Chat Pile - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2260

I think everybody should read. I hope y'all are reading. Anyone out there watching? It's usually lots of like psychological warfare that's going on, music-wise. Alright, this is the car we're traveling in right now, this Wagoneer. Typically, we're not driving. It's our tour manager, Paul, who does everything. But yeah, we're in this van for two days, and then, you know, it's... It's kind of bare bones right now, so yeah. Today we've been listening to Harder Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis and the News, and I think we listened to Honky Tonk Badonkadonk on the way here. It's usually lots of like psychological warfare that's going on music-wise in the van. It's not as much right now because we've kind of been also listening to some, we listened to two Tool records yesterday on the way in, but usually when we're all together, it's just, It's music that we can torment each other with as a way to keep it fun, basically. I'm usually, again, we're usually in a normal van, so this is very funny to me that we're doing this on a day in which we're in these two weird Jeep Wagoneers that we will be, this is the last day we're even using these and getting into our normal van tomorrow, which is usually then turns into like a nest of merch and our personal belongings and stuff. And it's, it's usually, uh... Austin, or Stan, our bassist, who is like kind of the co-pilot usually in the normal scenario, but usually in charge of just navigating and stuff like that. Here it is, the backseat. We have our two things of La Croix here. We have some more water back there, a wet shirt from the other day. My Gatorade from earlier, and you know, this is how we do it in Chatfile. Lots of water, you know, staying hydrated in the backseat, you know? Hydration is key. Yeah, hydration is key. We usually listen to music in the van. I don't have it with me, it's in our dressing room, but I have like a little handheld game thing that I've been playing some Sega Dreamcast games on the past couple days. But, uh... Yeah, it's usually just like, it's a lot of talking and, you know, just... You know, joking around and then, again, trying to listen to music that kind of torments each other. And, you know, positive, torment, positive. It's very positive. But, yeah, that's usually it. Yeah, reading. I can never sleep like in vehicles like on planes or cars or anything like that so it's really hard for me to get any sleep it's like I'll start to hit it and it's like I jolt awake like I'm in trouble in class or something for some reason I don't know why my body does that but so yeah lots of just like sitting here and zoning out when we're on the road for like seven hours to get to the next city or whatever. There's the trunk we got a single pelican case of course we've got two Wet t-shirts that I have worn, the past couple, they're soaking wet still, very gross. Yeah, some whiskey and coffee that was from a previous show that is just living in a bag now. Oh, you can't forget the Ricolos. Which we're all addicted to. I do. Coconut water, sparkling water, vegetable plate, hummus and salsa, stuff like that. Just like kind of snacky stuff. Nothing too crazy, you know, just yeah yeah of course yeah yeah I don't hate M&M's completely literally like boom what's up y'all welcome to the true Swagoneer, Swagoneer 2, white edition with the Idaho plate sequels better than the original that's right We played Minneapolis and these shows in Chicago but technically our tour really starts in Denver. So me and our tour tour manager Paul caravaned two vans from Oklahoma City to Denver with all our gear in it. Then we flew and met up with everybody in Minneapolis. We rented these two Wagoneers so that we could fit our gear and some merch in them. And then after Riot Fest we're flying back to Denver and the true van tour begins. But in the meantime, We've got these cool... Swagoneers. Yeah. This ain't no mall crawler, all right? This is a real Jeep that we're driving, okay? Yeah. Yeah. No dicks in this ************. That's right. Want to cruise on this? Well, Well, our sound guy, Mark, has been kind of the one driving and controlling the auxiliary cable. I've got to tell you, it whiplashes between some decent stuff to some of the worst music I've ever heard in my life. Slava Hoochie is a standout. I'm not recommending it. No, but it did come up. There's been some pornographic rap music and a few other bad songs as well. What's up? This is my seat here. I got my shorts and a sack because they stink. You know, I got my charger here. I got my microphone. I got my book. I got Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. Enjoying the hell out of it right now. I got my collection of cups and bottles here. Pretty swagged out, honestly. You know, I'm reading this book, Streets of Laredo. I think everybody should read. I hope y'all are reading. Anyone out there watching, Reagan Bush says, read a book. Otherwise though we're usually curating, actually Mark has sort of beat us to the punch because we're usually trying to gross each other out with the worst possible music we can in the van so that's kind of a pastime but yeah reading books is kind of a big part of our our pastime. Here's all of our shirts and things which we don't have many left in fact we have to find a way to ship this stuff back home. But yeah, we're in the more gear heavy wagon here right now, we've got the Pelican case with our amps in it. Guitars, of course, and some drum breakables. So this is the first time ever in Chapelle history that we have rented two vans, and one will be just for passengers, and then the other one's gonna be filled, or is filled, to the ceiling with gear and merch and that kind of stuff. So we're against trailers, they're too easy to steal, and trying to drive those around in a big city or whatever could be a pain in the ass. So hopefully two vans fixes that problem. Well y'all thanks for checking out the Wagoneers with us. If you want to find out more about what's happening with Chatpile you can always follow us on Instagram at chatpileband. We've got tours going on from now until infinity and our album Who Loves the Sun came out a couple weeks ago and it's still fresh for your ears so please go check that out. chatpile.net. Check it out!