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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the alternative rock band, Young The Giant, while on the Victory Gardens Tour with Cold War Kids. Young The Giant is currently supporting their newest album, Victory Gardens.
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Film Date - August 7, 2026
Location - Huntington Bank Pavilion in Chicago, IL
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Skip Intro
01:17 Front Lounge
08:18 Bathroom
09:58 Bunks
12:57 Back Lounge
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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the alternative rock band, Young The Giant, while on the Victory Gardens Tour with Cold War Kids. Young The Giant is currently supporting their newest album, Victory Gardens.
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - August 7, 2026
Location - Huntington Bank Pavilion in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH YOUNG THE GIANT:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/youngthegiant
Instagram - https://instagram.com/youngthegiant
TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@youngthegiant
Twitter - https://twitter.com/youngthegiant
FOLLOW US:
Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus
Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus
VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Skip Intro
01:17 Front Lounge
08:18 Bathroom
09:58 Bunks
12:57 Back Lounge
ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS:
Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, and thousands of others over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.
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00:00I like myself some tuna, canned tuna. It stinks the place up.
00:03Are you eating the canned tuna?
00:04Yeah!
00:05Is that you?
00:05That's me.
00:06If you're ever on a tour bus, just don't put any solids in it. Definitely don't poop in it.
00:40Yo, what's up? Come on in. Well, this is the bus. This is where we live on the road.
00:48So we are just wrapping up the Victory Garden Tour in North America. We're taking it to
00:52Europe at the end of the year, but we've done 40 shows so far. So today is show 41. We
00:58just
00:59released show 42. Today is show 42. And yeah, we released a new album on May 1st called Victory
01:08Garden. And we're going to show you around the bus. And the dudes are here. So this is Francois.
01:13Hello.
01:15This is Eric. And that's fun.
01:19So these two TVs are kind of just a fixture. We like to have some pretty landscapes going.
01:26We did some World Cup viewing earlier in the tour. We kind of have a tradition on tour.
01:35We haven't done yet. Maybe we'll pull it out in these last couple of days of watching Popstar,
01:40the Andy Samberg one. Just getting everyone set up here on the drive and watching that. But honestly,
01:48not getting a ton of use out of these this time around. Yeah. It used to be, it's kind of
01:54been a steady,
01:55either the way, wherever you look at it, incline or decline. When we first started on a bus, it was
02:00a party bus. It was like,
02:01we'd have friends in here. There'd be just like shenanigans going on. And, you know,
02:06obviously watching some movies. We'd watch some TVs. We'd watch The Wire, South Park, Key and Peele,
02:12very of a time. And as it's progressed, the bus has just become more of like a Zen place for
02:17us.
02:18It's pretty mellow. You're not going to find anyone else really in here other than the band.
02:22And Lloyd, our tour manager for an house, and Lizzie, our ATM.
02:27So this is one of two buses that we have taken out. There's also, you know, Colder Kids has their
02:32bus,
02:32but this is just for the band. We've been doing it this way for a while. It used to be
02:39like a frat house,
02:40and now it's become more of a monastery. The crew bus is actually the bus that the hijinks happen on.
02:48We kind of just, you finish the show, it's like already kind of late, really just come here,
02:53have a bite to eat, decompress. The adrenaline is still like flowing from the show,
02:57so this is a good place to try and, you know, catch your breath and get ready for bed.
03:03We kind of have this water jug system here. You know, in tours past, we partnered up with companies like
03:10Reverb
03:11to try and make tour as, you know, carbon neutral as possible. So we just do what we can.
03:17I mean, we don't, we really try and limit any use of plastics in water bottles.
03:20We just have thermoses and we try and fill up this way. It's usually the easiest thing.
03:24And a tip for any of you who, you know, not really slept on a bus before,
03:28do not use that water to brush your teeth with. Don't. Use that.
03:33Okay, well, there's all sorts of crazy shit in here. So now, I mean, we're like getting a little older
03:38now,
03:38so like we need to get some of the, we have some of the, the swole stuff here. We have
03:42the creatines.
03:44Some protein bars. And I like myself some tuna, canned tuna. It stinks the place up.
03:49Are you eating the canned tuna? Yeah. Is that you? That's me. That's me.
03:54What are you doing? Let's see what else, what else we got in here.
03:57These are like ridiculously small and shallow, like little things. There's really not much.
04:02It's just kind of shoes. Yeah. These are kind of just for decor, really.
04:07What else have we got in here? Some more snacks. Nothing too crazy here.
04:13Got some peanut butter, some macadamia nuts. And then like, you know, we have family and friends who give us
04:18stuff.
04:18So we'll have like cakes and lots of cookies. Yeah. I got some goodies, some family goodies in the fridge.
04:25If you want to have a look. Let's see. So the fridge is like pretty much exclusively beverages,
04:32but I do have a can of homemade raspberry preserves that my grandma made that she, she gave me when
04:40we played in Toronto.
04:41And then my aunt, cause I'm Canadian. Um, my aunt brought me some maple butter.
04:50And, um, this is called Tire. It's like you melt it down and then you put it over snow and
04:56you kind of like twist it over like a popsicle stick.
04:59And it's just absolutely delicious. Maple taffy, I guess, is the English term for it.
05:06But Tire means to pull in French. So I got some, some good like Canadian goodies in here.
05:11And then otherwise, yeah, it's just like drinks and leftover after show and some Del Taco hot sauces that I'm
05:19going to be taking home.
05:21We have, keeping it in the, in the theme, clearly Canadian, um, which is always a treat.
05:27We have, I've been drinking root beer a lot. Like I love having root beer on stage. So we keep
05:34some pretty good ones.
05:35That's just like beer. I don't know who's drinking White Claws. I don't ever see anyone drinking White Claws.
05:41So I'm not sure who those belong to. Yeah. Mostly coffee.
05:46Uh, I think someone was making Bloody Marys at some point. We make like protein smoothies.
05:51So we have almond milk and oat milk. Um, the guys like wine.
05:55So we've got at any given time, you know, some, some beers and some wines in here.
05:59We don't really do, don't really mess with the liquor so much anymore. So yeah, it's pretty straightforward. Let's see.
06:06Um, this is, yeah. So again, for smoothies, um, people keep forgetting that this is the freezer and throwing beers
06:16in here.
06:16And then they keep shattering. Um, so that's been a fun thing. And then this, ah, this one's totally empty.
06:22I don't even know what temperature it's supposed to be at.
06:25To be fair, um, this is the fourth bus we've been on on this tour. We've had some kind of
06:30issues.
06:31We got in kind of a bit of an accident getting into Manhattan and the top of our bus just
06:36scraped completely under an overpass.
06:39So, um, we've had to move a lot of buses. So it's kind of like, it's not super situated, even
06:43though we've been on tour since mid-May. So.
06:47That was scary. That was the first time it's ever happened. We were all sitting in the front lounge.
06:51And it was the day before the next championship parade. So they had shut down basically any, you know, convenient
06:58way to get into the city.
06:59And so we took FDR and I guess there was some sort of issue with, ah, clearance.
07:05So all of a sudden the whole bus just went . And it tore off all of the air conditioning
07:11units.
07:12Which is a shame because it was a really, really nice bus. Ah, this one's really nice too.
07:16But it's, yeah, we've been playing like musical chairs with the buses on, on this run a little bit.
07:21So, last night in Minneapolis, um, the Cold War Kids guys introduced us to some of the people
07:29from Settlers of Catan, ah, which is, I guess they know the people who work there.
07:34And they came out as guests of the show and they brought us gifts.
07:37So we started playing Settlers of Catan a long time ago in the early days as band.
07:42We used to live with one another in multiple houses, first and second record.
07:46Ah, so we would, when we were not writing music and hanging out, sometimes we would be playing Settlers of
07:50Catan.
07:50But they gifted us these. It's called Catan on the Road.
07:56And, um, it's basically the card version that you can play in 15 minutes, which is nice.
08:01And this is the first time we're trying to set it up. So Eric and I are trying to read
08:06the rules.
08:06And if you know Catan, you know that explaining the board game to someone is like the worst thing ever.
08:12Um, but playing is really fun once everyone knows. So we're going to give it a shot. See what happens.
08:17Like any good bus, there's a toilet. Um, and I'm sure for fans of the show, you know the rules.
08:26No, no solids, no poops, no toilet paper, nothing like that. It's strictly for pee.
08:32Um, and I'm a, I'm a pretty like calm, non-confrontational person.
08:39Probably the time I've lost my mind the most on someone and really crashed out was this random dude was
08:45on our bus in Nashville after the show.
08:48We were all, you know, tired. We'd been out for a couple months.
08:51I told him, like I tell everyone, no solids.
08:54He came out immediately. He's like, Hey, I think your toilet's broken.
08:57And I just went in there and he had put like a wad of toilet paper.
09:02And I'm like, I just told you not to do that because you didn't tell me that.
09:06And I unloaded on him and I actually made him to put his hand in it and pull this wad
09:14of like pee covered toilet paper.
09:17And then I just like, get off the bus, get the fuck out of here.
09:20And like, that's so not me.
09:22Um, but it's a, it's a really important rule.
09:26Cause this is like, you know, there's six of us on here.
09:28Um, this goes down, we're in kind of dire straits.
09:33Uh, so if you're ever on a tour bus, just don't put any solids in it.
09:37Definitely don't poop in it.
09:39It's true.
09:40There's a shower in there too, which is nice.
09:43I used to shower the first tours.
09:45I used to shower in there pretty much every night.
09:47And then all of a sudden I was like, felt, I was told it was gross,
09:51but, um, I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna do it tonight.
09:53I think we all are.
09:54While the bus is moving.
09:55While the bus is moving.
09:56It's actually more fun.
09:57So these are the bunks.
09:59Um, as you guys know, um, because we have two buses,
10:04one for the crew and one for the band,
10:06uh, we have condo bunks, which is luxury.
10:08This is my bunk.
10:09We get to sit up in our bunks.
10:11Uh, you see, um, our guitarist Jake is in there.
10:14Demonstrating.
10:15Demonstrating how to, to sleep.
10:17Um, and so it's been great.
10:19I mean, we usually try and keep this pretty clean.
10:21Like these days it's, you know, it's, it's a sad state of affairs.
10:24It's very clean and nice.
10:25We have our own bedding and shit.
10:27Uh, but it was funny.
10:29Back in the day we used to do a lot of pranks.
10:31And, um, so Fran had found a block of brie cheese
10:36and he put it under my pillow.
10:40And that first night, before I went to bed, I noticed it.
10:44And I was like, this is Fran.
10:45Cause it would have been a whole tour of just pranks.
10:47So I took the debris and I put it under the fitted sheet.
10:51So he wouldn't find it.
10:52And it lived in his bunk for almost three weeks.
10:56I don't know if it was three weeks.
10:58It was long enough that I woke up one day
11:00and my face was covered in something really like gelatinous and smelly.
11:05And I was like, did I vomit on myself in the middle of the night?
11:10And I realized, yeah, it was, I mean, it was, it had been in there for a while.
11:14And that, from that day forth, we were like, okay, shared space.
11:18Let's, we're going to cool it on the pranks.
11:20Uh, cause it was, it was really, really gross.
11:23Um, and I, I got the, he got the better of me than that one.
11:26So I still, I still hold it against it.
11:29As you can see, we have our name tags on here.
11:31Just in case we are too drunk and we forget.
11:34Just in case we forget.
11:34This is our junk bunk.
11:36You know, put all the random stuff in there.
11:37Some fluff and fold back.
11:39You know, sometimes you can't do laundry, you have to do the fluff and fold.
11:42Yeah.
11:43That's just my.
11:44This is my bunk.
11:45Um, you know, you get the chance to kind of like make it your own little home.
11:49So I got pictures of my, my family, my kiddies.
11:53Um, I do spend a lot of time in my bunk on this type of tour.
11:59You kind of get a whole variety of like backstages.
12:02Some of them are, are really nice, you know, great facilities.
12:06Some of them are terrible.
12:08And so for the terrible ones, I just like watch movies in here.
12:13I have my steam deck.
12:16I'm playing red dead redemption, which is like a comfort game for me.
12:21Oddly enough, I just like to ride my horse around.
12:23Um, but yeah, it's just, you know, you spend a lot of time in here.
12:27So yeah, like a nice, nice pillow.
12:29Everyone's got their own sheets.
12:31Um, and it's, it's a nice place to just sort of rest your nervous system.
12:38So you play in front of a lot of people every night.
12:40It's like all high octane and stuff.
12:42And as I get older, I appreciate the time to decompress more and more.
12:47All right.
12:47Here's the back lounge.
12:49So another one of those things where back in the day, this was kind of like the smoking commune.
12:56And we'd have like a different paraphernalia and you know, have some J's flown about and some volcanoes and all
13:03that stuff.
13:04And it'd be, we'd be hanging out here watching movies, playing video games.
13:07Playing dice.
13:08Playing dice, playing Lodi.
13:09Um, and now it's just kind of like maybe the quiet space.
13:12You know, usually when you're on tour and you are still driving, sometimes the drive is really long.
13:17You don't get into the city until like 10 or 11.
13:19You need to get on the phone, you know, catch up with your partner, catch up with your family.
13:22Like this is kind of like the most private space that you can go, close it up, you can lock
13:27it, lock it.
13:28And we've had people get locked in here before, but, um, it's usually manageable.
13:32It's basically that room from real world where like people go and talk to their family and just dish on
13:40like,
13:41Ugh, I messed up last night. I played the wrong note and I was so frustrated.
13:47Or Samir put a block of cheese in my fucking bed.
13:50Something like that.
13:51Um, we do have guitars and stuff back here.
13:54So, you know, if anyone wants to work on writing or running stuff for the set, um, we're gonna try
14:00a song we haven't done in a while.
14:02You know, it's a good place to do little mini rehearsals.
14:05Um, but yeah, it's, it's like most of the bus over the course of our career.
14:11It's gone from, I mean like the, I have books for my, my kids back here.
14:17So it's just, it's, it's definitely more tame, um, than it was like 10 years ago where it felt a
14:24little bit like, uh, a dive bar.
14:27Um, and now it's just like a calm, calm little spot.
14:30Yeah. This is also a place where, yeah, like we kind of, each one of us has like a mobile
14:35recording studio.
14:36So we have them in the bays underneath.
14:39We'll take them out to the hotel room sometimes or sometimes, you know, Fran's been doing a lot of scoring
14:43work.
14:43So he'll maybe sneak to the back over here or up front there.
14:47Um, and this lounge unfortunately doesn't have a desk.
14:51So it kind of makes it less, you know, available to be able to do stuff like that.
14:55Um, fortunately the front lounge has two, two desks.
14:58So you often see people like just, you know, on logic or on Ableton or just kind of doing some
15:04general stuff.
15:05Um, getting things done.
15:06So this has been a tour of our tour bus.
15:09This is through Young the Giant.
15:11Um, we just finished up, or finishing up the Victory Garden tour through North America.
15:16Um, check out tour dates and merch on youngthegiant.com.
15:21We'll be out on tour essentially the rest of the year and next year kind of internationally and in the
15:26States doing festivals.
15:27It's just the beginning of, uh, the album's release.
15:30So, uh, we hope to see you out there.
15:33Alright.
15:33Yeah, you gotta, you gotta get out.
15:34You're not gonna make out back here.
15:38Uh...
15:38Uh-uh-huh.
15:40Uh-uh-uh.
15:41Uh, you gotta crash off the roster.
16:12You
16:38You
16:45Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna play I'm gonna build a road, okay, right?
16:50So then I grab it from here, I think, and then I put it here
16:55So a quick update on the tan on the go. I don't know what the hell's going on, but we're
17:00having fun
17:00It's here. I put the yeah, yeah, okay, and then I can still build so I have a road
17:07So I'm gonna build another road
17:10I think
17:11And the settlement because you can do multiple actions, right? Like if you have the resources and the settlement, okay?
17:17So now my turn is over and now you can go
17:19Okay, I have no idea. Yes, we got this. So if I pick a resource card my turns over
17:26You start I start by you harvest phase
17:28So you start with picking a card from here, and I pick a card and now and now you can
17:33trade or build
17:33All right, and also this needs to be a three-player's minimum, so we're already doing it wrong, right?
17:38Yeah, so I can put down my settlement and I wrote already. I think so, right? Yeah, and my settlement
17:49Where do we put our resources?
17:51I don't know
17:53Do you have a wood? Is it a draw? No, I
17:55We don't have a wood
17:57Hell yeah
17:58That's the real real kicker is playing this katan music on YouTube
18:02It's our first time playing the card version and we're still figuring it out. I don't think you can play
18:07with two players
18:08But if anyone has been able to figure this out with two players, please let us know in the comments
18:13because that would be dope
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