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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the alternative rock band, Dead Poet Society, while on "The Fission Tour." Dead Poet Society is currently supporting their newest album, FISSION.

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Film Date - April 28, 2024
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL

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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Driver's Area
03:14 Middle of the Van

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00:00What up, it's Dead Poets Society, and once again, we're looking at the van.
00:14This is our third episode with you guys.
00:19First time was a minivan, second time was a regular van.
00:22Now we're in this fucking bitch right here, and we got the Bug Death in the front.
00:28And we're going to take you inside and you're going to look at the 70s sex rug.
00:32Okay, so this is the front seat here.
00:35Will, me, and our sound guy Dex usually do all the driving.
00:40And I got my pillow up here, and then I got this.
00:47This might be the best invention ever in human history.
00:56So it just clips on right here, and then you can just fucking put your phone right
01:02there.
01:03Not get even closer.
01:04You can watch videos.
01:05Get closer.
01:06Oh, you want to get closer?
01:07Yeah.
01:08Check this shit out.
01:09Boom, I can put it right up to my fucking eyeballs.
01:10Here we go.
01:14And that's it.
01:16That's the front right there.
01:20Sometimes fans will bring us, there's a woman actually coming tonight, her name is Tammy.
01:24She'll get us like care packages before our tour, and she buys us like hundreds and hundreds
01:33of dollars worth of protein bars.
01:35And so if you look carefully, you'll see scattered throughout the car is just carcasses of random
01:42protein bars everywhere, because we don't clean our van ever.
01:47And yeah.
01:48Get some underwear down there, get that, there we go.
01:54I mean, usually the mornings, like we swap driving shifts, so these bunks will shift.
02:00What do we got up here normally?
02:04We got a charging system that Jack brought.
02:08Jack's got some creatine.
02:09We got a lot of miscellaneous floaters that just kind of like, that just happened.
02:15We got batteries.
02:16I don't know, so I have this cup that I haven't used once.
02:19No, no, no, show them what you got.
02:22Fuck yeah.
02:23So we got this here.
02:24This is essential for every tour.
02:26It's just a giant thing of mayonnaise, that looks so gross.
02:30Yeah, but I consume a disturbing amount of mayonnaise, which I need to stop doing because
02:38it's making me fat, but that's there.
02:42This is dog shit though.
02:44Usually if the venue provides like some Hellmann's or something, I'll usually take that.
02:49Always take that.
02:50Do we have anything else of interest in here?
02:53Oh, these picks.
02:55Stop fucking making these picks.
02:56Jazz picks, why do they exist?
03:00Don't do that.
03:01So when we got this van, we got it in advance from our label to put down for a van, and
03:09my roommate found this one, and somebody had already pre-fabricated the inside, I guess,
03:17since I added insulation and a recessed fan, and at first it was just this bench seat,
03:23and then it was just open here, and this folds down into a bed, but this table and these
03:28two chairs weren't here, and so what we did to make it more comfortable was this bean
03:33bag right here, we put this in, and this was originally in the corner back here, and then
03:38I bought a seatbelt on Amazon, and I tied it to the bottom of this chair right here,
03:45so that the person in the bean bag could use the seatbelt.
03:48Now, in a crash, yeah, Dylan, so in a crash, they're not going to survive.
03:54They're going to die, 100%.
03:56But at least their body won't fly around the van and kill other people, and that was my
04:02logic behind it.
04:03And it gives them peace of mind while we're driving.
04:05Right, exactly.
04:06It makes them feel safe.
04:09So for this door, we added these two seats and this table here, because when we were
04:13in Europe, we had a van that had a table in it, and it was super useful for our guitarist
04:18who does like composing, trailer work, and stuff like that, and our photographer, he
04:23sits there, and he, you know, does the vlogs and figures out merch and shit like that,
04:30so great investment, putting these little babies in, and then got the cupholders, and
04:39yeah.
04:40I don't know how many elbows we got here.
04:41Yeah, we are.
04:42This is clean, by the way.
04:43This is post-cleaning.
04:44So, yeah, that's what mostly goes on back here.
04:45We got a little mattress topper down there.
04:46That never gets used.
04:47I think we used it like three times.
04:48I don't think anyone wants to use it.
04:49It's just covered in dirt.
04:50Yeah, it's very gross.
04:51And, like, banana peels.
04:52Yeah.
04:53But, yeah, it's actually kind of nice back here when you're like, just like, hanging
05:02out.
05:03So, we have this, we got this, like, 70s sex rug in here, which is, as you can tell, very
05:22gross right now, but we only wash it at the end of tours, and it keeps this, like, under
05:29here remotely clean, sort of.
05:31So, we got that, and I cut it up so that it fit around all the different shit in here,
05:36and then we got these coat racks up here, which, you know, actually are being used.
05:42I didn't think anybody really ever used them.
05:45I hung a suit up in here one time, and it was there for like four months, and that was
05:49it.
05:50But, yeah, you can see various things on our rider kind of scattered across the floor here,
05:59like peanut butter.
06:00Hey, we got some Coke over there, and then there's bananas underneath my backpack over
06:07there on the floor, and, yeah, so this back here kind of turns into, like, a little storage
06:14area.
06:15So, we got the remains of our little care package from Tammy, got more protein, more
06:22protein down here.
06:24So, I don't eat before shows.
06:27I just drink protein shakes, because if anything has, like, onions or garlic in it, like, completely
06:33fucks me up.
06:34So, I found that it's just safe to just stick the protein shakes, and, yeah, Will's got
06:41his little tote thing here.
06:43This was supposed to be a trash can, and it's never been used once, but, actually, there's
06:47a couple things in there.
06:48Yeah.
06:49It doesn't fit much trash.
06:50It doesn't.
06:52The amount of trash we produce compared to that thing.
06:55One gas station stop alone, man.
06:58Yeah.
06:59We stop at a lot of gas stations still.
07:02Yeah, shout out Loves.
07:04Shout out Loves.
07:05Yeah, so that's everything.
07:07We're on our Fission Tour right now.
07:09We just dropped an album January 26th, and we're about a third of the way through the
07:15U.S. run right now, so check it out.
07:18Come buy a ticket.
07:19The show's getting sweaty, very sweaty, and, yeah, that's it, that's it, but we're gonna
07:26get ready for the tour.
07:27As I said, I'm gonna close this door, and he and I are gonna make out, so I'll see you
07:30later.