must be nice

Welcome to Raw Impressions. My name is Lou Barlow. I'm Adele Barlow. You're my wife Adele Barlow.

I just noticed I think we're both wearing gray t-shirts. We almost are like those of you watching. We're almost doing this weird inverted. My environment is inverted from Adele's.

I have dark in the background. Dark green. Adele's sitting on a dark green. Adele's sitting on some sort of green, not some sort.

It's a chair well known to me. You think this chair is green? You know I'm color blind. I'm a man.

It's well known. Well, I'll just give you a heads up then. It's gray. It's gray.

Well, it looks green. It looks green because there's so many shades of green almost in this. Like just behind me. And in this room there's a lot of shades of green.

My shirt kind of looks well. It also looks gray green. A lot of gray green. Yeah, we're both rocking some.

I feel like we're rocking both like charcoal gray right now, but I don't know. Yeah, we are. We are in your meet with you. I'm trying to figure out how to sit.

I'm trying to figure out how to sit. Those are also gray. They're like gray though. They're like they're creamy.

Thank you. Oh, thank you. I am creamy. You look creamy.

I've been on tour for a long time. I'm a skin anyway. Everyone. My skin is creamy.

Thank you. Thank you. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. As long as you don't overstay your welcome in my yard.

And salt me on my son's set. Can my boss land on your son's set? I won't. I won't get into it too much.

I'm just going to say to our listeners, I'm a little edgy today. I've I've had some interactions that put me a little on edge and I'm not going to get into it though. I just vented to loo pre-recording. But still sometimes is shocked.

But how kind of raw people can be in Massachusetts? They can be well, there's a term. There's a term. It's a mass hole.

A mass hole. And there's some truth to it. One of the phrases that people like sort of a cliche phrase for a mass hole would be must be nice. Yes, it's like the ultimate gross salt.

You know, because it's not a compliment. They think they and it's like you can't say must be nice. You just can't say that because if you say that, you're making a judgment. You're making a negative judgment, right?

Well, you know, it's a long time mass hole. I think, but I am from the Midwest originally. So I did arrive in Massachusetts at the age of 12 with a certain amount of Midwestern. Hey, golly gee, and my parents were quite social.

You know, that was squashed out of me. That was stomped out of me within a few years. But I think you know, coming back to Massachusetts, we've been there for a little while now, 10 years. Don't you know, you've met some really nice people, right?

It's not making some declaration that I don't like all people here, honey. I was simply talking about one interaction I have last night with a mass hole because they do exist. They walk amongst us. But no, there's lots of lovely people here.

This wasn't a dis on Massachusetts as a whole. I mean, God, Jesus, listen, you just wrap everything up in general is why you're trying to make me seem like I hate Massachusetts. I was simply saying that this person was a mass hole and they do exist. Christ.

Yeah. And I don't like the saying must be nice because it's an asshole statement. You should say it unless you're saying it sarcastically. Well, that must be not what he said.

Well, that was blue the mic. Oh, watch out. Well, that must be very nice. How's that?

Well, that must be that actually sounds nice. Okay. Maybe it's the delivery, then maybe it's just the dead and the delivery is so it's dead. You know, dead delivery.

When I moved to Massachusetts as a boy, like I knew that usually it's with a nod. There's a nodding. Well, I knew that inflections in my voice and enthusiasm didn't go down that well. So anyway, what's going on?

I've got I've got I'm coming home. I'm coming home to protect you from these mass holes, honey. The must be nice. I've been not telling you what I've been not sending you pictures of all the beautiful things that I've seen in the last two days because I've just been like, you know, I just don't want to make you nice.

Yeah, I want to hear that. That's what I would say to you. I know that's what I would say to you. It would be like, Hey, look, great.

I'm on a boat on the Oslo Fjord with the daughter looking at a lot of things. Just seeing all the beautiful things. Just looking at the hills in the background and these beautiful little cottages set off and the hills. It sounds lovely.

The hills on the fjord. Oh, I am capable of being happy for you. But it must be I mean, I've been on this trip now for like almost three weeks and I've been there must have been like a fatiguing amount of like I've been having a fatiguing amount of like really good days, like really good days full of like sightseeing and you know, and I'm with the daughter. She and I are spending some very crucial quality time together.

I know it's wonderful. I'm happy for all of that. That's wonderful. Last night at the show, I actually I got the Jane Murphy at the very end of the show.

They were kind of like just jamming you know, like Jay was noodling around and Murphy was playing with sort of pseudo jazzy beat. And then I started clapping in time with what they were playing and then the whole audience started clapping in time. I'm like, Whoa, this is the most undinus or junior moment. That's hilarious.

People were clapping. I was like, I was because I've been to so many festivals, not so many, but been to a few festivals on the store. And like, boy, when you watch a band, like the almost every band but dinosaur junior engages in working the crowd, unison clapping. Come on.

Yeah, like arms like this. Well, I just jam my arm in here and hit a coat hanger. Hey, Eric. Oh, well, yes.

So I was like, I've been watching that. I've never been in a pie. No, I've always been shocked that any of my bands ever, I mean, including dinosaur junior, which are, you know, we're actually a good festival band and we can perform quite well in front of a large amount of people. And but we never indulge in the code everybody, you know, like none of that.

And I've always been bewildered because every band does. I'm like, why do we get invited back to these things? Because that seems to be throughout the years that I've noticed, like, that is the thing that every band there's a festival band, there's a code you crack the festival code as the daughter put it very succinctly, because she would watch a band, she goes, they've cracked the festival code as you're watching a band leave the audience. And I'm like, wow, we've never even tried the festival code.

But somehow so cool, though, you're still good. Yeah, but it's not even it's like, but even seven, back when we were invited to festivals, which went on for a while, we went back, you know, to play a lot of festivals in Europe over the years. And every time I'd be like, why? I mean, we just have so not cracked the code.

I don't know. You guys are really good. I mean, I've never seen seven on a festival, but I'm going to say, boy, seven hours, really good. Seven hours, really good.

Seven hours, really good. I was like showing up at high school in my underwear. I'm like, I'm like, what, I feel so vulnerable. I'm like, hey, here we are.

But yeah, with dinosaur, junior, I do feel I feel invulnerable, I would say, when we're on. You guys are gert, I think you guys are a festival band. I love seeing your festivals. Last night experimented with a little bit because the crowd were a little quiet, I would say.

They were a little on the quiet side. So you were just thought you'd engage them? I thought I would engage them. Well, Alish, our tour manager, our Czech tour from the Czech Republic, Alish, wonderful.

Alish, sunshine, Alish. Just that's great. He's a real, I like to. He seems so nice.

Yeah, rape, sunshine. Well, you know what? I like that. That's all I was saying, just just quickly circle back.

I just, I like that. I like nice people. The daughter was asking me today to rate rate the members of the dinosaur junior crew as to who I would want to be trapped on a desert island with. Okay.

Number one would be the crew. The crew, like crew, everybody, everyone, I'm not going to go through the whole list because I don't want to. Jake. Jake's number one.

Jake's number one because he can fish. He loves fishing. Yeah. He's smart.

He can fix things. He's like, I'm almost positive. He's a carpenter and I'm almost positive he could probably start a fire. Of course he can.

But then, and when the subject of Alish came up, she was like, well, wouldn't he want to have Alish around just with his his disposition? Wouldn't you want to be like facing the strife of being trapped on with his attitude? Wouldn't it be great to wake up to that every day? So I'm not going to get into it.

Like I said, I don't want to. He sounds lovely. He's lovely. So we'll just leave it at Jake and Alish.

Anyway, one tie for number one. Yes, they're all tied for number one because everyone I love all of them and they all have, I mean, I, yes, well, everyone actually has their specialties. You know, everybody, everybody, all of my all of my touring friends all have very unique personality traits that I enjoy. Well, not just personality traits, skills.

Everyone actually has different skills and different abilities and different know-how and survival. I want to move on quickly for this because I don't want to. So anyway, Alish said, he said the crowd was a little quiet tonight. You should really get them going.

He said that to me before we stepped up to do our encore. So that's what led me to put my hands above my head. You actually did a clapping thing? That's funny.

I did. I did. I did. And some of these tag glue on Instagram so I can see this.

Now, Alish took a video of it. I can post it. So the thing is, like, so they did it, you know, and the whole crowd was doing it. I was like, well, this is working out really well.

And then Murph just stopped. Murph just stopped because we are such, I mean, we are, we are Massals. We're like, oh, no. He was like, oh, what was that?

No. No, I'm going to stop that as soon as possible. I don't think he even thought about it. Murph was just like to stop because he was like, what's wrong with playing?

You know, he didn't, Murph didn't stop. I would just like, at all. He just, but it was interesting that he did stop, but we had them. We had them for almost like 35 seconds of in unison clapping.

I would just like to say, Murph is really nice. So, you know, he's not a Massal. I don't think of him as a Massal at all. He kind of is a Murph is like his own state.

Oh, here it is. A CD. Oh, you got you opened up. You opened it up.

That reminds me. I want it. I wanted to show you. Oops.

Oh, wow. I'm showing, I'm showing Lou the CD of walk through me, the new folk implosion. Doo doo doo. Got delivered today.

Merch came today. Nice. So, it looks nice. Yeah.

Well, what about the vinyl? The vinyl? I didn't get that far yet. Oh, I haven't gotten that far yet, but that's the important part.

Check it out. The vinyl. So, it looks good. Cool.

Great. Yay. Walk through me. I'm going to add my the folk implosion will be released.

It will be made widely available on June 28th. Yes. June 28th by Joyful. Not by, but well, I would add joyful noise by the folk implosion.

I would add. Okay. Anyway, so I feel like I want to circle back to the Masshole thing, and I just want to say when I say I like nice people, I just mean, I'm not trying to say that you can never be unkind near me or you can never be mad or angry or agitated. I accept people in all of their moods.

I understand we all have them. I myself have them. I just mean that even when I'm feeling agitated, I do try. Yeah, you keep up a prayer.

I do try to exercise basic what I consider basic common decency. That's all basic Midwestern values, which just means even if I'm fuming out of my flipping head, I'm like, Oh, that sounds great. Hi, nice to meet you too. And some people go, well, that's false.

And you know, I don't care if you think that's false. That just means that I know how to not be a dick. Okay. See, Massachusetts, a lot of people who really hold onto that.

They're like, well, that's false then. And I'm like, no, that's just not being shitty. There's a little bit of in Massachusetts to make a generalization, a total generalization, there is kind of the feeling like, Hey, I can be a dick about it. I can be a dick about it.

I have to be a dick about it. How else are you going to get the message? Unless I'm just a dick about it. And you stop doing that thing.

You know who is a Massachusetts resident? Van Affleck? Yes. Okay.

So, you know, I was trying to figure out like fake names for celebrities like Slimeth Paltrow, Slimeth Paltry. Okay. Anyway, yes. Did you have one for Van Affleck?

No, no, Matt Damon was Fat Demon. I think he's not Fat Demon, whatever. But yeah, bent ass fuck. What?

Yeah, no. Those are all actually mean. All of those are unkind. I came up with this a long time ago.

Long, long time ago. Well, this is Van Affleck one again. Doom-a-thermis. Ben.

Doom-a-thermis. Deepen squawk. Wow. Deepen squawk.

That's Ethan Hawke. Wow. Harsh. Okay.

So, bent ass. What was it? It's really the worst one that I figured out. It doesn't really work.

It doesn't. And you know, I like all of these. I like all these people. I like the work of all of these.

I'm friends with all of them. I'm not friends with any of them. I never met any of them. Although Doom-a-thermis did live in the house that James Asketh lives in now.

That was her childhood home. Ben Affleck. I just would like to say you have to let me have a moment of... You talk a lot about what?

Ben Affleck? Ben Affleck. I hear a lot about it. You give me updates.

You give me updates about Ben Affleck. You do. You do. You do.

You do. You're fighting now. So, okay. Well, here's another one.

That's fine. That's fine. Here's another one, sir. Is that big news is that he and JLo are on the rocks and I'm worried.

Okay. And I want... Ben Affleck needs to. Ben Affleck.

Yes. Ben Affleck for part two. They're struggling. They just put their $60 million house in Beverly Hills on the market again after they just purchased it a year ago and I'm worried.

Okay. And I'm wondering if they've done the work to try to save the marriage. Okay. They've only been married two years, Lou.

It's been two years. Since they got back together? That's a lot. It's a long time.

What? That's nothing. What is obviously a fiery relationship. Hey, is he...

I didn't know who they got married. Why is it fiery? I'm not going to get married twice to the same woman. Well, he was...

He never got married to her in the beginning. They were engaged. Oh. Anyway, I'm concerned.

It has been a half an hour. Wow. It's amazing. It's been a half an hour.

I guess I gotta go. Anyway, I'm worried about JLo and Ben and I hope that they can work it out and maybe get another two years out of it. This podcast is too long. What is happening?

It is time. And you know, I... It is really good timing. It is good timing.

I should probably go. Yeah, because I was... I could have gone further with the celebrity name game and it just doesn't get better. We can say that for a mini music celebrity name.

Hi. Hi. Hi. Here, Bing Boo.

I'll get off. I promise. We know I'm going to stay with you with you. You get off.

Okay. All right. Well, I gotta go. Wrap it up.

Do, do, do. Anyone else's worried about Jennifer? Way in in the comments. Thank you.

If you're a mouse, who'll raise your hand. That's all for now, folks. Raw impressions.