Gratitude, thank you, thank you for thanking me, for thanking you, for gratitude, and endless food of gratitude. Drop your shitty attitude and into gratitude. Nothing says gratitude like a ringing 12 string guitar. Mmm.
Yeah. That was a wayward pluck. Mmm. Oh.
What's in there? There's things inside of my guitar. Oh, well, shaker. It's like a little shaker.
Oh. What's living in your guitar? Oh, a piece of a guitar string. Okay.
And then some sort of... Ugh. Is that a good idea to stick your hand in there like that? How many times have I heard that before?
Mmm. So, okay to stick your hand in there? Probably not. If you have to ask that...
At that time, I almost stuck my hand directly into the garbage disposal when you turned it on. Mmm-hmm. I do. I'm really happy that that didn't happen.
The angels that came in and they saved you. Remember that time that you... It was an intervention, an angel intervention. At that time that you poured boiling water directly onto your hand.
Mmm-hmm. And then we put it directly under cold water and there was no... You had no injury from that. My hands are fine.
Your hand is also fine. I'd like to say that one of the things I'm grateful for is that I had so much support on my GrumpaSoad. I'm grateful that people really embraced and sent... Like, embraced me in my GrumpaSoad.
And I received more messages actually from that episode than any other one and really, really nice comments that people left me really encouraging and saying like, hey, this time of year is hard for me as well or, oh, I also have depression and thank you for talking about it. And it really was very... It was really nice and it meant a lot to me. So thank you for everyone who reached out and sent me messages.
And thank you for embracing the GrumpaSoad. Yeah, right on the heels of that. You're like, it's time for a GrumpaSoad. Yeah.
And they like made total sense because like I said, once that episode aired, I was grateful for the response. Gratitude. Gratitude is the theme today. This is the Gratasoad.
And I'm actually in a good place today for the Gratasoad. That's great news because we were going to do the Gratasoad and I thought, well, what if you're Grumpy on the Gratasoad day? I do want to be sincere. And so I probably would have said, let's squash the Gratasoad if I wasn't five minute, but I actually feel like I'm in the right headspace today for it.
Why don't you get us started with your Gratitude? Oh, well, I did compile a list of some things I'm grateful for. I'm very curious to hear these things are. Yeah.
Well, this isn't like a complete list. Okay. This is an ever-changing list. I think I'm going to think of things I'm grateful for as we do the Gratasoad as it progresses.
Uh-huh. Ah. Yeah. So it's like a movie.
Once I hit that vein of Gratitude. You're going to just write it. It's the wave. Write that Gratitude wave.
I like it. Well, okay. My home, my body, my family, our car, food, birds chirping. Holding hands with you.
I really like that. I'm glad that you're a handholder. I'm a handholder. Mm-hmm.
I am grateful for tools. And the tips and tricks that can be found on the Internet. I'm grateful for vacuum cleaners. You might hear one in the background.
That's all you need to know. I'm grateful for water lapping on the shore of Turtle Lake in the summer. Are you sure you want to do this while there's vacuuming in the background? I was on a roll.
Okay. Continue. Don't fuck with my gratitude. Keep rolling.
I'm grateful for my friends. Music. Aging. You're grateful for aging.
Yeah, I am. Good. Mm-hmm. That's a good thing to be grateful for.
Because you don't really have a choice. Yeah, you're going there whether or not you want to. You can fight it. Mm-hmm.
That's really good. Yeah. It's probably best to just sort of, again, roll with it. Yeah, I'm going to roll with aging.
We're going to just assume that that vacuum in the background is a nice, it's like a beautiful gentle wave, speaking of waves that we're riding. Yeah, how loud is it really? I don't know. Maybe the listener can't even hear it.
They're like, what the heck? Okay, I'm also grateful for airplanes, even though they scare me, flying on them. It's wild to me that I can just sit in a little seat flying through the air that scares the living shit out of me. But I'm also really grateful to be able to move from one place to the other pretty swiftly.
And let's be honest, safely. It's safe. It's true. That's what they say.
That's what they say. Yeah, so I'm going to go with what they say. I'm on that note. I'm grateful for travel and I'm grateful for Europe where the bread and cheese sits out at room temperature all day.
And I'm a big fan of room temperature, bread, cheese, and mayonnaise. Room temperature mayonnaise. Room temperature mayonnaise in Europe is truly, it's up there on my top favorite things that I've ever tasted and experienced. And lastly on my list, because again, this is not a complete list.
I wrote cows. You're grateful for cows. Yeah. Yeah.
I like how they look. So I like the visual aesthetic that they give me on a superficial level. I really enjoy their look. I get their big, big Lincoln eyes.
I love those big peepers. Mm. I like their bodies. I don't know.
The shape. Have you felt their bodies? Have you ever gotten up close and just really put your hands on an udder? Yes.
That has been a long time since I've touched an udder. I probably milked a cow. I think I did for sure at the Minnesota State Fair when I was younger. I think I've milked a cow too.
I have a sensory memory of grasping one of those teats. I bet you do. Sorry. That's weird.
I'm just saying. Yeah. I think I milked a cow. I'm just going to say I milked a cow.
No doubt in it. No doubt in that mind. And I like the way when they're chewing their jaw kind of goes sideways. That's neat.
I enjoy that. And well, trigger warning, I enjoy eating cows. And I also meet and cheese. And I enjoy wearing cow.
Wow, it just never ends. Leather. I see a cow. And I do like cows.
And I eat cows. You do? But I'm a little conflicted by it. I'm conflicted by these creatures that are...
They just have to be eating all the time. And I find that... I have to say I find it a little depressing. It reminds me of some of the more grueling aspects of existence.
Just repetitive, single-minded behavior. Which I find in myself. I look inward and where's my inner cow? What herd do I belong to?
What am I just mind... What cut am I mindlessly chewing on? A lot. Wow.
Thank you for that. I can bring it down. Yeah. Well, since this is the gradisode, how are you going to turn that around?
You can go off now. What's your turn? I feel like my gratitude things are very superficial. That's okay.
Is it? Yeah. There's no judgment in this zone. This is a judgment-free gradisone.
I love cell phones. I love the internet. I like these things that make my life easier. I do like being able to text someone as opposed to calling them.
I fear phone conversations because I don't know when they're supposed to end. I like text conversations because they can sort of start and stop somewhat randomly. And you don't feel like you're blowing somebody off. Anyway, cell phones.
Guitar tuners. When I first began performing, there weren't really guitar tuners. You couldn't really, but then there came the stage tuner that you could plug into and tune. And it streamlined my ability to perform in front of people otherwise.
And people who saw me perform many years ago can attest that I spent a very long time tuning on stage. An unbearable amount of time tuning on stage. I do not have perfect pitch. I can't just tune something by ear when these little boxes, when these electronics came along that made it easier to tune.
It made my life so much better. I like that. And there's guitar tuners on cell phones. Oh, that's cool.
So beyond being able to ask any question to a cell phone via the internet, it also can help me tune my guitars. It can help me document musical ideas and voice memos and also video making small video memos of tunings and finger positions that I use. Being able to document all of these things and then refer to them. I love that.
And I'm so grateful for that. Reversible belts. One of the, a thing that I struggled with for such a long time, I put a belt on and I realized it's on the wrong way. Really?
Yeah, I put it the wrong way. Like, oh, it's upside down. I don't think I've ever put a belt on the wrong way. Well I mindlessly would reach for a belt and just shove it through those holes all the way through.
Pull it out the other side, realize it's like upside down. And then after like, either just pull it all out. I mean, we're talking very small amounts of time. We take to change things like this, but now with my reversible belts and I have several of them.
All I have to do is take that little buckle, turn it around. If I put it on the wrong way. Yeah, that was a real game changer for you. The reversible belt.
Did we get your first reversible belt at Wilson's? We did. We had a very unique little department store downtown Greenfield. Uh huh.
It has since closed. Yeah. But it was one of those old department stores that just stuck around since the God knows. I don't know.
30s. 40s. I don't know. It had been there forever.
It would have their own little department store where you could buy everything. You could buy perfume and you could buy a kerosene lantern. You could buy a pan. Yeah.
Wilson's. I miss Wilson's. It really, I know that they probably could not sustain because it was, well, it was not bustling. Let's put it that way when you would go there.
But my God, it had so many charming throwback aspects to it that I'm grateful that I got to experience for a short while. Yep. That was cool. I really liked it.
We got my first fossil brand reversible belt. Exactly. It was a little tough because I think it costs like 30 bucks. I'm like 30 bucks for a belt.
That's a lot. But you know what? Worth it. Worth it.
Yeah. Absolutely. Well, and the thing too with the reversible belt, which I think you haven't really said yet, is that it helps you with your fashion because one side could be the brown leather and the other side is the black leather. That's right.
I remember it really came in handy when we were having a little fashion contest. And I think it was the one thing, because at the last minute I realized, oh my gosh, I have it on the brown side and I'm wearing all black. And then I switched to the black side and I think I won the contest. I think you did as well.
So based on that reversible fossil belt. Kindles. Oh, I am so grateful for kindles. Kindles.
I like to read in bed about what I do not like. And I think I've said this before. I don't like having a light on. I don't like falling asleep with a light on and waking up like at three o'clock in the morning with the light in my face.
I did it for years and years and years, no longer because the Kindle, I can read it. It has a screen that is illuminated from behind it. So the technology that they use is it makes it easy on your eyes. It's not like a glowing destructive screen.
It's not throwing whatever rays that your cell phone or your laptop or your iPad throw. It's different. It's like the way that the letters are arranged and even down to the materials. I mean, this is like really fine technology.
And they're really easy to carry around. You can thin their lightweight. They're small. You can put them in your purse and your backpack on your carry-on.
You can forget them at the hotel because they get lost in the bed clothes. That's a that's a loom move. You like to you like to forget them, but you do forget them. I do.
We've had a few kindles rolling around. I've got there's I think I'm on my third one now. Third. I did find there was one did surface in the dinosaur junior storage room.
Really? Yeah. And John Maloney gave it back to me. Thanks, John.
I thought it was going forever. I think I had left it behind on a tour bus. And then it got moved into the storage unit. So now I have two totally functional kindles, all which talk to the same master who keeps control of the books that I'm reading, the pages that I'm on.
Yeah. I you know what else I like about the Kindle that I'm grateful for with the Kindle tools, also connecting to tools is that when you touch, you can touch on the character name. And then if you're like, who's George again? Wait a minute.
If you like gently touch George's name, it'll give you a quick little synopsis or summary of like, this is George. And you're like, oh, of course that's George. Carry on. Or if you're feeling like maybe you read a word and you're like, I'm getting kind of stuck because I don't know what that word is.
Ooh, like gently again hover and touch on that word. All the time. Yes. And it's going to tell you what the word means.
Constantly looking up the definition of words. On your Kindle? Mm hmm. And eventually it's the words I'm actually going to remember what they mean because I've actually pressed the same word over and over again.
Sure. Yeah. So I mean, I do so you also really like that. I don't think we've ever talked about that, but I love that feature.
Oh, God. Yeah, that's a great feature. I love it. I love that dictionaries are kind of just a touch away.
Oh, exactly. Yes. Great, wonderful for dictionaries in the world of technology because, yes, just like you said, the Kindle is not just a book. It's also functioning as a dictionary at the same time.
Your phone. I love the dictionary app on my phone and I love it. I love so many things about this technological world we live in, the advances. Gratitude.
Thank you. Where do I go from here? You just came out of your deep innards. I'm not grateful for that.
You know what I'm grateful for. What? Whippet out baby. I should really go make myself a hot sandwich.
Goddamn I love a hot sandwich. I do like a cold sandwich too, but I think if I had to take one over the other, I'm gonna go hot sandwich. Very grateful for refrigeration. Extremely grateful for that.
I don't like to pull something right out of the fridge and put it in my mouth. That's all beverages and you love cold chicken. I'm sorry, I just got so hungry now that I got distracted. While we were talking a pang of hunger struck my stomach.
There should be a but there should be cheese on our counter just sweating away at all times. I think when you describe sweaty cheese, that's when I, even if I may enjoy deeply deeply enjoy room temperature cheese, especially gouda. Gouda room temperature. Oh man, that, damn it, that's good.
And I want to put like a really intense kind of vinegary, possibly little grainy mustard with that gouda as well. I like this look on your face. Yeah, what's my look? I'm like you're just planning something.
I'm actually planning something naughty. You're almost like, that's a look like you're gonna rob a bank. Oh, that's naughty for sure. I'm not going to rob a bank, but I was, I was actually almost transported overseas to like a place somewhere maybe in Cologne, Germany.
And we're maybe I'm at the farmers' market there and man, they've got that cheese just sitting out into a delicious baguette. And some little mustard and maybe a nice tomato and I slice up that tomato and I put it on the baguette. I know I'm going to put butter because listen, butter. Room temperature butter.
Do not do not give me butter from the refrigerator. Put that shit on the counter. Okay, and leave it there. Just leave it there.
I want that butter to spread anytime I want it. That's almost the thing I'm most grateful for. Soft butter. Soft butter.
Soft spreadable. Salted butter. I don't like unsalted butter. I pretty much use salted butter just for everything.
Did I tell you about the whipped tuna fish I had? Oh, God. I whipped. I'm also, yeah.
It was a Europe of course. Whipped. It's the greatest thing. Just, I mean, almost unrecognized while you wouldn't like, what is that?
What is that sort of? Patage. Patage-looking thing. It's like patage, I guess.
But patage can be kind of firm and dense and slightly heavy. Whereas whipped has a buoyancy to it. It's light. It's like a cloud.
Air. It's light as air. Tuna. Tuna.
Yeah, I think a lot of the things I'm most grateful for. Like food. Same. You know what else speaking of tuna, not done yet.
I need to have my tuna in oil. I don't want to have tuna from the can in water. I like my tuna sitting in oil. Oil packed tuna.
That's for me. That's it. Yeah. Pole caught.
Whatever is the most environmentally friendly. As long as you put that in oil, I'm there. I want someone in this country to start whipping that tuna fish. Well, how do I do that?
Do I have to put it? You could do it. Yeah. I mean, when you say whip, maybe you, I mean, how do you put it?
How do you whip it with like a hand mixer? I think you can. Like you're whipping like dough, bread dough. I mean, you have to put it in the stand mixer.
The processor. You just put the tuna and just empty that tuna can into a processor and just. You know what else I'm grateful for? I could use the bean grinder.
That would ruin the bean grinder. Well, coffee bean grinder. If you walked into the kitchen and I was spooning tuna into our coffee bean grinder. Oh, that would suck.
That would really suck. We would have a really bad fight. It would be a bad fight. There's so many things like that that I do that I have the impulse to do.
But I don't follow through. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm grateful for that restraint.
Well, we're grateful. So are you. We're going to just decide that for you. We're grateful you're here.
You're grateful you're there. We're grateful everywhere. Thank you for listening to Raw Compressions.