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Ohio State Marching Band: Inside TBDBITL's Halftime Show At The National Championship Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning from Monday, January twentieth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or. The National Championship Game against Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame is today. The gaming cans fishially gate in three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen days. But there is really only one
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  Speaker 1: thing to talk about today. That is the National Championship Game,
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  Speaker 1: and we have been talking about it a ton. You
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  Speaker 1: can find the fourteen Bold Predictions show for the National
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game on the Buckeye Weekly Feed that went up
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  Speaker 1: last night. We've done a bunch of live shows talking
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  Speaker 1: about the game. We've given you all sorts of interviews
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  Speaker 1: and press conferences about the game. So right now, gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you a little something different. And before we do that,
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  Speaker 1: oh dot com. So all right, I told you it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be something a little different, a little off the
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  Speaker 1: beaten path, went a little off the beaten path on
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's show with a history of the first Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame game back in nineteen thirty five. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed that. Trying to kind of get away
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  Speaker 1: from some of the sort of typical herd stuff where
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  Speaker 1: everyone kind of has the same thing this week, so
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  Speaker 1: given be a little different looks at some different things. Today,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be hearing about the Ohio State Marching Band.
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  Speaker 1: I went out to a high state marching band practice
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  Speaker 1: their final rehearsal before the National Championship Game. Got a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk to a fifty year member. Get answers
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  Speaker 1: to some interesting questions that I've had about the band,
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  Speaker 1: like how do they get their stuff around the country,
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  Speaker 1: how do you throw a susophone in the overhead compartment
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  Speaker 1: the overhead bin on an airplane? How exactly do they
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  Speaker 1: get their stuff around the country. Why do they do
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  Speaker 1: some of the different stuff they do at practices? How
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  Speaker 1: do they decide which show they're going to do for
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  Speaker 1: a game like the National Championship Game at halftime? Got
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  Speaker 1: answers to all of those questions and more coming up,
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  Speaker 1: You're also going to get a chance to hear the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Marching Bands halftime show. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: watch it, well, that's on our YouTube channel. You can
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  Speaker 1: find that there as well at YouTube dot com slash Buckehetle.
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  Speaker 1: But here you go. Sort of a National Championship game
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  Speaker 1: preview Ohio State Marching Band style. The Ohio State University
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  Speaker 1: Marching Band just wrapped up its final rehearsal before Monday
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  Speaker 1: Night's National Championship game. It's the end of the longest
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  Speaker 1: season in Ohio State football history and also in the
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  Speaker 1: band's history. Just in the postseason, the band has traveled
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  Speaker 1: from Columbus, where they played in the first round of
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  Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff against Tennessee, to Pasadena for the
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl game against Oregon, to Arlington, Texas for the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Ball Game against Texas, and now to Atlanta for
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  Speaker 1: the National title game against Notre Dame. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you get all of those drums and suzophones and everything
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  Speaker 1: else from coast to coast in time for kickoff?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, we do have an equipment trunk that
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  Speaker 3: does leave like before the whole band does, like probably
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  Speaker 3: a week before we do, and he drives across the
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  Speaker 3: country with us. So big shout out to those guys
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  Speaker 3: that drive the truck everywhere for us couldn't do it
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  Speaker 3: without them. We also have a group of student staff
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  Speaker 3: that handle all of the loading and unloading of that truck.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just a group of like twelve thirteen students
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  Speaker 3: that they have like this whole system down of an
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  Speaker 3: order that they put all the instruments in so they
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  Speaker 3: don't like shake around in the truck and get damaged,
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  Speaker 3: and they keep it a well oiled machine. They tell
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  Speaker 3: us where to put our stuff when they hand them
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  Speaker 3: instruments when they're loading, and they help us keep moving,
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  Speaker 3: so we couldn't do it without them.
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  Speaker 1: When you attend in Ohio State Marching band practice, it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see how they rehearse each number. There is
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  Speaker 1: obviously an incredible attention to detail. So they start with
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  Speaker 1: just the marching and work on that while listening just
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  Speaker 1: to taps or a metronome, and then they've run through
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  Speaker 1: it again while playing the music.
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  Speaker 3: When we first start learning the show, we actually do
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  Speaker 3: like we get on our iPads, like virtual pages of drill,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll go like page page and we'll you know,
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  Speaker 3: do page one and then page two, and then we'll
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  Speaker 3: put those two together and then page three and then
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  Speaker 3: you put one, two and three together and then once
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  Speaker 3: you get everything on the field, we do like that
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  Speaker 3: tap through and that just helps us kind of break
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  Speaker 3: things down in like a bit more of a segmented way,
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  Speaker 3: and you just kind of add on as you're going,
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  Speaker 3: and it makes it easier to handle everything because we're
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  Speaker 3: doing a ton of drill for every show, and then
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  Speaker 3: when we come out for days like this where it's
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  Speaker 3: right before a game, the tap throughs at the beginning
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  Speaker 3: are really just to like get everything back in our
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  Speaker 3: heads a couple more times, and then when we go
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  Speaker 3: to do our playthroughs, it's like, okay, let's treat this
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  Speaker 3: like the real thing.
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  Speaker 1: Monday Night at the National Championship game, they will perform
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  Speaker 1: a Pirates of the Caribbean theme show. It's one that
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  Speaker 1: some Buckeye fans may recognize, but it's also a fan favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout the season, we do a new show for every
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  Speaker 3: home game. That's obviously not viable to do a new
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  Speaker 3: show for the playoff games. So when we get to
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  Speaker 3: the postseason, we actually we get rid of the shows
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  Speaker 3: that we can't really do, like some of them involved
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  Speaker 3: like our Men's Lee Club. We can't really take that
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  Speaker 3: show on the road, so we'll take the shows that
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  Speaker 3: we can take on the road, and we'll have the
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  Speaker 3: students vote on them for their favorites. And I believe
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  Speaker 3: for Tennessee we did this same show. And this show
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  Speaker 3: actually didbute at Indiana too, so we did it again
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  Speaker 3: for Tennessee. And then the second place show we did
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  Speaker 3: for the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl since there
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  Speaker 3: was a shorter turnaround there, and then for this show,
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  Speaker 3: since it was a top voted student show, we just
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  Speaker 3: did that one again.
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  Speaker 1: The Pirate show features a sword fight playing out on
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  Speaker 1: the field. In the movies, sword fights are complicated enough
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  Speaker 1: that there are combat choreographers on stage to lay out
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  Speaker 1: every move, and that's just with two people. This show
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  Speaker 1: involves more than two hundred people moving in perfect unison
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  Speaker 1: to make that sword fight happen on the field.
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  Speaker 3: There's a reason that people call us the best damn
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  Speaker 3: man in the land, and that's because we can pull
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  Speaker 3: off stuff like that where everybody in that sword has
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  Speaker 3: a job to do, because that sort needs to be
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  Speaker 3: like as straight as possible, or else it's going to
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  Speaker 3: fall apart and you won't be able to tell what's
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  Speaker 3: going on anymore again. When we get those drip pages
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  Speaker 3: and we're going page by page, we're double checking. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm you know this many steps off the yard line
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  Speaker 3: and this many steps inside the yard line. So I
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  Speaker 3: need to be exactly where I need to be, and
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  Speaker 3: everybody else also needs to be exactly in their spots
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  Speaker 3: so we can pull off everything and make it look
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  Speaker 3: as good as possible.
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  Speaker 1: For Aiden, this Monday night in Atlanta will be the
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  Speaker 1: end of his fifth year and his final time marching
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  Speaker 1: with the band, And there's nowhere better to wrap up
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  Speaker 1: your time in that best damn band in the land.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I went into this season, I obviously
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  Speaker 3: we weren't sure what was going to happen, and this
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  Speaker 3: was my last one, so I was hoping to make
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  Speaker 3: the most of it. And it's just been a dream
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  Speaker 3: come true to get to do the full playoff experience.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a sneak review of Monday Night's halftime show from Sunday's.
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  Speaker 4: Rehearsals SA.
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  Speaker 2: Set. She wh