EZRA - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2045

What is up? I'm Ezra, this is Dan, my drummer slash guitarist slash everything. We are on tour with Brayden Bales right now, promoting a single we just dropped together called Glass House. Yeah, let's check out the van. Normally we have Zach, who is our TM, drive the car. Apart from a couple of times where Brayden took it upon himself to drive, after about 30 minutes he was like, yeah, I'm not doing this every time. But yeah, we just basically post up chill, listen to some music, hang out in the back. We actually spent a lot of the hours with no music and just talking, which was actually kind of calming. It was kind of pleasant. It was nice. Up here is Matt, Brayden's drummer and like head of house. Yeah, like his MD. His MD drummer guy up here. And then it's normally, we just kind of bounce around, move, shift around in the back. I think it's just kind of like the, normally the driver will have a playlist. Driver has it going for the most part, but everyone's just like shouting out. We'll just shout out, yo, play this next. And then we'll just go to that, you know, very mixed genres of music. Everything from, from rap to, to opera, to classical, to rock, to, I don't know, reggaeton. We keep it interesting. We keep it interesting in here. The last show we went to, some of these were from Columbus. Some of them were from New York, a bunch of bracelets that people made me that I love so very much. So thank you. If you're seeing this and you made them for me, I love them. Now these peanut M&Ms, I actually had beef with these peanut M&Ms, serious beef with them. Cause me and Dan were trying to get popcorn out the vending machine and it kept getting stuck. And then finally, the time we were supposed to get the popcorn, we clicked the right button and they gave us peanut M&Ms and not popcorn, but Matt ended up eating them. So shout out, Matt, you made our purchase. Not a waste of money. There's still a couple left in there. All right. Home sweet home. This is where we reside. Sometimes I'll be up here with Braden chilling. Sometimes I'll be in the back kind of passing out, being asleep. I try to ride here as often as possible. Dan's just kind of quiet in the back, you know, taking up as little space as possible, but yeah, have fun. Some chewy bars, strawberries, Doritos. No, no, no. And a lot of electrolyte drinks. That's basically what we'd be down in a lot of recolas. A lot of recolas. I'd say it really bounces around. A lot of the time it's like me or Braden editing videos on our phone, um, listening to music, hanging out. Um, or a lot of the time we like to jokes, riddles, you know, would you rather questions? Um, just anything. I don't know. Like, um, would you rather, um, have to zip line everywhere or paraglide everywhere? You know, like stupid stuff like that. And then we'll spend like 30 minutes debating answer. All right. Put your answer in the comments. Let us know what you would pick. I know paragliding seems like it would be more fun, but I'm just picking zip line because I wouldn't have to carry around the paraglider at all times. You know, that seems like a kind of a schlep, but you can definitely have more fun pair. All right. That's enough. Braden surprisingly likes to sit in the middle because he wants a place to like lean forward and move around. He's a very, very active dude. He's always standing up and like randomly, just look over and he has no shirt on. Yeah. We're not sure. Um, the piss bottles are under the seat. So we've got a couple of those filled up. We're collecting them, you know, see, this is definitely real electrolytes and that's what that is. So this is the worst seat in the house because it doesn't lean back at all, but I will willingly take this seat a lot because it just gives me space to move around. You know, I get a good view of everybody's beautiful faces. Braden, Jake, Matt, Zach, Dan, I get to talk to everybody at once, be a social character, you know, it's always good. I just feel like making these drives fun is what's most important. You know, we all hang out with each other and we talk. Well, yeah, this tour is really cool because Braden's like one of my closest friends, like in real life. So we would hang out on a regular basis regardless. So it just makes it a lot of fun to do this road trip with him and the crew. Welcome to my corner of the van. This is where I reside. I do a lot of sleeping, a lot of listening to music, laughing at jokes that they're constantly making. Sometimes Ezra will sit here though, because this one leans back a little bit. This one is like propped up and kind of sucks. We'll get nice and cuddled up in there. You know, just kind of knock out kind of like this. Been wearing this trench coat every day. Keeps me nice and warm. My dumb ass forgot my puffer jacket in New York. So I've been freezing cold. Chicago, Columbus were not pleasant to me. The people were, but the weather, no, not at all. All right. Well, welcome. This is almost broken tour bus. We were in New York parking outside my house in the Bronx and a branch fell on the door and knock this whole top piece off. But look at our beautiful team. Zach taped it all back up. So no damage done. I'm going to get a little bit of damage done, but not too much damage done. I want to say like 90% of this stuff is Braden's. I have this suitcase full of merch, which I basically ran out of. I'm getting more in LA though. We got our Pelican right here along with the guitar. This is practically our whole show. Yeah. Besides these breakables. Yeah. Cymbals, that snare drum. And we share drums. So all we need is breakables and a spare snare just in case. But yeah. Dan switches halfway through the set from drums to acoustic and then back to drums. So you basically have everything in here. Keep it interesting. All the shows run from Dan's computer, just set in Ableton. Yeah. But having the time of my life on this tour, I'm so thankful for Braden for bringing me on it and I can't wait to get back on the road again. Thank you to Digital Tour Bus for interviewing us. Have fun. Love from Ezra and Dan. I don't know why I just talked to myself, but the third person that was super strange. Peace.