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Episode 112 · Midterm Exam · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: We are here, TM Panter, early, early in the morning.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if y'all know this, but we cranked this bad boy out.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Early in the morning because that's the best time of day.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Drop off the kids and get do it, get with it, get cranking.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh fun episode today.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we had the bye week.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we had uh we had a Saturday rehearsal with no game.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Very unusual, very different, but very fun, right?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we had some events this weekend, not a lot of gigs.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: We had our women's basketball home opener on Sunday, just a lot of fun and frivolity.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but today I've got Noah Lease with me.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: I've got uh no Dante with me.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: He's out today, too.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: But luckily for everybody, not only do we have teeny tiny Brett and Teeny Tiny Casey, but we've got on camera real Brett and there they are! Look at you beautiful.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, the facial hair just cranked up a notch.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: You look like you should be in the the header, the head of a stomp clap band, you know.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's not your fault, but yeah, yeah.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um, those Pharrell hats.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get another, what's another stomp clap song?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: What's the one?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in love with you.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: You ought to say I was gonna say every song from 2010 to 2015.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, hey, fellas, what kind of weekend did you have?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: What were you up to?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Casey, what were you cranking around town doing, huh?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I cranked around town.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: I went to go uh visit with uh Trojan Spirit Streamathon two times alumnus, Keith Yorg.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: We had a we had a fun time on Saturday.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: What'd you do?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: Did you fly?
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: No, we didn't we didn't fly.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: But we did uh we did hang out in the airplane region, so that was fun.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, time out for a hot minute.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: KC, can you aim your camera down a little bit?
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're trimming your beard off.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like a like a oh yeah, there it is.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, nice.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Brett, what about you?
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: What'd you do this weekend?
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: Um went to rehearsal on Saturday morning just for just for a minute.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't get up early like you all.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you missed you missed the start of it for sure.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, as as per usual.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um and then uh on Saturday night we had our uh trumpet squad chase.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: Oh fun.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: Which yeah, which people always ask what it is, and it's kind of hard to explain, but because it doesn't really fit in any categories, but it's mm basically like a an like IRL escape room, like out in out in real life.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then I have each squad of the uh trumpet squad do like a puzzle solving kind of race.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: So what's the what are they escaping?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do you like hire zombie actors or what do you do?
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_03: I actually have had one in the past.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_03: I had some zombies, um, but this year was kind of a murder mystery, um black dahlia inspired um mystery that they had to solve.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_03: And uh get to the finish line.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: And um, some some people did it like in an hour and a half.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_03: Um, some of the squads, and some of them just quit and couldn't figure it out.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_03: So I think uh I would say that's an ex a success.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_02: Brent, I think you're burying the lead on this.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_02: You've been doing this for a long time, and you put a lot of effort into the theming of these things, and they're always typically like Los Angeles themed events.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_02: So I like who my senior year, Clarence Infrastructure.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_02: Not quite.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_02: What was the thing with Clarence Horrell?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_02: Because I'm still friends with the fake Clarence Horrhall Facebook account from that squad chase.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: So Clements Horrell was the uh is this Clements or Clarence?
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm can I'm a little Clements.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: Clements.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Clements.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: What a fun name.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_02: I definitely I said Clarence meant Clements.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think I can help with this whole Pam Pam situation.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry, Brett.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_03: Clements.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_03: So Clements Horrell was uh chief of police uh during the late 40s when the Black Dahlia murder happened, and I think that was kind of the theme I did back then for you, Casey.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_03: Um and I the the great part is uh the Clements came back this year, and um in fact Clements Horrell was played by none other than Dr.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_03: Jacob Vogel.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: What voiceover artists did two voiceovers for Squad Chase.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Did any did any of the kids figure out it was me, Brent, or no?
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I played it for a couple people and they're like, oh yeah, we knew.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_03: But most I didn't get feedback, but um I did give you credit at the end.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, thank you to the voice talents of Dr.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_03: Jacob Vogel, who uh yeah.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of a scavenger hunt, murder mystery.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's not really a scavenger hunt though, because they have to go find anything, but yeah, they have to so the the locations here were like we did downtown public library, the back of my house was the crime scene.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_03: I made a bunch of fake blood, did a chalk outline, um, and then uh they they finished up on campus, and our special final murder murder victim was uh one Jackie Gibson.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh what fun, what a cool trumpet thing.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was fun.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: But so how long had it been since you done it?
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_03: I did it this year and then two years ago, um, and then like three or four, five years before COVID.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and it it does the winning squad get a prize?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what's the story there?
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they there's just gift cards um for the first three win uh finishers.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Got it.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: First three squads or first three people?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Three squads.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: First three squads.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: So 12 people get prizes?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: What is this millennial participation trophy event?
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: They get one gift card and hopefully they don't they hopefully they spend it on everybody else and don't just abscond with it.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: They w you win and you lose as a team, a squad.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: But there's three so there's a gold, silver, and bronze team right now.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: Size of the gift card does vary, yes.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_03: See, I thought you're just out here handing out Tommies to I would do it without a prize, but then I I felt like people wouldn't care as much and would try as hard.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: Free Tommies was third prize when I was run when I was a participant.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: What prize did you get, Casey?
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: I got first.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was gonna say we might in we we we did it.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: We pulled it out.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: Who was in your squad?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_02: Squad one.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: Squad one, you, Keith Yorg.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_02: No, Keith was uh squad five.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_02: We were we were rivals.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: Squad five, yeah.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Princess Drill, squad five, right?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: Important for the microphone recording squad.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: Is that squad five, right?
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're the ones up front.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's right.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yes.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: But squad one, 50-yard line.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is that right?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: You you you know this.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_02: I do, I do.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: I just sometimes You know who doesn't know this?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_02: The folks at home.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for reminding me.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: Remind the folks at home.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's a fun time.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Literally, no one else cares.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_02: That's not true at all.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_02: There's that's a thing with this podcast.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_02: There are there are dozens of people that have marched the 50-yard line in this band.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's a great, that's a grand old time.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of fun.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: But it sounds like you two had a fun weekend.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds cool.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: And they went to the women's game yesterday.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: Did you?
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: How was it?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: They put a ton of points, it looked like.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: So when yeah, we almost beat him by 80.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty cool.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's a that's a that's a slam dunk.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: I imagine there's probably because I don't keep up with the discourse online, but I imagine there's some people out there talking a lot of smack about juju because she didn't play for a year, you know?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, sure, she'll be back, but she won't be she won't be like 100%.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so I think also sit down.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and cut.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: Talk amongst yourselves.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_03: No, we're not doing this.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we're back.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm back.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, my van.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: The van's got some ish going on.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: So uh triple A guys here.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the van the van had some ish going on a couple episodes ago.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Listen.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: And you and your your brother-in-law tried a little uh so that we fixed that.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: I fixed it, I took care of it.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: It has a sensor that like lane keep assist.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know this?
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Does your car do this, Brent?
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: In Casey, you just got a new one.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's great.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: And the sensor went out.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so I looked up to replace the whole thing that was eight hundred dollars for the part.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is preposterous.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: No one has eight hundred dollars.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Not today, not ever.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so I found you could get the circuit board, the little piece from uh this is not sponsored, we're not sponsored.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: AliExpress, you know this website?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I got the circuit board and I replaced it.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like I had to take apart the I felt like Jeff operating on compute.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, and it went and it was fixed for like three days, and now everything's going on.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: The whole thing is just the whole car is like it's like the transmission's bad, and then it's not, and it's like I don't know how to car, and then the other day Jessica got trapped somewhere.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we think now, after testing the battery, we think the battery's just bad.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: So so it's making the computer, the the brain of the car act up because whatever.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, triple A's here right now.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Spectacular.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you what, if you don't have triple A Bring him on the pod.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, bring the guy, go get him.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, come in here, tell him what's going on.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, uh, the battery's dead.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Get a new one.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so the cars, the car's getting taken care of.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: But I did not use that car this weekend.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: I used the other car this weekend on my grand adventures in Hollywood.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Would you like to hear of my adventures in Hollywood?
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Boy, would I.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Brett, you knew.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Brett, you almost came.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: I almost was there, yes.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: You would have had a grand old time.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: We were at the Magic Castle with uh with one Cynthia Weiss, one Jessica Belch, and Cynthia's friend Megan, who's a member of the Trojan Affiliates, a USC alum, so pretty ran.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: And uh the three of them came with me, Jessica, and my father-in-law, and we went to the Magic Castle.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: This was an auction item at last year's Homecoming Gala, if you recall.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: And it took us this long to find a date.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Part of it was it took Cynthia a long time to say, hey, we should probably pick a date.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh crap, yeah, we should pick a date.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: And so we picked a date.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: We picked the bye week Saturday, um, and we went there, and it was a different format than normal.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Because normally when I go with my in-laws, like, we'll get there at five-ish, five o'clock, go to dinner at six or so, and then try to like do all the magic stuff after.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: But this time we got there just ahead of seven.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: We our dinner reservation was at nine, so we got there, did a saw a bunch of magic, went to dinner, saw more magic after dinner, and I have to say, that was a lot of fun.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: I liked that format.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: There was some some spectacular illusionists out there.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it was a great old time.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Have either of you been?
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: I've been once, yes.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: I have I have never been.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_02: I I thought uh uh the magic castle from all the times that I've heard about it, from the people that I've heard about it from.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I thought it was a euphemism for a nightclub.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: It is a nightclub.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's a club, it's a restaurant.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there you well, there you go.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_03: Euphemism for what kind of nightclub?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: I see.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh no, that that kind of stuff's not going on, whatever that is.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, Casey, I'm pretty sure you've never been to that kind of nightclub, whatever you're referencing.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I I don't know what you're trying to say, if I'm being honest.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like a bottle service Vegas nightclub?
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I think there's a lot you don't know about what I've done.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't believe that.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think I know everything.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think I mean Mrs.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: Mrs.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Is Mrs.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_03: Busby gonna listen to this one too?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I've I've watched every single one of them with her.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's Casey's mother, by the way, if anyone's keep it score at home.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: Not his wife.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: That is correct, yes.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to confuse the listeners.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: Uh he's still on the market, ladies.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Still out there.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my favorite magician of the night was uh there were two very fun guys.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: There was one guy from Denmark, um, and he was six foot four.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: The country.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: The country.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: He was Danish as they as opposed to what?
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: The city in Maine.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: But he was there and he was in uh the parlor of prestidigitation.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's a word for you, Brett.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and he did some of these, like that style of magic where they like ask somebody in the room, tell me a number, do something, sign the card, and then they talk, and then at the end they like pull this thing out of something that could not have possibly had the thing in it.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's it's that kind of stuff, right?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so his bit, like obviously being Danish, he'd be like, Oh, like he asked someone their name.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Nick.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, Oh, Nick, that's that's Danish for little horse.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: And we're like, Oh, cool.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, It's not really, but you don't know.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: No one speaks Danish.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: But but he uh the trick, he asked early on this woman, this number, she said, I don't know, 24.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: And this went on, and he didn't guess it in the moment, like whatever he did then.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: But then later, like the very end of the show, it was doing a thing with somebody's card, and then he kept he started with this giant pack of cards, and every time he opened it, a smaller pack of cards would come out, like a Russian doll thing, and he's like and he finally gets to the end, and there's the card, and it was the card that the person picked, and we were like, This is great, this is fantastic.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: Then he rips that card in half, and inside of that card was a paper with the number 24, and I was like, ah, Denmark.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: It was great.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was really great.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: So uh he was cool, and the other guy liked, was it another room?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think they call it the museum or something.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: But he was uh doing a lot of card tricks, and he did the same trick over and over, but there would be little twists every time.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: So he'd like lay out the cards.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Do you believe in deja vu?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Then he'd have someone pick a card and then he'd fiddle fart around, and then the card would end up in some pocket, and we'd be like, That's great.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, But where's the deck?
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: And we'd look and the deck would be gone.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like we didn't know us, it was gone.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then he's like, It's under the box, and you look under the box and it's under the box.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, Oh my gosh! And then he does it again and he's like, Where's the deck?
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: We don't know, and then he like opens the box.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: Now it's in the box, and we just we could not.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: This guy was just getting us.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was great, it was fan freaking tastic.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'd a blast.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: You you really like the Magic Castle, don't you?
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: I love it's fun.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's fun.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: I've never had I've never had to pay, so maybe that's why I like it.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_03: I think in another life you would have been a magician for sure.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: You think so?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I have that kind of campy, nearly funny quality to me.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: You're you're you're you're just not quite there to be a stand-up, but you could be a magician.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can like maybe three out of ten responses in a room will like really get a good chuckle.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: And the other seven are like, oh, that's clever.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're I'm laughing inside, is what they're thinking.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like uh, like my mic dupp that the university did, a five-minute video.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: They were out there for two hours, and that's that's all that's all I gave them.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's all well like it was a huge hit.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: It got us to 50,000 followers.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: It did 50,000 followers on Instagram.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Where were we before that?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Just as a frame of reference.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, 49.9.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just saying it pushed us over the top.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying that it was got a huge uh you know, influx of followers because you were on USC Instagram.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: I see.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh the bit when you the bit when you yell at Matthew, so good.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why why?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Matthew's so sweet.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's why, right?
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's that's the because like if you've never been to a Trojan Marchie Band rehearsal, you would have no idea that this kind of a thing, like this amount of repartee between the ladder and the field exists.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: And it was I realized I was.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Did I use that word correctly, Brett?
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, but it's repartee.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, tomato potato.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: I I was I realized I was saying shush a lot, and be and I don't normally, it's because I pulled the band in really close, like I closed the spacing, so all their chat was like right in my ears.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: So like whenever they were, I kept it shh sh like trying to talk to them.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: So that was the biggest myth, by the way, that people thought about when like Dr.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_03: Barton was up there.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_03: They're all like, I can say whatever I want, he can't hear me.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_03: He could hear you.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure you can hear everything that people say, and you have to like tone it all out.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: I can't hear everything, you know.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: It it depends what it is, but like when somebody like says something full voiced, I usually I I hear more.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: I caught golly, I caught someone on Saturday.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: They made like some goofy comment.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, What'd you say?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, Whoa! How did he get how did he know?
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, fun weekend overall.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: I think we, you know, great, what a great weekend for the Trojan marching band.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're getting ready to go to Indiana.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be in the 40s when we're there, high of 43.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, nice and chilly.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but before we do that, let's why don't we Brett?
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Why don't you fire?
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pull up the mailbag.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't answered any questions recently.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um we need a we need a mailbag stinger.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'll add that in.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just just clue in a little bit of the postal service, such great heights.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Such great heights, and then stop so we don't get, you know, flagged.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: We actually have a question.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's actually not a question, it's more of a statement from a former guest of this podcast, Ms.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: Gabby.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_03: She says, on behalf of the TNB theater year class, please bring back Country Girl.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: And this is in all caps.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: It was a bit for the plot, I swear.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: A bit for the plot.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_03: I think she was talking about the uh class, the battle of the classes get.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that they didn't want to do it anymore.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but she actually does want to play Country Girl.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of them do like I I don't know.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: You I don't know.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think, Casey?
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think about Country Girl?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: Not a fan.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, see?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: Jeff doesn't really like it either.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: I like it.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: I How do I say this without getting fired?
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: I won't fire you.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: He said, and then he proceeded to fire you.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Casey's final episode.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it's it's not very marching bandable.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: If we were to do the Jacob Vogel Matrix, the the marching bandability of it is pretty low, in my opinion.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: So is that is it's nothing wrong with inherently the fact that we play it.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_02: It's just that that song, I can't see a marching band playing it.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: In my mind's eyes.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: I get that.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: I disagree.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: I I think it I think it strikes high.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: I do there are complicated areas.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: The the verse melody and the um the bridge melody have a lot in common with like a Beyonce tune.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: So if you think about Crazy in Love, for example, mm-pa-da-ba-da-m ba-da-ba-da-da.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: But like it's it's very ba da da da da da da.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Country girl's the same thing.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Babu da bauda bauda boo da boo da boa da bum ba bo.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's very almost the same tempo, even, and it just it keeps going.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I would argue that Country Girl actually has more pitch contrast.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like it moves around more within there, but because of that, it's more challenging, right?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: When it's the same kind of like five notes and you're just kind of chewing around them, piece of cake.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, Jeff doesn't like it because it's too many notes and it's kind of low and it crawls up high, and it's just it's weird.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: The chorus, though, the chorus is a banger, certifiable.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Brett, what's next?
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: What's what's another question?
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Hit us with another one.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_03: We have one from a a Jalen.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: Says, Hi, huge dream to be the best in the best marching band ever.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: My question is, do you guys have discipline?
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: And if so, how do you guys initiate it?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: Love you, Fidon.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Do we have discipline?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: We're pretty loosey goosey.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna say.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not to be trusted, generally.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's pretty, it's pretty core to our our brand.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I do I do uh get on the students a lot about the dichotomy of like we come marching in and so it's like the cadence is going the cheers, and I think that's where the discipline shows itself, right?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Because the students are very hard on each other when they're like uh if someone's not doing the cadence call outs right, they're like, What are you doing?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: You have to do this, like this is.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: The thing, you know?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then certainly the drumline with the cadence, like they take it very seriously to, you know, really perform it and do it.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: And they need to be good at it because they have to be able to like move and wander around while playing with it, which is very difficult, having now done it a couple of times.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's not, it's not easy to just kind of like get information while playing it.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: But then I do get after them a lot about sort of this dichotomous, like, okay, you're coming in, we hit the five-count halt, and you just have to be a statue.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then we do the fight songs, and it's very rigid, very, you know, very traditional marching band, very college band, right?
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: It still has like cheers and sounds within the fight song, which is pretty common.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then we hit the the beat cadence after, and it's like we're broken back out into that fun, engaging sort of band.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: But I think that's what makes us special, right?
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Is that we are engaging.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're with the people.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's the whole, that's the bit.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_02: That's the whole bit right there.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: But you do lose you you do lose it's it's a it's a scale, right?
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, okay, if we do that, well then some days where we need them to like really lock in and get it done, like that can be difficult.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say that this this batch of students, like every year kind of post-pandemic, the students I think are more and more of that ilk, willing to like hunker down and and get it done.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I guess that's I I guess that's my answer.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: What a ri what a what a cool question.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's it.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's it?
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Pretty much, yeah.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Casey, you had a thought, something you wanted to chew on today.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: What did you want to chew on today?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: What did I want to chew on today?
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, it's the we just had midterm elections.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Here, we'll make it political.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: I said midterm examinations to be clear.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just okay.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Let me pump the brakes.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: We just had midterm elections.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the students are just finishing up their midterms.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're we've done a number of these episodes.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: So, Casey, you wanted to So what's our if because it's the three of us, the the brain trust behind the the thing, why don't we take a couple minutes to talk about what we've noticed so far about the recordings, about the podcast.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: We're on episode 11 or 12 now.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we've got way more planned for this season and for spring leading up to culminating in the Trojan Spirit Streamathon.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_02: So now let's take a this is like uh the halfway through our first quarter, if we were a terrible institution across town that had a quarter system.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what's your thoughts, Brett?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: Your thoughts on our performance so far and what what we may want to change.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think uh you should talk less.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_02: We know I'm boring.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, but you're boring too.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_02: So it's true.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: We are both boars.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um no, I think uh I think it's been going pretty well.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: I think I would love some feedback.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_03: I we had this discussion when we started whether this was too inside baseball.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: Do you want more hard music, you know, marching band techniques, like really get into that, or do you like us farting around?
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's something that I would like to know more of.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, to be honest, the podcast has exceeded my expectations as far as viewership and listenership.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm happy about that, and it has stayed pretty consistent.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um it remains to be seen what happens after this episode.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, I think we've uh This is it.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, this one, this one's gonna we're gonna bang hell on this one.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're gonna say, you know what?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: They're not boring.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_03: More Casey and Brett.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, more boars.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: They're not boring, and it's so nice to see.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: And look at that beard, you know.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: See, now now that we're faces and not just cheapies.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: No what it so someone would be more reticent to be critical.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_02: Because certainly internet anonymity would would never cause somebody to overly criticize someone else.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I agree with you, Brett.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear from people.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because along that line, one thought I had is it because we got semi-granular with the type of show, right?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because we have like the the halftime show post-op, and we did that because we knew we had so many shows back to back to back to back.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like we knew we had content we could lean on pretty easily, right?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: And then with the road trip trips, then we've got Elise coming in to kind of like how'd it go?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: What'd you do?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Did you enjoy your time, so on and so forth?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm almost wondering, like, as we move ahead to the spring, like, is there like is there topics or is there something folks want us to cover with Elise that's different, right?
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: Do they want us to like talk that way?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do they want not just like episodes of the show to have different focus, but is it now are we gonna like bifurcate and have like two instead of these longer shows, like have two episodes a week that are like th one's more in the weeds, the marching man nonsense, and then one's like the fiddle farting around or talking to Elise or something of that nature?
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Or is it if someone's really interested in the drill and music writing?
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know this has come up in stream-a-thons before, people keep telling me I should Twitch stream when I'm writing music, or should Dante do the same thing writing drill?
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because people are interested to learn and watch the process as it comes.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I'd be sitting here, and now I have the power.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now I know what to do, Casey.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: I could be sitting here, you know, writing God knows what I'd be writing, and then people can watch it and learn.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: So we want to hear from the people.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: What do the people think, right, Brett?
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's what you're getting after.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's get some feedback.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_02: I I have a so the whole reason behind this question from me, I have uh one data point, which is a biased data point, but it is the other person I've watched this podcast with.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: Mrs.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Budby.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's correct.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: And some of the like she's she loves the whole show because we're in it and she loves us, which is great.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we love her.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_02: But I've I've noticed that there are there are times where I'll have to pause the episode to explain something.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I'll give a fur I'll give a for instance, and this is a uh generalization of a type of thing I've had to talk to her about.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_02: When you were talking uh it was Dante was talking about doing the the whole voyage to Penn State uh in the SUV with Troy.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_02: And there will be times where, and it's not it's not by any means, it's not just Dante, it's all it's ever I've seen all of us do it, we'll say something like that where we know who those who these people are, we know what this musical technique is, we know what any number of things are, because we're in it.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_02: If someone is brand new, fresh, they don't know who Troy is, they don't know who Jackie Gibson is, they don't know who so like part part of the things that I was thinking was Troy, our DPS escort, former Trumpet section leader Jackie Gibson, right?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_02: When we when we name drop or we talk about a process or a thing that is unique to us, we give it a title as we're saying it, uh-huh, just to give some amount of context to a completely fresh viewer, listener.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's a wonderful idea, and we're not gonna do that.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna I am gonna try.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_02: Don't do it.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_02: I am gonna try.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: No, uh, we're gonna take that.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: What we're gonna we're gonna make this idea better.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: If someone hears something, because this this has been happening to me a little bit.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: One of our students, his mother, uh, who also helps us out in prop crew, if there's something she doesn't understand, she'll send me an email and she'll ask me, hey, what was this thing you're talking about?
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: This was really cool, so on and so, like just to get more information.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, what we what I think we do, Casey, is if we do say Troy, or we say whatever, or some like some musical something or other.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think I was talking about, you know, right, the difference between range and tessatura.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, what is that?
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: What are these words?
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: Submit a question.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: What is the difference between you said this word, Dr.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: Vogel, what's that?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: And then we know, then we can answer it on air.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it's participation.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: You submit a question, then we know you're we know you're out there.
• 30:48
  unknown: We know you're there.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_02: Grinding that engagement.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I said.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I I'm happy to do it, but I think accountability is a two-way street.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want answers, you gotta ask a question.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: But good idea.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Good idea, Mrs.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: Busby.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Jackie Gibson.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of qualifiers you can put on her.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, our roller blading alumnus, Jackie Gibson.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, one of our featured trumpet players at the uh red carpet premiere of uh bad boys ride or die.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: Ride or die.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_02: Blue bonnet photography aficionado.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_02: Jackie Gibson.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: Jackie Gibson.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what else?
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: I could I could talk some smack.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: Known concert band quitter, Jackie Gibson.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_02: I keep trying to not do first name, last name for people.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_02: I love Jack.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's just so hard when you're in the room.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's tough because I'm I'm you first name, last name everybody.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: I listen, I do because I don't get to hide.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like everyone's out there, like, oh, burn burn, Dr.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: Volcan, you know, and making up stories and doing whatever.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, hey, I can make up stories too.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: I can, I can, I can ouse this up.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: But no, I love I love Jackie to death, and it's always whenever I get to see her, I'm always super excited.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: So great batch of students with uh Jackie and company.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, great, yeah, great ideas.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: So, but all of you out there, you let us know.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want to see?
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want to hear?
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is it, you know, content-specific episodes?
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we break down the the videos into like, or does it do it automatically where it'll break down the YouTube video into subject matter?
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: We can do that.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that if people are interested, but we don't want to, you know, if it doesn't matter, or there's a better way to do it, just let us know and we'll we'll figure it out.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Great question, KC.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_03: Where do we where do we go from here?
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Where do we go from here?
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: No, up.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: There's we can only go up from here.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, update from the triple A guy.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Are you guys ready about my car?
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the battery met the metrics for success, which is a big bummer because I was hoping the problem is the battery car by messing with the electronics.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Mayhaps, maybe.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we'll see.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see what's going on.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still I'm still not convinced.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's there's strange things afoot at the 7-Eleven, and we're gonna figure this out.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: What's that movie, Casey?
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: Name that reference.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_02: No clue.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_02: You got I was gonna let it, I was gonna let it ride, but you called me out.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Strange things are afoot at the 7-Eleven.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, uh Bill and Ted?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of weird movies, have either of you seen Coraline?
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: This the stop motion.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw it.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it has it, they've been featuring it on it's either Netflix or did something.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's been they've whichever streaming service kind of put it like, hey everyone, Coraline.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: So all the kids in my daughter's school, they're all watching Coraline.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of them came as Coraline for Halloween, and so Erilyn's like, hey, what do we?
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna watch this movie Coraline.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I have not seen it, I'm gonna watch it first.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: And we watched it, and I'm like, there is no way that these kids can handle it.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's crazy.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's a scary movie.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Spooky, oogie spooky.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: Take um, if you took Nightmare before Christmas and took all the whimsy out of it and just kept like just all of the Tim Burton-ness cranked up to a lot.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: It it it was strange.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_03: Nightmare Before Christmas is not a children's movie by any stretch either.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: It 100% is.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's very creepy and weird.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you if you're into that, it's not I don't think it's creepy at all.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: It is weird.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think it is a film for weirdos.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_02: I think the people that watched Nightmare Before Christmas and enjoyed it as a child grew up to shop at Hot Topic.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: I feel seen.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've to be honest, I've not been a Hot Topic in quite some time.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: But I I did frequent Hot Topic in my youth, if you believe it.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: What uh what t-shirt, what uh band t-shirt did you pull off the wall?
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I was not the band t-shirt guy.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I would get a lot of my Batman paraphernalia there.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I like I had the this the typical black t-shirt with the Batman logo.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I had a Batman messenger bag.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: I would get Converse, all black Converse there.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so um where do we go from here?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: We go up.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: We did have a B-side set up for today.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, set up for another day, and we skipped it.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: And we thought it'd be neat to talk about people's favorite games, entertainments, board games, computer games, card games, things you keep yourself entertained with when you're not doing band or watching movies or whatever else it is.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: So, boys, who wants to go first?
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: Who wants to chime in first?
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, I'll go first, and then after when Casey starts talking, I'll cut it and we'll go right to the end where we play Conquest.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um, perfect.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_03: Don't play a lot of card games, though.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_03: I did play a card game with you, Jake.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_03: We went uh and played blackjack in.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_03: We did.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_03: Temecula?
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Pachanga.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_03: Pachanga, yeah.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_03: You claim to know how to play blackjack, but uh that was I was very uh it was very a suspect version of the book that you were using.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but we did play some Free Bet.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: We did we played Free Bet.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: I told you I didn't know Free Bet.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_03: I did not understand these Free Bet is exactly that's pretty much exactly the same as Blackjack.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: These these goofy rules.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know how the game works, I know the mechanics.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_03: You don't know the strategy though.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm no, I'm terrible.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: I just I'm here, I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's your favorite card game, though, is Blackjack?
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_03: I uh yeah, sure.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_03: I was it was just great seeing the dealer get more and more annoyed at your your shenanigans.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_03: What shenanigans?
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: What shenanigans?
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: You were you were just you were just fooling around and messing, and she was just kind of like, okay, just play the cards, bro, you know.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um life's too short.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_02: Were you running were you running bits during this?
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: I see.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always running bits.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: My my go-to is like, what am I doing?
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: And then I went ahead and I'm like, hey, look at there.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: It all comes together.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: People love him.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: They do, they do, Casey.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_02: I your final argument from me.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm an I'm I'm the worst.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so go on, Brent.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_03: I was if I uh I was saying we were gonna do video games, I think you and me, Casey.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and if I had to pick a favorite video game, it's probably a bit of uh recency bias.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I I think I have to say Tears of the Kingdom would be my favorite video game I played.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh why are you shaking your head?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_02: Legend of Zelda for those playing at home.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I see.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, which is a few words together.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: Tears of the Kingdom, okay?
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: Reigns of the Shadows.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: Spurs of the Conquest.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are we doing?
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_02: There is actually a Shadow Rain video game at this.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I I assume you have not played this, Kenneth.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_03: You don't think you have a Switch, right?
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not a Nintendo guy.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_02: I haven't been since GameCube.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_03: Unfortunate.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um GameCube.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, uh great game.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's a follow-up to Breath of the Wild.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it basically uses the exact same map.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_02: I knew he was gonna laugh.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_02: I knew you were gonna say it.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_02: I knew he was gonna laugh.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_02: I was waiting for it.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_03: But I said Breath of the Wild.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because he was just running a bit about putting three words together.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh sneeze of the fjord.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: Chase of the Legion.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like what?
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: I could just keep going.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's so funny.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: All right, but is it good?
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: You like it, Brett?
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: What do you like about it?
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: What's fun about this game?
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, that's okay.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to humor me with keep talking about the video games.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_03: That's my favorite game.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_03: I really like the mechanics.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_03: I thought it expanded on the first game.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it is very immersive.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_03: I did not 100% it.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I think uh, Kenneth, you should go next.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna get you all.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_02: You all thought I was gonna do one thing.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm taking a hard left turn.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_02: Okay?
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_02: Of course I had to mess with the prompt.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not I did not bring one game, I brought two games.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the two games, go on.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: For those at home listening, Brett has left.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_02: Brett's off camera.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_02: The the best you like expenditure of time, the best entertainment per dollar value is a deck of playing cards and the game Egyptian war.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_02: I have looked this up on the bicycle website.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: It is also known as Egyptian Rat Screw.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_02: We'll have to censor that if that's a slur.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_02: It sounds pretty slur-ish.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_02: But if I if if if all you if you have to wait with a group of people, four to five people, for any amount of time, yeah, and you have a deck of playing cards, you can entertain yourselves for about an hour with Egyptian war.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: Now that's the one you put your card in the middle, and then the next person does, and then it goes around, and then there's some scoring mechanisms, and then you you slap your hand down.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_02: So there's there's there's many different iterations and variations of the game rules.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_02: The one on the bicycle website is like a is like an encyclopedia britannica length of rules.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: The way I learned it and played it, especially in growing up, especially in the Boy Scouts.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh if there's two a double, the first person to slap in gets the pile, or a sandwich.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_02: So we played doubles or sandwiches.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_02: So if there's a if there's a six of diamonds, and then a five of clubs gets played, and then a six of spades, the first person to slap the pile gets the pile.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh best bang for your buck, bar none, fun per dollar, a deck of playing cards in Egyptian War.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, Casey, can you demonstrate how you put your cards down?
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: Get your hands in frame and show me how do you put your cards in the middle.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_02: So this is a this is a big like this is a lot of arguments were started about this.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_02: I draw the card away.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you you you have your you have your deck and you flip away and place it down.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_02: Because your hand if you I know what you're your hand is the closest once you place it down.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_02: So you should be the last one to be able to see it.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_02: But you also there's no reason to very slowly reveal.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: The whole point is to just so if the person in front of you is really savvy, they'll see the card before you see it.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_02: But your hand is right there, ready to jump if you have quick enough reaction time.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_02: What are you?
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_02: Are you a are you a turn up towards yourself and place down guy?
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm not a dirty, I'm not a dirty cheater, that's why.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's the cheating one.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_02: We would have had a huge argument about this.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: We would have.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: And uh my friend Omar, shout out to Omar, a fellow trumpet player from high school.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: We would play this a lot, high school marching band, whatever.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: And he would do it that way, but he would he would flip the card, set it down, and his hand would linger.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_02: That's the whole thing, that's a different thing entirely.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then I that's a different level.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: But I, it was a it was a it was a flip and throw.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like I would I would yeet the card into the stack.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_00: So for all intents and purposes, nobody, I had minimal, if at all, comprehension of the card ahead of time.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: And my hand was in a fair space so I could slap it with equal constitution to everybody else.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_02: We would we would have we would have had a huge fight about this if you and I were playing this.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm glad we met post-Egyptian War because this would have been detriment.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know this game, Brett?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: Card game?
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_03: I think I've played is Egyptian War regular or different than regular war?
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's more ancient.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_03: I played regular war.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_02: Uh such a that's such a dumb joke.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_02: I laughed anyway.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_03: What was a joke?
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, wait, I missed it.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_02: I said you said it was more ancient.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_00: More ancient.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I said.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's not good.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's a kind of that's the kind of stuff that gets him side-eyed by the D-Lo at the blackjack table.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's a good time.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Casey.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: What about video game?
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite video game?
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I never said video game.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_02: My favorite game of all time is Yahtzee.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yahtzee! Triple Yahtzee, triple Yahtzee.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_03: Do you just want to have have Jake yell Yahtzee?
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_03: Just for that, is that why you said it?
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_02: It just so it just so happens to be coincidental.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: I freaking love triple Yahtzee.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: Triple Yahtzee is the only way to go.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: You have to have three Yahtzeis, is that to finish?
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what the No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_02: You you play three games of Yahtzee at once.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_02: Oh your card has uh it's it's a special it you know, it doesn't have to be a special card, but though I like the special cards.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_02: And you play three games at once, and one of the games the points are triple.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_02: One of the games the points are double, and one of the games the points are regular singles.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and so there's a there's a layer immediately you go to the triple card and you play it there.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_02: So there's there's there is a little more strategy involved with okay, I'm about to take a scratch.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_02: Am I gonna scratch a triple game four of a kind, which is, you know, or large straight.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_02: Am I gonna scratch a triple game large straight, kind of hard to get, or do I scratch a single game full house?
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_02: I have to scratch.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_02: Where do I put the scratch?
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's the individual moment-to-moment gameplay decision.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: We I've been introducing it to uh the Bogan Reef clan because they've never played triple Yahtzee.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: So we've done it without to teach them the mechanic.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't yet introduced the point structure with the double and triple.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: We've just just to understand.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: Start them on single regular Yahtzee.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, we're doing triple Yahtzee, but each column, the points are just the points.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: But to just to try to get them to understand the strategy of where do you want to take your scratch, where like what's more right, less so about the points, like what's more likely for you to hit, you know, you're gonna hit this based on how you're rolling.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Casey.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_02: Because I have brought this up, because I have brought this up now Streamathon Triple Yahtzee.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_02: The person that I'm viewing, the person that I'm viewing this episode with right now over to my left, uh, we're gonna go play Triple Yahtzee after this episode.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_00: Who's to your left?
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_02: When I watch this episode back on Thanksgiving vacation with Carla Busby.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: Carla.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_02: We will we we will come after this episode, we will go play triple yachtzi.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Carla.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: Carla, you're a saint.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_02: Hit the stinger again.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_02: I bamboozled you.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: I have a third favorite game, and it is a video game.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: What is it?
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_02: Halo three.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_02: There's there's nothing that's gonna top that night in 2007 when I went with my dad to the midlight launch at Hollywood video.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh for Halo 3.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_02: And just the hundreds and thousands of hours and dozens of friends made during that era of video games.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: That is not the Halo with Blow Me Away.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_03: Can I come back?
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_03: Are you done?
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: You would you Yeah, we're done.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Casey, I've played Halo once.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's fine.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was in college.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'd never played a console first-person shooter, like in earnest.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then my roommate was like, Hey, you want to play Halo?
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Yeah, okay.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just constantly being cooked.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: It was embarrassing.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: And not very fun.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_02: On on Burncrant, there there is a famous photograph now of Burncrant third floor in 2008.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_02: Famous with the Burncrant Third Florians, okay.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: Listen.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and it's me and two other guys on the floor whose names were Jeff and Neil, and they were roommates, and it's the three of us crowded around Jeff's little CRT TV, and we were we were running, we were running Halo tournaments out of Berncrant third floor all of 2008 into the spring of 2009.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_00: Just think, Casey, you got to USC too late, like, or too early.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_00: If you had gotten there later, like with the advent of esport, you could have been like the president of the esports club.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: You could you could have been an NCAA athlete in nerddom.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_02: There's no there's no there's no MLG Halo equivalent in uh uh modern esport stuff now.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_02: They're playing other games.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_02: You know, do you know what the youth of today call games like Halo?
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_02: A boomer shooter.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because everybody that plays it is so old.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that makes me sad.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_00: But that's fun.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's a great great coin of praise, though.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so I'll I'll hit you.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'll hit you up.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I think my favorite game, I'll do I'll do a triple answer, but I'll be I'll be more brief in my words.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh thank god with a card game.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: Classic me.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: I love Uno.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_00: We've been playing, we've got like eight different Uno sets in the house.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's just an easy keep the kids entertained, great learn for the baby learning colors and sh and you know numbers and all that.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it's it's really fun, and he's actually pretty good at it.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: And he beats his mother all the time at Uno.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: He's just like and he's really good.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I love Uno.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh for a game game, you ever play the game Rummy Cube?
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_00: You ever do that?
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_02: I have played that, yes.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_02: As a as a young child, I've forgotten all the rules.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the type you're just you're trying to make sets and runs in front of you, and you're trying to get rid of all your tiles.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_00: But I playing growing up, playing with my grandmother and my mom and stuff, like just we you start manipulating all the tiles on the table and just re-jiggering them until you can like get rid of your stuff.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so I get I get like caught up in the source code.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, and then I you know win.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_00: I can really win.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_03: It's that scene from the hangover where you're at the table and you're you're like ears at the ground, I guess.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_00: I love the game sequence.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever played that one, it's like uh connect connect four, but connect five, and then you have cards and you're you play a card and then you put a chip on a board, and I love it, and I cannot win.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: I lose every single time.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so I love those games.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um in terms of video game, that's a toughie because we all we all know I'm pretty old school um on my video game.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: On your Mario Kart.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: Mario Kart, Super Nintendo.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: I love Super Nintendo, but right now, at this moment, my favorite video game is Wii tennis, the original Wii tennis, because the kids are now old enough where they get it, they can play it.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I have four controllers, so they all get a controller and dad, but they're also old enough where you can kick their butts.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_00: I just I just cook them every time.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, all right, kids, you ready?
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, we're ready, and then just boom, power serve.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, no power serves.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, if you want to play, get good, hit the ball.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_00: So it's no mercy.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: No mer no mercy.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: We're at that stage of parenthood, and I man, I'm loving it.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's so much fun.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: But they love it, and now Erlens, they're getting it where they can get the power serves back to me.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: So then uh, so then I hit them with the old uh, they give me a uh lob serve, and I just run the corner and don't even give them a chance to volley it back.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that's fun.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's fun to pull that pull that dad stuff to him.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm doing it, you know, I got like a cocktail in my hand, and I'm just barely even trying.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: Although they move around too much, and I've I damn near have clocked out Declan a couple of times because he's physically jumping.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_03: Are they wearing are they wearing the uh the bracelets, the the the leashes?
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they have the leashes on.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_03: Throw them through the TV.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, none of that.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_00: It but it they they move their body as if that matters to try and like get to the ball.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, stop moving, you're gonna get hit.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then they they have gotten hit uh by each other.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_00: I have not, luckily I've had enough sense to not whack them.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, so that's it.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_00: We tennis, it's a good time.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: We bowling is also a lot of fun.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_00: I love we bowling, but they don't they don't play that as much.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_00: But my wee, it's still, man, it's kicking 2007, and it's it's just it it won't die, it won't quit me.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks everyone.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: This was a fun day.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Brett and KC, for being on camera today.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_00: You can't see, but you're you're framed, and then your little guys are above you.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_00: So there's it's nice, it's wonderful, it's great.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_02: So we now they they put a face to a face.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: The entire time.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_02: A boring face to a boring face, isn't that right?
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_02: Texas X's.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_00: And they can they can see your your activities.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Brett's got a basketball and a camera.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_00: KC's got a video game controller and a beer.
• 52:18
  SPEAKER_02: And I've got I've got I've got the garage.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_02: Mrs.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_02: Mrs.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_02: Busby is very disappointed that half of my representation is beer.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_02: I keep telling her, I keep telling her, Mom, is it what it is.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_02: It is what it is.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_02: It is what it is.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_00: Something over it next time.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we'll Mike Wazowski you, and we'll be we'll be good.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for tuning in, everybody.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_00: Enjoy your week.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful week.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you in Indiana, hopefully.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um freeze our butts off and uh fight on, everyone.