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retroactive birthday shout-outs, sensory issues and cat floss

from RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

4-Track Man dominates, Psychocandy (the cat) investigates, and a Stevie Wonder song is on endless Izzy repeat. Also, Lou embraces a Netflix gameshow (Floor is Lava).The Barlow Family General Store, more than ever, is a wonderful place for gifts...music related (handwritten lyrics) and much, much, more!https://barlowfamilygeneralstore.com/Our Substack still houses a dizzying array of pod-related stuff: music, essays and more!https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/WATCH on LouTube: https://youtu.be/lzlU7HBOmcM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

4-Track Man dominates, Psychocandy (the cat) investigates, and a Stevie Wonder song is on endless Izzy repeat. Also, Lou embraces a Netflix gameshow (Floor is Lava).The Barlow Family General Store, more than ever, is a wonderful place for gifts...music related (handwritten lyrics) and much, much, more!https://barlowfamilygeneralstore.com/Our Substack still houses a dizzying array of pod-related stuff: music, essays and more!https://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/WATCH on LouTube: https://youtu.be/lzlU7HBOmcM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Give me all your impressions, your thoughts, your words, your time. All of my convocation. Yes, speak in my... Leave me out!

You're all impressions. Leave me out! You're all impressions. Nice.

Yes, the husband and wife. Blue and the devil. Oh, that's devil and blue. How is it going?

How are you doing? How are you doing? You've been fooling around in this room, banging around like an agitated thing. It's entangled.

Chord's. Tangled up in chords? So tangled up in chords for a track, man. Getting ready for this episode.

Shut up. I doubt how I'm doing, sweetie. Should I answer? Should I answer that?

Yes. Let's see. That's my answer. Is a question?

Should I answer? Yeah. Oh, okay. So should I answer?

What I was thinking was... that my brain is filled with... I don't know if it's meaningless knowledge, but I have so... I have such a vast pool of specialized knowledge, let's say.

Not meaningless specialized knowledge. But I often don't remember things that feel really important, but for example, I'm just thinking about... We were watching part one of the Billy Joel documentary. So good.

So good. It's so good. It's so good. It's so good.

And any... It's like no matter which song comes on, I can just imagine my body immediately just starts singing word for word. Every song. I don't own a single Billy Joel album.

Does anyone? Does it matter? You know? Yet we can all sing every single song.

Apparently millions of people. That's a lie. I actually had Billy Joel's greatest hits on cassette tape. We had a Billy Joel episode a while ago.

So I had a cassette tape. So a full year ago I did a couple of... Didn't I cover two Billy Joel songs? It's a Joel whole.

We went down a Joel whole. Why did we do that? Back then? Yeah.

I can't remember. You know how it is with our podcast. We drift from one thing to a next. Something about Billy Joel was irritating you at the time.

Like you heard some song and you were like, God, I hate that song or something. Matter of trust. I thought I hated the song matter of trust. Yeah.

Okay. And then I learned that I didn't because I learned the song. And yeah, we went down a bit of a Joel whole. But not a true Joel whole because now we're sort of just entering the true Billy Joel whole.

Going deeper. Oh my gosh. I'm really enjoying that documentary. I'm really, really enjoying it.

Yeah. Why don't we do it part two? That's something to look forward to. Guess when I get back from Wisconsin, we can make a part two date.

Huh? Next next week. Number two. Number two.

Number two. Yay. Number two. Number two.

Number two. With the Billy Joel. Oh, yeah. Mm hmm.

I feel like it might be a little bit of a shit show. So we'll see. Yeah. I think things really.

Number one was kind of going into a crash land. Like the 80s. Yeah, 80s. Just that's where I think a lot of things.

Maybe some nose hole issues. I don't know. You know, did he put things in his nose? How many holes were you using Billy Joel?

His mouth holes saw a lot of alcohol. So yeah. He's definitely doing a lot of booze. Mm hmm.

He and the band. Yeah. The booze brothers. Yeah, every he looks pretty drunk in most of the scenes.

But why are we talking about Billy Joel? I don't know. Why not? Because we were watching the the special, the HBO special.

Yeah, it's all in mind. It's old now. Well, that's how I work. I just I find things when I find things.

So that's just where I'm at. But I. Oh. I'm going to be singing for you.

I'm going to sing for you. I got excited because I thought she was listening to Stevie Wonder. So be ready to be surprised. And she's saying Stevie Wonder?

Wow. All right. Don't you worry about it. I imagine that we would start listening to like, Intervision.

Yeah. Damn. Like she'd want us to pull out the vinyl. Oh, OK.

And we would be going down a Stevie Wonder. I'm going to try one more time. Yeah. Put a pin in that.

I have something to say about that too. Stevie Wonder Wall. Don't you worry about it? I know that song so well now.

Backwards forward. That was just, um, that was a warm up. I do one more time. One more time.

And she was doing this on the car. We better that. Don't want to pick her up. Wait, just this.

Oh, yeah. OK. One more time. Wow.

I'm just right. I'm glad this was you and not me. We'll be back. Adele gets really tweaked by repetition.

Sometimes. Yeah. And I get excited. To you?

I do. I love just grasping something and repeating it over and over again. That's you. That's me.

But I don't know what I'm saying. You like doing that yourself. But I don't know if you love being in the audience for a repetition. My children, I do.

Really? Oh, god. Yeah. You love it when Izzy's just repetitively over and over again.

I do. I honestly do. I don't know. OK.

I'm challenging. I love it because I don't know. If I always see the look of love on your face. Well, because I'm worried about you when that happens.

Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, when you're not here, like your Adele's going, you're not here. When you're out of here.

When you're out of here. It's like, tweak city here. It's like, she's repeating things over and over again. I'm repeating things over again.

If I hear her repeating something, I start repeating it. We start calling and responding from across the house. That way, it's just one. The cats are like, whoa.

What the fuck is going on? The cats are running around. I get it. You're trying to kick me out.

So that's why I got it. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm just saying that I do really enjoy it.

Like, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The ride home is when I pick her up at school. It's like nothing but repetition and handing off. Yes.

Until we walk in the house. And sometimes we walk in the house doing that, don't we? Yeah. Indeed.

And that's when I worry. Because I'm like, I know that you and many, maybe, I would say the majority of human beings, do not. I think we're in a very select small group that really enjoy that kind of. It just, I do.

I have like vocal claustrophobia. You know, it's like a certain things, sounds. But like, yeah, it's like certain volumes being repeating like over and over and over again. Good thing you married a musician, especially like, I'm not, especially like kind of a, I'm a real primitive musician.

And I work with a lot of repetition. It's true. I really grind away at it. I've kind of learned how to tune out your music thing though.

I don't know why maybe yours is usually lower. I don't know. Because you love me. I love Izzy too.

Sheesh. I don't know what it is. I just, there's like a heightened sense of hysteria about it too. And it like follows me around the house maybe.

It's because when you're doing it, usually in your studio here, you're in a contained little space and you know, I don't know. But like, yeah, it usually follows me at the kitchen where I'm trying to do the dishes and things like that too. So she's like singing, don't you worry about things. So to go back to that, I was like, oh wow, this is so cool.

She's singing Stevie Wonder. I had my own little moment with her separately where I thought that's neat. And so I don't even know how I said this or what happened. But I said something like, oh, let's listen to the Stevie version.

I just want to hear that too. And maybe I was trying to actually have a break from the spiral, you know, that she was doing. So I was like, let's listen. Anyway, so I put on Stevie Wonder.

And oh, is that a kitty scratch at the door? Oh, hi, Psycho Candy. Hello, Psycho Candy. Oh, my goodness.

Come on in, body. Don't touch that fucking computer. Oh, you're so cute. So anyway, I played this song.

And she. The Stevie Wonder version. Yeah, yeah. Right now she's on, I realized that she's actually doing the same version, cartoon version.

OK, go ahead. Yes, exactly. She's doing this. So you put on the Stevie Wonder version.

I put on the Stevie Wonder version, like, naively thinking that's what was the inspiration behind her singing this? I don't know what, anyway. I did too. Yeah, and she was just like, what is this?

And I'm like, well, this is Stevie Wonder. This is who, this is a song. I'm like, isn't he amazing? I'm the same thing.

I'm having these fantasies of then falling into this wonderful Stevie Wonder rabbit hole, right? Yeah. Oh, love it. No, she was kind of like, she was respectful.

She actually thought, OK, that's cool. But then she said, oh, I want to show you now another version. It wasn't the same version. We went to the TV.

And then first she found it. The voice. She found it on the voice. The voice.

Someone, I think it was a kid, the kid's version of the voice that she loves to watch. And so I saw a kid doing it. And I thought, oh, they're OK. And then I said, but is this where you got it from?

The kid singing it on the voice? And she goes, well, actually. So she got it from sing. So it's a character on sing.

I don't remember the singer's name. And then, oh, and then also. There's a wildly overproduced version of it on the cartoon. Truly.

Here, here, there you go. Baby, you were born and people say. Buddy, you should get it. He's chewing on a guitar string, honey.

That's fine. OK. He's flossing. I'm born and he knows.

Buddy. Don't get poked. I know, that's my word. Pecico candy.

It's your birthday. We are really late. Really late. Just took a video of him going crazy on your guitar string.

It's good. I feel like this isn't the latest we've found. But maybe. You're not good.

That's our interactive birthday. This is why we have our cute little cones on our head. Birthday cones. Our unicorn cone.

You want a unicorn for the birthday? You know, that's enough of that. That's enough of that. That's the beginning of that.

Yep. Well, actually, we're going to toss a February birthday in here real quick. February 4 was Ryan Byers's 50th birthday. A big 5-0.

Happy birthday, Ryan. He's a longtime fan. Oh. Yeah.

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February 4, how did they birthday, Ryan? Yeah. Right by. Right by.

Right by. Right by. Right by. Happy birthday.

Oh my gosh, 50th. Ryan has white glue from magnitude. Oh. When he was 16, that's so cool.

Then gone, people like your music still. Thank God. He saw Sabado in your solo gig as well, just last year, though. Be appreciative.

I am. I don't take this shit for granted. Thanks, Ryan. A sense of theme here.

Steve, do you see why I have, you know, claustrophobia, everyone? Do you see? She did this spontaneously, the coughing thing. I'm like, not something I would.

She's coughing, you know. No, but no, she didn't copy me. She came up with that herself. But it's very me.

It's very on brand. It's very on brand. I think that's nifty. It's not that old.

It's not. It's not that old. Can you just not say that? Not say that it's not old.

No. It's as old as it is for Ryan. Well, people are obsessed with how old they are. So are you.

What daughter turned 21, she's like, I'm so old. I'm like a hundred bucks. You know, I think it's worth mentioning that 50 is not that old anymore. I don't know.

It's not young. Now that we all don't smoke two packs of cigarettes every day. Now that we're not breathing lead. Katja.

Oh, Katja. Yes. Remember Katja? From the November birthday shout outs.

Yeah. Katja from Katja from from Hamburg. Yeah, right. Is back with David.

Oh, shit. Oh, what? Happy birthday for her adults. And Bjorn.

Fick. What happened? OK. Were you worried that it's like, go ahead.

You named your daughter a very German name. I did my first job in extremely German name. Katja. It's not Katja.

It's Bjorn. Katja. Went with him to the dinosaur junior concert on October 2022 at the Fab League in Hamburg. Unfortunately, I forgot my earplugs that day.

That was bad. That was bad. Never forget your earplugs when you see dinosaur junior. Yeah, it's not OK.

Don't don't rud dog that. We were standing at the front right of the stage and Jay stood on the left. A really great concert. But after it, I couldn't hear anything in my left here for seven days.

This really bothers me. I'm going to keep everyone. People remember ear protection. That's true, everyone.

Remember ear protection and don't bring your children without it. If Luke catches anyone, if Luke sees you with your child and your child is not protected, then yes. What will you do, Luke? I'll give them earplugs.

If you have them in your pocket. Yeah. Right. I try to keep.

I often run and get some. If I see that happened in Paris a couple of years ago. There was a guy who brought his kid. And he brought to the front of the stage.

Why don't you take this next one? This is Katie Nika. Oh. Wishing a Happy Birthday to Skis.

Really? Yeah, this is a Happy Birthday to my favorite person. This is Katie Mika speaking. Happy Birthday to my favorite person and best data.

Or data. Where is your skin? Are you reading this off a different thing than I have? I don't know.

Oh, OK. I didn't do it. It's pretty, it's kind of a rough rush. Sorry, do it again.

OK. Happy Birthday to my favorite person and best data. I'm going to be poogling. Oh, darling McGiggle.

Daelyn. Daelyn. Happy Birthday, Skis. Yeah.

Love Katie and Lola. What happened? I don't know. Do we lose?

I got quiet. I think we're OK. So this is Daelyn McDougals. Oh, OK.

Thing. Are you going to? I think you should do that. You don't need to do Daelyn, OK?

Daelyn. Oh, sorry. That's my. I love that.

I don't know why you don't. Do you please start here, everyone? That's my spam or C. Don't answer that.

The best iPhone. The, oh, god. The, the, the, shoe gaze alarm. I love the image.

I love the image. It's called Daybreak for anyone who's looking for it. Oh, gosh, what happened? Oh, god.

Oh, just, OK. I wanted to give a shout out. Here we go. I wanted to give a shout out to my amazing daughter, Beatrix.

I love the name. Beatrix, who turns 10 on the 19th. Oh, yeah. She turned 10 on January 19th.

I turned her onto the podcast on our weekly drives for her hockey skating lessons. And now every drive consists of listening to Ron Presions and The Beatles, her favorite band. Her favorite band. She's a massive cat lover.

So loves hearing about pumpkin and psycho candy. She always gets a laugh from Fortrack Man, pony for a swam mashed potato, which I just played. She really likes that. It's something we're always saying to each other like a secret language.

And thanks to the podcast. Thanks for the podcast. I can see her perk up anytime. Seven over, dinosaur, do your song.

Come on. Oh, yeah. That's not OK. It's not OK.

It's not OK. It's the same. It's the same. It's never be at Ricks or Beatrix.

No. Be mispronounced, so now you know. I'd be mispronounced. Thank god.

That's true. Is it right? Beatrix. Oh, did we?

Hello, double digits. It's time to be a big kid. Skittin' is a word, feel free. How you playin' hot?

You're not the goalie that seems very difficult to me. Yeah. Fucks shot at you. Yeah.

Fucks shot at you. A binding speed and being blamed for everything. What the goalie's blamed for everything? It's not fair.

You gotta do the whole thing with a mask on too. I mean, good thing, because those pucks. He says, I love her more than anything. Beatrix.

And she's also, he says, she's one of the most awesome people in the world. He's great privilege to watch her grow into an artsy, creative, book-loving musical... Or is it? Person she is.

So thanks for providing this amazing podcast. The two of us share together, and I hope you have a great 2026. Oh, happy 10th birthday Beatrix from Adele and... Lou.

We... And Psycho Candy. And Psycho Candy, who just joined us, I think it was meant to be that today we would do your birthday shout-out because Psycho Candy joined us, and he nodded on... I guess he flossed his teeth for a while on a guitar string.

And he left, so... He got perilously close to the computer. I thought maybe he would... He would perhaps stop the progress.

The podcast in progress. Paralously close to the computer. And almost stopped the podcast in progress. Oh my goodness.

But it didn't happen. It didn't happen. Thank goodness. I'm just thinking a lot.

Like if he had stopped the podcast, would I be mad at him? I've been thinking that I can never be mad at a cat, right? You can't be mad at a cat because they don't get it. They don't...

They are... I like to think of our two dudes. We got pumpkin and psycho candy or two cats. I like to think of them as our really lovable idiots.

I like to... Don't let them hear... Don't let them hear... Let's see.

They're... I don't know if dumb is the right word? It's not the right word. But they don't know what's going on.

They truly are like just blank slate all the time. I mean, when they jump on the kitchen counter, like... You go like... Oh no, we're in a murder.

It's like the... It's all rude. They know that they're not supposed to. At all.

They have no conception of... Like dogs kind of... No right? It's true dogs are like...

I don't think I'm supposed to go there. They look really unhappy when I go there. Yeah. And they get...

They really do react. They know when you're mad. True. True.

Psycho candy and pumpkin. Like... How are they capable of never getting in trouble? Imagine what they'd be like...

This is... This is an excerpt. I bet I know. This is the floor is lava.

Izzy and I have bonded. I kind of... I don't like to watch a lot of TV because it feels like I'm wasting my time. One of our TV is on.

It's a show... It's on Netflix. Say that again. Yeah.

Wow, we're really... We're really talking about TV in this episode. It's okay. I've never watched a lot of TV in the last decades.

But this show, the floor is lava. It's like it's really elaborate sets. And people have... Sounds studio in Burbank.

Yeah, they have... It's just... It sounds like it's full of red liquid. It's little obstacles that people have to jump through.

It's horribly awkward. Yeah. And when people bash into things, they show it over and over again. And they're like...

They're like... They're like... They're like... They're like...

They're like... I predominant in which I show it over and over again. And I've got this guy... This guy that is the announcer.

Who's got this really funny voice, and I can't help But repeat every time that he says something you know. Mmm. And after they film these things, they go back and he does like little interstitial... Don't you worryman!

Listen! People... Ha! Oh!

Oh, yeah. Look at what I did. I am. Watch to do.

A bishop expansion. I switched the cover. In three. Yup.

It's like a whole new CD available in the store. We have a new self-release. Self-release. That's HARakh!

That's cut. um covers I did. I am so not into that. Mm-mm.

Gross. Yeah, there's lots of fun stuff in the store guys. I bought a little movie in the store. Where music related items in the library.

Good check it out. Don't you worry. Happy birthday everyone. January Peepees.

So we'll be doing February and March. We'll be doing it. So if you have a birthday shout out, um, raw impressions podcast at gmail.com. Yeah, that's right.

Yep. It's not too late for February. We did do one time anyway. It's not too late.

Okay. Goodbye.

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