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Episode #31-Ryan Monsen, Auburn Riverside Senior · The Recess-An Inside Look at the Auburn School District

0:14
SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome to the Recess Podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: We are ending the year strong with some special guests from our graduating classes of our four high schools.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Dr.
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SPEAKER_01: Alan Spacotti, the proud superintendent of the Auburn School District.
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SPEAKER_01: And today I get to share with you a representative of the class of 2025 from Auburn Riverside High School, Ryan Monson.
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SPEAKER_01: You're going to really enjoy getting to hear about Ryan.
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SPEAKER_01: Ryan is an accomplished musician.
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SPEAKER_01: He is a big part of our school community, as is his family, and uh I think we're going to have a lot of fun here.
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SPEAKER_01: So without further ado, let me go ahead and introduce Ryan Monson.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me on.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, we're glad to have you with us.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, Ryan, you have done a lot in your, I'm assuming, 18 years.
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SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So we're going to get to know you.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're going to get to know what you're involved in at school and uh where you're headed in in life uh at this point.
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SPEAKER_01: But we're going to start with a question I ask every single guest, and you actually are going to have a really great answer because uh you are uh a live student.
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SPEAKER_01: Usually people are talking about, oh, when I went to high school and whatever city.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, but you're gonna tell us about teachers because you went all the way through Auburn Schools, correct?
1:39
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: What schools did you go to?
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SPEAKER_00: I went to Alako, Mount Baker, and Auburn Riverside.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, so shout out to the South End schools.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell us who's your favorite teacher and why, and you could pick one or you could pick pick one for every school.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I would say the the most interesting one would be my dad for AP Gov and AP human geography as a freshman and as a senior.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh it's very, very fun.
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SPEAKER_00: It's kind of odd at times because you know it's your dad, so uh I like the inflection on it's your dad.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I think it's pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a great teacher, great learner, he's been doing it for a very long time, very accomplished program for AP history.
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SPEAKER_00: So I think it's a great representation of Riverside as a whole.
2:29
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's absolutely terrific.
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SPEAKER_01: Did you enjoy having your dad as much as a senior as a freshman or one more than the other?
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SPEAKER_00: I think I had more appreciated as a freshman, but now it's more it's more funny.
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SPEAKER_00: Whenever I walk in and I see him, I'm just like, oh, you're here too.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he's teaching me about you know how democracy works.
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SPEAKER_00: It's pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, your dad's a great teacher.
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SPEAKER_01: We're very fortunate to have him at Auburn Riverside.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, he gets a compliment I've heard from a number of parents who say, you know, I really he talks about government all the time, and I don't necessarily know uh his politics or his party.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh he's very kind of fair and balanced, and I appreciate that about Mr.
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SPEAKER_01: Monson, your dad.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh so shout out to Andrew Monson.
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SPEAKER_01: Um did you want to cover any other other teachers?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh as he mentioned, I am a very avid member in music, and Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: Stenson and Mrs.
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SPEAKER_00: Wharton at Um Riverside and at Baker have been like the best teachers I've ever had, really, just for helping me progress as a musician and as a human.
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SPEAKER_00: I couldn't ask for a better pair of teachers to help me in orchestra and choir, so absolutely.
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SPEAKER_01: And I I know both of those individuals are incredibly hardworking.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and you know, Mr.
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SPEAKER_01: Stenson, for sure I didn't know you sang.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, so that's that's good information.
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SPEAKER_01: He he's the choral teacher for those of you listening on the podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and Melinda Wharton is uh absolute all-star orchestra teacher, teacher of strings.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and uh I'm glad they're getting some some do because uh actually all of our music teachers uh go above and beyond, and and I appreciate you you calling that out, Ryan.
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh are we good?
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody else?
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SPEAKER_00: Or there's there's two more.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: Barons and Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: Eibel at Riverside are two of the coolest teachers ever, and they're so fun to learn from and fun to be around.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm very grateful to have taken our class.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, very good.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you taking their class now?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm taking it now.
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SPEAKER_00: A B seminar and Vizcom.
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SPEAKER_00: It's pretty it's a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So if they near hear their name on the podcast, maybe you get a better grade.
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SPEAKER_01: Hope hopefully.
4:54
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
4:56
SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing your grades are pretty good to begin with.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks, Ryan.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh love all the recognition and and love for our our teachers and staff.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, let's get to know you a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, four years probably flew by, it does for most people.
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SPEAKER_01: Might not seem like it in the beginning, and then all of a sudden, you know, you're in the end of your senior year.
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SPEAKER_01: What extracurricular activities have you done throughout your school career?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I am a part of the Tacoma Youth Symphony.
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SPEAKER_00: I've been doing that since before COVID in seventh grade, and I've done it every year, and they offer tons of camps over the summer.
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SPEAKER_00: I've done all those, like like there's ones that for like just like bass players at PLU, and then there's ones for full symphonies at Central, and I've been doing those every summer.
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SPEAKER_00: But that um organization is is awesome, and I've learned so much from them, and I've very grateful to be a part of such a great organization to learn from and get to grow my craft in.
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SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
5:56
SPEAKER_01: So you mentioned playing the bass.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you just take a minute to uh describe exactly what you're talking about?
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SPEAKER_01: Because it might not be what they're thinking of.
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SPEAKER_00: So the bass, think about a violin, but like ten times bigger.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's like you it's like upright, it's not on your shoulder.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how I would describe it.
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SPEAKER_01: Taller than you are, the big one in the back of the orchestra or on the far right.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and it's different than the electric bass, which would be in a you know, a rock band or something like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you also play that?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, I do.
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SPEAKER_01: Nice, nice.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you uh do you have a favorite style of music to play?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm really into like rock music right now.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh I've been listening I listen to a lot of music with my dad.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a very big influence on me with what I like what I know about music.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so I mean I you know sit in my room and play all around along this stuff from a long time ago, and it's pretty fun.
6:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I feel like uh I'm gonna help you out here a little bit, Ryan.
6:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh I'm feeling a little bit of imbalance in the family.
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SPEAKER_01: Your mother is also a musician, right?
7:03
SPEAKER_01: You want to share what she does?
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SPEAKER_00: She teaches private piano lessons, and she has been for a very long time.
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SPEAKER_00: She also plays for uh Auburn Riverside for choir and for students in orchestra and choir for events like solo ensemble.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's one of the great private music teachers, uh piano teachers in our community, as well as being involved with the schools, and uh anyway, we we we want to balance the ledger there just a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh do you want to mention any other extracurricular activities?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you kind of you're in the orchestra uh and choir.
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SPEAKER_01: Um anything else you want to bring up?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I do jazz choir as well at school, and I play electric bass in jazz choir, and I've done that since freshman year, and I'm very grateful to be a part of that.
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SPEAKER_00: That's Stenson as well, and that's a really it's a different class than just normal choir because it's a lot more um it's harder stuff, harder material to learn, but once you you know you sit through a couple classes, you start to learn some stuff, and it's a lot of fun to you know take those concepts you learn and play play them and single through them.
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SPEAKER_00: It's pretty, it's pretty cool.
8:14
SPEAKER_01: And if I recall at one point you played football, right?
8:17
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I did.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you still play or nah?
8:20
SPEAKER_01: I'm retired.
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SPEAKER_01: You're retired.
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SPEAKER_01: Excellent.
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SPEAKER_01: I love it.
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SPEAKER_01: He's 18 and he's retired already.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and I yeah, you'll see this on the picture if you see the publicities for this podcast.
8:31
SPEAKER_01: Ryan is wearing a Duke sweatshirt hoodie.
8:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh as we're recording this, uh, we're we're we haven't found out how they've done in the NCA tournament, but I think this is gonna air after.
8:43
SPEAKER_01: So uh if if uh they did well, think of Ryan, he'll be happy.
8:48
SPEAKER_01: All right, um as we're recording this again, we do have some time left in the school year.
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SPEAKER_01: What are you looking forward to the rest of your senior year?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, obviously graduating, that's gonna be a great moment, you know, accomplishing all these years of school and going on to the next level of college.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I got a lot of trips.
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SPEAKER_00: There was a we have a choir trip to Idaho um for a competition, which will be really fun.
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SPEAKER_00: I that happened two years ago also, and I had a lot of fun on that trip.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: And also, you know, uh end of year concerts as well, and then I'm having a senior recital, um, which I'm very excited for that.
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SPEAKER_01: So you're having a senior recital.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I think many of the audience know I was a music major.
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SPEAKER_01: I had a uh senior recital and other recitals in college, but not in high school.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh tell us about your senior recital.
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SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be a a mixture of both orchestra and choral rep, about hour or so, and it's just gonna kind of showcase what I've learned in the course of my high school career, pieces I've learned, pieces I've played at competitions, pieces I've sang that I like or or I have mastered, if that's what that's the word I would probably use.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm very excited for it.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And where are you gonna do that?
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SPEAKER_00: Messiah Lutheran Church, just across the street from where we are right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, uh that's that's a huge accomplishment to pull off a whole hour.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and uh I think you'll knock it out of the park.
10:23
SPEAKER_01: I've gotten the chance to hear Ryan play.
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SPEAKER_01: He's fantastic.
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SPEAKER_01: I've actually heard him play some jazz as well as in the orchestra.
10:31
SPEAKER_01: Um I think we've covered this.
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SPEAKER_01: The the next question that we're gonna ask all of the the seniors I interview these questions.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, what is your favorite extracurricular activity?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
10:45
SPEAKER_00: You could probably guess what it is, but I'm gonna have to say it's music.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's like what my rule my like what everything revolves around.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm doing it 24-7, I'm listening, I'm playing, I'm learning.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm very grateful to have so many opportunities to perfect my craft and um to play with other people and learn from other people.
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SPEAKER_01: So I assume you probably made some close friends through music, through orchestra and and those experiences.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, for sure.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: How is how is it um talk about uh you know the peer group you've developed and is it gonna be hard to to have these days come to an end with these people?
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SPEAKER_01: Because I know you're moving on, we're gonna talk about that in a minute.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, high school choir is like is undefeated in the amount of relationships you make with people, sing with people.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, if anyone would want to try it out, I mean I would recommend it to everybody to try it out.
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SPEAKER_00: It's it's just you know, it's getting out of your comfort zone, and the people you meet along the way are amazing people, and I would hopefully those relationships stay for a long time after high school for me.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: Fantastic.
11:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh so uh one of the things we want to do with this podcast, we have some great seniors who are close to graduation uh and would be in a wonderful place to talk about high school to uh the next generation of high school students.
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SPEAKER_01: So what advice would you give to a middle school student entering high school next year?
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SPEAKER_00: I would say firstly, to challenge yourself with whether that be like just curricularly, like what you're taking class wise, you know, stay on top of your homework for sure.
12:34
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you say, I'll do oh, I'll do this later, or I'll I'll do it tomorrow, or and then it gets done, and then that's a bad habit that starts um building.
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SPEAKER_00: I've done that a couple of times and it's not turned out well.
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SPEAKER_00: So I definitely would say being on top of your of your homework uh really is beneficial in the long term, even though it might seem like it's not in the short term, but also um taking fine arts like orchestra and choir are great experiences that I feel like no one's had a negative um experience in that I know of.
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SPEAKER_01: Wise words, uh procrastination is so tempting and I always, you know, sometimes I get to speak with incoming freshmen and talk about if if you get off to a fast start, so many possibilities open up for you in high school.
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SPEAKER_01: But if you're playing catch up, uh you know, you just never get there and you don't get to do some of the fun things like uh that wide range of electives uh while you're trying to pick up your academic credit.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh wise advice and and uh definitely get involved if it's music, that's wonderful.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh sports clubs, there's so many opportunities.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: Alright, so um you also have a light outside of school.
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SPEAKER_01: You said it's 24-7 music, so I I don't know what we we might hear more of that theme.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe we'll hear something else.
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SPEAKER_01: What do you do when you're not at school?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh not surprising, lots of music.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: Um I've kind of gotten really back into sports cards recently.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I've uh it's kind of random, but it's just like something I I have a bunch of tubs of old sports cards from when I was in middle school and I got them back out again.
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SPEAKER_00: I was looking through them and I've been you know, you you buy those like those boxes, those packs, and you open them up.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, yeah, I love it.
14:25
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
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SPEAKER_01: That's uh it's nice to have, you know, interests that are a little different than even your passion for music, just to uh give you a break.
14:35
SPEAKER_01: Let's uh let's hop ahead a little bit now.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh we're gonna talk about what comes after high school.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and I'm literally gonna this is not on your sheet, but just start with all right, so there's gonna be a whirlwind, uh you know, senior awards, uh see, I assume your school does senior sunset, some of those kind of activities that are really fun.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, you're signing your books with your friends, you're going through rehearsal for graduation, uh, we have the big day in the stadium, uh, there's awards night.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh guessing a sharp kid like you will be uh uh engaged in awards night, and we do all the fun things.
15:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh there's, you know, usually some kind of a postgraduation uh social opportunity.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: Um and then it's summertime.
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SPEAKER_01: What are you gonna do with yourself this summer?
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SPEAKER_00: Um this summer I'm gonna do some music camps that I've been doing that I previously mentioned.
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SPEAKER_00: My last time doing those.
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SPEAKER_00: Um some college prep for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, picking my classes.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: I picked my dorm last week.
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SPEAKER_01: So well let's hey pick your dorm.
15:54
SPEAKER_01: So that's uh that's what we call transition in the business here.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh let's talk about your plans for next year now.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, what are your plans beyond high school and as you're looking ahead?
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to St.
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SPEAKER_00: Olaf College in uh north of Minnesota, which is about an hour south of Minneapolis, which has a both amazing orchestra program and an amazing choir.
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SPEAKER_00: Because well, last summer and this summer I'm doing a thing called SFYCA, which is a family youth choral academy, and the director of that is Anton Armstrong, who is the St.
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SPEAKER_00: Olaf choir director.
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SPEAKER_00: So I worked under him last summer, and I just the way he teaches and the way he gets choirs to work, I was very drawn to that, and as well as the incredible music department at it for orchestra there.
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SPEAKER_00: I was like, it's a win-win, I gotta go.
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SPEAKER_00: It's Lutheran, it's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a smaller college, not as super big, and I just went I toured there in the September, it was amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: That's fantastic.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh St.
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SPEAKER_01: Olaf, just for the listeners, is really a very well-known music program across the country, uh, and uh a very acclaimed choral program.
17:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, and just sounds like a wonderful place.
17:08
SPEAKER_01: I'd love to go visit it sometime.
17:11
SPEAKER_01: Um do you know what your major will be, or do I know sometimes these things develop later, but what do you know at this point?
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SPEAKER_00: At this point I'm gonna be a stream-based performance major.
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unknown: Okay.
17:26
SPEAKER_01: Good.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and then that leads right into uh tell us what is your dream job?
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SPEAKER_00: Playing in a professional symphony full time.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that'd be that's the end all goal, I'd say.
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SPEAKER_00: As well as teaching privately.
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SPEAKER_00: I've started to do that a little bit.
17:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm teaching some a couple of students after school now, just to, you know, keep my teaching um fresh and just keep experimenting with what I want to do after college.
17:59
SPEAKER_01: Great.
18:00
SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, yeah, you don't want it to get stale when you're 18 because you got your whole life ahead of you.
18:05
SPEAKER_01: So keeping it fresh, you're retired from football, you're keeping your teaching fresh.
18:09
SPEAKER_01: I like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and you want to play in a symphony orchestra, and uh for for those who don't, you know, spend a lot of time in that world, I happen to, you know, have some knowledge of it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's it can be a great career path, uh, and it's really, really hard.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like, you know, similar to like a making a professional sport uh for a whole career.
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SPEAKER_01: So I understand that you've had a couple of uh opportunities to experience what that's like.
18:43
SPEAKER_01: Um for those of you who don't know, our Auburn Symphony is actually a professional orchestra.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: It's not a full-time, like Ryan said he wants to play in a full-time symphony, um, you know, but it's professional musicians who play in in a variety of groups, and and this is one of them.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Um so you got to play with the Auburn Symphony, and you got to play with a chamber orchestra at a Tacoma called the Northwest Sinfonietta.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh, can you kind of explain like how that came to be and what that was like?
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SPEAKER_00: So I played with Auburn Symphony twice.
19:14
SPEAKER_00: I played with them in November.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: I auditioned the the June prior with um the director Wesley Schultz, and I just played for him after like during like a break, one of their rehearsals.
19:28
SPEAKER_00: He's like, Okay, I'll give you a call if you want to come back, and he gave me a call to come back, so I played with them, and it was an it was an awesome experience.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: And then in December I played with them with my school, like through my school, Mrs.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: Wharton picked like 10 or 11 kids to come play with them for a Christmas concert.
19:46
SPEAKER_01: So awesome, good.
19:49
SPEAKER_01: Uh and you played with the Sinfonietta as well.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh that was an audition in like I think November as well, and uh they just picked like 14 kids from a variety of instruments, and um we had rehearsals in Tacoma uh like once a month, and then in March we started like doing them like once every day, and that week was insane.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: It was like rehearsal from like seven to nine, next day, same thing, then a concert, then another concert the next day.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: But I mean it was a definitely a show of the lifestyle that I'm probably gonna live.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's one that I definitely do want to be a part of in my future.
20:29
SPEAKER_01: Great.
20:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks for kind of opening that up for us and just all these experiences.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: I know Tacoma Youth Symphony is also a uh a big part of it.
20:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh did you ever play for Dale Johnson?
20:41
SPEAKER_00: I just did in in March.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: He did his like farewell tour, like last last piece he played, or like last piece he conducted with us, and he was really cool.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: I never met him before, and I was very um learned a lot from him.
20:55
SPEAKER_01: I just mentioned that for for some of our uh longtime Auburn folks, uh, you'll recall Dale Johnson was the orchestra teacher at Auburn High School, but he also for decades uh was a conductor with the Tacoma Youth Symphony and beloved both places.
21:11
SPEAKER_01: All right, Ryan, thank you.
21:13
SPEAKER_01: We're so excited for you.
21:15
SPEAKER_01: Um it's amazing to hear uh all the things that you do in addition to your academics and uh just being a a a young person in our community.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: So uh congratulations for that.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna take it uh out of all these serious questions and end with a fun one.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe you think back to re to elementary school or uh maybe you do this now.
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SPEAKER_01: What was your favorite thing to do at recess?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, as just Pacciati said before, I'm wearing a Duke hoodie, so I love basketball, so I would say it's probably basketball.
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SPEAKER_00: I was never very good, but I had some pretty good defense, couldn't shoot the ball very well, but I love basketball, so I'd say basketball.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you get to play anymore?
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SPEAKER_00: I haven't played in a while.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe I should start doing that some more.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, that's part of my mission of this podcast.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: So I'm encouraging people to get out and and play.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh but you're playing music every day, and uh I, you know, I think our listeners could just hear that passion that you have.
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SPEAKER_01: It's super cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, I can't wait to see where you go and and uh learn about your journey over the years, and you know, if it takes turns in the road or whatever, I I just know you have a solid foundation and you're gonna do great, whatever it is.
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SPEAKER_01: So thanks for joining us.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh my guest has been Ryan Monson, Auburn Riverside High School senior, uh and one of our class of 2025 graduates who'll be featured on the Recess Podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: Ryan, thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: And this has been the Recess Podcast production of Auburn School District.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks to Vicky Alonzo uh for the production.
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SPEAKER_01: And as I like to say, please share these podcasts.
22:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh we've we've got some incredible students.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna meet one from uh each of our four high schools, and uh we want to get the word out.
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SPEAKER_01: We know that uh unfortunately sometimes the bad stuff uh spreads a lot faster than the kids who are on track and doing amazing things, and we have a hundred times more uh who are doing the right thing, who are working hard, making great choices, and are gonna be really exciting adults um in our community and in our country uh for decades to come.
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SPEAKER_01: So help spread the word, share uh Ryan's episode if if you know other Auburn Riverside Raven people or uh folks in the music world.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think it'd be a great listen.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, thanks, Ryan.
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SPEAKER_01: And this has been the Recess Podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll see you next time.