Hank: Just woke up in the hotel in Cleveland. We're headed to Pennsylvania now. Um. There are a lot of different ways to--you know, you can experience tension on tour, like, you're stuck with the same people for you know, not very long in this case, but in some cases for weeks on end, and you're bound to, you know, run into issues and, you know, money's a big thing, like, how are we gonna spend money, are we gonna--are we gonna get nice hotel rooms or are we gonna crash at peoples' houses, 'cause, you know, for some people like, you know, you wanna squeeze every dollar you can, and for some people, sleeping on couches isn't a big deal.
I am a hotel guy, personally. Gotta make this experience not awful, so that you'll want to do it again. We don't really have that tension, which is nice. It can be personal drama, of course, there can be creative drama, you know, there can be like, diva stuff, we're all pretty mature, you know, we've been doing the music thing for a while, and we've also been doing the living thing for a while, so we're good communicators, that's very important, it's a lot like any other relationship, where you wanna make sure that you're open and honest about what's going on with stuff.
But the tension we do have, and it's not a big deal, but is between people who want to stay in the bed and be, and other people who are maybe a little older and people who want to go do awesome things while we can while we're in parts of the country that we don't get to go to very often and of course, tour can be a little bit of a vacation and it can be a little bit of an adventure and a journey, and that's awesome and I--I love that part of it.
But when it's like choosing between six hours of sleep and doing something awesome and eight hours of sleep and not doing anything particularly interesting that day, I'm always in the eight hours of sleep camp. That's just who I am. So right now, I'm in the hotel room and most of the rest of the band has gone off to some very fancy coffee shop and I'm just like, why--how'd you--in a million years, trade sleep for fancy coffee, I do not know, but um. Sleep is what I chose. So I'm waking up, have to take a shower, and we're gonna start on our next journey.
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This is the Podcast Because Awesome, the daily tour diary of Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Rob Scallon, Andrew Huang, Harry and the Potters, and Driftless Pony Club. Today, we are headed from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, where I'm going to be playing a concert for all of these nice people. (Crowd cheers)
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