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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the indie pop band, Bad Bad Hats, while in Chicago supporting Mom Jeans. Bad Bad Hats is currently supporting their newest self-titled album.

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Film Date - March 28, 2024
Location - Concord Music Hall in Chicago, IL

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00:24 Driver's Area
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Transcript
00:00I'm Carrie. And I'm Chris. And we are the band Bad Bad Hats from Minneapolis. We're
00:14here in Chicago opening for Mom Jeans and we can't wait to show you this car.
00:20Alright here we are in the driver's seat. Chris is the best driver in the band. I'm the best
00:27driver. I drive the most. Maybe those go hand in hand. But I feel like I'm a pretty good co-pilot.
00:35I sit right here. I use one of these cables in down here. It's a little tricky.
00:44You got to reach a little bit. Wait. Okay. You got to just reach it. We can edit this right.
00:51It's got to reach a little and plug it in. This is the only bad thing about them. There we go.
00:56Now I'm hooked up. I can charge with this but I can play through the machine too.
01:01Every once in a while it gets a little, it gets a little irritated. It gives you error 5.
01:07Error 5. You got to unplug and re-plug. But once you're locked in, box, box, box. I got the
01:14playlist going. Whatever my driver needs. You need to sit. Just making sure we got the map going.
01:26Everything's good. Generally it is driver's choice for the playlist. I will say my algorithm has been
01:33ruined for all time. Sometimes we like to pick a theme. I know in the past we've gotten, gotten
01:42going on some like hard rock from the early 2000s. That's always nice. Our friends, the Beths, do a
01:52thing called the Baker's Dozen where they listen to one song 13 times. In a row. In a row. We did
02:00that one time with the song Prisoner of the Highway by Ronnie Millsap and yeah there is a
02:07point like where you think you can't take it anymore and that's usually like I think that's
02:12around like 8, 8 or 9. But then you kind of cross over and then you just like let it wash over you
02:20and then by the end everyone's singing along. That 13th time. Me a prisoner of the highway.
02:28All together now. So yeah. Yeah. What else? Today we listened to the new Mannequin Pussy album.
02:35It's the favorite. Great album. Yeah. And Kacey Musgraves. Kacey Musgraves. Always something new.
02:41Always something different. That's right. We share with each other. These are our sunglasses that the
02:47driver wears. They're called DJ wraparound. Yeah. Does that make sense? They're from the 90s.
02:54Original. Yeah. And they're polarized. Polarized yeah. So they gotta be. Yeah so that's nice. So
02:59whoever's the driver has to wear them. They have to wear them. We also say that it makes you look
03:04like a softball coach. Yeah it does. Yeah. Gotta hustle. Gotta hustle. Gotta hustle out there.
03:11So we got our we got our Bill's hat over there. We got a lot of Bill's fans here. This is Chris's
03:15hat but by way of my Bill's fandom. My family's from Buffalo, New York. Sort of born into Bill's
03:23fandom. Highs and lows. Highs and lows with it. But we have to represent. We love being Bill's fans
03:31and this year is our year. This year is our year. That's right Chris. That's what we say. We got this guy.
03:38Somebody gave us this. I don't remember where. Yeah it's kind of creepy but it fits just really
03:43perfectly. I think it was Halloween. It was yeah. I think it was on Halloween. But it's lived up here for a
03:49while now. Yeah it just fits perfectly right here. Sometimes if we get a happy meal we put the toy up
03:54there for a while. Yeah we do. Yeah just a little mascot for the road. Um this is okay. We used to
04:00have a phone holder here. The brand was Keenu. Keenu. Keenu. And we got really attached to Keenu.
04:10Even though Keenu was not structurally sound. Keenu often fell over. Um it's dangerous because
04:17the phone's underneath your feet. Underneath the brake pedal. Um so we had to we had to do away
04:22with Keenu. But we still refer to this one as Keenu. Like it's like feels like that's like our
04:27boomer thing that we just like continue to call. Look at that. Any machine like this a Keenu. Um but
04:33this one's really nice. The other one used to be here. So in the winter time your phone would like
04:38be like I'm too hot. And just like shut off. Um so this was this one's much nicer. It's much nicer.
04:46Up here. But yeah sometimes sometimes his arm gets a little tired. Look at that. It's not going
04:51anywhere. Right now it's good though. Right now it's good. Look at that. Yeah. And uh we got our we got our uh
04:57Midwest. Yeah. Culver's. Yeah. Went to the. Culver's shake. You gotta do that. The largest Culver's in America today.
05:04We did. We did. Um it was 20% larger than the other ones. Actually not that much larger. Yeah. But it was it
05:11wasn't the biggest one. Okay welcome to the back seat. Um this is kind of where this is like the
05:17kids table of the van. This is where you can kind of let loose. You can relax. Um we refer to it as the
05:22cave. Um you know sometimes you get a little tired on tour. You need a little time to yourself. We're
05:28together a lot. Um and so the rules are you know the drivers obviously needs to pay attention
05:34because they're driving. And then the co-pilot they also need to be kind of um on their game.
05:39Directing. Playlisting. Um entertaining the driver. But when you're back here you can you can do
05:44whatever you want. You can take a nap. You can put your headphones on. Go to a different world. Um
05:50we used to have a machine that hooked up to the headrest that you could put an ipod pad on. We
05:57thought that would be great because they could like watch movies you know like the 90s in the
06:01minivan. Um but it also like was not greatly constructed. So like the ipad would like move
06:08like this like the whole drive. Um and it made everyone sick. Like our drummer at the time um
06:16was like was like forever changed actually by that. Remember that? He was like I had like I
06:21had developed motion sickness for the first time from watching the ipad move like that.
06:25So we got rid of that. Um it was a good idea. Though this it is funny when there are only three of us
06:31it's this seat that gets used. Not this seat. It's a little tough because you can't reach the
06:40the climate controls but here's the thing. The gas is on that side. So sometimes you try to open
06:48the door open the gas cap and the van's like no. Don't you be doing that. Um how's it feel Chris?
06:55How's it feel? It feels good. It feels good. You know on this trip it's uh Joey and Colby are back here.
07:01Yeah. You know they're the wild ones. Yeah. Chris is kind of Chris is the tallest one um
07:08in the band so I don't think he likes it back here as much. No. You see? No he doesn't. Um this we're
07:16doing a short run just uh uh two days in Chicago with mom jeans but if this were a long tour um
07:23right here we'd have our snacks. This is where the snacks sit. We have a little bag that we
07:27fill with chips, um granola, oatmeal cups. Just stuff to keep us sustained for the long drives.
07:37Um cup holders. That's pretty nice. Um sometimes this is packed full of stuff but it's like a it's
07:45like a nice moment when you like sell enough vinyl that there's not vinyl sitting here anymore
07:52and you go oh yeah luxury. Now we're talking. A little hand sanitizer so when you're eating
08:00um your taco bell in the darkness at at the end of the night back here you can wash up. Um
08:08that's nice. Got everything. We got some shades. Yeah look at this. When the paparazzi. Yeah. When
08:15there's too many. Yeah and we're like okay. There's too many things. Hey get get out here.
08:21Here we are um in the back. It's usually just a bunch of gear. Yeah. That's all there is to it.
08:28We got a fine tuned system. Drums on the left. Yeah. Bass amp behind that. Yeah. Bunch of merch
08:35down the middle. Guitars and everything guitar and suitcases on the right. Yeah it works out
08:40pretty well. Works pretty good. Yeah we've had um um you can explain our our special merch
08:46packing system. Merch we use bins from Target. Uh-huh. They're like five dollars. Plastic bins
08:52with the drawer. Yeah. We've had the same bins for 10 years. Yep. Got our money's worth. Yep. Each
08:58drawer a different size. We get compliments everywhere from all sorts of bands. We do.
09:04That's our hot tip. But they fit perfectly down the middle um so that's really nice.
09:10There are these little like compartments here. I don't know what's in there. There's nothing in
09:16there. Yeah. There's nothing in there. It's not very convenient. You usually can't access it when
09:19it's everything's full but maybe we could leave each other a surprise. Rightful. Um we have a
09:26blue bag with jumper cables. Um some rope. I don't know what we're gonna do with the rope
09:34but we have rope. We've got rope in case something happens. I think there's a first aid kit in there
09:38maybe. Uh-huh. Yeah. Safety first. So thank you so much um for being with us here. I'm Kari. This is
09:47Chris. This is Little Fat Dad. Um and thank you for being on this tour with us. Um if you want
09:55to know more about Bad Bad Hats, an indie rock band from Minneapolis, um you can find us at
09:59badbadhats.com, at badbadhats on social media and maybe you should check us out because we have an
10:07album coming out on April 12th. It's our fourth one. Been around a while. Um and I think we're
10:14getting pretty good at this rock and roll thing so check it out. Here you have it.