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Episode 101 · Band Camp: The Makings of a Trojan · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning and welcome in everybody to the very first, the number one, the inaugural episode of TM Banter, the official podcast for the Trojan Marching Band.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, everybody.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_02: My name is Dr.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Jacobold.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: I'm the director of the greatest marching band in the history of the universe.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and uh we've got a great show for in store for you today.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_02: We're talking about Bandcamp.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: How did Bandcam go?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: What went down?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: How was it?
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Did everybody have fun?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: Did everybody get sunburnt?
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Is my voice gonna stay this raspy forever?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: We'll find out in this episode.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but lucky for you, you're not stuck with me uh the entire morning, the entire uh recording.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: We've got a special guest in with us today.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_02: So please welcome to the stage none other than the greatest associate director in the history of the universe ever of the Trojan Marching Band.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: Please welcome in Dante Douglas, everybody.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, Dante.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: How are you this day?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's day after band camp.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm great.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: What was breakfast this morning?
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, just some water right now.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll grab something after the meeting.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: All right, so what's the uh so what's the go-to?
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: What's the when you do eat, what's what's it gonna be?
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just curious.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's probably a smoothie either at home or from Movita.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: Movita?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like a protein smoothie.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Peanut butter, oats, and all the good stuff.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: Doesn't it feel like everything's high protein right now, right?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like toilet paper high protein, you know, band camp high protein.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like that just It's the marketing of today, you know?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, I dig it.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we got some protein bars that I I notch down on one bandcamp, and uh it was it was not an agreeable experience.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: And so that certainly gave me a rocky start on uh I think that initial Sunday.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: But uh with us in the background, so none of you can see these humans, but sort of lurking behind all of us, we've got our our producers, I guess we'll say.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: We've got uh KC Busby.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_02: Casey, how are you back there?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, hello, Casey.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: Casey how was a band camp for you?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_04: Bandcamp for me was great.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_04: There was a lot we did a lot of stuff behind the scenes.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_04: Uh not a lot of being outside.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm I'm feeling a little, you know, a little uh a little bit of resentment from some certain individuals, but you know, that's comes with the terrorists.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: Who who are you feeling that resentment from?
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_04: I I can neither confirm nor deny the the person hosting this podcast looed me at the meeting yesterday.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_02: I did give you a hard time for putting on your big sun hat to come and retrieve equipment out of the soundbox and then immediately sun damage is no joke, Jake.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_02: You're right.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_02: Sun damage is no joke.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's why sunscreen and hats are oh so important.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so it was good to see you, Casey.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: Also lurking in the shadows.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we've got Brett Paddleford.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: How are you, Brett?
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm not gonna raise very, very early when we're recording this.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: Did you even go to sleep?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: No, no.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_02: No, you just you just are.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: You're just existing.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know why you set these podcast recordings so early, but you know.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm awake.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: I'm up.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_02: I think Dante's up.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Casey, what's your normal wake-up time?
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_04: About 57 minutes ago.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, see, all right.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_02: So, Brett, honestly, we're just we're trying to force you back into the land of normalcy, is what we're trying to do.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it you won't be successful, but I'm still here every morning for the podcast recording.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_02: There's just the one day a week, yeah.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um, good times, good times.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_02: So, Dante, I'm gonna let you uh chime in.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_02: How was what's your like your initial reflections on Bangcam?
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_02: High, like what are some highlights?
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: What popped out to you?
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think for me, I had this uh realization about what was going on.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: You I guess we can call it, you know, out of COVID a little bit.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: You can see the retention, you can see how fast we're learning things.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, year five for me, pregame was a little bit less stressful when it comes to our uh iconic slants.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they're not so bad in week one.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're gonna have a good show, uh, week one.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so those kind of things kind of let me know that we're kind of going back to normal times with normal students who could kind of help us retain the information of the program.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: So that was a huge highlight for me.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_02: And I these students are anything but normal, they're exceptional, you know.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but yeah, you said you're five free in pregame.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: And I noticed, and I think we'll just say, you know, kudos to you because you really managed to teach a substantial portion of the halftime drill.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: And for a lot of our old, you know, um alumni from from years gone by, if they're not aware of sort of the updates to teaching and what we have going on, we finished pregame.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: Really, what was that?
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_02: Thursday or Friday?
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_02: Or Friday morning.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_02: Friday morning, yeah.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we had it knocked at pretty much done, which meant that on that Saturday we got into halftime.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_02: And between Saturday and Sunday, you pretty much got us all the way to the end, right?
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_02: How much more do we have left?
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: We have another picture and then a push of a picture.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: So we learned within two blocks, we learned 13 sets.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's a lot.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's a lot of drill.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: But great, great to do it during band camp because we know everybody's there, right?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: We're not fighting class conflicts or any of that kind of stuff, yeah.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it worked out perfect.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_02: So in this drill, I noticed a lot of this opening halftime drill.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_02: Now now now we'll we'll see it in like next week's episode.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: We'll talk through the show a little bit.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: But you did integrate a lot of you know blocks and straight lines and slant looking figures.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_02: What was your did you intentionally try to lean on the fundamentals we were using in Bandcamp and integrate it into that drill?
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: That is precisely it.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if we're teaching it, why not enforce it in the in week one?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um and keeping everything on the grid, um, it kind of helps because we're everything is eight to five.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're learning flanks, we're learning all these things.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Why not incorporate them inside of the drill?
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: So it's extremely intentional to keep that.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then also going later into some circles, which helps us dress forms and all those things.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: So it kind of just keeps us locked, locked in.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: Locked in for what we got going on there.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it was all intentional.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then just to close out with the last picture, just to kind of give us a little taste of what that's like, right.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I'm not gonna say what the show is.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna let people, we're gonna wait and we're gonna let people figure it out, yeah.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um, what uh what was like a what was a beyond what you've already mentioned, what was like a highlight of the week for you?
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: Like, is there a moment that stuck out to you that you thought, yeah, this was really, really cool?
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think watching that pregame, like we just spoke about earlier, like that pregame run was like, okay, this is this is this is different, you know.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, even with our novice members, we have a few that were out there, but they weren't so far left field to where, like in the past couple of years, we've had to say, okay, maybe we're gonna have to swap this person out.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like we gave it a shot, we gave an opportunity.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: The the growth is just not as fast as the train is moving.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we may have to kind of just put them in another cart.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: But this year there were some that were on the field, but you can't really tell.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: They did a great job of blending in.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that was a huge highlight, and I think that's um part of our new hire that we have, and I think he had a great hand in making sure these people are well versed in uh TMB lingo and fundamentals.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_02: New hire?
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Who did we hire?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Sammy Perez III.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: Sammy Perez the third.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna be talking to him uh one of these episodes because he's writing he's writing some drill for you, right?
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_02: For one of these shows.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: High school band aid, if memory serves.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_02: And so tell you what, we're gonna put him to work for high school band-aid, that's for sure.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_02: Let him how many high schoolers we have?
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: Are we looking at about 2,000?
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_02: Jeeze, that's that's a lot.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: Casey how do you feel about that?
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_02: The logistics of 2,000 additional people.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_04: That's quite a lot.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_02: Thrilling commentary from the from the bleachers.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_02: Brett, how do you feel about 2,000 additional people?
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, it doesn't bother me because I I have no nothing to do with that.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that we've got that sorted out.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: We got it covered up.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go completely uh tangential on sort of a highlight for me.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_02: I really dug um the rally with the team this year.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_02: Actually, I'm gonna say I really dug any kind of interactions we had with anybody um throughout the camp, right?
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_02: Because we had uh we had the USC athletics medicine staff come and do some educational stuff for our students, and they were out on the field for quite a few sessions.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'd forgotten I asked them to be out there the entirety of Saturday, that last Saturday, which was really, I think, helpful.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_02: The heat really cranked on and got them.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_02: But they and they did, it was just great education.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: I learned a lot about what to eat.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: I'll tell you what, when that I forget who it was, but when she said, hey, make you know, fruit snacks are a great, you know, easy carb, simple sugar for you know muscle recovery, I'm like, that's it, because I am a I'm a big fruit snack fiend.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: You can find empty wrappers in my pockets all the time.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: But that was great.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: And then I loved having um when was that?
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: That was the Thursday of camp.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, Coach Gottlieb came by and talked to the students, and that was just great.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_02: And I know for you, you get to spend a lot more time, you know, obviously in Galen with men's basketball, but interactions with Lindsay and women's basketball.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_02: What was your takeaway from Lindsay coming in and talking to the students?
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_02: What do you think the value is in that having her come?
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: I just think her presence kind of just uh goes to show the students that, you know, it's a team effort.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: We're all trying to lift the brand of USC.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: We all have that wing on our shoulders, and so I think that uh played a good part for them.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: A precursor to that, she was at the um the Sparks game, sitting right there where the band ran out.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Her and her kids were right there on the corner, and so they were really geeked.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so that was just a precursor of her coming to speak to the band.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: So even if students running out, they were like, oh, wow.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: So it was it was cool.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then she's I just every time she speaks, like, because there's been you you hear it a lot, like you've been in bands, I've been in bands, and like you hear like an athletics coach or somebody like, oh, we really appreciate the band and we love the band, and that's all really great to hear, but it's just something with Lindsay, like there's there's there's something there that just really like comes through, you know, and it it's it's I don't want to say that every other folks are disingenuous because they're not, they mean it, they're sincere, but it's almost like I don't know, there's a passion, there's a love, there's just some other piece there that that speaks through when Lindsay's talking to the band, which I think is great, which is really cool.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like she was hyping them up about you know, get ready for a long haul of a trip.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's kind of cool for a student to hear that from the coach, like you will be going with us all the way.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like, so that makes them feel like they're valued in the experience.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's cool.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: Really cool.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um, playing for the football team was rad.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_02: You know, how many football players did we recruit in the band that day?
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: We had about five or six on some instruments, including the quarterback.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: That was freaking awesome.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Quarterback playing cymbals.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: Who who was it?
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, because I I'm I'm terrible with remembering names.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: Who picked up the bass drum, the big bass drum?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know his name, but that guy had to be about 6'8, 6'9.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was up there.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: Do you remember who it was who snatched up the bass drum?
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_03: I no, I can get it for you real quick, though.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Ben Ben found out.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but Jamie looked that up.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, uh, yeah.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: Could you go ahead and look that up for me, Brad?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_02: That'd be great.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I couldn't possibly be troubled to Google.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_02: Honestly, like, I'm running if you if you all can't tell at home, Casey's very nervous because I'm running this thing.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like on the stream a thon, KC drives the ship and I just act a fool.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: But here, not only am I also acting a fool, but I'm responsible for pushing the buttons and making things happen.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, Casey, how's that make you feel?
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_04: Feels great.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_04: I think our our tra we did a training session.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_04: You came to Miami.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_04: I came out to your house and sat in that very seat in your garage.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_04: So I think uh I think we'll be okay.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: We'll be all right.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: Here, let's see.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_02: Let's see.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_02: I trust you.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: I trust you.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: Should I just should I just push a wrong button just for old time's sake?
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_02: No response.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: Silence.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: Why not?
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_02: Crickets.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, what would be what would be a fun one?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I'm not gonna do it.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'm uh I won't, I won't do it.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but I'm driving the ship here too and um running all that.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: I forget what I was gonna say.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: This was me trying to buy time while Brett did his Googling a little bit of.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_03: His name is Elijah Vicona.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_03: He he is 6'8360.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_03: 6'8.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_03: He did, I believe.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: He snatched up that drum.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: Now, I don't know, did you I don't know about you, Dante, when you saw him, but when I saw him, I look out and I see this football player wearing a bass drum.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, he must have taken Zach's drum, or like that must be bass drum two, three, or four.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: And then I look around and I realize it's Ian's drum.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh my goodness, this guy is massive.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: And uh talking to Fetch after he just kind of like scooped it up, put this drum on, like it it wasn't anything.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: So felt like the drum's gonna sit on top of my head.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: It was so like just high up.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: Well, and the the ease of so I guess the good news, how easily he put that drum on.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_02: Now we know the team's in shape.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: We know they're ready, they're strong, they're ready to go.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: But to Ian's credit, Ian was really excited because after he wore that drum through Tusk or whatever it was, he gave it back to Ian.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, Oh, my back hurts.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: And so Ian's like, okay, okay, I'm not alone in this thing.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, touche moment.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, okay.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_02: I loved it.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I really liked how the team came blasting over, you know, um, to get in there and and get with the band.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: And I think you had mentioned that Mike Williams came and talked to you right before this was going down.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, it was great.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: Mike came and spoke to the leadership, the student leaders during camp, and he's the the director of player development um for the football team.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_02: So what did he what did he say to you before the team came running over?
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Or what were your takeaways?
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: As they're coming, he's in front of them.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, I hope you know they're about to get all up in y'all.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Hey, this is what we want, man.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: We want we want the interaction.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: He said, We're trying to get it back.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so you can tell he has that old Trojan spirit, and he's making sure that he uh instills that in these current players.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: It was great, it was really cool.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think we did one trombone did take a hit, uh the instrument.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um Shucks, not the person, luckily.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I think uh when we it maybe not the best decision, but hey, everyone mix up and then let's play Tusk, you know.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: But hey, listen, we're not I'm not perfect.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna make mistakes, you know.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna mess stuff up.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, what about through looking at since we brought up student leaders um and talking about the student leaders?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: We had a great cohort of student leaders, I thought, this year.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: What were some of your takeaways about them and sort of their preparedness and and getting into this thing?
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for them, uh their willingness to learn.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um the fact that we have leaders that want to be better, and not saying that the past leadership wasn't that, but uh this leadership team here, looking um deeply at them, they they seem very eager to learn and want to actually make sure the program has longevity and not just for the now.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think that's what can make a break a leadership team if they're just trying to worry about it now versus it's this gonna be here when I leave.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what this loop this leadership team is um aiming towards.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you you had some great time with them in the spring where you were um what is it, you were you were really working with them on developing a plan for sectionals and how to operate that way.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_02: Can you speak a little bit to like some of the questions and what came up in those sort of pre-summer sessions?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, in the spring, some of them uh they're great leaders already, but some of them were able to express their apprehensions of maybe running a sectional or how to lead their peers.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they they're probably really good with keeping the section motivated, but then when it comes to when we send them out for music, there's some hesitation there.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: And so we were able to kind of get some of those jitters out um and kind of just give them some um some language that could be global comments that could help, you know, keep them confident in their role.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: And so we did have some that were nervous, and then we had, you know, Jackson who's experienced at doing this thing.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so with that whole, we were able to kind of close the gap and kind of be more supportive for each other in that in that way.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was great.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: And I heard, and it was neat for me hearing them kind of reflect on it because these were I I forget why, but I was somewhere like that's right, I was with the silks and spirit leaders and I was kind of having an offshoot over there with them.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: But then in hearing them after, like even getting into the summer, I could tell that they had had these conversations and that they were reflecting and making these adjustments.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: And um, hopefully it just it pays dividends for the music as we get through the year, right?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because we have a lot of it.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: We oh, we sure do.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: We sure sure do.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: That'll be, I think that's our uh that'll be our week, I think our week seven episode.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Once we get through the onslaught, we'll be like, all right, how's everyone doing?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: Did we did we survive?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm really impressed with the sound of the band this year.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think they're playing they're really listening to each other a lot more than last year.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like I know last year we had a lot of phasing, a lot of just interesting sounds coming out of the band early on in camp.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_02: But this year they've really been listening to each other and they've really been sort of kind of locking in the sound as it uh as they've been going.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: And then when I ask them, what's been cool for me is they'll kind of start from this bass line, and when you or I are asking them to play more, everybody's doing it.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: It's not just the tubas or the drums.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's they'll you can hear the the volume dial cranks up for everyone, and that's that's been really cool.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, what was a low light?
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_02: I've got one in my back pocket.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: A low?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the heat.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is probably out of the five.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: This is probably probably the worst.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: One was kind of there, you know.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was a little hot that first year.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of had some cool summers.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: But then this one, you know, as we went through the day, it was just like that slow old school turning dial, like just gradually getting hotter.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the students handled it well.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we didn't have many casualties, but I think um it kind of speaks to the them kind of owning the environment they're in.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but it was it was pretty toasty.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was warm.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: It got warm.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think I would have preferred it to be inverse, you know.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: I think I would have preferred to have it start at that heat level and kind of, you know, but maybe we would have lost some folks, right?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: That have been like that's what me and Jeff were saying the other day.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was like, well, reverse would have been cool, but then how many flies would have dropped right from the get-go, you know?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: Right out of the gate, like this is too hot, this is too much.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Because we even still, you know, when we started, we were what, kind of the low 80s, I think.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_02: There was a nice breeze, and certainly the morning sessions weren't that dire.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, there were still a couple of students that ended up bailing in that heat.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: And so you're probably right.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: So um, but maybe it made the in and out just taste that much better yesterday.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: Did you get a burger or a grilled cheese?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I had Monty's.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Monty's?
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's the vegan burger place.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, I see.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: I see.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_02: How was it?
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: It was great.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_02: Was it?
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh always.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: Did you now was it could you smell the in and out while you were eating it?
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like you kind of like got a uh a little mix of both?
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, sure.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: But it didn't bother me at all.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't it didn't bother me not.
• 20:06
  unknown: That's funny.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: I uh I didn't make it over there.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: Did you say you had a Pat from Standard?
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Pat was over there with the ice cream, and he figured I told him you were over talking to the alums, and he figured, you know, you were out doing your thing, so he completely understood.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he just said he has to figure out which game he's gonna join us.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, as a bummer.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_02: I wanted to come see him, and it's always it's always a treat that he comes by and uh you know gives the ice cream to the students, and I think it helps keep them like engaged and alive while they're waiting in that long line for their hamburger, right?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um, did you see the the tabling from the National Marrow Donor Program, folks?
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Did the Yeah, they were there too.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think they were getting some signatures and everything, so folks are hitting up the table as well.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: So Yeah, this is great.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_02: So for those of you who don't know, the the National Marodona program, they have they they visit uh college marching bands and they get folks, they're not taking donations right then and there, but what they're they're encouraging band students in in college bands to get on their list, and this is how they um I think it's stem cell um things they're trying to get, is that right?
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: And so um for a couple years now they've come and they've visited the band and but it's always at a rehearsal, and so they get a few students who will come over.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_02: I I say a few, maybe it's 60 or 70, but this year we were able to line it up with Van Camp and that in and out truck.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: So while the students are waiting and you know, uh waiting for their turn, they could come over and support that program.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: And I think it's great to get out there and have and the band students seem to, you know, get behind it, which I think is really cool too.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: So um here's Milo.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um it was that that crowd noise machine.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: No, I figured you were gonna say that.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_02: That was oh my gosh.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: That uh I oh my I I'm never gonna recover from this.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um Brett, did you hear the white the crowd noise machine?
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: Did you get to experience this?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I did.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it I can only Describe it as this.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_02: It was now I know what it feels like to be a another, you know, a fan at a team that we're visiting.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: And when tribute to Troy is just running over and over, like that hatred, that seething hatred they feel.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: It's me, I've now experienced that.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_02: But um, I'm sure all of you out there, you've seen the news about the new Bloom facility, the new football facility.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's great, it's really cool.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_02: But they've installed these crowd noise machines, these speakers up on the light poles, like they're up there.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: And we were in the swim stadium rehearsing music.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: Well, they cranked that thing on, so that sound was blasting over into the swim stadium, hitting the wall behind the band, bouncing back into my ears, and then I had the band playing at me, and I could they couldn't hear me speak to them, I couldn't hear them speak to me.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I think what did I do?
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: I bailed 20 minutes early.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, get out of here.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, aye, aye.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_02: It was rough.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: People who were coming to watch was just like, is he dismissing?
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think we all are like, wait, this sounds like the wrap up.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: I yeah, it was quite possibly the worst day at Bandcamp ever.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it was oh, that was that was tough.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_02: That was really tough.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, I thought overall Bandcamp was a great success.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: Pre-game looked really good on the last run, a couple of things to fix and fight on, but we have time.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: And uh halftime show is in great shape.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: This first one, which is spectacular because now we can get ourselves ahead of the curve on the other stuff.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: So I'll ask this.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_02: Dante, any final thoughts on Bandcamp?
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think it went great.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think it had the right amount of ceiling height.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: It I think had we peaked any further, then I would have been a little worried.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, it's that band thing or any kind of performer.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you peak too soon, you know, the performance may not go so great.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: I think we have enough just to where we can keep them on their toes to um, you know, like we've been saying all week, it it can be good, but you know, when is it great?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're aiming for greatness, you know.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I think we left on a good note, which gives us these next three days to kind of get it to that great status.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: And Saturday morning we can have a good rep.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then Saturday, I forgot.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, 12 noon.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: So everything is kind of morning.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: The whole, yeah.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: Just it's it's crazy.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_02: That's it's we're gonna have rehearsal and and just run it and go.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like we really don't have time Saturday.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm gonna give we gotta give some kudos to our pavilion team, KC.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, can you chime in and and holler about Eva and all her work for the uh first day?
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_04: So our our student uh pavilion manager, Eva, uh, this is her third year as the manager, her final year.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna be very uh sad when she graduates uh from her fifth year architecture program.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_04: Uh this year, uh well, let me roll it back.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_04: As you may or may not recall, those of you listening, in the old times, uh instrument checkout was handled after the conclusion of the final session of Bandcamp.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_04: And it ran all night.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_04: It ran many hours into the night, into the wee hours of the morning, and many people, myself included, have very prominent memories of standing in line outside of Stonier Hall at one o'clock in the morning.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so when Jake took over, he had a directive that he s saddled all of us with, which was I want this thing, not only is orientation going to be in the afternoon instead of at night, uh, I want the instrument distribution to take place immediately after orientation, and I want it to be done in one hour or less.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_04: Uh because of the technology we have available, specifically with DocuSign and the ability to send out all these contracts very quickly and do a lot of work beforehand rather than having to have a clipboard and uh the equip and an equipment team member would be writing in pen on the contract for each person one at a time, which took a very long time.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_04: We can do a lot of stuff in advance.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_04: So uh it's been that's been the directive since 2022.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_04: And this year we have broken that record uh yet again.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_04: We broke it last year and the year before.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, but this year we set a new course record for instrument distribution, the first day of Bandcamp Day Zero, orientation day, uh 46 minutes and 13.8 seconds, largely in part to our student manager, Eva.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: Congratulations to Eva and the PAV team, and to K KC too, because a lot of those innovations, you know, the using of DocuSign, the iPads, like a lot of that came from you, right, KC?
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_04: It has been a team effort.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_04: I will say DocuSign was the was the piece I brought to the table.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh the the iPads, we had another equipment manager by the name of Sean a number of years ago who said, Why aren't we doing this on iPads?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_04: And then also we had another you our friend Matt, a you know Matt, uh was also instrumental in developing this uh when he was manager several years ago.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_04: So it's been a it's been a long-term multi-year team effort.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_02: So each path manager as they come in, they like leave their mark and improve the process year after year.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_04: You're and you recall you recall Alan.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_04: Alan helped with this.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_04: Uh two at there were two Alan, one many years ago, one a few years ago.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: Who's the Alan many years ago?
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_04: The one that lives in the Midwest.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_02: Plays Trombone.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna I'm I'm not using last names on purpose because this is a thing product going out to the internet.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_02: I understand.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_02: But uh he's like a real goofy feller.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_04: I wouldn't say goofy.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: I Alan.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Alens, uh for all you do there.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, it was band camp.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_02: We did it.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_02: Congratulations.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_02: We had a great band camp.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I'm not done with you all yet.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh I think it'd be fun because obviously during band camp, you gotta decompress, right?
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta wind down, you gotta cool your jets, as it were.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna ask everyone um, what you watching?
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_02: What were you looking at?
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Were you were you reading books?
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: Were you watching movies, TV shows?
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_02: Like, how did you decompress during camp?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_02: Who wants to go first?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_02: We'll have Dante.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_02: Dante, what you watching?
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I I'll come home and watch a show called Project Runway.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's a uh fashion show.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm aware.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm a little I'm I'm a little um that's not what I thought you would say.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_02: So what does Project Runway?
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_02: What hits it for you?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_02: What's going on?
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh arting and people designing and putting their their, you know, anybody that's willing to be outward about what they feel is creative to them, I I like to watch, um, even though these are Purdue shows as they were, but um just the way people are critiqued, you know, with editing and you know, when you think you got that right idea and you're stuck on it, and then somebody comes in the room and says, Well, this is great, but um maybe not great.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so those kind of things as an artist myself, it kind of keeps me grounded and kind of just allows me to keep refining my skills over and over.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I do watch those kind of shows.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_02: So what what if I'm gonna get into it, what should I how should I start on Project Oneway?
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's on Hulu.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, start at the beginning.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um and it's um pretty free uh pretty cool people on there, like and then it's kind of cool because I live in LA now, and so some of these people you'll see walking down the road.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: So uh a guy named Bishmi, who won uh won the show maybe a couple of years ago, just walk into the store and I saw him on the sidewalk.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of like you know, it's kind of cool.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_02: Because that's right, you live downtown, you're in it.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: I I I'm right in it.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_02: Brett, where are you?
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: In the morning firefighter firefighters in it.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, come on.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's just fun.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: Brett, you a big Project Runway Runway fan?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_04: Um, no.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: No, not at all.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: Casey, how about you?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: Project Runway?
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_04: Is this the uh designers make it work?
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_04: Is this that show?
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_04: That is.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_04: This is the show, Casey.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_04: That is the extent of what I know about the show.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_02: I've not I've I've probably caught bits and pieces of the episode in the waiting room at the dentist, right?
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: Or the uh or the doctor's office, but no, and I want to say there was a band Battle of the Classes skit.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um, that was Project Runway themed a w a few years back.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_02: So, okay, I'm on it.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_02: Hulu, you say.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, all right.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's in, it's on the list.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_02: Hey Brett, what you watching?
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_03: I uh I've been watching a documentary about the mafia about the five families in New York.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_03: So I've been uh kind of uh putting that on in the background at night.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_03: It's uh you know, it speaks to me as an Italian American.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_03: You know, my my forefathers and and how they uh, you know, created the world's greatest uh crime syndicate.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so have you picked a family that's your favorite of the five?
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_03: No, I no, I have not.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh they're all they're all pretty pretty bad people, you know.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, but come on.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's in the it's it's in the past, right?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: We can we can be team team team Lucky Luciano.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there you go.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know any of the names.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna say Team Solieri.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: Uh all right, KC, what you watching?
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_02: What have you been doing?
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_04: So watching nothing.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_04: What have I been watching?
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_04: Nothing.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_04: What have I been doing uh ca happening to coincide with Bandcamp this week?
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_04: In the video game Helldivers 2, there's a there is there was a uh campaign in which uh the player base, that's all of us, uh delved deeply into this dark void of space-time that is the source of one of the enemy factions' invasion of our galaxy.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_04: And so if you'll look on social media, you'll see many clips of of players doing all kinds of fun little adventures in this dark void darkness uh that campaign wrapped up yesterday, and I was able to get it a little bit of time in after we finished camp.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_04: So that was a nice decompression at the end of the camp day.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: I think you overestimate my algorithm and how much video game content comes through.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_04: Now that I have spoken it in proximity to your cellular device, I'm sure you will be getting some Helldivers 2, Helldivers 2, Helldivers 2, Helldivers 2 uh memes relatively soon.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_04: Although, if this answer is unsatisfactory, I did do a little bit of watching in the office this week.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_04: Uh as you know, I'm I love to put on uh Dering des Nimbelungen when I'm putting together the uh the uh Band Camp Reply form.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_04: So this week while I was behind the scenes doing stuff with contracts, I put on Tannhäuser.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_04: And so I've been watching my first couple watch throughs of Tannhäuser.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_02: Is that your favorite of the four of the ring cycle?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_04: Uh yes, the first the first one Rheingold, Dus Rheingold is my favorite.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_02: I see.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_02: But you didn't watch you didn't do that one.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_04: I did earlier this year for BCRF time.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_04: At BCRF time.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, so Okay, got it.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_02: So Dus Rheingold, BCRF, John Häuser is Well, that's new this year.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_02: I see.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_02: I just I'm trying to keep track, you know.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_02: You say classical music, my ears prick up.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_02: Also, jokes on you, my phone's not listening because I have you in cans.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: It can't hear you.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_04: It's it can.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_04: It's it I can't I promise it can.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, what is what was this game called?
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: Hell Hellfire?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_04: Helldivers 2.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_04: It's a parody of Starship Troopers.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_02: Good, good gravy.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_02: Well, good for you.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: I you know, I don't do a lot of video gaming myself, although I did do some Wii yesterday with the children.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I got them into Guitar Hero, um, which was pretty pretty fun.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_02: Erilyn did pretty well.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_02: She was she was getting there and she got a little upset that she couldn't finish we were what song were we doing?
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um spiderwebs, you know, no doubt.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_02: And uh she's like, this game's done.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_02: I never want to play again.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you've played it three times.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_02: Just keep trying, you'll get better.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_02: This is good rhythm practice.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so here's what I was watching.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_02: Here's what um here's what I was I watched.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: There's this great Sony animated film called Goat.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_02: Have any of you seen this movie?
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: Seen the come across the screen, haven't clicked watch.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_02: Check it out.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's uh it's a basketball movie, um, but it's really cool because this goat character, and it it's clearly a play the play on words is there, but it's Steph Curry produced it.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um he produced the film, he has a role in the film, but it's really neat because I think it I the sense that I get, and you'll have to tell me, Don, because I don't I don't play basketball, or you know, Brett, I know you play basketball.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_02: Dante, I know you and Marie are out there playing at um like local courts, right?
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_02: But it's this idea like someone on a local court, some player comes by, causes a ruckus, and then this this kid gets drafted up into the league because someone caught him out there.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um and then he proves then it's a you know, then it's a sports movie.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_02: But the animation, Sony animation does some really cool stuff because they do, I think they do well, they do the into the Spider-Verse films, right?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_02: Those uh Spider-Man ones.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_02: But it's just cool, really cool basketball visuals.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I think they capture some of that uh some of that like street ball culture, right?
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_02: Which I think is is neat, just the way everyone's talking to each other.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: And the reason I feel that way is because a lot of it, like I'm like, there's a reference here that I don't know, but I know they're referencing something.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: But it's cool.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_02: So since you brought up art and visuals, it's really uh it's really neat.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_02: And the kid um who plays the goat, uh, he's one of the actors from Stranger Things.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: I forget his character's name though.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_02: He's um ah anyway, but yeah, he's he's from there, so he's made his way into voice acting world.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_02: So there you go.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I that's what I watched with the kids.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_02: And then Declan proceeded to try to uh try and dunk on me in the living room for the next half an hour with this this beach ball just like bouncing around and yeah, bah bow.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_02: Like, get out of the way.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_02: Like I'm trying to do chores around here.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, cool.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, thanks, guys.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_02: This was a lot of fun.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_02: I think this is a fun inaugural episode of the podcast.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_02: How do you feel out there, producer people?
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_02: How do you feel?
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_03: We'll fix it in the edit.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_02: Fix what?
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_02: What is there to fix?
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you know, there there's there's a couple dead spots, but I think you know what you you talk through pretty well.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_02: I'm pretty good at running my mouth constantly.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so yeah, that's good.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_02: I um Casey, how about you?
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_02: How do you feel?
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'll feel much better when we see the finished, finalized uh recording from OBS.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_02: Got it.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_02: Fantastic.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_02: Mr.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_02: D, how are you?
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_02: How are you feeling?
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_04: This is awesome.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_04: Nice.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_02: There it is.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_02: See, that's what I'm looking for, guys.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_02: Just hype me up.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_02: This is great.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'll love it.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for this.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_04: That's why we're off camera.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_04: We we're the the negative Nancy's off camera.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for this fun idea.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_02: Well, all of you out there, thanks for tuning in.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I really hope you enjoyed uh this first episode.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm gonna have a better background next time.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I am not sponsored by Ryobi, but Ryobi, if you're listening, um, we'd love a sponsorship.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_02: So, all of you out there, if you're listening, download on whatever platform you're using, give us some likes, subscribe, all those usual, you know, streamer things, because the more eyeballs we get on this, uh, we can get into people's algorithms and get it out there.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_02: And then hopefully this will also serve as a means to uh raise money for the band because we do have a page that these podcasts are gonna live on where people can donate to the travel fund and um really take the concept of the stream-a-thon and extend it annually through the entire year.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and so yeah, thank you.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Dante, for tuning in or uh being a part of it.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_02: Much appreciated.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you for having me, man.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_02: And here's what I should say.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for all the work you did with Bandcamp.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, because I will say this, I kind of not that I was checked out, but this was a big year of kind of like I'm gonna say hands off.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like, all right, I'm gonna see where everybody's gonna kind of fit into the puzzle.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I want to say, like, really everybody, like Dr.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_02: Floyd got it done, KC got it, like everybody did the things that they needed to do.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_02: And so it was it was kind of nice to not have to like, not that I'm always I'm I'm still thinking about things anyway, but it just it was really locked in this year.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh so I appreciate all you do to help get us through it.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you, Dante.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thanks, man.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: I I I enjoy working here, man.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a pleasure to work for you all and be a part of the TMB.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_02: And then uh thank you, Bretton Casey, for tuning in in the background.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_03: You're welcome.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_02: All right, folks, this is it.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_02: This is TM Manter.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_02: We'll catch you at the next one and fine on everybody.