Dead Poet Society - BUS INVADERS Ep. 1538

What's up? I'm Jack. And I'm Will. And we're in Dead Poets Society. We're on tour with Bad Flower right now. It's the first show of the tour. And we're playing Chicago. Bottom Lounge here. Never been to this venue. But it looks pretty sick from the outside. We got a brick wall here. So things are looking promising. Let's check out the van. Yep, let's do it. We don't have assigned seating really, but lately, I mean, it's only been three days so far, but Jack's mainly been driving. I've been in the passenger seat. Our guitarist and our bass player are in the back. Let's see. We got some apples. We've got an air freshener. Air freshener. We have a six-disc CD player. Two discs are in there. I don't know what they are, but that's just kind of the surprise and the fun of the whole thing. This is an 05 Sienna, so there is literally nothing here that is Bluetooth capable. So we bought this thing. This is a Sochi. And we hooked that up to the radio. And we get ourselves a lot of music and podcasts. I think we mostly listen to podcasts, actually. It makes long drives go a lot faster. Yeah. There's no fighting for what song to put on next. We listen to a lot of Theo Vaughn and Bill Burr, Joe Rogan. Because if four dudes in a car, you're going to be listening to Joe Rogan. Oh, also, you have to, if you're doing long drives, invest in a Nintendo Switch. Completely worth the $300 and working a few days, working 12-hour shifts to make up for the lost rent that you spent on this thing. Seriously. I just found out also about Skyrim. Holy shit. That game is fucking incredible. So I've been telling him to play Skyrim for like months now. We lost this. Let's try and check out the back. Oh, dude, I got to show you my snack of choice. Gluten-free mini pretzels and almond butter. Yeah. It lasts forever. Incredibly delicious. And if you can throw some sliced up apples in the mix, game over. Game over. Tums. Tums, 500 milligram strength. That is what you need. And peppermint flavor because it cools as it goes down. Shall we? Yeah, let's do it. Let's check out this bitch. And then this is our backseat. So the other Jack over there, the redhead, he does a lot of like composing work. So he'll spend a few hours with his little mini keyboard playing with his headphones on. You know, he's got to get his work done. But for the rest of us in the van, it just kind of sounds like cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock for like three hours. So get used to that. And then Dylan, who sits in this seat. Yeah, he basically just plays Switch all day. Yeah. Well, we also got this. Oh, yeah. Never really used. But we do have potential CDs. Sharknado. Sharknado 2. Some Shawshank Redemption. Some random horror films. And it looks like a Hitchcock movie. Why not? And then we got this comes up. You need some privacy with yourself or someone else. Oh, yeah, that's nice. It's nice to keep people from looking in the van when you're parked in like a sketchy street or something like that. And so like every night, just for good measure, we take literally everything out of the car and put it in wherever we're staying. Then I just put those up so that nobody breaks into it, because we've had that happen in San Francisco. We arrived in San Francisco and within five minutes, somebody busted both of my windows and then stole his laptop. So that was cool. We were worried about the tire pressure of the van. And then we remembered that, oh, yeah, we have about a thousand pounds worth of gear in the back. We decided to go with Helix's for this. If you haven't heard of this, this is an amp simulator. And we have these cabs right here that just have like a flat EQ on them so that you can kind of simulate anything you want. Jack Redhead over there and I play these CDs, CDs, a.k.a. coasters. I'm really proud of these because I learned to use Photoshop in about six hours and came up with these. Look at that. You know, in previous tours, we've had one person just kind of usually coordinate the packing. But on this one, we kind of lucked out because for some reason, everything seemed to fit this time. So it's pretty simple. Merge their amps, those two suitcases and the rest of the gear. The drummer for Weathers actually let us use their drum set for this tour. That saved a lot of space. A lot of space. I don't know where we would have made it up. Yeah. Yeah. It wouldn't have worked out. So we're eternally grateful. So we just had a new single drop called Swarm. There's a music video on YouTube and Spotify. So go check that out. Come see us on tour. We will be playing 25 shows. Go check it out. We are DPS is our Instagram and Twitter. Yeah, that's pretty much it.