Welcome to Raw Impressions episode number 22. This music goes on for a little while. Should I talk? Yeah, it's time to start talking.
Okay, hi. Hi. I'm Adele Barlow. And I am Lee Barlow.
I was thinking we should take this opportunity today while we're sitting here looking at each other to have a little check-in, kind of a spring check-in. Spring has arrived where we live. And with that changes that I didn't expect. The changes are coming.
You're happening. Or a foot. The Cardinals are singing. We have a lot of Cardinals in our yard and they have very distinctive, interesting calls.
One that sounds like miracle miracle. Can you do it? Instagram helps. I'm doing a little bit of real.
I'm doing birds, yes. I can't, I gotta look at all the stuff we got. It's all cardinal. It actually goes away.
Later as the season progresses, the Cardinals stop saying miracle miracle. But initially, it's sort of its spring call. Hmm. It's a little wake up, huh?
I don't know if I'm making that up. Did you just make that up? Not just now. I've been working on that theory for a few years.
Oh, okay. You know, like during the pandemic when we started really listening to the birds, a lot of people started listening to the birds. Yeah, I got really into bird calls and trying to identify the different birds in our yard. And I recommend the Merlin Bird app for everybody.
And I do as well. I second that. This is an unsponsored endorsement of this beautiful app from Cornell University called Merlin for Birds. And it's incredible.
It'll tell you. It really is. Go to your app store, download it. I think it's free.
And it's so satisfying. You press play and it starts recording the sounds, the bird sounds around you. And then you get to watch the little sound waves like live while they're happening. And then it highlights the bird that's singing.
It's so cool. It's really neat. So that's a good thing. That's a good thing.
I've been kind of, I'm, I'm. You're kind of waiting through mud currently. Do you feel like that maybe you're sort of like. I do.
Yeah, does that make sense to you? It does. Okay. I feel like you're just going through like a transition, like a life transition.
You're sort of, you're also reading a lot of literature that I think is making you very reflective. And it's kind of heavy stuff. You're reading a book called, what is it called? It didn't begin with you.
But so yeah, so you're reflecting a lot on your past. And. On all of our past, you know, the way that our pasts can really determine our features and provide and also give us challenges that we might not be totally aware of. And that's been interesting.
I did something yesterday. I dedicated quite a bit of time to doing something that does make me happy, which is a commercial recreation. I will feature in a bottle of cappuccino sub-stack. That's me.
Yeah. Get a little closer. No sir. Not only shine.
No sir. You can get a little closer. No sir. With airy extra dry.
Only airy has this pattern on an aluminum core hydrate formula. It fights wetness and no leading the odor and spray stops odor better. Get a little closer. No sir.
With airy extra dry. Airy lights wetness. No leading the odor and spray stops odor better. They were advertising putting aluminum on your armpits.
That sounds perfectly safe. Put it on the largest organ of our body. First again. Yes, it's an aluminum core hydrate.
I had to listen to the original commercial. It's a great commercial. The original one. This is the one I recreated one from 1979.
There are many. I'm sure. Something that I remember from my youth. It's comforting.
And so yesterday I spent a lot of time finding the right performance for that song. How did you feel about the performance? It's OK. It's not my best.
I played it very slow so I could speed it up. And then I sped the tape up so when I did the narration that it sounded slow. And I was thinking about adding other instruments to it. But then I thought it sounded pretty simple.
Yeah. It's pretty good, just simple. But the original is truly remarkable. I recommend it.
It was a great all-show. I've taken that audio and I've matched it to the original video. And I'm going to feature it on the Barlow Family General Substack. Right.
That's how that connects to the Barlow Family General Substack is that you will put that sweet, sweet little gem on our Barlow Family General Substack. If you haven't gone there yet, a bunch of people haven't have subscribed. Thank you. I hope you're enjoying it.
I think it's really fun. It's sort of like a mix of like a website slash blog. It's a really creative place. And I love the possibilities with it.
We're just kind of putting it together. And this is what we're doing right now. I guess we're doing an ad. I guess we are.
We're going to go listen to my ad. Your voice is really low energy today. I mean, do you hear it? Everyone lose voice.
His heart is like tender right now. He's got tender heart and changes and things and kids and life. And our minivan is also, well, she's thought, well, she's showing somewhere in terror. And we took her to the doctor yesterday to get her fluids changed and our tires switched out because we do use.
Because it is spring now. That's right because we used snow tires during the winter. That was something that Adele brought to my life. I never thought that was necessary and never did it until we moved here, human eye, eight years ago to Greenfield, Massachusetts.
And as someone who grew up with a lot of weather in her life in Minnesota, you said that snow tires were a necessity. And I probably resisted that idea at first saying much like a garage, like, why is that necessary? But we have snow tires. And yesterday they were taken off on our old tires or put on.
And of course, there were things wrong with those tires. And then apparently, we call her Minnie Van, Minnie, or Honda Odyssey, she's bleeding. She's bleeding some sort of vital fluid wherever we park her. And it presents a dilemma because we were playing on doing a tour.
We're going to do a little Barlow family general tour. I was going to do my shows in people's yards. And Adele and Izzy are coming along. But right now, because Minnie is possibly out of action, possibly forever for the Barlow family.
We have to go do that whole thing where you go to a car dealership and you talk to somebody about it. And I know I really have to do a lot of self-talk before that little meeting. I'm actually considering ingesting an edible before I go. Because I think it can make it.
Should I as well? Maybe not you. One of us should not be on edibles. Yeah, it does give me a certain edge, as you know.
And I also. Maybe you'll be less persuaded to just, yeah. You'll be like, yeah, that's not a good offer. Yeah, so maybe just give myself a little talk and edge.
We go in there. OK, so this is good. I'm glad you're giving me a heads up that you could possibly be on edibles during our meeting with a salesperson at the Honda Lendgren of Greenfield. So this is good.
This is good. And we have now. Well, we've potentially already witnessed, or it's not witnessed. We've potentially already made eye contact with our future minivan.
We don't know. We don't know. There's a minivan in the lot there that we admired. And will she be ours?
I don't know. Well, it was funny because I saw a white car before going to the dealership yesterday. And I thought, I think I could roll with a white car. Mm-hmm.
And I was also thinking that I would, if the opportunity was to arise, that if we could actually just, if they were to put a huge decal for the dealership on our car, which would then substantially reduce the cost of the car, I would do that. Sure. With the advertisement for their dealership. Yes, I would.
I don't mind if I had a minivan, our next minivan, our replacement Mini 2, or whatever we choose to call our car. I would have no problem with her being emblazoned with advertisements. I wouldn't. I've heard about that, that that can happen.
And I always thought that's great. And I would do that because. Kind of like those couples that get their wedding sponsored so they don't have to pay for anything. They're like, sure, I'll wear that dress from here.
And sure, we'll have that meal catered from that restaurant. Also from my favorite movie, one of my favorite movies of all time, Adiocracy. All of the characters were t-shirts emblazoned with multiple, just hundreds of logos. And that's not just the logos that we do wear all the time.
I mean, certainly that's what's going on these days. We are certainly emblazoned in logos now. Not us personally, but. But astooned in logos and corporate things.
And they take it, of course, to a really extreme degree in Adiocracy. And that movie is really funny. Is that the one where they talk about that it's water, that grows the plants? Electrolates.
Electrolates. They try to water crops with energy drinks. Oh, that's true. And drinking fountains actually have energy drink rather than water.
And then at the end, oh. Geez. I wanted to put that into a different context. So we could all, all of us, you and our countless listeners, could enjoy that without the voice coming over the top and telling us to seal our armpits with aluminum.
I wanted it to stand on its own as a piece of music, a piece of 35 second piece of music. OK. But we can't talk about the deodorant. We can't.
I don't know. You were saying you didn't want to talk about sweating. Oh, initially, when I did this ad, I thought that it could spark an episode where we talked about sweating, which would be a great episode. I can talk a lot about sweating.
You've got a lot to say about sweating. I can certainly talk about sweating. Yes. The different spells.
The sort of how the sweat is different. For different occasions, there's like sleep sweat, nervous sweat, et cetera, et cetera. We can do that later. OK.
Can I talk about deodorant? You can. OK. What's the word when you go between two things?
Vassalate. Thank you. I knew you would have this. Is that the right word?
Wonderful, juicy, dictionary.com word. Vassalate, I vacillate between oh natural deodorant and chemicals. So you're saying that you go between? Like sometimes.
You apply a deodorant, but it's a natural deodorant that doesn't hurt you. Right. It's not attacking my body with metals. I really like the smell of rose, really, really real roses, not synthetic roses, but actual dewy roses.
What's, you know, I don't even know what synthetic rose. You'd have to go to a perfume counter. Oh. And like a traditional perfume counter.
I don't even like that. I like any kind of rose. Maybe. I don't know.
You'd have to smell it. You might be like, oh, that's not quite rose or something. It's kind of like how like orange candy doesn't really taste like oranges, but I like it. Right.
Well, you and I both really like the smell of rose. We do. Yeah, we're fans of rose. And I, so my favorite deodorant is Dr.
Houshka Rose Roll On Deodorant. This episode is really presenting a lot of, I'm really, I'm like, do I now have to make short commercials for all of these things that we're talking about? Oh, dear. You don't have time for that.
I don't have time for that. We're energy, sweetie. You know, you've got to, you've got to really, you've got to kind of take care of body. You are leaving me alone with dizzy.
I know. And so then I was going to say on days where I don't have to really interact with the public, which is most days, you know, I mean, yes, I do drop off and pick up at school, but I don't really consider that those are so quick brief. But tomorrow I'm flying. And so fly days.
I always put the terrible commercial aluminum right on my armpits because I don't want to offend any of my neighboring travelers. You would. I'll be honest with you. You would have to go probably three to four days without applying any deodorant whatsoever and not showering before you would actually be giving off any sort of scent that anyone would pick up on.
Really? Yeah. I don't think that's true. You are a very, very mild.
Your secretions are mild and I won't go any further. That's inappropriate. I know. We're going to have to cut that.
Really? It's not that bad. Are you talking about my spit? No.
Okay. Then what secretions are we talking about? My armpits? Your armpits.
I'm saying your sweat is really mild. Oh. You don't you rarely ever smell like sweat. Huh?
I on the other hand, I can carry a whiff on me. Although you have said to me, you know, a number of times that like I can wake up smelling like an onion patch. I don't remember the last time that would have happened. Well, maybe because I was wearing deodorant.
Hmm. Well, so yes, tomorrow I will be putting that. But now I kind of want to do a challenge. I'm thinking one pit with aluminum on it.
No, no, I'm saying I got like a home challenge like, okay, so maybe one week or if I don't have to go anywhere, we'll see how long I could go without creating an offensive smell. I love that idea. I love love that idea. Okay.
Oh, look at the calendar. I don't think I could encourage you to not shower because showering is almost a psychological process for you. You sort of have psychological benefits showering for you that you rely on. Well, I think I'd have to shower, but I just wouldn't apply deodorant.
Okay. I look forward to that. Okay. And let's do that in the summer.
A favorite time of year. Okay. The real when the air is thick. Yeah, you like that.
I do. I'm one of the only people that I know that welcomes humidity. I do not. Well, are you hot enough now?
Well, I've been wearing, as you know, I've been wearing my my cash, my cashmere sweaters that we got a true. Yeah. Wow. I worked cashmere sweaters 24 seven.
Yeah. And all throughout the winter, the one day that I did not wear cashmere, that was your birthday. And I think that I think I blame not wearing cashmere for that day, not working out that well. I blame, I become superstitious about my cashmere.
And as the summer approaches, I'm like, well, can I still wear my cashmere? And I think I almost can because it's a very, it's, it's, well, you know, some, I don't know if J. Crew does opt to look into it, but they might have a, at least for the women they do opt to look at the men's sweaters, but they do carry what's called like a lighter weight cashmere. And so I've had a, I had a cashmere tank top actually from them.
It's like for the summer. Um, and it is, it's very thin. It's almost like a wispy little like material. And so it'd be like, take that sweater you're wearing right now and have the weight of it.
It'd be very, very light, but still cashmere. You probably really like that. It's just a useful fiber. Well, I'm feeling better.
Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm glad.
Thanks to everyone who's hanging in on this low energy, Lou episode. Mm. I, you know, I like to, I like to bring more energy to these, to our podcast, but today, you know, you just have to be who you are. And this is who you are today.
Mm. It's okay. And thank you. Yeah.
Well, thanks for listening. We'll see you all on Monday. When we meet you. Which Adele luck on her big trip away.
This will actually be the first time that Adele has been away at staying in. She's never stayed in a hotel room by herself and her adult life. Correct. That's really strange.
It is strange. I mean, it was a strange realization. And I'm also going to be spending my first nights alone with my seven year old daughter, um, daddy's, you know, daddy time. And that's going to be interesting.
Yeah. I'm going to do a good job. All right. Good.
I'm going to do a good job. Good. You can make all the, I mean, Adele's probably going to make me list of things to do and to follow through with. And that's okay.
Well, yeah, I'm going to check out. There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. Well, I like that though that you're saying you're going to do a good job that makes me, you know, you can keep telling me that.
Okay. Closer. Eric, extra try. Thank you for listening to Raw Impressions, episode number 22.
Thank you for listening to Raw Impressions. Closer. Eric, extra try. Look, daddy, I love to do this.
Which one is missing for things? Daddy, look at it. Nope. Hey, you're going to have to find me this way to get it all kind of pressing that way.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You have to do a good job. Sleepa, er, yeah.
Right? Thank you. Right.