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 everyone welcome to raw impressions With the brilliant Lou Barlow and his beautiful wife Adele you two will last forever This week nothing is funny nothing nothing is funny You can try Lou to make it funny Do your best It's and you haven't even done it yet. You just get better and better and better all the time Adele's a lucky man Oh my god, so am I But being part of this amazing freeform Podcast raw impressions No other podcast that I've ever seen for is quite like this one You go you two and I'll be back later to check it That was an unusually Supportive for track man. He always supports you, but that was nice change.
I like that a lot of nice things to say about me this time around I can't I need it. I needed I needed that. Mm-hmm. I'm glad.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad he was there for you Give me all your impressions your thoughts your words your time all about communication All the fucking time give me all You're a impression Hi, hi, give me all your bra impressions on this freeform avant-garde podcast Well, nothing's funny. Nothing is funny.
Yeah. I've been trying to think of funny stuff for the podcast. Hmm. You know Why do you feel like this has to be funny?
I do I feel the pressure to be funny? Should I not feel that pressure? I don't think so. I think you can be yourself and some days we Maybe are funnier than others People understand do they I?
Guess they can weigh in do you do you understand? I feel an obligation to be entertaining And funny for myself, too I mean, that's a big part of it is I mean the podcast is a body of work. Yeah, you know something that I've been working on for the last three years I've never done anything for three years like every week for three years. It's incredible.
Yeah, my how I've worked in My life is very fractured. I've never had anything that I consistently do I mean other than just play music in a general sense jerk off Really only taken like a week or two off here and there right in the whole three years of doing this Yeah, yeah, I mean we've missed I mean, I don't think there's ever gone one month without at least no certainly Yeah, so what are your wrong impressions today? Well, my wrong impressions are I I'm wearing readers. I have new glasses not readers progressives progressives not readers.
Um you had readers. I had readers Yes, and realize you had to get progressives Yeah Hold on let me just finish this Can we help no thanks Stevie? Oh no, what's wrong with the music machine? Well, nothing really Nancy I'm just giving it a little tune up.
We all need one once in a while I'll put something in it. Can we put something in it? And I want to put mine in two Sure, what do you have I don't know Stevie come here is that record you got for me. They're farting on the record?
No, you're adding in those Now that the music machine is working again Why don't all of you put your flowers in at the same time and we'll see what happens Seems pretty funny to me Nothing's funny putting fart noises on on them In in some audio Whatever that is the music machine I disagree that's funny and farts are always funny those were your farts, too I've never farted. It's not possible. Well, they're the farts that you supplied for the farting episode Oh those were supplied from the heavens. Didn't you remember that it was like this almost like divine intervention?
I've been put on my phone. You're right there. They were voice memos or fart memos from your phone Totally, so that's what those farts were there. So not you but of course not that would be actually disgusting Yeah, well now you there's so much to talk about a the music machine be my progressives See so my bangs get you have progressive glasses I did and you as you've been leading up to purchasing these every time you say I'm gonna get progressives There is a part of me that wants to say I'm so sorry they suck because I don't like progressives I've had them for years and they're always blurry.
There's always an aspect of blur involved You're the only person who's told that to me shit. I'll shit talk progressives. Okay. Nobody else well and they certainly won't at lens crafters He didn't shit talk them now.
He said he thought I would be delighted and I would love them I guess he's a good salesman. Yeah, well now they have no other choice That's just what they they give us now people who are aging people in their aging eyes get Progressives they used to get by vocals. They don't even do by vocals. It's all I want I always wanted to be the guy Oh with the little like half moon down at the lower part of the glasses as my bifocals I was I was ready for that.
I was ready to do that. I was like, okay. I hope nobody sees my bifocal I was like, I don't give a shit. Give me the give me that I like it kind of cool, but the progressives is it's all hidden You know like that you don't have lines.
Yeah, I guess it's like a Like a instead of being a sharp like distance to close, right? It's like you're progressively seeing further away or up close. I have three They've got the far middle and right close. Yeah, my eye doctor also was not interested in listening to all of my different ideas for cobbling together Like, you know my vision.
I said how about I get the thing now where you you'll you'll laser surgery on my how I get lasek on my eyes now So that my distance is always good and then I just wear readers and she was like She just she just kept like going like she was uninterested and unsupportive of my ideas But she told me I just needed to figure it out and get progressives I need to shut up about already and that I'd already been putting it off for too long because there was some shaming involved as well Welcome welcome to the world of progressives sweetheart. I'm I've been there for a while Yeah, and as you notice I rarely wear my glasses now I wear them when I drive but I rarely wear them must be nice good for you because I can't do that honey. I need to see Hmm, so okay, you don't have to wear them. I didn't wear them.
I wouldn't be able to see you I wouldn't be able to see the computer. I wouldn't be able to drive it would be unsafe So okay for some weird reason for you. It's safe I don't maybe it's safe. I don't know anymore Can you see if distance when you get in the car and you start driving yourself behind the wheel?
I don't know how to do that I try not to do it because it's illegal because I am on my license. It says that I need corrective lenses So it is illegal you're always bragging to me about how you don't wear your glasses anymore and What is this flex you're doing is it because you can see like so the eye doctors are all dumb They don't know you they don't get it. You actually have perfect vision. You don't need these things What's what am I missing?
What's happening here? I don't want to talk about this anymore. Okay, what else were we gonna talk about the music machine? Okay, but I want I never got to talk about my my progressives.
Do you like them or you hate them? What how do you feel about your progressives from one to ten? Can I answer that question or no? Are we two two days into the progressives three days in?
Well, this is my first day really wearing them. Yeah, so I impressions raw impressions. I'm trying to give them goddamn it if you shut up for a minute. Holy shit.
Oh I need a bubble breath everyone Okay, um, how do I feel about my progressives? They're challenging and I'm struggling and I'm trying to adjust because yes It's blurry and I'm trying to figure out how the fuck I'm supposed to move my head. Does my chin go down? Does my chin go up?
Do I maybe my eyeballs or my moving my chin? So yeah, I'm doing some mental and physical negotiating right now. That's that's new and it's okay I mean, it's not like you have a headache. I don't right now.
Thank God. I had a headache for this conversation I give you a fucking headache. Oh my god. I had headaches for six months after getting my progressives.
I know and you don't wear yours You don't need it any suck. Okay. Thank you. Mr.
music machine. You are okay, so yeah, so we did a music machine Appreciation episode. Yes part one part one. Mm-hmm.
This is not music machine appreciation episode part two. However, you did This is part two Adele purchased me wild. Okay, Adele purchased me. I bought you your mine.
Yes, okay But that's a children's record called music machine. So yeah, I this is so interesting you guys so we just did interesting to me Anyway, we just did our music machine part one last week, right? And then promptly after we recorded that I went to Wisconsin to be with my parents and I was doing a little Shop-in I was Oton Aboot in Cumberland, Wisconsin And I went into the dancing bird music and gift shop and we're loo I won't point bought it. No, I bought a baritone ukulele I bought you my my my ukulele there.
Yeah, my um my kind of banger euc my uh, what do you call it? Why am I trying to think of this again? I'm sorry. You know, what do you call it?
Cara beater. Oh my beater euc, okay? So you're not precious about it. I'm not precious about it.
Okay throw it over my shoulder I mean I've even thrown it into like you know luggage. Oh bear. No case. That is a real beater then.
Yeah, you're not treating it with white Glove service I Well, I hadn't been in that shop in years and so when I was driving back to my folks place I saw it and I thought oh scootched over and popped in they were open and so they sell like artwork. Oh Honey still this isn't fun. This is just nothing's funny nothing's funny. That's me.
You're being interrupted. You're being interrupted Not even there. I'm sorry Sorry, oh my god Was that the point of that was that nothing's funny not even Anarchy burger, but the handles. It's a song which I thought was the funny type.
I thought it was the funniest song ever Anarchy burger anarchy burger. You know parentheses hold the government. Oh, that's funny Not even that song is funny to me now. Okay got it.
Well, so as I was in dancing bird Looking around and then I noticed so they have an art section which I came to realize that the guy who runs and owns that place It's like his paintings. Oh, so which they're great by the way and but they saw like other stuff their ceramics and whatnot See the guy who runs the music stores. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I know I know I was like you fix his guitar So creative fellow so I think it seems Jeff and Then I was sort of wandering my way back into the music area and then I saw which I didn't actually tell you they had this absolutely Stunning refurbished pedal steel. Mm-hmm. It was like vintage.
It's your favorite instrument It's my favorite instrument and I explained to you. You're like, what is that? Yeah, what's that instrument? That's always doing that thing that I always really like and yeah the songs that I love You're like that's a pedal steel So I actually like gasped when I saw it because it was so lovely I went oh and he Jeff was there clicking away just you know desk and he said is everything okay?
And I said oh no, I just this is a beautiful pedal steel and he said oh, I know he's now amazing It was like $1,200. I don't know when it was from or whatever But it was so it was like a minimalist almost like mid-century modern version of it was so cute And with just two little pedals I think down the bottom little And I was admiring it and I thought about taking a picture of it to send it to you Why who knows just cuz and then I looked up and I noticed this little crate in the corner that had vinyl in it So I just thought oh I'm just gonna meander over there and look at the records and then that's when I had my second gasp I was slipping through the records and I came across I'm holding this up for the YouTube's I came across a record that said the music machine part two and And it was five dollars and I honestly got didn't know because I I didn't music machine is still new to me I thought this could have been them because it could have been a funny artwork cover. You never know. Oh you did think that was the actual Yes, yes, so I was like that was all like scoff not quite well But then once I opened it and I saw all these like little third-life children songs again I'm holding it up for yeah, YouTube.
I'll take pictures of this, but there's really cool artwork and Pardon me and then I also noticed a funny garbage pail sticker The stuff which male kids someone garbage feels kid sticker I can't talk smelling Helen on here Just really funny and then I just noticed this other it looks like a rubber stamp someone had also rubber stamped on here So someone was listening to this record and I just thought five dollars and using she and her too I got to get it for you So I brought it home as a little treat for you And I did I tried to do something a little creative with it there and getting the podcast and you informed me that I was actually like a real Wasn't it kind of like a real we love Jesus record children's it sure is oh, yeah, Lord. I love my mom I do one before we're totally interrupted and shut down. Yes, I wanted to play anarchy burger for you Oh gosh acoustic version of anarchy burger. You absolutely can absolutely can Anarchy kill a cat shoot James Brady in the back raise an army of rabbit rats beat your neighbor with a baseball bat Anarchy go ape shit let them know you're sick of it right your congressman telling me sucks We're all potential anarchy burgers and if you want to be free order yourself an energy burger and say all the government please America means freedom, but if you're really free try walking into a belly and you're an eating on the cheese Oh Say fucking for your mom Hold the government since he got out Bad things keep happening a new series is now streaming on Apple TV Why when I want to hurt you why starring Academy Award winner Javier Bardem Why and Academy Award nominee Indiana's he's coming after my family We are now streaming on Apple TV subscription acquired for Apple TV Do like an angry five-year-old boy write this or something like what do what to your mother say fuck to your mother say fucking From your mother god so it's from 1982.
It's kind of a joke band called the Vandals I say those dumb they were kind of a they were sick a successful Southern California joke band that are kind of affiliated with bad religion The drummer of the band I saw them play you saw bad religion. Yeah, you seem sad about it. It was it was bad Well, I'll just say it was bad. I can say they want their record.
How can help be any worse? From 1981. Yes, I loved it. Fantastic.
They were on the they were the vanguard of like melodic Southern California punk What's the political edge? They were kind of a serious band too. They wrote some really emo tunes actually some really like proto indie Emo really beautiful vocals actually cool. I loved early bad religion great And I never listened to him again after 1982.
Yeah live in Anaheim was great. Why what sorry? Not sorry. It's what it was But the drummer the band was this guy Joe Escalante who was a DJ on indie one oh three point one I don't know if you listen to any one or three point one in Los Angeles probably as much as I did I was just you I was obsessed with that station was an incredible station It was a commercial station that played a wide array of alternative music and I had a morning show Wasn't it was an afternoon show with Steve Jones?
Yes guitar play from the sex missiles But absolutely fantastic radio show that he just rambled on played whatever the fuck he felt like and it was great I do remember yeah, but Joe Escalante was one of the name of the two yeah He used to do legal advice and was a DJ Really cool such a cool station and such a yes, but I'm So I did manage when I lived in LA I did buy the first fandals 12 inch which had anarchy burger hold the government because I was always like That is the greatest funniest song not the greatest song, but it's not a great song It's actually it kind of sucks but I always thought anarchy burger hold the government was a funny sentiment that that I like pretty much A lot of the lyrics so not so much not something about punching your neighbor. I don't like that either well It's about animals anarchy kill a cat shoot James Brady in the back I know that's a joke raise an army of rabid rats. Mm-hmm beat your neighbor with a bat. Yeah, be your neighbor with a bat I don't like that line joke joke.
My favorite my favorite sounds like a directive Yeah, I don't know I don't know if that's like video games. What are we gonna do guys? Sway over an audience realize It's just my opinion. I just don't like it.
It's a joke punk song. It's making fun of like punk actually Oh, so it's kind of an early punk song that that's a joke. Yeah, they're gonna be it's a note they were in on the joke Yes, they're a joke band. They were a joke.
They were an early joke punk and also a lot of punk had a lot of humor to it So that's the way that went. Mm-hmm. Well speaking of that's really funny. So they're a band, right?
Would you consider music art? What? So okay, I saw this funny comment in one of our episodes. Am I about YouTube someone was like I'm unfollowing your podcast I thought I was just here for the art, but you guys keep talking about the government Yeah, and I'm like that's funny.
Do we really talk about the government that much, but I hate talking about the government I know I don't want to talk about the government. Mmm. Oh, this frog out of my throat What government there's a shutdown baby. So anyway, I hold the government.
It's on hold. It's on hold say less It's all done But yeah, I thought that was really funny though that this person equated They thought that art and politics were separate which I didn't know that they were ever separate So that was very interesting that they were like I was here for the art and you guys keep talking about politics, you know, so Yeah, I'm reading a book about the cars Yeah, how's that going? Hey by Bill Yannovitz from Buffalo time? I went from the end of the dandow autobiography which I finished quick read.
Yeah quick read Zippy Duda It's cool. He mentioned me a couple times in the book which was really nice really nice mentions too and Then I just sort of eased into a book about the cars that Bill Yannovitz wrote Yeah, the cars made their name became famous while they were living in Boston and not originally from Boston, right? But um, it's cool. It's like a lot of really cool history about Boston Rock and the clubs and a lot of which I kind of were still around when I was Making my way up is that a biography then?
Well, no that was a biographies are about people. Oh, this is about a band. Okay, so then what is it? I don't fucking know.
What do you call that? Yeah, the book about the cars? It's a book about people's I have one fun fact that I want to share I've been holding cars about the cars, okay? Now when they signed a record contract to a lecture a records the esteemed label a lecture cool I mean the cars were one of the hardest working bands who worked fruitlessly for decades before they actually hit it Wow amazing story about just working in presser variants Perseverance perseverance look at you a Darville or sir.
We're never have corrected you my doll when I'm No, no, I hear the fun fact Brilliant episode of wrong pressure I love this shit Don't forget it don't let anybody tell you otherwise Don't let anyone mock you mercilessly Continue repeating that you should quit don't listen to me As of right now Right now Definitely you third year of the podcast. I mean let's turn this around. Let's take positivity, please Yeah, so here we hear this fun fact. Oh, I do okay So they signed a record contract like the records um they reciked and they chose a producer and it happened to be Roy Thomas Baker Who's the incredible producer who did Queen in the 70s responsible?
You know in part for the elaborate vocal layering and harmonies in the Blamey rhapsody basically Roy Thomas Baker, but he really wanted a special tape machine to record the cars with Just a friendly reminder that you're still talking Wanted to let you know okay. Thanks. So Roy Thomas Baker Mm-hmm really wanted this rare tape machine a 40 track tape machine Wow, which kind of works with what we were talking about with the music machine Yeah, they used a 10 track machine that was way ahead of its time So right the cars actually used a Stevens 40 track tape machine that was flown from the u.s To England where they recorded the record mmm at Roy Thomas Baker's studio or wherever that key was comfortable Mm-hmm sounds like a great guy to a really good producer really listened to the bands and really worked with them But he was really into layering vocals and making incredible vocal presence which I I I really appreciate anyway They flew this 40 track tape machine on the Concord from the u.s. Wow.
What's the Concord? The super sonic transport from the 70s the cool Do you know the Concord the one that the little dipped nose the jet it was a commercial? It was the only supersonic commercial jet not true. It means it goes super fast It does it goes faster than the speed of sound so the two have the two of them super sonic Does that mean we don't fly like that anymore?
Commercial airlines generally do not there are no commercial In-service today guys conchord was no the conchord was one that did it and it did it for decades and then it crashed oh shit Fucking crash and that was it the conchord was there like too fast to furious. No, I just had been around for a while I think it was old how come we don't do that anymore Well Faster than the speed of sound it's probably dangerous. All right, so I'm saying it was too fast and too furious military planes fly I mean, it's it's it's done. It's been happening for decades and decades and decades They just don't really do it for commercial airlines.
However the Concord Sorry You know I thought for sure I would say Concord to be like oh wow the Concord you mean the supersonic transport I'm in the plane it was a it was a Okay, anyway, I was like we need to do a Concord episode. I'm co and co RDE Concord anyway, they flew this tape machine all the way over on a fucking seat I would think so that's what I pictured I pictured it's I pictured it sitting on top of like several seats So who owned this 40 tape thing that they were able to get it from I have no fucking idea who I didn't read I'm not telling us. I'm not He's got a no how fun for him like you're doing all this research I know It's enough of that chatter for now Take a talk. Okay.
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