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Episode 107 · The Gauntlet · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

0:10
SPEAKER_00: Good morning and welcome in, fans of TM Banter.
0:14
SPEAKER_00: We're here.
0:15
SPEAKER_00: We've done it week six.
0:16
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to believe that we've made it all the way uh to week six of the season.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: We've had five or excuse me, six football games.
0:24
SPEAKER_00: We're five and one.
0:26
SPEAKER_00: We've had five halftime shows, one road trip, and we're still not done.
0:29
SPEAKER_00: We've still got a whole lot more to go and uh a lot of fun stuff to look forward to.
0:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm thrilled that we get a little bit of time to breathe.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: Finally, a little bit of time to breathe in this uh in what we got going on.
0:43
SPEAKER_00: And uh I think it'd be good to maybe reflect on what we've been up to in these first six weeks of school.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: So please welcome on into the stage, everybody.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh my right-hand guy, give it up for Dante Douglas, everyone.
0:56
SPEAKER_01: Morning, good people.
0:57
SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
0:58
SPEAKER_00: How are you, man?
0:59
SPEAKER_01: You know, you just said it all in one breath.
1:02
SPEAKER_01: No, in a stretch.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: It was at least two breaths.
1:05
SPEAKER_00: It was two.
1:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, how do you feel?
1:07
SPEAKER_00: How do you feel about uh at the end of this five-week turnaround?
1:11
SPEAKER_00: How's it for you?
1:13
SPEAKER_01: It feels good to um be be done with the home stretch stuff, like just being at home.
1:20
SPEAKER_01: That's what makes it feel like a grinder, like it's just home, home, home, back to back to back to back.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: So now we get this October three-week kind of idea happening here.
1:30
SPEAKER_01: We're on the road, but we're not you know, hosting ourselves.
1:34
SPEAKER_01: That that just that's just a total thing than being on the road.
1:36
SPEAKER_00: What I just realized, like we're we got to the end of it and it it was a huge stretch, but it was we keep talking about six weeks of school.
1:44
SPEAKER_00: And these students, I mean, it's it's damn near half the semester, right?
1:47
SPEAKER_00: A 15-week semester, we're pretty much halfway done with school.
1:51
SPEAKER_00: But you add on top of it, yes, we had five home games, six weeks of class, ten days of band camp prior to that.
1:58
SPEAKER_00: And I keep forgetting about that that chunk of band camp and just it's this two-month essentially, just all the way through.
2:08
SPEAKER_01: Just go, just go.
2:09
SPEAKER_00: Just go.
2:10
SPEAKER_00: But now, like, uh, my shoulders are light, I can breathe.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh it's just, oh my gosh, what a what a time to be alive.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: Let's bring let's bring the guys in.
2:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh, Bretton Kc, how's this been for you?
2:23
SPEAKER_00: This this first whammy of the start of the season.
2:31
SPEAKER_05: You you can't you can't ask both of us because uh what we don't know which one of us should talk first.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: No, uh, but it's more fun.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: If it's you know, if we don't know who's gonna step in the hole.
2:40
SPEAKER_04: Who talks first?
2:40
SPEAKER_04: I talk first, you talk first.
2:42
SPEAKER_04: Editor, put in the clip.
2:45
SPEAKER_00: So Casey, why don't you ask Brett what he thought the start of the year was like?
2:51
SPEAKER_04: Hey Brett, how was the start of the year for you?
2:54
SPEAKER_04: It was long.
2:56
SPEAKER_00: A lot of Facebook, I agree.
2:59
SPEAKER_00: A lot of uh a lot of Instagram, a lot of thumbwork on this one.
3:03
SPEAKER_05: Yes, lots of thumbwork, uh, lots of graphics, lots of videos every week, lots of podcasts.
3:13
SPEAKER_05: Well, that's not gonna change, but uh it was uh it's it's it's been a grind.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: It's been tough.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: And and uh a lot of a lot of prop crew, right?
3:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, the paddlefords are working.
3:24
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and our prop can oh, can I shout out our prop crew and our film crew?
3:28
SPEAKER_00: I was about to, but you go, you do it, man.
3:30
SPEAKER_00: You get it.
3:31
SPEAKER_05: They've been doing an amazing job.
3:34
SPEAKER_05: Um, we have some great leadership in both of the organizations.
3:38
SPEAKER_05: We've got Sione, um, we've got Woody, um just doing a lot of work, um, and then just week after week getting that all prepped.
3:49
SPEAKER_05: Um, and I really appreciate how uh how many people we have now with Prop Crew, so many volunteers um that have been doing a great job in the heat on game days, so and getting these kids water, really, really appreciative of them.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: And surprise power aids.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: Where did that come from?
4:09
SPEAKER_05: Those are nice.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
4:12
SPEAKER_00: I these these students have never had it so nice in this hundred-degree weather, uh in a power aid out there.
4:19
SPEAKER_00: No, they they've been doing a great job, a phenomenal job, and with a lot of pivots too, right?
4:25
SPEAKER_00: Because we had uh gosh, we had pivots during the week leading up to this game, and then the weather got worse, and we had a pivot in-game, and it it's just a lot of ducking and diving.
4:37
SPEAKER_00: But I think I think what you hit is you hit the nail on the head, which is we just we have so many people, right, helping us out.
4:43
SPEAKER_05: Um it's such a luxury.
4:46
SPEAKER_00: I mean, last year it is not a luxury, it's a necessity.
4:49
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, well, that's true.
4:50
SPEAKER_00: I want that, I want that recorded.
4:53
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I mean, uh the last couple years we'd had like Sione and Ivan and maybe a couple other people, but now we've got a whole army of prop crew, which has been great.
5:04
SPEAKER_00: Because we we and we and they're still we've got Sione and Ivan and um and Xerxes, right?
5:10
SPEAKER_00: Well, let me let me back up.
5:11
SPEAKER_00: We've got Sione and Ivan, Carmelo, recent trumpet alum, he's jumped in.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: I heard he has an issue with tardiness, but I think they reconciled that this game.
5:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we've got you know a couple of trumpet alums with Sione.
5:25
SPEAKER_00: Sione played trombone, right?
5:26
SPEAKER_00: Then we've got some flag runner alums, right?
5:28
SPEAKER_00: We've got Zach out there.
5:30
SPEAKER_05: Zach's Zach's great.
5:31
SPEAKER_05: And then Megan he's brought more people in, yeah.
5:34
SPEAKER_00: And Megan, he's brought with him, right?
5:36
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then we have uh did I miss anybody other than Todd.
5:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, hold on.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get all right.
5:43
SPEAKER_00: So now we also have the the band dads, the band parents, right?
5:48
SPEAKER_00: Because we've got Xerxes, who's a holdover from last year.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: He was like our, I'll call him the alpha test.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: And then this year we've got Todd and Christina, again, trombone parents.
5:59
SPEAKER_00: There's something going on.
6:00
SPEAKER_00: The low brass, right?
6:01
SPEAKER_00: They're used to carrying heavy stuff around.
6:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we've got Todd and Christina out there helping as well, which has just been I think having just that presence and that parental kind of you know perspective, I think has been really beneficial because they'll just jump up and do they see what's going on because they're like train, you know, they're they're maybe in some ways more interested in the students than they are football most sometimes.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
6:28
SPEAKER_00: This game, there's a lot of drama in this game, so I think it was stealing attention from all of us.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, it's been great.
6:34
SPEAKER_00: So shout out to Prop Crew, give them a big round of applause.
6:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Dante, that was better.
6:41
SPEAKER_00: Just sticking your hand out.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: I should have uh taken a cue.
6:44
SPEAKER_04: Um I I I got you, Dante.
6:46
SPEAKER_04: That was the give a hand, right?
6:47
SPEAKER_04: Whenever somebody tells you give give them a hand, and then you you everybody holds out their hand silently.
6:51
SPEAKER_04: That's the that's a great bit.
6:52
SPEAKER_00: No, he nailed it.
6:53
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's kind of a dad joke for the the parents on uh prop crew.
6:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
6:58
SPEAKER_00: And I and I missed it.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: The dad and the one dad here, and I blew it.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: I blew my chance.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: Um any anyhow, but shout out to lots of pivoting on game day.
7:08
SPEAKER_00: A hot game, another t-shirt game.
7:11
SPEAKER_00: Um that wasn't the plan, though.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: That sure was not the plan.
7:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we were ready, we were gonna suit up right before we marched in for pregame.
7:20
SPEAKER_00: And uh classic Jake Vol.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: I know, you know, and I think this is I grew up in Southern California.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: I never check the weather, I don't look at it because usually yesterday or today was what yesterday was, right?
7:32
SPEAKER_00: And so on Monday, they were like, hey, it's gonna be 90 some odd degrees.
7:35
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, holy smokies.
7:37
SPEAKER_00: And so we had this whole plan where we trucked the uniform, we packed up the gig bags, we tacked, we color-coded the gig bags.
7:44
SPEAKER_00: I threatened some section with blue tags that ultimately I didn't need.
7:51
SPEAKER_00: Drove the uniforms over, uh, prop crew spread them out in the grassy area, and then we go, we get to call time, and it's 104, 103 degrees on campus.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: Like, what in God, where in God's green earth did this temperature come from?
8:05
SPEAKER_00: Casey, what did you have to do?
8:07
SPEAKER_00: Why did you make it so hot outside?
8:10
SPEAKER_04: I I should have I should have stopped La Nina earlier in the summer.
8:15
SPEAKER_00: You should have.
8:15
SPEAKER_00: You really should have.
8:16
SPEAKER_00: Um, but holy cow, it just cranked on and we finished our rallies.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: And when we're marching, I called our um chief health officer because I've been communication with her all week.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, hey, still 100 degrees, had all these plans, had the uniforms, chief medical officer, no dice, stay in the t-shirts.
8:36
SPEAKER_00: And I think the funny thing, funny for me, is we get to the the holding area, and a couple of the students were like, hey, that was like the the easiest marchover we've ever had.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Yeah, of course it was, because we took time at each stop to like wait and like let you all drink water before we started marching.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: You're little you were carrying water with you the whole time.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Like, be quiet, be quiet, trombones, talking to Chris Norton.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm sick of you.
9:01
SPEAKER_01: It was definitely different.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: There's other things going on, other other planning, me trying to take care of your health.
9:07
SPEAKER_00: But anyhow, uh, grand old time.
9:10
SPEAKER_00: Very, very hot.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: We got in there.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think though, Dante, I think I'm gonna have to leave this job though.
9:16
SPEAKER_00: I think I think my time has come to an end.
9:18
SPEAKER_00: Um I made a cat a real boneheaded mistake at the end of the day.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: I missed it.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: I needed you, Dante.
9:26
SPEAKER_00: I needed you to come sprinting through the saxophones.
9:29
SPEAKER_01: Oh, what happened?
9:30
SPEAKER_00: Kick my wife over and just wave it like, no, stop, don't forget the alma mater.
9:37
SPEAKER_00: What have you done?
9:38
SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know if you noticed, but uh we did not play the alma mater in postgame.
9:44
SPEAKER_01: I think I just assumed it happened in the sun deck.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh it did not happen in the sun deck, and I we talked about this.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: Is just there was no plan, there's no planning here.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: This was not intentional by any stretch of the imagination.
9:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I just screwed it up.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: I just was a big old dummy.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: And uh because we we were in the sun deck, we played Tributroy fight on.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: I'm look it as it's ending.
10:09
SPEAKER_00: I see like I see the camera, I see a player, I think they're ready for the interview.
10:15
SPEAKER_00: They're not ready, so there's a little bit of dead air.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: So we go right into conquest.
10:19
SPEAKER_00: Not right into it.
10:20
SPEAKER_00: There was a few seconds, and uh, you know, the TAs were yelling at me.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: So we did conquest.
10:25
SPEAKER_00: And we get to the end of that, and I'm looking out there, and I look back at uh I look at Chris because he I'm like, hey, should what it should we do the alma mater or should we just go?
10:33
SPEAKER_00: He's like, ah, let's do the alma mater with the alumni.
10:35
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, great idea.
10:36
SPEAKER_00: So we go.
10:36
SPEAKER_00: Because in the past, you know, when we used to do this more often where we'd run out of the Sundeck, you know, um, we would do the alma mater, I remember, before we would leave.
10:45
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, no, let's do it with the alums, they'll like it.
10:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yeah, great idea.
10:48
SPEAKER_00: So we talked about it, we thought about it.
10:50
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I know I know what my brain did.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: I've reflected, I am apologetic.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: I was accused of hating USC, um, which I don't.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: I don't hate USC.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: I love USC.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: I wrote an arrangement called I Love USC.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and it just, we we were getting to the end, time was running out, and I don't really care about the time.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: I just I try to be if I go over, I still try to be cognizant of it because you know there's a lot of people, and it's not just us, they're waiting for us to leave, waiting for the fans to leave.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, I don't want to be an ass, you know, I want to let people go home after the game, right?
11:26
SPEAKER_00: And so we're getting near the end, we do Tusk, and um I'm like, I'm like, you know what?
11:31
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have to skip Animal House.
11:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have to skip it.
11:34
SPEAKER_00: And so then we do Tusk, and then there's people giving me the the high sign, the A.
11:39
SPEAKER_00: And one of them is also yelling Animal House.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna say which alum this is, but he's yelling it at me, and it like sucked up my brain power, which was very limited at that time of day.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: And uh, like, no, I'm skip, I'm sorry, skipping Animal House, you'll all have to get over it.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: And then we well, I also skipped the alma mater.
11:57
SPEAKER_00: So, alums, I apologize.
11:59
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'm not gonna say it won't happen again because who the hell knows, right?
12:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, we've had these games.
12:06
SPEAKER_01: The game, the game predictos, though.
12:07
SPEAKER_01: That was a close game.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: It it kind of gets you, knocks you off your rocker the way it happens.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: It just just the way it goes.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: No, no excuses for me.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: So uh you all please keep your pitchforks, keep your torches.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: I've earned it.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: You'll give it to me on on the internet, it's fine.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, apologize, alums for missing the alma mater.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: And I should know better.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: I you know how many alma maters I've played over in away stadiums and just been eaten alive by these other these alums from other schools, and uh so yeah, and we're a big 10 school.
12:41
SPEAKER_00: If any kind of school should know how important the alma mater is, it is it's a big 10 school.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: It's a big 10 school.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: So that's on me.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: That's a that's a negative, that's a thumbs down on Jake Vogel on that one.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh but it was otherwise a lot of fun stuff.
12:56
SPEAKER_00: It's always a bummer to make a mistake right at the end because here I was flying high, and then I'm like, ah, crap.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh anyhow.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: It's all good.
13:05
SPEAKER_01: We're still breathing.
13:05
SPEAKER_01: It's all good.
13:06
SPEAKER_01: We're still breathing.
13:07
SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll stay by.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: Um we were gonna Brett and I were joking, prepare a statement like like, damn.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: Oops, sorry.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: Like that's like I just oh boy.
13:20
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm sorry, everybody.
13:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, but okay, let's let's get to halftime, shall we?
13:24
SPEAKER_00: We're talking about halftime.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Um who did so how involved were you in this drill, or was this all Sammy drill this time?
13:33
SPEAKER_01: This is this is Sammy's drill from beginning to end.
13:36
SPEAKER_01: He was in charge of everything, and he felt every bit of it.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: Did he?
13:41
SPEAKER_01: He did.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, all right, what was the first bit he felt?
13:45
SPEAKER_01: He was in charge of labeling 200 plus people, which when you're tagging on to a drill, you're not setting up the file, you're just getting the file with all the labels, and now you just get to chart and go.
13:57
SPEAKER_01: Now he's placing every first dot, so he had a a different kind of experience with the show, and so he came and he was like, This is different.
14:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I see.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, because because usually, like, you'll do some piece of it, and then he so he's kind of got a template.
14:12
SPEAKER_01: Correct.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: This was his from scratch.
14:15
SPEAKER_01: He started with a blank canvas.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Wow, wow, okay, so he's got to label it, and he's got a label alumni, so that's an added, you know, 100, 200 bodies.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: So that makes things big.
14:25
SPEAKER_01: Oh, and then he had the uh SDA box that limits you, it limit it cuts off your field space.
14:30
SPEAKER_01: So now he's limited almost 16 yards of field space.
14:33
SPEAKER_01: And he's just yeah, what he thought he could do work around this box.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: So a challenge.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
14:40
SPEAKER_00: He's young, he's hungry.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: These are the these are the things you gotta do when you're when you're in the business, right?
14:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
14:48
SPEAKER_00: But um, but this show, I was really excited for this show because um the the implementation of it, this was really the first part of the show, this concept, this this pink concept, really high concept kind of a kind of a show.
15:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, and whenever a show is really high concept, my ire immediately goes to the Midwesterner, Chris Norton, because he brings all these like really kooky ideas.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, what are you what how do we get there?
15:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, but it was not his this was not his kooky idea, so I've been told.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: This concept was uh was built out by another member of the uh TMB Cafe, a uh a student of the University of Southern California, and somebody who is also a student of the School of Dramatic Arts, if memory serves, if that's correct.
15:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they're nodding, they're off-screen nodding, I've got it right.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: So why don't we welcome in uh our one of our silk section leaders?
15:44
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say hi to Gabby, everyone.
15:47
SPEAKER_00: Say hi to Gabby.
15:50
SPEAKER_01: Gabby.
15:51
SPEAKER_02: Hi.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: You're on screen now, Gabby.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: Okay, can you hear me?
15:56
SPEAKER_00: I can.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: I can use a little bit more energy out of you if that's okay.
15:59
SPEAKER_02: Uh, okay, gotcha.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: I think I said the same thing to Kobe, didn't I?
16:04
SPEAKER_00: When I had him on here.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: So, Gabby, how are you?
16:07
SPEAKER_00: How are classes going?
16:09
SPEAKER_00: How are you doing?
16:10
SPEAKER_02: It's good.
16:11
SPEAKER_02: It's hot.
16:12
SPEAKER_00: Is it yeah, is it hot?
16:14
SPEAKER_00: Um I imagine having to do a set load-in at Bing on a week like this is probably not very fun because I think the sun goes right into those back doors, right?
16:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think the the teardown is actually worse because those are on Sunday afternoon, right after the show.
16:33
SPEAKER_02: And that was one of my work study jobs, it was just tearing it all down.
16:38
SPEAKER_02: I I don't have to do that anymore.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: Okay, good for you.
16:41
SPEAKER_00: So, Gabby, I'll we'll ask you this and then we'll get into the show.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: Um, how do you feel at the end of this six-week, five home game run?
16:51
SPEAKER_02: I did better than I thought.
16:53
SPEAKER_02: I went better than I thought.
16:54
SPEAKER_02: I I was worried.
16:56
SPEAKER_02: I think the heat was actually the worst part of it.
16:58
SPEAKER_02: But no, I think we did we did better.
17:00
SPEAKER_02: We all were just kind of like, you know, this is a little ridiculous, but it's fun.
17:04
SPEAKER_02: It's it's it was a lot of fun.
17:06
SPEAKER_02: I'm proud of us.
17:06
SPEAKER_02: I think it was good.
17:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm Gabby, I'm proud of you.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: You did great.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: You've done good.
17:13
SPEAKER_00: You and Tulu and all the section leaders.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: Should I bring you all some kind of a treat tonight at our section leader meeting?
17:19
SPEAKER_02: You could.
17:20
SPEAKER_00: I yeah, you definitely could.
17:21
SPEAKER_00: What do you want?
17:22
SPEAKER_00: What would you like?
17:23
SPEAKER_00: See, now everyone knows we're recording this on Monday, so you're gonna hear later, find out what the treat was, and we'll figure out if it's the same.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: What do you want, Gabby?
17:29
SPEAKER_00: You can choose.
17:30
SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
17:34
SPEAKER_02: Costco hot, no.
17:35
SPEAKER_02: Um Costco hot dogs! You said it.
17:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm not doing that.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: That's a lot.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: That's a lot, that's a lot of work on my part.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: Ask me later.
17:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, ask me later.
17:47
SPEAKER_02: Ask me after this.
17:48
SPEAKER_00: All right, I'll shoot, I'll shoot you a line in the uh, or I'll just decide.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: We'll figure something out.
17:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, very cool.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: So, Gabby, so tell me what what was your your thought?
18:00
SPEAKER_00: Because I wasn't there when you pitched this to the cafe originally, and and so I heard it like second third hand news from Mr.
18:06
SPEAKER_00: D from you know, Chris, et cetera, et cetera.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: So, where like how did you concoct this idea?
18:11
SPEAKER_00: Where did it come from?
18:12
SPEAKER_00: What was sort of the impetus of this this pink trajectory?
18:16
SPEAKER_02: So this was around, I think it started last semester when we were wrapping up our collaboration with SCA on their legally blonde.
18:24
SPEAKER_02: You know, we had some drummers in some silk show up for uh one of the scenes, which was really fun.
18:30
SPEAKER_02: And then at this time, there's this kind of resurgence in the theater world of these like pink um musicals, like the legally blonde, the mean girls um in community theaters, high schools everywhere.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: So that was already kind of in the back of my mind.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: I was seeing that.
18:48
SPEAKER_02: And then our football schedule came out for the season, and the first thing I noticed is that we have a game on October 3rd, which is Mean Girls Day.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, that's cool.
18:57
SPEAKER_02: Um, and then I noticed uh five games in six weeks, and I closed my laptop because that made me upset.
19:05
SPEAKER_00: So why, so hold on, can we double back a hot minute?
19:08
SPEAKER_00: Why is October 3rd?
19:09
SPEAKER_00: Because some of our, you know, you you you throw these terms around Mean Girls Day, as if, you know, it's saved in their iCalendar.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: But for our listeners who are maybe not, you know, pop culture vultures as I've been accused of being, uh, what is what is mean what is Mean Girls Day?
19:24
SPEAKER_00: Why is October 3rd Mean Girls Day?
19:26
SPEAKER_02: So this is Mean Girls Day because um the main character, Katie, her crush, asked her on October 3rd, hey, what day is it?
19:34
SPEAKER_02: And she goes, it's October 3rd.
19:36
SPEAKER_02: And so that is now how the mean girls day was born, and the Wednesdays we wear pink.
19:42
SPEAKER_02: That all kind of stemmed from that.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, Yeah, so that was that was fun.
19:49
SPEAKER_02: So that was all kind of in the back of my head, and um just thinking about all of that happening, and then it's you know, it's the October show, so we bring out the pink palms and everything for breast cancer awareness, and so we kind of all just was like, you know, I think a lot of these things fall in line.
20:08
SPEAKER_02: Maybe we should do this.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: So I suggested it.
20:11
SPEAKER_02: Um I suggested milkshake kind of as a joke, and then Chris Norton saw that.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: It was like, that milkshake, we have to do milkshake.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: Did he really?
20:20
SPEAKER_00: Was that his reaction?
20:22
SPEAKER_00: What was your hold on time?
20:23
SPEAKER_00: What was your reaction, Dante, when when milkshake came up?
20:26
SPEAKER_01: As I'm laughing now, I laugh then, I guess.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: It okay so it's a tough chart.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: It's a tough chart.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: Listen, I I'm gonna give myself a pat on the back.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: I figured something out here.
20:41
SPEAKER_00: I I so at the a little a little wife reflection.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: So any of you who are at the uh at the uh, you know, and I'm gonna bring Brett and KC in here.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, in this screen, by the way, Brett and Casey, you are gigantic fun co-pops in this iteration, so be excited.
20:59
SPEAKER_00: Um at the alumni event, all of all of us were there except for you, Gabby, because you're not an alumnate alum yet, but soon.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, they asked, they they wanted to know like how we pick the music and some of that.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: So I talked about the rubric, the the Vogal four quadrant thing.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: And I broke down, you know, the four quadrants are um, you know, does the is the audience gonna recognize it?
21:19
SPEAKER_00: Is it thematic or situational?
21:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, do the students in the band like, is it something they really like?
21:26
SPEAKER_00: And then that fourth quadrant in this case is how translatable is it?
21:29
SPEAKER_00: Like what are the melodies like?
21:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, how easy is it gonna go from airwaves to paper?
21:34
SPEAKER_00: And uh after the game, we're or eat it was last night, Jessica and I are talking, and she goes, You know that quadrant about translatability?
21:42
SPEAKER_00: She's like, Maybe you should give more weight to that one.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: I She's like, I wasn't really feeling milkshake.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Come on, man, have live a little, have some fun.
21:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, but people were dancing.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: There was a lot of cheering, and so
22:01
SPEAKER_01: It was a tough one.
22:02
SPEAKER_01: You figured it out.
22:03
SPEAKER_01: It was that is not an easy task.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: And I think you made the best out of it that you could.
22:10
SPEAKER_01: It's wonky the way it starts.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: It is.
22:13
SPEAKER_05: It didn't last long, which was pretty good.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: It could have lasted less.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: I think I could have cut one little snippet out of it, like one little repeat of the opening.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, you know what?
22:23
SPEAKER_00: It's still less than 30.
22:25
SPEAKER_00: We're talking like a very limited amount of air time.
22:28
SPEAKER_00: That being said, the uh I this is I'm gonna give a shout out to um since we've got Dante in the room, to the HBCUs, right?
22:37
SPEAKER_00: Because y'all manage to like find some of these songs where on my initial list, and I'm like, there's some, this is kind of tricky to put together, I think.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: And they just find a way.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: And I'm so envious.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm not gonna lie, I was I was out there reading, I was pulling up some Southern, I was pulling up some fam you.
22:54
SPEAKER_00: Like I was trying to listen and find some charts that I thought, okay, this was a swing.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: Let me see how they did it.
23:00
SPEAKER_01: Um trying to find a reference point.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: A reference point, that you know, some some thievery, some cross-pollination.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: And um, but I think that's what that's what inspired me going into rehearsal.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you all just have to play this hard.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: Just play hard and it'll sell.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: You sound timid, it won't.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, so milkshake.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: So all right, we've covered that, Gabby.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, but you brought in like you you dug into uh the legally blonde musical a little bit, which I don't think we ended up using any of that in the show, right?
23:30
SPEAKER_00: No.
23:31
SPEAKER_00: Um but we did use Perfect Day from the film Legally Blonde, and that has the stronger USC connection because it was filmed on campus.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: So that's pretty cool.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: Then we used um some uh from the Mean Girls musical, uh and that was was that not my fault?
23:47
SPEAKER_00: Or that was from the film version of the Mean Girls musical?
23:50
SPEAKER_00: Where did that come from?
23:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh uh uh uh yes, that was from the film version of the musical in 2024.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: And talk about a snake eating its own tail.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: A novel becomes a film, becomes a movie, becomes a stage musical, becomes a movie once again, and then maybe Gabby, you should write the companion novel for the movie musical movie novel, and then we it can start all over again.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: How about that?
24:16
SPEAKER_02: I'll yeah, I'll let you know when I finish it.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: Please do.
24:19
SPEAKER_00: We'll do a book signing with you at a uh during a halftime show.
24:23
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we've ever done that before.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: That'd be fun.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: Um, all right, so we did that.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh the ending, so I don't know that.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: So Greece Rise of the Pink Ladies, was this a series, a streaming series?
24:34
SPEAKER_00: Where where did this come from?
24:36
SPEAKER_02: Yes, this was a series on um Paramount Plus, I believe.
24:41
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:41
SPEAKER_02: And these are also familiar with me because we have a lot of we have some SCA alumni who are in these um TV shows.
24:51
SPEAKER_02: Who have roles in these TV shows or USD alumni.
24:55
SPEAKER_02: And um, I had seen it and this song was kind of in the back of my head because I knew we were going into Think Sing Thing for homecoming and it had that similar style, which was also really funny because a lot of people got baited into thinking that was thing thing thing.
25:10
SPEAKER_02: And they they get all excited when they hear it, and then they're like, This is not, did they change it?
25:15
SPEAKER_02: Just seeing people's reactions was really funny.
25:17
SPEAKER_02: That was also really funny.
25:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, no, that was that was to tie into thing thing thing.
25:24
SPEAKER_02: Got it.
25:24
SPEAKER_02: I think it did really well.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: It was cool.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then like all good cafe presentations.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: I inserted a little bit of myself in there.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh and uh I brought Barbie to the party.
25:36
SPEAKER_00: She's very pink.
25:39
SPEAKER_00: Like some would say the most pink, I think.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: And uh but yeah, I think for me for that, that was I wanted something with some familiarity and um yeah, with some audience familiarity, some a little bit uh less in the pocket of like the headiness of the of the concept.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: I think people could figure out Barbie and it was something we knew and we could march to very easily.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: I think that that was my other is I wanted to give Sammy a little bit of a break and help him out.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: Um I'm not gonna lie, Gabby, you pushed me on this show.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: This was a challenge.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: Really?
26:14
SPEAKER_00: It was it but in a fun way.
26:16
SPEAKER_00: Like for me to um because sometimes sometimes I'm presented with a concept and it's like it's uh it's laid out, it's it's baked in top to bottom, and I can just uh run with the ball and go, and then I get to sort of uh flex my creativity and making minor adjustments here or there.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: With this one, you gave me these you you gave me two options, like it could be this, it could be that, and then I'm listening and I'm working it through, but I'm also realizing I have to hit a four minute mark and I want to get as much in as I can.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: But that's fine if everything's about 45-ish uh seconds, then we get like good econom or good equity among the tunes throughout.
26:53
SPEAKER_00: So that feels like a balanced thing.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: So it was it was really a challenge to figure out, and I think what really um what really clued me in and what what helped me sort of bring it to life was you talking about that segue from the uh Pink Ladies tune into Sing Sing Sing.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: And then I realized, oh, milkshake and Barbie have the same tempo, and I can just do a direct hammer through there.
27:16
SPEAKER_00: Um and then not my fault was really hard because there's a lot of weird stuff in that tune, but I didn't have a lot of time to get into it.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, well, you know what?
27:25
SPEAKER_00: If it has a lot of stuff, just throw all of the stuff at the wall at the same time.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: And then it it sort of made itself work out that way.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: So thanks, thanks for a fun concept, Gabby.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: It's fun, it was really cool.
27:36
SPEAKER_02: You're welcome.
27:37
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
27:37
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for having me and giving that a shot.
27:40
SPEAKER_02: I I wasn't sure that that was something we would ever do, but thank you.
27:44
SPEAKER_02: That was a lot of fun.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, it was a lot of fun, and I want to say, you know, it's fun.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: The TMB Cafe, it's it's nice to have um sort of a woman's voice in the room, a woman's perspective, because you you bring that different perspective in.
27:59
SPEAKER_00: The cat when the cafe first started, we had a very strong uh uh female presence in the room.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: We had India Anderson was in that first iteration, and she did a lot of writing.
28:09
SPEAKER_00: And we've gone uh we've gone like through a masculine turn for a minute, even though these, you know, you guys have soft sides.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: You know, you brought, you know, we got some nice, you know, Barbie came from that, the original iteration of it.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's Terry Callie's arrangement that we used in there, so that's cool.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: But um, and that was important to me too.
28:26
SPEAKER_00: You know, we're raising awareness, breast cancer awareness, and I thought, you know, this was a fun opportunity to not only, you know, um bring awareness to that within within the constructs of halftime as well as the game, but also, you know, be able to say, look, we have Gabby, she's a great section leader, she's a wonderful uh student over at SDA, and she just brings that great perspective and a really cool concept.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: So congrats to you, Gabby.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
28:51
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
28:52
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
28:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm surprised no one else, I was thought for sure someone else was gonna have um a similar concept uh from October 3rd.
29:01
SPEAKER_02: And I'm surprised no no one else said it.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: Um they're uh Mean Girls is not it's it may not be top of mind.
29:08
SPEAKER_00: Um I will say my brother-in-law over the summer, um, he he's he's very uh he's he loves these days, these national days that aren't really national days, you know.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, but in another sort of Venn diagram of overlap, me and uh Mrs.
29:25
SPEAKER_00: Vogel, we started dating on October 3rd.
29:28
SPEAKER_00: Um and then my brother-in-law, uh, he and his husband started dating on October 3rd.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: And so we have that weird sibling connection.
29:36
SPEAKER_00: And so he just it like naturally puts it in his head.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: So months ago, he's like, Are you gonna do like a fun October 3rd halftime show?
29:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I don't know, we'll see.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: And then well, here we are.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: And we did it.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: So you did it for me, Gabby, to celebrate me and Mrs.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Vogel.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: You're welcome.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: All right, so SDA.
29:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, I can give a little background on that.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: So I met with Dean Roxworthy this summer, and she's like, Can we do something else?
30:05
SPEAKER_00: What can we do?
30:06
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, All right, I have two ideas.
30:07
SPEAKER_00: One was Halloween, but we have a lot of irons in that fire, and I didn't I couldn't guarantee what it was gonna be.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: And I said, or we're doing this paint concept, but it's shorter, it's only four minutes, it's not as involved.
30:20
SPEAKER_00: We don't really have the opportunity for the videos.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: Initially, we were gonna try and have another introductory video, but then we had our lovely sword sponsor, uh, Brian.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: So he sucked up that time.
30:30
SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, I'm sorry, we just it's just we've got these these four minutes on the field.
30:34
SPEAKER_00: And so the dean, she's like, you know what?
30:37
SPEAKER_00: Let's take a sure thing.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: Let's let's hunker down for that rather than gamble on later in the season something maybe or maybe not, you know, coming to life.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: And so we jumped on it, planning underway.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, I thought what they brought, some of the visuals they brought were really, really cool.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, what were some of your favorite visuals they did, Dante, with their uh presentation?
30:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh my favorite is the umbrella piece, like from a visual standpoint inside of um the Coliseum.
31:06
SPEAKER_01: That just opened up the eye so much.
31:10
SPEAKER_01: Like when I saw them pull out the umbrellas, I was like, oh, this is this is cool.
31:14
SPEAKER_01: Because I see those on Instagram, but to see it in person as a visual designer, like that was kind of like it caught my eye for sure.
31:20
SPEAKER_01: So that was my favorite part.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, we own a lot of umbrellas.
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh, from up when we did up.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: So uh now we so Gabby, we can uh we can get the cell, we can get thinking uh what is it?
31:33
SPEAKER_00: What is it see thievery uh stealing is the highest form of flattery?
31:36
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
31:37
SPEAKER_00: Is that something like that?
31:38
SPEAKER_02: Something like that.
31:39
SPEAKER_02: Imitation.
31:40
SPEAKER_00: Imitation, thank you.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: We'll just call it what it is thievery stealing.
31:45
SPEAKER_00: Um but no, that that caught me too.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, just because um I think what it is, it's the stillness, right?
31:52
SPEAKER_00: It's they all get together, they're holding still, and and it just it sucks you in, right?
31:57
SPEAKER_00: It's it pulls you down and then blam o should we walk should we see a little bit of that?
32:01
SPEAKER_00: Should I play the should I play the clip?
32:03
SPEAKER_00: That will be cool.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: This was during perfect day.
32:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh so here, I'm gonna fire this off.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: So really cool.
32:53
SPEAKER_00: Really cool on the umbrellas, I think.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: And then the high heels behind it was all was all great.
32:58
SPEAKER_00: It's too bad we couldn't put all the band.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we should have put all the band in pink clothes.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: That'd have been or maybe that'd have been too much.
33:04
SPEAKER_00: Too much.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: It probably would have been a lot, but it would have been pink.
33:10
SPEAKER_00: It would have been very pink.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I loved, I loved that.
33:14
SPEAKER_00: Um the pink ladies, I really liked that when they came out in those 50 bombers jackets.
33:19
SPEAKER_00: I thought that was really cool.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, big shout out.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: The the so I know the costume department, they really took a huge swing last year with uh with the wicked stuff.
33:28
SPEAKER_00: Like they really had to put in the hours, the time.
33:31
SPEAKER_00: And I knew because they had just done Legally Blonde, I'm like, I bet they got a lot of pink stuff still pulled up in the in the costume shop.
33:39
SPEAKER_00: And so that was part of the conversation with the dean, is like, hey, I know this was a big swing for your costume department.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: Can we do this without having everybody up the wee hours of the night just sewing all semester long?
33:49
SPEAKER_00: And I think a lot of this, a lot of this came from Legally Blonde.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: Gabby, you maybe have some more insight into that.
33:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh yes and no.
33:57
SPEAKER_02: That was that was something I was worried about at first because the original concept was let's have like a character, let's have all these characters from each show.
34:05
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, they had a Regina George, they had a like all of that, and I was like, you know, don't like don't hurt yourself doing too much.
34:14
SPEAKER_02: But um Yeah, they had they they had to they had to get a lot of stuff, but they did it because they're amazing.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: They are amazing.
34:21
SPEAKER_00: They did, they they did really well.
34:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, so hopefully having some of that pink material and items maybe gave them a little shortcut here or there.
34:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they had some, yeah.
34:31
SPEAKER_02: They they had some in box.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: But very, very dynamic.
34:34
SPEAKER_00: The opening, I loved what they did with milkshake, but what I really loved as well was their um all of the activity through Barbie.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh the young lady they had in the in that Barbie pink dress was really cool.
34:46
SPEAKER_00: And that complemented Sammy's that Barbie B really well.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: That B really really shook down.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, why don't we give that a looky Lou, huh?
34:54
SPEAKER_00: We can listen to Barbie a little bit.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: How's that sound?
34:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah where they start moving.
35:00
SPEAKER_00: Let's see where we got this.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: Trumpets, I'm gonna apologize to you right now.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: This is the second time we've we've played Dance Tonight, where you have this really fingery 16th note run.
35:17
SPEAKER_00: Right on the chair.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: Right on the chair.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: Diva Devin.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: So um, you did, you know, to quote Miles, you you ate trumpets.
35:26
SPEAKER_00: You did a good job, uh, despite all the challenges ahead of you.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: Here he goes.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh there's a Venom, so I thought that was really fun.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: Very cool.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: Very cool.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: Great job, Silks.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: Go tell them they did a good job, Gabby.
36:37
SPEAKER_02: I will.
36:38
SPEAKER_02: And they got that on the Jumbotron too.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: I love that.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: They got the V on the Jumbo Ton.
36:42
SPEAKER_00: They did.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: They did.
36:43
SPEAKER_02: It looks so nice.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: And that's that's been kind of new the past couple years, where they've mounted a camera.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: I don't think there's an operator up there.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: I think it's just a a a still cam.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: Is that what it looks like to you, Dante, up there?
36:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's still, and sometimes they can get the blimp shot when that happens in a game too.
36:59
SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
36:59
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: The blint the blimp, that is that's where it's at.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: Then you can really see what's going on.
37:05
SPEAKER_00: Um and then the uh the there was one other what was I feel like there was one other thing.
37:11
SPEAKER_00: Not my fault, was really fun.
37:14
SPEAKER_00: Milkshake.
37:14
SPEAKER_00: We start on that October 3rd iCalendar.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, why don't we oh that's right, the ribbon.
37:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how well it reads from this side.
37:24
SPEAKER_00: See if I can, I'm trying to find the uh the ending when they they pulled that pink ribbon out.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you can kind of see it from this this high cam for us.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, but hopefully, because I know Athletics has Western Cam, and I know Brian, maybe Brian got a good picture of it.
37:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, we'll find out if we got like a west or east facing shot of it.
37:43
SPEAKER_00: Um, but the alumni, the alumni silks and the alumni Woodwins were very worried about this transition because I explained it to them, and then they look and they see 30 some odd bodies.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: They see all the song leaders, all the spirit leaders, and they're like, what's gonna happen?
37:58
SPEAKER_00: And uh, what did I tell them at rehearsal, Dante?
38:00
SPEAKER_00: Just go, just gamper.
38:01
SPEAKER_00: Just go.
38:02
SPEAKER_00: Just get just just don't run into anybody.
38:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, and they did it, and it's a really cool transition.
38:07
SPEAKER_00: So uh, should we look at that transition, Gabby?
38:09
SPEAKER_00: How's that sound?
38:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's do it a little bit.
38:12
SPEAKER_00: So we'll get a little bit of pink ladies.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
38:48
SPEAKER_00: You know what?
38:49
SPEAKER_00: SDA and silks had a perfect transition.
38:52
SPEAKER_00: The spirit leaders got all in the way of the tenors and clarinets.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: Well, Gabby, thank you.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: That was a fantastic show concept.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: Um, thanks for bringing that to the table.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, big shout out to the USC School of Dramatic Arts for once again just a thrilling, just a fun collaboration to be together.
39:13
SPEAKER_00: And it's always, it's always really nice to work together on those projects.
39:16
SPEAKER_00: And um, and yeah, this was cool.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Gabby.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: Any final thoughts from you on the show?
39:22
SPEAKER_02: No, it was fun.
39:23
SPEAKER_02: It was together.
39:24
SPEAKER_02: My mom loved it.
39:25
SPEAKER_02: She came, she loved it.
39:27
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, thank you for having me.
39:29
SPEAKER_02: That was so much fun.
39:30
SPEAKER_00: Of course, of course.
39:31
SPEAKER_00: All right, so Gab, you can stick around, Gabby.
39:34
SPEAKER_00: Because now we're gonna ask Casey, Casey, how was homecoming, Casey?
39:41
SPEAKER_04: Homecoming went pretty good.
39:43
SPEAKER_04: We had a great event on Friday night.
39:45
SPEAKER_04: Uh we raised some money for the Trojan Marching Band Travel Fund.
39:49
SPEAKER_04: We sure did, which is great news.
39:52
SPEAKER_04: Uh we had some some great uh opportunity drawing prizes to give away, and so we did those.
40:00
SPEAKER_04: Uh Saturday was really hot.
40:05
SPEAKER_04: A couple people chose to stay either in the stands or stay home, and I don't blame them.
40:11
SPEAKER_04: Uh wait a minute.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: You're telling me an alumnus of the Trojan marching band it was too hot for them to come perform.
40:19
SPEAKER_04: More than 10.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
40:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was it was the it was the culmination of this whole first front end of uh the season's worth of work.
40:34
SPEAKER_04: So I've got a I've got a different perspective on this five-week stretch uh than Brett did because it was just all homecoming a month early all the time, getting ready for this thing.
40:47
SPEAKER_00: It was uh we it was very early.
40:51
SPEAKER_00: And I think that caught a lot of the alums off guard too.
40:54
SPEAKER_00: I think a lot of folks ended up not coming because it was just, oh wait, what?
40:59
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?
41:00
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's it's this early, it's this out of the other, and getting that all sorted out so quick is just is a little wild, I think.
41:07
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was it was pretty nuts.
41:08
SPEAKER_04: It was pretty nuts.
41:09
SPEAKER_04: There were a lot of people messaging me.
41:12
SPEAKER_04: Uh two, three days, one day, zero days before game day, saying, Hey, I missed registration, can I still come?
41:22
SPEAKER_04: And uh, you know, for the right price, they were able to come.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: And what what is that price, Casey?
41:29
SPEAKER_04: You can find the price on our website.
41:31
SPEAKER_00: Fifte.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: Twenty dollars.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: What did we say?
41:35
SPEAKER_04: You you added a five dollar uh late registration tax.
41:39
SPEAKER_00: I sure did.
41:40
SPEAKER_00: I sure did.
41:41
SPEAKER_00: Late registration.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: But all in all, um I thought the alumni played really well.
41:46
SPEAKER_00: The the alumni silks looked great.
41:49
SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, shout out shout out to those folks who, you know, put in the time and really got ready.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, especially, you know, Kristen and Maureen and Lucy and you know, Janine, getting everyone as much material as they can ahead of time, getting them ready.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: But you know, they came prepared.
42:04
SPEAKER_00: They were ready to do it.
42:05
SPEAKER_00: So A plus for them, even though they're not in college anymore.
42:11
SPEAKER_05: Can I can I shout out an uh a silk alum?
42:14
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
42:15
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Morgan.
42:16
SPEAKER_05: Um you remember Morgan, she spun a silk at halftime, and she also worked on the costuming for SDA.
42:26
SPEAKER_05: That's right.
42:28
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
42:28
SPEAKER_00: Look at her go.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
42:30
SPEAKER_00: Look, it's all it's it's it's uh kismet, as they we would say, right?
42:34
SPEAKER_00: It's all serendipitous coming together.
42:37
SPEAKER_00: Um but sing sing sing, a lot of fun.
42:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, some of these Woodwin alums were a little grumpy with me, Casey.
42:45
SPEAKER_04: About what?
42:46
SPEAKER_00: Um for doing you're gonna go far kid.
42:51
SPEAKER_04: Oh, there's they they listen.
42:54
SPEAKER_04: Listen.
42:55
SPEAKER_04: Listen.
42:58
SPEAKER_00: You're a little crabby.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: I and listen, I w listen, I w that's the word.
43:04
SPEAKER_00: I was caught off guard a little bit too, because I'd forgotten that there was nearly one dance routine, but two formal dance routines for the Woodwind section.
43:14
SPEAKER_04: Uh I know exactly what what to do when I don't know a dance routine.
43:19
SPEAKER_04: And I know these the line know exactly what to do when you don't know a dance routine, because I learned what to do when you don't know a dance routine from alumni.
43:29
SPEAKER_04: So I I don't understand.
43:31
SPEAKER_04: You know you know what to do.
43:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh but I'll say this.
43:33
SPEAKER_00: Um I'm gonna shout out I'm gonna shout out a couple of folks who are caught a little off guard, one of which, you know, great TMBA, board member, communication specialist, Michael Runsler.
43:45
SPEAKER_00: Um him, and then dentistry professor Mark, right?
43:49
SPEAKER_00: These two clarinet alums.
43:51
SPEAKER_00: Both come up they're up, they're both come up to me, they're like, We didn't realize we're dancing this much.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: What is it?
43:55
SPEAKER_00: What are you trying to do to us?
43:56
SPEAKER_00: You you this is we've aged out of this.
43:58
SPEAKER_00: This is too crazy.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: And uh um but to their credit, they really tried.
44:05
SPEAKER_00: They they dug deep and they learned.
44:07
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they nailed it.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: They really nailed it.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: So uh it was fantastic.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: My wife also gave me a hard time.
44:14
SPEAKER_00: Um because I I give my statute of alumni, I'm gonna tell you, my statute of limitations for a rock chart is 15 years.
44:22
SPEAKER_00: It's been around for 15 years.
44:24
SPEAKER_00: That's old.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: That's an that's an alumnus song.
44:26
SPEAKER_00: It's been around a minute.
44:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so this tune was debuted, I believe, in the fall of 2007.
44:33
SPEAKER_00: So this is a 19, 20-year-old song.
44:35
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna go far, kid.
44:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but even my wife, who was there when it debuted, she's like, Why are you like this?
44:41
SPEAKER_00: Why do you do these things?
44:45
SPEAKER_00: There's two dance routines.
44:46
SPEAKER_00: Why you know?
44:48
SPEAKER_04: It's fair game, it's fair game.
44:50
SPEAKER_04: It's been around, it's fair game.
44:52
SPEAKER_00: She's right though.
44:52
SPEAKER_00: I should have, like with Tusk, I should have recorded myself doing the dance routines and we should have sent it out.
45:00
SPEAKER_00: So that so Casey, remind me next time for a homecoming with a dance routine.
45:05
SPEAKER_00: I gotta record it for them.
45:06
SPEAKER_04: We'll we'll record you like we did in the COVID times and put it up on the shared Google Drive.
45:12
SPEAKER_00: Gabby, how do you feel about Sing Sing Sing?
45:14
SPEAKER_00: How much do you like it?
45:18
SPEAKER_02: Um I like it except for when we play it too much.
45:24
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
45:24
SPEAKER_00: And what is too much?
45:27
SPEAKER_02: Um I guess I guess when we hear drumline playing it during sectionals, we'll be we'll be like, you know, because we have our sectionals at the same time, and so they're just working on it like over and over again, and we're like, okay, okay, okay.
45:42
SPEAKER_02: But um no, I do like it.
45:44
SPEAKER_02: It's a it's a fun feature.
45:46
SPEAKER_02: It's really it's really nice because we have the same choreo from the Olympics.
45:50
unknown: Right.
45:51
SPEAKER_02: So it's really nice.
45:52
SPEAKER_00: The Lee Carlson choreography.
45:56
SPEAKER_00: Classic, classic stuff, but great job.
45:59
SPEAKER_00: Great job, alumni.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for coming out.
46:01
SPEAKER_00: Always a delight to have you.
46:03
SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh you played really well, danced really well.
46:07
SPEAKER_00: I loved it.
46:07
SPEAKER_00: So round of applause for the alumni.
46:09
SPEAKER_00: Round of applause for Casey for homecoming.
46:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, since you mentioned the Friday night event, I guess we should give a major shout out, huge shout out.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: Once again, Sue Wright uh nailed it with getting this auction put together and helping us raise money.
46:23
SPEAKER_00: Big shout out to Sue.
46:24
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Sue, for getting that all um put together for us.
46:27
SPEAKER_00: Thanks.
46:27
SPEAKER_00: I think Michael helped her a little bit.
46:28
SPEAKER_00: Is that right, Casey?
46:30
SPEAKER_00: Get those auction items input.
46:32
SPEAKER_00: I know she was.
46:33
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Michael, Michael, yeah, and Betsy.
46:36
SPEAKER_00: So all three.
46:36
SPEAKER_00: So thanks to all three of you for getting those things fired up into the USCAA ecosystem.
46:41
SPEAKER_00: A lot of fun.
46:41
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to USCAA for helping us get that listed and broadcast out to the the broader USC audience.
46:48
SPEAKER_00: Again, Craig, um, great MC for the event.
46:51
SPEAKER_00: Great questions he asked me, huh?
46:53
SPEAKER_00: Were they good, Dante?
46:54
SPEAKER_01: That was that was a cool little uh cool little bit there.
46:57
SPEAKER_01: That was awesome.
46:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was kind of that was go.
47:00
SPEAKER_04: It was perfect.
47:01
SPEAKER_04: It was perfect.
47:02
SPEAKER_04: It was a perfect like book tour type interview.
47:07
SPEAKER_04: It was great.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: I thought it was too long.
47:09
SPEAKER_00: I wanted to talk less, if you could believe it.
47:12
SPEAKER_04: It it was exactly the right length.
47:14
SPEAKER_00: Thank you all again, Sue, Craig, Michael, Betsy.
47:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, thank you for getting a big great event put together.
47:22
SPEAKER_00: And then um, Casey, once again, thank you for all you do for our alums.
47:25
SPEAKER_00: Big shout out to you, brother.
47:26
SPEAKER_00: You did great.
47:28
SPEAKER_04: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
47:29
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
47:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's it.
47:31
SPEAKER_00: That's the game.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: That's the weekend.
47:33
SPEAKER_00: Everyone feel good.
47:33
SPEAKER_00: We feel great.
47:37
SPEAKER_00: Now we gotta we get to breathe this week.
47:39
SPEAKER_00: All right, let's let's get we have a B, we always do a B topic.
47:43
SPEAKER_00: And in classic Brett fashion, he messaged me at nine o'clock last night.
47:46
SPEAKER_00: What should we talk about?
47:48
SPEAKER_00: And so uh I didn't have any good ideas.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: So what I said was sports movies.
47:54
SPEAKER_00: So, Brett, what's your favorite sports movie?
47:58
SPEAKER_05: I uh went when the minute you uh texted me in the chat, I went and watched what I thought was my favorite sports movie.
48:07
SPEAKER_05: Um, any guesses, Jake?
48:10
SPEAKER_00: A League of Their Own.
48:12
SPEAKER_05: No, it's it's very adjacent to that though.
48:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, why again?
48:18
SPEAKER_00: Any guesses, Jake?
48:20
SPEAKER_00: T me off.
48:20
SPEAKER_00: Give me my line.
48:22
SPEAKER_05: Oh, so that you look like you're smart in the edit.
48:26
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
48:27
SPEAKER_05: Uh any guesses, Dr.
48:29
SPEAKER_05: Vogel?
48:31
SPEAKER_00: Field of dreams.
48:33
SPEAKER_05: No, you missed again.
48:35
SPEAKER_05: The natural there it is.
48:38
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
48:39
SPEAKER_05: I love a good period piece.
48:41
SPEAKER_05: Um, I love uh highly romanticized versions of baseball in movies.
48:47
SPEAKER_05: Actually, I want to qualify this by saying I don't really love sports movies.
48:51
SPEAKER_05: I love sports.
48:52
SPEAKER_05: Sports movies, meh.
48:54
SPEAKER_05: But I watched it last night.
48:56
SPEAKER_05: I watched it on BYU TV, which I had to download the app.
48:59
SPEAKER_05: Uh I didn't want to pay$4 to rent it.
49:02
SPEAKER_05: And they have it on BYU TV and it's highly edited.
49:05
SPEAKER_05: There's like 10 minutes out against all the uh all the spicy stuff they take out um for the uh for the Mormon families.
49:12
SPEAKER_05: Um but I watched it and then I realized it wasn't really that great of a movie.
49:17
SPEAKER_05: It's okay.
49:19
SPEAKER_05: Uh it's it's kind of weird and odd.
49:21
SPEAKER_05: Very, he's shot with a silver bullet.
49:23
SPEAKER_05: It's all very strange movie, but I think the score and the the final scene where he blows up the stadium with his home run uh almost make up for how kind of odd of a movie it is.
49:36
SPEAKER_00: Isn't I I want to say we'll have to do some fact checking on this one, but I'm pretty sure it's based on Arthurian legend.
49:43
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
49:44
SPEAKER_05: So yeah, there is I was looking that up when I was watching it, and there's kind of some King Arthur stuff going on.
49:49
SPEAKER_05: Something like there's a silver bullet gets shot.
49:53
SPEAKER_05: Um, and then a player crashes.
49:55
SPEAKER_05: There's lots of spoilers here, but a player crashes to the outfield wall and dies in the movie, and then they have a funeral for him.
50:03
SPEAKER_05: It's a very strange movie, but it does have some nice uh uh kind of current uh themes about sports betting um and the evils of sports ownership, which I thought was kind of fun.
50:18
SPEAKER_05: Uh, but it's yeah, it's just a strange movie.
50:21
SPEAKER_05: Wow, okay, yeah.
50:23
SPEAKER_00: All right, nice, the natural.
50:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh, Mr.
50:26
SPEAKER_00: D, how about you?
50:27
SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite sports movie?
50:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this question sent me uh down a little rabbit hole for a second, but I thought it would be cool to call out the little giants.
50:39
SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh, a millennial fever dream.
50:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh, tell tell me about the little giant.
50:45
SPEAKER_00: What do you love about the little giants?
50:47
SPEAKER_01: It's just a perfect film, like the way they get all these misfits together and just build this this team around a bunch of snotty-nosed kids, yeah, you know, that can't just do the thing and then it just overcome.
51:02
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's just it's the perfect storytelling of but the misfits as they start to get together is just it's funny to me.
51:09
SPEAKER_01: It's always been hilarious as a kid.
51:10
SPEAKER_00: Oh, and it hits all the n every stereotype is there, right?
51:14
SPEAKER_00: The little giants coach is nerdy Rick Moranis, like in like peak early 90s Disney time, like he's everybody's dork dad.
51:23
SPEAKER_00: The cowboys coach is Ed O'Neill coming off of Married with Children.
51:27
SPEAKER_00: He's like America's just hard-nosed, hard scrabble guy.
51:32
SPEAKER_00: The the little giants, the the chubby kid, they think he's bleeding and he's got a peanut butter and jelly in his football helmet.
51:39
SPEAKER_00: The coach's daughter.
51:41
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my Gabby, have you seen this movie, The Little Giants?
51:45
SPEAKER_02: I remember it.
51:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I it's coming back to me.
51:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
51:49
SPEAKER_02: You mentioned the yeah, I remember that.
51:50
SPEAKER_00: Rick Moranis' daughter.
51:52
SPEAKER_00: Like, she knows football better than anyone because she's a daughter, but she can't.
51:55
SPEAKER_00: So then she comes out and she plays, and she's in her cheerleading skirt.
51:59
SPEAKER_00: She just lays out these fools.
52:01
SPEAKER_00: The Cowboys, their big player.
52:03
SPEAKER_00: He carries a refrigerator because he's so strong.
52:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Dante, look at I bet you didn't think I knew this much detail off the top of the dome.
52:11
SPEAKER_01: You are giving the details, man.
52:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's fantastic.
52:16
SPEAKER_00: Little Giants.
52:17
SPEAKER_00: I might watch that tonight.
52:18
SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen that in ages.
52:20
SPEAKER_01: You gotta expose the kids to that one.
52:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh, man.
52:22
SPEAKER_00: That's a good one.
52:23
SPEAKER_00: Gabby, I'm glad you've seen it.
52:24
SPEAKER_00: Your family's done good by you.
52:26
SPEAKER_01: You think Arlena liked that movie?
52:29
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
52:31
SPEAKER_00: It's it's hard because they fight me, Dante.
52:34
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you should watch this.
52:35
SPEAKER_00: Like, what did we just watch a couple weeks ago?
52:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh, we watched Honey I Shrunk the Kids, speaking of Rick Moranis.
52:41
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, you're gonna love it.
52:43
SPEAKER_00: There's an ant.
52:44
SPEAKER_00: They fly on a bee.
52:45
SPEAKER_00: They're like, Dad, how do you how'd they do that?
52:47
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
52:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, just watch it.
52:49
SPEAKER_00: You'll dig it.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: And they're fighting me.
52:51
SPEAKER_00: They're like, we don't want to.
52:52
SPEAKER_00: Wham wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham.
52:53
SPEAKER_00: And we turn it on.
52:55
SPEAKER_00: And then, like, as soon as they get like swept into the broom, they're like, How did they make the broom so giant?
53:00
SPEAKER_00: How did they they shrunk them?
53:01
SPEAKER_00: They really shrunk these kids.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, no.
53:04
SPEAKER_00: It's called special effects.
53:06
SPEAKER_00: It's magic, it's movie magic.
53:08
SPEAKER_00: And then my daughter, but of all, so here's here's telling.
53:12
SPEAKER_00: Here's how I know the future.
53:13
SPEAKER_00: We're dead, we're cooked as a as a society, everybody.
53:15
SPEAKER_00: So just live life now while you can.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: We're watching Honey Has Shrunk the Kids.
53:20
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know, Dante.
53:21
SPEAKER_00: She might like little giants.
53:22
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
53:23
SPEAKER_00: You sent me down a tanch.
53:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh we're watching it, and there's a cat.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: The neighbors have a cat, and the cat jumps up and like does movie cat stuff.
53:31
SPEAKER_00: And Erlen looks at me and goes, Is that cat AI?
53:38
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, why?
53:39
SPEAKER_00: She's like, Cats can't, you can't train cats.
53:42
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, you can.
53:44
SPEAKER_00: It's difficult, but that is a trained cat.
53:47
SPEAKER_00: And so then we re- and I showed her.
53:49
SPEAKER_00: I we did a little movie, Matt.
53:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, rewind it.
53:51
SPEAKER_00: I go, look at the cat.
53:52
SPEAKER_00: The cat is not looking at the actor, the cat is looking off screen at the trainer watch.
53:56
SPEAKER_00: And we watch it, and she's like, ooh, that's really smart.
53:59
SPEAKER_00: I go, yes, it's a real cat.
54:03
SPEAKER_00: Aye, aye, aye.
54:04
SPEAKER_00: All right.
54:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh, KC, what's your favorite sports movie?
54:10
SPEAKER_04: Are you ready for my weekly wet blanket answer?
54:13
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
54:14
SPEAKER_04: I don't like sports movies.
54:17
SPEAKER_00: Neither does Brett, apparently.
54:18
SPEAKER_04: I don't watch them.
54:20
SPEAKER_04: But I I thought deep and hard about sports movies that aren't sports movies but are still sports movies to really, to really give this question a work, uh, a workup.
54:36
SPEAKER_04: Pool Running has got to be my favorite sports movie.
54:40
SPEAKER_04: Editor, roll the clip.
54:42
SPEAKER_04: Nice.
54:43
SPEAKER_00: Feel the rhythm.
54:44
SPEAKER_00: Feel the rhyme.
54:47
SPEAKER_01: It's Bobsled.
54:48
SPEAKER_01: We've got to go.
54:49
SPEAKER_01: It's Bob Sled Time.
54:50
SPEAKER_01: Let's go.
54:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh, and he's got the this is my egg, and he kisses it and he keeps it with him.
54:55
SPEAKER_00: Casey, that's a great sports movie.
54:58
SPEAKER_04: I love, I love Pool Runnings.
55:01
SPEAKER_04: When when that when that aired on the Disney Channel in the early 90s, it was awesome.
55:10
SPEAKER_00: Casey, that's not a wet blanket answer.
55:13
SPEAKER_00: You're scratch you're scratching that millennium that millennial itch hard.
55:16
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
55:17
SPEAKER_00: Gabby, what's your favorite sports movie?
55:21
SPEAKER_02: Um I'd like to argue that bring it on can be considered a sports movie.
55:26
SPEAKER_02: I feel I I I watched that recently and I was like, I it was better than I remember.
55:31
SPEAKER_02: So I watched that on a flight to I watched it on the flight to movie.
55:36
SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite part?
55:39
SPEAKER_02: Um when they don't win in first place.
55:43
SPEAKER_02: That was that was that was cool.
55:46
SPEAKER_02: I think I think that was cool.
55:48
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I didn't I remember I refused to watch a lot of baseball movies when I was a kid because my brothers played baseball.
55:57
SPEAKER_02: And you know, when you're growing up with brothers, if they like something that automatically makes it stupid.
56:02
SPEAKER_02: So, like, why why would I, you know, watch that?
56:04
SPEAKER_02: Got it.
56:05
SPEAKER_02: So I need to I need to catch up on those two.
56:08
SPEAKER_00: So bring it on.
56:09
SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you, I've not seen Bring It On.
56:13
SPEAKER_02: It is okay.
56:14
SPEAKER_02: I'll watch.
56:15
SPEAKER_02: We can each watch our movie.
56:17
SPEAKER_00: I will watch Bring It On.
56:18
SPEAKER_00: I need to.
56:19
SPEAKER_00: I know I need to.
56:20
SPEAKER_00: I know it's a I I've heard the sports movie comparison.
56:23
SPEAKER_00: I get it.
56:23
SPEAKER_00: Because it hits all the marks, right?
56:25
SPEAKER_00: The Scrabble team, right?
56:26
SPEAKER_00: They struggle and then they persevere and they get to the end.
56:29
SPEAKER_00: Will they or won't they?
56:30
SPEAKER_00: Ah! And then it sounds like in the end of this one they don't, but that's okay.
56:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I spoiled it for you.
56:35
SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that.
56:36
SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
56:37
SPEAKER_00: Listen, um, I can still enjoy it.
56:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, can I spoil a movie for all of you and tell a funny story about my granddad, my grandpa?
56:45
SPEAKER_00: So there's a there's a Denzel Washington movie called Deja Vu.
56:48
SPEAKER_00: Have any of you seen this movie?
56:51
SPEAKER_00: Okay, Don, you've seen it.
56:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
56:52
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
56:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, so we're what so we we read the description, right?
56:57
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, you know, police officer solves a murder, whatever, whatever.
57:00
SPEAKER_00: We're like, all right, cool.
57:01
SPEAKER_00: And I love Denzel Washington.
57:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, let's do it.
57:03
SPEAKER_00: Let's crank this thing out.
57:04
SPEAKER_00: And we're about 15 minutes in, and uh, and I'm I'm in it.
57:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, this is awesome.
57:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm what's going on?
57:10
SPEAKER_00: What's gonna happen?
57:11
SPEAKER_00: My grandpa walks in and he's like, Oh, did he travel through time yet?
57:14
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, what?
57:16
SPEAKER_00: What what?
57:18
SPEAKER_00: And we like none of us were expecting time travel on the deja vu checklist with Denzel Washington.
57:25
SPEAKER_00: And so he he literally, I was so mad at him.
57:28
SPEAKER_00: I still don't forgive him.
57:30
SPEAKER_00: God rest his soul.
57:31
SPEAKER_00: Uh wild, wild times.
57:34
SPEAKER_00: All right.
57:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, my favorite sports movie.
57:35
SPEAKER_00: This was a toughie for me because I love sports movies.
57:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give you an answer, Brett.
57:42
SPEAKER_00: That's a non-committal answer.
57:44
SPEAKER_00: Can I do that?
57:44
SPEAKER_00: Is that allowed?
57:45
SPEAKER_05: No.
57:46
SPEAKER_00: Okay, good.
57:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna commit to this answer right now.
57:50
SPEAKER_00: It's my favorite sports movie today.
57:52
SPEAKER_00: It might not be my favorite one tomorrow, but it's my favorite one today.
57:56
SPEAKER_00: And it's uh the Clint Eastwood joint, Trouble with the Curve.
58:00
SPEAKER_00: Have any of you seen this?
58:03
SPEAKER_05: Are you just doing a deep cut to make yourself look like a big Cenophile?
58:06
SPEAKER_00: No, I just watched this.
58:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, someone gave this movie to me as a um as a um uh like just as a gift at Christmas.
58:16
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know anything about it, and I watched it a few years ago and I was like, okay, that's nice.
58:20
SPEAKER_00: And it because I um I had it set up on my movies anywhere, I could watch it on YouTube.
58:24
SPEAKER_00: So the other day while I was arranging, I had it running in the background and it sucked me in.
58:28
SPEAKER_00: And it's curmudgeonly old Clint Eastwood.
58:32
SPEAKER_00: Amy Adams plays his daughter.
58:33
SPEAKER_00: Justin Timberlake plays an up-and-coming talent scout.
58:37
SPEAKER_00: Have any of you seen this?
58:38
SPEAKER_00: Has any Dante, have you seen this?
58:39
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I have seen this.
58:41
SPEAKER_04: I have not.
58:42
SPEAKER_00: He's it's it's old school versus nude school.
58:45
SPEAKER_00: It's nude school, new school.
58:47
SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a total uh I'm in.
58:52
SPEAKER_00: It's an old guy yelling at cloud kind of movie, and he's an old-time talent scout, and he goes and watches high school baseball, yeah, and his vision is going, he can't see as well.
59:07
SPEAKER_00: So his daughter, who's a who's uh ready to be a partner in a law firm, but she loves baseball because her dad loved baseball, but like they don't really get along, so she's helping him, but he can hear with his ears that this this baseball player has trouble hitting a curveball because he hesitates, you see.
59:26
SPEAKER_00: And because he's he's clinicwood, he can hear it, and he's got trouble with the curve.
59:30
SPEAKER_05: And uh, that's the name of the movie.
59:33
SPEAKER_00: His team, his team, they pick this player, and guess what?
59:37
SPEAKER_00: This player can't hit a curveball with a wood bat.
59:40
SPEAKER_00: He was a total bust.
59:42
SPEAKER_00: And the young, the y the other guy who picked this player uses computers, Dante uses technology to pick his players, but the technology can't hear the bat in the wind.
59:52
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's great.
59:54
SPEAKER_04: Is it like it's basically the answer to money ball?
59:56
SPEAKER_04: It isn't it's the reverse money.
59:58
SPEAKER_04: I was about to say, Brad, it's the reverse money ball.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_00: It's reverse.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_00: It is, and it is broke.
1:00:02
SPEAKER_00: You there's there is narry a surprise to be had.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh-oh, we lost Gabby.
1:00:08
SPEAKER_00: Gabby.
1:00:09
SPEAKER_00: Uh, all right.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_00: Well, that was uh this was a fun one today, guys.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_00: We have a good time.
1:00:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, for sure.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but thank you all for subscribing, for watching, for being a part of TM Banter.
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1:00:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, next week we get a travel log retrospective with Dante Douglas.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_00: You could tell us all about the big house and Penn State and not the big house.
1:00:32
SPEAKER_00: What do they call their stadium?
1:00:33
SPEAKER_05: Um Beaver Beaver Stadium.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_05: Beaver Stadium.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_00: Beaver Stadium.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_00: The big house is uh Michigan.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_00: I was like, I was getting my head all wrapped around that this morning.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_00: But you can tell us all about the whiteout and Penn State and Beaver Stadium and all that jazz.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_00: Seeing your buddy drain out there.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, for sure.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, tell them we're coming for him.
1:00:51
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll text him.
1:00:52
SPEAKER_00: We're coming for you.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna we're gonna shake down their season.
1:00:55
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, this has been Team Banter.