Latest / The Breakfast Club / IDKMYDE: The Marching 100- How FAMU Turned Discipline into Dominance

Transcript

IDKMYDE: The Marching 100- How FAMU Turned Discipline into Dominance · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The March in one hundred, How fam you turned discipline
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: into dominance?
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Welcome back now.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: It ass to another episode of the most anticipated podcast
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: on the Black Effect podcast network, especially in February, entitled
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: I Didn't Know Maybe you didn't either, And I'm B Dotts,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: the PA announcer. Fam You ratlers five home games a year.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: We got Club Bragg Rock, and you can argue a
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: bigger draw on Saturdays than the football team is the
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: band man. They march and play to the stadium. They
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: do a fifteen minute pregame performance. They play in the stands.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: During the game, they do they have time performance, they
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: go back in the stands and play some more, and
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: then they do a fifteen minute fifth quarter. If there
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: was another band that was brave enough to challenge them
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: and come to brag, and if it wasn't, they'll just
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: played for fifteen minutes for the fan and then they
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: march back to the band ruin.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: It is phenomenal to see.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Now, my homie Trevor, he a fourth generation Rattler and
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: he just sort of turned into a brother to me.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: But his blood brother is actually one of the drum
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: majors for the Magnificent Seven that were fam You call
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: a drum majors that my boy, ty Lloyd. So before
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: we get into this episode, I'm gonna give you three
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: of the most useless.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Facts you'll never need in life about black bands.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Your first useless facts the number one hundred in the
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: March and one hundred. It ain't about size, but they
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: got over three hundred instrumentalists.
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: It's about standards. Your second useless facts.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Most modern halftime shows are built off systems created at
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: an HBCU. And your third useless fact, Black excellence didn't
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: become influential by accident. It was engineered. Now for today's episode,
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: do you know how fam used band came to be?
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Because I didn't I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: didn't show.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't show.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't I didn't.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: In nineteen twenty six, Carter G.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Woodson created Negro History Week because he understood something most
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: people still miss. If you don't build your own systems,
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: you'll always be begging to be remembered by somebody else.
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: Now fast forward twenty years nineteen forty six, Florida A
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: and M University, a man named William P.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Foster.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: He took a position most people would have treated as
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: a job, but him, he treated it as his calling.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: He created the March in one hundred, not just a band,
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: an infrastructure of excellence. Every detail mattered, how you stood,
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: how you march, how you sounded, how you held your instruments.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: So doctor Foster new song. The way you practice when
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: the stands are empty is the way you'll perform when
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: they fool. The standard was the standard, and the standard
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: didn't band for crowds or cameras or comfort. Ain't nothing
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: comfortable about being in the band. If you've ever seen them,
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: you know practice is not a suggestion. I still don't
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: know how they be humping with them tubas. But here's
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: what made it revolutionary. See before the Marching one hundred,
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: fans mostly walked in a straight line.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: And play the notes. You've seen the bands show up, march, play,
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: go home.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: After the Marching one hunter, precision became the performance, discipline
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: became the culture. Presentation became power. The halftime show became
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: the shows. To this day, some folks just come to
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: the game for the halftime show. Don't know what happened
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: at the start of the third quarter. They already heading
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: to the exits. When Beyonce won to honor HBCU culture
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: at Coachello. She didn't study USC or Ohio State. She
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: studied the Marching one Hunter. But they wrote the playbook.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: And here's the part that I didn't know that excellence
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't about music. It was about building Black systems that
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: could not be ignored. No one had to include the
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: Marching one Hunt. They said the bar so high, everybody
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: else had the rise to it. That's what infrastructure looks like.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: You don't ask for a seat at the table. You
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: build a table that's so impressive that everyone else asks
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: the city at yours, like Charlemagne did with the Black
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Profect podcast network. You see to check our heartcut listen
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: a century after Carterig Woods in carb space for Black History,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: The Marching one hundred show what happens when black institutions
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: control the standard, not just the narrative. And that's why
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: this fits our season's theme, one hundred years of Knowing Better.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: The Marching one hundred didn't chase validation. They build something
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: so excellent that the world recognized around it. And that's
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: the hidden truth of black history. When we design the system,
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: the system works, and I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I