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Do you hear that? Not Fort track man. Oh, Fort track man's nephew. Okay.
It's a Fort track guy. Once again. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's a big fan. Mm hmm.
Can't expect them. Many of these ones are tiny tents Tuesday's. Mm hmm. Can't expect the one day's tiny tents Tuesday's.
We're failing y'all. There's good reasons. We've got a few reasons. Yeah.
And they're all different. Oh, these ones are true. Yeah. More emergency room visits.
Did we talk about your AFib yet? No. Oh boy. No.
No. Yes, very, very soon. Mm hmm. Lovely area.
You know, he's doing okay. Something's wrong with Fort track man. Uh, you know. Is nothing was here taking care of him?
Sorry. Fort track. Yeah. My thoughts live up in a nice little bar.
I'm not going to Santa Barbara. No, not this time. So, no, you stay home for a week by yourself. Yeah.
Me and Fort track now. Yep. He loves you. He's a rewind button is broken.
Oh, really? Yeah. Dang. It's broken.
No. Can we get it fixed? No. There was that kid in town that fixed my Fort track.
What happened to that kid then? I don't know. He also hung on to that Fort track for a long time. He did.
Mm hmm. When I, um... Classic Fort track style. Oh.
This guy is slow. This is going on. He's getting in the way of my chatter. Yeah.
Yeah. Um, when I did get my Fort track repaired by a young man in town. Mm hmm. And I think I dropped it off for him at 11 o'clock in the morning.
And he was barefoot smoking a cigarette and drinking a siren of vodka. He was young. Yeah. Like his fans are dinosaur junior fans.
His fans? His parents. Oh, there. Hopefully the fans are dying of surgery.
Yes. The fans of his Fort track work are also dinosaur junior fans. Fun. The mother and father of the kid that fixed my Fort track.
Were they home? No, they're, they live in North Carolina. Ah, okay. Maybe they're listeners of the class.
Oh, I hear. Your son's doing great. He's... Well, I'll tell you what.
If you're going to be smoking a cigarette and drinking a siren of vodka, it's okay if you're like 23. 100%. You get 20 to 30, a full decade. A full decade to do that.
And was he wearing a robe? No, but he was great. He was barefoot. He was not wearing a robe.
Yeah. It took him a little while to... Hey kid, if you're listening, add a robe. Add a robe.
So, or if your parents are listening, send him a robe. You might not be in a greenfield anymore. Who knows? The life of a young person is fluid.
Totally. They go from place to place. I know. Can't pin them down.
You could have been like, wow, Greenfield is cool. I'm here. I'm here for life. Six months later.
So, we... Okay, we have a few things to address. I'm trying to think of how many things to address. I'm in the crazy place.
Me, I, Adele... That song has been roaring through my head. It's the final countdown. In approximately actually one hour.
It's 230 right now, and at approximately 330-ish. I will be hitting the road. Go on East to Boston with a whole gang full of women. Women, females, female energy, hitting the road.
Me and my mom friend, and not just my mom friend, she's my friend Alexis, and combined her two daughters and Izzy, and we're actually flying to Los Angeles together. How fun is that? I don't know what it's about. You set up a little bouquet to Los Angeles.
This upcoming week is spring break. No, it's February break. Spring break's in April. Dear God.
I know, well, so this isn't- Does this give me another break? There is, this is an East Coast thing. People, I don't know, from where on? It's a very great break.
You know what? Yeah. No. Except I get to go to Los Angeles.
You're going to what you set up months ago. Yeah, I guess so. I'm working on a very secret project. Yeah, and you're going to be home and holding it down here in Greenfield with the kitties and going to work every day.
And so you were not able to come with East Coast. I don't know how many states here on the East Coast do this, but yes, there's a week off for all schools, public, private, you name it. It's called February break. And being from Minnesota, I had no such break that didn't exist, so I know it doesn't go that far.
But I thought I heard someone say they did it for skiing or something like that for families. Like a long time ago. A long time ago. Yeah, it was set up so families could have their week-long ski trips or something.
Special New England vacation. I think it kind of is. Yeah, to embrace the winter. And it's just stayed.
So because it just hasn't been long enough after the winter break, after the Christmas break. It just hasn't been long enough. Just a few weeks. And then surprise.
Gosh, it's been a couple of weeks since our last really long break. Yeah. Why not? Well, I will say this.
What was I going to say? See, I'm in the crazy zone. Because when I'm leaving for a trip, yeah, it's the final countdown. I am really nuts, guys.
I am like, oh, I, the crazy feelings inside of my body. And I'm running all around. And I'm going up downstairs. And I'm packing.
Today is also Valentine's Day. And I would like to thank you for having Valentine's Day with me today. I know it's nice to be got taken before I leave. This Valentine's Day is scrubbed.
That was my initial thought when I realized you were leaving on this day. Because you can't really do anything other than pack on the day that you leave. We were able to spend some time together this morning. And I was able to do it.
Indeed. We held hands sitting next to each other side by side on the bed. It was lovely. We held hands.
We padded each other's sides. And it was so nice to hang out with you. You're important to me. I actually got Adele some Valentine's gifts this time around.
Good. Thank you. Is that unprecedented? It is actually.
It's our 13th Valentine's Day together. I didn't want to play my tiny violin. But we have talked about this in the past. You haven't, you are.
You haven't been the best gift giver. But you did say you were going to turn a new. For those of you that remember our Leaf Valentine's Day pandemic special. And if you haven't seen it, it's amazing.
Oh, it is. It's so good. We should put a link in the show notes. Put a link in the show notes to this.
Make that shickle viral. It didn't do as well as it should have. Totally. It has like 3,000 views.
It's crazy. That's my dice. You know, that's great, though. 3,000 views.
It's great. But I do like a beautiful cover of a zombie song to open the show. Yeah. Any fires medley?
And the fires medley is in there. When I do on fire by Bruce Springsteen, this is medley on a mashup. They call them. Yeah.
For the kids today, mashup. It was. I do a mashup of On Fire by Bruce Springsteen. Your sex is on fire by our secret favorite band.
Kings of Leon. God, we love him so much. Don't. And don't nobody say anything about it.
We just like them. We do. Then what's the other one? Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.
Yep. Fantastic song. And those three all mixed together. It's kind of cool.
It's fucking great. Go watch it. But during the course of that episode, I've got to point out I say something funny, but also true. Every day is Valentine's Day with Lou Barlow.
Do we really want to revisit that statement? I don't mean. Isn't it? Sort of.
Oh, my little boy look on your face there, like you're in trouble. I try to make it special every day. You know what? I will say I am grateful every day because I love you.
And I'm so happy that you're my partner. And so yeah, every day is Valentine's Day. And you're my best friend. And you're the best kisser.
Yeah, you have the most wonderful soft pillowy lips, so everyone that's TMI, but he does. They're beautiful, soft, warm, pillowy lips. God. I don't care about my face being red all the time.
Oh, God. That's just red with the being of your heart. Are you okay with my fucked up heart? I'm speaking up.
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So the other day, two weeks ago, it was a big day for us because we were cleaning out the office. Oh, no, you were having the party. A death hole party at our house. Oh, yeah, I was hosting Menapals.
Menapals is like, oh, I mean, you know, guys, so I. There's a there's a there's a gaggle of people that are going through Menapals and Perimenopals that I'm friends with here in the surrounding Western Mass area, not all moms, but some. Oh, great. And yeah, and it's like, I don't know, a text thread 30 deep or something, and we are the Menopals.
I love it. I love that so much. I'm going through Perimenopals, everyone. Have we mentioned that yet?
Perimenopals. It's a hot trend, and I happen to be right on this trend. I just so I'm so on trend currently. I'm also reading All 4s by Miranda July.
Also touches on menopause and Perimenopause and shaking up your life in your 40s. Laughing your ass off every night reading this book. Oh, she gives me so many giggles. I love you, Miranda.
She's got a blast. Thank you. Thank you for being in this world, Miranda July. What a little gift she is.
A lot of great stuff. I mean, I've been a fan for a long time. Yeah. Once when I lived in LA, she walked by my house.
Stop. Wow. Cool. Just I know.
Just saw those eyes moving past my house. I was like, I know. Pale skin. Yeah.
Yeah. Unmistakable. Of course. Yeah.
Days of Miranda July. Indeed. So she saw me. Did you make eye contact?
No. Also Napoleon Dynamite walked by. Wait, so she just walked by? Yeah.
Did she have any props like a dog or? No. OK. She was just walking and observing.
Yeah. That seems very like her. She was observing. My house fell in her gaze.
I don't think I did. But you never know. You never know. You never know.
Actually, I would say she's a person where things don't just slip by her. She's a noticeer. She's noticing. Yes.
She's very observant. Oh, sometimes there's a meeting at a restaurant slash bar thing. We all get together and chat about life. The first one, I think, was at Harvey's and Turner's restaurant there and owned by one of our men and pals.
And then the last one was at our friend's case. But I couldn't be at that one. So then I'm hosting this one, which means no dudes and no children. So Izzy and I split for the night.
But so we're getting ready in the morning. So yeah, we're doing much like today, much like today, which is like, you know, the scurry, the scurry. The scurry, the scurry. We'll count down.
So I wasn't fully. I was like, this is all today is going to be about. Yeah, men and pals. It was going to be about men and pals and preparing the house.
So I was doing the final. I was dismantling our office at the same time. Oh, yeah. Because we're doing multiple things, guys.
I was carrying bricks down to the basement. I was carrying boards to the attic. I was carrying huge boxes of CDs. And I don't think I had had breakfast.
I think I had two espresso's. I had two espresso's. And then I ate agami. Did have an edible.
And I was a new edible. I just because I really wanted these energy cubes, and they didn't have them. Oh, OK. And so they were like, oh, we got these.
So I got my strain. Where did you get these from? Heirloom. Heirloom makes the energy cubes.
They have since discontinued them. So I was very disappointed. I was like, you don't have the energy cubes. Is that the one down in Amherst?
That looks like a furniture store? It looks like a furniture store. It's like the fancy-slicing dispensary. Heirloom.
Heirloom. The heirloom collective. So they're like, but we have these. So I got these other ones that sort of the right strain.
Anyway, I ate one. And they were kind of dusted. They're like energy ones. And they were dusted with garana, which is like a high.
There's a bunch of caffeine. OK. Yeah. Point is it's caffeine.
So I went way over my caffeine. No, no, for your tummy. You didn't have your smoothie or? I don't think I had my smoothie yet.
Wait, we hadn't discovered the smoothie yet? I think we had. Yeah, but you just didn't do it any way. Anyway, I didn't have dinner the night before, because I was working on the special project.
Oh, God. And my routine was all so I was basically empty, stomach, and stomach. Compromised and flying high and going up and downstairs. Caring bricks.
And then I just checked my Instagram. I got totally triggered. Yeah. And my heart just started going crazy.
Which is not unusual for me, because I do have this condition called SVT that has visited me over the years. We've had a few trips. We've had a trip to here. But that's like when your heart jackhammers at about 200 plus beats per minute, this was different.
This was slower. But it was just my heart flopping around. I'm like, what the fuck? So long story short.
Lou ended up in the emergency room. The next day I went to the emergency room, because I was just like, I can't do this anymore. You took Izzy and her friend Ice Skating. I took the Myskating with my heart flopping around.
And then Izzy took a scary tumble too. She was having a great time. And then she fell on her face. She split her lip open and got a big old knot on her chin.
I was like, I'm not going to let her down, because you really want to go ice skating. So I'm like, I'm going to go ice skating. You know what? This heart thing, whatever, it's not SVT, so I can function with it.
But it's not a good function. It's kind of like really debilitating. And I feel tired. And my heart's flopping around at a random.
But I mean, it's just, and it's already been going on for 24 hours. And I'm like, so I got home with Izzy and her split lip. Blood everywhere. Split lip.
It was rough. She's like, I'm never ice skating again. I'm like, she probably isn't. I don't like it.
She really seemed to enjoy it. But so then I checked myself into the hospital. And they kept me there overnight. And they didn't really do anything, other than giving me metropolol, which I have done before.
I thought they were going to do the thing where they really shocked me with some really interesting medication for SVT. They shock you with medication. Sometimes they shock you with the paddles, even to get it right back. Yes, exactly.
Yeah. A bit of people know what SVT is, super ventricular tachycardia. But they shock your body. So then you just get your heart going, oh, sorry, then it starts beating normally.
And they didn't do that with this. They just kept giving me metropololol, or as I like to call it, metaprolol. That's my dad way of mispronouncing it. Metaprolol.
But they gave me metropololol. And that's all I'm like, and this is not, so I just basically hung out in the hospital all night long with the same thing and I left with AFib. I left with it still doing the same thing. Well, they discharged you with it.
They discharged you with it. And they just gave me, you know, prescription for more of the medicine that I already have, but I hired dosage. And then it went away the next day. Yeah.
And I tell you what, I have not touched caffeine, alcohol, nothing. Or cannabis since. So I'm like sober as can be. Oof.
How's that feeling? It's cool. I miss cannabis. OK.
Anyone wants to give me some constructive advice on whether I can continue to do cannabis, and cannabis not dusted with like a fucking energy drink or whatever. Right. Just straight up, because now I'm afraid to do any of the things that were happening to me when it happened. But I have to say, I feel like I'm much more articulate that I was speaking with a friend yesterday, who I know is high all the time on the phone.
You were? I was. And I noticed that he couldn't complete his sentences. And that's me on cannabis.
That actually is you on cannabis. As evidence on many of these podcast episodes. Yeah. That's true.
I like start my. Start, start, start, start, start, start. I can't finish. I can't complete sentences, which is the first time that I've really identified something negative about cannabis.
I mean, there are plenty of negatives that I could say. But nothing that I can identify that is like slurring when you drink alcohol. Alcohol has a very immediate and definite and identifiable effect that the person drinking doesn't necessarily notice, which is the slurring. But to notice that cannabis makes it difficult for me to complete sentences in conversation.
Yeah. You know, what the reason I like cannabis when I'm alone. So I would like to have that in my life still in some way. But I'm not.
I'm scared of it now. Yeah. Well, you know, it's very recent. So I will say whatever you reintroduce, go very slow.
And it's OK to take a little break. And maybe think about it. And I mean, I don't know, even talk to a heart doctor about it. Like, is that?
I just figure they're going to say no. Do you think they'll say no? I'm ready. I'm actually really ready.
Kathleen and alcohol, I'm like, I feel a lot better. You look really. You know? I feel a ton better.
Yeah. And look, I mean, you know, I did my nightly Marlboro seven-year-old Blanca. My screen keeps going down for some reason. OK.
Don't worry about that. Do you think I would have my little arrow in the middle of the screen? Oopsies. It's OK.
Sorry, guys. Oh, we're going to go. I'm literally going. And Lou's going to be literally staying.
And then I will come to you from Los Angeles, everyone. Yeah. It's right. Hey, you too.
I'm going to put the strap on. I got to go. I'm going to go. Down, down, Lou.
Yeah. That's time I wrap it up. Perfect. Thank you.
Del said it to the airport as I understand. Thank you. All right. I came to the listeners' bra of questions.
I felt alessness. I should say. Oh, man. I love this one.
So this is your role, role pleasure. We're all pleasure from now. We're all pleasure from now. Wrapping up, guys.
I got to go pick up busy from school. I don't know if four-track guys coming back. Got messages I have to answer. Let's get that part, right.
Right, right. All right. Maybe we're going to talk when you get to LA. Maybe we'll do a podcast when you're in Los Angeles.
Maybe we'll do two. Maybe we'll get back to two, you guys. Maybe because Monday morning when I'm there, probably Okay, maybe do mini music or teddy tones. Have a good trip.
Thank you. Love you. I love you too. Okay, bye-bye.
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