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Episode 108 · Many Happy (Valley) Returns · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

0:09
SPEAKER_03: Good morning and welcome in to TM Banter.
0:13
SPEAKER_03: What an exciting weekend we had ahead of this.
0:16
SPEAKER_03: Holy smokes.
0:18
SPEAKER_03: Penn State wideout.
0:19
SPEAKER_03: Cooked the Kittany Lions in their own home turf.
0:22
SPEAKER_03: Just an absolute thrill of a day.
0:24
SPEAKER_03: Um now I know we did say on the travel logs, you know, after trips we were going to be doing Jake and Elise in the morning.
0:30
SPEAKER_03: But Elise, you know, she is uh she's out in the world, she's on an airplane right now, uh flying over some section of Italy.
0:37
SPEAKER_03: So we're just in regular old TM Mancha, which is fine because then I can learn and hear all about all what went down in Penn State.
0:45
SPEAKER_03: So, ladies and gentlemen, everybody, welcome in.
0:47
SPEAKER_03: Dante Douglas, woo!
0:49
SPEAKER_04: Oh yay, what's up, good people?
0:52
SPEAKER_03: So uh we've got Dante in here.
0:54
SPEAKER_03: You were at Penn State.
0:56
SPEAKER_03: Um, a wild trip, an absolute, uh, an absolute banger of a time.
1:00
SPEAKER_03: Just give what what's your quick before we get to the nitty-gritty details, what's your quick reader's digest?
1:05
SPEAKER_03: Like this is this was the jam.
1:07
SPEAKER_03: This is like the the quick summary, and then we'll jump in.
1:10
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I mean, overall it was just a great trip.
1:12
SPEAKER_04: Um, you know, we did the red eye thing, got there.
1:16
SPEAKER_04: Um, students had downtime, so all that always makes the trip great.
1:20
SPEAKER_04: And then Saturday comes, we win the game.
1:22
SPEAKER_04: That's the most exciting part about it all.
1:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you know, to leave with a win is always great.
1:27
SPEAKER_04: Um, and so uh to see the team so jacked up about you know uh dispelling some myths there that they can't win on the road, you know, they've now they've done it twice this season, you know.
1:37
SPEAKER_04: So all those things make the trip really great.
1:39
SPEAKER_04: So overall, great trip.
1:41
SPEAKER_04: And you know, we'll touch on some details a little later, but overall, great trip.
1:44
SPEAKER_03: That yeah, just it seemed like a from what I saw from like the students posting, it seemed like everyone had a great time.
1:50
SPEAKER_03: Um, despite the fact that where where you were staying was not exactly like the the urban metro center world.
1:59
SPEAKER_03: Um, but it seems like everyone had a good time, did some good sightseeing, used that East Coast transit, you know, to get around and see what's going on.
2:07
SPEAKER_03: Um, we had another member of the uh the podcast team who is over in uh over out there.
2:12
SPEAKER_03: So we'll we'll bring in Teeny Tiny Brett.
2:14
SPEAKER_03: Teeny Tiny Brett, give us your quick reader's digest, uh little summary, quick hit for the uh trip.
2:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh we won and it was great, and there was 114,000 people there.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: And the highlight has to be uh playing in the tunnel or in the concourse after the uh after the game with all the team uh pushing up against the fence to hear us.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: I think this is probably gonna be super memorable part of this trip and a viral moment too.
2:44
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's it's out there.
2:45
SPEAKER_03: It's out there.
2:46
SPEAKER_03: Um I think my my my favorite part about that was uh back in 20 uh I think it was 2017, um somebody wrote an article, either like the Penn State Daily Newspaper or their student press or whatever it was, after the loss to us in the Rose Bowl, about just how not only does it is it a bummer to lose, but to like have to be there and listen to us play conquest repeatedly and do it just it like was the nail in the coffin.
3:13
SPEAKER_03: So I think it was Bob Blair reposted that um that account.
3:16
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, that's very fitting for uh for what went on here.
3:19
SPEAKER_03: Uh so KC, I imagine, I hope, uh you like me were watching on TV.
3:24
SPEAKER_03: KC, what's your quick your quick takeaway from the game this weekend?
3:28
SPEAKER_01: I sure was.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: The the the takeaway is that for the second I don't know if it's the second week in a row, but for the second time no no no since New York.
3:39
SPEAKER_01: So New York and now this were both picked up by ABC Sports uh uh Instagram.
3:47
SPEAKER_01: R both our Times Square rally and this tunnel concourse moment ABC Sports Instagram and national attention.
3:55
SPEAKER_01: That's a that was a lot of that was that was the yeah, you as high as highlighty as it can be when you're watching it on television, this was the highlight, was was the after.
4:06
SPEAKER_03: Now the question is what are you and I gonna do in Wisconsin and Indiana to like bring the hype?
4:13
SPEAKER_04: I don't know if that's uh that's a hard uh thing to try to even compete with.
4:19
SPEAKER_04: Uh Wowsers.
4:20
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
4:21
SPEAKER_03: Okay, so let so let's let's talk through the trip.
4:23
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
4:23
SPEAKER_03: So you fly out Thursday night, red eye.
4:26
SPEAKER_03: You get there Friday, like you said.
4:28
SPEAKER_03: We you know that was the the collect yourself day.
4:30
SPEAKER_03: Obviously, the hotel rooms aren't ready at 10 a.m.
4:32
SPEAKER_03: or whenever you get there.
4:34
SPEAKER_03: Right.
4:34
SPEAKER_03: Um, but I think most of the students just cut to the wind, right?
4:37
SPEAKER_03: They just went off and did whatever they were doing.
4:40
SPEAKER_01: Well, you packed up bags in his little room and you kind of touched on it earlier in an earlier episode, but if you could reiterate, Jake, for the people at home, why is the red eye happening?
4:51
SPEAKER_01: What's what's the deal with the red eyes?
4:53
SPEAKER_03: Um well, I think uh the big thing has to do with people showing up late on Friday morning, right?
5:00
SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, shout out to Keldrick, notoriously late to early morning call times.
5:06
SPEAKER_03: Uh who else is notorious?
5:08
SPEAKER_03: Who else can I can I tag in there?
5:10
SPEAKER_03: Uh Drumline, just as a as an organism, notoriously late in the mornings.
5:14
SPEAKER_03: And so we were, you know, the first the first couple years in the Big Ten, we were flying out Friday morning listeners.
5:20
SPEAKER_03: And uh, and that was fine.
5:21
SPEAKER_03: And we but we were going early so that they could have some downtime on that Friday to kind of get their their brains and thoughts collected.
5:27
SPEAKER_03: And typically we would arrive at hotel, maybe hotel check-in times, maybe a little ahead of it.
5:32
SPEAKER_03: But really, those, you know, three, two a.m.
5:35
SPEAKER_03: three a.m.
5:35
SPEAKER_03: call times were just not were not were not happening.
5:38
SPEAKER_03: Students just, and I think rightfully so, it's like you go to band practice Thursday night, you pack, you go to bed, and you're like, oh crap, and they would wake up late.
5:45
SPEAKER_03: And so it was Dr.
5:46
SPEAKER_03: Floyd had the idea, well, why don't we try red eyes and then maybe they'll sleep on the plane and they can kind of just get there early on Friday, chill.
5:53
SPEAKER_03: The rooms won't be ready, but we'll have storage rooms and we'll do that.
5:55
SPEAKER_03: And so I don't think either scenario is perfect.
6:00
SPEAKER_03: Um, truth be told.
6:01
SPEAKER_03: I think the best thing would be if we were on, you know, if we had a charter plane, you know, and we had our own plane with our own crew, and then we could leave, you know, we could leave at a reasonable time and maybe stay closer.
6:12
SPEAKER_03: But I don't know.
6:12
SPEAKER_03: I think it's we'll see.
6:14
SPEAKER_03: We'll see how it goes.
6:15
SPEAKER_03: And then maybe on future trips it'll be red eyes with Mr.
6:18
SPEAKER_03: Douglas and non-red eyes with Dr.
6:20
SPEAKER_03: Fulkle.
6:21
SPEAKER_03: Uh or or a mishmash or where we're going, you know, and I think part of it is price too.
6:25
SPEAKER_03: You know, we've saved a little money um using these flights.
6:28
SPEAKER_03: So it's it's all of the above.
6:29
SPEAKER_03: But anyway, so that's the rationale there.
6:31
SPEAKER_03: So you get there, the students go out, but you had a fun Friday plan as well.
6:35
SPEAKER_03: So what did you and uh Mrs.
6:38
SPEAKER_03: Dr.
6:38
SPEAKER_03: Marie Douglas, what did you what did you two embark on on Friday?
6:42
SPEAKER_04: Uh we needed to get the parking passes and the credentials uh before we arrived so we can make sure we can navigate traffic with the past is present.
6:51
SPEAKER_04: So I took um our SUV and it came in handy that I drove down, which took about an hour 50 to get there.
7:00
SPEAKER_03: Um, is that like a California hour 50, or was it like a like an hour 50 of just on it the whole time?
7:07
SPEAKER_03: Just every minute you see.
7:09
SPEAKER_04: Um it's the slightly big bear drive, if that makes sense.
7:13
SPEAKER_04: Not so, not so inclined, but through and through, kind of, you know, going through those LA mountains kind of thing.
7:19
SPEAKER_04: It felt like that.
7:20
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
7:20
SPEAKER_04: It was uh really cool views, you know, water, you know, rivers and creeks and stuff.
7:25
SPEAKER_04: It was really cool.
7:25
SPEAKER_04: Nice.
7:26
SPEAKER_04: Um, so we go out and do that.
7:28
SPEAKER_04: Um, just to check out, you know, see what state colleges has to offer, you know.
7:32
SPEAKER_04: Uh Greg's my great friend.
7:34
SPEAKER_04: So just to hang out, hear what he's doing with his band.
7:36
SPEAKER_03: Um that's Greg Drain, director of the Penn State Blue Band.
7:39
SPEAKER_04: That is him, that is him.
7:41
SPEAKER_04: Um, so for fun fact, for those of you don't know, he me and him went to the same high school.
7:45
SPEAKER_04: We're from the same neighborhood.
7:47
SPEAKER_04: He's older than I, but I went to school in March with his uh younger siblings.
7:51
SPEAKER_04: So um we go way back.
7:53
SPEAKER_03: He's a lot older than you.
7:54
SPEAKER_04: We'll just shout out Greg Drain.
7:55
SPEAKER_03: You're an old man.
7:59
SPEAKER_03: So we do that.
8:01
SPEAKER_03: Um, we should have had him join.
8:03
SPEAKER_03: We you know that would have been cool.
8:04
SPEAKER_03: Now you know what?
8:05
SPEAKER_03: Maybe we'll do maybe in the spring, we'll do like a like a Big Ten band director.
8:10
SPEAKER_03: Big old how does that sound, everybody?
8:11
SPEAKER_03: We'll get we'll try to get as many of them in the room as we can.
8:13
SPEAKER_03: I'm sure like John and Barry and Corey, they'd all be down, I bet.
8:17
SPEAKER_04: Oh, I'm sure.
8:18
SPEAKER_03: I'm sure.
8:19
SPEAKER_03: Anyway, so you you go to and you went to his you caught his rehearsal on Friday, right?
8:23
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, caught their rehearsal.
8:25
SPEAKER_04: Uh checked them out, you know, um just to see other college bands, how they rehearse their flow is always cool as well.
8:31
SPEAKER_04: Um, cool another fun fact, they were doing actually my drill designs that same weekend, so that was cool to see that live is always cool to see drill designs come to life, as you all hear on the other podcast as well.
8:44
SPEAKER_04: Um then surprise come, I'm doing the anthem.
8:48
SPEAKER_04: Like I didn't know until I knew that I was doing the anthem, and so I was pretty geeked about that to be doing um the anthem in front of it.
8:55
SPEAKER_03: So tell me about that.
8:56
SPEAKER_03: So you're there, they're rehearsing pregame.
8:58
SPEAKER_03: Now, before before we do the anthem, does he do do they do like the visiting team fight song?
9:04
SPEAKER_03: And then do they do some kind of drill reflection of the visiting team?
9:08
SPEAKER_04: That was all before the anthem.
9:10
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
9:10
SPEAKER_04: So they do their tunnel exit, they get in place, and then they write boom, they're into the anthem.
9:16
SPEAKER_04: Okay, got it.
9:17
SPEAKER_04: Okay, so it kind of works well that if the guest conductors there, the guest conductors doing the thing, and now it's now let's welcome our fans, and then they went on to fight on right after that.
9:25
SPEAKER_03: So nice, okay.
9:27
SPEAKER_03: Did they do uh did the interlocking SE?
9:29
SPEAKER_03: It was cool.
9:29
SPEAKER_03: Okay, I was gonna say, yeah, what what was the visual?
9:31
SPEAKER_03: Probably the interlocking SC, right?
9:32
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they did the interlocking SC.
9:34
SPEAKER_04: So that was that was cool to see.
9:35
SPEAKER_03: And I think I remember you telling me that at Penn State, like the pregame, these shows, like these visiting band version or these visiting all these versions, they're like hard-bound books, right?
9:46
SPEAKER_03: On Greg's shelf.
9:47
SPEAKER_03: Is that were you telling me that?
9:48
SPEAKER_03: Or you said the visiting band books or the the drill, all all the different pregames with the visiting band, like that drill, like he has these like pregame shows as books, and then when the the conference blew up and changed, now all of a sudden he's got to write all this new drill and bring all these new people in.
10:03
SPEAKER_03: Or am I or am I getting stories?
10:05
SPEAKER_04: No, all of them have to do all of them are you know in this position to where they have to do it.
10:09
SPEAKER_04: Um, because you know, they had these teams for a while and they can just go to this form that you know, PyWare file, you can pull it up.
10:16
SPEAKER_04: But now that this is our first time at their stadium, he uh allowed one of his alums, one of his former grad students, to do the interlocking SC for the first time.
10:25
SPEAKER_04: So got it.
10:26
SPEAKER_04: It was cool how they have to go when they do all that for us.
10:29
SPEAKER_04: It's just pulling our flag off the shelf.
10:31
SPEAKER_04: That's how we've integrated into the big team.
10:33
SPEAKER_03: That's as much as they're gonna get.
10:36
SPEAKER_03: I don't have time to deal with this.
10:37
SPEAKER_03: Um, all right.
10:38
SPEAKER_03: So you're up there, you're watching rehearsal, and then how did you find out you were doing the anthem?
10:44
SPEAKER_04: He was like, Hey, come down for a second, and I'm like, Okay, and they have the tall tower like everybody else has the luxury tower, the four levels of metal tower that they can see the drill, all great, you know, luxury, beautiful, not Felix Field stands.
10:58
SPEAKER_04: Um, so they have those things, and I'm scattering down, trying to see what it was.
11:03
SPEAKER_04: I had no idea.
11:04
SPEAKER_04: He said, All right, this is how you get the horns up.
11:06
SPEAKER_04: He tell me how to get the horns up, and I'm like, get the horns up.
11:09
SPEAKER_04: He's like, Yeah, you're conducting the anthem.
11:10
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, okay, great.
11:11
SPEAKER_04: Good thing I know that it's in three.
11:13
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
11:14
SPEAKER_04: Um he said, and it's the regular anthem, not the one y'all do.
11:17
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know, regular.
11:18
SPEAKER_03: No, no, no.
11:19
SPEAKER_03: Ours is regular, regularly awesome.
11:22
SPEAKER_03: Um drum.
11:24
SPEAKER_03: Did you, you know, I did that.
11:25
SPEAKER_03: Did you blow through the formata like I did with Notre Dame, or did you get it right?
11:29
SPEAKER_04: I got it right the first time.
11:30
SPEAKER_04: It was it was it was it was cool.
11:33
SPEAKER_04: Um, so uh, you know, it's the anthem.
11:35
SPEAKER_04: So how bad can you mess it up?
11:37
SPEAKER_04: Um I mean, I don't know.
11:38
SPEAKER_04: I believe it.
11:39
SPEAKER_04: But it was cool, and then he said that was the run.
11:41
SPEAKER_04: All right, see you later.
11:42
SPEAKER_04: Cool.
11:42
SPEAKER_04: What?
11:43
SPEAKER_04: Nice.
11:44
SPEAKER_04: So, you know, there it was.
11:46
SPEAKER_04: You know, that's awesome.
11:48
SPEAKER_03: What's how how would you describe the just a little bit since you were there inside baseball?
11:52
SPEAKER_03: What's what's the flow or what's like the uh the aesthetic, the environment at a Penn State blue band rehearsal?
11:58
SPEAKER_03: Like how long were they out there?
11:59
SPEAKER_03: What were they doing?
12:00
SPEAKER_03: Is it very quiet?
12:01
SPEAKER_03: Is it very noisy?
12:02
SPEAKER_03: Like what all of that?
12:03
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this is their Friday rehearsal.
12:06
SPEAKER_04: So they went from four to five forty-five, I think.
12:09
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, okay.
12:11
SPEAKER_04: Um, for them, our Saturday morning, this is their Friday, where they're full gas, full volume, making minor adjustments.
12:19
SPEAKER_04: Our Saturday is their Friday.
12:20
SPEAKER_04: They actually do, I think, a Saturday true walkthrough inside of the indoor facility.
12:25
SPEAKER_04: So um, it's a little different, but you know, uh not necessarily quiet, they have their things that they do.
12:32
SPEAKER_04: Um in comparison to us, it is quiet.
12:35
SPEAKER_04: Um, but it's still it's not a library rehearsal kind of thing.
12:39
SPEAKER_04: Gotcha, okay.
12:40
SPEAKER_04: Um, fully locked in, kind of doing their thing.
12:42
SPEAKER_04: Same thing, they did sectionals.
12:44
SPEAKER_04: Of course, they didn't bring it in like we bring it in, but they brought it in, kind of went, did a music block, full music block, same flow, sectionals, full music block, halftime, then pregame.
12:55
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
12:56
SPEAKER_04: Um, so if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
12:59
SPEAKER_03: Works out.
13:00
SPEAKER_03: No, that's cool.
13:01
SPEAKER_03: Um did they I I think I realized this, you know, seeing Minnesota because we we joined in on their uh their anthem.
13:09
SPEAKER_03: So we've I've seen them rehearse and then um who else have I seen?
13:14
SPEAKER_03: Uh Michigan.
13:15
SPEAKER_03: We kind of saw that.
13:16
SPEAKER_03: Well, Michigan was that was a little different.
13:17
SPEAKER_03: We were seeing them kind of get started for an audition block, right?
13:22
SPEAKER_03: So it was a lot of people like in squads out there like sweating things down to get ready for the audition thing.
13:28
SPEAKER_03: Um, and then yeah, seeing Utah, but yeah, the the bringing it in, there's like no formality.
13:32
SPEAKER_03: It's like all of a sudden the clock hits a time and they all just start wandering.
13:36
SPEAKER_03: Is that kind of what it was?
13:37
SPEAKER_03: They just start meandering in.
13:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he was like uh it was similar to our stations where we like in band camp doing the loud countdown over the loudspeaker.
13:44
SPEAKER_04: Okay, like got 10 minutes moving in in 10 minutes kind of thing.
13:48
SPEAKER_04: Um so you just made you just reminded me of something too within that um section of block, they had uh pregame trials happening on the field.
13:58
SPEAKER_04: Nice, nice.
13:59
SPEAKER_04: So people people were um auditioning for their sp for their spot in pregame.
14:04
SPEAKER_04: So I like with their TAs.
14:08
SPEAKER_03: Getting all these, getting all these ideas, pre-game auditions.
14:10
SPEAKER_03: What do you think, Brett?
14:11
SPEAKER_03: You want to do a pregame audition?
14:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh not really.
14:15
SPEAKER_00: No, I mean we don't have the luxury, so I guess it's a moot point.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we could if it happened during sectionals, we could make the luxury.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: I guess that's true.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: That means does that mean they have to learn that spot immediately?
14:26
SPEAKER_00: I mean, do they know the spot that they're going to be in?
14:29
SPEAKER_04: It seems like there's one or two people assigned to a spot.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: And they're challenging for one their their spot.
14:37
SPEAKER_04: From what I've seen, it was about eight people.
14:40
SPEAKER_04: I don't know how many people are going out for a position, but there was like two squads doing the thing.
14:45
SPEAKER_04: So yeah.
14:46
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
14:46
SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of pressure.
14:50
SPEAKER_03: I love it.
14:51
SPEAKER_03: We'd we have never mind.
14:53
SPEAKER_03: I was gonna I was gonna start talking smack.
14:54
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna stop.
14:56
SPEAKER_03: Um, it does remind me of a of a Brett.
14:58
SPEAKER_03: You know, you and I marched in a squad together.
15:00
SPEAKER_03: Did you know this?
15:01
SPEAKER_00: Did we?
15:02
SPEAKER_00: We did.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: Did you know this?
15:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you, me, Mrs.
15:05
SPEAKER_03: Vogel, and Rick Cox.
15:07
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
15:08
SPEAKER_03: Was this what bowl game was it?
15:09
SPEAKER_03: This was the Las Vegas Bowl, the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl against Fresno State.
15:15
SPEAKER_03: Um I think we I think we won that game.
15:19
SPEAKER_03: We did.
15:20
SPEAKER_03: We did.
15:20
SPEAKER_03: We sure did.
15:22
SPEAKER_03: That same uh day or the the game the the a brief sidebar, excuse me, Dante.
15:28
SPEAKER_03: We'll get back to Pet State in a second.
15:31
SPEAKER_03: But uh my brother had graduated from the the Sheriff's Academy or the police academy that the night before the game.
15:37
SPEAKER_03: So I was there at that, so I missed that rehearsal.
15:40
SPEAKER_03: I missed the bus.
15:40
SPEAKER_03: So then Jessica and I drove through the night out from the high desert to the hot to the casino.
15:46
SPEAKER_03: We basically parked the car, grabbed our crap, walked through the casino, out the other side, and onto the buses to go to game day rehearsal in the whole shebang, right?
15:54
SPEAKER_03: And I'll never forget it, Brett, because it's one of my favorite stories.
15:58
SPEAKER_03: Is we get out there, and then because we were in a trumpet squad, now we have a horn and an alto, like in line two.
16:04
SPEAKER_03: Dr.
16:04
SPEAKER_03: Partner's up there, he's like, Look at this, Jake and Jessica missing rehearsal.
16:09
SPEAKER_03: Now they're in the second line, they're gonna ruin pregame, so let's all make sure we're really good so they don't blow it.
16:15
SPEAKER_03: And then we start running it and we get to the squad maneuvers.
16:18
SPEAKER_03: And Brett, do you know who missed all the squad maneuvers?
16:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm gonna say Rick Cox.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: No, it wasn't me.
16:25
SPEAKER_00: It was you, yes.
16:26
SPEAKER_00: No, I don't I don't believe it.
16:27
SPEAKER_03: It was you and Rick.
16:29
SPEAKER_03: And now I will say what I think it was is because you were telling us the squad maneuvers as we were going, and so I think, but because then with he blows he's like, Britt, Rick, they they didn't even they weren't even here at rehearsal, they already know the trail.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, it's a core memory.
16:48
SPEAKER_00: I like it.
16:50
SPEAKER_00: To excuse myself, um, I don't remember any of that, to be honest, but the I do remember that the night before I promised uh a one Fabian Corona that I would wait up until he got there that night and so we could go play blackjack.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh I waited till like four in the morning because I promised him he did not show up and eventually I had to sleep, and I think I got like two hours of sleep before that rehearsal.
17:14
SPEAKER_03: It's listen, it's a valid excuse.
17:17
SPEAKER_03: As as the doctor, I'll give you I'll sign the excuse for him on that one.
17:22
SPEAKER_03: But that, you know what?
17:24
SPEAKER_03: That that's I have marched in a two times with Rick Cox in pregame squads.
17:29
SPEAKER_03: That that bowl game, and then I think it was uh maybe a holiday bowl.
17:35
SPEAKER_03: Um, and in that time it was me, Rick, Jessica Belch, and then there was a uh freshman who was the only person who knew the squad.
17:42
SPEAKER_03: Her name was Sunny, freshman trumpet player.
17:44
SPEAKER_03: And uh we went to rehearsal, it's like all us three grizzled old guys, and we're like, all right, what are the squad maneuvers, kid?
17:53
SPEAKER_03: But she was great.
17:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she did a really good job teaching us, and then we were all like we hyped her like right before we marched into the three of it.
17:59
SPEAKER_03: We got around and were like, let's go, Sunny, squad leader of the year, blah.
18:02
SPEAKER_03: Like it was it was a good time.
18:04
SPEAKER_03: All right, so you do rehearsal Friday, you drive out two hours.
18:08
SPEAKER_03: Did you get a chance?
18:08
SPEAKER_03: Like, did you get to hang out with Drain at all?
18:10
SPEAKER_03: Or did you was it like out and then right back?
18:13
SPEAKER_03: How what was that like?
18:14
SPEAKER_04: Uh we hung out the hangout was touring the facilities and stuff like that.
18:18
SPEAKER_04: So uh he showed us around and why they became the blue band if they have like it's kind of archived out inside the band hall.
18:25
SPEAKER_04: So it was pretty cool.
18:26
SPEAKER_03: That's cool, nice.
18:27
SPEAKER_03: And then you drive back.
18:28
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so then it's game through the mountains, through the mountains again, two hours.
18:32
SPEAKER_03: Um so you get back, boom.
18:34
SPEAKER_03: It's game day.
18:36
SPEAKER_03: Let's go.
18:36
SPEAKER_03: It's it's game day.
18:38
SPEAKER_03: All right, so you get there.
18:40
SPEAKER_03: Uh, did you have any like did you have a good amount of time before you had to suit up, or was it really like kind of a park and go situation?
18:46
SPEAKER_04: Like uh no, we we we chunked it, we put the time into where they can kind of experience the environment.
18:54
SPEAKER_04: Um they didn't seem to get any uh negative reports then because I guess they probably just looked like fans and not the the army marching in, you know, that's a different perspective, right?
19:03
SPEAKER_04: Uh so people are still sober at 11 a.m.
19:07
SPEAKER_03: ish, you know.
19:08
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we were we're there a little early before everything ramps up.
19:13
SPEAKER_04: Um, but in that time, drumline had a chance to take their stands over to the huddle where we'll be playing at later.
19:20
SPEAKER_04: So they used that time to do that.
19:21
SPEAKER_04: The kind of um what's the word I'm looking for?
19:24
SPEAKER_04: Sightsee the campus, yeah, within that transition.
19:27
SPEAKER_04: So they were able to do that.
19:29
SPEAKER_04: Um, and so we had about an hour and a half down.
19:32
SPEAKER_03: That's oh, good.
19:33
SPEAKER_03: That's good.
19:33
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was it was a good little amount of time down.
19:36
SPEAKER_04: Um, good restroom break.
19:38
SPEAKER_04: We was we was cool.
19:39
SPEAKER_04: And then when it was time to get dressed, we still had we had a 30-minute time window to get dressed, so they're not rushing back, they're just kind of like a mosey along and do the thing.
19:47
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's I went to the creamery, the Penn State Creamery.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: See?
19:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: And what'd you get there?
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Cream?
19:56
SPEAKER_00: Well, unfortunately, because well, first of all, it's a humongous line to get a scoop of ice cream, and uh, I wouldn't get a scoop of ice cream anyway because I'm lactose intolerant.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: But we did uh I got a huge bag of uh cheese curds, smoked cheese curds that were just amazing.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh I shared it with the bus.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: Everyone loved them.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: So uh shout out to the Penn State Creamery, uh, that I guess is the known as the like first uh ice cream produced by students on campus um at Penn State.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of a cool little thing that they have, yeah.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: That's fun.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: So you can't eat ice cream, but you can eat cheese.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know it doesn't make much sense.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: Actually, the this cheese still uh hurt my stomach, but it was worth it.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: Was it?
20:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:43
SPEAKER_03: Like I warned the students last night in preparation for Wisconsin if you don't eat a lot of dairy on the regular, you know, don't don't start when you're on the road.
20:52
SPEAKER_03: You don't want to find out the hard way, right, Casey?
20:56
SPEAKER_01: I was just about to say, don't don't tell Chris Norton that you think those cheese curds were good.
21:01
SPEAKER_01: He'll be offended on a spiritual level.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's true.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: Well, he's gonna expose us too much cheese when we are in Wisconsin in two weeks.
21:10
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, how yeah, very fun.
21:12
SPEAKER_03: Um, okay, so you're there on campus, you have some good downtime, always great, always fun to explore a little bit.
21:17
SPEAKER_03: Um, a little tough these these land grant schools.
21:20
SPEAKER_03: You can only see like a little corner in an it's a there's too far to go.
21:25
SPEAKER_03: Uh all right, so then you suit up, you go and you were near the band hall and you go to the huddle.
21:31
SPEAKER_03: And I'm I imagine the from there to the huddle, probably uneventful.
21:35
SPEAKER_04: Oh, what you say?
21:36
SPEAKER_03: Uh or no, it started right away.
21:38
SPEAKER_03: I'm trying, I'm like I was trying to map it out.
21:40
SPEAKER_03: All right, so you you suit up and then all hell breaks.
21:43
SPEAKER_04: We're we're parked off in like, you know, they're typical, to your point, land grant institutions where the band could be potentially ducked off.
21:49
SPEAKER_04: So blue band is ducked off their facility, their field is all kind of like off backside of campus.
21:55
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
21:56
SPEAKER_04: So we parked in a place where, you know, typical things we don't have to worry about.
22:00
SPEAKER_04: Helmets, like we can just relax and let our hair down and not be, you know, head on the swivel at that moment, right?
22:06
SPEAKER_04: If you will.
22:07
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
22:08
SPEAKER_04: Um, so yes, we are kind of like hiding out, like backstage Disney.
22:12
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
22:13
SPEAKER_04: Um then we kind of come around the corner, people start hearing us, and right where we hit the corner, it's like this big open field where the tailgates are.
22:22
SPEAKER_04: Like it's just boom.
22:25
SPEAKER_04: Oh, student tailgates?
22:26
SPEAKER_04: It's student fans, you know, based off the amount of red cups I've seen, that might have been the students.
22:32
SPEAKER_04: And looking at the age, it was a point of that that it was like, Oh, yeah, nice.
22:38
SPEAKER_04: This is this is the area.
22:40
SPEAKER_03: So you're marching through that, you're hearing all the stuff, right?
22:44
SPEAKER_03: Uh, trying to traverse the sidewalks right by the outhouses.
22:47
SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
22:47
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it is right right by all the porta potties.
22:50
SPEAKER_04: So you can imagine game day lines trying to use the porta potties, and we're marching on the sidewalk and a whole ass marching band comes through.
22:58
SPEAKER_04: Oh man, what a time, what a time.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: It was like a wild animal enclosure.
23:03
SPEAKER_00: We have the them coming up to the fence and just like shaking the fence and yelling at us.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
23:09
SPEAKER_04: So to Brett's point, that is happening.
23:11
SPEAKER_04: And I'm like, Well, good thing they're behind the gate.
23:13
SPEAKER_04: And then, you know, to uh Brett's point, an opening of the gates happen, and you're like, Oh crap, here we go.
23:19
SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
23:20
SPEAKER_03: All right.
23:21
SPEAKER_03: So you go through that, they're yelling.
23:23
SPEAKER_03: I'm sure.
23:24
SPEAKER_03: Now, my ex the probably the closest I've been to something like that was Corvallis, Oregon State.
23:29
SPEAKER_03: Um, and it wasn't acting, it wasn't the band at that point.
23:32
SPEAKER_03: It was me going to go conduct the anthem.
23:35
SPEAKER_03: And I think I heard every every bad word I could ever think of, even words that used to not be bad that are now bad.
23:41
SPEAKER_03: I heard.
23:42
SPEAKER_03: So, did you hear all the bad words on the way?
23:45
SPEAKER_04: Every last one of them.
23:48
SPEAKER_04: Every last one of them.
23:49
SPEAKER_04: The one I like the most when we travel is the while you wearing sunglasses, the sun is down.
23:55
SPEAKER_04: Like, that is the funniest.
23:58
SPEAKER_04: That gets me every time.
23:59
SPEAKER_04: I know it is great.
24:00
SPEAKER_04: Every time it like it makes them mad that we have one chaise and the answer to that question is because it pisses you off.
24:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because we're cool.
24:08
SPEAKER_01: You person mad at us.
24:11
SPEAKER_03: Oh, great.
24:12
SPEAKER_03: All right, so you get through that, you go in the huddle, a very spacious huddle, I imagine.
24:16
SPEAKER_03: Oh sh uh uh sure.
24:20
SPEAKER_04: So um, we get in there, and it was that moment where you know, 20 piece would have been ideal, but what's fun in that, you know?
24:28
SPEAKER_04: Let's go in there and clog up the space, you know.
24:30
SPEAKER_03: Yep, yep.
24:31
SPEAKER_04: Um, and I mean, we're literally we're in it, like everybody's it's a big happy family happening in that place.
24:40
SPEAKER_04: Um, I end up looking trombones turned around to play to the people who were kind of sitting out in the arena a little bit, as you if you will.
24:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
24:48
SPEAKER_04: Um, so it was just the perfect amount of madness that started the day.
24:53
SPEAKER_03: Cool.
24:53
SPEAKER_04: Um, and that actually continued.
24:55
SPEAKER_04: That's what we'll hear later.
24:56
SPEAKER_04: But that started the day of just chaos.
25:00
SPEAKER_04: Um, and that was cool.
25:02
SPEAKER_04: Then after that, it was got uh we did something a slightly different.
25:04
SPEAKER_04: We actually ate right after that.
25:06
SPEAKER_04: Oh neat.
25:07
SPEAKER_04: So we went downstairs, and that's when we had the second meal because we fed them the first meal before we left the hotel for our little Bop 2 State College.
25:15
SPEAKER_03: So came down now.
25:16
SPEAKER_03: Were you were you hidden from the Penn State people while you were eating?
25:19
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, we're inside their ice arena, you know.
25:22
SPEAKER_03: Um ice hockey?
25:23
SPEAKER_03: Ice hockey arena.
25:24
SPEAKER_03: Yes, okay.
25:27
SPEAKER_03: Uh okay, cool.
25:28
SPEAKER_01: So uh I ice?
25:30
SPEAKER_01: What's what's ice?
25:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you mean what's in my drink?
25:34
SPEAKER_03: No ice in this one today.
25:36
SPEAKER_03: Uh okay, so then you're there, you eat, then you march to the stadium.
25:39
SPEAKER_03: I imagine much more of the same shenanigans going to the stadium.
25:43
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
25:44
SPEAKER_03: Uh you get in, get up to the seats, up into the stratosphere nice and early.
25:50
SPEAKER_03: Uh the game goes the game starts.
25:53
SPEAKER_03: So it starts.
25:54
SPEAKER_03: So how was it?
25:55
SPEAKER_03: Like, I imagine the whiteout game, it's it was it was the biggest one ever, is what I've has been reported and what I've seen.
26:03
SPEAKER_03: How many of those 114,000 people, how many of them were in there for the the Penn State blue band pregame show?
26:11
SPEAKER_03: Like for all of that?
26:13
SPEAKER_04: If I had to guess, it had to be about 90, 80 to 90 in place already.
26:18
SPEAKER_04: Just ready to rock.
26:19
unknown: Ring.
26:20
SPEAKER_04: Just ready to rock.
26:21
SPEAKER_04: Man, their production, uh, Cluedo's, you know, I do watch these things when I go to these stadiums too.
26:25
SPEAKER_04: Their production was really cool, you know, similar to how we got our USC going around, but the mascots in the 50, the 50, like center of the field in the logo, looking at every section and kind of getting them going, setting their levels of loudness.
26:38
SPEAKER_04: And it was like, oh, this is wild.
26:43
SPEAKER_03: And all that work to just lose to us.
26:48
SPEAKER_04: That's why I love the headlines.
26:50
SPEAKER_04: This place silence the you know, uh crowd, and it's literally what it does because it goes from these decibels that are just raw up there to just and then the little carton gold cheers come out, yeah, like it was okay.
27:09
SPEAKER_03: So it cranks up, pre-game show.
27:12
SPEAKER_03: You do the national anthem, blah, everything's wild.
27:15
SPEAKER_03: Game starts.
27:16
SPEAKER_03: We're the bands ripping, playing the songs, doing the thing, and then we had a bass drum catastrophe.
27:23
SPEAKER_04: Oh, we're playing it.
27:25
SPEAKER_04: It could have been tribute, of course.
27:27
SPEAKER_04: It probably was tribute, and I'm looking, watching a game, and you can hear the sound coming out of this ear, and then the bass dropped out, like you know, your amp goes out, yeah, and it's like he was like, he was like, I bust my head, and I was like, shut up bass drum head.
27:46
SPEAKER_04: You know, as a drummer, I hear it happening, but I was like, Oh, it's not happening.
27:51
SPEAKER_04: There's no way there ain't no way that's happening because you can hear the tones, it's duding as we go on.
27:58
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I just thought it was just untuned in a sense, but nope.
28:02
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, bass gone.
28:04
SPEAKER_04: Bass gone.
28:05
SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, and that was like early.
28:08
SPEAKER_03: First quarter.
28:09
SPEAKER_03: First quarter.
28:10
SPEAKER_03: So Ian, shout out Ian.
28:12
SPEAKER_03: Hey buddy, maybe less time at the gym and uh more time changing heads, huh?
28:17
SPEAKER_03: You're too strong, you're too you're too yoked.
28:20
SPEAKER_03: Um so break that so the game, game, the usual things, right?
28:24
SPEAKER_03: You get to have time.
28:25
SPEAKER_03: They all had their their pre-packaged snacks in their uniform, get those cheeses out and yeah.
28:30
SPEAKER_03: Okay, so now um we get to the we're getting near the end of the game.
28:36
SPEAKER_03: And we we had talked before the trip, you know, logistics, and this was advised by Greg Drain, you know, over there.
28:44
SPEAKER_03: Excuse me, Dr.
28:45
SPEAKER_03: Greg Drain.
28:46
SPEAKER_03: Um I think he and I I think we got our doctorate like right back to back to each other.
28:52
SPEAKER_03: Or we we both did the same thing where it's like he got hired in the seat and then he got his doctorate.
28:56
SPEAKER_03: So it was like a big a big post, like our band director is now doctor, yay! And so we you we did the same thing.
29:01
SPEAKER_03: So um but uh nice very cool.
29:04
SPEAKER_03: But he so he advised us like, hey, there's too many people.
29:07
SPEAKER_03: There's a hundred some odd thousand in the stadium, there's another what, three, four hundred thousand uh on the on campus in and around.
29:14
SPEAKER_03: And what they do on a white out is they get down early and then they like do the do the stuff for the team and they leave.
29:22
SPEAKER_03: And so we and we worked out a plan where we were gonna come down, come on to the field at near the end of the game and be out there so that whatever happens, we would then play for the team and be on our way and then be escorted out by the Penn State band.
29:38
SPEAKER_03: So we could actually, you know, get back to the buses because the buses were parked by the band facility, right?
29:44
SPEAKER_03: This was this was the plan.
29:45
SPEAKER_03: Well, unbeknownst to me, because I'm not there, I don't know what's going on, I'm not gonna bug, you're busy.
29:50
SPEAKER_03: I texted you once because I know I know how it is.
29:53
SPEAKER_03: Right at the beginning.
29:54
SPEAKER_03: Right at the beginning, like, hey, yo, I'm glad you had fun with your friend.
29:57
SPEAKER_03: Now go kick his butt, you know, or something like that.
30:00
SPEAKER_03: And so so I know that I know that was the plan.
30:02
SPEAKER_03: Well, then my phone starts blowing up near the end of the game.
30:04
SPEAKER_03: And alumni are like, where's the ban?
30:06
SPEAKER_03: This is an outrage, yada yada yada.
30:09
SPEAKER_03: And I'm just I'm letting it run its course um because I just I don't have patience for this.
30:13
SPEAKER_03: And I knew what the plan was, but obviously you were something else had happened.
30:18
SPEAKER_03: And it's like, I'm not gonna sit here and try to frantically get answers to what's going on.
30:24
SPEAKER_03: Um, because they brought you down and you were in this tunnel concourse area, and then they didn't let you on the field.
30:31
SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
30:32
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we left the stands.
30:34
SPEAKER_04: They had a we had agreed, we'll leave at five minutes.
30:38
SPEAKER_04: Me being typical band director that turned into like four ten on the clock.
30:42
SPEAKER_04: Just well, the gate it was tight, like it was tight, the possession was going, and I was like, you know what?
30:48
SPEAKER_04: We'll figure it out.
30:49
SPEAKER_04: And so I kind of took some of our uh home game protocol just to get the band moving so everybody would be okay.
30:56
SPEAKER_04: Well, wins get out of here, you know.
30:57
SPEAKER_04: Kind of just kind of getting some movement going.
30:59
SPEAKER_03: Seems like you're doing more than you are, yeah.
31:02
SPEAKER_04: Right.
31:02
SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes.
31:03
SPEAKER_04: And then after I saw them down the steps a little bit, I kind of everything kind of worked out timing-wise.
31:09
SPEAKER_04: The possession ended so we can get up out of there.
31:12
SPEAKER_03: Was that the possession with the force fumble?
31:14
SPEAKER_04: No, we're not that we actually missed that moment.
31:18
SPEAKER_03: Okay, bummer.
31:19
SPEAKER_03: Because I'll tell you how to do that.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we were what we were walking out of the stadium that right during that time, and we hear a huge roar.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, uh oh, this doesn't sound good.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: And then it the roar turned into a oh, yeah, and then we knew something good happened.
31:33
SPEAKER_03: It was so I watching it on TV, you know, because it's like I was at my in-laws' house, the kid, like I'm doing you know, kids and people and stuff, and everyone's asking me, like, oh, who's if you're here, who's running the band?
31:44
SPEAKER_03: Blah blah blah blah blah.
31:46
SPEAKER_03: Um AI.
31:48
SPEAKER_03: AI.
31:49
SPEAKER_03: No, I was like, oh no, it's it's Dante.
31:51
SPEAKER_03: And they're like, Oh yeah, Dante's cool, awesome.
31:53
SPEAKER_03: And um they uh like when that happened, I happened to like be it was a moment where I could act, I like just I was solely focused on the TV, saw this force fumble, and just lost my ever-loving mind.
32:05
SPEAKER_03: I was like, yeah, yes, yes, because that like that was it.
32:10
SPEAKER_03: Like, there's no like there was less than a minute or less than two minutes left.
32:13
SPEAKER_03: We were already, they were out of timeouts, they burned.
32:16
SPEAKER_03: Oh, it was just chef's kiss.
32:19
SPEAKER_03: So I I wish I wish I could have heard the the soul, the dementors suck the souls out of the Penn State fans.
32:26
SPEAKER_03: So now you're stuck, but they weren't they were worried about a field incursion.
32:31
SPEAKER_03: Is that right?
32:32
SPEAKER_04: Correct, because the game was so tight.
32:34
SPEAKER_04: Uh they were like for safety, you know, you know, the the words were there, that the the perfect language, safety, you know, we there's game is tight, and I'm like, okay, I completely understand this.
32:45
SPEAKER_03: Oh, and I can tell you I would not want to be on that if we had lost that game to be on the field and then have them storm the field, that would have been an absolute nightmare.
32:55
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, so you're so now you're you're locked out.
32:57
SPEAKER_03: So then you, you yourself, you scamper out because you're now trying to figure out how how postgame's gonna go, right?
33:04
SPEAKER_03: Correct.
33:05
SPEAKER_04: And so trying to figure it out, finding the people we had a uh escort, she was great the whole time.
33:10
SPEAKER_04: Um, just asking her, you know, being patient with her, because I know she's just a messenger.
33:15
SPEAKER_04: She's talking to somebody who's talking to somebody who's on the radio.
33:18
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:18
SPEAKER_04: So being patient with her, letting the whole relay system run its course.
33:22
SPEAKER_04: And then it's like one, you know, one something on the clock.
33:26
SPEAKER_04: And we got the ball.
33:27
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, all right, guys, this is over.
33:28
SPEAKER_04: Can we come out?
33:30
SPEAKER_04: This is now the rain is happening, all the things are happening now.
33:33
SPEAKER_04: So chaos is just starting to happen.
33:36
SPEAKER_04: And then that turns into uh just a no.
33:39
SPEAKER_04: And I'm like, but why?
33:40
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, why?
33:41
SPEAKER_03: They're not gonna what they're gonna storm sadly, storm the field, they're probably leaving, right?
33:45
SPEAKER_04: They're they're marching out, and then that's when I realized now it's a competitive answer.
33:50
SPEAKER_04: You're not gonna celebrate on our field.
33:52
SPEAKER_04: I know that's what it is, so I completely understand the moment, yeah, but I'm pushing the buttons, I'm like, this is not right, you know.
33:58
SPEAKER_04: I was told this.
34:00
SPEAKER_04: Come on, guys, you gotta do better than this.
34:01
SPEAKER_04: So I'm just giving it to them, you know, in the nicest way possible.
34:05
SPEAKER_04: Sure, it wasn't in my mind, it was probably a three, but they probably received it as a six or something.
34:09
SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
34:10
SPEAKER_04: Um, you know, it's loud, you know.
34:14
SPEAKER_04: No, we can always in a football environment, you can just say it was loud.
34:16
SPEAKER_04: I wanted to make sure you can hear me, you know.
34:17
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
34:18
SPEAKER_03: Come on, it's the whiteout game, it's the highest attended one.
34:21
SPEAKER_03: You had so many people, congratulations, right?
34:23
SPEAKER_04: You know, so trying to give them all the things, and they're just like, sorry, and I'm like, okay, cool.
34:27
SPEAKER_04: So I stormed to the tunnel and I get somebody's attention.
34:31
SPEAKER_04: I say, and Chris was like, he relayed it, and I ran back out and trying to do it some more.
34:37
SPEAKER_04: And what gave me joy was I can hear the echo coming through the tunnel, and I was just like, This is giving me joy.
34:45
SPEAKER_04: So, you know, we win the game.
34:47
SPEAKER_04: Um, I that's when I saw Jay.
34:49
SPEAKER_04: He was like, Hey man, sorry they didn't let you on the field.
34:51
SPEAKER_04: So I know it kind of had worked its way down the the toting pole, which I get it.
34:55
SPEAKER_04: I I mean it's competitive, you're not gonna let us come and play conquest all in your in your job, you know.
35:01
SPEAKER_04: I get it.
35:01
SPEAKER_04: So, but I was trying to push the buttons as best as I could.
35:03
SPEAKER_03: That's it.
35:04
SPEAKER_03: So what you gotta do, you gotta keep pushing, keep pushing.
35:07
SPEAKER_03: So then so I'm locked out.
35:08
SPEAKER_03: So now you're on the out you're on the field and you're trying because you're talking to our athletics people there.
35:15
SPEAKER_03: You're like, you're trying to make magic happen because you're trying to get out there and play for the team.
35:18
SPEAKER_03: Um, yep.
35:19
SPEAKER_03: Because, you know, and this it's about this is probably when my phone's blowing up and everyone, you know, it's like blah blah blah blah blah.
35:26
SPEAKER_03: Um, and then you come back and they that tunnel they locked it down.
35:32
SPEAKER_03: So now you are trapped on the field with all of that.
35:36
SPEAKER_03: So then you realize so then you went out and you snatched up the team, Lincoln Riley.
35:43
SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, because you told me, right?
35:45
SPEAKER_03: You went and grabbed Lincoln, like, hey, come over here.
35:47
SPEAKER_04: Everybody, I ran out, it's raining.
35:49
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, hey, we're in the tunnel, like, we want to celebrate you all.
35:51
SPEAKER_04: We're out here.
35:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you know, I didn't know the locker room was that way, like, I didn't have that landscape in my head, but so that's they were gonna be coming that way regardless.
35:59
SPEAKER_04: But I kind of still was like kind of steward, and like, hey, we wanna we want to celebrate with you all.
36:04
SPEAKER_04: Um, Ben was doing the Ben thing, trying to get the sword, the interviews, he knows where everything is going, you know, the typical Coliseum madness just in somebody else's house, you know.
36:12
SPEAKER_03: Love it.
36:12
SPEAKER_03: So then they so I've seen the videos.
36:14
SPEAKER_03: We'll we'll cut in some of these videos of you guys ripping it.
36:17
SPEAKER_03: So you bring the team over, and then what's great, they're like trapped, they're like now they're the wild animals trapped on the fence, like, ah, go man, yes, we got him, and then the bands ripping in there, then these poor, and what I think my favorite part is there's these Penn State fans between the team and us, just like you know, Charlie Brown in Christmas time is here walking through.
36:38
SPEAKER_04: But what I didn't know is that you you're on the team side, you're trapped over there, like trying to like everything for me is like over the gate, whistle, just so I'm just on the other side, and it was just that's cool.
36:54
SPEAKER_03: It was the great, great madness, just just great madness, celebrating with the team, you know, all this this this wildness going on, you're trapped in there.
37:01
SPEAKER_03: You did you did conquest a few times, you did tusk, you did kids, and then uh you know, you're ripping through this music, and then eventually, after you know, probably playing their alma mater and being sad, you know, eventually the Penn State band comes marching by.
37:16
SPEAKER_03: Um and in in classic fashion, you know, Cal used to run this with me all the time, and I uh I hated it, right?
37:21
SPEAKER_03: So it's like they come marching by, and uh the front of the band gets to you, and they're like, All right, they're here, you can stop playing.
37:26
SPEAKER_03: You're like, uh-uh, we're not stopping until the back of the band, and then we'll jump in and get with it.
37:32
SPEAKER_03: So uh that was exactly what it was.
37:34
SPEAKER_04: I said, Who's at the back of the band?
37:35
SPEAKER_04: She said the two.
37:36
SPEAKER_04: But I say, when I see bells, I I got the group.
37:39
SPEAKER_04: So I I relay to Chris after this, we'll do beat, and then we'll fall in.
37:45
SPEAKER_04: And so everybody kind of got the gist.
37:47
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
37:47
SPEAKER_04: So it was, you know, classic thing.
37:51
SPEAKER_04: It was for us is normal functioning because it feels like the rally we kind of space out, stop, do the thing, song, spirit in the front, kind of getting them back.
37:59
SPEAKER_04: So it was all what we were used to.
38:01
SPEAKER_04: Um, but it was I love the way the social media is receiving it because it has a lot of truth, but the way the story plays out, it still plays out perfect without and still kind of authentic, you know.
38:15
SPEAKER_04: So yeah, we did make ruckus.
38:17
SPEAKER_04: So anytime that article is like USC celebrating in a tunnel, creating this chaos, and that's just what it was.
38:23
unknown: Yeah.
38:25
SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
38:25
SPEAKER_03: Fun story.
38:26
SPEAKER_03: Good times, good times.
38:28
SPEAKER_03: Memorable for sure.
38:29
SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
38:29
SPEAKER_03: Listen, you're never you're not gonna forget that one.
38:32
SPEAKER_03: Uh has has Drain doubled back with you on any of this madness chaos?
38:36
SPEAKER_03: Has he talked about it with you at all?
38:38
SPEAKER_04: No, he he uh got it all out because when the band, when we got kind of out the crowd closer to the stadium, I mean to the band hall, he kind of left the band and kind of came and walked with me back to the band and he was like, Yeah, man, you're out there jamming while we're marching by.
38:52
SPEAKER_04: It's like, yeah, putting on a concert, man.
38:53
SPEAKER_04: We got to do it every time.
38:55
SPEAKER_03: Love it, love it.
38:56
SPEAKER_03: So cool.
38:56
SPEAKER_03: Well, congrats on a big win.
38:57
SPEAKER_03: Uh it was a big one.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, there was one bad thing about the win.
39:02
SPEAKER_00: What's that?
39:03
SPEAKER_00: Brent the I was up at the very top of the stadium with the Usher, um, who was super nice.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: I don't think you ever even saw this guy, Dante, but we were at the very top.
39:11
SPEAKER_00: He was standing with uh DPS, and I thought he didn't understand how football worked because he kept cheering for us.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, why is he cheering for when we do well?
39:21
SPEAKER_00: And then I realized that he was not a Penn State fan.
39:23
SPEAKER_00: He was just a fan of going home early.
39:26
SPEAKER_00: And he knew that if we blew them out, the crowd would leave and he could get home early.
39:30
SPEAKER_00: So he was the biggest USD fan there that night.
39:34
SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure he was very he was probably disappointed though, because if we went all the way to the end of the game, he'd have to stay even longer at the stadium and clear everybody out.
39:44
SPEAKER_00: So shout out to that guy who was super nice and our biggest fan at the stadium that day.
39:50
SPEAKER_03: That's great.
39:51
SPEAKER_03: You gotta love it.
39:52
SPEAKER_03: Someone, someone who understands, you know, a a work-life balance.
39:57
SPEAKER_03: I gotta go.
39:58
SPEAKER_03: Gotta get out of here.
40:00
SPEAKER_03: That's great.
40:01
SPEAKER_03: Uh well, super fun.
40:02
SPEAKER_03: Brett, any what uh what's a what was a cool, memorable moment for you, Brett, in and amongst all of this?
40:08
SPEAKER_03: Like where where were you in there and with Chris and all those kids?
40:11
SPEAKER_00: I was on the I was on the other side of the uh enclosure with Chris, and we had no idea what was going on.
40:16
SPEAKER_00: We knew that Dante was out there somewhere, and so we were just confused.
40:20
SPEAKER_00: We didn't we just all there.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: We just we were like, what are we doing?
40:27
SPEAKER_00: Are we going on the field?
40:28
SPEAKER_00: What's what's happening?
40:29
SPEAKER_00: The the the kids started shouting like we RSC, they started singing fight on, like they just wanted to do anything.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh and then the fans would come and by and they were not all of them, not all of them were super pleasant.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: Um, but when we did finally strike up Conquest, and we could I could I could peer over the side and see the the players coming down the tunnel.
40:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh that's cool, they're really excited over there.
40:53
SPEAKER_00: And then when they started pushing up on over the fence, I guess an offensive lineman was pushing um uh number four, sorry, I can't think of its name right now, uh, up to do the the sword.
41:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh it was just great.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: They they were standing up there, they were partying.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: It was it really felt like the jock rally should be, you know, just a great energy.
41:16
SPEAKER_00: Just absolute rip roaring pandemonium.
41:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and they were, I mean, the team was super into it.
41:21
SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
41:22
SPEAKER_03: That's really cool.
41:24
SPEAKER_03: Um, well, there it is.
41:25
SPEAKER_03: That's Penn State in a nutshell.
41:27
SPEAKER_03: Then you fly home and you just gotta like vibe out on a bye week and just ride this high all the way to Wisconsin.
41:33
SPEAKER_04: Uh, drinking my tea.
41:35
SPEAKER_03: Drinking your tea, yeah, man.
41:36
SPEAKER_03: And now you've got yourself a uh what's this, uh 430, a 630 kickoff?
41:42
SPEAKER_03: What is it?
41:43
SPEAKER_00: 630 central time, yeah.
41:45
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
41:46
SPEAKER_03: Chili.
41:47
SPEAKER_03: Bring bring your jacket.
41:50
SPEAKER_04: It'll be it'll it'll be it'll be a a fun one.
41:53
SPEAKER_03: It'll be fun.
41:54
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
41:54
SPEAKER_03: Uh I don't know.
41:55
SPEAKER_03: I guess I have I'll probably get the coldest game this year, probably Indiana in November.
42:00
SPEAKER_03: I would assume, yeah.
42:01
SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
42:02
SPEAKER_03: I'll wear I'll wear my inspector gadget jacket and uh and look like look like old timey football coach.
42:09
SPEAKER_03: Hopefully it doesn't rain.
42:10
SPEAKER_03: That's the only thing I wore that jacket to the Iowa game last year, and the only problem is it it's not waterproof, so it gets waterlogged.
42:15
SPEAKER_03: And then it's just it's heavy, super heavy.
42:18
SPEAKER_03: It gets clunky, yeah.
42:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but it's cool, it's warm.
42:21
SPEAKER_03: It's it's good for the for the win.
42:23
SPEAKER_03: All right.
42:23
SPEAKER_03: Well that what a time.
42:24
SPEAKER_03: What a great time.
42:26
SPEAKER_03: Bummed I missed it, but uh also also a lot of fun to you know to to field complaints.
42:33
SPEAKER_03: I was I was just thinking, I'm like, can't I just you know, have one weekend?
42:37
SPEAKER_03: Just give me just how was it give me?
42:39
SPEAKER_04: How was it hanging with the family, not you know, kind of just uh sitting back and just enjoying the thing?
42:46
SPEAKER_03: I always dig it, you know, and there's always stuff that I'm doing here, but it's it's fun, it's fun hanging with them.
42:52
SPEAKER_03: Um my daughter, she was more like on me about uh watching the game because she had been in Minnesota with Jessica for a few days.
43:00
SPEAKER_03: She went to go visit her new cousin.
43:02
SPEAKER_03: And so she missed me, but we had you know, we had hung out a lot um in the morning, and it's not like she she acts like I ignore her.
43:09
SPEAKER_03: It's like I'm literally like holding her, playing games with her while the game is going, like while the football game is going on.
43:15
SPEAKER_03: Um, so I I I watch it, I catch plays.
43:18
SPEAKER_03: I don't get to watch it like a hawk, probably like most other, you know, people are.
43:23
SPEAKER_03: Um, because I am still trying to, you know, be dad and and do all of that too.
43:27
SPEAKER_03: But um luckily the group that was there, there was probably 11, 12 people at my in-laws at like a good group of folks.
43:34
SPEAKER_03: Rob was there, so I was talking to Rob and we're talking shopping.
43:38
SPEAKER_03: Um but it was neat that um, you know, doing all that, a lot of the other like the kids know a lot of the other folks that are there, so it's like periodically they'd go and like pester them, which was you know nice.
43:49
SPEAKER_03: And they were the only kids there, so it was like everyone was just kind of excited to have it.
43:53
SPEAKER_03: But uh but yeah, I had a fun week.
43:55
SPEAKER_03: Um because Jessica was on the road with Erlen, so they were having a So I had a three-day in-house boys trip the tail end of last week.
44:05
SPEAKER_03: So we we got up to some fun shenanigans.
44:07
SPEAKER_03: It was a good time.
44:09
SPEAKER_03: Oh, that doesn't sound that doesn't sound good for Jessica.
44:12
SPEAKER_03: It was great.
44:12
SPEAKER_03: No, it was great.
44:13
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
44:13
SPEAKER_03: Well, let's see.
44:14
SPEAKER_03: I'll I'll give you the rundown.
44:15
SPEAKER_03: Because we maybe this will be this will be the B side, Brett, KC, the boys' trip recount.
44:20
SPEAKER_03: How's that sound?
44:22
SPEAKER_03: Great.
44:22
SPEAKER_03: Let's do it.
44:23
SPEAKER_03: Let's do it.
44:23
SPEAKER_03: So we uh so Wednesday, we drop off Declan at school, and then we go, then the baby and I take mom and sister to the airport.
44:33
SPEAKER_03: And it took us two hours to get to LAX in rush hour on Wednesday morning, which is absolute madness.
44:39
SPEAKER_03: And we get there, drop them off, easy peasy.
44:42
SPEAKER_03: But then um I realize this poor baby's been jammed in this car.
44:47
SPEAKER_03: Like, we got to do something.
44:48
SPEAKER_03: But I did have I had a list of uh shopping lists, I had to go to Costco, and over by the airport is a Costco business center.
44:56
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if any of you have ever been to a Costco business center.
44:59
SPEAKER_03: No.
45:00
SPEAKER_01: I am attempting to contain my excitement.
45:04
SPEAKER_03: So so and I did get laughed at by an employee um because around 9 15 I called said Costco Business Center because the baby expect when he goes to Costco, he likes to get snacks, either a hot dog or a smoothie.
45:17
SPEAKER_03: Like we visit the food court and uh and and get a treat.
45:21
SPEAKER_03: So I didn't want to go there and not have food available because then that's that was gonna be not a good time.
45:27
SPEAKER_03: So we get there or I call, and the woman answers, like, Hi, this is Costco.
45:30
SPEAKER_03: How can I help you?
45:31
SPEAKER_03: I go, Hey, do you all have a food court?
45:33
SPEAKER_03: She's like, No, we don't.
45:35
SPEAKER_03: She's just laughing at me, like, who wants a hot dog at 9 a.m.?
45:39
SPEAKER_03: Apparently, this guy.
45:40
SPEAKER_03: And so uh, so after I got laughed at, we go there and it was humongous.
45:47
SPEAKER_03: So just imagine three Costco's sort of stitched together, right?
45:52
SPEAKER_03: Like that's the size of it.
45:53
SPEAKER_03: It's just huge.
45:54
SPEAKER_03: And they have a whole section of restaurant supplies.
45:57
SPEAKER_03: So if you need uh pots and pans, sheet trays, dispensers, yada yada yada.
46:03
SPEAKER_03: We needed one of the things to get was ketchup on the list.
46:05
SPEAKER_03: So I go, there's a whole aisle of ketchup, just ketchup, because it's like ketchup packets, the big like ketchup dip things, little ketchup bottles, big ketchup bottles, giant tubs of ketchup with a pump for like baseball, like every uh bags of ketchup for dispense.
46:22
SPEAKER_03: It was just it was just I've never seen so much ketchup.
46:25
SPEAKER_03: It was almost disgusting how much ketchup there was.
46:28
SPEAKER_03: Um the irony though is we only I only ended up buying like four things.
46:31
SPEAKER_03: I bought like wheat thins and cheez-its and ketchup, and I don't think anything else.
46:36
SPEAKER_03: So we didn't buy a lot of stuff, but we we went through the whole thing.
46:38
SPEAKER_03: You could buy a whole goat.
46:40
SPEAKER_03: You wanted a whole frozen goat for your restaurant, um, or a lamb or a whole side of beef.
46:45
SPEAKER_03: Like they have big, just really restaurant supply stuff, uh, or other, you know, if you're doing vending machine.
46:51
SPEAKER_03: The thing that was really cool is um like the chips like you know how they'll have like the the Lay's box of chip and it's all the different flavors, right?
47:00
SPEAKER_03: Well, they have that same size box, but just one flavor of the of the so you can get just plain Lay's or just ranch Doritos, or just so that if you're stocking your store, you can get what you need, right?
47:13
SPEAKER_03: And not have to buy a sampler the whole time.
47:16
SPEAKER_03: So it was really cool, really fun.
47:18
SPEAKER_03: But then um, so I bought I had some food for the baby to munch on.
47:22
SPEAKER_03: So then we were hanging out, he was finishing his food.
47:23
SPEAKER_03: I was looking at the commercial refrigerator and contemplating whether or not I needed that in my life.
47:28
SPEAKER_03: And then um, so then we went home.
47:32
SPEAKER_03: He and I did our thing, then we picked up Declan from school in Wednesday at the Volga Houses movie.
47:37
SPEAKER_03: And we were excited because we had all agreed about two weeks ago that during the girls' trip, the boys were gonna watch Star Wars episode one, The Phantom Menace, while the girls were away.
47:49
SPEAKER_03: Um, Casey, you'll be pleased to know the boys were enthralled with this film from minute one to minute what is it?
47:58
SPEAKER_03: It's two, it's two and a half hours, minute two hundred and whatever.
48:02
SPEAKER_03: They loved it, Casey.
48:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm so happy.
48:06
SPEAKER_03: It was the results of watching this movie.
48:09
SPEAKER_03: First of all, we're 10 minutes in, and uh Declan looks at me and goes, I don't know why Erilon doesn't want to watch this.
48:16
SPEAKER_03: She would love this, like is in it, and then they're they're like, and there's I forgot there's a lot of talking in that movie, folks.
48:23
SPEAKER_03: I don't know when the last time you've seen it.
48:24
SPEAKER_03: Have you seen it, Dante?
48:25
SPEAKER_03: I'm sure you've seen it.
48:26
SPEAKER_03: I know Maurice.
48:26
SPEAKER_04: I have, I haven't seen it in a while though, yeah.
48:28
SPEAKER_03: But it's a lot of like there's a lot of plot, there's just a lot of talking.
48:33
SPEAKER_03: There's great act, but not a lot of like stuff.
48:35
SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, man, they're gonna be bored.
48:37
SPEAKER_03: But they were just both like glued to the screen, which was a lot of fun.
48:41
SPEAKER_03: And then the end when Darth Maul gets chopped in half, Declan went, yeah, like he cheered audibly.
48:47
SPEAKER_03: So then we did that.
48:49
SPEAKER_03: Then we went What was our favorite part?
48:51
SPEAKER_03: The fate oh, the pod race for sure.
48:53
SPEAKER_03: Pod racing.
48:54
SPEAKER_03: They they loved the pod race.
48:56
SPEAKER_03: Um Declan, actually, to Declan's credit, because he's really into it.
49:01
SPEAKER_03: Um, he liked the pod race.
49:03
SPEAKER_03: I think his favorite part was the whole ending, the whole last act.
49:07
SPEAKER_03: Because he turns to me and he goes, Dad, there's like three battles going on right now.
49:12
SPEAKER_03: And I go, actually, buddy, there's four battles going on.
49:15
SPEAKER_03: Because there's the Gungans fighting the droids, there's Anakin in his spaceship, there's the Queen trying to get to the throne room, and there's the Jedi's fighting that.
49:24
SPEAKER_03: And then he goes, Yeah, but the Queen, she's just kind of sneaking around.
49:28
SPEAKER_03: It's not really a battle, so it's three battles.
49:32
SPEAKER_03: So he really liked that.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: Take that, Padme!
49:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he really liked that.
49:38
SPEAKER_03: Uh, but he already looked he's ready.
49:39
SPEAKER_03: He's ready for his own podcast.
49:40
SPEAKER_03: He's already got opinions about things that don't really matter, which is great.
49:44
SPEAKER_03: Uh so we did that.
49:45
SPEAKER_03: We went to pizza, we saw the Dodgers.
49:47
SPEAKER_03: Um, who are they playing?
49:49
SPEAKER_03: They beat um Milwaukee?
49:52
SPEAKER_03: No, they're playing Milwaukee now, I think.
49:54
SPEAKER_04: Oh, oh, so they beat the Braves.
49:56
SPEAKER_03: That's it.
49:57
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was their their last game against it was when they when they got into the NCO.
50:01
SPEAKER_03: So we watched that game, which was a lot of fun.
50:03
SPEAKER_03: And then uh on Thursday, we did normal school stuff and we did video games on Thursday.
50:09
SPEAKER_03: So I have this the same console where with Mario Kart, where I schooled these kids in the stream-a-thon, I turned on an old SNES uh Ninja Turtle fighting game, and so we were doing that, and then I don't know what why, but the baby about halfway through this just rips off his shirt.
50:25
SPEAKER_03: He just like takes his shirt off, throws it on the floor, and Declan and I both asked him separately, like, why'd you take your shirt off?
50:30
SPEAKER_03: And he had no answer.
50:31
SPEAKER_03: He just was in it, and so he had his chocolate milk, Declan had his chocolate milk, I had my beer, and we were just playing this video game, and it was it was awesome.
50:40
SPEAKER_03: It was just like dudes, just dudes being guys.
50:43
SPEAKER_01: The masculine urge to rip your shirt off when it's time to lock in.
50:48
SPEAKER_03: The irony though is I just I'd given him a controller that was just not attached to anything, and he was just, but Kate, he was ripping.
50:56
SPEAKER_03: He was just like, oh with no shirt on.
51:00
SPEAKER_03: It was great.
51:01
SPEAKER_03: Um, this is classic.
51:02
SPEAKER_03: It was funny.
51:03
SPEAKER_03: It was like, and what's funny is I'm not, I'm not, and never have been in my whole life.
51:07
SPEAKER_03: I've never been like shirt off guy.
51:09
SPEAKER_03: That's never been my deal.
51:10
SPEAKER_03: Um, and Declan isn't really either, but the baby, he's just like in it, tarps off for SNES.
51:18
SPEAKER_03: And then uh and then Friday, what'd we do?
51:21
SPEAKER_03: Friday, I took them on a grand educational adventure where we went to the museum.
51:26
SPEAKER_03: And so they got to experience the Metro Rail, and so I took them on the train.
51:30
SPEAKER_03: Um, so we took the A train to the E, the same, the same route I use for my commute when I use it.
51:36
SPEAKER_03: Uh, but it was fun because for them, it's like they're watching all the stuff, and then I could actually like hang out with them.
51:40
SPEAKER_03: I didn't have to like sit in the car and just drive.
51:42
SPEAKER_03: But uh LA Natural History Museum, I don't know if you know this, Dante, it's free for LA County residents starting at never knew this.
51:49
SPEAKER_03: Well, it's free for you anyway because you're you have a USC ID, so you can go whenever.
51:53
SPEAKER_03: But um, if you and Marie both want to go, three o'clock on a weekday, you can just go with your LA, you just need an ID that has your LA County address on it, and they give you free admission.
52:04
SPEAKER_03: And for the last two hours, you can go and just tool around for a couple hours in the library.
52:08
SPEAKER_03: Interesting or the museum.
52:09
SPEAKER_03: So I we took, I took the boys there, we got there right before it was perfect timing, right before three.
52:14
SPEAKER_03: We went in, um, and I really wanted to do the dinosaur encounter.
52:18
SPEAKER_03: They have a person in a dinosaur puppet costume, and they like the kids get up close and you learn about dinosaurs.
52:24
SPEAKER_03: And every time we go, it's sold out.
52:26
SPEAKER_03: And so she's like, Hey, do you want to do any of these stuff?
52:28
SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, Dinosaur encounter.
52:29
SPEAKER_03: And she's like, We're not doing it today.
52:31
SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, You've got to be kidding me.
52:34
SPEAKER_03: Uh, but they had a 3D T-Rex presentation, and so we did that.
52:38
SPEAKER_03: So we go in there, put our 3D glasses on.
52:41
SPEAKER_03: Great.
52:41
SPEAKER_03: It was really educational, really well done thing.
52:44
SPEAKER_03: But what caught me was that it was narrated by Sam Neil.
52:48
SPEAKER_03: And Sam Neal is the actor from Jurassic Park who just died this past summer.
52:52
SPEAKER_03: And so I didn't know he was narrating it.
52:54
SPEAKER_03: I had no clue.
52:55
SPEAKER_03: The thing starts, and I hear his voice, and I was like, oh, like the the the early 90s kid in me, the Jurassic Park fan.
53:02
SPEAKER_03: I was so excited uh to hear his voice.
53:04
SPEAKER_03: But it was cool.
53:05
SPEAKER_03: It was cool, it was really cool.
53:06
SPEAKER_03: Great, great uh cool thing.
53:08
SPEAKER_03: I didn't know this, but apparently the LA Natural History Museum is like one of is the like preeminent T-Rex research museum really kind of in the world.
53:17
SPEAKER_03: Did you know this, Brett?
53:18
SPEAKER_03: You you seem to know these things.
53:20
SPEAKER_00: I actually did not know that.
53:21
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
53:22
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they um so the the big T-Rex so when you walk in, there's like the T-Rex skeleton fighting the triceratops.
53:29
SPEAKER_03: Like that T-Rex skeleton, I think they found that in the 1960s, and that was um um that was at the time like the largest, most complete kind of skeleton find until I think it was Sue the T-Rex was found in the 90s, early 2000s, right?
53:43
SPEAKER_03: But it was really this thing.
53:45
SPEAKER_03: Then they commissioned this archaeologist.
53:47
SPEAKER_03: So, like when you hear in movies and the archaeologists are like, our grant is running out, like that the museum, they are the grant, they're the ones giving the money to go find this stuff.
53:55
SPEAKER_03: But they had found, again, I think later in the 60s, a baby T-Rex and a juvenile T-Rex.
54:01
SPEAKER_03: So they had these three, they had this adult, the baby, and the juvenile.
54:04
SPEAKER_03: Well, then in the 1990s, they commissioned another expedition.
54:08
SPEAKER_03: They found Thomas the T-Rex, who is a young adult T-Rex.
54:12
SPEAKER_03: So they have T-Rex skeletons in four stages of development, which they can just learn and deduce and just really figure out.
54:21
SPEAKER_03: And I'd seen this on display, I didn't realize what it was.
54:23
SPEAKER_03: I thought the big one was the other adult, but it's not, it's it's the fourth in the set in the series that they have, and so we learned all about that and how that came to be, um, which was really rad.
54:34
SPEAKER_03: It was fun.
54:35
SPEAKER_03: So we did that Friday, and then Saturday was pick up mom um at the airport.
54:40
SPEAKER_03: We had it the in and out by the airport, which was a lot of fun, and then went and watched the football game, and that was boys' trip, man.
54:47
SPEAKER_03: We had a blast, we had an absolute doozy of a time.
54:51
SPEAKER_00: Dinosaurs, video games, Star Wars, Costco.
54:55
SPEAKER_00: What I mean, this is like the ultimate bros weekend.
54:57
SPEAKER_00: I took I took Hayden on a ride in a wagon.
55:00
SPEAKER_03: Um, I had a surprise Richard Vargas show up at my house and deliver a bunch of baseball stuff and stuff, which was pretty cool.
55:08
SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, went out, we had a wagon ride.
55:10
SPEAKER_03: There were naps, food, mac and cheese, pizza, hot dogs.
55:14
SPEAKER_03: It was just it was happening.
55:15
SPEAKER_03: What a what a what a time.
55:17
SPEAKER_03: But the the best part was Declan kept calling it the boys' trip.
55:21
SPEAKER_03: Oh he's like, We're on our boys' trip.
55:24
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, yeah, buddy, we're on our boys' trip as we're sitting on the couch watching, you know, watching movies.
55:28
SPEAKER_03: It was awesome.
55:29
SPEAKER_04: Staycation, staycation.
55:30
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, boys' stayation.
55:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
55:32
SPEAKER_03: But you know, it was neat.
55:33
SPEAKER_03: We did all the all the fun, all the normal stuff, you know, the school routine, doing the dishes, cleaning up the stuff, made them clean Wednesdays.
55:40
SPEAKER_03: They have to clean their bed, they have to put all their books away because it's just pandemonium.
55:44
SPEAKER_03: So we, you know, it was fun.
55:46
SPEAKER_03: We had a grand old time, and Jessica and Erlen had a great time in Minnesota hanging out with her brother and the new cousin, who's 10 months old.
55:52
SPEAKER_03: So grand old time.
55:54
SPEAKER_03: And we got to watch Penn State eat it to USC, which is fantastic.
56:00
SPEAKER_03: All is well with the world.
56:01
SPEAKER_03: Fan freaking tastic.
56:02
SPEAKER_03: Well, folks, uh, thanks for tuning in.
56:04
SPEAKER_03: This has been TM Banter Week.
56:06
SPEAKER_03: What week is this, Brett?
56:07
SPEAKER_03: Eight?
56:09
SPEAKER_03: Episode eight?
56:11
SPEAKER_00: I believe this is our eighth podcast.
56:13
SPEAKER_03: Wowzers, wowzers.
56:14
SPEAKER_03: Um, Elise, safe travels to you.
56:16
SPEAKER_03: Uh, we'll have to do maybe we'll do an offshoot, Jake and Elise, in the morning some other day, and we'll just do a bonus episode or something.
56:22
SPEAKER_03: Hear all about your time in Italy, celebrating your birthday.
56:26
SPEAKER_03: But uh, thanks everyone.
56:27
SPEAKER_03: It's been a good time.
56:28
SPEAKER_03: Dante, once again, congrats on a big win against Penn State.
56:32
SPEAKER_03: Uh yay.
56:33
SPEAKER_03: Greg Drain, no hard feelings, but you know, we'll see you next time, brother.
56:36
SPEAKER_03: We'll see how it goes.
56:37
SPEAKER_03: We'll see how it goes.
56:39
SPEAKER_03: Uh, but yeah, this has been TMB Bancher.
56:41
SPEAKER_03: Fine on everybody.