Since he got out bad news keep happening. Cape Fear a new series is now streaming on Apple TV Why when I heard you? Starring Academy Award winner Javier Bardem Why and Academy Award nominee Indiana's he's coming after my family Cape Fear now streaming on Apple TV subscription acquired for Apple TV Hello and welcome to this special Christmas version the special Christmas Ron precious Christmas episode I wrote a song especially for Emerson wrote a song. That's good.
See is that Emerson? Especially for me Christmas The gist of his song is the wrong No good at Christmas. Yeah Up to you that can change Yeah, it's just year after year I think I was a little better last year. This year was hard.
They're no good at Christmas. I don't make lists It creeps up on me. No good at Christmas. Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?
No That's what's making it especially hard this year. It's like there's just no sympathy here at all This is what's happening as the years march forward. Yeah, no more sympathy Well, get good at Christmas I'm I'm good at life. Do whatever it takes.
You know, find yourself a little life coach. I don't know figure it out. I thought you were my life coach I'm telling you as your life coach. We're gonna work on you to get you good at Christmas for Christmas Not forgiven for Christmas Hey, you know Yeah, I don't know what to say.
I don't want to give it anymore breath. Oh, I'm so depressed. Oh my god This was hard This is Christmas 1984 this year. We have a special treat we have Katie McVickers here with us as well as her mother Peggy McVicker Now I would like Katie to start this off by saying to you very Christmas 1984 Hello and welcome to this episode of Ron Preshons.
Let's call it the Christmas episode Christmas day 2025 But also let's let's make it a birthday episode. It's it's about a birthday It's Christmas Christmas It's about it's about the birthday and and all the other birthdays Yeah, we figured we better better get these birthdays in because it's almost the end of the month. I know yeah goodness So the the first one is from Jacob full strip Okay, he's um he's from Denmark. Oh, yes.
Yeah. Oh my goodness. It is December 24th And this is I'm on a four-hour drive to visit my parents on Christmas Eve. They are 77 and 83 As they say they're given a bit old On the 3rd of December, I turned 51 and like cats in the cradle.
It was only a couple of years ago. I was 27 I've been a music fan for as long as I can remember Ever since my brother gave me a turntable and let me borrow his records The first track I wore out on a record was thin lizzies jail breaks When I actually started going to shows it was it was with skate punk bands and then later rock bands like super suckers and Nashville I think I was 45 since I opened my eyes to dinosaur. Hey, Michelle Maybe I should say I am from Denmark and even though I'm a new fan of dinosaur I've seen you quite a few times already both in Berlin London and Copenhagen Lewin mirth always lay a rock solid foundation. So when Jay has a good day It is really amazing.
I love that line when I read that it is through dinosaur jr I found your podcast. Oh, I've been listening to all your episodes and thought it was about time to shout out from Denmark So, yeah, first day is shot out. Yep. That's so cool Jacob you can tell me Did you hang your pacifier from a tree?
Did you tell your binky goodbye? Time passes by a blink of a You were little and now you're really big. Jacob. Jacob.
It's your birthday. Happy flippin bird They did you ride around town in a truck When you graduated got in toxic They drive you go round town in the truck. My name is Sammy McKee. What the hell?
I got two birthday shout outs for me Not for me I have two birthday shout outs for December First my middle daughter Emma She graduated college with a degree I'm stoked to see who she will be. Oh, I'm a proud dad My name is Sammy McKee and I'm a proud dad Second the love of my life. Oh, yeah, I'm talking about my wife She changed my life in many ways Including my two bands in which she plays Old city and the perfect stranglers neither would be the same without you Hey, it's your birthdays happy flippin bird days. Welcome to a new year's use Have a fan diamond I didn't write this song.
I don't remember the lyrics. My name is Sammy McKee. Thank you very much. Oh, wow Sammy took control.
Wow, I fruit fly just flew past me. Our house We um, we're we've got a lot of fruit flies in our house. We do I don't know. I don't want to find that like rotted orange somewhere in a corner You know, that's like been the culprit the one that's like made all of them grow And multiply keeps the cats busy.
Huh keeps him on the counter. He ha Wow. Yeah, so that was two really quick Birthday shout outs that one from Jacob full strip and then um, Sammy McKee. I love reading those emails.
Yeah Um, I don't know what's happening now. That says Lou Reed. So it's supposed to be you. Oh, oh, David David Laspina.
Mm-hmm. David Laspina. So the original caterpillar girl would love to have her birthday wish Jordana Kalman December 24th Mm-hmm. David is shouting out Since everyone always can't attend her birthday party because someone else is usually stealing the show.
Mm-hmm. Not not not not not Oh Who's stealing the show jesus Santa yells? Yeah. Yeah.
All she wants for this year is to take lose portrait Oh, what does that mean? Like she wants to take your picture? She wants to take my picture. She's a photographer.
Oh, yeah For this year coming up like 2026 Yes, we'll have to we'll just sort that out with Jordana Every flippin year there is a day The day that you were born and people say You should get everything you flippin one But no one really knows what you want. I can't believe her what she wants is to take my picture Why not? Why not? It's your birthday happy pooping birthday.
Welcome to a new year You're fine one shine it like a diamond today's the day to celebrate you or wait it wait a couple of days Hmm. What do you do when you have a birthday so so tight? It's Christmas Eve. I mean, what do you do her birthday?
I don't know I it was yesterday for her That's tough. That's tough. I don't so when did the parents have to I mean like when did the when was when was she conceived? I'm always wondering like what what who fucked this up like with the timing, you know That's what I want to know Well, there's lots of ways to make a baby.
I just mean I just want to know who was like this is the time of year oh Oh, we're popping back into the Barla family 1984 Nice. I would have graduated from high school by this time. So I would have been 18. Okay, sure.
So yeah, it was December of 84. Yeah I'm gonna hear Mandy Yeah, it's I mean here I mean, Andy's like taking a meeting a role here. Yeah. Yeah, we have several cassettes I really wanted to find I felt so directional this morning and um, I really wanted to put you know We wanted to put a pod together for people.
Mm-hmm, you know cuz it's a special day and we could have I know we've got a lot to do We got a work flying to Minneapolis and then on like a matter of hours hours. Yeah, really um to visit with Adele's mom and um, you know and uh Is he wants to sing uh, oh, is he wants to sing uh, is he wanted to sing uh? Is he wanted to jay one day? Yeah So uh Let's listen to Izzy.
Sings uso Let's listen to Izzy. Sings uso One take one take is e All together yeah one take pick it away Sing a song. He take this off. You better watch out.
Give in or crack. Loses coming to town. He's making a list and he's checking it twice. Gonna find out.
Loses coming to town. He sees you when your sleeping is coming. Loses coming to town. Hey.
That's great. Yeah, she surprised me. She's like, you gotta do this and we gotta do it now. That's been a lot today.
We're doing this with you now. Three minutes on my phone of Izzy's, one of our American Girl Dolls performing to Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. It's a Katy Perry Christmas. Oh man.
Yeah. I don't know if I've had the pleasure of hearing a Katy Perry Christmas song. There must be. Oh my gosh, there must be.
There must be. There must be. I'll have to look that up later. We didn't really, we weren't all over our Christmas music this year as much.
Well, everything is off this year. It is off. It's off. Yeah.
Everything's off. We didn't do a Christmas card. We were, your family's probably not even coming up from DC. Like we're all just, we're leaving, which we don't typically do either.
Right at Christmas. It's hard. Yeah. Well, the one thing I did want to do today was find one family Christmas cassette.
And I did find it. You did. I heard you just clanking around and I was like, this is what I'm doing. I was like up ending.
I know. You haven't even like, I mean, have you, do you know, what says. I go back maybe. Oh my God.
Oh. I just really want to. I need to. I need to.
I need to. I need to talk about this. I feel like it's triggered like a, I've felt bad about myself since this thing happened. And I'll explain it.
Okay. I kind of went into today too. I just kind of woke up like God, you know, I didn't do Christmas great. Um, since he got out, bad things keep happening.
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I like that guy. Yeah. Because here's the thing. I think it's, there's a couple of reasons that I like it.
I like it ironically because I like to say when I back in real men back in. And I thought, you know, sort of in keeping with, you know, the way times have been shifting lately, you know, since I don't know, 2016, I noticed that people really like to back in. They like to like park on their fucking lawn. They like to assume this position of like almost military like readiness.
You know, I've noticed that it's kind of a thing with people with the pickup trucks. You know, people with the big cars like the back and what's that thing? Were they blow or they roll or they roll their coal? They roll their coal.
They back in and I kind of was like during the pandemic part of my paranoia. It was like, I wanted people, I didn't want anybody to fuck with me. I was like, I'm not going to be in the driveway assuming that they just leave me the fuck alone. Because I assumed at some point during the pandemic they were all going to lose their fucking minds and just go crazy.
This grand thing you're talking about? Yes. Yes. I really.
I know we're talking about it. I kind of got addicted to backing in real men back in. You know, it's like I kind of want to, you know, anyway, so I still back in because I do kind of like to pull out straight into the street that way. I feel like I can see better, although you disagree with me about this.
This is one thing we've got a few things that we disagree about when it comes to driving and there's intersections in town that it doesn't like the way that I behave in the intersections. But I sort of, I got here to my habits. Anyway, the other day when I back into our driveway, I kind of do it in a dumb way. Like I do it in this really.
You do it in honestly one of the most blatantly aggressive. It's like mansplaining backing in. It's so aggressive. It's fucking bad actually.
And you know what? It does take my life away every time you do it and I'm in the car. I know it takes a little bit of your love away every time. I can feel it.
That's the thing about this is like, I don't know. I don't like it. I'll just be honest. I've been shipping away a little bits of your love over the years.
Why? Why do you want to do that to me? So anyway, so I'm like, so the other day, I'm going to back. I'm going to do my big, I do the dumbest thing guys.
I like go really. He literally uses our neighbors drive way. Drive into our neighbors driveway to back into ours. So the other day, bad timing.
I pull into our neighbors driveway to back into my driveway and they're actually backing out of their driveway the same time. Guess what they want to use their fucking driveway. And they're like, who the fuck is like, you know, driving aggressively into my driveway and our poor neighbor. I've, so.
And then he looked actually like, he looked, he looked, discussed. He looked, discussed it, horrified, furious. Like, no, no, no, no, I made my neighbor mad with my backing in. It's even worse because he's like a fan of yours.
You know what I mean? He's like a dinosaur junior kind of fan. He happens to live across street from us. Yeah, you know.
So he, you know, he, but I did this before once, once when I was coming in, pulling into the street, I actually had an interaction with him where I pulled and he gave me that same look. This was a few years ago. A few years ago that happened. And then I.
It's such an aggressive wide swing that you do that I do. I question my sanity. I question everything. I, I don't like it.
Yeah, so the last time years ago when I did this and made him mad a couple of years ago, I brought a, I gave him an, I offered him, I had a couple, I had this really two, two editions or two copies of this big book about the clash, a big photo book. Yeah, I remember that. I know he's like, he's kind of an old school punk rocker. Yeah.
From the valley. I brought him one of my clash books and I put it on his. You did. I did after I did the turn that made him mad.
Did you all right? Like, I'm sorry to that dumb fucking thing. No, I didn't. But this time, this time I did it again.
He gave me that same look and I'm like, God. It was so beyond I guys, you know. It's like you can try and you try, but somehow you're just going to be a dick to somebody. Somebody's going to think you legitimately think you're a dick.
And now like because of what I did the other day, the way that I pulled into his driveway while he was trying to back up, I'm like, I don't know how I'm going to recover from this. You know? I don't either. I'm, I'm horrified because I was in the car, so I feel like an accomplice.
You know, I don't want him to think that I'm attached to this behavior in any way. And now I am. I'm guilty by association, you know, and to be perfectly honest, there's multiple reasons why you're so infuriating when you do that. It's not just because it's so wildly aggressive to fully use someone else's driveway, but our neighbors, so they share a driveway.
They have little kids that are often like kind of feral and out in the fucking driveway and not to mention also their fucking chickens, they live in their yard and that wander around their driveway. And I just, and I, and the thought of you hitting one of their kids or a fucking chicken, it, it leaves me breathless. So no one has yet been harmed. Guess what though?
That fucking happens. It's not funny. I don't think it's funny. That's me.
Yeah. Uh huh. We did a Christmas. Like, um, so in the, in the mid eighties, my mother's mother was sick and she was traveling quite a bit down to Philadelphia and we had a Christmas during the, the midst of this, like really difficult time.
And we aggressively destroyed a whole bunch of Christmas carols using kazoo. You know? And my mother was like, not into a little bit of a mess. And I was like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm okay.
Right? So, um, you know, I mean, we aggressively destroyed a whole bunch of, of Christmas carols using kazoo. You know? And my mother was like, not into it at first.
But then she started laughing. I really wanted to find this cassette, I didn't find it, the kazoo Christmas. It's funny that I mentioned it there, but there was a kazoo Christmas where we just, you know, we really blew through a whole christ, bunch of Christmas carols and, you know, just really destroyed them and went crazy on them. And it was really fun and I wanted to find that cassette, but I did find this one.
But interestingly enough, I mentionedå. Yeah you do. Should I read Catherine's birthday shout out? Oh wait.
No? I am of course a recent, recently attached to this podcast and I just want to say thank you everybody who I got a lot of support really early on in the game. Thank you so much everybody. And season's greetings and happy new year from Emerson.
Yep. Nice. Thanks Emerson. Oh.
Hey, hey. It's mini music Monday slash Tiny Tunes Tuesday guy wishing everybody out there happy holidays. You haven't heard from me in a while because that hasn't, in the new year, mini music Monday, Tiny Tunes Tuesday, song commencing. You know the drill.
It'd be great to see you guys later this year. Thank you so much for your support. It's a holiday words from two guests. Yeah.
Some of our special guests, right? Yeah. Yeah. Did you want me to read this last birthday shout out?
Yeah. I think so. Yeah. Is something going to interrupt me?
I think all of the interruptions are over. Okay. Well, this is from Catherine Booth. It says, it's halfway through December and I'm at the level of festive panic where even I want to wish my birthday to another month of the year.
So before I forget, can I book a birthday shout out for the 21st, a day I share with a super group of legends, Jane Fonda, Frank Zappa and Murph. Ah, dinosaur Jane and Murph everybody. So happy birthday, happy Murph day. And seeing as it's nearly the end of the year, thank you both and for Track Man for another year.
I know other podcasts are so reassuringly real or knows best when to deploy the fart sound. Oh, Catherine, happy birthday. Catherine's kind of our number one. When do I get to meet Catherine?
Where's she live again? Vancouver. Okay. Is that right?
I don't know. Yeah, we've got a meet and person. I'd like that. Happy birthday, dear.
Yeah, it was Murph's birthday. It was also Jane Mascos birthday, his big 60th. On the 9th. Yeah.
Well, you know, what's funny is I didn't know now that Murph and Frank Zappa shared a birthday. Murph was the first person to play Frank Zappa for me. Wild. When the band, I mean, of course, I sure I heard Frank Zappa ambiently throughout my childhood, but Murph was really into Frank Zappa.
Really? I didn't know that. I didn't really introduce. I mean, that was the thing.
When we first got the band together, Dinosaur Jr., it was kind of like Murph was the one who liked Zappa because Zappa was considered pretty much profoundly uncool by myself and Jay Mascos. We were not in Frank Zappa. Okay. Although I always had a soft spot for Valley Girl.
Mm. Valley Girl. Valley Girl. Anyway, so I didn't know that Murph shared a birthday with Zappa.
Wow. Well, there you go. Maybe he knew it and he really like, you know, identified with him somehow, some way. Yeah.
Well, I would like to acknowledge that our Barlow Family General pop-ups, we did two of them at our little space in Greenfield. And we would just like to say thank you because people came. They were so fun. It was kind of like delightful, right?
Holiday Delightfulness. Yeah, it was almost like I didn't. That was kind of the peak of the season right there for me. Like this now that we're into Christmas, I'm like, eh, I already, we had several, like those little pop-ups we had were kind of like parties.
We just kind of just kind of stood there. We just kind of hung on. People just came in and they were like socialized and it was fun. Friends, fans, family, uh, I sold some of my old records.
It was really nice. It was, it was really nice. This Christmas thing is like a day new month. What's that?
I don't know. It's a fancy word for like just kind of like the end. Okay. You know, it's like there's been a peak.
And there's like the slope down. So now Christmas is like, well, and we're, you know, we're going to travel. I'm really anxious to get, get ourselves out to Wisconsin. And um, me too.
But um, I don't know what else to say. Well, I'd like to say thank you. I'm sorry. Oh, what?
I'm sorry. To me? To you, although I did give you a gift. You did, which is exactly what I told you again.
I asked you about 500 times. Did you get that for me? Did you get that for me? It registered the first time that you said it.
But then after you mentioned it again and again, I was like, okay, well, you know, there's been things that I've mentioned. Well, you know, I don't want to get into a fight. I don't want to get into a fight. I want to say thank you to the listeners for sticking with this ridiculous podcast.
Three years on. That's, I don't know. What do you mean? Are we worthy of you?
Are we worthy? And you, Lou, you should be sorry. I deserve a fucking magical Christmas, actually. It's not something I would say, you know, and I mean, typically to be pretty.
I'm perfectly honest. I'm kind of more of like the humble pie kind of gal, but you know what, this year it was hard. I've had a hard year. Mom, I knew for certain, but daddy didn't pay her no mind.
I'm not putting those kittens in prison when everything will be just fine. Daddy, fine ain't good. They can't run free. Kittens get stuck to Christmas tree.
I wrote that song last year. Yeah, because you sent me to the fucking ER, which, you know, it's fine, I guess. I sent you to the ER. Well, you wouldn't listen to me about the kittens in the Christmas tree, hence why you wrote the song and why pumpkin got stuck in the fucking tree and then pumpkin put a tooth all the way into my arm and I ended up in the emergency room.
But you know what, that's fine. Happy fucking New Year, everyone. Here's a good news. The cats, they're only like relatively fucking with the tree this year.
So improvement on that. Well, thanks, everyone. We won't be able to make a podcast before the end of this year. It's just not going to happen.
No, we will be in a very frigid land. And really focused on some family stuff, some heavy family stuff. So we will be, we will see you in the New Year, right, Lou? Yup.
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