Three. Low present. There's a lot of gravel in my throat. You can hear it in that.
Raw in the Russian. I've got a lot of stuff. I've got like a cauldron of lava. Does that mean it's dry or it's?
Cauldron of lava. That's like the, that's a terrible title. Oh my goodness. Well, what does that mean with your voice?
My voice has texture right now. Why? In the form of mucus. Oh, even mucus.
I have mucal buildup. Remember we were talking about that. That that could just be a physical, inherited trade of mine. Oh.
Remember that time? I am now yesterday. Correct. Yep, I'm there.
I really didn't need to bring that up. A lot of times I really do want to bring up mucus and poop. So you're saying you have a lot of flam right now in your chest or in your throat or? I don't know.
So I don't know where that I generalize it just like, yeah, my throat sort of, but towards, I don't want to talk about why my mucus is coming from. Well, I just want to say maybe it's allergies. Maybe it's allergies. Because the seasons they are changing.
They are for real changing. Yeah, they're happening. I think this is it. The change is happening.
I suggested I put the snow blower away like two months ago. And I said, nope. And it did snow. It did.
But now I think it's almost time to put the snow blower away. I was going to ask you, should we put the snow blower away before we go to Los Angeles? But then I thought, are you going to say no? I'm pretty sure it's not going to snow.
I'm going to put it away. Let's do it. I'm putting it away. Let's do it.
Goodbye, snow blower. I only, we only hung out a couple of times this year, snow blower. I was looking at the forecast for next week when we're in Los Angeles for here in Greenfield. And I think they're going to have a lovely spring break, April break.
It's going to be in the 70s. Well, good for them. Good for us. Yeah.
You know? So I think that it probably is time to put the snow blower underneath the deck in Cariano Spring. I'm ready. Me too.
Me too. So what else is new? What else is new? Yeah.
Well, I got a little bit of a surprise for you. Is it the surprise that I'm not really allowed to hear about that you and Izzy are doing such a wonderful job at hiding in front of me? Well, I forgot. We had the secret last night I got her in on the secret.
Well, she came and told me in the bedroom she said, I'm going to go into Daddy's office, but I'm not going to bother him. I'm just going to hang out in there quietly. And you know what? I believed her because I was like, oh, she's wanting to be near you.
Yeah. She had the whole story worked out. Because I was like, well, keep the secret from Mama. Because I want to surprise her.
I want to surprise Mama. So she really took that seriously. As of this morning, I forgot about our news. I forgot about the whole thing.
And she would still hold onto it like, no, Dad, Mama does no. And I did not jam with you last night. She's like, I didn't jam with you last night. I was like, what are you crazy?
You did jam with me last night. Yeah, because you were like, oh, I was going to jam together last night. And she's like, no, we didn't. We did not jam last night.
And I kept going. Now we did. But then I'm not realizing she was simply trying to follow through with my plan. With your plan.
I know. My plan. She was, her face was desperately getting more desperate. She was like, dude, you've lost it.
We come back. Now, perfect timing. OK, good. Good.
Where the dreams are capable of today. Take a walk, eh. Where the dreams are capable of today. Where the dreams are capable of today.
Take a walk down and we'll be there. We'll be there. And laugh at the jokes you forgot to say. Take a walk down and we'll be there.
Think about the problems that you probably made. A pretty day. Where the dreams are capable of today. Take a walk down.
Where the dreams are capable of today. Take a walk down memory lane. Song written by Izzy Barlow. Yep, Melody.
All those lyrics. Everything. I don't know if that came through the one line, which is amazing. It's my favorite, which is, today is going to be a brutal day.
Let's take a walk down memory lane. I don't know if you care brutal, but in case anyone else missed that. I thought it really leaned into brutal. Oh, really?
Brutal. I used to my gravel. Brutal. I don't know if it.
Yeah. But so we, well, it's funny because kids are always watching and listening even when we think, oh, they're not paying attention because they're sort of seeming preoccupied while the adults are talking, right? They're still taking in. Well, some of them are.
She's one of those people who's making note of everything. And so we went out to a lunch on the weekend with Lou's sisters and his mom. We did like a little family kind of brunch thing. And it happened to be one of those brunches that happened where you kind of like reminisce about certain things or you're talking about childhood.
My sister was up here from DC. We were not often together, really. A couple times a year she comes up and we get together. But we were all there and my mom's sitting next to me and the conversation starts to turn to memories.
Yes, memories. The good old days when times were bad. It's a Dolly Parton song. And it's such a poignant song, by the way, if you've never heard it.
So anyway, yeah. And is he was there quietly kind of eating her hot dog and her french fries and coloring in the little paper that they gave her. And she could have either been completely in her head or paying attention, right? And she turns out, of course, she was clocking everything.
And then just at dinner the other night, she was like, did she just start singing? Let's take a walk down memory lane. She did. And she was singing it.
It was, she'd been singing it for a little while. Yeah. And we were like, what is this about? Where did this come from?
Because usually we ask her, like, where did you hear that? And it's usually Taylor Swift or Casey Musgraves. It's one of the two. But this time she was like, what did she say?
I was like, is that a Taylor Swift song? She goes, no. And I'm like, did you make it up? And she nodded.
Oh, yeah. And then she started like adding verses to the chorus. And then she told me, I said, wow, where did you get that? Let's take a walk down memory lane.
And she said, from you, you said it at lunch. Right. I didn't even remember saying that, but we were swapping some childhood stories that were, you know, a little on the dark side, right? Yeah.
And it's a little bit of a dark family conversation. And you said, you know, sarcastically. Right. It's a walk down memory lane.
You know, as you, you know, and it's interesting because like, you know, my siblings and I, and siblings in general, we all have different stories of how, what transpired in the past. Sure. But we were reminiscing about moving from Michigan to Massachusetts in 1978. And how intense it was, because the house that we moved into in Massachusetts was like, actually really fucked up.
Like my parents bought the house and then we realized things like carpenter ants and eat in half of the house. The woman that lived there before the mother was deeply depressed. I don't know why we knew this, but, but there was black, but the whole theme of the house was black and red. There was black countertops.
Oh, really? Wow. Like red drapes. I've been to this house.
My mother, my mother actually kind of renovate, like renovated a restyle of the house on her own throughout the 20 odd years that they lived in that house. But when we first got there, it was a bit of a mind fuck. We had just moved, moved from Michigan into this house. I took the dreams off, keep for every Tuesday.
I eat the dreams off, keep for every Tuesday. You bought a dress for 100 bucks. Then you think it really sucked. I'm so great.
Remember that verse? Yeah. Well, she just then started riffing and saying these funny verses and stuff. And yeah, we were like, dang, these are great.
These are great. We should write this down. And so, yeah, you did you writing writing it down. And then you guys didn't jam last night, but you did.
We did. We had a secret jam. The moment was... The not so secret jam.
Because our bedroom is right next to you at this room. And so, of course, I heard it. She was going to sing a bought a dress for 100 bucks. Found out really sucked, but she didn't want to say sucked.
She did not want to say it. So she said, Daddy, I'll spell it like. And so she did, but I didn't capture it, unfortunately. She was like, then I say, S-U-C-E-D.
And I'm like, what is she saying? She was putting it together that she was spelling out the word sucked. And she said, because I can't say that. I'm not going to say it.
I'm just going to spell it. That was really cute. I liked your song. You think it's over?
That's going to keep coming in and out. That's fine. There's a surprise. Take a look.
Take a look. Take a look. Take a look. Take a look.
The memory lane. The lego set. It's a 20 bucks. Take a look.
The memory lane. Then you never play. Take a look. Take a look.
Take a look. Take a look. Take a look. Take a look.
Take a look. Again, more of her lines. I was going to say those earlier. I'm not the last one.
Don't get stuck on the bad stuff. Yeah. That was me. That was for me.
You can go down memory lane, but don't get stuck. Yeah, keep going. Keep going. Just okay to reminisce sometimes and then move on.
That's my message. I want to do it part in the song. Yeah. That's funny.
That's like family to family. If people have the relationship with their parents where maybe they're not allowed to talk about family memories, it could be like we don't talk about the past, even, you know, whatever. I think that that's definitely part of some families. Yeah.
I'm sure that it's ended with the police. A lot of families. My gosh. Remember.
Don't start talking about that. Do not bring up the time. Oh, no. The hot dogs on the grill and blah, blah.
What? How dare you? Don't bring that up. Yeah.
I have found that usually when I bring up a story from my childhood, my mom always says. I just don't even remember that. How do you even remember these things, Adele? And as a parent now, I don't blame her because it is so, you do, you just forget, there's so much.
And you're just, you know, when you're a parent in some ways you're just kind of like juggling the, I want to be present and I want to like feel this moment with just, I'm surviving this phase or this moment or this hard time or, and even if it's great times, it's just, it's a lot, you know? And I forget things like I forget, and my gosh, can make me cry. Like I forget, what was Izzy even like when she was two and three? We do, you know, now in the age of smartphones, we have plenty.
You have some glimpses, although I have to say I did not video Izzy as much as I would have liked, but then again, you know, it's like, what do you do? You sit there with your camera on your kid all the time videoing them? Yeah, I guess. And that's fine.
And people have been videoing their families with not just smartphones, but whole camcorders and stuff forever. And it's an interesting thing to document your life. It's an interesting way to do it. And like you guys did it with cassette tapes a lot growing up, like you would, your family would put a cassette recorder down and record a party or something.
It's crushing it. Yeah. Yeah. It's really early documenting of the family.
I think I have a cassette of like Christmas 1979. You do not know that you're in Massachusetts and probably in the 8th of 10th. I mean, because. Take a walk down memory lane for two?
Yeah, I mean, I'll dig it up. I mean, you have that to look forward to. You might have to vet that with the family before you. Wrong pressure, listeners.
That will, like my sister's and I, destroying Christmas carols. And just my mother was just beside herself laughing. But it was actually at this very difficult time her mother had passed away. And it was.
We love you. Dreams are capable every day. Take a walk down memory lane. That's about the jokes you forgot to say.
Take a walk down memory lane. Think about the problems that you probably made. It's going to be a brutal day. Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk.
This could benefit from some drums, you know? Some really just bass drums, guitar, just really flesh it out. This is the beginning of an epic. An epic jam.
She came up with a 10-minute all-too-well version. Yeah, she came up with a take a walk, take a walk. I mean, I was listening back to what we did last night because I sat her down in your chair last night. And she was sort of like, she didn't seem like she was into it so much or she didn't really want to be taking direction.
Because I was like, I knew the song. I'm like, look, she made up the song. I had the verse, I had the chorus. But she was more interested in making up new lines and moving on from, you know?
And I did have the thought. I was like, this is kind of like being in an indie band. Yeah. She does it.
I'm a von, man. Yeah, yeah, we've done this already. We did this. We already practiced that.
I don't want to do it. Let's move on. You like just that early 90s sort of impatience and moving on. So it really reminded me of that.
And so she came up with a fairly faithful representation of her words. Yes, it is. It is. It's basically what she said at the dinner table.
I thought there was a couple other lines in there that were really good too. There were. Yeah. I tried to remember.
I remember it as much as I could. Yeah. Dang. I love that one though.
What's it? We should have recorded her. I mean, she's the kid that is very pro social media. So she keeps it.
Did you put that on Instagram post this post this? And I'm like, oh, no, I don't really need to post 50 pictures of your baby dolls and the new family portraits that you took. And we'll see how long it lasts. She's only eight.
So I think when kids kind of hit the tween years, that relationship can change. But anyway, that one line, which is a laugh at the joke you forgot to say. That's the one that stuck out when we were at the table. We're like, what did you just say?
Laugh at the jokes you forgot to make. No, you forgot to say. Laugh at the jokes you forgot to say. And which I thought was a really, it's funny image.
Because I was like, I feel like I've done that. I feel like I've laughed. My kids will, you know. It's your aftermath where you're like, oh, I should have said that.
The kids will be like, especially the two older ones will be when I'm in the car with them. I'll just laugh. And they'll be like, what are you laughing at? Laughing at the jokes you forgot to say.
Laughing at the thing I forgot to say to the person at the supermarket. Because after going, I do this sort of internal thing after I have a social interaction, I will then replay the whole thing in my mind. Yes. And sort of react to it.
Yes, yes. I'll leave a store and the kids will be like, what are you laughing at? And I'm literally thinking, I'm laughing at recreating the conversation. And maybe even thinking of something funny, I could have said what I forgot to say.
Or you couldn't think of it in the moment. Couldn't think of it in the moment. Couldn't think of it in the moment. Yeah, that's what I have.
I have the, and I'm sure a million people do, but they're after like, I should have said that. That would have been really clever and really good. That was kind of brutal. That was sort of the most agonizing part of starting a podcast was like listening to a conversation, listening to the actual recording and going, I should have shed that there.
Mm. And then just learning to forgive myself for not being quite as sharp and on the moment as I wish I could be. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's true.
But at least a podcast is another, you get to keep trying again the next episode. You get another shot at it. It's true. They're just trying to learn.
Another shot at those hurdles. You just get to keep trying to jump them and, you know, see if you'll make it to the end. Oh man, I think I hear the rain outside. It sounds like it's raining.
I can kind of hear it in my headphones. Oh yeah. Yeah, actually. Oh yeah.
Yeah. I hear it. Yeah. It was a little, it was a little dreary today.
It's a little drippy out there. A little drippy. Oh gosh, yeah. Our roof, I hope our roof is okay.
Mm. Okay. Well, we have holes in our roof and we're getting into roof. We already talked about that.
So yes, we've, we've signed the paperwork. We've signed off our life where we've committed. I got to empty the buckets before we're going to LA. Yeah, we're leaving soon.
So make sure it's nice big empty buckets up there. I think we're, I think I'm up to like four to five buckets. Oh gosh. Yeah.
Position strategically and our wonderful attic. We love our home. It's a great home. We'll be saved by this, a new roof.
Yeah. We're not getting a new deck, but we're getting a new roof. Gosh. I'm going to feel good about it.
I am too. I am too. I put a nice, nice hat back on this house. Yeah, I know.
The hat's broken. So it needs to, it's, it needs a new hat. It's true. It's true.
It's true. So you got to do that. It's just like, okay, it's not very exciting, but it's extremely necessary and you got to do it. Oh, yeah.
What's up? I don't know. Oh, yes. Excuse me.
But so we're, we're leaving for Los Angeles in just a couple of days. Oh, I can't talk about that. Am I packing? Am I going to start my pre packing?
We've already talked about that too. Oh, I can talk about that all day long.