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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the indie pop band, Moody Joody, while on the "Victory Lap Tour" with A R I Z O N A. Moody Joody is currently supporting their newest single, Talk Me Down.

VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - February 18, 2025
Location - House of Blues in Chicago, IL

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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Driver's Area
02:19 Middle of the Van
07:15 Back of the Van

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Transcript
00:00Hi, we're Moody Judy. We are on tour right now with Arizona and by the time this comes out we'll
00:16have a new single out, Talk Me Down on February 26th. Check it out. We're gonna take you on a
00:23tour of our van so let's get in. So usually our TM Emily is gonna take the wheel on the first
00:28shift. So far this tour we've only been out for like five days but it's usually Emily
00:34first and then Adam our drummer. He loves to drive so we'll usually take a shift.
00:38Probably Andrew next, me next. After a solid espresso stuff. Yeah, there's a lot of coffee runs. I'm
00:46not even on the van like my insurance is so I can't drive. I'm just chilling in the back.
00:51She hates that. I don't like driving. So yeah, it's driver's choice when it comes to music
00:58or podcaster vibes so driver gets to do that. We've all got our headphones on in the back.
01:04Yeah, we've got another passenger. Oh yeah, this is Patrick. He's our night guard. Keeps watch on the
01:11van while we're sleeping. Yeah, just to make sure nothing bad happens to the van at night.
01:16Want to show up or sign? Someone made this sign for us in Columbus, Ohio. So we have a new
01:23little Woody Woody sign. Lift on the dash. We've also got this handy glove ice scraper. We are in full
01:32winter mode. We've driven through a few snowstorms. We love a winter tour. So there was a snowstorm pretty
01:38much every city we've been to here. Also up in May 5. Yeah. Katie sprained her ankle. I sprained my ankle in Columbus,
01:47Ohio two days ago. So we got some ibuprofen on hand. What else do we have up here? Emily's snacks.
01:55Yes. These are all Emily, our tour manager. There's a box of cheese in it for obvious reasons. Also Emily.
02:01I'm not sure what this is. That's a random tablecloth. I don't have no clue what that is. I brought three
02:07coats so on accident because I'm a diva and there's always going to be a coat hanging here because it
02:13doesn't fit in my suitcase anymore. That's looking pretty bare up here other than that. Yeah. Well, first,
02:20first of all, this is Mr. Weenie. It's his third tour. So I'm always going to be snuggling with him.
02:27Um, what else do I have? I left, our suitcases are at the Airbnb, but I usually am parked here.
02:34I have my snack bag. I'm 30. So I'm going to travel. Katie and I are always going to travel
02:42with like the most wellness stuff that we have. Um, magnesium for sleeping. I take three of these
02:49before I go to bed. I'm usually here with my headphones. I have a sleep mask.
02:55We have extra sleep masks. There will always be some of those. I'm right here. Headphones
03:02on 10, pink noise. You're not going to hear from me for a couple hours if I'm, if I'm asleep.
03:08Yeah. Yeah. We usually rotate because we'll all take a turn driving, but yeah. It's been like this.
03:17With Katie's ankle, we have to like prop her, prop her ankle up in this bench some of the time, but
03:24so yeah, I'm usually in this middle row. I usually have my pillow, blanket, headphones. Um, this is
03:31Duffy, uh, named after Hillary Duff, but he is a he, he comes along. This is his first tour. Um, yeah,
03:40I'm usually on this row headphones on binging younger on Netflix, or I just watched the Gabby
03:46Petito documentary on yesterday's drive. And oh, this is our tour manager's butterfly. Andrew named it
03:55kitty. So lots of special characters in this van. We like to travel with stuffed animals.
04:02This gap is kind of the worst. What I've been doing is this. Oh, wait.
04:10We have, um, we have, we have vinyl now. So we've been putting, uh, our record boxes as a little bridge.
04:19Yeah. I've been, uh, also using this to prop my ankle. This is my ankle brace. So love that for me.
04:27These are the shoes responsible going down a staircase after the show in Columbus. So
04:34I'm gonna just throw these back there. I'm not wearing those again.
04:39All right. I'm Andrew. I'm usually back here with my headphones on, um, trying to get comfortable with
04:45this seat buckle in my ass. And, um,
04:52let's see. I've got my laptop here, sometimes doing some production work and editing on tracks and
05:01whatnot. I have MIDI keyboard and other instruments here that I usually set up in hotel rooms if I need
05:08to. But, um, oh, we adopted, uh, a new character today. This, uh, little, this is PJ. He's our Tamagotchi.
05:17So I'm usually making sure. Oh, he actually just went to the bathroom. So, yep. Uh, I'm gonna have
05:23to clean this up. He just went to the bathroom, but, uh, yeah, he, he's living here on this hook.
05:28He's doing great. So a lot of characters right now on this, but it's not a bus. It's a van, but
05:36yeah, this row is brutal, but at the beginning of a tour is a little better because we did have a
05:42trailer, but Arizona who we are on tour with was very nice and is lugging most of our gear in their
05:51truck. So what we have to, we got rid of our trailer and now it's all sandwiched back here,
05:59um, with me or whoever's sitting here. So it's, uh, well, we have nine, we have nine merch boxes coming
06:07to Chicago today. So we're going to have to figure out where we're going to put nine merch boxes.
06:15That's going to be a journey for us and it might be very packed in here after that,
06:21but we'll figure it out. We're going to try and stack it to the ceiling so that we can just keep
06:25everything back there and keep these rows open. We do have this cart now. That's a foldable cart.
06:29I bought that because I moved into an apartment complex and I don't want to carry my groceries. So
06:34we have more convenience this tour than we did the last time. Oh yeah, who is this? That's Emily's.
06:39This is our tour manager, Emily's. He's nameless. He's nameless. He is? I don't know his name.
06:45You know his name? I don't. I don't even know if he's a he. You didn't bring a pillow. I did laundry
06:52at the last minute. My pillow would not dry. He's act as Adam and Andrew's pillows. Oh wait,
06:56well, this guy is usually blocking my seat buckle when I'm laid down like this.
07:04And yeah, that's about it going on back here. Just a lot of stuff, which it is what it is.
07:11This is it.
07:15Life is glamorous.
07:16I actually don't know what this is. Oh, that's Adam's beer.
07:19It's cold at all. We have, like we said, we have nine merch boxes coming today to Chicago
07:28and we have to figure out how to fit them along with like section or five suitcases that are not
07:34here right now. So our plan right now is to just stack all the way to the ceiling. And
07:43I also anticipate losing my entire row. No, we're not. I refuse to lose a row.
07:52I don't know. On our first tour, one of us did sleep on the floor of the van. So
08:00for legal purposes, we probably shouldn't. We shouldn't probably. Maybe. No, never mind.
08:06We didn't do that. We do have a secret hope that we can throw some merch into
08:12the trailer with our gear from Arizona. Fingers crossed. If not, we're probably going to have
08:18to get another U-Haul. Yeah. And we have to sell a lot of merch. So
08:24hopefully people are buying tonight. Our goal is to sell as much merch as possible.
08:27We do have a brand new t-shirt coming today. Never been seen before. And sweatshirts and vinyl.
08:32I think it's going to do great. Yeah. Thank you so much for checking out our van. We're Moody
08:36Judy. We're out on tour right now in Arizona. Um, you can follow us on, what's our
08:42Instagram app. Moody Dream Music. On Instagram. We're on all the social media things.
08:48And by the time you watch this, our new single, Talk Me Down, will be out. So go stream that.
08:52We have lots of new music coming out this year. Lots of big plans. And our first body
08:56of work came out last fall. It's our EP called Dream Girl, which we just got vinyls printed. So
09:03if you're into that, we've got that at live shows. Come check us out. Thank you.

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