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Nudism, Adelle’s dream job, and the Magic of Mr. Rogers

from RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

Nothing is off topic this week because there is no topic! Lou and Adelle let the conversation roam from young Lou’s desire to be naked to Adelle remembering the Land of Make Believe. WATCH on LouTubehttps://youtu.be/IFzzv3OaKgkSEE LOU LIVE (U.K. and Ireland)https://www.bandsintown.com/a/38301-lou-barlow?came_from=257&utm_medium=web&utm_source=home&utm_campaign=search_barJoin our Substack for several years worth of writing, music and video!https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/Visit our store for unique and personal gift ideas!https://barlowfamilygeneralstore.com/RAW Impressions uses Samson Q9U mics, mic stands and the Mixpad MXP144X Use code BARLOW for 15% off Samson Products at:https://www.samash.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nothing is off topic this week because there is no topic! Lou and Adelle let the conversation roam from young Lou’s desire to be naked to Adelle remembering the Land of Make Believe. WATCH on LouTubehttps://youtu.be/IFzzv3OaKgkSEE LOU LIVE (U.K. and Ireland)https://www.bandsintown.com/a/38301-lou-barlow?came_from=257&utm_medium=web&utm_source=home&utm_campaign=search_barJoin our Substack for several years worth of writing, music and video!https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/Visit our store for unique and personal gift ideas!https://barlowfamilygeneralstore.com/RAW Impressions uses Samson Q9U mics, mic stands and the Mixpad MXP144X Use code BARLOW for 15% off Samson Products at:https://www.samash.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Since he got out bad news keep happening. Cape Fear a new series is now streaming on Apple TV Why when I want to hurt 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 Also be a beak Lou what? Nice the birthday con could be a beak touch those keys Ah What I made a mistake.

Oh, it's good. I'd start to do no, it's cuz I'm What do you think about? I'm thinking about missing a note. So I missed a note.

Oh That's the problem. That happens to me too. I'm like don't drop a stitch when I'm knitting guess who's dropping a stitch right me Another wrong note. Maybe it's the right note.

It's the new right note Ah the new right. Good news everyone. There's a new right and it's left What I just realized we're kind of matching with our colors Unintentionally you got your robe on and I've got my mooji dress on we on and we unintentionally match colors yesterday I love that when we get old we're gonna be wearing a Mac matching track suits. Yes.

We are I love it so much with our names like a burrator Matching track people even have like maybe we'll even have like a Thursday night bowling league in Glendale that old bowling alley, you know We'll just like we're a city bull now known as back. I'll be bowling We'll just throw our little smart suits in our you know Go and go visit with some buds and stay young. I just I want to be in a league I want to be in a bowling league or a softball league you can you can join the tenderloins Our friend Nick Meyer is a member of the greenfield softball team the tenderloins and they're recruiting you should join I Can't do that kind of schedule that definitely who cut my bangs she's joining the tenderloins too That sounds ain't it Coed coed team. I wonder if they drink and play.

I have no idea. I'm sure we could find out my father was on leagues And that's where I I think I first smelled you know like it's kind of a cool smell the smell of like Budweiser on your dad's breath Oh, yeah, it's almost comforting Trigger warning on the Saying I just love that smell of a smoky bar room and the stale beer in my dad's I mean I kind of do too I know what you're talking about there are certain smells yes saying I grew up with that like and since my father was not a drinker say he's not still when I did smell that on his breath It was like during kind of festive times or at a bowling alley when he was pulling he really liked his leagues He was in a bowling league and he was in a softball league and we would go along yeah, and we would see the games and I would see the Bowling game the adults, but that is not what they call it. What's a match a match is like tennis. Yeah, it's like fancy shit That's not Midwestern.

We don't have matches in Michigan and Wisconsin. Am I correct? Let's have a match No, you go to a game. It's all games.

It's bowling. It's a game. It's softball. It's a game Mm-hmm speaking of Wisconsin I have one of my many fantasies I have is when I was recently in Wisconsin I was at a bookstore and they had a section of books all about Wisconsin and one of them was like the best coffee table book ever about Supper clubs and it had every single supper club in there like a picture of it description what they're known for where they're located Yeah, yadda yaddie.

So why is that not sitting on our coffee table right now? I was worried it was too heavy because I was gonna say that was the only thing literally because I wanted it so bad I could practically taste the free relish tray. It was just But I want to put this out there. Okay.

I have a dream Please someone in a travel related show because I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to go to a supper club's Higher Ron Preshins have Lu and I like some travel show Discovery Channel Sweep us up or PBS Wisconsin foodie channel Or not a discovery channel brought whatever guys National Geographic going to morning. I love PBS Higher us Luna del Ron Preshins and we'll give our own pressures of supper clubs take us to every supper club Feed us and just yeah, that's it. That's it. That's the show and we can just talk about it You've mentioned this since I've known you I know I want I want someone to pay me to travel I don't really want to be I want to be like a travel host down to earth Yeah, Western girl that travels around the world.

Do you want to go around the world or would you rather like stay within the United States or North America? Gosh, maybe you want to learn about Canada Adele. I'd love to go to Alaska. I know it's my Canada I love to learn about Alaska Mm-hmm tune into this week's Adele's Alaska and you can go up to my cousins like fishing Resort they have I have a cousin that has a fishing has any mission resort Really pretty much built from the ground up with his manly man hands Yeah, he goes up there in like three or four months a year Mm-hmm like really filthy rich people come up there and he takes them out on a boat and they catch enormous fish Well, then they take it back and they clean it clean it they cut it they cut it into pieces They fucking fry that shit.

No freeze it. They freeze it. They freeze fresh fresh fish fish. Yeah huge amazing delicious fish They freeze it and then they so these these people can put it in their enormous Freezers and the basements of their their mansions.

Can I be depressing for one second? We don't have to stay on this topic, but I just want to say But any time I think about fish now all I think is plastic and like is any fish at all Like not touched by plastic Possibly North Pacific fish are not that tainted by plastic These are things that people do have the answers for because they do study these things at least for now But I don't know we're talking. This is Alaska. That's way the fuck up there.

This is that's Alaska. It's cold. This is Alaska Oh, is there any cool laskin bands? I think any cool laskin like hardcore bands.

Did you know of sir any? No, I never thought of that like who's in a cool cute band from Alaska. Oh, yeah, oh Jule, yeah That it more questions that but I'm gonna feel compelled to answer Go the man I feel like I'm a jewel dive recently. She's kind of fun to occasionally dip in and out of it No, if you're like remember we remember we sat and listened to Jule Yeah, we listened to was the first I don't know right because I'm so confused The sound on it was so odd.

It was like there was no mastering done on it or something. It was just so odd and like what? I was actually a bit raw. It was so raw.

This is the hit if anyone's wondering oh Dreams last along way. Let's not go. Let's not say for the next time I remember that or their an exposure amazing song look. I mean Jule.

I mean better ones. Oh She didn't seem impressed by me. She's like you sir. No, I don't think she was super comfortable being famous So so I understand you you didn't have to you don't look really super comfortable in that robe FYI You just keep fucking with it.

You're like you're endlessly Facing I'm trying to I'm nothing on it. I mean I'm not gonna run but it's like you know Everyone's naked underneath her clothes buns. Well, I just didn't want to give I didn't want to give the viewers at home like to flash of my chest Oh, I just didn't want to do it. Maybe you do you know exhibition is a part of me that just wants to do your own like do your Row I was a right when I was a kid when I was a kid in the 70s I really wanted to be a nudist like nudity was kind of a thing Totally I remember like when I was a little too like hearing about the nudist colonies You don't even know like that sounds great like oh the nudist colony I would I would take off my clothes on a drop of the hat to just run across my neighbor once my neighbor I live next door you were streaking you were the streak.

I loved it. I loved the idea of streaking. I've done the I'll cover this week. I don't know you all farted it pretty good.

You should really you should really go streak it You can't streak anymore, but my neighbor wants to like you know, I'll give you What it was a quarter. I'll give you a quarter if you take off your clothes right now Just run across the field. Okay, you're like I'll do it for free I would wake up when I was little and if I ever told you about this When I was little and this is like I'm we're talking like pre-sexual pre-sexual Yeah, which um I would wake up in the middle of the night with this Overwhelming compulsion and I say overwhelming because I actually did what I was compelled to do I would walk downstairs in The middle of the night. I would take off my clothes Open the door and run outside and land the grass Naked in the middle of the night Since he got out bad things 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 any items he's coming after my family Cape Fear now streaming on Apple TV subscription acquired for Apple TV And then I would be so overwhelmed with the thrill of being I was like Oh my god if I get because if I got caught it would be yeah, there's terrible There are so many things happening in this yep because I was like a Roman Catholic kid So I was like there's a lot of things in this I was a heavy heavy heavy heavy Roman Catholic every Sunday Sunday school I don't have church services this it felt so illicit, but like I said, this is this is pretty pretty like yeah You know, I didn't really even know how my body worked that way. I was just I just wanted to be in nature I think that's amazing. That's actually I mean there's like I said, there's a lot to unpack there one could be yes One part of it is that there was This desire because of the Roman Catholic thing I don't know I'm not gonna say it was because of that. I'm just saying they I could have gotten caught right Well, so you're saying though.

Well, are you not saying that part of it was the thrill of the potential of getting caught or no? I just wanted to be very good. Okay. I just what is the Roman Catholic thing have to do with it then because They told you that might not be a good idea.

Oh, maybe you go to hell right? No, actually they would pretty much pretty much pretty much yeah, so trying to get you to say that it had something to do with that because you brought it up I don't know. I don't know actually between that again These are things that people have studied these are things people have written about these are things that we can't even begin to broach Because we do not have the knowledge. I don't I'm just saying that as a child.

I loved to be naked Let's go to one who is calling sometime. I don't know, you know, I want to I went to a beach in May orca Years ago. It was the German beach in May orca. May orca is a small island off the coast of Spain and it sounds like it sounds It's a resort island.

It's split up into like four parts There's a part where all of the English people go so when you go to that part of the beach is all in English It's all shitty fucking English food because it's older caters to an older English crowd So it's a lot of like bangers mash boomers like boomers exactly just kind of you know forgive me for what I'm gonna say kind of bloated Sunburned angry looking people lovely eating beans on toast, but really enjoying Spain Spain Anyway, and then there's a German beach And I went to I was saying on the German beach that's not fun to me Yeah, so as you can imagine and you know this yourself You get the new to speech when Germans get when Germans are in the Sun. Yeah, the clothes are off Yes, totally so perhaps they don't even need like a beach or permission. They're like this to say like if I was if I was a little German boy In a German town. That's a Ramones reference I was a little German boy in a German town.

They would be I would be naked for most of my life Sure because some people just did I tell you about the time when I one of the first tours of Europe that I took It was a really nice day. Okay sunshiney day in in Germany. We're driving down to the Autobahn as you do the road Mm-hmm, and I saw a semi or a lorry. You might refer to it over there I saw a truck parked and the driver of the truck was on there was this big broad grassy hillside green just green hillside He was completely naked Spready gold in the middle of this patch of green and it was like he just parked his truck took off his clothes and sat in the fucking field Spready gold naked there was nothing Sexual about it.

He needed vitamin D actually was probably a prescription from his doctor in Germany. He was like Hans you need to fucking get some more vitamin D your deficient you're in that truck all day. Just go And he's like well, I'm doing like told I'm driving the truck and I gotta go get some vitamin D. Yeah, sure so Can we circle back to you as a child being naked I before you Before you added the the little bit about the Roman Catholic part I was having a thought where I was like this doesn't seem confusing or puzzling at all to me.

It seemed completely natural it seemed like a beautiful Instinctual primal calling as a child, you know to be in like one in community with nature What's what's the earth and and the moon and the sky and the senses and the wind touching your skin? That just it all seems like life. I'm alive and holy shit the world. That's that was where my thoughts also played pretty clearly wrong In the eyes of the church.

Oh, okay. That was the voice in my head Oh, that was the voice in my head that was as I was as I was freeing myself as I was Directly related to hot the humid Midwestern night. My point is I'm trying desperately to make here with you is that do you understand that it can actually be both things? You can have like possibly that influence of the church But then also just like a completely normal desire as a child to like be free in the Sun and I just really I'm just really Blabbering the church part of it.

I'm belaboring that yeah And I just keep going on about it without stopping to recognize and to acknowledge that yes indeed There is the other side which is pretty much where I live now. I live on the other side I'm on the other side of my conditioning and my Roman Catholicism be down on the other side of that I'm I'm free of its clutches pretty free. I'm pretty free. I was not free for a very long time I do feel really grateful to not have had that Chosen for me, you know and like enforced upon me I know that everyone's doing their best and you know and but I like I it's and I struggle with that because like I I am baptized at his capalian, but I'm baptized as an adult It was a choice, you know, a piscopalian the church that I am a member of in Hollywood is like very progressive, right?

But they also have a lot of like traditional parts of the service at the church yada yada But but I was raised with no religion and so I didn't have that you know like I can't relate to that It doesn't mean I didn't have guilt there was plenty of guilt about things, but it wasn't related to the church, you know, so because that was just good old deal It was just it was more like parental like you know like yeah, just it came from mom and dad not from yes I am, you know, yeah society exactly Louie and the newdy The whole point of it was the whole point. I don't know there was no point because there's no point to this episode, right? The point is it's just it's just chatting to life. I Remember swimming naked when I was little in turtle Lake and I loved the feeling on my skin You're saying naked.

Yeah, you know what I mean? Like the same kind of thing that you're talking about and I was really little You know where you just like take off your bathing suit and I go what does feel like what is that sensation? It's you know, you're curious you're learning. It's interesting.

I'd like to be able to shower naked outside before my life ends Yeah before my life ends. I would like to say for the lab for it towards as my life is coming to this beautiful I'm gonna use this word check this out. Dana ma What yeah, I'm not great explain. It's like the end.

Mm-hmm. Where'd you hear that? It's like in plays the day No, it's like a almost like a literary or that trich or is that sounds very French. Mm-hmm.

I Would like to be like in a little walled outdoor shower. I don't have to be like out in the open I thought that would be nice. I would like to be looking out over a desert landscape speaking of desert It's so funny You just said that because I was sitting here going like you know I do have kind of a funny like it would be really funny to like go to like Palm Springs or something and unite like there's probably some hilarious nudist like Community out there were like hey, let's hop over just these are like a day pass. Can we just do like a day pass where we just like I Can see right now.

I can see right now. Let's go I'm gonna give our wrong questions if you're doing his calling You can see what I'm seeing when as you're mentioning that is a very very fit 77 year old man Oh my god, they're ripped someone's gonna be ripped right and so Just in really good. She's actually very tall this man. Yeah, this is percent foot four.

He has a really smart haircut Yeah, he's completely naked, but he's wearing like band like like bands around his wrists and his ankles. Why? That's your that's your vision board for yourself as a person my nudity and put that in your Pinterest my nudity involved My later life as a nudist will be characterized by nudity and then also Adornments like a little leather band around my my sinewy bicep My sinewy 77 picturing like 70 year old's naked in Palm Springs like a ball I just realized what I was about to describe what I was about to describe would be myself in my own and check this out The reason that I think about outdoor Desert showers is I was watching lifestyles of the rich and famous day. Hilar and Penn Gillette sure it was it was on him Because Penn and Teller were really big in Las Vegas.

Mm-hmm. I have to take a little short to tell the audience Detour this is a detour. Yeah, he grew up in this neighborhood that we live in here in Dreamfield. He grew up here.

Yes He grew up here. Mm-hmm. I always thought local celeb Penn and Teller were very a very interesting Phenomenon and when they first started showing up on television and doing their thing. They were very interesting and pendula It's a very strong personality.

Hmm. He was the one who's alive. Totally alive He's definitely he's definitely he's naked and taken a shower in Las Vegas because he lives in a beautiful house in Las Vegas because Penn and Teller do Las Vegas shows. I thought I've died No, I know.

Okay. Is that true? No, he's not dead. Okay.

I don't think he's naked and showering in the desert of in Vegas Yeah, why no, I mean at least you know it. I don't know it. I mean he was living in a text blue Guess what I'm doing later. I'm gonna shower naked.

He liked it. He liked it. You rock that guy. Really?

He did He liked it. He's the big one like the tall one. Okay. He's the big one.

Uh-huh. They do magic. They do incredible magic They do incredible magic, but they do it with this like real. I don't know if sardonic is the right word It is grimly mocking or cynical.

I never really I know does magic ever make you kind of angry Yeah, like up the fuck okay like because you're like I don't want to have to figure this out But now I'm thinking about things and you're doing this this thing People that do all the real psychological shit really fuck me up like David Blaine What does he do? Oh, they just do weird shit like walk up to somebody and tell them the name of their mother's dead sibling Oh, God shit like that. Okay, you know, they're like where they can rain magic They do like brain magic where they can take somebody's phone and like then just stare at them and then guess their Code on their iPhone stop. Yes, it's really there's a guy who was an Instagram I don't see much anymore, but he was Kevin Ham dance, it's Toronto and just blow drunk people's minds You go all those videos were shot in like late night Toronto on the streets and he would be but no He was actually fascinating.

He seemed like a very nice person. Okay. Well, it didn't sound like it sounded creepy at first It is ultimately crazy. You're saying you're going up to drunk people then no I'm just I'm I'm elaborating too much on the details of these videos.

I'm watching there by polluting What I am the story that I'm attempting to tell the thing is there are people that do do this kind of psychic Do you believe that it's real? Do you believe they have psychic powers? Do you believe in that? I've ever asked you if you believe in psychic powers I believe in energy.

I believe that we do exude all of these these energy fields I think that that and I believe I do believe that we don't understand all of it And I also believe that there are some people more attuned to those wavelengths They just simply have it just just like I Can magically pull I'm fucking melody out of my asshole these people can like and not everybody can do that Not everybody can make melodies for some reason I can synthesize melodies, you know usually out of Bits and pieces of melodies already heard but hey, you know I'm rearranging things that I've already processed and making new things out of them But there I do believe there are people that are actually psychic I do believe that and I think it's because they they do They do read things they get information that not everybody gets more information that people get but we just don't process it Some people better than others some people can run like the fucking wind. Mm-hmm. Some people. It's just everybody Everybody has their thing.

Yeah Everybody's fancy everybody's fine. Your body's fancy and so is mine What's that fun mr. Rogers who was also a bit of a new guest mr. Rogers every morning?

Would swim naked? Uh-huh every morning. Maybe that just felt pure to him. He was very religious.

Yeah, it's good to say I mean There's a man who like was he could mix his nudity and religion. Mm-hmm. You know God bless mr He had it he had the connection. I loved him.

He also he they were gonna defund PBS I know and then in the 60s and he did his passionate speech from who knows like Congress and he did this incredible speech People and some like you know people Conserve a very conservative person was like well, Jesus Christ. I can't argue with that I mean he mr. Rogers talk about Disney's Wow talk about magic talk about magic someone who's able to sit in front Sit and speak to Congress or the Senate and actually change somebody's mind with a speech I mean it gives it gives me an unrealistic expectation of what is possible I think it gives a lot of people unrealistic Expectations on what a beautiful and articulately felt speech can do how much power it can have Well, our words are strong. Wow.

They need to be stronger So that's true. That's true. Well, he is the man who had the land of make-believe You know was one of my favorite things in the whole fucking world. I loved it so much when trolley went there It was just like oh, I waited for that part.

It's best. Yeah, it was so good Well, well should we end it on that Daniel tiger in there and then let's see Henryetta Ex the mother fucking owl That's the fucking owl who's he was voiced by mr. Rogers ex the owl as well were many of the puppets Yeah, mr. Rogers was back there.

He was so busy naked look at him. He was not naked back there It was back there with a beautiful cardigan on well that his mother made by the fucking his mother made his mother knit All those fucking cardigans and he you know what he respected it Disclaimer what not all of them towards the end his oh, they would go out to thrift stores and find it Oh, well cuz I mean she was dead I'm just saying that maybe his mom was dead. Yeah, maybe she just couldn't make you can cut out a gun They really hurt me. I saw it's a lot of work I went to a museum in Pittsburgh.

It's not the mr. Rogers museum It should be but I didn't behind his history sensor Pittsburgh Pennsylvania also was a museum for Heinz ketchup We're the Heinz Corporation, but anyway, just like all of these mr. Rogers Have the sets from the plan had mr. Rogers whole wardrobe really?

Yeah, he wore like a little wow every day He wore like a little boiler suit when he went out on the town and had this little boy, you know one place or yes Like the girls where at that like hipster coffee shop in Brooklyn. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah That's one name I've heard for them. Yeah jumpsuit Pink pink good number six.

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