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Episode 109 · Q&A & FMK · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: Good morning.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_03: How are you doing, Elise?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: Long time no see.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: Good morning, Jake.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: How are you doing this morning?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm I'm fantastic.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we missed you.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_03: We had to, we had to postpone our Jake and Elise in the morning because you were out gallivanting across the world having just a grand old time.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and so we we pushed it to this week, but I have yet another surprise for you, Elise.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for this exciting surprise?
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Tell me, Jake, what do you have for me?
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's Jake and Elise in the morning.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_03: We've got a special guest with us today.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_03: Please welcome into the room, everybody, Mr.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_03: Dante Douglas.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_03: Hi, Dante.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yo, what's up, good people?
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, all right.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_03: So uh we're here.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: We're here.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_03: You two have just been jet setting and traveling all this bi weekend.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: Um, well, actually, at least you were you were traveling before this.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_03: So it's just exciting to be here.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: We're show 10, 12, 13.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: Who knows?
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_03: But let's get into it.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_03: At least, where were you?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_03: What were you doing?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_03: Were you having fun?
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: I had a birthday, a very big birthday, and I was in Italy, um, about two hours outside of Florence, kind of in the middle of nowhere.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I was riding horses across Tuscany and truffle hunting and cooking and doing all such Italian things.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_03: Truffle hunting.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_03: Do you have a truffle pig?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: Did you have a pig?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: I wish I had a pig.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: In Italy, I have just learned that truffle pigs are no longer legal.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um Marcello, my truffle guide, explained to me that they are also not good because they just eat the truffles really fast.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I had a little truffle dog who was adorable named Ronnie.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Ronnie, the truffle dog.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, he would search around, find the truffle, get it out of the hole, and then just hold it in his mouth to salivate on it while we would went and got it from him.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, and then but I mean, come on, don't act like you've never yoinked food out of your dog's mouth and just wolfed it down yourself, right?
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_03: That's not unusual.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Not no, not unusual at all.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if any of you have met Twyla the Afghan hound, but she is uh um professional at stealing all things.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_03: All things snack, so yeah.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: Twila, is she named after the um the Twyla from uh from Shits Creek?
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: She sure is.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_03: Fun.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: She's a little uh little ditzy in her own world, and uh yes, we adopted her during um the pandemic, and we were binge watching Shits Creek at the time.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: So hence Twyla.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: No way, that's rad.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_03: All right, shout out to Twyla the Afghan hound.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so truff exciting.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_03: You so you rode horses, you went digging for truffles.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_03: Who are you with on this grand Italian adventure?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: I was actually with some USC alumni.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was a group of young ladies between 70 and 85.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I was just uh hanging with them, my mom's group of travel buddies, and they were like, why don't you join us?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Absolutely, yes, I will.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_03: And they took you around, huh?
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we we just mainly hung out together.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they did not ride horses with me, but they did one truffle hunt, and um they once how many truffle hunts did you go on?
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: What were you doing?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: I I truffle hunt every day, Jake.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's my new hobby.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_03: Understood.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_03: Understood.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: To become a truffle guide.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_03: The truffles of Orange County coming to you soon on streaming services everywhere.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_03: How cool, exciting.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well, welcome.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: I want to know what Dante was doing.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: Is it exciting as truffle hunting?
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Dante, where were you doing, man?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, banding.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I do every weekend.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: I band out.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: So where you were in Illinois, is that right?
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Champaign, Illinois.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: In our uh colleagues back backyard, um, University of Illinois.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, cool.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, doing their judging their uh annual festival.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Fun fact, it's the 50th something edition of this, like it's has a long, long, long history.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and they hosted about 42 bands throughout the state.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I did uh 1A to 3A category, which is smaller bands.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: But it was it was it was a time, it was a time.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_03: How many bands?
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: I did of the 40, I did about half.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I went from eight to one thirty speaking into a recorder.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_03: Got it.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_03: Nice, nice one eight.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: So for our listeners who don't know, one a two a bands about what size, how many students they have performing?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, one a band, you'll probably get about 30 members in a group, some smaller than that.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and so um, and then three a gets up to maybe 50, 60 range ballpark.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_03: So but fun, yeah, very cool.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: What they have great.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_03: What were you doing?
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_03: Drip music, drill, where'd they have you in judging?
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: I had I was doing uh visual uh general effect.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, how does the show make the crowd say, ooh, ah clap?
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: How well was it received?
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_03: Got it.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, and I mean that's right.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: When you're the visiting adjudicator, you don't want to be in the weeds with like you know, the music and have some like longtime band director on your back about it, you know.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, be like, who's that guy?
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: Never bring him back here, you know.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want that.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: Anyone, anyone we know, judging with you?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: Any other uh oh yeah, a good friend Greg Drain was there.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: Greg Drain.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: How is he?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: Did you did you uh chat him up a little bit about the game?
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: I did, and he actually was very commendable about making some noise at the bottom of the stadium because he said he would have done the same thing had he been here.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: For sure.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's cool.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_03: I he seems like the kind of guy who like digs the pageantry and the whole the whole shebang, right?
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_03: He gets it.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, he gets it.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: He you know, for him, he's a drill designer and an arranger, so he dabbles in both of those those areas for sure.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_03: So triple threat.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: He heard that.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: I have a question.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Who was the winner?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's two winners.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: There's a winner from the 1A to 3A.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'll have to find that information for you.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then there's a winner from 4A to 6A, and then there's a grand champion who won the day.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so it was this is very uh high, you know, call it high stakes competitive marching band, you know, where kids go in and they can go home empty-handed, or they can go home with you carry this trophy, you carry this trophy, you carry this trophy.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: And there was a school that walked away about five or six trophies.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: They won overall, you know.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: You think about math, overall, they probably win some kind of caption, which is music, visual, color guard.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can't win it all without winning some of those other categories.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of weird if you did not, scoring would be kind of jacked up.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so something rigged, something would have to be rigged for that to take place.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: But overall, good had a great time just being around band and just seeing what you know what other people are doing.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: Got a chance to see the Martian Alliionite perform twice.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's cool.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, see them do their little traditions, and then also another fun fact, they did my show.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: So it's another fun fact.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, nice.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: Look at you out there, just your drill.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's all over, man.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's like a virus, it's like just out there.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_03: The Dante Douglas drill pandemic taking over the world.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool, that's a lot of fun.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um, well, I did I did not travel this weekend, not at least out of state, but we did find our way.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_03: We had ourselves a gig of Palooza this weekend.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_03: Holy smokes! And I'm gonna I'm gonna bring in here, let me let me get Brett and KC invited to this party.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_03: There they go.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_03: Now they're on screen.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, because Brett was helping me with some of these, but we did seven gigs on Saturday, seven performances.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um, shout out big shout out to the students for digging deep and getting it done and and turning out.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of new members, a lot of first year members, a lot of freshmen out there, which is great because that you know they can practice these charts, get a few runs, learn like gigging logistics, where to look, how to turn, what to do.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw Crystal on the Taste of Soul gig.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_03: Crystal did taste of soul.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_03: Crystal did the uh church fundraiser, the 10-piece that night.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_03: Like she's really getting her music cranked out.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_03: She's got it down.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um that's awesome.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_03: No, I will say my favorite part when when we were doing the uh this well, let me run it down.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: So we started in the morning, two sort of philanthropic events in the morning.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_03: We did Taste of Soul over on over on Crenshaw.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_03: Brett, you were there for that.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_03: How'd you like Taste of Soul, Brett?
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's a vibe.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_04: There's a so many people there.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_04: Uh there's there's booths all up and down Crenshaw.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_04: There's stages for music.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_04: There's a USC marching band marching right down the middle of it, getting people hyped.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: It was uh it's it's a good time.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's a it's a fun time.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I've done that gig once before.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_03: 20 Peace Band.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_03: Were there other bands there performing at UC?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_04: I only saw I only saw one high school band and then the bands on the stage that were pumping out songs over over top of the of us marching down the middle.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, both both sides.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_03: There's a uh like a rock band stage on both sides, both ends of the block.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's like a giant block party.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and it's pretty noisy.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of fun though to kind of figure it out and make it happen, or not just give up and turn around and go back the other way, right?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: Did you guys go both ways or just down once down the stretch?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_04: Just just down from um Coliseum down to down to the end to near the I uh stocker near the IHOP.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and what it's about a mile, mile and a half.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's about about a mile.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's it's a ways, it's a bop.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_03: And so we you did that simultaneously.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_03: I was at the Citadel uh because Steve Craig there, um, they have the um they do a big cancer walk, the the big breast cancer awareness, and um it was with the American Cancer Society, and I think there were 25, 28,000 people in attendance on the walk, and so it was great.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_03: We just we got there, set up kind of in front of.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if you've all seen it.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_03: They have a big pink ribbon up on the front of the Citadel right now off the five.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_03: And so we were posted up right underneath the ribbon, 40 piece band, just playing, and then in between the charts, I'd play a cadence so we could go out and high-five the people on the walk.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_03: But it was just so wonderful to just see these people, how excited they were that we were there, and just you have survivors, you have people going through it, you have family members of those who maybe could only fight on for so long.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: So just to be out there and offer that support to the community is great, you know, tons of happy people, lots.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure we are all over YouTube.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, everyone was filming, Facebook, who knows where we're gonna end up.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: So it was it was a lot of fun.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_03: But we did that, and then right after that, came back to campus, did discover SC.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_03: This was I wanted to tell you about this, it was hilarious.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: So we were performing in front of Tommy Trojan, and so I was playing quads because we didn't have a quad player, and I'm like, eh, Ben's here.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_03: Ben can run the gig.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: I'll I'll jam, I'll have some fun.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we're marching in.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_03: I did not play the cadence all the way from the lion center, though.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_03: I learned my lesson, Dante, this time.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: Save yourself, save myself.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_03: So we we walked to the bookstore and then did the the treacherous march from the bookstore to Tommy Trojan.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: But my favorite part was uh we we turn.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't know what Ben said when he was placing the band, but like I knew what we were doing because I knew ahead of time.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_03: And we get there and I'm like, get the drums and tuba set up.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_03: So we're we're standing there with our backs to Tommy facing out, and the band was facing us, looking at us.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, and I'm playing, and I'm like trying to like, they're looking at me and I'm pointing.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, point, like I'm trying to point my with the stick, look that way, turn around.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm yelling, like, turn around.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: And finally, they were like, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't know what Ben said.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I don't know if he said we're like playing to Tommy or maybe the four.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was just I think it's at the football game.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: They thought it was after the football game.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: It was programmed.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: It was funny because they it like nobody know nobody would know anything's going on but me.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I just see Anderson looking at me, and I'm like, like we're just looking at each other.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, turn around, turn around the other way.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but we did that, and then right after that, we did uh Ben had the band go to water polo uh volleyball right after that, and then that evening there was a 10-piece that played at the fundraiser that I had hired them for.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: Again, those you know what, those quads were still on my trunk, so we I jammed with them too, um, which was fun.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_03: It was it was funny.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_03: There's a couple of you UCLA fans at church, and so I had Jeff you know get all get before we did tusk.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, Hey, is there a dentist in the room?
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_03: Well, this song's for you, bronkong, and then we just gave him tusk.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: It was a good time.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they have a volleyball shout out.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um's one of his best little buddies, John.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: His grandpa, how cool is this?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Is a uh Mr.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Bob Yoder, Grandpa Bob.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Grandpa Bob is a uh Hall of Famer volleyball player, coach, and player at USC with national championships in both.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: That that's look at Elise.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_03: How do you where do you find you just build these connect?
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: You're just in everyone's stuff.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I gotta give this one to my son.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's hanging out with the right kids.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_05: He's learning does he happen to be related to USC women's volleyball alum Aaron Yoder?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: He sure does.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: Aaron Yoder, one of my besties.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_05: Man, I remember I remember her playing at Galen Center.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: She, yeah, she's amazing.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_03: Casey, isn't there a great picture of you and Keith Yorg at a volleyball game, or is that a basketball tournament?
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_05: There it I can't remember whether it was volleyball or basketball, but there is a there's a great shot of us from uh from television.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_05: Editor, roll the clip.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_05: And uh it's yeah, it's pretty good.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: Doing a gig because Case, you were the kind of guy who did every gig all the time.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_05: Uh once upon a time, sure.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think that had any impact on the longevity of your uh academic career at USC?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: Who's to say?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: Who's to say?
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: Mayhaps.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_03: Mayhaps.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: At least did you do every gig?
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: You probably did all the gigs.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: I did.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: I was an every gigger.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Every game, every gig.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: There I was.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, carrying the pom-poms, not so hard to carry around to gigs, right?
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, they weigh like 10 ounces.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: It was okay.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_03: If even that.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: It just wind.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_03: How fun.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, well, cool.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it was a fun weekend.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: You know, again, big shout out to thanks students for uh stepping up.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_03: I think what was cool in the morning was uh the uh obviously Jeff and I had different uh groups for the two gigs we had simultaneously, but then the Discover SC gig was a lot of new faces on that one.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_03: And so that's that's what I try and like reiterate to the students all the time.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: If everyone does something, then nobody has to do everything, right?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: And we had a few, a few folks carry over.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I think you know, Zach in the drumline, he did Taste of Soul, and then he came and did this one.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: And then I remember, yeah, Santiago did my gig, and then he came and did Discover, hopped in there.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: But it's fun, you know, a lot of fun just jamming and having a good time doing Frankenstein at a way too fast tempo.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I did panic a little.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_03: Ben said Frankenstein.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, I I do I know these Phils?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: I better figure them out.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_03: Spoiler alert, I did know them.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but cool.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for you two for sharing your weekend.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I thought it'd be fun in the bye week.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we didn't have a game, we didn't have um, you know, anything really wild going on.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: So I thought it'd be neat.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: We sent out an all-call, like, hey, you have a question for the group or you want to know something about what's going on?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we'll call it TM TM Trojan Mailbag.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: There we go, the TMB Trojan mailbag.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_03: Brett, I found it.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: There it is.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, wow.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_03: Took you a what long enough.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: So, Brett, see if you can stump us, Brett.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_03: Is there uh you have the questions in front of you?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: Can you read them to us?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_04: I do have the questions in front of us.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, see, give let's hit it, man.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_03: Give us a question.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_04: First of all, I I have uh actually a comment on one of our videos.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_04: No, thank you.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_04: Some some feedback.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_04: You don't want to you don't want to hear this one?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, it's not your comment and someone else's?
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, someone else's comment.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, oh yeah, go ahead.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: That's fine.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_04: From at USC Texas X's.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, these guys talking off camera suck.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_04: Less of them.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_04: Period boars, period.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_04: And you know what?
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_04: Fair enough.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_04: Fair enough.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_04: Who's he talking about?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_04: We deserve it.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: You and KC.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_04: Oh no, no, he's almost exclusively talking about KC, I'm sure.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_05: Well, hang okay, hang on a minute.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_05: I this this, you know, this I thought about this for a second.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_05: I know exactly what this is.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_05: This guy just doesn't like my objectively correct movie takes, and it's just too cowardly to come out and say it.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_05: So, you know what?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_05: At USC Texas X's on YouTube, just at me, bro.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_05: Next time, just at me.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_04: You know, that's you know that's my pseudonym, right?
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_04: When I was attacking you.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_05: It's your alt.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_05: You're on an alt.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_04: That's my alt.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_04: That's my finster.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_04: At least.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: At USC Texas X's?
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: Is it okay?
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: Wait.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: Is it X's like my ex?
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_05: Like all my X's live in Texas.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like they had a lot of Texas X.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_05: Live in Texas.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Texas X's.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: At USC Texas X's, come on on our show.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: Let's hit it.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_05: If you want to hear me sing full karaoke of All My Exes Live in Texas on the next Trojan Spirit Streamathon, uh donate$1,233 to the Trojan Marching Band Travel Fund, and I'll do it.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: Casey, you're so fun.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: Why that amount?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_05: So I know it's him.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: Ah you know we're gonna get it would be great if we got like 10 donations in that amount.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then Casey had to sing it 10 times.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_05: I'll sing all I'll sing the whole Alan Jackson discography if they do that.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: You're here to hear first, folks.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: If we get$123,300 in in separate donations, KC's on it.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_03: He's gonna sing the song.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I I don't know if I could even hum that song to you.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: All my Texas live in wait, all my exes live in Texas.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: I I can't, it's not in my dome.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_03: It's not in there.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: But you're not gonna hear it now unless you pony up.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: We can sure use the money.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, USC Texas X's.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Where are you?
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_04: I do have a question though for you.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: The mailbag.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: Trojan mailbag.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_04: TMB.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_04: Uh time out.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, Brett, sorry.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't you and I sit in your office for about five minutes trying to figure out Trojan mailbag TMB?
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, we did.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like we we both we're like band mailbag?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: Trojan mail?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's like it's Trojan mail, but it's in a bag.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_03: Trojan mail.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, sorry, go ahead.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_04: This is for you.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_04: For Dr.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_04: Vogel.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_04: In your tenure as band director, what major changes did you make to the TMB when you took the mantle?
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's a tricky one.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_03: Some I don't think a lot of things people I don't I don't think a lot of things people would notice.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um I'll say like when you come into a program like this, like part of you doesn't want to change a lot of things because you don't want, you know, the Elise Smiths of the world coming after you, like, why are their megaphones not gold plated or whatever, you know, other shenanigans crank up.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um but I uh what I will say is I think a lot of the changes that have been made over the past couple, past few years, a lot of them are internal and came from other sources.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: Like I know coming immediately back, a lot of our students had done drum core or they had experience using um Ultimate Drill Book, the application.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_03: And so we implemented that pretty right away.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then getting into that full suite with Beam and all of that.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_03: I know, you know, Dante, you've been instrumental in getting us set up with that.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: The changes you've made to how we're operating basketball band to make that that travel more clear for them.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_03: Dr.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: Floyd bringing in Master Tour, which she and Casey use at, that's an itinerary service we use.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, so I don't know, people out there, you're not gonna notice, like, wow, that trumpet player on that bus seems really informed about their schedule and where they're going.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: And and oh, they can book a lift through that app to get them back to the hotel.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: They don't even have to like all that stuff, it's all internal, it's pretty cool stuff.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: But um, yeah, I would say it, but it's all come from other folks.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, I don't know, I don't know what I've really done other than just normal Jake stuff.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: No, he's done some stuff, man.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_03: That people would notice.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: Like what?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: I would take it.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, give us something.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Pre-game, it is not the same.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: There's a there's some edits there that people would think is normal, but like me, I nerded out about the program, and I was like, oh, here's a change.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know who did it, but it's changed.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_03: You're right.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: That was so first home game out.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: Here we are, um, coming back from the pandemic, and I did um I changed pregame and we did this.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Massive halftime show, like just this big 10-minute picture show, just blah blah blah.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: So I think that was my ego just going in there.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, that was um, you know, the the fingers and the interlocking SC, like that's a Chris Norton invention, right?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so he he did that for us, but then it was an alum who suggested, and that's kind of why the reformatting came into place.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: Always noticed because what we used to do is we would play the national anthem, then we would do a rock chart in the arcs, and then we would go into conquest.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_03: And this alum said, Hey, we should go right into conquest after the anthem because everyone's already on their feet, they're already standing.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: So, like, let's just let's keep them on our feet.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: And so, this idea of doing the fight songs as we always have, going into Tusk, then America the beautiful into the anthem, right into conquest, like that was the format, and we just needed new drill, sort of updated drill to facilitate that.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, that so you're right, that's a big change.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um, a lot of the culture stuff, I'm big on the students being accountable to sort of, you know, their their behavior and their actions.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_03: And so I think a lot of alums kind of think about what activities they were up to in their time with the TMB, and there's not a lot of that going on because I want people to be, you know, proud of the band they're a part of, but also, you know, if you bring the band to an event knowing that you're gonna get high quality band, high caliber, and sort of that sort of stuff.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: There's a very proud.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: I have the band at my wedding.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Did you?
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: I we see it.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's in the picture, it's in the intro video.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: They were awesome, they were awesome.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_03: So, okay, those, yeah.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Dante.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: Those are big, that was a big change.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_03: A massive huge one.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_03: Good question.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_04: All right, what else we got, Brady?
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_04: Um, what do I ask next?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yes, do you update old songs?
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_04: And if so, what makes it happen?
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_03: Ooh.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: All right, Elise, uh, you've you've heard these songs before.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: Have you noticed any uh any changes to songs?
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the real answer to that is no, but knowing you, Jake, in the morning, Jake, I feel like you definitely do some updates.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_03: A little, a little bit.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so good.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: So the idea, you saying you don't notice, I think is important.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but there are, I do update some of the old charts.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: I would say 90.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh oh.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, I kicked my camera.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, there we are.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_03: I pulled the cord and the camera just went wow and all over the place, trying to stretch my feet.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_03: No, um I 90% of the changes I make are we'll call it logistical.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: Like maybe there's a lick or something that has crept into the music over time that I like the band, it's just a part of it.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like the trombone slides at the end of Heartbreaker or um some of the alternative parts that maybe the horns or trumpets have put in Frankenstein over the years, things like that.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: Like I'll go through and make those edits.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: Form is a big one.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um, a lot of our charts, like it'll get written for a game, and then the form will just get changed on the fly, like, hey, cut these eight bars, skip to this, but then the music doesn't get updated and it just sticks that way for years.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: I know Tower of Power was like that for a long time.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_03: And um, and me coming in, you know, I was a total nerd.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: When I started, you know, here I have a I have a bachelor's degree in French horn playing.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: So I learned they gave me a book and I learned it.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like I knew it cold.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: And I show up to Band Camp and uh start playing Frankenstein, playing the ink, and Janine's like, ew, what are you doing?
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like, this is not what we play.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_03: And so uh a lot of changes like that.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_03: Or yeah, or um, and then the other one is some of the voicings.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: And so nowadays where we, you know, the students aren't required to bring their own instruments, and so you think a lot of these arrangements, especially the trombones and trumpets, like the students would get their own instrument, and sure, it's like there's great responsibility there, but if you're a college student coming to band, you're not gonna go buy a professional trombone, you're gonna go rent a$25 pea shooter.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: And so now that our students are on professional grade brass and you know on the advantage series in the woodwinds, the instruments fill the air differently.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_03: And so I have a question.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, are they allowed to bring their own instrument if they have one that they've played their whole life?
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um sure.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_03: We don't tell them no.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: We try to, if students have a silver, like a nickel-plated trumpet, we tell them to not do that.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_03: But we really haven't had any of those goobers recently.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_03: Um we had a trombone student last year.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_03: She played her own tenor trombone.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um but you know, it blended in fine.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: It was gold, it was um, you know, it it matched fairly well, and I think she just liked using her own instrument.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um if we have too many, so last year we had too many Alto Sachs players, so a few of them had to play their own.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_03: But no, otherwise we try to, it just helps, you know.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_03: If someone steps on an instrument, now it's not oh, this was my grandfather's trombone from World War One, like we don't have to deal with that.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_03: So but yeah, it's it's changes like that, and you know, I can maybe not have all the trombones play a particular lick, maybe only part of them, or re-voice it with the tenors and do some changes that way that are more impactful with our modern instruments.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_03: So, but nothing, nothing major.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_05: You've talked a little about this before, but really, thanks to our generous uh donors to the Trojan Marjorie Band Instrument Fund.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_05: Now we've got what?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_05: We've got all these very high quality Yamaha instruments that kind of the things that Tony did where we needed for acoustics in the olden times, uh, a lot of doubling isn't necessary anymore.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_05: Can you talk a little bit?
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, I mean, that's exactly it.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_03: So, like I haven't done this, but the ending of In the Stone, right?
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_03: The bass line is in the tubas and trombone three and trombone two and the tenor saxophones.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_03: Like they're all all of these humans are playing this lick.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_03: Where nowadays, if I'm writing something like Uptown Funk, for example, is a very similar ending.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_03: So it's just the tubas, tenor saxus, and third bones on the bass line, emphasizing it.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_03: And then the second trombones are now free to shift and help the melody, which is more apt to get lost in that sort of chaotic musical environment.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, it really is that.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_03: It's the quality of the instruments are so strong that I'm afforded uh um more unique opportunities because of that.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_03: And I can really dig into it that way.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, great question.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_03: Give us give us a question for the for the room, something that's less nerdy.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_04: Um this is quite the opposite.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_04: If you could be great at any sport, what would it be?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'll go for I have one.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: If I were I would love to be really great at basketball and just like roll up on a court over and over over just anywhere, roll up on a court.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: Venice.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: Historic, roll up on Venice Beach.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hey guys, you might if I'm Harrelson up in here, yeah.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, might if I jump in and shoot around with you and then just like juke some guys and lay up some threes, that would be that would be chef's kiss.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_03: That would be a lot of fun.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I would love to be great.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, the honest that's just for the story.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, I would love to be great at um great at baseball.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm I played baseball, but to like really be great at it would be I think would be cool.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_03: What about you guys?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_03: What you got?
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'll choose baseball just because one of the coolest things is a home run, especially in these professional parks.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you maybe did it in Little Lead or something like that, and you thought you were doing something when it went however many feet.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: But a home run in a in a professional ballpark is like one of the coolest things.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that'd be rad.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: That'd be really cool.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: So just uh swing and just watch it go, and then just to drop the bat, it's like the the ego that happens inside of that.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like uh yeah, I'm gonna jog around because you can't get the ball back at the base.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's just a moment.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: You ever hit a home run in Little League?
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: I have, I've hit several in Little League.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: I was the guy, I stepped to the plate, people backed up.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: That was that was me.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's a bragar, bragar.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was I was the bring it in guy.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: Bring it in, guys.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_04: I was a I was the kid who everyone started picking the dandelions when they when I came up to plate.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: So well, in my one year of softball, I just liked the cheers on the sides.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that tracks are like get up to bat.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I'm just gonna stay here.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, No, you have to bat.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't really want to.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_03: What about you, Elise?
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_03: What sport would you want to be great at?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: Gymnastics.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, obviously, I was a gymnast, but um, to be able to compete in like the Olympics for gymnastics, it's just, I mean, who doesn't love women's gymnastics in the Olympics?
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_03: I I I still remember, you know, night the 96 Atlanta games.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_03: I forgot, I can't remember her name, but when she just nailed that Gary Strug.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, oh man.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_03: I it's with her ankle, she just gold medal, USA.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_03: It was a great time.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_03: What a time.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_03: I probably watched two runnings right after.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_03: Just throw throw back to another podcast.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_03: I probably watched Little Giants right after, just ready to rock.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_03: Very cool.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, great questions.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Brett.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for the Trojan mailbag.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_04: And I should uh credit that to Faraz Amiri, who uh want to be credited for that question.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_04: So far, thank you things.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh current is that Tenor Sachs member?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_03: I think.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_04: Did I nail the uh pronunciation?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_04: I hope.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I I hope so.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um we'll have to check.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_03: Casey, check the BCRF.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's a I think that's a Tenor Sachs student.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_05: On it.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: All right, well, this was fun.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: So I prepped for the B side today.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_03: There's a game out in the world called FMK.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_03: If you're familiar, you could figure it out.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_03: Spell that one out for us, please.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: It's F, the letter F, the letter M, the letter K.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_03: And uh what you do, you you pick a subject.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_03: It could be anything, it could be whatever subject matter, but you're picking three things from that subject.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_03: And one of them is we'll say that your absolute favorite.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't have to be great, it could be bad, it could, it's just it's your favorite no matter what.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_03: The M, that's the one in that category.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: This is the most important.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_03: This is this is the thing you're spending your life with, right?
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_03: And the K is the one you can just get out of there.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_03: Just get rid of it.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_03: And so I thought it'd be fun.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_03: We'll do FMK, and uh we we but the subject matter, none of us knows what the other person's gonna pick.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_03: We're just gonna do it, and uh, it should be a lot of fun.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_03: So, Elise, as our special guest, um, and it and if we're running into you having to go to the restaurant, if we have to lose you, it's okay.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, what Elise?
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh what it what was your FMK today?
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_03: What did you pick?
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: So my FMK is college football traditions.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like you guys are gonna get mad at me, but my F is gonna be the Penn State White Out.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_03: Your absolute favorite.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, okay, wait, time out.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: USC, not an option for me.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_03: You took you to because all of ours, like that, those are the the favorites.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: So those that was my okay, they're not allowed to be in this.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: No USC.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: So um Penn State White Out just because um number one made for some wonderful photos, the um sign in cardinal and gold, just surrounded by a sea of white.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: Please come on our show.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: I want to meet you.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're a freaking legend.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um I love you.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know, I just think it's cool.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I appreciate that their fans can commit to like head-to-toe white pants, shoes, shirt, hats, all of the above.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: That one's like my my F.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's a sexy tradition there.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my M is just, I mean, you can't go wrong, you guys.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: The Iowa wave, just like it's my heart every time.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_03: Every how many times have you seen it?
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um on Instagram one million times in person.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to invite me out, I'm happy to we are going to Iowa next year.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'll be there.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: You know what, Elise?
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: I will direct the band.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um at you know, for a cool for a cool hundred grand, if you sponsor the trip, I'll let you direct the band at the game.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Did you hear that, everyone?
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: A cool hundred grand, and you get to direct the band at the Iowa game.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_03: At at any you sponsor an away game.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: You get to pick the game.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you could fly.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_03: I'll sit next to you on the plane, I'll share my pretzels with you.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um how about Jake and I will sit on each side of you and talk to you the entire flight.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, when you're trying to put on your headphones and zone out, I'll start grilling you.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, how'd you like that movie you just watched?
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_03: Was it fun?
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_03: What was your favorite part?
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: What is the college tradition, Elise, that you would that you would kill, that you would get rid of?
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, this is hands down.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: I hate it more than anything.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: And if this is you out there, I really don't like you.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: I hate the Stanford tree, and it needs to go away.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_03: You don't like the tree is so fun, just spinning around.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: The tree is horrible.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: I guess I've never been next to the tree.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you've never been assaulted by the Stanford tree.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: I have.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: So the tree what just kidding.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: The tree did not assault me.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_03: Hello.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he just did his crazy dancing lot just to annoy me to the all ends of the earth.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_02: It taunted you.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_01: It taunted me.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's a better word.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Dante.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for helping me with my vocabulary.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_05: Um, the person in the tree is a very prestigious position within the Stanford marching band, apparently.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_05: Really?
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: I hope it goes away.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: Go away, tree.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the tree is.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I understand.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_03: I understand.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: I get it.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_03: All right, cool.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Elise.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_03: Good one, good one.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Brett, what's your list?
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: What do you got?
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_03: What's your category?
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I wanted to suck up to you and do some movies.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_04: Classic.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_04: And I I I did prestige LA crime movies.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_04: Ooh, okay.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_04: Uh do you have a guess of which what I picked for each?
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_03: Um, no.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna say I'm hope I'm hopeful that LA Confidential's in there somewhere.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_04: LA Confidential is not on there, and it is a very good movie, though.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_04: Um it almost made the list.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_04: It's on your list.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_04: My F is Chinatown because I just love that movie.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_04: I love the era, I love film noir.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_03: You do love um political policy and and the logistics of uh Yeah, about water rights.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, water rights.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_04: Water rights always get me going.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_04: But uh this one is just a great movie.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_04: It the problem the funny thing is that all that stuff doesn't really even matter in the long run.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_04: It's not it's kind of a it's kind of a switcheroo where it's like, oh, this is a boring political drama and it is anything but that.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_04: You wouldn't know because you haven't seen China's talent, even though I've been telling you to watch it.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't seen it.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_03: I own it, I have it.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's what it's easily one of the best movies ever made.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe I'll watch it tonight.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: The last time one of you goobers suggested a movie, I watched oh, it was uh when Gabby said um bring it on.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_03: I watched it that night.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_03: You watched it?
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: I did bring it on?
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_01: I can pretty much talk you through that whole movie.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: You weren't here.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_03: We needed you.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh we needed you.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I watched it.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_03: I it was it was something.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_02: It was a it there's bring it, Jay.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know what?
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of the language in that movie is probably what you all heard at Penn State, from what I've from what I've garnered.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: Unfact, if you watch Bring It On Two, you can see the USC spirit leaders.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_03: Are you in it?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, I am not in that one, but all of my teammates are.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I guess Bring It On Two is now on the list as well of movies to go check out.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_04: All right, Brett, what's your uh what's your M for L switching gears from Bring It On Two?
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_04: Um, it's Heat.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_04: Great movie.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um I would say it's more of a merry for me because it's I would say it's a little bit more cerebral and a little bit more mood-based.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_04: Um and not quite not quite the era that I, you know, uh having a classic 1940s movie is just great.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_04: This is a more as a modern movie, but it it the mood of the movie is great.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_04: The uh the characters, the you know, having De Niro and having Pacino and Pacino being coked out is uh great.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's a little it's a little long, but um great movie.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_04: It's a fun one.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_04: Technically a great movie.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I hear there's a Heat 2 coming.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I believe.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_04: Hotter.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_04: Heat 2 Hotter.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and then number three, uh, my kill movie.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_04: Is um may might be a little bit controversial, and it's a much more modern movie, but it is a once upon a time in Hollywood.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_04: What?
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_04: What you didn't like it?
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_04: Not a fan.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_04: I I I I got the meme though.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_04: It's got the meme, it's got the pointy meme, and that's probably the best part.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_04: What did you like?
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_03: You probably have some you're probably one of these, uh, they're not nice to Bruce Lee types, yeah.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_03: Is that you?
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that was that was yeah, that's my woke take, is that there for no reason Bruce Lee takes a stray in that movie.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's true.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I I will agree.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_03: That's a little like, what are they doing?
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_03: Why are they making Bruce Lee look bad?
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that didn't make sense.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_04: But the uh the whole wish fulfillment part of the end, um, if you know, you know it's about the Manson murders.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_04: I thought that's been done by Tarant You and as satisfying that as that is for the audience, um, to see you know Sharon Tate live.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it is uh I I just not a fan.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_04: Not don't don't like it.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's fine.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_03: It's not for everybody.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: Those basic people out there like me, it was a good one.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: I enjoyed it.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_03: I liked it too.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's uh I wouldn't say it's basic.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_03: It was fun.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_03: I liked it.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_03: I like Brad Pitt.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_03: I just like Brad Pitt.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_03: You too.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: I have to Google what that movie was.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know what that movie was.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_03: You haven't seen it?
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_03: Are you a Tarant fan?
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you're doing tonight, Dante.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's are you a Tarantino fan?
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: Have you seen You Like His Stuff?
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's it it is it is of of the Ouvre.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_03: It is very much a Tarantino film.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_03: So if you like his stuff, I think you'll dig it.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_03: I think you'll like it.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_03: Got it.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_03: Well, since you're since you're you're chiming in, what's yours, man?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_03: What's your list?
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I went with sports.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, nice.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um for my favorite, it's my new favorite.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've gotten into it recently, especially with uh women's basketball, but basketball would have to be the the favorite right now.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it's just cool.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's classic.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's um energy that I don't have, athleticism that I don't have.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_00: The up and down the court, that fast-paced sport is pretty impressive, in my opinion.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: You got to do the thing until the timeout happens versus football.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_00: You get to strategize in the moment and then you go and do it.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but basketball has been my favorite, and then also working at USC kind of leads to the women's basketball part of it.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you got Lisa Leslie, you got Cheryl Miller, like these people that are legends of this activity.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you see them come back and you're watching their social media and all that stuff, and it's like, oh, I work in kind of like women's basketball headquarters in a sense, and now we got Juju and uh all these women just doing the thing and continuing the legacy.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of like the favorite, like to live into it.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: Might have to tell Ben to switch with me.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh oh.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: But um, and then most influential, I'll probably go with football, college football specifically.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: Pro football is not my thing, not exciting.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just I guess the money's too big on the table.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe college would probably get to that point.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: But the pro football thing is just it just doesn't cut it for me.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like, it's I just but football's become such a mainstay, like culture United States, like football just is the thing.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's our thing, and then the kill is gonna have to be golf.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: Casey's grandma.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't understand it.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: Ignorance may be a big part of it, but golf is just my father-in-law likes it, he plays the video game of it, he watches it, everything is like really golf for him, and I'm just like, no, it's okay.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's okay.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_03: It can't it, it's fine, it's fine.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_03: You know what, you know what that means though?
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_03: If we killed golf, then Elite, your husband would be home a lot more.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: He would.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I would say, you know, we drive right now.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_03: We drive by a golf course, uh, you know, on the way when we go to church in the mornings, and I'm like, it's just covered in all these guys at like you know, seven in the morning.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, look at these guys just escaping their their wives.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: They just love it so much.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, wait, but how come I don't have a hobby that takes seven hours on a weekend afternoon?
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_03: You could, you could maybe truffles, truffles, yeah.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_03: Truffle hunting.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_01: If there were truffles here, I would be like, see, I'm going for some truffle hunting.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_03: Beautiful, beautiful.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_01: All right, me and my truffle dog.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can have a truffle pig here.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_03: There ain't no rules.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_03: Truffle hunting in the US.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: Is that a sport?
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because I just know my name's.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_03: You got it.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_03: You're in it.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_03: Kenneth, how about you, man?
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_03: What's your what's yours?
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_05: Well, all right.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_05: Not to get too boring with it, but uh when this was pitched in our production meeting, everybody was gonna do movie categories.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_05: So I was I had to scramble last minute as people were talking just now to come up with something that isn't movie categories so that we can at least have some differentiation.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_05: Because I know you're probably doing that.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_05: So it's a good bet.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_05: I've I've settled on um Trojan Marching Band misunderstandings, classic me taking and reversing the thing.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's an interesting one.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_05: I've got a I've got a favorite misunderstanding, a most influential misunderstanding, and the one that I just want to get out of here.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_05: Just get it out.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_05: Uh my my favorite for F Trojan Marching Band misunderstanding topically is the I guess I'll just go F myself incident.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_05: Oh uh this is this is a classic uh Trojan Marching Band moment.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_05: We were we were standing around in a TA circle after a rehearsal, as we did in the era, and uh just discussing, you know, how the practice went, how the show is coming together, what we're doing tomorrow, what's gonna happen on Saturday, that you know, just regular business going through the motions after practice.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_05: And uh our friend and colleague, Jeff.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_03: Love Jeff.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_05: Uh love Jeff and Dr.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_05: Bartner, they they were kind of getting into it about some some something that doesn't matter, right?
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_05: So it's not germane to the story.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_05: It's so long ago that everyone's forgotten what what started the whole thing.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_05: Uh something like the trumpet dance routine is off or something, or classic band director stuff.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_05: Just getting real nitty-gritty with it because that's you know, that's how we make it a good show, is by sweating the small stuff.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_05: Uh so at the end of this little back and forth, Jeff kind of just throws his hands up in the air and he goes, Well, I just I guess I'll just go F myself.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_05: Okay quote the Christmas story, only he didn't say fudge.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_05: Uh and the misunderstanding comes because uh Dr.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_05: Barker had turned away.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_05: He had turned towards the other side of the circle to go talk at somebody else, and he didn't quite hear the setup for it.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_05: And uh he turned he snaps back around and he's he he heard Jeff say something totally different and he started going in on him.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_05: How you can't tell me to F myself.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh no, uh yeah, yeah.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_05: So then that was a fun, that was a fun little moment.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_05: Uh only he didn't say fudge either.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_05: Surprise, surprise.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_05: Uh just just a classic for those that were around in that era.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_05: We've got I know Chris, you Jake were here, uh Jeff, Janine.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_05: Though that crew definitely, Mark definitely remembers that incident.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_05: Wild.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_05: Just a classic.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_05: My favorite, my favorite misunderstanding.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_03: Love it.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_03: Love it.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_03: What's your uh what's your the end?
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_05: The most in the most influential Trojan March of Bad misunderstanding has got to be Penn State.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_05: Uh so in 2009, uh we played the Rose Bowl against Penn State.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_05: Uh we won that game.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_05: We did, we sure did.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_05: Mark Sanchez threw a bunch of touchdowns, edit her, roll the clip.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_05: Uh we got we we got up at two o'clock in the morning, we did the rose parade, we did the whole day.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_05: We were playing a lot of performances.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_05: So we played it, we performed at the Rose Parade, we performed in the area in and around the Rose Bowl, as we always do, several rallies and performances.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_05: We went everywhere.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, and we were we were marching around a lot, both uh on drums and uh playing fight on and doing all kinds of stuff.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_05: And we did the game, it was great.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_05: We won the game handily, uh, and everybody had a great time.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_05: Tired, exhausted, great opening experience, the end of my freshman year at USC, a great end to a freshman season.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_05: Well, a week later, the band office got a very angry letter from a Penn State fan.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_05: And the the gist of this letter, in effect, was how how dare the the Trojan marching band have in their drum cadence sound off one, two, sound off Penn State sucks.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I can let's let's pause for a second.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_03: We do have that is in the drum cadence.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_05: Uh now it is.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_05: I can positively guarantee to you that it was not before that moment.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_05: I know because I was there.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_05: Uh but you can bet as soon as the students of the Trojan marching band found out about this very angry letter from this Penn State fan, you can bet your britches that it was added immediately into the cadence and has persisted thereafter.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_05: So you know, take that to your white out and shove it, Penn State.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_05: You you have you have a shout out to Karen who You are you are the only school that is named in our drum cadence.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_05: Not even UCLA has a a lyric in the cadence, but here we are, you know, 17 years later saying sound off one, two, sound off Penn State sucks.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_03: Classic.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_05: That's that's it.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_05: She did.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_05: That's gotta be the most influential Trojan marching band misunderstanding of all time.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_03: Beautiful.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the the kill, the the the something we gotta just get out takes it all the way back to Elise's least favorite college football tradition, the Stanford Tree.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_05: So because the Stanford Tree was always so rowdy and drunk all the time, the Stanford Stadium security was very uh upsetti spaghetti all of the time about the Trojan marching band coming in and stabbing the field.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_05: And one year they just because of somebody else that isn't even us, they just decided, you know what?
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_05: You're not allowed to do that.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_05: You're not you're not allowed to stab the field anymore.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_05: And that caused a cascading effect, and everybody in the Pac-12 stopped because we travel everywhere, and sometimes we do pregame at places that aren't our own house.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_05: And everybody else stopped letting us stab the field at the end of pregame, culminating in the infamous incident at UCLA in 20, uh, I can't remember whether it was 2010 or 2012.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_05: Editor, roll the clip when the the third string UCLA kickers decided they were gonna be big man on campus and go out to the center of the field before our pregame show started to prevent us from defiling the UCLA logo by stabbing it.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_05: Which uh people kickers you know what kill kill that that that whole misunderstanding, my least favorite, because it was so dumb and it's persisted with us to this day.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_05: Get it out.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_05: Let us let the kids stab the field again.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_03: You know what, Casey?
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yours was great.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_03: I am pleasantly surprised at what you've dug out of this FMK for us.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for this Trojan marching band lore, TM Blore.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um not boring.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_03: Bye.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone say say goodbye to Elise.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_03: She's gotta go uh run the restaurant.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_03: All right, we've we've we've run out of we're her pump.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_03: There she goes, she's gone.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_03: There we are.
• 52:18
  SPEAKER_03: Luckily, I knew this was happening, so I reframed you, Dante.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: So we're we're we're set up, we're good to go.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um you're in you're in Elisa's spot.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_03: There we go.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_03: Boom.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_03: Look, Brett, I saved some of the you gotta leave the laptop closing though, Brett.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's fun.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's good.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_04: That's good stuff.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_03: That's good stuff.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_05: Um we're sure it's not too boring.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's not too boring.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_03: No, my my favorite or my FMK bro.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_03: I did so I did movies, but I wanted to do courtroom movies because we were, I think Brett, you and I were just uh kibbitzing in the office about it, so it's just stuck in my head.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_03: So my favorite courtroom you know, I'm gonna start with I'm gonna start with the middle with the M.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_03: What I think is the most important or most influential, I think, is I'm gonna say a few good men.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um it's it's just a lot of fun.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_03: I think it really kind of, especially the early 90s, kind of like helped define what maybe Jag that television series would become.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_03: Like a lot of like military uh courtroom.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_03: It just seems like a lot came from that.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_03: And then it was just such a an announcement again for just Tom Cruise and him with Jack.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's just great.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's a great movie.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um, very, very impactful.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_03: I will give an honorable mention um to To Kill a Mockingbird.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's very important.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, maybe more people, maybe, maybe we gotta get a lot of people reading that book.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_03: I think we gotta get more people in the sheets of that one uh reading it, reading it down.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I think I will say the reason it got inched out is uh I do like the book a lot more than I like the movie.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_03: I think I think the book does what it's trying to do more impactfully than the film does.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_03: So shout out to uh uh is it Harper Lee?
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_04: That's correct.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh have not read the sequel, Brett.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_03: Have you read the sequel?
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_04: I have not.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_03: I own it and it sits on the shelf.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_03: Dante, have you read it?
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_00: I have not.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_03: All right, well, okay, Trojan Book TM Book Club coming soon to a group near you.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um so that's what I think is the influential.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_03: My favorite, my most favorite, favorite courtroom movie is Liar Liar with Jim Carrey.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_03: It is so silly and it's preposterous, and just the scene where he's got the pen and the pen is blue and he's trying to say it's red, and he just physically it's just absolute peak shenanigans Jim Carrey at his finest.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_03: And I love it.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I think it was around that time, it's like 93, 94.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_03: Like within a 12-month period, I want to say it was Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura, and Liar Liar all came out like within earshot of each other, which is crazy.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely crazy to think about.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, or maybe the mask might be one.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_03: I I might be getting the movies wrong, but there's a run there as a trio of movies that's just crazy.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_03: And then the one I'm gonna kill, and Brett, I think you're gonna be mad.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um it's 12 Angry Men.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_03: Not because it's not good, but I think just the nature of that discourse and how they're all uh talking to each other.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think nowadays, like it needs to be like the subtext and the context is definitely a lot different nowadays.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_03: And I think for that story to work in this century, it's just it's gotta be tweaked a little bit.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_03: I think the story is prescient, but it needs some updating.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_04: It needs some uh it is 12 angry white men.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it is, it is you know, and jury, you know, juries are everything is different.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_03: The world is different and uh for the time very influential, very important for the time.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_03: But I think now uh it certainly and maybe it's due.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe that's what I'm saying.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's like kill it because we need to uh redo it and get it, get it spruced up for modern times.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but there we go.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_03: Not as exciting as KC's.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_03: I got upstaged by KC.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_03: We all did.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_03: We all did.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_03: It was great though.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_03: Great.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, thanks everybody uh for tuning in.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_03: This has been Jake and Dante in the morning.
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we we need an man, if I had an alt intro ready to go with like baby pictures of Dante, that'd have been killer.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_03: Next time.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_03: Next time.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_03: But Elite Elise had the jet.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks, Elise, for uh hanging on as long as you could uh through our through our technical difficulties and and recording.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, this has been another episode.
• 56:35
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• 56:47
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• 56:48
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