Super duper sight to announce this, the 25th episode of Raw Impressions. Congratulations, Luna dell. Thanks. Thank you, sir.
Thanks, Guy and this Guy. Oh, hey Guy. He sounds really excited about this. I feel like I was at the circus or something there, you know, and the performers were just about to come in into the tent.
That music fell out. Yeah, it was like Marchy. Yeah, it was very Marchy. It is our 25th episode.
Happy 25th episode, honey. Of our Raw Impressions podcast. People love to gather around numbers. Well, it was just your 30th anniversary of Bubble and Scrape.
I know which kind of movie. Last episode. Kind of blew my mind a little bit. The Big 3-0.
Oh, and you have another big anniversary for Dino. Well, yeah. Yeah, I know. I think it's the 3-0 for where you've been.
That'll be this year. That's a record that I did not play on. But you will be performing live. I will be, and I have to learn those songs.
I've got a little bit of a to-do list. A dinosaur junior to-do list. And I'm going to use the modern technology to extract the bass lines from the where you've been record. I can't remember what the technology is.
We do have the Donda player. Oh. Kanye's Donda player. And that can isolate certain things.
It's got a STEM player and it separates all these. So I can load the record into that and it will separate the bass so I can focus on playing the bass. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah.
Well, then that sounds like that's certainly an option to explore. Yes. And there's plenty of apps and things and websites that you can also download your music into. And it will also separate and celebrate the music.
So I can celebrate, so I can celebrate because it's all about celebrating anniversaries. Yeah. And it's our wedding anniversary this month too. Yes.
As Dallenu, your 25th episode. What's the secret you do? Mm. That's a secret.
Stay focused. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop.
Don't stop. Don the little, I don't know, the little dot at the end of the line and go like, I want to be there someday. I'm going to keep going. I like this.
I'm doing this for me and you. This is our way of documenting our little transitions. You know, like going in week to week. Here we are.
Yeah. It's like a little diary. It's a diary. It's a joint diary.
Until all of the internet collapses and all of this information disappears. And it's gone. Yeah, it's gone. But we did it.
Yeah. And every week we, we got together. I do like that. Yeah, it sort of like it almost gives us like a creative date every week where we're like, we're We're gonna do something together, and then we're gonna talk about it and scheme and come up with the different musical things, and then you go into your room and you press buttons on your little cassette player and you play things.
And I gotta say, I think it's almost like you have a test every week, and you're having to kind of cram for it every week, and I think that you do really well with that. I do. Love me a deadline. I don't know if I love me a deadline.
But you kinda do. I kinda do. I like to have something, I like to have like. You can be stressed about something and love it at the same time.
I like structure because I feel like my mind we've talked about this a lot, and I'm trying to move towards structuring my mind and my thoughts. But this, having this together this time, when you step into my subway with studio, into my little, I don't wanna call it. Please, smell good tonight, you're showered. I did, I'd, folks, I.
Oh, that's not one thing you guys said. It's better to do a podcast than not do a podcast. It's better to do a podcast, it's better to do the podcast. It's better to do the podcast than not do the podcast.
I love your approach, you guys are awesome. Dells flashin' the thumbs up. Thumbs up. It's after dinner.
We're in a weird place. We're in a weird place because we could not do the podcast this afternoon, which we would usually do because there was lawn mowers and leech lawn care. So much lawn care. Damn.
So I'm thinking that maybe my idea of doing the podcast to be released on Thursday is not such a great idea because Wednesday is a lawn care day. Yeah, and since we're at home, we're not in some beautiful little soundproof studio. Oh, there's. Somewhere, no, we're in our house guys.
In our neighbors, they got fuckin' leaf blowers and shit just goin' all day, Wednesday, halfway through the week. They're like, that's the day. They all show up. We're gonna cut down a tree.
We're gonna fuckin' blow all these leaves around. We're gonna, oh God. So it's terrible for trying to do my work, our creative work from home, rude. Excuse me.
I'm trying to do my podcast. How many podcasts was it disrupting today? We might not have been the only podcast. We might not have been the only podcast.
Probably every other neighbor has a podcast right now. Oh my God. No. I love that.
We should do like a little like hands up on our street. If you've got a podcast, like everyone's hand goes up. Oh, okay. Did we mention this already?
Oh, yes, we know. Everyone has a podcast and you know what? Great. That's right.
Fuck yeah. It's better to do a podcast than not do a podcast. That's right. That's what he said.
And if you, and if. That's what we said. And that's what you said. I said that.
Lou Barlow, Lewis Knox Barlow made that declaration. When did I make that declaration? When we were first doing the podcast. It was like maybe a month in and you.
We were having. Well, you, well, you. This is like old. No, no, you were you old.
Old Lou. Old Lou was rearing his ugly head and you know, you've done a lot of work. You're working on yourself and you kind of fell into like an old pattern or habit or, you know, like, oh, this isn't, you know, it just. You.
I was doubting it. You were doubting it. You were feeling doubt. You were like, is this worth it?
Should I be doing this? Because I do a lot of, I mean, I do a lot of work for this. It's kind of my baby. It's our baby.
But you know, I love doing all the sounds and I love. I love cradling your voice. I love, you know, capturing these conversations that we have because we talk all the time anyway. But this is kind of where we, you know, I don't know.
We're just making this little document of our week and we've been doing it for 25 weeks. Well, so you were having a moment and you were like, should we do? Should we do this? Should we keep going?
And then I don't actually remember what made you switch, but do you remember what made you switch to go like, wait a minute. I actually, I want to keep doing this. Well, I realized that doing a podcast is better than not doing a podcast. And then you go, we'll put that on our T-shirt for wrong brushes.
That'll be it. That's our quote for, that's it. I loved it recently. I was in Wisconsin for a funeral from a great aunt and I had just like two relatives ask me, you know, like, what do you do?
I mean, it's not really like a place where you, I mean, they're people I'm related to, but I don't know them that well. And so, but you're not typically talking about like work or something like that at a funeral, like, so what's your job? I don't, you know, whatever. But a couple of people were, you know, were feeling the space, the air trying to have a space conversation and a couple of them were like, so what do you do?
And I was like, well, I know my husband and I have a podcast and they were like, well, what's it about? What do you talk about? I mean, do you guys, are you like experts on something? I think that's what people want from podcasts is experts.
I said, well, I don't know. We just talk and they're like, well, what about? I mean, people really want definitive answers. And so, you know, that being said, if you are still here, then you're, are people because you are not looking for something that's so cut and dry, so black and white, you're like, I like this murky art installation that I don't really know what's happening.
The placard fell off the wall. I don't know what this is about. I get to come up with my own idea about this installation. I had people ask me that earlier.
So what's your focus? Yeah. You know, what, what? 25 is five of the Dell's favorite number five.
And here we are in the fifth month, but on the fourth, the day before five, but it's coming. Old five will be here soon. Five times that is 25 and 25 is where we're at. Congratulations, knowin' the Dell.
I was just thinking how I could have really used the cheerleader, sir, here on the episode our guy today when I was doing my, my run, my errand run down to Hadley, Massachusetts. Mm. Because sometimes I feel like I need a little bit of a cheerleader when I do that run. Like, okay, I gotta go get some shit.
And I was really, really hurtin' missin' my BB and beyond. You guys are local, bed, bath, and beyond. Has closed. Where am I gonna go get a whisk, y'all?
They're trimming the fat at the bloodbath and beyond. Okay, I have not watched this show, but I saw a clip from the show which made me go, I need to watch this show. And I think my Abby, Lou's sister, my sister-in-law, she has told me to watch the show in the past. I think it's called, oh shit.
Oh no, what's it called? Oh no, you can't let it go now. Oh god, but it's these two girls. These two women who, I think they live in Brooklyn.
Come on. And one of them is like, at Bed, Bath, and Beyond and pretending like she doesn't go there very often, but obviously she does. Because she has all these hilarious dance moves whenever she sees a different staff member, as they all come up to her and they do- Oh wow. Oh, Broad City?
Is that what it's called? Oh, maybe. Is that Take Place in Brooklyn? Yes.
That's a while ago, that one. Oh god, well anyway, you know how on Instagram, it's kind of like sometimes people post things, I think, from Twitter or something on there, and then you can see clips and stuff. Oh yeah. And so it just happened to be in my explore.
And I was like, that's so funny. And that's so neat. Yes, it was called Broad City. Okay, so anyway, I think Broad City would make me laugh because this clip cracked the shit.
That's an old show. That was like years ago, years ago. Okay. Yeah.
I played a show in Houston once with a, I think, Saba now. I think it would be funny, honey, and we should watch it. I played a show in Houston with Saba. We played this tiny little sort of hall at the top of this theater.
And the theater, I think the woman from one of the women from Broad City was performing. I think it was a line out the fucking door. You mean like stand up or? Yeah, she's doing stand up.
Oh. I've got nothing else to add to that. Did not meet her. Okay.
Say just the ear. No, absolutely not. No, it's just the usual thing where I say something that sounds interesting, but nothing really happened at all. Kind of like when we were in Nashville with Saba no, I don't remember 2014 or something.
And then it was okay. So you guys were in a room and there was more than one musical venue in the same building, right? And so then who was the guy playing in the other room again? It was no, the band was called Dale Earnhardt Junior Junior.
But it was a great name. I've never figured out what that man sounds like. Don't know, but they were hip at the time. They were big.
They were big. Dale Earnhardt Junior Junior was happening. So that show was packed. So we're in a show was just say was not as well attended.
No, it was a disaster, honestly. And so we're sitting there. It was my first time in Nashville. But a very, very famous actress wandered into the Saba no room.
I think mistakenly she was like, Oh, no, oops, where's Dale Earnhardt Junior Junior Junior or something? Well, I'm trying to say it. No, no, no, I just want to make sure I have the. She came into the room with what she was she was obviously a Nashville.
I'll tell you her show and Nashville. So she brought all of her crew right into where we had just played and walked in like they owned the place. Yes, they did. I'm not going to walk into the club that we were playing as if they were like taking over the room or stuff.
And they did. We were like breaking down our stuff and they were just like hanging around. I know I'm like, there's excuse me lady. There's a concert happening.
Kristen Stewart, everybody. Oh, yeah. So I got to see Kristen Stewart in a very small club in Nashville, wandering in with her entourage folks. The people that she was working on her show with.
Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I felt like it was really near.
So 2014 when was the when was the Twilight shit happening? I don't know. It was it after that? Was it after that?
I mean, she was huge. Oh my God, massive, massive. And she just and her group around her was were very fixated on her. I remember that clearly.
I mean, it was small. You guys were in the very small club. I was literally sitting at a table across from Kristen Stewart and her entourage. And they actually made they didn't regard us at all.
There was no pleasantries that were exchanged. They simply walked in as if they were meant to be there or as if they were. You know, they just. Oh, I remember now.
It's because the seven show actually ended. And so we were still in the room and they came in and then just joined our space, which was the room, right? The Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Show had also ended. That's what I mean. But like, but so we were actually just finishing up and hanging out and like we were loading out. Yeah.
And they were like, we're just going to hang out here. Right? That's fine. You know, Kristen Stewart, if you, you know, if you're a fan of Ron Preshans, shout out.
It gives a shout out. But you know, as if they belong there, they walked in as a very entitled group of people. Because I think they were in the midst of my impression was that they were in the midst of like a working on a show together. That they were in the midst of work and they went to the Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Jr. Show because it was the hippo show in town. Right. So it happened to be playing across the hall from that it was an empty room that they were like, Hey, let's find an empty room and walk into it.
Yep. And that's what they did. You ended up sitting across from Kristen Stewart. I did.
I did. And I'll never forget that. It was really interesting. So yeah, I don't know what to say about that other than Twilight, everyone.
Anyone see Twilight? Oh, wait, millions of people did. It was a while ago. I think we forgot.
Hey, hey, you two now. Now listen, I can't imagine Ron Preshans getting any better than it already is. But do you have hopes and dreams for the future? Do you have things you'd like to see happen on Ron Preshans?
Adele. You go first. Oh, you don't want to be just a. Yeah.
Okay. So I would like Kristen Stewart to be a guest on Ron Preshans because I think she'd be really cool and really funny. And I'd like to know what music she listens to actually. I think it'd be kind of cool.
I hope she listens to something else other than Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. I'm guessing she does. But anyway, I'd like to have Kristen Stewart on just putting that out there.
And that just came to me. But why not? And other than that, I think what I want to be more organized. I want to be more on top of reaching out to people to ask them to come on the show sometimes.
Like I keep, they live in my head, these people. And they don't know that they're in my head because I haven't told them. And so if I told them, like, hey, you're in my head and I would love to have you maybe on, is this making any sense? I'm just saying that like, sorta.
Who are you? Who? Well, I was just thinking about our Dear Diary episode we have. And there's two people that come to my mind that I've been like, oh, I really want to talk to them about being on Dear Diary because they're both writers.
And I feel like I would be really curious to know if they had things happen in their high school or elementary school that they still have evidence of or journals. So I'll just say, Casey and Ioni, you know who you are, my friends. I'm surprised. I'd like to have you guys on some time each your own episodes to talk about Dear Diaries because Ioni has a memoir that she's slated to write, which I'm pretty excited about.
Slated, I thought she wrote it already. I think she's writing it or she's going to start working on it or she's working on it. And I thought, wow, if she's going to write a memoir, maybe she kept some journals from when she was like a child and that intrigues me. And then our friend Casey St.
Ange is a writer, a TV writer. And I was like, I wonder if Casey kept journals. So that's something that I would like to do is to reach out to them. And I guess I'm doing it now.
So if you hear me, hi guys. And Lou, what about you? What would you like to do going forward into the next 25 episodes? What would I like to do?
I would like to resume writing original songs for the podcast, you know? And then playing them for you and discussing them a little bit, but just having new songs. I like that, you know, at a really good month in January where I was writing a song a week. Oh yeah.
So the fucking beautiful songs came out of that. It was really into that. That was really cool. That was a really good bit of structure for me.
I'd like to do that again. I'd like to get up the courage to start asking some of my friends. Yeah. Who would you like to ask?
Since I named some people, how about you names? I'm going to name drop. Here goes. Okay.
Robin Hitchcock. We're friendly. And we got along really well. And Robin is an interesting guy.
He seems to have embraced social media. Also a writer. You know, it'd be kind of cool to talk to him. Wayne Cohen, you know, I don't know.
I'm on some kind of group text that he sends out all the time. He sends out pictures of his kids and stuff. And he occasionally engages me on text. He's kind of an interesting guy.
I mean, he's not kind of an interesting person. So it would be kind of cool to talk to Wayne, but it's hard for me to reach out to people and be like, hey, I'm going to take this time from you, even though people can reach out to me anytime. I mean, I'll kind of do a lot of podcast. I do do a lot of podcast.
Yeah. And like, I just, because, you know, people want to talk to me, that's cool. But I have a hard time like putting myself in the position of asking and asking for that kind of time for people. It was easy with Ben Bridwell.
I'd love to interview Ben. Ben's just like, is family. And we met. We kind of met through a podcast.
Yeah. And that's kind of where that was sort of the beginning of our friendship really was that we actually did a podcast together and then kind of stayed in touch afterwards. Yeah. So, so now Ben has been on two episodes of our impressions, one of our only.
We love Ben. And he's just so. He's very generous with his time and his work. We love him.
And so, yeah. I mean, I like to have some band mates on, you know, I like to have a marathon. I like to have a lot of Scott Helen from Deep Loon. I don't know.
I'd like to have Scott and Samantha on. And Scott and Samantha. Yeah. Yeah.
The 25th episode of Raw Impressions concludes in 25 notes. That's it. I'll say I would like to end by saying a very sincere thank you for everyone for listening so far. We really, really love doing this.
And it has been a wonderful part of our life. And we're just really, we're really grateful you're here. So thank you. Yeah.
Well said.