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Episode #52, Landon Padur, Senior at Auburn Riverside High School · The Recess-An Inside Look at the Auburn School District

• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, and welcome to the Recest Podcast.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm your host, Dr.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_02: Alan Spicciati, the proud superintendent of the Auburn School District.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: The Recest gives me a chance to share some really great people and programs that uh happen sometimes behind the scenes in the district, or uh maybe it's just an individual that many people don't know or they know and want to get to know better.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: And this is just a great forum for me to share those stories and to share the people uh because I have the immense privilege of being in schools all the time uh and seeing our incredible employees uh and what they do for the district and our amazing students.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: And uh what we do on the Recess Podcast at this time of year, of course, is feature our graduating seniors.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: We are already up to the class of 2026, and uh I have selected one student from each high school.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: Today's guest is our Auburn Riverside High School senior, Landon Pater.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: And so Landon is going to tell us about his really diverse uh range of interests and talents, uh his experience in school, and what he's looking ahead to.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_02: So at this time, uh it is my pleasure and honor to welcome Auburn Riverside Senior Landon Pater to the podcast.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome, Landon.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, thank you.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm very excited.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm excited too, and I think our audience is really going to enjoy this one.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um I have a little bit of a of a recipe to these podcasts.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: And we start with the very first question straight up is who was your favorite teacher and why?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, can I can I change this and pick a a favorite teacher from each school I was at?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: I will allow it, yes.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, awesome.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um I was always a big fan of um my kindergarten teacher, Miss Carroll, or I think Miss Madison now, but she was always um as my first teacher, a big influence on me.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I I remember that, or my kindergarten class was very fun.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um and where was your kindergarten class?
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: That was at Lakeland Hills Elementary.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Baker, I really, really enjoyed.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I remember Mrs.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Cameron was my biology teacher.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: She was she was very, very nice.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was one of her first years teaching when I was there, and that was always fun having her there.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I it's hard thinking back on middle school because it's like it felt like so long ago, but it wasn't crazy long ago.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: But um, and then for Riverside, uh I I actually he was on the podcast, Mr.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: Reese.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um we share a lot of interests, and we we've I have his jewelry class and I actually TA for him now in his jewelry class, so he's really fun to to hang out with and to spend time in his class.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I I listened to his episode, and it's um it kind of helped me get prepared for this one.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's a really cool guy.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I know his class is very popular with students.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um how many, like, how many semesters have you taken jewelry?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: This well, this is my brother took it, so this is my first year, but he always recommended it.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I I take choirs, so kind of fitting electives in there was always hard sometimes, but that's right.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: I got to I got to finally fit it in for my senior year.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I did one last semester and then I'm taking jewelry too this semester and then TAing as well next period after.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_02: And do you have a cool project you've done in there?
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: Right now, we're currently working on like bezel settings, so we each get like a gemstone, and then we'll put this like strip of metal around it and then attach it to like a pendant or a ring, and then it it's basically like a frame for a gemstone that we get to like wear.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's very cool.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_02: That's really cool.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's neat.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_02: You tied it into a previous episode.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, Mr.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_02: Reese, I believe was last season, last school year, and and uh he it was a great interview.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: He had a really interesting path into education, sure.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh trying to kind of start in in the jewelry industry and then and then came back.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_02: So um that's that's really fantastic.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_02: So uh you're a senior, you already mentioned okay, jewelry as a class, uh, but choir that you're involved in.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: So um why don't we let the audience know what you've been involved in?
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_02: What extracurricular activities have you done throughout your school career?
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um choir's been a big one.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: I've always been very uh heavily invested in music.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: So um choir and then I'm in the jazz choir, which takes place an hour before school, so zero period.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I've been playing guitar ever since third grade through um Jacob Osborne, Osborne Guitar Studios.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: If you're ever wanted to learn guitar, go to him.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um so guitar has been good guitar and music has been a huge part of my life, and um yeah.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_02: Very good.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: So all in the arts or anything uh outside of the arts?
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I did sports.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: I think I did three years of golf up until my senior year, and then played lacrosse through Riverside as well.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think freshman and sophomore year.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, fantastic, good.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_02: And I knew your brother through baseball, right?
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, yep.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I know your mother, she works in the office at Lakeland Hills.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and actually I met your dad too.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: So um that's good.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_02: Is that all?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh do you have any other siblings?
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just just those guys, yeah.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: All right, very good.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so you've been really involved in music.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I I think this is probably a giveaway, but what was your favorite extracurricular activity?
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think being at school an hour early, as as uh dreadful as it sounds, for for playing guitar and doing what I love, that has had a huge impact on me.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: So uh zero period jazz choir um has been one a personal favorite, and just getting to do that, getting to collaborate with my peers and the music scene and um all that fun stuff that would that's been really impactful on my musical journey.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's really cool.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's with Mr.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_02: Stenson.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: Um and in jazz choir, do you just play the guitar or do you also sing, or how's that work?
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Usually, like throughout all year until graduation, there's like it's just there's a section of singers and there's guitar players or um a piano player, a drummer, and like a rhythm section until so I I'm always playing until like June, where then we start the the graduation stuff.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like right now we just started working on our graduation song.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that I'll be singing for that just because we can't haul a lot of the equipment over for graduation, but usually one or two songs uh I sing for Jazz Quark.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: So let's let's stay on the music topic because uh I know that you are also involved in a band on your own, kind of outside of school, but obviously connected to school.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you want to talk about that?
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: So um it's me and two other seniors, uh Jackson Bonham and Callum McDougal, and we started a like benefit fundraising show to provide for kids who needed shoes for extracurricular activities outside of school or inside of school, and um through the Auburn School District.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: So we put together a benefit show at the Spanish ballroom in McMeneman's at in Tacoma, and that took place I think January 15th of 2026, so pretty recent, and um we basically raised money to try and um get shoes for people, and it was like a good fundraiser through the Auburn School District and helped and we played music, put on a good show, and we had merch there, stuff you could buy, just anything to raise money.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think we raised I mean almost ten thousand dollars.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was like a high nines, yeah.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_02: That's really awesome.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: So I mean this is a professional venue.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: And uh did did you have like, you know, 10, 20, 30 people there?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: A little more than that.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think we we kind of blew the roof off ticket expectations.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_02: I heard 300, is that true?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was just about 300, I believe, yeah.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_02: Were you nervous?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I've performed so many times, so that was probably my biggest show I'd ever done.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I still had a little bit of nervousness, but I think being with two of my lifelong friends kind of helped, you know, and then we had we had a professional band backing this up with us, and um, our our guitar teacher who I mentioned earlier was was kind of producing the show and helped run it and help run some of the song.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: So having the the professional advice and professional guidance of of uh that and my peers kind of helped me with the nerves.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: Good.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I I don't think you mentioned the name of the band.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: You want to plug it?
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, Raven Rock.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: So we are we I think we're performing at the gala upcoming um here on May 30th.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: We've done a few other sideshows and stuff like that, but after uh we all go to college, we might come back for a summer and maybe put something else together.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I'm a member of the Auburn Rotary Club, and Auburn Rotary for like three decades has raised money for uh high school student uh college scholarships, and they're they give them to students going to community college, four-year college, technical college.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, it's a great support.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: They typically give like 80 scholarships a year, so um a huge vote of confidence in our young people, thanks to Auburn Rotary for the work they do.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um they have been putting on a gala the last couple of years to raise money, and uh I've had the the fun job of uh finding some performers.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_02: So uh this year Raven Rock is gonna play along with um a string group from Auburn Riverside.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: So uh that's gonna be really fun.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: You said that Raven Rock has a I mean you've told me uh uh beforehand a wide repertoire, like you play all lots of different styles.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_02: What like give us the range?
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think that that comes from all three of us have different musical interests.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: So me I'm more rock heavy, rock-centric, and I think so is Kala kind of that sense.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: We both really like Pearl Jam, but um Jackson and Kala also really, really like country and stuff like that.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: We're all kind of big big Eagles fans, so we'll play a few Eagles songs here and there, but um we really have a different all three have different aspects of how we listen to music, and I think bringing that together kind of provides um a good sense for like what we play, and um so it's really rock to country and everything in between.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_02: That that's really cool.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh how do you get into that?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, a a lot of the music that that you've talked about uh is kind of before your time.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like for me, like you know, Pearl Jam and all that is is it does it seems like yesterday is you know, their heyday was before you were born.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: So uh how do you how do you get into that?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think most of it, I will kind of calling out another teacher here, when I started playing guitar, um I was in one uh one of my one of my classes when I started playing guitar was my fourth grade class, Mr.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Rich Dad at Lakeland Hills Elementary.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: We were doing a Black History Month project, and he kind of pushed me to pick Jimi Hendrix because he knew I played guitar, and that was sort of my gateway into old music, and ever since then it's kind of been like a spiral.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean I that was one of my first memories of listening to something from before I was born, and I was just like kind of taken away by it.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_02: That's really cool.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: Good for him.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and and you've really made the most of it.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's really cool.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um all right, let's uh I could talk music with you all day.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_02: Sure, this is really fun.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um but we're gonna move on.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, one of the things I like to ask our graduating seniors is what advice would you give to a middle school student entering high school next year?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's a great question.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um I would say have fun and enjoy yourself, but also know when the there's a time and a place for everything.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh know when to prioritize things, don't procrastinate too much.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because I feel like one of my biggest successes in uh high school was getting your work done on time.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because I feel like some of my friends would be like, oh, I I didn't do this and now I have all these all this stuff I'm falling behind on.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would I would just say prioritize what's important but still have a good time.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's really that's really good advice.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh my favorite advice to to incoming freshmen is like if you start strong, the rest of high school opens up.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like you have you talked about having electives and just opportunities to do things, uh, but if you put it off and fall behind, you know, then it's it's a real steep hill of playing catch-up.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: So wise advice.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um and I think every student has had had really great advice.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um we are recording this, of course, before graduation, uh yeah.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but this will air uh much closer to graduation.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: Graduation's super fun.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: Sounds like you've probably been there with the choir, right?
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: Performing before.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it's a great celebration.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you had an older brother go through it, obviously.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: So you know what it's about.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and then you get to this time, usually the summer uh is like that last opportunity to kind of hang with your friend group before people start to go their different ways and have different obligations.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what are you looking forward to after graduation?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, like just like you said, hanging out with my friends, get I have a I have a tight friend group and just kind of all getting those those last moments in as much as we can before we all head off and go our separate ways for a bit.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: But um uh working, raising money.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um is gonna be good for college.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um and I mean more specifically next year, because I I'm going down to uh Belmont University in Nashville to study music and to work on work in the music scene and hopefully get a job down there.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, so I I'm really excited for that stage of my life and entering the next step in the next phase.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really, really looking forward to that.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm just curious that I don't know that I've known a student who's gone to Belmont.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um you know, there's an obvious music connection in Nashville.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but how did you find that university and and just how'd you select it?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh it's funny because when I first kind of started looking into to schools like that, I knew I wanted to either do something in the music scene or in film.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember looking up, Belmont had a very good like film school, and I was like, oh, that seems cool.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: And actually the first time we went and visited it, uh, we did the film school tour.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: And then I kinda had a realization this might not be everything I want to do, and I was like, hey, I mean, guitar is my passion, music's my passion, let's let's stick on that, stick on that route.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: So next time we went, we uh visited all the music stuff and looked into like w what the music schools are, what they do, um and yeah, I'm just I'm just very excited to be down there and uh study music and be in that that uh kind of demographic.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, cool.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it's an exciting next step.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you you may or may not know I went to music school.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_02: Oh really?
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and and then uh became a band director and and then uh moved into administration.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: But I'm I'm a big believer in like uh if you can do something at a high level, it translates to other things in life.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um and if something is motivational to you, you know, you following it is okay.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's because it it it brings out the best in you and life is long, you can pivot to other things if if that's what's in the cards or keep going.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um however that works out for you.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_02: That's really great.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_02: That's really really gonna be an exciting uh time ahead.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_02: For sure.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: And uh we'll all we'll all be a little bit jealous of you in Nashville, I'm sure.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um all right.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_02: You've talked a lot about music, but I'm curious, do you have other hobbies or what do you what do you do when you're not at school?
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously play guitar.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh obviously homework.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously homework, yeah.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: I I work at a a sports store down at the outlet collection mall, so it's uh I'm usually working.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um but if the weather's nice and I'm not working, me and my cousins and my brother like to to go play woofle ball, you know, get some some woofle ball practicing.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: I love woofle ball.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh of course, love to hear that.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: But um watching baseball games is always fun.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: I love baseball.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um just getting outside, going to the gym, being active, you know, all that fun stuff.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: Good.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's really cool.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I meant to ask this before.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: When did you form your band?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: That was it was You said they're f lifelong friends or longtime friends.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: So we were we all take the same um guitar from the same guitar program, and we had talked about for our we do a show at the end of every uh school year in June.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: We talked about maybe doing a separate senior show at the last year's show.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: So we were like, okay, let's discuss that.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then our parents and our guitar teacher kind of started really discussing it, and then they were like, Well, what if we make this our whole like separate thing and you know, different than the main recital?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then we talked about doing that.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: We were originally gonna do it in November, and we're realized that's not enough time to plan it out and get everything learned.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we aimed for for January to March, and thankfully it worked out in January.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: So it was really around that um kind of beginning of school year this year where we really kind of started working on things.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, hey, we're gonna we're gonna do this, you know.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's really fun.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Good for you.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: I this may be like the bias in my memory, but it seems to me, you know, when I was growing up and and just uh in a previous generation, like the idea of a they used to call them garage bands, and like you know, a lot of kids were in a rock band or something like that.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_02: And I I think with just all the other options in life and all the electronics and video games and everything, I don't hear that quite as much.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: So I was really excited when I heard your band.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um and uh I'm I'm glad you you kind of brought that to life in senior year.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_02: I suspect you're gonna inspire some other uh student musicians in your school uh to do the same.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, great.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: So you're you you're going to Belmont, um you get to kind of write your future right now.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: W maybe you thought about what your dream job would be.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: My dream job, I mean, ideally it would be to to play on stage and play rock music, play guitar, you know.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's that's the dream.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: But um when I'm down in Nashville, I'd love to work at a guitar store.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think that would be be really fun, you know, and kinda I I feel like I'm really nerdy about guitars, so I kinda talk about the the electronics of it and the different models, different years.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: So working at a guitar store would be really fun, but you know, dream job, it's it's playing that guitar on stage.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_02: Do you prefer electric or acoustic?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Mostly electric.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: I mean I I have a few acoustics, and acoustics for me are kind of like something I can pick up and play pretty easily.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: But electrics are pretty um it it's my go-to.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Plugging in the amp and cranking aloud.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: That's I mean, honestly, that sounds great.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: Sounds like a great lifestyle.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: You have a lot of work experience already and music experience, so uh I think you'd be very employable uh in a a guitar store, music store or something like that.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Before we move on to the last question, is there anything else that you'd like to talk about?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh your time at Auburn Riverside or just uh anything general?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'll probably probably shout out a few more teachers because I kind of blanked on that earlier.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: At Mount Baker, uh Mrs.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: Carnahan was another great teacher, I forgot to mention.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: She's great.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Shillipatar at Riverside, he's my guy.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: I like him a lot.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um Mrs.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Conat was very very good.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: Walker, kind of thinking back on all my favorite teachers over the years.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: But um yeah, just kind of want to shout out some of those guys because they they kind of a good teacher can impact the way you learn and impact the how you kind of think about school, and that those are the teachers that kind of made me look forward to being in their class and in school.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that's great.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: I love hearing about uh teachers who you connect with, and you know, I could probably have a hundred different students here and and get a hundred different sets of names, uh, which is great.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: I mean it, you know, uh we all connect with different people in different ways, and and that's what everybody's here for.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so love hearing that.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for taking a moment to to acknowledge your teachers.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: All right, we're gonna wrap up with the question I always end with.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: What was your favorite thing to do at recess?
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: I I was excited for this one.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um Foursquare was always really fun.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: It got competitive sometimes, but uh I think my my go-to answer would have to be um in like fourth or fifth grade, we had like a football league that we did at at Lakeland Hills, and uh no one wasn't looking forward to recess and like waiting, going out and and playing football and it got competitive.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: We had like the teams and stuff like that.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I just remember being so excited to go out there and play football with my friends, like we were like we were in the NFL, you know, so that was always super fun.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so that's that's a twist on it.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: You said a football league.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we uh did the students organize it or didn't we?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: It was it wasn't as organized.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's that's partly um wording there, but it was like w it would be kind of like you were almost on a different team every day, kind of, but you would go out there and you know, you would just kind of play.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: I mean it wasn't too organized, but it was it was just you all go out and play football and it would get competitive sometimes, and we did the same with soccer, you know, the next week, stuff like that.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: Two-hand touch, obviously, of course.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, mm-hmm.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, any accidental like tackles like a few, but nothing nothing, nothing uh catastrophic.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: You ever get out there with your buddies and and play football these days?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's mostly woofball now.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we'll we'll we'll go toss the pig skin a little bit, me and my brother sometimes too, but nothing nothing too uh as competitive as it was back in the day.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that's that's a great memory, great story.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I don't think I've had football.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, when I go to elementary schools, frequently I see uh I see kids playing football.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh occasionally there'll be you know a principal or a custodian or somebody out there, like all-time quarterback kind of a thing.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, yeah.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um and it's just a lot of fun.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: And then obviously when the kids just run with it, that's uh probably the best.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: So um thank you, Landon.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_02: Of course.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's been really interesting getting to know you.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and I I think people enjoy this podcast.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, thank you for having me.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: I I've really enjoyed being on here.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of fun.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_02: Best wishes to you.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh keep playing that guitar and uh and making people happy.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, my guest has been Landon Pater, uh senior at Auburn Riverside, uh graduating, going on to bigger and better things as our the entire class of 2026.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we have well over a thousand students who are gonna do us proud and uh go into the world of work or apprentice programs, two-year, four-year uh military careers, uh, just a lot of a lot of really positive things.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_02: And I get to see our kids every day and hear their stories and like they blow me away.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and it's just been really great to be able to share for those voices.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: I tell you, there could be more uh who you'd just be amazed by by the quality of our young people.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_02: So thanks again, Landon.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, thanks to all of you for listening.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_02: I always ask you to share.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: So if you have ravens in your life or maybe musicians or anybody else just want to have a good listen, please share this podcast.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_02: We will be back soon.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh always enjoy connecting with you on the Recess Podcast.