Frankie and the Witch Fingers - BUS INVADERS Ep. 1855

hey we're franking the witch fingers and this is our van and we're going to be showing you inside our van and you're probably wondering why we have a van right now that's because we're on tour promoting our album dat we got a new record called dat doom and we're on tour right now supporting that with the help of this van you want to see we'll show you let's have a peek let's go this is inside of our tour van uh we don't have a name for her yet we probably should come up with a name for her but uh usually uh we got driver in the driver seat co- captain in the co- Captain seat the rules that we have for the road are that uh if you're driving you get to pick what we listen to um and the co- Captain has to help so they DJ whatever the driver listen listens to and helps with directions or you lose your privileges and you get kicked out of the band I would say Scott our tour manager does most of the driving then Dylan then me and then you guys help out a little bit too it varies I'm usually the one who sitting co-pilot I'm usually the you know I'm the guy with the best music tastes in the band so I'm the one usually uh DJing and a pick in for the driver and they're usually you know 9 out of 10 times cool with it and since I'm usually shotgun I usually got my neck pillow up here with my other pillow where I usually cover my eyes with or just a lot like a lot of this this is where he screams yeah um you know usually got my my Nitro C Brew chilling up here I don't think there's any left um we're big uh what big Selzer Selzer peeps yeah various kinds of Seltzer we keep a cooler up here too always keep seltzers in the cooler of whatever's uh you know from The Green Room the night before we got a lot of grippo chips from Kentucky that we've been uh hoarding this is the the craziest trip on the planet you haven't tried it we got a Yerba mes shout out yba MTI Waki they uh sponsored us they gave us a few of these yeah they hooked us up for this tour they're keeping us nice and Zam for the Run yeah we got to have a lot of energy for those night drives for those late night shows for those overnight drives so caffeine shout out guak music wise I would say that um feel like we've been listening to like a lot of like early 2000s like Indie stuff like I don't know LCD sound system is really fun to drive to I really like putting on a lot of like cool like jazz funk like Grant Grant Green and like Jack Wilkins and stuff when I'm driving usually or like cool in the gang stuff like that yesterday we had a all Smashing Pumpkins day cuz it was our friend's birthday and her and I love this much Smashing Pumpkins shout out Chicago um up here our tour manager keeps some high energy multivitamins got to keep us nice and healthy on the road we don't want anyone getting sick uh what else we got up here paper towels in case of a mess first aid kit if you get a boo boo you know we don't like boo boos I got a few actually look right there that Band-Aid came me oh actually I need a Band-Aid right now yeah I do that up you can get that for me okay trash bags you know keep it clean so this is a alligator claw that I bought in Alabama and I was going to give it as a gift to my wife when I get home but for now it's watching over the van and uh keeping we have some nice Polaroids this is our tour manager Scott and this is us we took this last [Music] night fancy so as you can see this is where the real party goes on uh this is where we have a lot of a lot of room a lot of room for activities and a lot of room for fun stuff like karaoke I'm not kidding and if we could show you we would but uh we don't want to get copyrighted so you just kind of have to believe us but with the power of these microphones karaoke here's a little taste if you can imagine the rest of what that song would be that's kind of what happen to here want to talk about the switch oh yeah and we have a Nintendo switch so we can play uh we can play games on it uh we mostly play uh Mario Party just finished a game this is our uh this is our leaderboard from our most recent game on the way here today um I won wait no didn't I yeah I won she won but she got bonus Stars which we've argued the validity of we decided those aren't valid uh if you win on a bonus star and not like your own poition sometimes the vibe of entire days can get thrown off if a star is stolen from one member or another and uh we have to usually top it out after it's high competitive Mario Party yeah but it keeps us like you know mentally active which is good I don't play because I always lose but um really quick I want to talk about the hole we call the very back the very back seat the hole because it's kind of a hole and usually that's the best place to sleep uh because you could lay down pretty nicely back there will you like would you like the show usually I have my shirt off in the hole cuz it gets kind of hot back here but I'll spare you oh it's a little bit of a safety hazard though because something you know sometimes a box of uh posters or chips might fall on you if you're sleeping back there and you might wake up in an angry rage as you can see a 6'4 man can fit quite comfortably in the confines of the hole and you might not be involved in every conversation but you are quite comfortable um you might notice that um there's a red box and a brown paper bag those red box that red box is uh some 12 in that I brought uh from home with me to DJ with if I am able to pick up DJ gigs on the road which has been kind of hard just because I haven't really been trying that hard but uh I also have more under the seat that are kind of hard to get to um under the seats is where we like to keep you know extra snacks and Waters and extra merch supplies and extra merch in general um so yeah you could really pack a pack a lot of stuff under here even though uh you know we we really uh pack it like sardines but it's still pretty pretty dang comfortable I would say for the most part probably the most comfortable band we've ever toured in so far if I'm being real we got some more Yates cuz uh the ones in the cooler you know aren't always enough so we need more sometimes got some gaffer tape good for Merch good for our music equipment good for taping drumsticks good for taping our mouth shut one of us a little loud I don't even know what these are what are these Claire gave us those Claire gave us these These are insulated drink bags insulated drink bags you heard it here first this is pickle Corner this is where I sit I've got a nice cushy blanket I've made quite a nest I've got a couple different pillows here so that I can sit like this oh and recline or I can sit like this and someone usually sits here I usually share the bench and in my corner I have a phone charging station which is really key and I've got a jar of pickles that I bought that I've been been waiting to try and I've got some Ramen just in case it's good for making at uh truck stops make your own soup um and hotels I've got some uh graphic novels that I bought at a used bookstore in Denton Texas that I'm excited to read I've got my hair dye package so I can jij up my hair I don't do that in the van but it does stay in the van and our friend Neptune left this giant jar of pickled garlic that's been kind of smelling up the van but I haven't had the heart to throw it away cuz it's Neptunes and we love Neptune here's what we should do I think we should have a bet on Mario Party and the loser has to eat like an ungodly amount of this and then just fart all day long to good idea to this should be like we should bet on this I think okay yeah this is this is part of my corner we have this massage gun oh yeah we travel in style we've got a you know you're you're working out on stage every night basically and you got to carry merch in and out so we have this really cool massage gun that you can flop on do some back massages as such here as well here in the hole we don't have books or uh nice snacks we got trash and we got storage uh it's not necessarily well-kept but it's it's my home and I'm proud of it he's like the uh who's the guy from Sesame Street Oscar yeah he's like Oscar the Grouch I could be a little Grouch that's what we call them trashy manashi all right this is the Great Wall of van it's a piece of plywood we got from uh Home Depot about two or three tours ago and it's used to create a nice safe barrier so merch doesn't fall over on us every once in a while you'll get a rogue chip bag that falls on you and you're sleeping and having nice dreams and you wake up and you wake up really upset and you scream but then you apologize to everyone that you overreacted um but that's pretty rare occas hypothetical that's like a hypothetical situation and then you eat the bag of chips that fell on you five minutes later yeah because if you can't beat them join them yeah exactly