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Boops. Impressions. Loo's on the road. Where are you, Lou?
I'm in Richmond, Virginia. You sound kinda sick. I'm a little under the weather, but I'm not sick. It sound like you're sick.
Maybe I'm sick, I don't know. Hi, Lou. Hi, Mama. How are you?
You're sick. Well, you're not sick. You're sick, but not sick. Yeah, I'm not sick.
I don't care what everyone says. What are you? I don't care if I have my voice. My voice has disappeared for the last time.
Well, pretty from wailing away into the mic, I don't know. Well, we kinda had a thing when I left. We were a little under the weather. We had some kind of...
Yes, I had a whole other round of sinus. HUHA, I went to the doctor. Yes, everyone. I'm a congestion abounds.
And as you know, if you are a faithful listener, I, Adele Barlow, often have... I often suffer from sinus infections and congestion and a post-nasal drip cough, which in the time of COVID and post-COVID era, it's really bad having a cough. I have some people around me on tour. People get really scared with a cough.
People are scared of me on tour. Good, keep them away. That's fine. That's fine.
We just stay away. I did wake up. Take a good little keep away. Go ahead.
Sorry. I wake up in a pool of sweat last night. I don't know. Delightful.
Yeah, so maybe. A pool of sweat? I don't have a fever or anything. I don't know if I had a fever, but you know, I don't know.
Were you having a fever dream? Yeah, I was having stupid dreams. Yay, stupid dreams. Yeah, but I also...
I drank some wine last night. I haven't been doing that night. I drank some wine last night. It's interesting how that poison actually has an effect on your body.
I don't have to put any of this in the podcast. We're just talking. I'm happy to spend the rest of my day editing this because I don't really have a whole lot to do. I love that.
Spend the day just tweaking and twiddling. So, tweaking this until it is a seamless, insightful, funny conversation. People really tune in for this. Just our beautiful banter, our back and forth, our chuckles they receive.
They just go, oh, I guess we'll still do. They're so funny. They're so funny. I'm having a cup of coffee right now.
It's 10.30 a.m. So this is my second and definitely my last cup of coffee right now. I'm in Richmond, Virginia. You're in a hotel room in Richmond, Virginia.
Again, all of our faithful listeners notice that we didn't have a little itty-bitty podcast for you on Monday. I don't know what to say, guys. It's fine. We couldn't make it happen this week.
My un-sickness really got in the way yesterday. Yeah, you were clumpy as F. Oh my God. I couldn't even be on Zoom with you.
I didn't even want to... Your vibe was so bad. It was oozing through my laptop, my iPad. It was like...
Okay, when we were just FaceTiming, but when I got on to do the podcast... Oh, it was like... Yeah. My little horns came out.
When I'm feeling compromised, dealing with technology is very challenging when I'm feeling compromised. You know what? You throw a tech tantrum. I do.
Let's call it. Let's name it. Let's name it. Let's say what it was.
Tech tantrum. It really was. It was a full-on adult tech tantrum. I was trying to do a tiny tunes Tuesday while I was on tour and I had a tech tantrum.
Yeah. Yeah. I have those too. I have those too.
They make me crazy. Technology makes me also feel crazy when it's not doing what I want to do. And damn it, I blame technology for being so swift that I'm used to this unreasonable expectation of things just being available and ready for me so quickly that when something does go slightly awry, I have zero tolerance, zero bandwidth for it. Unreasonably angry.
Unreasonably angry. It's like being cut off when I'm driving. I go from zero to 100 just like, la-dida. I'm doing so well.
Just driving and feeling Zen and talking to myself in a nice little voice while I'm driving and staying calm. Oh my God. Who's that fucking asshole who just drove him? I'm like, zero to 100.
You should be more like me with that. I've really actually, my Zen has now extended into my driving. That's where I feel like it has. I don't have road rage anymore.
Thank God. Are you thinking of some road rage incident incident? Well, I found you to be a pretty aggressive driver. Well, I'm an aggressive driver, but I'm not an angry driver.
You used to be and you then you used to tail people or you would go very, very slow. I don't do that anymore. I don't do that anymore. Crazy.
I don't do that anymore. Yes, you don't. And you know what? You're right.
Progress. I noticed it kind of recently. I was like, wow, I don't do that anymore. That's what change is.
Hashtag people can change. People can change. One day, you know, you let you change your behavior in small ways and then hey, one day, you've changed. It's cumulative.
You know, I see that word and I try to say it as I see it in my mind. Humulative. Humulative. It's like you can't think about it.
You can't think about it. You can't think about it. You can't think about it. It's a word you can't think.
Humulative. You just said it right. Yeah, because I didn't think about it. You gave me the key.
Thank you. Can I tell you about what I did this morning? Yes. And I'm maybe unreasonably proud of myself.
The opposite of unreasonably angry. I went into my little local YMCA website for Franklin County, Massachusetts and I registered and I logged on and I participated in a live Zoom yoga class, a gentle yoga class. You did? I did.
Did you say this was related to Franklin County, R County, the Greenfield? Yes. Say Franklin County? Yes.
Don't we live in Franklin County? We do. Yeah. Well, it says it's the Franklin County YMCA.
It's just Greenfield YMCA. It's actually called the Franklin County YMCA. Is it the only YMCA in Franklin County? Possibly.
Possibly. Sure. Yeah. That makes sense.
Our county is the northern part of western Massachusetts to just confuse everyone. They have no idea what I'm talking about. It's kind of a rural area. It's a rural area.
Get out your mouth. There's no such thing as a paper map anymore. Get out your phone. So yes, it's very possible that Greenfield is the hub of Franklin County.
Possibly the only town. It's not a city. I don't know what makes something a city. We can look that up some other time.
I think it's a town. It's a town. We're in a town. We haven't breached the population.
I wonder if it happens over 20,000 or something. Because I know we're below 20,000. It's somewhere between 10 and 15,000 maybe our population in Greenfield. But that actually has grown.
I remember when we first moved here, I thought it was even like, gosh, seven or eight thousand? Could there be that much growth? Is that crazy? Did I just make that up possibly?
It's growing. It's growing. Greenfield's on the move. Greenfield's growing.
Greenfield is, you know what? I'm going to make that t-shirt. Greenfield is growing. Grow, Greenfield, grow.
So yeah, I logged on and it was pretty funny because it was me and there was people obviously in the class. But then in the Zoom, I could see in the gallery who else was logging in virtually. I didn't have my, I had mine on mute and my camera off so they couldn't actually see me. But it was like all these senior citizen ladies and they were so funny.
They were like literally their face in the camera of, oh, what do I press now? Was that the button, honey? And then the teacher's like, please mute yourself. Zoomers, please mute yourself.
And then the husband was like, oh, is she talking to us? Yes, please mute yourself. And then. I just got a text just popped up on my screen.
And from my friend Max, we went out to eat last night and he says he got food poisoning from our meal and he was wondering how I felt. Have you had any explosive diarrhea? No. How's your tummy?
My tummy's good, but now that I just read your fever, the heat, the sweat. I just read that text and now I don't know. We better get on with this podcast because something bad might be happening. Possibly shit.
Maybe just him implying this even by suggestion. I can feel myself getting dizzy. Oh my goodness. I'm getting dizzy.
So I'm going to go to the... Okay. Let's kind of move on. Can I talk to you about my yoga class?
Oh, yes, of course. Your yoga class. Zoom your Zoom. I'm enjoying a cup of coffee, everyone.
Let's listen. Yeah. Mm. Anyway, Zoom yoga class.
So I... Franklin County YMCA, Zoom yoga class. Can I just tell you I am wicked stiff to use some East Coast jargon. That being wicked.
Word, not in my vocabulary until I moved here. But I basically can't move guys. I can barely move and bending or lifting limbs. I know.
I was like, how the hell are I doing? How are they doing these moves? And then the other thing is I have a yoga mat which I thought was going to be sufficient. This was for gentle yoga.
She was using straps and blocks and tools and blankets and things. And I was like, what are all these things? I don't know what a strap is. I don't know what a...
I didn't think you needed all that kind of... Apparently you do. Those things for yoga. I thought yoga was just your body.
I thought it was the whole appeal. I didn't get a suitcase full of... You know. You need to bring a luggage...
licks and luggage and then just fill it with all of your yoga stuff. That's blown my mind a little bit. I thought yoga was just all about the body. I know the mind too.
Well, I'm so naive and new to this world of yoga. But I thought the teacher was fantastic. I think her name was Barbara. And she seemed extremely knowledgeable on yoga poses and yoga positions.
And so I was very impressed. What an asset to the community. And I'm hoping to be in person for that yoga class next week. I'm home doing it because school for us still hasn't started.
It starts tomorrow. So I had to do it at home because I'm with the bang bang. The little iser bizer. But next Tuesday I'm hoping to be in person and see Barbara in the flesh and all of her glory.
And I don't think I have to purchase the strap or the block. I think they provided them when you're there in the class. So maybe I should find out. I'm assuming that they're provided.
So anyhow, yoga was great. I'm extremely good at this. I have enormous box from Amazon. What the fuck is this?
Oh, it's on my yoga. This is all from my yoga. So that's that everyone. And I'm going to get more flexible.
So when my 47th birthday rolls around in April, I'm going to be doing those poses with a little more ease. That's the hope. Downward dog. That's all I know about yoga.
I can do that one. What's happening, baby? What's happening? I have a surprise for you.
What's your surprise for me? I was going to say, I love surprises. I don't know if that's true. But I shouldn't really say, I love surprises.
I don't know if I'm that person. I think you like the kind of surprises that people love. You know, you don't like bad surprises. But who does, really?
I guess I'm interested in the surprise you have for me now. I'm situationally accepting of this surprise. I'm starting to feel I don't know. I'm really the power of suggestion.
You're going to have to run to the bathroom. I'm fighting the power of suggestion that my very charismatic and very persuasive. I'm a hyper-intelligent friend. Max is farming.
I know. I feel like if Max told me the same thing I would also develop it, I'd be like, well, yeah. I would kind of. I'd probably believe almost anything Max told me.
Same. True. So he could be texting me from the toilet right now. That's wonderful.
Say hi to him for me. I'm going to take a deep breath. Okay. I'm really excited about this.
I've been working on it for two days. Three days, actually. Oh, my goodness. Well, now I feel okay.
Oh, what could this be? I'm going to mimic you. I'm going to mimic you. Okay.
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Well, I'm not the kind to kiss and tell, but I've been seen with Farah. I've never been with anything less than a nine. So fine. I've been on fire with Sally Field, gone fast with the girl named Bo.
But somehow they just don't end up as mine. The death of the fire in life I lead. I take my chances. I die for a living on the movies and TV.
The hardest thing I'll ever do is watch my leading ladies. Kiss some of the guy while I bandage in my lead. I'm not far from a tall building. I'm not rolled a brand new car.
Cause I'm unknown stuntmen that made Redford such a star. I've never spent much time in school, but I've taught ladies plenty. It's true I hire my body out of the pain. Hey, hey, I've gotten burned over Cheryl Teague's blown up for Rock Hill Welch.
But when I wind up in the hay, it's only hay. Hey, hey, hey, I'm a jump in Obentro Bridge, or Tarzan from Envide. Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine. This is a story of one of America's great unsung heroes.
I mean, you've seen him, but you never knew who he was. You've cheered for him and cried for him. Women have wanted to die for him. But did he ever get the credit all the girl?
No. He's what we call a stuntman, and the reason I'm talking so funny about him as well. Because it's me, Gold Sivas. Anyway, picture work isn't wall to wall employment.
So maybe you wonder how a guy keeps his head together. Well, one way is to wait by the phone and wait and wait. The other is to take an occasional job as a male prostitute. I work for lonely ladies and curious couples.
The fall guy is a Gary Larson production. Oh my God, that was completely a surprise. A wonderful surprise. Oh my gosh, what do I, to what do I, what this honor?
What is it? How do I, what? What do I owe? One of the cool things.
I was trying to speak as cult severs. That's why it doesn't sound like anything like it. Leem majors, Lee majors. Now Adele, love the fall guy.
And she loved the theme. She told me this a long time ago. That was a high school in the early 80s. So I didn't care.
Lee majors to me was the $6 million man. That was when he, when I was in Louisville and I did my epic mashup of the counting crows and deep blue something and Matchbox 20. And Matchbox 20. We were, Donnie and I were talking and somehow the fall guy came up and I'm like, oh God.
Really? He's like, wow, thank you for reminding me of that. I've got to really cover that for, for my beautiful wife Adele. She'll really enjoy that if I cover that.
And I, and I forgot about it. But the other day I was in Lexington and Donnie came to the show in Lexington and we had this goofy conversation and somehow the fall guy came up and he goes, yeah, you know, remember, you were going to play the fall guy. I'm like, oh my God. Thank you so much for reminding me.
And then on top of that, it turns out that Lee majors had like a compound in Lexington. I don't know if he was from Lexington. I was meaning to do my research. Well, guess what?
Okay. His Alma Mater was Eastern Kentucky University. But guess where he's from? Where?
He's from Michigan. He was born in Michigan. Well, it's no way. Yeah.
I have to say his sort of pseudo Southern accent. Really crap. He's still alive, by the way. Good for him.
How old? He's 84. He's 84. He's like my dad's age.
Good. Who knew? I really love the show, the fall guy. Anyone else out there?
I found it really fun to watch. He's the unknown stuntman in that show and it's such a fun, like old LA show. Oh, so old. It's quintessential LA.
It's fantastic. Or maybe it's not fantastic, but in my memory. Actually, it's a piece of shit. It's a terrible terrible car.
Actually, I don't know if it would stand up. I don't know. I haven't seen it. I've never seen it.
I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I've never seen it.
I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I've never seen Dynasty.
Never seen Dallas. Oh, my God. Really? Those are the classics, honey.
We've got to spend some time. It's a little bit later. Never saw Baywatch. Never saw Baywatch.
Oh, yeah, that's waylier. It's the opening to the show, the Fall Guy. I just loved it. It made me feel crazy.
I was like, I love this song. I love the opening sequence. Then I heard Lee Majors actually sang the song. That's what I thought.
My voice is so challenged right now. I can't really reach. I'm like, now's the perfect time to do the unknown step in, because I can barely sing. Kind of like Lee Majors.
Oh, my God. That's so funny. Well, thank you for that. That's such a nice surprise.
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