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We're sitting on a blue couch. There's a bed in this couch. It's a sofa bed. I slept on the sofa bed last night.
How'd that feel? It wasn't too bad. I had to sleep diagonally on it to find the right spot where the springs weren't offending me. Where the ridges weren't on my ridges.
But yeah, I had a pretty good night's sleep thanks to one and one half Al-Prazalam. I took it at 12.01. I believe I was asleep by 12.15. So I think I got a good solid seven hours of sleep last night.
Nice. That's pretty good. That's not bad. Not bad.
I had sleep interrupted, but I slept on and off. You and you and Bang Bang? Yeah, Izzy and I shared a bed last night. We tried to get Izzy to sleep on the sofa bed.
I mean, she's a kid. I mean, Isn't that where kids sleep? Kids can sleep anywhere. Not Bang Bang.
Not this generation. I don't know. I wouldn't equate her to the princess and the pee because it was not a comfortable bed and she... She was right.
It was poking. She made it known that we would be torturing her if we were to leave her there while we slept on the nice big comfortable bed. Mm-hmm. But in the end, I gave up.
I gave up. I was ready to give up too. I was like, I was so tired. I said, I'll sleep there.
I don't care. I knew that Al-Prazalam was the only mattress I really needed. And I went that extra half. That extra .25 milligrams.
So far on the road, we've lost our pillows from home. We did. We brought our really nice pillows. It was a great idea.
Lou and I each have pillows for our own specific needs. Lou has a square pillow. I recommend it. I don't.
But he does. You like it. I don't. It's it's square and it pokes me.
I have a like a heavy, kind of wide memory foam pillow. I need like a firm of firm. I need a firm pillow. Firm memory foam.
I like a firm mattress and a firm pillow. We, we, we share our mattress needs preferences. That's true. Our mattress needs are similar.
We don't need one of those beds that way you can adjust each side. No, that's true. We share a mattress. We share what we share.
We like what we both like the same mattress. Our bodies are aligned with that. It's just our heads that need a little different support. And all we've got that out of the way.
We've got to rebuy some pillows somewhere. Here we are tonight will be my fourth solo show. Oh, this is the fourth night, fourth hotel. I'm going Zen from here on out now.
I've I feel like I've been in fight mode. Not with you, but it's been it's intense like going from just your life and your routine to the road. The road is hard, man. Tell me about it.
That's been my life for the last. I mean, let's see. How long has that been my life? 35.
We're not traveling in like some luxury, you know, tour bus. We're traveling in our minivan, which is quite nice, but it's great. It's the minivan's not the issue. It's just it's a lot of running around and while we're parenting at the same time.
So we're not just taking care of our adult selves. We also have a seven-year-old who needs full attention. So that adds another layer. I was trying to equate Izzy to is it like being on tour in your early 20s?
Because that's when you really like when your comfort is gone. You're away from home for the first time with your band on tour and some of your more difficult parts of your personality come out. Now you learn a lot about your friends when you get in the van with them and you end up in Arizona. You know, together away from home really for the first time.
That's kind of weird. Are we talking about you, sir? Actually, no, I mean, I'm not speaking anything specifically. I'm just saying that the very first tour that you do with your quote unquote friends slash bandmates.
Things come out. Things happen. Yeah, things come out on the road. It's true.
You learn whether someone is like a morning person. Let's say you learn if someone what someone is like when you first wake them up. Mm-hmm. You know, are they like are they not a morning person agreeable?
Are they agreeable? Mm-hmm. What's it like when they get hungry? Oh, God, you know, people when they're hungry.
It's just I got it. I've seen people into their 30s having full tantrums. Tantrums. Yeah, not unlike a seven-year-old.
So, yeah, so it's a Izzy is he is showing us some interesting sides of her personality. Mm-hmm. It's revealing my own Your mothering on the road. I'm mothering on tour, which is really you've done it before when she was smaller.
Not quite a bit, but it's just it's been a while. The pandemic. No, I didn't do it. Yeah, when she was really little, I would just sort of enscon see you in a hotel room early on.
Mm-hmm. And I would go off and do the shows myself and then come back. Mm-hmm. But this time, this time, you both are coming along.
Yeah, and I'm selling the merch and entertaining Izzy during the show. So it's kind of a too-pronged approach and it's it's it's challenging, but it's it's happening so far each night. I'm not sure who will be showing up for me. I'm talking about Izzy.
Like will she be agreeable or I don't know. I mean, so far I would say this. I think she's doing really well. It's not easy.
I mean, especially being a young person being dragged like, you know, out of your comfort zone. So in that in that sense, I would say she's actually very flexible for her age because there's probably a lot of kids who, you know, even just leaving their home environment for this long, being away from their their things, their toys, their familiar, you know, routine. Like her whole sleep is different. She's having to not have familiar foods to sort of eat like a scavenger on the road.
We do have ananny with us though. We do have somebody watching Izzy. Who? Taylor Swift.
I was like, please tell me your name. I where is she? I love her. Who is she?
Oh, Taylor is definitely doing a deep assist. That's true. That's true. Well, in the iPad, Taylor is living in an iPad and God bless.
And one of the first things that Izzy did was change her screen saver. Her lock screen and her home screen. She figured out how to do that. And she put a nice couple of big pictures of Taylor there on her lock screen and her home screen.
Yeah. She's got her gal there all the time. So thanks, Taylor. Yes.
Indeed. I'm grateful for that. I'm really tired. I just drove through rain, you guys.
Adele's driving. Yeah, I'm also driving during the day to relieve Lou from it's just tiring. You know, so it's like, I'd rather take that part away for him. So he doesn't have to do it.
But you also kind of like to be behind the wheel. Well, that's the thing is that when it's free way driving, I can be a passenger, but I feel like it creates almost more anxiety for me to be the passenger. Even with me, who is I am one of the best highway drivers. I know.
Interesting. Well, well, I keep a safe following distance. You are not bad. Okay, you're not bad.
You're not bad. You do do a thing where when you look one way, you drive into the other lane. Yeah. That's not my favorite.
I don't know whether it's the new minivan, but you're breaking foot is a little quick. Well, I think it's the brakes are probably new. So you hit the brakes today pretty hard. While I was looking down, I was writing out the show flyer, I guess.
Well, would you prefer me to go flying into a vehicle? Yeah, but when I looked up with all due respect, when I looked up, I would say that you were 15 to 20 car lengths behind the vehicle that you were breaking for. What's your point, sir? I think I think the new minivan has really sensitive brakes.
Yeah. That's what I'm saying. And I'm saying so. So in the old van, it wasn't quite as, um, your break foot wasn't, wasn't quite as twitchy.
Well, it's also my first time driving long distances on the freeway in this new van. And you also did go down one of the most challenging highway strips in the country. That's going to say, I interstate. It's a from from Boston.
It was a little tense down here to Wilmington. That's a long, busy stretch of highway. Very busy. Can I say, I think, and I think I can say this, this some sort of authority.
It's one of the most intense stretches of highway, even compared to the 10 freeway in Los Angeles, the five in Los Angeles, challenging the 110, but I would say that the 95 is among, if not the most challenging, stretch of highway. And you did it. And we're here in Wilmington. Well, so there you go then.
I do not have a wet lash. It wasn't that bad. I did not get car sick. We are here.
We've arrived. And tonight is my fourth show. Yeah, we are in Arden, Delaware. We're in Wilmington.
Oh, we're not in Arden yet. Well, Arden is a bit of a, is a little hop skip job. Well, I mean, the show is in Arden. Yeah, I'm kind of not understanding what Arden is because it seems like we're just in Wilmington.
Okay. Well, either way, you're going to have the show already have been done. So it doesn't matter if we're fucking up the information. It's all good.
It's in it's in Delaware, everyone. We're in Delaware. What so far has been your favorite part of touring? Meeting people, isn't it great?
The audience have been so great. Like really, really, really great, so generous. The people who come, I don't know, there's just, it's like, they're extra cool. The people who come to these house shows and support these smaller concerts and things like, I don't know, I really, they just when they come up and talk to us at the merch booth.
As he is trying to talk to Adele right now. Yes. This is worrying me, simply because I don't know how to edit very well. Sorry, hold on.
On GarageBand. Okay, Izzy wants to tell people about the show. Okay, hold on. Here she is.
So the show, there's going to be a bunch of shows and there's going to be some in next summer. So next summer, Izzy is already planning next summer. There might be shows next summer and also if there's any spots for you, please come to the Blue Ball World show if this is your first time watching the podcast. Well, and you'll finish the Blue Ball though.
You can just try to find your own spot to go into the show because the show is because there's going to be some shows that you can do and also there's plenty more. You don't have to wait about any time. All right. Thanks Izzy.
That was so nice. I like that too. She's already got next summer planned. Okay.
She's cartwheeling. She's cartwheeling right now in her room and I'm a little nervous about the corner of this table. I feel like, hey honey, you know what? Look at that corner.
That's just okay. So far my favorite has been the audience in the people who are hosting the shows. It's just been really nice. So that after like driving and like unloading because it's very DIY, you know, it's just Lou and I doing everything with, like I said, you know, juggling a child as well.
Then like seeing the way people react to the show and meeting the people who are hosting and sitting in the audience. That's been my favorite. What has been your favorite, Lou Barlow? That.
The same. That. But also just having home on the road. You know.
Thanks, hon. That's nice to hear. Yeah. I mean, I'm actually, I think the Zen quality that you have to have on tour, that's a big part of my personality anyway.
I go into a mode when I'm on the road. Yeah, you do. That's true. As far as performances go, it usually takes me a few shows to really adjust and get really comfortable and not say really awkward things on stage.
I say stage. It's not really a stage. I mean, you know, in the backyards in the grass, it takes me a little while to get really comfortable performing and feel confident because that is a shift. But as far as just being, I do go into a zone where I'm like, I'm driving down the 95.
You know, I know, I know there's a lot of rest up here. I know that there's a lot of aggressive drivers. I know, you know, I know, I know, I go into sort of a cool survival mode that I developed. Honestly, I developed it in the mid 80s.
And those first trips to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., you and the family station wagon with my bandmates, like I had managed a lot of anxiety through those years. And I do benefit from that experience. So when I do really get back on the road, there is a survival mode that does kick in and it does kick in. You have like a little switch.
Yeah. And I think, you know, I'm grateful for that. Because when you do imagine trips and things seem so impossible on paper, like, how am I going to go from this place to that? What if this happens?
What if this doesn't happen? I mean, you sort of imagine all the sort of disastering that can happen in my mind when I'm actually out and doing it and driving and seeing people and then realizing how kind people can be everywhere. You know, not just at the shows, which are amazing. The shows are, you know, like redemption, really.
It's just for me. I mean, for me to play all the songs that I've written over the last. I feel like you need that. You know, you need those tours where you're just, it's like, it's all about me.
You need those once a while. I get so locked into, I do love domestic life, but then I realize that there is a whole other part of my life and my personality that I've developed traveling and adjusting to travel and adjusting my anxiety to that travel and surviving and not just surviving, but like really thriving, especially when I do get into a mode. It does seem to really fill you up. That's true.
It kind of fills me up. Can I say another thing that I like about being on tour with you? Yes. I like getting to see you again in like from an audience perspective, you know, where it's like, you're not just, oh, there's my husband.
All of a sudden it's like, oh, hey, this person that I'm married to is also a performer and he's so talented and listen to him tell stories and, oh, wow, look at him go up there and I see you just shine and it's really neat. It's kind of like an opportunity to fall in love with you over again, you know, where you just go like, oh, wow. That surprises me after, I mean, because I've said a lot of really awkward things over the last couple of nights. I like that.
You do? Because I've said, I mean, I really do talk right off the top of my head when I play. I like seeing you. Yeah, I just enjoy it because it feels like you're free, you know, and you're being this really free version of yourself and you're expressing yourself.
And I like seeing how you're revealing yourself and what you're choosing to reveal and how you do it. And yeah, it's neat. I'm really, really grateful for that. Because I feel so, I feel really vulnerable.
You do make yourself vulnerable. That's, you know, when you go to a loop, our little solo show, it's not just loose sitting up there singing. He tells very personal intimate stories and they're very funny and sometimes they're touching. And it's just, it's a whole bunch of stuff.
I mean, anyone who's come will attest to that. Yeah, I don't have, I don't have, I don't have a suit of armor I get into before I do these performances. You know what I mean? I'll just say the word vulnerable again.
I feel I get up there and because I've forgotten for these last three shows or so, to make any kind of a set list. Hey, let's make a set list tonight. Give myself any kind of guideline. And I get really self-conscious if I'm playing someplace that I've played before because I feel, you don't want to repeat yourself.
I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to tell the same stories. But then again, I do want to tell the same stories because some of them, people seem to like them. Well, and you're, I mean, it's just like you and I, we both entertain the same stories as like a couple, right?
You know, your life, it's like it just kind of becomes this familiar thing. And well, I think that's one thing that I cherish about our relationship is that we can freely repeat stories to each other. Yeah. And we rarely say like, I know.
To me, like some of the, some of the most, I mean, they're not hurtful because it doesn't, I don't think people mean to be hurtful when they tell you something like that. But when I hear the words, yeah, I know you told me already. It's like that, like that strikes deep. It makes me feel really ashamed.
Well, it's a, it's a quick way to tell you to stop talking. You know what I mean? It's like saying, I don't want to hear it again. So you need to stop talking.
So yeah, it's cutting. I think that it can feel like a little shaming too because you're like, Oh gee, I don't know. I just like sharing the story, you know, and then it's like, Oh no, no, I'm the annoying person sharing the story too many times. Yeah, like I, I, I didn't know there was a, there was a cap on that.
I know I really, and it's hard being picked apart by other people about, you know, what you share because and just talking sometimes and being a human is so hard and it's like, just let me share my damn story again. Let me just say it again. You can just politely nod, like work on your life skills. Okay.
Just let me repeat the story and you just nod politely and we'll just all act like grownups. Okay. I like it when I tell you a story that I told many, many times you actually do still smile and you look at me kindly. And so, you know, to anyone who goes to any of these shows and I do repeat the story that they've heard before, I hope, I hope it's okay.
I hope they can smile and look at you kindly. Look at me kindly go there he goes on. Oh, yeah, I'll be telling that story again. Yeah.
The one about the going to Washington DC to visit a girlfriend. Yep. Well, I think we got to get going. Yeah, we're going to wrap it up.
This will be a short little podcast today, but we just, that's our first time doing it from the road. And so I'm really proud of us for doing this and keeping it going and oh, people have been coming up and, you know, telling us that they listen to the podcast and thank you very much for that. That's been really nice to get that interaction as well and we really appreciate it. Really?
Yeah. It's been really fun. And I think someone said to me last night, home and came up to me and she said, oh, you know, we listened to the podcast and I feel like I know you already is that weird. And I said, no, you do.
Sure, you do. Yeah. I mean, I'm sharing myself. And so you do get to know part of me and you get to know part of Lou and I mean, this is authentically ourselves.
I mean, what we share for sure. Yeah. Well, we love you. We're so great.
Yeah. Thanks to everyone who came to Beverly, Massachusetts, London, Connecticut, and Cedar Grove, New Jersey last night. Yeah. And tonight I'm playing in Delaware.
I don't think, I think I've only played in Delaware one time in my life, which is probably not true. But I have no database. I wish we did that. I have no Lou Barlow, you know, devoted.
Yeah. You know, I have no, that'll be your assistance job someday. You don't have a system at this point. Is that ship sailed?
It has. I mean, the cavalcade of dates that were unreported, they were merely written down. They're all gone. The story can never be quite there.
All right, everyone. Thank you so much. Is he? Is he do you want to say goodbye?
Do you want to do the wrong ron prescience theme song? To sing us out. Sing us out. Okay.
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