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Intensive plants. Hello. It's another fucking episode of Wrong Precious. Welcome.
Welcome to Lewin Adele's Place. What a place. Oh, I'm a hootsy human. It's human right now.
Somebody who had written that special way. And now right Lou? To be in jail. You should know.
Jail? Oh, hello down. I just want, you know, as we are in this human town. Who says I'm unicorn hunting but thank you for the offer for track man.
Um, you know, it's a I'm currently satisfied. Not the craziest thing he said. He said some things. He said some things.
I mean, it is hot as human. It's getting a little wild around here. Hello. Hello.
Hi. My name is Lou Barlow. And I'm a Del Barlow. And welcome to Raw are free form impressions impressions.
Impressionistic podcast. Raw impressionistic podcast. Yeah. Yeah.
It's like a Monet. This is like the Monet of podcasts. Yeah. It looks blurry.
It's blurry from a distance. It's kind of like you're not wearing your glasses. But then when you get close, the magic happens. Wait, or is it the opposite with an impressionistic?
It's blurry up close and then better far away. Well, if you like blobs of paint, it's great up close. If you want to know what it's like to be nearsighted, it's amazing. It's like this is what this is what a public park looked like in 1865.
Boy, I can't believe I'm throwing out a date and talking about Monet. Why did I do that? I don't know. I don't know when he has no idea when he painted or why would I do that?
It's this humidity, I guess. I just got to head next to you know, he's a docent here. Anyway, you get to find out what it was like to be nearsighted in Monet's age. Oh, it's so funny, aren't you?
You're just funny. Oh my goodness. I love a good Monet and a good man. A good man.
A. Yeah. What a man. What a man.
What a mighty good man. Good man. We saw Envogue the other day. Yeah, Tanglewood.
I want to keep saying Long Beach Tanglewood, but that's not, you know, obviously that's not what it is. Is that a reference to something? Yeah, it's Long Beach Tanglewood. It's from the rap song.
Oh yeah. Well, we had, I think it's from the chronic. Anyway, we went to see Envogue and they did want a man. Well, they actually that's actually it's meant to be.
It's a TLC song. It was like, oh my god. What the fuck is happening? What's happening?
Salt and pepper. Salt and pepper and Envogue did a collab. It is getting on here. They did a collab.
What a man. Salt and pepper did the rapping for the verses. Salt and pepper. Salt and pepper.
Salt and pepper. Push it. Push it. White people.
Push it. We were talking about salt and pepper. Salt and pepper. I still love that song so much.
Yeah, so Envogue did the choruses. I mean, I don't, you still love it. I still love it. They played it the other day.
They played it, but they sang the rap. They sang the rap in it, which I thought was kind of cool. Yeah. Envogue sounded améme.
They really won me over. I mean, they won me over. No complaints, really. And then we went and cooll the gang played.
We had to leave it with a tornado, but tornado watch. Right. I was gonna say, settle down. You know, tornado watches are not like a tornado warning.
Right. That's the bad thing. Yeah. Tornado watches just like, hey, we're pretending some crazy weather's happening.
So, um, I got pretty excited about like Earthland and Fire and the Commodores and Coome Dang just kind of set fire in my head. It's great. I'm kind of like, heat. Yeah.
I'm hearing the word from across the nation. She's a kind of informed, what you're about to be. I'm gonna be creation lucky for us. I've done another one.
Gee, what could it be? Oh, yes. Yes. Whoo!
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I thought I was the master recreator around here. I did. But you really wanted to do this one. I would like to clarify, Hollywood, not just north of Hollywood.
There's another place called the Valley. It's just like north of Hollywood. I'm available for hire for commercial recreations. Not the other work, this is a little bit further north.
In Chatsworth? Some people might know what I'm talking about. Getting the car. Honey, we're going to Chatsworth.
It's very hot there. Very, very hot. Some's got to pay for this roof. Let's go to Chatsworth.
Yes. Well, can I just say... Finish telling your story though about Earth, Wind, and Fire. When I was doing this...
Anyway, you wanted to do this commercial a while ago. Well, I think we came up with... Well, I got re-reminded about herbal essences because my parents came to stay with us in May. My mom has been a pretty dedicated herbal essence.
Follow her. Follow her. Her hair is loyal to herbal essences since I lived with them. Very long time, folks.
I got to go buy some herbal essences because I got to have my mom shampoo conditioner here. It's so cute when her mom comes to visit. She gets everything her mom likes. Yeah, I try to recreate their home.
That's what you do. I try to recreate it. Yeah. I had to get some herbal essences.
We've been thinking about funny ads to recreate. What would be fun for us also to recreate? Something that was an actual part of our life. Not just a suggestion from someone that we can't really relate to.
Well, I've been sticking to just the commercials that I remember when I was a kid. This is my first step outside of the ones that I remember. Of course, it's very memorable when you see it again. I'm like, oh, of course, herbal essences.
This tortured me. It did. It's so sexy. It's so sexual.
I was like, it's wild. When I was a kid, that was like, it was like corn on TV. It was the closest thing I could get to it. Yeah.
And it would, you know, just add that dimension. I got to go sneak away. I just saw that herbal essence commercial. It's another dimension of my adolescent frustrations.
Well, I just remember that commercial, but like, I didn't have the same reaction as you. I just, I always remembered thinking, and I've talked about this before on the podcast, how I'm a person who's very literal. I can be very literal. And I would see that commercial.
And there was another one, I think with Christy Brinkley that maybe wasn't herbal essence, but some other thing, maybe he's Pantene. I just literally thought I was going to have the hair that they were advertising. I was 100% on board. I'm like, Oh, silky, shiny with bounce.
85% 85% you see improvement of 85% hair condition. Exactly. To me, every site will improve by 85. How does it work?
That was like, that's their truth. And I believe that it's not, it's not like they do. Conditions 85% more. It improves hair conditions by 85 by up to 85% hair conditions.
I don't know. How do you even make those claims? I don't know. It'll be like you, you know, hair conditions.
Yeah. All my hair conditions are improving today. My hair conditions are better. Because I'm hair dead, like once it's actually left the head, is it just hanging on our head, but it's not actually alive?
I'm not going to hazard any scientific justice. Well, you've already, you're already thrown out of one. Well, it doesn't hurt when you cut your hair. Right.
So that's a, that might mean something. Yeah, it doesn't hurt when they cut your hair. If it did, it would, that would suck. It would totally suck.
Oh my gosh, none of us would have haircuts. It'd be the opposite of the herbal organics experience. Oh, so then anyway, I was telling you about that commercial. I'm like, Hey, but do you remember the herbal essence commercial?
And so then we rewatched it. And we were like, Dear God, this is wild. This is literally, right away. Like I want to do this.
I was like, we got to do this. Wow, you're going to step into my layer. I got a channel. My Meg Ryan orgasm scene from when Harry Met Sally, you know, and that's like her legendary scene.
Can I say what you did today? Yes. It's way better than that. Way better.
I don't know if I go that far. It's pretty classic scene. Not just because I do not see Meg Ryan as a sexual being in any way in her films. She seems she I've never responded to Meg Ryan.
I can say her adorable. She's adorable. She's a great actress. I enjoy her work.
Yeah. I'm just saying she doesn't give me that. She's like an adorable little mouse. You keep in your pocket.
There's no humidity. No humidity between Meg and I are. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe in person. Right. Maybe in person if I met Meg Ryan.
Uh huh. Yeah. You might be like, Whoa. Whoa.
Yeah. But I get you. No, I understand. I understand.
Yeah. But you're saying I brought the humidity. What you did say this? Really?
This was like kind of a person. It was like it was voiceover work. Like I said, I'm available Hollywood. And I did coach you a little bit in the beginning.
You did. You really? Because you weren't to be honest at the outset at the beginning of the session. I was a little bit like, Okay, maybe I'm gonna have to adjust my expectations for this recreation.
Okay. Because you know, not everybody can inhabit a commercial or inhabit like a voiceover. And even I'm not the best at it. I love to do it.
It's a deep love of mine. And I really, really wish somebody fucking hired me. Look, just give me $75,000 and I'll make you a commercial. And now I got an I got someone else on board right here.
Yep. So we can just take one fee. 75,000 commercial. I don't have to fuck around with the pitch of the tape.
I don't have to put my voice to do like a like a special box, my special box to make myself sound like a woman. I've got the woman. Right here. You're the woman.
You're the voice. And you're fucking talented at it. You inhabited these characters. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you. Oh, so forget about Chatsworth. You're right.
We're going to Hollywood, honey. Amazing. Hollywood. We're down in New York.
They've got plenty of commercial videos. Was that something cool? I think Hollywood is weird. Let's just go right to what is it?
Rock of Feller Play. NBC. That building is true. We'll go down to that building is full of like studios where they make things that sound microphone special professionals.
This will be like our audition tape, the Herbal lessons commercial. My life is an audition tape at this point. This podcast, this podcast is like a very, very long resume for you. All the work.
You know what? I don't think anybody knows yet. Oh, I have to know. I want to be used.
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Entertainment, business people. Absolutely. I know some of you, somebody works for something that can hire us and pay us $75,000 to make a 30 second commercial. I love how you do this like specific number.
I want 70. Look, that's my baseline. I just want 70, $5,000 people. Somebody give me $75,000.
You don't have to go to Chatsworth. We know. Oh my God. Look, there's studios everywhere.
Seeney Valley. I mean, I'm saying I'm like, just stay below Seeney Valley. Ken Burns lives around here. No offense to Seeney Valley.
What? Ken Burns lives around here? I don't know why he does. He does.
Fun fact. I didn't know that. How did Ken Burns join this conversation? Because I was thinking of really good.
I was thinking of voice over work and thinking that Ken Burns, he's got a studio in the woods here somewhere. Oh, because of all this documentary and always needing. He's like, okay, let's say Morgan Freeman, gorgeous voice. I mean, like truly the chef's kiss of all voice over.
And he's also like the face. He's the voice. He's everything. But give him a break, okay?
And let someone else come in. Look, I don't have to go that far. I don't have to be Morgan Freeman. I don't have to be.
Tom Hanks. He's another one. Haven't we heard enough of him? I don't have to be the in the world guy.
I just want to just I just want to taste. I'll be a character in a fucking cartoon. Yeah. Bring me to Atlanta.
Adult swim. Right. Fly down and I down there. You got to look seriously.
You got some characters that needs invoices. I did need a little prompting. Maybe maybe five minutes of warm up time. Okay, but I'll get better.
Oh, we're going to get this down to a science. Okay. I think that's really what we need to do is you actually have to be ready to go when the mic is hot. And today hot because it's all hot takes.
You got to have good takes. Lots of good takes. Ready to go today. Thank you.
Thank you so much because we did a little bit. I saw the urgency. We did a little bit last night and you were definitely warming into it and we did. You forgot to record.
Fucking forgot to record. Damn it. So this I kind of thought, oh, it's too bad. The magic's gone.
The magic's gone. Yeah. It's kind of possibly be recreated. I know.
You know, but it was recreated. And I hit it harder today, I think. You did? Yeah, you did.
There was some improvising a little bit. What was happening? I mean, you were just getting warmed up to be honest. Like when I was like, okay, time to move on.
I'm going to I was starting to kind of hog the mic and I needed to just like, you were getting really good. Thanks. Yeah. Thank you so much.
Yeah. I'm really. Oh, well, I mean that wow, that commercial to know that I'm not alone in my quest and my I don't want to say struggle because it's not a struggle, but doing a commercial recreation can be extremely challenging. It can be a threat to my mental.
I was nervous. I was very nervous. I'm not going to lie. I was like, because I could kind of, you know, real talk.
I kind of felt like I was afraid of disappointing you because I don't know why I decided you're better at these than I am. Maybe it's just because you've taken on that role. But so I decided that you were the one who does commercial recreations. I was like, well, that's loose thing.
He's talented. He's a musician. He's got the goods. He already knows how to bring it.
I got the goods. Yeah, exactly. And. Well, I got the enthusiasm.
Yeah, well, I do too. I know. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
I mean, it doesn't mean because you have the enthusiasm. I don't. I'm just saying that you said it as if I didn't. You said I have the enthusiasm, but no, I'm just saying I'm enthusiastic about look, you know what?
No one's. I was scared of disappointing you and I was afraid. I'll say this. Okay.
Because you kind of looked at me like, well, it's like, then you were getting really micro-managey about how I was saying organic. So I did. I was starting to coach your syllables, but then, but then I just let you go because I all of a sudden you don't let the artist be free. Yeah, you got a little you got a little test.
You're like, what the fuck are you? You know, you were like, what up, bitch? I'll fucking do it the way I need to do it. And you and you.
By the way, I can bring it my own way. I'll bring it and bring it on. So, but I, you know, what I realized when you were really doing it, is that you are the professional. I'm the amateur.
As far as like the real voice over stuff goes, because you were becoming people. I was trying to really inhabit girl number two versus girl number one. They were different people. What you were doing with girl number two, I was like, I was very attracted to girl number two.
Well, you know who I was channeling? Samantha from Sex in the City. I was trying really hard. Oh, she was specifically who I was trying to sound like.
And you know what I like. I kind of like, you know, we talk about this a lot that I there's very few female characters that I was affected by. Yes. In that special humid way.
Samantha, you know, yeah, Samantha. She's bringing it. I wanted her. I wanted her to do things.
I was I had wishes for her. I did. I wanted I knew she was she was a little unpredictable. But I actually like I did.
She kind of looks like the kind of little girls I had crushes on when I was a little boy. She kind of looks like in a grown woman. You mean, I was bringing you back to like your childhood. Is it when you were little, you first saw a cute girl.
It was like, yeah, it would be like Tracy slisher. Yes. Grown up. Where is Tracy?
I don't know. Okay. Tracy, if you're listening, Lou had a crush on you. He had a little kid crush on a creepy crush.
You're both kids and he had a crush on creepy. I wrote a bike by her house. That's normal, by the way. That's not creepy.
I'm with heavy creepy. I like stared down my crushes as if I could bore holes through their bodies. Just like, that's creepy. You know, trying to hope to run into them in the hallway, change my my route so I could see them again.
I like I mean, I like a creepy girl. God, I waited so long for my creepy girl. Oh, so you're saying I'm creepy. In a really good way.
Like the good creepy. The best kind of creep. I'm the best kind of creep. You did not hear your Earth wind and fire story.
I it Earth wind and fire. Influenced me to like mess around with this is more of a danceable thing I did in the music for the commercial. Oh, okay. But you didn't share that you just rebought the same Earth wind and fire along we already have.
So yeah, I was like, I got to have shining star. Of course. Who doesn't? I got a shining star.
Yeah, that's the end. It's the end. It's okay. Yeah.
Was it getting hot in there? It is because there's literally no ventilation. There's no ventilation in the room that I live in. There's no there's no air.
When those doors are closed, it gets very it's a hot box. Hot box needs to. Hey, and they could. They could.
Hot box me. You too. That's just come. I'm tempted.
You're tempted. Thank you everyone for listening to this episode. Maybe we should do merch it just says creep. That's a radio head song.
Oh, mess with that. You don't mess with that brand. Just saying it's also like an inside joke for a round precious people. All right.
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