On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the pop rock band, The Home Team, while on The Crucible of Life Fall Tour 2025 with Arrows In Action and Makari. The Home Team is currently supporting their newest album, The Crucible of Life.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - November 28, 2025 Location - House of Blues in Chicago
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Usually after the show, there's four play mats and stacks of Magic the Gathering cards.
Most important tool, Comandante hand grinder.
I bought some Aldris chips when I was in Canada.
Take off your shoes really quick.
What's up gang? It's Daniel, Brian from the home team.
We're here to show you the next upgrade in our touring vehicle setup.
We're in a Yota Coach, so a little upgrade from the last time you saw us.
It's like bandwagon competitor, same deal.
Mirrored TVs.
They both play the same thing, if you want that.
You can also separate them, but then you'd have to turn one on and the other turns off.
Honestly, for this tour, we haven't been using the TVs a lot
because we've been playing a lot of Magic the Gathering with each other.
Speaking of Magic the Gathering, we do have an entire dedicated cubby.
And that's definitely not all of it.
We definitely have some in our personal cubbies too.
Half of this stuff is taken out and inside the venue already.
Always have to have the air purifier.
I actually don't think it's on right now.
I turned it off right before because it's loud.
Always have to have the air purifier.
Everyone gets sick. We're in venues with lots of people.
This saves us.
A ---- ton of storage, which kicks ass.
This guy. Big storage.
Most bags are in the venue right now, but by the end of the night
this will be completely full of backpacks and dental bags and all that.
So everyone's day bags get to fit in there.
Our TM, Coach Sarah, has her own personal cubby.
She needs it.
There's another home team go-to.
We've got these leg massager things that Jon has.
These are what professional athletes use to compress their legs.
We actually used these yesterday during Thanksgiving.
We don't got a look in my personal cubby,
but I secured one for myself.
That's kind of mine.
It's just my shoes.
Those are my magic cards up there.
Don't tell everybody that I keep my clothes in my cubby.
Shout out Ghost.
We would not get through this ---- without a pre-workout.
If you're wondering about these, these are fan gifts.
This is the cat from the Worthy music video
who is flipping me off at one point.
Oh, that's so funny. I didn't even notice that.
Yeah, you can barely see he's flipping the camera.
Me, the camera, I'm behind the camera, yadda yadda.
Somebody got us this gift, and I was like,
that is extremely niche.
So now we keep it as a little decorative one.
It's nice.
I actually don't remember.
I think a fan got us the LeBoo boots as well.
Is this the one with the LeBoo hat?
No.
It's a different LeBoo hat.
We got one that was wearing a home team shirt and a home team hat.
It was very cute.
Right now, this is very clean,
but usually after the show, there's four play mats,
drinks, and stacks of Magic the Gathering cards
because every night after the show, we play Magic right here.
Also, yes, we did add this grippy stuff.
It's very nice.
I do have to lift it up and clean under it every once in a while,
which I did recently.
It gets pretty sticky otherwise.
Why don't you do it?
Of course.
Oh, and we have some water.
Very important.
And some space heaters.
Water and new space heaters because it's freezing.
It's very cold.
Yeah, okay.
We also have many, many shoes for many, many feats.
Yes.
I bought these on the very first non-van tour we ever did,
and eventually I realized that the BetterSit solution
is just one of those door ones,
but there's nothing to, like, hang it on over here.
So these actually came in handy.
I put these up with command strips.
This is obviously gaffed up.
We usually only put light shoes up here.
Then, you know, just more of these everywhere.
Honestly, as many as I can fit, I'll do,
and then obviously code hooks, command hooks.
These ones don't get used that often.
This command hook broke, unfortunately.
We definitely put up the curtains
just because sometimes we're parked right outside the venue,
and I've definitely made eye contact with some fans who are like...
So, yeah, we put those up.
This one...
But, yeah, same with those.
Yeah, we got some DIY curtains all around this ----.
Yeah, but I did put in a hole so that if we do want to lift it up...
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
There's not much to look at right now because we're in a dungeon,
but anyway, if we want some daylight.
Oh, and we missed the last couple cupboards.
Oh, God.
The snacks are overwhelming.
Food and snacks.
So, the... Oh, God.
Oh, Jesus.
Yes, I bought some all-dress chips when I was in Canada.
Got some extra water.
We have a lot of beaver nuggets up here for buckies.
There's some protein powder.
This is full of protein bars.
Those do get eaten every once in a while, but then they get replenished,
and so that's zero.
More snacks.
It's a lot of stuff.
We'll probably go home with a lot of stuff after the adventure tour.
Oh, and when we were in...
Yeah, when we were in Silver Spring at...
Was it the Fillmore?
They gave us a whole Baltimore seasoning care package,
which included a full tin of Old Bay.
This is not getting used until we get home and we put it in our house.
If it opens in here, it's going to be a disaster.
Yeah, so that's going to live right there forever.
Yep.
Oh, and very, very, very important.
Liquid IV.
Big believers.
Drink one a day.
Keep you nice and hydrated.
Thank you, Liquid IV.
Most of our rider is going to be in this fridge.
I mean, there's some rider stuff up here, too.
Actually, you know what?
There's not actually a lot of rider stuff up here.
No, this is all additional snacks.
We'll show you what most of our rider looks like.
All right.
Right now, the fridge is a little full and messy.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got our Owens.
Only what you need is my greens powder and creatine that I take every day.
We have a bunch of Thanksgiving leftovers in here
because we did a Thanksgiving at an Airbnb yesterday.
And so it's a little messy, but I had Thanksgiving breakfast.
I'm probably going to have Thanksgiving lunch,
and then I'm going to have Thanksgiving dinner for the next three days.
It's going to be great.
We have, like, three packs of Owen every day.
This is a touring staple from Crustables.
Great quick little snack.
Hell, yeah.
And my personal special drink, dark chocolate protein rebel.
This is on the rider every day.
I get it, like, twice a tour, and so I stock up.
And some wellness shots.
Yeah.
So we don't get sick.
Oh, and, and.
Oh, yeah, a lot of sparkling water.
The Goat Waterloo Tropical Fruit Sparkling Water.
Also shout out, orange soda poppy.
This ---- tastes like Capri Sun.
It's very good.
You're so healthy.
I'm healthy.
So we have more in Crustables that are frozen, some coffee,
some cookies that I forgot about,
somebody's Jimmy Dean thing that's been in there for a couple of weeks.
Oh, the Jammo.
And then I have some epoxy nuggets that I need to finish.
And we got a gift of a ginormous bag of coffee from Onyx,
which is a great gift, but five pounds.
Five pounds.
We can't really facilitate making that on tour,
so we're just going to divvy that up when we go.
Speaking of coffee, we do have our pour-over rig,
Gallo Stag.
Got a little B60.
Normally we use ceramic ones, but on tour,
this one doesn't break.
Got our filters.
Got a little carafe.
It did break recently, unfortunately,
but it's still functional.
It still works.
A little scale.
And coffee.
And then, most important tool.
Yes.
Comandante hand grinder.
We actually have two of them.
We got two.
Different grind sizes.
This is the Cadillac of hand grinders.
Yes.
This is the ---- right here.
It is not cheap.
And currently, the last thing we were brewing up
was from Temple Coffee Roasters in Sacramento.
Very good coffee.
Shout out Temple.
I'm going to eat some chips.
As far as the bunks go,
so this is John, Ryan, and our TM, Sarah.
They get up the earliest,
so it kind of makes sense for them to be out here
because they'll get up,
and then people who like to sleep in will be back here.
Snorers.
Also, yes.
Not Sarah, but John and Ryan are snorers.
More shoes.
These are the big rack of shoes.
Yes, definitely necessary.
This is everybody else.
I like to have a little cave,
so mine's the bottom one.
Our front of the house is right here,
and you have the other window, right?
Yes.
So there's a window on the other side of it,
and I am shocked that you guys can sleep in there
because I would be awake at 6 a.m.
Oh, I have a curtain covering it.
There's no window anymore.
Very smart.
We've got our LD Thor,
Merch Guy Gene,
our A2 Sage Manager Baki,
and then, yeah, Ryan.
That's me.
I am.
The bathroom's back here.
Hi.
This is the bathroom.
That's the toilet.
Flush it by doing this.
Anyway, we have some toiletry bags we usually keep in here.
It's usually more full of toiletry bags
just because right now they're all in the venue.
This is mine, but yeah.
Some extra storage, which is nice.
This doesn't actually get used that much.
No.
Where's the tide pods?
Oh, they're in here.
Tide pods?
Absolute game changer.
I don't use tide pods at home.
I'm a powdered laundry detergent guy,
but on tour, it's so convenient.
And then we have a brand-new working nice shower.
I have historically not ever really liked taking bus showers
because they have to go quick,
but this one's great.
Take a quick little shower.
There's been a couple venues on this tour that didn't have showers
and there was no gym nearby,
so bus shower kicks ass.
Thanks for checking out our bus.
We are The Home Team.
Our album, The Crucible of Life, is out now.
Actually, the deluxe version is out now.
Yes, with three more songs.
You can find us on TikTok at TheHomeTeam underscore.
We're verified, though. You'll see it.
And at The Home Team pretty much everywhere else.