Restless Road - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2080

Hey there! What's up? Welcome, come on in. Come on the bus. What's up? What's up everybody? I'm Zach. I'm Colton. And I'm Garrett. And we are Restless Road. And we're here on our tour bus. We're nearing the end of our third Headline Tour, the Going Out Like That Tour. We're here in Chicago today, and this is our bus. Check it out. It's where we live. We're going to show y'all what we roll in. Well, first things first, we got these nice leather couches. You know you gotta have that. We got the mini TV right here. We watch stuff. And then we got our big one. The big TV. And then the big one right here. Yep. And then this bus is actually really nice. And there's three of us, so it actually expands out, so we got a little more extra space when we're parked. You know, to kick it. The big slide out. Kick back. Relax. You know, we're all six foot seven, so you know, we gotta have a lot of room to spread out. He wishes. Oh, check this out. We always gotta have our Turtle Box speaker, okay? We're always jamming tunes before the show. Could be our songs. Could be some other artists. I don't know. But we always love the Turtle Box. Huge shout out to them. We love them. It's always great. So, there's like two categories of TV that we watch, right? We have like our show shows, and then we have our reality trash. Yes. Our show show right now is Righteous Gemstones. We love that. Baby Billy. We're burning through it. And yeah, we're learning every character, every accent on the show. And then our reality show that we love right now, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. But yes, last night we started our journey on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We've been chopping at the bit. We've been chopping. We watched season one last at WebTour. Yeah, we're kind of weird. Like, we don't, once we leave the stage, we don't really party that part. We just come straight to the bus and throw on reality TV. Yeah. We don't have enough drama in our lives, so we like to watch other people go through really interesting things. We're a pretty drama-free band. I wish there was something cool. This is Garrett's room. This is just the controls for us. Wow, it's really dusty. We don't touch that. We don't touch that, because any time I touch that, she gets messed up. We got a tech guy. He's really good with the technology. He's always twisting buttons, mashing them, getting that sound. I was going to say, yeah, I feel like we have this. We like to throw this while we're in here. It makes a really cool sound. Got that. We got to have the Louisville Slugger. This is custom Restless Road. That one is yours specifically. Mini Louisville Slugger. We have three mini bags. You never know when somebody's just going to come on the bus. Yeah, if there's ever going to be an intruder, it's like, get off our bus! Oh, okay. Okay, hold on. So we got, this was last night. We played a show. We have a fan who's been out, too. That's what last night was. 33. 33 shows. She is actually here tonight. She's traveling the whole weekend, and she'll finish it out, and she'll have come to 35 shows. Which is crazy. But she gave us a camera to take moments. We can take a selfie right now. Boom. Ready? She wants to know what we're doing while we're on the road. So these are great moments. Oh, I got this. And then we'll give her that back after the weekend. Check this out. We got, well, this one's a defective one. These are our defective bags. But we got the hottest merch in the game. Don't look at that part. This one fell in the gap. Don't look. But yeah, this is the hottest merch in the game. This one's our new hats. The Upside Down Restless Road. We also got some OGs right here. This is one of our first hats. We have the Camo Restless Road. You know, the orange hunter patch right here. Pretty cool. Oh, check this out, too. So all three of us have one of these, and it's like a leather. They're all different. Custom leather holster that Tim McGraw gave us when we were opening for him. And you know how you wear your headphones on stage? You have a pack that you wear on your belt, and this is what you put your pack in. So it kind of gives it a little extra flair, a little cool factor. So thanks to Tim McGraw, we go everywhere with these. All right, we got to check. We got to see. This is one of the coolers. I don't honestly have a whole lot of them. Don't know what's in it. Couldn't tell. I don't think there's anything cool in it. Big, big, the new Bush Light. Oh, the limited edition Bush Light. See, this is the OG Bush Light. This was the newer one. To be quite honest, I'm more of an OG. Oh, hold on. Actually, in this bag, this all came from my house. I do know something that I put in this bag that's actually really funny. I've got multiple jars. That's that 100 proof that all these... That's that shine. That's that 80 proof that all these country singers out here are talking about. All the other ones are in the fridge. These are... Oh, there's white lightning. Yeah. This ain't water, son. So, but it's funny, because we're actually not big drinkers on the road. So, we said we're not big drinkers, but check out our liquor cabinet. We got it stocked. We got everything a band could need. Got a little tequila, a little Makers, Jack Daniels, Screwball, Tito's, Grey Goose. We got it all. I feel like a lot of people don't realize this, but when you're on the road, you have a thing called a rider. And every single night, you can put things on it. And the venue gives you so much money to get that stuff. And somehow, we don't... We've tried to make this fluctuating rider, so we don't get the same things every night. But sometimes, we get like the same thing all weekend. And then you'll end up with six bottles of the same exact alcohol throughout the weekend. A lot of Jack Daniels. A lot of Screwball. Lots of Screwball. That was a phase. We're not... Honestly, that was a phase. And it was an old rider, and somehow it got sent out this week. Oh, we got these cool... This is new. We got... Oh, yeah. We actually tried this last night for the first time. Kamote. Ready to chill green tea shots. Already pre-batched. And white tea. We have white tea, too. White tea one, as well. And we broke that open last night. Had a good time. Pretty good. Of course, we're stocked with mayonnaise. You gotta have the mayo. Oh, yeah. And leftover Frosty from last night. Oh, nice. Yeah, as we said, there's literally not really, like, anything in here. Our main snacks... Oh, God. So I won't... I don't know how appropriate it would be to read a section of this. But a fan gave us this last week. She's published a book. And the book is completely inspired by our music. Hold on. Take off the hat for two seconds. Please tell me... I'm pretty sure that this was... I got hat hair, but yeah, it looks like it's modeled after me. So let's go. Let's just flip through the... Our set list is in the front of the book. Restless Road. A bunch of our songs. So these songs inspired this book. And it's somewhat of a romance novel. It's not a romance. It's like an erotic... It's dirty. It's a little raunchy. She bookmarked in the book where our songs came. She said, I wanted to thank you for making the kind of music you can't help but fall in love with. While writing this book, I listened to your songs on repeat. They inspired me so much. So thank you for everything. And yeah, we'll flip to a random page. You're gonna have to bleep and blur this. He says no. Oh, yeah. We're an hour into our six-hour drive of the day. Tate has eaten and taken her meds and is sitting next to me, happily singing along to the new album, Restless Road, her favorite country band. Her voice is so beautiful, I find myself resisting the urge to close my eyes to take away one of my senses to heighten the other. To only listen to her. The taste of her lingers in my memory. No, no, stop! No, no, no, no! Don't do it. Okay. Alright, yeah, you get the idea. It's about moaning and... Yeah, it gets really dark. It seems innocent enough, but it gets dark. Zero to a hundred pretty quick, but chapter 26, that's... Yeah, pick up the book. It's called The Pluto in Back. The Pluto in Back. Check it out. A Restless Road-inspired book by one of our fans. Not necessarily Restless Road-approved, but it was inspired, apparently, by us. Bridget L. Rose, the author. Interesting. Alright, this is our snack cabinet. So we usually do a lot of the Cheez-Its, and of course, Extra Toasty. We're like stocked on the Cheez-Its. We got, what was the new one last week? The Cheddar Jack Extra Toasty. We always do the Cheez-It M&M combo. It goes hard. And then, new addition, we love Takis, and they have Takis Sticks. Now, a little more dainty. Wait, I haven't done this. Yeah, very good. Oh, the Twizzlers. Twizzlers, sweet and sour. Oh, let's go. I'm not a big candy guy, but... But you sure are sweet, I'll tell you that. Oh. Yeah, these are good. Oh, wow. These will get you. Those are phenomenal. I love the spicy ones. Are you talking to me? I'm talking to you. Takis, so yeah, we're big snackage. We're like snack fiends, so... That's Snack Beacon, if you guys haven't looked at it. Look at this sticker. This is the coolest sticker. So, we had a fan make us, I don't even know, cartoons? But, yeah, we have a sticker. We get a lot of these from fans, a lot of friendship. I guess you'd say this one says, she calls me daddy. That's the ones from me. Oh, show them our little soldiers. Oh, another fan last night gave us, these are called, like, they're nuggets or something? Nugget stickers. And just different stickers. All chicken nuggets. Cowboy one, very cute. We'll find places to put these. These little soldier figures. Yep, another fan gave us this last night, little soldiers. And she says to place the soldiers somewhere that will remind you to pray for those serving our country. So, thank you to those serving our country. We got you around. We call those brothers in the Air Force. We have a lot of family that have served in the military, so we take that very serious. We like to, you know, honor those people. You got to show them what's in the microwave. We don't use that all that often, but we have the essentials, you know. Just in case you need just a can of Zip. Yeah, we always keep a Zip can, you know, just in case, you never know. We're big, like, tea, and so, like, I got me a cup that I just keep on the road. And so people know it's mine. You know, the C. It's so sad. Like, our cabinets are really, really sad. Lots of gum. Gum and Sharpies. We've got them. You never know when you're going to need that. Lots of coffee. And, of course, right here. You just got to hit this button. There's one rule on this bus. You know, you should know what it is. If you've watched these, I guarantee you somebody said, there's a number one rule on a bus. Never take a number two. Never. There's a shower we never use. We never actually use that ever. We actually, a lot of times, put storage stuff in there. I sleep in there sometimes. All right. Let's go to bed. So, we've got 12 bunks. 12 bunks. 12 beds. With your grandma's curtains. Mostly, it's like 10 people out. So, usually, on a normal weekend, we'll have, we have 12 bunks. We have 10 people. So, usually, we have about two. Nine to ten. So, we have two or three junk bunks. It fluctuates. You know, sometimes we have a video editor or, like, a content person come out. Sometimes they're not here. So, two to three junk bunks, depending on the weekend. But, yeah. We got a bunch of them. This is, this is, okay, hold on. Let's, I don't even know if we can think about it. This is Feather. He is our Kyle Featherstone, a.k.a. Feather. He's in-ear monitors, production management. Greg is down here. Greg, he's our front of house. Junk. Junk bunk. Junk. Yeah, this one's empty. Empty, other than a bag. Storage. This one, empty. No, well, yeah, this is another junk bunk. Empty. We ain't got nothing on it. Nothing? That's, who's hat is that? I don't know. That's sick as hell. That's a really cool hat. Okay. Well. I'm stealing that. And then who's, who's. Our drummer, Cody. Cody. Cody Hawkins. He sleeps. Oh, he's a dirty boy. And look at his setup. Oh, dude, he's got the tech setup. He's got his rigged out, like. Dude, Apple Watch charger. He's got a freaking iPad chilling. I mean. Dude, that's crazy. What is he watching? What the hell, dude? What is he doing in here? Whose bottom? This is also junk. Junk bunk. Also junk. A lot of junk. We got three junk bunks. What the hell is he doing in here? Okay. This is. Okay, lead guitar player. Matt. This is, this is me. Now, I'm, I'm going to be honest. I'm notoriously known for keeping way too much stuff in my bunk. I just like need just a small space. Call him the pack rat. But there's more stuff in here than normal because we tried to at least clean up a little bit for you guys. But. Oh, man. We call him the pharmacy, dude. He's got it all. Look at this guy. Yeah. It's really bad. Damn. Yeah. Sorry, guys. Of course, you got to have the Dr. Vox. Yeah. Dr. Vox. Good warm up tool. People think it's a bong. It's not. Yeah. You bubble. My pure mist. Just good mist for when you're playing a show. Yeah. Got a lot of stuff in here. Yeah. So. Okay. We got Garrett. Garrett down here. Garrett's in the bottom. Just a. Yeah. Literally just my backpack and some quick cables. We like to record. A lot of audio. We're on the road. I also got my Dr. Vox. Nothing. Nothing too interesting in my bunk. It's just. I sleep there. Really. Every now and then, I like to just pee the bed just to see if Garrett's awake or asleep. I feel like when you're first getting on a bus, we always say, unfortunately, we're not mean like this, but we always have first choice. We get. We get first choice of bunks. We're paying for it. So I personally like the middle because I don't like to climb and I also don't like to get in the very bottom and it's just a good. And I feel like that's where I can feel and kind of rock myself to sleep and not like too much. If you're on the top, you move the most. The bottom. It's just. I like the bottom. I've always chosen the bottom because I don't want to fall out of my bunk. I'd be scared. And I get up to use the bathroom a lot in the middle of the night. I'm like, I'm a two or three time a night guy. You know, I'm getting up to go to the bathroom. So like, I don't want to climb either. And I like I like the the rumble of the road. I like to feel the rumble. It makes me feel safe. I don't know. I fell out twice. Yeah. He falls a lot. I have never happened to me. If I fall, I'm only you've only got about six inches to go. So it's it's not not bad. That's what I like. So I'm the bottom bottom bunk guy. Yeah. I'm a middle. This is mine. I'm the middle bunk as well. I like it's easy access. So I'm a middle guy. And he just likes it. We like to be able to just open it up. We have the neighborhood, the friendly neighborhood restless road. We everybody's always in the back in a row. You know, we always like to talk. And Zach's girlfriend's out for the weekend. This is her bunk for the week. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. All right. Back, back, back, back lounge. There is honestly, I feel like this does not get utilized to be quite honest. This as of like an hour ago until you guys were coming, this looked a whole lot better. This is where we always just dump our stuff. Yeah, there's so much like, because it's really a shame, but you know, there's like, you know, like we said, there could be nine, 10 people on this thing and sometimes there's only so much stuff doing. Yeah. There's only so much places you can put stuff. So unfortunately, we don't hang in here as much as we probably would like to. We normally, we're going to start now, though, this is like, this is a closet and it's just got a bunch of junk in it right now, quite, quite normal. I actually found this out. I didn't realize this. What is that? I've never even seen that. It's another one. I actually had my hat boxes in it last week, cowboy hats are stored in there. We got actually never come back here. There's literally nothing. There's nothing in here. Oh, literally. Oh, dead empty. Completely empty. Oh, we need more beer back here. I don't know what that's for either. I don't even know if that works. Those are all my boots. These are all the boots. These are the boot drawers. That's my boot drawer specifically. I don't know what's in that. Most of the time. Shoes, drummer shoes, Cody's, the drum, you got to have the flat shoes for the drummer. They always like to have them flat. I'm not really sure why, but there's that. That's pretty much our bus, man. That's pretty much what we rock with every weekend. That's where we live. And yeah. All right. So again, we're Restless Road. You can find us on all social media at Restless Road. Look us up. Anywhere you can find music, Restless Road, and you'll find us. We have a song out called Last Thing I Deserved. We got a new song coming out very, very, very soon. It's called And Then Some. We're really excited about it. Come see us on the road. We're always on the road. Restlessroad.com. Look up the tour dates and make sure you can stream us wherever you listen to music. And yeah. Come catch the show. We'd love to see you. Well, we got to get ready for the show. So it's been a pleasure. But we got to get ready. We'll see y'all later. See you guys. Keep your eyes on the road.