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Episode 111 · Hallowin · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_04: What a weekend! Holy smokes, everybody! We did it! We toppled the number two team in the country.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_04: We burnt Ohio State to the ground, the team, not the school, literally.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_04: But wow, just what a day.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_04: What a spectacular weekend.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_04: We had a little bit of rain.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_04: We had a fun halftime spook tacular.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_04: We had just the game of the season so far.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_04: And uh, welcome on in to TM Banter, everybody.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_04: So let's let's get into it.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_04: Let's talk.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_04: I'm too excited.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_04: I'm too excited.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_04: Let's get him to the stage.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_04: Welcome in, Mr.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_04: Dante Douglas, everybody.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_04: What's good, man?
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yo, what's up, man?
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_04: For you, game, the the stuff, how to feel.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_04: How do you feel?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was uh unexpected to say the least.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: I feel great about it, uh, completely unexpected.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'll take it with all that comes with it.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um just seeing the Coliseum on fire beating a number two team is just it's wild.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: Spectacular.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_04: It's spectacular.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_04: Just top again, toppling the number two team in the country and and coming into it that way.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_04: For you, though, this is your first Coliseum field incursion.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_04: You've not been through one of these, right?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: I have not.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: This will be the first that really warranted the uh experience.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_04: And so how how did it as sort of the you know, in your first time going through it here, how did it, how did it feel?
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_04: What was it like for you?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um this is what college football is all about, like when these moments happen, so it's kind of just like, oh wow, we get our chance to really uh do one and not, you know, some people do it on when they beat up on some unranked team, and you know, they finally won a game, and so then they end up celebrating.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: But for us, we took down a number two team, so it's just like that's a big deal.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Holy smack, it's a big deal, you know.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, being in the Big Ten, you know, all these other things that come with it, it's just yeah, it made it really cool.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like just just it was just cool.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I know it was cool.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: The weather, you know, all the football rain, like all that stuff was just great environment, just there, just great environment.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I mean, obviously, the admins, you know, I think I did see somebody wearing a football helmet, so I think they may have lost that one.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_04: Um, not a football player, by the way, just some guy.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_04: And uh, yeah, I think, you know, not there are people, there are elements of a field incursion that are not fun.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um I think somebody tore their ACL jumping off the wall, you know.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_04: But hey, if listen, I've fallen off a higher ladder than that, and I'm fine.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_04: So they just gotta they gotta work it out.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, we haven't had a field incursion since what?
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_04: I think it was 2013.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_04: Uh see, I've heard a lot of mixed dates.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_04: So we're gonna bring in uh teeny tiny Brett and Teeny Tiny KC.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, gentlemen, you were with me.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_04: You were here at the last field incursion.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_04: What year was it?
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_04: Because I have seen all kinds of numbers posted.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_04: And Brett, you're our fact checker.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: I believe it's 2013 Stanford.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_02: I believe was the last time when there was a field incursion.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_04: Coach O.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's correct.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: Coach O.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_04: Oh man, and he wrote us, he wrote us a thank you note afterwards, sent it to the entire band, winning that game.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_04: Ah, what a time.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_04: What a time.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_04: But yeah, I think so 2013.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_04: That's the date you think it was, Brett, or you know it was.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I know it was.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: It was a November 16th, 2013.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_02: USC 20, Stanford 17.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_04: Let's go get 'em.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_04: Usually on TM banter, it's just us, us dudes just dude and out, doing dude stuff, right?
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, but we thought it'd be fun today um because there was a field incursion, and you know, there are many members of our of our squad who were down there.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_04: Song, spirit.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_04: They were they were in the thick of it, um, getting getting in there with all the frivolity on the ground.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_04: And it just so happens that we have a uh a former member of that team hanging out with us today.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_04: So everyone, please welcome to the stage.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_04: Elise Avula Smith, everybody.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_04: Hi, Elise.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_03: Good morning.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: Bye Don.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_04: Bye Don.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, so Elise, have you ever been in a field incursion like that in your time as a spirit leader?
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_04: Did that ever happen?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I was trying to remember.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_03: I want to say yes, but I'm not sure.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I can't remember.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_04: You may not have been.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know that I was because this is gonna sound crazy.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_03: We very much expected to win every game um when I was there.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_03: And so I'm not sure that I was, but really wanted to be.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_03: That was amazing.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_03: And you have no voice from the game.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry guys.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's all good.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_04: Now you weren't you weren't here this weekend at the game, were you?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_04: You missed it.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_03: No, I can't believe I missed it.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_03: I was trying to be a good parent and take my kids trick-or-treating, but every single house had the USC game on, and so we also entered about 20 strangers' houses just to watch a few videos.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_04: Nice, nice.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's awesome.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_03: So what um many of them which my husband stayed at for about 30 minutes.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's that's killer.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_04: That's fun.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_04: So um, well, that's good.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_04: So it's good you caught it.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_04: What what were some uh from the home front?
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_04: What was the what was the energy at home?
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: Where was it anxiety?
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_04: Was it disbelief?
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_04: Like, where were you in sort of watching the game unfold?
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know that I was disbelief.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_03: It was like, here's that team that we've been looking for.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_03: Hey guys, welcome.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, um, which was exciting.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_03: I want to know from you guys though, like what did it feel like?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_03: That is that's just it looked insane, and I was so excited.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_04: It it did look insane.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_04: I'll let yeah, don't so Dante, you get a little bit, but I'll let you jump in.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_04: Uh what did you think?
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_04: How did it feel to you to have this sort of this the I guess the environment or the feeling overall, like watching the game unfold?
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, coming into it, you know, everybody's been talking about, you know, the game and everybody had their speculations, you know how sports go.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and one of the things out there was USC should come out with the upset, you know, based off the people who are really doing the numbers and the quarterback being out and just doing all the mathematics.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: And and so to hear those kind of speculation, you walk into the Coliseum and you're like, okay, how's this gonna end today?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the folks said this and the folks said this, and how's it gonna go?
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was even talking to Eric down in the tunnel about this whole upset thing.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: And as it's happening, I guess starting from the first opening drive, like, and we can get the crowd going like right away.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, okay, this might be a thing.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so you're sitting in the moment, like watching, like, and to always have the lead the whole game, you're like, This can't be right, yeah, but this is happening, yeah.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like, so for me, I'm just kind of like, okay, this is a number two team in the country.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: Every second on the clock matters, so I was not happily until I was happy.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_04: Got it.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I know I feel you, and I so at least if I'm gonna answer that question for you, I I was birthed into Trojan turmoil, right?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_04: I I came into this program.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_04: I've been here a long time, but I came in in Pete's last year.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_04: And so I've been through Kiffen and Sark and Ogeron and Helton and and and Helton again.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_04: Like I've been through all that, that, that, and now Lincoln Riley through all that revolving door.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_04: So I never lived the band through that we always win lens, right?
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_04: That's what my wife did.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_04: Like she marched in what three of those rose parades back to back to back.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_04: And Jessica.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_04: And just yeah.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_04: So she was there, you know, and I know Brett, Brett, and KC have gone through some of this too, but I just missed it right on the tail end.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm always, I'm just nervous the whole time.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I'm just it's it's like um that feeling on Christmas.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_04: Like, am I gonna get the present I really asked for or am I not?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_04: And you're trying not to be too excited just in case grandma didn't figure out you wanted the Jurassic Park set, right?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_04: So I just I uh not apprehension's not the right word, but I guess just a healthy dose of pragmatism.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_04: And so I don't really get jacked until to Dante's point, when I know we've got it, then we've got it.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: So I feel like we literally dominated in every aspect of the game.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, obviously watching it, but even from like a TV perspective, all I saw was band, song, spirit, like over and over and over, you know, and it just seemed like USC owned that game all around.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_03: Did it feel like that there?
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it did, it did, but to Jake's point, that apprehension is like, okay, is this real?
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: Is this real?
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_04: No, I yeah, I would say because we were up with two scores generally, the whole game, maybe three, three near the end at some point in time.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_04: And so yeah, I guess it did have that.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_04: It it felt like, yes, we were, it's like an arcade game.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_04: I was I was winning Mario Kart, but I know that that blue shell might turn up any minute now and just crank me out.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_04: Well, fun game, exciting atmosphere, field incursions are great.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I mean, you know, I don't like the stolen stuff, but if a good time, good time.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_04: So, Elise, we had a doozy of a halftime show.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and I thought it'd be great.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_04: Like, let's we could just yap about it, but what questions do you have?
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_04: What can we tell you about this this tremendous feat of halftime?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: I have so many questions about it.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_03: Um, okay, my first question is how did we decide to go with this cat in the hat spectacular?
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_04: I'll let Dante answer.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: Because it started with him and it started with the new cafe.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so the cafe started off.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: We look at the schedule, and I mean it's a no-brainer.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Got a game on October 31st.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta do Halloween.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's the plan.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: We're sticking to it, no-brainer.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, when you're Hollywood's band, nothing is sketched in stone.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, anything pops up.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um so we get uh Jake gets a call about helping with promo or how we could kind of be involved with the cat in the hat.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that sends Chris down a spiral because he has his whole Halloween story written up, and then the cat in the hat just comes and bulldozer over.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um and so we had to make the worlds collide together to uh to create what we created.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: Um was it originally gonna be like Michael Myers on the field?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: Or what was Yeah, it was supposed to be just a straight up all movies, kind of to your point, the Michael Myers, everything was supposed to go.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: So you hear those snippets within the separates, the Exodus, the Halloween, like all of that was supposed to be expanded a little bit more.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: But then Chris came up with this bright idea to incorporate the cat and the hat into the to the storyline.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I do think, yeah, go ahead.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I was just gonna I think a lot of the music we ended up doing was still in the original write-up, yeah.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we just had to kind of move it around like some puzzle pieces.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was still there, but now it all had to make sense.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: We were gonna end with thriller anyway, but now how does thriller fit into cat and the hat?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: That was the whole just drawing uh continuous circles, just trying to figure it out, um, how to make it work.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it took some weeks to get this.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_03: Did you enjoy it?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: Like, because I enjoyed watching it so much.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: Was it fun to put together or was it just a ton of work?
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_03: Because it looks like an immassive amount of work.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was fun and it was a lot of work.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because anytime we do these major productions, now we're putting so many people out of their comfort zone.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: So you got song and spirit out of their comfort zone, get out of your uniform and put on this costume, you know, put on this wig.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, you think about them.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: They are they go for the look, you know, the glamour, they they really go for it, the makeup and all that.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: And that's like, now put on this blue wig.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, first of all, you want me to put on a wig, and then it's blue.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: So you can just imagine what happened to their brain and how many questions they had with do we have to?
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: I I did have that thought as a former spirit leader.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, bold, bold.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_03: I liked it.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: But it but I think those are the things that make us special that we're all able to get out of that comfort zone and just really do the thing that we'll sell the show.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is these are the things that makes us Hollywood's man, and not to add the ice into the cake and to rub it in people's face that we actually have the costumes from Warner Brothers.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, humble brag, you know, we'll we'll take it.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: Humble brag is a good thing.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_03: Because we had multiple.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, did you guys have multiple um what mascots on the field?
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_03: I saw like actual full-on costumes out there.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: We should uh this is all Jake and his negotiating and how they could be a part with, and they say we got these costumes, and Jake was like, We'll take them.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_04: Take them, yeah.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_04: They and that and that was neat.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_04: And and that's kind of a great, great example of of the production company being willing to uh negotiate and compromise on things as well, right?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_04: And so this part of part of the early part of the story as well is, you know, we and I think we talked about it last week.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_04: We'd recorded on the soundtrack for the cat in the hat.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_04: We played the premiere, we did all that.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_04: And so a few weeks down the line, they said, hey, we want to, you know, have some halftime interaction, so on and so forth.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_04: And I thought, well, yeah, this is uh this behooves us.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: However, it needs to make sense with with the movie, right?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_04: We want to make sure people are aware of the movie.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_04: We're not gonna do a cat in the hat themed show in September and like try to kick this can two months down the line.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_04: And so then it works out.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_04: We get the schedule, I'm looking at it, the movie's premiering this weekend, and I'm like, oh no, that's the Halloween game.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_04: Chris is gonna be so mad.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_04: What are we gonna do?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_04: Um, but I have no problems.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_04: I make Chris mad all the time.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_04: So that was fine.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_04: That was the that was the easy part.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_04: And so yeah, and um we in working with them, it was like, okay, we we want to we part of any sort of cat in the hat story, especially like the second cat in the hat book, and then in the movie, there's a fleet of things.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_04: There's a whole bunch of things.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_04: Think of it not quite like minions, like not that, not to that level of of maybe annoyance or um or involvement in the plot, but there's a lot of these things, and they're all different, different makes, different models.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_04: It's really neat.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_04: And sort of part of the climax is the thing, like the things are involved in it.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_04: Like, just like I think what it what is it?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_04: One one of the cat in the hat books, there's a ton of things.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_04: I forget which one, but there's a whole bunch of them.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_04: And so it's like, okay, well, maybe we can dress up Song and Spirit and the silks and the twirlers, get them in red t-shirts, get them in at the time.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_04: I was trying to get them to get like blue pom poms, so then they could hold them behind their head and like take the field and look like the things, and then the palms would be in their hands and it would be normal palm dancing.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_04: I know you guys can't see me.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'm dancing around like an idiot on camera, so this would be this would be fun stuff.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_04: But uh yeah, that that was kind of the part of the concept.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_04: But then they mentioned they had these costumes they were using to take to various events, and I thought it'd be really important and really valuable to have our students be in the costumes.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_04: And so when they asked me, we have costumes, you want to use them?
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, we do.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_04: And then they said, Well, we we have we have people who've been using them.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_04: We have these people we've been hiring.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_04: You want me to send them?
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_04: I said, actually, we've got like seven or eight students that Nicole works with that run our our Tommy Trojan mascot program.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_04: I would love for them to do it.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_04: And they said, Oh, yeah, that's great.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and I did say, I go, it'll save you a bunch of money to not have to hire actors.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_04: And so they really, they really liked that.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_04: But it was neat because the Tommy crew, you know, we had five costumes at least.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_04: We had our Tommy, we had Thing One and Thing Three, we had the cat in the hat, and then we had a the other Tommy costume dressed up in a Dracula costume.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_04: And so with five actors, and then the other Tommy folks were the handlers, it really took a small village of people to uh to put this together.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_04: Um, but no, it was they they we had five different characters moving around on the field, and it was it was pretty cool, Elise.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_04: It was a lot of fun.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I love that.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: And then you had uh everyone in wigs and the dancing was amazing from the band.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: That was like one of the things I noticed the most.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_03: The choreography was insane.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: How was that?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, Dante, you tell you we you had to broker with me.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_04: I had to give you an eyebrow at some point in time.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, for those of you who don't know, and those of you who do know, you know, the typical dance routine for the TMB is a 32-count maneuver.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we really don't exceed that.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but when we threw this into the hands of our students, so at least that dance routine was created by two students, Jackson and Dream.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: They did the instructional video, they did the whole nine.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um they messaged me and said, Can we do 48 counts?
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, now you all know better than I know that that's a big push for the TMB.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: I said, but I'll ask.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: For about a week or so, Jake was like, I don't know, we're already tight on time.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I don't know.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so we finally got to the punch, and he was like, All right, let's do it.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: We'll they we found some time somewhere with the show.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: We we can make it happen.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: I did some numbers and stuff, we can make it happen.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: So we send out the video, Casey included.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody was like, I don't know, this got a lot of ands and e's and uh's, and you know, we not that we not that skilled when it comes to dancing.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: We we move a lot, but we don't, and so we were like, Okay, let's let's see what happens.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and lo and behold, I mean the students delivered that dance routine, and I mean it was oh they so delivered, like I noticed it.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, whoa, look at this.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: This is incredible! Good job, guys.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think Halloween helps, it can be a little loose and a little over the place, and not it does it's not doesn't have to be so precise.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I think everything worked out in our favor, but kluos to the students.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that was a challenging dance routine, and to go another 16 counts was a little push, but 28 sets, 48 count dance routine, T and B delivered as normal.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they they they they ripped it.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_04: And at least let me tell you what, this these goobers, these goofballs, like I'm always thinking about when they're learning things, what they're spending their time doing.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_04: Like how, like what where if they're practicing after hours, what are they practicing?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_04: And I'll tell you what, they were practicing this dance routine.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_04: I think this scared the absolute crap out of a lot of them.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_04: Because I I think I I think I caught this on the mic.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_04: It was the Friday, yeah.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_04: You were gone, Dante.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_04: You were in Wisconsin.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_04: That Friday rehearsal, they had me mic'd up.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_04: I just I this was not even intentional.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_04: I said, How many of you is this the hardest choreography you've ever done?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_04: And only like six of them put their hands up.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_04: And so when they caught me, then what is the problem here?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_04: Like that was me legitimately like, what the hell, guys?
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_04: Like, if this is not the hardest, then do it.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: You know what it was, Jake?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: It was a challenge.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: They were like, bring it on.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_04: I get maybe it was.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of bring it on, I still have yet to watch Bring It On Too.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_04: It's in it's it's in the queue.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_06: It's good.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's good.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh but no, hey, there's a cat.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_04: The cat, no hat on this one.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_04: Um but I I will say it was so Dante, you said 28 sets.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: And that's that's a lot of drill.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and Elise, I don't it, you know, I think Chris did the first part, and then Dante, how much of it did you do on the back end?
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_04: All the the back four, back three.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: The two to the end.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: So Chris did that chunk, he did the whole classical movement, which entailed a lot within itself.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and the the point I was gonna make, Elise, is that if if you looked, if you told me, like, oh, the band has 28 sets, I'd say, okay, that sounds hard, but doable in a month, right?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_04: But the opening, and really unfortunately, movement one and movement two, because of the the nature of the music, the time signatures, and this these um we'll call them like marching band effects, right?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_04: Where it's like you're doing these starts and stops, these body, not even really in intense body movements, but okay, this one, the feet are together, this one, the feet are apart, the horn is up, the horn is down.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_04: Like there was a lot of those little things.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_04: There was probably a show's worth of band goop in just the first movement alone, and then the second movement um had a lot of uh 5-4 music.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_04: Do you know what five-four is, Elise?
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_04: I'll tell you.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_04: So um sing for me, Elise.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_04: Let's see.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_04: Can you sing the theme from Mission Impossible?
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_03: I cannot sing any theme right now.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: Just singing.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: Dante would love to sing though.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: Dante.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_04: So Mission Impossible, I won't make a zing.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_04: Uh uh, but you know, it's bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_04: So each measure of music has five counts.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_04: So what that means is when you're marching, you march one measure, you get to the second measure, now your right foot comes down at the beginning of the measure instead of your left.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_04: And then it's not until you're in the back.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, I have a question.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_03: How do you count that out?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_04: One, two, and three, and four, and five, and one, and two, and three, and four, and five, and one and a two, and a three, and a four and a five.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_04: So it's just odd.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_04: I, if I'm being honest, I because Dante was teasing me about this years ago.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_04: We I did a concert band piece with a lot of five, and I struggle with five, four.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_04: Because it's it's it's just it's a pattern that's just not in my body, it's not in my arms.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_04: Now, seven, I can do seven all day.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know what it is about seven.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_04: I love seven.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_04: But what that means then for drill at least is thou counts and uh marching maneuvers need to be in sets of five.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_04: So like a 20-count maneuver instead of 16.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: I got it.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_04: Which seemed like in to a to a layman, it's like that's not a big deal, but it really'll jack you up and it just it takes it, it's not just autopilots, a little brain power.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_04: So I honestly, the first two parts of the show had a lot of stuff jammed in it.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_04: Luckily, the back half I think was more in our wheelhouse, which helped.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_04: But I think an another thing people don't realize is that the longer these shows are, you know, when you're rehearsing 10 minutes of music, and or in this case, I think it was nine and a half minutes.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_04: You know, normally we've got maybe eight minutes of music, but that extra minute and a half, it actually Adds up in the reps.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_04: You know, you're trying to run continuity, you're trying to do it, and it's just more and more.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_04: And then when it's more complicated, more rehearsal, students are absent.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_04: It's cold, it's midterm and cold season.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_04: The number of kids who had strep throat or God knows what else, or then they have this massive midterm that they now they have to go to this lab.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_04: It was just all of those things were fighting against us.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_04: And to Dante's point, the students just kicked it right in the butt and got it done.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_04: So co kudos to them.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_03: It wasn't like it seemed like it wasn't like sh short or tight.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: It was like they were moving across that field.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Precisely.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because they, for instance, um beam boom boom boom.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: That tune there, they just moved all the way to the end.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was some moving.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: I like saw some of this and big like all the way across.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it it was hoofing it, having to march.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_04: Um fast tempos too.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_04: Um and so their feet really had to move.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_04: But you know what?
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_04: We can we can hear some of it.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_04: Should we listen to some of it and watch it?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do it.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do it.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_04: Let's watch the opening.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_04: You know what?
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_04: We can we can play the opening as much as we want because all this music's in the public domain, every inch of it.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_04: All right, let me see all by design.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_04: All by design.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_04: So I got let me let me uh we can screen share.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_04: Watch this.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_04: I'll do a transition.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_04: A little produce.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_04: Look at me, Purdue.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_04: Look at that! There's the show.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_04: Don't it look great?
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_04: You guys can't see it.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_04: I could see it.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_04: Looks cool.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_04: The tree.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_04: What is it?
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_04: A tree in tombstones.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_04: Is that what this was?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_04: That opening set?
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Crescent moon and bats.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_04: And bats, yeah, it's a lot.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_04: It's cool stuff.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_04: All right, here we go.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna fire off some of this stuff.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_06: Here it comes.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_04: A brief pause, Elise.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_04: Like all of that, those cutoffs, this is the most conducting I've done like in my life with the marching band.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_04: I woke, Dante, no lie.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_04: I woke up Sunday, my shit, my right shoulder was this.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_04: Well, just so much of it was so, and then you can hear me yelling, dude ready, like just trying to like it.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_03: If you could be anything, any job in the world, it would be a conductor.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's been that's been my answer my whole life.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_04: Why?
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_04: So everyone can look at your butt all concert.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_06: Is that why?
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: I want to go tap tap and go.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's my dream.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_04: You know what, Elise?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_04: We can we can do it.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_04: I can teach you, we'll we'll teach you how to conduct, we'll put you in front of the band.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it, nothing.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, because aren't we doing this for our uh our stream-a-thon?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna teach you how to ride a traveler.
• 25:40
  unknown: That's right.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: You're gonna teach me to conduct.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_04: I'll teach you how to conduct, yeah.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_04: You know what?
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_04: I believe Dante, your degree's in conducting, right?
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_04: It is.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_04: You should you should learn from him.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm a hack.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_04: I it's just it's all thrills.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_04: It's all thrill.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I took it was I think concert ban, I think it was last year or two years ago, maybe.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe it was last year, Dante, because you because you had Sammy do some conducting with you band.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_04: And Sammy comes up and he's like, oh wow, I really like how you hold the baton.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, do not do what I do.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like, just don't.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_04: It is not just don't do it.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_04: Like my conducting teacher would yell at me all the time.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_04: I'm sure Dante would if he had if I like just uh just hold it.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_04: Like I'm I'm I'm not the example.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_03: I just when do you start your sorry don't don't hate me for butchering this.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_03: When do you start your conducting lessons?
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_03: Like, is that something you study as a kid and then you learn, or is it like later on?
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: In other countries it it can start sooner.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um here in the States, most people hone in after they've done some kind of large ensemble after playing the instrument and then they move into that and make for me.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: I look at it as trading in two sticks as a percussion.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Trading in two sticks for one kind of idea.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I did high school band director, and then after that I wanted to focus on the city.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm okay to teach me conducting.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_04: I think a lot of yeah, I think a lot of college programs, it's around like sophomore junior year, that second, third year is when like you'll do a basic class, conducting class.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_04: And um some of it is like doing the arms and the stick at least, but a lot of it is like the teacher my my teacher in particular was a real hard-nosed about who was what who was playing what note, how and where were they in the orchestra.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_04: And so we'd start and he would stop and he'd go, What's the next cue?
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_04: Who's gonna play it?
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_04: And just make sure we were we were looking at the people.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_04: Because a lot of it, these conducting students get bogged at like they're listening to recordings and just going through the arm movements, the choreography, but they don't know what's actually going on.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_04: And that's that's the big that's the big piece of the puzzle.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_04: Is that so around there, I guess.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like the note, not respond to the note.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's it.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_04: Or uh Larry, oh, we'll give a shout out, Larry Livingston.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_04: He would use football he would use football metaphors.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_04: He'd be like, you know, when you're a conductor, you can't be a quarterback.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_04: So what he mean what he would mean by that is like you're not hiding where you're trying to throw the ball.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_04: He's like, if if you're conducting, everyone needs to know that wide receiver, he's the guy who's getting this football right now.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_04: And then I so that that resonated with me.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, yeah, hell yeah, brother.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_04: Like I that I can uh but yeah, that's it.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_05: Football, football.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_04: Football, yeah.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_04: So that uh Elise, that music you just heard um was written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_04: Going on, you'll notice a lot of this um music comes from like Fantasia.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_04: That's just happenstance.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_04: But I think for me, and in guiding this and kind of tweaking it and working it with Chris, like Fantasia is one of those things.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_04: A lot of this music is used in those movies, but it's used in like scary, spooky ways.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_04: So even though it's not necessarily Halloween, I think a lot of people associate these sounds with Halloween.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_04: So the next part of the show is Night on Bald Mountain.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_04: This is from Fantasia where the big demon comes out of the out of the volcano, like the big Chernobyl, and then it's uh a little bit of Sorcerer's Apprentice, just a dash, just a dab of that.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and then we've got the Firebird suite.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_04: Uh fun fact about Stravinsky, sorry, see now, sorry, Dante, I'm going down this nerdy stupid rabbit hole.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_04: Uh here's a question for everybody.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Igor Stravinsky, very Russian guy.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_04: Where do you think he lived most of his life?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_05: I know the answer to this, so I abstain.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_04: Elise, what do you think?
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_04: Igor Stravinsky.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_04: Early 20 early 20th century Russian composer, where did he live most of his life?
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um It's obviously something unexpected.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_03: Dante, does everyone know this except me?
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: Shoot.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_05: Only people who took uh classical music history in college.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_05: He answers Los Angeles, Elise.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say Paris.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_03: Trying to think of one place to live.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_04: He did, so this music we used, he did write for the Paris ballet.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_04: So he did spend a significant time in Paris, but he spent most of his life in Los Angeles, oddly enough.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_04: All right, here we go.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_04: Here's the rest of part one.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_04: Let's get cranked.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_04: Quite the You had those you had those melophones working.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I was gonna ask.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_03: What who is that?
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_03: What it's literally like, whoa.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_04: I yeah, I this this pushed a lot, this pushed a lot of the sections.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_04: Um actually honestly, it probably pushed the tubas and bones least, would be my guess.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_04: That's that music was kind of more in their pocket, their wheelhouse.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_04: But yeah, the the woodwinds and then the melophones and trumpets had to really play some some different kind of stuff.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_04: But the melophones, I think I put the biggest lift on them uh throughout.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, I don't know, Dante.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_04: What'd you think about those mellowphone parts?
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'd say they're they're at that tempo, they're marching and they have all the the runs going across.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was a challenge.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it kind of like the drum line was going off too.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, they yeah, they were motoring.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_04: They were motoring.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: They got put to work as well.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just yeah, it it it was really it was it was something else.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_04: It was really fun.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_04: Um, that was really neat to kind of put together and um machine that one out because that's a great these first two movements is a great example of like the cafe having an idea, sending me like here's the parts, and then it gets into my brain, and then it just starts to and then I spit some stuff out.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_04: Um but yeah, that was a cool one.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_04: Uh are we ready for that?
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_03: Is that how your brain works, Jay?
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_04: So part part two.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_04: So I didn't I don't think I meddled in part one too much.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think I meddled in parts three, four, or five too much.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_04: But I meddled I meddled the hell out of part two.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_04: Um editor, play the meddler theme.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so at least part two, this was the one, this was kind of like the more like the film scary music.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_04: So we did the music from Halloween.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_04: Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do like that.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_04: And if you listen to it, it's that lick forever.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_04: And it just and it just moves around and changes keys.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_04: So it's very much you know, John Carpenter wrote that music himself, uh, the director of that movie.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_04: And so it's very simple, but it is very spooky, very effective.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_04: Then we use the music from The Exorcist do do do do do do do do do and it's like that, but again, it's that over and over.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's like the tribute to Troy of um of of movies, right?
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_04: It just it happens.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_04: And so in putting together, like there was so that's one piece of the puzzle.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_04: Then you look at uh the drill and how much sort of like picture, how much imagery we're trying to do, how much story we're trying to tell.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm looking at the math, and the math wasn't mathing.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_04: There was too much drill in time and not enough music that wasn't gonna be overly monotonous uh throughout.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_04: And so Chris had sent me this version of um tubular bells that had this like rhythm underneath it, and I'm like, damn, that sounds a lot like journeys separate ways.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_04: And then I listened to another remix of the Halloween tune, and it's like and I'm like, huh.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_04: That sounds a lot like separate ways, also.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_04: And wouldn't you know it?
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_04: A couple years ago, uh the uh the television series Stranger Things used separate ways in their marketing, in the movie, and they used like a spookified version of it.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_04: And um and people and then you know, people still associate like Stranger Things, it's not a Halloween property per se, but it is scary, it can be Halloween-y.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_04: And um, I love separate ways.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_04: My brother named his dog Journey because he likes the band so much.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_04: And um, I'm like, you know what?
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna, I'm gonna put separate ways in there, and I'm gonna mash up this Halloween music over the top of it as if it's like a total overhaul Halloween, you know, separate ways thing.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_04: So I I meddled the hell out of this.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_04: Um so I don't know, but did the meddling help with the drill, Dante?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_04: I hope it did.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: It did.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it made it all come together a little bit easier and make I was able to make more sense out of it.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because it took this film music and put it into this uh poppy form, so it allowed us to work in more of a even with these uh weird meters, it took us and still allowed us to box it out, so it worked perfectly.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_04: Would you like to hear it, Elise?
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: I would love to hear it, Jake.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_04: I I'm not gonna lie, I've I really I outdid myself on this one.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_04: I put I put the work in.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_04: This this one's a bop.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_04: I think Brett, what did you say it was, Brett?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_04: You you had something nice to say about it.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_02: Now you have to get me on camera doing it.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh complimenting you.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: No, it was uh it was it was it was really a bop.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_02: I that mashup was so like chills.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_02: I got chills when I heard it on the field.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_04: Well, okay, stop.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_04: You're gonna make me blush.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_04: All right, here we go.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_05: Not to add, not to add fuel to an already raging inferno.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_03: Casey hated it, you know.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_05: This this is definitely like uh I no disrespect to your previous work.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_05: This is your finest work yet.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, well, thank you, Casey.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_04: That's kind of neat to say.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_03: Coming from Casey, that's a big deal.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_04: That is a big deal.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_04: I but I will say also, not just I do think this was my favorite drill of the show, also.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_04: It's just it the way it all evolves and maneuvers is just really neat.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_04: Because we go from the cat.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_04: What was the next?
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_04: It was the spider web.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_04: So setting up the spider web was really cool because almost like almost like pregame, like you see it coming, like you realize what it is before you get there.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, God, golly, that's awesome.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_04: And then the spider and the spider comes down.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_04: And what's funny is when I first watched the drill, I'm like, oh, how neat the tubas are the spider's web and the spider's descending.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, that's very clever, that's very fun, that's cool.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't even notice that the arm initially that the arms and mandibles moved.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_04: And so when the mandible closes and eats the drum major, it was just super cool.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_04: Um and then that just has a nice, a nice, easy, kind of explosive resolution into this kind of like surprise pumpkin.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_04: And so that was just all of that drill, I thought.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's like every moment it's like every moment was useful.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like there, it's like, yes, there was a staging set, but it like it helped build the picture, it helped to build the story.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_04: So kudos to you.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know if it was your best work ever.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: There's I like it a lot.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, like I really put a lot you were able to break down my thought process, but I did want everything to feel spooky and the web to as a spider builds a web, I wanted the form to build like a spider was building the web.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_04: So it was it worked, it jammed.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think this is my best music ever, but I'll take it.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not gonna but besmirch Casey's hype.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_04: All right, here we go.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_04: Part two.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_04: Let's see if I got my cue right.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_04: There we go.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_04: The mashup of the century.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_04: That was a fun one.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_04: That was a doozy.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_04: All right, now part three.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_04: This is for you, Elise.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_04: This is for the children.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_04: We did the song Spooky Scary Skeletons.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_04: Do you know this song, Elise?
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_04: You do, and then Grim Grinning Ghosts from uh the Haunted Mansion ride over down at Disney.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_04: But this is where we we first put the creativity into song and spirit and uh had them had them get dressed up.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_04: So did you see their costumes, Elise?
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_04: Did you see what they were?
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I saw, well, yeah.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, no, I guess maybe I didn't see their costumes in this part.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so they run out and honestly with song, it might be hard to it's hard from this high cam to kind of pick it out, but they were they were spooky ghosts, and then the spirit leaders were all in skeleton like bodysuits.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, I think I missed that part of them.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, you missed it.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_04: And I think what song had black palms and then spirit had white palms.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_04: Is that what they did, Dante?
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_04: This was fun.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_04: And then is this where we had kind of like the Beetlejuicy looking rifles come out, too?
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yes.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: If I remember correctly, I think this is where they did it at.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they did, yeah.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so the silks have been using orange and black, you know, jack-o'-lantern flags.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_04: They weren't, they didn't have jack-o' lanterns, but they looked like in those colors.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_04: And then uh we had this cool spooky fun.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_04: And so uh, let's let a rip.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_04: Let's let some spooky scary skeletons transpire.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_04: I'll fast forward a little bit, see if I can catch it right now.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: We kept the band back field, so that was different.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_04: You know, that was different.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_04: We had the band face the press box through this whole song, at least.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_04: So all doing spooky scary skeletons, the folks sitting on the south side got like the full gas of the band.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_04: Probably a lot of tuba, I think.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_04: Tubas are at the back.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_04: And uh, and then song and spirit up front looking looking beautiful in these fun costumes.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_04: Great rifle work in the silks, by the way.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_04: Fantastic.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_04: That was the the big song.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_04: Look at we got skeletons flying through the air, the song leaders looking like spooky ghosts, fun rifle work, great flag work, just a lot.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_04: This was like the big marching band auxiliary.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_04: Feature on this one.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_04: This was a lot of fun for them.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_04: And they did a great job.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_04: And I think I, you know, we talked about them having to wear wigs earlier.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_04: But you know, these these auxiliary units, they they it seems like they always steer into the wind, right?
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_04: Whenever we throw a challenge their way, they just dig in and really find something really cool to do within the parameters.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_04: So kudos to them.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Priya, Audrea, Cheryl, Jen, the whole squad over there.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say, when you guys do this, do you have to have like a full meeting to talk through all this stuff?
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_03: Because there's so many coaches, advisors, moving parts to all of this.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: There were several meetings.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_01: There was like starting with the cafe, and then meet, uh, Jake and Chris will meet.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: We'll kind of figure some things out.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_01: Even sometimes Jake and Chris has to communicate, like, hey, we need to shorten the script, so it's the the uh what's the word I'm looking for?
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_01: Tag.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's just all over.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then once we figured out everything, then we met with all the spirit units.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, here's what we're thinking, how could you make it work?
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then they hit the ground running, finding what is comfortable.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, here's what they want.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_01: They want us to be ghosts, here's what we can find.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so it just silks going to look for the silks.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_01: The students went and uh found all the right silks and they did all the things.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_01: So it was you're right, it's a team.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: At some point, it's about you know, 15 of us trying to figure this thing out.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, and and the added complication of but yes, look for a skeleton suit and a a ghost costume, but clothes that you can get out of because then they're gonna put on a red t-shirt and a blue wig during the next number.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_04: So it's like they finish and then they have a two-minute quick change to then come back out.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_04: So it it almost like a like a stage production at that point kind of a thing.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_03: So good.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so impressed.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_04: It's super fun.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_04: So now the next the next piece of the puzzle is the uh Dracula.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_04: This is I called this the TikTok movement um because I don't know this song.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_04: I had never I still have yet to hear this song in the wild.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_04: I have not heard this song.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard it on commercials.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, have you?
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_04: I haven't heard it in the wild.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's the the I I always say the band and the students tease me.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_04: It's the guy, Tame Impala, the artist.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_04: And uh the song is called Dragon.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_05: You're not wrong.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_04: You're not wrong.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_04: I listen, the the student they razz me so hard.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, you know the band team impala's like it's not a band.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_05: You know, it's it it is, it is.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_05: They're they're being obtuse on purpose.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_04: It's fine.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's fine.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_04: Um but they're they're teasing me.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_04: And uh the song, I but yeah, I've still yet to hear it.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_04: It's a neat tune.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_04: Um and I'll tell you what, some inside baseball, I hemmed and hawed over the key to put this song in just more than a lot of things.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_04: And because I we we ended up in B flat minor, but I was like, okay, B flat minor, I tried F minor, G minor.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_04: Like I would at least I don't you know, you know, I know you're not a music musician in that way.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_04: And I just was spinning my wheels trying to figure this goofy thing out.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_04: And finally I'm like, you know what?
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_04: Go back right where where my gut told me on the beginning, and we went with the initial key.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_04: And I thought this tune this tune I think turned out really well, like musically as well.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_04: The the drill's great, but I think it it hits, it does what it needs to do, I think.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so here we go.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_04: Here's Dracula.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_04: Buckle up, everybody.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_04: Now we've got Tommy in a Dracula suit with fangs and blood eye bloodshot eyes.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_04: And that was Dracula.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_04: What'd you think, Elise?
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_03: It was spooky.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_04: Spooky, yeah, it's it's a cool tune.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's a fun tune.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um no, in all seriousness, all I'm trying to do through all this music now that you told me it's one, two, three, four, five is trying to understand that, and I can't get it.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just like one, two, three, four, four, because you know, like with spirit and song core, you're a five, six, seven, eight, one, and two, and three, and four.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_03: And one, two, three, four.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_03: I just can't do it, guys.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_04: It's too much.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_04: It's too much, yeah.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's really hard.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_03: I can't hear it.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_04: Wait, wait till I tell you that this is Phrygian and really blow your mind.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_04: So we get to the big finale.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_04: Thriller is up.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_04: Of course we were gonna do thriller.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_04: We had to.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_04: We had to.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_04: Um, a lot of alumni, when they knew we had a Halloween game, they're like, okay, so are you gonna play uh Frankenstein and Hell at the Moon and Thriller?
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm like, we will play Thriller.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_04: We're not playing Frankenstein.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'll play Frankenstein.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_04: I think I did play it twice during the game, though.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_04: It is Halloween, you know.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_04: You gotta it's a great one.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_04: Uh but thriller, this is just killer, super fun drill.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, this is a Tony Fox arrangement.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_04: So we got we got T Fox back from the grave.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_04: Um just disclaimer, he is not dead.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just from Wyoming.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_04: Tony's fine.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_04: Watch, watch the a lot, like we get this full-blown this just in Tony's started.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Tony Fox, no.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_04: Uh this old arrangement pulled it, dusted this bad boy off.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_04: Uh fresh dance routine.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_04: Again, shout out Dream and Jackson.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_04: Great job to the two of you.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_04: I did I did feel a little bad uh in one of our leadership meetings.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_04: I said, Okay, we gotta do this dance routine.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_04: Let's just dance.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_04: And Jackson, I'm like, all right, I'm like, Jackson, you have to because I know he's a great dancer.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_04: And then uh Dream raises her hand and I go, Dream, because Elise Dreams in the tuba section, and the tubas don't do the choreography because they're playing the bass line.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_04: I just go, Dream, you don't dance.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_04: And then and then I'm like, well, hold on, time out.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_04: I don't mean that about I'm sure you're a great dancer.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_03: I just mean I'm not allowed to dance ever.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_04: So uh so again, again, it's it's good for me, good humbling moment for me.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_04: But they did they did a killer job making it and teaching it.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_04: So let's just do it.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_04: Let's let's get some Michael Jackson out here.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_04: Here we go.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_04: And that's it.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_04: Woo! Rob McMillan had one line.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_01: They teased him in the booth when he was done.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, great job, Rob, great job.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_01: Did they?
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_01: Did they?
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's awesome.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because you were up there, you were in the booth with them all.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's great.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_04: Nailed it Rob.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_03: Who was working the hardest?
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_04: Who is working the hardest?
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_04: You know, you know, Elise.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_03: Other than you, Jake.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, no, no, no.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_04: This band, this band, they they succeed as a unit.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_04: Every single person was putting in the effort, putting in the time.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_04: And so uh there is no I in team.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_04: You know, they had to do it together.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_04: They all had to do it, and so they did.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_04: So A plus, A plus every day.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, who had the most challenging piece?
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_04: Me, Dante up in the booth trying to wrangle the cameras.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_04: Because what you can't see in the video is that we had a north sideline camera, so so Dante was up in the booth, and I've done this before, it's a lot of fun to kind of see how that sausage is made.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_04: But like telling them, all right, take this shot, get the band, get the drill here, and cut to the close-up of the cat, cut to the close-up of you know, the song and spirit leaders doing that whole thing.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_04: Um I don't know, that's kind of tough.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_03: Dante, I feel like you did really well because during that part I was texting the spirit advisor and song advisor Nicole, being like, hey, great shots of song and spirit.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_03: So, way to go, Dante.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_03: I want to film Dante doing that.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_03: Just to see all what that entails.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_05: There is, you know, the uh the Houston Texans baseball team, they film their camera calling crew.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_05: They film their camera calling crew after every game and they put it out on Instagram, and it's always does big numbies.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_05: So maybe we do that next time.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_01: There's a mass production going on up there.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, this is a production.
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_01: This is happening.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_05: Did you catch Dante when you were up there?
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_05: Did you catch the guys doing the the replay cameras?
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's where we were in that last two minutes of halftime.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_01: We went back in that room and the replay clamors, the guy who's controlling the first down marker, all that stuff, all those graphics we're seeing, all that is happening like in that room.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it's feels like a um what was the analogy I would come up with?
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like a situation room?
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_01: A um, what you call it when a command center?
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_04: Or like the bridge the bridge of a starship.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like it was cool.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was cool.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like and they're next to each other, but they're all using a headset to make sure they understand who's getting spoken to.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, it was just and the amount of screens and the footage is just ridiculous.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_01: So it was cool.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_04: They're great.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_04: It's great, great crew up there.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_04: Big big thank you to uh to Daniel and Sean uh helping us get the videos queued up.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_04: They did a great, I mean, every one of those video starts was right on the money, every single one.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_04: Um so that was just that was just great.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_04: Again, thank you to uh thank you to Sean for giving me two extra minutes of showtime on the field.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_04: Much needed, much needed.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_04: Much needed.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_04: We ended up, and we only needed um really a minute and a half of it.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_04: We ended up leaving the field 30 seconds earlier than uh we had budgeted for.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_04: So we managed to to cut some time off the front end, sheet the corners, pick up the tempos.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_04: I almost ruined spooky scary skeletons.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_04: My whistles were a little brisk.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_04: Oh and you can hear you can hear in the recording, you can hear the whole band like settles down to like, hey, Dr.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_04: V, knock it off.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_04: Um, but yeah, that was the show.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_04: That's a lot of fun.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_04: Um great time.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for your questions, Elise.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_04: Those were great questions, helped keeping us on track with this thing.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_03: You guys are amazing.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_03: Seriously, big shout out to you all.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_03: That was an incredible show.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm wildly impressed with all of you.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_03: And to the to the band.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_03: Good job, you guys.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and spirit, and mascots, and everybody involved.
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_03: Silks, everyone.
• 57:11
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody.
• 57:11
  SPEAKER_04: The baton trollers, we didn't mention them by name.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_03: And the baton trollers, who I love.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_03: I follow them on Instagram.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_03: They are amazing, and I think they're awesome.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_04: They were wearing black, black leotars for the first movement, which was pretty cool, pretty neat.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, but yeah, all in all, great, great show, great production.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_04: Kudos to everybody.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_04: Um, Brett, my friend, we're at an hour already.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let's cut this off.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_04: So uh so I think we'll we'll save our B side uh for the next time around.
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um you should update update everybody on the Tribute to Troy Challenge.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_04: Tribute to Troy Challenge, yeah.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know the numbers yet.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_04: Um It was 80.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_04: No, so I don't know the dollar numbers yet, but I do know how many times we played tribute to Troy, which was as Brett jumped me to say, 80.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_04: 80.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh 80 tribute to Troy's.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_04: My guess was 75.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_04: So I think if we were playing Prices Right, I was um I think I'm I may have made it down on that one.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_04: I think I was good.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_04: But yeah, 80 tribute to Troy.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_04: So thank you to all who can contributed to that.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_04: Um, there's still some folks who are trying to jump on board and uh get it processed and try to get their section to to win the prizes or whatever it is.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_04: So thank you to all who contributed.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_04: I'll report what the the ultimate fundraising is uh once I get that that report from Advancement, and that's all been processed.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_04: But it was a bit it was a big day.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_04: There was a lot going on.
• 58:37
  SPEAKER_04: Good thing we didn't have college game day there, too, or who the hell knows what would have gone down.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_04: We dodged it'd have been a it'd have been a doozy.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_03: They should have been there.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_03: Mistake on their part.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, they should have been.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_04: They missed out.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_04: But um, thanks everybody.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, thank you again, Dante.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_04: Great show, great coordination, great drill, big helpful.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh thank you, Elise, for jumping in today and being just just an adorable face and voice to have on screen with us.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_04: Always a pleasure.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_02: You get to see the front and back of Elise.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_04: In the mirror, we see the full cheerleader sweater she has.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_04: Very cool.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_04: And uh, so yeah, folks, this has been TM Banter, and uh, have a great day, everybody.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_04: Fight on.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_01: Fight on.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_04: Fight on, fight on the five.