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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the singer-songwriter, maryjo, while on her "I Hope I Sell Tickets Tour" with Brooke Alexx and Rikki Lumi. maryjo is currently supporting her newest singles, "Leave Too Soon", "It Is What It Is", and "Stop Sign".

VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - August 9, 2026
Location - Ramova Loft in Chicago, IL

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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Skip Intro
00:50 Driver's Area
03:33 Middle of the Van
06:07 Back of the Van

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Transcript
00:00I've asked to drive. They don't trust me to drive. I trust them to not trust me to drive.
00:04I drink about two of these a day, so we make a lot of bathroom stops.
00:34Hello, I'm Mary Jo, and we are on the road for the I Hope I Sell Tickets Tour, and this
00:39is my beauty being right here. I'm seeing all the faces of people who thank God bought
00:46tickets. I actually just went up here for, like, the first time because it was raining.
00:51Okay, so this is the front of the van. Jordan Millizer, the tour manager in front of house,
00:57usually drives, although Cole Pomeroy, he's my drummer, he usually sits here, but then
01:02they'll switch off, and he'll drive sometimes, but then Bennett Woolsey, my guitarist, and
01:07one of my best friends, he'll sometimes drive too, so everyone kind of takes turns. I've
01:11asked to drive. They don't trust me to drive. I trust them to not trust me to drive, and
01:15on the front also, we have Blobster. Oh my gosh, it has a name, Loppert. I didn't even notice
01:21that. We were going to call him the Blue Lobster, but we found him at a venue. I don't
01:26know what show it was, actually, but I think another band left it, and it still had the
01:30tag on it, so then we took it, and now we have him, so. Honestly, I've noticed Ashley,
01:35who's Ricky Loomy's photographer, has been picking music because she has amazing music
01:39taste, but also the guys will listen to, like, their little soundbooks, and then it helps
01:44because I don't really listen to soundbooks, so I'll take off my headphones, and then I
01:47can fall asleep because it's so boring.
01:50So, usually, we take all of the snacks from the venues that we put on our rider. A rider
01:55is, like, things you want in your green room, so what we have in here right now is beef jerky.
02:00I always put beef jerky on the rider. Pop'ems. I don't know what these are. I've never had
02:05them, but I want a pop'em, and then honey, and we have, like, a lot of throat coat. Usually,
02:11we have a lot of liquid IVs. We have only one in this one, but we go through those, like,
02:16drugs, but I don't do drugs. We don't do drugs. Things are that being consumed. Okay,
02:23definitely water. We still have tons of water, but we drink so, so much water. Things that usually
02:29don't make it back to the van is the Titos. We usually get Titos. I love Titos, and so does
02:36everybody else. However, Jordan doesn't really drink because he always has to drive after the
02:40venues and make sure we're not being stupid, and then, oh, we always have paper towels. I'm a neat
02:44freak. I'm super. I have, like, Regino CD, so everyone here, honestly, is really neat,
02:49so it works out in my favor and in theirs because we all want that. Oh, look. We have water
02:54right
02:54there. Oh, and we have more snacks. We have more throat coat. This was from Canada. Oh, my gosh.
03:00Maybe I shouldn't say that. I don't know if we're allowed to bring things back from Canada, but
03:02it's okay. This is, like, their version of liquid IV, I think, and we have more honey. Honey,
03:09honey. Protein bars. The guys go through these, like, crazy. We always have protein bars on the
03:14right or two, but these ones look like they got crushed. They don't care, though. I wouldn't
03:18care either, honestly. What's this? Is this more honey? Dang, we have a lot of honey. We
03:23have a lot of honey. And seeds, or nuts. I don't like nuts. I'm not a nut person. Well,
03:31I'm just kidding. Let's take you to the middle of the van.
03:37Right here is where Brooke Alex has been sitting. She is my direct support. She's awesome. And
03:44she usually just listens to her music and has her little, like, one of those airplane
03:48pillows on. She just falls right to sleep. But she's usually just kind of doing her own
03:52thing. This is where I sit. This is my pillow. This is my blanket. I drink about two of these
04:00a day, so we make a lot of bathroom stops on trip days. And has a liquid IV, so I
04:05really
04:05pee. This? I'm sweating my balls off. I'm sorry. So we went to, I think it was also in
04:10Canada. We had just gotten to Canada. We went into one of those, like, rest areas where
04:15they have all of, like, the, like, Starbucks and Chipotle and all those things. And they
04:20had one of the vending machines where you could get these little claw machines. So I got
04:24two. I picked out two. I kept the frog and I gave a little boy this, like, panther thing
04:28that I want because I didn't need two stuffed animals. And then Ricky will sit with me right
04:32here, too, sometimes. What I usually do when I sleep right here is I watch Summer House
04:36on Peacock, but now they're making me pay. So I've been watching my life with the Walter
04:41boys because I don't want to upgrade to pay for that. So I usually sleep like Ricky will
04:47sit right here. She doesn't really sleep that much. I'm starting to notice it. It might be
04:51my fault. And then I put my legs up like this and then I just pass out. I was sleep
04:56talking. I sleep talk a lot. They all heard me sleep talking yesterday and they tried
04:59to record it, but every time they put up their phone they couldn't hear me. So that's what
05:03usually. Sleep talking and movies happens right here. I usually write, too. If I have
05:07an idea, I write them out on my, I have, like, this little journal that I brought. Because
05:11last tour I brought, like, five journals and I didn't need that many. This is my merch.
05:18Emotionally unavailable, but here. This one got a little dirty so I decided to keep it so that
05:23nobody else had to have a dirty hat. So now it's kind of just like the bus hat. When
05:26anyone needs a hat, we just give it to them so they can all be dirty. This back row, Bennett
05:32Woolsey, my guitarist, usually sits in or actually Ricky's photographer. That's Ricky's pillow.
05:38We just throw it back here. This is Bennett's blanket. He's reading something. Him and Cole
05:43read a lot. They're actually, Bennett's in a book club right now, so, like, every day he'll
05:47have, like, a book club meeting at a certain time, which is really cute. And then, let's
05:53see. That is Brooke Alex's snack bin, actually. So she has particular snacks that she keeps
05:58for herself because she's more of a picky eater. So I did that last tour where I brought
06:02my own snacks, but it kind of works out because then she gets it. Okay, let's go to the back
06:06of the van. Ta-da! Nothing. I never know how to open this one. Guess I did. So usually this
06:15is packed up all the way to the top. Jordan is the one that packs it all, so nothing falls,
06:21but it's all of our gear, all of our playback rigs, guitars, drum kits, microphones, like everything,
06:26and then also our suitcases. And I have really big, I have a really big suitcase and a smaller
06:31suitcase. Smaller suitcases, tour outfits, which is stupid because I always end up wearing sweats
06:36anyway. And then a big suitcase, but just, like, I could just take it to the hotel. And then Ricky
06:41pretty much does the same thing. And I think Brooke Alex does too. So usually, like, up to here
06:46and Jordan just, like, literally makes it work every night. We all pretty much always bring
06:52everything in. I would say the boys do most of it. Like, Brooke always gets her stuff and then helps
06:57with extra. Like, everyone gets their main thing, like all the artists, and then they'll help with
07:00whatever's left over. And the guys usually do, like, more of the bigger things because, you know,
07:05take advantage of the men. So I'm Mary Jo. This is the I Hope I Sell Tickets tour. Remember,
07:11it is what it is just came out, and we have an EP coming soon. You can't say too much
07:16about that,
07:17but hopefully I will be able to when you see this video. My Instagram is maryjo.young. That's my,
07:23also my TikTok. Yeah, that's my Instagram and TikTok. I think my website's maryjo.young too.
07:27Yeah. And my OnlyFans is. No, I'm just kidding.
07:41I'm just kidding.

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