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It has swing. Swing? Swings. You got swings?

That's my starting. It's on the wrist. That's my wrist. That wrist is definitely had, uh, it's been used in its lifetime.

I think it's the most important part of my body. It's my right wrist. My right wrist. Uh-huh.

Now that I can't walk. And it's sure just your right wrist. No one ever realizes my body can fall apart and I'm worried about my wrists. Impression.

Season two begins. That's right. We're going to dull it back. Season two.

Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Don't tell me you've been the victim of cyber crime again. What's on the table today you two?

Come on. Welcome back everyone. More track man found out. I definitely did not have that whoop in me yesterday.

No. We're back. I think there's been a confluence of events in your life in particular. All of these things are coming together at this juncture right now.

All things that could be anxiety producing for you under any circumstance. Truly. But they're all together. This is like four triggers together.

It's four. Let's see. So number one you wake up to find out that we have. Another someone's trying to hack our bank account again.

Again. Again. One month later. Go to the bank.

I had a scramble. I had a new account again. So and then you have a pop up shop coming up. Adele is a couple of her friends who are going to sell some stuff here at the house.

Yes. This weekend. Yeah. I um, yeah.

I feel better today. Today is Wednesday. Monday started out pretty rough. I.

She walked in the door of the bedroom. Yeah. Listen, I was just waking up. She walked in and she said, Lou, I have some bad news.

Are you awake? I knew you were awake because I can hear you breathing. I knew you were doing your breathing exercises. I have some bad news.

But I thought it was common courtesy to just ask if you were awake because the lights were off and it was about 6 30 in the morning and you had just come home the night before from Spain and had a very long day of travel. So welcome home. I've been less than I haven't been 100% because I'm jet lagged. Yeah, you are a little bit.

And you have a Jack knee. I'm a knees jacked. And you have like the winter kind of sniffles. It's just, oh, you're tired.

You're tired. You're so hard. But yeah, so he came home late in the evening and I have also been feeling under the weather. Yeah, that's another trigger.

I'm having five triggers together because the other thing is the third Thanksgiving guys tomorrow. That's a trigger because you got a lot to do. You got a lot to make sweet potato casserole. Then we also have house guests.

House guests. House guests. No, I doubt as you can imagine those of you who've gotten to know a little bit that she keeps a pretty tight ship here. I try and when guests come, it gets tighter.

I got to like walker. I got to be extremely like neutral because Adele is going to need a lot of time. I'm a ticking time bomb. I cannot display any kind of resistance.

Like when you say like, can you also remember to, you know, and then if I wince, you'll be like, don't wince mister. I mean, you won't be like that. But I have to be careful. I'm feeling nervous because I really want to have a sip of tea and I'm afraid of alienating any new listeners in season two.

Are you new to round impressions? Please don't worry. That's the one thing we can never worry about is alienating people. Okay.

I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to move slightly off mic though for my sip. I could get right on it. No, I had, I had messages in my, can you just message Lu next time that this happens and you're so deeply offended and fair enough, we all have our triggers, our issues. But I'm compromised.

I have a cough. I need to, I need to lubricate my throat. So hold on. I did the quietest I could do.

I don't know why. Oh, that was a really nice sip actually. These are good mics. You should really use them for a good purpose.

I like, I like, I like watching people eat and drink and I don't really mind hearing it either. So I'm, I'm sort of like morbidly fascinated. I'm like, huh, we're all just animals. How lucky am I that you feel that way because I make noises.

Sort of a turn on. It's like just seeing people in their most raw vulnerable state like here I am. Oh, so speaking of Thanksgiving. Oh my God.

I know Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for people in their triggers, right? Family time, eating, Thanksgiving because of the way some of my aging relatives ate. Oh my gosh. It's so true.

I just start like seizing up thinking about it like months in advance like oh God, I hope I don't sit next to. Yeah. I mean, and pre-gaming that anxiety. I love annoying sounds.

I mean, my life is full of annoying sounds. I love it. I make them. Well, sometimes we kind of like to poke that, you know, that salt in that wound, right?

But the way that my grandfather bit a spoon when he ate ice cream, when his teeth came down on that spoon, every spoon full of ice cream. The metal hitting the tooth. Yeah, that's actually a pretty intense sound metal hitting the tooth. And your other triggers are sick, which is like your least favorite thing because it You hate coughing around people, you worry about being sick around people.

It's not COVID, settle down. I already had that just about a month ago. Just anxiety, the anxiety that you feel like expecting a cough and coughing in public. And you felt this way anyway.

This is before coughing became like a death threat. It was like back in the day, you also hated coughing around people because you really did. Well, because it's awful. It's just awful.

I mean, when I'm anywhere in public and someone starts hacking away near me, it makes me wince. I get it. I get it. So, what am I saying?

You were going through a storm of triggers. You were a little better today. Yesterday was tough. Oh, yeah.

I'm feeling better today. Yesterday. I walked into my house. You know my haunted house, guys.

That's my brain. And it was very haunted, mentally, physically. I went to the basement, I think. It was just so dark.

It was so dark. I literally meant you went to the basement. Oh, my haunted house. Not our basement, but you rarely go to.

I also hate that place. Yeah. Great basements. And unfinished basements.

There's a bombshell during our basement. It's so crazy. It's kind of creepy. It's so creepy.

There's dark dingy corners over at basement. They scare me. I'm not that dark or dingy. They are.

I've seen dingy here. That's my opinion. That's how I feel. Yeah, because you grew up in a clean house with clean people, clean parents.

My first basement was not that. Yes. Well, that's not. That's true.

Okay. Moving on. I've seen once I went to the basement of this house in the Midwest. It was a dirt.

I mean, it was dirt on the basement floor, but the furnace rose from the dirt. And it was like one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen because it was a big house. And in the basement, this dingy basement, you know, with just this rolling dirt carpet, basically. Where was this in Michigan?

I had no idea. Nebraska. What were you doing in Nebraska? Playing a show.

I was when you were younger. I was young. No. No.

When I was young, I was on tour. On tour. On tour. When I was touring.

This is a week. This is a really busy week. So I wish I had like a little cyber protector who just was like my little bubble over me going like hitting away all the cyber people trying to steal my identity constantly. It's really annoying.

There are many services that proclaim the claim that they are exactly what you're saying. I'm feeling very disenchanted about the right thing to say. Disillusioned. Disillusioned.

What illusion did you have that you had that you had to protect me? If I bought them, I got them. You know, you get life lock. You get like, what is the other one?

No, Norton. Everyone's here to protect me. And I'm not feeling very protected. In fact, my paranoia is a little peaked.

Speaking of paranoia. Yeah, that's your number one. Yeah. Go to tell me all about it.

How are you? You're surviving me this week. I'm not great, but I'm like, I am keeping up appearances for you. I woke up at three o'clock in the morning, not last night, but the night before.

And I had the longest extended like internal panic attack that I've had in a long time. Oh my God. I didn't know that. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. It's not a good place. Sorry. Not in a good place.

But I did a lot of talking to myself. I breathe in. Was it okay? I mean, I'm afraid to, I don't want to ask you what it was about.

We're not going to. Okay. I mean, you know, life is life is life. Life and wanting to, I guess wanting to be healthy.

I'm like, I'm very becoming very, now that my body's falling apart. I'm becoming more aware of like, hey, you know, it's not just sort of like a suggestion that you kind of get your shit together. It's kind of like you have to get your shit together, which means kind of ejecting, jettisoning, jettisoning, jettisoning, launching all these terrible habits into space. Get out.

I also feel like the looming New Year's Eve is kind of weighing on me too. And in keeping with what you're talking about where I'm like, I'm 46 years old. I'm in pain. I'm physically sore and tired.

And I have to like, I have to start really taking care of myself. Yeah. These looming things are looming. And then I feel bad about the looming and the state of the world and everything.

The gloomy, the gloom, it's like it's winter here, which is the season we are most ambivalent about. We've lived in California. I'm not ambivalent about it. I don't like it.

There's zero ambivalence from Easter. And I still miss that California weather. Oh, yeah. You know, mild is for me.

It's like it's not fall there. It's just that everything's on fire. Oh, that's sad too. And then in the winter, there's more winds.

That's true. Yeah, we're going. Oh, God. Yeah.

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Let's circle back to paranoia. I started watching this film on the plane. I was buying British Airways back home from Gatwick Airport. First time I actually traveled international, or back to the US from Gatwick.

Yeah. It's kind of the smaller dingier airport. He threw it. He threw it.

It was kind of majestic. You have glamorous. Yeah, it is. This less so.

Gatwick is more of like a rough crossroads. A lot of small European flights going. Anyway, they had the entertainment and I was trying to find a movie. I couldn't find any movie to watch.

But finally, I was like, why don't I watch the one with Joaquin Phoenix in it? Because, you know, he's trustworthy. He's such a good actor. He's a good actor.

And anything he does is either weird or so. I was like, I'm going to watch this movie. It's called Bow is Afraid. I've never heard of it.

It's directed. Check this out. This is part of season two. I have a fact about this movie.

It was directed by Ari Oster. And that's for real. You're going to stand by that fact. I looked it up several times more than once to make sure.

Okay. Anyway, this movie is like, it's fucking nuts. And I'm glad that they said in the description is a paranoid man. And I'm like, oh, okay.

So watching the movie and it's kind of unfolding. Like, you're most paranoid. I'm thinking like, oh, this is a fantasy. Like, this guy is like, this is what he thinks is going on around him all the time.

There's like naked people. There's dead bodies in the street. And like, he's covered in, I'll tell you, I can't figure out. So I watched an hour of this movie.

It was fucking chaos. Just this urban chaos. I was like, it was in a city like it was zombies, like not zombies, but people wandering around. I can't describe it.

Would it scare me? Yes, you'd hate it. You would absolutely right away. Like, no, no, no.

But it was so overwhelming at some point I just started laughing. I was like, oh my God. And then I was like, how far am I? This movie must almost be over.

So I looked at it. I'd been watching it for an hour. And I was like, that's cool. And I zoomed out.

And I realized it was three hours long. Movies are too long ago. Oh my God. And I actually was so freaked out by that first hour that I'd never do this.

I dragged the little cursor to the end of the movie. Just like, what the fuck happens in the end? So I go to the end and it's a really weird disturbing scene. Obviously, someone's dying at the end.

I'm like, oh my God. I can't watch this movie. This is too much. Talk about triggers.

I'm like, I don't know. I'm like, you got to watch it with those Joaquin Phoenix movies. The people that he works with. Because he's so intense.

I feel like he's drawn to intense projects. And there are movies that make you just, for me, they bring me in there in an intense way. I'm very sensitive to movies. You are.

Any movies. Fiction books. Fiction books. I get really affected.

So who doesn't like reading fiction? Yeah. Somebody dragging me into their nightmare. Like, no thanks.

I guess what I wrote a story. I made it up and it's really fucked up and I'm going to take you along for the ride. It's all about the worst parts of my life and I pretty much eviscerate everybody that I know. And I'm going to make a story.

About all of the terrible aspects of my life. That generally seems to be what fiction is. It creates this nightmarish. Anyway, that's it.

I also don't read much fiction anymore. Okay. So, um, so I'm like, okay, I can't watch this book. I'm sorry.

I'm like, I stop it. And then I'm like, can I start looking for other things to watch? And then I'm like, I was like inexplicably drawn back into it. I'm like, I got to watch it again.

I got to go back in. I'm going back in. So I go back in and like, actually sounds like it's a good movie. And then, then, when I came back in, it was switched to another kind of scene.

He got hit by a car and flew off into a glass. I'm done with this fucking movie. That's the scene I left it in. When I put it back in, he's waking up in a bedroom.

He's waking up in a child's bedroom. Bleeding, of course. It's like the movie is like perverse. I don't know whether it made my life better because I've been thinking about it.

It's been helping me process a lot of my own paranoia in the way that I think. The movie starts with him being born. And it's like life can be hell for people with anxiety. The way that this movie illustrates that is like, like I said, it's either kind of cathartic or like a lesson or like it's like a trigger.

And I don't know which. And I haven't seen the whole movie. The plane hit the ground. The plane hit the ground when it was like two and a half hours in.

So there's still a whole half hour that I haven't seen. And I think Parker Posey's in it. At the end. Oh my gosh.

I like her. Oh my God. She's intense. She is intense.

Yes. She also picks like interesting roles. We both started but didn't finish things on airplanes recently. Oh, because I was flying back from Wisconsin.

Well, since I guess we haven't talked about this, right? Because we haven't talked much about your trip to Wisconsin. Yeah. In Wisconsin while I was in London.

Right. Yep. Izzy and I went for kind of like a longer weekend because I won't be there for Thanksgiving. I won't be there for Christmas this year.

And so we're getting up. Were you going? You just checking to see where we're at? Am I going to be interrupted?

Which is fine. Oh, no. I just want to make sure that the pink is advancing. Oh, yes.

The pink is moving. So yes. I was in Wisconsin. I was in Wisconsin.

Turn it away. Oh my gosh. You know, we go to Wisconsin and I just drink so much black coffee, you guys. And I eat so much cheese.

That's true. I do. Both of those things are true. That's completely true.

You just go from like coffee to brandy. That's it. I realize there's no water in Wisconsin. You don't drink water there.

That's just like, what's water? Where? That's kind of a United States thing. Is it America?

America? I was in Wisconsin and it was pretty good. I got to see my folks and my brothers and sister-in-law and my nieces who are like just getting all grown up and what movie did you not see at the end of? Oh, sorry.

So, yeah. Get back to it. Don't hear about my family. Oh my gosh.

Wait, before I tell you about that, did I tell you about the eagle I saw? Actually, there was two together with Turkey Vultures circling them. Oh, we went out to my parents' spot. What looks like a tiny house, but it's actually a.

Yes, absolutely two. Absolutely stunning. Like enormous bald eagles. So my parents got a shed on their property recently, which doesn't sound very exciting, but it's literally like a tiny house.

It's not like just a little shed. Anyways, we're going for a tour of the new shed as you do with your folks. And as we're making our way out to the shed on the property, all of a sudden we just see these massive birds. They're out of lake.

It's gorgeous. Circling up in the sky. And I look up in this bald eagle. I mean, we're talking like the most whitest head that's just so beautiful.

And it takes a nose dive down into the lake. It's fishing. And it was just incredible. And it kept going like in and in.

It was like, obviously it was zeroing in on a fish. And I couldn't tell if it had gotten the fish or not. But then as it was busy, like attacking the water, we saw another beautiful bald eagle with it that was kind of like its buddy or I don't know how they all they worked together. But friends, mates, and then a whole patch of Turkey Vultures, like following them.

It was like a little National Geographic moment. It was pretty fun. And then, oh, so then when I was on the plane on the way back, looking for something to watch as well. Izzy's watching something on her iPad.

She's all set. The guy next to me is watching the Packers play someone else. I don't know. Thankfully, he wasn't hugging my arm rest because I was in the middle.

He was a respectful seatmate this time. And so I'm looking for something to watch. And then I come upon Seal Team. Yeah.

So you're like, maybe you're a big fan. So one of my friends, Jessica Perre, lovely Jessica Perre. She is an actress. She, her partner is John Casner, who, who managed to sebido.

So we're friends. And anyway, so Jess was on that show and she also directed some episodes. And I hadn't seen it yet because it was on one of those like apps or stations that wasn't part of Netflix. Yeah.

Anyway, so I felt bad because I was always like, I want to see this. And you want to see what your friends doing? Well, it was season two, episode one. And ironically, she wasn't even in that episode, I was kind of disappointing.

But I got like three-fourths of the way through. And then it got so intense that I had to turn it off. Oh. Well, because I was worried there was like a big fight scene, you know, and I didn't want to have a bunch of like gun stuff happening on the screen in front of me where Izzy was next to me.

It just seemed too violent. But I have to say, I feel totally hooked. I'm like, what happened? They were on this like big oil rig thing and it was literally about to be exploded.

And they were rescuing hostages and all of this stuff. It was really intense. And I have to say quite impressive. Go Seal Team.

And yeah, now I'm like, do I need like a Seal Team switcher? Like what is this? I'm a fan. This is also a sign of aging.

Design of aging. Because you get into these like serial dramas. Yeah, these thrillers. You know, things that also like bolster like nationalistic kind of national pride, like, you know, and the infrastructure, you know, it makes you feel.

Well, I have to say, I was very impressed with the Seal Team. Good job. Yeah, you were like, thanks for keeping us safe. What is this?

This is the end of the episode. No, I want to say though. So I didn't get to finish the episode. Can I just make you reiterate one thing?

You said it was season two, episode one? Yeah. Wow. Just like this episode.

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