the power of rabies

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It's been a while. On this episode, Adele talks about some problem wildlife. And Lou continues his journey to inner peace. Thank you for listening.

We're back. Oh my gosh we're back. Look at this, I'm in the room. I'm in the room instead of in a white Pacifica minivan sitting next to John Davis.

You're in the home. You're home. And the bosom. Welcome back for the week.

In the lair. I really, really missed Ron Presions. I felt the emptiness. I was like, oh Raw, I miss you.

It's so good to be back. I'm kind of glad I had a week off. Are you? Yeah, because I want to be- You were like juggling a lot.

But I wanted to come back into it. I wanted to do a real textured episode for everybody. And that takes a lot of work actually. It really does.

Yeah. Lou busted his ears yesterday. I think you must have honestly spent eight hours just crafting this episode. Oh man.

Working on all the studies. I forgot really basic stuff like, you know, don't have the headphones turned up all the way. Don't do that. When you press something, I just, I deafened myself with screeching feedback.

I did all the dumb things. I kind of actually got good at not hurting myself that way. Yeah. But two weeks off.

Oh, yeah. To relearn it all again. Boy is like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm working the four track when I was 23. Stoned out of my mind kind of thing.

Goodness. Doing really hurtful. Hurtful things to my precious, precious ears. Yeah.

Wow. But that's, you know what? Oh shit. Hold on.

I have to take this call. I give. Keep recording. Oh, okay.

What is it? Hello. Hello. This is Adele.

Hi. How are you? Oh my God. The bat is negative.

Yay. Thank you so much. Okay. Bye.

Wow. Could that be any more perfect? The timing is so wild. I don't know.

I cannot make that up. People remember the introduction of this episode. It talks a little bit about it. It talks about it.

That's wild. That just happened. Yes. Adele had a run in with some problem wildlife.

She was also saved by problem wildlife. Oh my God. Wow. Good news.

Wonderful news. Should I, should we backtrack? You don't have rabies. I don't have rabies.

Yay. Yay bees. No rabies. Few.

I'm thinking, okay, today's Wednesday. They said one to two days. I should hear. And I'm like, oh, does that mean I'm going to have to wander over to the emergency room soon and get my rabies shot?

That's a good time. Yeah. They were kind of leaving up. They said, well, ten days.

You have rabies for ten days. You're gone. You're dead. You're gone.

Then you become mad and frothing at the mouth and your brain is eaten. Eatin. Rabies is bad news. Why have we not figured out rabies?

We can figure out rabies. There's a shot. Yeah, but you have to like. I mean, the distinctive sound of the mini cowbell indicates it's time for another unsponsored local web.

Also good time. Oh my god. I'm pushing. Yeah.

Hi. Are you Rocky? Yes, ma'am. I think I'm staring at a bat.

Don't move. Keep your eyes on the bat. I'll be there shortly. What's in your house?

Rocky. No. You don't want to know. Maybe.

Wildlife can be a problem. Problem. Wildlife is the solution. For mice.

Raccoons. The common scrodom wrap. Awesome. That's the common scrodom wrap.

Toilet weasels. Crypt mice. Pillow snakes. The North American moon blooded centipede.

Rocky knows where they hide. Not to care. Solve and or live with the problem humanely. We can be friends.

Problem wildlife. Rocky knows. You can try to forget. Welcome to the maternity ward.

Problem wildlife probably serves all of Western Massachusetts. Go to problemwildlife.com. Rocky? Yes, ma'am.

I think I'm staring at you. I'm not going to be a problem. I'm not going to be a problem. I'm not going to be a problem.

I'm not going to be a problem. I'm not going to be a problem. I'm not going to be a problem. I'm not going to be a problem.

I'm not going to be a problem. I think I'm staring at an eagle. Oh my God. There's few things that I can do in my life.

Few things. As far as working on my spiritual life. Few things equal. Satisfaction I get out of making a stupid commercial.

You've made so many good commercials. That one is now currently number one. Do I isolate that and text it to Rocky and just be like... Can I point out what I...

This is for you. what I'm most proud of is making up types of wildlife. Wildlife. Problem wildlife.

Yeah. Let me just let me just in case anybody missed it. In case you missed it. I don't know if I missed it but okay go ahead.

Toilet weasels. My work for this. Something was a scrotum. The North American scrotum.

And there crib mice. That would be bad. Crib mice. No thank you.

And on the goofy side was the North American warm blooded centipede. Would be terrifying. That's where my mind. That's my nightmare.

How many edibles are you on right now? It doesn't matter how many I'm on right now. It's how many I was on yesterday. How many were you on yesterday?

Or was it? There was a succession. I didn't take a bunch at once. I would take one.

Was it an edible day or a? It was an edible day. I didn't smoke. Something's bad for your lungs.

Yeah. But you know I've been like I've been working so hard. You know on that tour I didn't there was no edibles on the fall conclusion tour for Lou. No there was no I was the shows where your edibles just they were the shows really turned my head inside.

Turned my past my present future inside out. It was it was really really revelatory and inspiring. But yes but yes. Why did we do that?

Why did that happen right? Yeah why did I get that phone call just now? That's fucking crazy. That was literally wild.

So man that was wildlife right there. Wildlife this wildlife I last Thursday last Thursday. You're staring at me. I don't know if it was last Thursday.

Oh okay. Oh I can see your eyes like peeping over my lap. I played 13 shows in a row. I had no idea what to do.

I don't know where I am or who I am. I did not. I just did not. Okay so basically last week y'all I like to wake up early in the morning to have like some quiet time maybe write my journal.

You know a little me time before easy gets up for camp and just sort of start my day. Maybe write my thanks you know hit that gratitude. So hit it. Yeah I woke up came down stairs and so we have like a kind of like a living room open dining room situation where you can see from one room openly into the other.

One end of the house to the other and we have I have what are called these things arrow garden. It's basically like a is that like a hydroponic kind of garden thing. Little mini hydroponic. Yeah I grow basil inside and I'm right now I'm growing some wildflowers.

So basically they're lit up during the early morning hours and I could kind of see that something out of the corner of my eye was illuminated by the arrow garden of the white curtain that's behind it on the window. There seemed to be a brown lump on the top of the curtain rod and I'm like huh that looks like there's something on that curtain but I I say it's not that good and I had my glasses on and I'm like well weird. So I go into the living room. I sit down the couch I'm getting ready to situate myself.

I turn on a lamp and I realize I'm just staring at this like brown lump across the hall you know across the room there on the curtain rod and I'm like oh fuck what is that there's something on the curtain rod and I need something kind of big something kind of big and I immediately felt the dread. I was like oh no lose on tour here I am it's the early morning. There's something here in the home with me. Wildlife.

There was wildlife guys. So basically I skirted past it really quickly into the kitchen and grabbed myself a cup of coffee. I was almost like wanting to pretend that it would go away if I got the cup of coffee and I went sat back down I thought I'll just go get that coffee so I really can't handle anything without a cup of coffee so I got my coffee and then I thought well my eyesight's really crappy. I was trying desperately to make it be like something that wasn't going to be alive like maybe some really crazy like dust ball is formed overnight on the curtain rod so I'm like I'm going to get a flashlight and flash it on this thing and see what it is and so I do.

I get a flashlight I realize I go through about three flashlights none of our flashlights are either working or they don't get batteries. That's one of the most frustrating things ever as you're looking for a flash that works in this house and then occasionally I do put the batteries in a bunch of them and I'm like okay I'm sitting this way. Well good yeah but then they all I don't know then it's like three years later and we don't we need to flash like once every three years something shows up and next you know we need that flashlight and so I was like sitting there trying to desperately trying to flash on this brown lump on the curtain rod and I thought this sounds really silly but I feel like I'm not that good with problem wildlife I don't really know what to do and it happens. I actually had the thought maybe that's a huge toad.

I don't know why but I just thought like maybe a toad is in the house or a huge ass frog and it crawled up there. Oh yes like hanging from the curtain rod. House toads. House toads.

I know it makes no sense but I would be cool with house toads. I think it seemed less scary than a bat so I was like it's a toad but then I finally kind of like flicked the flashlight a little dim like that was there and I think I caught two round eyes looking you know and then I realized they don't look they're blind blindest bats they are. Okay well basically I realized then that what the brown lump was which was about like the size of my whole hand it was pretty damn big was a bat. So I kind of like back up into the living room go sit down in the couch and I'm just staring at the bat and I'm going what do what do I do and so I immediately start texting my mom friends who I know are up because they have a daughter who wakes up super early so I'm like you guys I think I'm staring at a bat like I'm not really sure what to do and immediately my friend Casey's like you got to have Rocky.

You got to have Rocky. Casey knows everything so you know I was like okay Casey she immediately hooked me up with Rocky's phone number she's just you got to call Rocky and I'm like okay and I'm thinking god it's like 6 or in the morning I call Rocky now and she's like you call Rocky right now and then I also thought I should really just maybe let Abby Barlow know lose sister Abby who lives in Greenfield I thought I don't know I just feel like I need to have some family backup here. It's a talking emergency. It's an emergency.

It's like a backup. I'm having a bat with super ventricular tachycardia. Yeah you call in you call in call the family. Thank you.

So you know emergency. Exactly so I text Abby that I think I said I think I'm staring at a bat. Text that to Abby and then I call Rocky leave a message then he calls me back really soon after and in the meantime I don't know what to do so I'm just like saying I'm drinking coffee staring at the bat hoping to God it doesn't like wake up and start flying around. Since he got out bad things keep happening.

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Rocky calls me back and basically said what we said in the commercial he was like Rocky here and I'm like I think I'm staring at a bat and he says I'll be there shortly keep your eyes on it. Don't move. Basically you know you can't fucking like walk away from a bat because if they leave I didn't really think that we've had a bat in the house before I'd like to point out. Yeah shortly after we moved here.

Yes. Not only did I find a dead bat in the upstairs fireplace there's no as he's right dead bat there. Right. Well maybe even down in your studio.

Yeah. Anyway. And then we actually did get about in the house and I managed to get it out the window. You did.

Oh it was real quick. I was listening to the Eckhart Tolle audio book on Spotify because you get it for free if you're a Spotify premium. So I listened to it. I actually tried to read the book years ago.

It's made no sense to me whatsoever. Which book? The power of now. I wanted to just play this little excerpt.

Okay. I want to this is an excerpt from the book. I just figured you'd hear it. Okay.

Okay. Your mind is a petulant child. It demands your attention. It draws you to thoughts of the past and of the future.

Both are not real. Neither your past nor future exist. They are constructs of your ego. Yeah but the stuff that happened to me like shaped who I am and I'm trying to get my shit together for the future.

I gotta think about that stuff. Your mind is a tool. You can certainly use it in practical ways like mathematical equations. But the future never arrives and no past is a load of shifting shit.

A collection of biased memories your needy mind arranges to fit its concept of self. None of which exists. Well how come you keep saying that? I am myself.

All the stuff I did and what I want is like who I am. It isn't. Listen carefully. You need to be present.

You need to understand that this moment, the now, is all you will ever have. You can make the decision to live in the moment or be unconscious. Which is insanity. Yeah but wait a minute.

I am conscious. No. You're not. You're in the swirl of your needy narcissistic mind that seeks to obscure all but your own bullshit.

Which is insane. Geez man I get it. Okay I suck. Fuck you.

Wow that was an extra come to book huh? Just word for word. I really like how they had like they actually had these little count to our immense. He would like he goes through the whole thing and then you get these voices that come in and there's the male voice and then there's a female voice.

Both of which are like you know like they're trying to understand. I really like it because it really puts you. I think when I first read the book I don't either I didn't notice that part of it or what but having voices actually illustrated for you. And also Eckhart Tolle.

I don't used to call him Eckhart Tolle. Is Eckhart Tolle? Okay. I don't know either.

I mean Tolle means it means like great in German. And he's true. Guns Tolle. You know just just great.

Everything's awesome. So yeah it looked like Tolle to me. Yeah me too. But it's Tolle as I found out because he was an audiobook.

Yes. So anyway yeah I just really wanted to share that with you. Thank you so much. You know I also have the power of now in my audiobooks and I have not finished it but maybe I'll you know I think you had to be in the right place right?

Yeah I am definitely in the right place to receive the power of now. To pretty much just fuck the past. Yeah. And let's not get too obsessed with the future.

Fair enough. Right now baby. Have a good attitude right now. Yes.

And you know I was able to come home from because anyway if there's a lot of things like he says all this stuff and they're like well I gotta go to work. I'm just be staring at a tree all day. I got shit to do. And he's like no I mean just when you do something bring your full attention to it.

Be in the now when you're creating something even though you're creating something for the future that's fine. You know if you've got your plan and you're working towards a goal that's all cool but just don't forget to enjoy the moment. Yeah. And when I got home from the tour and we were like I'm like well we haven't done a podcast in a long time and gee I haven't really done a podcast where I really devoted a lot of time to just doing really stupid shit in it.

You know. Just making up a bunch of garbage and having a really and just really entertaining myself. Yeah. Really seizing on the moment.

So I have to say creating. Oh you know if this has been I got home and I was Eckhart he got me there. He felt he helped get you in the now. Did he?

I actually I fucking understood it. I read it decades ago and I was like eh. Yeah. Now.

You were not ready for the now then. But you know what actually I wasn't joined. I had a real pretty great now I would say for quite a while. Like for my twenties I was in the now I would say.

Creating. Living. Yeah. Loving.

Sure. I don't know. Wow. So anyway.

No that's great. I you're inspiring me to revisit that audiobook. It's it's ready on demand. I own it.

So whenever I want to dip back in. I wanted to play it with you for you. I want to be like hey let's let's go to the grocery store and listen to Eckhart Tolle. I love it.

I'd love to do that. And if you want to have a date where we do that I'm all in. So anyway. So yeah.

So literally there. Oh my goodness. I'm well so are you in the now. Right now as I'm about to tell you finish telling you about the bat.

You bring me to now. Oh you are now for me. Yeah. It's a real you know kind of cheating a little bit.

It's like you're a little it will now bunny. But I'm a now bunny. Now bunny. Okay.

That's not kind of wildlife. Oh my goodness. So basically you know what happened was is let's see where was I I was realizing it was a bat. Rocky called me told me to keep my eyes on the bat which you know it did make sense to me during that when he told me because I thought immediately he's telling me that because it could it could move and then and then I have to go find the bat and this is this is just easier if we know where the bat is keep our eye on the bat.

So I said okay Rocky I'll hang tight and I'll see you soon give him my address. So then Abby calls me like a second later and she's like yeah so I should probably come over right and I'm like actually that would be great that would be really helpful because well do a couple things. So one is I would have to be getting Izzy up for camp soon and someone would have to take her to camp. You know what I mean?

And it would either be me but I don't know what's happening with the bat and Rocky then does like a whole diagnostic I think of your house like top to bottom whatever and then also I well you know when you sleep at night you go to sleep and it's like your own little thing you've got your your sleep clothes right. Well I happen to be wearing a very lovely nightgown which one it was like the very pale one from Vermont Country Store. Shout out Vermont Country Store on their nightgowns yeah and but I was not wearing any underwear. I'm not going to eat that.

How come you don't do that when I'm home? Wait a minute. What's happening? It was really hot when you're gone and girls need to breathe you know your pirates need to they need air they just need to like be you can't.

Why are you suffocating yourself when I'm home? Be free. Okay I don't know. I don't know.

I just I was Lucy Guzy that night and I was like I just want to be comfortable. Be very comfortable and just have this like light sheath on me and okay I realized that it would be awkward to answer the door wearing such a look to receive Rocky and he would maybe wonder why the hell I was basically naked so so I was glad that Abby showed up thankfully very she lived really close and she was able to position herself in a chair so that she could watch the bat while I went upstairs and changed. Well surely you could have wrapped a blanket around yourself there's several blankets in the living room. Oh that's true I guess I didn't think to put like a toga on myself.

I don't know I just was I wasn't thinking clearly I was actually very stressed I don't know I'm I'm calm now. That's scary for people. Yes I managed like over over here. I was really scared I'm not gonna lie I was actually not.

They don't really they don't want to fuck with you. They don't want to turn to your hair. They really are just like and they're trying to get away from us. I actually find them a little cute.

You and Izzy both. I think they're gorgeous in their weird way and they're such they're such incredible creatures. I caught one with a full goldfish bowl in my parents house when I was in my early 20s. We really got to look at it and like I'm set it free.

I have to say so I had to so Rocky came Abbe's there helping and sure enough yes it wasn't a toad that had crawled up her curtain rod it wasn't need a bat and then Rocky informed me that the safest practice and it was my option but the safest practice would be for him to capture the live bat. I don't think he can kill bats anyway that's legal right? You cannot get them out of your house as a huge process because it's a state law that it has to be humane right we have to protect the bats very into people understand the value of that. I mean it's kind of cool that we got them hanging out up there.

It's actually not terrible they eat bugs up in our attic so which I found out from Rocky. But so he basically said you don't know where this bat has been basically you woke up this morning that's all the way down here you know in the first floor and which would mean most likely it traveled to get there of course during the night and since our bedroom doors are open during the night you cannot guarantee that said bat did not you could have rabies dusted you exactly it's just it's basically like he said that it can happen from a scratch obviously a bite or even just their saliva drip which is wild. Okay so I I'm afraid about again by the way this whole story is it's it was pretty intense and I'm not gonna lie I was literally sweating I was sweating a lot I was very nervous about the bat I was like I was bummed so then I had to wake up Izzy and during this whole thing when Rocky got there and she got to meet Rocky and she was like oh the bat's so cute I'm gonna name him Tutu so she named the bat Tutu Rocky thought Izzy was really cool he liked how she was asking him so much so many questions she was like well who are you what are you doing what's happening with that bat what else are you gonna look for and he was like you're not my daddy yeah who's this guy here in the morning with a glove on yeah so you know then Rocky just like pulled up a chair snatched the bat with his gloved hand obviously in a tender enough way to keep it alive and I watched him like knife a Tupperware to get some air holes in it and he put the bat in a like a Lunchables Tupperware container asked me for some masking tape we just kind of taped it down that bat was really bummed it went boliss tick okay it was like fucking it was like crazy and I'm like holy shit holy shit that scared me it was really scary and he's like you're gonna have to take this bat to the Department of Health here and you feel yeah me that's my job not him no I had to deliver a live bat then and we put it inside of a brown paper bag I love the staple paper bags I was allowed to put one staple in it the passenger side and the bag just like bouncing it's like that was losing its mind rolling with the bat oh my god I was so nervous you guys I had all the windows down just in case because he was like bats can get out of just like the smallest little crack and I could just I was like please just let me get this bat delivered to the Department of Health drop it off please don't let me have rabies dear god because then he also informed me that rabies are 100% lethal after 10 days yeah something like that so I was like so you were actually on countdown you were on a death watch until the beginning of this episode when miraculously they're calling it that's wild so they're in deep at this leaf I mean like I call yes I know why we're doing this wow and then I guess they let that little bat go are they must then right just buddy goodbye goodbye we don't have to put you in the garbage disposal because if you got rabies oh my god you're dead oh hey so yeah they're dying anyway oh that's the thing if they have rabies they're you know they don't live they have rabies kills it kills it kills it kills all the us as far as I know okay maybe I'm wrong maybe there's just I don't know I don't think I'm wrong okay I think the thing is so the bat has rabies it's on its way to death now remember when we found the when you found the bobcat in the backyard in glendale glendale california right yes see the thing is like around that same time I was reading a lot of news reports of you know I was just looking for news reports on bobcats and there was one like around that same time where a rabid bobcat yes because they go crazy yes with that woman in her head right they go rap they go crazy so that's what happens if you get rabies you're going crazy wait is this the end this is the end well perfect timing i know the batman story i know and i'm negative guys are because the bat's negative so i don't know rabies the bat doesn't rabies in case anybody missed it i'd like to like you to know that i combined the batman theme plus the rocky theme yes i love it this is the batman and snuck a little a cartoli in there wow what can we do guys come on well it's good to be back i'm leaving soon so be back i'll be gone next week oh my goodness since he got out that these keep happening Kate Fear a new series he's now streaming on apple tv why when i want to hurt you why starring academy award winner half year of our dem why and academy award nominee any items he's coming after my family one kake fear now streaming on apple tv subscription acquired for apple tv