What is it happening? I'm forgetting because I'm... I got... they call it a red light fever.
Okay. No. Do you know what that means? I feel like when I hear red light, I just...
I think of something, but I don't know if it's what you're talking about. Do you think of prostitution when I say red light? Oh no, the red light special at Kmart. What?
I... There's a lot of... I think of the red light district. Yeah, you think of prostitution.
But... Yeah, why not? It came out of... I believe they had red light.
Oh, was it the blue light special? I thought it was the blue light special. I doubt they come from the red light. Can you just get to the song already?
I'm gonna write some lyric prompts. I'm gonna write some lyric prompts for myself. This whole episode cannot be you trying to sing the intro song. It could be.
This is how I get caught up. This is how this is like this is gonna... You're a hard-cut up. You're a recurring...
This is a recurring problem in my life. Mmm. In red light fever. Well, what does red light fever mean?
It means that when you know you're being recorded, you freeze. Mmm. You know, you become nervous. I'm getting nervous.
Yeah. Red light fever. I've had red light fever. I have red light fever.
Hey, guess what? Liz Fair has a song called Red Light Fever? She does? Yeah, she does.
I wonder if she... I bet she managed to make it both about prostitution and... Being nervous when recording. Mmm.
I bet she's... Yeah, it says here on the Urban Dictionary, the feeling of nervousness when recording a track in the booth of a music studio. Mmm-hmm. Yeah.
Yeah. How to support artists who suffer with red light fever when recording. It's an article on Pro Tools Expert. Really?
Do you need my support? How can I support you right now through this? I do have red light fever. I've made a blockers and then a prolol.
That's gonna help you. A little bit. A little bit of people take that. Yeah.
Now I'm gonna have to listen to this Liz Fair song later. I'm gonna look at her lyrics to see what she's talking about. She has this song called, Dr. H.W.C.
H.W.C. Yeah, look that up. Okay. H.
Good capital. Yeah, or H.Y.C. Liz Fair. Yeah.
Okay. H.W.C. Give it to me. Don't give it away.
Don't think about what the others say. My skin's getting clear. My hair's so bright. All you do is fuck me every day and night.
Well, well, thank you for the heads up on that. I just kept reading and then I saw the big F word. Yeah. Whoo.
Goodness. Liz, that's a... Hi. I'm blushing.
Well, Liz, should have had a little E explicit here to warn me. Yeah. Well, that sounds fun. I'll have to listen to that later.
Oh my. Well, these lyrics are dirty. Gee, what is this off of? Somebody were record.
But she probably recorded in the Bahamas. I've written down my lyrics prompts. Can we just get on with this? I mean, love ya.
That didn't sound very supportive of your red light fever. No. Okay. Let me reframe that and rephrase that.
Honey. This is gonna be a wonderful recording of Three is the Magic Number and you... You can't give away the title. Oh shit.
I'm sorry. This, you are on track. You are the track. Be the track.
Feel it and caress that mic with your sweet tongue. Can you do your... Oh, now I just got red light fever. Oh geez.
You gave it to me. That's what you did now. It's gone from you and you gave it to me. Feel it.
Now I feel nervous. It's fucking viral. It's all these viruses right now. Okay.
Ooh, I feel nervous. All right. Yeah. I know my shoulders feel dense.
I know. It's happening. You just literally transmitted your red light fever directly across this little room to me. Good.
Okay. Well, let's just take a breath and... Good. Okay.
Then... Hello. This is the beginning of episode three. Three.
It's a magic number. Yes, it is. It's a magic number. Somewhere in the ancient mystic trinity.
You get three. It's a magic number. It's a past and the present and the future. Faith and hope, bancherity.
The heart and the brain and the body give you three. It's a magic number. A man and a woman had a little baby. Yes, they did.
They got three in the family. That's a magic number. Three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty. I made lasagna yesterday because Cedric's likes it and it was his birthday.
So I did like a homemade lasagna. Damn, that is involved. But ooh, it's so satisfying. I love lasagna.
It's kind of my favorite food. It really, it's so fucking good. It's so good. And then you have it with a salad.
I made an arugula salad to go with it, which is also nice. I mixed it all together. Yeah, and then some garlic bread and honestly, what a meal. So fucking good.
What a stomachache. What a meal. What a make. What a payback.
But yeah, it was a... And then we had ice cream cake on top. I just... Oh, that was cool.
We microwaved the ice cream cake for almost three whole minutes. Or is he was losing her mind? He was like, why are you doing that? It's melting.
She couldn't... She just did not like that process. She was like, don't do that. Even this morning she brought it up.
She was like, I didn't like how daddy put that cake in the microwave. It was a little bit too long. At the end it did look a bit... It was a bit of a mess.
It almost looked like a disaster. Although it wasn't. I think we pulled it out. It wasn't a disaster, but it did look pretty fucked up.
It's funny though. I was eating that cake and I was thinking about how some people say are born with a sweet tooth or a salty tooth. And I really do think there is something to that, where you are just literally predisposed to it. You feel it in your teeth.
You feel it in your teeth. I feel it in your teeth because you were saying that the ice cream cake was hurting your teeth. It does. I feel it in my teeth.
So sweet. It's hurting your teeth. So you do not necessarily have a sweet tooth. I don't think I have the point of that is.
Just talking. Just talking. Well, I was just saying you might hear my stomach growl, speaking of sounds, because it's a rumbling. And then you might also hear the sound of me sipping my constant comment, black teeth.
I think you are... Your AMSR skills are very... God, that's a good teeth. You got some AMSR baby.
Thank you. I do. Thank you very much. I do like listening and watching other people eat.
You do. You watch. You watch. I watch videos of people eating.
Just eating. I'm like, look at that. They're just eating. And I don't know why I'm doing this.
Why am I wasting my time with what? Like, wow, she's really enjoying that burger. That's cool. I don't know.
Yeah. I do. I just... And I think it's like kind of a fun trend.
I don't know if it's really a trend, but I'm sort of empowered by it. Like I just like seeing people enjoying food. It's like, yeah, dig in. Look at you go.
It's awesome. Although I will say this. That being said, sometimes I don't... Actually, there can be sounds at the table that make me feel like gagging.
It depends on who's making them. Absolutely depends. That actually doesn't really good Thanksgiving. I used to dread Thanksgiving.
When you were a child? Yes. When I was a child, I mean, and into my teenage years, and especially in my teenage years. The sounds of people eating, older people eating, drove me crazy.
Yeah. I had one relative in particular that I would start thinking about it months beforehand. Oh, wow. Oh, I really hope I'm not sitting right next to them.
Yeah. I mean, I really... Wow. Gosh.
It was very intense. I feel that. I mean, that's a lot of pre-gaming. You're like, okay, okay.
Yeah, and I have been sort of developing this theory about being a teenager. Yes, you are. You're developing the theory. Sure.
It's time to talk about it. Our son, Hendricks. There's no good time to talk about it, so this is the time. Yeah, he's 13, and he's noticing things about me.
Why are you laughing right now? Why are you making that sound? He's really... He's becoming attuned and irritated by my existence.
Sounds. Existence. Yeah. And I understand that.
Yeah. Because when I was a teenager, my grandfather lived with us towards the end of his life, the last year or two of his life. He would be downstairs and say it was like Friday night. I'm staying up late.
I'm watching Fridays. There was this amazing comedy show on ABC called Fridays. It actually wasn't very amazing. It was actually terrible.
It was just on. It was on. And you're watching it. They had bands on it like the Clash played it all the time at Devo.
But my grandfather would come down and get himself a big bowl of ice cream. And he would sit on the recliner and he would... Like chew his spoon. Oh.
The entire time that he was eating ice cream. It just curdled my blood. I mean, I wasn't angry at him. It was a reco...
You were coiling. That was recoiling. And at that time too, I also noticed how loudly my father breathed. And it made me...
It just hit this primal part of my brain. And now that we're doing the podcast and we're obviously recording conversations. And as I listen back and as I edit these together, I hear myself breathing. I just have to go, it's okay, Lou.
It's okay. You're older. You are old. You are now...
You'd be retired if you were... Your father's... In a different time. You know, a different time not that long ago.
The age of 56, you would be retired. You'd be done. You'd be done. You'd be breathing hard and chewing on spoons.
Yeah. So it's not a... Well over the hill. But actually, I feel fortunate that I'm still climbing the hill.
Wait, so finish while your theory is about kids' sounds? I just think it's almost like an evolutionary impulse. You have to have that level of irritation just the desire to get the fuck out. Of the nest, right?
Like the nest. The sounds of the nest. Yeah, closing in on you. My final years at home, I worked the night shift at a nursing home and another place like that.
Another sort of halfway house place for elderly people. So I was able to... I was working at night and then when I was home during the day, I would never see my parents. The house would be empty.
So I think it's just part of growing up and growing up. Yeah. It's like, it's a good reminder to not try not to take it too personally when they seem to like irritate it with you. And they're just like picking apart all your little sounds and things you do because it's their way of pushing themselves from the nest.
I like that theory. I think I... I'm with you on that one. It feels right.
And I... There's something there that's just not a lot of fabrication. No, I do think that there's something there to that. And it's funny you said that about the spoon.
Because man, I really don't like it when I hear someone bite on a spoon or a fork when they're eating. That does make me feel not happy. You know what's funny? I don't like that.
Out of contact alert. This story is about a childhood friend of news. The friend that I had, my protector, my strong man, he bit his spoon. He actually had these really incredibly exaggerated eating things.
He actually held his utensils in a clenched fist. Yeah. Like a bat. He's got a baseball bat in his hand.
And his elbows would be fully extended. He'd be just sort of surrounding his food and like, wow. And I was fascinated. Yes.
And actually a lot of my eating habits to this day were influenced directly by him. It's funny. I loved the way he clutched his forks. I just loved it.
I had a feel this so much. I also had sort of like random things with different people that I became kind of fixated on and fascinated with. And it makes me a little self-conscious thinking about it now because I did probably look at people too much and too long that I became very intrigued with. That sounds so cute.
It's like a little you just like in a bus. You know like a bus bouncing along and you're just staring directly at someone like in front of you. I kind of developed and it's sort of a crush but not a crush in a romantic sense but just sort of like something about them like wow look at what they're doing. And yeah on the bus I believe that my overbite is directly related to this very instance where there was a girl who rode the bus with me.
Again I think it was second and third grade. And she had her two front teeth were like wildly out there. You know what I mean? They were almost like horizontal.
You know what I mean? Instead of vertical. Yeah they were like sticking out. And I ramp coming out of her mouth.
Yeah. It was like yeah. So she did this thing where we so on the school bus we were on it had these like green covered pleather seats and this like forest green cover and she would lean forward to the seat in front of her and balance her two front teeth on the seat back in front of her. Like just like mouth it.
Just like put her open mouth on it and just hang from her teeth on the seat back. And I was like really interested in that for some reason. And so I started copying her from behind like I was always like behind her observing her. And so I started like mimicking that and trying to put my teeth on the seat back.
And I would ride that whole way and I would like my left eye like cocked and like looking at her and then my right eye trying to like keep track of other things and then my teeth balancing on there. And I don't really know why I'm that way or what it is. You know this is. I did it and then I have an over by and I don't know maybe that's my own.
Well when I doubt it's related but I like when I was little I was like I did that. When Hennelor was in first or second grade. She had this thing where if you put her lower lip underneath her teeth and scraped down. So she had this big red part of her lips and the thing are you know beneath her lower lip.
I mean just almost like her chin. And all of the other little girls had it too. Yeah. It was like this habit and I remember at a I think at a conference or something they're like well it's kind of the thing with the girls right now they're all biting the shit out of their lower lip.
And so they all have these kind of like just chafed moons right. Yeah these little sweet little half red chafed half moons on their lower beneath their lower lip. And it was a trend. It was a trend among the little girls in this classroom.
Yeah it's like someone started it. Somebody did that and the other little girls are like that's cool. Right. These fall in line.
I mean it's like I see that a lot with Izzy because she is always becoming fascinated with her own little bodied her sounds and her she's exploratory. She's experimental. She's experimental. I said that very early on.
You did. What's she like? She was pretty much new born and I'm like she's experimental. I do feel like I can come up with adjectives for her pretty quickly.
You can you I mean one to describe her. One reason that I can talk to you all the time is that you that you're the way that you recount things that happened are like endlessly entertaining to me. It's true. That's funny.
And I aspire to that. I actually gave Hendrix a really good giggle recently at the dinner table because I recorded speaking of sounds. Lou I recorded Lou the other night in bed. He was he was snoring and I woke up in the night and was listening to him and I thought hmm I'm going to record that.
And so I did. And then I played it for Hendrix and oh man did that give him a giggle. I think I sound like a lion. You do you sound like a really satisfied purring lion.
I'm actually like I was I think he's unsatisfied. I was gonna say I was mortified. I'm not mortified but I'm thinking like oh god you know I don't want more reminders of how annoying I am. And I just I know it's just the way I feel.
I mean I'm not you know I'm just saying that I you know I know now as an aging man that I embody many of the things that used to drive me crazy as a young man. So but when I heard the recording I'm like I sound like a lion. And I like that. Yeah.
I like the idea of being a lion and yesterday Hendrix had asked me like what animal do you think you are dad. Uh huh. And I said I would like to think of myself as a lion. Oh my god you are a lion you're so cute.
You look kind of like the guy who plays the lion in the Wizard of Oz. And he had a very weak chin. What? His chin.
He was like howard the lion. He was cute. I liked him in his little lion costume. He was adorable.
Yeah. Well I am on the cowardly lion. I would have thought he was cowardly but which character of the Wizard of Oz are you? Um I am Dorothy.
I am trying to get home. Yep. You are Dorothy. Absolutely.
Click click. Click those heels. I do. I do.
I do. Um Izzy. She sort of generates melodies almost constantly. Oh she does.
She does. She has a song in her heart all the time. Like this morning we've had we're having a bit of a close call after thank you know post to Thanksgiving with the COVID thing. Yeah.
But she was tested this morning and she came up with a little song after being tested. It's really a little song. I'm going to check it out. I love COVID.
I'm good. I don't have COVID. I'm good. I don't have COVID.
I'm good. I love that. I love how she has songs for everything. Um oh I know what that is.
Do you know what that is Lou? Oh. It's the cowbell. That cowbell signal signifies.
This is pretty neat everyone. We're starting something new that I don't know if we'll do it every week but whenever we feel like it. Whenever we're inspired. Unsponsored local ads.
I'm going to bring the bell. Yeah. So we had a pretty successful. Well this okay.
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Just sing this little jingle and you're welcome. That's all folks. I don't know what to say. I was going to say there should be a moratorium on saying you're welcome.
I know. No it still works. It still works. You're welcome works and um.
Did that come from the Jimmy Fallon Saturday Night Live? Skit of him being like Nick Burns your company's computer guy. You know that one? Oh right.
Nick Burns. I forgot about that. It's a good one. I have a hard time saying Saturday Night Live.
You do. Actually when I did an Instagram post the other day where I said Saturday Night Live and I sort of blurred over the words in a way that reminded me of my father. Mm hmm. I was like hello.
It's like a father like a son. A father like a son. That's like the one thing when you get older you have to accept that you are becoming your parent. You guys have the same walk.
You and your dad John Barlow. That was one of the first things I noticed when I met him. You look very similar and you have the same calves. Not quite the calves of champions.
Did I ever tell you that that song is hard for me because you say the word calves? And I've been afraid to tell you that but I guess this feels confessional. You do you have certain words you're like ah ah no calf. The use of the word calves is so bold.
I don't know. Really? That was a bold move. Well I only say it once.
I was going to call it calves of champions but then I changed my mind at the last minute. I'm really glad. Yeah that's a relief. Thank you for joining us on this journey through space and time in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Give me all your raw. Give me all your raw. Nah I'm forgetting how to play it. We're ending just as we begin.
The red light fever is returned. It's a little circle. Give me all your raw impressions. You thought your sounds.
Your time. Has he came up with the sounds? I'll play that. How'd you play that?
That's great too. She did a great alternate version of it. Cute. Can I say sounds when you say it by time?
Your thoughts. Your words. Your sounds. Give me all your raw impressions.
Your thoughts. Your words. Your time. Give me all your real questions.
Your thoughts. Your words. Your sounds. Give me all your raw impressions.
Your thoughts. Your words. Your time. Your say dear.
You.