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Was that just a sip of espresso? Yeah, this is my ill-advised third double espresso of the day. Damn. That's actually, that is ill-advised.
Really ill-advised. You're going to be shaking. I'll be shaking. It will be difficult for me to enunciate.
Do you think you're going to have a headache? No. Okay. No, I do not.
Yeah, I'm about to... Well, here you have S-E-S, everyone. Espresso. Espresso.
Let me clear that up for you. Okay, here. I'm going to have some coffee. Adele is a very measured person.
Adele, can you explain what's your approach to coffee? How do you keep from being someone like me? I don't know. Well, it's just age and time.
Are we recording? Yes. Okay, great. I saw you look over your shoulder with them.
I'm sort of jerkily looked over my shoulder to make sure that the waveforms were progressing on the screen. That third cup of espresso already hitting you. Paranoia setting in. Yeah.
I had to stop drinking espresso for a while because I was so paranoid during the pandemic. And I had to stop. Hey, guess who remembers that? Me, your paranoia during the pandemic.
It's legendary. It's actually legendary. There's been tales written about it. Like, actually, I don't know if you've ever told anyone how...
Maybe you have. Telling them now. You've divulged my paranoia to people here and there. Well, we talked about it on one of our adorable little specials that we did during the pandemic.
I think it was the very first one, the all-a-day special, which was for Christmas, et cetera, all the days, all the holidays. And we were pretty deep. You were pretty deep, in fact, in your paranoia. Okay.
Let's move on. And scene on the paranoia chat. We'll do that in the paranoia episode. Oh, hell yeah.
Who wants to be the guest on that one? Let's get fucked up, guys. Yeah, I can just invite one of my male friends. Uh-huh.
Those are usually the best white male friends. White guys. I know. I have one on mine in my mind right now, in fact.
Okay, so this is not the paranoia episode. That will be here. That's coming. The paranoia.
I was going to put that on the way, Port. 2024. Well, you were wondering how I managed to be so measured with coffee. And everything, to be honest.
Oh, do you think I'm measured with everything? Compared to me? Indeed. Well, comparison is the thief of joy.
What about inspiration? Don't do it. It's inspiration. Okay, so when you compare yourself to me, it inspires you?
Yes. You're living in my midst and you're not shaking. Uh-huh. You're not sputtering incoherently.
Not today. I rarely, folks. Oh. Rarely.
Well, I used to drink oodles of coffee. I grew up in such a coffee family. I mean, I don't know if it's a generalization, but I'm going to go there. I'm just going to generalize.
You can't, like, your parents drink a lot of coffee. Holy. They do. They drink coffee before bed.
They, folks, they drink coffee morning till night night night night morning all day, all night in Minnesota, in Wisconsin. I'm going to make a sweeping generalization. Do it. Everyone there drinks coffee.
Everyone. And they drink a lot of it. Yeah. Can you hear the whoosh?
That's the sweeping generalization sweeping in. Yeah. There's no fact checking here. It's just generalizations.
So, basically, everyone in, I'm actually going to throw Iowa in there too. Oh. I don't know why. It's close.
But I'm just doing it. It's not region. It's right there. Because those farmers, they got to get up so early.
They need that coffee. That's my assumption. So, in the Twin Cities, in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and bonus, Iowa, everyone drinks coffee all the time. So I grew up with coffee pretty young too.
Like, I remember having coffee. Well, maybe it's not that young anymore. I see kids drinking all sorts of crazy shit now. They do?
Yeah. I feel like, I mean, they drink so many things with caffeine in it, you know, when they're really young. Our low, our regional. Combies.
Combies. I do not have time to do a commercial for that for this episode. It's got to wait. Combies is going to wait.
Yeah. It'll have to happen. It's our regional 711 style store. Right.
Yep. It's not just a gas station. It's so much more. Yes.
That commercial. We'll do that. We'll just be all sandwiches, hot dogs and rollers. That's where we get our trash stickers.
That's where we get our trash stickers. That's a whole other thing that we can explain. Oh my God. There's so much we could just talk for hours.
You could just talk for hours. You could just talk for hours. You could just talk for hours. You could just talk for hours.
We get like $3 for a large garbage bag. No. What? It's not $3.
It's not. I don't think it's $3. Well, shit, I don't know. It's a lot.
It is a lot. So that's $3 for every, or not $2 for every bag of garbage. $1.75. We have to pay for them to pick up our garbage.
Well, everyone does. But per bag. Yeah, ours is a per bag basis. This is, we just really, this has nothing to do with the theme today.
We're having a hard time, I'm having a hard time seeing focus. Oh, hey. Maybe it's the coffee. Hey, check it out.
Oh, my gosh. I did it. I did it right up to the last minute people right up that took me until just before I pressed we proceeded with this episode. I finished it right then.
Glorious labor of love. It's right, the finish line, just the ribbon striding through it. You just ran through it. Beautiful.
He made it. I'm going to sit back. I have to go to dinosaur junior practice soon. We have a very limited amount of time speaking of limited amount of time and nervousness.
We have a lot of stuff going on. Oh, my God, you guys were so overwhelmed. Lou and I are legit overwhelmed. I mean, in a good way.
We have a tour coming up. Oh, my God. So much. Our little family general tour.
Lou is going on tour. We're coming along. He's got a rehearse. I'm really worried because I'm playing some of the same backyard as I did two years ago.
I'm scared to death of playing the identical set that I played. I've got to learn songs that I don't know. I've got to learn them this week. I've got to go to Salt Lake City on Friday.
You've got to Dinosaur Show. There's some festival way out in Northern Nevada. It sounds kind of crazy. We have to fly into Salt Lake City and then drive three hours to the festival site.
And then three hours back. Oh, my gosh. Well, yes. And then Lou, so the prep for this.
Well, there's just been so much. And then Scott was here for the weekend, the producer of the new Faux Completion Albums. Right. I did vocals for like four days straight.
Yeah. So it was in the studio for days. It was just a lot. All right.
I'm trying to like learn a cricket machine. Anyone? Anyone? See, are I?
See, I feel like such a tool. I struggle with learning new tools. You have tools, but it turns out those tools aren't sufficient. So you need more tools and different tools and better tools.
There's always better tools. Lou's writing handwritten lyric orders, which are really, really nice, but they're time consuming because he does a lovely job on, guys. I mean, and do you know where you can find those? I've already been in a channel store where music related items and people are like...
Right now we're dropping, dropping so many names and so many commercial suggestions. It's overwhelming. I mean, I can't do that right now. You're shaking.
I'm shaking. And when this, and we wrap on this episode, this coffee shaking. Caffeine induced. Caffeine episode.
I'm going to have to move on. Yeah. I can't stay in that place and start making more commercials. I did my Folgers commercial.
I love that Folgers commercial. That song came into my brain. You know what happened? How'd that come to you?
I just came to me and I was like, I don't know. One day I was like, the best bottom wakin' up is Folgers in y'all cup. I was like, I got it. Oh no.
I get hit me. I mean, thankfully, it took the place of Taylor Swift briefly. Briefly. But then I knew that it was imperative.
I had my marching orders. I had to do the Folgers commercial. I of course went on to YouTube. I found the correct, the one that I remembered the best.
The one that meant Folgers to me. And I covered the whole commercial right down to the sound effects of the sun. This is a first. I've never done the sound effects as well.
And I embellished it a little bit. I had a little bit of that going on. But today, I'm going to take that recording and match it directly to the old commercial and I'm going to post it. Where?
Where? Yeah. The Barlow Family General Subsack. Barlow Family General Subsack.
Excellent. All right. You guys catching on here? I'm going to go to the link tree for Lou.
Just throw it in one of the comments on one of the many social media sites. Fuck is link tree. You're the one who told me you were going to do it. I don't know what it is.
I've never even seen it. I don't know. I just remember yesterday. You told me it was a place where everything lives.
Yeah. Remember yesterday where I was just sitting in my little nest in the corner of our bedroom and I just started going just kind of went off there. Oh, and you had a meltdown? I had a meltdown.
I had a meltdown yesterday. Yeah. And it was not caffeine related. No.
No. I often describe myself saying when I feel squeezed, you felt squeezed. I don't really squeeze. I apologize for squeezing you in a bad way yesterday.
Well, no. Because when you bring your squeeze, you're feeling squeezed and you tell somebody that you're feeling squeezed, it can often simply be like a baton. Yeah. A baton of tension that you hand to someone else.
I do often take the baton from you and then sometimes just burst into tears or feel what I did. Oh, that's right. I cried. It was really, it was like a real hug.
It was such a... The cry was like it was almost like it was like you were like a 12 year old girl. I felt helpless. Yeah, you felt it was just like it was such an honest little outline.
Well, you were having such a well kind of a raw little meltdown yesterday. I didn't... Let's clarify for people that I wasn't throwing things. No, no, no.
We don't mean like meltdown like... I've done that in my hand. Tansome. Tansome.
It's more of a... Tansome and cast have done that. Oh, it was slightly tanned for me, but it was contained to your little seat where you were. It was my nest.
Yeah, your nest. My comfort corner. Yeah, your arms did go in the air. I usually do.
They did. But that's okay, but you were talking pretty quickly and listing off a succession of things that were very difficult for you right now and... Well, it's just things I have to do. It's not that they're difficult.
It's like trying to find the time to do them. Like last night I woke up in the middle of the night. Well, there was things that were difficult to do. I actually woke up at one o'clock and finished editing the short little film that I made for the reasons to live.
For the Barlow Family General Subset. One more time. Barlow Family General Subset. I don't know.
I mean, it's okay that we're talking about things that we need to do that involve our creative life and it's okay, right? Of course it is. Yeah, so I wanted to get that little film done. I've been working on it for maybe two weeks and I just really felt like the urgency that I wanted to post it this morning, which I did.
Yeah. Or you did actually because he was just maybe I handed off to you. That's a good baton. That's a creative baton that I hand off to you.
Yeah. And we make sure that everything is kosher. Everything is good to pass along to the people. Right.
Our people. Yeah. The dozens of people. I just hit publish on the sub stack.
You basically, I mean, you wrote everything. It's all you. Yeah. But yes, we worked together.
Well, this none of this answers how I measured with coffee. Do you remember that original question? Oh, that thing I asked you before I started talking about me again. You can talk about you again.
There's so many exciting new things coming up. So there's a lot to talk about. That's okay. I'm actually I'm kind of here to support the summer of you really now that I'm thinking about it.
It's the summer of Lou because well, yeah, you're doing the big solo tour and you've got the folk and Plosian stuff and then dotted with dinosaur things. You coffee measured. Okay. Oh, well, my secrets.
My secret is I am one of those people that I have like a valve and it's this invisible valve in me where I do turn it off or I tighten it a little when I feel myself getting out of control. Some people struggle with a valve, you know, and they don't shut it. They just keep going, right? They either drink too much coffee or too much alcohol or just too much anything, right?
You know, or too much TV. They just can't turn a little button off. I did. Did you know that I'm one of those people?
Honey, I do. I do. I mean, absolutely. I mean, you don't struggle with it with everything, but you do have kind of a, I wouldn't say a constantly open valve, but I wouldn't say just a sputtering pose, just like a fire hydrant just got knocked over by a car just bursting.
It's not like that, but you do have certain things that I know are hard for you to shut off and you know, listen, I have my own things that are hard to shut off my brain. Okay. That's my struggle with being measured. I don't know.
But you if you've listened, you know, you've heard me talk about that. So anyway, but coffee, as I've gotten older, I think I am getting better at trying to listen to my body a little more and go like, okay, I'm feeling kind of shitty. I'm gonna, I'm just gonna put that down and now I'm gonna drink a big glass of water. And so I do feel kind of proud of myself because I didn't used to always be that way.
I wasn't that way in my twenties and even into my thirties, but in my forties, I am forward looking more and I mean having a seven year old when you're 46, for me anyway, it's like a constant reminder that I want to be here for her, you know, like a long time and I want to be like a steady presence in her life and I want to be grounded and I want to be healthy and I want her to know she can rely on me. And so, yeah, you know, I kind of, I'm learning how to turn off the album, certain things and to say no to what I need to and to say yes to what I want to do as well. So I guess it's just trusting myself and listening to myself and instead of ignoring those cues, I guess I'm learning to honor the cue and fall through with it. Did you by any chance notice me talking to myself today and yesterday?
I'm talking to myself a lot. No, like out loud. I didn't. Like a lot of things like the inner dialogue, you know, when I do my like mantras and stuff, they're usually it's internal and I don't say them out loud.
And so the valve, that's the valve. The internal, I do have a voice in my head that knows the valve. There is a part of me that knows the valve knows to tighten it. But I'm finding that voice sometimes has to be out loud, like in the room.
Like I have to, I sort of. Oh, I did hear that. I walk myself through like when I was working on the folders. Wait, let me just say really quick.
I thought you were talking on the phone. No. Oh, okay. No, okay.
No, I was talking to myself and saying things like, okay, no, you fin, and I would do it in this voice to this. Okay, now, Lou, listen, it's you've finished the effects for this. You finished the track of effects. It's time to move on.
And I speak exactly in that tone because I'm, but it's effective. It's like, yeah, because I can do it internally, but it doesn't, it's not, not to say that it doesn't work, but it doesn't really work that well. I, I, it's, it's. It makes perfect sense.
I mean, I read a, I've read my fair share of self health books, everyone. And what you're doing is you're speaking to yourself and the third person. And that is really effective. And you can call that third person life coach, Lou.
I mean, he's coaching you. He's. You can call it like getting old and a little bit crazy. Well, no, I mean, I wouldn't, that's like dismissing it.
I think it maybe means you're actually getting more in control and that's okay. It just might not look typical because you are talking out loud, but that's all right. You know, I've actually, I've always really liked to, uh, we talked about this with Izzy and like when Izzy and I were here alone, how we were both talking to ourselves. It's time.
Yeah. And, uh, because I was working on the pavement cover and then, uh, she was working on her, her world, her endless world of imagination and Taylor Swift. And Taylor Swift. Yes.
Well, I think that's great, hun. I'm glad to hear you were. And of course I don't care. And I, you know, I talk, I talk out loud too.
I, it should be my mantras. I like that. So you're kind of coaching yourself. You're stopping.
You are, you are effectively, uh, turning your valve then. That's good. Good job. Thank you.
Yeah. I was thinking. You have to recognize those winds by the way. It's important.
Yeah. I'm getting better at that because usually I would just dismiss it outright and be, you know, use pretty partial language with myself. That's our generation. Yeah.
It's our generation. It's Gen X. But, um, the other day I was just thinking about all the nice things that you bring to my life. Mm.
And at one, a term came to me. I was like, you're kind of like my life coach a little bit. Really? Yeah.
And I hadn't really thought about that. Wow. I didn't know that you would see me like that. Not that I said it out loud.
Maybe it doesn't work. Maybe not. I mean, we are partners. We're working on this.
But, but there is like you do. Well, maybe we're good teammates. I do look to you for guidance. I do.
And for you to keep me on track. Team captain. I don't know. Cause we're on the same team.
Mm hmm. Sometimes when you're on the same team, there can be someone who you look up to on the team who's like, okay, when you worked at paper source and you worked at paper source. What was the title of your job title and you worked at paper source and Pasadena. Well, I had a couple of different titles.
It just depended on like a few things like I was assistant store manager. I think I was interim store manager. They asked me to be the store manager and I sat on that for a few months, trying to decide while they looked for someone else. And I ultimately decided to not do it.
I wanted to do other things. Manager. I was a manager. I was a retail manager.
Yeah. And I managed what is it called? Oh gosh, I can't remember now. I was the merchandising manager as well.
So I had a few different roles. There it wasn't just a store manager, an assistant store manager. I was also a merchandising manager, which meant the entire look and layout of the store was my responsibility. So yeah, manager.
Well, thank you. And you're part of my team, baby. Helping me manage. You help me manage.
So this is the end of the episode. We're done. I love you. I love you too.
And we love you. No. Impressions. I love you too.
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