco store, whatever, little shitty store.
I go in there and they have lighters. Sure. But I don't have any cash. So I put the lighters down and I try to put it on my credit card.
And the guy's like, only 10 euros on a credit card. And that only costs like a euro. Yeah. I'm like, fuck.
So I'm like, okay, I'm going to do some dirty max or something. Oh my God, how did you know? Because I've married to you. I don't know.
I had to buy some, I had to buy something that was, we're dirtying up this work Thursday episode. Oh my goodness. So impressive. Trigger warning people.
I'm so impressed. Anyway, but I don't care about analog porn anymore. And I don't want it in my life generally. I just don't, it's not around anymore.
It was a lot of weight to carry around with you. Sure. Boy. So thank God for the digital age.
Thank God for so many things about modern life. Sure. So I, but I had to, I had to put $10 on that credit card. So I was like looking around and I'm like, what do I do?
And I'm like, I don't want to buy any beer. How do I embrace this full dirt bag? I'm like, oh wait, you know, a, a, a nudie mag would be like, you know, nine, and for sure there was, and I grabbed one. It was not, it was pretty innocuous.
I would have to say overall, it wasn't like super disturbing or anything like that. Thank God. But I, I'm just thinking, I'm watching this guy. Because this is a great thing too, is when I tour now and I do stuff like this when I do go full dirt bag, I don't care who sees me anymore.
I don't care. Like I've been, is that old age? I don't know what it is. I think it began the time that I actually went down to the front desk of a European hotel and complained that the porn channel wasn't working.
What is that? That was, that was, that was probably close to 20 years ago. You're like, there's this and listen. The guy at the front desk is a, this is a side story.
The guy at the front desk looked at me and he said, can't you sing yourself your own song? No. This wasn't Switzerland. How poetic is that?
Basically saying, come up with your own fantasy, can't you jerk off? Why do you need that? You know, basically. So anyway, fast forward 20 years, 20 years, well Switzerland.
I mean, yeah, that's generalize Switzerland. I'm so judgmental there. Well, do we need Swiss listeners? That'd be cool.
Raise your hand. They're probably not judgmental. It's a beautiful place. Fucking insanely beautiful.
But the guy, he put me in my place, but I was still like, really? You can't just come back and fix the machine for me. Troll some knobs. Come on.
I think I paid for it. You know, I mean, it was like on my room charge. It's like, come on. Oh, yeah.
Right. Yeah. Like pay per view kind of right. Right.
I'm like, well, fix your fucking paper. You've got a view channel for me. Per view. Per view.
Per view. Per view. Per view. Per view.
Per view. Per view. Per view. Per view.
Per view. Pay per view. Wow. Okay.
So anyway, so I finally, I made it out of the bow day. I got to thank God. Right. So one nudie bag and one lighter.
What two lighters for some reason. I don't know why I do that because because I was initially, I was like, well, if I buy two, then the credit card will work. But I do maybe know why you bought two because of me. I'm always like a two.
Yeah. So, so, so I plop it all the, you know, get the lighters in the magazine, put them in my bag, walk back to the hotel. I see my assembled group of people outside the hotel. Your band meets you.
And I'm just like, I wave it to them from a distance. Like, Hey, not coming over there. Howdy. I mean, I've got things to do.
Murph might ask me what's in my bag, because he often does. And he might actually look. No, you gotta be careful. Gotta be careful.
What's in the bag? No. Like, so I go to my room and I'm like, now I'm going to set up shop. Locking the door.
Locking the door. Right. Do you order room service? No room service.
That's why I went out because that's why I got my tins of fish. I got my tins of fish and some corn cakes. It's gonna be gonna tide me over. Okay.
A lot of fish. I got a ton of fish. So, I am glad that I was not there for this. Okay.
Bad. When you open a tins of fish too, it always sprays oil everywhere. Oh, yeah, it does open a tins of fish without creating some collateral oil damage. Completely agree.
So, so I'm like, okay. So I have an apple. I bought an apple at the supermarket, because I smoke through apples. I do not roll joints.
I've never rolled a joint in my life. Why? Because I don't know how. It's not that hard.
I have never done it. That's interesting because you can't eat apples, but you can smoke through them, huh? But yeah, you pull up with the stem as you pull the stem out. I mean, I've smoked through an apple that's done up with zillion years.
Yeah, I'm good at it. So, I get the right apple. I even like, I can know how to inspect them to know how I can get the longest draw, like the most space between the fire and like, you know, just it's sometimes it's only a millimeter or a centimeter. You've done the work here, too.
I've done the work. Okay. So, I'm like, got it. So, I got my apple.
I destroy one of my really nice pens, making it smokable. And then, then I'm like, okay, so I am my room. I figured this out before. I have an opening window.
I have an opening. You can open it. Okay. Is there a screen or is it just?
There's no screen, but there is like, there is actually like a barrier halfway up it, which is cool. But I'm like, wow, this is great. You can open it enough to smoke and it doesn't go right back into the room and incriminate you in it anyway. That still seems risky to me, to be perfectly honest.
I am way too paranoid now to do anything like that. Because smoke to me is so intense. I know, but I knew it was going to be fine based on past experiences. I'm a bit of an expert when it comes to going full dirt bag with the weed and the fish.
So, I was like, okay, so I opened the window. It only opens halfway, but it's cool. And I'm actually standing up on a ledge because it's a really, it's a full, long, tall window. So, I'm standing up on the window and I have my glasses, as you know, as you would know, I don't often wear my glasses these days and often keep them on the top of my head.
Yes. Okay. So, I'm up there and I'm doing a little test room. I'm testing.
I'm like, holding up my kale, hold the apple like this and I'm going to hit it with the lighter and then I turn and the glasses come off of my head and fall out of the window. Okay. Honey. So, dammit.
So, I'm like, oh, they're gone. And I look and it's like, please tell me they're not the nicer of the two. They weren't the nicer of the two. I have two pairs of glasses, everyone.
I bought two pairs of glasses. Thank God. But anyway, I've almost lost at least one of these pairs of glasses several times by now. It's like I wasn't meant to have two pairs of glasses.
It was on. It's like the universe is trying to tell me like, oh, you think you can have two pairs of glasses. So, it fell down. So, I went, so I was like, oh, and luckily I wasn't high yet.
I had not smoked any weed. Okay. So, I went right down to the front desk and said, hey, something weird happened and the moment the desk was like, what? So, I ended up, but she's like up to be helpful.