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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the rock band, Meatbodies, while on the "Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom USA Tour." Meatbodies is currently supporting their newest album, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom.

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Film Date - April 21, 2024
Location - Schubas in Chicago, IL

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00:00 Introduction
00:52 Driver's Area
04:32 Middle of the Van
08:29 Back of the Van

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Transcript
00:00Hi, this is Chad from the Meat Bodies.
00:13I'm Noah from the Meat Bodies.
00:16And this is our van.
00:17Welcome to our van.
00:20So, what we have here is a 1999 Ford Econoline.
00:263350 Extended.
00:29One ton.
00:30Okay?
00:32Everything is original.
00:34Everything is original.
00:36Even these bugs, they're not original, but they're a brand new addition.
00:42Yeah, let's get inside and show you this van.
00:47Alright, so now we're inside the Ford Econoline 1999, all original, with the tape deck.
00:54V8 Triton.
00:55One ton.
00:56Extended cab.
00:57E350.
00:58Yeah, we got a custom roof.
01:03Comes with all the original parts, as you can see, including the manual.
01:10Boom.
01:11Econoline.
01:121999 model year.
01:15So, me and Noah do most of the driving.
01:23We do that.
01:26We actually fight over who wants to drive.
01:30Yeah.
01:31We battle.
01:32It's more like a competition.
01:36Like, I can drive longer than you, you know?
01:39And then at nighttime, he's like, no, I can drive longer than you.
01:44And then we stare at each other for like 20 minutes without saying anything.
01:49That's kind of a face-off.
01:51But I love him.
01:52I do too.
01:53I love him as well.
01:55Oh yeah, up here is the tape decks.
02:00We have a...
02:03We only have tapes, so this is all we listen to on tour.
02:07Sometimes we have a... where'd it go?
02:10It's in the hotel room, huh?
02:12Sometimes we have a Bluetooth tape that Noah bought, and when that runs out, we refer to
02:20the tapes.
02:22This is a tape that I found at a thrift store called Pablo.
02:27It's actually from 99.
02:29Oh, there you go.
02:31And it's just a guy playing Spanish guitar.
02:35That's a good one.
02:38That's a good one too.
02:39Misfits dubbed Walk Among Us.
02:42Yes.
02:43Sabbath on the other side.
02:44A lot of these tapes were...
02:46I inherited from my good buddy Michael Anderson and Moses from San Francisco days.
02:53Oh yeah.
02:55And so a lot of these are their things, like the Brian Eno slash Neil Young.
03:04Real tripped up stuff.
03:06Brian Eno.
03:07I think this was Moses.
03:09Yeah.
03:10Or it could have been... yeah.
03:12I was vibing off the Eno Live, and on the other side it's Motorhead.
03:17Oh yeah, that one.
03:19That's falling out now.
03:23Up here in the dash we have my Supreme beanie that Sheridan gave me.
03:29I don't know where she got this.
03:31It's Supreme though, so it's big stuff.
03:36Neck pillows.
03:38Whose is this?
03:39That's mine.
03:40I got it on Teemu.
03:42It's Dylan's.
03:43Teemu plug.
03:44It's about $3.
03:46$3.
03:47You know what?
03:48Take it away.
03:49I got a couple of hats from Hat Stop.
03:52In Tacoma.
03:53In Tacoma.
03:54Hat Stop, you know, they supply the hats for Pacific Supply.
03:59JHL Construction LLC, Los Angeles, AK-47s.
04:05Oh, talk about that too.
04:07That's really important.
04:08This is for me and Casey.
04:10Yeah, we have pretty severe allergies at times.
04:14Seasonal.
04:15So what we like to do is just have a box of these at any point,
04:18and we can just snack from stuff up, plug up.
04:23Right?
04:24Yeah.
04:25How are you feeling?
04:26Chicago's been kind.
04:28Chicago's been kind to us.
04:29So over here is the side of the van.
04:33This is where the passengers get inside.
04:37As you can see here, I've installed a puck.
04:42And over here is where the pucks live.
04:45We clock them in and we sign them in.
04:47They sign them out.
04:49They go here and in the back.
04:52Also, we have moving gloves.
04:55Trying to get sponsored by mechanics.
04:57So if you see this, you know.
05:00Vans like you too.
05:01Yeah.
05:03That goes in there.
05:04Oh, puck goes back.
05:05Sorry.
05:06Puck is going back.
05:07Signing in?
05:08Okay.
05:09Pucks in.
05:10I got it.
05:11Now, clicker.
05:18Open this up.
05:21Here we have Dylan and Sheridan.
05:24Sheridan, she does our merch.
05:26She lives back there.
05:27I live back there.
05:28Dylan loves that seat over there.
05:32And these are the Monster Tour waters that were given to us at the 7th Street, Minneapolis.
05:41Monster, thank you.
05:44And it says Warb Tour.
05:45I don't know.
05:46They're good, though.
05:47They're Warb Tour Tour water.
05:48Apparently, they're from a deep well in Laguna.
05:51Thank you, Monster.
05:53Because you've got to drink water sometimes or else you're going to die.
05:58How does that taste, Chad?
05:59Really fucking good.
06:02Tastes like it was in a well in Laguna.
06:05How deep?
06:06Pretty damn deep.
06:09All right.
06:10So, yeah, this is where, you know, we get Sheridan in.
06:14We go like that.
06:15She gets in.
06:16Yeah.
06:17Then we push this back and Dylan gets in over there.
06:20This is, I mean, would you say this is your preferred seat?
06:23This is my preferred seat.
06:24Preferred seat.
06:25It reclines the most.
06:26When I'm not driving, I tend to sit here.
06:29It's not that good because I get Sheridan's knees, you know.
06:33I'm just smacking them.
06:34It's terrible, you know, and I feel bad.
06:38Underneath, we have tools.
06:42We have ratchets and we got road flares.
06:47This came with the van, all original.
06:48Like I said, all original, 1999.
06:51Over there, there's a first aid kit, all original, 1999.
06:56Originally, there was a fire extinguisher, all original, 1999.
07:03That was set off on the first day.
07:06Yeah.
07:07While we were in the van.
07:09Noah set it off right before we left.
07:11So, as you can see here, there's a bunch of residue.
07:15This is not what you think it is.
07:17It is a fire extinguisher.
07:19It's fire retardant.
07:20Yes.
07:21From 1999, all original.
07:23My fault.
07:24It wasn't me.
07:25It was not my fault.
07:26So, usually, I have my bins that are full of merch right here.
07:31Every night, I replenish them with boxes of more merch
07:35so that I only have to bring in two bins at a time.
07:39But I also like to come back here and do my makeup.
07:44It's kind of nice.
07:46I have my phone hotspot, so I'll do work.
07:48I also work for the record label that they're on called In The Red Records.
07:52And, yeah, for the most part, I just kind of live in this hole for weeks at a time.
07:59It's true.
08:00We throw her back there.
08:01We don't.
08:02No one talks to her.
08:03Yeah.
08:04She's back there.
08:05It's done.
08:06Yeah.
08:07All right, so now we're going to go to the back of the van.
08:10Here it is.
08:12This is the, as you can see, this is the extended, you know,
08:16the difference of what they would call non-extended versus extended.
08:20It has this little tiny window.
08:22You know, 1999 extended cab.
08:26Oh, actually, it's called an XLT Super Duty, as you can see.
08:31It came with some Bondo.
08:34Bondo.
08:35And there was originally, oh, these paint marks trying to cover up the rust.
08:41There was originally some holes, some rust holes, and we got that fixed.
08:45Thank you to Sean Lee.
08:46Sean.
08:48This is the back.
08:51I don't know if we're going to.
08:53Oh, just made it.
08:55This is the back.
08:57As you can see, there's some rust holes from when there were holes in the roof
09:01and all the years of water sitting on the bottom.
09:08And this is where we pack all the gear.
09:10Tetris.
09:11Tetris.
09:12Tetris.
09:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:14We do different versions of the Tetrising through the tour,
09:18and we find the best version.
09:20I think we finally figured it out on Mach 4, right?
09:23Yeah, it's in Mach 4.
09:24Mach 4.
09:25And then we forget about it the next night.
09:27Yeah.
09:28No, no, no.
09:29I don't forget about it.
09:30We have a system.
09:31We get a system.
09:33And, yeah, this is where, you know, we have a tag from Bonnie Hanson.
09:40I'm not going to show her number.
09:41Bonnie, we have your tag.
09:44And, yeah, there's a bunch of stuff in here we don't use, you know,
09:50like Dylan's rug, my microphone stand,
09:54and my REI pad that I bought to sleep on the ground that I haven't used yet
10:03because we've been sleeping in hotels.
10:06This is where the second puck goes,
10:10and I installed this with our good friend Henry.
10:15He helped me install this.
10:16We got a little drunk right before we came out,
10:20and we were doing this at, like, midnight, putting the locks in.
10:26Is it loose?
10:27It's loose.
10:29Maybe a little bit.
10:30I'll get in there.
10:31I'll get in there.
10:32We, yeah, and shout out to Sophia.
10:35Thank you for letting me and Henry be loud.
10:39We needed to get it done.
10:42We took out the seats, me and Henry.
10:45Yeah, that's some of the fun.
10:47Oh, on the way here, we blew a tire,
10:55and we lost an all-original 1999 hubcap,
11:00and so we're missing a hubcap, as you can see,
11:02and we had to replace all the tires.
11:05Yeah.
11:07Thank you for everyone who Venmoed.
11:09Oh, yeah, thank you for everyone who Venmoed.
11:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:12And shout out to Monster.
11:14Vans, Warped Tour, Tor Water.
11:17OG Tour.