CLOUD NOTHINGS frontman Dylan Baldi and Brett Newski chat about touring China and Russia, finding your own record in a discount bin, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the death of shopping malls, lava lamp dangers, boosting immune system, and crusty basement shows.
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Brett: Not to get weird, but I went to the rec center last week to break a sweat, get a workout in, and try to boost my mental health. You can sit in a steam room, and your shorts will get soaked. But after the steam room, you remember those little machines where you put your shorts in there, hold down the lid, and take it out four seconds later with dry shorts?
I was just thinking about how psychotic it is that you’d put your shorts where thousands of dudes have basically had their balls in there. That has to be a health club technology that’s on borrowed time.
Dylan: I have to think so. There are so many things that I used to do that in the light of the last year make me think, “I can’t believe I mixed germs with people in these ways, and that it felt so normal.” It’s funny to think about how minor things like that will change. Yeah, maybe the shorts machine will be gone soon.
Brett: Or who knows, maybe that’s the only thing boosting my immune system right now. I don’t know. I do sometimes think about this Joe Rogan podcast guest who’s been on a few times. He’s a farmer who has drank water out of his cow’s water feeder once a day for the last 34 years, and he’s never gotten sick once in his life. There might be something to that.
Dylan: You think it’s because of the cow?
Brett: I think it’s, yeah, maybe there are infinite amounts of weird bacteria that basically make him invincible.
Dylan: My dad was telling me the same thing, I think. My parents have a dog, and you know how dogs lick...themselves all over? Well my dad loves it when the dog comes and licks him in the face. And I’m like, “That’s really gross, dad.” And he says, “It makes me immune to things.”
I think he was joking, but I think he also might have been serious.
Brett: But he’s a healthy guy right?
Dylan: He’s healthy enough.
Brett: Yeah.
Dylan: So maybe there’s something to animals’...streams that keeps you healthy.
Brett: We need to start an artisan dog saliva business where we just ship out health shots of dog saliva. You take them, and you’re immortal.
Dylan: We’d have to be very careful with the advertising. We’d have to say, we promise NOTHING.
