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If you're listening, that's you. Welcome. I am Tim Hough. Some of you may remember me.
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In the meantime, Lew and Adele are feeling a little under the weather. They are respittorally challenged, conveniently enough, or inconveniently for them. I'm sorry, you're not feeling well. Or I am going to insert a little trigger warning for our beloved listeners that there will be a lot of, there could be some coughing.
Just the sound of a mucous filling, filling a stilex-accented tisue. Hey, I am Tim Hough. I will be back, take it away, Lew and Adele. Thanks, Tim.
Perfect timing. I just cough right through that intro. I cannot believe I'm sitting in this chair and I'm wearing hard pants. Adele has been in soft pants for days.
She has been really, really sick, like not getting out of bed kind of sick. Yeah. Like I've been doing the meals, shuttling the kids to and fro, making Izzy's lunch was which is very complicated, by the way. You do appreciate what I do?
I do. I don't know if I needed a new appreciation of it, because I just 100% totally appreciate all of the things that you do for the family and myself. But wow, work is never done. When you're like behind the scenes running the house and just trying to keep things from being gross and just too much and feeling like you got to do constant maintenance.
Yes. Constantly. Wiping down the counters, getting the dishes out of the sink, and then getting them out of the fucking rack too. I know.
Get them out of the fucking rack and into the fucking cupboards. Yes. All day long. All day long and taking out the recycling and taking out the trash.
And you know, I have loads of laundry sitting waiting to be folded, washed, put away. Yeah, I haven't even dipped a toe into the laundry maintenance. So I've been, I've been. Izzy needs chammies.
It's getting dark. I need underwear. I need soft pants. I have not.
Izzy needs somebody to put her to, you know, retort her forehead. She needs somebody to just chat with the night. Yeah, you know, and the boy's going to and fro. Yeah, he's doing piece of bit.
He's a teenager. So thankfully he's a producer. He's a producer independent now. He's not this busy this time last year.
You know, I know he was kind of looking at me as like, Hey, what are you doing now? He's totally like his whole life is entertaining. I know he has a whole rich life over there at the high school. Yeah, it's really cool.
He's really kind of. He's cool. I'm deeply grateful to have a independent teenager in the house and an eight year old who's being really, really understanding of mommy being sick. She is being reasonable, so reasonable.
And I'll be honest, I straight up have not been this sick for a year. Like I had COVID. I was a year ago, almost exactly at this time. And I haven't seen you this sick, successive days in a long time.
I don't know why not seen it because usually you. And you weren't there for when I had COVID. I wasn't there for the coven. So I, you know, God, I don't even know how I did that by myself because you had to leave for tour.
And I was insane. I don't even know how that happened. Like how did I even feed Izzy? I have no idea.
I had a mask on. I was like, I was, I had a really bad experience with it. And I mean, this is like, I don't know what almost felt worse, to be perfectly honest. I have a sinus infection and that might not sound like much, but it's actually like been completely debilitating.
I was, when I say bedridden for almost four days, it was truly bedridden. I couldn't get out, I had to just go to the bathroom and that wasn't come back. And even that was very unsteady for me. It was hard, incredibly weak.
I've had no appetite. I had a fever on and off for a few days. I mean, it was like so listless, you know, it was really hard. You were so weak, I was worried.
Yeah. I was like, I'm like weak. That doesn't sound good, right? Like when someone says, I feel so weak.
Yeah. You go, okay. Yeah. Feeling weak is, I know.
It's true. No, here's Tim. Hey, we're both going to take a sip. Okay.
This is my least favorite guest of ours. Tim? Yeah. I can explain later, but okay.
Is that your mango juice? Mm. I thought I got it. You're on such a mango kick.
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I saw like a little like wellness commercial on a gas pump that suggested the same breathing method, but the thing is, it's four, seven, eight, four in, hold for seven and then eight out. Oh, that's not that. I don't know. Fucking.
So that's not that is not his original. People are struggling. They need help. That's what that tells me.
Well, you know, I do employ that. Yeah. Pretty often. I can barely breathe in and out a full breath right now because of the cough.
So sorry, Tim. I can't take your advice right now and I am having the worst hardest nights right now. Like I can't sleep because I'm coughing all night from the psychotic post nasal drip nightmare that is my life currently. So I'm wearing, I'm wearing an ear plug.
As you should. You should be wearing fucking gun muffs. I, it's truly. I can't sleep with gun muffs.
Maybe you could have just slept on your back, you know, like in a little mummy position with your gun muffs on. It's an interesting image. I do like, I do like the image. I do like the image.
It's kind of like get real calm, like cross your arms and just lay there and I thought I had the flu or something because it, the fatigue was so extreme, the weakness, the lack of appetite, the fever on and off. It was just horrible, but I should have known my sneaky old friend, the pressure that was happening in my head was so familiar, but it was in addition to all of these other symptoms. Your shitty friend, the nasal infection. Yeah, so.
They come around, you know every once in a while, a couple times a year sometimes. That's the thing is Ron Preschins listeners, if you've been here before. That thing. You may have recalled, especially in the first year of the podcast, I think I had.
So sorry. Multiple, multiple sinus infections during that year. And I mean, it was, it felt so endless. I have been, you have to edit out some of these coughs.
Hold on, I have to have a sip of tea. It affects my life for like, not just like a week, but like sometimes months at a time where I feel unwell. And I have done so many things and so many doctor appointments to figure out why and what is wrong with me and what's going on. But I had this like lucky streak for about a year of not having a sinus infection, which is very unusual for me.
And now I have one again. So anyway, it was confusing to me that I had all these other like symptoms with it because typically, yes, I have the raging pressure, pain, or I can't breathe, the congestion, then the post nasal drip, and then the cough. Anything like that feels for me totally overwhelming. I was starting to have like this, I don't know if it was like, I don't want to use a word like psychic break in there, but like I was not feeling well while I was waiting between the nurse and the doctor.
It was long. I was texting Lou. I was having to lay down on the bed in there over and over again because I was getting incredibly just tired and fatigued. And then finally she comes back and the plastic gown is gone.
She's on to just one little mask and she's like, yeah, it's your old friend's sinus infection, but this one's bad. I'm like, do you keep hearing podcast ads like this one, for example, but always wonder how you actually get involved with them for your own brand or organization? Well, it's easier than you think. We're Acast and we give you the platform to do it all yourself.
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Get started at acast.com slash advertise. Okay, so it's my sinus infection. I'm on now. My own butyrall inhaler is back.
Which I haven't used yet because I find that when I mix that with the prednisone. Zoom! Yeah, it's too much. I'm crazy.
My heart's like pelt, you know. That's speed. I'm not doing well. And I don't like speed guys.
That would not be my drug. That would not be my street drug. Okay. No, speed's not for me.
So I'm on prednisone and in my acs, of course. And the beast is coming out right the cough, the gunk, the things. Just all draining. And I will say I've gotten some really great additional tips from people on this journey and one recently was to get an Eddy Pot.
And, you know, I'm going to really try to incorporate that. Maybe even in my kind of day-to-day life just doing an Eddy Pot as preventative measures. Honey, could you give me those tissues over there? And I forgot that taking spoonfuls of honey really helped coat your throat.
So that was another thing I'm doing. I've had what like four or five no massive bloody noses. I have to worry I've got the humidifier. Everything's happening.
That needs to be happening. But drinking the fluids. In the midst of all of this crazy illness that I'm working through, we've adopted our kittens right before I went down. Like literally the day, like the afternoon before I went down.
So I think our kittens, I think I live in that bedroom, like in that bed. Which I hope that doesn't ruin them. I hope they're not like confused. Or get like weirdly overly attached.
It's perfect because they've had the transitional period between coming from the shelter. From their mom. Because they went up for adoption. Like when we got there basically.
They had just entered the shelter that morning. That morning. And we had them on the way home by 130 that afternoon. Yes, it was incredible.
And we were the first ones at the fucking clinic. Yes, the Taken Animal Shelter in Springfield. We were the first ones there. And thank God.
Because we had the pick of the fucking litter. We literally did. Literally. Literally the pick of the litter.
And we got ourselves two fucking rockin' little boy brothers. They're the best little dudes. It's good that they're hanging out with you because it's actually acclimated them really well. We can pick them up.
They're like, they didn't hide under the bed for a week. No, I know. They were like out in our arms almost and you know, like right away pretty much. Literally right away.
I mean. So, and then what is... I mean. They're so curious.
What is better than watching kittens? Oh my God. I mean, kitten medicine is just... it's been...
Yeah. Thank God for kittens. Thank God for kittens. Like it's really, really...
it just hits... it scratches a niche. So to speak. Scratch is my little throw-ditch.
Oh boy. I know. So you've been watching kittens. You've had four to five days of like some pretty solid...
Yeah. Tell our listeners a little bit more about our kittens who they are. Kitten time comes in your life. And it goes.
We have Psycho Candy, which is a little tuxedo cat. We named the cat before it. We met it. But we were just like, we're gonna stick with this because we love Psycho Candy, the album by Jesus and Mary Chang.
Yeah. And then the other cat was gonna be named by Izzy. And she came up with a name pumpkin. So we thought maybe that was gonna change when we were driving home from the shelter.
But then we got home and hung out with the cats a little while and we're like, yeah, Psycho Candy and Pumpkin. Why not? It's October. Halloween is right around the corner.
Yeah. And the names kind of feel good. It's okay. Yeah.
So yeah, but you've been watching these kittens grow. Like with them last five, they've been like... And they'll like get all the cat stuff. Like there's like a couple of scratches in the room.
There's these things, these donuts that they crawl in and it's like... So they're... They're hooked up. They're hooked up.
They're hooked up. What I've read is that you're supposed to slowly introduce kittens to your whole home because it's overwhelming for them. And we'll be honest. We live in a big old house here in Greenfield.
And it's like, it's a lot of space. And Lou and I have a lot of shit. We both work from home and not exactly kitty conducive rooms. We've got some spaces that need to be shut away from that cat life.
Anyway, and so I'm trying to be a really good kitten mama and I did a lot of research. And I'm feeling really good about that. So I would say if anyone out there is thinking about getting kittens or adding them to their life, I'm feeling really good about my decision, which was to not be spontaneous and just decide like, I want kittens. I'm going to go to shelter and get them.
Like, I prepared. It took almost a month of me slowly because it's also expensive. You know, like you can't just... I mean, most people, we couldn't just drop all of the money immediately to go get every little thing.
You know, like even litter box, litter of food. All that shit. You know, it adds up. Plus the cost of adopting the kittens, you know, which is...
It's quite significant. You want to... But it's important. So...
Oh, it's Tim back. We're going to have to let Tim just... Is he going to try and tell me to stop talking? And that concludes another episode of raw impressions with Lou Barlow and Adele Barlow.
Adele with two L's. I'm Tim Hough and it's been an absolute pleasure. I'll just finish when I say Tim. Lou, Tim.
I recommend planning and then making your space ready for kittens. You prepared, as you usually do, for almost everything. And it's really... But only today, only today did they start clong...
clong their way up your shirts. Like, you should go hunt your shirts hanging out here in the room and... The heck? The cats are starting.
They're getting destructive. Psycho Candy was swinging from a silk plow so I was like, no, that's... Crazy. Psycho.
Not so candy. Stop it. Could be a bar of ginger. I don't know.
I'm a little nervous about him. There's going to be... In the full Barlow Manor, you know, it's... There's going to be some destruction.
I know. I'm worried. I'm like, what's going to go down? Shit.
They have an appetite. They're hungry. So hungry, these little kittens. For destruction.
Oh, God. They're so fucking cute though. They're so fucking cute and their little faces. And oh my God, oh my God.
And they let me touch them and they let me pet them and then they purr. It brings you into the... It brings you into the world family watching those things. It's incredible.
And last night when you were putting Izzy to bed, they curled up together in a little yin-yang on your pillow right next to my head. I just looked at me and I was like, dear God. It was just... They just keep popping it up.
They just keep pumping it up. And they were so smart. I didn't have to do anything. There was no training involved.
We literally came home unzipped the cat carrier because they shared one and they came home and one because they're bros. They came out. They used the litter box. Done.
That's their litter box. They haven't shit or peed anywhere else, not once. They're like, that's the bathroom, obviously. Crazy.
Cause I've read people go like, oh, my kittens are peeing here. No, none of that. They went immediately to every single specific cat toy. Scratching post, cat tree.
They really hang out together too. The two of them are apparently. Yes. They do everything together.
They fight. They lick each other's assholes. Oh, that was a real surprise for me. I didn't know that they rimmed each other.
That was like, I'm sorry. What? Pumpkin went to town on Seiko Candy's asshole. I was looking at pumpkin while that was happening.
I'm like, you know, kind of expecting the desire should be rolling back in his head kind of thing, but he was just kind of looking forward. I mean, he was non-plussed. Which is, you know... I don't really understand.
I can't... I mean, cat tongues are a little... I mean, regardless. Regardless.
They're very close brothers. Let's just say that. They get right down to the butt, to the ear, to the body, to the... They shit together.
They play together. They eat together. They rough house so fucking hard. But then they stop and the next thing, you know, they're like a cuddle of love and they never hurt each other.
You know, they rough house hard, but like, are they going to actually hurt each other? That's something that kind of freaks me out. Or something that I didn't want you to look up. Will cats kill each other?
Like, will sibling cats kill each other? Oh, God. Will they? I don't know.
You have to have a real psycho fucking... Can you imagine that if you had like this psycho cat cat cat? Like they killed its own siblings? Okay, so this is not a cat, but my uncle bud and my aunt Roxanne out in Wisconsin, okay, we're talking back in the 80s.
This is my uncle bud and aunt Roxie. They always had pairs of Dobermans, and they would like kind of go through them fairly quickly because... I don't know guys. It was crazy, but...
They were always called squirt and seven-hour or something like that for a while, and then they were also hands on Gretel. Anyway, one time, one like, kind of like ate the other one, like, killed it and like, mauled it. Took it down. Thanks.
So, alrighty. I have to wrap it up y'all because I'm going down real quickly here, and that's the skinny one that's been happening over here. No thanks to Tim Hov. I don't even know what happened.
Was he here? I don't know. See, I have like... I'm not a good...
I'm still active hearing right now because I'm so congested. Not a good segment. Not a good segment. It's okay.
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