presents for a trip episode this week, right now, Luanda Bell, packing their suitcases for a trip? I told you this. I'm going to tell everybody right now, that little riff. I wrote that while I was packing for a tour.
I was packing and then just picked up my guitar and played that and recorded it on my phone. That's cool. Sonic, this should be the theme to our packing episode. Yeah.
Ah, to pack. So much to pack. So much to worry about. And you're sick.
You're sick. Folks, I have a sinus infection again. You know, that's a great starting a trip with a sinus infection. That's my sinus.
This is really just fucking with me these days. Usually you get them on the trip, like in the, I say, a long plane ride. It's a good time to get a sinus infection. But this way, you're actually going to start off the whole thing with one.
Yeah. And a long, long, long plane ride. I get to start off my journey with a sinus infection. Yeah.
I'm starting to feel pressure as well, right up in my little cheekbones. I feel that familiar. Yeah. And then when if I pull my cheekbones apart, then I can feel it kind of relax.
Oh, no. That's the feeling. It's the feeling my left cheek right now is it's got the pain. It's got the A cheek.
Right behind me. I thought it'd be a butt cheek. Thankfully my left butt cheek does not have the pain. It's a little whimsical considering how I feel.
No, I'm praying to any and all gods that they have mercy on me and that this sinus infection won't need antibiotics again. I've already had a round of antibiotics this year with a really bad sinus infection. And I listen, I don't want to do that again. I want it to go away.
We could talk about sinus infections for a really long time. In fact, we do. And we've already talked about it. It's a big part of our life.
Actually, we probably clocked maybe 90 minutes of talking about sinus infection already this morning. Yeah. So it's the conversation of our life, our days. My palms are sweating.
So I'm fine. This whole like the packing thing. I don't know. Like this is a big one because we've got to take Izzy and we're taking hand ricks.
And then I'm playing on a shows. Playing two shows, not a show. Playing on shows. Playing two shows.
I'm reconvening with my good buddies from Dinosaur Junior. Yep. And Hawaii. I know it's so busy.
It's a lot of running around. And yeah, I'm just feeling all the feels. You are extraordinary in my life. You're the first person that I've met that actually starts packing probably five days before you leave.
Really? Which is a good thing. I like doing that. Because it's very thorough.
But also, it sort of sets this ominous tone. Like there's the suitcase. And then if I'm like, oh, there it is. And it's like, I hear this.
Like, whoa. It's like, then because you are sort of meticulous about your packing and very concerned about it. And also, I think traveling does present a lot of anxiety for you, as it does for me. Yeah, I'm an anxious person.
Yeah. There's the car rides. There's a lot of things, the X-factors, the things you can't control. Getting, landing, finding your luggage.
Where's the rental car? Getting in the rental car. Where's our Airbnb? Driving to, oh my gosh.
The shuttle car. Will I be hungry? The shuttle from the hotel to the airport. Remember, we took that one.
The guy almost killed everybody. That was a memory that I relived recently. That made me so mad. We had a really, truly life-like, threatening hotel shuttle drive where I don't know how we're alive.
I don't know. Such a short shuttle drive, too. This was from, it's in San Diego, where the airport is like snug right in the little city. No, it's not a little city.
But it's kind of snug in there. The hotel was really close. And he still managed to almost kill all of us. It was so upsetting and so terrifying.
And to this day, I'm like, I don't even know how that happened any other way, but thank gods. And I've talked about my, if I had a drunk Parisian cab driver, five o'clock in the morning, we had a newborn baby with us. In my previous life, this was a while ago. Totally fucking drunk cab driver to drive all the way from the center of Paris to the Paris airport.
It was so scary. A nightmare. It was a nightmare. That's a nightmare.
And he was yelling at the, um, was handler, and she was crying. And he was like, shubbedbup, shubbedbup. And it was like swerving around and luckily, luckily, we hit the ring road around Paris. And there was like, it was like, just, you know, car to car traffic, which slowed him down.
So I was like, oh my god. Oh my god, I was, I was, because we were hitting the highway and I'm like, oh my fucking god, we're gonna die. Yeah. This guy driving like 75 miles an hour.
I'm like, it's over. Oh my god. I was very grateful for that. So unhinged.
Yeah. People who are driving you places and you're just needing to get from the point. It's so scary. It can also be very rewarding.
I had a great Uber drive the other day. You did. You had to take an Uber all the way home from Boston. From Boston.
I took the longest Uber ride ever. I just, I just bid it because there was no, there was no other option. There was no way. No way.
It was like, I had to go home. No way to get home. We lived far away from the Boston, really. So anyway, but that was nice.
So you never know. So yeah, so back to this looming, I guess, ominous trip. Is that what you're saying? It's on this.
Yeah, I said it was ominous because I hear that. And I've got a sinus infection. You're getting a sinus infection. I'm not going to.
OK, sorry. You're not getting a sinus infection. I'm fighting off a sinus infection. I'm fighting it off.
I'm taking everything under the sun. I'm taking nothing. I'm just breathing deep. When?
When is going to pull me through this? A man, Wim Hof. You're going to talk about him sometime. Sorry, we still do our Wim soad.
Well, here's the thing. I have suitcases in multiple locations in the house right now. There's one in Hendricks's room, one in the hallway, one in the living room. I remember you came to me the other day.
Or you were like, I'm buying Izzy a full-size suitcase. And I'm like, OK, I didn't realize what you were saying until the other day. I'm like, oh, Izzy has a full-size suitcase. Damn right.
You have a full-size suitcase. I have a full-size suitcase. I have two guitars and cases. Oh, God.
Oh, God. That was scary. I'm so sorry. Oh.
It's time to stop yapping and continue packing. You remember all of those adapters you're going to need. And the kippo and the tuner. OK.
Actually, legitimately thought that when that announcement happened that we would then go do continue packing. But I'm just, I think, you know, don't forget those things. I'm not going to. See?
The great thing is because we did start packing for the strip five days ago. We still have two, almost two full days left. No. It's not enough.
One and a half. It's not enough. Right now it's staring. It's 36 hours.
It's 36 hours back. Not enough. Sometime within those 36 hours, I will actually put my guitars and cases with the things that I need with them. I'm feeling like I want, I just want to have extra suitcases because we're gone for a while.
And yeah, I just want to bring some stuff. I want to bring some stuff, some options, lots of outfit options. I always bring too many clothes. If I bring three pairs of jeans on a three week tour, that's too many.
Yeah, you don't. I mean, you don't change it up. I do though. Now that I actually sleep in sweatpants rather than my jeans when I'm on tour, I'm not a young rocker dirt bag as much.
I actually wear pajamas to bed. Yeah, you put on a side pants. So then you can wear the pants for like two weeks. You know how something terrible happens?
Definitely push the limits on that. But yes, you do. And you know what I would like to talk about with packing? Oh, let me know and keep talking about it.
Coughing. Coughing break. So anyway, here's the dilemma for me. One of the many dilemmas that happen when I'm packing and anxiety inducing things, toiletries.
So we're not going, we're going to Los Angeles. Okay, this isn't like the land of nowhere and nothing. There's stuff around, right? Okay, but do you bring all the toiletries?
You can, you can bring them. That adds weight, right? Weight and space. A lot of weight.
A lot of weight. Because damn, those products are heavy. Yeah, they are. My little rose face spray.
That's a weight. That's like a pound. Nothing right there. It's crazy.
Well, we do need to be weight conscious. I mean, as far as the weight the bags go. Yeah. I don't remember what the, what it taps out at.
50. 50 pounds. 50 pounds. Take a tricky.
And there's kilograms. I don't know. But here's a thing. So then if I go, well, Adele, you could buy those things in LA.
Okay, but so then I got to go to the store. Of course, obviously right away, which I do plan on doing. I'm already working on my grocery list before I leave because you got to do that too. Got to be ready.
And you actually have a lot of things on that list before we go away that we really don't have to do. That's not true. That is. In my opinion.
Are we in a fight? No. OK. I'm sorry.
The list is right. We don't need to clear out the car. Why not? Why would we clean the car before we?
Folks, I'm staring him down. OK, so, but if I, OK, so if I go to Los Angeles and I'm going to Ralphs or Whole Foods or CVS or whatever, and I'm like, OK, so I need shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste. But so then if I don't bring the toiletries and I buy them there, we're only there for two weeks. So then you're still going to have to come home with these toiletries because you can't use them up.
I just I don't know what to do. That's why we have our little bathroom is full of toiletries. Like, I mean, tour toiletries that end up at the bottom of bags. I'm going to have to do a little.
But so what do you think I should do? I had like 200 mise-en-ex tablets, which is not bad thing. They're very expensive. It's good.
Yeah. That's true. Have those on hand. Boy, yes, I have a lot.
Yo, Glenswipes. Oh, there are hundreds of lens wipes in this house from all over the world. It's really all over the world. Yep.
And then we're like, I don't think I have lens wipes, grab another box. Oh, looks like we still have some lens wipes. Yeah. Well, so then, Lou, what should I do?
Should I bring what toiletries should I bring and what should I leave? I don't know. I'm freaking out. I say bring them.
OK. It just depends. I'll check out the weight of the bag. OK.
I'll give the bag a little. I do have my travel, all of my traveling. I have kind of been able to have. You're so experienced.
So I can't pick up a bag with my right arm and go like, yeah, I don't, you know. Oh, that's fine. We can get through. But if I know that it's too heavy, I can't be very specific about it.
I really don't know. But I kind of do know when it's too heavy. You've kind of got a feeling. I've got to feel like this is too heavy.
Seasoned traveler. Yeah, I think I'm going to actually bring. I think I support that. I think I'm going to bring some most of my toiletries.
When I plan on buying, I just don't bring like a big thing, like a tub of shampoo or something. I'm not doing that. I'm bringing my shampoo bar in my conditioner bar, which will pretty late. Have no water, people.
OK. If you haven't made the switch, this is a sponsored ad. I can't quit just putting gobs of goo in my hand and then directly I'm pulling it to my head. Yeah.
There's just a feeling about using a bar feels like. I like using the bar. I feel like my hair is happy or something. So I feel like I'm a kid and I'm doing it with an ivory, a bar of ivory soap.
But you're not. It's a shampoo bar. It just triggers some kind of thing. Well, that's because you've been trained.
I'm not even my memory. You've been trained that the bar just goes on the body, not on the head. So it's just an unlearning process. Yeah, I'm not very far along.
Well, it's just that those bottles are so wasteful honey. I know they are. You know, and then it's all this plastic. And then oh my god, and it really isn't getting recycled.
And then it ends up in the ocean. OK. Wait, burn it. Well, then it's destroying the air.
OK. Well, see, I've got some things to stress about. I sounded right then that I was not sympathetic to environmental concerns. That's not true.
You are. I'm extremely sensitive. We're both haunted. Haunted.
I've been haunted my whole life by this. Yeah. It's true. Mother Earth man, cleaning her up.
It stresses us out. The smoke stacks billowing to black smoke into the sky. Yeah, you hate toxic shit too. Anyway, so.
Oh god, damn. I forgot to turn that down. No, you didn't. You did that up purpose, didn't you?
Too comfortable, you two. Surely there's something you're forgetting. Absolutely. So much to brain.
Remember, it's warmer where you're going, but it's not that warm. Right there, another dilemma that I'm absolutely stressed about. Folks, this is just so hard. I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to wear, how many layers. This is so cathartic. This is actually making me feel so much better. I was a little stressed out.
I was like, wow, I'm trying to do a bunch of podcasts before we leave. And then I was feeling like I can't do that. And like it's the thing I got to do. But now that we're doing it, it's making me feel better.
This is making me feel better about packing. It's making me feel better about the trip. Why? I don't know.
It's just making me like, oh, we're going. We're going and we're talking about it. It's fine as infections and toe. Yeah, and I like the fact that we can do it right now in the podcast as if we're speaking to other people, because when we're in our own little tunnels, or I mean, it's a very, it feels so claustrophobic when there's the packing and the coughing and the pain and the.
I wonder if other people stress about packing like I do. Yes, definitely. Yeah, it really, it weighs on me. I think a lot of people are going to be able to relate to me right now, Adele.
Yeah, I mean, and I'm not going to lie, I actually had a dream that I shared with my bestie Liz. I said Liz, I really need one whole day to just be alone in my room, put some music on and try on different outfits, different looks. Okay, that day never happened because there's too much work to do. And she was really supportive of that dream, thank you Liz.
So you're saying that you need a whole day to practice your outfits. To practice my looks. Yeah. I didn't know that.
You didn't know there was that much work. I didn't know there was that day for you. We've repacked for many trips together. I never knew that there was a day where you exclusively did that.
No, I don't because I've always dreamed of having it, but I didn't get it. You've never had that day. Right, exactly. I was saying to Liz that I would like to, like in an act of self-care, I would like to say, hey.
Well, I guess you got to plan six days in advance next time, sweetie. Damn right. Oh, god damn it. You actually didn't plan enough in advance.
Five days was not enough. You needed six for that extra. Try it on your, it'd be kind of, you know what, I would suggest, as far as the timing of that day, you should do it closer to when you leave because it could be a really like meditative process. Well, no, okay, well, here's the thing.
It could really calm you down. Okay, so here's the thing. I was hoping, hoping to possibly have this packing day, this self-care all day, plan on my outfit's day last week, but then I was extremely bloated, PM-essing people. Oh.
And so then I'm like, well, god damn it, I'm like five extra pounds right now of water, water weight that won't be there when I'm in LA, and so I don't know what to do and I can't really do. So the closer you would try on, your body was not in a place where you could actually try things on and how to be accurate. Correct. So, and then it might have really, oh.
Remember to bring Hendricks's nebulizer. He may be allergic to Hawaii. Remember the nebulizer. That's already packed.
Okay, see, you got to play on this stuff because Hendricks has sensitive lungs and so we got to, we have to carry around a nebulizer lake. The other great thing about doing the podcast in the midst of this madness is that actually by making that recording, I'm just going to let people know that was me, that voice. That's not a voice in the sky or a hired voice actor. That's me.
When I made that, then I just went and did it. See? Yeah, I saw the nebulizer sitting there and I was like, good job. But now you got to also remember his inhalers and the great thing about those things is just the act of ringing and then make sure that you won't actually need them.
That's actually a big part of packing. You've got to pack the things that will, if you think you might need, but like if I pack a bunch of cold medicine, I'm not going to get sick. That kind of happens if I really like, you know. That happened to me recently.
I'll pack all this stuff. Oh, when we went to Vermont, like, well, getting my period, I packed, you know, all the supplies. income. I was like, great, but, you know, you have to think of that when you're packing to the things that you won't actually need.
I did see a potential that there could be two days with some rainy weather and I was like, Oh, wait, that's really making me want to throw in reindeer. It's really making me want to do it. But then that's going to take up all that space because you're right, Lou. I'm not going to need it.
Remember you. We went to San Francisco with Izzy and you packed her a little raincoat, but it hadn't reigned there for like, there were fires and it only started raining the day we got there. Yeah, she did. I had her, I had her raincoat and her little cute yellow boots with her.
That was pretty awesome. Oh my God. That was so cute. I was like, Oh my God.
That was a whole other time. The fires were so bad and the air quality. It's not good. Well, people, I have issues and so my sinuses and my lungs, the environment, it's hard for them.
And I'm one of those people and yeah, we were there and oh my God, it was impossible. Yeah, I had to go to urgent care. Let's not go into this. Okay.
We already talked about this this morning. We did. We already covered this this morning. We went over again.
We shared this with each other. I know. I know. I know.
I'm gonna work on reframing myself here because, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be free of the sinus issues and I'm gonna land in LA. I'm gonna walk out and the sun is gonna kiss my face and it's just gonna dry everything up real good. I'm gonna go like, wow, there we go. People would move to California and Arizona.
For allergies and in the past when people had severe asthma, that was some, and some ways the only way to really save their lives. Yeah, they got to move to the desert though, actually, right? Or to work California. Yeah.
Yeah. Cool is some famous, there was a famous person, son. Alice Cooper had to move from. I had to move from Detroit to Arizona as a young child.
Right. His family moved down there because he was severely asthmatic. Yeah. And other other things that I cannot recall now at all.
But I will always remember Alice Cooper. Yeah, that one. It's hard to forget. He is hard to forget and you've told that story to me.
I don't know, maybe a hundred times. So really? I've also remembered that. I was only like one or two times maybe.
No. No, we got over that one. You heard me saying it to other people? Yes.
You were just in the company of me telling it to other people. They'd never heard it. Oh, well, right. No, I'm sorry.
See, you can't really. I mean, that takes a little bit of the job. I don't know. Like you said it too much.
I didn't say you said it too much. I've just said it too much. I've heard it a lot. You don't do that to me.
This is one thing that I absolutely love about Adele is that she like, you don't, yeah, you don't say, you don't roll your eyes and go, oh my God, not that again. You never do that with me. And I'm a very repetitive person. Well, I was just, yeah, I was merely just stating that I've heard it many times.
It doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me. Yeah, it doesn't bother me. I love that.
I love that. That makes me feel like the next time I tell the Alice Cooper story and you're standing right next to me that you're not going to mind. If I tell you again, you can tell me as much as you want. I love the Alice Cooper story.
You do. I know and that's part of why I like it. And well, you know, why I feel that way that I don't shame people for being repetitive. Why is that?
Well, because I would feel bad to be shamed for being repetitive and be because honestly, most people are really, most people just are and we all have things that we want to share over and over again. And it's kind of like a little safety blanket. And so you got to just let people have their share and that's okay. It's not going to hurt you.
It's not going to take away from you. It's not going to damage you. You just let them have their little share. Yeah, that's part of their story.
You know what other story I love to repeat about Alice Cooper? Which one? When he formed his band, he called the spiders. Okay.
We're great. And maybe came the Alice Cooper band or Alice Cooper that was just the name of the band actually. But he kind of took the name on. Here I go into like totally uncharted territory.
Oh, God. Thank God. I'm like, wait a minute. Now I don't know that story.
It would be terrible. I was just about to launch into a completely semi-factual account of Alice Cooper's career. So my favorite story is by you. So thank God I'm stopping because otherwise I might make some Alice Cooper fans extremely.
I mean, it would really annoy them. We'd annoy my, um, anyway. This is the end of the episode. This is it.
Okay. Well, wish us luck everyone. Yeah. It's time to pack to be a nervous feeling.
You best believe. Hills, strings, batteries, toothbrush, toothpaste, earplugs, Kindle, hand, notebook, head, glass, blue, pills, and sprays. What is it? Real hands, really?
You remember an hour from home. How will you do changing time zone? Well, I wanna. It's time to go to go.
A crazy feeling in the floss. Hills, me and Ben. You'll remember when you do your suitcase rubbing your eye. Where is that?
I'm the paradigm. The plane won't crash. The bus rider won't be insane. The world will not end while you're away.
He won't get sick.