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Episode 103 · Friday Night Lights in the Sky · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: All right, welcome in everybody.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Here we are, episode three of TM Banter of the KTMB Network.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Super exciting time.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we had just a really radical, fun weekend.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: We had a cool drone show.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: We had a huge win, a shutout victory against Fresno State.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think we ought to we ought to just get right into it.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get Dante in here.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Dante, what are you doing this morning?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yo, I'm good.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Living the dream.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're a dude.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Right on.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Give me what what's uh what's one highlight from the game for you?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um the students' performance overall.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um that's a huge highlight.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um coming in week two with what we had to do.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think they did a great job of delivering.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: So I think that's the you know, with me not having you know a visual component, but just being able to sit back and be proud of the students is a is a highlight.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good highlight.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good thing.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: I thought you were gonna say the shutout score.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: Um you know, that was to be expected.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna give them too much credit on that.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: All right, and then let's let's welcome into the room.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do this.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get uh oh, that's not working.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you'll our stick, you'll have to edit in our stickers, Brett and KC.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, because they're not something's wrong with that one, and I can't fix it right now.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: So let's say uh KC, how are you, bud?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_05: Pretty great.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_05: Um, great victory.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_05: It's definitely been interesting going around town the last couple of days uh since the game.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_05: Mood's a lot different over here than over there.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, because you're uh you're you live in and around the Coliseum, correct?
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_05: I do, but currently I'm in some austere environs on an errand for you taking up some instruments here in Fresno.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the motherland.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_05: So we're it's uh it's a bit of a different vibe than it is in LA, I'm sure, with the results of the game.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Casey, since since we're talking about this, have you been walking around Fresno wearing SC gear?
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_05: In the in the grand tradition of my family, yes, yes, I have.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and have you uh have you received any um any ire from the locals up there?
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_05: Nah, nah, not really.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_05: It's fine.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what uh what kind of instruments are you seeing?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_05: I think they got all their iR out in 2005.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, five.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_05: With Reggie, with Reggie, with Reggie.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I see, I see.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: But uh they're so they're just or are they hiding from you?
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see pe do they scatter when they see them coming?
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, they're they it's you know, it's it's normal.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_05: Life goes on, team gets shut out.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_05: We've been there.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know who hasn't?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: We've not been there, as as far as I can remember.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: So uh that's that's good.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what instruments are you fetching?
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: What do you got up there, Casey?
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_05: We got some freshly repaired woodwinds coming down, getting ready for Woodwind Homecoming.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Woodwind Homecoming for the third year in a row, Woodwinds and Silks.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_05: The three-peat.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: The three-peat.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's not really a three-peat, though, because last year was supposed to be everybody.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but that doesn't make for good marketing, right?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_05: We can't spin that into a headline.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_05: We can't spend, yeah, it would have been a three-peat, but also last year was a full band into a headline.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: I got you're right.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, it shame on me.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're the better, you're the word smith there.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh oh, Brett P, what's going on, Brett?
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: How's it going?
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: How are you?
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm okay.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_04: Getting over get getting over a cold, but I'm I'm fine.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now, where did you get that cold?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: I blamed your children, uh, but that was completely without evidence.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: I no, I listen, blame them.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Please do.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: Blame them as much as you can for the sickness because they're at school.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: They bring these germs home from school, right?
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_04: And they're I thought you I thought it was the baby though.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: He's had a cough for a minute for and it's it's not going away.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but he's hydrating, he's drinking a lot of water.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so I don't know.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's going on with that one.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: That was a that was a healthy pause right there.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, I mean, we you didn't give me anything to work with, so I just sat here.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, awesome.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, since we're we're all here, it was uh to to Dante's point earlier.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we had a tremendous pool for the band regarding, you know, the music, right?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was a nine-minute Star Wars medley, and we'll we'll get into that in a little bit.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: But we didn't have a lot of, we didn't have any drill because all of the visual stuff was drones in the sky.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm grateful that the uh athletic department sort of, you know, I didn't really give them a choice.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: I just kind of said, hey, I'm doing Star Wars.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: It'd be weird if you didn't, and then they kind of jumped on the gide up and got it done.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but they that's really all the visual stuff.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought this week, um, since it was a three-day weekend, like a true, honest to God, three-day weekend for us.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can't think of the last time I had an a real three-day weekend um during the football season.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I think let's let's go around what did everybody do?
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: Anybody do anything fun?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_02: Sure, I did.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: It was fun.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um what'd you what'd you get up to?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: Got a chance to fly across the country in these three days.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um where'd you go?
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: Where were we in?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: I went home uh to Miami.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh visit my parents, visit my folks.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_02: But there's also at the same time there was a football game, a classic called the Orange Blossom Classic.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_02: It traditionally hosts Fam U with another rival, and this week was uh this year was South Carolina State University, and they played at uh Dolphin Stadium.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: Or it was the name, Miami Stadium, whatever that stadium name is, uh at this time.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Is that the stadium you lived right across the street from, or that was?
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's literally two blocks from my house.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: That's gonna be but yeah, went and did that.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um had a great time visiting family, sing, um, family live, all those good things.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_02: But unfortunately, I lost my computer in the um in the travels.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: You lost your computer?
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: Who staged it?
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: Who took it?
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_02: I'm still waiting.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no tracking yet.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um they hit me up, they may have found a matching um description of the with my case and all that stuff, but I left it in the um back of my seat.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: So on the airplane?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, dude, that's my worst nightmare.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: You need that off-the-plane neuroticism of like taking things that aren't even yours just to make sure you don't forget something.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_02: Instead of uh I blame it on the delusional travel, you know, coming off a Friday night game, waking up early morning, catching a flight cross-country, it's just so Casey, what'd you do this weekend?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're in Fresno, but what what other than the instruments, what else were you up to?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, you know, you just got up to Fresno things, drive, driving around, growing crops, and that's that's it.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_05: That's it driving around.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: Drive driving around, doing stuff, hanging out, driving around, errands, hanging out.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: How's the weather up there?
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: Is it dry?
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_05: Weather's dry this week.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_05: Better weather than LA, which was a surprise.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_05: Next week, right back to super hot.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: Got it.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Brett, how about you?
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: What were you up to this weekend?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I went out to the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_04: How was that?
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_04: It was cool.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_04: It was uh it was it rained, but it was pretty uh it was beautiful sunset in Santa Monica after the hurricane went by.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_04: Um it was fun.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_04: We saw uh I think you know about this.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_04: We saw the Top Gun Maverick video game at the arcade there.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_04: And um it looks it was it was pretty fun.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_04: I'm sure you would enjoy it.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Would I enjoy it enough to to be filmed enjoying it?
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_04: I think so.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: This was uh Janine's idea, Streamathon 2027.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: Is me putting on my Maverick jacket and go fly uh or maybe we go maybe we do a tour of video games, Brett, and I just uh try them all.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: What do you say?
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_04: I like that idea.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_04: You uh I uh we I thought it'd be funny if you go on the little kitty ride that it's little air little biplanes that fly around in a circle, but you do it in your top your your maverick jacket and your you know aviators, you just sit there completely like uh seriously all in.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Or what if I lay down next to it holding you in my lap and yell goose like you're dead in the water, like from the first top gun.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Have you seen Top Gun, Dante?
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what we're talking about?
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_02: I have seen it.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_02: I have seen it.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, well, here, let me tell you what I was up to this weekend.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I bit off a little bit more than I could chew.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because what do we do?
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: We did a football game, right?
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: When was that?
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: That was Friday, yeah.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: That was Friday.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what in the world did we do on Saturday?
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's a blur.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: But my in-laws were involved.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: The children were there.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't leave them anywhere.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: But more importantly, um the the lift gate on the minivan has had issues, right?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: It it has it likes to close.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, Dante, if you caught wind of that, but I told Nicole to get some shirts out of it, and it tried to eat her.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: The it just closes itself, right?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: It did the same when I was putting the shirts in.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: No, so I'm like, I'm gonna fix this.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I can deal with this.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I ordered, ordered the part.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Got I will not mention the retailer because of the ending of this story.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I ordered the part.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say this all of the retailers are called had the same part, so there's there's an issue going on here, and it's this big old strut, big old gas spring strut.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: But to get into it, I had to take the entire interior of the rear of the car apart, to take all the panels off.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: I had to take the what is that called, the headliner.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is that right, Brett?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Or do anybody know?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the the the part of the the inside of the car that is the squishy, the squishy part on top.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: So me and my brother-in-law were stripping all this crap out, and I look at the strut and it looks nothing like the part I have in my hand.
• 10:32
  unknown: Okay.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, well, it looks substantially thicker.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was probably two and a half inches in diameter, and the one I had was like an inch and a half.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, well, and my brother-in-law's, because he's a car guy, he's like, you know what?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's probably it's afterwards, it's probably just as strong.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's just made a little cheaper, whatever.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I'm sure it'll fit.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we go to put it on.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it did not fit, number one.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: It was too short.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: So he's like, Well, your guys are short, you're not very tall.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we'll put it on anyway, and then maybe it'll it'll work.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: It'll just, you know, um, the door won't open as high.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we put it on, and I hit the button to go.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: And this thing started doing voodoo dances all around.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: It just the doors going.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh no.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: So now uh we pull it out.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: The problem though is whilst we were taking out the big one, the clips that keep it attached uh got eaten by the car, like they flung off, and now they're like inside the paneling somewhere, and I'm not taking the rest of the car apart to find this piece.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: So then uh we're I had one more of these clips, but I had to bend it to try and fit this part.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm working on it and I'm bending it, and I'm and then all of a sudden it goes twing out of this tool and it was gone.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: It launched itself off the planet somewhere else out in the world.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: So now I have a manual tailgate, it's a very heavy door, but I have to open it and I have a piece of wood to hold it up and then load the stuff in and then close it.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: So uh that's old school hood hood vibe.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_02: When you when the hood struts are broke, you had to have a broomstick under there.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, that that's how I feel.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, so yeah, it's I'm I'm in that world right now.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: So after this recording today, I'm gonna I'm gonna get on the phone with Honda, my my good friends down at Honda, and say, Hey, do you have this part?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Please and thank you.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: I need it right now.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: So uh that was my that was a few hours of my uh my Monday for sure.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: But we did go down, uh we went down to Long Beach.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: There's a cool neighborhood down there in Bixby Knowles that does a Labor Day um on the Sunday.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: They do like a block party.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: So they permit from the city, they close down the block.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: My brother-in-law lives there, and uh there's some great Long Beach musicians that are there, some SC alums that live in that neighborhood.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: So that was a fun, and uh, and some notable Yamaha employees, so it's kind of cool to run into them down there.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we went and and hung out in the rain and had uh had a water slide.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Declan's lips and face were completely blue.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um he was frozen near to death, but he he lived to to slide another day, so life is good.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um right on.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Any any other notable weekend stuff?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_05: Back at it.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: We're back at it.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_05: All right, sounds like I missed the that sounds like I missed all the fun.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_05: It's been dry as a bone over here.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, not a rain cloud in sight.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: It has been just this gross this this feels like Florida weather we've had here.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: What we've had uh I said the same thing until I just experienced it and it was Oh my goodness.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Was Florida worse?
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: How was it?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: Lightning, the thunderstorms.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I mean, it's almost to the point where like I don't know what thunder and lightning sounds like anymore.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like jarring at times, like, oh crap, like this is oh oh that's what weather is.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it is.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Got it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: How fun.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: Killer.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, welcome back from Florida.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're glad to have you.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: All right, uh, let's see.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about let's talk about this show.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Dante, you said this was the highlight for you, the the pool for these students to get this thing done.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know I don't know what I was thinking.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um what what what kind of planet I was on, because originally we had this really cool kind of interlocking plan, right?
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: For these um these first three games.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it was the shift, right?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's when this game got pushed to Friday and it had that evening that then we knew we didn't know, but we knew it's like, hey, Friday night, we're probably gonna have drones on this one.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think initially we wanted this to be uh high school band day, right?
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, these three shows are supposed to be interlocking to where they all had some element of overlap, and that didn't happen.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: That did not happen.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um but we did we we did pull this pull this out of our back pocket.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Part of it was I was contacted by the Lucas Museum uh social media folks over the summer, and they were interested in you know doing some collaborations, some cross promotion for the museum.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so they provided for us our special guest at the game, R2D2, to help us kick it off, which uh I think that it to me it seemed like it got a pretty big crowd response.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: Did you hear did it sound that big to you where you were?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, from what I could hear in the moment, it was it seemed like it it went over well.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um Marie said it was pretty cool too just to see that you know happening like that.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: Have him out there.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Brett, were you excited to see R2D2?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: Of course.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_04: I couldn't really see him from where we were in the Sun deck, but it was really cool that he was there.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh KC, you missed it, bud.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: He was there in the in the flesh.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_05: He did not make the broadcast.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh yeah.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we listen, we know this.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is this is unfortunately this is the way.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was a neat bit because we had our new in-game MC Haley.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: We I I designed the script so that she did kind of like an on-field in-peristyle interview of the robot.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh excuse me, sorry, uh the droid uh before the uh before the halftime show.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, good shtick, good stuff.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but he was there, he was cool, he had his his Lucas Museum ID badge on, which is really fun.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully we get some more uh R2D2 visitations on campus in the near future.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: But they reached out about you know R2 and all of this, and so that's where my brain went to Star Wars, and so then I yoinked in the Star Wars medley we did back in 20, I think it was 15, I want to say.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um and that was our big picture show of the year.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: And Dante, I don't know if I've had a chance to kind of talk to you about this history, but we really didn't do pictures for many, many, many years.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it was 2014 we did this big dedication to Louis Zamperini, um, this notable tro notable Trojan.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that kicked off this idea that every year we should be doing some big sort of picture production.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: So in 2015, we did start the Star Wars show, and that was we had Mark Camill um introduce the show.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: He did the video introduction for us.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's the one that lives on uh YouTube.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's a pretty that's a pretty cool one.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I took that music and then I think I added to it the Mandalorian.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was my very first show as director.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: We called it, it was called Halftime and Chill, and it was all streaming music.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we did it this was uh this was not the wisest idea either.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're seeing a trend, is what's going on.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Very ambitious.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: But we did uh we did Loki.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's where that Loki drill kind of first came up because we did Loki from Disney Plus, we did The Mandalorian, we did uh the Netflix or the Stranger Things opening music, we did the Queen's Gambit from Netflix, um we did WandaVision from uh Disney Plus, I think.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: So it was all it was all streaming stuff in there.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Queen's Gambit, we did a a 15 count to the rear drill because the music has a weird three, four bar turnaround.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I thought it'd be I thought it'd be fine.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: Just turn when the music happens and the students figured it out, but it was it was it was rough, it was brutal.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but no, that we the Mandalorian from that show, and then I pulled in the duel of the fates from episode one, because we're gonna do that in the spring concert in April, and so we just put together this nine-minute medley and just uh ran the thing down um and just had the drones work along with it.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we had uh two days of rehearsal.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Is that right?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: That is absolutely correct.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: Two holy smokes days um to figure out, but you know, we I think we learned our lesson.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: We stayed in the sundeck on this one, right?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: We just hung out in there and uh and just let it be.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess I'll ask the question, guys.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: What uh let's see, let's see if I can figure this out.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you guys don't hear.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: If I play the music, you don't hear it, right?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: How did I figure this out last time?
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Little behind the scenes inside baseball on this one.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go like this.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go like that.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Bang.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Then I'm gonna go like this.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is great TV, Brett, by the way.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Just so you know.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I can cut all of it.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: No, don't no, leave it in.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: I want people to know.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: You guys hear that?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um Brett, did we get any complaints about playing the 20th Century Fox fanfare?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, because Ben was convinced people were gonna get mad at me.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Because why?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: UCLA plays it.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Or has played it.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I forgot about that.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_04: No one cares, no one cares.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_05: Wrong, wrong movie.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_05: That's Jurassic Park, wrong franchise.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's great.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we did we hit we well, first we did uh TMB THX.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't know if anyone got that.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: You think anyone got it?
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't well uh it was all new to me because I hadn't heard the show.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh cool, the THX thing.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you can't.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you and I would get it.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: But did Marie get it, Dante?
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: She's the litmus test.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: Of course she did, yes.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, okay, maybe she's not.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: She's kind of she's really nerdy like we are.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so that was what we do the 20th century Fox fanfare, which uh I think came off really well.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's give it a listen.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Listen to that reverb, huh?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, listen to that reverb is amazing.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty cool.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then we hit Star Wars.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: What Dante, maybe you can speak to what were some of like the uh the the guardrails we put up for the students to like help them succeed through this performance?
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_02: One was allowing them to see the sheet music.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, on their phones, right?
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: On their phones.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um so I think that really helped uh ease the anxiety of the show, um, because it is a heavy lift, even just musically a heavy lift.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_02: And so just uh releasing that burden of trying to memorize it in two days, which arguably is probably not possible for a lot of people.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: They will every everybody will miss something, so you can account for that.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh releasing that barrier, I think that allowed us to be uh successful in that way, and I think that's probably one of the the biggest ones, and then not going on the field and then setting ourselves up for success with our uh audio engineers that we have.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: I think it was just it was a no brainer in a sense.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because we've now done four of these drone shows.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: You've been here for all of these.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like we didn't we didn't do this before then.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I think we've tried everything under the sun.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: We've tried it all.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the first one we were just caught, we we had a show and then the drones came after, so that there was just no sympathy.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then the second second time around was when we did the um the end zone and then a show after.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we we kind of did because it I think it fell on Veterans Day.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so we wanted to do the armed forces meddling, and that was fine, but we there were we had audio issues on that one.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: Then last year we did the the orientation.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Which I really liked that, but we just couldn't get it dark enough.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_02: Correct.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Which you know, which was the bummer.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think had we gone if if and I don't think well this game it wasn't dark enough, but I don't think the Big Ten lets anyone go full dark now anyway.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think that came up in in this year's manual.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I I do think I really liked last year the possibilities were strong, were a lot of fun.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe maybe maybe it was challeng overly challenging for you and the drill writing team to to write words.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's weird.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I liked it.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then uh and then yeah, this year I said, you know, forget it.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: We'll just stay in the sun deck.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: We'll just you know, you and I talked about it a long time, like let's just stay up there and let let the mics do the work.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think the fun, the most fun question I got, I think I had about six people come up to me and say, hey, are we are we gonna wear helmets during halftime?
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, no, no.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, but I I appreciate the showmanship.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but just we did we didn't need any more hindrances on ears, you know, in the form of helmets.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think anyone was really, no one was really looking at us anyway.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: We're just hanging out in the stands.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um drones are cool.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the drones are rad.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right, then we rip it into the main title.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Let's give it a listen.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: They're doing it.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: They're doing the thing.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I dig it.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's kind of fun.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: Where this audio bread, is this just the camera hearing the speakers?
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what this is?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_04: This this is the direct feed from um from Brandon and Andrew downstairs.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_04: Got it.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: So this is what's cranking, cranking through the machine, not what, not what we're hearing.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it's um, you know, that's always it's always fun for me because we we march a lot in our shows, right?
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: And the stadium is just not a good audio stadium because a lot of times like we get our recording, and you know, it's just the way it goes, like some group of folks just march right by the axis of the mic, you know, and then we capture that.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: But it's kind of neat in here hearing because I got a lot of calls, a lot of compliments, like, hey, show sounded great.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: This was a lot of fun, great job, some of the best music I've heard, you know, in week two in a long time.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I think a lot of that's true, but what's neat for here, you can hear a lot of the the details, right?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the the stretching and pulling of the rhythm, but to the students' credit, um, they never checked out, which I think is is super duper important, is that they they just stayed with it, they hung on it, and uh, we got the thing, we got it done.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: We made it to the finish line, as it were.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, those first trombones, Anderson, he's really Anderson had the whole thing memorized.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that, Dante?
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: He he was he was ripping ready to go.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like right before the show, he looked at me and he just it's all right there.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and he nailed it.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: He he really nailed it.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so we get into the Imperial March.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give that a little taste.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: This moment because everything was not really timed because it mixed and matched Star Wars and uh USC iconography.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: But they they really timed the beginning so that we would hit the Imperial March when Darth Vader made it to the skies.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I think we we were close, we were pretty close.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: I think we got we got to it a little bit early, but then we just gave him an introduction, as it were.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one moment, I'm gonna I'm gonna way fast forward um because as much as I wanna I've listened to Star Wars a lot in my life, uh and I'm sure everyone else has as well.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um I I remember in my brain from the game that when we hit the Death Star music, bop bop bop bop, that part, I wanna say that lined up pretty much on the money with the Millennium Falcon.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Did it do you remember that at all?
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: It was fairly, it was fairly perfect.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: It was close.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna play it.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see if my memory is right or if I'm if I'm off the rails.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: Here we got Luke Skywalker.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was very close.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was very close.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, it formed, and then right when the Millennium Falcon goes and shoots its lasers, that's when the music hit.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: Darn.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll pack my bags.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: It's close enough.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: You're fine.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's close enough.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: Close enough for jazz.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but then we get to the end through a little tribute to Troy on there, because our tempos were all, you know, a little bright.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's the way it goes.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, what a what a doozy of a show.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: We did it.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: Drones and music, but it was, I thought it was really cool that A, to your point, the students pulled it off, they got it done.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then it was really neat that um, you know, Athletics worked with the drone, like the drone company, Lucasfilm worked with us, the museum.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: It just it took a lot of collaborative efforts kind of behind the scenes to make it all come together.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: And it I thought it was a lot of fun.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: You had to get your ducks in a row quick too.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you you wrote it, but you had to to lead the the charge as well.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_02: So, I mean, kudos to you as well, man.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, dog.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was fun to write.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: That duel of the fates, that was a tricky one to figure out.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_02: You had to write that one for this show.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_02: You haven't you didn't have this one in the game.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: Never.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: That one, no.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: That what did I uh I think that the twenty the 20th Century Fox fanfare I put together for this year.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then, yeah, the Mandalorian was from a different show, so we just plopped it in there.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, the duel of the fates, that was one I had to do.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_02: Binary you already had.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: Huh?
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_02: You had the binary already?
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Everything else, yep.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Everything else, everything else was there.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now there was some little licks that I pulled out and I put in because we did Star Wars and concert band a couple years ago.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so I had it there, so I could snatch it out of there and um and do that.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: But no, the duel of the fates, I've never never written it, never worked on it.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so that one I had to do.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: But what what I didn't re I I knew it, but what I hadn't thought about was just the menacing, the motor.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: It it persists throughout, it never stops.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: Which for strings, make it's I mean, you look at the orchestral score, it's just non-stop in the string section.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like they don't, I don't think they ever play anything else other than that, and then you know, scales moving around, but it's just that the entire time.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: So figuring out how to like jockey that around but not uh, you know, drive the students absolutely crazy.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: I do think the flutes and clarinets got the short end of that stick though.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I really, I really put them after it for a long time.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um the saxophones as well.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: But um, you know, thank you, Woodwinds, for keeping it together.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: And the second and third trumpets.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: They had to do a lot of the uh duck-a-dig-a-that as well.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: So but um all in all, a fun day, a fun, a fun ride.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um the students were shocked at how short the break was in the grassy knoll.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think that that caught some folks off guard, and they're like, Why are we leaving early?
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, we're not leaving early.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's call time was later because of when it was, you know.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: But uh a great day, a great day.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: What was uh what was Marie's review of the day?
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_02: Oh she enjoyed it.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_02: I mean she even uh commended the group on just she understands the fast turnaround and then just the variance, you know, of our program.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I mean it's just it's pretty aweing at the at the end of the day.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: We did it.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: We did it.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't do it, they did it.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: I just stayed.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: I just happened.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: I waved my arms around.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um for the fun bit at the end of today's episode, I thought it'd be nice since we are talking about Star Wars and we know we all love Star Wars.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um what are some like what are I I did want to say, I was gonna say, let's let's have everybody chime in.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite Star Wars movie and your least favorite Star Wars movie?
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then Casey's response was let's not do that.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: Is that right, Casey?
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_05: Not not just just because we've already done that as a couple of previous Trojan Spirit Streamathons.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: So so what would be a good alternative?
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: Gentleman, producer, gentlemen in the background.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_05: If you want to do favorite movie, least favorite movie, we can we can definitely do that.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: We could do something.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's not my show, it's our it's our show, comrade.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want to uh or moments?
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Brett, you wanted uh music cues?
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think that'd be fun.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, it'd follow from the show that was on Saturday.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's man, look at that.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, Brett, uh what's one of your favorite uh Star Wars music cues?
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_04: I love the fight music, um, especially from well, besides Duel the Fates, which is obviously the best.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I would say the asteroid field from Empire Strikes Back, um, or the one that we played, the TIE Fighter Attack.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_04: I thought those are great energetic pieces of film music.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: What's the uh can you hum a few bars of the asteroid field?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh nice.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Dante, what about you?
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um just because it's a lot of fight music, just to be contrary to Brett, uh, the binary sunset is really beautiful.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's short, but it is just it's 30 seconds of beauty, like it's just fantastic.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it it's movie number one and it permeates all of them, right?
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a French horn solo.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: Your wife plays French horn.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, I'll take it all day.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: I play French horn.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: All the best, all the coolest cats play French horn, right, Brett?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_04: No.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_04: But uh, I do want to say that uh John Williams was at the bowl this this weekend.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_04: He conducted himself.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_04: So while we were doing Star Wars um on the field, he was over at Hollywood Bowl conducting Star Wars in person.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_04: Did he was that Saturday night?
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_04: I think it was Friday to Saturday, right?
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_04: I think he was out on Friday night um conducting on a in a wheelchair, but you know, he is 94.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: He yeah, I I was this close to buying tickets for the Saturday night show.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I said to my wife, I'm like, we should go to the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, and she just never answered my inquiry.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll take that as a no.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's thundering.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_01: You hear you've got thunder downtown?
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I heard that too.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: I know we I hear it.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_04: I thought I thought the dog was running up against the wall.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we got folks, we gotta cancel, we gotta cancel the day.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: There is thunder in Los Angeles.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: My lights just flickered.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's the end of times.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: We've gotta go.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think the lights flicker when the fridge turns on.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, the binary sunset's cool.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: And uh of the ballad stuff, I'll here's another fun fact about some Star Wars music.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um the in Empire Strikes Back, there's the the music cue when Yoda lifts the X-Wing out of the swamp, right?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um when they in the uh what is it, the last The Last Jedi, right?
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's the terrible one.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: Is that right, Casey?
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: The worst movie ever.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_05: Your words.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, our words.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um when uh they pull when ghost, I think it's is it ghost Yoda, Ghost Luke?
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember, but when the X-Wing gets yoinked out of the ocean on that planet, it's they used the same exact music cue.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't rearrange it, they didn't do they just they took the sheet music from Empire and just did the same exact same exact cue for that moment, which I thought that's pretty cool.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty neat.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh save the dollar.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: Saved a dollar.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: All right, maybe you're right.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean you're already you're already paying John Williams, you know what I mean?
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it's uh all right.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh KC, what about you?
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: What's one of your favorite moments, musical cues, what have you?
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_05: So if we're talking about a light motif from Star Wars, my favorite is definitely the force, uh, which is featured prominently in all the things we've talked about, binary sunset, that moment on Dagaba, that moment in the movie we won't talk about.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_05: That's my favorite actual cue.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_05: If we're talking about my favorite Star Wars musical moment in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Star Wars the Old Republic, there is a moment in the final act of the first raid that was released with the game called the Eternity Vault.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_05: And you and your crew of Nare Duells and Sith Lords are delving into this ancient prison, and right as you come to the final room and you see this giant hundred-foot-tall alien called a Rikata, which is a species in Star Wars that are ancient empire, before the empire was the empire.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_05: Battle of the heroes kicks in, and you go into this final epic boss fight, and uh yeah, that moment when they reuse Battle of the Heroes in that way, that's definitely my favorite of any Star Wars property that exists ultimately.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_04: And that's a cue from episode three, correct?
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_05: Battle of the Heroes, yes, episode three, famously.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_05: The battle the fight on Mustafa featured prominently in the Trojan Marching Band Spring concert several years ago.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: So prominently, in fact, that I lit someone on fire on stage and burnt them to a crisp and then turn them into Darth Vader.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_05: Editor put in that clip.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh wow, Casey.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: Casey, can we uh can can you can you find an excerpt of this this video game and send it our way?
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: I would love to see this.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Or can you like can you show it?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: Can you play this game and we can watch you uh relive this moment?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_05: It's a it's an older code server to checks out, I'll just have to clear it.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's a Star Wars way of saying he's gonna go pirate this and figure it out.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's what he's saying.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what you're saying, Casey?
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_05: Who said anything about pirating?
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: That just seems to be what when I ask you for something strange, you just tend to do it that way.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um look at me, just throwing out accusations.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: Casey's more thunder, Dante?
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's lightning.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: Lightning now.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: Woo! Uh all right, I will let's see, what's what's one that I really dig?
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: I I like Dante's tactic of going alternative, um, like something on the softer side.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: I really like the um the love theme from Attack of the Clones.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm if I'm is doo dee doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: Is that right, everybody?
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think so.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_05: That's called Across the Stars, yes.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: Across the Stars.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I like it because it's very remnant, like you can hear like the John Williams isms like working through it because it sounds like a cue from Hook, it sounds like something from um I feel like I've heard it a little bit in in Raiders of the Lost Ark and those films, like you can find that like the shape, the color, the character, and a lot of the work at the time.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: But I just it it's such a wonderful piece of music.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: And when we went to see that movie, could my you know, I'm excited about it.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: My dad's like, you know, this is where this is the movie where Darth Vader falls in love.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, cool.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like that was the only thing my dad said going into it.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I had to go on.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I was thrilled when Yoda had a lightsaber.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, gentlemen, this has been fun.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and now this week, we've got a doozy this week because we've got high school band day coming up.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: D gets to flex his his uh operational muscle this week.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_00: And uh how many high schoolers do we have coming?
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_02: Twenty one hundred.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: Twenty one hundred.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_02: Are they gonna fit it's gonna be a it's gonna be a wild ride?
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: Are they gonna fit on the field?
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_02: Burley.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this is uh let's call it ambitious.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's the precursor.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna call it ambitious.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: That is one of the traits, one of the five traits of a Trojan is ambition.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_02: It is yes living up to it.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: Good, yeah, I love it.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, it'll be it'll be fun.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: But we got some cool music, we've got um a Bruno Mars tune, and this is still part of the interlock because this Bruno Mars tune we're then gonna use in the next show.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_00: We're recycling a drill from the first show, right?
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: So some of the uh some of the interlock is still there.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um we got a cat.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: We the cat.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um so some of that, but then we've got um where is my husband?
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: That chart has been has been pretty hot recently.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then with the high schoolers, some Sabrina Carpenter and some Bad Bunny, which will be a lot of fun.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that'll be neat because next week um the Bruno Mars tune was arranged by a student by Kobe Almeida, Trombone player.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: I know that Samuel Perez is doing a lot of the drill for the high schoolers, and then he arranged mostly the Bad Bunny arrangement.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're gonna have those two guys join us uh next week, and so we can kind of talk to them.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_00: What was it like for them learning the process?
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: Was I a nice teacher?
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: Was I a mean teacher?
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, or was I a good teacher?
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: Full disclosure, I do not think I'm very good at like one-on-one lessons.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is a good ad for myself for people to sign up, but it's just I don't I don't feel like it's my strength, and I don't, I don't know why.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: What do you how do you feel, Dante?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: You feel like you're better one-on-one or more in a classroom setting?
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_02: I prefer one over the other.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um the 101, there's a lot of I guess just being a music student got me used to the 101 instruction.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_02: You can kind of get the butter from the duck and it's more personalized.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: So those yes, that's all true.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and I I loved getting one.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just I don't I don't know why.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: I just have a heart.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta come prepare.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_02: You can't hide behind no one.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's yes, that's what it is.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we'll we'll talk we'll talk all about that.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_04: What does butter from a duck mean?
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_02: Just getting it all just just from the jar.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's really from the jar, just getting it all out.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: I love these southern things, I don't know.
• 42:38
  unknown: Yep.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what do we get?
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: We got burley today.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: Telling me my my stick is some real hood stuff for the stick with my van.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because you you know, it's not not hood as in hood, but I I used to see that on the hood.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_02: I've never had a minivan, so it's always because I guess in an older car growing up, it had the springs, not necessarily the the struts and all that, yeah.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the struts.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_02: It was that that spring pops out and go get that broomstick so I can change this oil.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: I I used to uh I had a I had a car with a bad starter, and so I kept a hammer and a drumstick, like a like an old broken in my and I would get out there and gotta tap that thing.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: Tap it, get it going.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna, I'm not paying for a new one.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: This one's still working.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that car.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: That that was a car that that one got my wrath.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: I was I drove to school and it exploded as I was parking.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_02: Made you who you are today.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: At the van.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get I'm gonna go get that taken care of, all right?
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: Any uh, so yeah, fun looking forward to next week.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_00: So thanks all for uh thanks all for tuning in.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_00: This has been TMB TM Banter Week Three, but make sure you all you know subscribe, leave us a comment, leave some review, we'll keep cranking this thing.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: But we we love hearing from folks, and that helps us know what you want to talk about more, talk about less, get into you want us to get deeper in the weeds, less in the weeds.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: You want to hear me give Casey a hard time for his extended universe Star Wars reading, um, you know, just let us know.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: Get in there.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but this has been myself.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: DS Brett.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, sorry.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_04: I was gonna say you can send questions uh on the podcast website.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: The podcast website on there's a form on there, you could send questions.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: We should look at the questions um and get and curate curate some of those if there's any in there.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, we'll get into those questions.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: We can answer that.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: But thanks to all.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: So this is from myself, Dante, Brett, and KC.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, thanks for tuning in and fight on everybody.